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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.
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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.
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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
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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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