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The road from La Pine to New York hasn’t been easy, but 18-year-old Anna Stone will be there to dance in the Macy’s parade, fulfilling a childhood aspiration
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Sheriff’s new team handles its 1st calls Group fills a much-needed niche, Deschutes County’s Blanton says By Erin Golden The Bulletin
When the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office got a call last month about a woman who had barricaded herself in her La Pine home, armed with a gun and planning to hurt herself, deputies who were dispatched to the scene knew they might need some backup. After they learned about what was going on in the house, supervisors with the Sheriff’s Office agreed. And for the first time, they put a call out to members of a new tactical team made up of patrol and corrections deputies who are trained and equipped for some of the agency’s most challenging incidents. A few days later, the team was called out again, this time to help track down and arrest an armed man who had allegedly assaulted a woman. Since then, the Special Operations Team hasn’t been activated for any other calls. But Sheriff Larry Blanton said it’s clear there’s a real need for the group, which is available to respond to a variety of situations in the county — and, when needed, to supplement the region’s larger SWAT team, the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team, or CERT. Blanton said his deputies frequently respond to calls about violent domestic disputes, armed suspects and people who refuse to leave their home. He said the formation of the 18-member Special Operations Team is an attempt to be ready for anything. “It’s one of those teams you hope don’t deploy very often,” Blanton said. “But at the same time, (these types of situations) are something we deal with almost on a weekly basis.” See Team / A5
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Anna Stone, 18, practicing at the La Pine Academy of Dance Arts, will be dancing in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. In September, she was shipped a box of costumes and a DVD of choreographed routines the dancers are expected to learn before they arrive in New York.
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LA PINE — hile many watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on television, Anna Stone, 18, of La Pine, will be performing in the procession as a member of a 350-strong contingent of dancers. Anna, and other dancers from all over the nation, will participate in the parade and dance at selected locations as part of the festivities. Performing in the parade has been a long-
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time goal, Anna said. “When I was little, we watched the Macy’s parade on TV, and I dreamed of being one of the dancers,” Anna said. “But that didn’t seem possible, so I didn’t tell anybody.” Then, the dream seemed even further away when Anna was 12 years old. Her little brother, Matthew, has Down syndrome. Anna helped
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care for him, and Matthew, 10 at the time, was diagnosed with leukemia. For a long time, Matthew became the center of the family’s attention. There were weekly trips to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, and as much as possible, the family accompanied Matthew to chemotherapy treatments. “It was so hard for Anna to see her little brother so sick,” said Pat Stone, Anna’s mom. “She would get physically ill, because Anna was so worried and didn’t want him to hurt so much.” See Dancer / A4
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Michael Polsky’s wind farm company was doing so well in 2008 that banks were happy to lend millions for his effort to light up America with clean electricity. But two years later, Polsky has a product he is hardpressed to sell. His company, Invenergy, had a contract to sell power to a utility in Virginia, but state New York Times News Service ile photo regulators rejected the deal, citing the recession and the lower prices of natural gas Inside and other fossil fuels. • Wind farms have “The ratepayers of Virginia Oregon wary, must be protected from costs Page B3 for renewable energy that are unreasonably high,” the regulators said. Wind power would have increased the monthly bill of a typical residential customer by 0.2 percent. See Renewable / A5
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. authorities sent David Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, de-
spite a warning that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews. Not long after Headley arrived there, he began training with terrorists, eventually playing a key role in the 2008 attacks that left 164 people dead in Mumbai. See Terror / A4