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A12 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2021 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 TODAY THURSDAY TONIGHT HIGH 48° LOW 27° Clear to partly cloudy and colder Some sun SATURDAY 51° 29° 50° 30° Intervals of clouds and sun ALMANAC SUNDAY 46° 29° Cloudy TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normal Record 51° 41° 62° in 1929 44° 24° -15° in 1963 PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday Trace Record 1.55" in 1912 Month to date (normal) 0.01" (0.69") Year to date (normal) 0.01" (0.69") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 29.91" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Today Thu. Sun 7:38am/4:51pm 7:37am/4:52pm Moon 8:23am/5:28pm 9:05am/6:39pm Mercury 8:35am/6:00pm 8:35am/6:05pm Venus 6:33am/3:25pm 6:35am/3:27pm Mars 11:38am/1:32am 11:35am/1:31am Jupiter 8:20am/5:48pm 8:16am/5:46pm Saturn 8:11am/5:35pm 8:08am/5:32pm Uranus 11:56am/1:49am 11:52am/1:45am First Full Last New Jan 20 Jan 28 Feb 4 Feb 11 Tonight's sky: The Great Square of Pegasus is high in the west. Source: Jim Todd, OMSI UV INDEX TODAY 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 2 2 2 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme. ROAD CONDITONS For web cameras of our passes, go to www.bendbulletin.com/webcams I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Rather cloudy Wednes- day with a few rain and snow showers. US 20 at Santiam Pass: Morning rain and snow showers, then some afternoon sun. US 26 at Gov't Camp: Rain, snow showers Wednesday morning, then afternoon sun. US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Light rain and snow showers into early Wednesday afternoon. ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Rain and snow in the morning, then partial clearing in the afternoon. ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: A little rain mixed at times with wet snow Wednesday. SKI REPORT 51° 29° Mostly cloudy NATIONAL Astoria 51/39 Yesterday Today Thursday Yesterday Today Thursday Yesterday Today Thursday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 55/52/1.63 51/39/pc 54/46/pc La Grande 41/34/Tr 45/21/r 40/27/pc Portland 58/45/1.40 53/38/pc 53/41/pc Baker City 37/31/Tr 46/19/r 37/19/pc La Pine 42/38/0.05 47/26/pc 48/29/pc Prineville 55/43/0.00 48/27/pc 48/30/pc Brookings 54/49/1.70 57/46/r 56/47/pc Medford 56/42/0.19 56/37/r 54/38/pc Redmond 55/43/0.02 49/30/pc 52/31/pc Roseburg 61/53/0.43 56/40/pc 58/43/pc Burns 40/23/0.13 45/18/c 42/21/pc Newport 54/52/1.00 52/43/c 57/49/pc Eugene 58/50/0.89 55/37/pc 51/42/pc North Bend 60/53/1.54 56/44/pc 58/49/pc Salem 58/50/1.41 52/35/pc 49/40/pc Klamath Falls 48/31/Tr 48/30/c 46/28/pc Ontario 37/30/0.21 51/26/c 39/23/pc Sisters 53/38/0.17 48/27/pc 50/30/pc Lakeview 41/28/Tr 46/24/c 47/27/pc Pendleton 58/36/0.04 49/28/pc 44/31/pc The Dalles 47/40/0.55 54/32/pc 47/34/pc Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday NATIONAL WEATHER -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s Base 45-45 56-58 38-48 69-72 88-129 24-45 99-99 0-36 23-36 27-40 39-62 24-27 35-42 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL EXTREMES YESTERDAY (for the Yesterday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 46/25/0.00 Akron 29/25/0.00 Albany 31/23/0.02 Albuquerque 47/17/0.00 Anchorage 27/21/0.02 Atlanta 43/40/0.06 Atlantic City 46/25/0.00 Austin 51/23/0.00 Baltimore 49/23/0.00 Billings 57/35/0.00 