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The call of the East Bay

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Redmond teachers teach a bit more A few offer select classes during prep time By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

REDMOND — Joel Morse and Josh Elliston, both 17, sat at computers Thursday afternoon at Redmond High School, scanning pages of research for an engineering project. Their chance to take the engineering class almost didn’t happen this year. When the Redmond School District re-

instituted the five-day week, an already reduced staff and scheduling conflicts forced the high school to eliminate more than 100 electives. Facing millions of dollars in budget cuts, the district couldn’t hire more teachers. This year, though, about a half-dozen teachers are running classes during their prep periods, giving up time they would otherwise spend planning for

Teacher Cory O’Neill helps seniors Joel Morse, right, and Josh Elliston with their engineering project Friday during his prep period. O’Neill is among about a half-dozen Redmond High teachers who voluntarily run elective classes in their prep time.

classes and grading student work. Both students are grateful a teacher would volunteer to teach the class that was almost cut. “It gives us the opportunity to thrive,” Morse said. It’s a sacrifice teachers aren’t thrilled to talk about. Teaching is their job, and they’re just doing it. Denny Irby and Cory O’Neill are teaching during their prep time and said it was an easy choice to help the students take what they wanted. See Redmond / A4

Rob Kerr The Bulletin

Bend water upgrade option has new appeal

Living out a dream — and through a recession — on a Tumalo ranch • BUSINESS, G1

Estimate: 50-year cost of ditching Bridge Creek for all-groundwater system could reach $454 million By Nick Grube The Bulletin

Bend city councilors are expected to discuss a choice Wednesday that will ultimately decide the fate of Bend’s water system for the next 50 to 100 years. Councilors must choose whether they want to continue pursuing an upgrade to the city’s Bridge Creek water supply to meet federal clean water mandates or rely strictly on wells and groundwater to meet Bend’s water demands. They’ve been mulling that decision for at least the past two months, but on Wednesday they are scheduled to discuss the results of a study that could sway them toward the Bridge Creek option. That’s because the new report shows the cost for the city to abandon its Bridge Creek water system and switch to all groundwater could be between $372 million and $454 million more than surface water options over 50 years. See Water / A7 Jeff Wick / The Bulletin

RIDING OUT ROUGH TIMES

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Kevin Friedman, riding El Torro at his home in Tumalo, started the Fly Spur Ranch with his wife after the two decided they had had enough of big-city life. When they bought the property in 2005, Kevin and Therese envisioned it as a base from which to offer guided backcountry fly-fishing trips on horseback. The economic downturn, however, led to fewer clients — and more struggling horse owners unable to pay for their animals’ care. So the Friedmans came up with a new business plan. Now, for a monthly fee, riders can take out one of the 35 horses on the ranch. “Somehow we turned lemons into lemonade,” Therese says.

TOP NEWS INSIDE TERROR: Threats pushing U.S. to issue Europe travel alerts, Page A2 SUPREME COURT: New term offers hot issues and future hints, Page A3

War memories, and an instant connection in a hospital room By Corey Kilgannon New York Times News Service

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Just before Benjamin Klein’s open-heart surgery, his surgeon told him not to be afraid. Klein, who is 90, scoffed. “He said, ‘There’s nothing you can do that I can’t get through — I’ve been through Normandy,’” recalled the surgeon, Dr. Leonard Girardi. That could have been construed as puffery to some civilians, but not to the man in the next bed, Victor Allegretti, 86, who later heard Klein tell hospital staff members about his war service. “My ears perked up like a canary,” said Allegretti, who took such interest because he, too, fought in Normandy during

Pro teams adopt 3-D, right from the ‘Avatar’ playbook

“I was dumbfounded. The very fact that we were there together, that was the bond.” — Benjamin Klein, 90, waiting for open-heart surgery World War II. The two old soldiers began talking and realized they shared more than that. They were both in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, and both rode — in flights several hours apart — gliders into the D-Day battle on June 6, 1944. See Veterans / A4

What: City Council work session and meeting When: 5 p.m. Wednesday work session, followed by regular meeting at 7 p.m. Where: Bend City Hall, 710 N.W. Wall St. ••• What: Open house to learn about Bend’s Bridge Creek water supply When: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 Where: Bend Park & Recreation District Office, 799 S.W. Columbia St.

By James Glanz and Alan Schwarz New York Times News Service

Family photos

Benjamin Klein in Wesel, Germany, in April 1945, top, and Victor Allegretti in North Africa in June 1943.

In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that some baseball officials think could influence the way athletes of all ages train, perform and recover from injuries. The technology, which has also drawn strong interest from some professional and college football teams, is an unlikely hybrid. It combines the technology that captures the human gestures at the core of 3-D animations like “Avatar” with advanced sensors, biomechanics and orthopedic research on the most powerful and least damaging ways to hurl a ball, swing a bat or simply run like the wind. See 3-D / A5


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