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School days vary for local districts due to budgets By Ben Botkin The Bulletin
Central Oregon’s school districts are diverse when it comes to the number of days kids receive classroom instruction. Districts’ calendars for the upcoming school year pose a variety of different scenarios for students, the bulk of them driven by separate budget-related decisions and situations. Bend-La Pine Schools is adding days to its calendar. The Redmond School District has cut days. Two other districts still have full calendars. Under state law, the Oregon Department of Education doesn’t have a requirement for a specific number of days kids must be in school. But school districts are required to maintain a minimum number of classroom instruction hours when planning schedules. Among the hardest hit is Redmond, which faced a budget gap of about $5 million. Redmond’s calendar is short nine days of classroom instruction in the upcoming year. That’s three more days than the six days the district trimmed for the 2011-12 school year. “If we had all nine of those back, we’d obviously be doing much better,” said Linda Seeberg, the district’s director of elementary education. But Seeberg also stressed that the overall quality of education is important, too — not just the amount of time spent in classroom. For example, the district hasn’t reduced teachers or pared back its counseling programs, physical education or athletics, she said. See School / A5
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A Mirror Pond fix remains unclear By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
While a state wildlife official has said removing the dam that creates Mirror Pond would be a permanent solution to sediment buildup in Bend’s signature body of water, members of a board trying to determine what to do about the clogged pond say that’s not going to happen. State and federal wildlife managers, as well as state land, water and environmental officials, met with the Mirror Pond Management Board earlier this month. At the meeting, Mike Harrington, assistant district fish biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in Bend, told the board that fish would benefit from reopening the stretch of the Deschutes River
Players in Mirror Pond While the Mirror Pond Management Board is collecting information to advise the Mirror Pond Steering Committee, the committee is in charge of developing and implementing a long-term solution for silt buildup in the pond.
A LOOK AT THE COMMITTEE: • City of Bend, Bend Park & Recreation District: Own and manage Drake Park along the pond • Pacific Power: Owns and operates the Bend Hydro Facility, the dam that creates the pond • William Smith Properties: Owns the Colorado Avenue dam, upstream of the pond • Bend 2030: Nonprofit group focused on projects that shape the town, such as the possible dredging of the pond For more information: www.bend oregon.gov/index. aspx?page= 437
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The Bend Police Department is investigating a death after responding early Sunday to a reported burglary at 2461 N.W. Awbrey Road. Officers got a call at 12:39 a.m. Sunday about what was described as an “in-progress burglary,” the police department said. A dead person was inside the house, police said. The police department did not identify the person, the cause of death or anyone involved in the incident, saying the case is still under investigation. Police also did not provide any details about the case or what happened in the northwest Bend neighborhood. Bend police did say there is no danger to the community because of the case, but would not elaborate. On Sunday afternoon, yellow crime scene tape surrounded the house, and an Oregon State Police Crime Lab truck was parked outside. See Body / A5
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ABOVE: Trees are reflected in Mirror Pond near the Newport Avenue bridge. BELOW: Mirror Pond is viewed from the air with the Galveston Avenue bridge in the lower right corner.
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known as Mirror Pond. “I think that would be the best option for everyone,” he said in a telephone interview after the meeting. “You won’t have to dredge the pond on a periodic basis.” Those involved in the project want to keep Mirror Pond, though, said Don Horton, executive director of the Bend Park & Recreation District. “It’s been an icon of Bend for 100 years,” he said. Finding support for the removal of the dam and the demise of Mirror Pond would be a major challenge, said Bend City Manager Eric King. “I think Mirror Pond is an iconic symbol of Bend,” he said. See Mirror Pond / A3
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Bend police officers investigate a crime scene Sunday on Northwest Awbrey Road in Bend. An Oregon State Police investigation team was also on the scene.
Members of Congress have made trades in companies they affect By Dan Keating The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — One hundred thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found. The lawmakers bought and sold between $85 million and $218 million of stock in 323 companies registered to lobby on legislation that appeared before them, according to an examination of all 45,000 individual congressional stock transactions contained in computerized financial disclosure data from 2007 to 2010. See Congress / A5
Health apps flourish, but which require regulation?
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Three tries. More than two years. And roughly $150,000. That’s what it took for MIM Software to get the Food and Drug Administra-
tion’s clearance for a smartphone application that physicians can use to view MRIs and other medical images. “It was 2008 when we first tried,” said Mark Cain, the Ohio firm’s chief technology officer. “They didn’t know
what questions to ask and neither did we. … But at some point, they had to be thinking, ‘How many more people will be lined up behind these guys?’” His was, in fact, among the first apps cleared by
the FDA. And since then, medical applications have flooded onto millions of smartphones, offering consumers the chance to check their heart rate, identify a pill in their medicine cabinet or even scan moles for skin
cancer. Soon, if a firm called AliveCor gets its way, they may even be able to get an EKG by pressing iPhone to chest. The gee-whiz factor can both astonish and alarm. See Apps / A2