A2 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021
The
Bulletin
How to reach us
CIRCULATION
Didn’t receive your paper?
Start or stop subscription?
541-385-5800
PHONE HOURS
6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday
7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday
and holidays
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
DESCHUTES COUNTY
Crook County cases: 881 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
120
(Jan. 1)
7-day
average
90
new
cases
110
94 new cases
(Nov. 27)
(April 17)
100
90
80
50
new
cases
70
60
(Feb. 17)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Monday: 13 (3 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
ONLINE
108 new cases
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
6 feet from others and wear a face covering or mask.
5. Cover a sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
6. Clean frequently touched objects and surfaces.
Jefferson County cases: 2,073 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths)
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? A disease caused by a coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever and shortness of breath) can
be severe, even fatal, though some cases are mild.
541-382-1811
www.bendbulletin.com
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Monday, April 19:
Deschutes County cases: 7,172 (44 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 72 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 175,592 (473 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,460 (zero new deaths)
GENERAL
INFORMATION
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
EMAIL
bulletin@bendbulletin.com
March 2020
April
June
May
July
August
September
October
November
December
January 2021
February
March
April
AFTER HOURS
Newsroom ................................541-383-0348
Circulation ................................541-385-5800
IN THE LEGISLATURE
NEWSROOM EMAIL
Business ........business@bendbulletin.com
City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com
Features..................................................................
communitylife@bendbulletin.com
Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com
NEWSROOM FAX
541-385-5804
OUR ADDRESS
Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive
Suite 200
Bend, OR 97702
Mailing ........... P.O. Box 6020
Bend, OR 97708
B
ADMINISTRATION
Publisher
Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341
Editor
Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166
DEPARTMENT HEADS
Advertising
Steve Rosen ................................541-383-0370
Circulation/Operations
Jeremy Feldman ......................541-617-7830
Finance
Anthony Georger ....................541-383-0324
Human Resources ................541-383-0340
TALK TO AN EDITOR
City Julie Johnson ...................541-383-0367
Business, Features, GO! Magazine
Jody Lawrence-Turner ............541-383-0308
Editorials Richard Coe ...........541-383-0353
News Tim Doran .......................541-383-0360
Photos .........................................541-383-0366
Sports ..........................................541-383-0359
TALK TO A REPORTER
Bend/Deschutes Government
Brenna Visser .............................541-633-2160
Business
Suzanne Roig ............................541-633-2117
Calendar .....................................541-383-0304
Crook County ..........................541-617-7829
Deschutes County ................541-617-7818
Education
Jackson Hogan ...........................541-617-7854
Fine Arts/Features
David Jasper .................................541-383-0349
General Assignment
Kyle Spurr ...................................541-617-7820
Health
Suzanne Roig ............................541-633-2117
Jefferson County ..................541-617-7829
La Pine ........................................541-383-0367
Public Lands/Environment
Michael Kohn ............................541-617-7818
Public Safety
Garrett Andrews ......................541-383-0325
Redmond
Jackson Hogan ...........................541-617-7854
Salem/State Government .. 541-617-7829
Sisters .........................................541-383-0367
Sunriver .....................................541-383-0367
REDMOND BUREAU
Mailing address ..................P.O. Box 6020
Bend, OR 97708
Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829
CORRECTIONS
The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all
stories are accurate. If you know of an
error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367.
TO SUBSCRIBE
Call us ......................541-385-5800
• Home delivery
and E-Edition ..........................$7 per week
• By mail .................................$9.50 per week
• E-Edition only ...................$4.50 per week
To sign up for our e-Editions, visit
www.bendbulletin.com to register.
TO PLACE AN AD
Classified ......................................541-385-5809
Advertising fax ..........................541-385-5802
Other information ....................541-382-1811
OBITUARIES
No death notices or obituaries are
published Mondays. When submitting,
please include your name, address
and contact number. Call to ask about
deadlines, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Phone ..........................................541-385-5809
Fax .................................................541-598-3150
Email .......................obits@bendbulletin.com
OTHER SERVICES
Oregon’s state song awaits an official remix
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon’s official state song, nearly
a century old, is about to get a make-
over to remove words that advocates of
change say reflect a racist past.
