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THE BULLETIN• MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014
Rockchucks
part of her inventory, not creture in downtown Redmond, ated for the city, so there is no Continued from A5 offered to sell the commis- obligation. "The foundational objective sion a model she used for a Commission member Ethan of the project is fundraising," lifelike bronze of a crouching Stelzer, who supervised many said Heather Richards, the rockchuck, but the costs have of the students who created the city's community develop- caused the commission to re- city's recently unveiled roundment director. Various RCAPP thinktheproject. about sculpture, suggested projects over the years have During a recent commission that creating a model might be put only $2,000 in the public meeting, members discussed possible for student artists. In art fund, she said. "But that's the pros and cons of hitting the addition, Graham suggested nothing to sneeze at because reset button. the commission consider an"If we have no contract with we have to nickel and dime other method for creation of the everything. But we want to Ms. Chavez, I suggest we look rockchucks besides fiberglass creator of the "Ravens" sculp-
know what we can achieve in
at whether we can create our
Redmond — maybe something more." Finding an artist to create a model for the figures and a
own model. That way we can see if we can get avertical rockchuck standing on its hind legs, which will be more fun for the
method to cast them within a
very tight budget has bedev-
artists, I think," said commission member Frank Graham.
iled commission members for months. Artist Kim Chavez,
Richards told the commission that Chavez's model is
Smoke
According to Richards, while fundraising is the ultimate goal for the rockchuck art, building
Continued from A1 Under its smoke man-
awareness of public artin the city of Redmond
agement plan, the state can order federal agen-
cannot be discounted.
cies, such as the U.S. For-
perhaps as a public art pur-
for the rockchuck art, building awareness of public art in the
chase. The painted rockchuck
city of Redmond cannot be dis-
in Chavez's bronze rockchuck,
est Service, to halt controlled burns if winds are likely to send smoke into
populated areas. And although the state isn't going to change the plan, it is working with the federal agencies to allow for more burning, said Dan Postrel, a Department of Forestry spokesman.
project timeline goal is to have counted. Nor can the idea of usthem created and back from ing the art as a springboard to a the artists by fall of 2015 to larger community celebration. — which is the most common present them for auction at a "Hopefully people will get "gala" fundraiser. material for aproject like this. excited by something so fun," "We're also developing a she said. "Larger events often "ABS plastic is much more durable," he said. "And I'm hav- marketing plan and talking to build from one effort and as ing trouble finding any local artists who might be interest- it generates excitement it will fiberglass companies that can ed or businesses who want to come on its own. But we've got do this kind of work." After sponsor one," he said. a shoestringbudget right now." the meeting, Graham said the According to Richards, while — Reporter: 541-548-2186, commission is still interested fundraising is the ultimate goal Ipugmire@bendbulletin.com
"We think under the ex-
isting smoke management plan there is enough flexibility," he said. Greg Svelund, D EQ spokesman, agreed. "I think the burning can
SCOTUS
firmative action and that she
found her time here intimidatContinued from A1 ing and inspiring. She has been "I wish I came here at a time a frequent visitor and honoree, when I could have been more often drawing huge crowds, positive," he added. "There is so particularly after the publicamuch here that I walked right tion of her own memoir, "My by." Beloved World." For years, Thomas had reOn Saturday, she said she is a fused to return to Yale. In his poor dancerbut loves salsa and 2007 memoir, "My Grandfa- does well with a strong partther's Son," he wrote that his ner. "I have a facility that some law degree had been tainted by of my colleagues would find affirmative action. He had, he very strange," she said. "I can wrote, "learned the hard way follow." that a law degree from Yale Alito looked shocked. "It's meant one thing for white grad- a revelation to me that Sonia uatesand another for blacks, likes to follow," he said. "I think we're going to start dancing at no matterhow much anyone denied it." conference." He added that he had "peeled The justices were questioned a 15-cent price sticker off a by Kate Stith, a law professor at package of cigars and stuck it Yale. She asked Alito what he on the frame of my law degree had been reading. to remind myself of the mistake
I'dmadebygoingto Yale."
