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Redmond-L.A.flight planned... if 350ICin tickets sell
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By Elon Glucklich The Bulletin
Redmond Airport passengers may be able to fly directly to Los Angeles starting in June — if the community can commit to buying $350,000 in tickets in the next eight days.
If successful, it would give Central Oregon residents and businesses nonstop access to Southern California for the first time in about three years. Local officials are in talks with American Airlines
about adding a 50-seat commuter flight from Redmond to L.A. to its travel lineup, Economic Development for Central Oregon officials told business leaders Wednesday at The Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center.
The flight would depart Redmond for Los Angeles International Airport each morning and return in the evening, Roger Lee, EDCO's executive director, told a crowd of about 200 at the agency's annual luncheon.
A group of Central Oregon business leaders who depend on air travel has been in talks with airlines and airport officials since Horizon Air ended its Redmond-to-L.A. flight in August 2010. See Flight/A5
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Tweets may warn about epidemics By Brooke Jarvis Special to The Washington Post
Twitter users send around 500 million tweets a day, an endless fire hose of information about how people feel, what they're doing, what they know and where they are. For epidemiologists and public health officials, it's a potential gold mine of data — but only if they can figure out how to find the useful signal amid all that noise. "The question is: How do you take these billions of messages, find the useful information and get it to people who can respond?" says Mark Dredze, an assistant professor of computer sciences at Johns Hopkins. See Epidemics/A5
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Firefighters work to extinguish the remaining hot spots in a wing of Trinity Hall early Wednesday in Bend.
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The burnings in Bendaren't necessarily being treated as religiously motivated or as hatecrimes, but an investigation by local authorities,
In a text box accompanying a story headlined "Redmond girl to get experimental treatment," which appeared Friday, March 1, on Page Al, an incorrect date was listed for when Dutch Bros. Coffee will donate the day's proceeds to Avrey Walker. Locations in Redmond and Boise, Idaho, will do so on Friday. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms andExplosives continues. THE NUMBERS The latest national numbers, released in 2002, estimate that more than a thousand church fires happen each year — with a quarter of them
In1996, a wave of church arsons received attention at the federal
level. Congress passedthe Church Arson Prevention Act in response to the destruction of more than a hundred houses of worship — mostly in the South and targeting both black and predominantly white churches. The law, in addition to extending prison sentences for such crimes, stipulates that the intentional defacement or destruction of any real estate
church in Oregon City; Lutheran and Korean evangelical churches in Silverton; an Orthodox church in Milwaukie; and a Church of the
Nazarene in Philomath. In 2007, another Nazarene church, housed in a 60-year-old build-
ing in Grand Ronde,was destroyed by firebomb; two teenswere convicted, and the building was analmost $1 million loss. In 2010, a Corvallis mosque was the target of a firebombing just
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Matt Calanchini woke up to a firefighter pounding on his front door. It was after 2 a.m. and the firefighter told him his house was on fire and he had to get out. As he shook out of sleepiness and stepped outside, Calanchini, 40, realized the garage behind his house was ablaze. He picked up a garden hose and soon was joined by firefighters from the Sunriver Fire Department. They were there, nearly 20 miles from their station, because Bend firefighters were busy just about a block away battling a fire tearing through Trinity Episcopal Church's Trinity Hall, 469 N.W. Wall St. The two fires were among seven in a three-block section of south downtown Bend early W ednesday morning. Police and fire investigators said Wednesday the cause of the f ires was under investigation. See Neighborhood /A6
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A string of early morning fires shattered the quiet of downtown Bend on Wednesday, with one of the blazes causing significant damage to a historic church. Authorities declined to characterize the fires, all within a three-block area, as suspicious. But a contingent of local, state and federal investigators converged throughout Wednesday on what authorities treated as seven individual crime scenes. At the outset, the Bend Fire Department, quickly overwhelmed by the amount of fire, put out a call for help from around Central Oregon. "When we discovered the second fire and then the additional fires, we realized we were dealing with something different (than the initial call)," said Larry Medina, deputy chief of prevention for the fire department. More than 30 firefighters responded, from Redmond, La Pine, Sisters, Sunriver, Black Butte Ranch and Cloverdale, Medina said. A caller to 911 around 2:10 a.m. reported smoke coming from the church at 469 N.W. Wall St., according to the Bend Police Department. The church with a signature red door, Trinity Hall, is part of a collection of buildings in south downtown Bend maintained by the Trinity Episcopal Church. See Fires /A6
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Matt Calanchini pauses while walking by his burned shed in the alley behind his home on Northwest St. Helen's Place.
The clock was ticking when the board of trustees of the Family Kitchen met Wednesday morning to figure how to pull together lunch for the 100 to 150 people the organization serves on a typical day. Hours earlier, a fire had torn through the home of th e Family K i tchen, 231 N.W. Idaho Ave., one of seven blazes that sprang up suddenly after 2 a.m. in the neighborhood just south of d owntown Bend. While police and fire investigators picked through the wreckage, board President Pat Roden and her fellow board members worked the phones in a temporary headquartersacross the street in the old Bend Library. Roden said the group managed to secure donations from Bend's four Subway restaurants in time for the regularly scheduled 11 a.m. lunch. See Services/A6