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SNEAK PEEK: LARKSPUR COMMUNITY CENTER EXPANSION
The front entrance of Larkspur Community Center, located on Reed Market Road and 15th
Street in Bend, on Wednesday.
Photos by RYAN BRENNECKE • The Bulletin
T
he Bend Park & Recreation District’s
newly expanded Larkspur Commu-
nity Center includes a 5,000-square-
foot warm-water pool with a current chan-
nel, bubble benches, soft walk bottom, and
an adjacent hot tub.
Due to COVID restrictions, reservations
are recommended for most activities. Pa-
trons can register up to seven days in ad-
The new Larkspur Community Center includes a 5,000-square-foot warm-water pool with a current channel, bubble
benches, soft walk bottom and an adjacent hot tub.
vance. Drop-in use will depend on space
availability.
Starting April 5, Larkspur will be open
7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday,
Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and closed on
Sunday.
It is located at 1600 Reed Market Road
and can be reached for reservation by call-
ing 541-388-1133.
The indoor track and workout area at Larkspur.
A portion of the lobby area near the main entrance of the Larkspur Community Center.
ENTER TO WIN THE
GEORGIA SHOOTINGS
Man charged with killing 8
Associated Press
ATLANTA — A white gunman was charged
Wednesday with killing eight people at three At-
lanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent
terror through the Asian American community,
which has increasingly been targeted during the
coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the shootings, investiga-
tors were trying to unravel what might
have compelled 21-year-old Robert
Aaron Long to commit the worst mass
killing in the U.S. in almost two years.
Long told police that Tuesday’s attack
was not racially motivated. He claimed
Long
to have a “sex addiction,” and author-
ities said he apparently lashed out at
what he saw as sources of temptation. But those
statements spurred outrage and widespread
skepticism given the locations and that six of the
eight victims were women of Asian descent.
The shootings appear to be at the “intersec-
tion of gender-based violence, misogyny and xe-
nophobia,” said state Rep. Bee Nguyen, the first
Vietnamese American to serve in the Georgia
House and a frequent advocate for women and
communities of color.
Authorities said they didn’t know if Long ever
went to the massage parlors where the shootings
occurred but that he was heading to Florida to
attack “some type of porn industry.”
“He apparently has an issue, what he consid-
ers a sex addiction, and sees these loca-
tions as something that allows him to
go to these places, and it’s a temptation
for him that he wanted to eliminate,”
Cherokee County sheriff’s Capt. Jay
Baker told reporters.
Baker drew criticism for saying
Long had “a really bad day” and “this
is what he did.” A Facebook page ap-
pearing to belong to Baker promoted a
T-shirt with racist language about China and the
coronavirus last year. The account was deleted
Wednesday night.
The attack was the sixth mass killing this year
in the U.S., and the deadliest since the August
2019 Dayton, Ohio, shooting that left nine peo-
ple dead, according to a database compiled by
The Associated Press, USA Today and North-
eastern University.
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