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A RIVER UNDERGROUND
Arid Prineville finds F elusive water inding water in the Crooked River
caldera is now less of a gamble and
more of a science.
After decades of drilling unpro-
By Erik Hidle • The Bulletin
By Patrick Cliff and Sheila G. Miller
ductive wells, the city of Prineville
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inadvertently tapped into a fluvial
sections of the Earth beneath Crook
was about 8 million years ago,”
channel, a deep underground stream
County to determine the path of the
City Engineer Eric Klann said. “That’s
that once may have served as the path
underground river. City officials hope
the location the river was in before the
of the Crooked River. That channel
to use the map eventually to select
lava flow came in and moved the river.
could be a significant source of water.
locations for wells.
It pushed the river out of the way, but
“Where the current high-producing
Following the discovery, the
it left some behind as well. That’s what
wells are is where the Crooked River
city has set about mapping cross
we’ve found.” See Prineville / A10
Looking underground for water This cross section shows where water is expected to be flowing within the Crooked River caldera. In creating these images beneath the Earth’s surface, the city of Prineville hopes it eventually will be able to map an underground fluvial channel, or underground stream, that could be a remnant of the Crooked River from millions of years ago.
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One year on, anger, questions linger over AllPrep
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Underground stream
About a year ago, when she went online to do some homework, Jeaneva Senko discovered that her school, the Sisters AllPrep Web Academy, had essentially vanished. It was as if Jeaneva, a sixth-grader at the time, had walked to school one morning to find that it had been reduced to rubble. Like Jeaneva, as many as 1,000 other AllPrep students across the state suddenly lost their virtual classrooms. At roughly the same time, Sisters Charter Academy of Fine Arts and Sisters Early College Academy shut down with months still left in the year. The Sisters closures were a harbinger of more trouble for the 15 AllPrep charter schools spread across Oregon and Washington and, more importantly, the 1,400 students who attended them. Students had to find new schools, and teachers had to find new jobs. The AllPrep problems sparked an investigation by the Oregon departments of education and justice, but more than a year later there is no resolution. As it turned out, there was little, if any, money left in the AllPrep system, which managed the Sisters charter schools along with a dozen others in Oregon and Washington. Rent, for instance, at the Sisters had gone unpaid, and the system couldn’t scrounge up the $8,100 in overdue rent. See AllPrep / A8
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Prineville Basalt layers
Volcanic vent
Basalt layers
Water Note: Vertically exaggerated Source: City of Prineville
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WEB EXTRAS: www.bendbulletin.com/well Video: Into the undergound
Graphic: Prineville’s geological history
The city of Prineville lowered a camera into a well dug in 2006 near the airport. The well struck an ancient underground water source thought to be the ancient Crooked River.
Twenty-nine million years ago, Central Oregon had a much wetter climate. Centered in what is now Prineville was the Crooked River caldera — a volcanic feature whose eruption would affect life and the water supply in the area today.
By Jack Healy New York Times News Service
Need therapy? In this business, a good man is hard to find By Benedict Carey New York Times News Service
Between unresolved family conflicts, relationship struggles and his mixed-race identity, James Puckett had enough on his mind in college that he sought professional help. But after bouncing from one therapist to another, he still felt stuck.
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“They were all female, and they did give me some comfort,” said Puckett, 30, who works for a domestic-abuse program in Wisconsin. “But I was getting the same rhetoric about changing my behavior without any challenge to see the bigger picture of what was behind these very male coping reactions, like putting
your hand through a wall.” He decided to seek out a male therapist instead and found that there were few of them. “I’m just glad I ended up with the person I did,” said Puckett, who is no longer in therapy, “because for me it made all the difference.” Researchers began tracking the “fem-
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inization” of mental health care more than a generation ago, when women started to outnumber men in fields like psychology and counseling. Today, the takeover is almost complete: Men earn only one in five of all master’s degrees awarded in psychology. See Therapy / A9
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BAGHDAD — The last Americans missing in Iraq followed disparate paths to an uncertain fate. They arrived from Indiana and North Carolina, Chicago and Denver. They came out of a sense of duty, in search of a paycheck, or in hopes of reclaiming a homeland they had fled decades earlier. But the lives of the eight men — seven private contractors and the only American service member who remains unaccounted — are a painful fragment of the war’s legacy, a haunting piece of unfinished business the military will leave behind as it withdraws before 2012. “He called and said, ‘I’m catching a plane tomorrow and I’ll be home,’” said Jim Ake, whose son, an Indiana businessman, vanished in 2005. “It didn’t happen. That was the last we heard from him.” See Missing / A4
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