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Teen’s Cost of moving earth donation secures 2 men a home By David Holley The Bulletin
Without Brittany Anderson, James Jenkins and Sabino Torres would likely still be homeless. Last week, Anderson gave the two men, who have lived at The Bethlehem Inn for the last three months and have been homeless longer, $700 to pay the first and last months’ rent for a two-bedroom apartment near Central Oregon Community College. They moved in Thursday. Without Anderson’s gift, it would have taken months to save enough money to pay the full amount, Jenkins said. One thing about Anderson makes the situation more exceptional: She’s 18. “That just blew me away,” said Jenkins, 45. “It’s totally awesome.” When she turned 18, Anderson, of Redmond, received a trust fund her parents had established when she was 5, after the family received a payout for a car accident. Anderson said her religious beliefs required her to tithe a portion of the fund, while the remainder will be used to pay for college.
Bethlehem Inn After hearing about The Bethlehem Inn, Anderson called the staff, who set her up with Jenkins and Torres. Anderson never met either man, but did talk to them over the phone. “I think it was God,” Anderson said about giving away the money. “It was good.” Jenkins and Torres say the money is helping them to turn their lives around. Both are veterans who have suffered from substance addictions for years. Jenkins has served jail time for multiple felony drug convictions related to methamphetamine. Torres, 59, has been arrested for driving drunk, a part of his yearslong battle with alcohol. Rehab has helped them stay clean, they said. Now Torres has found a part-time job at Habitat for Humanity and is looking for more work. Jenkins, using grants and loans, is set to attend COCC this fall. See Gift / A6
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Workers operating excavators, a bulldozer and a water truck work near the border of the new cell at Knott Landfill on Thursday in Bend. Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste is digging a larger section, after the excavation of the new cell did not yield enough of the type of soil needed to cover a closed section of the landfill.
Knott Landfill requires up to another $300K worth of work By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
A contractor for Deschutes County is working hard to open a new area of Knott Landfill ready by mid-September, but the project has expanded and the cost could rise by $300,000. At the county’s request, the contractor is taking soil excavated to open the new area, and using it to cover another area of the landfill that the county is closing. The new area did not yield as much of the required type of soil as expected, so the contractor is now digging a larger area to get more soil. Oregon’s environmental agency typically prescribes a compacted layer of clay to cap closed landfills, but many landfill operators east of the Cascades use local soil as a natural, cheaper alternative, according to the Department of Environmental
“As many holes as you drill and as many tests as you do, you’re really not sure what you’re going to get until you excavate.” — Timm Schimke, director of Deschutes Department of Solid Waster Quality. Operators must prove to the agency that the soil cover will work. At Knott Landfill, the good soil is deep underground and the contractor will have to do a lot of excavation to reach it, said Timm Schimke, director of the county’s Department of Solid Waste. The County Commission authorized a
In the article “For Wyden’s challenger, Merkley serves as a model,” which appeared Tuesday, July 6, on page A1, pollster Bob Moore’s relationship to Jim Huffman’s campaign was incorrect, due to incorrect information supplied to The Bulletin. Moore was paid $2,800 by the campaign in February, for including three to four questions on a longer questionnaire. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet. Whether anguishing over U.S. military interventions abroad or delivering jabs at Wall Street tycoons, this Twain is contemporary. Although the autobiography also contains its share of homespun tales, some of its observations about American life are so acerbic that his heirs and editors, as well as the writer himself, feared they would damage his reputation if not withheld. “From the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out,” Twain instructed them in 1906. “There may be a market for that kind of wares a century from now. There is no hurry. Wait and see.” See Twain / A7
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PORTLAND — The Oregon State Board of Higher Education on Friday unanimously approved most of the Central Oregon plan to increase Oregon State University-Cascades Campus enrollment, but couldn’t commit just yet to supporting the branch campus’s eventual conversion to a four-year standalone university. With the partial approval, the University of Oregon will stop offering its degree programs at OSU-Cascades in the coming years, while the branch campus will seek to increase its appeal with a closer relationship with Central Oregon Community College. The board also stopped short of approving another piece of the Higher Education Assessment Team’s plan: its goal of expanding university research opportunities in line with Central Oregon industry needs. The question of research programs and the creation of a four-year university will be discussed in the academic strategies committee before being brought to the board again in September.
HEAT suggestions Kirk Schueler, the president of Brooks Resources Corp. and a member of the state board, presented the Higher Education Assessment Team’s recommendations to the board Thursday, and the board voted on the plan Friday. Schueler worked with HEAT over the past year to come up with a list of recommendations to increase education offerings and opportunities for students in Central Oregon, and to increase enrollment at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus. See Colleges / A6
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MANKATO, Minn. — More than eight years into fighting two wars, the U.S. military finds itself in an odd but enviable position: All four military branches and all six Reserve components reached their recruiting targets, both in quality and quantity, for the first time in the history of the all-volunteer force. Eschewing the cold call and hard sell for what it calls the “soft lead,” the military is employing the latest in marketing techniques to secure the newest generation of recruits, who are plucked from an increasingly select pool of applicants. In a turnaround from as little as five years ago, Armed Forces enlistment requirements have never been higher. “There’s an awful lot of good kids out there who are coming out of high school with no job prospects,” said William Strickland, a retired Air Force colonel who commanded recruiting on the West Coast. See Recruits / A7
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change order up to $305,000 for the work on June 30, but Schimke said the size and cost of the job could ultimately be smaller than that. The contractor, Washingtonbased M.A. DeAtley Construction, originally bid the project at $5.4 million, according to a February county staff report. The company has already begun excavating an additional area to get at the soil. The new cell will be large enough to hold five to eight years of garbage, depending upon the level of waste going into the landfill, according to a February county staff report. Waste could increase if the economy picks up and people begin building homes again, Schimke said. The top level of soil turned out to be unsuitable to cap a landfill, but a couple of lower layers are a type of soil that holds enough water to work, Schimke said. See Landfill / A6
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Mark Twain’s personal copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s book, “A Square Deal,” on which Twain wrote the word “banalities” over the title, in the University of California, Berkeley, archive on Friday.
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