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BRIEFING Stop turns up 4 pounds ofmeth Two Jefferson County residents were arrested April 4 after an Oregon State Police trooper found 4 pounds of methamphetamine in their car during a traffic stop, according to a news release. Carmen Zavala,32, of Madras, andDavey Culpus, 28, ofWarm Springs werenorthbound on U.S.Highway 97 about 4 miles south of Bend whentheir car was stopped for aspeed violation, according to the news release. Troopers searching the car located themethamphetamine in thecar's trunkand rear passenger compartment. Thedrugs are valued atapproximately $60,000. Zavala andCulpus were arrested on suspicion of delivery and possession ofmethamphetamine. — Bulletin staff report
Streets closed • Northwest Crossing Drive from Mt. Washington Drive to Compass Park is closed. • Fort Clatsop Street from OrdwayAvenueto the business parking lot on the south side of Northwest Crossing Drive is closed. • All roads reopen at 2 a.m. Monday.
rou aims osows ee ers By Hillary Borrud
Did you know that volunteers with radar guns stake out reported speeding hot spots? bendbulletin.com/speeding
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An advocacygroup that formedtoaddresstrafficon one street in Bend is now push-
ingthe city government to stop speeders across the city.
in an email Friday. Barb Campbell, who co-founded Slower Safer Bend
Slower Safer Bend wants
the city to do more to educate and crack down on speeders, and the group recently kicked off its own education campaign, the pace car program. Bill Phillips lives on Southeast Airpark Drive and has attended the group's meetings.
with her partner, Foster Fell,
said the group is pushing for the city to purchase 13 of these signs, which display the speed limit along with the actual
speeds of passing cars. The signs also collect data on the
"It's pretty narrow, it's got
number of vehicles and their speeds, which the city can use
a lot of blind spots and it's got a hill people can't see over
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until they're on top of it," Phil-
Barb Campbell, co-founder of the group Slower Safer Bend, sits
lips said of his street. Drivers speed through the neighborhood and although Phillips has called the police, he said "nothing seems to be getting
on the bumper of her car, beside her new pace car sticker, outside her home in Bend on Tuesday. People who participate in the pace
car program sign a pledge to drive the speed limit and place the stickers on their vehicles.
better ... It's pretty frustrating,
and I don't really know what
committed to any concrete plansforprojectsto reduce Slower Safer Bend has met speeding. City councilors with city employees to discuss will discuss during upcomoptions, but the city has not ing budget talks whether to to do about it."
purchase additional portable radar speed signs, and they will make a decision by June, Bend Community Relations Manager Anne Aurand wrote
to target police traffic enforce-
ment and identify areas that might require changes to the street design. Campbell said Slower Safer Bend wants the city to purchase one sign for each of the 13 neighborhood associations in the city, so the associations can place
the signs in areas where they know there are speeding problems. SeeSpeeders/B5
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Correction In a story headlined "He was known as'Dr. Snowshoe,'" which appeared Friday, April 11, on PageB1, Jim Davis' nickname —"Dr. Snowshoe" — was incorrectly identified in the headline. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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REDMOND PATRIOTS MEETING:Candidates for Circuit Court judge, Randy Miller and T.J. Spear; 6:30 p.m.; Highland Baptist Church, 3100 S.W. Highland Ave.; 541-639-7784.
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A group of four backcountry skiers were rescued Thursday night by Deschutes County Search andRescuein the Three Sisters Wilderness after being separated from their party. Inga Kellogg Rouches, 51, DagSigurd Stai, 47, Sharon LynnStai, 46, and a16-year-old were rescued after getting lost skiing the Hayden Glacier on thenortheastern flank of Middle Sister, the Sheriff's Office said in a newsrelease. The skiers areall from Snoqualmie, W ash.,exceptfor Rouches, who is from Fall City, Wash. They were in contact with Search andRescue through a cellphone. The intermittent contact allowed Searchand Rescue to steer the group toward the Wychus Creek bridge crossing. None of thefour was injured. Theskiers were properly equippedand promptly informed the Sheriff's Office of their difficulty, which simplified the rescue,thenews release said.
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Fire managers meet as an area of a 300-acre prescribed burn, titled the Fuzzy Burn and totaling 598 acres, cools off near China Hat Road
south of Bend Thursday. The prescribed burn is one ofseveral happening in good conditions this week.
