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“It seems kind of unusual now see-
ing this winter weather coming late in
the season,” Wister said.
The winter storm is expected to
bring wind gusts between 10 to 15
mph, strong enough to cause danger-
ous conditions for travelers, Wister said.
“It doesn’t take a lot of wind
to cause drifting snow and poor
visibility,” Wister said.
In preparation of the storm, Bend
city officials have identified “emer-
gency snow zones,” where on-street
parking has contributed to increas-
ingly narrow and sometimes impass-
able roads.
City officials are asking residents in
the snow zones to keep the streets clear
of parked cars to allow more room for
snow plows. A list of the snow zones
can be found on the city’s website.
Kacey Davey, spokesperson for the
Oregon Department of Transporta-
tion, said snow-plow crews are pre-
paring for the storm and will be on
the highways with sand and deicer.
“The crews are ready and have been
ready for this all winter long,” Davey
said. “They will be out there.”
Davey said the state transporta-
tion department is also encourag-
ing residents to prepare before trav-
eling in the storm. Those who do
not have to travel should stay home,
and those who need to travel should
have enough fuel, snacks and warm
clothes, Davey said.
Travelers can see the latest road
conditions online at tripcheck.com.
“We at ODOT are ready, and we
want to make sure the public is ready
too,” Davey said.
Ski shops in Central Oregon are
monitoring the forecast and hope the
winter storm brings fresh powder to
the local ski resorts.
Kevin Slane, owner of Village Bike
& Ski in Sunriver, said he is also look-
ing forward to the snowfall in town.
More snow in Sunriver means more
chances for people to cross-country
ski, he said. And more people buying
and renting gear from his shop.
“That’s huge when it snows down
here,” Slane said. “ It opens up some of
the cross-country ski opportunities.”
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Senate votes to pursue Trump impeachment trial
BY SEUNG MIN KIM, MIKE
DEBONIS, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN,
TOM HAMBURGER
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The
Senate voted along mostly
partisan lines Tuesday to
pursue Donald Trump’s sec-
ond impeachment trial, after
hours of arguments and the
airing of a gripping documen-
tary of the deadly Capitol riot
that followed Trump’s inflam-
matory rally on Jan. 6.
Aided by the graphic
13-minute video that spliced
violent images of the Capitol
siege with Trump’s rhetoric,
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.,
and other impeachment man-
agers delivered an impas-
sioned account of the phys-
ical and emotional trauma
to lawmakers, police, staffers
and local residents. They said
there was no “January ex-
ception” in the Constitution
— meaning that a president
couldn’t escape accountabil-
ity through impeachment just
because he had left office be-
fore the trial.
“If that’s not an impeach-
able offense, then there is no
such thing,” Raskin said of
Trump’s behavior.
Trump’s lawyers countered
that the trial — the first pro-
ceeding of its kind for an
ex-president — would be un-
constitutional because Trump
was no longer in office, even
if he was impeached by the
House before leaving. One of
the attorneys acknowledged
that the former president lost
the election, undercutting one
baseless claim that Trump has
spread since Nov. 3.
The Senate swiftly voted 56
to 44 against Trump. The pro-
ceedings will resume at noon
Wednesday.
The historic trial opens just
one month after the senators
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But it ended up just being fo-
cused more on history instead,
Stanfield said.
“You can say all day Black
lives matter … but if you are ac-
tively silencing and taking the
work of Black women, do you
really mean it?” Stanfield said
Friday.
The altered proclamation
drove Luke Richter, the leader
of the activist group Central
Oregon Peacekeepers, to an-
nounce his run for mayor next
year, according to Richter’s
Facebook page.
Kerstin Arias, a former
leader of the diversity project,
characterized the changes as
a “watered down” version of
what Stanfield wrote. Instead of
standing with Black Bend resi-
dents, the city created a history
forum, she said.
“That’s not what we asked
you. That’s not what you were
supposed to be held account-
able for. You were supposed to
be held accountable for actually
representing the BIPOC and
the Black people in this com-
munity that has been failed for
many years,” Arias said, using
an acronym for Black, Indig-
enous and people of color. “It
is hurtful to be played, in a
sense. For still not being seen as
enough and still not being seen
as we matter.”
On Monday, Councilor Gena
Goodman-Campbell, who ed-
ited the proclamation into the
version that was read last week,
said the issues surrounding the
document are a product of un-
fortunate miscommunication.
