Bulletin Daily Paper 07/03/12

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OSU-Cascades hits target Community donations exceed expectations Bulletin file photo

Gabriel Lawson at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., awaiting a heart transplant.

Donor heart found for Bend boy

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Source: OSU-Cascades Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin

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Surgeons at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., have found a donor heart for Gabriel Lawson, the 11-year-old Bend boy whose own heart was failing. The Lawson family posted on the boy’s Facebook page that a donor heart had been found and was a 98 percent match. Surgery, according to the post, was scheduled to proceed at 8 p.m. Sunday night, but no further updates were posted. A doctor from Gabriel’s transplant team confirmed a heart had been found but could not provide any details on the surgery or Gabriel’s condition. Gabriel has been at the hospital since May due to a combination of congenital heart defects that have significantly weakened his heart muscles and left him prone to abnormal heart rhythms. His heart no longer responded to an implanted defibrillator designed to shock his heart back into a normal rhythm. Doctors feared if the boy had another occurrence of an irregular heart beat outside of the hospital, the heart might not resume a normal rhythm. See Heart / A4

THE OLD MILL CRANE SHED

The Old Mill Crane Shed as it looked prior to its demolition in 2004.

Bus shelters reminder of old building I By Megan Kehoe The Bulletin

After the property was purchased by Crown Investment Group, the building was demolished without a proper permit.

By John Schwartz

Photos by Dean Guernsey / The Bulletin

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The property owners were fined for destroying the building and paid $117,000 in fines and interest to the city.

Millions of people learned a new word this weekend: “derecho.” It was not a happy lesson. The Spanish term for what is essentially a squall line that moves rapidly across the landscape was widely used to describe the wall of storms that killed 22 people, according to The Associated Press, and knocked out power for some 4.3 million customers in 10 states and the District of Columbia. About half have had their power restored, according to the Edison Electric Institute, leaving nearly 2 million customers still without lights, refrigeration, air conditioning or even electric fans. David Owens, executive vice president for operations at the institute, said, “It was like a hurricane — but we didn’t get the warning that you do with a hurricane.” See Blackout / A4

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SALEM — Oregon State UniversityCascades Campus exceeded its $1 million fundraising goal, officials announced Monday. The aim was to get 40 donations of $25,000 by the end of June. But more than 50 individuals and businesses donated, including Mt. Bachelor, which contributed $250,000, putting the university’s total contributions at more than $1.5 million. “I think there really has been a desire to have a four-year university in Central Oregon for 30 years or more, and I think people believe it’s really going to happen this time,” said OSUCascades Vice President Becky Johnson.

The money is an important part of ensuring that OSU-Cascades’ dream to become a fouryear university is realized. The branch campus plans to offer lower-division courses and increase its student population by 1,000, for an enrollment of 2,000, by the year 2015. By 2025, the goal is to have student enrollment closer to 5,000. University officials hope to secure $16 million from the state and couple that with another $4 million from campus funds and a total of $4 million from community donations. The $24 million would go toward buying or renovating office, research and class space. See OSU-Cascades / A4

Following up on Central Oregon’s most interesting stories, even if they’ve been out of the headlines for a while. Email ideas to news@bendbulletin.com. To follow the series, visit www.bendbulletin.com/updates.

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Oregon State University-Cascades Campus collected more than $1.5 million toward its expansion, exceeding a goal to collect $1 million by June 30. Eventually officials hope to combine $4 million in community donations with $4 million in campus funds $1.575M reached and $16 million from the state. $1M

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t was only a storage shed for timber, but when the Old Mill’s Crane Shed was demolished in 2004 without proper permits or permission, the brick-colored building came to symbolize much more. It became a symbol of Bend’s past — one the city didn’t want to leave forgotten in a heap of rubble. In 2008, the Bend City Council approved a project to construct six Bend Area Transit bus stop shelters to commemorate the Crane Shed, an Old Mill building that was illegally torn down in 2004. Today, four bus shelters resembling the Crane Shed line Southwest Bond Street, and are used by Cascades East Transit. The Crane Shed was built in the 1930s, and was used to store lumber during Bend’s bustling timber mill days. After the property was purchased by Crown Investment Group, the

building was demolished without a proper permit in 2004. To many in the community at the time, the destruction of one of Bend’s historical buildings was an outrage. “The owners tore it down in the middle of the night,” said Bill Smith, who developed the Old Mill District through his company, William Smith Properties, Inc. “They stuck up their noses at the community, and that irritated a lot of people.” The property owners were fined for destroying the building and paid $117,000 in fines and interest to the city. Bend decided to use the money to commemorate the shed. Brad Emerson, special projects director for Bend’s public works department and manager of the bus shelter project, said the city had just started fixedroute transit service at the time, and believed bus shelters commemorating the Crane Shed would be a practical way to use the money. See Shed / A4

Bus shelters in the Old Mill District have been designed to resemble the Crane Shed. Alex McDougall / The Bulletin

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New search hopes to finally solve Earhart mystery By Peter Mucha The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Famed aviator Amelia Earhart vanished 75 years ago Monday, and today a $2 million expedition headed by a Delaware man leaves Honolulu with high hopes of finally solving the mystery. Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, was trying to become the first female pilot to circle the globe when her Lockheed Electra lost radio contact over the Pacific. At the time of her disappearance, Earhart was married to George Putnam, former Bend mayor and former publisher of The Bulletin. Following a clue in an old photograph, searchers will use a high-tech unmanned mini-sub to try to locate what appeared to be landing gear once visible in waters off a remote, now-uninhabited island. The tantalizing photograph, along with previous evidence, elicited enthusiasm from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, famed explorer Robert Ballard and others earlier this year. The Discovery Channel will be filming the expedition, hoping to record history. If found, that gear could finally confirm what Ric Gillespie of Wilmington, Del., has been trying to prove for more than two decades: that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan crashed off Gardner Island, an atoll now known as Nikumaroro, part of the Republic of Kiribati. Gillespie, as head of TIGHAR, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, has organized seven trips that have turned up all sorts of clues, though nothing irrefutable. Evidence suggests, but does not prove, that Earhart may have survived but later died on the island. A 1937 report by Navy flyers spoke of signs of “recent habitation” on the island. Salvaged airplane parts have been found there. See Earhart / A4

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