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Sunriver breaks ground on facility
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Bill would exempt Cyrus property from land use rules
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City seeks & full savings in circle personnel cost cuts
to 495 single-family homes or other dwellings, and a wide range of recreational A Sisters-area family that has long facilities, from as many as 100 RV resort sought to build a destination spaces to equestrian facilities. resort has proposed legislation In exchange, the bill proposes exempting those plans from conservation protections for state and local land use laws. nearly 380 acres of Cyrus propRep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunerty and payments to local govriver, has agreed to sponsor the ernments, nonprofits and the bill, which would exempt an area Oregon Department of Fish and IN THE referred to as the “Cyrus HeriWildlife. Under state law, destiLEGISLATURE nation resorts are developments tage Farm development area” from state destination resort law with recreation facilities, such and county land use policies. It as golf courses and clubhouses. would allow the Cyrus family to build up See Cyrus / A7
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
14-year-old Morgan Barron returning to China in ballet troupe • COMMUNITY LIFE, B1
Mayor: It won’t be easy; employee cooperation needed
P-P-P-P-PREPARING TO PLUNGE
By Nick Grube The Bulletin
One of the tactics Bend city councilors will use to cut into a projected five-year general fund shortfall of $17 million to $27 million is to tie personnel costs to revenue growth. This could prove difficult considering estimates show personnel costs increasing anywhere from 4 to 9 percent per employee while general fund revenues are estimated to increase between 1.3 and 3.7 percent over the next five years. If the city can’t get the personnel costs in line, it could mean layoffs, service cuts and limitations in hiring new employees, particularly those in public safety where police and fire officials say there is a need for more staff. Making it even more difficult for city officials to make accurate projections, the numbers keep changing. Several developments could negatively impact the city’s revenue projections. Property taxes alone, which make up more than 60 percent of the city’s general fund, are expected to decrease by 4 percent next year, according to the most recent forecast from Deschutes County. If that estimate holds, that would be a 2 to 5 percent downward swing from what the city projected just last month. New U.S. Census data, released earlier this week, also shows that Bend’s population is 76,639, or about 6,000 people less than what was previously assumed. City officials say this could potentially reduce Bend’s share of state revenues from cigarette and liquor taxes that added about $1.7 million dollars to the city’s general fund last year. See Bend / A7
LIBYAN PROTESTS
U.S. ratchets up pressure on Gadhafi
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ifteen-year-old Redmond resident Kiefer Leutschaft’s
Chilliest plunge
breath raises a cloud of steam Friday night as he waits
Bend’s polar plunge began in 2007. Below are the approximate temperatures for the event at 6 p.m.
in a Superman costume before jumping into the Des-
57°F
60°
chutes River at Riverbend Park during the Polar Plunge. The
48°F 30°F
off this year’s winter games, which take place this weekend.
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37°F
40°
plunge is a fundraiser for Special Olympics Oregon and kicks
By Karen DeYoung and Colum Lynch
10°F (-3°F
20°
wind chill index)
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Older audiences flex muscle, show Hollywood potential future Inside • Prep for the Oscars, meet the hosts, Scene Magazine
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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood and older Americans have never had much use for each other. The 50-plus crowd doesn’t go to opening weekends or buy popcorn; a youthobsessed Hollywood has happily ignored them. But in the past few months an older audi-
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ence has made a startling reassertion of its multiplex power. “True Grit,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Fighter,” “Black Swan” — all movies in contention for a clutch of Oscars on Sunday — have all been surprise hits at the box office. And they have all been powered by people for whom 3-D means wearing glasses over glasses, and “Twilight” sounds vaguely threatening.
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Hollywood, slower than almost any other industry to market to the aging baby boomers, may be getting a glimpse of its graying future. While the percentage of moviegoers in the older population remains relatively small, the actual number of older moviegoers is growing explosively — up 67 percent since 1995, according to GfK MRI, a media research firm. See Movies / A7
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WASHINGTON — Moments after a charter aircraft departed Libya with all remaining U.S. diplomats there Friday, the Obama administration shuttered the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli and moved to freeze assets in this country belonging to leader Moammar Gadhafi, his family and his Inside government. • Gadhafi In an executive order issued forces Friday night, President Barack violently Obama accused Gadhafi and his quell capital government of taking “extreme protest, measures against the people of Page A2 Libya, including by using weapons of war, mercenaries and wanton violence against unarmed civilians.” The order blocking the transfer or withdrawal of any funds applies to all Libyan government entities, Gadhafi and all of his estimated eight children, specifically naming three sons and a daughter. White House officials said Obama also canceled all military contacts with Libya and ordered a reallocation of U.S. intelligence assets to focus on civilian deaths there and to track Libyan troop deployments and tank movements. See Libya / A3
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