Birmingham 38/34/Tr Bismarck 52/24/0.00 Boise 43/29/0.06 Boston 42/27/0.00 Bridgeport, CT 41/24/0.00 Buffalo 32/30/0.07 Burlington, VT 35/28/Tr Caribou, ME 32/25/0.04 Charleston, SC 53/46/0.04 Charlotte 57/40/0.15 Chattanooga 49/38/Tr Cheyenne 50/21/0.00 Chicago 37/27/0.00 Cincinnati 34/23/Tr Cleveland 32/25/0.00 Colorado Springs 49/14/0.00 Columbia, MO 54/28/0.00 Columbia, SC 52/41/0.46 Columbus, GA 47/43/0.01 Columbus, OH 30/23/0.00 Concord, NH 41/15/0.00 Corpus Christi 46/35/0.00 Dallas 53/28/0.00 Dayton 32/24/0.00 Denver 54/17/0.00 Des Moines 44/24/0.00 Detroit 33/25/0.00 Duluth 30/25/0.00 El Paso 53/19/0.00 Fairbanks 3/-5/0.00 Fargo 37/15/0.00 Flagstaff 45/2/0.00 Grand Rapids 33/26/Tr Green Bay 34/30/0.00 Greensboro 55/35/Tr Harrisburg 43/21/0.00 Hartford, CT 39/16/0.00 Helena 49/15/0.01 Honolulu 79/69/0.00 Houston 52/32/0.00 Huntsville 41/31/0.00 Indianapolis 42/22/0.00 Jackson, MS 50/32/0.00 Jacksonville 61/55/0.00 Today Thursday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 60/40/s 59/31/s 43/32/pc 42/35/c 34/26/c 36/25/c 50/31/s 53/31/pc 27/20/sf 29/24/sf 51/32/c 55/41/s 49/39/s 54/38/s 63/37/s 69/37/s 50/30/s 52/34/pc 54/32/c 40/26/s 48/31/c 57/41/s 51/31/c 38/22/sf 48/27/sh 42/26/s 42/30/pc 43/30/pc 40/32/pc 45/33/pc 39/35/c 40/35/c 34/29/c 35/23/pc 29/20/c 31/15/pc 59/38/pc 62/39/s 55/33/pc 55/36/s 51/28/pc 55/40/s 53/23/pc 31/18/pc 43/34/pc 44/30/c 45/31/pc 45/35/pc 43/34/pc 43/35/c 57/32/s 40/17/pc 53/37/s 45/30/c 55/33/c 59/34/s 52/30/c 58/41/s 44/30/pc 43/35/c 37/21/pc 39/20/c 62/39/s 74/41/s 59/40/s 62/38/s 44/31/pc 43/35/c 59/30/pc 39/20/s 45/35/pc 40/28/sn 40/31/c 41/33/c 34/26/c 31/26/sn 58/33/s 66/33/s 3/-8/pc 2/-5/pc 37/31/c 33/24/sf 55/24/s 52/24/s 38/31/c 39/33/c 35/27/c 36/29/c 53/33/s 54/33/s 47/33/pc 49/34/pc 39/28/pc 41/26/pc 49/32/r 38/19/s 83/69/pc 81/70/pc 61/40/s 69/41/s 48/30/pc 55/39/s 45/30/pc 44/30/c 52/34/s 62/39/s 60/38/pc 63/39/s Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Bogota Budapest Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cairo Calgary Cancun Dublin Edinburgh Geneva Harare Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila 44/33/c 60/46/pc 79/63/pc 72/52/pc 82/63/s 47/21/pc 77/57/sh 38/31/sn 70/46/pc 36/29/pc 77/67/s 80/54/s 76/54/pc 38/26/r 80/65/t 53/44/sh 36/34/sn 41/39/r 79/61/t 62/57/pc 47/39/r 66/44/pc 77/58/t 78/69/pc 54/42/s 46/42/r 45/22/s 84/75/pc Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Warm Front Stationary Front Cold Front Source: OnTheSnow.com 44/43/1.03 68/59/0.02 77/61/0.00 70/45/0.00 77/61/0.00 42/17/0.00 75/61/0.00 37/33/0.37 70/48/0.00 33/18/0.07 73/63/0.00 75/55/0.00 82/59/0.00 46/30/0.00 79/72/1.09 45/43/0.76 37/27/0.00 34/21/0.46 78/60/0.23 58/45/0.00 63/54/0.90 68/50/0.00 77/58/0.08 77/69/0.00 50/32/0.00 45/44/0.14 34/9/0.00 82/74/0.00 37/29/c 55/45/pc 78/63/pc 70/47/c 87/65/pc 40/23/pc 62/57/t 35/28/sf 69/47/pc 34/26/sn 80/70/s 81/56/s 66/52/s 34/18/s 80/64/c 48/34/pc 38/30/r 42/38/sn 77/61/t 64/58/c 42/36/c 53/42/t 75/58/t 77/70/pc 57/46/s 45/33/r 48/25/s 84/75/pc Jobs Gym Continued from A11 Continued from A11 The economy is likely to grow at a healthier pace later this year, economists forecast, as vaccines are more widely distributed and recent gov- ernment stimulus provides more money for Americans to spend. The faster growth should boost hiring, but most employers for now appear to be in wait-and-see mode. On Friday, the Labor De- partment said employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, the