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SUNDAY • January 10, 2021 Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $3 Twice as Lucky! ‘Every Kid Sports’ going strong CENTRAL OREGON-BASED NONPROFIT HELPS UNDERPRIVILEGED KIDS PAY FOR SPORTS PROGRAMS " SPORTS, B1 Match your ending number and win 2 Free Popcorn! Thousands will win, come in and check your number! COVID-19 | Vaccine Health care providers inundated by queries BY SUZANNE ROIG The Bulletin Phones are ringing off the hook at Central Oregon health care providers’ offices since the COVID-19 vaccines began arriving three weeks ago. The phones have been so busy at some clinics that patients with imme- diate medical issues have experienced long hold times. “Calling with vaccine questions right now is impeding our ability to provide care to patients in immediate need,” said Elaine Knobbs-Seasholtz, director of strategy and development for Mosaic Medical in Central Ore- gon. “We’re calling it vaccine excite- ment. People are curious.” Make no mistake, health care cen- ters have a plan on how to reach their INSIDE • An Oregon advisory group highlights systemic injustices against minorities, A2 patients once their groups are up for vaccine distribution. The vaccine is be- ing distributed in Central Oregon ac- cording to a prescribed plan by Oregon Health Authority. First up are health care workers, long term care providers and residents and first responders. At St. Charles Health System, the first doses went to health care profes- sionals. By the end of the week, more than 3,000 health care providers will have received their first dose, Lisa Goodman, St. Charles Health System spokeswoman, said in an email. Goodman also said the health sys- tem has received more calls than nor- mal from patients asking when they can receive the vaccine. State and county health depart- ments are responsible for getting the vaccine to the general public. “St. Charles stands ready to partner with them to help expedite the pro- cess,” Goodman said. See Vaccine / A9 ‘BEYOND ITS ORIGINAL GLORY’ Bend Tech Historic Bend home to be restored back to 1900s design continues hands-on learning Students say they’re grateful, hope for more class time BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Mark Skinner walks around the Putnam house that he is renovating in Bend. New owner wants to use only original materials, such as vintage windows and light fixtures BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin A historic Craftsman-style house in downtown Bend is being renovated to its original early 1900s design when it was the home to one of city’s most influential couples. George Palmer Putnam, an early owner and publisher While the vast majority of Bend high school students attended school at home Wednesday morning, a small group of students from Bend Tech Academy at Marshall High School were doing career-focused hands-on learning inside their school. A health class learned about phlebotomy by pumping fake blood out of a mannequin. In a technology class, students were using the com- puter program Tinkercad to 3D-print items like chess pieces. And students in a business class were learning how to design, print and sell T-shirts. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, students at Bend Tech Academy — a magnet school focused on career and technical education — are still able to participate this fall in the hands-on education the school specializes in giving. But they can only do so for two hours a day, one day a week, due to state rules on limited in-person instruction. That is likely to change soon: Bend-La Pine Schools announced Thursday that high school- ers will return to school in a hybrid fashion starting Feb. 8. That means Bend Tech students will go from two hours to two days per week of in-person learning. Many students and staff at Bend Tech Acad- emy said they were grateful for at least a little hands-on learning this fall and January. But they look forward to when they can spend more time in the classroom. See Bend Tech / A10 of The Bulletin and Bend mayor, built the home in 1911 for his bride, Dorothy Binney Putnam, heiress to the Crayola crayon fortune who spent her time in Bend leading efforts in the suffrage movement. TODAY’S WEATHER “George was the one who put his heart and soul into it, and our goal is to get it back to the way that he would have seen it when he and his wife were there.” — Dan Winey, California architect who bought the home in 2019 and is overseeing the renovation Submitted photo/Deschutes County Historical Society In a photo from 1913, George Palmer Putnam poses with the family dog in a wheelbarrow while his wife, Dorothy Binney Putnam, pushes their in- fant son, David, in a baby carriage in front of their home at 606 Congress St. in Bend. for restoring old buildings and sees the historical value in the Putnam house, which has sat Mostly cloudy High 48, Low 40 Page B6 INDEX Business/Life Classifieds Dear Abby mostly vacant for several years. Recently, the house was used for visitors through the vacation C1-8 B5 C3 Editorial Horoscope Local/State A4 C3 A2-3 Lottery Market Recap Mon. Comics rental service Airbnb, Winey said. “The idea is to bring it back to beyond its original glory,” Winey said. “At the time, it was an ex- pensive home, but by today’s standards it needs a lot of struc- tural upgrades and a lot of other improvements.” See Putnam / A10 B2 B4 C5-6 Obituaries Puzzles Sports A8-9 C4 B1-3 Submitted photo Bend Tech Academy ninth grader Ella Hewlett, 14, draws blood from the arm of a mannequin during a limited in-person instruction health class. The Bulletin ù An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 119, No. 9, 28 pages, 4 sections SUN/THU The couple lived in the home at 606 Congress St. until 1919, when they left Bend for New York. Putnam later divorced Binney Putnam and married famed aviator Amelia Earhart, who never came to Bend. “George was the one who put his heart and soul into it, and our goal is to get it back to the way that he would have seen it when he and his wife were there,” said Dan Winey, a Cali- fornia architect, who bought the home in 2019 and is overseeing the renovation. Winey, 68, a partner at the San Francisco-based architec- ture firm Gensler, plans to invest $2 million in the renovation, after buying the 3,000-square- foot home for $1.15 million. He wants to use only original ma- terials, such as vintage windows and light fixtures. Winey said he has a passion U|xaIICGHy02330rzu