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
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