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• Search andRescuecan't identify trends causing above-averagenumber of missions
the typical year sees about 100. If the pace continues, 2014 will top the busy year
Nissions dymonth
of 2012, when there were 125
missions. By Dylan J. Darling
Big names inBendA trio of high-profile musical acts are visiting Bend in the coming week.GO!
Pius: —central oregon Beer Week is here.GO!
1y busy," he said. Rescues The Bulletin r anged from tending to a It's been an active winter m an injured in a snowmobile and spring for Deschutes w reck near Moon MounCounty Search and Rescue. t ain in March to pulling two Just under five full horses out of a mud bog months into the year, near Sisters in April to there have been 50 On AS finding a lost skier at search-and-rescue misMt. Bachelor earlier this
been more people than usual
in need of help. It does appear there have been more mountain rescues and more people with dementia, Alzheimer's
sions, Lt. Scott Shelton of the Deschutes County Sheriff's
m onth. In 2013, Search and Res-
and other special needs becoming lost. But nothing really sticks out
Office said Thursday. "We've been extreme-
cue launched more than 90
as a trend.
to debut
: no.of
Looking over the list of this
year's incidents, Shelton said it is unclear why there have
program
Deschutes County Search and Rescue's 2014 mission count: Month January February March April
: missions 12
By Loslle PugmiroHole
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The Bulletin
REDMOND — By
13
midsummer, a very different firefighter-paramedic will be reporting for work
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May
8
Total
So
at Redmond Fire
& Rescue's main
'As of May 22
See Rescues/A5
m issions, Shelton said, and
station. Instead of rolling out a 20-ton
firetruck or dashing out the door to
Bear cub found —Ateen wanders upon ablack bear cub in the outskirts of a Southern Oregon town andturns it into the police.B3
rescue a motorist
trapped in a car, this
a iin un e r
Running onnatural gaS —A Bendcompany is tentatively tabbed to receive $3.6 million to commercialize a naturai-gas refueling system for vehicles.C6
paramedic will be
e sun
performing house calls. "Community paramedic, mobile health paramedic — those are the new buzzwords in
fire-based EMS," said Chief Tim Moor of Redmond Fire &
Pius: Real estate drones
Rescue.
— Some agents are using unmanned aerial vehicles to market their listings.C6
Funded with a fed-
eral $182,000 grant, the one-year pilot program targets individuals covered
And a Wed exclusive-
by Medicaid in the
After years of silence, adaughter is speaking up onthe IRA's role in the abduction and killing of her mother. hnndhnllntin.com/nxtras
tricounty area.
"They are a pop-
ulation that often
doesn't qualify for home health care," Moor said. Medicaid patients
are also more likely to use the emergency room for nonemergency care, he added, and if they
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Implications of the high courts stay of execution
are readmitted to the hospital within
30 days for the same .
condition Medicaid
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does not pay for the stay. Moor credits his
"very progressive" chief of emergency medical service,
Doug Kelly, with the By Michael Doyle
idea for the pilot.
Joe Kline i The Bulletin
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed to
Highway is open for the season, with snow still present along the roadway from Mount Bachelor to just
share some other people's second thoughts when it stopped the planned execu-
beyond Devil's Lake. Many sites and trailheads are still inaccessible because of snow as Memorial Day
tion this week of a Missouri death row inmate.
weekend arrives. For a listing of the holiday weekend's events — of both the outdoor and indoor variety
By granting a last-ditch plea Wednesday night, justices at a minimum pro-
— throughout Central Oregon, see the Event Calendar inside GO! Magazine. For a rundown of holiday
vided Russell Bucklew • Tennessee with another
Related
bill allows opportunity limited use to argue of electric against chair,A2 le t hal injection. His case may be a peculiar one unique to his medical condition.
More broadly, though, the high court's unusual
decision marked one of the few times that justices have stayed an execution, and
it hinted at the possibility that the court is joining others in intensifying scrutiny of the death penalty. "We want the states to
get it right," Richard Dieter, the executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, said
In tough times, presidents turn to sports
New York Times News Service
By Margaret Talev
promotetourism and economic
might be one of the reasons
M.R. Gundappa, 60,
Bloomberg News
development.
there's been an increase in them on the president's schedule."
WASHINGTON — Facing an-
gry veterans, an uphill climb for his party in this year's elections and apossiblesanctionswar with Russia, President Barack Obama is turning to a time-test-
ed safe harbor forpresidents: sports. Obama is making a week of it, celebrating games large and small. A day after feting the National Football League
Thursday, "and now the states have a bit more of a
to the Baseball Hall of Fame in
burden to show they're getting it right, given what's happened in some cases." Bucklew, who has a health condition that could
Cooperstown, NY., Thursday to
succeeded — for the moment — where most fail. See Execution /A6
Premature deaths in India's cross hairs
closures, see Page Bl starting with Saturday's edition of The Bulletin.
champion Seattle Seahawks at the White House, Obama went
complicate lethal injection,
See Mobile /A4
A sailboat rides the wind at Elk Lake on Thursday afternoon west of Bend. The Cascade Lakes
He started the weekby dropping in on co-ed Little League players at a neighborhood recreation field in Washington, tossing a ball and posing for photos. "Sports-related events be-
administration of Andrew John-
son, who invited baseball dubs
ball-almanac.com.
most famous sluggers, got personal visits withpresidents, both sitting and future. In 1921, he
stopped in at the White House for an audience with President Warren G. Harding. In 1948,
to the executive mansion start-
presidents who have a lot of
ing in 1865. Andbaseball dominated presidential attention through
near the end of his life, he took
much ofthe 20th century.President William Taft, who saw 14
ographyto Yale University. Receiving it for the school was the
baseball games while in office,
captain of Yale's baseball team,
ly don't lend themselves to par-
started the tradition of the com-
tisanship or controversy, they're an enjoyable getaway, and that
mander- in-chief throwing out a season-opening first pitch
George H.W. Bush, whobecame the 41st president of the U.S. See Presidents/A6
things going wrong," said Ari Fleischer, former President George W. Bush's press secretary who now works as a sports media consultant. "They typical-
part in a ceremony as he donated the manuscript of his autobi-
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The Bulletin AnIndependent
MAGADI, Indiadied the way most Indians do: with no
Babe Ruth, one ofbaseball's
come wonderful escapes for
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Sports teams have been
showing up at the White House since the mid-19th century
in 1910, according to the base-
By Malavika Vyawaharo
doctor present, no monitors beeping by his side and no written record. The only person present was his wife, Sushilamma, 48, who spent the day of his death trying to get him admitted to a
government hospital where he could be treated for abdominalpain. See Deaths/A5
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