Bulletin Daily Paper 06/24/10

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In search of more marrow donors Area schools may see By Lillian Mongeau

influx of federal funds

Bob Hammer, 58, shown in Drake Park, received a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor.

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Bob Hammer, 58, of Redmond, said he would not be here today if it wasn’t for a mechanic from Pennsylvania. The mechanic, who had registered as a bone marrow donor 10 years before, turned out to be the one-in-a-million match Hammer needed to receive the transplant that put his Adult Myeloid Leukemia, or AML, into remission. “I felt like I was cured the minute I started getting the transplant,” Hammer said. Though he acknowledged it was mostly psychological, he said he knew the transplant would work as soon as the bag of marrow began emptying through a long tube into his chest. See Marrow / A4

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Oregon may have taken itself out of the running for Race to the Top, but it’s still hoping to get some money from the $4.35 billion federal funding competition. Joining 30 other states to form a group calling itself the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, Oregon will apply for a grant of up to $160 million that would allow the states to create a new student assessment system.

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North Carolinan may have the world’s worst luck

And the Chalkboard Project, which has worked with several Central Oregon districts to implement new strategies for teacher pay, will apply for a teacher incentive fund grant that would help implement the CLASS Project in BendLa Pine, Redmond and other school districts around the area. Only two assessment grants will be given, and winners will likely be announced in September. See Schools / A5

Region is already feeling the effects of state cuts

WORLD CUP IS A WINNER FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES

Man has been hit by lightning and attacked by a bear

Schools eliminating days; firefighting resources reduced

By Paul A. Specht McClatchy-Tribune News Service

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some guys have all the luck. And then there’s Rick Oliver, who might be one of the unluckiest men in North Carolina, if not the world. Oliver was mauled by a bear in his otherwise peaceful front yard a few weeks ago. “It was like getting struck by lightning,” he said. Turns out, Oliver might be one of the few people in the world capable of accurately making the bear-lightning analogy. And for Oliver, 51, the two incidents seem to go hand in hand. Ever since he was struck by lightning in 2006, Oliver says, he’s had trouble sleeping. On restless nights, he tends to putter about his farm, checking on his chickens, working on his tractors and, as he was in the wee hours of June 3, fixing up his Chevy Malibu. About 2 a.m., he heard a distant rustling on his 17-acre spread in an unincorporated sliver of Wake County between Cary and Raleigh. As he turned to investigate, he was dealt a heavy blow. “I heard this strange huffing,” Oliver said. “And the next thing I know I had been run over and stepped on by a bear.” The black bear’s claws gouged his wrist so deep that when he first took off his bandage, blood spewed onto his farmhouse floor. See Unlucky / A4

From staff and wire reports The 9 percent cuts Gov. Ted Kulongoski ordered state agencies to make Tuesday to close a $577 million gap in the state’s 2009-11 budget have already had an impact locally. School districts have made adjustments or planned to do so. For Bend-La Pine Schools, the 9 percent cut translates to a $6.5 million shortfall for the 2010-11 school year. The district had planned to operate with a $120 million budget. The district cut the final two days from the 2009-10 school year, as well as five days — three of them class days — from the 2010-11 school year. In addition, administrators agreed to cut between five and 10 days from their contracts, depending on how many days they work each year; 12 elementary teaching positions were eliminated; $200,000 worth of classified employee positions and $200,000 in administrative positions are also expected to be cut. And the district will cut money from its 2009-10 ending fund balance, reduce technology, textbook and athletic spending, and use fewer High Desert Education Service District services. Those cuts will bring the district about $6 million in savings. Superintendent Ron Wilkinson hopes to find an additional $500,000 in savings as the 2010-11 school year goes on. See Cuts / A4

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occer fan Tyler Ross, 20, and others erupt in celebration Wednesday morning at Sidelines Sports Bar & Grill in downtown Bend after the United States scores the winning goal in its World Cup match against Algeria. The win advanced the U.S. into the next round of the

tournament. Even though the World Cup is being held a continent away, in South Africa, local bars and restaurants — especially sports bars — are benefitting from a boost in food and beverage sales. For the full story, see Business, Page B1.

In Sports

In World News

At the World Cup on Wednesday, the U.S. team added a distinctly American flavor to what many still see as a foreign sport, Page D1.

Can soccer help bring peace to the world? Well, in England at least, its fans seem to be making strides in that direction, Page A6.

Afghans express weariness over lengthy conflict By Laura King Los Angeles Times Ted Richardson / McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The chances of being struck by lightning and attacked by a bear — which happened to Rick Oliver, 51, of North Carolina — are “infinitesimal,” one statistician said.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Long before he’d ever heard of Rolling Stone magazine, Abdul Baqi already harbored deep doubts about the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan. “The Americans are here for their own reasons, for their own benefit,” said the clean-shaven 23-year-old university student, shaking his head.

“If they really wanted to bring peace to Afghanistan, they could have done so already, whoever was in charge.” For many Afghans, U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal over intemperate remarks in a magazine profile has served mainly to underscore their own weariness with a conflict that has dragged on for nearly nine years with no end in sight. McChrystal, the West’s top mili-

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tary commander in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House on Wednesday to give an accounting of withering comments by him and senior aides about key members of President Obama’s national security team. It was after 10 p.m. in Kabul when Obama announced he had accepted the general’s resignation. See Afghanistan / A5

Inside • Chronology reveals how McChrystal, a top battlefield general, lost his job, Page A5

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“The longer we wait to implement these reductions, the deeper the cuts will have to be to bring the budget into balance.”

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OIL SPILL: Cap keeping gusher contained is reattached, Page A3


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