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DESCHUTES COUNTY
Crook County cases: 839 (zero new cases)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
Oregon cases: 170,850 (294 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,441 (1 new death)
120
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: 2,047 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (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: 6,759 (23 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 72 (zero new deaths)
110
100
(Nov. 27)
90
74 new cases
50
new
cases
(April 10)
80
70
60
(Feb. 17)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Monday: 8 (2 in ICU)
47 new cases
50
(Nov. 14)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
(July 16)
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
28 new cases
30
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
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Honor flights to resume after yearlong wait
BY GERRY O’BRIEN
The Bulletin
REDMOND — Honor flights for
Central Oregon armed forces veterans
to visit national war memorials are re-
suming .
Some 25 veterans from Central Ore-
gon, their guardians and administrative
people plan to fly out of the Redmond
Airport on Sept. 22, after a yearlong de-
lay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This will be the long-promised inau-
gural flight from Redmond, organizers
say.
“We are going to fly out of our home-
town of Redmond, Oregon,” said Dane
Prevatt, Honor Flight of Central Ore-
gon organizer. “We reserved dates with
Alaska Airlines for Sept. 22 to D.C., re-
turning on Sept. 25. We had to make
a hasty decision on flight dates — we
don’t usually fly in the fall — so we tried
to pick the best dates based on weather,
kids back in school, and hopefully we
got around other major events that hap-
pen in the D.C. area in the fall.”
The group plans to visit the World
War II Memorial, the Lincoln Memo-
rial, the Korean War and Vietnam War
memorials as well as the Air Force,
Navy and Marine Corps memorials and
Arlington National Cemetery. Visitors
will also witness the changing of the
guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier.
ACCEPTING
LOCAL VETERAN
APPLICATIONS
Honor Flight of Central Oregon
is accepting applications for the
next flight to Washington, D.C.,
for Korean War and Vietnam War
veterans.
Qualifications: A veteran must
have served anywhere in the
Armed Forces between Nov.
1, 1955, to April 30, 1975; live
within Deschutes, Jefferson
or Crook counties; not have
visited the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial wall in the past; and be
physically able to travel and have
a guardian.
Online: Applications for
veterans, guardians and
volunteers are available at:
Submitted photo
A Central Oregon vet looks over the Korean
War Memorial during one of the recent
Honor Flight trips to Washington, D.C.
www.honorflightofcentral
oregon.org/board-portal
Tours include the Pentagon, the Na-
tional Archives and possibly a private
tour of the U.S. Capitol.
“The Capitol could be tricky due to
the recent security issues,” Prevatt said.
“However, if we are not able to, we may
visit Mount Vernon instead.”
A media person will be onboard to
document the event.
Trips are free to the vets, but guard-
ians who help them along the way pay
$1,200. Overall, cost to Honor Flight of
Central Oregon is about $70,000 for the
airline tickets, wheelchair rentals, bus
transportation, meals and hotel rooms.
A physician and a nurse will travel with
the group.
The organizers continue to raise
money , but now that a new date is set,
there will be more fundraising activity.
Vietnam War veterans will be allowed
along on this trip for the first time .
Prevatt, who works for Dutch Bros
Coffee , says the company has contrib-
uted about $50,000 over several years of
the flights, which have usually left from
Portland.
“We want to leave from Redmond so
the local contributors can see our vet-
erans off from our airport, and be here
when they return. It will help with our
fundraising efforts,” Prevatt said.
Prevatt, 48, was a Marine corporal,
1st Battalion, who moved to Bend in
2008.
“I met Dick Tobiason in 2015 and
went on an honor flight as a team leader
and was hooked ever since,” Prevatt
said. Tobiason was a longtime organizer
of Central Oregon honor flights and is
the founder of the Bend Heroes Foun-
dation.
In 2017, Prevatt joined the board of
Honor Flight of Central Oregon and
became the group’s local president.
For more details, go to
www.honorflightofcentraloregon.org.
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the second page of Sports.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Gate to Pilot Butte summit
road to open Friday
Cars will be allowed once
again to drive the road that
leads to the summit of Pilot
Butte, which has been closed to
drivers for roughly a year and
a half.
The Oregon Parks and Rec-
reation Department will open
the gate to the road at 10 a.m.
Friday.
