A12 The BulleTin • Thursday, March 25, 2021
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TODAY
FRIDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
47°
LOW
25°
An a.m. rain or snow
shower, then a shower
SATURDAY
Sunshine
MONDAY
65°
26°
TUESDAY
44°
27°
Mild with periods of clouds
and sunshine
Mostly sunny and warm
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
50°
53° 76° in 1960
32°
29° 11° in 1922
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.50" in 1993
Month to date (normal)
0.09" (0.58")
Year to date (normal)
1.18" (3.20")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.86"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Fri.
Sun
6:59am/7:24pm 6:57am/7:25pm
Moon
3:49pm/5:51am 5:05pm/6:22am
Mercury 6:26am/5:28pm 6:26am/5:32pm
Venus
7:06am/7:19pm 7:05am/7:22pm
Mars
9:52am/1:21am 9:50am/1:21am
Jupiter
5:26am/3:34pm 5:22am/3:31pm
Saturn
4:55am/2:36pm 4:52am/2:33pm
Uranus 8:17am/10:16pm 8:14am/10:13pm
Full
Last
New
First
Cooler with times of sun
and clouds
Sunriver
OREGON EXTREMES
YESTERDAY
High: 57°
at Medford
Low: 17°
at Lakeview
Bandon
49/38
Port Orford
50/41
Mar 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Apr 19
Tonight's sky: Venus passes around the
far side of the sun, or at superior solar
conjunction.
Gold Beach
48/40
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
1
2
1
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Clouds breaking and
chilly today; rain and snow showers.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Chilly today; snow
showers bringing another inch or two.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Mostly cloudy and chilly
today with snow showers likely.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Chilly today with
some sun, also a rain or snow shower.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Mostly cloudy
and cold today with snow showers bringing an
inch or two.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Mostly cloudy and
chilly with snow showers likely.
SKI REPORT
Fort Rock
42/21
Crescent
39/20
Beaver
Marsh
39/18
Medford
Ashland
48/34
57/35
Hampton
42/22
41/20
52/35
51/39
UV INDEX TODAY
Noon
Grants
Pass
52/35
40/22
La Pine
Oakridge
46/31
Roseburg
50/35
Brookings
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
10 a.m.
Coos Bay
49/36
44/23
Silver
Lake
43/21
Chiloquin
42/21
Klamath
Falls
43/21
Burns
Riley 45/24
43/26
Christmas Valley
43/21
Juntura
51/28
Nyssa
57/35
Jordan Valley
42/25
Frenchglen
42/25
Burns Junction
48/30
Rome
50/30
Paisley
44/26
Fields
44/27
Lakeview
42/24
McDermitt
42/24
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
50/39/0.44 50/38/pc 50/41/pc
La Grande
45/26/0.00 45/30/sn 54/28/s
Portland
50/43/0.09 54/39/pc 56/39/pc
Baker City
49/20/0.00 49/29/pc 55/26/s
La Pine
42/26/0.00 41/20/pc 54/25/s
Prineville
46/23/0.00 50/26/pc 54/28/s
Brookings
52/41/0.06 51/39/pc 59/45/s
Medford
57/34/Tr
52/35/pc 62/35/s
Redmond
49/24/0.04 48/21/pc 59/25/s
Burns
49/18/Tr
45/24/pc 55/26/s
Newport
46/37/0.30 48/37/sh 50/35/s
Roseburg
51/35/0.03 50/35/pc 58/34/s
North Bend
49/37/0.13 50/37/sh 54/39/s
Eugene
50/35/0.06 51/35/pc 57/34/pc
Salem
48/39/0.08 52/35/pc 56/34/pc
Klamath Falls
51/20/0.00 43/21/pc 58/24/s
Ontario
52/28/0.06 56/35/pc 62/32/s
Sisters
45/27/0.00 48/25/pc 60/28/s
Lakeview
50/17/0.00 42/24/pc 55/29/s
Pendleton
54/34/0.02 55/37/sh 60/36/s
The Dalles
52/46/0.00 56/39/pc 59/39/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
Mostly sunny
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Intel
Continued from A11
“We have righted this
ship,” he said. “Seven-nano-
meter is on a good course.”
Even more significant
Tuesday was Gelsinger’s
plan to start making other
companies’ chips in Intel’s
own factories. Contract
manufacturing, known
in the chip industry as
foundry work, is dominated
by two Asian companies
— Taiwan Semiconduc-
tor Manufacturing Co. and
Samsung.
As those companies
edged past Intel’s own pro-
duction capabilities, Intel
rivals NVIDIA, AMD and
others have been able to
use those Asian foundries
to make chips more ad-
vanced than Intel’s. Apple,
too, is shifting away from
Intel processors in its Mac
computers in favor of chips
made in Taiwan.
