Bulletin Daily Paper 09-11-15

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FRIDAY September11,2015

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bendbulletin.corn TODAY’ S READERBOARD 9/11: 14 years later A health program for 9/11 survivors is in limbo. Plus, chilling White Houseemails from the day of the attack.A5

Tumalo Falls area to remain closedfor now

COLORADO AVENUE

To work on a safer river crossing,

The seriousside of

theme parks Entertainment isn't the sole specialty of themeparks.Some alsoconduct scientific research.A3

By Dylan J. Darling

Low heart rate, high

The Bulletin

Crime rate Doyou havea

The road and trails to

low resting heart rate? If so,you might be predisposed tocriminal activity, a studysays.A3

Tumalo Falls will remain

Prepare adetourroutenew

closed, for now. Ongoing construction

The Colorado Avenuebridge will be closed from Oct. 5 to Nov. 17 for construction of a pedestrian tunnel underneath. The bridge is the city's second busiest based ontraffic counts conducted in October 2013.Thecounts were not focused on bridges, but rather on nearby intersections, meaning they could over- or understate traffic.

Nature-inspired brew› Brewersare challenged to craft brew inspired from ingredients found on a hike.GO!Magazine

of the road and the intake to the new city of Bend

water pipeline is keeping thepop› On A6 ul ar hiking spot closed to the pub-

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trict ranger for the Bend-

13,949cars Iper day

Fort Rock Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest. He said he is not

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14,691 car

sure when the road and trails might open again although he is optimistic it might be this fall.

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Ryan Brennecke i The Bulletin

An area of dirt has been removedalong the east side of Col›

Bones of a human ancestor uncovered

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Bend isn't known for its fall colors, but drivers will nonetheless see a lot

of yellow and orange on road signs as the Colorado Avenue bridge, Bend's second-busiest crossing over the Deschutes River, will

be closed from Oct.5to By John Noble Wilford New York Times News Service

Acting on a tip from spelunkers two years ago, scientists in South Africa

discovered what the cavers had only dimly glimpsed through a crack in a limestone wall deep in the Rising Star cave: lots and lots

of old bones. The remains covered the earthen floor beyond the narrow opening. This was, the scientists concluded, a large, dark chamber for the dead of

a previously unidentified species of the early human lineage — Homo naledi. The new hominin species was announced Thursday by an international team of more than 60 scientists

Nov. 17. For the six-week period,

vehicles will be rerouted to the south across the Bill Healy Memorial Bridge on Reed Market Road. The

closure will allow the Bend Park 8t Recreation District

to build a $1.6 million tunnel underneath the Colorado Avenue bridge, something district staff says is an important step in creating an unbroken trail

along the river and in preventing pedestrians from making an unwise dash across the road above. Michelle Healy, the district's director of stra-

tegic planning and design, throws her hands over her

Johannesburg. The species name, H. naledi, refers to

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vide public access as soon

as it is safe tobe in those particular areas." SeeTumalo Falls/A6

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14,264 cars per day

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face when recounting people she's seen wander into

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traffic on Colorado Avenue

on the river's eastern bank.

eou k route

The schools driving the

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Bend Fire Battalion Chief Dave Howe said "it's a

student loan

miracle no one has been killed" in that spot.

debt crisis

Reed Market Rd.

In the past, an unofficial

trail allowed one to walk under the bridge without going up to Colorado Avenue. However, Chelsea Schneider, a landscape

12,087 cars per day cure . City of Bend

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By Jim Tankersley and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

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The Washington Post

architect for the district,

noted the older path was not accessible to those with physical disabilities and had poor clearance, leaving many vulnerable to a

the road not looking at traffic

District, the official detour

carrying a floatie." Despite the upside, the

cannot pass over it.

district acknowledges the

keep aneye on theColumbia bridge and work with the Old

can walk or ride from Farewell Bend Park, or

project will be a real pain for those who frequent the bridge. A close look at a map, however, reveals a shorter

even further upstream,

detour option directly past

down to at least Drake Park," Schneider said.

the district's offices and over the Columbia Street bridge.

bonk on the head.

"With this project, you

"And, just as important, it will keep people from running across the road. Vehicles just aren't expecting people right there, and I' ve seen someone wander onto

WASHINGTON — In August 2014, network

technicians opened a special connection between

Healy said the district will

computers at the federal

departments of Education and Treasury. On nights and weekends

Mill District if traffic gets out

of hand. The district says it has

throughout the month, that

taken a number of steps to

connection delivered to

ease the pain of the closure, including scheduling the project during the shoulder season.

Treasury some 46 millions

their financial situations

but instead emphasized that

"We really wanted to hit that window between the end of summer and the start of

because the bridge is privately owned by the Old Mill

ski season," Schneider said. SeeBridge/A4

school and whether they

Schneider said the district

was not attempting to save its staff from morning traffic,

of pieces of information about student borrowers in the United States, including when they started and left college, their incomes after kept up with their loans.

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led by Lee Berger, a U.S. paleoanthropologist who is a professor of human evolution studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in

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Oct.5to Nov.17

The $1.6M tunnel project aimsto keep pedestriansfrom dashing acrossthe road By Tyler Leeds

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"If there is time this fall,

... we will open those up," Larkin said. "We will pro-

ColoradoAvo. bridge closed

orado Avenue as construction continues Thursday afternoon on the pedestrian tunnel under the road.

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A glimpseinto Kitzhaber’smind

the cave where the bones

lay undisturbed for so long;

By Jeff Mapes

"naledi" means "star" in the

The Oregonian

local Sesotho language. In two papers published

PORTLAND — While

finishing his second term as governor in 2002, John

this week in the open-ac-

cess journal eLife, the researchers said the more than 1,550 fossil elements

documenting the discovery constituted the largest sample for any hominin species in a single African site, and one of the largest anywhere in the world. Further, the scientists said,

Don Ryan I The Associated Press file photo

Former Oregon Gov.John Kitzhaber’s personal journal suggests he was upset with the state’s leaders and voters and disenchanted with politics as he neared the end of his second term in 2002.

that threatened schools and other services. "The State is

sleeping. Indifferent." Kitzhaber criticized the

legislative leadership, the Kitzhaber was bitter and business community — and discouraged about the state' s also his own inability to get leaders and its voters, acmuch done. "What a sad way cording to newly released to finish my political career," excerpts from his personal he wrote. journal. Kitzhaber's rocky last year "Nobody seems to care," of his first two terms as govKitzhaber wrote in the mid-

dle of a huge budget crisis

ernor is a well-documented part of his time in elective

office, which ended in February when he resigned under pressure just three months after being elected to a record fourth term. But the new excerptsattached to a pair of 2012

emails to Kitzhaber released along with thousands of other records this week-

offer a stark view of just how disenchanted he was with politics.

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that sample is probably a small fraction of the fossils

yettobe recovered from the chamber. So far the team

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has recovered parts of at

least 15 individuals. SeeAncestor/A6

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