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SPORTS PULLOUT, B3-6
Deschutes County
Bend High School
Series of vaccine clinics
for teenagers kicks off
Virus
cases
surge
BY SUZANNE ROIG
AND JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Police were called on group of
anti-vaccine protesters outside
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
F
rancisco Guevara arrived at Bend
High School a little earlier than nor-
mal Thursday. The senior was thrilled
— after many attempts to sign up, he was
finally about to receive his first dose of the
COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic inside the
school’s gym.
BEND-LA PINE SCHOOLS
Board candidates
discuss views on
a range of issues
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Editor’s Note: This is the second of
two stories about the Bend-La Pine
School Board candidates.
The Bend-La Pine School Board
is guaranteed to see a shakeup come
July, as three members chose to not
run for reelection in the May 18 elec-
tion.
None of the candidates running
for seats in Zones 2 and 7 have held
elected office, and all have distinct
views on how they would help guide
Bend-La Pine Schools.
“I was so excited,” said Guevara, 18. “Es-
pecially since I work in food service, I was
waiting for it to be my turn.”
Guevara wasn’t the only one to seize the
opportunity. He said half of his third period
class was absent because they were in the
gym getting vaccinated.
“I’m just glad we’re moving toward a bet-
ter future with people being vaccinated,”
Guevara said.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Bend
High School hosted the first in a series of
voluntary vaccine clinics based in nearly
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Redmond high schoolers fuel food drive
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
REDMOND — Kenzie Curtis, a
senior at Ridgeview High School, met
two classmates in the school parking
lot Thursday and they filled her Nis-
san Xterra with large grocery bags full
of donated food.
The three students then delivered
the bags of mostly nonperishable
snacks to elementary school students,
who will need the food over the week-
end.
“It’s food that kids can eat on the
weekends when they don’t have access
to the lunches at school,” Curtis said.
“It’s food they can make on their own.”
Students in leadership classes
at Ridgeview and Redmond high
schools have shopped for the food
and delivered it every week since
March, when students returned to
in-person learning.
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TODAY’S
WEATHER
every Central Oregon high school. The
majority of these clinics — all six in Bend,
Redmond and Sisters — will be operated by
staff from local health care provider Mosaic
Medical.
The goal of these clinics is to get as many
local teenagers vaccinated as possible. And
offering vaccines within students’ own
schools makes it more accessible, said Albert
Noyes — a clinical pharmacist with Mosaic
Medical who’s helping run the high school
vaccine clinics.
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Ridgeview High School students Faye Davis, from right, Lucy Stancliff and
Kenzie Curtis load up several bags of donated food into the back of their car
before heading out to make deliveries together Thursday.
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WAKE OF WILDFIRES
Arborists say
tree removal
mismanaged
BY TED SICKINGER
The Oregonian
As the hazardous tree-removal
program overseen by the Oregon
Department of Transportation goes
into high gear after last fall’s devastat-
ing wildfires, many of Oregon’s most
scenic and beloved areas are being
transformed into post-apocalyptic
stretches of roadside clear-cuts, gar-
gantuan log piles and slash.
“A person really has to come and
look at it to get a sense,” said Ron Car-
mickle, mayor of Gates, which was
ravaged in the Labor Day fires that
raged through the Santiam Canyon
and is now seeing heavy post-fire cut-
ting on both public and private prop-
erty.
“The scale of it … “ he said. “It’s ab-
solutely insane. You have to see it.”
State officials estimate there are
142,000 hazard trees along road-
ways, rivers and on private properties
burned in the fires.
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Sarah Marshall with Mosaic Medical draws up a vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Bend High School on Thursday.
Surging cases of COVID-19 on
Thursday put Deschutes County sec-
ond among Oregon’s 32 counties, ac-
cording to the Oregon Health Author-
ity daily report.
Oregon Health Authority reported
125 cases in Deschutes County — the
second-highest daily case count since
the start of the pandemic more than
a year ago. Jefferson County had 15
cases and Crook County recorded 10
cases.
“This is our largest surge in cases,
but it’s the first surge where we have
a vaccine available to protect against
the virus,” said Morgan Emerson,
Deschutes County Health Services
spokeswoman. “We are seeing our
cases rise because of people taking
fewer precautions — less masking and
distancing.”
Statewide 32 of 36 counties had
positive or presumptive COVID-19
cases, according to the health au-
thority’s daily report. Only Mult-
nomah County had more cases than
Deschutes. There were 339 people
hospitalized with COVID-19. St.
Charles Bend reported 36 COVID-19
patients, five of whom were in the
intensive care unit and three on ven-
tilators.
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