A12 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021
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TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
61°
LOW
41°
Times of clouds and sun
Cooler with a passing
shower or two
ALMANAC
SATURDAY
47°
31°
59°
36°
Cloudy
SUNDAY
46°
27°
Intervals of clouds and
sunshine
MONDAY
53°
32°
Chilly with sun and clouds
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
48°
51° 76° in 1947
27°
28° -13° in 1906
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.59" in 1905
Month to date (normal)
0.13" (0.40")
Year to date (normal)
1.22" (3.02")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.00"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
7:14am/7:14pm 7:12am/7:15pm
Moon
9:20am/11:46pm
9:46am/none
Mercury 6:29am/4:58pm 6:29am/5:01pm
Venus
7:17am/6:59pm 7:16am/7:01pm
Mars
10:07am/1:29am 10:05am/1:28am
Jupiter
5:53am/3:57pm 5:49am/3:54pm
Saturn
5:25am/3:04pm 5:21am/3:00pm
Uranus 8:48am/10:46pm 8:44am/10:42pm
First
Full
Last
New
Mar 21
Mar 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Tonight's sky: High above the southwest
horizon is Mars, at magnitude of +1.13.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
2
3
3
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Times of clouds and sun
today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Clouds and sun
today. Considerable clouds tonight.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Clouds and sun today.
Cloudy tonight. Showers Thursday.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Partial sunshine
today. Partly to mostly cloudy tonight.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Sunshine and
clouds today. Cloudy tonight; a rain or snow
shower late.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Partly sunny
today. Cloudy tonight with a shower late.
SKI REPORT
EAST: Sunny to
partly cloudy and
mild Wednesday. Fair
and chilly Wednesday
night. Partly sunny
Thursday; mild.
CENTRAL:
Partly sunny and mild
Wednesday. Fair and
chilly Wednesday
night. Partly to mostly
cloudy Thursday.
WEST: Mild Wednes-
day; clouds and
sun. Mostly cloudy
Wednesday night; a
shower or two late.
Rain likely Thursday.
Seaside
53/39
Cannon Beach
52/41
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
81/50/0.00
Akron
61/37/Tr
Albany
33/13/0.00
Albuquerque
57/33/0.01
Anchorage
24/15/0.06
Atlanta
58/48/0.32
Atlantic City
44/36/0.03
Austin
84/64/Tr
Baltimore
45/39/Tr
Billings
43/32/0.01
Birmingham
70/65/0.85
Bismarck
38/31/Tr
Boise
56/33/0.00
Boston
36/20/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 34/24/0.00
Buffalo
40/25/0.00
Burlington, VT
38/10/0.00
Caribou, ME
27/-1/0.00
Charleston, SC 61/54/Tr
Charlotte
47/40/1.33
Chattanooga
56/52/2.26
Cheyenne
32/20/Tr
Chicago
38/32/0.02
Cincinnati
57/35/Tr
Cleveland
55/36/0.02
Colorado Springs 44/29/0.00
Columbia, MO
49/39/0.09
Columbia, SC
50/45/0.08
Columbus, GA
69/64/1.00
Columbus, OH
55/37/0.07
Concord, NH
41/13/0.00
Corpus Christi
80/64/0.01
Dallas
83/57/0.00
Dayton
52/34/0.13
Denver
38/17/0.02
Des Moines
44/33/Tr
Detroit
55/31/Tr
Duluth
35/28/Tr
El Paso
77/46/0.00
Fairbanks
11/-3/0.02
Fargo
35/30/0.01
Flagstaff
32/17/0.29
Grand Rapids
42/28/Tr
Green Bay
35/27/0.19
Greensboro
46/37/0.25
Harrisburg
44/36/Tr
Hartford, CT
37/15/Tr
Helena
54/31/0.00
Honolulu
79/68/0.17
Houston
82/65/0.01
Huntsville
67/59/2.30
Indianapolis
50/34/0.35
Jackson, MS
84/66/0.57
Jacksonville
86/62/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
61/40/s
64/36/s
63/47/pc
52/27/r
51/36/pc
