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New limits, but not all aspects will change

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PLAY event provides children with fun outdoor activitiesChildren of all ages attended PLAY, which stands for Promoting Lifelong Activities for Youth. There were many booths set up, which provided activities that encouraged outdoor recreation. See page A2.

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Herald and Newsempowering the community

Jan. 19, 2014

DAILY BRIEFING INSIDE ONLINE INDEX

H&N photos by Holly Dillemuth

BUSINESS MAKEOVER: Mike McKay, of Atone General Contracting, is renovating the

former Antonio’s Place building downtown in hopes to fill it with

tenants, including retail and restaurant. The city sold the

building to McKay for $60,000.

BELOW: The Grizzle build-ing, on the corner of Main

and 11th streets, has been renovated by its new owner, Richard Long. Long bought

the building from the city for $60,000 in 2012. The city

purchased four Main Street buildings to resell or demol-

ish in an effort to revitalize downtown.

Community Partners Seeking Better Health

HEALTHY KlamathWhy is this important?Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose, also called blood sugar, resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. In 2007, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and an estimated 23.6 million people or 7.8% of the population had diabetes. The prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes increased six-fold in the latter half of the last century. Diabetes risk factors such as obesity and physical inactivity have played a major role in this dramatic increase. Age, race, and ethnicity are also important risk factors.

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

41.9 deaths occur due to diabetes per 100,000 population in Klamath County

Scan the QR codeto learn more

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Spurring business growth downtownFormer Antonio’s Placeunder reconstruction

By HOLLY DILLEMUTHH&N Staff Reporter

ot long ago, general contractor Mike McKay remembers eating dinner at the Antonio’s Cucina Italiana restau-

rant in downtown Klamath Falls.Standing in the same building as the for-

mer restaurant on an early, frosty morning, McKay, now the owner of the downtown space, said he enjoyed the restaurant but hopes to attract new tenants to 1012-1014 Main St.

McKay and his crew at Atone General Con-tracting are working to renovate the building, which boasts 1,200 square feet for retail space and an additional 1,680 square feet for a res-taurant or other tenant.

The city sold the building to McKay for $60,000 in November 2012.

“We felt it was a good buy,” McKay said. “The structure is solid — the bones are good. We should have everything to lease within about 60 days.” McKay said there are no pro-spective tenants at the moment, but are pre-paring the buildings for a sale anyway.

“We’re going to redo the kitchen floor — Make that space nice,” he added.

In the meantime, between three and eight workers come in and out of the building each day. The plan is to replace the existing roof, conduct electrical and mechanical upgrades and install drywall and insulation.

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The city of Klamath Falls pur-chased four Main Street buildings in 2012 and 2013 in an effort to revital-ize the downtown area and invigo-rate the real estate market. One pur-chase, a building at 1024 Main St., located next to the former Antonio’s restaurant, was torn down by the city in 2012 to prepare the space for use as a public parking lot.

See CITY, page A6See RENOVATION,

page A6

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the bur-den on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. Yet he avoided major action on the prac-tice of sweeping up billions of phone, email and text messages from across the globe.

In a speech at the Justice Depart-ment on Friday, Obama said he was placing new limits on the way intel-ligence officials access phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans — and was moving toward eventually stripping the massive data collection from the government’s hands.

His promises to end government stor-age of its collection of data on Ameri-cans’ telephone calls — and require judicial review to examine the data — were met with skepticism from privacy advocates and some lawmakers.

But Obama has made it nearly impossible for reluctant leaders in Con-gress to avoid making some changes in the U.S. phone surveillance they have supported for years.

Obama admitted that he has been torn between how to protect privacy rights and how to protect the U.S. from terror attacks — what officials have called the main purpose of the spy pro-grams.

“The challenge is getting the details right, and that is not simple,” he said.

His speech had been anticipated since former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden made off with an estimated 1.7 million documents related to surveillance and other NSA operations and gave them to several journalists around the world. The rev-elations in the documents touched off a public debate about whether Ameri-cans wanted to give up some privacy in exchange for intelligence-gathering on terror suspects.

The president said his proposals “should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intel-ligence and law enforcement agencies maintain the tools they need to keep us safe.”

Obama acknowledged more needs to be done, but he largely left it to Con-gress to work out the details.

Obama fuels NSA reform

See NSA, page A6

Klamath Falls claims rare 1-0 shutout at Collier Challenge Cup

See page B1

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