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Deschutes County deaths: 48 (zero new deaths)
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Crook County cases: 723 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 16 (zero new deaths)
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Jefferson County cases: 1,851 (13 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 25 (zero new deaths)
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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Wednesday, Feb. 10:
Oregon cases: 148,475 (555 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,044 (13 new deaths)
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New COVID-19 cases per day
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National Guard site in Redmond gets funds
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
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DEPARTMENT HEADS
The state has agreed to pay
$1.66 million to buy 20 acres in
Redmond as the site for a new
Oregon National Guard Readi-
ness Center.
The State Land Board —
made up of Gov. Kate Brown,
Secretary of State Shemia
Fagan and Treasurer Tobias
Read — voted 3-0 on Tuesday
to purchase the land, which
will be assigned to the Oregon
Military Department.
The sale is part of a larger,
long-range plan involving the
Department of State Lands,
Oregon Military Department,
the city of Redmond and De-
schutes County.
A 945-acre project would
allow for expansion of the
county fairgrounds. The proj-
ect also includes new industrial
parks and technology cen-
ters that supporters say would
bring higher-paying jobs to the
area.
The new readiness cen-
ter would replace Redmond’s
65-year-old armory, but have
an expanded mission of train-
ing National Guard soldiers
from around the state. Offi-
cials have said earlier it will be
the most seismically advanced
National Guard facility in Or-
egon.
The center is also marked
as a likely component of a
Bend-area command post for
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state government and federal
emergency response in the
event of major disaster caused
by movement of the Cascadia
Subduction Zone, off the coast
of Oregon.
Scientists have predicted a
possible 9.0-scale earthquake
and subsequent tsunami along
the 700-mile subduction zone
that could kill up to 25,000
people in the Pacific North-
west.
Most areas west of the
coastal range would be inun-
dated by waves, while road,
rail, air, utilities and commu-
nications west of the Cascades
would be heavily damaged.
While the earthquake would
be felt in Central Oregon, ar-
eas east of the Cascades are ex-
pected to escape with light to
moderate damage.
State surveys found the Red-
mond Airport would likely be
the closest airfield that would
still be fully operational follow-
ing an earthquake. Fixed-wing
aircraft could land supplies
from around the country, and
then helicopters could be used
to fan out to areas throughout
the Willamette Valley expected
to be severely affected.
Previously, the state had set
Salem as the center of earth-
quake relief operations, but
studies showed the largest
earthquakes along the fault
would make the airport run-
ways unusable to fixed-wing
aircraft.
“When constructed, this
new readiness center will be
a resilient facility that is more
capable of surviving, and being
a local and state asset, during
an earthquake or other natural
disaster,” Stan Hutchinson, the
Oregon Military Department’s
director of installations, said
Tuesday.
State plans call for the Or-
egon National Guard Youth
Challenge Program’s Bend
campus on Dodds Road to
also serve as a fallback site for
emergency coordination in a
major earthquake if other fa-
cilities in the Salem area are
knocked out.
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Public input sought for
the Deschutes River Access
future river access projects and Habitat Restoration Plan
project webpage.
The Bend Park & Recreation
District is looking for feed-
back on a list of recreational
access and habitat restoration
projects at parks along the De-
schutes River.
Over the years, growing use
of the district’s 16 parks along
the Deschutes River has led to
trampled vegetation and unof-
ficial access points that cause
erosion along the riverbank,
according to the district.
The district is now identify-
ing and recommending river
access and habitat restoration
projects for the next 10 years,
that would be fixed with general
funds partnerships and grants.
There are 33 potential proj-
ects that are open for public
feedback through a survey and
virtual community meetings.
Some projects include closing
and replanting the river access
at Columbia Park, as well as
possibly closing access at Mill-
er’s Landing Park. A number of
unofficial access points would
possibly be closed and revege-
tated at multiple locations in-
cluding River Rim Park, Fare-
well Bend Park, First Street
Rapids Park and Sawyer Park,
according to the district.
Public meetings will be held
virtually 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb.
20, on Zoom in English and at
3 p.m. on Zoom in Spanish.
Online surveys are also
available in English and Span-
ish on the district’s website.
For more information, visit
Juniper Swim & Fitness
Center set to open Monday
The Juniper Swim & Fitness
Center will reopen starting
Monday, according to the Bend
Park & Recreation District.
Advanced registration will
be required to participate in
fitness classes, lap swim and
other activities. They will be
held with limited capacity to
follow the state’s high risk cat-
egory guidelines for the coro-
navirus.
There will be 43 fitness
and water fitness classes of-
fered weekly as well as lap
swim, cycle on your own
and fitness center access, ac-
cording to the district. Peo-
ple can register online begin-
ning at noon on Thursday, at
www. bendparksandrec.org/
juniperreservations.
For safety reasons, staff and
visitors will have separate en-
trances to the facility, accord-
ing to the district. All visitors
must enter through the south
side of the building off NE
Franklin Avenue and NE Sev-
enth Street.
Starting Monday, hours
will be 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Monday through Thursday,
5:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday,
and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the
weekend.
The Larkspur Commu-
nity Center, which includes
the Bend Senior Center, may
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Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Detroit gets federal
grant to restore water
Associated Press
Detroit, the small town in
the Cascades ravaged by Labor
Day wildfires, is getting a $1
million grant to restore run-
ning water after the town’s wa-
ter treatment facility burned.
The grant for the city of De-
troit, coming from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
should allow it to create a tem-
porary ultrafiltration packaged
plant that will supply potable
water.
The Statesman Journal re-
ports that Mayor Jim Trett
said it wasn’t clear when the
water would actually be run-
ning. It could take anywhere
from two weeks to a month or
longer.
The fix is also temporary.
Detroit will still have to fig-
ure out a long-term solution.
For months since the fire, the
county has been providing po-
table water via a water truck
at the city park for a few hours
each day.
Detroit is located in Marion
County and has a population
of about 80.
open as early as April 1 if De-
schutes County remains lower
than extreme risk on the
state’s COVID-19 framework,
according to the district.
— Bulletin staff reports