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• The people who found Bailey believe he had beentied by his tail to a tree
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
A frank diplomat-
The Bend Planning Commission will begin
Caroline Kennedy's tweets on dolphin hunts and moreare making waves in Japan.A4
examining how the city
can use zoning and other land use laws to shape the
new Oregon State University-Cascades Campus and
'Stand-up economist'-
associated development.
Carbon taxcomedycomes to Bend on Monday.C6
The City Council gave the go-ahead to theplan during a joint meeting with the commission on Friday. Officials also plan to hire an
A photo stog — A Bend window painter at work.B2
additional planner to free up
time for seniorplanners to focus more timepreparing
And a Webexclusive
— CIA 'black site': How the agency paid $15million dollars for a secret prison in Poland. bendbulletin.cem/extras
for the OSU-Cascades cam-
pus in southwest Bend and the other community development it will spur.
Planning Commissioner Laura Fritz said an important role for the commission is to involve citizens in land
EDITOR'5CHOICE
use planning decisions. "I
Sochi fears have some cheering from home
think we need to begin our
commissioned role, to allow our community its say in
what's going on," Fritz said. "I really think we shouldn't wait to react," Fritz said. "We know where Crooked Tails Veterinary Clinic in Prineville Friday.
cades is on a fasttrack."
By Megan Kehoe
By Sarah Lyall New York Times News Service
Athletes and their
families are becoming increasingly anxious about possible terrorist attacks at
the Winter Olympics in Sochi, so much so that some families have decided not to attend at all and others
plan to curtail their activities once they get to the
games in Russia. No American athletes have yet canceled plans to competebecause of terrorist threats. But with increasing talk about
unrest in the region and threats from would-be suicidebombers, some
we thinkthe development is going to occur. We know the student population. And we also know that OSU-Cas-
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Foster pet caregiver Sandra Ballard, of Madras Rescue Group, carries Bailey, a recently found and rescued cat, into the
tell how long Bailey had been tied to The Bulletin ered by anonymous passersby, who the tree. It was one of the coldest days on delivered the weak, frostbitten cat to Ballard said though he didn't have record in Madras when Bailey the cat Madras'catrescuevolunteer,Sandra a name tag, Bailey was neutered, arrived on Sandra Ballard's doorstep. Ballard. m akingtcl iearhehad been cared for The cat's ears and paws were froIn addition to frozen paws and at some point. zen. Chunks of fur were missing ears, Ballard said a large swath of Severely dehydrated and injured, from the base of his tail. He was se- hair was missing where baling wire Bailey's future was uncertain. "He was in very bad condition verelydehydrated, and he couldn't had been found tied around the botwalk. tom of his tail. Baling wire had also when he gothere,"Ballard said. Things looked desperate for the been found tied to the tree where the Because Jefferson County's only young orange tabby. cat was found, said Janice Sershen, a humane society, Three Rivers Hu"When they found him, he was ly- longtime Cat Rescue Adoption and mane Society, does not yet take lost ing under a tree," Ballard said. "He Foster Team volunteer. The evidence or stray cats, Ballard fostered Bailey couldn't walk. His paws were frozen. led the passersby to believe that Bai- at her home. CRAFT often uses foster I don't know how he survived the ley had been intentionally tied to the volunteers to careforstray cats,especold." tree during the deep freeze, and that cially when those cats are in need of Bailey was found early last month the cat had chewed through the wire special care. under a tree in a desolate field near in an attempt to escape. Six weeks after being found in the "I don't think he could have sur- frozen field, Bailey is on his way to a the Deer Ridge Correctional Facility outside of Madras. Battling brutal vived out there much longer," Sersh- full recovery. below-zero temperatures, the cat had en said, adding there was no way to See Cat/A4
See Campus /A4
collapsed in the field. He was discov-
Oil pipeline a boost for greens By Sarah Wheaton New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — En-
vironmentalists have spent the past two years fighting the Keystone XL pipeline: They havebuilta human chain around the White House, clogged the State Department's public comment system with more
family members say they arereconsideringlong-held plans to support the ath-
letes at the games.
"It's getting to the point where our lives are on the
line if we go there," said Tim Oshie, whose son, T.J.,
is on the U.S. hockey team. "They're talking about terrorizing families. I'd rather stay in the homeland." In the most recent in a
series of unnerving incidents, the Olympic teams from the United States and some European countries
received emails earlier this week warning them that they would be attacked
if they took part in the games. The messages were
China plans Panama canal competitor By Tim Johnson McClatchy Foreign Staff
BRITO, Nicaragua — Fisherman Pedro Luis Gutierrez
gazed from his porch on the Pacific Ocean and conjured up avision:Someday, mammoth oceangoing vessels will sail in from afar and vanish into a canal piercing the jungle.
"The ships will cross over
than a million emails and letters, and gotten them-
selves arrested at protests across the country.
But as bad as they argue the 1,700-mile pipeline
company had won a 50-year
and Chinese telecom tycoon
would be for the planet,
there in the middle of the
renewable concession to build
Keystone XL has been a
beach," Gutierrez said with the cocky assurance of some-
es the world has ever seen,
while few outside Nicaragua
a canal, the plan is moving quickly. ScoresofChinese engineers have mapped the topography here, and deal-makers are scouring the globe for investors from an office in faraway Hong Kong.
Wang Jing will decide whether to give the project a green light, possibly unleashing earthmoverson oneofthe largest engineering challengcomparable even to China's enormous Three Gorges
will approve the project, both sides agree that the fight has changed U.S. en-
took seriously the announcement last year that a Chinese
Dam.
vironmental politics.
President Daniel Ortega
one who'd heard a lot about
a plan to build a rival to the Panama Canal in Nicaragua. For now, it's a mirage. But
Sometime later this year,
boon to the environmental movement. While it
remainsunclearwhether President Barack Obama
See Canal /A5
See Pipeline/A4
determined to be hoaxes,
but the episode added to the skittishness that is permeating the mood as the
Feb. 7 opening ceremony approaches. See Sochi /A4
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