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he Bend White›
water Park openedtomixed reviews over the week›
end, with some floaters and paddleboarders getting scraped and stuck on the safe pas› sage channel rocks.
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There were others, however, who were
• Report: Patient not hooked upto heart monitor before herdeath
medication, including through the use of cardiac and oxygen
ing agent, and labeled the IV bag as containing fosphenyto›
pleased with the highly
By Tare Bannow
sounded an alarm when the
the treatment of 65-year-old
in, the anti-seizure medication
park and the recre›
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patient’s condition deteriorated,
Loretta Macpherson, of Sis›
monitors. Macpherson went to the hos›
ters. In addition to the obvious error of dispensing the wrong
pital’s emergency room Dec. I with symptoms of anxiety and
medication, the report says the
concern about the medications
hospital violated patient rights and appropriate nursing pro› tocols by failing to supervise the patient after starting an IV
she was taking following brain surgery in Seattle. A pharmacy
Macpherson’s physician had ordered. The drug caused her to stop breathing, leading to cardiac arrest and irreversible brain damage. She was taken off life support Dec. 3 and died shortly thereafter.
provides. Officials involved in the $9.7 million project stressed Monday that they are still experi›
The nurse who oversaw accordingto afederalreport. care for the patient who died The U.S. Centers for Medi› after receiving the wrong med› care &Medicaid Services, ication at St. Charles Bend in which investigates facilities December did not follow a doc› after serious incidents like this tor’s order to hook up a heart
one, identified three violations
monitor, which would have
the hospital committed during
technician inadvertently dis›
pensed rocuronium, a paralyz›
anticipated whitewater ational opportunities it
menting with water levels. After irrigation
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on the river to get stuck. The Bend Park 8t Recreation District be›
gan moving more water intothe safepassage channel Monday to in› crease the depth. "It’s pretty normal
for whitewater parks to see some kind of adjust›
ment after they open," said Jayson Bowerman, a board member of the Bend Paddle Trail
New Yorh Times News Service
Love at work — some
season ends in October, engineers could also change the rock forma› tions that caused some
Alliance.
NEAR COCHITI CAN› The hills YON, N.M. here are beautiful, a roll›
Bowerman said the Paddle Trail Alliance
ing, green landscape of grasses and shrubs under
tinuing to work on the
is committed to con› project with the park district to make sure it
a late-summer sky. But it
is starkly different from what was here before:
accommodates all users.
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vast forests of ponderosa
pine. The repeated blazes that devastated the trees were caused
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by simple • Valley t hing s : an Fire now i m properly
Legacyof
California’s extinguished 3rd worst
c a m p fire ln
Soviet rule lives on
of all time, 1996, a tree A4 falhng on a • Fire map, power line in 2011. e1 What hap›
By Celestine Bohlen
ever or, more accurately, what has not happened›
pened after the fire, how›
New York Times News Service
normalcourse ofevents. "We are in the mid› dle of this 30,000-acre,
Asia is a region scattered once-powerful empires, from the ancient Parthi› ans to the modern-day
Geological Survey. If his› torical patterns had held, the remaining pines would by now be preparing seeds to drop and start the cycle of regrowth. But the mother pines are nowhere in sight. Nature’ s
Here in ’Ilirkmeni› stan, little is left of Nisa, a Parthian capital near the border with Iran that dates to the third century B.C. SeeSoviet /A4
by a series of unusually intense, unusually large fires a product of many factors that include gov› ernment firefighting pol› icies, climate change and bad luck. Ryan Brennecke l The Bulletin
Mike Johnson, 55, of Sisters, rides his bike pest e bright section of leaves changing to their fell colors Monday along the McKenzie Pass Highway, which is open for a limited time as the weather turns
colder. Fall officially arrives Wednesday.
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here in California’s Central Valley for five Masses
four of them
in Spanish. Young His› panic families spilled outside onto the steps,
across the street. Across the country in Philadelphia, there is only one weekend Mass now at Our Lady Help of Christians, a
The result is bad news forforestshere, in the
West and around the
church built by and for German immigrants
world.
in 1898.
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Sacred Heart Church
of an elevated freeway
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TODAY’S WEATHER
and the vestibule on a recent weekend at
straining to hear the homily over the roar
script has been disrupted
Correction In a story headlined "Re› hab before release," which appeared Monday,Sept. 21, on PageA1,the species of a bird helped by HighDesert Wildlife Rescueand Re› habilitation was incorrect. Grace, who lives on Lake Aspen in Sunriver, is a trum› peter swan. The Bulletin regrets the error.
parishioners packed the pews, the choir loft
ecologist with the U.S.
Soviets whose rule ended here abruptly less than a quarter-century ago.
By Laurie Goodstein MERCED, Calif. More than 5,000
near-treeless hole," said Craig Allen, a research
with the remnants of
church in upheaval New York Times News Service
was a departurefrom the
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