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OUR SCHOOLS, 5 YEARS LATER
Bend-La Pine reaps benefits from bond $119M mostly went to new buildings, renovation
The bond also covered work at the district offices, maintenance center and distribution center. Superintendent Ron Wilkinson said the upgrades were particularly critical after the district’s recent growth. “We have been on such a steep growth curve. This bond has allowed us to finally catch up to our growth,” Wilkinson said. See Bond / A6
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Five years after passing a $119 million bond, Bend-La Pine Schools has completed 170 projects that include everything from heated sidewalks to new schools. In that time, William E. Miller Elemen-
tary, Rosland Elementary and Ponderosa Elementary opened. The district also completed major expansions at a few schools and installed smaller upgrades at others. The bond paid for the technical education building at Bend High School and a significant renovation of Westside Village School.
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4 Opened: Bend High technical center
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Troubled shelter was run without much official oversight By Hillary Borrud and Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
A transitional housing facility for women and children in Bend that is shutting down amid allegations of mismanagement appears to have operated without government oversight. Lake Place in Southwest Bend was promoted as a temporary alcohol- and drug-free home for women and children escaping domestic violence and homelessness; women recovering from addiction; and parolees re-entering society. Local nonprofits, including Saving Grace and the Bethlehem Inn, recommended Lake Place as transitional housing for women and children, as did the Deschutes County Adult Parole and Probation Department. Yet as Lake Place began evicting women and preparing to shut down in August, some current and former residents raised concerns about ongoing problems. The residents allege Lake Place’s director drank with residents and that her husband — a convicted felon — harassed some of the women living there. The Bend Police Department is investigating Lake Place, but the police have declined to comment on the nature of the investigation. The 26-room transitional facility, which opened several years ago, is in foreclosure, and the property owners owe nearly $90,000 in county taxes. Residents have been served with 30or 60-day eviction notices and were told in mid-September that their utilities might be turned off. The utilities were still on as of Friday, said former resident Dolly Haney, who keeps in touch with women living there. Staff at several government agencies said last week that Lake Place was outside their purview because it is a private, for-profit business that does not appear to have received any major government grants. The public funds that some of the women used to help pay rent — federal assistance for needy families, federal disability benefits and state domestic violence survivor grants — do not carry restrictions on where they can be used to pay rent, officials said. Lake Place charged residents $300 per month for a 12-footby-12-foot room, with a $100 nonrefundable cleaning deposit and a $20 background check. Rent increased $20 per month for each child. See Shelter / A4
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With more doctorates in health care, a fight over a title By Gardiner Harris New York Times News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With pain in her right ear, Sue Cassidy went to a clinic. The doctor, wearing a white lab coat with a stethoscope in one pocket, introduced herself. “Hi. I’m Dr. Patti McCarver,
and I’m your nurse,” she said. And with that, McCarver stuck a scope in Cassidy’s ear, noticed a buildup of fluid and prescribed an allergy medicine. It was something that will become increasingly routine for patients: someone who is not a physician using the title of doctor.
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McCarver calls herself a doctor because she returned to school to earn a doctorate last year, one of thousands of nurses doing the same recently. Doctorates are popping up all over the health professions, and the result is a quiet battle over not only the title “doctor,” but also
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the money, power and prestige that often comes with it. As more nurses, pharmacists and physical therapists claim this honorific, physicians are fighting back. For nurses, getting doctorates can help them land a top administrative job at a hospital, improve their stand-
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