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Crook County cases: 788 (2 new cases)
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Brown sets board to oversee
magic mushroom program
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation pro-
gram to allow regulated, therapeu-
tic use of psilocybin got underway
Tuesday when Gov. Kate Brown
announced the members of the Or-
egon Psilocybin Advisory Board.
The board will create the frame-
work for the program outlined in
Measure 109, which Oregon voters
approved in November.
The board includes doctors, re-
searchers, therapists and fungi ex-
perts, among others and includes
Stephanie Barrs, of Bend, accord-
ing to a press release.
“Like many, I was initially skep-
tical when I first heard of Measure
109,” said Brown in the release.
“But if we can help people suffering
from PTSD, depression, trauma
and addiction — including veter-
ans, cancer patients, and others —
supervised psilocybin therapy is a
treatment worthy of further con-
sideration.”
The measure allowed for a two-
year implementation process that
will begin when the board meets
on March 31. According to the re-
lease, Brown’s recommended 2021-
23 budget includes $5.6 million for
Measure 109 implementation.
The board will be tasked with
creating a system that allows peo-
ple 21 and older who pass a screen-
ing the opportunity to experience
psychedelic mushrooms. That in-
A Missoula, Montana, man was
arrested on multiple charges after
he drove the wrong way on a curvy
section of Interstate 84 and collided
with an Oregon State Police trooper
who was trying to find the wrong-
way driver Friday .
Senior Trooper Andrew McClay
was evaluated at Saint Alphonsus
Medical Center-Baker City and re-
leased, according to an OSP press
release.
The driver, Logan Raye
Deuel-Clinkenbeard, 28, sustained
minor injuries and was treated at
the hospital. Deuel-Clinkenbeard
Redmond kindergarten registration opens
Parents of incoming kindergarteners living
in Redmond, Tumalo and Terrebonne can now
register their children online with the Redmond
School District for the 2021-22 school year.
Future students can be registered at www.red-
mondschools.org/kindergarten-registration, ac-
cording to a school district press release sent Tues-
day.
Required documents like the child’s birth certif-
icate, immunization records and proof of address
can be uploaded online during registration, the
release stated. If that isn’t possible, the local school
will contact parents on how to send hard copies of
that data.
Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board
Public Health Director Designee:
Andre Ourso, OHA
State Health Officer Designee:
Dr. Tom Jeanne, OHA
Oregon Health Policy Board
Designee: Barb Hansen
State Employee with Public Health
Expertise: Ali Hamade, OHA
Local Health Officer: Dr. Sarah
Present, Clackamas City
Addictions Medicine Specialist:
Kevin Fitts, Portland
Licensed Psychologist:
Dr. Kimberley Golletz, Corvallis
Licensed Physician: Dr. Todd Korthius,
OHSU
cludes figuring out the licensing
process for storing and administer-
ing the substance, which remains
illegal on a national level.
Another measure that voters ap-
proved in November, Measure 110,
will decriminalize possession of
small amounts of drugs, including
psilocybin.
“For decades Black, Indigenous,
and Latinx people in Oregon and
the United States have suffered
disproportionate psychological
trauma as a result of the ‘War on
Drugs,’ a systemic phenomenon
that continues to directly and neg-
atively impact all determinants of
Licensed Naturopath: Mason Marks,
Portland
Mycologist: Jessie Uehling, Oregon
State University
Harm Reduction Specialist:
Angela Carter, Portland
Psychopharmacologic Specialist:
Dr. Atheir Abbas
Oregon Liquor Control Commission:
Nathan Rix
Oregon DOJ: David Hart
Chief Petitioner Designee: Tom Eckert
Public: Stephanie Barrs, Bend
Public: Dr. Rachel Knox, Portland
Bend council set to vote on budget goals
health in these communities,” said
Dr. Rachel Knox, co-founder for
the Cannabis Health Equity Move-
ment and chair of the Association
for Cannabis Health Equity and
Medicine, in the release.
“Ironically, this criminalized the
use of plant substances with nota-
ble industrial, medical, and spiri-
tual utility,” Knox said. “Psilocybin
has been used in the healing and
spiritual practices of Indigenous
communities for a long time. Much
of what we know about psilocybin
comes from Indigenous knowl-
edge, a fact that is too often over-
looked.”
Oregon State Police vehicle rams wrong-way driver
BY JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
LOCAL BRIEFING
is charged with second-degree at-
“rammed the vehicle to get it off the
tempted assault, reckless driving and roadway.”
reckless endangerment.
Both Deuel-Clinken-
The incident started just
beard’s car, and the OSP
before 2 p.m. when OSP
Ford SUV McClay was
dispatch received more
driving, sustained signifi-
than 35 calls to 911 about
cant damage from the col-
a car traveling west in the
lision .
freeway’s eastbound lanes
In a document filed on
near Huntington about 38
Monday in Baker County
Deuel-
miles east of Baker City.
