Bulletin Daily Paper 01/15/11

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‘I take full responsibility’: Trono to tell his side of being shot By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

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The Bend real estate developer who was shot by his wife multiple times last summer is promising to tell his version of the story today on a recently created website. Stephen Trono, now 61, was shot by Angelicque Trono, now 40, at approximately 12:30 a.m. on July 28 at a rented home on Bend’s west side. At the time, Bend police

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said Angelicque Trono had been awakened by a noise and that Stephen Trono went to investigate. When he came back inside, she thought he was an intruder and shot him. In a posting on www.stephentrono.com, Stephen Trono writes that he plans to post the first in a series of videos telling “the truth of the story” today. See Trono / A7

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Bend may put off hydro plant if it must pay City says it wants help footing the bill By Nick Grube

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Randall Barna does some stand-up paddling Friday afternoon on the Deschutes River, framed by an arch under the Bill Healy Memorial Bridge.

Unless someone else pays for it, the city of Bend seems poised to delay adding a $13 million hydropower plant to a $58 million reconstruction of its Bridge Creek water system that aims to replace aging infrastructure and meet federal mandates. City officials say the reason they’re considering putting off the hydropower component is that the cost, combined with the rest of the surface water improvements, might be too much of a burden for current ratepayers considering they might not actually experience the benefits of long-term revenue generation. That doesn’t mean the city intends to abandon hydropower all together. It still believes the project can limit rate increases for future customers, and engineers are still including the hydropower plant in their initial designs of the Bridge Creek system overhaul. “We don’t want to eliminate the hydro project because the hydro project ultimately saves the ratepayers money because the hydro generates revenue,” Finance Director Sonia Andrews said. “Without any grants or tax credits or any kind of partnership with the private sector, we think it is too expensive to pile it on top of the ratepayers. However, we’re not going to stop exploring any grants or credits that would help with the hydro.” With the hydropower plant, water rates for the city’s customers are expected to increase by 9.1 percent over the next five years, according to the most recent estimates. Without it, that increase is expected to be 8.5 percent over the same time. Those figures, however, are currently being updated and will spread out the increases over 10 years. See Hydropower / A8

From afar, exiles From bloody scene to ER, life-saving from Sudan dream decisions after gunman’s rampage $1.3 billion of a new nation coming due for states Inside ARIZONA SHOOTINGS

By Denise Grady and Jennifer Medina

“The congresswoman, I could tell that she was still alive. People were giving a little girl CPR. My mind went away,” paramedic Tony Compagno said of arriving on the scene of last week’s shooting.

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SAN DIEGO — The Rev. Peter Lual gathered his flock of Sudanese exiles in the parking lot of a Denny’s restaurant in suburban San Diego. Before him stood former guerrillas and farmers, some bearing the intricate facial scars that are a badge of manhood among the major tribes of southern Sudan. Others were students and teachers before they were swept up in the bloodshed of one of Africa’s worst civil wars. They stood together in a circle to pray as traffic droned by and diners walked past on a cloudy Saturday morning. “Our Father, almighty God,” Lual intoned. “We are your people, the Sudanese. Lead us to peace.” Ahead of them was a six-hour drive to cast their votes in a referendum to determine whether their mostly Christian and animist homeland will break away from the Muslim-dominated north and form a new nation. See Sudan / A6

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TUCSON, Ariz. — The moment that Tony Compagno stepped off his fire engine, frantic people spattered with blood began running up to direct him to gunshot victims. Among • Police the wounded was describe Rep. Gabrielle Gifsuspect’s fords, who had schedule, been shot in the Page A2 head. Compagno was one of the first paramedics to reach the scene of the shooting rampage at a shopping center in Tucson last Saturday. “Lots of people were laying on the ground,” said Compagno, from Fire Station 30 the in Northwest Fire/Rescue District of Tucson. “The congresswoman, I could tell that she

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was still alive. People were giving a little girl CPR. My mind went away. I started counting, and then I thought, ‘What am I counting, injured or dead?’ ” There were 19 victims. Compagno’s job was triage: to assess the se-

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verity of injuries and label victims so that ambulance crews would know whom to tend to first. He realized instantly that there was no time to write labels. Ambulances and fire engines were roaring up. See Response / A8

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GOP: Steele is out; new chairman says it is time for party to come together, Page A2

By Michael Cooper and Mary Williams Walsh New York Times News Service

As if states did not have enough on their plates getting their shaky finances in order, a new bill is coming due — from the federal government, which will charge them $1.3 billion in interest this fall on the billions they have borrowed from Washington to pay unemployment benefits during the downturn. The interest cost, which has been looming in plain sight without attracting much attention, represents only a sliver of the huge deficits most states will have to grapple with this year. But it comes as states are already cutting services, laying off employees and raising taxes. See Interest / A7


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