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B2 Monday, October 3, 2011 • THE BULLETIN
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State police identify man killed in crash The Oregon State Police on Sunday released the name of a Warm Springs man killed Saturday in a crash involving a pickup and a semi-truck on U.S. Highway 26 about four miles northwest of Madras. According to Lt. Gregg Hastings of the state police, William James Trimble, 43, was riding in the passenger seat of a 2002 Ford pickup — driven by Anthony Blueback, 19, of Warm Springs — along Northwest Fir Lane when Blueback failed to stop at a stop sign at the Highway 26 intersection and smashed into the right side of a Freightliner driven by Charles McConaha, 55, of Auburn, Wash. Blueback was flown by helicopter to St. Charles Bend. He was listed in fair condition Sunday. David Brian LeClaire, 23, and Apaullo LeClaire, 3, both of Warm Springs, were also in the pickup truck and were taken to Mountain View Hospital in Madras with non-life-threatening injuries, Hastings said. Apaullo LeClaire was not in a child’s car seat, but was wearing a seat belt. It’s unclear whether the others in the pickup were wearing seat belts. McConaha was not injured in the crash. State police troopers closed both lanes of Highway 26 for five hours while they investigated the wreck.
Wine bottle leads to Bend burglary suspects An empty wine bottle left behind by burglars in a northwest Bend home led police to their suspects. Christopher Ward, 23, and Ryan Unverzagt, 33, both of Bend,
were arrested Friday on suspicion of burglary, theft and criminal mischief, according to a Bend Police Department news release. They’re suspected of breaking into a home at 1054 N.W. Harmon Blvd. sometime between 2 p.m. Wednesday and 9:15 a.m. Friday. Both men were being held Sunday at the Deschutes County jail, and Ward’s bail was set at $35,000, according to the jail’s website. Unverzagt was being held without bail on a parole violation. According to the release, surveillance video from the 7-Eleven on Northwest Galveston Avenue — about four blocks from the house — showed Ward shoplifting the wine before the burglary. A Bend police officer pulled Ward over Friday for a traffic violation and recognized him and Unverzagt as suspects in the burglary. Along with stealing a television and other electronics, the burglars allegedly vandalized the home by spraying areas with a fire extinguisher.
Continued from B1 He said that’s unusual, especially for a school that has been ranked with the 18 lowest-achieving schools on state test scores. “It’s becoming part of the culture here. Students realize the extra class or classes are helping them and it does make a difference.” “In reading, we’ve seen the highest growth results,” said Jefferson County School District Superintendent Rick Molitor. “This is something for us to look at and celebrate.” Molitor said academic growth hasn’t been confined to the high school. Reading test score improvement also has been noted among the district’s youngest students. At the start of last school year, 21 percent of kindergarten students at Madras Primary scored at grade level in reading. By year’s end, that number had quadrupled to 84 percent. “Our focus is districtwide improvement,” Molitor said. “And we have seen academic
growth at every single level.” Jefferson County has yet to meet the state’s benchmark for districts, which requires that 70 percent of students in the district meet or exceed AYP standards in every subcategory, Molitor said. But that doesn’t diminish what students, teachers and administrators have accomplished. “We started out at a more challenging level. And we’ve set the stage for many years for this kind of growth to occur. We’re not lowering the ceiling. We’re rising to meet it,” Molitor said. Kezele said administrators are engaged in a systemic effort to lay the groundwork so that fewer students will need to take extra courses by the time they reach high school. “These problems didn’t begin when they walked in as freshmen,” he said. “We want the work we’re doing now on all levels to mean that fewer students will require the program in the future. That’s our hope.”
