A4 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021
TODAY
It’s Saturday, March 20, the 79th
day of 2021. There are 286 days
left in the year. Spring arrives at
5:37 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people
were killed, more than 5,500
others sickened when packages
containing the deadly chem-
ical sarin were leaked on five
separate subway trains by Aum
Shinrikyo cult members.
In 1413, England’s King Henry
IV died; he was succeeded by
Henry V.
In 1727, physicist, mathemati-
cian and astronomer Sir Isaac
Newton died in London.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte
returned to Paris after escaping
his exile on Elba, beginning his
“Hundred Days” rule.
In 1854, the Republican Party
of the United States was found-
ed by slavery opponents at a
schoolhouse in Ripon, Wiscon-
sin.
In 1922, the decommissioned
USS Jupiter, converted into the
first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier,
was re-commissioned as the
USS Langley.
In 1933, the state of Florida
electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara
for shooting to death Chicago
Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a
Miami event attended by Presi-
dent-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt,
the presumed target, the previ-
ous February.
In 1952, the U.S. Senate ratified,
66-10, a Security Treaty with
Japan.
In 1976, kidnapped newspaper
heiress Patricia Hearst was
convicted of armed robbery for
her part in a San Francisco bank
holdup carried out by the Sym-
bionese Liberation Army. Hearst
was sentenced to seven years
in prison; she was released after
serving 22 months, and was
pardoned in 2001 by President
Bill Clinton.
In 1977, voters in Paris chose
former French Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac to be the French
capital’s first mayor in more than
a century.
In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller,
Alaska, became the first woman
to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled
Race.
In 1996, a jury in Los Angeles
convicted Erik and Lyle Menen-
dez of first-degree murder in
the shotgun slayings of their
wealthy parents. They were sen-
tenced to life in prison without
the possibility of parole.
In 2004, hundreds of thousands
of people worldwide rallied
against the U.S.-led war in Iraq
on the first anniversary of the
start of the conflict. The U.S.
military charged six soldiers
with abusing inmates at the Abu
Ghraib prison.
Ten years ago: As Japanese
officials reported progress in
their battle to gain control over
a leaking, tsunami-stricken
nuclear complex, the discovery
of more radiation-tainted veg-
etables and tap water added to
public fears about contaminated
food and drink..
Five years ago: The United
States won 13 golds out of a pos-
sible 26 events and 23 medals in
all, making it the biggest haul in
the history of the world indoor
track and field championships
which were held in Portland,
Oregon.
One year ago: The governor
of Illinois ordered residents to
remain in their homes except for
essential needs, joining similar
efforts in California and New
York to limit the spread of the
coronavirus. Stocks tumbled
again on Wall Street, ending
their worst week since the 2008
financial crisis; the Dow fell more
than 900 points to end the week
with a 17% loss.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Hal
Linden is 90. Former Canadian
prime minister Brian Mulroney is
82. Country singer Don Edwards
is 82. Basketball Hall of Fame
coach Pat Riley is 76. Hockey Hall
of Famer Bobby Orr is 73. Blues
singer-musician Marcia Ball is
72. Actor William Hurt is 71. Rock
musician Carl Palmer is 71. Rock
musician Jimmie Vaughan is 70.
Country musician Jim Seales
(formerly w/Shenandoah) is 67.
Actor Amy Aquino is 64. Movie
director Spike Lee is 64. Actor
Theresa Russell is 64. Actor Va-
nessa Bell Calloway is 64. Actor
Holly Hunter is 63. Rock mu-
sician Slim Jim Phantom (The
Stray Cats) is 60. Actor-mod-
el-designer Kathy Ireland is 58.
