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Obituary —LeonardNimoy embraced his status as the pop culture iconSpock on "Star Trek" — butthere was more to the man the just that role.B5
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Plus: Live longand prOSper —The handgesture Spock is known for was created by Nimoy —andinspired by his Jewish heritage.A5
By Taylor W.Anderson The Bulletin
SALEM — Part of a sweeping investigation by federal prosecutors into former Gov. John Kitzhaber and his
Edible coffee cup — The
fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, includes Hayes' work on a proj-
latest technology in packaging that has a seconduse is a cup made out of cookie with a chocolate lining; it softens like a biscotti.A3
ect at the Knott Landfill on Bend's east side. Hayes appeared at least twice at Deschutes County meetings in 2011 with an official from the Waste to En-
ergy Group, a California company that has a contract with the county to speed up the decomposition of waste
and eventually create a marketable gas, according to county records and interviews with county officials.
Stolen Picasso —Apaint-
Deschutes County approved the project in January
ing valued at $2.5 million is recovered in the U.S.AS
2014, and the county wasn't named in an eight-page federalgrand jury subpoena served the day Kitzhaber announced his resignation. But the subpoena identifies
15 projects and subjects Hayes worked on, including the Knott Landfill project and the Pronghorn Golf Course,
And a Web exclusiveA drug explosion follows an oil boom on aNorth Dakota Indian reservation — andweapons follow, too. bendbenetin.cem/extras
both in Deschutes County.
Hayes' involvement in the landfill project is sriiinnciear. Sheworked for the California group early i n
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EDITOR'5CHOICE
Federal
OXON HILL, Md.Photos by Joe Kline/The Bulletin
cee, Cylvia Hayes, were dumping materials at
Department of Environ-
Knott Landfill before
mental Quality, which would have to sign off on the final permit for the project. SeeInquiry/A4
employees noticed the couple and called law
The Bulletin
A Trump logo stenciled in gold, in the same capital
Hiking along a pioneer wagon road, a Bend man recently discovered apiece of history,
hall. The commerce of conservatism has never been more
robust. And here at the right's biggest trade show, the annual Conservative
PoliticalAction Conference, just about everyone is sell-
ing something. Political figures seeing financial incentives in keep-
ingtheir names circulating as presidential hopefuls is nothing new. But the merging of political andprofit motives has gottento the point where many Republicans saythey fear that their nominating process has begun to look like a machine for generating andheighteningbrand awareness. SeeMarketing/A6
Correction In a photo caption that appeared Thursday, Feb.26, on Page A1,the nameof theCascade Middle School event that benefited Sparrow Clubswas incorrect. The event is Shiver and Shake. The Bulletin regrets the error.
enforcement.
The incident happened last Friday, according to Timm Schimke, direc-
tor of the county's solid
Many in Bend recall Hayesand her work
... nowto in t e a mi
kiosk downstairs.
streamed into a convention
former Gov. John Kitzhaber and his fian-
waste department.
By Dylan J. Darling
tivists — potential consumers, every one — asthey
Deschutes County
officials have confirmed
Buddy Mays holds up a dog tag he found recently while walking with his dog, Doodles, on the Huntington Wagon Road Trail near his home north of Bend. It dates to World War Il.
mas was being peddledata
a 7-foot sign that greeted ac-
The Bulletin
agencies, including the
the secularization of Christ-
estate and casinos all over the world, caught the eye on
By Taylor W.Anderson
au t h orities
poena covers 11 state
New Yorh Times News Service
letters emblazoned on real
StirS Stink
are now interested in finding out how Hayes was involved. The federal grand jury sub-
By Jeremy W.Peters
thrashing President Barack Obama's foreign policy, a copy of her best-seller on
landflII
dentiaisasaBendbased green energy consultant who could help guide companies' clean energy proposals through regulations.
Marketing more than ideas atGOP conference
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Newt Gingrich put in a word for his wife's line of children's history books featuring an inquisitive pachyderm named Ellis the Elephant.
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one harking back to Central Or-
egon's military past. Buddy Mays, 71, was on the Huntington Wagon Road Trail
Dick Tobiason, Bend Heroes
Crossing in 1975, and surveyors
Foundation president, worked to
TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy High 31, Low11 Page B6
off whenthe landfill's computer system
that brought down Oregon's longest-serving governor, and before she acquired the title of first lady that put her there, Cylvia Hayes made a life
malfunctioned.
When employees reset the computer, they identified the person
who was tryingto pay as Hayes, the subject of a
in Bend. Her move to Cen-
federal and state investi-
gation at the time. "Gov. Kitzhaber was
in the vehicle right behind her and he was recognizable. That's how
ton. Hertimethere was
we learned that they
were there," Schimke
family members to p resent found dog tags. Over the years
partially supported with money she earned from illegally marrying an 18-year-old Ethiopian
the foundation collected about
whom she intendedto
80 dog tags for 57 veteranssoldiers are issued pairs of dog tags and some of those found had duplicates — and tracked down many of their families. They sent the remaining tags to a Willamette Valley museum
help secure U.S. residency. According to a 1999 profile of Hayes in The Bulletin, after finishing
spected what the couple left behind for about an
with a collection of Camp Adair items.
gon, where she found an
SeeTag/A5
to build a career around. SeeHayes/A4
connect the dog tags with their
owners, family or friends. Tobiason wrote in an email that the foundation has a committee that has searched for
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sald. Deschutes County
Sheriff's deputies inhour, Schimke said. "It looked to me like
they were cleaning out a garage, I guess," Schimke said. "Campaign signs when she was running for office years
school, a week of steady
rainpushedher east from Eugene to Central Oteenvironmental movement
The Bulletin
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tral Oregon followed amaster'sprogramat Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washing-
1940s. The soldier's name on
Deschutes River near Tetherow
minutes and then they
items the two dropped
at the center of a scandal
the dog tag is Theodore Specht found a rifle leaning against a and it lists next of kin for him tree when planningfor sewer in Ridgewood, New York. Mays treatment plant near the Bend said he has searched for Specht Municipal Airport in 1983. A but he apparently died so he nonprofit, the foundation honors now wants to find his family or Central Oregon's veterans, first friends. responders and other heroes by Such chance finds of dog tags raising money to assist them and other military memorabil- and create memorials. ia out on the High Desert have In 2013, a man found 14 dog tags — two on a neck chain unhappened before. John Frye, a retired Air Force der 4inches of dirtnear Horse veteran from Bend and member Butte and a dozen more on a of the Bend Heroes Foundation, homemade paper clip alongside found a U.S. Army helmet stuck China Hat Road, according to an in a crack in rocks along the article in The Bulletin. Frye and
out and they were only in there for two or three
The Bulletin
Bend and Redmond when he happened to look down and see an old dog tag, military identififound it," he said. He has since determined it belonged to a New York man who was probably A dog tag found recently between Bend and Redmond lists the solin Central Oregon with thou- dier's next of kin — a practice discontinued in1943. sands of other soldiers in the
They were just tossing it
Schimke said Hayes went to pay for the
Before finding herself
cation, in the dirt. "It was pretty crusty when I
ke said. "They weren't manipulatingthe stuff.
By Tyler Leeds
m o nt h b e t ween
earlier t hi s
"They looked like any other people who were cleaning out their garage or deaning out a rental. It was just stuff," Schim-
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ago. A mattress or a box SpBIlg. SeeLandfill /A4
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