48/23/r
60/34/s
63/38/pc
18/11/s
24/0/s
66/62/r
71/46/t
49/44/sh
53/42/r
80/47/r
73/42/s
56/46/pc
57/41/r
53/29/s
62/40/s
76/58/t
64/44/r
45/21/c
52/30/c
63/42/c
69/44/c
51/39/pc
54/30/r
47/38/c
48/35/r
53/35/c
43/23/r
50/38/pc 47/17/pc
43/27/c
44/10/c
67/59/sh
79/51/t
64/56/r
72/49/t
66/60/r
67/46/r
35/16/c
40/25/s
46/38/c
44/32/r
68/56/c
63/33/r
57/42/c
47/29/r
38/23/c
48/27/s
57/39/r
42/30/r
65/59/r
76/49/t
76/65/t
74/46/t
65/52/pc
56/30/r
53/34/s
53/29/c
87/53/t
78/51/s
69/43/s
63/42/s
67/52/c
54/29/r
37/21/c
47/26/s
43/36/r
51/28/sn
56/39/pc
44/27/r
45/30/pc
41/25/s
69/42/s
73/47/pc
13/-9/s
10/-15/pc
45/25/c
49/29/pc
49/23/s
54/24/s
52/35/pc
45/25/c
43/32/c
45/25/pc
63/52/c
68/49/r
55/45/pc
51/37/r
52/37/pc
51/31/r
57/31/s
63/38/s
79/68/c
77/68/pc
80/49/t
70/47/s
71/57/t
61/44/r
66/52/c
53/29/r
81/50/t
62/44/pc
86/63/pc
84/52/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
45/36/sh
62/46/sh
74/59/pc
85/58/pc
96/80/c
55/42/pc
66/58/s
43/29/pc
64/48/sh
52/34/sh
71/56/c
77/56/s
75/55/s
51/29/pc
85/78/s
54/44/pc
54/42/pc
46/31/c
78/59/pc
80/72/pc
50/42/c
60/50/s
78/61/t
79/70/pc
70/51/s
52/40/pc
66/40/s
95/79/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
40/32/0.60
50/42/Tr
44/28/0.01
60/39/Tr
71/39/0.00
47/39/0.02
77/46/0.03
61/45/0.00
72/41/0.00
35/29/Tr
81/53/0.00
81/71/0.00
36/32/0.08
36/29/0.02
79/57/0.00
83/70/0.03
36/29/0.06
38/28/0.02
48/37/0.31
79/46/0.00
46/36/Tr
86/62/0.00
70/44/Tr
41/34/0.00
42/33/0.03
61/47/Tr
61/39/Tr
33/11/0.00
36/18/Tr
45/35/0.05
33/21/Tr
57/35/Tr
43/34/0.19
41/21/0.00
60/34/0.00
51/43/Tr
57/43/0.03
81/65/0.00
61/51/0.01
57/44/0.00
60/37/0.00
58/23/0.00
82/55/0.00
52/33/0.00
35/30/0.18
53/31/0.00
72/39/0.00
81/69/0.00
58/38/Tr
76/43/0.00
46/40/Tr
71/38/0.00
57/31/0.00
68/46/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
41/30/sn
39/28/c
49/36/r
47/27/r
54/34/pc
43/24/c
66/50/s
71/52/pc
68/57/r
65/34/r
44/33/r
51/24/c
71/47/t
53/42/c
67/51/pc 68/50/pc
70/59/r
66/36/r
40/33/pc
46/24/c
74/50/t
54/42/pc
84/73/pc 86/72/pc
42/36/c
43/32/c
46/34/pc 51/28/pc
68/58/r
62/42/r
81/57/t
70/50/s
49/43/sh
51/34/r
50/42/sh
52/35/r
54/48/pc
69/49/r
60/35/s
54/34/pc
45/34/r
51/27/c
89/66/s
89/62/pc
74/53/pc 81/57/pc
51/40/r
43/29/r
53/44/pc
54/38/r
73/52/s
81/53/pc
64/48/pc
54/28/r
47/37/s
52/26/c
50/37/pc
53/33/r
64/53/c
71/52/t
41/20/c
43/27/s
60/38/c
59/40/c
61/47/pc
66/46/r
51/33/c
41/22/r
61/46/c
58/43/r
62/47/r
50/33/r
59/42/c
66/47/s
81/49/s
75/46/s
64/52/pc 65/52/pc
58/51/c
60/50/r
61/49/c
61/47/r
56/26/s
60/32/pc
76/63/c
83/51/t
56/41/pc 54/43/sh
39/29/sf
46/23/c
57/37/pc 61/40/pc
65/37/r
41/30/r
83/69/s
82/64/pc
71/44/s
82/50/pc
69/40/r
52/36/pc
59/48/pc
59/44/r
49/35/r
53/33/pc
60/35/s
60/35/sh
74/47/s
81/51/s
98/76/0.00
78/54/0.01
32/14/0.00
36/34/0.09
79/62/0.02
81/65/0.00
89/63/0.00
64/46/0.10
39/25/0.00
37/14/0.00
50/39/0.57
84/76/0.04
59/37/0.01
73/54/0.00
84/68/0.04
48/27/0.04
55/41/0.00
56/55/0.09
88/77/0.04
41/25/0.06
70/61/0.19
81/59/0.00
70/55/0.00
70/48/0.00
39/25/0.03
46/34/0.00
46/39/0.00
46/27/0.16
97/67/s
77/52/pc
44/33/s
35/29/c
81/59/pc
81/70/s
92/64/pc
59/37/pc
40/25/pc
44/31/pc
49/40/pc
88/75/s
58/40/s
76/53/s
86/69/t
41/33/sn
61/35/s
53/49/t
90/77/t
37/26/pc
71/67/sh
86/68/pc
68/60/s
65/46/pc
48/35/pc
51/41/c
45/32/c
43/27/c
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 94°
at Zapata, TX
National low: -8°
at Saranac Lake, NY
Precipitation: 2.97"
at Laurel, MS
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
0
0-81
Hoodoo Ski Area
1
0-96
Mt. Ashland
0
62-68
Mt. Bachelor