Actor David Thewlis is 58. Actor
Liza Snyder is 53. Actor Michael
Rapaport is 51. Actor Alexander
Chaplin is 50. Actor Cedric Yar-
brough is 48. Actor Paula Garcés
is 47. Comedian-actor Mikey
Day is 41. Rock musician Nick
Wheeler (The All-American Re-
jects) is 39. Actor Ruby Rose is
35. Actor Barrett Doss is 32.
— Associated Press
LOCAL & NATION
U.S. CAPITOL RIOTS
4 linked to Proud Boys charged in plot
BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The Associated Press
Four men described as lead-
ers of the far-right Proud Boys
have been charged in the U.S.
Capitol riots, as an indictment
ordered unsealed on Friday
presents fresh evidence of how
federal officials believe group
members planned and carried
out a coordinated attack to
stop Congress from certifying
President Joe Biden’s electoral
victory.
So far, at least 19 leaders,
members or associates of the
neo-fascist Proud Boys have
been charged in federal court
with offenses related to the Jan.
6 riots. The latest indictment
suggests the Proud Boys de-
ployed a much larger contin-
gent in Washington, with over
60 users “participating in” an
encrypted messaging channel
for group members that was
created a day before the riots.
The Proud Boys, who have
been involved in fights in Port-
land, abandoned an earlier
channel and created the new
“Boots on the Ground” chan-
nel after police arrested the
group’s top leader, Enrique Tar-
rio, in Washington. Tarrio was
arrested on Jan. 4 and charged
with vandalizing a Black Lives
Matter banner at a historic
Black church during a protest
in December. He was ordered
to stay out of the District of
Columbia.
Tarrio hasn’t been charged in
connection with the riots, but
the latest indictment refers to
him by his title as Proud Boys’
chairman.
Ethan Nordean and Joseph
Biggs, two of the four defen-
dants charged in the latest in-
dictment, were arrested several
weeks ago on separate but re-
lated charges. The new indict-
ment also charges Zachary
Rehl and Charles Donohoe.
All four defendants are
charged with conspiring to im-
Vaccines
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In other counties, the de-
mand from seniors could be
less than expected and there is
vaccine available for the next
group.
Starting on Monday quali-
fying Deschutes County res-
idents can sign up for one of
3,910 first-dose COVID-19
vaccines, said Morgan Emer-
son, Deschutes County Health
Services spokeswoman. Eli-
gible residents are those who
qualify for the 1B, group 6 cat-
egory: those 45-64 years of age
with one or more underlying
health conditions, migrant and
seasonal farm workers, seafood
or agricultural workers, food
processing workers, homeless,
displaced by wildfires, wild-
land firefighters and pregnant
people 16 and older.
Nearly three quarters of the
county’s residents 65 and older
have received at least their first
COVID-19 vaccine, Emerson
said. Included in that estimate
are nearly all of those 75-79,
84% of those 80 and older and
55% of those 65-69 years of age.
Vaccine appointments will
be scheduled using the region’s
Carolyn Kaster/AP file
Proud Boys members Ethan Nordean, from left, Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs walk toward the U.S. Capitol
on Jan. 6 in Washington, in support of then-President Donald Trump.
pede Congress’ certification
of the Electoral College vote.
Other charges in the indict-
ment include obstruction of an
official proceeding, obstruc-
tion of law enforcement during
civil disorder and disorderly
conduct.
Nordean, 30, of Auburn,
Washington, was a Proud Boys
chapter president and member
of the group’s national “Elders
Council.” Biggs, 37, of Ormond
Beach, Florida, is a self-de-
scribed Proud Boys organizer.
Rehl, 35, of Philadelphia, and
Donohoe, 33, of North Caro-
lina, serve as presidents of their
local Proud Boys chapters, ac-
cording to the indictment.
A lawyer for Biggs declined
to comment. Attorneys for the
other three men didn’t imme-
diately respond to messages
seeking comment Friday.
Proud Boys members, who
describe themselves as a po-
litically incorrect men’s club
for “Western chauvinists,”
have frequently engaged in
street fights with antifascist
activists at rallies and protests.
Vice Media co-founder Gavin
McInnes, who founded the
Proud Boys in 2016, sued the
Southern Poverty Law Center
for labeling it as a hate group.
