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Mount Rainier hiker
died of hypothermia
DEATH NOTICES Ronald "Ronnie" L. Wright, of La Pine
By Phuong Le
three-day search efforts on
The Associated Press
Saturday when they discov-
Aug. 4, 1957- June19,2014 Arrangements: Baird Memorial Chapel of La Pine is honored to serve the family. 541-536-5104 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: A Celebration of Life will be held at Ronnie's mother's home located at 51380 Preble Way in La Pine on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 from 6:00-9:OOPM.
7 0-year- ered Sykes. old hiker who died of hypoKindra Ramos, with the SEATTLE — A
thermia in rugged terrain in
Carol Joy Tieben, of Bend Jan. 18, 1940 - June 21, 2014 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend is honored to serve the family. 541-382-0903 www.bairdmortuaries.com Services: At Carol's request, no services will be held. Contributionsmay be made to:
Partners In Care 2075 NE Wyatt Court Bend, Oregon 97701 www.partnersbend.org
Corey Lee Davis,of Prineville Aug. 23, 1959 - June 21, 2014 Arrangements: Juniper Ridge Funeral Home, 541-362-5606
James Ruben Rainwater
in
Redmond OR and attended Redmond High, class of 1990. H e li v e d most of his Jim Rainwater a dult I ; f e i n Seattle, W A , a n d re cently moved to Charlottesville, VA. He is survived by his wife o f 19 y e ars, A u n drea, o f Charlottesville, V A ; hi s parents, Joe and Margaret Rainwater of Redmond; his brother, Dwayne of Guinea, West Africa; his sisters, Bobbi M cD on a l d of P rineville, OR a n d K a t h y Eller of Redmond, OR. He was also loved by n u mero us family m e m bers a n d friends. Services are pending.
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Mira Slovak, aColdWardefector who found famethrough the air By Steve Chawkins
lived withhim for 28 years. Slo-
Los Angeles Times
vak was a pilot for Continental,
W hen the pilot w it h t h e retiring in 1986. jet-black hair and movie-star smile asked if anyone would From defection care to come up and see the to competition cockpit, he wasn't surprised Born Oct. 25, 1929, in Cifer, Czechoslovakia,Miroslav Jan
to do with any of it," said Kim Brown, who has hiked with
tive director of Visit Rainier, an organization thatpromotes
tourism at the mountain, said Sykes was researching a story that she likely would have submitted to the website.
helm of so-called unlimited
Sykes. "She was very careful, very cautious," Brown said of Sykes, who was prominent in the Northwesthikingcommu-
hydroplanes — the fastest rac-
nity for her trail reviews and
Within a
d ecade, Slovak,
whose only previous boating experience involved paddling, won three national titles at the
ing boats on the water. He also had most of his teeth knocked
gers readily agreed.
James Ruben Rainwater, born March 26, 1972 died J une 20 , 2 0 14. J i m w a s killed in a commercial truck accident near Richmond, VA. He grew
up
Los Angeles Times file photo/MCT
Mira Slovak, a Czechoslovakian Cold War defector who made a name for himself through his aerial stunts, died June16 at 84.
that a couple of his 25 passen-
Mar. 26, 1972- Jsn. 20, 2014
nonprofit Washington Trails Association, said she won't over the weekend was expe- guess what happened to rienced, prepared and knew Sykes but said hiking comes the mountain well after hav- with some inherent risks. "As they go outdoors, the ing written dozens of stories about treks through the area. best thing you could do is to She did not have other in- have your 10 essentials, be juries and her death was an comfortable with your suraccident, the Pierce County roundings, and go as far as medical examiner's office you're comfortable," Ramos said Monday. Karen Sykes sald. had heart disease, accordShe recommended proper ing to an autopsy, but her trip planning and preparadaughter and others said she tion, including reading trip was healthy and fit and often reports and knowing weather hiked twice a week. conditions. "Karen knew these things While not certain about the and I'm sure did them. She circumstances around her death, those who knew Sykes really had her bases covered, said earlier that they believed and unfortunately accidents her death was something that happen sometimes," Ramos could happen to anyone no said. She added that Sykes matterhow experienced. would want people to know "The mountainsare big. that there are some risks but There's a lot going on. She "she wouldn't want to scare was extremely experienced people from hiking." but experience has nothing Mary Kay Nelson, execuMount Rainier National Park
Slovak was the son of a grain out, his face sliced open and his After all, this was the mo- merchant. During the Nazi oc- kidneys badly injured. When ment that Mira Slovak and his cupation in World War II, his he bailed out of the Tahoe Miss two co-conspirators had been family hid two Jewish fami- because its engine exploded anticipating for two years. Slo- lies in their farmhouse base- at 195 mph, he broke his back vak, the youngest captain inthe ment, according to David Wil- and dislocated his hip. "I got state-run Czechoslovakian Air- liams, who is writing a Slovak to know lots of nurses by their lines, hated communism and so biography. first name," he said. did his friends. When he was 17, Meanwhile, he relaxed with That's why they FEATURFP Slovak became a a little flying. He won a chamconcocte thetr .des airman. He pionship at the first Reno NaOBITUARy Czech perate plan to hijack rose quickly, espe- tional Air Races in 1964, flew his DC-3, overpowercially after a Soviet under the occasional bridge, ing its small crew and evading purge of the Czech military and sometimes did aerobatics Russian MiGs so they could fly in the late 1940s. By the time displays over speedboat races to freedom in the West. he was 21, he was a captain when hewasn'tcompeting. Slovak landed at an Ameri-
can military base in West Germany, immediately making
assigned to the state airline. He also was an ardent, if se-
tion was onlythe beginning. Immigrating to the U.S. with
cret, anti-communist. "I saw friends disappear, property gone, a place full of betrayal and informers," he told Sports Illustrated in 1960. "I thought
two shirts and little English be-
if I stayed I would be shot or in
headlines as a Cold War hero. But his dramatic 1953 defec-
By 1968, he had a hangar at the Santa Paula airport, where
he sold imported airplanes for many years. When he picked up his single-seat, 860-pound Fournier RF4 motor gilder in
Germany, he named it the Spir-
he became a crop-duster, a
it of Santa Paula.
