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Archive Home > 2005 > July > 29 > Man drowns floating on the Deschutes River

Man drowns floating on the Deschutes River

Wilhite played baseball for Elks

By Meghann Cuniff / The Bulletin
July 29, 2005

A 20-year-old man drowned Thursday in the Deschutes River after the air mattress he was on with two friends flipped just south of the Colorado Avenue Bridge in Bend.

Michael Wilhite, of Kentucky, a player for the Bend Elks baseball team, was floating the river with friends, many of them Elks....

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