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Over the last couple of years, state budget cuts have forced Central Oregon schools to lay off teachers, cancel programs and cut school days. Now, as they prepare for the start of a new academic year, school officials have been notified that more reductions could be ahead. On Tuesday, Gov. Ted Kulongoski released a letter to school superintendents, warning them that the budget forecast due out Aug. 26 will likely show an additional $200 million to $500 million shortfall in the state’s general fund. That comes on top of the $577 million budget gap projected for the 2009-11 biennium just three months ago — meaning the state could be more than $1 billion short.

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REDMOND — More improvements may be on the way for the Redmond Airport, thanks to about $7.5 million in federal grant money it expects to receive in September. But the next round of improvements will be less visible to most passengers than the recent terminal expansion. The grant from the Federal Aviation Administration will cover most of the costs of replacing two of the airport’s cracking taxiways and purchasing a new $600,000 fire engine. The Redmond City Council approved the plan at its Tuesday meeting.

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‘Revenue neutral’ improvements On top of the new taxiways, the airport will add new signs required by federal law. The improvements and truck will likely cost just less than $8 million; the city is required to offer a local match of 5 percent, or about $375,000. Redmond will make that match with ConnectOregon III money, which the airport has already qualified for, according to Airport Manager Carrie Novick. The city will not have to spend any of its own money on the project, Novick said. “It’s revenue neutral,” Novick said. “That 5 percent brings in 95 percent from somewhere else.” Redmond is in the final stages of completing its $40 million terminal expansion that includes adding restaurants, a pub and coffee and magazine shops. See Redmond / A4

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Kulongoski warns that August forecast could show state $1B in hole By Erin Golden, Patrick Cliff and Lauren Dake

By Patrick Cliff

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More cuts ahead for Oregon schools

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Amateur golfer and Mountain View High School alumnus Andy Moore, of Bend, jokes with caddies and Bend High cheerleaders Julia Mills, 16, (center) and Amethyst Miller, 16, during the Jeld-Wen Tradition Pro-Am Championship at Crosswater Club on Monday. Student-athletes from area high schools caddied for the amateurs on Tuesday as part of Caddies Fore Charity. Instead of tipping the caddies, the golfers donated funds to the students’ athletic programs.

Caddying for a cause By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

SUNRIVER — Amethyst Miller is a Bend High cheerleader. On Tuesday, the 16year-old was also moonlighting as a caddie at the Jeld-Wen Tradition Pro-Am Championship. It was Amethyst’s first time caddying, but as a longtime golfer she felt pretty certain she’d be up to the task. She

was more concerned about the weight of the bag. “I’ve got a bad shoulder,” she said, laughing. Caddying on a 98-degree day in direct sunlight while carrying a heavy golf bag is no joke. But Amethyst was out at Crosswater Club in Sunriver for a good cause: Any money she earned for her long, hot day of caddying would go to fund Lava Bear sports. Specifi-

cally, her hard work will help the cheerleading team pay for new mats and uniforms, and traveling to competitions. It’s the first year of Caddies Fore Charity, which pairs area high school athletes with amateur golfers in the pro-am. Amateurs are asked to make donations to caddies’ sports programs in lieu of the tips they would give their caddies. See Caddies / A4

“Every little dime we can raise helps offset camp costs and maybe just that payto-participate fee. ... That’s imperative to the survival of sports.” — Dave Hood, athletic director, Mountain View High School

The growing budget hole, State Economist Tom Potiowsky wrote in an Aug. 11 memo to the governor, is at least partially the result of a slower-than-expected economic recovery. “Many indicators, including housing starts, consumer spending, bank lending, job growth and others have been weaker than expected,” he wrote. After the last economic forecast, the governor ordered acrossthe-board cuts for K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, the Department of Human Services, Oregon State Police and dozens of other agencies. Until more specific numbers are released, it’s too soon to say how those agencies could be affected by the expanding gap in the budget. But in his letter to school officials, Kulongoski wrote that schools should be ready for more bad news over the next several months. See Budget / A4

Report: Brain trauma can Number of teens with mimic Lou Gehrig’s disease hearing loss increases By Alan Schwarz New York Times News Service

By Thomas H. Maugh II

In the 71 years since New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig declared himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” despite dying from a disease that would soon bear his name, he has stood as America’s leading icon of athletic valor struck down by random, inexplicable fate.

Los Angeles Times

Misdiagnosis A peer-reviewed paper to be published today in a leading journal of neuropathology, however, suggests that the demise of athletes like Gehrig and soldiers given a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, might have been catalyzed by injuries only now becoming understood: concussions and other brain trauma. See ALS / A4

Suzy Allman / New York Times News Service

The gravestone of former New York Yankees player Lou Gehrig at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y. A new paper in a neuropathology journal suggests that concussions and head trauma can cause degenerative diseases similar to ALS and that Lou Gehrig may not have had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

LOS ANGELES — Teenagers aren’t necessarily tuning out adults; they simply might not be able to hear them. The proportion of American teens with slight hearing loss has increased 30 percent in the past 15 years, and the number with mild or worse hearing loss has increased 70 percent, researchers said Tuesday. One in every five teens now has at least slight hearing loss, which can affect learning, speech perception, social skills development and self-image; one in every 20 has a more severe loss. The authors of the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association eliminated ear infections, gunshots and exposure to loud noises in the environment as causes for the hearing loss, but could not identify a specific cause. A recent Austra-

lian study, however, found a 70 percent increased risk of hearing loss associated with the use of headphones in portable music, and many experts suspect they are the primary cause of hearing loss in teens. “Personal stereos are the most important change in the culture in the last 15 to 20 years,” said Dr. Tommie Robinson Jr., president of the American SpeechLanguage Hearing Association. “Everybody has their own little device now, and how many times have you passed somebody and could hear their music?” Even the relatively low level of damage found in the study can create problems. “Just because a hearing loss is slight does not mean it is insignificant, particularly when it is in the high frequencies,” said Dr. Alison Grimes, manager of the audiology clinic at Ronald ReaganUCLA Medical Center. See Teen hearing / A4


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