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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
August 19, 2009
On a warm summer day, the stretch of the Deschutes River that flows from The Old Mill District to Drake Park in Bend is usually a colorful scene, dotted with people on inflatable rafts and tubes, and in kayaks and canoes.
The water is calm and well-suited to a lazy trip downstream. But beneath....