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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Thursday, Jan. 21:
Deschutes County cases: 5,103 (32 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 631 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 11 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,718 (6 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 25 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 135,973 (849 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 1,843 (11 new deaths)
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DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
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BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Kymberly Bastian, left, and her grandfather Kenneth Plank.
Newspaper carrier helps elderly
man stuck in bathtub for days
maintenance manager, the two
men discovered Plank had
Stephani Bastian couldn’t
fallen in the bathtub and had
get in touch with her 81-year-
been stuck there for several
old father, Kenneth Plank, who days. Plank couldn’t reach his
lived alone in Klamath Falls.
phone or his emergency alert
Although it’s not unusual for
necklace, and he had become
him to miss occasional calls
confused and weakened.
from his daughter who now
After his rescuers got him
lives in Roseburg,
out of the tub and into
Bastian said she had a
a chair, Smith and
feeling that something
the building man-
was wrong.
ager called 911. After
Mike Smith delivers
a short stint at Sky
the Herald and News
Lakes Medical Center,
to subscribers, in-
Plank is now recover-
cluding to Plank, his
ing from the fall and
Mike Smith
downstairs neighbor
the rehab at Marquis
in the apartments. He,
Plum Ridge.
too, felt like something was
Bastian received a text the
wrong on Dec. 23 when he de- day after Christmas from her
livered Plank’s paper. Smith
father’s best friend, notifying
noticed the Navy veteran had
her that her father was in the
several papers stacked up, so
hospital and that his doctor
he went to get help.
was trying to reach her. Bas-
After alerting the building
tian learned her father, still
BY BECCA ROBBINS
(Klamath Falls) Herald and News
confused, had given the hospi-
tal her old phone number.
She rushed to Klamath
Falls the next day. When she
learned her dad’s newspaper
carrier was the one to alert
someone for help for her fa-
ther, which may have saved his
life, Bastian gave Smith a big
hug to express her gratitude.
They both burst into tears,
Smith said.
“Be thankful for your news-
paper man because he might
be the only one who knows
something’s wrong,” she said.
Although Bastian was quick
to call Smith a hero, Smith said
he feels he doesn’t deserve the
accolade. Still, he knows that if
that was his loved one, he’d feel
the same way Bastian does.
“I’m ecstatic that I chose
to break the mold and say we
need to check on this guy,”
Smith said.
Portland police shooting of man
under international scrutiny
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — The 2010
police killing of a Black man
shot in the back after officers
arrived to check on his wel-
fare drew intense scrutiny in
Portland, a grand jury rebuke,
a march on City Hall and na-
tional attention from the Rev.
Jesse Jackson.
On Wednesday, Aaron M.
Campbell’s death garnered in-
ternational examination, The
Oregonian reported.
Campbell’s mother, Marva
Davis, and the family’s lawyer,
Tom Steenson, had an hour to
address an international com-
mission examining police vi-
olence against Black people in
the United States.
It was one of 30 hearings
scheduled through Feb. 6.
Among the other cases are the
deaths of Eric Garner, George
Floyd, and Breonna Taylor.
The International Commis-
sion of Inquiry on Systemic
Racist Police Violence Against
People of African Descent in
the United States is made up of
worldwide human rights advo-
cates. It will make recommen-
dations to the United Nations
High Commissioner on Hu-
man Rights by April after eval-
uating the cases.
The group particularly
wants to discuss how to hold
police accountable.
Davis, appearing by video
feed from Portland, urged the
commission to make sure of-
ficers are held responsible for
taking another’s life in viola-
tion of their own policies.
The officer who fatally shot
her son, Ron Frashour, was
fired but then a state arbitra-
tor ordered his return to work
with back pay, Steenson told
the panel.
Campbell when he died was
distraught and suicidal about
the death of his brother, a heart
transplant recipient who had
succumbed to heart and kid-
ney disease.
Campbell emerged from a
Portland apartment with his
back toward officers and hands
behind his head. Officer Ryan
Lewton, trying to get Campbell
to put his hands in the air, fired
six beanbag rounds at him.
Campbell ran toward a parked
car and Frashour, armed with
an AR-15 rifle, shot Camp-
bell once in the back, killing
him. Campbell wasn’t armed,
but Frashour said he thought
Campbell was reaching for a
gun.
Kate Brown gave an un-
usual State of the State talk,
her next to last as Oregon’s
governor.
The virtual address Thurs-
day wasn’t unusual. It’s be-
come commonplace in the 10
months since the coronavirus
pandemic swept through the
world and health protocols
call for social distancing.
Brown herself noted that
Thursday was exactly one
year ago, when the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention confirmed the first
COVID-19 case in the United
States, that she convened a
state team to prepare for a
potential outbreak. Brown is-
sued her first executive orders
on the pandemic March 8;
most are still in effect.
What was unusual was
that Brown invited four other
speakers to join her virtually
for 45 minutes to discuss her
priorities of ending the pan-
demic and promoting vacci-
nations, recovering from the
Labor Day wildfires, and ad-
vancing racial equity.
They were:
• Dr. Antwon Chavis, a
pediatrician at Doernbecher
Children’s Hospital/Oregon
Health & Science University
in Portland, who spoke about
how the pandemic affected
children and families.
• Chief Christiana Rainbow
Plews of the Upper McKenzie
Rural Fire Protection District,
who directed efforts against
the Holiday Farms Fire even
as her own home burned.
• Reyna Lopez of the
PCUN farmworkers union
based in Woodburn and Paul
Solomon of Sponsors Inc.
of Eugene, both members
of the governor’s Racial Jus-
tice Council, which recom-
mended steps toward racial
equity that Gov. Brown in-
cluded in her proposed 2021-
23 budget.
Echoing the “Build Back
Better” campaign theme of
President Joe Biden, who took
office Wednesday, Brown said
it was not enough for Ore-
gon to recover from the pan-
demic, the resulting economic
downturn, and the wildfires.
“We must recognize that
going back to the ‘way things
were’ will not move us for-
ward,” she said. “Every dif-
ficult turn of this past year
has only proven this point,
further exacerbating existing
disparities … The first step to
creating opportunity is recog-
nizing that racism is endemic
to our systems, impacting
every part of our culture and
our economy. I am commit-
ted to ensuring that the world
we build as we emerge from
this last year is a more equita-
ble one.”
Gray whale population drops
by quarter off the West Coast
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Researchers
say the population of gray
whales off the West Coast of
the United States has fallen
by nearly one-quarter since
2016, resembling a similar
die-off two decades ago.
In a paper released Tues-
day, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administra-
tion Fisheries reported that
surveys counted about 6,000
fewer migrating whales last
winter, 21,000 as compared
with 27,000 in 2016.
The agency declared an
“unusual mortality event” in
2019 as dozens of gray whales
washed up on Pacific Ocean
beaches. Scientists aren’t
sure what has been causing
the die-off. But they believe
that it is within the range of
previous population fluctu-
ations and that the number
of whales may have exceeded
what the environment can
support.
After an estimated die-
off of 23% in 1999-2000,
the population rebounded
to even greater numbers,
NOAA said. The agency said
it appears the big population
swings don’t reflect long-
term threats to the whales’
survival.
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