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A12 The SpokeSman • TueSday, auguST 16, 2022
House candidates hoping to represent
much of Redmond face off in forum
BY GERRY O’BRIEN
CO Media Group
There were similarities and marked
differences between the candidates at
the first public forum Tuesday for Ore-
gon House District 53.
Hosted by the Greater Bend Rotary
Club, Republican newcomer Michael
Sipe and Democratic contender Em-
erson Levy squared off over the usual
thorny issues facing Oregon voters.
(Sipe is a member of the club).
Topics ranged from public safety,
housing, abortion rights and voting
rights to sales tax, universal health care
and drug enforcement.
The district is currently represented
by Rep. Jack Zika, R-Redmond, who
announced in November he wasn’t run-
ning for a third term. Prior to redistrict-
ing, the district surrounded Bend as a
sort of doughnut and included Sunriver.
Now it has moved further north and in-
cludes portions of Bend, Sisters, Tumalo
and half of Redmond. The newly drawn
district has also gone from a Republican
tilt to leaning Democratic.
Sipe, 67, is a former Army Ranger
captain who works in business merg-
ers and acquisitions and is a consultant
Submitted photos
Democrat Emerson Levy, left, and Repub-
lican Michael Sipe. The two are running
for state House District 53.
for CEOs. What motivated him to run
was the desire to curb taxes on small
business, law-and-order issues and the
need to restore balance of power at the
state level.
“We have three women and one guy”
running the state, he said. “Gov. Kate
Brown, House Speaker Tina Kotek, for-
mer state Sen. Betsy Johnson and Sen-
ate President Peter Courtney.” Kotek is
the Democratic nominee for governor,
and Johnson is seeking to get on the
ballot as an unaffiliated candidate for
governor.
Public safety, inflation, education and
a common-sense approach to legislat-
ing are some of his priorities, he told the
gathering of about 60 people Tuesday.
Emerson, 37, is a renewable energy
attorney, vice-chair of the Deschutes
Democratic Party and a volunteer on
Oregon’s Task Force for School Safety.
“School safety is my number one pri-
ority. Keeping our children safe from
harm is important to me,” she said. Levy
worked with state Rep. Courtney Neron
on a school safety bill modeled on Alys-
sa’s Law, which was developed by a fam-
ily of a Parkland, Florida, shooting vic-
tim. It is designed to improve response
times in school emergencies.
“I am optimistic about our govern-
ment, that the best days are ahead of
us,” she said. She added that she believes
that government does work for the bet-
ter good. As an example, she noted, “As
someone whose mother suffered from
mental illness when I was young, I was
able to use a federal Pell grant to go to
college and then graduate law school.”
Both agreed that climate change is
real, but with varying degrees. Emerson
emphasized the need to move toward
renewable energy while Sipe said, “We
need to be deliberate about how we
proceed. There are always unintended
consequences when it comes to climate
change. I don’t believe that in Central
Oregon, the diesel farm tractors in the
field are causing climate change.”
On abortion rights, Sipe said that the
issue is pretty well settled in Oregon.
The right to access abortions has
been codified in Oregon law since 2017.
“I’m pro-life, pro-woman, pro-child,”
Sipe said. He suggested more should be
done to help the foster care and child
adoption systems. “I don’t think abor-
tions should be taxpayer funded.”
Emerson responded simply with,
“I trust women to make their own
choices.”
On allowing noncitizens the right to
vote, which Multnomah County is con-
sidering in a county charter proposal,
Emerson admitted she was not well
versed on the issue, but coming from a
family of Jewish immigrants, she hoped
the country could move away from an
“us versus them” attitude.
Sipe said that immigration is a federal
issue. He prefers that immigrants learn
what it means to be a citizen as the path
to citizenship and being allowed to vote.
When asked of a public figure they
most admired, Emerson responded,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel-
enskyy for his fortitude and Sipe re-
sponded Ben Carson, former secretary
of Housing and Urban Development,
for the way he articulates his faith and
knowledge of science.
On a proposed sales tax for Oregon,
Levy said that any such tax is regressive,
hurting the lowest income earners the
most. Sipe also opposes a sales tax and
called for eliminating the Corporate Ac-
tivities Tax, which mostly hurts small
businesses with seven to 10 employees,
he said.
Both do not believe that there should
be a universal health care plan for Ore-
gonians.
“There are too many self-insured
plans in Oregon to be covered by a fed-
eral law,” Levy said.
“I’m a capitalist, not a socialist, and I
think a centralized health care plan by
the state would be a disaster,” Sipe said.
Both also agreed that Measure 110,
the law that eased punishments for drug
possession in exchange for better drug
treatment, has failed to work in Oregon.
Editor: 541-633-2166, gobrien@bendbulletin.
com
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Area home sales swell
to a 2-month supply
Spokesman staff
The median marketing time
for a single-family home in Red-
mond increased from less than
a week to 10 days in July, double
what it was in May when it took
five days to sell a home, accord-
ing to the monthly real estate
report.
What’s more, about two
months worth of homes are on
the market now, according to
the monthly Beacon Report,
which is produced by the Bea-
con Appraisal Group in Red-
mond. Still supply remains
low, indicating that there’s am-
ple demand for the inventory
available, according to the re-
port.
The Beacon Report uses the
median sales price, which is the
midpoint value of all transac-
tions in a month.
In Redmond, the median
price of a single family home
dipped slightly to $505,000 in
July, compared to $530,000 in
June, according to the report.
The bulk of the sales in Red-
mond in July were conventional
mortgages, compared to 16
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The median sales price of a
Sisters single family home was
$623,000, compared to $690,000
in June, according to the report.
In July the median sales price
of a single family home in Bend
was $762,000, about the same
as it was in April, according to
the report. About 50 of the sales
in Bend were cash buyers and
115 were conventional loans, ac-
cording to the report.
In Sunriver the median sales
price of a single family home
was $975,000, down $90,000
from June, according to the
monthly report.
And in La Pine, the median
sales price of a single family
home was $470,000 in July,
compared to $460,000 in June.
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR THE COUNTY OF
DESCHUTES
PROBATE DEPARTMENT
IN THE MATTER OFTHE
ESTATE OF
Case No. 22PB07031
COLLIN C. DAY,
NOTICE TO INTERESTED
PERSONS
Deceased. Notice is hereby given
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9, 2022. The above-named dece­
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fore, decedent’s Will has been
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having claims against said estate
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within four (4) months after the
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sona] Representative at: David R.
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LLC, Attorney at Law, 35 SE C
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Dated and first Published: August
16 , 2022
Bend, Oregon {541)749-8974
BY JAYSON JACOBY
EO Media Group
West Nile virus, which was
recently detected for the first
time in 2022 in mosquitoes in
Baker County, has been con-
firmed in two more batches of
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ages the vector control district.
Those mosquitoes were trapped
on Aug. 5, and the test results
arrived late on Tuesday, Aug. 9.
There have been no con-
firmed cases of the virus in
other animals. Mosquitoes can
transmit the virus to people,
horses and other animals.
West Nile virus has been de-
tected in mosquitoes in Baker
County in all but two years
(2018 and 2020) over the past
decade.
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