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Fresh disputes over Highland parking plans By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Two months ago, neighbors and parents fought Bend-La Pine Schools and Highland Magnet School to keep back-in angle parking off of Harmon Boulevard. Now neighbors are expressing displeasure about other parts of the plan created by city and school district officials, including new sidewalks, crosswalks and changes to parking in the area. At a meeting between city staff and Highland neighbors on Tuesday, staff discussed plans to change traffic flow around the 90-year-old school, located on Newport Avenue and with just a small faculty parking lot sitting behind it. Neighbors said they felt ignored; they said the planned changes would not mitigate the traffic woes around the school.
New access to area peaks Mt. Bachelor chairlift opens Thursday
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Canada geese have long been a part of the scenery in Bend, but over the past two decades the number of geese that have decided to make Bend’s green, organically fertilized parks their home year-round has grown. “It’s like a four-star hotel for them,” said Jan Taylor, the community relations manager for Bend Park & Recreation District. Not anymore. On Tuesday morning 109 geese were rounded up at Drake Park and taken by truck to the park district’s shop on Simpson Avenue. There each goose was transferred into a trash-can-sized enclosure filled with carbon dioxide. The process is meant to be quick and humane, Taylor said.
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The Pine Marten Express chairlift at Mt. Bachelor will start running for the summer season on Thursday, offering a scenic roundtrip ride up the mountain to the Pine Marten Lodge. The lift will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and until 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Tickets cost $15 for a daytime ride or $12 for an evening trip (seniors and youths pay less, and children 5 and under ride for free). Summertime attractions at Mt. Bachelor include an 18-hole disc golf course, sled dog rides in a dry-land cart, U.S. Forest Service interpretive talks and weekend Sunset Dinners at the lodge. For a complete list of lift ticket prices, or to find out more about activities and dinner reservations, log on to www.mtbachelor.com.
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In a story headlined “Critics decry path to possible resort,” which appeared Sunday, April 4, on Page A1, a comment by Deschutes County Planning Commissioner Ed Criss was reported incorrectly. Criss said a proposal to remove destination resort zoning from all subdivisions in Deschutes County appeared to be targeted at Aspen Lakes subdivision, to block the owners’ plans to convert it into a resort. The headline for a story titled, “Area district leaves school insurance pool; others look to follow,” which appeared on Page A1 on Sunday, June 27, was incorrect. The High Desert Education Service District never entered the Oregon Educators Benefit Board insurance pool and will not have to join for at least two years. The Bulletin regrets the errors.
The McKenzie Pass Highway, officially known as state Highway 242, has been cleared of snow and is scheduled to open to vehicle traffic at noon today. Built between 1919 and 1924, the historic highway opens for a few months every summer, providing motorists access to Clear Lake, the Dee Wright Observatory and other destinations. Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Peter Murphy said this year’s opening day is slightly on the later side, due to a cool spring and lingering snow at higher elevations. The highway Mt. Washington has been opened as 7,794 ft. Bluegrass Butte 126 early as March 21, in George Pacific Lake Dugout 1934, and as late as 20 Crest y Butte wa July 29, in 1999. Last h Trail g 242 Hi year, road construcss a P tion delayed the openLittle Sisters Belknap Crater ing of the highway Belknap Windy Point 6,872 ft. until Aug. 10. Mc Ke nz ie
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Chinese icon of beauty evolves — surgically By Devin Tomb McClatchy-Tribune News Services
SHANGHAI — He Zen’s path to cosmetic surgery was fast and simple. Her mother saw an ad in a Shanghai newspaper and figured that more Caucasian-looking eyes would make it easier for her unmarried 28-year-old daughter to find a husband.
She made an appointment for her daughter the next Saturday morning. When He Zen went to the clinic and saw some examples of the doctor’s work, she agreed to have the $290 operation that afternoon. Shortly after enduring the two-week recovery period, she got what she’d been after: not an offer of marriage, but the of-
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Killing these geese was the last resort in a years-long effort to lower the goose population in Bend, Taylor said. The goose meat will be processed and donated to local food banks later this week, Taylor said. “We love the geese,” Taylor said. “Geese are part of what make the parks beautiful. It’s just overpopulation that is a problem.” See Geese / A4
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Meat to be donated to area food banks By Lillian Mongeau
Using bond money Bend-La Pine Schools plans to use funding from the $119 million bond — passed by voters in 2006 — to pay for additional parking at the magnet school, where often more than two dozen cars park — some illegally — around the school at the beginning and end of each school day. The project was slated to cost about $100,000. In addition to the back-in angle parking, it called for a new bus pullout zone and various safety improvements. The school board abandoned back-in angle parking in April after parents and neighbors expressed concerns about the safety of the students. See Parking / A5
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fer of a coveted internship with the Shanghai office of the British banking giant HSBC, which later led to a full-time job. “A lot of people think it’s not very good politics — a kind of scandal — to have these kinds of small procedures,” said He Zen, a petite, confident woman who’s now an HSBC manager. “I wouldn’t tell anybody. No-
body knows.” She’s one of thousands of young Chinese women, and an increasing number of men, who are choosing to have eyelid reconstruction, nasal bridge augmentation or breast enlargements in hopes of improving their chances of finding mates, getting better jobs or both. See Surgery / A5
NEW YORK — They raised children, went to work in the city each day, talked the small talk with neighbors about yard work and overpriced contractors. In short, they could have been any family in any suburb in America. In Montclair, N.J., a woman who lived next to the Murphy family described them as “suburbia personified.” They asked their neighbors for advice about the best middle schools to send their two young daughters. Richard Murphy mowed the lawn; Cynthia Murphy would come home from her job as a financial-services executive, daffodils and French bread in her hands.
‘Talk about gardening’ “We would talk about gardening and dogs and kids,” said one neighbor, Corine Jones, 53. Miles away in Yonkers, there lived another ordinary couple, Vicky Pelaez and her husband, Juan Jose Lazaro Sr. They doted on their two pet schnauzers and their teenage son, Juan Jose Lazaro Jr., a classical pianist. See Spy Ring / A4