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Fire triples Surge in students in size, and surprises schools residents are on alert BEND-LA PINE
• Enrollment has grown for years, but district seeks solutions for schools at capacity or beyond By Ben Botkin • The Bulletin
the project needs,” said Brad Henry, chief operations and financial officer for the district. If the district decides a new school is necessary, any building project would need voter approval of a bond. The committee’s report and recommendation is intended to update the district’s 20-year plan for facilities and space needs. The plan was last updated in 2010. See Enrollment / A7
Bend-La Pine Schools has no shortage of students: The school district projected about 55 more students for this fall; instead, the district has more than 200 additional students enrolled. The total enrollment Friday exceeded 16,500 students. Last year’s enrollment was 16,302 students. The district will report updated figures to the Oregon Department of Education in October. Preliminary enrollment figures for the district show a continued pattern of growth. This school year, 16 schools
in Bend are near or above capacity, the bulk of them elementary schools. The school board at its Sept. 25 meeting will hear a recommendation from the sites and facilities volunteer committee. “There will be a good discussion at that meeting about capacity and about
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Enrollment up in Bend-La Pine Schools As of Friday, enrollment numbers were up at most schools in the district, although officials say the numbers could fluctuate slightly between now and the Oct. 1 reporting deadline. In Bend, an increase in primary and middle school students put many schools near or above capacity. t. W ashi ng
La Pine La Pine E.S.
556 +1% 93% Ponderosa E.S.
Rosland E.S.
Mt. View H.S.
1,360 -1% 88%
Bend
Ensworth E.S.
La Pine M.S.
Highland Magnet
1,394 +2% 93%
Westside Village Magnet Marshall H.S.
High Lakes E.S. W.E. Miller E.S.
Three Rivers E.S.
Amity Creek Magnet
595 +6% 99%
203 +27% 102%
269 +2% 94%
178 +1% 119%
Third St.
Summit H.S.
608 +3% 101%
Sunriver
Buckingham E.S.
Juniper E.S.
392 -1% 105% 564 +8% 98% Pilot Butte M.S. 479 -2% 80% Newport Ave. 653 +4% 73%
293 +.5% 53% 481 -8% 74%
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177 -1% 59%
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578 -4% 96%
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Sky View M.S.
782 +3% 98%
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1,614 +3% 98%
346 -2% 60%
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601 +13% 100% ark w
606 +10% 101%
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Strong winds fanned the Pole Creek Fire near Sisters on Saturday, nearly tripling the burned acreage since Friday and positioning the fire as the largest in Central Oregon this season. Saturday morning flyovers estimated the fire’s size at 15,000 acres, moving the Pole Creek Fire past the nearly 13,000-acre Waterfalls 2 Fire on the Warm Springs Reservation as the region’s biggest. North-to-south winds have been guiding the Pole Creek Fire away from populated areas, with much of Saturday’s activity high in the Three Sisters Wilderness. Deschutes National Forest spokeswoman Jean NelsonDean said firefighters struggled late Friday, watching the fire jump its containment lines in multiple locations. Lines were re-established during the night, she said, but unusually low humidity overnight allowed the fire to continue growing. “The fire behavior (Friday) night was really strange,” she said. Friday’s weather also featured a number of lightning strikes across the region, one of which is believed to have lit a 200- to 300-acre fire on the Warm Springs Reservation. See Fire / A5
A ‘relief to get home’ • Stories of day trips that turned dramatic By Dylan J. Darling The Bulletin
When the Pole Creek Fire erupted Sept. 9, it sealed off the planned exit for about 30 hikers and campers in the northeast corner of the Three Sisters Wilderness. To those who called, Deschutes County 911 dispatchers advised them of three options of escape, said Greggory McVicker, who had been climbing a northern route on South Sister that day. They could bushwhack for a couple of miles and then follow trails to the Park Meadow Trailhead, a 15-mile trek. Or, they could climb up and over the saddle between South and Middle Sisters, then head north to the Obsidian Trailhead off Highway 242, a 20-mile hike. Or, they could stay the night at Camp Lake, close to the saddle, and see what routes were available the next day. See Escape / A5
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Cascade M.S. Change from 2011 2012 Percent enrollment of capacity (red if over)
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R.E. Jewell E.S.
589 -1% 98%
High Desert M.S.
756 -.5% 95%
Elk Meadow E.S.
532 -4% 89% 97
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“The district usually does a really good job as a whole with our projections. The wild card is people moving in during the summer.”
Frank and Jane Getty, of Sisters, watch the Pole Creek Fire on Saturday from the McKenzie Highway near Sisters Middle School. The fire has grown to 15,000 acres and appears to be burning toward Green Lakes, near South Sister, and, potentially, the Bridge Creek watershed.
— Scott Edmondson, Sky View Middle School principal
U.S. girds for Arab Winter By Peter Baker and Mark Landler New York Times News Service
After days of anti-American violence across the Muslim world, the White House is girding itself for an extended period of turmoil that will test the security of U.S. diplomatic missions and President Barack Obama’s ability to shape the forces of change in the Arab world. Although the tumult subsided Saturday, senior administration officials said they had concluded that the
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sometimes violent protests in Muslim countries may presage a sustained crisis with unpredictable diplomatic and political consequences. While pressing Arab leaders to tamp down the unrest, Obama and his advisers are left to consider whether to scale back diplomatic activities in the region. The unrest has suddenly called into question central tenets of the president’s Middle East policy. See Mideast / A4
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“I almost refused. It had only been done in pigs. But (the doctor) convinced me.” — Andemariam Beyene, cancer patient
A first: organs tailored from a body’s own cells Inside
By Henry Fountain
• How regeneration is done, A7
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material from animals Doctors have used scaffolding
BLADDER The process begins by removing a thin sheet of tissue from a pig’s urinary bladder. The tissue is treated to remove all living cells.
SHEET The resulting web of collagen and protein is called extracellular matrix, and can look like a thick piece of parchment paper.
IMPLANTATION Scar tissue on the damaged muscle is cut out, and the matrix is stitched directly to the remaining healthy
STOCKHOLM — Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die. Two and a half years ago, doctors in Iceland, where Beyene was studying, discovered a golf-ball-size tumor grow-
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ing into his windpipe. Despite surgery and radiation, it kept growing. In 2011, when Beyene came to Sweden to see another doctor, he was practically out of options. “I was almost dead.” But Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, at the Karolinska Institute here, had a radical idea: tailor-making a new windpipe. See Regeneration / A7
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