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OSHA fines Lowe’s $18,100
for COVID-19 infractions
The Lowe’s hardware store
branch in Redmond was hit
with $18,100 in fines Monday
from Oregon Occupational
Safety and Health — better
known as OSHA — for mul-
tiple COVID-19 violations.
The biggest penalty, cost-
ing $17,500, was for not re-
quiring customers to wear
face coverings, according to
an OSHA press release. State
inspections found that Lowe’s
branch supervisors knew of
the state-mask mandate, and
willfully chose to ignore it,
the release stated.
The Lowe’s store in Albany
received an identical fine
Monday for the same reason.
The store also received two
$300 fines for not creating a
risk assessment plan to iden-
tify possible employee ex-
posure to COVID-19, or an
infection control plan, the re-
lease stated.
Several yellow-bellied marmots,
also known as a rockchucks, were
found sitting near their burrows
at Hugh Hartman Elementary
School in Redmond on April 14.
Kiwanis donate $17,000
to Rimrock Trails
The Redmond Kiwanis
Foundation contributed nearly
$17,000 towards the Rimrock
Trails Residential Treatment
Program renovations, accord-
ing to a press release.
Built in 1994, for 27 years
the Rimrock Trail’s Adoles-
cent Residential Treatment
Program Facilities has been
a place of safety, comfort and
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Rockchucks
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“Now that the students are
back, we have found the rock-
chucks are also back,” Miller
said.
This year, the rockchuck
infestation is more
widespread. Their feces and
dug-out holes have been
spotted at Redmond High
School and Ridgeview High
School, in addition to the
elementary school.
The school district is plan-
ning to work with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Wildlife Services Department,
which will have a wildlife spe-
cialist exterminate the rock-
chucks by fumigating their
burrows. The specialist places
gas cartridges in the burrows,
which give off carbon mon-
oxide.
This time, the work will be
done early enough in the sea-
son to catch rockchucks before
they start hibernating again at
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In a year when many stu-
dents will only get a few
months of in-person learning
or less, some Oregon school
districts have rebelled against
standardized testing.
But Central Oregon’s two
largest school districts will
stay the course. Bend-La Pine
Schools and the Redmond
School District will still offer
standardized tests this year,
and families will still have to
ask to opt out if they don’t want
their students to take the tests.
“We’re going to stick with it
as is,” said Chris Morton, Red-
mond’s director of school im-
provement, who oversees stan-
dardized testing for the district.
Dave VanLoo, Bend-La
Pine’s director of school im-
provement, said this year’s
dramatically scaled-back stan-
dardized tests mean less class
time is lost.
Standardized testing was
largely canceled in 2020 due
to the COVID-19 pandemic,
and with students barely back
in the classroom this spring, it’s
been scaled back throughout
Oregon.
Earlier this spring, the Ore-
gon Department of Education
and the U.S. Department of
Education agreed that instead
of Oregon students taking
the traditional suite of tests in
various subjects, each student
would only take one test in one
subject this spring. Which sub-
ject a student is tested on de-
pends on the grade level.
“We don’t really anticipate a
detrimental impact on student
learning, having kids take one
test that takes an hour,” Van-
Loo said.
Other Oregon school dis-
tricts — like Ashland and Ea-
gle Point in Southern Oregon
City sells land for $2.8M
The city will sell 14 acres
of vacant land in Redmond’s
industrial east side to a con-
struction materials company
planning to build a large in-
dustrial campus there.
The $2.67 million sale —
unanimously approved by
the Redmond City Council
— will allow for the eventual
creation of 35 to 60 new jobs
after the campus is complete.
The company, which man-
ufactures and distributes con-
struction materials, wishes to
remain anonymous for now.
Company leaders report-
edly hope to break ground
on the distribution site by the
end of 2021.
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“Now that the students are back, we have found the rockchucks are also back.”
— Sheila Miller, Redmond School District spokesperson
the end of July, according to
wildlife officials.
“Right now is when they all
start showing back up,” Miller
said. “Hopefully, we can get it
done early enough that it will
be effective this season.”
Rockchucks are the largest
squirrels in Oregon and are
known for being plump and
larger than other marmots.
They are often seen on rocks
throughout the Old Mill Dis-
trict in Bend.
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— are taking the opposite ap-
proach to standardized testing:
opt in. That means students
won’t take any standardized
tests, unless their family emails
the school district and asks if
their child can participate.
Other school districts have de-
cided to not offer standardized
tests at all this year, including
Oregon Trail School District
and Salem-Keizer. Salem-Keizer
School District spokesperson
Sylvia McDaniel said the school
board canceled the tests because
students have had limited op-
portunities for in-person learn-
ing during the pandemic.
VanLoo said Bend-La Pine
Schools’ ability to bring back
students earlier than many
other large districts means
missing a bit of regular instruc-
tion for tests isn’t as tough for
local students. While Bend-La
Pine high schoolers returned
to hybrid learning in February
and full time in-person Mon-
day, Portland high schoolers
won’t return to buildings until
next week, and it will be part
time.
Both VanLoo and Morton
said they’ll respect the wishes
of any family that chooses to
pull their kid out of standard-
ized testing.
Bend-La Pine and Red-
mond teachers’ union leaders
had mixed responses to their
schools moving forward with
the opt-out method for stan-
dardized tests this year.
Sarah Barclay, president of
the Bend Education Associa-
tion, is pushing for her school
district to move to an opt-in
style. She believes standardized
tests are a waste of time when
students had to spend more
than half the school year learn-
ing online.
“We have really precious
time with students in-person
this spring,” Barclay said. “So
even one week (of testing) is
just not a good use of time.”
Barry Branaugh, board
member of the Redmond Edu-
cation Association, doesn’t be-
lieve there should be standard-
ized testing this year. But if the
district is going to still give the
tests, it’s still easy for students
and families to opt out if they
choose, he said.
“I don’t think we really
should be having it, but given
that’s what the state wants,
it’s fine,” Branaugh said. “The
opt out is not a difficult thing.
It’s just a matter of filling out
a piece of paper or going to a
website.”
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