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THE HARGRAVES SPEAK OUT
Was it murder? Family says no • Relatives grieved for a troubled Tumalo man long before his death and say his father isn’t a killer; authorities disagree
• Deschutes plans to lease water rights to return billions of gallons to its river namesake
By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
DEAD Steven Hargrave
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
The stretch of the Deschutes River north of Bend will be a little less parched in summers to come as a result of a new initiative launched by Deschutes Brewery. Bend’s largest brewery will be joining with the Deschutes River Conservancy and local irrigation districts to return an estimated 1 billion gallons of water to the Middle Deschutes each year by leasing water rights from rural landowners. Water that would otherwise be diverted into the region’s canal system and used to irrigate fields will instead remain in the river channel, improving fish and wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities in the river between Bend and Lake Billy Chinook. Brewery founder and CEO Gary Fish said he considers the deal a permanent investment in the health of the river. “At this point we see no end to our commitment,” Fish said. “The future is always uncertain, but we understand this as a longterm commitment on our part.” See Water / A6
BULLYING
Rutgers verdict: Youth no longer a good defense By William Glaberson New York Times News Service
He was just a jerky kid. That was the defense the lawyer made for Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his gay freshman roommate days before the roommate killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. But the jerky-kid defense Inside failed Friday with the conviction • Also on of Ravi in a New Jersey court on trial: hate bias intimidation, invasion of pricrime vacy and other charges. Lawyers laws, A6 said the conviction gave new potential to hate crime prosecutions for cyberbullying and digital spying largely because it seemed to repudiate the notion that youth is a defense. “The debate in this case was: Was this a stupid college prank or criminal intimidation? And the jury gave a clear answer,” said Suzanne Goldberg, a gender law expert at Columbia Law School. Lawyers said the verdict would encourage other hate crime prosecutions involving young defendants. See Defense / A6
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CHARGED James Hargrave
Pamela Hargrave admits her husband shot and killed their 29-year-old son, Steven. Kenny Hargrave says his dad is responsible for his brother’s death. But that doesn’t mean
they want him in jail for it. Friends and family say James Hargrave, 61, shot his son in self-defense in December, afraid Steven would attack him in a drunken rage. They say Hargrave is too sick to be in the Deschutes County jail
and at the very least ought to be released to house arrest. But Deschutes County Circuit Judge Wells Ashby declined to set bail on March 7, saying evidence showed Hargrave had intentionally and unlawfully shot his son. The Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office opposed release, arguing that Hargrave, in inter-
views after the shooting, showed no fear of his son and no remorse for what he’d done. Hargrave is charged with one count of murder. Now family members are speaking out, saying they want the public to understand the challenges they faced with Steven over the years and the fear they say they felt the night he died. See Hargrave / A7
HISTORY OF GOLF IN CENTRAL OREGON
Resort golf is born • With the opening of Sunriver and Black Butte Ranch, the High Desert becomes a destination in the 1970s
SUNRIVER RESORT Photos courtesy ZuAnne Neal Day
Photos from 1969 show a section of Sunriver Resort’s first golf course and its manmade river (left) and the construction of the main lodge (right). Although it has since been renovated, Sunriver’s Meadows course is still in play today using largely the same routing, and the lodge remains a focal point of the sprawling resort that helped introduce the term “destination resort” to Central Oregonians.
By Zack Hall • The Bulletin
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laudia Loveland remembers as a little girl playing around the land where Camp Abbot once stood. She recalls how the 300 or so acres of Deschutes County land that her uncle, Prineville lumber magnate John Hudspeth, bought in 1955 rested in a picturesque meadow with few remnants of the World War II-era military base that had teemed with Army engineer trainees. Foundations for the old barracks remained, but the only building still standing was the old officers club that stood as “just kind of a shell,” the 67-year-old Loveland remembers. “It was a fun place,” Loveland, who lives in Powell Butte, says of the Camp Abbot site. “You can go and you can fish, and you had just all of that land to just wander.” That land would one day be developed into a resort that would grow into a community all its own. And that “shell” of an officers club would become Sunriver Resort’s iconic Great Hall. By 1969, Sunriver Resort was on the map with nine holes of golf in a seemingly remote area of forest land about 15 miles south of Bend. Another development west of Sisters, Black Butte Ranch, was on the drawing board of a newly formed subsidiary of Bend lumber giant Brooks-Scanlon: Brooks Resources. The term “destination resort” was about to become part of this region’s lexicon. Sunriver Resort and Black Butte Ranch each would be developed as a means to sell real estate chiefly used for vacation homes and to attract visitors to the state’s high desert — a first in this area, and changing the scope of Central Oregon golf forever. See Golf / A4
BLACK BUTTE RANCH
A TRUE BELIEVER IN CENTRAL OREGON
Bulletin historic photo
Gene “Bunny” Mason is pictured showing off Black Butte Ranch’s 15th hole in this Bulletin photo from June 15, 1972. The first course at Black Butte, now known as Big Meadow, was much more successful than its developer, Brooks Resources, had initially projected. And Mason, a PGA professional from Salem who was the resort’s first director of golf, long thought Central Oregon would become golf’s “Palm Springs of the Northwest.” (Story on A4. Also inside: a story about the Oregon Open, the tournament that put Sunriver and the region on the map.)
Editor’s note: This is the third story in a four-part series on the history of Central Oregon golf courses and the local golf industry. March 4: Part 1: Bend Golf Club and the origins of the sport in Central Oregon.
March 11: Part 2: New clubs in Prineville and Redmond turn the 1950s into an era of growth.
Today: Part 3: Sunriver and Black Butte Ranch change the scope of Central Oregon golf.
Next Sunday: Part 4: Central Oregon becomes a golf destination. But rapid growth and economic troubles leave an uncertain future.
Visit www.bendbulletin.com/golfhistory to view the entire series as it is published.
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Robert Bales
Online, Karilyn Bales detailed her pregnancy, with her husband a world away. She described the pit she got in her stomach from missing him. She wrote of her disappointment after he was passed over
for a promotion. But mostly, Karilyn Bales — the wife of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last week — relayed the simple anguish of life as a military wife, tending to a home with two young children, with a hus-
band summoned for repeated deployments. “Bob left for Iraq this morning,” she wrote in her family blog on Aug. 9, 2009. “Quincy slept in our bed last night.” Though much of the family’s online presence appears to have been removed in recent
days, the fragments that remain capture the daily travails typical of any family with a loved one stationed abroad. They also provide hints of the toll multiple deployments take on soldier and spouse alike. See Soldier / A3