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COVID-19 data for Sunday, March 14:
Deschutes County cases: 6,120 (15 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 68 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 786 (zero new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
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Jefferson County cases: 1,990 (zero new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 30 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 159,617 (234 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,322 (zero new deaths)
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DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
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(Dec. 4)
108 new cases
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(Jan. 1)
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available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
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sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth
face covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into
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gets his umbrella back
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BY DOUGLAS PERRY
The Oregonian
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Regional Arts & Culture Council via The Oregonian
Portland’s bronze statue commonly known as Umbrella Man recently got his umbrella
back. The artwork’s real name is “Allow Me.”
mbrella Man has his umbrella
again.
The downtown public art-
work called “Allow Me” — a 36-year-old
statue of a well-dressed businessman
holding an umbrella over his head as he
tries to hail a cab — lost his protection
from the elements late last year.
The bronze statue’s umbrella shaft
was bent in October by an unknown
vandal or vandals, and the following
month the nonprofit organization Re-
gional Arts & Culture Council removed
the umbrella for repairs, leaving the
man holding only his brolly’s handle
just as the rainy season started.
The 6-foot-tall statue, popularly
known as “Umbrella Man,” has been a
signature presence rain or shine in Pi-
oneer Courthouse Square since 1984.
The work was created by J. Seward
Johnson Jr., a sculptor who, wrote The
New York Times, “may be responsible
for more double takes than anyone in
history thanks to his countless lifelike
creations in public places.”
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“What is (the Portland Police
Bureau’s) response when our
community demands safety and
justice? They repeatedly engage in
violent and unconstitutional tactics
that morally compel the community
to respond through protest, mutual
aid, legal action and legislation.”
BY EDER CAMPUZANO
The Oregonian
A coalition of progressive Portland
groups called on U.S. Attorney General
Merrick Garland to investigate the city
police bureau the day after officers em-
ployed a controversial crowd control
tactic to detain more than 100 people
during a demonstration.
The Oregon Justice Resource Center,
ACLU of Oregon and the state chapter
of the Council on American Islamic Re-
lations on Saturday called the Portland
Police Bureau’s use of kettling “aggres-
sive and indiscriminate.”
The groups say the agency uses the
tactic exclusively on left-leaning groups
and reiterated long-standing criticism
that Portland police treat such demon-
strators much more harshly than right-
wing protesters.
“What is PPB’s response when our
community demands safety and jus-
tice? They repeatedly engage in violent
and unconstitutional tactics that mor-
ally compel the community to respond
through protest, mutual aid, legal ac-
tion and legislation,” the groups said in
a statement.
They called for the U.S. Department
— Statement by the coalition of groups
including the ACLU of Oregon
Dave Killen/The Oregonian file
Portland police officers, shown here at a November protest, have long been criticized for
their use of the kettling tactic, which is when officers corral and detain a crowd.
of Justice to investigate “ongoing civil
rights abuses that local and federal law
enforcement are committing in Port-
land.” They also demanded that state
lawmakers support police reform bills
backed by the 12-member Black, Indig-
enous and People of Color Caucus in
the Oregon Legislature.
“Law enforcement traumatization of
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the second page of Sports.
$1.3M grant will establish new
homeless facility in Pendleton
East Oregonian
Superficially, the future of
The Whiskey Inn doesn’t look
promising. The former mo-
tel’s sign featuring a cowboy
slumped against a post is turned
inside out. Whatever visual evi-
dence the empty parking lot of-
fers is confirmed by a sign at the
entrance that states the motel is
“permanently closed.”
But by the end of March, the
35-room motel will be reborn
as a facility that will serve the
unhoused, a first of its kind in
Eastern Oregon.
On Wednesday , the Oregon
Community Foundation an-
nounced it was granting the
Community Action Program of
East Central Oregon a $1.3 mil-
lion grant to purchase the former
motel and turn it into a facility
that will offer temporary housing
to local homeless residents.
Paula Hall, CEO of the com-
munity action program, said
she was both excited and a lit-
tle overwhelmed to receive the
grant, which the foundation es-
tablished as a part of its Opera-
tion Turnkey program.
“It’s going to be quite the un-
dertaking,” she said.
In the short term, Hall said
the program plans to run the
building mainly as a shelter for
the unhoused, a safe place where
lodgers could socially distance
themselves during the pandemic.
Once Umatilla County is
able to get the pandemic under
control, Hall said the build-
ing will retain some rooms as
a night-to-night shelter while
also dedicating other rooms to
transitional housing, a place
where the unhoused can live
for up to two years while they
search for permanent housing.
“This is not a forever home,”
she said.
our community must be stopped,” they
said.
Protesters gathered in the Pearl Dis-
trict on Friday for a direct action march
with no specified target, though an on-
line poster promoting the gathering was
illustrated with the logo for the U.S. De-
partment of Homeland Security with a
red line through it.
Shortly after the march began, of-
ficers began corralling demonstrators
and detaining those within the kettle
boundaries.
The tactic has long been criticized.
In January, two federal judges tossed a
pair of civil suits challenging police use
of kettling during protests in downtown
Portland in the summer of 2017.
Police spokesperson Sgt. Kevin Allen
said the bureau had “reasonable sus-
picion” that everyone inside the kettle
perimeter had “committed at least one
criminal violation.”