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work with mentally ill By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Outlaw gardeners — The couple pictured above live in Orlando, Fla., andare operating an illegal vegetable garden. At least, that's how the city sees it. A5
The loyal lieutenant
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• Make three lanes with a travel lane in each direction and a center turn lane
• Make three lanes with a travel lane in each direction and a center turn lane • Install bike lanes, sidewalks, drainage and
• Install bike lanes,sidewalks, drainage, street lighting and possible landscape strips • Move the American Lane bridge over the canal new intersection
Cantor is taking a low-key approach to negotiations on the fiscal cliff. AS
• Install bike lanes and sidewalks on the new
a travel lane in each direction and center turn
street lighting • Replace traffic signal at15th Street with multilane roundabout
west of its current location • Possibly add a traffic signal or roundabout at the
— House Majority Leader Eric
15TH STREET TO 27TH STREET • Make three lanes with
• Possibly include a warning device at the
lane • Install bike lanes, sidewalks, drainageand
roundabout alerting drivers about trains on
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A special player — Jacob Rainey is back playing quarterback for Woodberry Forest
School in Virginia — onone leg. C1
In duSineSS neWS — Sales of existing homes hit a three-
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And a WedexclusiveIf you're reading this, congratulations. You survived what some thought would be
the apocalypse predicted by the Mayan calendar. bendbulletin.com/extras
EDITOR'5CHOICE
NRA leader faces tough going after shootings By Eric Lichtblau New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — David Keene — big-game hunter, eminence grise to conservatives, and now head of the National Rifle Association — was explaining last month why
people are buying more guns these days. "Today," Keene told a roomful of conservatives in Hawaii, "guns are cool." That, of course, was before the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school dramatically revived the once-moribund debate over gun control. With the NRA set to hold its first news conference on the shootings Friday after a weeklong silence, Keene
• The planneddesign — part of the larger ReedMarket Roadproject — aims to minimizecongestion when atrain blocks traffic, but someneighbors disagree By Scott Hammers e The Bulletin
Just a few months from now, Bend will embark on its largest street improvement project in recent memory — the $18 million overhaul of Reed Market Road. Covering a two-mile stretch from Third Street to 27th Street, the Reed Market Road project is, according to the city public works department, the "largest and most complex" project funded by the $30 million bond approved by voters in May 2011. Construction is projected to take 17 months, beginning in May 2013 with work on the eastern portion between Newberry Drive and 27th Street. In October 2013, crews will turn their attention west, and begin construction between Newberry Drive and Third Street. City transportation engineering manager Nick Arnis said that while the ~ jl
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particularly east of 15th Street, where a 16-year-old bicyclist was killed by a distracted driver in 2011. Much of Reed Market Road lacks a center turn lane, putting drivers who stop to turn across traffic at risk of being rear-ended. By the time construction wraps up in late 2014, the traffic signal at Reed Market Road and 15th Street will be replaced witha roundabout, and a traffic signal will be installed where a re-aligned American Lane crosses a new bridge to meet Reed Market Road. Sidewalks, bike lanes and a center turn lane will run the entire distance between Third Street and 27th Street.
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with mental health issues. In Bend,16officers have been trained as part of the crisis intervention team, and law enforcement with the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, Redmond Police, and the Black Butte and Sunriver police departments have undergone training as well. Now that training will spread further. Bend Police Capt. Corey Darling is on the crisis intervention team's task force. CIT started in 2010, and is based on a model developed in 1988 in Memphis. The task force includes mental health professionals, law enforcementand other invested groups that come together to discuss how best to combine their efforts. See Police/A6
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is facing perhaps the biggest threat in decades to his organization's gun rights stance. He finds himself in the difficult position of persuading Americans outside the NRA that guns are, if not "cool," at least not the stark danger that President Barack Obama made them out to be this week. "His instinct is to fight back and make his case as strongly as he can — that's been his modus operandi for as long as I've known him," said Craig Shirley, a conservative author and former business partner and occasional hunting buddy of Keene. See NRA/A7
The intersection of mental health with law enforcement has been parsed and debated in great detail over the past week. Here in Central Oregon, law enforcement has planned a February training to add officers to crisis intervention teams around the area, officers that specialize in defusing situations
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The owner of the exchange, NYSE Euronext, agreed on Thursday to be acquired by the IntercontinentalExchange — an Atlanta-based upstart that has prospered by trading derivatives over the Internet — for $8.2 billion in cash and stock. The transformation of the NYSE from its position at the apex of the world financial systemto an asset to be bought and sold like any other. See NYSE/A6
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