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School board considering boundary adjustment By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
The Bend-La Pine school board asked the district Tuesday to convene a committee that will consider changing boundaries of Bend-area middle schools to help ease overcrowding at Cascade Middle School and fill open spaces at Pilot Butte and Sky View middle schools. In 2008, the school district made widespread boundary changes in an effort to ease crowding and create boundaries for new elementary schools. Superintendent Ron Wilkinson said at that time, with the region’s population growth still booming, the district decided to leave enrollment high at both High Desert and Cascade middle schools, because officials expected to construct a new middle school near Jewell Elementary in the near future. “We knew the fifth Bend middle school would serve the population from those two schools,” Wilkinson said. “Then a variety of things happened, and now we know that new school is not going to be on the docket as quickly. So we need to do something about our enrollment challenges, particularly at Cascade.” Cascade Middle School, which has a capacity of about 800 students, currently has 926 students enrolled. See Bend-La Pine / A5
Missing woman’s house searched By Erin Golden
An Oregon State Police forensics truck sits parked in front of the Blaylock residence in Bend on Tuesday afternoon.
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Yellow police tape was stretched across the driveway of a missing Bend woman’s home on Tuesday as detectives and forensics experts searched for clues about her disappearance. Lori “Woody” Blaylock, 48, was reported missing by her co-workers on Nov. 2, when she didn’t show up for her job as a respiratory therapist at St. Charles Bend. Her husband, Steven Blaylock, told police
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that his wife had wandered away from their house on Northeast Genet Court on Oct. 28, but he expected she’d come home. Last week, police searched Lori Blaylock’s phone records, interviewed her family and friends and used a scent-tracking dog to search the area around her house. A group of her friends and co-workers conducted their own search in northeast Bend, but the effort didn’t turn up any trace of Blaylock. See Blaylock / A4
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Population of elderly drivers on rapid rise By Ashley Halsey III The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — With the number of people 65 or older expected to double in the next three decades, the elderly are driving more often, are taking longer trips and seem rooted in communities where getting around by car is the only option. The graying of the roads prompted the National Transportation Safety Board this week to host its first forum on aging drivers to analyze the impacts of the change. Within 15 years, people 65 and older will make up more than 20 percent of the driving population, officials said. Research shows that elderly drivers are getting into fewer deadly automobile accidents, but even those who try to select the safest hours of the day to drive can’t escape heavy traffic if they live in congested urban regions where “rush hour” has expanded to encompass more of the day. “Why aren’t they getting into more crashes?” asked Sandra Rosenbloom of the University of Arizona during the conference at NTSB headquarters here. “I don’t think we have good data on that.” See Drivers / A4
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Dave Dahl, creator of Dave’s Killer Bread, left, shakes hands with Nick Hilgert at a promotional event Saturday at Bend’s Newport Avenue Market.
Convicted criminal finds redemption in baking By Ed Merriman For more information about Dave’s Killer Bread, visit www.daveskillerbread.com.
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Dave Dahl’s story of redemption, from meth addict and convicted armed robber to successful baker and creator of Dave’s Killer Bread, inspired area residents to line up at a Bend grocery store recently to meet him, shake his hand and sample his bread. At Newport Avenue Market on Saturday, Dahl, 47,
autographed free copies of Dave’s Killer Bread coloring and activity books, which depict his life story from depressed boy to criminal and through a redemption that began while serving a 118month sentence at the Snake
River Correctional Facility in Ontario. “People initially buy my bread because they are drawn by my story, but once they taste it they keep coming back for more because it is so healthy and tastes so good,” Dahl said. One of Dahl’s loafs, “Good Seed,” reflects the change in his self-image from that of bad seed to good seed. See Killer Bread / A5
A package of Dahl’s “Robust Raisin” bread is displayed at Bend’s Newport Avenue Market on Saturday.
HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL
New payment rules may give some people heartburn By Michelle Andrews Special to The Washington Post
The health care overhaul has taken some of the flex out of flexible spending accounts, which let workers pay medical expenses with pretax dollars. Starting in January, you’ll no longer be able to use your FSA for over-the-counter drugs and medicines unless you have a doctor’s
prescription. Experts agree that the new rules will likely discourage people from tapping their FSAs for routine purchases of aspirin, vitamins, cough medicine and other drugstore essentials. Whether they also inhibit people from taking needed allergy or heartburn medications, for example, or
from picking up nicotine replacement gum to help them quit smoking, remains to be seen. In any case, as you calculate during the fall insurance enrollment period how much to deposit in your FSA next year, it’s important to keep the new restrictions in mind. Money prompted the change, experts say. “I think ‘federal officials’
were just looking for revenue raisers,” says Mike Thompson, a human resource services principal with PwC. Since employee contributions to FSAs are made on a pretax basis, they reduce earnings and thus the amount workers pay in income tax. See Health care / A5