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A2 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021 The Bulletin How to reach us LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays Deschutes County cases: 5,671 (32 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 52 (3 new deaths) 22,754 Jefferson County cases: 1,877 (11 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 26 (zero new deaths) Number of vaccinations given by St. Charles Health System 120 (Jan. 1) 90 new cases 110 *No data available on Jan. 31 due to state computer maintenence (Nov. 27) 90 70 50 (Nov. 14) 7-day average 40 31 new cases 28 new cases (Oct. 31) 30 16 new cases (July 16) (Sept. 19) 20 (May 20) 1st case 100 80 47 new cases 9 new cases ONLINE 108 new cases 60 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. www.bendbulletin.com 130 (Dec. 4) What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. 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LOCAL VACCINATIONS Crook County cases: 740 (5 new cases) Crook County deaths: 16 (zero new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Tuesday: 16 (4 in ICU). 541-382-1811 BULLETIN GRAPHIC 129 new cases COVID-19 data for Friday, Feb. 12: Oregon cases: 149,576 (517 new cases) Oregon deaths: 2,094 (38 new deaths) GENERAL INFORMATION SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES New COVID-19 cases per day 10 (March 11) EMAIL bulletin@bendbulletin.com March April May June July August September October November December January February AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 COVID-19 in Oregon NEWSROOM EMAIL MANDATORY MINIMUMS Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com District attorneys prepare for battle NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... 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Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 CORRECTIONS The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all stories are accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367. TO SUBSCRIBE Call us ......................541-385-5800 • Home delivery and E-Edition ..........................$7 per week • By mail .................................$9.50 per week • E-Edition only ...................$4.50 per week To sign up for our e-Editions, visit www.bendbulletin.com to register. Oregon Health & Science University nurses Nick Greenwood, from left, Callie Harling, Derrell Wheeler and Orion Meredith eat a meal delivered to the hospital’s front-line COVID-19 health care workers in a break room Jan. 10 at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Hard-hit restaurants feed doctors, nurses to survive BY GILLIAN FLACCUS The Associated Press PORTLAND — It was the week after Christmas and coronavirus case numbers and hospitalizations were soaring in Portland. At Oregon Health & Sci- ence University, the state’s largest hospital, morale was low. Doctors and nurses car- ing for the most critically ill were burning out just when they were needed the most. Then, the food started coming: hot and delicious individually wrapped meals from some of the city’s trendi- est restaurants, a buffet of cui- sines from Chinese to Italian to Lebanese to southern com- fort food. For staffers who only took off their N95 masks once to eat during a 12-hour shift, the meals were more than just food — they were emotional sustenance. “It’s almost like having a weight lifted. It’s like getting a surprise dozen roses or some- thing,” nurse Alice Clark said. “We’re so grateful.” But the meals, paid for by a wellness grant from the Or- egon-based insurance fund SAIF, also served another purpose: They kept strug- gling restaurants afloat. As fall and then winter set in, eat- eries were folding under the strain of a monthslong indoor dining ban. The hospital or- ders — sometimes 150 or 160 meals at a time — were a fi- nancial lifeline. “It’s kept the doors open and a small workforce em- ployed. It’s been the most heartfelt catering we’ve ever done,” said Kiauna Floyd, third-generation owner of Amalfi’s, a Portland institu- tion that’s been serving up Italian cuisine for 62 years. Floyd’s staff has prepared around 500 meals for OHSU, allowing her to keep a core crew employed after laying off three-quarters of her employ- ees. The restaurant was limp- ing along with seven tables on an outdoor patio in the height of winter, as well as takeout orders and pre-packaged meals-to-go. “We want to do something as comforting as possible, so when they are on their break and do get that lunch, it warms their soul,” she said. For now, though, meal de- liveries to OHSU have dried up with the grant funding, and the program ended on Jan. 19. Leaders are hoping for a new funding source to get meals running again soon. The three-week effort paid lo- cal eateries a total of $39,000 at a critical time. A similar effort funded by