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Fee hikes to pay for sewers tobe staggered
France saysthanksOregonGuardsman andtwo other Americans get that coun› try’s highest honor for stop› ping a gunmanwhile riding a high-speed train.A2
Weed en wheels? —State says no to SmokeBuddy, a medical marijuana cart.B3
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South Sister and Broken Top are (usually) visible from Sparks Lake west of Bend — but not Monday, due to a thick layer of smoke.
son, 37, succumbs tohis inju› ries, and theracing leaguefaces yet another safety crisis.C1
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ed to stagger an increase in system development charges intended to sup› port sewer projects, though that decision will likely lead to higher utility bills for homeowners. The builders didn’t get
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2016 —A Biden run would put Obama onthe spot; Trump, without his own show, is still good for TV ratings; and Bush visits the border.A2
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Black-white divide over ’recovery’ after Katrina By Campbell Robertson New York Times News Service
NEW ORLEANS
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the 10th anniversary ap› proaches of Hurricane Ka› trina and the catastrophic
levee breaches in New Or› leans, a survey finds a stark racial divide in how resi› dents here view the recov› ery. Nearly 4 out of 5 white
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Andy High, a senior vice president with the Central Oregon Builders Associa› tion, asked for a three-year phase-in at a meeting last
What causes unhealthyair?
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When smoke from wildfires causes a haze todrift over Central Oregon, it can result in an air quality designation of "unhealthy." The determining factors in this designation are nonvisible particulate matter from smokeand airborne pollutants, not the haze that obscures visibility.
• Or at least indoors. With smoke expected to linger thisweek, your usualoutdoor workout could be dangerousto your health By Dylan J. Darlinge The Bulletin
IS CENTRAL OREGON'S AIR UNHEALTHY? The EPArates air quality based on a complex formula that assigns an Air Quailty Index score to a given place for a given time period. On Monday, Madras registered an AQI score of151, meaning its air was unhealthy for everyone. Bend (132), Sisters (135) and Prineville (127) had air that was unhealthy for groups of people with greater sensitivity the orange designation. Air quality rating AQI score -5 Good Modsrat 1-1Q Unhealthy for 1Q1 15Q sensitive groups '
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entral Oregonians used to going on long runs or hard bike rides may want to hold off until the smoke clears.
Or, if still determined to exercise out› doors, at least take a look at air quality
levels online and check the visibility outside to find the best time before heading out, said Mary Goodwin, preparedness coordinator for Deschutes
County Health Services. "People just have to use some common sense," she said. Smoke in Central Oregon may be here to stay for a while, potentially until the end of the week. A storm system is expected to move in this week›
end, potentially bringing winds to push away the smoke, said Mike Murphy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pendleton.
"I think it should clear out of Central Oregon for the most part by Friday night," he said. Wearing mouth and nose protection, such as a
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bandanna, may help against the poor air, but run›
residents believe the city
ners will then lower the amount of oxygen they take in, said Kraig Erickson, floor manager at FootZone
has mostly recovered while nearly 3 out of 5 blacks say it has not, a divide sustained
over a variety of issues in› duding the local economy, the state of schools and the
quality of life. The survey, conducted by the Public Policy Research
Lab at Louisiana State University, was released
Monday, six days before the Gulf Coast marks 10 years in the wake of Katrina. The hurricane and the failure
of the New Orleans levees Aug. 29, 2005, caused more than 1,800 deaths across
the coast and damaged or destroyed more than 1 mil›
lion houses and businesses. See Katrina /A4
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in Bend. He recommended searching for better air
IS AIR QUALITYSOMETHING THAT CAN BEPREDICTED? While Central Oregon could see degraded air quality as winds push smoke out of the Willamette Valley and into the Cascades in the coming days, it is difficult to predict with certainty because this region of Oregon doesnot havea dedicated air resource advisor to create forecasts. But air quality can be determined on aday-by› day basis. If in doubt, it’s good to check for a local AQIscore at www.deq.state.or.us/aqi/index.aspx WHAT MAKESPARTICULATE
SO DANGERO US? Once inhaled, these invisible particles can lodge in lungs for weeksand months,aggravating asthma, heart diseaseand other respiratory and heart conditions. Particle pollution can cause serious health problems› including asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes andearly death. And it has its greatest effect on older adults and children.
