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SPORTS PULLOUT, A5-8
Bend prepares to establish a new
homeless services center. But how?
mined for now, said Lynne Mc-
Connell, the city’s affordable
housing manager.
“We intend to get moving as
quickly as possible,” she said.
Bend is one of seven cities to
receive money for navigation
centers as a part of a larger bill
that gives millions of dollars to-
ward educational programs and
wildfire recovery. A similar bill
was floated last year in the Leg-
islature, but it died in the wake
of the Republican walkout.
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
Bend is set to receive $2.5
million from the Legislature to
create something called a nav-
igation center, which is a cen-
tralized location for homeless
people to receive services.
Several questions now follow:
Where will it be? Who will run
it? What kind of services will be
provided, and when?
The answer to those ques-
tions remain mostly undeter-
$2.5 million
Amount given by the Oregon
Legislature to Bend for a homeless
navigation center, one of seven cities
to receieve funds
INSIDE
Updates on two homelessness bills
in the current session, A14
“We are so excited,” Mayor
Sally Russell said in a text mes-
sage. “We have this need in
CROOK COUNTY SCHOOLS
Permanent changes: Later
start time, trimester schedule
Bend (to) connect people ex-
periencing homelessness with
the right services.”
The idea is that Bend would
have one central location that
could be part shelter, part re-
source center, McConnell said.
It would be a place where
someone could go to find
housing options, work re-
sources, to get assistance with
federal and state benefits and
other services, she said.
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
When Crook County High
School returned to in-person
learning in September, stu-
dents saw two major changes
to their schedules.
First, classes started later
in the day, so students could
sleep in. And, instead of hav-
ing seven short periods, stu-
dents only took four, longer
classes each day.
Because a majority of stu-
See Homeless / A4
dents, staff and families in
Crook County liked these
changes, the Crook County
School Board decided to
make them permanent.
Starting next school year,
all students in the district will
operate on a trimester, rather
than a semester schedule. And
Crook County High School’s
first bell will ring at 9 a.m.,
rather than the pre-pandemic
8 a.m. start time.
See Schools / A4
THEY’RE BACK
THE STUDENTS ... AND THE ROCKCHUCKS
The critters return to infest
Redmond school grounds
BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin
ockchucks have contin-
ued to infest some school
grounds in Redmond.
Last year, the Redmond School
R
District was alarmed by a horde
of rockchucks, also known as yel-
low-bellied marmots, at Hugh
Hartman Elementary School.
The district declared a pest
emergency after staff found fe-
ces and holes near the elementary
school’s playground. But by the
time the school district decided it
needed to exterminate the rock-
chucks, it was too late in the spring
season, said Sheila Miller, spokes-
person for the school district.
“Last year we had the same is-
sues at Hugh Hartman, but our
extermination attempts came too
late in the season, so they weren’t
very effective,” Miller said.
As students return to in-per-
son learning this spring during
the COVID-19 pandemic, they
are encountering rockchucks that
are waking up from hibernation.
See Rockchucks / A13
BACKGROUND: A rockchuck, also known as a yellow-bellied marmot, sits near its burrow at Hugh Hartman Elementary School in Redmond on Wednesday. Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
POLL
FEATURE PHOTO | ICY MORNING NEAR CULVER
Many pandemic changes
to linger, Oregonians say
BY ZANE SPARLING • Oregon Capital Bureau
The novel coronavirus has upended nearly every facet of mod-
ern life over the past year — but will those changes stick?
Many Oregonians predict that online shopping and working
from home are here to stay; virtual schooling and high unemploy-
ment, on the other hand, are expected to linger temporarily. And
the permanence of other virus-spurred alterations in society, such
as the rise of telemedicine, leave Oregon divided.
That’s all according to a new polling by the Oregon Values and
Beliefs Center.
The center, in partnership with DHM Re-
search, conducted the survey of 900 Oregon
residents — selected to be demographically
New daily
representative of the state — in late February
coronavirus
and early March. The margin of error ranges
cases reported in
from 2% to 3.3% per question.
Deschutes County,
Here’s how the pollsters drilled down into
the most since
the details:
mid-January
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Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
Ice forms on an irrigation wheel line and young alfalfa plants while Daniel Garcia walks across a field as the sun rises near Culver on Wednesday.
See new feature photos each week on our website and in our e-editions at bendbulletin.com.
Full chart on A2
Online shopping
Some 60% of Oregonians believe elevated
levels of online shopping will become permanent. Suburbanites
(67%) and liberals (68%) are more likely to foresee an enduring
shift to purchasing goods by click, compared with conservatives
(52%) and city dwellers (53%).
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Sunny, colder
High 60, Low 34
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