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Raffling off a chance at motherhood By Douglas Quenqua New York Times News Service

"That's right, one lucky woman will win the ultimate chance at starting or building her family," said a contest announcement issued in April by Long Island IVF, a clinic in Melville, N.Y., that offers in vitro fertilization to women who are having diffi­ culty conceiving. Contestants were asked to submit"the most emotional or entertaining essays and homemade amateur videos" explain­ ing why they wanted a free round of IVF. "Make us laugh with you or cry with you," the announce­ ment said. "Tellyour story straight from the heart." Fertility clinics around the country have found that such promotions, which can include ran­ dom drawings and essay contests, can be an ef­ fective way to raise their profiles and crowd their mailing lists with poten­ tial customers — despite the ethical concerns crit­ ics have raised. See Fertility/A6

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By Amy Goldstein The idea of teaching new skills to laid-off workers is a rare eco­ nomic policy on which the two major political parties agree, eager as they are to offer a salve for unemployment. This unlikely bipar­ tisan agreement fits with an abiding cultural belief, since America's founding, in the United States as the land of per­ sonal reinvention. And it keeps faith with a deep­ etched understanding that education is the key to upward mobility. But does retraining actually work? Janesville, Wis., a cityof 63,000 near the Illinois line and home of GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, is a singularly useful place to look for answers. Since General Mo­ torssetoffthe cascade that knocked thousands of people out of their jobs, this community, in many ways, has been doing everything right. See Retraining /A5

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Lupita Lima, from left, and Blanca Meliton laugh while watching a student's film during the end of the Latino Club's meeting on Wednesday at the COCC Campus Center in Bend. Central Oregon Community College is promoting such extracurricular activities for Hispanic students, as well as expanding its efforts to recruit and retain Latinos.

• PppulatjpyI js stjll yelatjvely small, but the Latjnp growth ratefaroutpacesCOCCstotal student body By Ben Botkin The Bulletin

Blanca Meliton works about 20 hours a week in a Bend taco shop and balances her job with life as a part-time student at Central Or­ egon Community College. Now in her second year of col­ lege, she is aiming for a nursing degree. Meliton's journey to the classrooms of COCC started in Ti­ juana, the Mexican city bordering San Diego. She lived there until she was 8, when her family moved to Oregon. Meliton is part of the growing Hispanic student population at the community college, which reached 766 students in 2011-12 year. That's a 91 percent increase from 2007-08, when 399 Latino students attended. That increase in Latino student enrollment has outpaced the col­ lege's overall 43 percent increase in students in that same period. Latinos now make up 6.7 percent of the students at COCC. The college has boosted its ef­ forts to recruit and retain Latino students in recent years. Evelia Sandoval, the school's first Latino program coordinator, was hired in 2009. The college created that position after an enrollment study identified the need to reach out more to Latinos, who were identi­ fied as a growing segment of the

The Bulletin AnIndependent Newspaper

Vol. 109,No. 295, 46 pages, 7 sections

Solving budget woes at the city of Bend is a tall order for 12 candi­ dates vying for four council seats this fall. There simply isn't enough rev­ enue from taxesand other sources to pay for the level of police and fire services residents expect, city offi­ cials say. In the next five years, the city ex­ pectsproperty taxes and other rev­ enue coming into the general fund to grow much more slowly — an es­ timated 2 percent annually — than the demand for police and fire ser­ vices, which are projected to grow 7-9 percent annually, City Manager Eric King has said. Earlier this year, Chief of Police Jeff Sale proposed to stop investigating certain crimes. The Fire Department will come up $1 million to $2 million short of a balanced budget the next three years unless it lays off staff or rais­ es revenues, according to a recent city staff report. In addition to paying for police and fire services, the $37 million

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She alsoteaches a college suc­ cess and writing class that intro­ duces students to Latino authors Inside while teaching remedial skills. • Total OSU-Cascades enrollment is up,B1 Sandoval shares information about the college — such as finan­ student population. cial aid and scholarships — with Sandoval, who works one-on­ students and their families. "I work on empowering stu­ one with students, also advises the college's Latino Club and or­ dents and supporting them," she ganizes events with Latino speak­ said. ers, films and holidays. Those SeeCOCC/A4

Hispanic students atCOCC Enrollment and graduations rates have increased in the past four years.

street maintenance, bus service, the municipal court, code enforcement and many other services. See Council /A7

Armstrong's wa te one riderat a time By juket Macur New York Times News Service

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Floyd Landis, the cyclist who had denied doping for years despite being stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for failing a drug test, went to a lunch meeting in April 2010 with the director of the Tour of California cycling race. As they sat down at a table at the Farm of Beverly Hills restaurant in Los An­ geles, Landis placed a tape recorder between them and pressed record. Landis finally wanted to tell the truth: He had doped through most of hisprofessional career. He was recording his confessions so he would later have proof that he had blown the whistle on the sport. Lance Armstrong never came up, but the meeting would eventually be seen as the first significant crack in Armstrong's gilded foundation, a critical turning point in anti-doping officials' quest to penetrate the code of secrecy that endured in cycling. See Cycling /A8

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