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Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 SATURDAY • February 13, 2021 RESTAURANTS DO THEIR PART FOR HOSPITAL STAFFERS WORKING LONG SHIFTS DURING THE PANDEMIC, MEALS PROVIDE EMOTIONAL SUSTENANCE. • STATE, A2 Bend-La Pine | In-person lunches CENTRAL OREGON HEAVY SNOW FAILS TO FALL — FOR NOW Staff find creative solutions to stay safe BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin At Silver Rail Elementary School, a spe- cialist, nonclassroom teacher like Emily Gibson monitor unmasked students during lunch while teachers take a break. Gibson and other school staff stand in a common space shared by three classrooms. From there, they’re able to oversee three classes of students in their classrooms at once, from a distance, she said. Gibson has some nerves about being around unmasked children, but it’s as safe as it can be while the weather is frigid, she said. “It’s still very anxiety-producing, trying to ensure that everybody is safe in this sit- uation, but we’re in the best-case scenario,” she said. Since elementary students in Bend-La Pine Schools returned to in-person learning on Jan. 25, local school staffers and administrators have used a multitude of methods to keep stu- dents and educators safe during lunch. See Bend-La Pine / A7 Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin photos Gary Gowens, manager of Bend Sentry Storage in Bend, uses a skid-steer early Friday to clear several inches of snow from around the business. St. Charles sued for $15M for wrongful death National Weather Service predicts another storm Friday night BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin L a Pine resident Wes Elliott woke up Friday expecting to see knee-deep snow on the ground. Instead, he saw a dusting. Weather forecasts showed the possibility of 10 to 20 inches of snow across Central Oregon by Friday, but Danae Risch, of Bend, suffered a heart attack during surgery that never materialized. Another storm is expected Friday night, but the region was mostly spared for now. Elliott, who owns La Pine Tax Service, was re- lieved he didn’t have to spend the day clearing snow from his own driveway and the parking lot of his business. “I was dreading having to plow and snow blow all day,” Elliott said Friday. “So that snow going away was a nice surprise this morning.” While La Pine and Sunriver saw about 2 inches of snow Friday, Bend had 3 to 4 inches, according to Marilyn Lohmann, a hydrologist with the Na- tional Weather Service in Pendleton. “Overall, it hasn’t been quite as much as we ex- pected,” Lohmann said. Greg Johannsen, of Bend, takes advantage of the fresh snow Friday morning to cross-coun- try ski around Drake Park. BY GARRETT ANDREWS The Bulletin Bend resident Danae Corrine Risch died Dec. 14, 2018, at age 27, after suffering a heart attack during surgery to remove her gall bladder. The decision to put Risch un- der for the elective procedure, despite a known heart condition, was made by her le- gal guardians, her parents. This week, Risch’s mother and father, Gin- ger Caviness and Mark Risch, sued St. Charles Health System for $15 million for what they say was information and inappropriate rec- ommendations given to them by doctors. See Snow / A7 See St. Charles / A7 4 Oregonians test positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated Four Oregonians have tested positive for COVID-19 after being vaccinated against the disease, Oregon health officials said Friday. The Oregon Health Author- TODAY’S WEATHER ity said two of the cases were in Lane County and two were in Yamhill County. Two of the cases were found during routine surveillance testing. The other two appear to be connected. OHA officials did not specify which two. Morning snow High 34, Low 21 Page A8 INDEX “This is a serious but not surprising development,” OHA Director Patrick Allen said. These reinfections, called “breakthrough infections,” are infections that occur more than 14 days after receiving the second dose of vaccine. Business Classifieds Comics A5-6 B6-7 B3-4 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A6 B5 A6 Given the effectiveness rate of the two vaccines —95% for Pfiz- er-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s — it’s inevitable that some of the 177,000 vaccinated Oregonians would become reinfected. It isn’t yet known if these four known reinfection cases Local/State Nation/World Obituaries A2-3 A4 A6 Puzzles Sports B4 B1-2 involved newer variants of the coronavirus. The Oregon Health Authority is attempt- ing to get samples from these patients to be tested, a process that could take over a week. The U.S. Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention is The Bulletin ù An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 119, No. 38, 16 pages, 2 sections gathering data on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, but it has yet to make that data public. Oregon is one of the first states to participate in the center’s genomics surveillance pro- gram. 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