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Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 SATURDAY • January 9, 2021 WILL FANS IN THE STANDS RETURN CENTRAL OREGON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DIRECTORS DISCUSSING PLANS FOR SPECTATORS • SPORTS, B1 Coronavirus pandemic VETERANS VILLAGE PROJECT HOPES TO HOUSE HOMELESS VETS BY FEBRUARY Wyden: New political era will speed aid BY GARY A. WARNER Oregon Capital Bureau Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Employees with York Bros. Excavation level an area of soil Thursday at the Central Oregon Veterans Village project currently under construction in Bend. With Democrats in con- trol of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, and with Democrat Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration approaching, Americans can expect a large, long-term pack- age of aid to help get through the COVID-19 pandemic that will likely last well into the year, Sen. Ron. Wyden, D-Ore., said in a Friday interview. Wyden said he was sup- porting efforts to get President Donald Trump to resign or be removed from office after Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, sparked by Trump’s speech to protesters. On Friday he called for the resignations of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for their roles in the Electoral Col- lege challenge that set off riots culminating in a siege of the Capitol. EOMG file photo/Oregon Capital Insider U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks at a town hall meeting in Bend in 2018. “Any senator exhorting such an assault violates their sworn oath and is unworthy of hold- ing federal office,” Wyden said. “There must be consequences for senators who would foment a violent mob for personal gain.” But focus also has to be sharp on what to do after Trump is gone. See Wyden / A7 BY BRENNA VISSER • The Bulletin Redmond schools is close to becoming a reality in Bend. This week, the Bend Heroes Foundation broke ground on the project, which when completed will include individual tiny houses and a community All K-12 students return to in-person class Feb. 2 building to house and support 15 veterans on a plot of Deschutes County-owned land next to the public safety campus off U.S. Highway 20 in north Bend. The foundation, which raises money and aware- ness for veterans’ issues, and Central Oregon Veter- ans Outreach, a nonprofit that serves homeless veter- ans, hope to have their first residents moving in by mid-February, said Erik Tobiason, the presi- dent of the Bend Heroes A rendering of the small homes veterans will be given at the Central Oregon Veterans Village project in north Bend. Courtesy of Amanda Lenke Foundation. After fundraising and working to make this hap- pen for the past two years, Tobiason said it “feels ex- traordinary” to be roughly 30 days away from being able to move a veteran out of the woods and into shelter. BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin See Veterans / A7 Jefferson County seeks developers for gateway Possibilities include a retail, dining or office space BY KYLE SPURR The Bulletin One of the most visible properties in Madras is avail- able for development. City and county officials are inviting developers to submit ideas for the vacant “South Y” gateway, where vehicles travel- ing north on U.S. Highway 97 enter a split into a one-way street TODAY’S WEATHER BY GARRETT ANDREWS The Bulletin Dean Guernsey/Bulletin photo See Madras / A7 INDEX See Redmond / A4 Bend teen was stabbed ‘to teach him a lesson’ through downtown Madras, the largest city in Jefferson County with nearly 6,470 residents. The 38,000-square- foot property, including a 2,000-square-foot building, is the first sight of the downtown from the south for more than 15,000 travelers each day, ac- cording to the city. The site at 813 SW High- way 97 sat vacant for five years since the Oregon Department of Transportation used the property for a highway realign- ment project. Variable cloudiness High 39, Low 27 Page A8 Nearly 7,500 K-12 students in Redmond, Tumalo and Ter- rebonne will return to class- rooms for the first time in more than nine months on Feb. 2, Redmond School District offi- cials announced Friday. Superintendent Charan Cline hopes this will help those students who struggled with online distance learning throughout 2020, he told The Bulletin. “They haven’t progressed in their academic work, and we’re a little concerned about their social-emotional state as well,” he said. “We’re absolutely thrilled to get them back in the building.” Elementary students’ first week of in-person learning will be in a hybrid, part-online style, according to a district press release. The next week, they’ll return to a five-day-a- week schedule. The “South Y” or the South Madras Gateway in Madras, shown in January, sat vacant for five years. Business Classifieds Comics A5-6 B6 B3-4 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A6 B5 A6 Local/State Lottery Nation/World A2, 3 B2 A4, 7 Obituaries Puzzles Sports A6 B4 B1-2 A group of Bend teenagers plotted to take a classmate to the badlands and “teach him a lesson,” beating him up and filming it because they thought he assaulted a girl. But the plan went awry last month when one of the alleged The Bulletin ù An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 119, No. 8, 14 pages, 2 sections co-conspirators pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim, causing the group to panic and flee, according to court re- cords. The victim, James Kaleb Peter Duvall, 18, suffered a life-threatening injury and was rushed to St. Charles Bend. 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