Bulletin Daily Paper 11/12/10

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Bend mulls purification options for city’s water

READING TO KIDS: Program nears 20th year

By Erin Golden The Bulletin

By Nick Grube The Bulletin

City of Bend water customers should soon get a glimpse of how much their monthly bills will increase over the next several years as a result of a planned $73 Inside million up• Comparing grade to the the cost Bridge Creek of each water system. method, That inPage A5 crease is on somewhat of a sliding scale right now — between 37.5 and 45.5 percent over the next five years — because city councilors still need to make a number of choices on construction options that will impact the overall cost of the project. The average residential water customer pays about $66.95 a month in the summer. Councilors, who voted to move ahead with the $73 million overhaul, are expected to discuss their upcoming options for the project on Wednesday. In particular, they will focus on a water treatment option for the Bridge Creek system that is needed to meet federal clean water mandates. Bend currently gets about half of its annual water supply from Bridge Creek, which is a tributary of Tumalo Creek. The rest of the city’s supply comes from wells that pump groundwater. The city is upgrading and expanding its Bridge Creek system to meet the future demands of a growing population and also to replace aging pipelines that officials say could fail at any time. See Water / A5

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A small collection of photographs taken of Curtis working with some of her students.

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SMART volunteers have encouraged reading since 1992 By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

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t’s been almost 20 years since Start Making A Reader Today began matching volunteers with elementary-aged kids in an effort to improve the students’ reading skills and their love of books. Some of the first schools to implement the program were here in Central Oregon. The nonprofit was founded in 1991, and readers began working with kids in 1992. Of the eight original schools, four were in Central Oregon: Bear Creek, Sisters, La Pine and Evergreen elementaries, according to local program coordinator Daleena Green. Some very familiar faces have emerged; volunteers who have worked with SMART since the beginning, and who still show up year after year to help students learn to love reading like they do. Eula Curtis has been there since the beginning, reading at Sisters Elementary. Now 90, Curtis said she loves the honesty of the children she works with. “You never know what they’ll say,”

she said, laughing. Once, a little girl who had just found out Curtis would be her reader looked at her and said, “Oh, I don’t like old ladies.” As Curtis has aged and her neck has become more wrinkled, she’s be-

gun to favor turtlenecks because the kids so often ask her what happened to her neck. “They just amaze you what they come up with,” she said. Even though the kids sometimes surprise her, she keeps coming back. “The little kids have so much energy and they’re all honest, and I love their little smiling faces,” she said. “It is just great. I can’t imagine not doing it.” Two years ago, a student who had Curtis as a reader in the first grade came back to see her. She’s in college now. “That just made my year,” she said. “I see them in the hallways now and I can’t always remember their names, but they’ll always come and say hi.” Harriet Langmas has also been volunteering since SMART got its start here in Central Oregon. Langmas, 78, started reading with children at Bear Creek Elementary, then switched to Jewell Elementary a few years later. As a former journalism and English teacher at Bend High, SMART was a natural fit for her. See SMART / A4

REDUCTION COMMISSION

Debt plan splits both left and right By Jackie Calmes New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — By putting deep spending cuts and substantial tax increases on the table, President Barack Obama’s bipartisan debt-reduction commission has exposed fissures in both parties, underscoring the volatile nature and long odds of any attempt to address the nation’s longterm budget problems. Among Democrats, liberals are in near revolt against the White House over the issue, even as substantive and political forces push Obama to attack chronic deficits in a serious way. At the same time, Republicans face intense pressure from their conservative base and the tea party movement to reject any deal that includes tax increases, leaving their leaders with little room to maneuver in any negotiation and at risk of being blamed by voters for not doing their part. Obama, on a diplomatic tour of Asia in which the fiscal condition of the United States has been a recurring backdrop, maintained his silence Thursday about the draft deficit-reduction plan the commission chairmen had released the day before. See Debt / A4

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Sisters resident Eula Curtis, 90, has been volunteering with the SMART program since 1992 at Sisters Elementary School.

Police announced Thursday that the body of a Bend woman believed to have been murdered late last month was dumped Detroit in the North 22 Santiam River Idanha North along Oregon Sant iam R Detroit Lake Highway 22 iver in Marion Area County. of search Marion Forks But after two days of Detroit searching, ofBend ficials have 22 O R E G O N not yet turned Greg Cross / The Bulletin up any trace of 48-year-old Lori “Woody” Blaylock. Lt. Ben Gregory of the Bend Police Department said investigators believe there’s a “high probability” that Blaylock’s body was disposed of somewhere between Idanha and Marion Forks, an area located about 70 miles northwest of Bend. Gregory said that likely occurred sometime between Oct. 26 and Oct. 31. See Blaylock / A4

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New TSA pat-downs rile pilots, unnerve passengers By Linda Loyd The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — As millions of Americans get ready to take to the skies for the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s growing anxiety over new security patdowns and body-imaging scanners at airports. The Transportation Security Administration implemented what it calls “enhanced” patdown procedures at airport checkpoints nationwide Oct. 29. In the new pat-downs, officers use open hands “and fin-

gers” — instead of the backs of their hands — “to go over one’s body, including the genital area and breasts,” according to a statement by a pilot group upset by the procedure. Travelers get the new patdown if they refuse to go through an advanced-imaging technology scanner. So exactly what is involved in the new pat-down? The TSA is not saying. “We would not describe the pat-down in any detail for security reasons,” said TSA spokes-

woman Ann Davis. The head of the US Airways pilots union, Capt. Mike Cleary, said Wednesday that he had learned in informal conversations with TSA personnel that security officers now “are to run their hand up the inside of your leg until they meet bone resistance. In addition, they use a circular pat-down routine from the small of the stomach, around through a person’s crotch, and up into the small of the back.” See TSA / A5

TSA screener Michelle McLaughlin, left, checks an Italian tourist as she goes through security screening at Boston’s Logan airport. New York Times News Service ile photo


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