Bulletin Daily Paper 01/07/11

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Ready for the game?

There’s no question where Mike Berg’s loyalties lie as the 62-year-old from Tumalo gets ready to fly from Redmond to Arizona for the BCS National Championship game.

The Bulletin’s extra coverage of the Ducks continues through Tuesday, with on-the-ground reporting and photography, and special pages Sunday and Tuesday. On the Web, visit www.bendbulletin.com/ducks

Rob Kerr The Bulletin

WEATHER TODAY

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VA office Redmond High and COCC join to offer nursing classes lags on housing aid for area vets HEALTH CARE

By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

REDMOND — Clad in pink scrubs, 17year-old Chloe Woodward looks just as much at home checking blood pressures and helping patients in and out of wheelchairs as she is taking notes and reading textbooks in her Redmond High School classroom. Just as she’s studied English and math

St. Charles union vote still unclear

and science at Redmond High, Chloe has also completed a certified nursing assistant class through Central Oregon Community College at the high school and is readying herself for a nursing career. The class, for which she received high school and college credit, is the only high school course of its kind offered in Central Oregon. If Chloe and her classmates pass the

state board examination on Saturday, they’ll receive certification necessary to work as a nursing assistant in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. If they complete a second class in the spring, they’ll be certified nursing assistants able to work in hospitals as well, all before they turn 18. Amber Turnage has taught the classes since their inception at the high school.

She said CNA classes were offered about 12 years ago, then stopped for a while and restarted several years ago. No matter the year, the classes are popular. Turnage, a registered nurse who also serves as Redmond High’s school nurse, usually has between seven and 10 students in the CNA class each trimester. See CNA / A5

THE INAUGURAL CHOIR

Songs governor for the

By Betsy Q. Cliff The Bulletin

Tensions ran high this week at St. Charles Bend as a vote on whether hundreds of employees would join a union was left undecided. The vote, which took place Wednesday, was too close to call, and it will likely be weeks before the outcome is known. In November, a group of employees filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking to join a chapter of the Service Employees International Union, which currently represents about 7,000 hospital employees in Oregon and southwest Washington. About 600 employees at St. Charles Bend, the region’s largest hospital, could become a part of that chapter. “For the last week, everybody’s really been on edge,” said Kelly Garl, an employee in supply and distribution who is against union representation. See Union / A5

Correction The headline on a story published Thursday, Jan. 6, on Page A1, inaccurately reflected the story on whether people favor allowing dogs in additional sno-parks along Cascade Lakes Highway. The sampling of comments supplied to The Bulletin by the U.S. Forest Service showed strong opposition to the idea, but it is unclear whether the comments provided were representative of all that were submitted to the agency. The Bulletin regrets the error.

Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

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eth Basham directs the premier choir of the Youth Choir of Central Oregon through “With

One Voice” while rehearsing Wednesday night in preparation for its performance at John

Kitzhaber’s gubernatorial inauguration in Salem on Monday. The group of 35 students will

be singing several songs during the event. “This is a special occasion because we are the only group from Central Oregon in history to perform at an inauguration in Oregon,” Basham told her

choir before the rehearsal. For more on the governor’s inauguration, see Local, Page C1.

Agency cites slow federal hiring process amid 6-month delay By Keith Chu The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — Six months after receiving funding to find housing for homeless Central Oregon veterans, the U.S. Veterans Affairs office hasn’t released housing aid for about two dozen homeless Central Oregon veterans. The agency blamed the slow federal hiring process for the delay and said it hopes to release funding for some of those veterans this week, but Central Oregon veterans advocates — and the state’s U.S. lawmakers — said it’s too late for excuses. With Bend’s nighttime tempera- Oregon’s tures below U.S. lawmakfreezing, and ers — Sens. one man al- Jeff Merkley, ready severely from top, and injured while Ron Wyden, waiting for and Rep. housing aid, Greg Walden now is the time — have all to move home- been pressurless veterans ing the VA to indoors, they issue housing say. vouchers to The agency Central Orhas 25 hous- egon vets. ing vouchers earmarked for Central Oregon vets, but has said it must hire a case worker to provide counseling and interview potential voucher recipients before the vouchers can be released. See Veterans / A4

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Leaving Ohio in droves, Chemical signals in tears a turnoff (literally) for men to settle mostly in Texas

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When we cry, we may be doing more than expressing emotion. Our tears, according to striking new research, may be sending chemical signals that influence the behavior of other people. The research, published Thursday in the journal Science, could begin to explain something that has baffled scientists for generations: Why do humans, unlike seemingly any other species, cry emotional tears?

In several experiments, researchers found that men who sniffed women’s emotional tears became less sexually aroused than when they sniffed a neutral saline solution that had been dribbled down women’s cheeks. While the studies were not large, the findings showed up in a variety of ways, including testosterone levels, skin responses and brain imaging. See Tears / A5

Men who smelled a sad woman’s tears experienced a temporary drop in testosterone levels, researchers discovered. Thinkstock

By Jim Landers The Dallas Morning News

LORDSTOWN, Ohio — Thousands of the men and women here in northeast Ohio build cars. Their fathers made steel. Home was Youngstown, a city of factories filled with neighborhoods of immigrants from Europe and the American South. Today, however, most of these families have left. “I have three kids, and I don’t see much future for them here,” said Kevin Scott, a 39-year-old with Magna Exteriors and Interiors who installs car seats at GM’s Lordstown auto plant. His children likely will

Inside • A look at Ohio cities’ history of population loss, Page A4 move on — as tens of thousands of Ohioans have — to Texas. While Texas grew dramatically in the last decade, gaining four seats in Congress in the 2010 census, Ohio lost two congressional seats and grew only a little — adding 183,000 residents in 10 years. Texas grew that much in just 5½ months. See Ohio / A4


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