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Gulf’s Cajuns worry they may need to move on once again
Bend’s water plans raise concerns about Tumalo Environmentalists worried about long-term health of creek, watershed By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
As the city of Bend works on its plans for a $71 million upgrade to its water system, some conservation groups are keeping an eye on what the changes could mean for the health of Tumalo Creek and its watershed. Bend currently diverts about half of its water from Bridge Creek before it flows into Tumalo Creek, piping it 11 miles into town. But to meet new federal regulations that go into effect in 2012, the city has to treat the water. And along with that new treatment facility, the city is proposing to install a new, bigger
By Susan Saulny New York Times News Service
CHAUVIN, La. — Stanley Sevin knew it was time to have the difficult conversation with his parents when he saw the oil sheen shimmering under his family’s dock on the bayou. He had been putting it off ever since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April. “Sell the house and go start fresh somewhere else,” Sevin, 24, pleaded with his family, shrimpers More on of Cajun ancesthe Gulf try. “The busioil spill ness is dead, and this life is • BP, federal over.” government For the Caclash over juns of South reopening Louisiana capped Gulf — exiled in oil well, the 1700s from Page A5 French settlements in Acadia, now part of eastern Canada, for refusing to swear allegiance to the British — life along the bayous has been bittersweet, with the constant threats of lightning-quick destruction from hurricanes and floods on top of the slow-motion agony of coastal erosion. The oil spill has delivered a dose of misery for all those who live intimately with the land here. But for the Cajuns, whose rustic French-American culture is almost wholly dependent on the natural bayous that open to the Gulf of Mexico, it has forced the question of whether they can preserve their way of life — and if so, at what cost? See Cajuns / A5
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Tumalo Falls cascades into Tumalo Creek west of Bend. Environmentalists are keeping an eye on the city’s plans to upgrade its water system, to try to make sure the changes won’t harm water quality in the watershed. The city’s plans include a bigger pipe to carry water and a hydroelectric plant.
pipe and build a hydropower plant at the end. “The question is, if there’s a hydroelectric facility, does that create an incentive to try to increase the amount of water that’s diverted from Tumalo Creek, and if so, what’s the impact,” said Ryan Houston, executive director of the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council. Less water left in creeks can lead to warmer water temperatures, which isn’t good for fish and other native aquatic life. So far, the city has not finalized its plan for the water upgrades, Houston said, so it’s hard to know what specific concerns might arise. See Water / A5
DRINKS ON BEND: BENEFIT EVENT PROMOTES CLEAN WATER IN AFRICA
Taking action for Tanzania
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Flu shots may get easier, thanks to microneedles
Ryan Rudnick, 18, empties a glass of water from Thump Coffee Shop to demonstrate how much Americans take clean water for granted. Jared Neilsen, 17, left, and Marley Weedman, 16, are helping Rudnick organize the Drinks on Bend benefit concert and art auction on July 30 aimed at raising money to send a water purification system to a village in Tanzania.
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hildren in the village of Mumba, Tanzania, may be drinking cleaner water this time next summer thanks to the efforts of a Bend teen and his committed group of friends.
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — One day your annual flu shot could come in the mail. At least that’s the hope of researchers developing a new method of vaccine delivery that people could even use at home: a patch with microneedles. Microneedles are so small you don’t even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine. Researchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research in Sunday’s edition of Nature Medicine. The business side of the patch feels like fine sandpaper, he said. In tests of microneedles without vaccine, people rated the discomfort at one-tenth to one-twentieth that of getting a standard injection, he said. See Needles / A4
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Ryan Rudnick, 18, who just graduated from Mountain View High School, researched and helped design a water purification device that could deliver 8 gallons of clean water per minute to the villagers. Now, he and his friends are planning a concert and art auction on July 30 in Bend to raise the $4,000 it will take to send the device to Tanzania. “In middle school, I came to realize the world didn’t actually revolve around me,” Rudnick said, explaining why he had taken up this project with such gusto. “I became active in my faith, living to serve God and other people. Then I also realized I liked engineering. Engineering is my means of helping people.” Rudnick first heard about the project when a local engineer visited his youth group with details on a much larger project to build a hydroelectric plant for the Grace Ministries International mission just outside of Mumba. The engineer, Kevin Crew, the principal at Black Rock Engineering of Bend, has been working on the hydroelectric plant for a little over a year with a dozen other local engineers. See Tanzania / A4
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If you go What: Drinks on Bend: A Benefit Concert and Art Auction for Clean Water in Africa Bands playing: Rootdown, Tim Bach, The Snag, Chris Chabot When: July 30, 6 to 10 p.m. Where: Life Amphitheater, 21720 E. Highway 20, Bend Cost: $7 students, $10 adults Contact: Ryan Rudnick, 541-280-9599 or billyrud@hotmail.com
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GUATEMALA CITY — In a country where machismo is still the rule, Sandra Torres doesn’t cut the demure figure of past first ladies. She doesn’t host social events or boost charities. What she does do is give orders — lots of them. Torres oversees President Alvaro Colom’s well-endowed state program of social assistance, which involves anti-poverty handouts to hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans. She oversees the work of several Cabinet members. Now there’s talk that Torres will try to succeed her husband in the presidency in elections late next year. The talk has raised a flurry of heated debate. Torres hasn’t openly declared her candidacy, but if she does, she’ll follow in well-trod footsteps around the hemisphere. Even today, two other active first ladies — in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic — are pondering the presidencies of their countries, and in Peru, the first daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori is a frontrunner in the presidential race. They’re part of a rising tide of female leaders who’ve changed the political makeup of the region. See Women / A4
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