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A GUARDSMAN’S STORY
Comrades in combat: one Oregonian, one Iraqi &EJUPS T OPUF This is the first in a three-day series of columns about a soldier and his family’s fight to help an Iraqi interpreter immigrate to the U.S.
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GPS tracks 2nd wolf’s impressive journey
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the first one to defend my country if there was an actual threat, but ‌ I wasn’t going to let someone else decide for me.â€? After the attacks, Joe felt powerless. He was also, he adds, naive. “I’d anticipated that if I was deployed anywhere, it would be Afghanistan,â€? he says. That’s where his unit was slated to go when he started basic training, in the summer of 2002. Soldiers at the base were not allowed
Heading home to Pendleton
By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
Far from his family and its Eastern Oregon territory, a lone wolf is continuing his grand walk across the state, through Deschutes County and into the Cascades. “We are watching it with great interest,â€? said John Stephenson, wolf coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. A GPS device around the wolf’s neck makes tracking OR-7, as Stephenson and other wildlife managers call him, easy. The device provides them with location information on the wolf almost daily. The result is a map showing his winding route from Wallowa County, which the Inside 2-year-old • Mapping gray wolf Wolf left in SepOR-7’s tember, to trek, A7 his latest haunts along the Douglas and Klamath county line south of Crescent Lake. Two months and hundreds of miles into his trek, OR-7 has crossed six major highways, including 20, 97 and 58, skirted through southern Crook County and walked through southeastern Deschutes County. Lately he’s been spending time in the high country of Douglas and Klamath counties, said Russ Morgan, wolf coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “He’s right up there on the crest of the Cascades.â€? Once members of the Imnaha wolf pack in Eastern Oregon, OR-7 and his full-blooded brother, a 3-year-old black-colored gray wolf called OR-3, are the first two wolves tracked through Central Oregon in about 70 years. See 8PMG / A7
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Photos by Pete Erickson • The Bulletin Rehabilitation complete for now, Patriot — the local bald eagle that was struck by a car and then given mouth-to-beak resuscitation this summer — is on his way to his new home, the Blue Mountain Wildlife Center in Pendleton. Attending the “graduation ceremonyâ€? Friday at the Sunriver Nature Center were Lynn Tompkins, Blue Mountain director (left), and veterinarian Jeff Cooney (right), who saved the bird’s life.
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Concerned about teenagers texting while driving, the Sisters City Council asked Deschutes County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Pray just how much of a problem it was. What Pray, the Sisters School District’s resource officer, told them was probably not what they expected. “The deputy looked into it and said that, yes, it’s happening,� City Manager Eileen Stein said. “But it’s really happening more by parents, not students.� This wasn’t a study, a poll or a sting operation. It was Pray giving his best estimate of what he sees. And he sees a lot. For five years, Pray has been tasked with school safety and crime prevention. He holds office hours at the high school and works to develop relationships with students and discuss safety issues. And every day, after classes let out, he sits outside the high school parking lot and keeps kids driving safely. He looks for speeding, reckless driving and, of course, cellphone usage. See 4JTUFST / A4
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to read newspaper articles, only headlines. But even those snippets revealed that national attention was shifting toward Iraq. “By the time I got out, nobody was talking about Afghanistan,� he says. In early 2005, Joe, whose Army rank was specialist, was stationed about 40 miles north of Baghdad. His unit patrolled villages and provided convoy security. See *SBR / A7
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By Tricia Bishop The Baltimore Sun
When Paul Brachfeld heard about the heist of historic documents in Baltimore this summer, the National Archives inspector general acted quickly. First, he checked his records to see if the suspects had visited his facilities. (They had.) Next, he reached out to federal investigators and offered the services of his in-house investigative group. The Archival Recovery Team — ART, for short — is now sorting through more than 10,000 items removed from a Manhattan apartment. Their discoveries so far include treasures that trace back to Napoleon, Newton and Beethoven. “The vast preponderance of those are not necessarily from my institution. But if not me and my office,� Brachfeld said, “who would do this work?� See "SU / A7