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ByAlandraJohnson The Bulletin
Kiki Nakamura-Koyama,
Plus: FrozenfrogsSome in Alaska canlive for up to 7 months under the snow, motionless.A3
19, arrived in Jerusalem at the
same time thebodies of three kidnapped Jewish teenagers were found. The Bend High School
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
The city of Bend is getting closer to changing the way it charges customers for water and sewer service, after years of periodically revisiting the topic. The City Council will
graduate was in Israel to work
Big Mac index —They're so widely sold, they canbe used to measure the buying power of currencies.CS
Cascade Schoolof Music —The arts organization doubled downwhenthe economywas tough,andit paid off.O1
And a Wedexclusive
— California high school filmmakers find themselves in the vaccine/autism fray. beetlbenetie.cem/extras
EDITOR'SCHOICE
PeaceCorps death raises questions By Sheryl Gay Stolberg New Yorfr Times News Service
BRENTWOOD, Calif.-
Nick Castle had just graduated from the University of
at an integrated
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A b a nd J~ h school dedicated
t o p eace andto conduct awriting programthat would connect the teenagers she taught with
hold workshops on the
Her time there, however, has become complicated by the
subject in September and October, then follow up with focus groups and open houses to gather feedback and share infor-
sirens, increased tensions and
mation with the public.
overhead missiles that have come along with the escalating
The council could vote
students back home in Bend.
on new rate structures as soon as mid-December,
conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Nakamura-Koyama had originallyplannedto travelto Uganda this summer to im-
senior policy analyst Gillian Ockner said at a July 16 meeting. "This is going to be quick and intensive,"
plement the creative writing program inthat country. But
Ockner said. Residential customers
safetyconcerns forced herto
currently pay a base rate
switch locations, so she headed
of $21 a month for the first 400 cubic feet of water
to what was supposedto be a saferspot— Jerusalem. "Being here, watching rockets fly over myhead, was a wake-up call that these kind of
they use, then $1.60 per each additional 100 cubic feet of water. The aver-
age monthly water bill in Bend is $24 during winter months and $48 during summer months, accord-
conflicts exist," said Nakamu-
ra-Koyamain an email interview from Jerusalem. Though she's onlybeen there for ahandful of weeks, Nakamura-Koyamabelieves the experience is shaping her. "I am stillthe same person, but being here has perhaps
ing to the city. Residents
also pay $46 a month for sewer service. Some city councilors, in-
cluding Mayor Jim Clinton and Councilor Mark Capell, have said they want to reduce the base amount charged to all customers
changed the direction of where I want to take myself inthe
California, Berkeley, when he loaded up his backpack with Mandarin-language books and set off for rural China to teach in the Peace
future. The world is dynamic standing in Israel right now. This is where I want to be for the rest of my life — maybe not Israel, but somewhere where
ABOVE: A student at the
Corps. Seven months later,
the world is moving," said
Project Harmony Israel
in January 2013, a 2 a.m. telephone call jolted his par-
Nakamura-Koyama. She and the teenagers in
camp in Jerusalem holds Palestinian and Israeli flags.
ents awake.
the Bend writing program feel
The camp integrates Arab
source — should be in-
inspired by the students in Jerusalem.
and Jewish students. LEFT: In many ways, Kiki
cluded in the fixed amount charged to all water cus-
Nakamura-Koyama says,
tomers. People who com-
the students she works with are just normal kids. They
mented on the city's online
"Your son Nick is very ill," a Peace Corps official
"They are mature beyond
from Washington told them.
Castle, weak from diarrhea and vomiting, had
and calculate water bills
their years. If you met them
collapsed that day in the
you would not believe they are 14, 15, etc. Theyhave more ex-
city of Chengdu and was
perience with hate, fear, racism
in a hospital in a coma. His parents — David Castle,
and this absurd fresh kind of hope than mostpeople I know," Nakamura-Koyama said. See Israel /A4
apolice sergeant in this Northern California city,
more on the amount of watercustomers use.One of the challenges is to calculate which costs — such as utility connections and
Courtesy Meg Sullivan, co-founder of Project Harmony
maintaining a clean water
have secret handshakes and
feedback page, BendVoice. org, encouraged the city
wear friendship bracelets.
to also change to a con-
sumption-based sewer rate structure, Ockner wrote in a recent update to other
city employees.
Courtesy Klkl Nakamura-Koyama
and his wife, Sue, a former nurse — flewto China, where days passed before
See Utility /A6
they learned the truth: Their
son was brain-dead. On Feb. 7, 2013, Nick
Castle was taken offlife support. He was 23. See Peace Corps/A6
Barrier to wiretaps: No one talks on the phone By Ellen Nakashima
cations that lack the technical
say, often decline to even seek
The Washington Post
means to be intercepted.
orders when they know firms
WASHINGTON — Federal
Correction In a story headlined "U.S. Highway 26 closure made for some long trips," which appeared Thursday, July 24, on PageA1, misidentified which sheriff's office issued evacuation orders for homes in the Mark's Creekareaalong the highway. TheCrook County Sheriff's Office issued the orders. The Bulletin regrets the error.
law enforcement and intelligence authorities say they are increasingly strugglingto conductcourt-orderedwiretaps on suspects because of a surge in chat services, instant-messaging and other online communi-
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worse," said Amy Hess, exec-
are citingthe same challenge in criminal cases; agents, they
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like landlines and cellphones — lack intercept capabilities
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