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Redmond principal is placed on leave
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GETTING HIS GOAT
By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
The Redmond School District has placed high school principal Brian Lemos on leave and is preparing to search for his replacement. But no one is saying why. A press release sent out Friday simply announced that Lemos is currently on leave. Administrators contacted later in the day declined to elaborate. “We released everything we can in that press release,” said Superintendent Shay Mikalson. Lynn Evans, director of human resources for the district, repeated that claim. “I can’t tell you any more than what is in the press release,” Evans said. “He is on leave.” When asked if it was paid leave, Evans said, “It’s just leave. That’s all I can say.” The district plans to conduct a search for a new principal in the fall. In the meantime, the school will be led by Lee Loving, the current planning principal for Ridgeview High School, which will not open until 2012. Lemos worked as a principal for the Crook County School District for nine years before joining the Redmond district in 2009. In 2010 he took over as principal at the high school. See Principal / A6
By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
In a quest to revitalize its downtown and boost employment, Redmond has turned its attention to an area near St. Charles Redmond that could soon become a medical and business district. The city has asked firms to submit bids to develop a master plan and “development strategy” for the creation of such a district on about 80 acres near the hospital, which sits on the north end of town near Highway 97. The master plan would help set the boundaries of the district, devise a land use and zoning strategy and identify the regulatory changes needed to create an attractive environment for medical and office employment. The plan also will identify the types of businesses that might thrive in such a district and calculate how much private and public money would be needed to follow through. A winning bid is expected to be selected in October, and the plan’s development is likely to be completed in June 2012. The city has earmarked $150,000 for development of the plan. Bob Gomes, CEO of St. Charles Redmond, calls the proposed district a proactive approach to satisfying the regional demand for health care. “With the Redmond population poised to grow rapidly over the next 20 years, this plan helps position St. Charles Redmond to accommodate that growth,” he said. See District / A6
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The city of Redmond is planning to develop a business and medical district on 78 acres around St. Charles Redmond.
HURRICANE IRENE
The storm arrives; will East be ready? By Kim Severson and Campbell Robertson New York Times News Service
Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin
Kaden Greenfield, 10, of Lakeview, ties his pet goat, Larry, on Friday afternoon while practicing for the Central Oregon Pee-Wee Rodeo Club Finals, being held today at the Crook County Fairgrounds in Prineville. More than 150 kids from the Pacific Northwest between the ages of 3 and 17 will be competing in a variety of events throughout the day. The rodeo is open to the public. It begins at 9 a.m.
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A Starbucks on every corner, but none are quite like this
Troops catalog graves to digitize Arlington By Kimberly Hefling
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WILMINGTON, N.C. — The first punch from Hurricane Irene landed here Friday, foreshadowing with brutal authority what is to come as this vast storm, its most forceful winds stretching outward for 90 miles, churned north toward New York City. Mandatory evacuations were ordered all along the Eastern seaboard, as far north as the New Jersey shore and parts of New York City. Roads and highways were filled with caravans of ousted vacationers and homeowners, many fleeing under still-sunlit skies in anticipation of torrential rains, dangerous tidal surges and the likelihood of days without power. With an estimated 55 million people in the path of a storm the size of California, the East Coast’s major cities were preparing for the worst. Hurricane watches were posted and states of emergency declared for North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England. See Irene / A3
ARLINGTON, Va. — Night after night this summer, troops from the Army’s historic Old Guard have left their immaculately pressed dress blues, white gloves and shiny black boots at home to slip into Arlington National Cemetery in T-shirts and flip-flops to photograph each and every grave with an iPhone.
The sometimes eerie task to photograph more than 219,000 grave markers and the front of more than 43,000 sets of cremated remains in the columbarium is part of the Army’s effort to account for every grave and to update and fully digitize the cemetery’s maps. The Old Guard performs its work at night to escape the summer heat and to avoid interrupting funerals.
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Soldiers will photograph more than 219,00 grave markers. Last year a scandal over mismanagement at the hallowed burial ground revealed unmarked and mismarked graves. See Arlington / A6
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SEATTLE — The sun is not yet up but the baristas are, a blur of busy hands wiping down counters and smoothing black aprons. Chipper and precise, they work at Starbucks, but it is probably not like the one near where you live. Among the 17,000 Starbucks that caffeinate the planet, this one is special.
This one, in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood, is where Howard Schultz, the company’s passionate chief executive, likes to pop in on his way to another day of brand building. This one serves beer and wine. Prosecco? Of course. French presses are for sale next to the gas fireplace and across from the bins of coffee beans. See Starbucks / A7
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