Pedestrians are being ad-
vised to use extra caution,
given that cars have not been
on this road since November
2019, Park Manager Joe Wana-
maker said in a statement.
Typically, the road on Pilot
Butte opens mid-April, but last
year it remained closed to cars
due to the COVID-19 pan-
demic.
“Pedestrians have grown ac-
customed to not having vehi-
cles on the road, so I urge driv-
ers to be alert and drive slowly,”
Wanamaker said.
The summit road gate will
be open between 10 a.m. and
9 p.m. daily until its seasonal
closure on Nov. 1.
Public forum planned
for wildlife data proposal
Deschutes County is plan-
ning to hold a public forum on
its plan to update inventories
of mule deer, elk and eagles. In-
ventory information available
to wildlife officials is approxi-
mately 30 years old.
The first phase of the project
represents only the data col-
lection stage and presentation
of biological info. No changes
to county zoning or other reg-
ulations have been proposed.
A separate phase conducted at
a later date would initiate the
wildlife inventory.
“The goal for this phase is to
present the data collected by the
wildlife biologists to the public,
give them some background on
how that data was collected by
our agency partners and con-
sultant team and give a sense of
potential next steps,” said Tanya
Saltzman, senior planner for
Deschutes County Community
Development.
Saltzman said a public on-
line survey will be an oppor-
tunity for the county to gauge
general interest in incorporat-
ing the new data into its devel-
opment code and comprehen-
sive plan.
The meetings, scheduled for
April 15 and April 29 at 6 p.m.,
will be held virtually.
For the April 15 meeting,
participants can join by phone
by dialing 346-248-7799. For
the Zoom Link, visit: www.
deschutes.org/cd/page/wild-
life-inventory-update. The we-
binar ID is 889-2006-9503. The
passcode is 717743.
Fire kills one in Terrebonne
One person is dead follow-
ing a fire in an RV early Mon-
day in Terrebonne.
Around 2 a.m., Redmond
Fire & Rescue received a call re-
porting a mobile home burning
on property on NE Wilcox Way
near Smith Rock State Park.
The RV was being used as a
residence, said Redmond Fire
Assistant Chief Jeff Puller. The
name of the victim has not
been released.
The cause of the fire is under
investigation.
La Pine principal finalists
to appear in virtual forum
School staff, students and
families can virtually meet the
four finalist candidates for La
Pine High School principal at
an online forum Wednesday
afternoon.
All four candidates — one
of whom will succeed interim
principal Anne-Marie Schmidt
on July 1 — are school admin-
istrators in Oregon, accord-
ing to a Bend-La Pine Schools
press release.
Three of the finalists are prin-
cipals: Richard Ceder at Toledo
Junior/Senior High School in
Lincoln City, Scott Olszewski
at Sky View Middle School in
Bend and Mairi Scott-Aguirre
at Centennial High School in
Gresham. The fourth candidate,
Troy Stoops, is the superinten-
dent of Mt. Angel School Dis-
trict in rural Marion County,
the release stated.
To view the virtual forum on
Wednesday at 4:15 p.m., visit
bls.fyi/phsforum and add event
number 120 860 7670 and
password “LPHS” if prompted,
the release stated.
Man suspected of robbing
Bend home, stealing truck
Bend police officers arrested
a man Monday morning af-
ter the man allegedly robbed a
Bend home, stole a truck and
crashed into a fence while try-
ing to escape.
off the resident and drove away
The resident of the home, lo- in the truck, but then crashed
cated in the 100 block of NW
into a nearby fence, resulting in
Wall Street, told police that a
more than $1,000 in damages,
man entered his house without police said.
permission and began
Officers and De-
stealing his property,
schutes County Sher-
according to a Bend
iff’s deputies found
Police Department
McDowell one block
press release.
away from the crash
This man was later
and arrested him at
identified as 41-year-
5:24 a.m., the release
old Bend resident
stated.
Beau Dustin McDow- McDowell
McDowell was ar-
ell, police said.
rested on suspicion of
McDowell allegedly stole the first-degree robbery, first-de-
keys to the resident’s truck and gree burglary, unauthorized
began to start the vehicle when use of a motor vehicle, two
the resident heard the engine
counts of first-degree criminal
and tried to pull McDowell out mischief, third-degree theft
of the truck, according to po-
and hit-and-run.
lice. McDowell allegedly fought
— Bulletin staff reports