His 1991 confirmation hear-
ingonpaper,notbyemail.Faceto-facediscussions arerare. "The communications about cases are almost all written ex-
cept when we're in conference,"
Property taxes town
technology. One was tradition.
halls will give an overview of the tax system and impacts on people's specific properties. "There's a lot of moving parts to the whole piece," he
"The other," she said of some
sald.
of her colleagues, "is they don't
Property owners can attributeincreasesto M easure 50, which Oregon voters passed in 1997. The ballot measure established a "maximum as-
Alito said. Sotomayor cited two reasons for the court's reluctance to use
know how." And the decor is from anoth-
er era. "We still have spittoons by our seats," Alito said. Thomas said he was content
sessed value" for property tax
with the way things are. "I like formality," he said.
purposes. A property's "real
But the three justices agreed
that the court could use more diversity, mentioning geography, religion, professional background and education. "I think we have to be con-
Prope® tax tlwn hallmeetings
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air quality monitoring. "So there are a lot of
She said finding a way to allow for more burning isn't simply about watching the winds; it a l so i nvolves b e t ter forecasts and
she said. While recognizing that the smoke can cause poor
cent increase to the maximum
assessedvalue eachyear.
provision. As home values are shooting back up, prop-
air quality, county commissioners do want to see
erty taxes are increasing to
m ore
ing when conditions are right, said Tony DeBone,
inspirational," he responded. from two law schools," Thomas "I keep them on a table by my sald.
1997 was determined the
the now lower maximum assessed value.
same way: the real market
"We had a lot of properties
a Deschutes County com-
missioner. He said he's pleased to see coopera-
Jr., who has two Harvard degrees, was once asked whether it was healthy for the Supreme
es property taxes on whichever value is lower. During the
and federal agencies; ... a lot of people are talking
tended Harvard Law School, although Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg transferred to and
graduated from Columbia Law School. Chief Justice John Roberts
Court to consist of only justices with degrees from elite institutions.
"First of all, I disagree with your premise," he responded.
tion among state and fed-
eral agencies the county spurred with its letter. "I am very excited that
we have started a conversation wit h
at the county assessor's web-
site, ww w .deschutes.org/ years following the recession, graphit. many owners' property tax— Reporter: 541-617-7820, es were lower because of the tshorack@bendbulletin.com
Continued from A1 rent andformer government The agency hired one for- officials, show that the governmer SS officer as a spy in the ment's recruitment of Nazis 1950s,for instance, even after ran far deeper than previousconcluding he was probably ly known and that officials guilty of "minor war crimes." sought to conceal those ties for And in 1994, a lawyer with at least a half-century after the the CIA pressured prosecutors war. to drop an investigation of an
In 1980, FBI officials refused
ex-spy outside Boston impli- to tell even the Justice Departcated in the Nazis' massacre ment's own Nazi hunters what of tens of thousands of Jews in they knew about 16 suspectLithuania, according to a gov- ed Nazis living in the United ernment official. States. The bureau balked, Evidence of the govern- memos show, because the 16 ment's links to Nazi spies be- men had all worked as FBI ingan emerging in the 1970s. formants, providing leads on But thousands of records from
Communist "sympathizers."
declassified files, Freedom of One SS officer, Otto von Information Act requests and Bolschwing, was a mentor and
m a n y s t ate
about it now," he said. — Reporter: 541-617-7812, ddarling@bendbulletin.com
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value of the property the year that did that," Langton said it was built subtracted by 10 about last year's taxes. percent. The m eetings b e gin But because of the Great Wednesday in La Pine and Recession, the real market will take place in Sisters, value for many homes dipped Bend and Redmond through b elow th e m a x imum a s - Nov. 6. Information about sessed value. Measure 50bas- property taxes can be found
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In all, the U.S. military, the CIA, the FBI and other agen-
cies used at least 1,000 ex-Nazis and collaborators as spies and informants after the war,
according to Richard Breitman, a Holocaust scholar at
American University who was on a government-appointed team that deciassified war-
crime records. None of the spies are known to be alive today.
