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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
.a
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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