The Bulletin Daily Paper 11/2/11

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6 more attorneys apply to fill bench opening

Helping hands in Crook County • The governor will honor the NJROTC program for its volunteer efforts

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Eight attorneys have applied for the opening on the Deschutes County Circuit Court. Judge Stephen Tiktin, 64, will retire Dec. 31 after 22 years on the bench, leaving his seat midterm. Gov. John Kitzhaber will appoint his successor. Monday was the final day to apply for the position. In addition to Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney Beth Bagley, 38, and former state Rep. Judy Stiegler, six other attorneys have applied. The additional applicants are: • John Berge, an attorney with Bryant Lovelien & Jarvis LLP since 1987 who specializes in civil litigation. According to his firm’s website, he graduated from Oregon State University and earned his law degree from Willamette University. • Kevin Carolan, an attorney with his own firm who according to his website graduated from Pomona College and earned his law degree from the University of Oregon. • Roger DeHoog, 46, an attorney with the special litigation unit of the Oregon Department of Justice in Portland. He practiced law in Bend for 14 years and graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his law degree from the University of Oregon. • Steven Griffin, a former Deschutes County assistant legal counsel who graduated from the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara and earned his law degree from Lewis & Clark College. • Brian Hemphill, an attorney with his own firm who according to his website graduated from the University of Oregon honors college and earned his law degree from Lewis & Clark College. • Alycia Sykora, 41, an attorney with her own firm who has worked as an associate in four local law firms, graduated from the University of Michigan and earned her law degree from the University of Oregon. Kitzhaber can appoint whomever he wants to the judge’s seat, even if the person is not on the initial list of applicants. Whoever is appointed will serve the remainder of Tiktin’s term and must run in the primary election in the spring in order to keep the seat. The appointment will likely be made by mid-January. — Reporter: 541-617-7831, smiller@bendbulletin.com

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911 tax level to last past 2013? • A panel wants a permanent rate matching what’s paid now By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Crook County High School NJROTC members Berenice Nunez, 18, middle, and Alexandra Martinez, 17, back left, volunteer at a dart-throwing booth during Monday night’s Harvest Fest at the Crook County Fairgrounds in Prineville. Nunez said she has been involved with NJROTC for three years, Martinez for two years.

A citizens panel created to consider funding options for Deschutes County’s 911 dispatch center believes voters should be asked to revamp the permanent tax base that supports county 911 services. The panel supported a proposal to keep taxes at the current level, but make that amount permanent. The three panel members, who began meeting in late September and reached this conclusion in late October, will present their findings to the Deschutes County Commission this morning. Funding for 911 services currently comes from both a temporary levy that expires in June 2013 and a permanent tax rate that officials have long characterized as inadequate to fund operations. The panel would like officials to ask voters to approve a permanent tax rate equal to the total of the current temporary and permanent rates. To do so, voters would have to approve the dissolution of the existing tax district and create a new district with the new tax rate. See 911 / A4

By Duffie Taylor The Bulletin

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SOUTHERN MANNERS embers of Crook County High School’s Navy Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or NJROTC, have spent thousands of hours helping their community over the past year. Though the students received no money

for their service, they will receive statewide recognition on Friday during the 2011 Governor’s Volunteer Awards in Salem. The school’s NJROTC program will take home the Outstanding Youth Volunteer Program award for the Central Oregon region. The program is one of 31 organizations and people across the state recognized by Oregon Volunteers, a 25-member commission within the state Housing and Community Services Department. The commission’s executive director, Kathleen Joy, said Crook County’s NJROTC program stood out because of its high level of community involvement. Though NJROTC doesn’t mandate volunteerism, Crook County High School’s 118 members contributed a total of 5,778 community service hours within the past year. “This program is very interesting,” Joy said. “It’s great how they collaborated and leveraged their resources. They do a lot of volunteer work, especially for veterans.” See NJROTC / A4

Crook County High School NJROTC member Jesse Crider, 15, left, taunts a foam-ball thrower to hit him for free candy while Bert Asselin, 16, also an NJROTC member, looks on during a volunteer turn at a booth at Monday’s Harvest Fest in Prineville.

Man accused of rape now faces civil claim By Nick Grube The Bulletin

Thomas Harry Bray, the former Central Oregon Community College instructor accused of raping two Bend women, now faces a lawsuit from one of his

alleged victims. On Tuesday, Jennifer Coughlin, the attorney representing one of the women, said she lodged a $975,000 civil complaint against Bray and expects it to be filed in Des-

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chutes County Circuit Court today. Coughlin’s client is the 24year-old Bend woman Bray met through the online dating website Match.com. See Bray / A6

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Culture of civility is taking its hits By Kim Severson New York Times News Service

ATLANTA — One night, two men walked into a restaurant attached to this city’s fanciest shopping mall. They sat at the bar to ponder the menu. Two women stood behind them. A bartender asked if they would mind offering their seats to the ladies. Yes, they would mind. Very much. Angry words came next, then a federal court date and a claim for more than $3 million in damages. The men, a former pro basketball player and a lawyer, are black. The women are white. The men’s lawyers argued that the Tavern at Phipps used a policy wrapped in chivalry as a cloak for discriminatory racial practices. See Civility / A4

Making ecology fashionable By Leslie Kaufman New York Times News Service

SAN FRANCISCO — From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Co. says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home. The company wants to reduce that number any way it can, and not just to project environmental responsibility. It fears that water shortages caused by climate change may jeopardize the company’s very existence in the coming decades by making cotton too expensive or scarce. See Levis / A6

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