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Lord’s Acre Day rolls into Powell Butte
By Nick Grube The Bulletin
For the third time in almost as many months, Bend city councilors listened to residents complain about disruptions caused by one of the many special events that take place around town. Five residents of the Riverwest Neighborhood on the city’s west side take issue with events at the Century Center at 70 Southwest Century Drive. Chief among their concerns, expressed at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, are decibel levels from live music and rowdy behavior caused by patrons leaving parties that stretch late into the evening. “I can feel the bass from the Century Center in my furniture,” said Yoleen Faerber, who lives six blocks from the mixed-use development. “I’m a little more sensitive to it when I’m cranky.” Another woman complained about the types of events that have taken place at the center, including a cage fighting match in September. After the fight was over — after 11 p.m. — many spectators tore through her neighborhood cheering and yelling, she said. “C’mon, we would like to sleep,” Lori Petrich said. “We’re the over-40 crowd who lives in the neighborhood. ... There’s no magic window where sound travels and stops.” While the complaints about the Century Center weren’t new to councilors — a two-day music festival in July generated similar complaints — this group offered a new solution: Let it help fix the problem. See Complaints / A6
By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
The Redmond School District is talking with Cascade East Transit about providing transport options for students when Redmond’s second high school opens next year. But district administrators are cautioning that the talks are preliminary. “We’ve just begun the discussions with CET,” said Jon Bullock, the district’s strategic planning director. “I think right now we want to look at all the options in an effort to do what’s best for our students and their families.” Additional options may be a way to sate demands by parents that Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs be offered as a choice for all students in the district. Under the current proposal, the two programs will split in 2012. Advanced Placement classes will be offered only at Ridgeview High School and International Baccalaureate classes only at Redmond High. See Redmond / A4 Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin
WEEKS OF PREPARATION Mary Lou Petrausch, 73, prepares cinnamon rolls Thursday at Powell Butte Christian Church, which will host its 65th annual Lord’s Acre Day on Saturday. Activities include a 10K run and a 5K walk; sales of pies, sausages, meat, quilts, crafts and antiques; a barbecue lunch; and an auction. Activities will run from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in and around Powell Butte Christian Church and Powell Butte Elementary School.
A SWEET SUPPLY Volunteers have baked 125 trays of cinnamon rolls, which will sell for $10 a tray at Lord’s Acre Day at Powell Butte Christian Church on Saturday. Thousands of people are expected to attend Lord’s Acre Day, which every year raises $50,000 to $60,000 to support building projects, missionary work and scholarship funds for the church. This year, the church will celebrate its 65th year of holding the community event and fundraiser. Admission is free, while food and crafts have varied costs. For more, visit www.powellbuttechurch.com or call 541-548-3066.
Coming Saturday • Lord’s Acre Day then and now: 65 years of celebrating community in Powell Butte
By Corey Williams The Associated Press
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes. It wasn’t always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out — bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness. “How can you darken any city?” asked Victoria Dowdell, standing in
the halo of a light in her front yard. “I think that was a disgrace. She said the decision endangers everyone, especially people who have to walk around at night or catch the bus. Highland Park’s decision is one of the nation’s most extreme austerity measures, even among the scores of communities that can no longer afford to provide basic services. Other towns have postponed roadwork, cut back on trash collection and closed libraries, for example. But to people left in the dark night after night, removing streetlights seems more drastic. And unlike many other cutbacks that can easily be reversed, this one appears to be permanent. See Debt / A4
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The last time the Pentagon was forced to shrink, two decades ago, one of its nemeses was a determined deficit Panetta hawk named Leon Panetta. As chairman of the House Budget Committee and later as budget director in the Clinton administration, Panetta was an unforgiving enforcer of the bottom line as the United States grappled with record debt. As the largest government agency, the Pentagon found itself a frequent target of his whip, especially as it struggled to justify its missions after the Cold War. “The most dangerous threat to our national security right now is debt, very heavy debt, that we confront in this country,” Panetta lectured then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a 1992 hearing. See Panetta / A6
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Crystal Crawford sits in her Charlotte, N.C., apartment. Expert data — more accurate than the U.S. Census — show that few Americans live in destitution, but many are near poor and don’t qualify for assistance.
When the Census Bureau said in September that the number of poor Americans had soared by 10 million to rates rarely seen in four decades, commentators called the report “shocking” and “bleak.” Most poverty experts would add another description: “flawed.” Concocted on the fly a half-century ago, the official poverty measure ignores ever more of what is happening to the poor person’s wallet — good and bad. It overlooks hundreds of billions of dollars the needy receive in food stamps and other benefits and the similarly formidable amounts they lose to taxes and medical care. It even fails to
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note that rents are higher in places like Manhattan than they are in Mississippi. On Monday, that may start to change when the Census Bureau releases a long-promised alternate measure meant to do a better job of counting the resources the needy have and the bills they have to pay. Similar measures, quietly published in the past, suggest among other things that safety-net programs have played a large and mostly overlooked role in restraining hardship: As much as half of the reported rise in poverty since 2006 disappears. The fuller measures have also shown less poverty among children but more among older Americans, who are plagued by high medical costs. See Poverty / A4
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