Sen. Peter Courtney, D-Salem

Age: 67

Family: Wife, Margie; three sons, ages 28, 25 and 23.

Education: University of Rhode Island, bachelor’s degree in political science and master’s degree in public administration; Boston University, law degree

Occupation: Oregon Senate president and assistant to the president of Western Oregon University. Courtney also previously clerked for the Oregon Court of Appeals and worked as an attorney with Legal Aid and in private practice.

This week in Salem: Monday was a good day for Courtney. That’s when the governor signed into law a redistricting plan that Courtney called a “masterpiece.”

“Its a remarkable day for Oregon and it’s because of their leadership and path-making ways,” Courtney said of the redistricting team.

On Tuesday, Courtney’s last-minute intervention helped pass through the Senate an $87.7 million budget bill to pay for legislative operations, after two Democrats initially voted “no.” Courtney took aside the two holdouts and, after a discussion, they returned and the Senate passed the bill with no opposition, The Oregonian reported.

Courtney was among the “yes” votes that passed a bill dealing with criminal background checks for employees of home health agencies on Wednesday. Critics of the bill said it was vague and would allow people with criminal backgrounds to care for seniors and others. Supporters said the bill was necessary so peer counselors and others with past convictions would not be disqualified from their work.

Central Oregon connections: Courtney has camped along the Metolius River since 1976, and enjoys hiking Black Butte and swimming in Scout Lake. In 2009 and 2011, Courtney participated in the Pole Pedal Paddle. His family’s first pet, a miniature dachshund named Yoda, came from Terrebonne.

Hobbies: Running and the spinning class at the Salem YMCA. Courtney has run the Hood to Coast Relay 16 times and rode in the Monster Cookie Metric Century Ride in Salem the past two years.

The last book read: “Do ‘Sports Illustrated’ and ‘People’ magazine count? How about the Oregon Blue Book?”

Salem WeekExamining each week of the 2011 Legislature from a Central Oregon perspective

By Hillary BorrudThe Bulletin

SALEM — Lawmakers could go home as soon as this week, but there’s one big obstacle in their way: a $21 million gap in spending for the Department of Correc-tions budget.

Legislative Republicans, Democrats and the governor all have priority educa-tion bills that they’re still fighting to pass. Those bills moved out of committee on Friday and will go to the House and Sen-ate this week. That leaves the corrections budget as the last major issue lawmakers must resolve.

As of Friday, it was unclear how lawmak-ers might close the corrections shortfall.

Nonetheless, officials are optimistic the session could still wrap up this week.

“There are a lot of things that are keep-ing us here, but there’s no reason to doubt that we can conclude by sometime middle to late next week,” said Nick Smith, com-munications director for the House Re-publican Caucus.

As end nears, corrections budget lingers

See Budget / C5

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WASHINGTON – After initially rejecting a similar amendment proposed

earlier in the week by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., largely on procedural grounds, on Thursday the Senate passed an amendment by Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., to end $6 billion in ethanol subsidies.

The amendment, to the still-pending Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011, does not mean ethanol subsidies come to an immediate halt, but the bi partisan 73-27 vote sent a signal that in today’s budget-conscious environment, the subsidies are highly unlikely to be renewed.

A related amendment that would have banned the use of federal funds to build ethanol blender pumps or ethanol storage facilities, introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., failed by a 41-59 margin. Both amendments needed 60 votes to pass.

• FEINSTEIN AMENDMENTSen. Jeff Merkley, D ..................................Yes

Sen. Ron Wyden, D ...................................Yes

• MCCAIN AMENDMENTSen. Jeff Merkley, D ...................................No

Sen. Ron Wyden, D ....................................No

In the House, representatives on Tuesday passed the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2012, which approved $14 billion Department of Defense construction programs and $58 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The measure passed with widespread bipartisan support, 411-5, with only five Republicans voting against it.

• MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT

Rep. Greg Walden, R .................................Yes

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D ...........................Yes

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D ...............................Yes

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D ...............................Yes

Rep. David Wu, D ......................................Yes

On Thursday, the House narrowly passed an agriculture spending bill, which included $125 billion in discretionary and mandatory funding but was more than $7 billion below what President Obama had asked for in his budget. The legislation, which cut $572 million from the Food and Drug Administration’s budget and $650 million from a nutrition program designed to help vulnerable Americans, particularly women, infants and children, drew stiff resistance from Democrats.