daredevil aerobatic pilot and a national champion speedboat racer, roaring across waters
from coast to coast at nearly 200mph. In 1968, he flew a tiny mo-
night of a full moon — March 23, 1953. After smuggling guns on board and locking his co-pilot, navigator and flight engineer in a baggage compartment, he quieted frenzied
hiking western Washington. "It's just something that hap-
always eager to find new places to go, hidden hikes that
pens out in the mountains.
weren't well-traveled."
Everybody who goes in the mountains knows this can
Nelson said Sykes' disappearance was particularly happen. It doesn't mean that shocking because she was so you shouldn't go out, you need experienced. "It tells us that no matter
to be aware of it."
Sykes was reported missing late Wednesday when she failed to meet up with her boyfriend as planned during a day hike on the east side of
how prepared we are, accidents happens and things can happen. We need to take outdoor recreat ion seriously. There's a certain amount
of risk every day we get up, Park officials suspended whatever we do," she said.
the mountain.
The Spirit
yond "coffee and cherry pie," prison. I don't know." Slovak chose to defect on the
She said Sykes had written about more than 100 hikes in photographs and her book on the Rainier area, and "was
With its tiny engine, the Spirit got him — in numerous hops — across the Atlantic. Over the Arctic he admitted to some
fleeting anxiety: "I was just hoping that the putt-putt Volkswagen ahead of me was never going to stop turning, and the little airplane never stop flying, because it would be a very long, lonely swim back to Green-
tor glider with a 36-horse- passengers with abone-rattling power Volkswagen engine dive of more than 1,000 feet. from Germany to California, F1ying low to avoid detection crash-landing and nearly kill- by Russian fighter planes, he inghimself just 19 feet fromthe knew he was over West Gerrunway at his final destination many when he saw neon lights. land," he wrote in a journal. "Everyone was trying to sell," in Santa Paula. All was well, until the Spirit The next year, he made the he told an interviewer. "It was a approached Santa Paula. As same trip in reverse, without free country." some 2,000 people gathered the near-death experience. In Frankfurt and then in at the airfield for a celebratory Slovak, who joked that he Washington, D.C., U.S. intelli- barbecue, Slovak was on his was "born chicken, absolute gence officials grilled Slovak final approach when he was chicken" but loved to fling his for months, said Williams, ex- caught in a vicious downdraft hands over his head while ecutive director of the Hydro- and crashed into a ditch. "I fell out of the sky like lying an open-cockpitplane planeand Raceboat Museum in f upside-down 50 feet off the Kent, Wash. In return for his co- somebody shot me down," he ground, died June 16 of stom- operation, the CIA introduced wrote. "That's the last thing I ach cancer at his Fallbrook, him to Bill Boeing Jr., a son remember." Calif., home. He was 84. of the aircraft magnate, who He broke his back and most Before his illness was dimade Slovak his personal pilot. of his ribs. He was in a coma for agnosed late last year, Slovak Boeing, owner o f a a week. His recovery took nine was planning one more big 2 ,000-horsepower hyd r o - months, plenty of time to do antrip: a flight from California to plane called the Miss Wahoo, other solo run back to Europe the Czech Republicin a vintage thought Slovak would be an for the 1969 Paris Air Show. Bucker Jungmann biplane. uninhibited boat racer. Slovak's two m a rriages "He'd mapped out the route "I want a bachelor in my ended in divorce. He and Bonand was quite serious about it," boat," Boeing told a reporter, di lived in Montecito, Calif., said his longtime friend Ingrid "not a driver with a distraught before moving to F1orida and Bondi, a former Continental wife on shore and a bunch of then, sevenyears ago, to northAirlines flight attendant who kids waving Daddy goodbye." ern San Diego County.
Budget
the 2015 budget, the county
received an award from the
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G overnment F i nance O f f i cers Association of the Unit-
savings — about $10 to ed States and Canada for its $15 — would have come preparation of t h e c u r rent through a minor reduction budget. The county also rein the permanent tax rate, ceived an award for excela change that would have lence in financial reporting. only been felt in the counJeff White, the organizaty's general fund balance tion's Oregon representative without affecting any ser- and chief financial officer vices or staffmembers, for Marion County, praised DeBone said. the county's financial team, A nderson s a i d th e noting how rigorous the orgrowth in this year's bud- ganization's standards are in get allowed the county to terms of evaluating transpartake on projects it "did not ency and accuracy, and addhave the luxury to propose ing Deschutes County "clearly in past budgets." Among made the grade." the projects singled out — Reporter: 541-633-2160, by Anderson are an extleeds@bendbulletin.com pansion of the county jail, funded through a full faith and credit bond approved last year, and work on the intersection of the Powell
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