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N R REUNIONS USS Iwo Jima (LPH2/LHD7) shipmates will hold a reunion June 1-5 at Marriott City Center Hotel, 740 Town Center Drive, Newport News, Va. Contact Robert G. McAnally at 757-723-0317 or yujack@megalink.net. • USS Maddox Destroyer Association (DD731, DD622 and DD168) will hold a reunion Aug. 25-28 in Branson, Mo. Contact Dennis Stokhaug at 262679-9409 or maddox64@aol.com. • Redmond High School Class of 1991 will hold its 20-year reunion July 22-23. Contact 541-316-0491 or rhs1991classreunion@gmail.com. • Mountain View High School Class of 1991 will hold its 20-year reunion July 28 in Portland at the Red Lion Hotel on the River, beginning at 7 p.m. Contact: Classic Reunions, Inc., P.O. Box 80455, Portland, OR 97280, www. classicreunions.com, 503-626-3669 or mtview1991@classicreunions.com. • Redmond High School Class of 1961 will hold its 50-year reunion Aug 12-13. Register by June 1. Contact 541-548-3140. • Bend High School Class of 1961 will hold its 50-year reunion Sept. 16-17. Contact Carol Still at 541-3509612 or carolstill14@yahoo.com. • Sisters High School will hold its tri-annual reunion Aug. 6-7. All Sisters High School classes are welcome to attend. Register by Aug. 1. Contact Lance Trowbridge at 541-420-4652 or Tom Smith at 541-549-3973. • The Bend High School Class of 1956 55-year reunion and the Bend High School all class reunion will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 10 in Pioneer Park. Bring your own food, drink and chair or purchase lunch from the Bend High Alumni Barbecue. Contact Darlene at 541-388-1112 or darlenegaines@bendbroadband. com or www.bshalumni.com.
MILITARY NOTES Air Force Airman Beau Stearns has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. He is a 2008 graduate of Summit High School, and the son of Andrew Stearns, of Bend, and grandson of Patsy Stearns, of Salem.
Navy Seaman Recruit Kevin Wistrom has completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. He is a 2009 graduate of Sisters High School, and the son of Davaughn Wistrom, of Bend. The following soldiers of the Oregon Ar my National Guard’s Company D, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, were recently awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge for being personally engaged by the enemy near Mosul, Iraq: Spc. Michael Kissee, a 2003 graduate of Redmond High School and the son of James Kissee, of Terrebonne. Spc. Jonathon Pecue, a resident of Bend, and the son of Ray Cheser, of Coos Bay, and Kim Pecue, of Eugene. Spc. Jimmy Sehorn, a resident of Bend, and the son of Ken Sehorn, of Bend.
COLLEGE NOTES The following local students have been named to the winter 2011 Dean’s List at University of Oregon: Elena Absalon, Corey Adkins, Ian Austin, Ian Bailey, Annaleigh Boggess, Tyler Boorman, Aletheia Bouknight, April Campbell, Grant Caswell, Shaina Dotson, Jennifer Edwards, Tamara Feingold, Vanessa Fiedler, Dylan Haynes, Amanda Hildebrandt, Sierra Hill, Claire Johnson, Mehama Kaupp, Nicole Madison, Amanda Mattei, Cally Modin, Kelly Mullins, Theresa Peoples, Phoebe Petersen, Mary Popish, Mason Ross, Christina Schueler, Olivia Shaw, Garrett Smith, Lindsey Spring, Juli Walton, Kelsey Wyrick, and Kwok Fung Zhong, all of Bend, Carson Ahern, Miriam Fisher, and Kadie Manion, all of Madras, Rita Aulie and Shannon Ferry, both of Redmond, and Nicholas Anthony and Janelle Hjelmstad, both of Sisters.
YOUTH NOTE The following students have been published in the 2011 “Honoring Our Rivers: A Student Anthology,� which features original poems, essays, photography and art from Oregon students: Megan Beck, Natalie Burdsall, Jaycee Chango, Brena Dalyo, Bridger Freeling, Brianna Leary, Carsyn McIntyre. Wren Miller, Emma Normand, Luke Smith, all students at Miller Elementary, in Bend, and Ashley Bushnell, Rona Campbell, Tempest Carvalho, Zac Forte, Micah Kurzer, Graham Lelack, all students at Rimrock Expeditionary Alternative Learning Middle School, in Bend.
