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Snowpack increases
in Northeast Oregon
Recent storms that brought
rain to Baker City dumped snow
in the mountains in Northeast
Oregon at elevations above
about 5,000 feet. In many places,
the snowpack is now near aver-
age and in some places above
average.
Snow in the region’s moun-
tains is the largest reservoir of
water for irrigation and recre-
ation. This winter’s snowpack is
particularly important because
a drought in 2020 depleted
reservoirs.
As of Monday, Jan. 4, the wa-
ter content in the snowpack at
more than a dozen measuring
sites in the Grande Ronde, Pow-
der, Burnt and Imnaha river ba-
sins was 93% of average.
— Baker City Herald
December
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Low temperatures last
month in Bend averaged 26.2
degrees, which was 3.5 de-
grees above normal. A total
of 21 days last month had a
low temperature below 32 de-
grees. On Dec. 29, the high
temperature stayed below 32
degrees.
The lowest temperature last
month was 15 degrees on Dec.
23. The record daily low tem-
perature was minus 25 degrees
on Dec. 12, 1919.
Bend recorded 0.74 inches
of precipitation in Decem-
ber, which was 1.46 inches
above normal, according to the
monthly climate summary.
Measurable precipitation
of at least 0.01 inches was re-
corded on 12 days. The heavi-
est was 0.18 inches reported
A top Georgia elections of-
ficial said Tuesday night that
fewer than half of Georgia’s
159 counties had finished
counting votes in Georgia’s
two Senate runoff elections.
Gabriel Sterling also said
the largest share of outstand-
ing votes looks to be ballots
cast early in DeKalb County,
a Democratic stronghold.
Sterling said as of about
9:30 p.m. Eastern time, 64
counties had finished count-
ing absentee ballots, early
in-person ballots and Elec-
tion Day ballots. Most of
them were smaller coun-
ties.
“It’s going to be a long
night for all the campaigns
here,” he said.
The two runoff elections
will determine which polit-
ical party controls the U.S.
Senate. Republican Kelly
Loeffler was taking on
Democrat Raphael War-
nock, while Republican
David Perdue was going
up against Democrat Jon
Ossoff.
Democrats must win
both races to take Senate
control. Republicans only
need to win one.
— Associated Press
BY ASHRAF KHALIL AND
MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
Hundreds of supporters of
President Donald Trump de-
scended on the nation’s capital
Tuesday to cheer his baseless
claims of election fraud a day
before a congressional vote to
affirm Joe Biden’s victory.
Just blocks from the White
House, protesters — many
without masks — gathered in
Freedom Plaza to decry the
vote in the Electoral College. As
temperatures dropped to the
low 40s and a steady rain swept
onto the streets, hundreds re-
mained in the plaza into night-
fall.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Todd Looby, executive director of BendFilm, and his team worked hard in 2020 to provide Central Oregon
and the larger film community with ways to connect safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BendFilm
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“We live for getting people
together in whatever way we
can,” Looby said. “Creating
community, creating a conver-
sation around art and when
people didn’t have that we re-
alized they were really missing
something so we weren’t gonna
just not do anything and once
we did these things people re-
ally latched on.”
While putting the 2020 fes-
tival online and screening it
through the pop-up drive-in
may not have garnered the
same amount of revenue that
previous festivals have re-
ceived, it did increase accessi-
bility, Looby said.
“We had people tuning in
from 37 countries, 43 states,”
he said. “We think we got into
at least 5,000 households.”
The festival, Looby says,
will be in person in 2021, but
he hopes to continue with vir-
tual screenings and the pop-up
drive-in.
“Film is the dominant art
form of our age,” he said. “And
art forms have always been a
way to understand what’s going
on and to discuss what’s go-
2016, according to weather ser-
vice data.
The outlook for January calls
for above normal temperatures
and above normal precipita-
tion. The normal high tem-
perature for Bend in January
is 41.1 degrees and the normal
low is 24.5 degrees.
Normal January precipita-
tion in Bend is 1.53 inches.
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Retreat-
ing clouds
reveal the
summit
of Elk-
horn Peak,
the sec-
ond-high-
est point in
the Elkhorn
Mountains,
on Sunday.
Reporter: 541-617-7820,
kspurr@bendbulletin.com
Baker City Herald
Trump supporters flock to D.C. ahead of vote
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Counting continues in
Senate races in Georgia
Dec. 17.
Precipitation in 2020 in
Bend totaled 9.59 inches,
which is 1.77 inches below nor-
mal, according to the weather
service.
Bend had just a dusting of
snowfall last month, with 0.1
inches recorded on Dec. 12.
The total was less than the 2
inches recorded in December
2019, and much less than the
22 inches that fell in December
ing on and there’s no better art
form than film to prompt con-
versation of understanding and
empathy.”
Looby and his team at
BendFilm have continued their
hard work to keep films and
discussions surrounding it go-
ing throughout the pandemic.
“It is a labor of love,” he said.
“But it has not all been easy go-
ing. We won’t have significant
revenue until hopefully (Tin
Pan Theater) starts going again
in June for regular screenings.”
Looby hopes that anyone
who has the means and the
funds can support Bend-
Film by donating, becoming
a member and buying ticket
packs that can be used online
for virtual screenings or for
future in-person showings at
Tin Pan.
“We need the community
support to keep going and the
community, in turn, needs
what we do,” he said.
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“I’m just here to support the
president,” said David Wide-
man, a 45-year-old firefighter
who traveled from Memphis,
Tennessee.
Wideman acknowledged he
was “confused” by a string of
losses from the president’s legal
team in their attempt to over-
turn the results of the election
and didn’t know what options
Trump had left.
“I not sure what he can do
at this point, but I want to hear
what he has to say,” Wideman
said.
Trump tweeted his support
for the protesters: “Washington
is being inundated with people
who don’t want to see an elec-
tion victory stolen by embold-
ened Radical Left Democrats.
Our Country has had enough,
they won’t take it anymore!
We hear you (and love you)
from the Oval Office. MAKE
AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The speakers included for-
mer Trump national security
adviser Michael Flynn, whom
the president pardoned after
he was twice convicted of lying
to the FBI in special counsel
Robert Mueller’s Russia inves-
tigation.
“We stand at a crucible mo-
ment in United States history,”
Flynn told the crowd. “This
country is awake now.”
The president was expected to
personally address his support-
ers in Washington on Wednes-
day during a rally on the Ellipse,
just south of the White House.
The protests coincide with
Wednesday’s congressional vote
expected to certify the Electoral
College results, which Trump
continues to dispute.
In a Tuesday evening tweet,
Trump called on Democrats
and fellow Republicans to look
at the “thousands of people
pouring into D.C.” In another
tweet, he warned that antifa,
the umbrella term for leftist
militant groups that Trump has
said he wants to declare a ter-
rorist organization, should stay
out of Washington.