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New at county meetings: the Pledge of Allegiance
Support, outrage follow UO president’s dismissal day night, he said was Bulletin staff and wire reports being sacked because Two local lawmakers of a “difference of opinquestioned the decision ion over the future of by the State Board of the UO.” Higher Education to The board president Lariviere not retain University says Lariviere is being of Oregon President dismissed for personRichard Lariviere once his nel reasons. The board meets contract expires in June. Monday in Portland to vote on In his two-year tenure, his contract in a public meetLariviere has had a rocky ing. Lariviere said Wednesday relationship with the governor he will continue as president and the state board. In a note until his contract expires. to students and faculty TuesSee Dismissal / A7
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
When Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone took office in January, he noticed something was missing from the commission’s public meetings. Unlike most government bodies in Deschutes County, the commissioners did not recite the Pledge of Allegiance before they launched into hearings on land use
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Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone recites the Pledge of Allegiance with other commissioners at Monday’s meeting in Bend. WEB VIDEO: DeBone explains why he asked for the Pledge of Allegiance at commission meetings: www.bendbulletin.com
disputes, discussions of the shortfall in road funding and votes on zoning ordinances. “Early on in the year, I thought, ‘Oh, we’ve just got to do this,’” DeBone said. “I had always done it at the (La Pine) park district. The city of La Pine is doing it.” DeBone set out to bring the pledge to the Deschutes County Commission, and in August the commissioners began kicking off meetings with it.
Pregnant moms’ food choices may sway babies’ preferences
Giving thanks for family
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Passengers wait for their baggage after arriving at Redmond Airport on Wednesday afternoon.
• At busy Redmond Airport, travelers reunite for the holiday weekend — including a mother and daughter spending their first Thanksgiving together
By Duffie Taylor • The Bulletin REDMOND — Selena Waldemer, of Bend, anxiously awaited the arrival of her daughter in the baggage claim area at Redmond Airport on Wednesday. Her daughter is 23, but today marks the first Thanksgiving they’ve ever spent together. “I gave her up for adoption,” Waldemer said. “She didn’t come into my life until she was a teenager. It’s our first Thanksgiving together.” Her daughter, Felice, was raised in Eugene by adoptive parents Waldemer chose for her as a young adult. Now in her forties, Waldemer said she will spend this holiday trying to knit her fragmented family back together. Emotions were raw when they first met seven years ago, Waldemer said. Feelings of anger, wonder and love all brimmed to the surface. “I was blown away when I saw her,” she said. “We have the same hands.”
But for Felice, who was arriving from Portland, forgiveness and reconciliation with her biological mother has been a work in progress. “She had a lot of anger toward me because of what I did,” Waldemer said. “We’re still working on it. She’s flying here on her own, so that tells me something. This is a big thing for us.” Sandra Rhodes, of Tucson, Ariz., listened to Waldemer’s story as she waited with her family for the last of her three daughters, traveling from Washington, D.C., to join her family for the holidays. She said she arrived at her daughter’s house in Redmond last week and has already
been put to work. “We made the pies today. My youngest daughter usually does the cooking. I’m hoping not to do too much,” Rhodes said, chuckling. In Redmond last Thanksgiving as well, Rhodes said she could not help but notice the changes to the airport since her last visit. “It’s really grown since we came here last Thanksgiving. It looks really good.” The growth has meant good news for business owners in the airport, like Dancing River Marketplace Manager Vicky Yost. Yost said she has spent the past week stocking up on food to accom-
modate the influx of passengers expected this weekend. “I order everything ahead of time in anticipation of the increased traffic. Now that the holidays are here, it’s picked up again. It’s hard for me to give a percentage, but it’s been good.” Though her store will stay open through the holiday, Yost said she has plans to dip out of the office early today so that she can serve up turkey and stuffing to her 13 grandchildren. Like Waldemer and Rhodes, Yost said she could sum up her feelings on the holiday in a word: “Grateful.” — Reporter: 541-383-0376, dtaylor@bendbulletin.com.
Why we shop on Black Friday By Olga Khazan
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Shoppers search for Black Friday bargains in the early morning hours at a Target store in Chicago on Nov. 26, 2010. Research shows that people derive pleasure from planning and hunting for deals together.
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When Jane Boyd Thomas and Cara Peters, two professors at South Carolina’s Winthrop University, interviewed subjects for a study on Black Friday, almost all the shoppers said they started their days before 9 a.m., and most spent at least three hours hunting down bargains. But none matched the tenacity of one
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woman, a 40-year-old named Tracy, who had been a Black Friday shopper for 18 years. Starting her day at midnight on Thanksgiving, she spent the next 16 hours shopping. “For the person who’s been
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What if a mother could predispose her child to like broccoli or Brussels sprouts — or at least not make a face and spit them out — by what she ate during pregnancy? Some health-care practitioners are suggesting that if mothers include a wide range of foods in their diet during pregnancy, they can shape their children’s food preferences later in life. Those choices, researchers say, have the potential to reduce the risks of diabetes and obesity. The concept is called prenatal flavor learning. The flavor and odors of what mothers eat show up in the amniotic fluid, which is swallowed by the fetus, and in breast milk. There is evidence that fetal taste bud are mature in utero by 13 to 15 weeks, with taste receptor cells appearing at 16 weeks, according to researchers. “With flavor learning, you can train a baby’s palate with repetitive exposure,” said Kim Trout, director of the nurse midwifery/ women’s health nurse practitioner program at Georgetown University. Trout recently coauthored a paper that reviews the evidence on prenatal flavor learning and its implications for controlling childhood obesity and diabetes, among the country’s most pressing health problems. She is incorporating the concept into the curriculum of Georgetown’s two-year midwifery master’s degree program. Starting in January, the reproductive health course for first-year students will include that concept in the section on prenatal care and nutrition, she said. See Food / A7
DeBone served as a board member for the La Pine Park and Recreation District before he was elected commissioner last fall. At some of the more tense park board meetings, when board members were discussing whether to cut youth athletic programs, for example, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance brought members of the public and park district board together, DeBone said. See Pledge / A7
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