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• 2 bound for WestPoint in NewYork; the other is headedto the Air ForceAcademy
Rental market tightens further By Joseph Ditzler The Bulletin
By Megan Kehoe eThe Bulletin
Edidle pot dangers-
mily Shunk remembers the day her future became clear.
Recent deaths possibly linked to edible marijuana haveraised concerns about its safety.AS
Sneaker exchange — lt's a growing craze that's highly profitable: the collecting, trading and selling of sneakers.A3
Finding a place to rent became a full-time job for Bre Aasland when she
decided this year to move
That afternoon, she was walking up Pilot Butte. And for some reason, as she climbed the
out of her parents' home,
where she lived three years after returning to Bend.
narrow, steep path to the top, she couldn't stop thinking about her uncle.
"I would like to live on
Capt. Lawrence Shunk died before Emily was born. Despite that, she had always felt a special
my own but I can't find someone that will take my money," said Aasland, 25, who works in accounting and marketing for Bend Garbage & Recycling
connection to him.
A chocolate giant — No matter what flavor of chocolate you crave, a little-known company in Pennsylvania probably had a hand in crafting it.C6
Inc. "I think just this
Plus: Planning filings-
cation it's rented out."
year alone, I've been to about five different walk-
throughs and before I can finish filling out the appli-
Construction booms inBend.C6
In Central Oregon the vacancy rate shrank to 0.7percent this year, lower even
And a Wed exclusive-
than the 1 percent rate last year, according to annual surveyresultsreleased Friday by the Central Oregon
Move over, Easter bunny. An entrepreneur wants Russia to embrace theEaster turkey. bnnttbulletin.cnm/nxtrns
Rental Owners Association
and Housing Works. SeeRentals/A6
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NATOaims to ease fears in the Baltics By Griff Witte The Washington Post
LONDON — For de-
cades, NATO has expanded inexorably outward, taking on newmembers and new missions that have carried it far beyond its original mandate in Western Europe and deep into the
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sphere. But Russia's
unfazed
by deal on intervention
Photos by Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Tim Gorman, a senior at Mountain View High School, will be attending West Point after graduating this year.
Emily Shunk, a senior at Summit High School, will be attending the Air Force
after graduating this year.
Academy following her graduation.
said she was suddenly struck
Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., this summer. She is one of three students
with bolt of clarity.
in Bend who were accepted
And that afternoon, while thinking about him, Emily
"It was almost a supernatural thing how it happened that day," Emily, 18,
to military academies this year, said Central Oregon's
said. "It just hit me that if I did this, if I went to the Air Force Academy, it would be
a way to honor this person who's meant so much to my family."
But although only three
local students have been accepted, Smith said it's ac-
tually the highest number of students who have been ac-
Long-term
never had two go to West Point. It's quite rare, to say the least." Both the Air Force Acade-
my and West Point are highly
unemployed struggle to keepjobs
cepted to military academies
competitive, historic schools.
Both had an acceptance rate
By Ylan Q. Mui
resentative, Gerald Smith.
from local schools in recent memory. The last time a stu-
of about 9 percent in fall 2012,
The Washington Post
In addition to Emily, Tim Gorman of Mountain View
dent from Bend was accepted to West Point was in 2011,
and both have rigorous application processes involving
High School and Braden Bell of Bend High School are
Smith said.
fitnesstests,medical screen-
had three people go to military academies from Bend in
ings and congressional recommendations, in addition to applications, essays and
High School, is heading
both attendingthe United States Military Academy in West Point, N Y., starting this
employed, finding a job is hard — but keeping one may be even harder. New research tracking people who have been out
the same year," Smith said.
questionnaires.
of work for six months or
to the United States Air
summer.
West Point admissions rep-
Emily, a senior at Summit
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"I know for sure that we've
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"It's going to be such an adventure. I'm looking forward to being molded into the best person that t can possibly be."
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Braden Bell, a senior at Bend High School, will be attending West Point
— Emily Shunk, Summit High senior bound for the Air Force Academy
has sent shiv-
For the long-term un-
longer found that 23 percent landed a job within a few months of the study.
But ayear later, more than a third of that group was unemployed again or out of the labor force altogether. SeeJobs/A5
ers down the spines of Eastern European countries from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria in the south. NATO's newest members have been left
feeling vulnerable and wondering whether the world's most powerful military
alliance is truly committed to their defense. Concerns have been es-
pecially acute in the Baltics, where nations that were once part of the Soviet em-
pire now stare out across the Russian border and fear that they could be next on Russian President Vladimir Putin's hit list. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — like Ukraine
— have significant Russian-speaking populations, people who Putin has suggested should, by all rights, be living in Russia.
Skilled Sherpasrisk life and limb onMount Everest By Ellen Barry and Graham Bowley
creep one by one across ladders propped over crevasses,
New York Times News Service
NEW DELHI — The Sher-
pas always go first, edging up the deadly flank of Everest while international clients
wait for days in the base camp below. They set off in the dark, beforethe day'swarmth
Sherpas were tethered to ropes, a chunk of ice broke burdened with food and off, sending an avalanche of supplies, all the while ice and snow down into Phlc the ice fields on the watching the great wall of a hanging glai nSide moun t a in's south side cier, hoping that this • Everest at and engulfing about s eason will not be the a glance, 30 men. The toll, at 12 year it falls. dead, with four still A5 On Friday, however, missing, is the worst in it did. a single day in the history of
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members of an ethnic group known for their skill at
high-altitude climbing, who put themselves at great risk for the foreign teams that pay them.
Among their most dangerous tasks is fixing ropes, carrying supplies and estab-
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