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A parade of Olympians is forming
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Miki
Bhardwaj Barry
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Decathlon London, 2012
Gymnastics Athens, 2004
Volleyball Mexico City, 1968
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Suzanne King
Dan Simoneau
Kevin Serrapede
Misty Hoiioman
Cross country skiing Norway, 1994 Japan, 1998
Cross country skiing Lake Placid, 1980 Sarajevo, 1984 Calgary, 1988
Handball Munich, 1972 Montreal, 1976
Skiing, Special Olympics Oregon Winter State Games, training to compete in Korea
The Bulletin
The city of Bend has confirmed at least six athletes who competed in previous Olympic and Special Olympics games will join 2012 Olympic gold medalist Ashton Eaton in a pa rade through downtown Bend at I p.m. Sunday. A celebration of Olympic athletes on this scale will be a unique event for the city, said Bend volunteer coordi nator Cheryl Howard. "It will be the first time we' ve seen anything like it," Howard said. "I think it's going to come off looking really elegant." Organizers invited all of the past Olympians they could identify who live in the area, City Re corder Robyn Christie wrote in an email Tues day. The Police Depart ment also contacted a local Special Olympics group to invite past com petitors to participate in the parade, Christie wrote. The parade is a cel ebration of the accom plishments of Mountain View High School graduate Ashton Eaton, who won a gold medal in the decathlon at the summer Olympic games in London. See Parade/A5
By Elon Gluckuch The Bulletin
Nearly 75 percent of the workers at Warm Springs Forest Products will lose their jobs in November. Chief Financial Officer Lou Torgeson confirmed Tuesday that 93 of the company's 126 workers will be laid off.
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
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LEESBURG, Va. — With 1,350 employees in its five U.S. factories, New Balance is proud that it still produces 7 mil lion pairs of shoes each year at its plants in Maine and Massachusetts, the last major athletic foot wear company that still has manufacturing jobs in the United States. But the company says those jobs could very well disappear if the U.S. scraps its tariff on ath letic footwear coming in from Vietnam. It's part of the mount ing anxiety caused by the new Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest trade pact proposed in U.S. history. And as 400 negotiators from nine countries met privately at a golf resort in north ern Virginia last week in an attempt to finalize details, New Balance officials weren't the only ones fretting. SeeTrade /A5
Ten days after the Pole Creek Fire roared to life, Sis ters wore its heaviest blanket of smoke yet on Tuesday. An air pollution monitor recalibrated Monday captured readings of 1,000 microns per cubic meter of fine par ticulate matter, four times the level considered hazardous to breathe for one hour. The Or egon Department of Environ mental Quality recalibrated the monitor at the Sisters Ranger District Office upon discovering it could only de tect up to 482.5 micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter. Smoke is primarily composed of particles that measure 2.5 microns in diameter or less, which can easily penetrate and damage lungs. Shifting winds pushed thick smoke into Bend in midafter noon, with the DEQ monitor ing station near downtown finding air in the "unhealthy" range — though still just one tenth as smoky as recorded in Sisters overnight. However, the same weather that choked Sisters and Bend with smoke provided firefight ers with a third straight day of favorable conditions for bat tling the flames. Pole Creek Fire spokes woman Katie Lighthall said the atmospheric inversion that settled over the region Monday and Tuesday kept smoke trapped on the surface, but also created lower tem peratures and higher humid ity, both of which benefit fire crews. "It's very favorable for just keeping flame lengths a little bit lower; everything is not quite so intense. It's safer, so they can get a lot of good work done on the lines," she said. Crews finished several miles of containment line Tuesday, Lighthall said, run ning along Forest Service Road 16 and the Tam McAr thur Rim. The line serves as insurance should weather
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be available for comment later this week. Warm Springs For est Products, located on U.S. Highway 26 in Warm Springs, is the 10th larg est employer in Jefferson County, and the 47th largest private-sector employer in Central Oregon, according to
Economic Development for Central Oregon. The company was founded in 1967 by the Jefferson Plywood Corporation and is owned by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, ac cording to the company's website. SeeWarm Springs/A5
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Workforce Development on Tuesday. The layoffs would take effect starting Nov. 16, according to its WARN Act documents. Torgeson declined to com ment on the circumstances of the layoffs, or about the company's future. He said CEO John Katchia Sr. would
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It's the second mill in the eastern half of the state to announce layoffs in about a month. Warm Springs Forest Products submitted Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act paperwork with the state Department of Community Colleges and
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• In Sports: Sisters athletics forced to make changesin venues, D1 • In Congress: Budget measure would include wildfire funding By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
WASHINGTON — When the Senate reconvenes today, it is expected to pass a con tinuing resolution that would keep the federal government funded for another six months. A stopgap measure, the continuing resolution keeps most funding for the first half of fi scalyear 2013 at this year's levels, with govern ment spend
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Sisters High School cross country team member Brennan Miller, 16, helps load gear onto a bus as the team prepared to go to the Metolius River to practice away from the smoke generated by the Pole Creek Fire on Tuesday. "We' re trying to be flexible," said cross country coach Charlie Kanzig. conditions change, Lighthall said, noting crews will con tinue to fight the main body of the fire a few miles north and west of the line. "It's a good line, 100 feet to a quarter mile (wide)," she said.
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and run a little bit south or to the east, they' re going to have a really good solid line in that direction." Lighthall said forecasts predict more challenging weather for fire crews over the next few days, but it's unlikely they' ll see a repeat of Friday, when high heat and winds al lowed the fire to nearly triple in size in 24 hours. As of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, fire managers put the Pole Creek Fire at 17,500 acres, with an estimated 20 percent contain ment and more than 1,200 firefighters on the blaze. See Fire/A5
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Air quality in Sisters continues to be hazardous as winds blow smoke from the Pole Creek Fire into town. After Department of Environmental Quality engineers on Monday recalibrated a Sisters sensor to be able to record higher pollutant levels, measurements exceeded four times what is considered hazardous. The scale shown below originally went to 500.
MICRONS PERCUBIC METER OF POLLUTANT PM2.5
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at $1.047 trillion per year. One of the handful of items that would see an increase in funding is wildfire suppression, which would be in creased by $800 million. The House of Repre sentatives easily passed the continuing resolution last week. As a compro mise brokered by House and Senate leadership, it is expected to pass the Senate also. The devastating — and ongoing — 2012 fire season saw the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies exhaust their entire firefighting budgets for the year be fore the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. When that happens, the Forest Service bor rows money from its other programs so it can continue to ac tively fight fires without interruption. See Budget/A6
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