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Passengers prepare to board a Cascades East Transit buslast week headed from Bend to Redmond. The regional bus system when it launched in 2008 received some initial funding from the Partnership to End Poverty, a nonprofit effort that seeks to support efforts that can help people improve their lives. By Heidi Hagemeier The Bulletin
t seemed an almost audacious idea when pitched more than a decade ago: Given leadership and $10 million over 10 years, would Central Oregonians be able to stanch the root causes of poverty? The region became a petri dish for that premise starting in 2001, when the Minnesota-based Northwest Area Foundation chose Central Oregon for its big idea. It formed a new nonprofit organization called the CentralOregon Partnership for its mission, and instead of focusing on efforts that deal with the symptoms of poverty — like food banks — the partnership's job was to identify the root causes unique to this region and then facilitate locally devised solutions. Now, 10 years later, the funding is soon due to dry up, and areanonprofitleaders see what is now called the Partnership to End Poverty as an experiment that had successes and failures. At one point it became mired in dysfunction, yet still helped launch some of the most crucial social services operating
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today in Central Oregon. "They played a very important role in filling gaps in your region," said Karla Miller, program director with the Northwest Area Foundation. "They played a catalytic role." Central Oregon today has a regional transit system, more healthcare access, more adult education opportunities and those seeking social services, all launched or nurtured by the partnership. The organization points to roughly two dozen projects as success stories. Some wouldn't have been launched without the partnership. Others already had traction. See Partnership /A5
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Sherrie Frederickson of Prineville smileswhile receiving a haircut from Miranda Campbell, a student at Phagans' Central Oregon Beauty College, during Project Connect, an expo of services that took place this year at in September at the Deschutes Fair & Expo Center. The Partnership to End Poverty was key in launching Project Connect.
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literature say they're not running as a slate, or even necessarily endorsing one another. Candidates Barb Campbell, Doug Knight and Sally Russell are listed alongside incumbent Councilor Jim Clinton on a card hung on voters' doors by Campbell's campaign. The piece states that the four candidates are opposed to the city's $68 million SurfaceWater Improvement Project. It draws attention to the recent court injunction that put the project on hold and the steep rate increases the city projects will be needed to pay for it. Contacted Thursday and Friday, the candidates said they've had no discussions about what they might do if elected, and that they have little in common politically aside from a skeptical view of the water project. "I don't think we're running as a slate; I don't think we're running as a pact, and we're certainly not trying to be a band of misfits," Knight said. "We're independentminded people who just happen to agree on the water project issue." See Water /A8
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centered around Greenland that blocks the hurricane's normal out-to-sea path and steers it west toward land. Add a wintry cold front moving in from the west that helps pull Sandy inland and mix in a blast of Arctic air from the north for one big collision. Add a full moon and its usual effect, driving high tides. Factor in immense waves commonly thrashed up by a huge hurricane plus gale-force winds. Do all that and you get a stitched-together weather monster expected to unleash its power over 800 square miles, with predictions in some areas of 12 inches of rain, 2 feet of snow and sustained 40to 50 mph winds. "The total is greater than the sum of the individual parts," said Louis Uccellini, the environmental prediction chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists. This storm is so dangerousbecause itis coming at the tail end of hurricane season and beginning of winter storm season, "so it's kind of taking something from both — part hurricane, part nor'easter, all trouble," JeffMasters, director of the private service Weather Underground, said Saturday. See Storm /A7
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ployees work part time, with its stores changing many o f t h eir w o rkers' schedules week to week. At its store here, just east of San Diego, Shannon Hardin oversees seven self-checkout stations, usually by herself. Typically working shifts of five or six hours,she hops between stati ons
A cross between Whole Foods and — bagging groceries, approving alcoTrader Joe's, the company brags that hol purchases, explaining the checkout its house brands have no artificial col- system to shoppers and urging customors or trans fats, that two-thirds of its ers to join the retailer's loyaltyprogram, produce is grown locally and that its all while watching for shoplifters. "I like it. I'm a people person," said main distribution center is powered by a $13 million solar installation. Hardin, 50, who used to work as an But in one crucial respect, Fresh 8c office assistant at a construction comEasy is just like the vast majority of pany until times went bad. large American retailers: Most emSee Part time/A4
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Shannon Hardin works part time at Fresh & Easy,a California grocery chain where she earns $10.90 an hour. "I can't live on this," said Hardin, who averages 28 hours in her work week. "It's almost impossible."
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WASHINGTON — One of the currents running through the presidential campaign has been a tacit but fundamental question: IBSIdB After ll • Witnesses years of r ecount th ew a r Libya,A3 on terror, what kind of threat does al-Qaida pose to America? The candidates offered profoundly different answers during their final debate last week, with President Barack Obama repeating his triumphant narrative of drone attacks and dead terrorists, and Mitt Romney warning darkly about Islamists on the march in an increasingly hostile Middle East. In a sense, both are true. See Jihad/A7