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St. Charles, nurses meet with mediator By Ben Botkin
Some Tumalo trails may reopen By Hillary Borrud and Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Construction of Bend’s surface water improvement project may have less of an impact on recreation in the Tumalo Falls area than originally advertised, officials said Thursday. Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service and the city announced the two-mile dirt road from the end of Skyliners Road to the Tumalo Falls parking lot and about two miles of trails around the falls would be
closed through late May. Bend City Manager Eric King and Tom Hickmann, the city engineer and assistant public works director, said Thursday they expected the Forest Service to announce that some of the trails around Tumalo Falls will soon reopen. The closure announced Tuesday was broader than necessary, they said. King said it was solely the Forest Service’s decision which trails and roads to close based on construction plans supplied to the Forest Service by the city.
“We say, ‘Here is where we are going to be constructing’ and it’s their decision,” King said Thursday afternoon. At a Thursday evening public meeting, Kevin Larkin, district ranger for the BendFort Rock Ranger District, said while Tumalo Falls Road will remain closed, a portion of it could be reopened for skiers and snowshoers once winter hits and construction crews shift to working along Skyliners Road. See Tumalo / A4
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The Oregon Nurses Association and St. Charles Bend met in a mediation session Thursday in an effort to reach a contract agreement, less than three weeks after nurses picketed on sidewalks outside the hospital’s entrance. That meeting came one day after another group of hospital workers decided to take another vote to settle the question of whether they will join the Service Employees International Union Local 49. Workers initially voted in early 2011 by a slim margin to join the SEIU but negotiations have not yet yielded a contract since talks started last year. The labor disputes affect nearly 1,300 employees. Negotiations for the nurses’ labor contract started in May. The ONA, which represents about 670 nurses, was in mediation late Thursday and it was uncertain if the latest session would lead to a contract. “We’re bargaining in good faith,” Alison Hamway, a labor relations representative for the ONA. Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Goodman echoed that sentiment. On Sept. 10, nurses participated in an informational picket outside the hospital, raising concerns about St. Charles management’s effort to reshape the role of charge nurses, who handle administrative and operational tasks and are available to help other nurses. See Mediation / A4
GET READY FOR ‘KICKOFF’
By David D. Kirkpatrick, Eric Schmitt and Michael S. Schmidt New York Times News Service
Court will consider restricting use of race in college admissions By Robert Barnes The Washington Post
AUSTIN, Texas — More than a half-century after the Supreme Court ordered the University of Texas to admit a black man to its law school, the sprawling live-oakand-limestone campus is again the site of a monumental battle over the use of race in university admissions. But this time the challenge comes from a white woman. Abigail Fisher says the color of her skin cost her a spot in the 2008 freshman class at the university she had longed to attend since she was a child. Under the banner of racial diversity, Fisher contends, the UT admissions process — which considers race as a factor in choosing one-quarter of its students — unfairly favors African-Americans and Hispanics at the expense of whites and Asian-Americans. “If any state action should respect racial equality, it is university admission,” Fisher said in her brief to the Supreme Court. “Selecting those who will benefit from the limited places available at universities has enormous consequences.” See Court / A4
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Andrew Malcolm, left, and William Hicks, employees of Fabrication Specialties of Seattle, work Thursday morning on installing the final stages of the stainless steel sculpture “Kickoff,” by Seattle artist Gloria Bornstein. The sculpture is in Pine Nursery Park in Bend. In a press release, Bornstein is quoted as saying, “I wanted to design an uplifting sculpture that enhances the viewer’s experience of the park. ‘Kickoff’ is an exuberant sculpture that announces the entrance to Pine Nursery Park and celebrates the start of the game.”
Austrian town debates future of Hitler’s birthplace By George Jahn The Associated Press
BRAUNAU, Austria — Living space in Braunau is scarce, but an imposing Renaissance-era building stands empty in this post-card pretty Austrian town because of the sinister shadow cast by a former tenant: Adolf Hitler. With its thick walls, huge arched
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doorway and deep-set windows, the 500-year-old house near the town square would normally be prime property. Because Hitler was born here, however, it has become a huge headache for town fathers forced into deciding what to do with a landmark so intimately linked to evil.
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The building was most recently used as a workshop for people with intellectual disabilities, which some saw as atonement for the murders of tens of thousands of disabled people by the Nazi regime. But that tenant moved out last year for more modern quarters. The departure reignited debate on what to do with the house that burst
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from the town hall chamber into the public domain last week after the mayor declared that he preferred creating apartments over turning the building into an anti-Nazi memorial. “We are already stigmatized,” Johannes Waidbacher told the Austrian daily Der Standard. See House / A4
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BENGHAZI, Libya — Sixteen days after the murder of four Americansin an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission here, fears about the near-total lack of security have kept FBI agents from visiting the scene of the killings and forced them to try to piece together the complicated crime from Tripoli, more than 400 miles away. Investigators are so worried about the tenuous security, people involved in the investigation say, that they have been unwilling to risk taking some potential Libyan witnesses into the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. Instead, the investigators have resorted to the awkward solution of questioning some witnesses in cars outside the embassy, which is operating under emergency staffing and was evacuated of even more diplomats Thursday because of a heightened security alert. “It’s a cavalcade of obstacles right now,” said a senior U.S. law enforcement official who is receiving regular updates on the Benghazi investigation and who described the crime scene, which has been trampled on, looted and burned, as so badly “degraded” that even once FBI agents do eventually gain access “it’ll be very difficult to see what evidence can be attributed to the bad guys.” Piecing together exactly how Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died here would be difficult even under the best of conditions. But the volatile security situation in post-Gadhafi Libya has added to the challenge of determining whether it was purely a local group of extremists who initiated the fatal assault or whether the attackers had ties to international terrorist groups, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday may be the case. The Libyan government has advised the FBI that it cannot assure the safety of the U.S. investigators in Benghazi. See Libya / A4
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