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THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013
BRIEFING
Crook County lands wolf grant The Oregon Department of Agriculture
announced Wednesday that it approved the distribution of more than $37,000 to five
counties, all east of the Cascades,to help pay for nonlethal methods of
preventing wolf attacks on livestock. Crook County will
receive $3,000 to help fund a bone pile removal program, according to the department. The
NOV. 5 ELECTION
CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ran 0 e By Megan Kehoe
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tion of $15 million to community colleges in the state. During the Tuesday evening COCC board meeting, members discussedhow the funding will impact the college next year. "The 15 million does come with some strings attached," said Andrea Henderson, executive director of the Oregon Community College Association.
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Central Oregon Community College will receive an estimated $800,000 to limit tuition increases in the 201415 school year as part of a bill passed during the Oregon Legislature special session last week. One of five bills passed during the special session, House Bill 5101 includes an alloca-
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The money COCC receives will be specifically designated for maintaining tuition in the 2014-15 school year. Because of this, the money cannot be used to add faculty, programs or classroom equipment. COCC Board Chairman Bruce Abernethy asked during the session whether the funds were basically a wash for the college's operations.
"In terms of the business side of things, it doesn't provide significant revenue for us," COCC President Jim Middleton said later. "But we're not complaining." Middleton said that rather than having that funding up front, the college will see the impact of it through student enrollment spurred by keeping tuition affordable. SeeGrant/B2
• Last day toregister to vote:Oct.15 (21 days before the election) • Ballots mailed:Oct.18 • Election Day:Nov. 5 • Where to register: County elections offices,
Oregon secretary of state's office, DMV,
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ON THE BALLOT City of Bend • Measure 9-94: In-
crease the temporary lodging rate from 9 to 10 percent,then to 10.4 percent.
county last month announced it would be
receiving the moneybut still had to finalize the grant with the state.
Deschutes County • Measure 9-96: In-
Bone piles are places where ranchers dispose of cattle carcasses, of-
crease the transient room tax outside incor-
porated areas by 1 percentage point,
ten animals that died by accident or through dis-
from 7 to 8 percent.
ease. While no known wolf packs roamCrook County, lone wolves tracked by the state
Deschutes aodCrook counties • Measure 9-95: Form
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and federal scientists
Alfalfa Fire District and
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via electronic collars
create a permanent
have passed throughin recent years.
taxing district at a rate
of $1.75 per $1,000 assessed property value.
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The bulk of the grant
money will go to Wallowa and umatilla coun-
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ties in Eastern Oregon, where there are estab-
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county will receive more than $15,500 to help pay for range riders, people who patrol rangeland for wolves coming close
Jefferson counties • Measure 16-69: Re-
new operations levy for
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Crooked River Ranch Rural Fire Protection District at a rate of 69
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cents per $1,000 assessed property value.
to livestock, and fladry, electrified rope with
Jefferson County • Measure 16-70: Levy a five-year jail operations tax of $1.24 per$1,000 assessed property value.
flagging designed to keep wolves awayfrom livestock.
The grants announced Wednesday
• Measure 16-71:
more than $25,000 the
Approve $8 million in bonds for repairs and improvements to
department distributed in June. The department
schools in the Culver School District.
come in addition to
denied Crook County a
Read ourstories Coverage leading up
grant in that round of funding. — Bulletin staff report
to the election is at
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BendFilm Festival volunteers Tom Filcich, below, assists Casey Brown by checking the placement of a banner Wednesday Out front of Liberty Theater in downtown Bend. BendFilm, which is being held for the 10th time and is billed as a celebration of independent cinema, opens today. The Liberty Theater is considered the festival's "hub" and will house the box office, merchandise and general information for festivalgoers. To learn more about the BendFilm Festival, go to www.bendfilm.org. Check out GO! in Friday's edition of The Bulletin for a story on BendFilm and a full schedule of screenings.
