Bulletin Daily Paper 02/28/11

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CYCLING CENTRAL

Champ bids Bend goodbye

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But first Barbara Buchan will compete in paracycling world championships • SPORTS, D1

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WEATHER TODAY

MONDAY

Mostly cloudy, chance of mixed showers High 42, Low 27 Page B6

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CAROL JOHNSON BRYANT 1925 — 2011

BENDITES LIKE THE OSCARS — THEY REALLY, REALLY LIKE THEM

Bend’s ‘grand dame of theater’ auditioned her 1st month in town

School transfers a disputed point in Redmond By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

REDMOND — The relationship has been cordial between the Redmond School District and the unions representing much of its staff as the groups begin working to cover a roughly $10 million budget shortfall. But during a recent Redmond School Board meeting, a potential bump appeared when the issue of inter-district transfers was discussed. The district plans to allow students to transfer, but the unions oppose that plan. The issue has become contentious over the last few years as the district, like many others, repeatedly has faced multimillion-dollar budget shortfalls. Redmond has made some of the most dramatic cuts in the region, including adopting a four-day school week for the 2009-10 academic year. This year, the district has gotten the earliest start in the region on its budget process and has tried to involve as many staffers as possible. The transfer issue puts the district’s traditional open policy up against the current fiscal crisis. Districts are largely funded by the state on a perstudent rate, and each student who transfers from Redmond costs the district about $6,000. The loss of this money worries the unions. Superintendent Shay Mikalson wants to continue allowing transfers, but with a tightened enforcement of the district’s transfer policy. That may include exit interviews for transferring families, though how that would work has not been finalized. Judy Newman, the Redmond Education Association president, warned that open transfers could become an issue during the budget discussions. “I believe it is going to impact (union members’) decision-making when they’re asked for concessions,” Newman said during the meeting. See Transfers / A4

By David Jasper The Bulletin

Carol Johnson Bryant, a key figure in the Bend theater community both on stage and off, died Friday afternoon after being hospitalized for pneumonia. She was 85. “It was several things,” said son Andy Hickman. “Somewhere in the last three or four weeks, she had a mild heart attack. Add to that emphysema and diabetes. … Add to that pneumonia, add to that 85 years old, poor nutrition and dehydration. Right up until the final seconds she was still baffling science.” Hickman, a comedian and actor in Portland, says he inherited an irreverent sense of humor from his mother, who is remembered by friends for her sharp wit and, of course, her love of theater. Co-founder of Community Theatre of the Cascades in 1978, Bryant was often referred to as “the grand dame of theater,” said Dee Torrey, retired executive and artistic director of CTC. The license plate of her red Chevy Monte Carlo, which read “THEATR,” announced it as well. See Bryant / A4

Andy Manis / The Associated Press Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

Attendees watch the 83rd Academy Awards broadcast Sunday evening at the Tower Theatre. The event, with raffles, refreshments, movie polls and more, was a fundraiser for the Tower Theatre Foundation and BendFilm. For Oscars coverage and the winners in major categories, see Page A3. The Bulletin ile photo

Carol Johnson Bryant, pictured in 2008, moved to Bend in 1972. “She was involved in theater from the minute she arrived in Bend,” said Janis Sharpe, Bryant’s friend.

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Unions debate what ARIZONA SHOOTING they’re willing to give Recovering every day, Giffords to save bargaining and her circle struggle together By Michael Cooper and Steven Greenhouse New York Times News Service

By Sari Horwitz The Washington Post

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Vol. 108, No. 59, 28 pages, 5 sections

Damon Terrell speaks to protesters Sunday at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. Protests to the governor’s bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have lasted two weeks.

The congresswoman wears a helmet designed with colors of the Arizona flag when she goes to therapy. With it off, her friends say, she looks like herself. Her hair is growing back; the wounds on her head are healing. She listens, smiles and frowns at appropriate moments. She speaks single words even though she cannot yet carry on a conversation. The friends who’ve come to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ room at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston say she’s getting better every day. They can tell that she recognizes them; her eyes brighten when they enter, and sometimes she tears up when they leave. Healing proceeds in small steps — not just in the hospital but also in Giffords’ office in Tucson. See Giffords / A6

Courtesy ofice of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

The hospital-room bed of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Houston. The helmet on the stuffed animal is one Giffords wears during her therapy to protect the area where a piece of her skull was removed during surgery.

As Wisconsin’s governor and public employees square off in the biggest public-sector labor showdown since Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981, unions in a range of states are weighing whether to give ground on wages, benefits and work rules to preserve basic bargaining rights. It is not yet clear whether Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin will succeed in his quest to strip public employee unions of most of their bargaining rights. But by simply pressing the issue so hard, he has already won major concessions that would have been unthinkable just a month ago. Some of Wisconsin’s major public-sector unions, faced with what they see as a threat to their existence, have decided to accept concessions that they had been vigorously fighting: They said they would agree to have more money deducted from workers’ paychecks to go toward their pensions and health benefits. See Unions / A4


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