private donations through a now-defunct nonprofit called Frontline Foods PDX con- nected restaurants with Port- land-area hospitals and clinics early in the pandemic, but then donations began to fall off and the effort slowed and then stopped. That effort provided about 13,800 meals over three months to six facilities, in- cluding a veteran’s hospital and a homeless clinic, and was a major source of pandemic revenue for 14 restaurants — many of them owned by peo- ple of color. “To be able to call and say, ‘Hey, I have $2,000 of business for you’ is just the most incred- ible feeling,” said Shannon Ti- vona, who coordinated meal orders and delivery for OHSU and volunteered for Frontline Foods in its earlier work. “The times where we’re not doing anything are really tough. The restaurant owners call me and say, ‘Do you have anything yet? Do you have anything?’ And it’s heartbreak- ing to have to say, ‘No, I don’t.’” The Oregon District Attor- neys Association is ramping up its political fight to preserve the state’s longstanding man- datory minimum sentencing law as lawmakers prepare to take up changes to Measure 11 this year. The organization, which represents elected district at- torneys, on Wednesday issued its own report on what it views as the law’s effectiveness. Three district attorneys who campaigned as reform- ers — Deschutes County Dis- trict Attorney John Hummel, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt and Wasco County District Attor- ney Matthew Ellis — recently announced they would split with the organization on the issue and will support changes to the law. Schmidt has said he will lobby the Legislature and wants judges to have the flexi- bility to determine sentences. Measure 11 applies man- datory minimum prison sen- tences to about two dozen crimes, including murder, the most serious sex abuse, rob- bery and other violent offenses. People serving time under the law are not eligible to have their sentences reduced. According to the Oregon Department of Corrections, about 47% of the state’s 12,586 inmates are serving sentences under Measure 11, which gets its name from a ballot initiative approved by voters in 1994. The effort underway this session is the biggest recon- sideration of the policy in a decade. Four bills before the Legislature seek to reduce mandatory sentences under the law — “many dramatically so,” the group said in a state- ment. The proposals generally Garrett Andrews/The Bulletin file Deschutes County District Attor- ney John Hummel speaks to a crowd at a press conference call- ing for criminal justice reform outside the Deschutes County Courthouse in June 2020. give judges far more leeway in sentencing. Any change would require a two-thirds vote in each cham- ber. Supporters of Measure 11 say that it protects communities and ensures justice for crime victims. The DAs association says man- datory minimum sentences are transparent and ensure that “the sentence announced in court is the sentence actually served by the offender.” “While I support responsi- ble reforms, repealing Measure 11 will not bring more justice to victims, make Oregonians safer, or sentencing more eq- uitable,” Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton said in a statement. “The proposals as drafted would have devastating effects on victims and their families and our crime rates,” Marion County District Attorney Paige Clarkson said in a statement. Clarkson is president of the as- sociation. Ring in the New Year with the ultimate home Stress Relief T RINITY E PISCOPAL C HURCH Love God, TO PLACE AN AD Classified ......................................541-385-5809 Advertising fax ..........................541-385-5802 Other information ....................541-382-1811 TRADE-INS WELCOME! 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SALEM — Community support and a do- nation from inmates at the Oregon State Peni- tentiary will help a Salem school replace one of three stolen yurt coverings the school planned to use for classroom space. Kaleidoscope Community School, which has about 40 students ages 6-9, ordered four yurts last year from Mongolia to use as class- rooms and to accommodate more children. In January, three yurt coverings were stolen from the trailer of a contractor hired to assemble them. News of the school’s plight reached a group Love Yourself JACUZZI " SUNDANCE " BULLFROG OBITUARIES No death notices or obituaries are published Mondays. When submitting, please include your name, address and contact number. Call to ask about deadlines, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Phone ..........................................541-385-5809 Fax .................................................541-598-3150 Email .......................obits@bendbulletin.com Love Your Neighbor, of inmates at the state prison. 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