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AuntieEm2:
Another teen has died in an Aspen-run program.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ss ... nd_di.html

Sergey Blashchishen, 16, died Friday, August 28, 2009. He had been there one day. This is not an isolated incident. We'll wait for the details to emerge, but I expect we will hear the familiar story of events emerge: The teen complains about not feeling well, and is ignored. Then the teen vomits, and is ignored. Then the teen collapes, and the staff on hand is not trained to save the child's life. How many times have we heard this story?

I am so angry. Please keep this boy and this family in your thoughts.

Thanks to CAFETY for alerting me to this story.

Auntie Em
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From The Oregonian

Portland teen collapses and dies during wilderness camp hike
by Stephen Beaven, The Oregonian
Tuesday September 01, 2009, 2:44 PM

The Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a Portland teen who collapsed during a hike as part of a wilderness camp exercise, a spokesman said today.

Sergey Blashchishen, 16, died Friday after collapsing about 2:30 p.m., said Deputy Chuck Pore. An autopsy was performed on Sunday but the results are incomplete and a cause of death has not been determined, Pore said.

Investigators are trying to find out if Blashchishen, who lived in Northeast Portland, had any medical problems that might have contributed to his death, Pore said. He had passed a physical the day before he died.

Blashchishen was attending the SageWalk wilderness school, a program for troubled teens based in Redmond. He was hiking with a group in northern Lake County between Burns and Bend when he got sick.

"He said he didn't feel good and shortly after that collapsed," Pore said.

The Bureau of Land Management has suspended the permit for SageWalk to operate on BLM land, pending the outcome of the investigation. It could not be confirmed if Blashchishen was on BLM property when he collapsed.

"SageWalk considers student safety our number one priority and takes this incident very seriously," SageWalk Executive Director Mike Bednarz said in a statement.

Lyudmila Blashchishena, Sergey's mother, said she was told that her son vomited and then passed out during the hike, adding that he did not suffer from any medical conditions.

"We are still so shocked," she said. "He always did sports, never had any disease. How could he pass away just from hiking?"

Blashchishen dropped out of Parkrose High School last year, his mother said, and enrolled in the wilderness school on Thursday.

He had worked construction and lived with an uncle before deciding to go to SageWalk.

"He asked me to place him in the boot camp," his mother said. "He really wanted to change his behavior."

--Stephen Beaven; stevebeaven@news.oregonian.com

Anonymous:
Mom sounds really clueless about the industry. Unwittingly, she took the equity from her home to have her son tortured to death.

September 3, 2009- Portland, Oregon  
Story Published: Sep 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM PDT
Story Updated: Sep 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM PDT
By Jeff Jaeger KATU News and KATU.com Staff  Video

PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland teen who was trying to turn his life around died unexpectedly at a wilderness boot camp in Central Oregon and his mother can’t fathom the news.

“I just was shocked,” Lyudmila Blashchishena said after learning of her son's death on Friday. “I couldn't believe, how could my son die from hiking?”

Her son, 16-year-old Sergey, had left the day before for a wilderness camp in Lake County.

 “While they were hiking he didn't feel so good and he wanted to take the break and he took off his backpack,” his mother said.

Moments later he died with no explanation.

“I was so worried about him because, you know, 16-year-old boy, a completely healthy boy.”

Blashchishena said Sergey was a very athletic teen and had no health problems.

“It's not like it was severe exercise like military boot camp; it was educational boot camp, adventure camp,” she said.
[MYTH. THAT'S WHAT THE PROGRAM TOLD HER.]
The only problems he had were in life. He dropped out of school a year ago, but he wanted to turn his life around.

“He asked me to place him to boot camp because he actually wanted to change,” Blashchishena said.

“It was very expensive for us so we took equity from our house to make sure we save our child,” she said.

He was a teen with so much potential who ultimately wasn't allowed the chance to live up to it.

“I expected so much from this boot camp to be honest, you know,” Blashchishena said. “How could he just leave us?”

Autopsy results are still pending, but Blashchishena was told Sergey likely died of heat exhaustion.

A memorial fund has been set up in Sergey’s honor at Bank of America. Contributions can be made at any branch.

Ursus:
Another thread here:

Boy dies at Sagewalk
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=28470[/list]

Anonymous:
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try another castle:

--- Quote ---“It was very expensive for us so we took equity from our house to make sure we save our child,” she said.
--- End quote ---

Precisely why Im hoping (in a schadenfreude sort of way) that the real estate market will finally tank, if only to render the TTI irrelevant and out of business before people get back on their feet and realize that taking out a second mortgage on a house isnt worth the mixed results.

Perspective is everything.

Doubtful this will happen, though. The bubble has already burst, and for some reason, real estate in CA is still booming and overpriced. Ridiculous. Would be nice to have some good rental rates right now.

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