A4 Th e Bu l l eTin • SaTu r day, May 1, 2021
Brown
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With early and sometimes
heavy restrictions, Oregon
has one of the lowest rates
of cases and deaths since the
pandemic began spreading
in the first months of 2020.
Brown said decisions often
had to be made pitting “lives
and livelihoods.”
“As your governor, I chose
to save lives,” she said.
Brown said more than
half of state residents have
been at least partially vac-
cinated. The first to receive
the vaccine were elderly in
nursing homes, who made
up more than half the deaths
from COVID-19 in the state.
While the daily death toll has
fallen since its peak during
the winter, Brown said the
current infection rate was ris-
ing too quickly and new vari-
ants that are more contagious
and in some cases, lethal,
meant the recent spike had to
be taken as seriously as ear-
lier outbreaks.
Brown’s latest actions in-
cluded extending her au-
thority over public health
by extending the emergency
declaration she issued in
March 2020 until at least
June 28.
The orders to instigate the
extreme risk and extend the
emergency set off protests
from some political and busi-
ness leaders.
A Republican-led effort
was started in the Legisla-
ture to initiate bills to curb
Brown’s powers or bar an-
other extension.
“Literally everything in
Oregonians’ lives are being
dictated by one person,” Sen.
Tim Knopp, R-Bend, said
on the floor of the Senate on
Thursday.
A group of commission-
ers from 27 counties, along
with the Oregon Restaurant
& Lodging Association, sent
a letter Tuesday to Brown
asking her to reconsider her
order and instead give local
governments more control to
make decisions appropriate
to their counties and cities.
“The time has come to al-
low our communities the op-
portunity to move forward
while embracing continued
health and safety precau-
tions,” the letter said.
Brown said she knew the
pandemic had hammered
small businesses, especially
restaurants and bars, which
have been whipsawed by
closings, openings and re-
strictions for more than a
year. A special $20 million
fund was being created by
the Legislature to go to busi-
nesses that take a financial hit
under the latest restrictions.
Oregon health officials
have also struggled with
“vaccine hesitancy” across
the state from people unsure
of whether they should get
inoculated. But vaccinations
have also become a political
statement, with some coun-
ties in Republican areas re-
porting a dwindling number
of people seeking shots.
Brown said supplies would
be redirected to areas where
there is still heavy demand.
Lane County announced
Thursday that it would re-
ceive triple the number of
doses it had been getting
each week. Walk-in vaccina-
tions have also started spo-
radically, copying the state-
wide efforts in New York and
California.
Peter Graven, a lead data
scientist at Oregon Health &
Science University, who has
advised Brown throughout
the pandemic, said it would
only take three weeks of ob-
serving the restrictions be-
fore the virus spread would
stall. He reiterated Brown’s
position that maintaining a
brisk rate of vaccination was
the key to getting the state
back to something close to
normal by the end of June.
Without the current re-
strictions, Graven said 176
people could die and over
700 people could be hospital-
ized in the next few months,
primarily in May.
Graven said a short stop-
page of activity would pay off
in the short and long term.
“We have just three to four
weeks until we will be in
good shape,” he said.
While extolling the per-
sonal health and commu-
nity cooperation shown by
those who were vaccinated,
Brown said a decision to not
be vaccinated was a personal
choice.
But trying to stop peo-
ple from getting vaccinated
during a declared state pub-
lic health emergency was
not acceptable. Brown said
she was aware of the Thurs-
day incident in which an-
ti-vaccination activists heck-
led students arriving at a
school-sponsored clinic at
Bend High School. Police
were called and the group
dispersed.
School district leaders
also received often anony-
mous messages calling them
“Nazis” for approving the
vaccinations on the school
property. In Oregon, anyone
age 15 or older can agree to
medical services — including
immunization — without pa-
rental consent.
Brown said the state of
emergency declaration had
been called to stop the spread
of the virus. The vaccines are
overwhelmingly safe and ef-
fective and the best way to
stop the crisis that has killed
over 575,000 Americans in a
little over a year, according to
health officials.
