Bulletin Daily Paper 06/07/11

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Proposed killing of a 3rd Oregon wolf draws objections By Kate Ramsayer

Park district considers bond to pay for large-scale plans By Nick Grube The Bulletin

The Bend Park & Recreation District has some major projects on the horizon that officials aren’t sure they can afford. Some of these include a passageway through the Colorado Avenue dam for floaters and kayakers, completing the Deschutes River Trail, and constructing a new indoor recreation facility similar to

the Juniper Swim & Fitness Center. While it’s too soon to know exactly how much each of these projects might cost — and in the case of a new indoor recreation facility, whether it’s even needed — district officials are considering a bond measure similar to one the city of Bend passed in May to improve local roads. The idea isn’t likely to appear on a ballot this year. But park officials, who are

expecting to see decreased revenues in the coming year, say the conversation is one that needs to take place. “All funding opportunities are on the table,” Park District Executive Director Don Horton said. “But if the board wants to move forward on some of these larger projects, they’ll have to seriously consider moving forward with a bond measure.” See Parks / A4

Agreement reached, ASCOCC will keep operating By Patrick Cliff

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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s plan to kill a third wolf from the Imnaha pack in northeastern Oregon has drawn fire from a number of conservation organizations. After state biologists confirmed Sunday that a wolf had killed a 300-pound calf, the state agency may kill at least one wolf from the eight-member pack to prevent additional livestock deaths, said Michelle Dennehy, spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We can’t have wolves continue to attack livestock — we don’t want those kind of wolves,” Dennehy said. “We need breeding pairs of wolves, and wolves that are relying on their natural prey.” Ranchers have taken efforts to keep wolves away, she said, such as putting up flags, hazing the animals and stepping up the number of people around livestock, but the recent wolfkill was the sixth confirmed one this year, she said. “We do have (an Oregon wolf) plan that was put together with all the stakeholders, and we’re following that plan,” Dennehy said. “We’ll only move to lethal measures when we’ve had repeated (livestock) losses and tried nonlethal measures, and we’ve done that.” Last month, the Department of Fish and Wildlife killed two wolves from the Imnaha pack after livestock kills. Another wolf died shortly after the agency collared it. Several Oregon conservation groups have urged the agency to focus on nonlethal measures and on helping the population rebound. See Wolves / A4

Central Oregon Community College has reached an agreement with the school’s student government, the Associated Students of COCC, to keep the latter operating through summer. A few weeks ago, ASCOCC appeared to be on the verge of running out of cash. The deal not only establishes a budget for ASCOCC’s summer operations, but it also confirms that the students’ public relations and legal representatives have agreed to forego any fees incurred after May 4. The year has been a contentious one for ASCOCC and the college, with at least one lawsuit threatened and the possibility of a shutdown of student government. The deal officially ends the possibility that either will happen. ASCOCC’s legislative coordinator, Terry Link, said the deal would allow the student government to finish work related to its new constitution, including forming oversight committees and completing fiscal policy bylaws with the college’s administration. “It’s a very positive situation. It’ll be nice to be a student instead of in a constant battle,” Link said. ASCOCC hired a lawyer and PR specialist to help it work on the revised constitution. Over the course of that work, ASCOCC spent about $56,000 for the two services. The deal also outlines how ASCOCC will work for the summer and includes budget specifics. According to the agreement, for example, ASCOCC will have $11,500 for work until the end of June. ASCOCC council members will continue to receive their $750 monthly salaries and be reimbursed for cellphone use during that time. The agreement also requires ASCOCC to have a $15,000 reserve fund at the end of the summer term in August. Other parts of the agreement appear designed to help the college and ASCOCC move on from this year’s controversies. In one provision of the agreement, council members agree to “work only through the COCC established organization structure.” See ASCOCC / A4

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Mighty big flag stops in Bend

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entral Oregon public safety personnel, above, begin refolding the 75-pound, 30-foot by 551⁄2 -foot Patriot Flag on Monday as it is lowered from an hourlong display hanging between Bend and Redmond fire department ladder trucks, right, at the Old Mill District. The flag is touring the country in honor of the fallen of Sept. 11, 2001, and is scheduled to be in 50 states in 50 weeks. From here it heads to Idaho, and on Sept. 11 it is scheduled to fly at the Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York sites hit by terrorists in the 2001 attacks. Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

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So much more to jellyfish than plasma and poison

Elusive explanations for E. coli outbreak The hit-and-miss struggle of German health authorities to identify the contaminated food behind one of the deadliest E. coli outbreaks in recent years underscores the difficulties of following a pathogen through the complex food supply chain, as well as deficiencies in even the most modern health systems in diagnosing this deadly illness. After mistakenly suggesting that Spanish cucumbers were the likely culprit several days ago, German authorities focused

Sunday on bean sprouts from a German farm, only to report Monday that the first 23 of 40 samples from that farm had tested negative for E. coli. The results from the remaining samples had yet to come back. That does not entirely eliminate the farm as the outbreak’s origin, since even one positive test is sufficient to make the connection. But determining the origins of an outbreak that has killed 22 and left 600 people in intensive care presents a difficult mystery to unravel. See E. coli / A4

By Natalie Angier New York Times News Service

New York Times News Service

The Atlantic sea nettle, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, is one of thousands of types of jellyfish found throughout the world.

BALTIMORE — Until I met Doug Allen, the wiry, ponytailed senior aquarist who guided me through the extremely popular jellyfish exhibit at the National Aquarium, my personal experience with jellyfish consisted mainly of using them as yet another excuse not to go swimming: “Hey, I could get stung by a jellyfish!” Isn’t that what happened to 1,800 people off the coast of Florida last week? So when Allen suddenly stopped, clambered to the top of one of

the tanks and called, “You want to try holding a moon jelly?” my first impulse was to knock a few schoolchildren out of the way as I bolted for the door. Too late. A three-inchwide moon jellyfish had been plopped in my hands, and my fear quickly dissolved into fascination. With the jellyfish’s tendrils retracted, it looked like a round bar of glycerin soap, or maybe a translucent diaphragm, and it felt equal parts firm, jiggly and slimy, like a slice of liver coated in raw egg. See Jellyfish / A4


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