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StoryCorps coming to Warm Springs

The mobile StoryCorps recording studio will be in Warm Springs next month to record stories from local residents.

Over the past eight years, StoryCorps has assembled audio interviews with more than 70,000 people from around the country.

Every participant who is interviewed by the StoryCorps team will receive a recording of the interview, which will also be archived at the Library of Congress.

The recording studio will be at the Fire and Safety building, 2112 Wasco St., on the res-ervation between July 8 and July 30.

To make a reservation to tell a story, call 800-850-4406 or visit storycorps.org .

Bend police arrest 3 graffiti suspects

Three teenagers suspected in multiple recent graffiti inci-dents were arrested by Bend Police shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday.

A Bend officer on patrol found Elisa Michelle Bellah, Tyler William Rios and Da-mien Mikel Pooschke, all 18 and from Bend, at the skate park at Ponderosa Park near freshly applied graffiti .

The nature of the graffiti led the officer to believe the suspects were responsible for recent tagging incidents at Westside Church, the Chris-tian Life Center, the west-side McDonald’s, an alley off of Northwest Bond Street and the Southeast Third Street underpass.

The three suspects were jailed and released.

They face four counts each of first-degree criminal mis-chief.

Wandering llama caught in Redmond

A llama found wandering freely in northwest Redmond was recently captured by the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, which is now hoping to identify its owner.

The llama, nicknamed “Bahama” by the Sheriff’s Of-fice, is an unneutered male, thought to be 3 to 5 years old, with a long chocolate brown coat.

He has been seen in the area north of Highway 126 and west of Northwest 101st Street multiple times over the past two to three months.

Anyone with information about the owner of the llama or who has seen it roaming in the area is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 541-693-6911.

— Bulletin staff reports

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L���� Inside OREGON Tourism and dam protection collide in lake cleanup, see Page C3.

CALIFORNIA Museum’s exhibit spotlights the quirks of scooters, see Page C5.

MONTANA Asbestos victims fear losing benefits in budget fight, see Page C8.

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A GAME OF FOCUS, DETERMINATION AND MARBLES

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Chloe Miller, 12, of Bend, plays marbles during the 2011 Summer Shootout Marble Tournament at the Des Chutes Historical Museum in downtown Bend on Saturday. Each player who competed in the tournament received a set of marbles, an event T-shirt and free museum admission for the day.

Sisters retires parks debt By Erik HidleThe Bulletin

Sisters Park and Recreation Dis-trict has retired a $70,000 debt that burdened the district for more than two years and required difficult cuts to programs.

Officials said repaying the debt al-lows the district to move forward of-fering “quality” programs and with a new perspective on how to operate the district in the black.

Anne Heath, district business man-ager, said the debt began as a line of credit the district took out to pay for

operations during summer months as it waited for tax revenues to be allot-ted. In January 2009 the district found it couldn’t pay off the credit line and converted it to a long-term debt.

“When that happened, one of our first things was to pay it off in as short a time as possible,” board Chairwom-an Peggy Tehan said.

“(In 2009) three new board mem-bers came on, and they brought a whole new perspective. We decided moving forward we needed to focus on operating as fiscally responsible as possible.”

That meant tough choices like cuts to most of the after-school and day care programs. Youth sports were also limited to core offerings such as football and basketball.

“It was a bare-bones cutback,” Te-han said. “We came up with a tem-plate that any program we offered was going to be cost-neutral or at least close to it. In the fall of 2009 we made the cuts, but by the next summer we began to slowly bring offerings back, and they were all based on the neu-trality model.

District pays off $70,000 loan, turns focus to ‘quality’ programs

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Old and new, museum highlights scooters and their quirks By Nick Kurczewski New York Times News Service

The image of scooters often includes the cool (think Greg-ory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday”) and the quirky (almost everyone else), and now the entire spectrum is on display in Los Angeles.

The Petersen Automotive Museum is showcasing nearly 100 scooters of many shapes, sizes and eras during its exhibit “Scooters: Size Doesn’t Always Matter,” which open ed this week-end and runs through next May.

“No one has ever done a com-prehensive study on what a scoot-er is,” said Leslie Kendall, the museum’s curator, in a telephone interview. “Just because it’s small, doesn’t mean it’s a scooter.”

Longer than a MiniAn Italian-built Piaggio Vespa

or Lambretta puttering along cobblestones or darting around a Roman rotary may represent the time-tested vision of a scooter in its element. Few enthusiasts would envisage something like the 1947 Mohs, a one-of-a-kind 13-foot scooter built by a 14-year-old in Madison, Wis., that is on loan to the museum from the original builder and owner. The Mohs is 10 inches longer than a 2011 Mini Cooper.

