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MIRROR POND

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By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

Bend residents appear to be split down the middle on whether Mirror Pond should remain a pond or be transformed into a freeflowing river, according to the results of a questionnaire released Friday. Nearly 1,900 people completed the online questionnaire created by the Mirror Pond Steering Committee, a group assembled by the Bend City Council in 2009 to determine what, if anything, should be done to address silt that has been accumulating in the pond since it was last dredged in 1984. Project manager Jim Figurski stressed that the results are not scientific. Statistically valid surveys use random sampling to discern the opinions of the larger community; while the questionnaire participants opted into the process by visiting the mirrorpondbend .com website and electing to complete the 18-item questionnaire Survey participants were disproportionately from the northwest quadrant of the city — 46 percent — and primarily long-time residents of Bend. Just 18 percent of participants reported having lived in Bend five years or less, while 27 percent have lived here 10-20 years and 36 percent for 20 years or longer. See Mirror Pond/A5

Startup contest —Two Central Oregon companies have a shot at competing for

angel-investment funds in a statewide contest.C6

Stick figures —wherethe average person sees aplain old branch, a Bendartist sees a colorful character.D1

RighteOuSWaVeS — "How many 87-year-old Catholic

priests do you knowwho play banjo and surf?" D2

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doesn't offer any conclusive reasons to blockthe Keystone XL pipeline.A2 ,s

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WASHINGTON — No one would mistake Mantua, a leafy section of Northern Virginia's Fairfax County where houses sell in the $700,000 range, for a factory town, but where Jenny Foo lives, almost everyone's paycheckcomes from the same place. Foo, who spent her career at the State Department, livesacross from someone who worked at the Food and Drug Administration and another who had a careerwith the U.S. Geological Survey and just up from a couple of military families. Around the corner, there's a National Park Service historian, a Pentagon analyst and a Foreign Service diplomat. In Mantua — 14 miles west of Washington's Federal Triangle area, which has offices of several government agencies — the sledgehammer of budget cuts that hit Friday are a threat to financial stability, an unnecessary reminder of a political system that seems unable to solve problems and, perhaps worst of all, a symbol of how dramatically perceptionsofgovernment work have shifted. For most of their lives, federal workers in Mantua say, having "United States Treasury" atop their paycheck meantsecurity, prideand a sense ofmi ssion. Things change: Now it means having to defend yourself against arguments, from strangers and even from your own relatives, that you're an overpaid and underworked leech. See Employees/A4

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By Brady Dennis Joe Kline/The Bulletin

Damien Carre, of Portland, ascends the Big Tree, a ponderosa pine, in La Pine State Park last week. Carre is a member of Ascending the Giants, a nonprofit that climbs and measures champion trees, which are the tallest trees of a species.

By Marieile Gallagher •The Bulletin

t often does a defect catapult something to greatness. But in the case of the Big Tree, a ponderosa pine in La Pine State Park, it's likely a scar near its base that saved it from harvest, allowing it to grow to be among the largest of its species in the United States. "More than likely all the trees that were (the Big Tree's) cohorts went into the timber industry and this tree survived because of its defect," said Jason Morrow, executive director of Ascending the Giants, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and recording Oregon's largest trees. It is presumed that the Big Tree will claim champion status as the biggest ponderosa pine in the U.S. in the next edition of the National Register of Big Trees, com-

piled by American Forests. Currently, the tree is ranked in first place. The final deadline for tree measurement submissions is March 15. American Forests bills itself as the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, according to its website. This is not officially the giant yet ... I'm 99.9 percent sure until I hear back from the national registry," said Brian French, co-founder of Ascending the Giants. SeeTree/A5

Qo Story in photos —Measuring a giant, B2 Q Video online — bendbulletin.com/bigtree

TODAY'S WEATHER Rain possible High 61, Low 27

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The Washington Post

DENVER — When is someone too stoned to drive? The answer, it turns out, has been anything but simple in Colorado, which last fall became one of the first states in the country to legalize marijuana. Prosecutors and some lawmakers have long pushed for laws that would set a strict blood-level limit for THC, the key ingredient in cannabis. A driver over the limit would be deemed guilty of driving under the influence, just as with alcohol. Such legislation has failed several times in recent years in the face of fierce opposition. SeePot/A5

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