first time the nation has shed jobs since April when U.S. in- fections began to surge. The unemployment rate was stuck at a still-high 6.7%, the first time it hasn’t declined since April. Jobs lost according to that report were also highly concentrated in fields like ed- ucational services and film production, as well as already suffering restaurants and ho- tels. Tuesday’s report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey adds more details about hiring and firing by businesses and government Gyms in counties classified as extreme risk for COVID-19 spread have not been allowed to conduct indoor operations since late November under Gov. Kate Brown’s new frame- work for COVID-19 restric- tions. The new regulations came after Brown mandated that gyms shut down entirely for two weeks in early Novem- ber in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. Oregon OSHA issued Courthouse Club Fitness four penalties totaling $90,000 in November for continuing to operate its facilities during Brown’s two-week freeze. The state issued the hefty fines af- ter the gym continued operat- ing, even after Oregon OSHA posted Red Warning Notices that require businesses to cease all actions that violate public safety rule. The state issued citations at four Courthouse Club facilities and the com- pany appealed all of them. Oregon OSHA conducted another inspection at one of those same four facilities on Dec. 9 in response to multi- ple complaints and once again found Courthouse Club Fit- ness to be willfully disregarding public health orders and state notices to close the facility. That prompted the agency to issue the gym its maximum allow- able fine. However, it is unclear whether the state can or will Relief Continued from A11 “The worst thing we can do is try to rush this out,” Buehler said. “We’ve learned from other programs we’ve run, it’s better for everyone if we take a little bit of time to think through how to smartly run this.” In its request to lawmak- ers, Business Oregon said that grants would go to small businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees that are headquartered in Ore- gon and have struggled to pay rent due to the impact of the state’s coronavirus restrictions. Money would be distributed regionally, in proportion to each area’s population. The proposal indicated that grants could go only to cover past due rent and must be used to bring tenants cur- rent on their rent obligations, meaning that landlords would likely be asked to forgive a City Juneau Kansas City Lansing Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison, WI Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Newark, NJ Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Palm Springs Peoria Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Rochester, NY Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe Savannah Seattle Sioux Falls Spokane Springfi eld, MO Tampa Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita Yakima Yuma Yesterday Hi/Lo/Prec. 41/37/0.62 55/29/0.00 30/24/0.00 56/35/0.00 35/18/0.00 54/23/0.00 51/22/0.00 72/49/0.00 40/26/0.00 35/19/0.00 45/21/0.00 78/67/Tr 34/24/0.00 38/19/0.00 43/26/Tr 48/37/0.00 44/33/0.00 46/25/Tr 47/41/Tr 51/23/0.00 50/24/0.00 65/57/0.00 71/44/0.00 41/21/0.00 44/27/0.00 67/41/0.00 29/25/0.00 41/21/0.00 44/25/0.00 56/40/0.12 55/23/0.00 58/32/0.00 53/33/0.00 30/29/0.02 57/40/0.00 54/28/0.00 39/18/0.00 49/29/0.00 72/44/0.00 58/49/0.00 63/45/0.00 46/13/0.00 52/47/0.01 