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Swim, bike, deliver baby, run: a doctor’s triathlon By Robert Husseman
mother in labor at nearby Mountain View Hospital. Upon sucDavid Evans finished 80th cessful delivery of the child, Evans returned from the overall at the 2011 hospital to complete the MAC Dash triathlon in triathlon. Madras on Saturday, According to Evans, completing the 500as a physician on call yard swim, 12-mile bike Saturday he had 20 minride and 3-mile run in utes to respond to any 1 hour, 47 minutes, 27 medical emergencies. seconds. He said he had known But Evans, 46, was for a “couple of months” the only triathlon par- David Evans that he would be on call ticipant to help deliver a during the triathlon. baby during the race. “I knew there was a good posDr. Evans, a family physician for Madras Medical Group, in- sibility (of being called in),” he terrupted the run stage of his said Monday. race to attend to an expectant See Delivery / A5 The Bulletin
Erik Conn, 28, the driver of the Dodge pickup.
Texting driver indicted in crash that killed teen By Sheila G. Miller
with a friend to pick up things for a sleepover. Cepeda died at the scene. A search warrant filed in August showed Conn was texting at around the time of the accident, and Bend police seized three cellphones: those belonging to Conn and his passenger, 28-year-old Stacie Lee, as well as one belonging to another woman with whom Conn was texting at the time of the crash. The search warrant affidavit claimed Conn’s phone records show he sent two text mes-
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Forrest Cepeda, 16, was riding with a friend.
District: Bend school unfairly flunked
The driver of a pickup truck that killed a 16-year-old bicyclist in July was indicted Friday on charges of second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Erik Mackenzie Conn, 28, was driving a Dodge pickup westbound on Southeast Reed Market Road around 6:55 p.m. on July 25 when he veered off the road and struck Forrest Cepeda, who was riding
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Bend-La Pine Schools’ appeal over William E. Miller Elementary’s state test results came to nothing last week, leaving the district to defend a school it believes has been unfairly labeled. Federally mandated Adequate Yearly Progress standards, or AYP, are supposed to indicate how well schools educate students. To this end, Oregon students take standardized tests, and their scores help determine whether their schools are up to snuff. Schools can fail to meet AYP by stumbling in even one of several categories, including participation rates and special education performance. For the 2009-10 school year, Miller Elementary failed to meet AYP because too few special education students took the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or OAKS, test. In its appeal, the district acknowledged that it had failed to send the state a handful of test results on time. In essence, the district argued that an adult’s error, which involved five math and three reading tests, should not tarnish student performance, A state appeals committee disagreed with the district by a 5-1 vote. “We are following the manual and state and federal guidelines,” said Christine Miles, spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Education. “Right now, as it stands, we have to follow the guidelines. It’s very important that Miller, like other schools, meet that (submission) deadline.” In its appeal, Bend-La Pine highlighted eight instances it believed were similar to the Miller situation. But in those cases, according to Miles, the districts contacted ODE before the submission deadline had passed. That was not the case for BendLa Pine. See Miller / A5
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sages at 6:53 p.m., two minutes before the accident was reported. One was to Lee, who was sitting right next to him. The second message, to the other woman, was sexual in nature. After the accident, Conn told officers he and Lee had been cutting firewood south of town, then delivered a load of wood to a customer east of Bend. The pair then headed onto Southeast Reed Market Road to return to La Pine, where they live. See Indictment / A4
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wo Bits,” a sculpture by Greg Congleton, was installed Monday morning in Farewell Bend Park along the pedestrian path that follows the east bank of the Deschutes River. A plaque next to the piece notes that it was donated to Bend Park & Recreation District by Penny
and Phil Knight, and lists a variety of found objects used in the artwork’s construction. A celebration and artist’s reception is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Fatherhood saps testosterone, study finds, with more-involved fathers affected most By Pam Belluck New York Times News Service
This is probably not the news most fathers want to hear. Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the child on his knee, reading “Goodnight Moon” for the umpteenth time — the lower his testosterone drops. So says the first large study measuring
testosterone in men when they were single and childless and several years after they had children. Experts say the research has implications for understanding the biology of fatherhood, hormone roles in men and even health issues like prostate cancer. “The real take-home message,” said Peter Ellison, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard who was not involved in the study, is that “male parental care is important. It’s important enough that it’s
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actually shaped the physiology of men.” “Unfortunately,” he added, “I think American males have been brainwashed” to believe lower testosterone means that “maybe you’re a wimp, that it’s because you’re not really a man. My hope would be that this kind of research has an impact on the American male. It would make them realize that we’re meant to be active fathers and participate in the care of our offspring.” See Testosterone / A4
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A 17-year-old girl from Portland was bitten by a rattlesnake Friday night at Pelton Park campground near Madras. The girl, who was on vacation with family, was crossing a road at the campground with a flashlight at about 9:30 p.m. when the snake bit her left leg near the ankle, said Steve Corson, a spokesman for Portland General Electric, which operates the campground. Both the victim’s mother and a campground staff person immediately called 911, and a deputy from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was first to respond, Corson said. The girl was conscious and had been moved to the campground office when Jefferson County EMS officials arrived a few minutes later, said Dave Engles, one of the paramedics who responded to the call. The snake had been killed and was handed over to paramedics, who confirmed it was a rattlesnake. The victim was driven by ambulance to Mountain View Hospital in Madras then flown to St. Charles Bend, the only hospital in Central Oregon to carry antivenin, Engles said. “We picked her up and got her out of there as quickly as possible,” Engles said, adding that the girl most likely would recuperate at the hospital for several days before being released. See Rattlesnake / A4
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