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State, districts State grants likely for transit projects earmarked for Redmond hub, aim to reform $6.4M Madras airport, Prineville railway depot K-12 education By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Oregon has officially removed itself from a competition for $4.35 billion in federal education-reform funding, but education leaders are still hoping to craft some sort of legislation that will push reform forward on a statewide level. Applications for the second round of the funding competition were due June 1, and the state declined to reapply because officials believed there was little chance Oregon would win any of the money. Now, Redmond Superintendent Vickie Fleming and other education leaders statewide are taking matters into their own hands. Fleming, who headed up the group that put together Oregon’s Race to the Top application, said there is plenty of reform needed in K-12 education. “We have a lot of work to do around policy, both on the ground with collective bargaining and at the state level in terms of direction,” she said. “At this point, we’re really in a holding pattern.” See Schools / A5
A rail freight depot north of Redmond, an airport modernization project in Madras, and a maintenance and operations hub for Central Oregon’s fledgling transit service stand to split about $6.4 million in state funding.
The three projects are among 41 announced Tuesday from around Oregon that will share in approximately $97 million in grants under Connect Oregon III, a state initiative to fund non-highway transportation improvements using bonds backed by the Oregon Lottery. A 26-member “Final Review Committee” consid-
ered a total of 81 projects last week. It will forward its list of 41 recommended projects to the Oregon Transportation Commission for a public hearing in July. Oregon Department of Transportation spokeswoman Shelly Snow said inclusion on the list isn’t an absolute guarantee of funding, but that the Oregon Transportation Commission doesn’t typically remove projects from the list unless the applicant withdraws an application or some unforeseen circumstance emerges late in the application process.
Madras City Administrator Mike Morgan said he has no doubts the $1.7 million requested for improvements at the Madras Municipal Airport will be coming through. The project is currently listed at 33 on the state’s list. “We’re above the cut line, so we’re going to be funded,” he said. The project includes a number of safety upgrades, including an automated weather station, and more powerful lighting for the runways, ramps and taxiways. See Grants / A5
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Centennial Park to open in time for celebrations By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin
Redmond City Councilor Joe Centanni walks through the city’s new Centennial Park almost every day, taking a look at what he’s hoped would be a reality by this year. He’s probably been the most excited, insistent councilor in pushing to have the park finished for the city’s centennial celebrations this summer, and Centanni has gotten his wish — barely. The grass is in, and so is much of the landscaping. The park’s water fountain is almost done, and a place to grab coffee will be open by July 2, the date of the ribbon-cutting. But those remaining projects have not kept Centanni from admiring the roughly $3 million park that sits on the edge of Redmond’s downtown. “It was a long process, but probably not as long as it felt,” Centanni said. See Park / A5
Correction In a story headlined, “Few builders make use of fee deferrals,” which appeared Tuesday, June 15, on Page A1, the amount of development fees charged by the Bend Park & Recreation District for a single family home was reported incorrectly, due to incorrect information supplied to The Bulletin. The fee for a single family home is $3,507. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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Lava Ridge Elementary School fifth-grade students, from left, Angela Norris, 12, Mikayla Stuempges, 11, and Samantha Jones, 10, sign each other’s shirts in the final minutes of the 2009-2010 school year Tuesday in Bend. The school year for Bend-La Pine Schools was shortened by two days this year after a state budget shortfall drove Gov. Ted Kulongoski to order allocations to schools be cut by 9 percent.
Armed with pistol and sword, man hunts Osama bin Laden lage of Sheikhanandeh. He threatened to kill anyone who got close to him, according to the Chitral police officials. “He was roaming in the security zone in a suspicious manner,” said the Chitral police chief, Jaffer Khan, according to Reuters. “He had a dagger and night vision goggles with him. He is being investigated.”
By Sabrina Tavernise and Salman Masood New York Times News Service
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An ailing, middle-age construction worker from Colorado, on a self-proclaimed mission to help American troops, armed himself with a dagger, a pistol, a sword, Christian texts, hashish and night vision goggles and headed to the lawless tribal areas near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan to personally hunt down Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani police detained the man on Monday, according to a police official from the border district of Chitral in Pakistan — an area widely rumored to hide bin Laden. On Tuesday, the man was transferred to Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northwest, a Pakistani security official said. He was identified as Gary Brooks Faulkner, in his 50s. Many details of Faulkner’s mission remain a mystery, including the possible relevance of a parallel with bin Laden: bad kidneys. In an interview on Tuesday, Faulkner’s younger sister, Deanna Martin, said he had developed a serious kidney ailment in recent months — one his father had died of — and needed dialysis every few days. On Saturday, the heavily bearded
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This January 2006 photo provided by the Larimer County, Colo. Sheriff’s Office shows Gary Brooks Faulkner, after he was arrested on a compulsory insurance charge. Faulkner checked into the Ishpata Inn in the Bumboret Valley, an area far from any city and without telephone contact with the rest of the country, the police in Chitral said. He disappeared a day later, and the police sent out a search party. They tracked him down in the vil-
American officials were circumspect. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said that the American Consulate in Peshawar was alerted Tuesday morning that an American citizen had been detained, but that officials had not yet been able to see him. Mumtaz Ahmed, a senior police official in Chitral, told The Associated Press that Faulkner had a book containing Christian verses and teachings. But he was also carrying a pistol with 40 rounds, a night vision device, a camera, a dagger, a knife and a small quantity of hashish, according to a security official who asked not to be identified because he was not allowed to speak publicly on the matter. See Vigilante / A3
New concerns arise for airport body scanners By Ken Dilanian McClatchy-Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON — As the government begins deploying whole-body imaging machines to replace metal detectors at airports nationwide, some security experts worry that the new technology could make it easier, not harder, to sneak weapons and explosives onto airplanes. In the wake of the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing, the Transportation Security Administration decided to double its investment in the new machines, with a goal of installing 450 across the country by the end of the year and 1,800 by 2014.
Privacy issues The machines are best-known for the privacy issues they pose, because they can peer through clothes and present screeners with an image that some have likened to a virtual strip search. The government has addressed those concerns by obscuring the faces of those being screened, preventing examiners from seeing the passengers, and allowing the option of a physical pat down. See Scanners / A5