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DESCHUTES COUNTY
Deschutes County cases: 6,147 (11 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 794 (5 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,997 (1 new case)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 160,622 (393 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,353 (4 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Wednesday: 11 (2 in ICU)
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever, coughing and shortness of breath)
can be severe. While some cases are mild, the disease can be fatal.
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap
and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face.
3. Avoid close contact with sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public,
stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth face covering or mask.
6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
50
new
cases
90
70
60
(Feb. 17)
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
average
40
31 new cases
28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Thursday, March 18:
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
10
(March 11)
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Fees waived for veterans
housing project in Bend
The Veterans Village project
will not have to pay system de-
velopment charges to the Bend
Park & Recreation District,
eliminating one more financial
barrier for the proposed transi-
tional housing site.
The board authorized a
waiver at a meeting March 16
because it felt the Veterans Vil-
lage project is the type of tran-
sitional housing the district
wants to support, according to
a statement from the district.
System development
charges, or SDCs, are fees the
park district charges to devel-
opers to pay for new parks and
new trails. Most park projects
and improvements are heav-
ily funded by SDC revenue in
Bend.
The waiver is the product of
a monthslong discussion about
how affordable housing waiv-
ers should be considered by the
district. The city of Bend last
year asked the district to get
rid of its 400-unit cap on waiv-
ers given to affordable housing
projects.
In response, the board ap-
proved a resolution which
waives SDCs for temporary
and emergency shelter devel-
opments, and the Veterans Vil-
lage qualified.
The Veterans Village proj-
ect will include a temporary
shelter with social services to
house veterans experiencing
homelessness. The village is
expected to be completed in
summer 2021.
Girl Scouts plan in-person
cookie sale this weekend
COVID-19 has prevented
local Girl Scout troops from
selling their famous cookies
at their usual booths this year.
But this weekend, cookie lov-
ers will get to buy their beloved
Thin Mints and Samoas at an
in-person event in Bend.
Girl Scout Cookies can be
purchased at the Girl Scouts of
Oregon and southwest Wash-
ington’s Bend location from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. on Sunday, according to
a Girl Scouts press release. The
Bend office is located in the
Bend River Promenade, 3188
NE Third St.
All eight Girl Scout Cookie
varieties will be sold this week-
end, the release stated.
Girl Scout Cookies can still
be ordered online at the or-
ganization’s website through
March 28, and proceeds will
still benefit local troops, the re-
lease stated.
Redmond School Board
Chair Carpenter resigns
Tim Carpenter, chair of
the Redmond School Board,
resigned from the board
Wednesday evening, effective
immediately.
Carpenter’s
seat, which
doesn’t expire
until June
2023, will be
filled by ap-
pointment,
Carpenter
according to
a school dis-
trict press
release. Those interested in
applying must do so by April
1. Applicants must have lived
within the Redmond School
District — which consists of
Redmond, Tumalo, Terre-
bonne and the surrounding
areas — for at least a year, and
must be a registered voter, the
release states.
Carpenter had served two
separate six-year stints with the
Redmond School Board, and is
a Redmond High School grad-
uate, the release stated.
Vice-chair Shawn Hartfield
will become the new board
chair.
Those interested in regis-
tering for Carpenter’s seat can
visit www.redmondschools.
org or call Executive Assistant
Gina Blanchette at 541-923-
8250 for more information.
County residents can
pre register for vaccine
Deschutes County residents
can pre register to receive the
COVID-19 vaccine through
a new system set up by the
county and St. Charles Health
System.
Residents can pre register
online at www.centraloregon-
covidvaccine.com.
Those who pre register on-
line will be contacted by email
or text with a link to schedule
their vaccine appointment at
the Deschutes County Fair-
grounds when they are eligible
and vaccine supply is available.
Links to the appointment will
expire after 48 hours.
Residents can also pre reg-
ister by calling 541 -699-5109.
Those who call will receive a
call back to schedule their ap-
pointment when a vaccine is
available.
The first appointments are
expected to be made Monday,
according to the county.
Teens set first in-person
climate strike since 2020
To show support for similar
events worldwide, the Bend-
based teen climate activist
group Youth Climate Con-
gress will hold a climate strike
Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin file
Freddy Finney-Jordet uses a microphone to address the crowd during
an Oregon Youth Climate Strike in downtown Bend in 2019.
in Downtown Bend on Fri-
day afternoon — the group’s
first in-person event since the
COVID-19 pandemic began in
March 2020.
The climate strike will take
place at the corner of New-
port Avenue and Wall Street
at 3 p.m., according to a
Youth Climate Congress press
release.
Event organizer Freddy
Finney-Jordet — a 19-year-
old Central Oregon Commu-
nity College student who has
hosted climate-focused pro-
tests in Bend for two years —
told The Bulletin the event is
partly meant to remind people
about the urgent threat that cli-
mate change poses.
“This is to make people
aware of the problem, and the
severity of the problem,” he
said Thursday. “We’re still see-
ing lots of inaction.”
The Youth Climate Con-
gress also has a specific list of
demands for Oregon’s state
lawmakers, including ending
legislative walkouts and pass-
ing a series of environmentally
focused bills being debated in
Salem this year, Finney-Jordet
said.
“This is showing that we
care enough about this legis
lation that we’re willing to hit
the streets, even during a pan-
demic, to show them support,”
he said.
All protest ers must wear face
masks and stay socially dis-
tanced from people during the
climate strike Friday, the press
release stated.
The event in Bend is be-
ing held on the same day as
other climate strikes around
the world, organized by famed
Swedish teenage climate ac-
tivist Greta Thunberg, Fin-
ney-Jordet said.
“We figure, if we exercise
safety precautions, we can par-
ticipate and contribute to that
worldwide action,” he said.
— Bulletin staff reports
Oregon State president staves off
dismissal, put on ‘probation’ instead
BY JEFF MANNING
The Oregonian
A split Oregon State University board of trust-
ees voted Wednesday to place new President F.
King Alexander on probation through July 1 af-
ter reports that he tolerated a culture of sexual
misconduct and harassment while president of
Louisiana State University.
The trustees also voted to commission an
independent review of Alexander’s tenure at
Louisiana State University and specifically the
accuracy of a report that was highly critical of
Alexander’s actions there.
The trustees considered for more than six
hours whether to discipline or dismiss Alexan-
der before reaching a split decision. Two of the
board’s 13 members dissented but didn’t pub-
licly explain what action they felt the university
should take.
After the vote, Alexander told the trustees he
would prepare an action plan to repair relation-
ships on campus as they requested.
“I hear you loud and clear,” Alexander said.
“We will work diligently in the coming months
to respond.’
The board met all afternoon Wednesday to
hear community concerns and Alexander’s ex-
planations for the problems at LSU, where he
served as president until the end of 2019.
During testimony, Alexander said repeatedly
Wednesday that the accusations against him
were false. He insisted he was the guy who estab-
lished a meaningful Title IX program at LSU. It
was Alexander, he asserted, who formed a pres-
idential commission at LSU to further explore
how to protect women on campus.
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