The Oregon House has adopted and
sent to the Senate a resolution that
changes some of the words to “Oregon,
My Oregon,” which the Legislature ap-
proved as the state song in 1927.
House Concurrent Resolution 11,
which passed 47-6 Friday , replaces the
first verse by J.A. Buchanan: “Land
of the Empire Builders, Land of the
Golden West/Conquered and held by
free men, Fairest and the Best.”
It substitutes these words by Amy
Shapiro: “Land of Majestic Mountains,
Land of the Great Northwest/Forests
and rolling rivers, Grandest and the
best.”
In the second stanza, the phrase
“Blest by the blood of martyrs” is re-
placed by “Blessed by the love of free-
dom.”
Shapiro is a constituent of Rep. Sheri
Schouten, D-Beaverton, and the revised
lyrics were sung in the House chamber
Feb. 14, 2020, Oregon’s 161st anniver-
sary of statehood.
”Every time we sang those words …
we were celebrating the darkest aspects
of our state’s racist history and reinforc-
ing it in the present,” Schouten said.
“The good news is that we have
evolved somewhat, and school kids no
longer sing those disturbing lyrics. …
All Oregonians of all ethnic and racial
backgrounds deserve a state song they
can sing with pride and affection.”
Rep. Bill Post, R-Keizer, was one of
six who voted against it. Post recalled
that in 2017, Buchanan’s granddaughter
sought his help in raising money for a
Oregon Encyclopedia
Among the verses that would change in “Oregon, My Oregon” include: “Land of the Em-
pire Builders, Land of the Golden West/Conquered and held by free men, Fairest and the
Best.” That would be replaced with: “Land of Majestic Mountains, Land of the Great North-
west/Forests and rolling rivers, Grandest and the best.”
tombstone for Buchanan at his grave in
Warrenton.
Post said he asked her how she would
feel if the lyrics were changed.
“She told me if we did so, it would be
like rewriting T.S. Eliot or Shakespeare.
The song as is, she said, reflects the pe-
riod of time and the writer’s intention,”
he said.
“I would find it hard to change the
words of a song that schoolchildren
have sung for nearly a century.”
Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner, traces
his family roots to the white pioneers
who came in the mid-1800s. Ann Eliz-
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
pwong@pamplinmedia.com
Oregon gun storage law would be among toughest in nation
BY ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
A proposed gun storage
law that would be among the
toughest in the U.S. is headed
for a vote in the Oregon Leg-
islature, with backers saying it
will save lives and opponents
contending it could lead to
deaths.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, a
less-sweeping gun storage bill
was signed into law Monday by
Gov. Jared Polis.
Colorado’s new law creates
the offense of unlawful storage
of a firearm if a person stores
a gun knowing that a juvenile
could access it without per-
mission or if a resident of the
premises is ineligible to possess
a firearm.
Oregon’s bill generated tes-
timony from hundreds of peo-
ple .
Among those testifying was
Paul Kemp, whose brother-in-
law Steve Forsyth was killed
with a stolen gun in a mass
shooting at a Portland-area
shopping mall in 2012.
“I will never forget the
screams I heard when we had
to tell my teenage nephew that
his father had been killed at the
mall,” Kemp said.
But opponents say forcing
people to keep guns locked up
could waste precious moments
if they need to defend them-
selves against armed intruders.
Jim Mischel, of Sheridan,
Oregon, described how his
wife woke up when he was
away one night in 1981. She
heard a noise, went to inves-
tigate and saw that a man had
broken into their home.
She returned to the bedroom
and tried to get to a pistol that
was in a locked gun box in the
nightstand.
“She was unable to get the
box unlocked and the pistol
Say
Back issues ................................541-385-5800
Photo reprints .........................541-383-0366
Apply for a job ........................541-383-0340
All Bulletin payments are accepted at the
drop box at City Hall or at The Bulletin,
P.O. Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708. Check
payments may be converted to an
electronic funds transfer. The Bulletin,
USPS #552-520, is published daily by
Central Oregon Media Group, 320 SW
Upper Terrace Drive, Bend, OR 97702.
