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Common Table needs diners as well as donors Truck Struggling nonprofit fears foodies misperceive it as soup kitchen By Duffie Taylor The Bulletin

The Bend nonprofit restaurant Common Table recently received good news, but good news may not be enough. A six-month fundraiser with

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nonprofit Sagebrush brought Common Table more than $10,000 in donations. That sum does not include the funds Sagebrush has agreed to match at the end of the campaign on Aug. 30. It remains to be seen, however,

how much the fundraiser will affect the restaurant’s bottom line. Since its opening last September, Common Table has combined nonprofit work with entrepreneurship in an effort to provide everyone — even those who

can’t afford it — with a comfortable place to come, talk and eat. But as Common Table approaches the one-year mark, its owners say they’re struggling to bring in enough revenue and worry that the restaurant’s reputation as a good cause may be overshadowing its reputation for something else: good food.

Co-owner Bob Pearson said financial troubles stem from a lack of customers. And he’s concerned that slow business has to do with the way Common Table is perceived. “We have great visibility as a nonprofit, not a restaurant,” Pearson said. “The idea that we have great food didn’t sink in.” See Common Table / A6

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A 7-year-old boy was killed early Thursday when he was struck by a truck while crossing a street in Madras. Madras Police identified the victim as Austin HollenbeakHatch of Madras. Officers were dispatched to the crash scene at the intersection of Fifth and D streets in downtown Madras at around 7:47 a.m. In a news release, police said Austin “darted” across the street and was struck by a 1999 Dodge pickup driven by Dennis Kluser, 64, of Madras. Kluser was turning left from eastbound D Street to northbound Fifth Street and struck Austin in the crosswalk on Fifth Street. Kluser had a green light, the release stated, and morning sun was a factor in the collision. Austin was transported to Mountain View Hospital in Madras and pronounced dead. Police cited Kluser for careless driving and failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. A review of Kluser’s driving record through the state courts database indicates three prior citations — one for driving without headlights in 1989, and speeding tickets in 2001 and 2005. See Crash / A6

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By Scott Hammers A man who Bend police say attacked an officer with a didgeridoo was shot with a stun gun and arrested Wednesday night near the Bend Farmers Market. We s t o n Coen, 20, reportedly was creating a disturbance with an unapproved performance on his Australian wind Weston Coen instr ument. Manager Katrina Wiest asked Coen to move his performance outside the market, and she says he initially complied. But he returned later and was contacted by a security guard patrolling the market area. According to Sgt. John Carlon, Coen swatted the phone from the hand of the security guard as he was attempting to call police. Carlon said Sgt. Ron Taylor was sent to the scene to meet Coen, who resisted Taylor’s attempts to arrest him, swinging and stabbing at the officer with his didgeridoo. Coen escaped briefly and ran to the nearby Mirror Pond Plaza, where Taylor caught him and deployed his Taser. Though Taylor was struck with the didgeridoo, said Carlon, the aboriginal instrument did not inflict a serious injury. Neither did the Taser. Coen was arrested for attempted assault on a public safety officer, interfering with making a report and resisting arrest. He was held overnight at the Deschutes County Jail and released without posting bail when the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges at his arraignment. Jail Deputy Robert Lucas said charges could still be filed at a later date once prosecutors have all reports related to the incident. Carlon said Taylor will be required to fill out a use-of-force report detailing the circumstances leading up to his decision to use the Taser. Taylor’s supervisor will review his account of the incident and determine whether it was justified under department policy, Carlon said, a decision he expects will be made by today. Bend police are constrained by reasonably strict policies on the use of Tasers, Carlon said. See Didgeridoo / A6

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Julie Grobbel, of Bend, samples a beer at the Bend Brewfest at the Les Schwab Amphitheater on Thursday. The event continues today from 3 to 11 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 11 p.m. A $10 souvenir mug is required for tasting any of the more than 100 craft beers. The mug comes with four tasting tokens; additional tokens are available for a fee.

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Customers feeling the effects of Verizon strike By Steven Greenhouse New York Times News Service

As a strike by 45,000 Verizon workers approaches the two-week mark, the company’s customers are beginning to feel the impact — and complaining about it. Verizon acknowledges “minor” disruptions since the strike began Aug. 7. But some customers of its landline telephone, Internet and cable television service are reporting significant delays getting current lines repaired and new ones installed. Craig Schiffer, chief executive of a boutique investment

bank in New York City, said his firm’s telephone service had been down for nine days, and he could not get an estimate from Verizon for when the phones would be working again — a big problem for a business that relies heavily on phone calls with clients. Joey Kreger, a recent college graduate moving from Illinois to Morristown, N.J., was stunned when he ordered Verizon’s FiOS television and Internet service for his new apartment — and the company wrote back that it could install the service Dec. 30. See Verizon / A4

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MOSCOW — Twenty years ago today, communist hard-liners staged a coup here, sending tanks rumbling to the Russian White House in an effort to preserve the Soviet Union. Instead, they touched off a powerful expression of democracy. Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected president in Russia’s thousand years, galvanized the resistance when he climbed atop one of the tanks and called on citizens to defend the freedoms he had promised to deliver. They mounted the barricades, unarmed, willing to risk their lives for democracy. The coup leaders lost their nerve. A few months later, the Soviet Union was dead. All these years later, so is democracy. Today, Vladimir Putin presides over an authoritarian government in that same White House, a bulky 20-story skyscraper on the edge of the Moscow River. Occasional demonstrations in favor of democracy are small and largely ignored, except by the police. See Russia / A4