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History caught on film — Education films of Oregon's past will be shown atBend's downtown library.B1
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Never tee old — At76, Barbara Cicotte continues to embrace her lifelong passion for dance.D1
And a WehexclusiveNext fall, licensedTexanswill be able to bring concealed handguns into public colleges and universities, which has launched debate in schools statewide. bendbutletin.ceml extras
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By JosephDitzler • The Bulletin
Modern families — Today, children are more likely to grow up in a household with working parents, and families are stuck trying to balance it all.A3
• State agriculture department also to blame, theysay
Bend couple, Matt and Diane McFerran, on
Thursday found themselvestheowners of Soldier Mountain Ski
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Fairfield, Idaho, selected
downhill. They paid less for their mountain of dreams-
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among thousands of others submitted on Facebook
an average house in Bend. "Owning a small ski
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silence. Soldier Mountain Ski Area, near Fairfield, Idaho, has 36 runs, two chairlifts and 1,400 vertical feet of downhill.
EDITOR'SCHOICE
Toy Hall of Fame
The lawmakers are
trying to figure out why, despite a united and successful effort in Congress to
open a pathway for farmers to grow the crop wide-
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Shane Rhinewald tells
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not the Pieta or the Venus
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de Milo, but
National Weather Ser-
The members of the vice's IMET program are
Batman, Su-
perman and
a little bit like Clark Kent,
Iron Man. It
jokes Heath Hockenberry, national fire-weather program manager in Boise,
has also amassed a huge collection, with far more
board games, pinball machines and rubber duckies than it can possibly squeeze into its expansive galleries. Hundreds of board games. Thousands of rubber duckies. Rhinewald is an administrator at the Strong
National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York,
a 280,000-square-foot temple of things that blink, beep, twist, turn, roll and, with luck, last longer than
the time it took to assemble them on Christmas
morning. This week suspense built as the museum prepared to announce the latest in-
ductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame, which is housed under the giant caterpillar. In choosing from among this year's 12 finalists, would the judges sink Battleship, the board game, in favor of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the action
figure phenomenon? See Toys /A5
Idaho.
Red tape slows children fleeing violence By Michael D. Shear
slow-moving U.S. bureaucracy
New York Times News Service
that has infuriated advocates
"They do their normal day jobs" until something goes wrong, he said. Then they can find themselves living in tents at the edge of an inferno for as long as two weeks, trying to keep firefighters safe by fore-
WASHINGTON — Presifor the young children and dent Barack Obama vowed a their families. year ago to give Central AmerMore than 5,400 children, ican children fleeing violence most of them trying to escape a new, legal way into the Unit- street gangs, extortion and ed States by allowing them to sexual assault in El Salvador, h apply for refugee status while have applied to join their parin their own countries instead ents, who are already in the of accepting help from smugUnited States legally. So far glers or resorting to a danger- the Department of Homeland ous trek across Mexico. Security has interviewed only But not a single child has 90 of them, and lengthy proceentered the United States dures for getting airplane tickthrough the Central Ameriets and processing paperwork can Minors program since its have delayed those whose apMeridith Kohut /The New York Times file photo establishment in December, plications were approved. Undocumented migrant children look at a map of Mexico at a shelin large part because of a See Children /A4 ter in Tenosique, Mexico, in 2014.
casting the weather the
flames produce. "You get in a fourwheel-drive rig, you get there and hit the ground running," Hockenberry
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sard. Heat from wildfires will flip local weather patterns
upside down, rapidly reversing winds that have
killed many firefighters in the field and sending blazes in all new directions. See Wildfires /A4
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