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WEDNESDAY • April 13, 2022 Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 WIND POWER HEADING OFFSHORE SEATTLE COMPANY GIVES IT A TRY • BUSINESS, A11 SPORTS PULLOUT, A5-8 Timber baron jumps into Oregon political campaigns ”Deadliest Catch” “Deadliest Catch” pre- mieres April 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery and will be available to stream the same day on discovery+. BY GARY A. WARNER Oregon Capital Bureau See Report / A4 See Funding / A4 Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Capt. Rip Carlton of Bend and his crew will be featured in the upcoming season of “Deadliest Catch” on the Discovery Channel airing on April 19. ON COURSE FOR ADVENTURE Carlton at the helm of the Patricia Lee, a crab fishing boat. Discovery Channel A sea captain who lives in Bend to be featured on ‘Deadliest Catch’ BY JOE SIESS • The Bulletin W hen Capt. Rip Carl- ton was just a lad, he dreamed of swashbuck- ling adventures. Skiing mountains, hitchhiking in Mexico, racing cars in Europe. But he was broke. That’s when he left his home in Seattle for Dutch Harbor Alaska where, at the age of 18, he lived in a tent he pitched inside an aban- doned military barracks. From there, he combed the harbor look- ing for work on one of the many fishing vessels moored at the docks.t He got his foot in the door of the lucrative fishing industry and proved he was worth his salt, work- ing his way up from bait boy, to deck hand, engineer, and eventu- ally to captain. Today, the 64-year-old Carlton lives in Bend with his wife, Cindy King Carlton, but is a captain of two ships in Alaska he uses to catch king crab. It’s a profession he loves but never expected he would wind The crew of the fishing vessel Patri- cia Lee: Carlton, Flynn Shaw, Oliver Hoogendorn, James Horner, Cam- eron Meyer, Devon Davis, Steve Salzar and Kyle Karvia. Discovery Channel up doing this long. He’s worked in the fishing industry for 46 years, 35 years as captain, and has fielded numerous requests from the Dis- covery Channel to allow a film crew to capture him and his crew in action for the network’s popular show, “Deadliest Catch.” He resisted for the longest time, and it wasn’t until his son, Derek Carlton, finally convinced his fa- ther to say yes, and so he will be featured, along with his crew on the Patricia Lee, in the upcoming sea- son of the show airing on April 19. “They’ve asked me and my boat to do it for quite a few years,” Carl- ton said of the “Deadliest Catch.” “And I’ve always said no...I really didn’t have the desire to do it.” See Carlton / A4 Drug reatment programs struggle while state holds up funding, Measure 110 proponents say $276M has failed to reach providers BY EMILY GREEN The Lund Report When voters passed Mea- sure 110 in November 2020 TODAY’S WEATHER to decriminalize the pos- session of small amounts of illicit drugs such as meth- amphetamine and heroin, they diverted marijuana tax dollars to a grant program to fund treatment and recovery services across the state. Rain and snow High 42, Low 23 Page A12 INDEX But the lion’s share of that money for the current two- year budget cycle — $276 million — has failed to reach providers. At a meeting Friday, the community oversight coun- cil that distributes the funds Business Classifieds Comics A11-12 A13-14 A9-10 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A7 A8 A7 once again voted on an ex- tended timeline for distribu- tion. The grant award letters were initially supposed to go out to providers the second week of January, but were delayed repeatedly while grant applications remain Local/State Lottery Puzzles A2-3 A6 A10 Sports Weather A5-7 A12 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 14 pages, 1 section DAILY under review. As it stands now, grant dollars are esti- mated to begin rolling out the door, county by county, starting in June and end- ing in October, according to state estimates. A California timber baron who is the nation’s largest landowner has jumped into Oregon politics with big contributions to campaigns seeking to wrest control of state government from Dem- ocrats. Sierra Pacific Industries contributed $200,000 on April 4 to Betsy Johnson, the for- mer Democratic state senator from Scappoose, who is run- ning as an unaffiliated can- didate for governor. It’s the third largest single contribu- tion that makes up the more than $6.2 million Johnson has raised since the beginning of January 2021. The company also gave $250,000 in February to Bring Balance to Salem, a political action committee formed late last year that has raised $1.6 million. The contributions have come primarily in large contributions by timber, con- struction and other companies with Sierra Pacific one of the four largest single givers, along with Oregon-based wood products companies The Swanson Group, Roseburg Forest Products, and Murphy Company. The PAC has has hired former U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, as a consultant. Sierra Pacific Industries is owned by Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson, 93, who lives in Redding, California. The com- pany’s total land holdings are 2.3 million acres in California, Washington and Oregon, ac- cording Realtors’ Land Insti- tute, an industry group based in Chicago. The Land Report, a maga- zine published by the institute, reported in its winter 2021 issue that Emmerson topped the landowner list following the October 2021 purchase of Eugene-based Seneca Sawmill Co. The deal included 175,000 acres of timberlands in south- western Oregon, the magazine reported. The magazine’s cover fea- tured a picture of Emmerson with the headline “America’s Largest Landowner.” The arti- cle said Emmerson’s company also owns 18 sawmills and eight “renewable biomass en- ergy cogeneration facilities.” Born in Grande Ronde, Oregon, Emmerson went to high school in Omak in East- ern Washington before mov- ing to California and working in the timber and sawmill industry, eventually joining his late father, Curly Emmer- son, to found Sierra Pacific in 1949. U|xaIICGHy02329lz[
