Bulletin Daily Paper 08/20/11

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Bend to be abuzz with bike racers, art walkers By Rachael Rees The Bulletin

More than just road closures are dividing downtown Bend on Sept. 2. Culture is competing with recreation as the First Friday Gallery Walk shares the date with the USA Cycling National Road Championship Masters Downtown Criterium bicycle race. While some businesses see the dual events as problematic, others see the pairing as profitable. The area circumscribed by Wall Street, Oregon Avenue, Bond Street and Idaho Avenue will close at 5 a.m. The first race starts at 8 a.m. and the final race at 6 p.m. Galleries and downtown businesses are concerned that will affect accessibility, but the city feels the race will bring more people downtown. Lise Hoffman-McCabe, partner of the Red Chair Gallery, said the simultaneous events have given her a marketing challenge. “My first thought was, ‘Bring in your helmet and I’ll give you a glass of wine,’ ” she said. Hoffman-McCabe said she’s thinking of ways to lure the different groups. She is concerned the regular group of art walkers won’t attend because of the crowds and the hassle. “It’s a conflict,” said Myrna Dow, owner of the High Desert Gallery. “I don’t see why the events had to happen on the same day.” Gallery owners feel the increase in number of people in the area will hinder mobility on the sidewalks and create a demand for parking that can’t be meet. Karen Bandy, owner of Karen Bandy Studio, has been participating in art events downtown for more than 23 years. She fears the race will take attention away from the art. See Downtown / A6

Bend gets around to higher standards Deep, durable roundabout surface illustrates ‘the way a road should be built’

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

SET TO OPEN

The roundabout at Mt. Washington and Century drives in Bend is set to reopen Thursday after almost a month of reconstruction. The new roadway is constructed of nearly 10 inches of concrete.

By Nick Grube The Bulletin

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he roundabout at Mt. Washington and Centuyears old. It started failing when it was 6.

That’s too young, according Bend Street Division

Manager Hardy Hanson. The road shouldn’t have deteriorated so quickly, he said. It should have been

In a story headlined “Common Table needs diners as well as donors,” which appeared Friday, Aug. 19, on page A1, Bob Pearson’s role was reported incorrectly. Pearson is a board member of the nonprofit restaurant. The Bulletin regrets the error.

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Potholes form easily because many of Bend’s roundabouts were built using 3 inches of asphalt on top of 8 inches of gravel — old standards that today are subpar.

maintenance.

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By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — With time running out before federal payments to forest-heavy counties expire on Sept. 30, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, wants Congress to consider placing more federal forests in locally run public trusts. DeFazio envisions two distinct kinds U.S. Rep. of trust: one Peter DeFazio, that would D-Springfield, keep old- says his plan growth forests would bring protected, and together envione that would ronmentalists allow timber- and loggers. ing on younger forests. DeFazio’s idea is tailored for the 18 O&C counties in Western Oregon, where 2.4 million acres of forest that were originally granted to the Oregon and California Railroad Co. were eventually taken back by the government and are now overseen by the federal Bureau of Land Management. But it also could be applied to other counties, including those in Central Oregon, which receive payments from the U.S. Forest Service to make up for revenues lost from national forests. See Forest / A6

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But when the roundabout was built in 2003, the contractor doing the work put down only about 3 inches of asphalt. If asked to build the same roundabout today, Hanson said, that contractor would be required to lay about three times that amount. “You have to put a little more effort into it than three-and-a-half inches of asphalt,” Hanson said. “It should have been built heavier.” The city hired Taylor Northwest for $273,575 to demolish the roadway and pour nearly 10 inches

MAKING THE FIX Last week, a Deschutes Concrete Construction employee used a cut saw to make joint cuts to relieve cracking and prolong the life of the concrete at the Mt. Washington-Century roundabout. Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

of concrete over a 7.5-inch cement-reinforced base that includes the old street. The result differs substantially from the old road, which featured a thin layer of asphalt atop 8 inches of gravel. The new cement surface is supposed to last much longer than the old asphalt surface. “It should be a lot more stable and a lot stronger,” Hanson said. “That’s the way a road should be built.” The Mt. Washington-Century roundabout was built as part of an agreement between the city and a group of 13 developers, businesses and governments called the Westside Transportation Consortium. That group included companies such as Brooks Resources Corp., Century Park LLC and Broken Top LLC, as well as the Bend-La Pine School District and Central Oregon Community College. It also included Western Communications Inc., which owns The Bulletin. Under its development agreement with the city, the Westside Transportation Consortium was required to build eight roundabouts, including those on Mt. Washington Drive and Newport Avenue as well as those on 14th Street at Galveston and Simpson avenues. See Roundabout / A8

Officials rush to ease shortage of vital drugs By Gardiner Harris New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of lifethreatening illnesses, including bacterial infection and several forms of cancer. The proposed solutions, which include a national stockpile of cancer medicines and a nonprofit company that will import drugs and eventually make them, are still in the early or planning stages. But the sense of alarm is widespread. “These shortages are just killing us,” said Dr. Michael Link, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the nation’s largest alliance of cancer doctors. “These drugs save lives, and it’s unconscionable that medicines that cost a couple of bucks a vial are unavailable.” See Drugs / A8

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Thin, strong graphene could be used for light-speed computing By Oliver Renick Bloomberg News

NEW YORK — A one-atomthick layer of carbon may one day help International Business Machines and the U.S. military

build more precise radar and computers that operate at near the speed of light. Physicists Konstantin Novoselov, 36, and Andre Geim, 52, at the University of Manchester in

Britain, have found a way to manipulate how graphene, the thinnest and toughest material ever produced, conducts electricity, a breakthrough that opens the door to its use in digital electronics.

Because graphene conducts electricity 30 times faster than silicon — approaching the speed of light, according to the researchers — the finding may be used by companies such as

IBM to speed up computers. The material was first isolated by the two Russian-born scientists in 2004, and they were awarded a Nobel Prize last year. See Graphene / A6


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