By Megan McArdle
Vol. 113, No. 237,
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Warm Springs dlaze shouldde contained Friday Firefighters on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation conducted controlled burns Mon› day around acanyon where they hopeto stop the spread of the County Line 2 Fire. Reinforcing fire lines and burning at Shitike Creek canyon should be done byWednes› day, and the fire is ex› pected to be contained Friday, said DougEp› person, spokesmanfor the interagency team managing the fire. "That doesn’t mean it
or exercise bike while the smoke lingers. "Bottom line, when it is this bad I would either
will be out," he said.
not go out or take your workout indoors," said Er›
ickson, who also coaches endurance athletes in Bend for Athlete Wise Performance Coaching. SeeSmoke/A5
mately approved a more condensed approach. System development
charges, or SDCs, are lev› ied on new construction to
fund planned infrastruc› ture that accommodates growth. Right now, the city has about $125 million in sewer work lined up, and the approved 45 percent increase in sewer SDCs is a key to funding that work. In addition to taking out
loans, the city also funds new sewer construction through the rates it charges
residents already hooked up to the system. Gillian Ock› ner, a senior policy analyst for the city, said there’ s "a direct relationship" between SDCs and utility rates. SeeSDCs/A5
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fied, systematic campaign of cultural annihilation, HOW OO THESEPARTICLES COMPARE INSIZE? Human hair
Dangerous particles Particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter can pass through the nose and throat and become lodged in the lungs.
50-70 microns ~ in diameter
Fine beach sand
90 microns in diameter
Dust, pollen and mold
HOW SHOULDIRESPOND TO UNHEALTHYAIR WARNINGS? Dust masks commonly sold at hardware stores will not filter out the dangerous particles, according to the EPA.They are designed to prevent large particles like sawdust from entering your mouth. Thebest advice during air advisory days with ratings above150 is to avoid outside recreation; maintain a clean furnace filter and limit the amount of outside air that is let into your home.
less than 10 microns in diameter
experts say, that reached
a new apexwith the demolition of a first-century temple in Syria. The Sunni extremists’ appetite for destruction of priceless historical sites
and artifacts, however, may be checked by their hunger for the lucrative spoils of
the black-market antiq› uities trade. Illicit sales
reportedly have provided a ma]orrevenue streamfor the self-declared caliphate, despite international efforts
to choke off trafficking in ancient treasures.
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in the mountains or exercising inside on a treadmill
Source: EPA; Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
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The Bulletin
Stocks slid again Monday, than 1,000 points in a sell-off that sent a shiver of fear from Wall Street to Main Street. Stocks regained some of that
worst single-day point decline and the second straight fall of more than 500.
the rest of the world’s major
structural weaknesses in the
economies? If America’s econ› underlying economy’? omy slows down, how much But this is a market move
The proximate cause of this chaos is the melt- E SSAY
so big that even those of you
down in the Chinese
asking more prosaic ques› tions. Such as "What does this mean for my 401(k)?" Luckily, we live in the Internet age, and you no longer have to wait for
stock market. Financial pros probably have a lot of import› ant questions. Does this her›
ground as the day wore on, but ald a Chinese recession, and the Dow still saw its eighth› if so, what does that mean for
room will the Federal Re serve have to loosen after seven years of holding interest rates down?
What does this tell us about the limits of both fiscal and
monetary policy in the face of long-term real shocks and
who are not financial pros are
a quarterly statement, or need
Inside • Why experts in Central Oregon say not to panic,C6 to call your broker in a panic. You can log on right now and look. But my advice is: Don’ t. Un›
less maybe you’ re planning to retire tomorrow. SeeMarket/A4