Intel now wants a share
of that business, too. Gel-
singer said Tuesday that he
will seek foundry contracts
with Qualcomm, Apple and
others.
Intel made a similar push
in 2013, and it was a big flop.
The company landed only
one notable foundry cus-
tomer, Altera, and ultimately
bought that business itself.
“Our first efforts were
somewhat weak. We
learned a lot from them,
but we didn’t really throw
ourselves behind them,”
Gelsinger conceded Tues-
day. “We are going after this
much more aggressively.”
Theaters
Continued from A11
Will state grants be enough to keep
some struggling local theaters afloat?
Absolutely, says Tom Ranieri, owner
of Portland’s Cinema 21. “Basically it
was a wipe-out year,” he said. “Getting
that money, if it comes, we feel like it
would be a lifeline for us. It could help
stop the flow of red ink and hopefully
let us make it to the other side of this.”
Drew Kaza, owner of Sisters Movie
House in Central Oregon, sees hope
in the legislation. He doesn’t like the
look of small theaters’ future in the
state without financial assistance.
“We’re on the brink of dying,” Kaza
said. “If we don’t want to see movie
theaters become extinct in this state,
we need to do something to help
them.”
Even if state grants are provided,
both Ranieri and Kaza said the next
few months could be a wild ride for
independent theater owners because
of limited first-run film releases and
competition from streaming services.
“I really think we’re going to have a
rough patch between April and Sep-
tember since nobody knows what’s
going on,” Ranieri said. “We’re going
to take baby steps to return to some
sort of normalcy.”
Fees stay the same
It’s been more than a year since
Gov. Kate Brown signed executive
orders 20-08 and 20-12 as part of
COVID-19 safety measures. The or-
Mostly sunny
NATIONAL
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
62/49/0.25
Akron
74/56/Tr
Albany
53/42/0.45
Albuquerque
43/33/0.08
Anchorage
34/17/0.00
Atlanta
75/60/Tr
Atlantic City
54/48/1.37
Austin
72/48/0.00
Baltimore
59/53/1.55
Billings
48/22/0.00
Birmingham
78/57/0.00
Bismarck
47/27/0.02
Boise
48/27/0.00
Boston
53/40/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 50/41/0.10
Buffalo
72/52/0.00
Burlington, VT
59/42/0.03
Caribou, ME
55/34/0.00
Charleston, SC 79/59/0.00
Charlotte
72/58/0.00
Chattanooga
78/54/0.00
Cheyenne
36/18/0.06
Chicago
57/52/0.10
Cincinnati
74/55/0.02
Cleveland
74/57/Tr
Colorado Springs 40/29/0.03
Columbia, MO
54/50/0.00
Columbia, SC
75/55/Tr
Columbus, GA
74/59/0.45
Columbus, OH
75/55/Tr
Concord, NH
62/29/0.03
Corpus Christi
83/66/Tr
Dallas
77/51/0.12
Dayton
74/54/Tr
Denver
42/27/0.01
Des Moines
44/43/0.07
Detroit
72/52/Tr
Duluth
38/35/1.03
El Paso
61/44/Tr
Fairbanks
25/0/0.12
Fargo
49/23/0.00
Flagstaff
40/28/0.07
Grand Rapids
67/52/0.07
Green Bay
54/41/0.54
Greensboro
67/54/0.01
Harrisburg
58/52/0.58
Hartford, CT
64/34/0.05
Helena
46/25/Tr
Honolulu
80/70/0.33
Houston
70/54/0.01
Huntsville
75/51/0.00
Indianapolis
72/55/0.01
Jackson, MS
77/56/Tr
Jacksonville
81/54/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
69/51/pc
72/51/r
73/57/c
52/34/pc
34/18/sn
79/63/t
58/52/c
77/48/r
71/61/c
50/29/c
74/57/t
60/33/pc
51/32/pc
66/53/c
61/50/c
67/53/c
71/53/c
55/42/sh
81/65/pc
79/66/c
72/56/r
44/28/c
51/36/r
65/49/r
66/49/r
51/31/c
51/40/r
85/68/pc
84/67/pc
69/50/r
69/51/c
86/59/pc
68/50/r
63/47/r
51/32/c
48/36/c
62/43/r
35/25/pc
68/46/pc
30/10/sn
54/31/s
38/25/c
57/37/r
44/29/pc
74/64/c
73/63/c
74/54/c
45/29/sn
81/69/sh
79/53/t
