A4 The BulleTin • Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Biden rolls out 1st slate of judicial nominees
BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE
AND JESSICA GRESKO
The Associated Press
President Joe Biden on
Tuesday nominated a racially
diverse and overwhelmingly
female group to federal and
other judgeships, including
three Black women for the U.S.
courts of appeals, one pathway
to the Supreme Court.
Biden promised as a candi-
date to nominate an African
American woman to serve
on the nation’s highest court
should a seat open up during
his term.
With the announcement of
his first slate of judicial nom-
inees, Biden signaled his in-
tent to counter his predeces-
sor’s reliance on white men
to fill openings on the federal
bench, and to appoint judges
who bring a broader range of
background and life experi-
Costa
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Born in 1944, Costa grew
up in Ossining, New York,
about 35 miles north of
New York City. He attended
Georgetown University for
one year before transferring to
Villanova University, where he
received his bachelor’s degree.
He served in the U.S. Army
from 1966 to 1969, including
one tour in Vietnam as a 1st
lieutenant.
After this he began a 20-
year career at the St. Peters-
burg Times newspaper, where
he eventually became deputy
managing editor and led a
team that won a Pulitzer Prize
for local reporting in 1985.
Costa eventually did a
one-year stint as a Michigan
Journalism Fellow at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, where he
found his passion and love
for community journalism,
said Gordon Black, the former
publisher of The Bulletin.
Shortly after the fellowship,
Black hired Costa to be ex-
ecutive editor of the paper at
ence to the role.
Biden’s group includes can-
didates who, if confirmed by
the U.S. Senate for lifetime
federal appointments, would
be the first Muslim federal
judge in U.S. history, the first
Asian American Pacific Is-
lander woman to serve on
the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia and the
first woman of color to serve
as a federal judge for the Dis-
trict of Maryland.
Three of the picks are Black
women whom Biden wants
for the federal courts of ap-
peals, often a stepping stone to
the Supreme Court. The most
prominent of the trio is U.S.
District Judge Ketanji Brown
Jackson, whom Biden is nom-
inating to the seat left vacant
on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit by Judge
Merrick Garland’s departure
to become Attorney General.
The two other Black women
Biden wants for the appellate
circuit are Tiffany Cunning-
ham, 44, for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Cir-
cuit, based in Washington, and
Candace Jackson-Akiwumi,
41, for the Chicago-based 7th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Both are in private practice.
The D.C. Circuit, in par-
ticular, is a place where pres-
idents have searched for Su-
preme Court justices. Three of
the high court’s current nine
members have served on the
D.C. Circuit.
Some liberal Democrats
have urged Supreme Court
Justice Stephen Breyer, who
is 82, to retire to allow Biden
to choose a possible replace-
ment. Jackson, 50, is a grad-
uate of Harvard Law School
and previously served as a law
clerk to Breyer.
Other Black women who
would be front-runners if
a spot on the U.S. Supreme
Court were to open are Cali-
fornia Supreme Court Justice
Leondra Kruger and U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Michelle Childs.
Childs is a favorite of Rep.
James Clyburn, D-S.C., who
made a crucial endorsement
of Biden just before the state’s
presidential primary last year.
Some of Biden’s candidates
had been tapped for judge-
ships by Democratic President
Barack Obama, but Repub-
licans never allowed the full
Senate to vote on them.
“This trailblazing slate of
nominees draws from the
very best and brightest minds
of the American legal profes-
sion,” Biden, a former Senate
Judiciary Committee chair,
said in a statement.
which he worked, the Idaho
Statesman.
“He had hard news in his
blood,” Black said. “He was
very professional at every
level, but at the same time
very personable.”
When Black was hired to
be the president of Western
Communications, which
owned The Bulletin at the
time, Black again hired Costa
in 1997, this time as the edi-
tor-in-chief of The Bulletin.
“We enjoyed what we did.
We worked hard together, and
we had a lot of fun at the same
time,” Black said. “Even in the
worst of times, we laughed a
lot.”
Costa became president of
Western Communications
and publisher of The Bulletin
in 2015, leaving behind the
editor-in-chief position he
had occupied since 1997.
Costa occupied leadership
positions at The Bulletin as
its parent company filed for
bankruptcy twice, once in
2011 and again in 2019. He
retired in March of 2019, six
months before Western Com-
munications was dissolved
and The Bulletin was pur-
chased by EO Media group.
“We were quite lucky to
have him,” said Betsy McCool,
former chairwoman of the
Western Communications
board. “He was an exceptional
editor and brought the paper
forward as much as he could,
given how much was going on
with the newspaper industry.”
McCool recalled Costa as
honest and forthright, some-
one who, if he said something,
“you knew he meant it,” she
said.
He was an avid reader, Mc-
Cool said, and always had a
hardback book in hand when
they would meet for coffee.
She said he was a joy to work
with, and as an editor was the
right fit for the community
as a moderate, open-minded
man.
“He knew community
journalism very well,” she
said. “He knew how to be
the member of a community
while being an editor.”
Julie Johnson, The Bulletin’s
city editor, who worked with
Costa since being hired by
The Bulletin in 1999, remem-
bers him as someone who
loved newspapers and the
people who made them.
“As an editor, he excelled
at cajoling reporters into dig-
ging deeper, often to the dis-
comfort of the reporter and
the source at the other end
of their questions,” Johnson
wrote in a statement. “He was
a champion of higher educa-
tion and government trans-
parency, and a believer in
Bend. He was not always well
liked for his decisions. But if
you worked with John, you re-
spected him.”