• Oregon PrescribedFireCouncil members gather in BendaSPart Of'Week OfFire' By Dylan J. Darling
boundaries," said Stamper,
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who is also a fuels technician
A fledgling statewide coun- for the Sisters Ranger District cil intends to make it easier of the Deschutes National for land management agenForest. She said the idea of cies and private landowners the council here started with to haveprescribed fires. her and Trevor Miller, who The Oregon Prescribed also worked in fire manageFire Council held its inaument in the Sisters District. gural meeting Thursday at There are similar councils Central Oregon Community in California and WashingCollege. The council probaton, and in the southeastern bly will have members from states of the country, but
out vegetation, brush and
sionals focused on wildfire,
said John Bailey, an associate professor forOregon State University. Through it they will be "keeping up on the
CentralOregon Fire Science
smaller trees so that should a fire break out, it has less fuel to burn. Spring is a common time for prescribed fires in Central Oregon, as evidenced
Symposium at COCC.
by the smoke column from
Also called controlled burns, prescribed fires are lit
such a fire Thursday southeast of Bend.
scribed fire and technology," he said. SeeBurns/B5
there hasn't been one for Ore-
gon before, Stamper said.
"A lot of this is about trying
treatments together — across
• Forest Roads 4604, 4604-010 and 4604-031
The new council could benefit both students and profes-
well as tribes, conservation groups and other organizathe initial chairwoman for the group.
A prescribed burn is planned to begin today in theWest Bend Project area nearPhil's Trailhead off Skyliners Road. The burn is scheduledfor 234acres starting one-quarter mile south of the trailheadparking area. It is likely to continue into Sunday and recreationists areadvised tostay awayfrom the burn area, including areaclosures, until they aredeemedsafe for public access. Closures include: • 1 mile south of Marvin's Garden Trail from Phil's Trailhead to the KGBjunction (Junction 48)
by firefighters when weather conditions are right to thin
stateand federal agencies, as tions, said Amanda Stamper,
Prescridedburnplannedtoday
The meeting came as part of the "Week of Fire," the
latest and greatest in pre-
VOTER FORUM FOR DESCHUTES COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: District attorney candidates Patrick Flaherty and John Hummel will debate. Hosted by the League of Women Voters; 5:15 p.m.; Deschutes County administration building, 1300 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-382-2724.
April 24 2014 PRIMARY ELECTION CANDIDATE FORUM:The Deschutes County Citizen's Action Group hosts forum for voters to meet candidates; 6:30 p.m.; La Pine Senior Activity Center, 16450 Victory Way; 541-536-3207,
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April 28 REDMOND PATRIOTS MEETING:Candidate for U.S. Senate Republican primary Dr. Monica Wehby; 6:30 p.m.; Highland Baptist Church, 3100 S.W. Highland Ave.; 541-639-7784. Mone Nay election info on B6
Apple takingoverJeffersonCoun hydroelectric project By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
A Bend company that had
proposed ahydroelectric project in Jefferson County has transferred its property
to Apple, suggesting the computing giant may be looking to start generating power for its Prineville data center.
Chris Gaither, a spokesman for Apple, said while the com-
panywill not comment specifically on the deal with EBD Hydro, Apple has made running its facilities onrenewablepower apriority. The Prineville data center is run largely on wind power purchased from utilities, he said, and in the company's 2013 Environmental Footprint
Report, Apple states itplans to employ solar and micro-hydro power in the future.
The 45-Mile Hydroelectric Project, first proposed in 2010 by EBD Hydro of Bend, would be located on the North Unit Ir-
a hydroelectric turbine and discharging it back into the canal.
rigation District's main canal, 45 miles downstream from the
ed the project would generate 3 In 2011, EBD Hydro received to 3.5 megawatts of electricity, a $7.2 million federal loan enough to power 2,100 to 2,450 guarantee for the hydro project
intake and about 2 miles north of Haystack Reservoir. As originally envisioned, the project would divert water out of the
canal for approximately half a mile before runningit through
In 2011, EBD Hydro estimat-
homes.
Filings in the Federal Register indicate EBD Hydro transferred the property related to
the hydro project to Apple in
November. Representatives of EBD Hydro could not be
reachedforcomment on Friday.
and was anticipating construc-
tion wouldbegin before the end of that year. — Reporter: 541-883-0387, shammers@bendbulletin.com