Bulletin Daily Paper 11/30/10

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TWO WINTER DRAMAS

Bend High grad saves boy, 10, who broke through ice over pond

Prineville man rescued after 3-day, 4-night ordeal in Ochoco forest

By Kate Ramsayer

By Lauren Dake

The Bulletin

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A Bend High graduate rescued a 10-year-old Saturday, after the boy fell through the thin ice covering a Colorado pond. When Dan Haley, who graduated in 2003, saw kids goofing off around a seemingly icedover pond, he started thinking “What if...?” he said. Haley, 25, was off-duty from his job as a Colorado State Patrol trooper. He and his Former Bend wife, Kirstin, resident Dan had taken Haley, 25, is their 2-yearnow a Coloold daughter, rado State Emmersyn, Patrol trooper. to a park in Greeley, Colo. They saw three boys playing and throwing rocks on the pond. “I kept watching them,” he said. “They went out a little bit farther, a little bit farther.” He remembers telling his wife and another person at the park that he was worried one of the boys would break through the surface. “A couple seconds later, I heard a big crack, and one of the kids went all the way in,” Haley said. Although he had thought about what he would do, he still acted on instinct, Haley said. He ran to the pond and started crawling on his stomach across the ice toward the boy, about 20 yards away. Although the ice at the edge held his weight, he knew it would get thinner. “About 10 feet from him, it broke under me as well,” Haley said. See Trooper / A4

A Prineville man spent three nights and four days in the Ochoco National Forest miles away from his camp until another hunter rescued him Sunday afternoon. Alan Hewitt, 48, of Prineville, set out to elk hunt for more than a week. He broke camp on Monday, Nov. 22. On Thanksgiving Day, the horse he was riding slipped and fell. The horse was injured, and so was Hewitt. The retired Marine slipped his dislocated shoulder back into place and set out to find the main road. His goal, according to his wife, was to get there before hunting season ended and all the other hunters left the forest. “He knew he only had three days,” said Brook Hewitt, his wife. Temperatures dropped to about 20 degrees overnight while Hewitt was in the forest, according to information from the National Weather Service in Pendleton. Brook Hewitt said she was starting to worry about her husband Sunday; she thought he would have tried to check in with her. But he wasn’t expected home yet, and he was an experienced hunter trained in survival techniques. So, she was going to give it one more day before calling the Crook County Sheriff’s Office. About a half an hour before dusk on Sunday afternoon, Darrell Hover, of Bend, and his father were finishing up their day of elk hunting and heading back to Prineville. Hover’s father wanted to take the main highway home. But Darrell Hover convinced him they should take the forest service road and continue to look for elk. See Hunter / A4

WHO surgical safety checklist Every hospital in Oregon except St. Charles Bend and Redmond is using a recommended surgical checklist designed to reduce deaths and injury during surgery. The local hospitals are working on their own procedures. Astoria Seaside

Portland Metro Areaall hospitals except VA (12) Hood River

Tillamook McMinnville Lincoln City

Salem

Newport

Roseburg

Pendleton Enterprise La Grande Baker City

Madras

Albany Corvallis Florence Eugene Reedsport North Bend Coquille

Hermiston

The Dalles

John Day

Prineville

Ontario Burns

St. Charles Bend and St. Charles Redmond

Gold Beach Grants Pass have not adopted WHO surgical safety checklist Medford Ashland Klamath Falls

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Greg Cross / The Bulletin

Source: Oregon IHI Network

Local hospitals alone in not using checklist ORs across nation have adopted surgical safety protocol By Betsy Q. Cliff The Bulletin

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission announced Monday that all but two hospitals in the state are using a safety checklist shown to reduce complications and deaths during surgery. Those two hospitals are in Bend and Redmond. “There was so much coming at everybody that we had to take it slow,” said Pam Steinke, chief nursing executive at St. Charles Health System, the parent company of both hospitals. “And I

needed surgeons to champion this. This shouldn’t be an administrative mandate coming down.” In explaining why St. Charles appeared behind the rest of the state, Steinke also questioned the data showing that all other Oregon hospitals had fully implemented the checklist. The surgical safety checklist, published by the World Health Organization, was developed just a couple of years ago but has quickly become a staple in operating rooms around the country. See Checklist / A5

“I needed surgeons to champion this. This shouldn’t be an administrative mandate coming down.” — Pam Steinke, chief nursing executive at St. Charles Health System, on the surgical safety checklist

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Snow solitude

Strategy involves disrupting metabolism of glucose-loving cells By Andrew Pollack New York Times News Service

LOOKING FOR LINGUISTS

Army seeks recruits who talk the talk War in Afghanistan fueling the need for translators, interpreters By Raja Abdulrahim Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The day after President Barack Obama declared an end to the combat mission in Iraq, Aman Zamani walked the main thoroughfare of Los Angeles’ Little Persia to recruit soldiers for the country’s other war. He strolled down Westwood Boulevard and walked into Saffron & Rose Ice Cream. He chatted with the owner in Farsi and ordered white rose ice cream, fulfilling a cultural obligation to

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make a purchase from a shopkeeper before talking business. Zamani knew the shop was popular with young Afghans and Iranians, so he’d brought along a thick stack of business cards. But today, the shop was empty. He finished his ice cream and left. “It is a hard job to find the right person to recruit for the Army,” he said. As the United States continues its military shift from Iraq to Afghanistan, the recruitment of Army translators and interpreters has followed, and Zamani, a contractor who recruits for the Army, is among those who have fanned out to Afghan and Persian communities and shopping districts looking for potential linguists to help fight the war. See Linguists / A4

Pete Erickson / The Bulletin

Margarita Callejo, of Bend, goes cross country skiing on Ben’s Trail in the Phil’s Trail complex on Monday. The weather forecast has good news for skiers and other winter sports enthusiasts, as more snow is expected this week: The High Desert should see mixed showers until Saturday, when snow showers are possible. Daytime temperatures are likely to stay in the 30s, with overnight lows mostly in the 20s. To find out more about what the weather has in store for Central Oregon, see Page C6.

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For the last decade, cancer drug developers have tried to jam the accelerators that cause tumors to grow. Now they want to block the fuel line. Cancer cells, because of their rapid growth, have a voracious appetite for glucose, the main nutrient used to generate energy. And tumors often use glucose differently from healthy cells, an observation first made by a German biochemist in the 1920s. That observation is already used to detect tumors in the body using PET scans. A radioactive form of glucose is injected into the bloodstream and accumulates in tumors, lighting up the scans. Now, efforts are turning from diagnosis to treating the disease by disrupting the special metabolism of cancer cells to deprive them of energy. The main research strategy of the last decade has involved socalled targeted therapies, which interfere with genetic signals that act like accelerators, causing tumors to grow. But there tend to be redundant accelerators, so blocking only one with a drug is usually not enough. In theory, however, depriving tumors of energy should render all the accelerators ineffective. “The accelerators still need the fuel source,” said Dr. Chi Dang, a professor of medicine and oncology at Johns Hopkins University. Indeed, he said, recent discoveries show that the genetic growth signals often work by influencing cancer cells’ metabolism. See Cancer / A5

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Tumors’ fuel line is new target for cancer researchers

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KOREAS: U.S., South reject plea for talks, Page A3

BOMB PLOT: Suspect pleads not guilty, Page C3


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