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SNO-PARKS
Kapka and Vista Butte are
winter activity gateways
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BEND
Downtown Bend garage
NO FREE PARKING
City closer
to buying
motel for
homeless
Old Mill & Suites Motel
would be turned into shelter
if grant money is awarded
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
Bend and Redmond are one step closer
to getting new homeless shelters in their
communities.
The city of Bend and the Bend-based
homeless shelter Bethlehem Inn were re-
cently chosen by the Oregon Community
Foundation to move beyond the first phase
of a grant program called Project Turnkey.
The program was established by the state
Legislature and allocated $30 million to set
up shelters for people displaced by wild-
fires in eight counties last summer. The state
Legislature then allocated an additional $35
million that would be available to the state’s
other 26 counties to buy hotels to turn into
homeless shelters.
See Motel / A6
Ryan Brennecke/ Bulletin photos
Garage parking to cost $1 per hour
A portion of
the new access
control system
currently being
installed at
the entrance
of Centennial
Parking Garage
in downtown
Bend on
Thursday.
Starting next
week visitors
will be charged
$1 per hour to
park.
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
F
or the first time since it was built 15 years ago,
the downtown Bend parking garage on Lava
Road will no longer allow free parking.
The Centennial Parking Garage had offered free
three-hour parking, but starting next week, visitors
will be charged $1 per hour to park.
City staff will install a gate at the entrance Mon-
day that will limit access to only paying parking
customers.
Tobias Marx, Bend’s parking services division
manager, said the new restrictions are in response
to some nearby residents and visitors that said the
free access to the parking garage led to unsafe be-
haviors from local skateboarders and people racing
their cars through the garage.
“We needed to make a decision to help residents
and visitors bring some safety back to that garage,”
Marx said.
See Parking / A6
“We needed to make a decision to help residents
and visitors bring some safety back to that garage.”
— Tobias Marx, parking services division manager
Bentz votes to keep
ex-QAnon backer
serving on panels
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, voted on
Thursday against removing controversial
freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,
R-Ga., from all committee
assignments.
Democrats sought to
remove Greene from the
House Education & La-
bor, and Budget commit-
tees, citing her history
of advancing conspiracy
theories, harassing a mass
Bentz
shooting victim, and advo-
cating for the right-wing conspiracy theory
group QAnon.
The vote, primarily along party lines, was
230-199, with 11 Republicans joining Dem-
ocrats in voting yes.
See Bentz / A4
One dead in 2-car crash
Bend Police
investigate
the scene of a
fatal accident
along S.
Century Drive
on Thursday.
Wreck happened on S. Century Drive about quarter-mile outside town
One person is dead following a two-vehi-
cle collision just before noon Thursday on S.
Century Drive about a quarter-mile outside of
Bend.
Bend Police officials were still investigating
the collision, which stopped traffic in both di-
rections on the busy road for several hours.
Notification of the victim’s family was ongoing,
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Morning shower
High 47, Low 32
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said Bend Police Lt. Clint Burleigh.
The crash was reported at 11:45 a.m. and
involved an SUV and a pickup truck hauling
a trailer near the intersection with Campbell
Drive near Mt. Bachelor Village. Downhill
traffic from Mt. Bachelor ski area was being
diverted through Sunriver, according to the
Oregon Department of Transportation, and
lengthy delays were expected.
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