“We want to show things they never considered when they think about scooters,” Kendall said about the impact he hoped the show would have on visitors. “We’re trying to explain the phe-nomenon and how it’s come and gone over the years.”

The curatorial focus of the ex-

hibit could be considered obses-sive. One section is dedicated to scooters built in the Los Angeles area from the mid-1930s to the immediate postwar period.

The exhibition also includes one of the most valuable scoot-ers in the world, a 1946 Salsbury. Thought to be the only one in ex-istence, the scooter is in entirely original condition. “It’s the holy grail of scooters,” Kendall said. “It looks like something Elroy Jetson would’ve climbed aboard and zipped off to school.” Kendall estimated the value of the scooter to be in the “tens of thousands,” though an exact price was diffi-cult to determine, he said.

“What makes scooters valu-able isn’t necessarily their per-formance,” he said. “It’s really their looks, rarity and, just like cars, the kind of chic they confer upon the rider.”

Roughly 100 years separate the oldest and newest scooters in the show. The oldest model is an Autoped, dating to the mid-1910s and built in New York City. The newest, a 2011 Piaggio MP3, has

two wheels in the front for extra stability and to enhance stop-ping power. There is the requi-site smattering of vintage Vespas and Lambrettas.

Paratrooper scooterEmphasizing the scooter’s ten-

dency toward quirk, however, is the exhibit’s meat and potatoes. A single-passenger 1939 Moto-Kar, built by the scooter manu-facturer Moto-Scoot, is more child’s toy than automobile. A 1938 Rock-Ola Deluxe was of-fered by the jukebox company of the same name. A 1944 Cushman Airborne, a military-spec scooter parachuted out of airplanes, was intended for use by paratroopers once they were on the ground.

“We’re in another wave of scooter enthusiasm,” said Kend-all, who said developments such as higher fuel prices and the re-turn of the Vespa to the Ameri-can market helped rekindle interest in stylish two-wheeled transportation. “It’s an exciting time to be a scooterist.”

Photos from Petersen Automotive Museum via New York Times News Service

A ’59 Cushman Eagle, foreground, with a ’57 Salsbury Model 85, a ’60 Heinkel Tourist 103, a ’55 Allstate and a ’62 Fuji Rabbit are displayed. The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is showcasing nearly 100 scooters of all shapes, sizes and eras during its exhibit “Scooters: Size Doesn’t Always Matter,” that opened this weekend and runs through next May.

“What makes scooters valuable isn’t necessarily their performance. It’s really their looks, rarity and, just like cars, the kind of chic they confer upon the rider.”— Leslie Kendall, Petersen

Automotive Museum curator

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A 1958 Rumi

Prototype that is on display at

the Pe-tersen Au-

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Nineteen Republicans joined them in voting against the measure, which passed by a margin of 217-203.

• AGRICULTURE SPENDING BILL

Rep. Greg Walden, R ....Yes

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D ...No

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D ...No

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D ...No

Rep. David Wu, D ..........No

— Andrew Clevenger, The Bulletin

WashingtonContinued from C1

How to contact your legislatorsFind an easily searchable list of contact information for Central Oregon’s delegation at www.bendbulletin.com/officials.

Earlier in the session, Dem-ocrats and Republicans had forged a potential deal to fund the state’s prisons, parolee monitoring and other ser-vices. But Republicans, wary that the deal would save mon-ey partly by modifying of-fenders’ sentences, ultimately said “no.”

Now, Republicans and Democrats are working be-hind the scenes to reach an-other agreement.

The Department of Correc-tions budget bill, Senate Bill 5505, is currently at the Ways and Means committee on pub-lic safety, said Jennifer Black, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Corrections.

“We are anxiously waiting, and haven’t quite heard when it’s going to be up yet,” Black said Friday afternoon.

Co-chairs of the committee on public safety could not be reached Friday afternoon.

Smith said there’s a third major issue lawmakers want to address before they adjourn: facilities spending, which includes a bill to purchase a building to house graduate

BudgetContinued from C1

programs for the Oregon State University-Cascades Campus and money for other state univer-sity buildings. This is typically dealt with at the end of the ses-sion, Smith said.

Hillary Borrud can be reached at 617-7829 or at hborrud@bendbulletin.com.

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