1
104-123
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
0-213
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
0
65-90
Timberline Lodge
2
0-173
Willamette Pass
0
0-65
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
52-75
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
1
74-112
Squaw Valley, CA
4
0-126
Park City Mountain, UT
11
60-72
Sun Valley, ID
0
66-85
Sunshine and patchy
clouds
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
48/27/0.00 53/39/pc 52/43/r
La Grande
48/28/0.00 58/43/c 60/36/pc
Portland
54/31/0.00 60/42/pc 53/43/sh
Baker City
53/29/0.00 56/37/pc 62/36/pc
La Pine
46/19/0.00 55/33/pc 51/29/sh
Prineville
46/28/0.00 64/43/pc 51/37/sh
Brookings
49/38/0.00 51/46/c 50/43/r
Medford
54/32/0.00 63/45/c 57/38/r
Redmond
49/29/0.00 61/39/pc 60/33/sh
Burns
49/28/0.01 55/33/pc 58/32/c
Newport
46/30/0.00 51/41/pc 50/42/r
Roseburg
53/30/0.02 62/42/c 52/40/r
Eugene
52/28/0.00 59/40/pc 52/41/r
North Bend
49/31/Tr
54/44/pc 53/44/r
Salem
52/28/Tr
58/39/pc 51/41/sh
Klamath Falls
43/14/0.00 54/35/c 49/28/c
Ontario
60/38/0.00 63/37/pc 70/42/pc
Sisters
47/22/0.00 63/37/pc 60/36/sh
Lakeview
46/22/0.00 51/33/c 49/31/c
Pendleton
51/35/0.00 64/44/s 68/42/pc
The Dalles
59/38/0.00 61/39/s 59/39/sh
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-0s
54°
26°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
65/36
Rufus
Hermiston
60/39
65/35
63/40
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
62/40
58/39 60/42
56/41
Wasco
56/41 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
54/41
59/36
64/44
Sandy
61/39
McMinnville
56/41
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
59/40
Maupin
Government
59/40
58/43
52/42
Camp
61/35 Condon 61/39
Union
Lincoln City
56/40
52/33
56/42
Salem
52/42
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
58/39
Madras
62/39
Albany
51/38
Newport
Baker City
64/38
65/41
Mitchell
51/41
57/39
56/37
Camp Sherman
57/40
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
61/37
61/39
56/39
Day
Prineville
51/41
55/36
Ontario
Sisters
64/43
Paulina
55/40
63/37
Florence
Eugene 63/37
Bend Brothers 55/35
Vale
52/45
59/40
61/41
52/32
Sunriver
66/38
Nyssa
58/37
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
67/38
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
55/33
53/32
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
59/33
61/42
61/38
Fort
Rock
54/42
55/33
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
54/31
56/34
High: 60°
52/32
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Ontario
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
53/46
62/42
54/31
55/36
Low: 8°
Marsh
Lake
54/36
Port Orford
50/31
54/33
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
52/48
Pass
60/32
Chiloquin
56/36
65/44
Rome
Medford
55/36
Gold Beach
63/45
63/34
51/46
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
54/32
60/46
54/35
52/32
51/46
51/33
-10s
50°
27°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Astoria
53/39
TUESDAY
Cloudy with a couple of
showers possible
Mostly cloudy
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
43/42/1.02
61/50/0.00
70/63/0.02
82/63/0.00
93/81/0.00
57/37/0.00
70/59/0.02
44/36/0.05
70/50/0.34
52/27/0.00
73/69/0.26
81/54/0.00
73/57/0.00
48/21/0.00
86/77/0.00
55/48/0.07
59/45/0.01
46/34/0.20
77/60/0.00
83/70/0.00
54/49/0.06
63/49/0.00
80/57/0.00
79/70/0.00
73/54/0.00
57/45/0.00
66/41/0.00
93/79/0.17
45/35/sh
61/49/pc
73/56/pc
77/53/s
97/81/t
51/34/pc
64/57/pc
43/28/c
64/49/r
48/30/c
69/62/s
79/57/s
73/56/s
58/36/s
85/73/pc
54/43/pc
