Wednesday, June 29, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Bend needs 7 schools
to keep up with growth
BEND (AP) — The City
of Bend will need to open
seven new schools to keep
up with the projected growth
over the next 20 years, offi-
cials say.
A Bend-La Pine School
District committee presented
a report on projected enroll-
ment to the school board last
week, reported The Bulletin.
The report does not say when
the new schools should open,
but predicts when the district
will be over capacity and
where the demand will be
highest.
A 20-member facilities
committee including district
staff, principals, teachers and
community members will
decide which projects the
district should tackle first. It
will also look at how much
they will cost and if the dis-
trict should go out for a bond.
Those decisions are expected
in the fall.
“It would be really dif-
ficult to build new schools
without a bond,” said Brad
Henry, the district’s chief
operations and financial
officer.
The district’s most recent
bond was passed in 2013
and paid for the construction
of Silver Rail Elementary
and Pacific Crest Middle
schools, which opened last
fall. Those schools helped
relieve overcrowding, but
that’s not expected to last
long.
Bend-La Pine had about
17,000 students this year
and expects to grow every
year, hitting nearly 24,000 in
2034.
It would be really
difficult to build new
schools without a bond.
— Brad Henry
The committee is rely-
ing on enrollment projec-
tions from Portland State
University Population
Research center, build-
ing permits, county popu-
lation forecasts and plans
for Bend’s expanded urban
growth.
Henry said schools can
operate over capacity, but it’s
not ideal.
5
Sisters lifter medals in Texas event
Mason Haro-Kobernik,
17-year-old junior from Rid-
geview High School, won two
national medals Sunday at
the 2016 USA Weightlifting
Youth National Champion-
ships in Austin, Texas.
Mason, who lifts for Level
5 Strength and has trained
here in Sisters for the last six
months, competed against 14
other nationally qualified lift-
ers in the 94kg weight class
in the 16- to 17-year-old age
group.
Mason earned a silver
medal by placing second in
the snatch competition with a
lift of 111 kg/244 pounds, just
1 kg below the top lift.
Mason placed fourth in the
clean & jerk competition with
a lift of 136 kg/300 pounds,
just 1 kg below the third-best
lift.
Mason earned the over-
all bronze medal in the total,
with a total of 247 kg, just 1
kg under the silver medal.
Mason made all his lifts,
going six-for-six with three
new personal records set.
His silver-medal snatch
was the best technical lift of
the entire group, and his final
clean & jerk to secure the
bronze was the highlight of
the session as it was the first
time in his young career he
photo provided
Mason Haro-kobernik had an outstanding tournament in texas.
has been able to hit the 300-
pound mark.
Mason now moves on to
the junior 17-20 level and his
next big meet will be Junior
Nationals in February, 2017.