Oregon man on 2nd heart L B now needs a new kidney Bulletin staff report
By Kathy Aney Jeremy Koertje dreams of working in the computer industry. These days, however, the 26year-old would settle for taking his skateboard for a spin, tossing a football with his brothers or simply shaking the fatigue and nausea that have become his constant companions. The Boardman man received a heart transplant more than 24 years ago. As a 1-year-old, Jeremy was the first child under the age of 10 to have a heart transplant performed in the Pacific Northwest. Jeremy knows he has beaten the odds, but over the years, anti-rejection drugs took their toll on his kidneys. Jeremy is weak and recently started home dialysis to clean his blood.
Strep moves to heart Jeremy’s mother, Mary Koertje, remembers the day the saga began 24 years ago. “He came down with strep and it went to his heart,� she said. “Ten days later, he had a heart transplant.� Before the heart became available, Jeremy lay in a crib at Oregon Health & Science University where his parents and nurses urged him to stay still to keep from stressing his heart. Within a few days of getting his name on the transplant list, surgeons transplanted the heart of a young accident victim into Jeremy. The little boy, with a brand-new heart beating in his chest, began a new life. Living with a transplanted heart required Jeremy to take anti-rejection drugs and a kitchen drawer full of other medications. Prescribing optimal doses of anti-rejection drugs is a delicate dance. Not enough medication and the body rejects the heart. Too much and the kidneys are overwhelmed. Jeremy’s kidneys finally started failing a couple of years ago. His kidney function
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Jeremy Koertje, 25, of Boardman, performs a home kidney dialysis April 28 as his nephew, Nicholas Koertje, 5, also of Boardman, climbs on his bed at Jeremy’s home. Jeremy Koertje currently performs this home dialysis procedure four times a day to drain the toxins from his body. gradually dropped to 10 percent and his feet swelled to the size of footballs. Jeremy’s bedroom closet now holds an IV stand and containers filled with a sugar water solution. Four times a day, he fills his abdominal cavity with fluid through a permanent catheter in his stomach. The solution draws out waste and extra fluid. After several hours, he drains the nowtoxic solution and refills.
Hard on emotions The procedure is hard on his heart and hard on his psyche. Jeremy escapes his reality by firing up his Xbox, which keeps his frustration at bay, but being trapped in a malfunctioning body gets wearing. “I get really down sometimes,� he said. Mary is never far from Jeremy. She quit her job as school librarian to help her son with dialysis and ferry him to medical appointments. Finding Jeremy a kidney is high on her list. She is not a match for her son. His father Howard and Jeremy’s older brothers, Josh and Cory, are also unsuitable donors. Mary is checking all paths that might lead to a new kidney. Jeremy will likely go on OHSU’s transplant list after he shakes off the effects of a recent
virus. Mary knows that route could take years and hopes kind friends or strangers will offer to test for compatibility. She is also looking into a group called Alliance for Paired Donation. The organization solves the incompatibility problem by exchanging donors such as Mary who are willing to donate, but aren’t a match for their own family member. For example, a chain of 10 donations started after an altruistic donor gave a kidney to a woman from Phoenix. The woman’s husband donated his kidney to a stranger in Ohio, whose mother donated to a man in Maryland and so on. One way or another, Jeremy’s mom is keeping the faith. “My kids are everything to me,� she said. “I’ll fight with everything I have.�
Police have arrested a man suspected in Friday’s robbery of a Redmond bank. Sterling Donald Dubuque, 48, of Redmond, was located by police at a Redmond apartment complex at around 12:46 p.m. Saturday. He was taken into custody, and later arrested and jailed on charges of robbery, theft and menacing. He was also wanted on an outstanding warrant out of California for a parole violation. Dubuque is the only known suspect in the robbery of the Chase Bank inside the Redmond Fred Meyer on Friday afternoon. At approximately 4;18 p.m., a man approached the counter of the bank and displayed a handgun. He was given an undisclosed quantity of cash and left the area on foot.
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