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THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 A3 TODAY Today is Tuesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2021. There are 325 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1825, the House of Repre- sentatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no can- didate received a majority of electoral votes. In 1870, the U.S. Weather Bu- reau was established. In 1942, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. In 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied vic- tory over Japanese forces. In 1950, in a speech in Wheel- ing, West Virginia, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists. In 1960, Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors III, 44, was shot to death in suburban Denver during a botched kid- napping attempt. In 1962, an agreement was signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British Commonwealth later in the year. In 1964, the Beatles made their first live American television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” broadcast from New York on CBS. In 1971, a magnitude 6.6 earth- quake in California’s San Fernan- do Valley claimed 65 lives. The crew of Apollo 14 returned to Earth after man’s third landing on the moon. In 1984, Soviet leader Yuri V. An- dropov, 69, died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev; he was followed by Konstantin U. Chernenko. In 1986, during its latest visit to the solar system, Halley’s Comet came closest to the sun (its next return will be in 2061). In 1995, Former Senator J. Wil- liam Fulbright died in Washing- ton at age 89. In 2002, Britain’s Princess Mar- garet, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in London at age 71. Ten years ago: Thousands of workers went on strike across Egypt, adding a new dimension to the uprising as public rage turned to the vast wealth Pres- ident Hosni Mubarak’s family reportedly amassed while close to half the country struggled near the poverty line. Rep. Christopher Lee, R-N.Y., abruptly resigned with only a vague ex- planation of regret after gossip website Gawker reported that the married congressman had sent a shirtless photo of him- self to a woman on Craigslist. Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles to felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace. (Lohan later pleaded no contest to taking the necklace without permission and served 35 days of house arrest.) Five years ago: Republican Donald Trump posted a decisive victory in the New Hampshire primary, while Democrats lined up behind Bernie Sanders in their own act of anti-establish- ment defiance. President Barack Obama unveiled his eighth and final budget, a $4 trillion-plus proposal freighted with liberal policy initiatives and tax hikes. Two commuter trains crashed head-on in a remote area of southern Germany, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others. One year ago: U.S. officials said airline passengers from China, including those who’d been in China in the last 14 days, were being funneled to 11 airports to ensure that they received medical screening and treat- ment for the coronavirus. New coronavirus cases were reported in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, the U.K. and Spain. “Parasite,” from South Korea, won the best picture Oscar, becoming the first foreign-lan- guage film to take home the biggest honor in film. Today’s Birthdays: Retired television journalist Roger Mudd is 93. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee is 81. Actor-politician Sheila James Kuehl (TV: “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 80. Singer-songwriter Carole King is 79. Actor Joe Pesci is 78. Singer Barbara Lewis is 78. Author Alice Walker is 77. Actor Mia Farrow is 76. Jazz musician Steve Wilson is 60. Actor Sharon Case is 50. Actor Amber Valletta is 47. Actor-pro- ducer Charlie Day is 45. Buckley is 44. Rock musician Richard On (O.A.R.) is 42. Olympic silver and bronze medal figure skater Irina Slutskaya is 42. Actor Tom Hid- dleston is 40. Actor David Gallagh- er is 36. Actor Michael B. Jordan is 34. Actor Rose Leslie is 34. Actor Camille Winbush is 31. Actor Evan Roe (TV: “Madam Secretary”) is 21. — Associated Press LOCAL, STATE & REGION LOCAL BRIEFING Human remains found on Warm Springs reservation identified Kennewick Irrigation District via Capital Press Water flows in a Kennewick Irrigation District canal in south-central Washington. The Bureau of Reclamation is offering cash prizes for ways to reduce seepage from irrigation canals. Bureau of Reclamation seeks ideas to stop seepage in canals Finalists will receive $50K to build prototypes to deliver water for 30 million customers and 10 million acres DENVER — The U.S. Bu- of