58/42/c
43/29/c
79/59/pc
79/71/pc
51/41/pc
56/46/pc
76/59/pc
77/70/c
66/48/pc
51/43/c
57/32/pc
93/79/pc
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
101/69/s
71/46/sh
44/16/c
37/23/c
83/61/c
82/70/s
93/66/pc
65/40/s
41/24/pc
42/14/pc
47/38/sh
89/76/pc
56/39/c
72/50/s
85/68/t
37/31/c
64/43/pc
59/52/r
90/76/t
36/24/sf
71/69/r
85/67/pc
66/54/pc
61/50/s
44/21/c
53/44/r
43/29/c
39/25/sf
Booze
Wyden
Continued from A11
Continued from A11
Watters said the pandemic lockdown
caused him to rethink his usual pattern
of ending each day with a cocktail. He
started experimenting with nonalcoholic
beverages, and by August he had decided
to open his store. Many of his customers
are sober, he said, but others are pregnant
or have health issues. Some are training
for marathons; others just want to cut
back on alcohol.
“There are a lot of people, this past
year more than ever, thinking more
critically about what they’re drinking
and how it’s making them feel,” he said.
Joshua James, a veteran bartender,
had a similar realization during the
pandemic. After a stint at Friendship
House, a substance abuse treatment
center, he recently opened Ocean
Beach Cafe, an alcohol-free bar in San
Francisco.
“I wanted to destigmatize the words
addiction, recovery and sober,” he said.
“There’s a thousand reasons to not
want to drink as much.”
The coronavirus, James said, “warp-
speeded” the change in many people’s
drinking habits. But it has also hurt the
nascent nonalcoholic bar scene.
Some bars, like The Virgin Mary Bar
in Dublin and Zeroliq in Berlin, have
temporarily closed their doors due to
regulations. Getaway, a nonalcoholic
bar in New York, transitioned into a
coffee shop to weather the pandemic.
Owner Sam Thonis has added outdoor
And it added weekly bonus
payments to make the benefits
more generous.
Congress has extended those
programs twice — in Decem-
ber, and again with the latest
relief bill. Currently, though,
many of those benefits expire
after Labor Day.
Wyden and other Demo-
crats sought a longer extension
and a bigger weekly bonus,
but with a narrow margin in
the Senate were unable to se-
cure unanimous support from
within their party. That could
make further extensions past
the current September cutoff
more difficult.
Instead, Wyden has pro-
posed making some changes
permanent, including the Pan-
demic Unemployment Assis-
tance program for contractors
and gig workers. He also wants
legislation that would automat-
ically increase jobless benefits
in times of economic distress.
“Support is growing for the
idea of triggers, where you tie
the benefits to conditions on
the ground,” Wyden said.
Wyden made similar pro-
posals last year, but they gained
little traction when Republicans
controlled the Senate. Now that
Democrats control the cham-
ber, Wyden is chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee and
may be in a position to muscle
forward his ideas.
Regular jobless benefits are
financed by a payroll tax paid
by employers. Contractors
don’t pay into that system and
so usually aren’t eligible for
payments. Congress addressed
that gaping hole in the safety
net with the Pandemic Unem-
ployment Assistance program
it adopted a year ago, digging
into the federal treasury.
On Friday, Wyden wouldn’t
directly say how he envisions
funding the program if it be-
comes permanent.
The federal government
gives states enormous latitude
in how they administer unem-
ployment benefits programs
and what they pay. Wyden
wants to set a minimum
threshold for what states pay.
