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Honor Flights to resume after yearlong wait
Marine Dane
Prevatt, right, one
of the organizers
for this year’s
Honor Flight,
sports an Honor
Flight T-shirt
and answers
questions from
vets about
to travel to
Washington, D.C.,
at the VFW hall
in this archive
photo.
BY GERRY O’BRIEN
The Spokesman
REDMOND — The Honor
Flights for armed forces veterans to
visit national war memorials is on
once again.
Some 25 veterans from Central
Oregon, their guardians and ad-
ministrative people plan to fly out
of Redmond Airport on Sept. 22,
after a yearlong delay due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
This will be the long-promised
inaugural flight from Redmond, or-
ganizers say.
“We are going to fly out of our
Spokesman file
Redmond
City Council
discusses
marijuana
dispensaries
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Marijuana dispensaries
are still illegal within Red-
mond city limits. But the
City Council is already
moving ahead on creating
regulations for where they
can be located, in case that
changes.
The Redmond City
Council was scheduled
to discuss time, place and
manner regulations for
marijuana dispensaries at
a special meeting Tuesday
night. Dispensaries is
a topic that has been
hotly debated among
city councilors. (See
updates to this story at
redmondspokesman.com)
Mayor George Endicott
said he asked city staff to
draft dispensary regula-
tions, despite the marijuana
outlets being illegal in Red-
mond, as he believes the
federal government will le-
galize the drug nationwide
soon.
Redmond city code for-
bids giving business licenses
to companies that violate
federal or state law, and
marijuana is still illegal fed-
erally, despite being allowed
within Oregon.
“If the feds legalize mari-
juana, then guess what? We
no longer have a prohibi-
tion against giving them a
business license,” Endicott
told The Bulletin before the
meeting. “Then it’s, where
do you put a marijuana
business?”
Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer, a New
York Democrat, told Polit-
ico this month that the U.S.
Senate will push to legalize
cannabis nationwide.
See Marijuana / P4
UPDATES ONLINE
• The City Council meeting
was after The Spokesman’s
print deadline. See updates at
redmondspokesman.com
home town of Redmond, Oregon,”
declared Dane Prevatt, Honor
Flight of Central Oregon organizer.
“We reserved dates with Alaska
Airlines for Sept. 22 to D.C., re-
turning on Sept. 25. We had to
make a hasty decision on flight
dates, we don’t usually fly in the
fall, so we tried to pick the best
dates based on weather, kids back
in school, and hopefully we got
around other major events that
happen in the D.C. area in the fall.”
The group plans to visit the World
War II Memorial, the Lincoln Me-
morial, the Korean War and Viet-
nam War memorials as well as the
Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps
memorials and Arlington National
Cemetery. Visitors will also witness
the changing of the guard ceremony
at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Tours include the Pentagon, the
National Archives and possibly a
private tour of the U.S. Capitol.
“The Capitol could be tricky due
to the recent security issues,” Prevatt
said. “However, if we are not able to,
we may visit Mount Vernon instead.”
A media person will be onboard
to document the event.
See Flights / P4
‘IT’S ALMOST LIKE
OPENING UP IN THE FALL’
Redmond schools, others prepare for return to full-time classes
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
A
fter more than a year of school
being fully online or only partly
in-person, thousands of students
in Redmond and Bend-La Pine
school districts will soon return to
full-time, in-person classes five days a week.
This change — which only became possi-
ble after the Oregon Department of Education
shrunk the mandatory 6-feet social distancing
rule for students to 3 feet in late March — is
good news to educators in Central Oregon’s
two largest school districts.
“I’ve got a great class — they’re super excited
to be back,” said Carrie Price, a fourth grade
teacher at Juniper Elementary School in north-
east Bend. “This is what they need.”
But transitioning the majority of students
— grades 4-12 in Bend-La Pine, grades 6-12
in Redmond — from part-online to full-time
classroom settings isn’t as simple as moving
desks closer together. Completely shifting the
logistics of school operations in the middle
of the school year is difficult but worth it to
get all students back full time, said Redmond
Archie Bailey, a maintenance technician with
the Redmond School District, assembles a
table Friday in preparation for students re-
turning to classrooms full-time this month.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Superintendent Charan Cline.“We know this
is good for kids, and frankly it’s good for our
staff,” Cline said. “It’s just that it takes time to
make the switch.”
See Schools / P5
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Events in and around Redmond
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its community calendar. Submissions are limited to nonprofit,
free and live entertainment events. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday
for the following Wednesday’s paper. Items are published on a
space-available basis and may be edited. Contact us at
news@redmondspokesman.com or fax 541-548-3203.
WEDNESDAY 4/7
Christy Lefteri; 6-7 p.m.; online; go.evvnt.com/744158-0 or 541-306-
6564.
District Library Board Work Session: The board will discuss
governance process policies including authorizing bank accounts, bond
capital and debt service funds and more; 1-4 p.m.; online; go.evvnt.
com/761991-0 or 541-312-1025.
Poetry Together — A Conversation and Reading with Anis
Mojgani, Oregon Poet Laureate: The COCC Barber Library will host
an evening consisting of a discussion facilitated by local students,
a performance of Mojgani’s work and an audience Q&A session;
6:30-8 p.m.; registration required; Bend; go.evvnt.com/758733-1 or 541-
383-7560.
1981 Casablanca & Contemporary Morocco: Hear past events in
Casablanca put into context for today from Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim,
professor emeritus of history at Cal Poly Pomona; 6-7 p.m.; registration
required; online; go.evvnt.com/762030-1 or 541-312-1029.
A Novel Idea 2021 Quilt Show: Quilts inspired by the Deschutes Public
Library’s Novel Idea and designed by local quilters will be displayed
virtually; 6-7 p.m.; online; go.evvnt.com/758667-0 or 541-312-1032.
Current Fiction Book Club: Discussing “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” by
THURSDAY 4/8
Redmond Historic Landmarks Commission Meeting: The
commission will discuss activities for Historic Preservation Month and
more; 4:30-6 p.m.; online; go.evvnt.com/761962-0 or 541-923-7758.
See Calendar / P5
INDEX
Puzzles ............. 2 Obituaries ....... 5
Police log ........ 2 Classifieds ....... 6
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