Bulletin Daily Paper 06/22/11

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The events

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Your full guide to the Pacific Crest sports festival • INSIDE

Ten events are on the schedule for the 2011 Pacific Crest end Sports Festival, which Weekwill be staged in Sunriver through Sunday. The weekend’s this Friday running and multisport includes events ranging lineup from hourslong endurance activities designed for youngsters races to . Descriptions of each race listed below. are • Long course triathlon: In a race with distances those in a Half-Ironman similar to triathlon, participants in Pacific Crest’s long course triathlon begin Wickiup Reservoir, followedwith a 1.2-mile open-water swim at on Cascade Lakes Highway by a 53-mile point-to-point bike ride 40. The triathlon is completedand Forest Service roads 45 and after a 13.1-mile run on paths in Sunriver. This paved event serves as the TRI NorthWest Long Course Championships. • Endurance duathlon: Offers the same distances the long course triathlon, and routes as less the swim. • Marathon: This 26.2-mile footrace on wide, paved pathways in Sunriver is a certified Boston Marathon qualifier. • Half marathon: This 13.1-mile footrace on wide, paved ways in Sunriver is the pathmost Monday, more than 1,200 popular Pacific Crest event. As of runners were registered for the race. • Olympic-distance triathlon: Participants in this three-leg event perform a 1,500-meter open-wate r swim at Wickiup Reservoir, a 28-mile point-topoint bike ride on Forest Service Road 40, and a 19-kilometer run on paved paths in Sunriver. Of the four multisport events offered at Pacific Cre t th

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‘Phenomenal’ return: Three salmon back to dam so far By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin

Surviving predators and volatile ocean conditions, two more spring chinook salmon have survived the 3-year journey that brought them back to the Pelton Round Butte dam complex. “It’s exciting,” said Mike Gauvin, the dam’s mitigation coordinator. “It shows that the program is making progress.” So far, three fish out of between 700 and 1,000 have made it back to the dam spawning grounds. The fish were released in 2008, and the first one returned May 25.

The second one appeared May 31, and the most recent one appeared Monday. “Getting these adult fish back is a huge deal,” said PGE Fish Biologist James Bartlett. “To get three back is phenomenal.” Biologists say 1/2 to 1 percent of chinook survive. Gauvin says he is hopeful that about seven more fish will come back. Already, two additional chinook from the 2008 batch were identified traveling up the Bonneville Dam by their tags, and could possibly be en route, said Bartlett. See Fish / A5

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The second fish to complete its journey back to the Pelton Round Butte dam complex was this one, weighing in at roughly 12 pounds. It arrived May 31, and a third appeared Monday.

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Bond for OSU to buy building has a shot Lawmakers also pass 14 education-reform bills By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

SALEM — Not too long ago, Central Oregon lawmakers spent the legislative session defending the existence of the Oregon State University-Cascades Campus. Now, they are advocating to allow the university to grow — and it’s looking like they will succeed. A $2.29 million bond, which would help the university purchase a building to house its graduate programs, has been given the thumbs-up by a powerful subcommittee. Sen. David Nelson, R-Pendleton, who is on the Capital Construction subcommittee, pulled out a large spreadsheet Tuesday afternoon and ran his finger down a list of projects. Although the subcommittee has not yet voted on the list of projects and sent them to the full Ways and Means Committee, the OSU-Cascades project, Nelson said, is on the list of tentatively approved projects. Nelson said the committee worked off a set of criteria, including what projects made economic sense and what the return of the investment would be. He said one of the most important factors was community support. See Cascades / A5

IN THE LEGISLATURE House Bill 3627

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Crook County Deputy District Attorney Katherine Krauel-Hernberg performs a field sobriety test under the eye of Oregon State Police Sgt. Mike Iwai as other volunteers and officers do the same Tuesday. About a dozen prominent Crook County citizens attempted the tests after drinking alcohol. In the background is the Oregon State Police’s mobile DUII processing center, which contains three blood-alcohol breath-test stations and two small holding cells. It will be staying in Prineville through the weekend.

Volunteer drinkers take on sobriety tests to raise awareness of drunken driving before big weekend By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

PRINEVILLE — In a back room at the Crook County Fire & Rescue fire station, several of Prineville’s more prominent residents spent the better part of Tuesday afternoon drinking cocktails out of plastic cups and chuckling at the notion they could be considered celebrities.

The “Celebrity Wetlab,” as it was billed, brought a dozen Crook County “celebrities” to spend the day drinking and undergoing various sobriety tests in the interest of raising awareness about drunken driving. The Oregon State Police brought their mobile DUII processing center, a 40-foot motorhome that’s been remodeled to contain three blood-

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alcohol breath-test stations and two small holding cells. Tuesday’s volunteers took their breath tests in the processing center, and the processing center will be staying in Prineville through the weekend to help local law enforcement personnel deal with an anticipated uptick in drunken driving incidents. Crook County Sheriff Jim Hensley said the next few weeks have historically been some of the most dangerous on the roads of Crook County, with the rodeo half of the Crooked River Roundup scheduled for this weekend and the horse racing half in mid-July. See Wetlab / A5

DALE CITY, Va. — The minute one of her regulars comes through the canteen door at VFW Post 1503, Dori Keys starts to pour. Captain Morgan and Diet Coke for Rich. Old Crow on the rocks for Sam. Bruce likes Miller Lite. The men she serves have one thing in common: They are American combat veterans. After seven years

of listening from behind the bar, she knows a lot more about some of them than what they drink. Men like Bruce Yeager, 62, who came in one day complaining about a sore on his foot that wouldn’t heal. A former Army medic in Vietnam, he knew what was wrong. But it took Keys to persuade him to see a doctor. She even drove him. See Veterans / A4

The bill would help OSU-Cascades buy a building to house its graduate programs. • Sponsors: Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend; Rep. Gene Whisnant, R-Sunriver; Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend; Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles; Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte • History: The university has committed about $1.5 million to the project. And a donor, who wishes to remain anonymous until the deal is complete, would contribute $800,000. • What’s next: The bill needs to be passed out of the Capital Construction subcommittee to the full Ways and Means Committee. After that would come votes in the House and Senate. • Read the bill: www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/hb3600. dir/hb3627.intro.html ON THE WEB:

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Health-plan forms are put through the acid test: focus groups By Susan Jaffe McClatchy-Tribune News Service

BUFFALO, N.Y. — At an office tucked next to a department store in a shopping mall, Susan Kleimann pushed two sets of papers across a table to a woman in her 40s wearing a gray sweatshirt. Inside “We aren’t testing you,” assured • Loophole in Kleimann, who runs a marhealth law, ket research firm in Bethesda, Page A5 Md. “We are testing health plan information.” Kleimann explained that they’d be comparing two documents that described two hypothetical insurance plans. See Health / A5


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