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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Tuesday, April 20:
Deschutes County cases: 7,214 (42 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 72 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 891 (11 new case)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 176,157 (580 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,460 (1 new death)
GENERAL
INFORMATION
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
120
7-day
average
110
94 new cases
(Nov. 27)
(April 17)
100
90
80
50
new
cases
70
60
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
130
(Dec. 4)
108 new cases
(Feb. 17)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Tuesday: 13 (3 in ICU)
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GRAPHIC
129 new cases
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.
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: 2,074 (1 new case)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths)
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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COVID-19 shuts down
Oregon House a 3rd time
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Another person infected with
COVID-19 has prompted yet
another shutdown of floor ses-
sions in the Oregon House.
The House on Tuesday can-
celed sessions for the rest of the
week. The next scheduled ses-
sion is Monday .
Committees, which have been
meeting online since the start of
the 2021 session, will continue
their work virtually. At this stage
of the session, committees have
begun considering bills passed
by the Senate, although a few
committees were exempt from
the April 13 deadline for report-
ing out House bills.
The infected person may have
had contact with others on the
floor of the House on Thursday .
It is the third time this year
that the House has had to curtail
daily sessions. The other delays
were the week of March 22-26
— after someone infected was
present in the chamber March
15 or 16 — and on March 29.
Because of federal health pri-
vacy laws, people with reported
infections have not been iden-
tified.
“The priority for the session
continues to be to keep people
safe and do the people’s work,”
Lindsey O’Brien, chief of staff
for House Speaker Tina Kotek,
said in a statement.
Capitol facilities staff clean
the chambers and office wings
under COVID-19 guidelines of
the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
House Republican Leader
Christine Drazan of Canby said
in a statement: “Due to this
positive COVID-19 case in the
Capitol, we will defer to public
health authority guidance and
look forward to returning to the
floor next week, barring any ad-
ditional cases.”
Under the coronavirus pro-
tocols of the House, no more
than 25 members can be on
the House floor at any time,
although 40 members are re-
quired to be present for business
to be conducted. Other mem-
bers can be in the galleries or in
their offices to comply with the
quorum requirement.
The House also has added
one-minute alerts to accommo-
date members before discussion
and voting on measures.
The Senate, which has half
the House membership, has not
reported any COVID-19 cases
in that chamber.
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LOCAL BRIEFING
Prescribed burns planned
for areas east of La Pine
at night and turn on headlights
while driving.
Prescribed burns to reduce
forest vegetation are planned for
areas about 5 miles east of La
Pine on Wednesday and Thurs-
day.
The burns will start at 10 a.m.
on both days and cover 600 acres
of land, according to a release
from the Deschutes National
Forest.
The designated burn areas
are located along the north side
of Forest Road 22 (Finley Butte
Road), between Forest Road
9750 and Forest Road 2215. The
units will be monitored follow-
ing ignitions and into the week-
end.
La Pine-area residents should
expect to see smoke through the
week, more heavily in subdivi-
sions east of town such as New-
berry Estates. Flaggers and pilot
cars may be in use along Forest
Road 22 and drivers may experi-
ence delays.
The prescribed fire will reduce
fuel loadings in ponderosa pine
stands that were treated as part
of the Ogden Landscape Vegeta-
tion Management Project, which
is designed to prevent wildfire
from entering the La Pine com-
munity.
Prescribed fire in this area
conducted in 2018 helped to
slow and eventually stop the
spread of last year’s Rosland
Road Fire, which burned 393
acres.
Evening and early morning
smoke may occur in the af-
fected areas. Residents are ad-
vised to keep windows closed
Man pleads not guilty
to attempted murder
A Redmond man pleaded not
guilty Tuesday to a raft of serious
charges from an alleged cross-
state crime spree, including an
allegation that he strangled and
tried to kill his mother.
Ryan Michael Shinn, 40, ap-
peared in Deschutes County
Circuit Court, where a Novem-
ber trial date was scheduled.
Shinn is accused of using
three stolen vehicles to drive
from Portland to Bend, where
he allegedly attacked his mother,
Kelly Jo Shinn, in an attempt to
take custody of his 10-year-old
daughter.
Shinn is charged with 13
counts, 10 felonies and three
misdemeanors: second-degree
attempted murder, first-degree
robbery, first-degree burglary,
menacing, strangulation, in-
terfering with making a report,
fourth-degree assault, unau-
thorized use of a vehicle, reck-
less endangerment of highway
workers, two counts of coercion
and two counts of first-degree
theft.
He remains an inmate of the
Deschutes County jail.
Voter registration deadline
nears for May election
Registered voters will be
mailed a ballot starting April 28
for the May 18 election.
Voters with an Oregon DMV
number can register to vote on-
line at www.oregonvotes.gov/
register or by filling out a paper
Oregon Voter Registration Card,
which is available at the DMV,
U.S. Post Office, library or city
hall.
Voters are asked to check that
their addresses and names are
up to date in their voter regis-
tration record. Voters can up-
date their registration at www.
oregonvotes.gov/myvote or with
an Oregon Voter Registration
Card.
For those away from home
on Election Day, they can re-
quest an absentee ballot at www.
deschutes.org/clerk or call the
Deschutes County Elections Of-
fice at 541-388-6547.
For the May 18 election, can-
didate and measure information
is available online at www.de-
schutes.org.
Facebook Accelerator
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training, grant program
Bulletin staff report
The Bulletin, Central Or-
egon’s daily newspaper, has
been selected to be part of
the Facebook Journalism
Project’s Accelerator pro-
gram aimed at growing its
digital subscriber base, it was
announced Tuesday.
The newspaper is one of
30 news organizations join-
ing the Accelerator programs
for reader revenue in North
America. More than half
(55%) are owned or led by
Black, Indigenous, Latinx,
Asian and/or other commu-
nities of color, and 75% focus
on local news, according to a
news release from the Face-
book Journalism Project.
These organizations will
participate in a premier busi-
ness training program for
news publishers, which is
built on four pillars: virtual
workshops where partici-
pants listen to experts and
participate in hands-on ex-
ercises; weekly calls with a
dedicated, world-class expert
coach; grant funding to ex-
ecute projects using lessons
learned; and a community
of shared practice in which
people work together to sup-
port each other’s progress.
This is the third year of this
training program.
“Newspapers are con-
stantly evolving to remain
successful in today’s grow-
ing digital marketplace,” said
Bulletin Publisher Heidi
Wright, who is also chief op-
erating officer for EO Media
Group, the Oregon-based
parent company of the pa-
per. “This program will put
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The Bulletin at the forefront
of cutting-edge tools to keep
us viable.
“The goal is to produce
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digital subscriptions to fund
our news-gathering opera-
tions, so we can continue to
be a company that produces
robust content that is val-
ued by the communities we
serve,” Wright said. “This
evolution is the opposite of
what the hedge funds and
large companies are doing
these days by slashing their
newsrooms to the bone just
to stay afloat.”
The 12-week program,
from April through mid-July,
is followed by a six-month
period to execute specific
grant-funded initiatives.
Grants will be distributed by
the nonprofit Local Media
Association.
“At least once a week, I
hear from someone who ex-
presses their appreciation
for one or more of our pub-
lications — and they often
worry aloud about our sur-
vival,” said Kathryn Brown,
EO Media Group vice presi-
dent. “I’m happy to be able to
tell them that we are evolving
as a company as the newspa-
per industry evolves.”
Participants were selected
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by Facebook staff, Local Me-
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Accelerator coaches based
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27, according to the Deschutes
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