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In Bend, a historic opportunity for the right tenant By Nick Grube The Bulletin
One of Bend’s most historic homes has a vacancy, and city officials are looking for someone to fill it. That tenant, however, must meet certain standards that go beyond historic preservation, such as having a proven business record and the capital to back it up. The Goodwillie-AllenRademacher House is located in downtown Bend in the Riverfront Plaza on Northwest
Brooks Street. Among its famous tenants are Bend’s first mayor, Arthur Goodwillie, who helped plat and develop the town, Herbert Allen, an executive at Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co., and Dr. Clyde Rademacher, the founder of Bend Memorial Clinic. Bend Special Projects Manager Brad Emerson said the house is at the city’s core along the Deschutes River and exerts an emotional pull on a number of residents who helped preserve it.
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It’s on the National Register of Historic Places, and was almost demolished in the early 1990s to make way for a parking area that was part of a plaza development. The home was then moved about 50 feet to its current location and refurbished through a partnership between the city and the nonprofit Arts Central. “It’s important that whoever goes in there is a good fit,” Emerson said. See House / A5
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The city of Bend is trying to find a good match for the Goodwille-Allen-Rademacher House.
AN INFLUX OF WATER FOR THIRSTY FARMS
Board poised to decide gas motor ban’s fate
Families hit mortgage refinancing roadblock • BofA’s short-sales policy has prevented homeowners from participating in a state program By Elon Glucklich The Bulletin
For Chablis Arnoldy, the state mortgage refinancing program sounded almost too good to be true. She and her husband, Jason, had tried since 2010 to refinance their $315,000 mortgage but were told they couldn’t because their Bend home had lost so much value in the housing bust. The Arnoldys thought they had found an answer in the state’s new Loan Refinancing Assistance Pilot Project, for which they received approval in January. But last month, they discovered that Bank of America, which services their loan, would not let them into the program, one of the first of its kind in the country. While the state program requires participants, who sell their homes in short sales, to live in their houses, Bank of America does not allow short sales if the seller remains in the home. State officials who run the program say they have been meeting with Bank of America and believe it’s simply a matter of explaining the program to the right people at the bank, the nation’s second largest. See Mortgages / A4
By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
The state’s controversial ban on the use of gas motors on Waldo Lake may be reaffirmed, repealed or re-evaluated following a public hearing today in Springfield. After fielding more than 4,100 comments about the ban over the last five weeks, Oregon State Marine Board officials expect a crowd at the hearing. “I don’t want to guess numbers,” said Marine Board Director Scott Brewen, “but it will be packed.” While the debate over the use of gas motors on Waldo Lake — the state’s second clearest lake after Crater Lake — is more than a decade old, the ban has been in effect for only two years. Supporters of the ban include conservation groups, which say it protects the lake from the noise and pollution of gas motors. Opponents of the ban say it unfairly limits access and is unnecessary because of a speed limit that has kept the lake peaceful and clean. A 13-mile paved road leads north from state Highway 58 near Willamette Pass to Waldo Lake, which is about a twohour drive from Bend. Snow typically blocks the road to the lake for much of the year, and it usually opens in June for about four months. See Waldo / A5
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An iceberg presumed to be the one hit by the Titanic, photographed from the cable ship Mackay-Bennett on April 15, 1912.
New culprits suspected in sinking of the Titanic By William J. Broad New York Times News Service
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A gush of irrigation water is diverted from the Deschutes River near Division and Third streets in Bend on Monday, marking a rite of spring in Central Oregon. The headgate is opened each spring, emptying water into a canal that feeds water to about 60,000 acres of farmland in Jefferson County.
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What doomed the Titanic is well known, at least in outline. On a moonless night in the North Atlantic, the liner hit an iceberg and disaster ensued, with 1,500 lives lost. Hundreds of books, studies and official inquires have addressed the deeper question of how a ship that was so costly and so well built — a ship declared to be unsinkable — could have ended so terribly. The theories vary widely, placing the blame on everything from inept sailors to flawed rivets. Now, a century after the liner went down in the early hours of April 15, 1912, two new studies argue that rare states of nature played major roles in the catastrophe. See Titanic / A5
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American universities’ culture of openness attracts students — and spies
Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin
BOSTON — Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon contacted the Central Intelligence Agency in late 2009 with an urgent question. The school’s campus in Dubai need-
ed a bailout and an unlikely savior had stepped forward: a Dubai-based company that offered to provide money and students. Simon was tempted. She also worried that the company, which had investors from Iran and wanted to recruit
students from there, might be a front for the Iranian government, she said. If so, an agreement could violate federal trade sanctions and invite enemy spies. The CIA couldn’t confirm that the company wasn’t an arm of Iran’s government. Simon rejected the offer and
shut down undergraduate programs in Dubai, at a loss of $3.7 million. Hearkening back to Cold War anxieties, growing signs of spying on U.S. universities are alarming national security officials. See Spies / A4
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Correction A photo that appeared under the headline “Plowing ahead, with an eye toward Memorial Day,” on Friday, April 6, on Page A1, had an incorrect caption. Fishing season for trout on the High Lakes opens April 28. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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