Bulletin Daily Paper 02-05-15

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TODAY'S READERBOARD

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-

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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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The Riverhonse

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

A photo that appearedwith a story headlined "Searching for giants in the California Redwood forests," which appeared Wednesday, Feb. 4, onpage D4, was incorrect. The trees pictured were giant sequoias. The Bulletin regrets the error.

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-

Correction

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vention

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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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roundabouts and work SeeCouncil/A4

SeeHealth /A5

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INDEX Business Calendar Classified

Avenue, according to a report from Wednesday night's City Council meeting. Voters passed a $30 million general obligation bond in May 2011. The majority of that money

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