A4 THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021
TODAY
Today is Thursday, March 18, the
77th day of 2021. There are 288
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 18, 1963, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that state
courts were required to provide
legal counsel to criminal defen-
dants who could not afford to
hire an attorney on their own.
In 1910, the first filmed adap-
tation of Mary Shelley’s novel
“Frankenstein,” a silent short pro-
duced by Thomas Edison’s New
York movie studio, was released.
In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi
was sentenced in India to six
years’ imprisonment for civil
disobedience. (He was released
after serving two years.)
In 1925, the Tri-State Tornado
struck southeastern Missouri,
southern Illinois and southwest-
ern Indiana, resulting in some
700 deaths.
In 1937, in America’s worst
school disaster, nearly 300 peo-
ple, most of them children, were
killed in a natural gas explosion
at the New London Consolidat-
ed School in Rusk County, Texas.
In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito
Mussolini met at the Brenner
Pass, where the Italian dictator
agreed to join Germany’s war
against France and Britain.
In 1942, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed an executive
order authorizing the War Relo-
cation Authority, which was put
in charge of interning Japanese
Americans.
In 1965, the first spacewalk
took place as Soviet cosmonaut
Alexei Leonov went outside his
Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by
a tether.
In 2017, Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’
roll’s founding guitar hero and
storyteller who defined the
music’s joy and rebellion in such
classics as “Johnny B. Goode,”
“Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll
Over Beethoven,” died at his
home west of St. Louis at age 90.
Ten years ago: President Barack
Obama demanded that Moam-
mar Gadhafi halt all military
attacks on civilians and said that
if the Libyan leader did not stand
down, the United States would
join other nations in launching
military action against him.
Five years ago: A jury in St.
Petersburg, Florida, sided with
ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan,
awarding him compensatory
damages in his sex tape lawsuit
against Gawker Media. North
Korea ignored U.N. resolutions
by firing a medium-range ballis-
tic missile into the sea.
One year ago: The U.S. and
Canada agreed to temporarily
close their shared border to non-
essential travel. Describing him-
self as a “wartime president,”
President Donald Trump said he
would invoke emergency pow-
ers to let the government steer
production of needed medical
supplies by private companies.
Trump signed a $100 billion aid
package to boost testing for the
coronavirus and guarantee sick
leave to workers who become ill.
Today’s Birthdays: Composer
John Kander is 94. Nobel peace
laureate and former South
African president F.W. de Klerk
is 85. Movie writer-director Luc
Besson is 62. TV personality Mike
Rowe is 59. Singer-actor Vanessa
L. Williams is 58. Olympic gold
medal speedskater Bonnie Blair
is 57. Rock musician Jerry Cantrell
(Alice in Chains) is 55. Actor
Michael Bergin is 52. Rapper-ac-
tor-talk show host Queen Latifah
is 51. Former White House Chief
of Staff Reince Priebus is 49.
Actor-comedian Dane Cook is
49. Country singer Philip Sweet
(Little Big Town) is 47. Rock singer
Adam Levine (Maroon 5) is 42.
Olympic gold medal figure skat-
er Alexei Yagudin is 41.
— Associated Press
Samuel Dewey Bell
March 19, 1956 - March 8,
2021
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Facebook: Officials applaud expansion, but not everyone thinks it’s good news
The area where the data centers
are located is called an enterprise
zone that gives businesses property
tax exemptions for a period of years.
For Facebook, it’s 15 years.
The expansion, while applauded
by city and state officials, was
not embraced by Rick Steber, a
Prineville businessman.
“I do realize there is a need for the
services provided by Facebook and
Apple centers, but it’s that old adage,
not in my backyard,” Steber said.
“They are an eyesore when viewed
from anywhere on the north side of
Prineville.
“The issue, like everything else in
America, has people about evenly
divided, for and against. I’m some-
where in the middle.”
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He continued: Plumbers, elec-
tricians, construction workers, and
many more trades are in high de-
mand at sites like Facebook’s and it
continues to add to the job market
in our area.”
Facebook’s data centers have
worked to be energy and water-ef-
ficient. The Prineville center is sup-
ported by two solar projects. It also
has a water restoration project to
overcome increasing water demands
to cool the center.
Typically data centers aren’t large
employers for their size. They are
drawn to the community because of
Oregon tax breaks that provide tax
exemptions, low power costs and
stable weather. Apple also has a data
center in Prineville.
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Reporter: 541-633-2117, sroig@bendbulletin.com
Judge restricts Portland Police
use of less-lethal launchers
Associated Press
A judge on Tuesday restricted
Portland Police use of less-lethal
launchers by its Rapid Response
Team officers at protests.
The restriction will be in ef-
fect until the city can assure the
court that additional training
has been offered and that each
officer “can recognize and artic-
ulate a threat without speculat-
ing and before using less-lethal
force,” The Oregonian reported.
U.S. District Judge Marco A.
Hernandez also ordered the po-
lice bureau to investigate allega-
tions of misconduct by Officer
Brent Taylor stemming from
his firing of munitions during
a June 30 protest. The judge or-
dered him removed from polic-
ing crowd management pend-
ing the inquiry’s outcome.
A lawsuit filed by Don’t
Shoot Portland, a Black-led
nonprofit that advocates
for social and racial justice,
prompted the rulings.
Hit-and-run
front pocket.
