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• Roots cause damage along Deschutes River Trail
• Area schools vow to cover the costs for low-income students
Tumalo Irrigation District Assistant Manager Kenneth Rieck lifts a plate, revealing a section of pipe underneath the Deschutes River Trail.
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President Barack Obama did not mention race even as he addressed it Friday, instead letting his person and his words say it all: “If I had a son, he’d Inside look like • Thousands Trayvon.” rally, A3 Weighing in for • Details emerge on the first watchman, time on the death of A6 Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager shot and killed a month ago in Florida by a neighborhood watchman, Obama in powerfully personal terms deplored the “tragedy” and, as a parent, expressed sympathy for the boy’s mother and father. “I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids,” Obama said. “Every parent in America,” he added, “should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together — federal, state and local — to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.” While speaking movingly from his perspective as the father of two girls, one a teenager, Obama notably made no reference to the racial context that has made the killing of Martin and the gunman’s claim of self-defense a rallying point for blacks. Since Obama first began campaigning to be “president of all the people,” as his advisers would put it when pressed on racial issues, he has been generally reluctant to talk about race. See Teen / A6
Federal money has paid for low-income students in Oregon to take Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams for the past decade. That funding, though, has largely dried up and left Oregon schools about $200,000 short of covering all such tests, according to the Oregon Department of Education. Instead of full funding, the federal money now pays $38 per test for up to three exams. That’s true for both AP and IB tests, and after taking three exams, students — or schools — pay full freight. Students could be on the hook for anything from $15 dollars for a single AP exam to $100 for an IB test. Though the total impact for Central Oregon students remains unclear, area school administrators and teachers have vowed to fund the exams for low-income students. ODE is also searching for money, according to Andrea Morgan, an education specialist who works on the funding at ODE. See Exams / A6
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A runner uses the Deschutes River Trail north of First Street Rapids in Bend on Friday morning. Ponderosa pines — and other large trees like those lining the riverside edge of the trail in this picture — will be removed by the Tumalo Irrigation District to prevent damage to the water pipe buried there.
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of the Deschutes River Trail to stop roots from growing into the pipe below.
Tumalo Irrigation District plans to remove trees that could cause damage to its underground pipeline, some of which is under the Deschutes River Trail. The removal is set to start Monday.
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“We’ve got $15 million worth of pipe in the ground there and we’ve got to take care of it,” said Kenneth Rieck, assistant manager for the irrigation district. The 6- to 7-foot-diameter pipe is a 5½-mile section in the system transferring Deschutes River water diverted near the Portland Street bridge to agricultural fields in Tumalo. The Deschutes River trail covers four miles of the pipe, starting at First Street Rapids Park. The district, which delivers water to about 8,100 acres,
last cleared trees from the pipe 15 years ago, and Rieck said the project will focus on taking out the new trees that have grown in since. “Ninety percent of them will be less than 6 inches in diameter,” he said. While Rieck said the tree removal won’t change the character of the trail, district workers will be cutting down 12- to 15-foot trees growing along the popular trail following the Deschutes bend around the base of Awbrey Butte. See Trail / A6
Steps set for ban on widely used livestock antibiotics By Gardiner Harris New York Times News Service
The Obama administration must warn drug makers that the government may soon ban agricultural uses of some popular antibiotics that many scientists say encourage the proliferation of dangerous infections and imperil public health, a federal magistrate
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judge ruled Thursday. The order, issued by Judge Theodore Katz of the Southern District of New York, effectively restarts a process that the Food and Drug Administration began 35 years ago, but never completed, intended to prevent penicillin and tetracycline, widely used antibiotics, from losing their
effectiveness in humans because of their bulk use in animal feed to promote growth in chickens, pigs and cattle. The order comes two months after the Obama administration announced restrictions on agricultural uses of cephalosporins, a critical class of antibiotics that includes drugs like
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Cefzil and Keflex, which are commonly used to treat pneumonia, strep throat and skin and urinary tract infections. Siobhan DeLancey, an FDA spokeswoman, would not say whether the government planned to appeal. “We are studying the opinion and considering ap-
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Cheap generic drug found to slow bleeding By Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times News Service
For months, a simple generic drug has been saving lives on America’s battlefields by slowing the bleeding of even gravely wounded soldiers. Even better, it is cheap. But its very inexpensiveness has slowed its entry into U.S. emergency rooms, where it might save the lives of bleeding victims of car crashes, shootings and stabbings — up to 4,000 Americans a year, according to a recent study. Because there is so little profit in it, the companies that make it do not champion it. However, the drug is edging slowly closer to adoption as hospitals in many major cities debate adding it to their pharmacies. The drug, tranexamic acid, has long been sold over the counter in Britain and Japan for heavy menstrual flow. After a groundbreaking 2010 trial on 20,000 hemorrhaging trauma patients in 40 countries showed that it saved lives, the British and U.S. armies adopted it. The World Health Organization added it to its essential drugs list last year. See Drug / A3
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