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DESCHUTES COUNTY
Crook County cases: 822 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
108 new cases
Oregon cases: 167,128 (248 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,394 (2 new deaths)
120
(Jan. 1)
7-day
average
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.
Jefferson County cases: 2,022 (zero new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
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.
Deschutes County cases: 6,470 (14 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
90
80
50
new
cases
70
60
47 new cases
50
(Nov. 14)
40
31 new cases
28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
(Feb. 17)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Monday: 5 (1 in ICU)
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COVID-19 data for Monday, April 5:
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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Veterans legislation backed by
Senate expands
list of who should Central Oregon leaders progresses
report child abuse,
human trafficking
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
The Oregon Senate on Mon-
day expanded the list of those
who should report possible
child abuse to include hoteliers,
and those who should report
suspected human trafficking
to include employees of restau-
rants and bars.
“Sexual exploitation crimes
often go unreported, and vic-
tims don’t have the resources
they need to find help,” said
Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale.
“The more reporting the com-
munity does, the better.”
Both bills on the matter were
introduced by members of the
Republican Senate caucus and
passed with bipartisan support.
They now go to the House for
consideration.
Senate Bill 515 requires em-
ployees of bars and restaurants
to report reasonable belief of
suspected human trafficking
or unlawful employment of
minors.
The bill passed 27-1, with all
Democrats supporting the leg-
islation and Rep. Dallas Heard,
R-Roseburg, voting no.
“By all of us taking a little
responsibility for the most vul-
nerable in our communities,
we can make a difference.” said
Senate Minority Leader Fred
Girod, R-Stayton.
Senate Bill 535 makes hotel-
keepers and innkeepers man-
datory reporters. It also re-
quires computer technicians
and processors to immediately
report suspected child pornog-
raphy found on devices or sys-
tems they work on.
“Trafficking and sex crimes
are happening in our own
backyard, and we need more
tools to fight them,” said Sen.
Tim Knopp, R-Bend. “These
employees can play an import-
ant role in reporting.”
The bill passed 26-2, with all
Democrats voting yes, while
Heard and Sen. Brian Boquist, a
longtime GOP lawmaker from
Dallas who has declared himself
an independent, both voted no.
During the initial call of the
vote, Senate Majority Leader
Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego,
asked Senate President Peter
Courtney for a “Call of the
Senate.” This impels senators
to come to the floor to vote.
In the initial roll call, neither
Heard or Boquist responded to
the roll call. In the last roll call,
they both voted no.
Heard, who is also the chair
of the Oregon Republican
Party, has voted “no” on ev-
ery bill in committee and on
the floor as a protest against
what he says is the Democrats’
manipulation of the session
agenda. That’s caused Heard
to be absent for a bill that
made displaying a noose a hate
crime, as well as his votes on
the crime reporting bills.
Heard, who is also the chair
of the Oregon Republican
Party, has voted “no” on ev-
ery bill in committee and on
the floor as a protest against
what he says is the Democrats’
manipulation of the session
agenda. That’s caused Heard
to be absent for a bill that
made displaying a noose a hate
crime, as well as his votes on
the sex crime reporting bills.
gwarner@eomediagroup.com
STATE BRIEFING
Police release names of 2
found dead in burned car
A 26-year-old Grants Pass
man has been booked into
jail on charges of first-degree
murder, abuse of a corpse and
other offenses in connection
with the deaths of two men
whose bodies were found
last month in a burned car in
southwest Oregon.
The suspect was appre-
hended during a traffic stop
in Cave Junction north of the
Oregon-California border
Thursday. He faces additional
charges of arson, felon in pos-
session of a firearm and unau-
thorized use of a motor vehicle.
The bodies of Daniel Hill,
24, and Paul M. Folk, 26, both
of Josephine County, were
found March 24 in a remote,
wooded area about seven miles
south of Lake Selmac on a
rough logging road.
Folk had been previously re-
ported as a missing person.
Group sues over interstate
expansion in Portland
The group No More Free-
ways has filed a lawsuit against
the Oregon Department of
Transportation’s plan to add
auxiliary lanes and shoulders
to Interstate 5 by Portland’s
Rose Quarter.
The federal government al-
lowed the project to move for-
ward without a full environ-
mental impact statement and
the group believes that’s a vio-
lation of the National Environ-
mental Policy Act, The Colum-
bian reported Monday.
The $800 million project is
aimed at decreasing congestion
and traffic accidents on a seg-
ment of I-5 between its junc-
tions with I-84 and I-405 .
— Bulletin wire reports
The Oregon Senate last
week approved legislation on
military and veterans issues.
All now go to the House for
consideration.
Closing military memo-
rial sign loophole: Senate Bill
441A was unanimously ap-
proved by the Senate. It fixes a
loophole in state law to allow
recognition on roadside me-
morial signs for Oregonians
who were listed as missing
in action in wars, but whose
remains were later found
and returned to Oregon. The
bill, sponsored by Sen. Tim
Knopp, R-Bend, now goes to
the House.
Highway honors: Senate
Bill 790 was unanimously
approved by the Senate. It
would designate the portion
of U.S. Highway 30 in Oregon
to be known as Oregon Veter-
ans Memorial Highway. The
stretch would go from Astoria
on the Pacific Ocean, through
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
A truck drives along U.S. Highway 26 past a sign for a the POW/MIA
Memorial Highway east of Prineville last year.
Portland, then on through
Hermiston, Pendleton and La
Grande before the highway
passes into Idaho. The bill
now goes to the House.
Honoring Oregon Marine:
Senate Concurrent Resolution
15A was unanimously ap-
proved by the Senate. The res-
olution recognizes and hon-
ors the service of Marine Pfc.
Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, 21, of
Bend, who was among seven
Marines and a sailor who
died in 2020 when their am-
phibious landing craft sank
in waters off Camp Pendleton
in California. The resolution
now goes to the House for ex-
pected unanimous approval.
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