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SHADOW LAKE FIRE COULD BURN FOR ANOTHER MONTH
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Firefighters Matteo Gouveia, left, Anselmo Salgado and Alejandro Ayala douse hot spots while working the edge of the Shadow Lake Fire near the Big Lake Youth Camp on Tuesday. Fire officials on Tuesday defended their decision to let the wildfire burn more than 4,600 acres near Mount Washington to avoid risking firefighters’ lives. For the full story, plus wildfire updates, see Page C1.
In jobs speech, Obama likely to call for extended payroll tax cut By Jackie Calmes New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — The centerpiece of the job creation package that President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday — payroll tax relief for workers and likely their employers — is neither his first policy choice
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roll tax that employees pay, which means about $1,000 more for the average household. And he is considering a proposal to expand the tax relief to employers. In his prime-time address to a joint session of Congress, Obama is expected to call for a package totaling sever-
al hundreds of billions of dollars that would also extend other business tax cuts, put federal dollars into building and repairing roads, rails, airports, schools and other infrastructure programs and provide aid to states to avert more layoffs of teachers. See Jobs / A4
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nor that of many economists. But it is the one that they figure has the best chance of getting Republicans’ support. Obama has signaled that he will propose to extend for another year a reduction of 2 percentage points in the 6.2 percent Social Security pay-
Skateboards, T-shirts and trucker hats seemed to outnumber khakis, button-ups and dress shoes at Tuesday night’s Bend Park & Recreation District board meeting, where officials discussed the future of Miller’s Landing. The 4.6-acre parcel on the Deschutes River near the Old Mill is set to become Bend’s next community park, and the district has been seeking public input on how it should develop the land over the next several years. Dozens of skateboarders — many of them riding in the parking lot of the district’s Columbia Street headquarters before the meeting — showed up with hopes of convincing the board that a skatepark belongs at Miller’s Landing. While board members made no decisions, they acknowledged the need for a new skatepark in Bend, noting the shortcomings of an aged and outdated facility located in Ponderosa Park. “I recognize it’s a good idea,” Park District Board of Directors Chairman Ted Schoenborn said of building a new skatepark. “It’s an idea that costs a lot of money to build ... and that’s a barrier.” The park district has plans to replace the Ponderosa Park skateboarding area, which is shaped much like a cement swimming pool, but it doesn’t have any money set aside to do so. Many local skateboarders consider the Ponderosa Park skatepark something of a relic. They say they must travel to places like Madras or Redmond to find what they consider adequate skating opportunities that are open to the public. There’s a private indoor skate facility in Bend that charges for skateboarding. Another group is working with the Oregon Department of Transportation and the city of Bend to build a public skatepark on Division Street under an overpass, though that plan is at least a year away from fruition. A common theme among many of the skateboarders at Tuesday’s meeting was the need for a skatepark on Bend’s west side. Among the benefits of the Miller’s Landing location, they said, are its central location near Bend’s downtown and Old Mill District and the fact that it occupies a unique spot along the Deschutes River. See Skatepark / A5
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Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 20, 2003, after President George W. Bush argued that “Iraq harbors terrorists ... and could share weapons of mass destruction with terrorists.” Though connections to Sept. 11 remain elusive, the war continues. View 30 images from the conflict at bendbulletin.com/sept11. Photos from
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Central Oregon used 9/11 funds to up readiness By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
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A severe sandstorm blankets a convoy from the Headquarters Battalion of the 1st Marine Division north of the Euphrates River in Iraq, on March 25, 2003. Nearly two years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, President George W. Bush presented a document to Congress arguing that the invasion of Iraq was necessary “because Iraq harbors terrorists and because Iraq could share weapons of mass destruction with terrorists.”
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In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the newly created Department of Homeland Security handed out federal grants to local and state agencies in an attempt to improve emergency preparedness and security in ports, water sources, airports and other locations. Here in Central Oregon, law enforcement agencies used the money largely to upgrade radio systems in anticipation of a large-scale emergency. And today, those agencies say they’ll be ready if and when something bad happens. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Tim Edwards said the region’s experience with wildfires also has improved its readiness for other disasters, whether they’re caused by terrorists or Mother Nature. “I think we’re ready for something big,” he said. “We may not be a hotbed for terror but we are a hotbed for wildfire. We have a lot of experience over the past 10 years, and we’d do exactly the same thing we do in a terror attack as we do in a wildfire.” See Funds / A4