The Proud Boys met at
the Washington Monument
around 10 a.m. on Jan. 6 and
marched to the Capitol before
then-President Donald Trump
finished addressing thousands
of supporters near the White
House.
Around two hours later, just
before Congress convened
a joint session to certify the
election results, a group of
Proud Boys followed a crowd
of people who breached bar-
riers at a pedestrian entrance
to the Capitol grounds, the in-
dictment says. Several Proud
Boys also entered the Capitol
building itself after the mob
smashed windows and forced
open doors.
At 3:38 p.m., Donohoe an-
nounced on the “Boots on the
Oregon vaccine prioritization timeline
March 22
• Counties that attest to largely completing the vaccination of resi-
dents 65 and older may begin vaccinating the next eligible groups.
• Vaccinations may also begin for migrant and seasonal farmworkers
in counties where they are currently already working.
March 29
• All adults 45-64 with underlying health conditions,
• Migrant and seasonal farm workers,
• Seafood and agricultural workers,
• Food processing workers,
• People living in low-income senior housing, senior congregate and
independent living,
• Individuals experiencing homelessness,
• People currently displaced by wildfires,
• Wildland firefighters, and
• Pregnant people 16 and older.
April 19
• Front-line workers as defined by the CDC,
• Multigenerational household members, and
• Adults 16-44 with underlying health conditions.
May 1
• All Oregonians 16 and older
vaccine pre-registration sys-
tem by going to centraloregon-
covidvaccine.com.
Vaccine providers have been
told to use an honor system for
determining who should get
the shots. OHA has published
a list of medical conditions that
meet the standard. Those seek-
ing the vaccination will not be
asked to provide medical re-
cords or a doctor’s note. They
will be asked to attest that they
meet the guidelines.
Ground” channel that he and
others were “regrouping with
a second force” as some rioters
began to leave the Capitol, ac-
cording to the indictment.
“This was not simply a
march. This was an incredi-
ble attack on our institutions
of government,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jason McCullough
said during a recent hearing for
Nordean’s case.
Prosecutors have said the
Proud Boys arranged for mem-
bers to communicate using
specific frequencies on Baofeng
radios. The Chinese-made de-
vices can be programmed for
use on hundreds of frequencies,
making them difficult for out-
siders to eavesdrop.
After Tarrio’s arrest, Dono-
hoe expressed concern that
their encrypted communica-
tions could be “compromised”
when police searched the
group chairman’s phone, ac-
cording to the new indictment.
In a Jan. 4 post on a newly cre-
ated channel, Donohoe warned
Migrant and seasonal farm-
workers in counties where they
are currently already working
can also be vaccinated begin-
ning Monday. OHA said some
of the areas that would meet
the standard included Uma-
tilla, Morrow and Malheur
counties.
The remainder of the origi-
nal March 29 group will be eli-
gible as planned. This includes
people who are pregnant and
age 16 or older, all adults 45-64
with underlying health condi-
tions in all counties, all migrant
and seasonal farm workers,
seafood and agricultural work-
ers, food processing workers,
people living in low-income
senior housing, senior congre-
gate and independent living
situations, homeless people,
those displaced by wildfire and
wildland firefighters.
All other Oregonians will
now become eligible on May 1.
There is no vaccine currently
approved for children, though
Moderna is developing one
it hopes to have available by
summer.
In a move advocated by
many school districts in Ore-
gon, the required social-dis-
tancing space between younger
members that they could be
“looking at Gang charges” and
wrote, “Stop everything imme-
diately,” the indictment says.
“This comes from the top,”
he added.
A day before the riots, Biggs
posted on the “Boots on the
Ground” channel that the
group had a “plan” for the
night before and the day of the
riots, according to the indict-
ment.
In Nordean’s case, a fed-
eral judge accused prosecu-
tors of backtracking on their
claims that he instructed Proud
Boys members to split up into
smaller groups and directed a
“strategic plan” to breach the
Capitol.