Survivors include his wife,
Denise B. Costa, and his three
children, Anthony Costa and
his wife, Allyson Costa, of
Nyack, New York; Timothy
Costa and his wife, Jenni-
fer Costa, of Beaverton; and
Claire Costa Foley and her
husband, Timothy Joseph Fo-
ley, Jr., of Richmond, Virginia.
He is also survived by his five
grandchildren.
Kenneth William Zacha
of Bend, OR
December 4, 1933 - March 3, 2021
Julia Cornish (Mamma Bear) passed away
March 3, 2021. Services will be held at Christi an
Life Center, 21720 Central Oregon Bend Or. on
Wednesday March 31st at 2:00 pm. Fellowship
following, for more informati on contact
318-315-1390 or 337-348-9431.
OBITUARY
Lyla Ollerenshaw
February 23, 1944 - March 21, 2021
Receiving a hand-craft ed photo greeti ng card from Lyla
Ollerenshaw was a refl ecti on of her love of Central
Oregon. She died March 21 of congesti ve heart failure at
age 77.
Lyla Jean was the youngest of three daughters born Feb.
23, 1944, to Lyle and Clara (Trachsel) Smith in what is now
known as Aloha, Oregon. She graduated from Sunset High
School.
She worked many years as a sign painter for PayLess Drug
Stores in Salem and on the opening crew of the Redmond
store in 1979. She and her husband, Gary, whom she
married on Nov. 26, 1979, in Bend, owned and operated
Xpress Lubes in Redmond and Bend from 1996 unti l 2006
when she reti red.
Besides craft ing greeti ng cards, Lyla enjoyed sewing
and fl ower gardening. She was a lifeti me cat lover
and benefactor of rescue cats, owning more than 27
throughout her lifeti me.
Lyla is survived by her three sons, Thomas (Karen) of
Redmond, Wash., Eric (Ava) of Tualati n, and Lenny Heiple,
of Boise; nine grandchildren and a great granddaughter;
sisters Sue McClure, of Fossil, and Karen Eschelby, of
Vernonia; four nieces and two nephews and three cats.
Her family will hold a private memorial service this summer
to distribute her cremains. Memorial contributi ons are
suggested to Brightside Animal Shelter or Cat Rescue
Adopti on and Foster Team, Bend.
Reporter: 541-633-2160,
bvisser@bendbulletin.com
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“In one of the violations, the
company willfully continued
to potentially expose workers
to the virus, despite a public
health order limiting the ca-
pacity of indoor dining to zero
in an ‘extreme risk’ county,”
Oregon OSHA said.
OSHA inspected the cof-
fee shop after multiple com-
plaints from the public. Reg-
ulators said Kevista offered
indoor dining from Dec. 3
when Deschutes County was
in the extreme risk category for
COVID-19 cases.
The Lauingers told Oregon
OSHA they were aware of the
rules to close all business to
in-person dining but chose
to remain open. Signs on the
door explained to the public
that the store was engaged in a
“peaceful protest.”
The penalty imposed by
OSHA is three times the mini-
mum penalty for such a viola-
tion. OSHA said the decision
to impose the stiff penalty is
to deter employers from disre-
garding health and safety stan-
dards.
Allowing customers to sit in-
side when cases of COVID-19
were at extreme levels put em-
ployees at risk and enabled the
employer to achieve a compet-
itive advantage over businesses
that comply with the require-
ments, OSHA said in its state-
ment.
Prior to the Oregon OSHA
intervention, the Deschutes
County Health Department at-
tempted repeatedly to educate
the Kevista owners on proper
COVID-19 safety protocols,
said the department’s director,
Dr. George A. Conway.
“We received calls from
concerned patrons complain-
ing about this business due
to lack of mask wearing and
COVID-19 prevention mea-
sures,” said Conway. “When
a business such as Kevista
doesn’t take precautions to
prevent COVID-19 spread, it’s
really disheartening, and may
not reflect well on similar busi-
nesses.”
The fines are starting to
stack up for the rogue coffee
brewer. In July, Kevista was
issued an $8,900 citation for
willfully failing to enforce rules
around mask wearing. That
case is currently under appeal.
Oregon OSHA Admin-
istrator Michael Wood said
in a prepared statement that
most employers around the
state have complied with state
COVID-19 regulations on
businesses.
“As for the vocal few who in-
sist on defying standards and
putting their workers at risk,
we will continue to bring our
enforcement tools to bear,” said
Wood.
OSHA’s fine was broken
down into three violations. The
fines included $26,700 for dis-
regarding capacity limitations
while Deschutes was in the
extreme risk category; a $385
fine for failing to implement
an infection control plan; and
a $385 fine for failing to con-
duct an assessment to identify
potential employee exposure to
the virus.
Kevista did not respond to a
request for comment from The
Bulletin. The company, which
is registered as Laui Life Coffee
LLC, has 30 days to appeal the
citation.
e e
Reporter: 541-617-7818,
mkohn@bendbulletin.com
COMING SOON!
OBITUARY
Julia Cornish
e e
Kevista
Coffee Shop,
at 130 SW
Century Drive
in Bend, has
been hit with
a $27,470 fine
by state reg-
ulators over
disregarding
COVID-19
rules.
April 4, 1964 -
March 25, 2021
Arrangements:
Deschutes Memorial
Chapel and Gardens is
honored to serve the family
- (541) 382-5592. Visit our
online register book to
send condolences and
share treasured memories
at deschutesmemorial-
chapel.com or on Face-
book at facebook.com/
deschutesmemorial.
Services:
Family gathering will be
held at a later date.
Contributions may be
made to:
Partners in Care, 2075 NE
Wyatt Court, Bend, OR
97701.
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Nov 22, 1926 - March 26,
2021
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Daniel Gilbert Sanders
of Redmond, OR
March 19, 1949 - March
26, 2021
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of Madras, OR
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2021
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