Circuit Court in support of
Clinkenbeard
In his report, McClay
a motion seeking to release
wrote that he was traveling
Deuel-Clinkenbeard to ei-
east when the vehicle, a gray 2011
ther his father or on conditions set
Toyota Camry sedan, “was travel-
by the court, the father said that his
ing towards me at a very high rate of son has “severe mental health condi-
speed.”
tions for which we have been seek-
McClay wrote in his report that he ing treatment.”
After months of deliberation, the Bend City
Council will vote Wednesday on whether to adopt
a new set of goals that will inform how the city
designs its budget for the next two years.
The council has preliminarily decided upon
goals outlined in six categories. The city estimates
it has between $2 million to $3 million available,
outside of existing programs and funding, to
spend on addressing these goals, according to city
documents.
Roughly $500,000 would go toward making
city government more accessible, up to $250,000
would go toward environmental projects, about
$750,000 would go toward projects that address
safety, health, accountability and justice issues,
about $250,000 would go toward boosting eco-
nomic development and $50,000 would go toward
transportation and infrastructure.
The largest chunk of money, $1.2 million, is
allocated to go toward housing, which includes
homelessness issues.
After the council adopts these goals, the city
will create a budget that would begin in July and
last through 2023.
More information about what kinds of projects
or concepts fall under each category can be found
in the meeting agenda on the city’s website.
Crook County School Board member resigns
Crook County School Board member Walter
Wagner abruptly resigned from his seat after a six-
year term last week. And voters will choose his re-
placement in about two months.
The Crook County School Board decided Mon-
day night to fill Wagner’s term, which expires in
June 2023, based on results from the May 18 elec-
tion, rather than appointing a new member, ac-
cording to a school district press release.
Although the filing deadline for the May 18
election is Thursday, the Crook County Clerk’s
Office extended the deadline for Wagner’s seat
to March 24, the release stated. Two other Crook
County School Board seats are also being con-
tested.
To run for the seat, potential candidates must
live in Wagner’s zone, which encompasses Powell
Butte south of state Highway 126 and southwest
Prineville.
— Bulletin staff report
Private community fights fine for deaths of over 30,000 fish
BY EDWARD STRATTON
The Astorian
The Fishhawk Lake Reserve
and Community is fighting a
$439,200 penalty from the state
for allegedly killing more than
30,000 fish after draining the
reservoir in 2019.
The lake, considered state
waters, is held back by an
earthen dam built along Fish-
hawk Creek in the 1960s for a
private community on the bor-
der of Clatsop and Columbia
counties. A drainpipe through
the dam feeds into the creek
and eventually the Nehalem
River. The homeowners associ-
ation argues that the state man-
dated a repair of the drainpipe
and was kept informed of the
entire process.
A state investigation blamed
the draining for sucking fish
through the drainpipe and in-
creased turbidity downstream,
dumping sediment and de-
pleting the dissolved oxygen
in the water. State biologists
estimated that 30,391 fish were
killed, including 20,539 en-
dangered coho salmon, 4,047
steelhead trout, 5,346 cutthroat
trout and 459 trout of undeter-
mined species.
The state Department of En-
vironmental Quality fined the
homeowners association and
required a water quality man-
agement plan and a 10-year
schedule for becoming compli-
ant with environmental stan-
dards.
The state Department of
Fish and Wildlife is seeking
a separate claim against the
homeowners association for
the fish kill, but has not dis-
closed more information.
The homeowners associa-
tion hired law firms Schwabe,
Williamson & Wyatt and Hart
Wagner and called for a hear-
ing to contest the Department
Clatsop County via The Astorian
The Fishhawk Lake Reserve and Community denies that the drainage
of the lake caused a large die-off of fish in 2019.
of Environmental Quality’s
penalty. The lawyers argued
that instead of being reckless,
the association drained the
lake in response to pressure
from state agencies to repair
the drainpipe and avoid a total
failure of the dam in a major
flood.
The lawyers argued that the
association timed the draining
of the lake with the low-flow
period of Fishhawk Creek, ad-
hered to the state’s in-water
work period and installed cur-
tains downstream of the dam
to decrease turbidity. They
blamed the state for a lack of
follow-up regarding permitting
and other guidance, and said
the association “reasonably
believed the state’s silence to
be tacit approval of its plans to
proceed.”
The homeowners associa-
tion plans to begin construc-
tion this year of a new spillway
over one side of the dam and a
fish ladder tunneled through
the other.
County and state leaders and
agencies, including the Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife, have
backed the project. The associ-
ation is applying for state and
federal grants based on safety
and the project’s benefits to fish
passage.
“Beginning construction is
contingent upon permit and
approvals being issued on time
and resolution of the state’s
claims,” said Nicole Case, a
member of the homeowners
association.