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BILL IN SALEM
Universal registration for voters advances
3-D-printnd bodyparts — Prosthetic limbs canalready be printed — tissues and organs could benext. A5
Plus: VaccinesParents who once shunned themare reconsidering as their fears shift to the diseases they prevent.n4
By Taylor W.Anderson The Bulletin
SALEM — The hall-
Picassns forsale —one
mark bill in Secretary of State Kate Brown's legislative agenda
of the artist's heirs is set to unload a great deal — sheowns 10,000 works.A4
that would
• Legislature automatitakes up pot, cally regisB1 ter eligible • And hemp, residents
Life in Ukraine —Seeking normalcy despite the war.Ao
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to vote is in the fast
lane and appears headed quickly through the Legislature after passing out of committeeWednesday.
— For the prickliest patients (they're cacti) a desert doctor makes housecalls. bendbulletin.cnm/extras
Under Brown's bill the
state would proactively register eligible residents to vote, rather than require
voters to register themselves. The move would
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Senior: 'I just wanted to
add 300,000 voters to the state's rolls on the first
day it goes into effect and eventually register virtual-
Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin
play bingo'
The Riverhouse Convention Center in Bend, pictured, and the accompanying hotel have been built up gradually by the Purcell
By Paula Span
• A Washington-based companyhasmadeanoffer onthe Riverhouseproperty
New York Times News Service
Ann Clinton enjoyed bingo even before she and her husband, Rankin, moved into Redstone Village, a continuing care
family over the past four decades. The River's Edge Golf Course nearby is not included in the potential sale.
vote in the Senate. The
sellingprice wouldbe.
The Bulletin
The owners of The Riverhouse Hotel & Convention
Mt. WashingtonDrive and NE Third Street. The family
retirement community on
Center in Bend are planning
a hilltop in Huntsville, Al-
to sell to a Washington hospi-
abama, in 2012. Like most
tality company. Wayne Purcell, whose family owns The Riverhouse, said Wednesdaytheparties are working out details of the
would notbepart of the sale. "We do have a company
sale of the hotel, restaurant
who declined to say what the
By Abby Spegman
The Purcell family opened
Republicans who tried and failed four times Wednes-
Hospitality of Vancouver, Washington. Vesta President
and added rooms over the decades, growingto 76,700
day to change or stop it. House Republican
also owns the River's Edge
and CEO Rick Takach con-
square feet, according to the
Leader Mike McLane,
Golf Course and land, which
firmedthepartiesarepassed the negotiating stage but de-
Deschutes County Assessor's Office records. The first nine holes of the golf course were
to accept that the bill will
that's made an offer on the
property. There are some contingencies," said Purcell,
clined to discuss details of the
sale. Vesta develops andman- built in 1987 and nine more ages hotels and owns seven of added in 1994, according to them, induding the Comfort Suites in Redmond.
The Riverhouse's website. See Sale /A4
Redstone's assisted living
Vesta Hospitality of Vancou-
wing, and then into nurs-
ver, Wash-
~~Pire/t e
required a move into
who is 80 and has Parkin-
son's disease, still wanted toplay.
ington,
has made an offer
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on the Riv-
Hotel anit
erhouse
Convention Center Mt. Wyshi r .
Hotel, pictured,
and con-
over there," Clinton told
me. "We had a lot of fun together."
But in October, the bingo wars began. SeeBingo/A5
center. They expectto keep the staff in
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place.
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likely breeze through the Democratic-controlled House and Senate when
he asked the budget committee to fund the bill fully if passed. SeeVoters/A4
Bend City Council talks
road money By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
The city of Bend estimates it will have slightly
more than $4 million left in bond money tomake
improvements along 14th Street from Galveston Avenue south to Simpson
How GOPplan would revamp health law By Jason Minman
Obama's plan and replacing
The Washington Post
them with tax credits to help
WASHINGTON — An in-
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At Redstone, all three
levels of care are in one building, and she could easily ride her motorized scooter into the independent living club room for the regular Monday night bingo game. "I have many friends
this time around, shoring
The Riverhouse in 1974
That company is Vesta
About a year later,
Rankin Clinton's increasing frailty and dementia
ing care. He died in September. Through those travails, Ann Clinton played bingo. She had back surgery in June; since leaving the hospital, she has been rehabilitating in Redstone's nursing wing. But Clinton,
state's clerks association is in favor of the proposal up support outside most
and convention center,which sit on roughly 12 acres at
newcomers, they took an independent living apartment, paying a deposit of $351,424, and then about $4,600 a month.
ly every eligible voter. The proposal faced opposition from rural county clerks last session before it failed by a single
fluential group of Republican lawmakers unveiled a proposal Wednesdaythat would reset the country's health care reform efforts, overturning
keyparts of President Barack
lower-income families buy coverage. that could remove subsidies for The plan, presentedby Sens. federal-run health insurance Richard Burr of North Caroexchanges across the country. lina and Orrin Hatch of Utah A ruling against subsidies and Rep. Fred Upton of Michiwould result in an estimated gan, is designed in part to help 8.2 million people across the
TODAY'S WEATHER Afternoon rain High 53, Low43 Pnge B6
manage any potential chaos from a pivotal Supreme Court rulingexpected later this year
country losing coverage, according to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projections. But there is division among
has been slotted for the
Reed Market Road improvement project, the
Republicanlawmakers whether they should step in to rescue
creation of three new
the Affordable Care Act if the
slated for a section of 27th Street in northeast Bend.
subsidies are overturned.
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