Bulletin Daily Paper 02-26-14

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WEDNESDAY February 26,2014

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Study of

Team Dominica —ABend

west-side

coach defends his skiers, a husband-andwifeteam accused of scamming their way to the Winter Games. C1

traffic fixes planned

Idaho's winter outings

— From snowto sand, the state's parks offer an array of activities to suit the season.D3

Toddler weight —Anew study finds a sharp drop in preschooler obesity, but experts are unsure what to make of it.AS

By Scott Hammers

By Elon Glucklich

The Bulletin

The Bulletin

Crews began downing

Bend and Deschutes County leaders have

trees at Pioneer and Drake

parks Tuesday, part of an effort to stem the spread of rot. Sixteen trees, four at

thrown their full weight

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behind Oregon State University's four-year university push, calling it a job creator and the pre-

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Drake Park and 12 at Pio-

SEALs deaths —Twoveterans who took jobs guarding a famous ship against pirates appear to havebeendone in by boredom.A5

neer Park, have been identified as sufficiently damaged

cursor to a better-trained workforce.

to warrantremoval, ac-

cording to Michelle Morrell, landscaping supervisor with

But not everyone in town is on board with the college's location in the

the Bend Park & Recreation District.

heart of Bend's rapidly changing west side. More

Morrell said the trees, a

Vitamin riSkS — Anew

combination of silver ma-

than 50 residents showed

study suggests that taking vitamins to lower your cancer risk could backfire.A3

ples and black locusts, were planted primarily in the

up to a public meeting last month, with plenty of

In world news — Ina pro-Russian corner of Ukraine, protesters raise tension, decry "bandits."A2

1940s and 1950s. She said

concerns about the traffic

that while the trees are near-

impact from a new school

ing the end of their natural lives, insect infestations have

in west Bend.

City officials hope $150,000 to $200,000 in state grant funding for a multi-year study will find solutions for the west side

accelerated the process. The black locusts in particular

have been under attack by the black locust borer, which chews passages through the

traffic crunch, through potential road and inter-

limbs of the tree, Morrell

EDITOR'SCHOICE

FDA opens debate on 3-parent babies By Ariana EunjungCha and Sandhya Somashekhar The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The

said, making them likely to snap under the weight of snow or in high wind. Four trees were cut Tuesday morning at Drake Park, and crews anticipated cutting at least five of the

section improvements, possible bus service expansions and pedestrian portation study would also look at the impact from

12 trees slated for removal

the possible development

at Pioneer Parkby the end ofthe day.M ikeDonahue

of two nearby properties: Deschutes County's 80-

with Arbor 1 Tree Service,

acre former demolition landfill, just north of the

a contractor working on the project, said he expects to

planned college location,

wrap up work at Pioneer

and the planned site of the Bend Park & Recreation

Park today.

District ice skating rink

The Drake Park trees are

primarily clustered near the parking lot adjacent to

and recreation pavilion, on

Simpson Avenue.

Northwest Brooks Street, while the Pioneer Park trees

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are largely along Northwest

provocative notion of genetically modified babies met the very real world of federal regulation Tuesday, as a government advisory committee began debat-

Wall Street. Morrell said the district

ing a new technique that

she said, but they will be

combines DNA from three peopleto createem bryos

varieties less susceptible to the insects that have infested

free of certain inherited

the trees chosen for removal. The district is likely to select

diseases. The two-day meeting of the Food and Drug Administration panel is focused on a procedure that

trails. The west Bend trans-

intends to plant replacement trees in late spring. The dis-

Experts

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trict hasn't yet decided which

types of trees it will choose,

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Russell Abt, owner of Arbor Tree Care, removes the limbs of an insect-damaged black locust tree Tuesday at Drake Park along Riverside Boulevard. Four trees were removed from the park

Tuesday morning, and adozen more at Pioneer Park are being removed.

larger trees, she said, with the lowest limbs at least six

feet off the ground. Morrell said it could take

LOCuSt dorer damage

scientists think could help

20 years or more before the

women who carry DNA

replacement trees are truly "big," but the removal of the

shade tree in replanted areassuch as parks.

mutations for conditions

such as blindness and epilepsy. The process would let them have children

without passing on those defects. See Babies /A4

The locust borer,Megacyllene robiniae, attacks only the black locust tree, which is commonly used as a Approximate

mature trees shouldn't nota-

bly degrade the experience of park visitors. "This park has a lot of

size of Iocust borer larva /

shade. You won't have to walk for miles to find a decentpiece ofshade,"she said.

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Donahue said his company has been in contact with a number of local woodwork-

ers and furniture makers interested in putting the larger pieces of timber to good use. "For the most part, we'd like to see it have a second life than be turned into fire-

wood or chips, so we're seeing what we can do," he said. — Reporter: 541-383-0387, shammers@bendbulletin.com

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damaged trees

risk in state health sites By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As

the Obama administration raced to meet its self-imposed deadline for online health insurance

SIGNS OFBORER INFESTATION In the spring,wet patches will appear on bark asyoung larvae tunnel through inner bark In early summer,white wood dust appears on thebarkas larvae tunnel through sapwood

markets, security experts

working for the government worried that state computer systems could

become a back door for hackers.

By late summer,the dust appears yellow as larvaetunnel

Documents provided to The Associated Press show that more than twothirds of state systems

into the heartwood

DAMAGE Borers tunnel deepinto the tree's trunk and branches, weakening the treesandmaking them susceptible to winddamage.Thedamagecanalsocausedeformation and clumped growth. Source: U.S.Forest Service

warned of

Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin

that were supposed to tap into federal computers to verify sensitive personal information for coverage were initially rated as "high risk" for security problems. See Health sites/A4

Rare interview offers glimpse at 2-popedynamic

Vol. 112, No. 57,

30 pages, 5 sections

By Anthony Faiola The Washington Post

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not

"jealous"ofhissuccessor's worldwide celebrity, holds him in "high esteem" and is

developing an ever closer relationship with Pope Francis through "regular" communica-

U.S. media outlet, Ganswein, a Benedict confidant who

church decisions. In addition, Ganswein said, Benedict's sur-

tions, according to the former

resides with the retired pope,

prise appearance at a swear-

pontiff's private secretary and prefect of the papal household, Archbishop Georg Ganswein.

suggestedthat despite their obvious differences, the former pope was not seeking to influ-

cardinals last weekend should not be taken as a sign of his re-

In a rare interview with a

ence the newpontiff on major

ing-in ceremony for 19 new

emergence into public life. Instead, Ganswein said, Benedict was there at the invitation of Francis and was not

expected to make a habit of attending major Vatican events.

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