A14 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021
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ABOVE: John Lodise, director of emergency services at Shepard’s House,
left, signs in a guest while working at the Bend warming shelter.
LEFT: Dart Eastwood folds blankets in preparation of opening the
doors for guests while volunteering Saturday.
BOTTOM: A sign lists items available for guests at the warming shelter.
Shelter
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“We get a little bit creative,”
said John Lodise, director of
emergency services at Shep-
ard’s House.
Lodise said the shelter is
large enough for individu-
als and families to stay and
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“That’s in line with what we
were hearing, that the majority
of students (at the party) ap-
peared to have been attending
Summit High,” Repman said.
Bend-La Pine created con-
tingency plans in case of a sit-
uation like the Summit out-
break, Repman said. But they
had to use them quicker than
anticipated. In-person high
school began on Feb. 8.
“Since last March, we’ve had
plans in place for mitigation
of classroom closures, school
closures,” she said. “Clearly, we
didn’t expect it to be this fast and
this impactful from one party.”
maintain distance due to
COVID-19. All guests are re-
quired to wear masks, and
hand sanitizer is readily avail-
able. Nobody has tested pos-
itive for the virus since the
shelter opened, Lodise said.
And even with the increase
in guests, the legal capacity is
more than 100, so there has
not been an issue with the fire
marshal, he said.
“We have not had to turn
anybody away because of ca-
pacity,” Lodise said. “We are
happy about that.”
This winter, the shelter has
served a total of 300 individ-
uals. A majority are regulars
who have a bed and storage
To prevent the potential
spread of the virus, the school
will return to distance learn-
ing through Friday, with an
expected return to in-person
classes and activities Feb. 22,
according to a Saturday night
email from McDonald. That
will allow the equivalent of a
10-day quarantine from the
last time students were in the
school building with academ-
ics or activities, he wrote.
Students who did not at-
tend the party or have contact
with those who did, and who
have no symptoms, are consid-
ered low risk for COVID-19
exposure, McDonald wrote.
But county health officials en-
couraged anyone who may
have been in contact with oth-
ers who were exposed or who
live with elderly or medically
fragile family members to
consider isolating from those
family members and assume
the youth or adult may be con-
tagious.
In preparation for the even-
tual return of in-person classes,
school district staff has com-
pleted a deep-cleaning of class-
rooms and common areas in
the school and left air scrub-
bers on overnight.
McDonald said he has heard
expressions of frustration, an-
ger and sadness from students,
staff and families in regards to
the outbreak.
“I think many folks are feel-
Irrigators
ing the way we are: frustrated
and exasperated but also want-
ing to make sure whatever we
do in the future is going to be
safe and keep us going,” he told
The Bulletin Monday.
McDonald said he hopes
the Summit community will
learn from this outbreak, and
staff will continue to remind
students of proper COVID-19
protocol once students return
to in-person class.
“I think we’re going to just
redouble our efforts, and make
sure that kids are doing the
safe thing and the smart thing
when they’re not at school,” he
said.
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“If it’s so necessary to
protecting and preserving
water rights, ask the
question why it isn’t used
anywhere else in the arid
West.”
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“That does not mean the
junior water right holder is
without recourse in this case,”
Wilde said. “It just restructures
how that recourse would oc-
cur.”
Ed Goodman, attorney for
the Klamath Tribes, said Ore-
gon’s automatic stay provision
is an anomaly that turns due
process on its head, since se-
nior water rights holders ar-
en’t even notified that their
enforcement action has been
blocked.
“I get a puzzled look from
attorneys who practice water
law in other states any time I
mention this bizarre automatic
stay process,” he said. “If it’s so
necessary to protecting and
preserving water rights, ask the
question why it isn’t used any-
where else in the arid West.”
Defenders of the automatic
stay provision counter that
it ensures irrigators have a
chance to challenge potentially
incorrect enforcement orders
before they can take a steep
economic toll.
“This is not a loophole as it’s
been characterized by the bill’s
proponents. It’s a necessary
procedure for due process,”
crate ready for them each
night.
But lately, more people are
visiting the shelter for the first
time. Those newcomers are
either recently homeless or
have a living situation else-
where that doesn’t suffice in
the freezing cold, Lodise said.
Because many homeless
people do not have other
places to go during the day,
the shelter extended its hours
during last week’s snow
storms. The shelter opened
at 3 p.m. over the weekend
instead of 6 p.m. and let peo-
ple stay past 7:30 a.m., when
weather conditions were un-
safe.
“Getting them in early takes
away the strain of the daytime
cold and gets them in ahead
of the really cold tempera-
tures at night,” Lodise said.
More guests has meant
more need for donated sup-
plies, such as blankets, pil-
low cases and bottles of wa-
ter. People are welcome to
drop off donations 10 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
The most needed item is
hand warmers, according to
staff.
— Ed Goodman, attorney
for the Klamath Tribes
Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press file
Irrigators are defending a legal mechanism that automatically blocks
enforcement orders against water pumping and diversions in Oregon.
said Sarah Liljefelt, attorney for
the Oregon Cattlemen’s Asso-
ciation.
While every state has dif-
ferent water enforcement pro-
cedures, they all have mech-
anisms in place to provide
irrigators with due process be-
fore depriving them of private
property, she said.
The core of the issue isn’t
about senior water rights hold-
ers versus junior ones, but
rather about the government’s
burden to prove that enforce-
ment orders are justified, Lil-
jefelt said.
“Since there is no due pro-
cess prior to that shut-off, due
process is not satisfied with-
out the ability to stay the or-
der and seek judicial review,”
she said.
Proponents have praised
the bill for making narrow
reforms to the automatic stay
process, but the proposal actu-
ally just “adds insult to injury,”
said Dominic Carollo, attorney
for the Water for Life irrigator
group.
Giving preferential treat-
ment to certain in-stream wa-
ter rights at the expense of all
others in Oregon raises consti-
tutional questions about equal
protection under the law, he
said.
Currently, the Oregon Wa-
ter Resources Department can
override an automatic stay if it
serves a substantial public in-
terest, Carollo said. “They have
that power. They can do that.”
Seeking a preliminary in-
junction — rather than obtain-
ing an automatic stay — doesn’t
provide irrigators with an ad-
equate remedy because en-
forcement orders can be issued
without public hearings or an
evidentiary record, he said.
“It’s simply a summary order
without any evidence or any-
thing provided to the regulated
party that says shut down your
well,” Carollo said.
“We give those away as fast
as we get them,” Lodise said.
The shelter will stay open
through April, when a one-
time grant to fund the op-
eration runs out. Shepherd’s
House partnered with the city
of Bend, Deschutes County
and The Homeless Leadership
Coalition to secure a $600,000
U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development fed-
eral block grant to secure this
winter’s shelter.
Homeless advocates and
city officials are still research-
ing a permanent location for a
warming shelter. In the mean-
time, the Shepherd’s House
is focused on this winter and
serving the increasing need,
Notari said.
As homeless people came
inside the shelter from the
cold on Saturday, Notari
could tell the frigid tempera-
tures and accumulating snow
added more stress to their
lives.
Every time there is a storm
Notari sees the worry on the
faces of the homeless people
seeking shelter. Last weekend,
he saw more than usual.
“There is definitely an up-
tick in anxiety but also lots
of gratefulness because peo-
ple have a warm place to go
where they don’t have to brace
the elements,” Notari said.
“The weather just creates a lot
of emotions.”
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