Bulletin Daily Paper 05/08/11

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Serving Central Oregon since 1903 www.bendbulletin.com High Lakes Health Care Alongside St. Charles and BMC, this health care provider is expanding.

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BEND East: 1247 N.E. Medical Center Dr.

West: 929 S.W. Simpson Ave. (this fall)

“We’ve just grown organically and stayed under the radar.”

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High Lakes is relocating its crowded downtown office to The Point building on Bend’s west side, above, by fall. High Lakes also operates an east-side branch and one in Sisters, at 354 W. Adams St.

By Markian Hawryluk

Downtown: 18 N.W. Oregon Ave. (closing) 97

The Central Oregon health care community is dominated by two major pillars, St. Charles Health System and Bend Memorial Clinic. But a third group, High Lakes Health Care, has been quietly and steadily growing in size and influence. With two new physicians scheduled to join the practice this summer, High Lakes is close to becoming the single largest provider of primary care in the region.

— Dr. Steve Mann, family physician and High Lakes majority owner The group is bursting at the seams of its downtown Bend location and will move those providers to a new west-side location by Sept. 1. The new space in The Point building on Simpson Av-

enue will house 11 providers, with room for six more. Providers at High Lakes’ east Bend and Sisters locations will not be moving. Adding doctors as needed to meet patient demand, High Lakes

will have grown to 22 primary care providers, including 19 physicians, in its three locations by later this year. That leaves High Lakes just two doctors shy of the 24 primary care providers, including 21 physicians, in the BMC family practice and internal medicine departments. BMC also has pediatricians and women’s health providers, while High Lakes family physicians also see pediatric and gynecology patients. See High Lakes / A6

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CYCLING SAFETY

Lesson learned — the hard way By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

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n April 29, 11-year-old Spencer Gorman decided to get a little exercise and ride his bike the rough-

ly 31⁄2 miles to and from Cascade Middle School, where he is a sixth-grader. Although he’s an avid bicyclist, it was only the second time he’d done the commute. And what happened just before 3 p.m. that Friday afternoon serves as a reminder to all about the importance of following the rules of the road. At the end of the school day, Spencer took his usual route along Mt. Washington Drive. One problem: Spencer was riding on the wrong side of the road. As he approached Metolius Drive, still within sight of his school, a landscaping truck approached the intersection. “I thought he saw me, so I started to cross,” Spencer said of the driver, 23-yearSubmitted photo by Mike Albright

Spencer Gorman, 11, was hit by a truck April 29 while bike riding home from Cascade Middle School on Mt. Washington Drive. Above, he receives medical attention; his mother, Andrea Gorman, stands in the background. Spencer suffered a skull fracture and other injuries.

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A week after his crash, Spencer shows the bent front wheel of his bike. After a brief stay in the hospital, he will be back at school, and back on his bike, soon. “We want to use this accident as a way to promote increased safety,” Spencer’s father, Kyle Gorman, said.

VIDEOS RELEASED: A TERRORIST’S LAST YEARS

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A look inside bin Laden’s lair Bulletin wire reports The world’s most-wanted terrorist lived his last five years imprisoned behind the barbed wire and high walls of his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, his days consumed by dark arts and domesticity. U.S. officials believe that Osama bin Laden spent many hours on the computer, relying on couriers to bring him thumb drives packed with information from the outside world. For years, the world only saw a 54-year-old bin Laden in the rare propaganda videos that trickled out, the ones portraying him as a charismatic religious figure unfazed by being the target of a worldwide manhunt. On Saturday, the Obama administration released a handful of videos, seized from bin Laden’s compound, that show him wrapped in an old blanket watching himself on TV, like an aging actor imagining a comeback. A senior intelligence official said other videos show him practicing and flubbing his lines in front of a camera. He was interested enough in his image, the official said, to dye his white beard black for the recordings. See bin Laden / A8

The feds fight back on pot, and 15 states are baffled By William Yardley New York Times News Service

U.S. Department of Defense via The Associated Press

A handful of recordings seized in Monday’s raid show Osama bin Laden rehearsing for propaganda videos and watching newscasts of himself, huddled in a wool blanket. Said one U.S. official of the unflattering clips: “It showed that bin Laden was not the superhero he wanted his people to think.”

More on Osama bin Laden • Reigniting debate: Did CIA tactics like waterboarding work? Page A2 • Likely successor is a divisive figure, even within al-Qaida, Page A8 • Assessing how he changed the face of terrorism, Perspective, F1

SEATTLE — Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, but that has not stopped a fuzzy industry of pot farms and dispensaries from rising Inside to serve the 15 states that allow the • States with drug for medical purposes. medical Under President Barack Obama, marijuana the federal government had seemed programs, to make a point of paying little attenPage A5 tion — until now. As some states seek to increase regulation but also further protect and institutionalize medical marijuana, federal prosecutors are suddenly asserting themselves, authorizing raids and sending strongly worded letters that have cast new uncertainty on an issue that has long brimmed with tension between U.S. and state laws. See Marijuana / A5


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