71/52/t
61/44/r
77/51/t
88/63/pc
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
54/44/pc
52/40/pc
73/58/pc
74/52/pc
98/82/pc
72/56/s
62/53/pc
56/40/c
65/49/t
53/31/pc
72/68/r
74/57/s
69/52/s
35/25/c
86/78/pc
53/38/r
52/42/c
61/37/pc
72/61/c
77/69/s
44/34/c
54/43/pc
65/51/r
75/67/pc
64/49/pc
56/47/pc
69/40/pc
95/79/s
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
81/52/s
57/43/pc
71/38/r
53/36/pc
30/16/c
77/63/t
72/51/c
84/63/s
81/47/pc
48/34/pc
76/63/c
52/26/pc
57/34/s
67/43/sh
66/44/t
58/35/r
64/35/r
47/27/r
84/64/t
82/54/t
76/54/pc
38/26/sn
54/41/pc
58/43/pc
56/40/sh
48/30/c
61/51/pc
80/62/t
77/64/r
57/42/c
67/38/r
81/70/s
79/58/s
56/42/c
47/29/c
57/46/pc
54/35/sh
37/29/pc
72/48/s
25/6/c
51/32/c
38/22/sn
47/30/r
47/31/pc
81/51/t
75/48/pc
70/42/t
50/36/pc
83/71/pc
82/68/s
73/56/s
56/44/c
78/67/pc
90/62/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
39/33/0.07
50/47/0.01
68/51/0.10
66/50/0.01
73/56/0.00
53/41/Tr
78/46/0.00
73/60/0.00
76/60/Tr
52/48/0.42
75/55/0.00
84/61/0.00
56/48/0.18
42/40/1.11
77/57/0.00
76/62/2.46
56/47/1.10
58/45/1.21
77/50/0.13
56/41/Tr
45/40/0.05
84/56/0.00
80/55/0.00
57/49/0.26
58/47/1.57
72/48/Tr
73/52/0.05
55/35/Tr
60/36/0.00
68/55/0.05
51/31/0.02
55/24/0.00
60/54/1.07
67/50/0.37
70/44/0.00
66/49/0.45
48/31/0.00
78/54/0.02
66/51/0.00
69/51/0.00
70/45/0.00
45/31/0.01
80/55/0.01
52/43/0.19
50/37/0.13
42/33/0.10
58/46/0.00
80/60/0.00
64/48/0.02
60/41/Tr
60/54/1.69
50/42/Tr
57/38/Tr
75/50/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
39/35/r
48/38/c
59/37/r
66/49/pc
66/50/r
52/36/pc
67/44/r
61/49/c
68/51/r
48/28/r
72/48/t
86/74/pc
47/33/r
50/28/pc
72/53/t
79/66/t
68/55/c
69/56/c
75/65/pc
61/44/c
52/36/pc
91/67/pc
68/49/pc
53/39/r
71/60/c
74/52/pc
74/55/sh
55/45/c
69/51/c
78/67/pc
55/33/pc
49/29/pc
75/64/c
72/52/pc
66/45/pc
57/45/r
49/35/sh
80/52/s
61/54/r
61/47/s
62/41/pc
50/28/pc
82/64/pc
52/41/pc
54/34/s
49/31/pc
51/39/r
86/70/s
70/46/pc
58/44/r
74/65/c
55/41/c
60/32/pc
74/48/pc
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
41/34/r
63/52/pc
50/30/sh
65/50/pc
61/44/pc
57/43/c
72/51/s
68/50/pc
62/46/pc
52/35/pc
72/58/pc
86/73/s
48/38/c
52/39/pc
70/50/pc
77/71/t
75/46/t
75/47/t
83/52/t
75/50/c
57/46/c
91/67/pc
75/56/s
57/46/pc
78/48/t
66/50/s
61/43/pc
59/39/r
63/43/sh
82/54/t
47/29/c
55/31/s
84/48/c
64/33/r
73/41/s
61/51/pc
49/33/sh
85/64/s
63/48/c
67/48/s
72/46/s
51/29/pc
88/63/pc
54/42/pc
58/41/c
53/34/pc
67/51/pc
85/68/pc
67/45/s
75/55/c
81/52/pc
71/43/c
64/34/s
69/47/s
105/81/0.00
82/54/0.00
59/37/0.18
41/17/0.00
82/63/0.00
84/68/0.00
88/66/0.00
66/41/0.06
50/36/0.00
50/39/0.17
64/36/0.00
86/74/0.00
58/34/0.00
77/53/0.00
84/70/0.00
57/39/0.00
61/37/0.00
66/49/0.00
81/75/0.87
49/39/0.00
88/67/0.00
68/59/0.29
67/58/0.06
66/48/0.00
63/46/0.15
46/43/0.26
47/41/0.00
46/39/0.00
98/66/s
81/53/s
65/46/pc
45/32/s
86/59/s
84/72/s
88/62/pc
62/44/sh
49/35/pc
65/44/pc
59/41/pc
87/75/s
60/42/s
72/46/s
84/67/t
50/39/c
64/39/pc
71/48/s
85/77/t
50/38/pc
79/61/s
68/61/c
64/55/pc
65/52/c
64/47/pc
50/39/s
57/35/pc
52/40/pc
95/66/s
79/55/s
51/33/r
41/34/c
85/58/pc
84/71/s
90/65/pc
69/43/s
46/40/r
49/30/r
61/40/pc
86/75/pc
62/46/pc
77/50/s
87/68/t
48/32/c
67/42/c
69/60/pc
88/77/t
51/38/pc
70/62/pc
78/62/s
63/58/sh
66/52/s
50/32/r
49/42/pc
60/39/pc
56/40/pc
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 98°
at Zapata, TX
National low: -9°
at Yellowstone N.P., WY
Precipitation: 3.45"
at Salt Point, LA
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
0
0-78
Hoodoo Ski Area
0
0N.A.