Today is Monday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2011. There are 89 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY On Oct. 3, 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a threerun homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in the “shot heard ’round the world.” ON THIS DATE In 1789, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day. In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.” “The Maltese Falcon” — the version starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston — opened in New York. In 1961, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” also starring Mary Tyler
T O D AY IN HISTORY Moore, made its debut on CBS. In 1981, Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives. In 1991, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial). In 2008, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison.) TEN YEARS AGO A man aboard a Greyhound bus in Tennessee slashed the driver’s throat, causing a crash that killed seven passengers, including the attacker. The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
Attempted baby seller to be freed The Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. — A woman who tried to sell her newborn son at a Taco Bell restaurant in southwest Washington will be free from jail soon. Under an agreement with Clark County prosecutors, 36year-old Heidi Knowles pleaded guilty on Thursday to reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 77 days in jail by a county judge. The Columbian reports that Knowles has already served
FIVE YEARS AGO North Korea triggered global alarm by saying it would conduct a nuclear test, but the North also said it was committed to nuclear disarmament, suggesting a willingness to negotiate. A Turkish man hijacked a jetliner traveling from Albania to Istanbul, forcing it to land in southern Italy, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed. Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in physics. ONE YEAR AGO Ruling-party candidate Dilma Rousseff, trying to become Brazil’s first female leader, fell short of getting a majority of votes in presidential elections. (Rousseff prevailed in a runoff against her centrist rival, Jose Serra.) Angel McCoughtry had 18 points as the U.S. won gold at the women’s basketball world championship with an 89-69 victory over the host Czech Republic. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Author Gore Vidal is 86. Rock and roll star Chubby Checker is 70. Actor Alan Rachins is 69. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is 68. Magician Roy Horn is 67. Singer Lindsey Buckingham is 62. Jazz musician Ronnie Laws is 61. Blues singer Keb’ Mo’ is 60. Former astronaut Kathryn Sulli-
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SALEM — A West Salem community activist is accused of bribing public officials to reject a financial report at a Polk Soil and Water Conservation District meeting. E.M. Easterly was due in court today on five counts of bribing board members stemming from the comments he made March 8 at the public meeting, the Statesman Journal reported. He is active in community groups that include the West Salem Neighborhood Association, Glenn-Gibson Creeks Watershed Council and West Salem Redevelopment Advisory Board. Easterly claimed he was making a point when offered money to board members to reject the report, which he took issue with. “I have $600 right here in front
Observatory 77 days in jail, and will be released this week. According to court documents, prosecutors say Knowles approached a woman in the restaurant on July 14, handed her 1-year-old baby and offered to sell him for between $500 and $5,000. The woman declined and called 911. Child Protective Services took the baby and later placed him with a relative. Court hearings on the child’s custody are pending.
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of me. I am willing to offer and give to board members who are prepared to sign a pledge,” he said, according to a transcript from the meeting. His pledge had said the report would not be approved until it was verified. He told a special prosecutor in the case in August that his actions should not have been interpreted as an attempt to bribe. “The money I displayed was not a bribe; it was an effort to highlight board member obligations ... to verify before approving all district financial documents,” Easterly wrote to Yamhill County District Attorney Brad Berry. “I made no request to ‘vote no’; my offer was to incentivize board member financial report verification before publicly accepting any Treasurer’s Report.” He called his actions an “attention-getting effort.”
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Lost Prineville hunter found in Ochoco forest A Prineville man spent the night in the woods over the weekend after becoming lost late Saturday. A hunting companion found Eldon Simpson, 54, walking on a road in the Ochoco National Forest near Crystal Springs at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the Crook County Sheriff’s Office. Simpson’s hunting group reported him missing at 9:30 p.m. Saturday after he didn’t return to camp. Search and rescue crews drove roads near the camp Saturday night and started a ground search early Sunday. Simpson was uninjured and did not require medical treatment.
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van is 60. Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield is 60. Baseball Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley is 57. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is 57. Actor Hart Bochner is 55. Actor Peter Frechette is 55. Golfer Fred Couples is 52. Actor Jack Wagner is 52. Rock musician Tommy Lee is 49. Actor Clive Owen is 47. Actress Janel Moloney is 42. Singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) is 42. Pop singer Kevin Richardson is 40. Rock singer G. Love is 39. Actress Keiko Agena is 38. Actress Neve Campbell is 38. Singer India. Arie is 36. Rapper Talib Kweli is 36. Actress Alanna Ubach is 36. Actor Seann William Scott is 35. Actress Shannyn Sossamon is 33. Actor Seth Gabel is 30. Rock musician Mark King (Hinder) is 29. Actress-singer Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is 27. THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it.” — Woody Guthrie, American folk singersongwriter (1912-67)
Continued from B1 The observatory also has evening star programs from 8 to 10 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays through Oct. 22, he said. The cost of the programs — which include lessons about the stars — is $6 for adults and $4 for children ages 12 and younger. Grossfeld said the observatory has free events like the Autumn Astronomy Festival about once a month, except during the winter. There’s
an open house set for 8 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, during which visitors will have the chance to look through the new 20-inch telescope. “Even if the weather is bad, we will be out there showing off the equipment,” Grossfeld said. Dylan J. Darling can be reached at 541-617-7812 or at ddarling@bendbulletin.com.
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