“While I am governor, we
are going to continue to rely
on science and data,” she said.
Trying to stop anyone
from getting vaccinated is il-
legal under Oregon law and
punitive measures are en-
hanced by the public health
emergency.
“I expect Oregonians to
comply with these orders,”
she said.
As of Friday, COVID-19
had killed 3.17 million
worldwide and 575,746 in
the United States, according
to the Johns Hopkins Coro-
navirus Resource Center. The
Oregon Health Authority re-
ported Friday that2,495 Ore-
gon residents had died from
COVID-19.
On Friday, the Institute
for Health Metrics and Eval-
uation at the University of
Washington, a key fore-
caster used by public offi-
cials around the country, said
at current rates of spread,
areas of the world such as
India and South America
would continue to see steep
increases in fatalities. By
Aug. 1, the virus is projected
to have killed 5.05 million
worldwide.
Vaccination has cut trans-
mission and fatalities from
the virus have slowed, but
not stopped, in the United
States. The institute forecast
that by Aug. 1, deaths would
total more than 602,000 in
the United States and 2,670
in Oregon.
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Home
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The home has a real market
value of $333,000 according
to county property records.
Thompson said the sale will
close next week.
An estate sale is planned for
this weekend, Thompson said.
Ray Atkinson Sr. — the vic-
tim’s father and owner of the
home where the killings took
place — had two sons, Ken At-
kinson and Ray Atkinson Jr.
After Ray Sr. died without
a will in August 2019 at age
82, his sons went to court over
control of his estate, which
consisted mainly of the value
of the NE 12th Street home.
At the time of their deaths,
Ray Atkinson Jr. and his fi-
ancé, Newby, were living in the
home.
On Aug. 15, a worried friend
and a relative entered the home
after the couple couldn’t be
reached for several days. Their
bloodied bodies were found in
the cluttered basement.
Deschutes County District
Attorney John Hummel reit-
erated Thursday, as he has for
nearly nine months, the in-
vestigation of the murders re-
mains ongoing.
“There’s still not evidence to
file charges,” he said.
Investigators are still waiting
on results from the state crime
lab, though Hummel doesn’t
expect that to be a deciding
factor in his charging decision.
Hummel has faced increas-
ing scrutiny from friends and
relatives of the deceased cou-
ple.
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Ken Atkinson lived for years
in Bend before moving to Ely,
Nevada, where he worked as a
corrections officer.
Woodstock has asserted in
court documents in the pro-
bate case that Ken Atkinson is
a main suspect in the Atkin-
son-Newby murder, which
Ken Atkinson disputes in other
filings.
Ken Atkinson has not at-
tended recent hearings in the
probate case, court records
show. His attorney, Lawrence
Erwin, didn’t return calls or
emails.
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to the estate of Ray Atkinson Jr.
Ray Atkinson Jr.’s estate will
be divided between his two
half-brothers: Ken Atkinson,
who has the same father, and
Jonathan Woodstock, who has
the same mother .
Following the killings,
Woodstock moved into the
12th Street home to protect it
and prepare it for sale.
Ken Atkinson has fought
Woodstock’s continued pres-
ence at the home, changing
the locks and reporting Wood-
stock to the police for trespass-
ing several times. Police told
him it was a “civil matter,” ac-
cording to court records.
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Newby’s sister, Racheil Hoff-
man, has called on the public
to pressure Hummel’s office to
bring charges.
“They know who did it, they
are hoping for the perfect storm
of evidence before they arrest
the murderer/s,” she wrote this
month on Facebook. “All the
while they get to walk free. WE
WANT JUSTICE NOW!!!”
A hearing in circuit court
was held earlier this week in
the probate case of Ray Atkin-
son Sr.
Once the home sale closes,
Ray Atkinson Sr.’s estate is ex-
pected to be divided, with half
going to Ken Atkinson and half
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The scene of a double homicide on NE 12th Street in Bend was taped off by police as seen on Aug. 18.
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