After receiving Stanfield’s
proclamation in the fall, Good-
man-Campbell said the plan
was to present it sometime in
January. But the council sched-
ule got full, and it was moved to
February, a month that Good-
man-Campbell realized was
“Senators, this cannot be our future. This cannot be the
future of America. We cannot have presidents inciting and
mobilizing mob violence against our government and our
institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the
people under the Constitution of the United States.”
— Rep. Jamie Raskin, an impeachment manager
Jose Luis Magana/AP
Billboard trucks park on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol Tuesday during the impeachment trial of for-
mer President Donald Trump in Washington.
gathered in the same cham-
ber to certify the results of
the electoral college that gave
President Joe Biden his win,
only to be interrupted as a
frightening mob overtook the
Capitol in an unprecedented
siege after Trump implored
his supporters at a rally to
fight on his behalf.
The insurrectionists broke
through metal barricades,
smashed windows and as-
saulted police officers to gain
access to the citadel of U.S.
democracy — prompting
Vice President Mike Pence
to be quickly ushered into
safety and hundreds of law-
makers and staffers to take
cover from rampaging riot-
ers. At least five people died,
including Capitol Police offi-
cer Brian Sicknick, who was
memorialized under the Ro-
tunda last week.
Reminders of the riot per-
sist, with tall steel fencing and
barbed wire encircling the
once-open Capitol grounds,
now patrolled by National
Guard troops.
The House impeachment
managers leaned on legal rul-
ings, images and emotion,
particularly Raskin’s recount-
ing of his return to the cham-
ber on Jan. 6 for the first time
after burying his son. The
former president’s defense
lawyers addressed the crux of
Tuesday’s debate — the con-
stitutionality of the proceed-
ings — only late in their pre-
sentation.
In a distinct appeal to a Re-
publican Party that has long
prided itself on its support of
law enforcement, Raskin de-
tailed the injuries sustained
by 140 Capitol Police officers
that day, such as brain dam-
age, gouged eyes, heart attacks
and mental trauma. At least
two have died by suicide.
“Senators, this cannot be
our future. This cannot be the
future of America,” Raskin
said.
“We cannot have presidents
inciting and mobilizing mob
violence against our govern-
ment and our institutions be-
cause they refuse to accept the
will of the people under the
Constitution of the United
States.”
The argument failed to
sway 44 of the chamber’s 50
Republicans, with most fa-
voring dismissing the case
against Trump outright — a
tally demonstrating the un-
likelihood that 17 GOP sena-
tors will choose to join Dem-
ocrats to convict the former
president.
That vote was similar to
Black History Month.
So Goodman-Campbell pro-
posed to Stanfield to change it
to be a more educational piece
about Black history. Emails ob-
tained by The Bulletin show
Stanfield calling the idea “won-
derful,” saying that her docu-
ment was a framework from
which to work.
But when Goodman-Camp-
bell sent the edited copy to
Stanfield, she never received it.
Due to some internal conflict
within the Central Oregon Di-
versity Project group, Stanfield
said she was locked out of her
group’s email account the days
before the proclamation was
read.
Goodman-Campbell said
she didn’t realize she wasn’t re-
ceiving emails, and didn’t have
Stanfield’s phone number to
call, though she recognized she
could have found someone to
try to call Stanfield for her. She
felt bad that Stanfield was ex-
cluded from the editing process
and attending the meeting at
which it was read.
“It wasn’t my intention in
the editing process to change
it so drastically so she wouldn’t
see the main ideas she wanted
conveyed,” Goodman-Camp-
bell said.
She regrets changing the title
of the proclamation from her
original edit, which read “A res-
olution honoring Black History
Month and declaring that Black
Lives Matter in Bend, Oregon,”
to just “Honoring Black His-
tory Month”. Goodman-Camp-
bell said she only changed it to
help fit words on a page and to
make the heading make gram-
matical sense.
“I should have left it in the
title and that was my mistake,”
Goodman-Campbell said.
Goodman-Campbell said
she thought it was important to
include history about Oregon’s
previous racist policies and
laws, such as laws preventing
Black people from owning real
estate or voting, to provide con-
text to white people who likely
weren’t taught this history in
school.
“But that’s what I thought
was important,” said Good-
man-Campbell, who is white. “I
do feel badly that I missed what
they felt was important in this. I
definitely want to keep working
with them to make sure we get
it right next time.”