“That’s a far cry from what
I heard at the hearing today,”
U.S. District Judge Beryl How-
ell said on March 3.
Howell concluded that Nor-
dean was extensively involved
in “pre-planning” for the
events of Jan. 6 and that he and
other Proud Boys “were clearly
prepared for a violent confron-
tation” that day. However, she
said evidence that Nordean di-
rected other Proud Boys mem-
bers to break into the building
is “weak to say the least” and
ordered him freed from jail be-
fore trial.
On Friday, Howell ordered
Proud Boys member Chris-
topher Worrell detained in
federal custody pending trial
on riot-related charges. Prose-
cutors say Worrell traveled to
Washington and coordinated
with Proud Boys leading up to
the siege.
“Wearing tactical gear and
armed with a canister of pep-
per spray gel marketed as 67
times more powerful than
hot sauce, Worrell advanced,
shielded himself behind a
wooden platform and other
protestors, and discharged the
gel at the line of officers,” pros-
ecutors wrote in a court filing.
students could be cut in half in
the near future.
Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the
state’s public health officer,
said a new report from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention indicated that
3 feet is sufficient to suppress
infection spread among chil-
dren in lower grades.
For middle schools,
Sidelinger said the 3-foot min-
imum appears to be possible
in counties where there are 100
infections or less per 100,000
people. However, the CDC
continues to recommend 6 feet
of separation for students in
high schools.
Allen said that as of Friday,
there have been 938,900 peo-
ple who have received at least
one shot of vaccine since it first
became available in December.
The count of those fully vacci-
nated with either two shots of
the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines
or one shot of the new John-
son & Johnson vaccine is up to
520,113. With 12% of its pop-
ulation vaccinated, Allen said,
Oregon is at about the national
average.
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Bulletin reporter Suzanne Roig
contributed to this report.
gwarner@eomediagroup.com
Park board
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Vora has worked on committees that
focused on urban growth boundary
expansion, Bend central area plan-
ning, urban renewal, transportation
and historic landmarks. In addition,
Vora served for 10 years on the Orchard
District Neighborhood Association.
He represented the neighborhood on a
park district citizen committee.
For the Position 5 seat, Schoen is
seeking election for a four-year term af-
ter being appointed to the board in Jan-
uary 2020.
Schoen spent 40 years at Tualatin
Hills Parks and Recreation District,
where she received the Oregon Recre-
ation and Parks Association’s 2019 Da-
vid E. Clark Honor Award for her lead-
Borja
Hovekamp
Schoen
ership at the district. Her other prior
experience includes work with the Na-
tional Recreation and Park Association,
Oregon Recreation & Park Association
and the Beaverton Arts Foundation.
Running against Schoen is Elizabeth
Hughes Weide, a retired environmental
specialist and project manager.
Hughes Weide’s 32-year career in-
cludes experience with bridge rehabil-
itation, community parks, bikeways,
water and natural gas pipelines and
Nowierski-
Stadnick
Vora
wastewater facilities.
Hughes Weide is an active volunteer
with several local organizations, includ-
ing the Central Oregon Master Gar-
deners Association, Firewise committee
and Mt. Bachelor Kennel Club.
For the Position 3 seat, Hovekamp
is seeking reelection after joining the
board in 2015.
Hovekamp, the board chair, pre-
viously served on the Bend Planning
Commission, Bend-La Pine School
Hughes Weide
Board, Central Ore-
gon LandWatch and
the park district’s citi-
zen advisory commit-
tee for Riley Ranch
Nature Reserve.
Hovekamp is being
challenged by Bend
lawyer Lauren Nowi-
erski-Stadnick.
Nowierski-Stadnick has experience
at several law firms in New York and
Washington, D.C. She practices tech-
nology-focused law such as patent and
trade secret disputes.
Prior to her law career, Nowier-
ski-Stadnick earned a chemical engi-
neering degree from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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Reporter: 541-617-7820,
kspurr@bendbulletin.com