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Oregon must open vaccine
eligibility to all by May 1
Prineville site soon to be
largest data center in U.S.
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
All adults in Oregon will be
eligible for COVID-19 vacci-
nations as of May 1 under a
binding order from the Biden
administration.
Appearing before the
House Subcommittee on
COVID-19, Oregon Health
Authority Director Pat Allen
said the policy U-turn was
tied to future supplies of the
federally controlled vaccine.
“So it’s first come, first serve,
as of May 1?” asked Rep. Ced-
ric Hayden, R-Roseburg, vice
chair of the committee.
“Yep, yep,” Allen said.
Allen first discussed Ore-
gon’s new direction under the
Biden order during an inter-
view Wednesday on Oregon
Public Broadcasting’s “Think
Out Loud” radio program.
Biden had first announced
his intention to give eligibility
to all adults during a national
television address March 11.
BY SUZANNE ROIG
The Bulletin
Social media giant Facebook announced
Thursday that it will add two new buildings
to its campus in Prineville that will make it
the largest data center in the United States.
The two new buildings will add
900,000-square-feet to the campus, expand-
ing the 11-building campus to 4.6-million-
square-feet or the equivalent to nearly 80
football fields. Construction is poised to
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begin next month and should be complete
by 2024. Two other buildings that were an-
nounced in June, will be completed in 2023.
Its investment in the Prineville center is
about $2 billion, the company said.
Facebook opened the first data center in
2011 and employs as many as 1,000 peo-
ple. The campus is located in a city with a
population of 10,000.
Prineville Mayor Jason Beebe called the
expansion “great news” and said he be-
lieves it will help attract other businesses to
the community.
“This latest investment into their site
in Prineville is a continuation of the great
partner they are for the City and the com-
munity,” Beebe told The Bulletin. “The
technical jobs that come with expansions
like these are great, but there is not as
much focus on the jobs that are created
from the trade industries.”
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REDMOND
SNEAK PEEK: LARKSPUR COMMUNITY CENTER
Marijuana
suspected
in deadly
hit-and-run
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
A Redmond man is
facing a homicide charge
for allegedly being high
on marijuana when po-
lice say he struck and
killed a 90-year-old pe-
destrian last year.
Witnesses say Anthony
Rubaldino Vasquez, 20,
stopped his GMC Yukon
after hitting Leroy Eugene
Hall while traveling about
35 mph through Red-
mond, then shouted a few
panicked statements and
drove away, according to
court documents. Vasquez
was pulled over and ar-
rested about 25 minutes
later. A marijuana dab oil
pen was allegedly found
in his pocket and seized as
evidence.
He was scheduled to
enter a plea to a charge of
criminally negligent ho-
micide Thursday in De-
schutes County Circuit
Court, but a continuance
was granted by the judge.
The incident took
place at 6:50 p.m. Nov. 20
in the 1200 block of NW
Sixth Street in Redmond.
A 911 caller reported a
red SUV had struck a pe-
destrian and driven away.
The first officer on
scene, Zach Moore of the
Redmond Police Depart-
ment, saw Hall laying
motionless in the middle
lane and checked for a
pulse but found none.
A witness reported
that Hall had been at-
tempting to cross traffic
with a heavy limp, court
records state.
The newly expanded Larkspur Community
Center, featuring a state-of-the-art fitness
center and indoor swimming pool, will
open April 5 after a year and a half of
construction. We got a look inside.
Photos by RYAN BRENNECKE • The Bulletin
AT TOP: The indoor track and workout area on Wednesday.
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In a story about
cars crashing through
a fence of a southwest
Bend homeowner that
appeared Wednesday,
March 17, on Page A1,
the name of Murphy
Road was misspelled
in a headline.
The Bulletin regrets
the error.
TODAY’S
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Survey: Nearly half of Oregon pessimistic about future
BY ZANE SPARLING
Oregon Capital Bureau
A growing share of Oregonians think
the state is headed down the wrong track,
if not at risk of derailing completely, ac-
cording to polling data from the Oregon
Values and Beliefs Center.
Some 44% of Beaver State residents are
pessimistic about Oregon’s future, while
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only 35% are optimistic and the remain-
ing 21% are unsure. Those results show a
flip-flop from summer 2020, when 43%
believed the state was headed in the right
direction.
“As a whole, the government is
infuriating,” Melissa Aspell, one of
the poll’s respondents, said in a phone
interview. “There’s a lot of frustration
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with how Gov. (Kate) Brown runs things.
And then clean up Portland, for God’s
sake!”
Aspell, a 39-year-old Bend resident,
said she was concerned about the over-
growth of “cookie-cutter homes” in her
neighborhood and the misallocation of
government resources, but noted that lo-
cal parks are well maintained and she has
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been able to receive a COVID-19 vacci-
nation.
“(Some people) are pretty sure it’s full
of nanobots or something, but conspiracy
theories aside, I had a considerably bad
reaction to the second one,” she said. “But
I feel that was something my body needed
to go through.”
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