Rankin reported Vasquez
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displayed numerous signs of
Two vehicles had to brake
impairment, including poor
hard as they approached him.
balance, bloodshot eyes, dif-
Another driver said she felt
ficulty following instructions,
concern as she passed Hall, but a lethargic and dazed facial
when she checked her rearview expression and an overly re-
mirror, she saw him flying
laxed demeanor. He also re-
through the air. A witness driv- portedly performed poorly on
ing behind Vasquez’s red SUV
two roadside sobriety tests, the
told police she saw
one-leg stand and the
it swerve to the right
walk-and-turn.
and moments later,
Vasquez reportedly
saw a man in her lane
told the officer he fled
but had no time to
the scene because he
avoid running over
was scared, but he de-
him, court records
nied smoking mari-
state.
juana that day, court
An officer on scene Vasquez
records state.
said the driver dis-
Police also searched
played no signs of impairment. Vasquez’s phone and a count
Witnesses told police they
of third-degree sexual abuse
saw the driver of the red SUV
was added to his indictment,
get out of the vehicle, look at
which was approved by a
Hall’s body before returning
grand jury in January. De-
to the SUV and driving to a
schutes County District Attor-
nearby mobile home park. One ney John Hummel confirmed
reported the driver of the SUV the charge concerns a separate
yelled, “I hit him. I hit him,”
incident from the crash.
before driving off.
Vasquez is represented by
Around 25 minutes later,
Bend attorney Bryan Donahue,
Redmond officer Nathan
who did not return a call seek-
Rankin saw a red SUV with
ing comment.
front-end damage and one
A similar case in Deschutes
headlight out, and pulled it
County in 2017 yielded a con-
over at SW Highland Avenue
viction against the driver, Jus-
and SW 15th Street. Rankin
tice Knight Collins, who was
told the driver, Vasquez, his ve- sentenced to three years in
hicle resembled one reportedly prison and a lifetime license re-
involved in the hit-and-run,
vocation. Collins was high on
and Vasquez reportedly re-
marijuana when he caused the
plied, “Yeah.” Rankin wrote in
death of Jason M. Franklin of
his report Vasquez smelled of
Madras.
marijuana and a marijuana dab e e Reporter: 541-383-0325,
gandrews@bendbulletin.com
oil pen was found in his right
OBITUARY
Rosemarie Richardson
February 3, 1927 - March 6, 2021
Born in Coos Bay,
Oregon as Rosemarie
Sorenson, she was
raised in Port Orford.
She at ended nursing
school in Portland
and met and married
Wayne Richardson.
They led an interes} ng
life as a military family,
living in Germany, Libya,
Texas, and Colorado
Springs, all while raising
4 children.
In 1975, they re} red
and moved to Bend.
They were married
nearly 60 years when her husband died and she went
on to enjoy her children and grandchildren and many
friends.
Rose is survived by her 4 children, Donna St.Louis,
Dennis Richardson, Doris Richardson, Dale Richardson,
and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-
great-grandchildren. She is mourned by all her family
and many long } me friends. We will all miss her.
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Facebook’s Prineville data center campus to expand to 4.5 million square feet.
Survey
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Roughly 600 Oregonians,
who are part of a professional-
ly-maintained polling group,
participated in the online sur-
vey in January, with partici-
pants selected to correspond
with state demographics. The
poll’s overall margin of error
is 4%.
Here are the key findings:
• Democrats (51%) are sig-
nificantly more positive about
the state’s near future, com-
pared with Republicans (23%)
and voters who belong to nei-
ther party (28%). Conversely,
66% of Republicans had a neg-
ative view of Oregon’s future,
compared with 29% of Demo-
crats and 48% of independents.
• Just 2% of poll respon-
dents rated Oregon’s economy
as excellent, vastly outnum-
bered by those who scored the
state economy as poor (31%)
or only fair (47%). Middle
income earners (83%) were
more likely to downrate the
economy than the working
class (74%).
• Nearly half of residents
(47%) predict Oregon’s econ-
omy is getting worse, com-
pared to 11% who see an up-
turn on the horizon and 36%
who foresee it treading water.
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Women (52%) were more
likely to predict tighter wallets
than men (43%). The most
pessimistic age group was the
middle aged.
• A slim majority (53%) are
very or somewhat worried
about their personal finances,
while 45% are not too worried
or not at all worried. Nearly
two-thirds (63%) of those
making less than $50,000 are
concerned about the state of
their pocketbook, compared
with 33% of those bringing in
more than $100,000 yearly.
• When asked about 2021
in general, rather than just
Oregon, most residents (59%)
are optimists, though (38%)
are pessimistic.
Portlander Amy Bradley
said the biggest factor in her
sunny outlook was the rebal-
ancing of power in Washing-
ton, D.C.
“I think the Democrats
holding two branches of gov-
ernment is a good thing,” the
51-year-old said. “People are
out and spending money.
Help is coming, and is coming
to those who need it.”
Chris Billington, who lives in
the Sylvan area near Beaverton,
admitted that mask wearing
can be tiresome — and she’s ea-
ger for restrictions to lift so she
can take a dip in the pool —
but said the state’s response to
climate change promised eco-
nomic opportunities.
“There’s a potential for new
and different kinds of jobs,”
she said. “My biggest concern
is the Republican walkout (of
the Oregon Legislature), be-
cause that’s just disruptive.”
Republicans walked out of
the 2019 and 2020 legislative
sessions, and briefly walked
out again this year. The 2020
walkout ended the session be-
fore it really began.