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COVID-19
Storm
could
bring
load of
snow
DESCHUTES COUNTY
RISK LEVEL DROPS
Twelve
counties
will see
restrictions
loosened
Storm watch begins
noon Thursday until
10 p.m. Friday
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
of pent -up customer demand to eat
out without your parka on.”
Restaurants like Deschutes Brew-
ery on NW Bond Street began re-
calling its employees and recon-
figuring its space to adjust for a
maximum of 50 people, including
staff, inside its 12,000-square-foot
building, said Michael LaLonde,
Deschutes Brewery CEO in an in-
terview.
Since Nov. 18, the brewery has
been only doing limited outdoor
dining, takeout and delivery ser-
vice. Just two weeks ago it installed
seven tables for an outdoor dining
area out front of its restaurant.
Winter is about to hit harder
in Central Oregon.
From noon Thursday to
10 p.m. Friday, up to 20 inches
of snow is expected to fall in
Sunriver and La Pine, accord-
ing to the National Weather
Service office in Pendleton,
which on Tuesday issued a
winter storm watch for that
period.
Four to 10 inches of snow
could fall in Bend and Red-
mond.
“This is a pretty big winter
event across Central and East-
ern Oregon,” said Mary Wister,
a weather service meteorolo-
gist in Pendleton. “A lot of ar-
eas are going to be impacted
by this.”
Cold air from the north will
collide with a rainy weather
system from the Pacific Ocean,
which will set the stage for the
winter storm, Wister said. The
result will be heavy snowfall
and temperatures in the single
digits Friday night.
More snow and freezing
temperatures are in the forecast
through the weekend, but the
weather service is still deter-
mining how severe the weather
will be after Friday.
Wister said late season win-
ter storms are common, but
it seems strange this winter
since the weather has been
mostly mild with sunshine
and warm temperatures
throughout the region. Just
this week, the High Desert
had blue skies and tempera-
tures in the high 40s.
See Risk / A13
See Storm / A4
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Twelve counties, includ-
ing Deschutes County, will
see fewer COVID-19 re-
strictions on businesses and
activities beginning Friday
after the state dropped risk
level ratings for counties
Tuesday due to a decline in
new infections.
Ten counties moved out
of the extreme risk cate-
gory, some for the first time
since November. That list
includes Deschutes, Clat-
sop, Columbia, Lincoln and
Linn, which all moved from
extreme risk to high risk.
Morrow County made a
two-tier drop from extreme
to moderate risk. Baker
County also fell two spots,
moving from high to lower
risk. Grant County went
from moderate to lower
risk.
The biggest news state-
wide was the move of the
Portland tri-county metro
area of Multnomah, Clack-
amas and Washington
counties, also going from
extreme to high risk.
“This is welcome news, as
we’ll start to see more busi-
nesses open up and Orego-
nians being able to get out a
bit more,” Gov. Kate Brown
said Tuesday in announcing
the updated risk levels.
See Counties / A13
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Tim Casinelli, general manager of Deschutes Brewery & Public House, hustles to deliver orders to outdoor diners as sous chef Evan
Manley prepares food. On Friday, patrons will be able to dine inside the establishment.
Some restaurants prepare for indoor seating
BY SUZANNE ROIG • The Bulletin
R
estaurants were busy Tuesday dusting off chairs and
rearranging their seating to accommodate indoor dining
after being shuttered for 12 weeks in an effort to curtail the
spread of COVID-19.
Deschutes County was listed
among 12 counties that improved
in risk level on Tuesday, which al-
lowed the county and its businesses
and residents to emerge from the
restrictions on gathering under the
extreme risk category to just high
risk. The changes in risk level go
into effect Friday.
“Moving out of the extreme risk
category will most certainly help
restaurants,” said Katy Brooks,
Bend Chamber of Commerce CEO.
“Restaurants have had experience
with this level and can pivot quickly
to physically prepare. There’s a lot
Altered Black history statement by city council stuns author
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
A Black History Month
proclamation made by the
Bend City Council has upset
some people of color in Cen-
tral Oregon, including the au-
thor of the proclamation, who
says the council changed it so
much the original message of
the document was lost.
Last week, the City Council
read a proclamation for Black
History Month that outlined
racist practices in Oregon’s
history and called on the peo-
ple of Bend to join the council
“in honoring Black History
Month, learning about the his-
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tory of Black people in Oregon,
and combating racism and
white supremacy.”
But Josie Stanfield, the
leader of the group Central
Oregon Diversity Project and
original author of the procla-
mation, was stunned to learn
how the proclamation did not
resemble what she submitted
to the city months prior.
The original submission was
a Black Lives Matter resolution,
Stanfield said. It was written
in a way to focus around Bend
specifically, and to call on the
Bend City Council to have a
lifetime commitment to stand
up for Black lives.
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Stanfield was inspired to
write the proclamation af-
ter Donald Trump support-
ers and racial justice activists
clashed on Oct. 3 in Bend, an
event that came on the heels
of a summer full of local and
nationwide protests against ra-
cial injustice after the killing of
George Floyd, a Black man, by
Minneapolis police. His death
brought much higher visibility
and awareness to the inequities
Black, Indigenous and people
of color face.
Shortly after the event,
Bend Police Chief Mike
Krantz gave what Stanfield
considers an inadequate state-
ment, so she decided to write
something for the whole city
to acknowledge Black lives
matter.
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Josie Stanfield
is pictured
at Bend City
Hall. Stanfield
wrote a Black
Lives Matter
resolution and
submitted it to
the Bend City
Council in fall
2020. Through
a miscommu-
nication, Stan-
field was left
out of the ed-
iting process,
after which the
proclamation
was released
last week.
Dean Guernsey/
The Bulletin
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