Bulletin Daily Paper 04/11/12

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Longtime school board member resigns By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

WALDO LAKE

Float planes cleared to land • But a ban on motorboats will remain in effect By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin

Chris Pietsch / The Register-Guard (Eugene)

Chuck Tucker, of Bend, speaks against seaplane use on Waldo Lake during a packed public hearing of the Oregon State Marine Board on Tuesday. Float planes can land at the lake, but a ban on gas-powered motorboats will remain, the board decided.

Tom Wilson, who has served on the Bend-La Pine School Board for more than a decade, announced Tuesday that he will leave office at the end of June. Wilson, who represents La Pine, said he will resign because he moved to Bend earlier this year. According to Wilson, election law allows him to hold his position until the end of the school year, and he plans to do so. In a prepared statement, Wilson wrote that he had been on the board while the district passed three bonds and opened a dozen new schools. WilWilson son described those as obvious marks of an improving school district and added that he believes “Bend-La Pine is one of the top districts in the state right now.” “The top district, I don’t know, but I am proud of how the boards that I have been a member of have tried to stay focused on what’s best for students,” he wrote. When Wilson, known as a vociferous board member, declined to speak more about his resignation, a few colleagues and district employees feigned shock, saying, “What?” Wilson went on to say he could no longer represent La Pine if he did not live there. He wants to resign now, he said, because he hopes the board will have time to fill the vacancy. Board member Peggy Kinkade praised Wilson as “a really solid school board member” and said “we’re really lucky to have had his service.” The board accepted Wilson’s resignation, effective June 30, and will appoint his replacement in the coming months. Interested candidates should send a résumé and letter of interest to the superintendent’s office by May 4. Candidates must live within one of the following precincts: 16, 24, 38, 39, 40 or 50. See Schools / A5

SPRINGFIELD — Float planes may again splash down on Waldo Lake, but a ban on gas motorboats stands. Following the recommendation of agency analysts, the Oregon State Marine Board voted 3-2 to uphold the 2009 ban on gas-powered motorboats on the lake near Willamette

Topsy-turvy landing A vintage plane flips over on Redmond Airport tarmac

New York Times News Service

Courtesy of Redmond Airport

A 1934 Fairchild 24 C8C single-engine airplane rests upside down on a runway at Redmond Airport. The plane flipped over when its new owner was practicing maneuvers on Friday afternoon. No one was hurt.

Fairchild 24 C8C

By Ben Botkin The Bulletin

Aircraft type: Fixedwing single-engine Engine type: Reciprocating Number of engines: 1 Maximum number of seats: 3 Maximum gross takeoff weight: Up to 12,499 pounds Cruising speed: 79 mph

REDMOND — nly 19 aging Fairchild 24 C8C airplanes are still registered with the Federal Aviation Administration, and on Friday one of the rare machines crashed at Redmond Airport. The plane, manufactured in 1934, was damaged when it flipped over upon landing, but the two occupants were unharmed. The pilot was practicing “touch and go” landings at the time of the accident, said Mike Fergus, a spokesman with the FAA’s Northwest Mountain Region. Such landings are practice runs in which a pilot lands

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By Larry Rohter New York Times News Service

Everything seemed set for the U.S. debut last month of Pitingo, a rising young flamenco singing star: The Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center in New York City had been booked, tickets and program prepared, a publicity budget spent, nonrefundable airline tickets purchased. But when

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on the runway and then takes off again. It is believed that the aircraft flipped because the brakes were applied too hard, said Fergus, but the accident is still under investigation. Redmond Police Capt. Brian McNaughton said the Fairchild had a new owner, who was practicing maneuvers with the former owner. “The plane just rolled over on its nose,” McNaughton said. Police, firefighters and the airport’s operations team responded to the accident, which occurred on the airport’s main runway about 3:30 p.m. See Plane / A4

U.S. visa rules can be showstoppers

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Pass. However, the board opted Tuesday evening to welcome float planes back to the lake, which is about a two-hour drive southwest of Bend. “This goes beyond boating. This is about protecting an important water resource,” said Jean Quinsey, a Marine Board member who voted to keep the motorboat ban. The agency had received more than 4,400 comments about the ban

in the past five weeks — 4,100 for it and 300 against it. “This may be the single most response to an issue the Marine Board has ever (received) and it’s the most lopsided,” said Randy Henry, operations policy analyst for the Marine Board. A legal challenge in the Oregon Court of Appeals was on hold over the past five weeks as the Marine Board reviewed the ban. See Waldo / A4

he went to the U.S. Embassy in Madrid to pick up his visa, he learned his name was on the “no fly” list. Embassy officials knew that Pitingo, whose real name is Antonio Manuel Alvarez Velez, is not a terrorist and that the real target was someone else who shared his very common name. But by the time the confusion was sorted out it was too late for Pit-

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ingo to fly to New York, and his concert had to be canceled. His case is not an isolated one. In the decade since 9/11, U.S. visa procedures for foreign artists and performers have grown increasingly labyrinthine, expensive and arbitrary, arts presenters and immigration lawyers say. See Visas / A4

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Obituaries C5 Oregon News C3 Shopping B1-6

Mark Elde, right, conducts the Halle Orchestra in 2006. That year, the group canceled a U.S tour that year due to visa complications. The Associated Press file photo

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The path for Internet startups used to be quite clear: Establish a presence on the Web first, then come up with a version of your service for mobile devices. Now, at a time when the mobile startup Instagram can command $1 billion in a sale to Facebook, some startups are asking: Who needs the Web? Smartphones are everywhere now, allowing apps like Foursquare and Path to be self-contained social worlds, Related • Protecting existing alyour most entirely privacy on mobile on mobile devices. It is a devices, major change B1 from just a few years ago, • Database underscorhelps ing how the thwart momentum in cellphone the tech world thieves, is shifting to E1 mobile from computers. In that context, the Instagram deal looks like something of a turning point, as even Facebook tries to get a better grasp on a market that requires a rethinking of old rules. “For decades, the center of computing has been the desktop, and software was modeled after the experience of using a typewriter,” said Georg Petschnigg, a former Microsoft employee who is one of the creators of Paper, a sketchbook app for the iPad. “But technology is now more intimate and pervasive than that. We have it with us all the time, and we have to reimagine innovative new interfaces and experiences around that.” Venture capitalists are eager to get in on the mobile trend. According to the research firm CB Insights, mobile apps and companies attracted 10 percent of the total investment dollars from U.S. venture capital firms in last year’s fourth quarter, and 12 percent of deals were mobile-related. See Apps / A5

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