farmland in six Western re- reau of Reclamation is seeking gions — including the Colum- innovative solutions to reduce bia-Pacific Northwest region. water seepage in open irrigation Seepage is one of the largest canals across potential losses the West. of water within Applicants the system, Lin- “The goal here is can submit denbach said. what are those their ideas to The bureau has the agency as experimented outside-the box, part of the Wa- with different ter America’s solutions in the innovative solutions Crops Chal- past, primarily to make sure we’re lenge, in part- heavy duty lin- nership with ers made out of maximizing the the HeroX, an concrete, plastic efficiency of our online crowd- and other ma- sourcing plat- terials. water delivery form. But those “The goal come with a system.” here is what tradeoff, Lin- — Evan Lindenbach, are those out- denbach said. Bureau of Reclamation side-the box, Issues with civil engineer innovative solu- effectiveness, tions to make durability and sure we’re max- maintenance imizing the efficiency of our can all increase costs for the water delivery system, while agency and local communities. also improving their reliability,” The challenge seeks solutions said Evan Lindenbach, civil en- that will minimize maintenance gineer with the Bureau of Recla- costs, while maximizing water mation in Denver. savings across a variety of re- The bureau is the nation’s gions and climates. largest wholesale water supplier, “We have canals all the way managing 8,116 miles of canals from northern Montana to Ar- BY GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press Marion County shows benefits of state program paying workers to isolate BY JAKE THOMAS Salem Reporter Latinos and residents of less-affluent parts of Marion County have been the biggest local beneficiaries of a state program intended to help workers isolate themselves af- ter exposure to COVID-19. In September, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services rolled out its COVID-19 Temporary Paid Leave Program, which was funded by federal pandemic relief money. The program was set up to provide payments to work- ers whose jobs don’t have paid time off and didn’t fall under a new federal law mandating medical leave related to the pandemic. Workers who qual- ify get $120-per-day payments up to 10 working days total- ing $1,200 for the time they have to quarantine or isolate. To date, it’s paid $13 million to workers across the state. Numbers provided by the department show that since the program began in Sep- tember, $1.7 million has flowed to workers in Marion County. Of the 1,744 Mar- ion County workers who re- ceived payments, most of the money went to a handful of ZIP codes that include Wood- burn, as well as north Sa- lem and surrounding areas, which have lower incomes and higher Hispanic popula- tions than the rest of Marion County. Those areas have also been the hardest hit by COVID-19, according to county health de- partment data. The Woodburn area is home to about 8% of the county’s population, but nearly 16% of its COVID-19 cases to date. Of the money directed to Marion County by the pro- gram, over half, $828,360, has gone to people who identify as “Hispanic or Latinx.” izona,” Lindenbach said. “Some are more efficient than others, but seepage out of canals is ob- viously a loss to the end user.” Proposals are due by June 24. Lindenbach said the bureau will select five finalists, who will receive $50,000 to develop and test a lab-scale prototype of their design. “What I think is really ex- citing is this opportunity to get funding to forward their solution to a prototype scale,” he said. The human remains dis- covered last month in a remote part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation have been identified as be- longing to Tina Vel Spino, tribal police announced Monday in a statement. Spino, 58, and a Warm Springs resident, was re- ported missing Aug. 8. Po- lice issued flyers offering a cash reward for tips lead- ing to her whereabouts. On Jan. 11, a man har- vesting wood from a cattle chute called police after spotting a skull that ap- peared to be human. Bill Elliott, chief of the Warm Springs Tribal Po- lice Department, called on the public for tips about sightings and con- versations they might have had with Spino around the time of her disappearance. “This department has assured the family that we will continue to piece to- gether the circumstances surrounding her death,” Elliott wrote in a state- ment. People with information are asked to call Warm Springs Police at 541-553- 1171 or the department’s anonymous tip line at 541- 553-2202. — Bulletin staff report Central Oregon’s source for events, arts & entertainment Pick up Thursday’s Bulletin for weekly event coverage and calendars