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St. Charles, union end strike
After 10 days of a work stoppage, St.
Charles Bend and the union represent-
ing therapists, technicians and technol-
ogists at the hospital reached an agree-
ment Saturday to return the employees
to work by Monday.
The agreement ensures the two par-
ties will continue to bargain over the
est to return to the table and continue
bargaining,” the union and hospital said
in a joint statement Saturday.
The hospital and the Oregon Feder-
ation of Nurses and Health Profession-
als have disagreed about salary and shift
wages for about 154 workers. The hospital
objected to the union’s request to require
any new employees to join the union.
The agreement ensures the two parties will continue to bargain over
the next few days and secure a contract by March 31, according to union
and St. Charles Health System officials.
next few days and secure a contract by
March 31, according to union and St.
Charles Health System officials.
“The agreement came together as
both parties believe patient care is and
should be the top priority, the strike has
been distracting and difficult for all in-
volved, and it is in everyone’s best inter-
See St. Charles / A9
A DEADLY YEAR
ON U.S. HIGHWAY 97
C
rash data from the
Oregon Department of
Transportation shows 2020
was the deadliest year in recent memory
along U.S. Highway 97 through Central
Fatal crashes along
U.S. Highway 97
in 2020
See Maps / A5
In Oregon,
who’s
policing
the police?
Area in
detail
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97
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The stretch of U.S. Highway 97 in Central Oregon
in 2020 saw the largest increase in fatal crashes
over the past five years, resulting in 20 deaths.
Time
1. April 7
7:37 p.m.
259
Klamath
2. June 12
3:30 p.m.
118
Deschutes
County
3. July 6
8:56 p.m.
118
Deschutes
4. July 10
6:33 p.m.
151.4
Deschutes
5. July 23
2:32 a.m.
235
Klamath
6. Aug. 1
1:22 p.m.
118.5
Deschutes
7. Aug. 15
3:58 p.m.
108
Jefferson
8. Aug. 18
1:24 p.m.
99.9
Jefferson
9. Oct. 13
9:10 a.m.
245
Klamath
10. Nov. 4
11:59 p.m.
232
Klamath
11. Nov. 6
11:56 p.m.
110.6
Jefferson
12. Nov. 8
9:42 a.m.
181
Klamath
13. Nov. 11
7:45 a.m.
158
Deschutes
14. Nov. 19
12:51 p.m.
168.2
Deschutes
15. Nov. 19
5:14 p.m.
137
Deschutes
16. Dec. 14
11:10 a.m.
194
Klamath
17. Dec. 24
9:07 a.m.
118.8
Deschutes
8
22
JEFFERSON
11
20
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(Data is preliminary, as of Feb. 23.)
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11
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Up
42%
from
2019
7
97
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17
15
26
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Redmond
Bend
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20
DESCHUTES
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La Pine
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Crescent
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BY NICK BUDNICK
Oregon Capital Bureau
On May 18, 2019, a
longtime member of the
most influential police
oversight body in Oregon,
Officer Craig Halupowski,
got ready to arrest a man
accused of making threats
at the local mall in Wood-
burn.
Walk-
ing to-
ward the
man,
the cop
looked
around
to make
Halupowski
sure no-
body but his two fellow
officers could hear, ac-
cording to a subsequent
investigation.
“If he resists, we beat
the s--- out of him,” Ha-
lupowski said, according
to a video from a co-work-
er’s body camera.
See Police / A6
16
138
97
Legend
KLAMATH
17
Madras
Terrebonne
20
126
s Na tional Sceni
Order/date
Fatal crashes,
2016-20
WARM SPRINGS
RESERVATION
Detroit
Approx.
milepost
Cascade Lake
See Highway 97 / A9
The fuzzy future of Or-
egon politics east of the
Cascades was unveiled to
the public last week: No
diagrams, charts, data —
really nothing tangible at
all to show how new
legislative and congres-
sional district should be
drawn.
“We don’t have any
maps,” said Rep. Andrea
Salinas, D-Lake Oswego,
chair of the House
Redistricting Committee.
“We don’t have any
numbers from the
census.”
Submitted photo: La Pine Rural Fire
Protection District. Background
photo: Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin file
Oregon from Klamath Falls to Madras.
Twenty people died in 17 crashes last year,
the data shows. That is the same number as
the previous two years combined, when 19
fatal crashes killed 20 people in 2018 and
2019.
Central Oregon is following a na-
tional trend of higher fatalities during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Because more peo-
ple have stayed home during the pandemic,
transportation officials suspect more people
are speeding on the open roads and driving
impaired.
Kacey Davey, an ODOT spokesperson for
the Central Oregon region, said the causes of
last year’s crashes are still being investigated
but it appears a majority are related to speed
and intoxication.
“It’s hard to say yet why the fatalities in-
creased on this stretch of highway,” Davey
said. “There are some national reports that
are showing a trend toward increased speed
and intoxication as factors.”
Oregon State Police Sgt. Caleb Ratliff, who
has worked in the Bend area since 2012, said
the overwhelming factor in fatal crashes,
especially on Highway 97, has been speed.
People are driving over the speed limit and
driving too fast in potentially hazardous con-
ditions, such as in snow and ice, Ratliff said.
Drivers are not taking into account road
conditions, other drivers and the volume of
traffic, and those tendencies increased during
the pandemic, Ratliff said.
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
LEFT: Two people were killed
and two injured in a crash
that closed U.S. Highway
97 in both directions about
a mile south of La Pine in
November. The majority
of the fatal crashes along
Highway 97 last year
were between Bend and
Redmond and south of La
Pine, areas where traffic has
increased in recent years.
BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin
Fuzzy
math,
absent
maps
230
National forest
TODAY’S WEATHER
138
Reservation
LAKE
Water
CRATER LAKE
NATIONAL PARK
10
Cloudy, cooler
High 55, Low 29
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INDEX
62
7
Chiloquin
97
Upper
Klamath
Lake
140
County line
9
State boundary
1
140
2016
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Sources: Oregon Department of Transportation;
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2020
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