56/46/1.87 43/21/0.00 45/35/0.59 50/22/0.00 64/61/0.04 66/39/0.00 53/28/0.00 49/29/0.00 50/19/0.00 45/35/0.13 69/44/0.00 Today Thursday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 40/36/r 39/35/r 54/41/s 44/31/c 38/30/c 39/34/c 63/45/s 68/43/s 45/30/pc 48/34/pc 55/37/pc 45/29/c 55/36/s 57/34/pc 76/51/s 83/57/s 48/32/pc 49/35/pc 38/28/pc 36/28/c 49/37/pc 55/36/pc 78/62/sh 74/59/sh 39/32/pc 38/30/c 38/30/i 34/26/sf 51/32/pc 55/37/pc 56/39/s 67/50/s 43/35/s 46/34/pc 44/33/s 49/35/pc 51/39/s 55/38/s 53/35/s 55/33/s 52/36/pc 43/28/c 66/49/sh 67/46/pc 79/56/s 86/58/s 41/32/pc 42/29/c 47/33/s 50/34/s 67/44/s 74/45/s 42/32/pc 44/31/c 36/23/pc 38/25/c 41/30/pc 42/30/pc 55/36/s 57/33/s 61/30/pc 38/22/pc 60/32/c 58/33/s 53/34/s 56/33/s 39/33/c 41/33/c 64/44/c 64/41/pc 53/37/s 50/33/c 47/26/c 41/22/s 62/37/s 70/39/s 71/48/s 79/53/s 62/50/c 61/48/pc 66/48/pc 67/44/pc 49/25/s 50/19/pc 60/38/pc 62/38/s 50/37/pc 49/41/pc 46/35/pc 39/26/sf 42/26/pc 37/26/pc 54/37/s 47/29/c 62/52/pc 67/50/pc 70/40/s 73/41/s 57/38/s 55/35/s 49/34/s 54/35/pc 58/37/s 52/32/pc 52/28/pc 45/29/pc 71/46/s 78/53/s 81/61/0.00 72/46/0.00 32/28/0.24 12/10/0.24 73/61/0.00 81/68/0.28 61/44/0.00 44/34/0.01 25/3/0.13 34/28/0.09 48/39/0.56 90/77/0.23 50/32/0.00 88/54/0.00 86/72/0.27 33/12/0.31 34/10/0.15 50/25/0.00 83/77/0.11 26/25/0.32 89/68/0.00 58/48/0.00 81/56/0.00 42/36/0.10 30/28/0.04 52/46/0.45 34/14/0.17 34/25/0.18 87/68/pc 72/49/c 33/28/c 14/3/c 77/58/pc 79/68/pc 65/42/pc 48/37/s 21/13/sf 32/27/c 50/46/r 84/75/pc 53/36/s 87/55/pc 80/70/t 36/19/sn 45/17/s 60/36/pc 82/76/sh 32/24/sn 84/71/s 65/54/s 79/49/pc 51/40/s 38/31/c 47/36/s 37/30/pc 33/28/sf INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 79° at Tamiami, FL National low: -38° at Antero Reservoir, CO Precipitation: 3.00" at Crescent City, CA T-storms Mostly sunny TRAVEL WEATHER Umatilla Seaside Hood 55/28 52/37 River Rufus Hermiston Cannon Beach 57/28 58/30 Arlington Hillsboro Portland 56/33 Meacham Lostine 52/38 52/35 53/38 40/15 Wasco 56/30 44/20 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles CENTRAL: A morning Tillamook 44/19 57/29 49/28 Sandy 54/32 McMinnville 52/39 rain or snow shower, Joseph Heppner La Grande 54/39 Maupin Government 52/37 then partial clearing in 45/21 42/15 Camp 54/30 Condon 47/26 Union the afternoon. Clearing Lincoln City 50/28 50/34 45/22 Salem 52/41 Spray tonight with areas Granite Warm Springs 52/35 Madras 52/28 Albany 44/15 of fog. Newport Baker City 52/28 49/28 Mitchell 52/43 54/35 46/19 WEST: A shower or Camp Sherman 47/28 Redmond Corvallis John Yachats Unity two in the morning, 48/27 49/30 54/35 Day Prineville 53/41 46/17 then some afternoon Ontario Sisters 48/27 Paulina 46/23 51/26 sunshine. Partly Florence Eugene 48/27 45/23 Brothers Bend Vale cloudy at night with 54/44 55/37 48/27 45/25 Sunriver 50/24 areas of fog. Nyssa 47/26 Hampton Cottage La Pine 49/24 Juntura Oakridge Grove 47/26 45/24 OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay Burns 49/23 53/37 56/39 Fort Rock 56/43 Riley 45/18 YESTERDAY Crescent 47/25 46/18 High: 61° 46/25 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Jordan Valley at Roseburg Beaver Frenchglen Silver 56/43 56/40 47/24 47/24 Low: 22° Marsh Lake 48/25 Port Orford 46/23 48/25 at Rome Grants Burns Junction Paisley 58/47 Pass 51/23 Chiloquin 46/23 58/41 Rome Medford 49/26 Gold Beach 56/37 50/24 60/48 Klamath Fields Ashland McDermitt Lakeview Falls Brookings 51/26 56/36 48/30 48/23 57/46 46/24 -10s 43° 