Sabbatical
marketer into one of Israel's thin white troughs connected biggest private landowners. to an automated grid that cirContinued from A1 Technically, the yearlong culates the enhanced water to The seventh-year sabbat- sale is legally binding. In feed the plants the nutrients ical, called "shmita" in H epractice, it is symbolic. He they need. brew, began last month on didn'teven take home a copy His greenhouse follows the Jewish New Year, and ex- of the contract. specific guidelines that certends through the fall of 2015. S htraykhman, who h a s tify the produce kosher for Though only a minority of Jewish roots, said he spent t he sabbatical year: t h e the Israeli population abides time in a religious seminary troughs are raised high and by strict Jewish religious when he moved to Israel and the ground is covered in dark law, nearly all Israeli Jewish considered formally convert- tarp. "There's no relationship befarmers choose tofollow the ing to Judaism. "In the end, I d ecided it biblical directive, in part so tween the land and the root," they don't lose their Ortho- wasn't for me because I like Fine said. "So we are keeping dox customers' business. cheeseburgers," he said in the shmita in a certain way, R abbi Yaa k o v A ri e l , jest, referring to Jewish di- by not using the land." who helped write the gov- etary rules banning the mixThe most devout Jews do ernment's d etailed h o w -to ture of dairy and meat, "and not accept these loopholes, pamphlets for farmers and because not everyone needs preferring to import produce gardeners, said the prac- to be Jewish. I can be a good from abroad or from Palestice serves a s a s p i r i tual person and that's it." tinian farmers. reminder. He maintained good ties What eases the concerns "We are not owners of the with a rabbi from the semi- of Fine's most pious Jewish land. There is a master of the nary who introduced him to consumers is the fact that, deuniverse," Ariel said. Israel's chief rabbinate for the spitethe lengths he has gone Out of some 6,700 Jewish sale. He said he "paid" 2,000 to satisfy the biblical requirefarmers in Israel, only about shekels, or about $540, for the ments, perhaps the biblical 50 ignored the religious rules, land, with money gifted to rules don't fully apply to him. while only about 450 aban- him by an official involved in His greenhouse is in a tumdoned their farms altogether the ceremony. bleweed-swept corner of the this year, said Efraim AntSome farmers employ an- country between the southman of Israel's Religious Ser- other clever solution to avoid ern tip of the Gaza Strip and vices Ministry. tilling the soil: they use hy- the Egyptian border. Most of the rest opted for droponics, growing produce According to religious traGeorge Shtraykhman. not in soil but in nutrient-en- dition, it's an area that was They sold their farms to the
hanced water.
government, and last month, Gilad Fine, 40, a skullover cookies and orange cap-wearing farmer in the juice, the government sold small desert community of the lands to Shtraykhman, Bnei Netzarim, grows organturning the non-Jewish tele- ic romaine lettuce and kale in
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Redmond: Nov. 6, Redmond Fire Hall,341 NW Dogwood Ave.
market value" for 1995 was subtracted by 10percent to get
K a s sidy Ke r n ,
spokeswoman for the Deschutes National Forest.
The maximum assessed value for homes built after
ings — which were rocked by bed, and I try to read a little bit accusati ons of sexual harass- of them every night. It's 'My ment from Anita Hill, a for- Grandfather' sSon'and'My Bemer colleague and fellow Yale loved World.'" Law graduate — did not help Alito, 64, has been a loyal son matters. of the law school. In 2005, as he Relations between the justice prepared for his confirmation and thelaw school are much hearings, he wrote an apologetwarmer these days, and Satur- ic note to the dean for missing day's big public event was the his 30th reunion. "I believe," he wrote, "that culmination of the reconciliation. "This is certainly far more this is the first five-yearreunion special to me," he said of the I have not attended." ceremony, "than at the time of Alito and Sotomayor sugmy graduation." gested that the Supreme Court Sotomayor, 60, has written may be too formal, isolated and that she was admitted to the technologically backward. The law school with the help of af- justices communicate in writ-
d iscussion a b ou t co n trolled burns and smoke,
Ail meetings 5-6:30 p.m. La Pine: Wednesday, La Pine City Hall, 51340 U.S. Highway 97. Sisters: Nov. 3, City Council Chambers, 520 E Cascade Ave. Bend: Nov. 5, Deschutes Services Center, Barnes/ Sawyer Room, 1300NW
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