Bulletin Daily Paper 04/23/11

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Baseball: Summit vs. Redmond, plus more preps

Author Teddy Wayne will be here to talk ‘Kapitoil’ • COMMUNITY, B1

SPORTS, D1

WEATHER TODAY

SATURDAY

Sunny start, increasing clouds High 62, Low 33 Page C8

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LEGISLATIVE WINNERS, LOSERS

recent fatal crashes in

What’s still alive for here in Salem?

Central Oregon have involved a driver who shouldn’t have been behind the wheel

See Monday’s story, ‘Driving while suspended’

Winter cleanup, even in April

By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — The Legislature hit a crucial point this week, with Central Oregon lawmakers kicking it into high gear to save their bills. With the dust settling after Thursday’s deadline to move bills out of committee or see them die, lawmakers remain confident that Central Oregon will benefit from several bills still on the table. They include extending the Deschutes Water Mitigation Program, improving IN THE the Oregon Educators Benefit LEGISLATURE Board, and changes to the state transportation planning rule. One of the losers was a bill by Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunriver, that would give medical workers liability protection if they volunteer to help the homeless. He will try to breathe life back into it by having it classified as a priority bill, a move that would put the bill in a committee with a longer deadline and rally his caucus’s support. Whisnant said his bill ensuring the Deschutes Water Mitigation Program continues is still likely to pass. He wanted the program, which aims at protecting the Deschutes River Basin’s water levels and ensuring that there is enough water for development, to continue indefinitely. He recently reached an agreement with environmental advocates to limit the extension to 15 years. See Bills / A6

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

More than two months have passed since a blustery winter storm dumped half a foot of heavy snow on Bend, but split tree limbs and broken branches are still keeping arborists busy. “It was that snowstorm, windstorm combination, it tore everything down,” said Wade Fagen, owner of Fagen Tree & Chips. “Here we are halfway through April, and we’re still trying to clean up from that.” The storm shut off power to more than 20,000 customers in Central Oregon and closed schools and government offices. And it broke off treetops and cracked branches, Fagen said. “This was a very unusual storm,” he said. “I was born and raised here, and I don’t remember any storm being this devastating to trees.” Some conifers were broken in two, or blown over, said Jim Weaver, owner of Alta Tree Service in Bend. The heavy snow and wind “even affected trees that were real stable,” Weaver said. And the storm drummed up a “tremendous amount” of business, Weaver said, which is still continuing now — although not to the degree that it was in late February and March. “It made winter, which is normally slow, as busy as the busy season,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of big winter storms — we’ve been here a long time — but that one seemed to be the busiest one.” See Debris / A8

Dana Romanoff / New York Times News Service

Around midnight, Sgt. Randall Malott, a campus security officer at the University of Denver, makes his rounds. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 15 million Americans work full-time on irregular shifts in the late evenings or overnight.

Dean Guernsey / The Bulletin

Wade Fagen, owner of Fagen Tree & Chips, works to remove a 100-foot-tall ponderosa pine tree that was damaged by snow and wind storms this winter in Bend. Fagen said damage from a February storm was compounded by trees that had not been pruned correctly.

YARD WASTE WILL ALSO BE ACCEPTED:

Debris dropoff sites Yard debris and branches can be dropped off free of charge during FireFree Recycling days, from May 6 through May 14 at Knott Landfill in Bend (closed Sundays).

• April 30 and May 1, 7 and 8 at Box Canyon Transfer Site in Madras • May 6, 7, 13 and 14 at the Westside Collection Site in Bend

Fighting off fatigue on the graveyard shift

• May 7 and 8 at the Sunriver Compost Site in Sunriver • May 20 and 21 at Negus Transfer Station in Redmond, Fryrear Transfer Station in Cloverdale, Southwest Transfer Station in La Pine • May 21 at Alfalfa Transfer Station in Alfalfa

By Susan Saulny New York Times News Service

With female GIs in new roles, new gear to fit the fight By Kimberly Hefling The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Throughout history, military gear has been made with the male physique in mind. But for women in combat or close-to-combat jobs, that can mean body armor that fits so poorly it’s tough to fire a weapon, combat uniforms with knee

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pads that hit around mid-shin and flight suits that make it nearly impossible to urinate while in a plane. With women taking on new roles, the issue is getting fresh attention from the military. Seven hundred female Army troops are testing a new combat uniform for women with shorter sleeves and with knee pads in the right place for

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their generally shorter legs. A committee on women’s issues has recommended that flight suits be redesigned for both men and women so it’s unnecessary to disrobe before urinating. And engineers have been looking at ways to design armor that better fits the contours of a woman’s body. See Gear / A6

TOP NEWS INSIDE

INDEX Abby

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Comics

B4-5

Editorial Local

Business

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Community

B1-6

Classified

F1-4

Crossword

B5, F2

Movies

C6 C1-8 B3

PHILADELPHIA — At 2 a.m. Friday, in a cavernous 24-hour fitness center here, Bobby Boyle, the owner of Boyle’s World Gym, sprinted across a basketball court and then hit the weight machines when he felt his energy sag. Lonely for companionship, Boyle, who works the graveyard shift, started up a conversation (mostly one-sided) with the gym’s mascot: his 22-year-old macaw, Terese. What does it take to make it through the grueling wee hours of an overnight shift? “It is tough, it can be a really hard time,” said Boyle, one of a group of dusk-to-dawn workers around the country who were observed by reporters. See Night / A6

Obituaries

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Stocks

Sudoku

B5

TV listings

B2

Weather

C8

Sports

D1-6

C4-5

SYRIA: At least 81 dead in bloodiest day yet for protests, Page A2


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