26° Sunny to partly cloudy Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. EAST: A morning rain or snow showers, the mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Partial clearing at night. TUESDAY 41° 27° Mostly cloudy In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday Ski resort New snow Anthony Lakes Mtn 0 Hoodoo Ski Area 1 Mt. Ashland 0 Mt. Bachelor 0 Mt. Hood Meadows 0 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl 0 Timberline Lodge 0 Willamette Pass 0 Aspen / Snowmass, CO 0 Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA 0 Squaw Valley, CA 0 Park City Mountain, UT 0 Sun Valley, ID 0 MONDAY OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest. High Low FRIDAY Wilfredo Lee/AP A “Help Wanted,” sign is shown in the window of a souvenir shop on Thursday in Miami Beach, Florida. Lay- offs spiked in November compared with the previous month, and the number of job openings slipped, a sign the job market has stalled as the resurgent coronavirus has forced new shutdowns of restaurants and bars and discouraged consumer spending. agencies. The data on open jobs provides insights into whether companies expect business to improve enough in coming months to justify additional hiring. Last week, job postings website Indeed said that while companies listed more jobs in December, the pace had slowed from previous months. While layoffs have been concentrated in mostly low- er-paying jobs, Indeed’s data shows that job postings have declined by a larger amount for the highest paying one- third of positions, and by the least for the lowest-paying third. That also suggests firms are still uncertain about the business outlook and reluc- tant to commit to hiring high- er-paid employees. portion of outstanding rent in order for their tenants to access the funds. Landlords would also be required to for- give penalties and late fees. However, lawmakers raised concerns over many of the as- pects of the proposal. Rep. Da- vid Gomberg, D-Otis, ques- tioned why the grants would be limited to five months of rent when some businesses have been struggling to pay rent for double that time. Buehler said the details of the program, including the grant cap, were not yet set in stone and that Business Or- egon would meet with prop- erty owners, tenants and other stakeholders before finalizing the requirements. Along with the $100 mil- lion for commercial rent re- lief, lawmakers allocated $5 million to Business Oregon for purchasing personal pro- tective equipment to distrib- ute to small businesses, $2 million for providing techni- cal assistance to underserved businesses and $3 million for administrative fees. The programs are being funded through $93.8 million in gen- eral fund money and $16.2 million in leftover funds from a program meant to stabilize rural hospitals. Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale, and several other lawmakers expressed concerns about re- directing money away from rural hospitals, especially as the state is in the process of distributing coronavirus vac- cines. But Buehler said the ru- ral hospital relief program had run its course and had no ad- ditional need for funding. “We’ve worked with rural hospitals throughout the state and the ones that wanted to use our program have,” Bue- hler said. “There was more money in that program than demand for it.” Oregon lawmakers voted in December to extend the state’s residential eviction morato- rium through June for renters