August 11, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend adventures to get U.S. TV exposure
• Business Calendar
• Community First Bank’s new owner had the capital and saw an opportunity
• Company wins award for creating ponds
• Coos Bay police seek bomb suspect
• Flex your DIY muscle for savings on home improvement
• Gang founder pleads guilty to selling handgun to felon
• Great white shark snared at Depoe Bay; Seaside on lookout
• Group sues BLM over wilderness road project
• Guidelines issued for development site
• Judge gives NOAA another month for salmon plan
• Kids’ museum says it needs $200,000 to remain open
• McKenzie Pass open at last
• Missing juvenile spotted in Prineville
• News of Record: Deeds
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• On the horizon
• Parsing personalities
• Powell Butte $40K shy of saving 2 grades
• Report: Bad assets still threaten banks
• Restored plane flips at airport in Sisters
• Sisters to wait on park district closure
• 4 teens killed in crash near Clatskanie
• Thornburgh partners suing CEO and seeking his removal
• To Rwanda with love
• Vendors sought for community bazaar
• Walden traveling on 2-week world tour
• Wyden bill would expedite international prosecutions

BUSINESS

• Bend adventures to get U.S. TV exposure
• Columbia Bancorp reports $23.3M loss
• Community First Bank’s new owner had the capital and saw an opportunity
• Dish Network profit falls as costs climb
• Dynegy sells plants for $1B as loss widens
• GM takes its sales online with new eBay partnership
• Hormel Foods boosts 2009 profit guidance
• In Congo, Hillary Clinton asserts she’s secretary of state, not Bill
• Interest rates rise at Treasury auction
• Judge casts new scrutiny on Merrill bonuses
• McDonald’s sales rise 4.3 percent in July
• News of Record: Deeds
• Nortel CEO steps down as company liquidates
• Obama, Calderon, Harper share kind words, no pacts
• Paper planes becoming pixels for traffic controllers
• Parsing personalities
• Report: Bad assets still threaten banks
• Southwest bids $170M for Frontier
• Thornburgh partners suing CEO and seeking his removal

SPORTS

• Anglers asked to not disturb markers
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend ski coach picked to lead junior camp
• Bend skiers take on Hillclimb Run
• Bend Swim Club wins Open by large margin
• Community Scoreboard
• Community Sports Calendar
• Community track meet this Wednesday
• Cougars 12U win West Coast Nationals
• Cycling across Iowa
• Cyclocross Series coming soon
• Elks looking to turn the tables on Knights Elks looking to turn tables on Knights
• Elks’ split squad takes 11-8 victory over Bucks
• Golfer Funk to speak at breakfast event
• Marathon softball game this Saturday
• On the Air
• Oregon Rush 93 Girls finish with a win
• Return service (as well as an autograph) requested
• Riding the tide
• Roller Dolls to observe WFTDA sanctioning
• Scoreboard
• Soccer
• Stewart wins at Watkins Glen
• Tennis tournament registration open

OBITS

• Mike Seeger called a ‘one-man folk festival’

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Frances Saunders Parker

NATION & WORLD

• A career in space, a dream fulfilled, now a hazy future
• A new playbook in health debate
• At least 400 people missing as typhoon slams into Taiwan
• Chino prison warned of possible violence
• Continental apologizes to trapped passengers
• Divers find man’s body in Hudson wreckage
• Drug traffickers in Mexico find a 2nd home - prison
• Group sues BLM over wilderness road project
• Hamid Karzai leads Afghan voter survey
• Health club gunman questioned, released
• Hyundai chief follows Clinton to North Korea
• Iran ousts officials at Intelligence Ministry
• Reviving the lost art of naming the world
• 4 steps to better health, study says
• Tiny deer among more than 350 new species found in Himalayas
• Verdict expected for Myanmar leader
• Walden traveling on 2-week world tour
• Watts riots break out in Los Angeles in 1965

FEATURES

• A reflection on garden entries at the county fair
• Adding some ‘green’ to the classic BLT
• Apparently, bucket lists are made to be shared
• As food shoppers scrimp, some items up, some down
• Avocados make more than guac
• Bittman’s message: Food Matters
• Bookcases: buying usually beats building
• Calendar
• Cheaper fixes to improve your home’s bottom line
• Cookbook is ‘Simply’ terrific
• Corn makes a sweet addition to any summer dining table
• Flex your DIY muscle for savings on home improvement
• How to design a kids room with staying power
• Left in the micro overnight? Toss it
• Recipe Finder
• Saving water, saving money
• Stir-Fried Vegetables with Shellfish or Meat
• Summery watermelon salad is salty and sweet
• Thai Beef Salad
• The essential baking sheet
• To Rwanda with love
• Vendors sought for community bazaar
• When to update an older sprinkler system
• Whole Grains without Measuring
• Yes, cans can compete

ENTERTAINMENT

• A harmonica convergence in Sacramento
• Calendar
• Movie Times
• Out of the kitchen, off to the races
• VH1 looks at dawning of the Age of Aquarius
• Will Spielberg stay on with Universal?

OPINION

• Americans loved now
• Bad health bill
• How to get off the couch and into the forest
• No helicopters
• NOAA move shows public-private split
• Presumptuous
• Stiegler’s vote

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Group sues BLM over wilderness road project
• McKenzie Pass open at last