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THE BULLETIN• MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012
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Radio host to speak in Bend t's no secret that the right wing rules the airwaves. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham dominate national radio ratings. But turn your dial to the
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• Farrier Trevor Hall makessure his equine clients get exactly the right footwear revor Hall likes making his clients feel comfortable. That's important, especially when the client has four legs and outweighs Hall by a half-ton. "There are times when I can feel the horses become more at ease when I'm around," said Hall, a full-time farrier. "It's a cool feeling to have. I'm there to make them more comfortable." Hall, 36, grew up with horses and
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started learning how to shoe them from his dad, Rick, as a teenager in Sisters. It wasn't until four years ago, how ever — when he got laid off from his job and saw no prospects — that he started shoeing full time. Today,based in Redmond and with a full spectrum of equine clients need ing new shoes every 6 to 8 weeks, Hall roams Central Oregon with what amounts to a portable blacksmith
shop, working five or six days a week, depending on the workload. It's mostly custom work, with the shoes tailored to the horse's individual hooves, its activities and its movements. Each job takes him 45 minutes to an hour. "I have a client list, but mainly I'm on call," he said. "What I have to offer is craftsmanship and treating people like I would want to be treated." And keeping his clients comfortable.
Q Hall uses a small hammer to drive the nails that will secure Hawk's shoes.
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
Though hidden from view, problems with the Bend sewer system have forced their way into the City Coun cil race this fall. At a forum last month, many of the 12 candidates said fixing the sewer system, which is near capacity, is the largest infrastructure problem facing the city. One thing that drew attention was the price tag for the cur rent plan to fix the system. A 2007 master plan to build new trunk lines to increase sewer capacity around the city, as well as to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant and fix manholes and collapsed sewer lines, would cost an estimated $170 million. Candidates also know limited sewer capacity means it is difficult or im possible for businesses that produce a lot of wastewater, such as breweries, to open in certain areas of the city. Current city councilors have balked at the cost. The city began work on the existing plan in April 2010, spending $12 million so far on a southeast Bend trunk line expected to cost an ad ditional $43 million to com plete. But in mid-May, the City Council voted unani mously to delay construction of the southeast intercep tor and re-examine sewer priorities. An 18-member advisory group of business people, conservationists and other citizens formed earlier this year to review the city's options. The group could take at least a year to generate pro posals for the City Council. It is focusing first on short term solutions to prevent the most seriousproblems, such as wastewater overflows, and to free up capacity in the system. In early September, the council approved a $1.9 million contract with Mur ray Smith and Associates Inc. for a new master plan for wastewater collection.
Position1 Candidate Victor Chu dowsky, 51, owns an educa tion research and consulting
agencyand isa member of the city budget committee. SeeSewer /B2
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you'll hear some com manding voices from the other side of the political spectrum, too. Chief among them is Amy Goodman's. Her show, Democracy Now!, airs on 1,100 radio, Goodman tel e vision and Internet stations. Locally, it's on at 8 a.m. and noon, Monday through Friday, on Bend's KPOV, 88.9 FM. Goodman will speak at a Bend fundraiser for KPOV, the High Desert Community Radio station, on Sunday. She's promoting her new best-selling book, "The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope," which she wrote with Denis Moyni han, co-founder of Demo cracy Now! They also write a syndicated column together. The pair launched a 100-city speaking tour at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., which will run through Elec tion Day. To describe this trip as a whirlwind would be putting it mildly. The evening before they speak in Bend, for ex ample, they'll deliver a talk in Spokane, Wash. Then, a few hours after wrapping up here, they'll take the stage in Ashland. Along the way, they're also taping new episodes of Democracy Now! at the usual time each weekday — that's 5 a.m. on the West Coast. "It's a little extreme," Goodman said by telephone last week, explaining she'd just arrived in Los Angeles after back-to-back visits to Sacramento, Calif., Minneap olis and New York City. "It's also inspiring and exhilarat ing and exciting, so I really can't complain." Goodman scheduled this tour to coincide with the frenzied run-up to the presi dential election. Goodman is a sort of modern-day David willing to take on all versions of Goliath, and her new book is an attempt to amplify the voices of people who are rarely heard in corporate owned media. That's also the theme of her show. SeeRadio/B2
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