Mt. Ashland
0
65-71
Mt. Bachelor
0
113-123
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
0-214
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
0
78-98
Timberline Lodge
6
0-184
Willamette Pass
0
0-45
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
7
57-80
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
78-124
Squaw Valley, CA
0
0-132
Park City Mountain, UT
0
55-70
Sun Valley, ID
0
50-71
65°
29°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
EAST: Mostly cloudy
Astoria
and windy at times
50/38
Umatilla
Seaside
Thursday; scattered
Hood
62/38
50/39
rain and snow show-
River
Rufus
Hermiston
ers. Sunny and milder Cannon Beach
52/40
62/39
56/39
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
49/39
Friday.
59/37
53/33 54/39
45/29
Wasco
44/30 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Partly to
Tillamook
42/29
53/36
55/37
Sandy
56/39
McMinnville
49/38
mostly cloudy and
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
49/40
Maupin
Government
52/35
breezy Thursday; a
45/30
42/29
Camp
52/31 Condon 52/35
Union
Lincoln City
rain or snow shower
48/30
38/31
46/30
Salem
48/38
Spray
around the area.
Granite
Warm Springs
52/35
Madras
51/30
Albany
42/29
Sunny Friday; milder. Newport
Baker City
53/27
52/27
Mitchell
48/37
49/34
49/29
WEST: Mostly cloudy
Camp Sherman
45/27
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
Thursday with a few
47/27
48/21
51/34
Day
Prineville
47/39
49/30
showers. Turning
Ontario
Sisters
50/26
Paulina
44/29
56/35
out partly sunny and
Florence
Eugene 48/25
Bend Brothers 43/23
Vale
milder Friday.
49/39
51/35
47/25
Cottage
Grove
50/34
WEDNESDAY
52°
24°
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
68°
37°
59°
29°
A moonlit sky
SUNDAY
Hawaii
Continued from A11
“Pushing back against tour-
ism is the same thing as telling
your neighbor they shouldn’t
have a job,” said Carl Bonham,
executive director of the Uni-
versity of Hawaii’s Economic
Research Organization.
Hawaii requires all visitors
and returning residents to get
negative pre-travel COVID-19
tests before flying to the state
Mail
Continued from A11
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly said
the strategy “guarantees the
death spiral of the United States
Postal Service.”
ders effectively shut down indoor
movie theaters, live theaters, restau-
rants, bars, pubs, gyms, barber shops
and similar businesses. Some restau-
rants and pubs were able stay afloat by
offering takeout food but no indoor
dining.
Movie theaters, especially small in-
dependent theaters, weren’t so lucky.
Unless they could sell popcorn, candy
and soft drinks through the front
doors, they weren’t operating.
It didn’t sit well with many the-
ater owners as they watched nearby
restaurants and pubs reopen with lim-
ited indoor seating.
“My business wasn’t allowed to op-
erate even when restaurants and other
businesses were,” said Jeff Martin,
owner of Tigard’s Joy Cinema. “The
Joy Cinema was, in fact, the only busi-
ness on our stretch of (Highway) 99W
that was ordered to not operate by the
state through the entire course of the
lockdown. Yet my fees to the state, city
and county have remained the same
as always.”
Newberg’s 350-seat Cameo The-
atre wasn’t able to show movies, but
owner Brian Francis sold conces-
sions on weekends to make a little
money. Francis also operated the 99W
Drive-in Theater with about 50% ca-
pacity, which helped keep his compa-
ny’s head above water.
