Bulletin Daily Paper 8-21-13

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WEDNESDAY August 21,2013

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• Money will allow 2 more schools into Bend-LaPine'spilot project By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin

A quarter-million-dollar gift from Hoodoo Ski Area owner Chuck Shepard will allow Bend-La Pine Schools to expand its digital conver-

sion program. The gift came through the sale of stock and totaled nearly $262,000, according to Superintendent Ron Wilkinson. The money will allow the

district to expand its digital conversion pilot to Lava Ridge Elementary and Buckingham Elementary. The pilot is aimed at determining the benefit of giving students their own iPads for use dur-

ing and after school. "It is a rather incredible donation," said Wilkinson at the district's board meeting Tuesday afternoon. "This gives us a cross-section of schools and good feedback so we can decide how to move forward or not to." See IPads/A4

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New footbridge designs could save the Bend Park & Recreation District close to $500,000 in its plan to improve the floating and boating experience around the Colorado Avenue Dam, and could move the bridge roughly 150 yards downstream from its current location. Wednesday night, members of the district's • Map of board of bridge directors locations, got their AS first look at

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Surveillance —Government researchers are making progress on facial recognition scanning.AS

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gather data from bird watchers the world over, granting insight on a variety of topics.A3

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a proposal to erect a replacement bridge downstream of the current footbridge. The district plans to build a whitewater play area

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A 35 mm projection system plays a film onto one of the screens Tuesday at Bend's Regal Pilot Butte 6 movie theater. Showing movies on 35 mm film will be "obsolete" after next year, says Russ Nunley, a spokesman for Regal Entertainment Group, and the Pilot Butte property was sold to a Boise, Idaho-based company that plans to turn it into retail space. By Shelby R. King The Bulletin

By Kirk Johnson New Yorh Times News Service

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest's sense of itself can sometimes seem greento the point of parody: a medium-roast blend of piney peaks and urban cool, populated by residents who look descended from lumberjacks or fishermen. Now, plans by the energy industry to move ever-increasing amounts of coal and oil through the region by rail, bound for Asia, are pulling at all the threads of that self-portrait. Last September, the first trains of crude oil from the Bakken fields in North

Dakota began chugging through. Since then, proposals have been drafted for new storage, handling and shipment capability almost equivalent to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which is facing a deeply uncertain path of federal regulatory

approval. Milelong trains from the coal mines of Wyoming already run daily, and theload could more than double if three big proposed exportterminals gain approval and

financing. See Rails/A5

Bend's Regal Pilot Butte 6 will show its last films Sept. 2, Labor Day, before closing itsdoors forever,according to Russ Nunley, a spokesman for Regal Entertainment Group. "It had been identified as an under-performing location that didn't have enough visitors to sustain business activity," he said. "We recently built and then expanded our location in the Old Mill District, and moviegoers have shown a preference for going to that facility." The Pilot Butte theater

was put up for sale in mid2011. In January, Boise, Idaho-based firm Hawkins Cos. LLC applied to the city to purchase and develop the property into commercial retail space. "When we looked for solutions to the lagging business, we found the property itself was the valuable part," Nunley said. The 5.7-acre property near Northeast 27th Street and U.S. Highway 20 sold to Hawkins for $2.9 million, accordingto Jeff Hess, CEOof Hawkins. Pilot Butte 6 opened in 1994 and concentrated on

showing smaller, independent films, Nunley said. Those types of movies will now be shown at the Old Mill theater. "Our Old Mill theater does have room to show a variety of films," he said. "To accommodate many of those who love more independent filmmaking, our Old Mill location also hosts the BendFilm Festival." The Pilot Butte theater shows movies on 35 mm film, which Nunley said will be "obsolete" after next year. "Studios are no longer going to produce movies on 35 mm," he said. "Everything

will be produced digitally." Someone had approached Regal Entertainment Group expressing interest in purchasing the 35 mm projection equipment, but Nunley could not confirm that the equipment sale was final at this time. "A gentleman who is spending some of his summer in Bend heard that this theaterwas forsale,and he contacted Regal to say that he was in the market for film projector equipment," he said. "His interest stems from his work to restore an older theater in his hometown." See Cinema /A4

stream of the dam at Colorado Avenue, and must remove the existing bridge, which is too low to the water for people to safely pass beneath. Until now, designsfora replacement bridge have all placed the bridge within a few feet of the current bridge. Chelsea Schneider, landscape architect with the park district, told the board the earlier bridge concepts were designed to accommodate heavyequipment used to remove ice that builds up on and around the dam and bridge in winter. Since then, engineers have identified other ways to addressthe ice from shore, she said, allowing for the option of a less-expensive bridge that could be installed elsewhere. Regardless of what location the district chooses, the smaller bridge should shavecloseto $500,000 off the originally estimated $1.3 million cost. See Footbridge/A5

Tacking health care costsonto California farm produce By Sarah Varney New York Times News Service

HURON, Calif. — Farm labor contractors across California, the nation's biggest agricultural engine, are increasingly nervous about a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will require

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delayed until 2015, the contractors, who provide farmers with armies of field workers,

say they are already preparhundreds of thousands of fieldworkers to be covered by health insurance. While the requirement to cover workers was recently

ing for the potential cost the law will add to their business, which typically operates on a slender profit margin. "I've been to at least a dozen

seminars on the Affordable Care Act since February," said Chuck Herrin, owner of SunriseFarm Labor, a contractor based here. "If you don't take the right approach, you're wiped out." The effects of the law could be profound. Insurance bro-

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kers and health providers familiar with California's $43.5 billion agricultural industry estimate that meeting the law's minimum health plan requirement will cost about

$1 per hour per employee worked in the field. See Farms/A4

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