Both Goodman-Campbell
and Councilor Megan Perkins,
who was involved in initial dis-
cussions about the proclama-
tion, said there were lessons
learned about the situation, and
emphasized the importance of
committing to action, not just
words, to make Bend a more
equitable place.
“This is a prime example
of … the intention was good
but the impact was harmful to
members of the community
that this proclamation was in-
tended to support,” Perkins said
Tuesday. “The best thing we
can do now is show our com-
mitment by action, rather than
continuing to talk about proc-
lamations.”
Sandy Lee Fagen
of The Dalles, OR
March 25, 1946 -
February 3, 2021
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House Eugene, Oregon
one taken by the Senate last
month, in which only five Re-
publicans — Susan Collins
of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah,
Patrick Toomey of Pennsylva-
nia and Ben Sasse of Nebraska
— voted that an impeach-
ment trial of a former presi-
dent was constitutional. Sen.
Bill Cassidy, R-La., joined
them Tuesday in breaking
with their party to allow the
trial to proceed.
Some GOP senators on
Tuesday were compelled by
legal arguments from the
Democratic impeachment
managers, as they invoked
conservative legal luminaries
such as former 10th Circuit
Judge Michael McConnell
and attorney Charles Cooper,
who have argued in favor of
the trial’s constitutionality.
“Anyone that listened to
those arguments would rec-
ognize that the House man-
agers are focused, organized.
They relied both upon prec-
edent, the Constitution and
legal scholars. They made a
compelling argument,” said
Cassidy, who took diligent
notes throughout the day.
In contrast, Cassidy said,
Trump’s team was “disorga-
nized.”
OBITUARY
Robert "Bob"
William Monson
"Silver Eagle Bob"
June 24, 1940 - January 31, 2021
Bob Monson, of Bend, passed away peacefully
at his home on Jan. 31. He was 80. A Recita} on
of the Rosary will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb.
10, followed by a funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m., at
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, in Bend.
Bob was born June 24, 1940, in Detroit, MI. to
Edward and Mary Monson. He at ended Edsel
Ford High School, in Dearborn, MI. with his
older brother Ed and younger brother Tom.
Bob graduated in January 1958. He promptly
joined the Navy, signing up at age 17 with his
father's permission. Av er the service, Bob
returned to Dearborn, where he married Esther
Flower on Sept. 29, 1962. They were wed at St.
Christopher's Catholic Church in Detroit.
In 1966, with their three-year-old son Lance,
they moved to Kelso, WA. They later relocated
across the Columbia River to Clatskanie, OR.
where their son, Shawn was born in 1968. Bob
worked in the trucking industry with LMT in
Longview, WA. They welcomed their daughter,
Shannon in 1972.
The family moved to Bend in 1977 and then to
Culver, where Bob and Esther purchased and
operated Big Bob's Drive-In. Bob worked with
Silver Eagle Trucking, where he earned the
nickname "Silver Eagle Bob," peddling freight
throughout Central Oregon.
Bob loved the water, be it water skiing at Lake
Billy Chinook or relaxing on a beach in Hawaii.
He enjoyed watching the waves and was never
far from them. Eventually moving back to
Bend in the mid-1980s, Bob con} nued to enjoy
the outdoors, mountain biking and hiking,
whitewater rav ing and RVing.
Bob re} red from the trucking industry, only
to work alongside Esther at Bend Tax Service,
another business the couple owned and
operated, un} l they re} red together in 2005.
Following their re} rement, they traveled and
spent } me RV'ing and visi} ng friends and family
along the way.
Bob was a Knight of Columbus, as well as a
member of the Elks, Moose and the American
Legion. He was also a long-} me supporter of the
Bend Christmas parade.
Bob is survived by his wife of 58 years, Esther,
of Bend; sons Lance (Stacy Nestle) and Shawn
(Rachel) of Bend; daughter Shannon Gilman
(Robert), of Bend; 7 grandchildren and 2
great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and
nephews in Michigan.
Monday - Friday, 10am - 3pm
Memorial contribu} ons in Bob's name may be
made to Knights of Columbus, 1872 Fr. Luke
Sheehan Council, 2450 NE 27th St., Bend, OR
97701.
No death notices or obituaries
are published Mondays.
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arrangements.
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