That little bit of revenue won’t be
enough for his two theaters to sur-
vive, Francis said. “We would be very
much in favor of this bill,” he said.
“For example, our downtown indoor
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Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
to be exempt from the 10-day
quarantine rule.
The island of Kauai has ad-
ditional measures that will be
in place until April 5. All visi-
tors to Kauai must either spend
three days on another island
or quarantine at a county-ap-
proved resort for three days and
then get second, post-arrival
tests.
Violating the state’s corona-
virus mandates, which are out-
lined in Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s
latest emergency proclamation,
is a misdemeanor that is pun-
ishable by up to a $5,000 fine, a
year in prison, or both.
Each island county’s police
are responsible for enforcing
the rules. Messages from The
Associated Press seeking com-
ment from the Honolulu Police
Department regarding enforce-
ment of mask rules in Waikiki
was not immediately returned.
Tim Sakahara, a spokes-
man for Honolulu Mayor Rick
Blangiardi, said in an email that
the city recently put up banners
throughout Waikiki reminding
people to wear masks and re-
main socially distanced.
“These banners provide a
tool to help Honolulu Police of-
ficers do their jobs in gaining
compliance with COVID-19
rules,” Sakahara said. “The ma-
jority of residents and visitors
are compliant with the rule or
are cooperative when informed
of it.”
Mark Dimondstein, presi-
dent of the American Postal
Workers Union, said the
plan included some posi-
tive elements but urged the
agency to prioritize on-time
deliveries and other service
standards.
“Any proposals that would
either slow the mail, reduce ac-
cess to post offices, or further
pursue the failed strategy of
plant consolidation will need
to be addressed,” he said in a
statement.
“The APWU will proactively
engage with USPS’s managers,
the Postal Regulatory Com-
mission, leaders in Congress
and the public to address these
issues.”
Drew Kaza
stands
in one of
the audi-
toriums
at the Sis-
ters Movie
House. The
theater has
remained
closed since
March 2020
due to
COVID-19.
Bulletin file
photo
Art Deco Cameo Theatre, through all
of the periodic openings and closures,
managed to attract about 3,400 paid
admissions in 2020, which was down
a shocking 14,050 admissions over
2019.”
Other theater owners tell a sim-
ilar story. Kaza’s four-screen, 315-
seat Sisters Movie House, which
includes a small café, has seen its rev-
enue drop between 70% and 95% in
the past year. Ranieri’s Cinema 21,
which expanded seven years ago to
three screens and about 600 seats,
was able to host private showings
through part of 2020, but that ended
in mid-November and didn’t bring
in enough revenue to keep the doors
open. He hopes to continue private
screenings through March and re-
open to the public in late April, in
time for the summer movie season
and the Oscars.
Bruce Humphrey, whose Des-
tiny Entertainment Corp. owns the-
aters in The Dalles and Hermiston,
said his revenue for most of 2020
dropped 90% compared with 2019.
The theaters’ drive-up popcorn sales
were their only source of revenue for
months.
William McElderry of Skylight
Entertainment Inc., owner of the
Hood River Cinemas, said his rev-
enue dropped about 97% last year.
“All our theater employees are gone,”
McElderry said in testimony submit-
ted for the committee hearing. “We
have no guarantee that ‘normal oper-
ations’ will return anytime soon. The
goalpost has moved so many times
that we really have no clear picture
when, or even if, we can open and
cover costs, let alone make a profit.”
Federal funds for some
HB 3376’s possible grants aren’t the
only source of funds that local theater
owners could tap. Federal and state
programs adopted last year offered
millions in funds for small businesses
like indoor movie theaters.
The $349 billion Paycheck Protec-
tion Plan included in the March 2020
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Eco-
nomic Security Act, provided funds
to keep small-business employees on
the payroll. In mid-July 2020, Ore-
gon lawmakers allocated $50 million
of the federal funds to theater venues
and other cultural groups. Indoor
movie theaters weren’t included in the
program.
Ranieri and Kaza said the Paycheck
Protection Plan funds didn’t offer
much help to independent movie the-
aters because they usually don’t have
big payrolls. “Unlike restaurants, we
don’t have a high number of employ-
ees,” Kaza said. “But we still have fixed
costs.”
In the amended federal coronavi-
rus relief act, adopted in early March,
independent indoor movie theaters
could be in line for part of the $16.25
billion Shuttered Venue Operators
Grant program.
Applications for the program
should be available beginning April
8 through the U.S. Small Business
Administration. Indoor movie the-
aters forced to close during the pan-
demic could be eligible for grants of
up to 45% of their gross 2019 revenue
through the program.