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Big-game hunterS — The shooting of Cecil the lion has many keeping quiet. But some are defending their hobby.A4

• Pedestrian and bike infrastructure could be included

Our IIo. 1 enemy — Al-Qa› ida or Islamic State?A6

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And a Webexclusive

By Scott Hammers

Embryo adoption offers couples another way to make a family. bendbulletin.cern/extras

The Bulletin

Bend’s City Council will

be asked to decide tonight whether bike and pedestri›

an upgrades ought to be in› cluded in a proposed pack› age to improve the city’ s transportation system. Tuesday, City Councilors Doug Knight, Barb Camp› bell and Casey Roats met with City Manager Eric

EDITOR'SCHOICE

Pocahontas’ tribe wins recognition from LI.S.

King and representatives

of the Bend Chamber of Commerce and Bend 2030 to develop a process

that will persuade local residents to support new taxes or fees to improve the

transportation infrastruc› ture. Recent discussions of the issue have included

a possible gas tax, a fee By Noah Bierman Los Angeles Times

PAMUNKEY RESER› VATION, Va. The tidal river that surrounds this spit

of scrubby land has long functioned like a moat that rises and falls through the day. A single road connects the reservation’s sycamore,

RyanBrennecke /The Bulletin

Glen Ardt, a resident of the Shevlin Commons subdivision, looks over the charred area of a spot fire that jumped Shevlin Park Road during a tour by Project Wildfire of the Shevlin Fire site Monday.

By Dylan J. Darlinge The Bulletin

from large retail stores and suburban office parks of

utility bills, vehicle regis› tration fees and a food and beveragetax. Bend faces an estimated $80 million in deferred street maintenance, while transportation advocates and Bend 2030 have noted the city also needs to identi›

People living close to where the Shevlin Fire burned earlier this year took a look this week at what kept the fire small.

fy funding to improve bike lanes, sidewalks and public

poplars and modest houses with miles of cornfields that separate the tribe

attached to local residents’

transit. Bend 2030 is a non›

profit focused on managing the city’s growth. SeeFunding/A4

Getting their shoes dusty, about a dozen Shevlin

Commons neighborhood

eastern Virginia. The Pa›

residents went on a Monday

munkey have lived on and around these 1,200 acres

afternoon field trip led by officials with Project Wild›

for centuries, since before

with English colonists in

fire, Deschutes County and Bend Park & Recreation District. The I t/2-milewalk started at a community

1607. "We call this downtown

center and wound to where firefighters stopped a spot

Pamunkey," saidKim Cook, the 50-year-old grand› daughter of Chief Tecumseh

fire just south of Shevlin Park Road and then to

Deerfoot Cook.

ened part of Shevlin Park.

Teaching teachers: Is it a waste?

Glen Ardt, who lives in Shevlin Commons and

By Lyndsey Layton

their most famous ancestor, Pocahontas,made contact

She smiled. The only noisecame from birds

where the main fire black›

chirping among the pines by the old fishing shanties.

went on the field trip, in›

The onlyaction came when

burned.

a cousin stopped by to re› lieve Cook’s 8-year-old son, River Ottigney Cook, of his boredom by taking him on a boat ride. Otherwise, Cook

The Washington Post

spected where the spot fire SeeAftermath /A4

A new study of 10,000

Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin

In June, a helicopter flies over the Shevlin Fire west of Bend. The fire, which was human caused, burned mainly in Shevlin Park.

teachers found that profes›

sional development the teacher workshops and training that cost taxpay›

ers billions of dollars each year is largely a waste.

sat alone under a pavilion

The study released Tues›

beneath a ceiling fan, not far from a small pier used to fish for shad, glancing at her smartphoneasshetalked about her family’ s, and the

GOP debatelineup shows Fox'spower

tribe’s, history. SeeTribe /A5

The Associated Press

Clarification In a story headlined "Gas tax won’t be on ballot in November," which appeared Tuesday, Aug. 4, onPageA1, Bend 2030’s position on a possible bike registration fee and food and beveragetax may have beenunclear. Thegroup listed those items asoptions for discussion.

By David Bauder NEW YORK Iowa and New Hampshire are still on the

horizon but first there’s the Fox primary, and the buildup to this week’s first Republican presidential debate shows that the influence of Fox News

Channel on the GOP selection

TODAY’S WEATHER Sunny High 78, Low 40 +r~fs+ Page B6

Inside • Who made the cut?AS process is stronger than ever. The rules for participation in Thursday’s televised debate

requiredcandidatestoreach a certain threshold in opinion polls, making national expo› sure to an interested audience

vital at a stage in the campaign when candidates are usually in early primary states. And where better to find that audi›

June and July, according to a count by liberal-leaning group

ence than on Fox News? The 17 candidates only 10 of whom are invited to the prime-time debate made a total of 273 separate appear›

Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee,

Media Matters for America.

Six hopefuls

Donald Trump,

Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina and Rick Perry have ap› peared 20 times or more on its channels, the network said.

ances on Fox News in May,

INDEX Business C5-6 Comics/Puz zles E3-4 Horoscope D 5 Outdoors D1-6 C1-4 Calendar B2 Crosswords E 4 L o cal/State B 1-6 Sports Classified E 1 - 6Dear Abby D5 Ob i tuaries B5 TV / Movies D5

See Debate /A5

The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper

day by TNTP, a nonprofit organization, found no evidence that any particu›

lar approach or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers

improve in the classroom. "We are bombarding teachers with a lot of help, but the truth is, it’s not

helping all that much," said Dan Weisberg, TNTP’s chief executive. See Teachers /A5

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