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EatOn Field? —Mountain View High is naming its newly renovated track facility after a famous alumnus —Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton.C1
By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information lead-
ing to the arrest and conviction of a water bandit in
Crook County. One or more vandals last
month turned a valve on the C o u nty judge. He said whodam holding back Peever released the reserMOP~ voir's waters did not do it terson Creek Reservoir, Phe'tO accidentally. openingtheheadgate "They had to have a and almost completely Ou A6 draining the private great big wrench and reservoir east of Prineville, ope n it up," he said. said Mike McCabe, Crook Peterson Creek Reservoir
can hold up to 50 acre-feet of water, or enough to submerge 50 acres a foot deep in water.
McCabe said the opening of the head gate let 35 to 40 acre-feet of water roll down
Peterson Creek, which leads into the North Fork of the
Crooked River. The water
was being held for irrigation. One acre-foot is equivalent to 326,000 gallons, so about 11.4 million to 13 million gallons of water flowed from the reservoir. SeeReservoir/A6
IN OREGON Calling it a season-
Sea lion in thestreets
GMO ban cou d burt research, OSUsays
Goiug SOIO — A night out by yourself isn't such a badthing, a study contends.A3
The Associated Press
Mt. Bachelor says the resort will close for the season Sunday.B1 Thinkstock
— Why a sealion found hiding under a car in SanFrancisco is emblematic of a broader problem.A3
CORVALLIS — Oregon
State University says a Benton County ballot
All adout the SkinnersA writer is pushing to introduce a new, local currency called the Skinner in Eugene.B3
And a Wed exclusive-
"Kung fu nuns'" address quake devastation in Nepal. bendbulletin.com/extras
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Howfar shou d free
speechgo? By Lindsay Wise and Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Or-
ganizers of the Muhammad Art Exhibit in Gar-
measure that seeks to
By Jasmine Rockowe The Bulletin
Last year, five Jefferson County teenagers gave birth. And with five babies already born to teen mothers this year, Jefferson County appears on track to claim the state's highest teen pregnancy rate (57 per 1,000 females between 15 and 19 years old, according to the Oregon Health Authority)
Myrna Clark, director of
the Pregnancy Resource Center in Madras, said this is one title she'd like to see
Jefferson County lose. "We've held it for a few
5 per 1,000 females in 2013, the most recent year that
figures were availablethat's lower than the state's
pass that trophy somewhere else," she said.
teen pregnancy rate of 5.4 for that age group.
• Jefferson County • Oregon
ferson County to 57 — the
Clark has been working to bring the teen pregnancy rate down by going out into the community and
highest rate in Oregon in 2013 and double the state teen pregnancy rate of 28 pregnancies per 1,000 15- to 19-year-old teen girls.
the controversial event,
groups and schools and encourages girls who seek
parent. She visits youth
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grant legal rights to soil, plants and water.
University officials fear the measure could affect
services at the Pregnancy
Resource Center to share what they have learned with their friends.
a host of nonfood univer-
49
sity research projects that use genetic engineering
57
techniques or GMOs, The Corvallis Gazette-Times
reports.
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OSU officials point to a section of the ordinance that states: "It shall be
5.4
Source: Oregon Health Authority
Some public health officials say including 18- and 19-year-olds in teen pregnancy statistics exaggerates the problem. Although they are less likely to be in school when they get pregnant, 18- and 19-year-olds often
face the same challenges as youngerteens. "Thebiggestdifferenceis
The Bulletin
Parent Program coordinator
for the Oregon Department of Education. "There are not that 15- and 17-year-olds are as many 18-year-olds in high still technically high school school, so it's not necessarily a age," said Crystal Persi, a Teen high school pregnancy." SeeTeen /A6
unlawful for any corporation or governmental entity to engage in the use of genetically engineered organisms within Benton County." "Our general counsel's office has done a review of the ballot measure as
written and has a strong concern that that lan-
guage, whether intended or otherwise, would impact the use of genetically engineered organisms at Oregon State University," said university spokesman Steve Clark.
"A Iot of people struggle, because they don't want to hear that we have the highest teen pregnancy rate. Butwe need to be aware and know I7ow can we help."
Muhammad. Local law enforcement was on the alert. A SWAT team and a bomb squad
tamination and keep corporations that sell GMO seeds from taking over the county's agricultural base. The measure would also
But the county's rate for
rural yet diverse county.
risks of having sex and the realities of being a teen
Backers of Measure
2-89, the Local Food System Ordinance of Benton
farmers from GMO con-
per1,000 females, divided into three age groups (2013)
contributing to the county's girls18 and19 years old high teen pregnancy rate was 139 per 1,000 females — poverty, education and in 2013, bringing the rate accessto resourcesallplay of pregnancy among a role in Central Oregon's girls ages15 to19in Jef-
educating teens on the
GMO-related university research projects.
is limited to food crops. Its goal is to protect
Teenyregnancyrates
Jefferson County's teen
pregnancy rate among girls10 to17 years oldwas
years now, and I want to There are many factors
in the county could hurt
County, say the ordinance
for another year.
land, Texas, knew violence was a possibility. They shelled out $10,000 for extra security to patrol which featured a speech by a Dutch Related pol i t ician • FBI had who is on ID'd one al-Qaida's suspect "hit list" and as a a contest terrorism for the best suspect, cartoon of A4 the Prophet
ban the cultivation of genetically modified crops
— Myrna Clark, director of the Pregnancy Resource Center in Madras
SeeGMO/A6
patrolled. The two gunmen who opened fire with assault weapons outside the ex-
hibit Sunday were killed by a police officer. They have been identified by law enforcement as Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, both of Phoenix.
In Norway, recasting LSD as a wholesome trip By Andrew Higgins New York Times News Service
tion of LSD. It matters little to him that
good health. In fact, he also wants to
hansen and EmmaSofia, the psychedelics advocacy group
their legal adviser. The group, whose name
he founded with his Amer-
derives from street slang for MDMA and the Greek word for wisdom, stands in the van-
They appear, from social
OSLO, Norway — In a
the psychedelic drug has been
manufacture MDMA and psi-
media posts, to have been
country so wary of drug
banned here and around the
motivated by a desire to become mujahedeen, or holy warriors. The attackhighlights the tensions between pro-
abuse that it limits the sale of
w orld formore than 40years.
locybin, the active ingredients in two other prohibited sub-
aspirin, Pal-Orjan Johansen, a Norwegian researcher, is pushing what would seem a doomed cause: the rehabilita-
Johansen pitches his effort not
stances,Ecstasy and so-called
as a throwback to the hippie hedonism of the 1960s, but as
magic mushrooms. All of that might seem
a battle for human rights and
quixotic at best, if only Jo-
ican-born wife and fellow scientist, Teri Krebs, had not already won some unlikely supporters, including a retired Norwegian Supreme Court judge who serves as
guard of a global movement now pushing to revise drug policies set in the 1970s SeeLSD/A5
tecting Americans' trea-
suredrighttofreedom of expression and preserving public safety, and it raises questions about when — if ever — government should intervene.
SeeShooting/A4
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