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Isabelle Richards chants during March for Our
Lives, a gun violence protest in Bend Saturday.
People of all ages gathered during March for
Our Lives, a gun violence protest in Bend Satur-
day.
Reaching more than 14,000
feet above sea level, Mount
Shasta is one of California’s
tallest peaks. A climbing
guide from Redmond died
after a fall on Jun 6.
Redmond
woman
‘PROTECT KIDS NOT GUNS’ dies after
Redmond students organize for gun reform
fall on
“It affects everyone
Mount
surrounding it. The teachers,
the parents, everyone is
Shasta
affected in some way. Every
BY JOE SIESS • CO Media Group
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hants of “protect kids
not guns” and “thoughts
and prayers are not
enough” echoed on the streets of
one of us can be a victim of gun
violence in some way.”
downtown Bend on Saturday as
hundreds of protesters marched
in support of gun reform.
— Juniper Rook, Redmond Proficiency
Academy sophomore, one of the
organizers of March for our Lives
The March for Our Lives started
at Drake Park and was arranged by
high school students from Redmond.
A number of speakers, including a
teacher, an emergency room doctor,
and gun reform activists, spoke prior
to the march.
The group marched from Drake
Park along NW Riverside Boulevard,
through downtown, and back.
“I have not consented to die for your
Second Amendment rights,” Isabelle
Richards, a 16-year-old Redmond
Proficiency Academy sophomore and
one of the event’s organizers, told the
crowd prior to the march.
Richards, along with Juniper Rook,
16, also a sophomore at Redmond
Proficiency Academy, helped plan
Saturday’s event. In January, the two
students also staged a walkout at their
critical, honestly.”
Rook added that when gun violence
occurs, it affects everyone, so people
must come together to demand change.
“It affects everyone surrounding it.
The teachers, the parents, everyone is
affected in some way,” she said. “Every
one of us can be a victim of gun vio-
lence in some way.”
Tracy Miller of Bend was at Drake
Park holding a cardboard sign that
said, “Hold congress accountable” and
said she believes legislators need to
ban assault weapons and high capacity
magazines.
Miller, a gun owner herself, said
passing common sense gun laws is not
incompatible with the Second Amend-
ment.
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
Fifth-grader Nick Blauwkamp shows support during March for Our Lives, a gun violence
protest in Bend Saturday.
school to protest gun violence.
“When you think about school
shootings, you never really think it is
going to happen to you,” Richards said.
“But that is happening to people every
single day, and I have never personally
been a victim, but I can still under-
stand how that would feel because I am
in a classroom every single day.”
Rook recalled doing school shooter
drills in middle school about twice
a year. Now in high school, she said
drills happen about once a year. She
is also concerned by the Redmond
School Board’s recent decision to deny
a policy that would prohibit guns on
school grounds.
“We are still doing drills actively
in school, while our school board is
choosing to deny policies that would
keep us safe from guns in our class-
rooms,” Rook said. “It is pretty hypo-
See March / A4
Attraction Petersen Rock Garden is for sale
LEFT: The Petersen Rock Garden
is one of Oregon’s best-loved
roadside attractions, started in
1935 as a pet project of Danish
immigrant Rasmus Petersen,
who constructed intricate sculp-
tures out of locally-sourced rocks
and shells.
BELOW: Thundereggs are em-
bedded into a sculpture at Pe-
tersen Rock Garden.
BY JAMIE HALE
The Oregonian
Petersen Rock Garden, one
of the last of the region’s road-
side attractions, is for sale.
The property at 7930 SW
77th St. between Bend and
Redmond and its collection
of detailed structures created
from and decorated with local
rocks and shells, is in search of
new ownership, as the family
who has owned it for genera-
tions is looking to move on.
Kaisha Brannon, the real
estate broker in charge of the
sale, said the 12.36-acre prop-
erty will officially be on the
market Friday at an asking
price of $825,000. That in-
cludes all the rock sculptures,
the rock museum with all of
its contents, two houses, an
old diner and several out-
buildings — as well as the 25
peacocks that roam the land.
The rock garden started
in 1935 as the pet project of
Danish immigrant Rasmus
Petersen, who built the sculp-
tures on the land surrounding
his house.
In 2013, Petersen Rock Gar-
den was added to the National
Jamie Hale photos/The Oregonian
Spokesman staff report
A climbing guide from
Redmond died after a fall
while climbing Mount
Shasta on June 6.
Jillian Elizabeth Webster,
32, was among five injured
climbers who were airlifted
from Avalanche Gulch in
three separate rescue op-
erations Monday, accord-
ing to the Siskiyou County
Sheriff’s Office. Webster,
32, was pronounced dead
at a local hospital. The oth-
ers survived.
Webster’s fall was re-
ported at 8:35 a.m. and in-
volved two climbers and
Webster, their guide, who
were tethered together
while ascending the moun-
tain above Helen Lake, ac-
cording to a release from
the sheriff’s office. One
climber lost footing, caus-
ing all three to slide down
snow and ice 1,500 to 2,500
vertical feet down the side
of the mountain, the re-
lease said.
Webster was rendered
unconscious from the fall,
the sheriff’s office said. A
nurse, who was climbing
nearby, administered CPR
on Webster, who was then
airlifted to Mercy Medical
Center Mt. Shasta, where
she was later pronounced
dead, the release said.
The other two climbers
were taken to area hospi-
tals, where they are recov-
ering.
Two other climbers in-
jured in separate incidents
Monday were also flown to
Mercy Medical Center Mt.
Shasta. Their conditions
are unknown.
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Register of Historic Places.
“We’re hoping to find some-
one that will love the property
and isn’t looking to necessar-
ily come in and tear down
the structures,” Brannon said.
“We’re hoping we can find
someone that will keep it alive
and fix it up and bring it back
to what it was.”
Susan Caward — Petersen
Rock Garden owner and man-
ager, and also Rasmus Peters-
en’s granddaughter — wants
everyone to know the attrac-
tion will remain open during
the sale, Brannon said. The
hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
daily, with donations accepted
as admission.
“We would hate for peo-
ple to think, ‘Oh, we wish we
had gone there one last time,’”
Brannon said.
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