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Kicking off prep
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If sold, theater will close By Joel Aschbrenner The Bulletin
Whoever buys the Pilot Butte 6 theater in east Bend won’t be able to show movies there. The theater is for sale with a deed restriction that prohibits the new owner from operating a theater on the property, said Candace Gray, a real estate
agent with Envisions Realty Advisors. Regal Entertainment Group, which owns Pilot Butte 6 and the Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX, often includes such deed restrictions when selling a theater, Gray said. Allowing a buyer to show movies at Pilot Butte 6 could take business away from Regal’s Old Mill theater. Pilot Butte
6 will remain open until it is sold, Gray said; there is no time frame for the sale. Several potential buyers, mostly retail store developers, have expressed interest in the theater, Gray said. The 5.7-acre property on Highway 20 at Northeast 27th Street is zoned limited commercial. See Theater / A4
LAKE BILLY CHINOOK
Today, The Bulletin launches its
SOCKEYE RETURN
advance coverage of the fall varsity preps season. Whether
• Salmon are running again on the Deschutes thanks to a new route to the ocean
you follow football, volleyball,
By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
water polo,
After decades of absence from the Deschutes River, sockeye salmon are running again. Returning as adults from a year or two in the Pacific Ocean, the fish are the latest to be reintroduced above the Pelton Round Butte dam complex, which forms Lake Billy Chinook near Madras. As of Friday, 77 of the fish had returned to the complex since late July, according to scientists monitoring the fish. The run is expected to continue into next month, but it is unclear how many more fish will return. “We are still learning about the run and how long it will last,” said Mike Gauvin, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife mitigation coordinator at the dam complex. The three dams in the power-producing Pelton Round Butte complex became an obstacle for sea-run fish when it was finished in 1964. See Sockeye / A8
cross-country or soccer …
… you’ll find a story
Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin
ABOVE: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife employee Jeremy Puckett places a sockeye in a tank on the back of a truck Friday to be transported around the Pelton Round Butte dam complex.
previewing our Central Oregon high school teams in the
RIGHT: A scale is removed from a captured sockeye before it is tagged, measured and transported around the Pelton Round Butte dam complex.
coming days. We begin today with football on Page D1. Also see a sport-by-sport calendar of varsity events and photos of last year’s season online at www.bendbulletin.com/prepslideshow.
In tuition grab, colleges send freshmen abroad By Jeanna Smialek Bloomberg News
Colleges including New York University and Northeastern University are pushing freshmen into study-abroad programs — before the students even set foot on campus — to enroll larger classes and get more tuition dollars.
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NYU and Boston-based Northeastern, which both charge more than $50,000 a year to attend, make some freshmen spend the first semester or two abroad. They then use the students and their tuitions to fill the beds of midyear dropouts and upperclassmen heading overseas. While some students find the opportu-
nity rewarding, others are disoriented at not starting off with their class or having a choice. “Most students are not going to accept this right off the bat,” said Bev Taylor, a New York-based college admission consultant. See Abroad / A4
ELECTION 2012
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national conventions, beginning with the GOP’s early next week, when Republicans formally nominate their candidate for president in Tampa, Fla. The Democrats hold
AT THE CONVENTIONS
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• The Bulletin begins its reports from the conventions with an interview about the GOP’s foreign policy platform.
Inside today • Graphic on the GOP convention: Romney, Tampa and more, A7