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MENTAL HEALTH IN OREGON

• ODOT awaits state report on proposed Hwy. 97 modifications By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin

Photos by Pete Erickson / The Bulletin

John, 54, spent most of his life living with his parents before eventually moving into a residential treatment home in northeast Bend. Today, he lives in a two-year transitional apartment complex.

Healing at home • Through federal funding and local support, the lives of mentally ill Oregonians have vastly improved over a decade

Apple, is there an app for avoiding billions in taxes?

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

elecare caused quite a stir in 2010 when it opened two residential homes in northeast Bend. Neighbors feared their property values would drop and worried that some residents of the mental Part 1 of a health facilities might be dangerous. They 3-day series later complained about Day 1: Mental health residents’ tendency to care in Oregon has smoke on neighbor- evolved in the last hood sidewalks. 10 years. The debate put a Day 2: Bend’s resimagnifying glass on dential treatment the treatment of men- homes have caused tal illness, which is de- controversy. livered much differently in Central Oregon Day 3: The future of today than it was even community-based care in Central a decade ago. Before the 2005 Oregon.

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opening of the Sage View Psychiatric Center near St. Charles Bend, anyone who experienced a psychiatric problem requiring help faced a long trek. Adequate care was available in the Willamette Valley and Pendleton, but not here. Sage View administrator Molly Wells

By Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski New York Times News Service

John Rukaveno, 64, lives with his cat, Tabica, in an apartment. He spent much of his early years hospitalized.

Inside • Mapping out treatment facilities in Oregon, A4

• Spectrum of care options for the mentally ill, A4

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remembers very well what services looked like back then. “Before, we had two hold rooms on the fourth floor (of St. Charles Bend) and we had to send all of the clients to Pendleton or (Salem) or Portland.” Mental health care has changed dra-

matically thanks largely to a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which coincided with local officials’ desire to create more options for the mentally ill and with the state’s push for deinstitutionalization. See Mental care / A4

4 area men say local support helps them live independently By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

When 64-year-old John Rukaveno got his own apartment about a year ago, it was the first time he had ever lived independently. Rukaveno, who is mentally ill, had spent much of his early adulthood institutionalized at the Oregon State Hospital. Deschutes County’s behavioral health department, like others around the state, works to help its clients live as indepen-

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Maring, 34, estimates he’s been hospitalized 15 to 20 times for mental illness. Today, he lives in a two-year transitional apartment complex.

dently as possible in their home communities. That means many people like Rukaveno, who grew up in Bend, can live alone or in small group settings and receive a little help when they need it. Rukaveno entered the mental health system as many do: He says he was arrested and imprisoned at age 17 for felony drug possession. He subsequently was sent to the state hospital, where he stayed on and off until he was 35. See Men / A5

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To decrease the number of deer deaths along one of Central Oregon’s busiest highways, state wildlife researchers are recommending moving vegetation back from the roadway and building more wildlife crossings like those completed last fall south of Bend. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is finalizing a report detailing the recommendations, which also include building future roads farther from slopes that lead deer onto highways, said DeWaine Jackson, wildlife research supervisor for the agency in Roseburg. “We hope that we can benefit not only the mule deer but the people that drive on Highway 97 in Central Oregon,” he said. Over five years — from October 2005 to December 2010 — state researchers tallied every dead deer found along a 100-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 97, starting just south of Bend, and the 50-mile run of state Highway 31 after it splits from 97. Researchers found 1,900 deer killed by cars or trucks as they tried to cross the highways. See Deer / A8

INDEX Business Books Classified

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Community C1-8 Crosswords C7, E2 Dear Abby

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Local News B1-6 Milestones C6 Obituaries B5

RENO, Nev. — Apple, the world’s most profitable tech company, doesn’t design iPhones here. It doesn’t run AppleCare customer service here. And it doesn’t manufacture MacBooks or iPads here. ANALYSIS Yet, with a handful of employees in a small Reno office in a company subsidiary named Braeburn Capital, Apple has done something central to its corporate strategy: It has avoided millions of dollars in taxes in 21 states. In this way, Apple serves as a window on how technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes made for an industrial age. See Taxes / A6

Bombs, backup plans and other SEAL details By Karen DeYoung The Washington Post

Six weeks before the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden last May, President Barack Obama’s top national security Bin Laden, officials debated various other killed a options, including dropping an year ago experimental small bomb on the in May. al-Qaida leader inside his Pakistani fortress, obliterating the compound with a B-2 bomber or inviting the Pakistanis to conduct a joint operation. While some favored the bomb, including thenDefense Secretary Robert Gates, others persuasively argued that it might miss or that there would be no way to prove to the world that bin Laden had been killed, according to “Manhunt,” a new book by bin Laden expert Peter Bergen. See Manhunt / A6

TODAY’S WEATHER Opinion F1-3 Sports D1-6 TV & Movies C2

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TOP NEWS IRAN: Ex-spy: Israel ‘misleading,’ A3 CHINA: Dissident clouds talks, A3


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