Periodicals postage paid at Bend, OR.
Postmaster: Send address changes to The
Bulletin circulation department, P.O. Box
6020, Bend, OR 97708. The Bulletin retains
ownership and copyright protection of
all staff-prepared news copy, advertising
copy and news or ad illustrations. They
may not be reproduced without explicit
prior approval.
abeth Bills, his great-great-great grand-
mother, is credited with sewing the first
U.S. flag ever flown in Oregon. He said
when he hears the state song, she and
people like her come to mind.
“It is special,” he said. “And not all of
us hear it in a manner that comes across
as offensive or racist. So I apologize to
those of us who do — but I don’t.”
Rep. Cedric Hayden, R-Lowell, said
he also traces his Oregon roots to the
mid-1800s and is a sixth-generation Or-
egonian. His father, also named Cedric,
was in the House 14 years.
“I am concerned with erasing our
history because we learn from the mis-
takes we have made.”
Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, said he
also traces his family heritage to an an-
cestor who arrived in Oregon in the
mid-1800s. He is married to Carol Su-
zuki, a staffer in the Senate Majority Of-
fice, whose father was interned during
World War II.
Clem said what struck him was the
song’s line about the “fairest and the
best,” when his daughter, then age 8,
asked him a question.
“It hit home for me when my own
daughter said three years ago — that’s
not ancient history — ‘Do I look white
enough to avoid being deported?’” he
said.
“That line should not evoke in her
the question of whether she is fair
enough to avoid what happened to her
grandfather, and not get locked up be-
cause she looks more like her dad than
her mom, and avoid being sent to con-
centration camps in the desert by the
government.”
Rep. Andrea Valderrama, D-Port-
land, said the current lyrics demean
Blacks and Indigenous tribes. Although
Oregon was admitted to the Union in
1859 as an anti-slavery state, its 1857
Constitution also specified that Black
people were unwelcome.
“Written in the 1920s, the song’s rac-
ist and violent lyrics wrongly and dis-
turbingly celebrate the genocide of the
Oregon tribes,” Valderrama, the newest
member and one of a record nine mem-
bers of color in the House, said. “This is
dehumanizing, insulting and trauma-
tizing. It has no place in our state song.
So I ask: Whose Oregon is this song
talking about? Because this is not my
Oregon.”
in The Bulletin
The Bulletin will feature your
Mother’s Day message in our
classifi ed section on Sunday, May 9!
SUBSCRIBERS
GET 50% OFF
WITH
PROMO CODE:
MAMA
1x3 message: $30 2x3 message: $45
Subscribers: $15 Subscribers: $22.50
3x4 message: $75
Subscribers: $37.50
Purchase online at: www.BendBulletin.com/special
out before he got into the bed-
room and threatened her with
his gun,” Mischel said. “She has
never recovered.”
Massachusetts is the only
state that requires that all un-
attended firearms be stored
with locking devices in place,
according to the Giffords gun
safety advocacy group . States
that have passed laws requir-
ing some level of firearms safe
storage include California,
Connecticut and New York,
said Allison Anderman, senior
counsel at Giffords. Similar
bills this session have failed in
Illinois, Kentucky, Montana,
New Mexico and Virginia, An-
derman said.
Oregon’s bill mandates that
gun owners secure unattended
weapons with trigger locks
or in locked compartments.
Those who don’t would be
strictly liable for any injuries
or property damage. If a mi-
nor gets hold of an unsecured
firearm, the gun’s owner would
face a maximum $2,000 fine.
Advocates for the gun stor-
age bill have said it would re-
duce suicides.
Safe storage could also re-
duce school shootings. Minors
who commit those attacks of-
ten obtain the gun from their
home or the home of a relative
or friend.
Opponents have said the bill
is an infringement on the con-
stitutional right to bear arms.