Additionally, he wants a
national technological frame-
work to help states administer
their jobless programs.
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“This is the largest, by
far, for a software company
in Bend,” said Brian Vierra,
EDCO venture catalyst. “It
firmly plants the city on the
global start-up map. The tal-
ent and other resources that
will be attracted, as a result of
this deal, will accelerate the
development of our ecosys-
tem and cast aside forever the
notion that you can’t build a
scalable, venture-backed com-
pany here.”
The investments come de-
spite federal Drug Enforce-
ment Administration classi-
fying cannabis as a Schedule 1
drug. The five-tiered classifi-
cation ranks drugs depending
on acceptable medical use and
the drug’s abuse or depen-
dency potential.
The newest funding will
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Joshua James prepares an alcohol-free cocktail at his zero-proof bar Ocean Beach Cafe in San Francisco in February. “I wanted to destigma-
tize the words addiction, recovery and sober,” he said about opening the bar. “There’s a thousand reasons to not want to drink as much.”
seating and hopes to reopen the bar
this spring.
Billy Wynne, the co-owner of Awake
in Denver, is also selling coffee and
bottles of nonalcoholic spirits out of a
carryout window for now. But he plans
to open the doors to a nonalcoholic bar
next month.
Wynne says the price of drinks will
be comparable to a regular bar. Alco-
allow Dutchie to focus on ex-
pansion, market share and the
platform, said Lipson, whose
co-founder is his brother
Zach Lipson.
The company recently
acquired two competitors,
LeafLogix and Greenbits, two
cannabis point of sale com-
panies.
Dutchie has about 100 em-
ployees working out of the
NorthWest Crossing District
2 headquarters and about 200
employees scattered across 27
states, Lipson said.
“We have a distributed
team with a focus on Bend,”
Lipson said. “Post pandemic,
we’ll continue the remote lo-
cations. We’re a people first
company here. We want to
move into new markets as
they come online” (legalize
recreational marijuana).
Dutchie, which started in
2017, is one of several com-
hol is cheap, he said, and the process
for extracting it from some beverages
makes them more expensive.
Alcohol delivery site Drizly charges
$33 for a 700 ml bottle of Seedlip Spice
94, a nonalcoholic spirit. That’s slightly
more than a 750 ml bottle of Aviation
Gin, which sells for $30. But Wynne
thinks customers are willing to pay for
the craft that goes into a cocktail or a fla-
panies that specialize in on-
line commerce for canna-
bis. For a flat fee, Dutchie
— named after a 1981 song
called “Pass the Dutchie”
— provides an online plat-
form for cannabis retailers to
sell products linked to their
point of sale systems and at
the same time keep track of
inventory in real time. Cus-
tomers can either pick up
their items or have them
delivered through another
company.
Lipson has experience with
taking companies public.
Before moving to Bend, he
started an online food-order-
ing program in Canada that
he sold in 2012 called Grub-
Canada. It was acquired by
Just-Eat, a publicly traded on-
line food ordering company
based in Europe.
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vorful wine whether it has alcohol or not.
He said his customers tend to be in
their 30s or 40s, and the majority are
women. Some tell him they’ve have
waiting their whole lives for a bar like
his to open.
“This type of thing, it’s not a fad,” he
said. “People don’t wake up to the neg-
ative impact alcohol is having on their
life and then change their mind.”
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With business restrictions
further relaxed this month,
and COVID-19 hospital-
izations continuing to trend
downward, that offers some
hope for greater improve-
ment in March.
Despite the pandemic re-
cession — Oregon’s deepest
downturn on record — some
segments of the economy
have added jobs over the past
year.
Transportation and ware-
housing is up 7.2%, 5,300
jobs, reflecting the shift to
online shopping during the
pandemic.
Professional services are up
0.6% and architectural and
engineering services are up
4.0%. Workers in those seg-
ments can generally do their
jobs remotely, meaning they
were somewhat insulated by
the pandemic’s direct effects.
Oregon listed 142,000
workers as unemployed last
month, nearly double the
number who were unem-
ployed in February 2020. In
addition, more than 100,000
Oregonians sought bene-
fits last month through the
Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance program, tem-
porary aid Congress estab-
lished at the outset of the
pandemic.
Congress extended that
program, and other ex-
panded benefits, into Sep-
tember in a new, $1.9 trillion
relief package passed last
week. But the employment
department has warned that
thousands of Oregonians
may have a lapse in benefits
while the agency adjusts its
systems to accommodate the
change.