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District gets cash boost to help kids in poverty By Ben Botkin
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REDMOND — The Redmond School District is getting a substantial increase of federal dollars for the 2012-2013 school year in an effort to bolster the academic achievement of disadvantaged students. The district is receiving $1.67 million in federal Title 1A funding, according to the district and the Oregon Department of Education. The federal program pays for additional services and programs for students beyond what school districts traditionally provide in a standard classroom setting. This year’s funding reflects an increase of $774,000, or 86 percent, over last year. In the 20112012 school year, the district received about $896,000 through the program. After Congress appropriates money for Title 1A programs, it’s divided among school districts each year based on the number of children living in poverty. In the Redmond School District, 21.38 percent of children ages 5 to 17 lived in poverty in 2010, or 1,715 children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2009, the rate was 16.99 percent, or 1,278 children. The school district is still mapping out where the money will go, said Linda Seeberg, executive director of academic programs. But an additional service she said the district is pursuing is extending the kindergarten day. An extended kindergarten program, still in the works, likely won’t start until October, Seeberg said. The district still needs to determine details, such as which elementary schools would most benefit from a longer kindergarten day. See Redmond / A5
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Jon and Harmony Nelson walk into the Regal Pilot Butte 6 movie theater for a showing of “The Bourne Legacy.” By Joel Aschbrenner The Bulletin
Pilot Butte 6, Bend’s only multiscreen theater that regularly shows documentaries and foreign films, is up for sale. The theater continues to show movies, but local film advocates say they fear losing a favorite place to watch nonmainstream movies if Pilot Butte 6 is sold. The theater at 2717 E. Highway 20 is owned by Regal Entertainment Group, a national chain that also owns Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX. Envision Realty Advisors, a real estate firm with offices in Portland, listed Pilot Butte 6 for sale along with Regal-owned theaters in Renton, Wash., and Lake Zurich, Ill. No listing price was provided. The future of Pilot Butte 6 is unclear. Calls to Envision Realty and Regal Cinemas requesting comment Tuesday were unreturned. Pilot Butte 6 often screens art films and those with less-popular appeal than the blockbusters that play at its sister theater in the Old Mill District.
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A sign posted along U.S. Highway 20 announces that the Regal Pilot Butte 6 theater is for sale.
Erica Boismenu, office manager with BendFilm, which puts on the Bend Film Festival, said she hopes the theater continues to play movies that don’t get screen time at larger theaters. “Pilot Butte was the only theater I went to see independent films and more artis-
tic kinds of subculture films,” she said. “I’m surprised a place like Bend that prides itself in culture and arts and being progressive does not have another major theater that shows independent and art films.” The other option for local film fans is the Tin Pan Theater, a single-screen, 28seat independent house that opened in downtown Bend earlier this year. Pilot Butte 6 opened in 1994. The 5.7-acre property and its 24,000-squarefoot theater have been losing value in recent years, according to Deschutes County Assessor’s records. The property’s real market value dropped from $8.1 million in 2009 to $4.6 million in 2011. According to the company website, Regal Entertainment Group operates 420 theaters in 37 states, making it one of the largest theater proprietors in the country. During the 2011 fiscal year, Regal opened three theaters while shuttering 15, according to the New York Times. — Reporter: 541-633-2184, jaschbrenner@bendbulletin.com
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Agency plans to strip Armstrong of Tour titles AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he declared he was finished fighting the drug charges that threaten his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all time. Travis Tygart, USADA’s chief executive, said Armstrong would also be hit with a lifetime ban today. Still to be heard from was the sport’s governing body, the International Cycling Union, which had backed Armstrong’s legal challenge
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to USADA’s authority. Armstrong, who retired last year, declined to enter USADA’s arbitration process — his last option — because he said he was weary of fighting accusations that have dogged him for years. He has consistently pointed to the hundreds of drug tests that he has passed as proof of his innocence during his extraordinary run of Tour titles stretching from 1999 to 2005. “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now,” Armstrong said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. See Armstrong / A6
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Lance Armstrong pauses during a 2011 interview in Austin, Texas. Armstrong said Thursday that he is finished fighting charges from the United States Anti-Doping Agency that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his unprecedented seven consecutive Tour de France championships.
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BOISE, Idaho — The FLAME Act of 2009 was supposed to ensure the Forest Service had enough money to fight fires without having to cut into programs to provide recreation, protect habitat and improve forest health. But after Congress raided the fund established by the law during the 2011 standoff over the debt ceiling, and after further cuts this year, the fund is empty. That has the agency preparing to make cuts elsewhere as the fire season is hitting its peak in Idaho and just beginning in California. The agency that manages 193 million acres nationwide
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The Jefferson Review may not have a full-time reporter, but this small weekly newspaper 20 miles south of Salem is going toe-to-toe with the biggest papers in the state. It’s a competition, however, that has more to do with lawyers than journalists. The Review, with a weekly circulation of about 400, is one of the state’s biggest publishers of legal notices — announcements required by state law to be published in newspapers, informing citizens of public meetings and notices on issues such as pending foreclosures. Dozens of attorneys on the West Coast have been using the Review to publish hundreds of notices of upcoming foreclosure sales of Marion County homes. But they may be breaking the law to do it. Many foreclosure sale notices published in the Review concern homes in Salem, and in communities farther north, such as Keizer and Woodburn, where the Review has no circulation. By shunning publication of these notices in the Salem Statesman Journal, with a daily circulation above 35,000 and a readership extending across Marion County, these attorneys are challenging Oregon Revised Statues, which say a public notice must be published “in that newspaper which the moving party considers best suited to give actual notice.” See Notices / A5
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When do legal notices become illegal? Editor’s note: This report is part of an occasional series about the legality of profits being made from the publication of foreclosure notices, as well as the roles of banks, trustees and the courts in this statemandated process. Follow along at www.bendbulletin. com/foreclosures.
“There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now.”
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and 20 million acres in Idaho foresaw the shortfall coming in May. It quietly ordered managers to fight every fire as soon as it starts, which it says goes against its own science and goals. It also required regional foresters to approve “any suppression strategy that includes restoration objectives,” wrote James Hubbard, Forest Service deputy chief for state and private forestry, in a May 25 memo. “I acknowledge this is not a desirable approach in the long run,” Hubbard wrote. Today, just one fire nationwide, a blaze in the Teton Wilderness near Yellowstone, has received that approval. See Fires / A6
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