STATE NEWS • Portland:Man pleads guilty after confessing to trio of homicides. • Ontario:Man killed 21
years after slaying his foster parents. Stories on B3
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National Guardsmanfound REDMOND Council: Airport cabbies guil of rape, other charges can't refuseshort rides "I'm very thankful for the testimony by the family," he The Oregon National Guard said after the verdict. "Now I soldier accused of raping his hope they move beyond this fellow guardsman's 11-yearand start to heal." old daughter was found Valdez has been held guilty Wednesday after in Deschutes County a six-daytrial. jail since his arrest in "The facts are abMarch 2012. He was solutely clear from the crying as he walked out court's perspective," of the courtroom. "I'm gravely disapsaidDeschutes County Va ldez Circuit Judge Stephen pointed," said Valdez's P. Forte. "The uninhibited defense attorney, Terry testimony from the victim, Rahmsdorff, afterthe verdict. the semen on the bed and the Forte, who heard the trial physical damage to her — the alone, on Wednesday heard evidence is overwhelming." McIvercross-examine Valdez Florentino Allen Valdez, 35, and closing arguments from of Bend, hung his head after both sides. "This is one of the most heiForte returned a guilty verdict on two counts of first-degree nous and egregious betrayals rape and sodomy and five of a man could do to a family," the eight counts of first-degree McIver said during his closing sexual assault. argument. "He was preying "It's painful," said the victim's on the generosity of a military mother, tears still in her eyes member to gain the trust of the after hearing the guilty verfamily, then stabbing them in dict. "It doesn't feel better. My the back." daughters don't leave my sight McIver continued to say between their grandmother Valdez could not think of the and myself. I made a bad judgvictim's motive to accuse him ment call and I trusted him." of this crime and switched into "self-preservation mode." Deputy District Attorney "The ease at which the vicVan McIver said he hopes the family of the victim and the tim is able to deceive and lie victim herself can recover. is astonishing," Mclver said.
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Correction A report headlined
"Committee picks membrane option," which
appeared Wednesday on Page B1,incorrectly identified the group that met to consider a
recommendation on a water treatment option for Bend. The body that met was Bend City Council. The Bulletin regrets the error.
"Even when he's caught, there isn't angst or anxiety." Rahmsdorff claimed the initial interview of the victim had contaminated her recollection of events and her lack of detail swere concerning. He said the victim was not able to identify the responding deputy, Chris Jones, by his name but by a markon his face.When Rahmsdorff asked the victim if she recognized anything unique about Valdez's body, she recalled a tattoo on his forearm but failed to recall four other tattoos on his chest, back and arms. "She remembered a tattoo on his forearm but didn't see anything else — not a thing," Rahmsdorff said. "You saw tattoos all over Valdez." A fter Forterendered the verdict, he addressed the victim's mother. "What he did is horrible," Forte said. "But we all need to go forward and use these events as opportunities." Valdezisscheduled for sentencing Tuesday. Mandatory minimum sentences for first-degree rape and sodomy charges are 25 years in prison. — Reporter: 541-383-0348, bandersen@bendbulletin.com
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Cab drivers at the Redmond Airport will no longer be allowed to turn down short-distancefares, under a code amendment approved Tuesday by the Redmond City Council. The city, which operates the airport, received complaints that some drivers turned away would-be passengers in order to wait for moreexpensive fares, according to Redmond Mayor George Endicott. Endicott said the city requires cab companies to obtain a permit to pick up fares at the airport, and sets standards on how drivers operate there.
"We justdecided once we we're doing this, let's make sure we're covered so we can satisfy state and national law," Endicott said. "It's the right thing to do." Bucci Shelton, general manager of Checker Cab of Bend, said cab drivers at the airport have largely worked out their own system for
The code change, approved by a unanimous vote of the council Tuesday, forbids drivers from refusing a fare based on length of travel within Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook counties. Councilors also approved a code change barring drivers from refusingfares because of race, color, national origin, age or sex, though Endicott said he's unaware of any
picking up fares. Unless an arriving passenger has called ahead to reserve a cab
or has a preferred company or driver, the first cab in line takes the first fare to arrive, with eachcab moving up as the cab ahead departs, Shelton said. He said the airport has some written rules — cabs can't pick up passengers at the curb closest to the airport, and cabs with major body damage aren't allowed to pick up rides — but drivers largely police themselves. "The airport management doesn't really enforce hardly anything, it's pretty much the way the drivers have always done it," he said. SeeCabbies/B2