Community Partners Seeking Better Health

HEALTHY KlamathWhy is this important?Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States, and is the second leading cancer killer in the U.S. If adults aged 50 or older had regular screening tests, as many as 60% of the deaths from colorectal cancer could be prevented.

The Community Partners Seeking Better Health want to improve this number.To learn more, go to: www.healthyklamath.org or scan the QR code.

47.5% of Klamath County adults over 50 years old have had a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy within the past five years.

Scan the QR codeto learn more

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Wildlife refuges provide economic boost

The annual pronghorn ante-lope migration and other natural sights keep visitors coming to Southern Oregon refuges. See page A2.

Ponderosa aims for high performance

The middle school’s principal, Daymond Monteith, says the ulti-mate goal is a 100 percent gradua-tion rate, but right now 80 percent is ‘realistic.’ See page A2.

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Smarter spendingJunior Achievement teaches tough world of adult budgeting

H&N photos by Samantha Tipler

WATCHING THE MARKET: Caileigh Smith works with fellow Mazama High School seniors on tracking stocks at the Junior Achievement Finance Park at the Klamath County Fairgrounds Wednesday.

By SAMANTHA TIPLERH&N Staff Reporter

Childcare can be expensive. Food can be expensive. Getting fired can make things all the more difficult.

Mazama High School seniors learned these tough finance lessons during the day-long Junior Achievement Finance Park this week. They used the iPad app to run life scenarios managing a bud-get.

As Isabella Lockwood put it, “It’s hard.”

Junior Achievement sets up its Finance Park at the Klamath County Fairgrounds and students use iPads and the Finance Park app to build a budget by visiting stations with QR codes.

Isabella’s avatar was a 41-year-old widow who makes $89,556 a year as an advertising director. She had two chil-dren. For her, childcare cost $1,560 a month.

“It was crazy,” she said. The cost of childcare was the biggest

cost that surprised the most students. “Don’t have kids,” is what Dakota

Cool said he learned from the budget-ing program. His avatar was a sales manager making $86,000 a year. But mid-way through the day, he was fired. At the same time his child grew four years older making childcare cheaper. He came out on top with a new job as a human resources manager making $100,000 a year.

Caileigh Smith wasn’t as lucky. Like Dakota, her avatar lost its job mid-way through the simulation.

LEFT: Isabella Lockwood shows her avatar, a 41-year-old adver-tising director making $89,556 a year with two children. She and other Mazama High School seniors used the life situa-tions to learn how to budget at the Junior Achieve-ment Finance Park at the Klamath County Fairgrounds Wednesday.See FINANCE, page A3

Payoff of education

Another app the Mazama High School seniors used at the Junior Achievement Finance Park was the Build Your Future app. Students could pick a career, factor in the amount of education they would need and budget accordingly. Other factors included if they went to a state school or a private school, if they lived at home or paid room and board.

Bailey Schill learned as a civil engineer she could make $77,000 a year.

Though the app told her she would be making a good investment — able to pay off student loans — she said she hoped to get college paid for through the ROTC program.

Kaitlin Crowell plans to be a physical therapist. The app told her she would make $86,000 a year. She said she is pursuing schol-arships to pay for the edu-cation required for that field.

The Build Your Future app is available at the Apple

App Store, or for Android on Google Play.

Deanna Wilson, district manager of Junior Achieve-ment of Klamath County, encouraged the students to download the app and explore different careers and education costs to get an idea on the return for their investment.

For more information about the Build Your Future app, visit www.junior-achievement.org/web/ja-usa/apps.

Cover Oregon plans 400 hiresExtra employees needed to process paperwork by hand while website is down

PORTLAND (AP) — Because Oregon’s health exchange website still hasn’t enrolled a single person more than a month after its launch, state officials plan to hire at least 400 workers to manu-ally process paper applications for health insurance.

The announcement comes amid wor-ries that Cover Oregon could run out of time to sign up enough Oregonians by the Dec. 15 deadline for those who need cover-age starting in January.

Software glitches have prevented the website from accurately determining whether people qualify for federal subsi-dies or publicly funded health care.

Gov. John Kitzhaber has said the exchange website may not be fixed before Dec. 31. So, officials are now urging peo-ple who need or want insurance to fill out a 19-page paper application or an online PDF and return it as soon as possible.

See HIRES, page A5

INSIDE: New ruling says employers must treat mental illness as equal to physical maladies, A5.

By LACEY JARRELLH&N Staff Reporter

The Klamath Irrigation District’s 92-year-old C Canal flume needs to be repaired and replaced, or water deliver-ies to 22,000 acres of land could be jeop-ardized.

The Klamath Irrigation District (KID) and the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) are in talks to organize repairs needed to maintain water service through the district’s C Canal flume. The repairs could cost as much as $300,000 and will serve as a precursor to a multimillion dollar flume replace-ment project, according to KID man-ager, Mark Stuntebeck.

See CANAL, page A3

Friday night footballKlamath Union stunned by Central in game’s final minutes

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