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Deschutes County deaths: 52 (3 new deaths)
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Jefferson County cases: 1,877 (11 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 26 (zero new deaths)
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Health System
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(Jan. 1)
90
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Crook County deaths: 16 (zero new deaths)
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COVID-19 data for Friday, Feb. 12:
Oregon cases: 149,576 (517 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,094 (38 new deaths)
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New COVID-19 cases per day
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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.
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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
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of inmates at the state prison. They raised
$2,200 to replace the yurt coverings.
“I was like, ‘are you serious?’” said Molly
Brown, the school’s director, who received a
call from the Department of Corrections on
Wednesday about the donations. “I was just
blown away.”
An employee with the department dropped
off the check Thursday afternoon to the
school, said Brown. Teachers have broken into
tears at the news, she said.
With community donations and other
funds, the school has $8,000, enough money to
order one replacement covering from Mongo-
lia, she said.
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