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bendbulletin.corn TODAY' S READERBOARD Nature' ssoothingpowers
— How the greatoutdoors can do wonders for the mind.A3
• Deschutes callsfor public to weigh inonpotential recpot moratorium
delay implementing Measure
autonomy. House Bill 3400
91, the ballot initiative that
allows counties that voted at
By Ted Shorack
earlier this month legalized recreational marijuana. Gov. Kate Brown signed
least 55 percent against the
into law a bill last month that
jurisdictions.
Parking at COCC — Park-
The Bulletin
ing permits at COCC don't come with a guaranteeyou'll actually find a spot.Bf
ALFALFA — Deschutes County will consider whether
to temporarily opt out of Mea-
sure 91 and bring the issue of recreational marijuana to
held Aug. 12 to determine if there is public support for a
county voters in 2016.
moratorium between Decem-
According to county officials, a public hearing will be
ber and the November 2016 general election that would
ballot measure to ban the sale of marijuana within their
gave local governments more
SeePot /A6
Relay ready to roll —The CascadeLakesRelay returnsthis year with anaddedrace.C1
2016 Olympics — sewage-laden water in Rio deJaneiro a threat to Olympians.C1
And a Wed exclusiveManabandoned as ababy in 1941 searches for his family. bendbnlletin.cern/extras
At CrookedRiverGorge, atest run for bungeeoperation Paragliding, jet boating By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
put to test
Just before 4:40 p.m. Thurs-
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Water lobby, ParkService wage battle over bottles
day, James Scott made a small
piece of history, becoming the first man to legally bungee jump off the High Bridge across the Crooked River north of Terrebonne.
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With a whoop, Scott leapt
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from theback deck ofa specially built truck parked on the bridge, turning a near-somersault above the Crooked River during the roughly seven-second free fall. Minutes later, he was hoisted back to the bridge deck to the cheers and ap-
By Lisa Rein The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — First, the National Park Service said it would cut back on
selling its visitors bottled water to reduce the litter left behind. Now, Congress — under pressure from the powerful bottled water industry — is threatening to cut off the
federal money the Park Service is using to replace the disposable plastic water bottles with refilling stations. But even if that happens, the Park Service said this
week it' ll keep encouraging the parks to halt their bottled water sales, even with an
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to stay current while seeing
how its visitors respond. Along with the bungee operation tested Thursday at
the High Bridge across the Crooked River Gorge, the state is trying paragliding at Sunset Beach State Recreation Site near Seaside
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to begin offering bungee jumping in the Crooked River
and jet boating at TouVelle
gorge. It's the first time the
Medford, said Chris Havel, associate director for the
State Recreation Site near
state has approved a commercial bungee-jumping opera-
department. SeeExtreme/A4
tion at any state park.
The company will host its first paying customers on Saturday, and this week,
a crew from Pennsylvania-based Adrenalin Dreams
Rocketing over Bily Chinook' ?
has been in Bend to help train Scott's team in safety manufactured the bungees Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
90 to 290 pounds to make the
James Scott jumps from the platform of his commercial bungee-jumping truck parked on the High
250-foot jump. Scott, who's been bungee jumping, skydiving and BASE jumping for more than 20 years, said he still gets nervous every time he jumps, and Thursday was no exception. "It's a pretty long free fall," Scott said, recalling his thoughts as he dove from the platform for the inaugural jump. "Oh man, here we go, sure hope my calculations were right. And they were." SeeBungee/A4
Bridge at Peter Skene OgdenState Scenic Viewpoint near Terrebonne onThursday. Scott and his
By Dylan J. Darling
crew were performing a series of test jumps and will have their first paying customers Saturday.
The Bulletin
Supportmechanismfor dungeejump An approximately 300-pound person falling 250 feet feels about 2.5 Gs, creating the equivalent of 750 pounds of « / weight that James Scott's truck more than compensatesIr for. Its bed is made with multiple I ers of c-channel steel. i',
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See video coverage on The Bulletin's website: bendbulletin.cern
Two feet descend from the rear of the truck t add stability and eliminate the truck's suspension
A Southern California
Extraction cord lowered to diver through the use of a powered winch and pulley system
man plans to jump over Lake Billy Chinook in a steam-propelled rocket this fall in a stunt perhaps even
Harness attaches at waist and shoulders
jumping. According to Intrepid
more extreme than bungee Marketing of Bend, the
jump would be similar to Evel Knievel's famed 1974 jump attempt over the
The cord is attached to eye bolts on the bottom of . the truck as well as the 'tow hitch for extra security
Snake River Canyon, but longer. The company sent
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out information on the
plans earlier this month. SeeRocket /A4
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Roundabouts are onthe rise in the United States By Eric A. Taub
that Matt Kothe faced every
New York Times News Service
day on his commute. "No
Getting stuck in a long line of vehicles for minutes at a time, simply trying to ease onto a clogged main road, is nobody's idea of fun. But that's the problem
one would ever stop to let
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and Recreation Department
used Thursday, wrist-thick cords allowing anyone from
been selling the bottled water in the first place. See Bottles /A6
Bungee jumping is not the only extreme activity happening at a state park site around Oregon. By dabbling in sports like bungee jumping, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is trying
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sion from the Oregon Parks
strong support for these and allies: The nonprofits
The Bulletin
Adventures, received permis-
protocols. The company also
that donate to park projects and the companies that have
By Dylan J. Darling
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plause of a small crowd of onlookers. "Feels great," he said. Scott's newly formed company, Central Oregon Bungee
edict from Congress. Park officials say they have such bans that they would go it alone with help from friends
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sign was replaced with a roundabout. "It used to take me up to 10
coordinator from Knoxville, Tennessee. But for Kothe, his com-
minutes to get onto the main road," he said. "Now there are no holdups." Once seen only in countries
mute improved once the stop
like France and Britain, the
roundabout, favored by traffic
engineersbecause itcutscongestion and reduces collisions and deaths, is experiencing rapid growth in the United States. First built in the United
roundabouts have doubled in the last decade, to around 5,000 today, according to Richard Retting, a former transportation researcher at the Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety.
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States in the early 1990s,
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