experiencing hardships, but the state has not had a com- mercial eviction ban in place since the end of September. Businesses have until March 31 to pay back their outstand- ing nonpayment balances. That may have prevented an onslaught of commercial evic- tions in the months since the moratorium expired. Many Oregon businesses have been struggling for their survival over the last 10 months as they’ve tried to navigate state coronavirus re- strictions. Certain businesses, including gyms, restaurants and bars, in counties classified as extreme risk for coronavi- rus spread have been banned from conducting indoor operations since Brown an- nounced her new framework for coronavirus restrictions in mid-November. Homes Continued from A11 “It’s a moving target,” Birtola said. “You have to set up your buyer to win. And it’s a mov- ing target for sellers.” In Redmond, the median sales price in December was $375,000, up $50,000 from the same time the year before. Redmond traditionally has a more stable housing market, Montagner said. The Beacon Report uses the median sales price, which is the midpoint value of all trans- actions in a month. Mecca Mexico City Montreal Moscow Nairobi Nassau New Delhi Osaka Oslo Ottawa Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Sapporo Seoul Shanghai Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei City Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw 87/71/pc 74/50/c 35/24/c 5/3/sn 80/59/s 78/66/sh 65/45/pc 57/34/pc 15/9/s 35/25/c 51/37/r 84/74/pc 57/39/pc 86/54/pc 80/68/t 28/22/sn 41/26/pc 61/42/c 82/76/sh 26/16/c 85/73/pc 72/58/s 62/48/t 56/40/s 39/34/c 45/38/pc 33/28/sn 30/18/sf compel the gym to shut down. “We understand that this employer is attempting to do a number of things to keep employees safe without shut- ting down, but that does not allow them to substitute their judgment for that of the pub- lic health authorities,” Oregon OSHA Administrator Michael Wood said in a statement. While a handful of vocal ob- jectors have made headlines for refusing to follow the state’s public health orders, the vast majority of businesses appear to be complying with Oregon’s restrictions and closure orders. During the pandemic, Or- egon OSHA has also rarely is- sued fines and citations to busi- nesses not in compliance with coronavirus restrictions, focus- ing instead on education. Since the start of the pan- demic, Oregon OSHA has is- sued 12 citations to employers for deliberately disregarding COVID-19 health restrictions. In eight of those cases, the em- ployers continued to disregard those restrictions even after re- ceiving Red Warning Notices. “It is our expectation that employers follow well-founded health regulations that are directly intended to protect workers from a genuine haz- ard,” Wood said. “And while we have been able to use en- gagement and education to resolve most COVID-19 com- plaints involving employers, we will also continue to bring our enforcement tools to bear as needed.” “Bend just doesn’t have the inventory,” Montagner said. “That seems to be the biggest issue is inventory. “There’s a diversity of prod- uct in Bend, and Bend is more attractive.” In December, the median sin- gle-family home sales price was $635,000 in Sunriver, $392,000 in Sisters and $325,000 in La Pine, according to the report. “Bend is the hub and it’s al- ways been attractive because of the diversity of everything: restaurants and culture. e e Reporter: 541-633-2117, sroig@bendbulletin.com
