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LES SCHWAB AMPHITHEATER
BIGGER MUSIC ACTS
WILL COME TO BEND
Mask rules
confuse
Central
Oregon
employers
By suZaNNE rOIG
The Bulletin
Central Oregon businesses, em-
ployers and churches are trying to
figure out how they’ll respond to the
new mask mandates for the fully vac-
cinated.
What they do know for sure: They
don’t want to put their employees in
the position of policing the mandates
by asking for proof of vaccination.
Several said they would just keep
the established policies of requiring
a mask indoors and maintaining a
physical distance.
“We have heard from many busi-
nesses who are struggling to inter-
pret how to use the new guidelines,”
said Katy Brooks, Bend Chamber of
Commerce CEO. “They are in the
position of gatekeepers in allowing
unmasked access to vaccinated em-
ployees and customers. This is a diffi-
cult position when there can be many
views on the issue, making interac-
tions difficult at times.”
See Masks / A4
BEND PROTESTS
reid Brakeley and a crew from staging dimensions from New Castle, delaware, build a portable loading dock on the back of the new stage at the Les schwab
amphitheater on Wednesday. Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
By KyLE sPurr • The Bulletin
routing a tour,” Smith said. “With the bandwidth that Live
with the largest concert promoter in the country and
Nation brings, agents are considering us at the beginning.
will soon be hosting the biggest names in music.
We are no longer a fill-in date.”
The deal with Live Nation Entertainment means the Old
A multiphase renovation of the Les Schwab Amphitheater
Mill District venue will offer more shows each summer
is also a part of the Live Nation partnership. The first phase,
and become a preferred location for major concert tours,
which will nearly double the size of the concert stage and
said Marney Smith, general manager of the Les Schwab
offer accessibility improvements, will be completed in June
Amphitheater.
before the first scheduled concert Aug. 12.
“We weren’t the first consideration when somebody was
Resident survey reveals growing concern
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Here are some of
the
hard numbers: 9
• California
out
of 10 (93%) Or-
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egonians
see wild-
age of fed-
eral firefight- fires as a somewhat
or very serious threat
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to life and property.
crews, a3
Most people ex-
pressed concern about wildfires af-
fecting the people of Oregon rather
than their own communities (68%)
or their families (58%).
Most Oregonians are also con-
vinced that the number of serious
wildfires will continue to rise. More
than half said wildfires in the state
will increase in both frequency (55%)
and severity (53%).
Beliefs that wildfires will grow in
frequency and intensity are not tied
to political beliefs, the survey found.
RELATED
As wildfires seem to grow in num-
ber and severity each year, Orego-
nians are expressing greater concern
for how wildfire affects their own
lives.
A recent survey conducted by the
Oregon Values and Beliefs Center
found a strong majority of Orego-
nians see wildfires as “a somewhat
or very serious threat” to residents of
the state.
Respondents described challenges
with managing the forests, as well as c
limate change that is drying out forest
areas and making them more suscep-
tible to wildfires.
The survey was conducted May
4-10, with 918 Oregonians respond-
ing. The survey has a margin of error
of 2-3%.
A few showers
High 53, Low 36
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Business
Classifieds
Comics
The La Pine man who yelled a
homophobic slur at downtown
Bend protesters and was charged
with assaulting one of them
was allowed to plead guilty to a
lesser offense, in part because the
protester he attacked wanted to
spare the community a divisive legal
battle.
Darrell Shane Goddard, 38,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced
Wednesday in Deschutes County
Circuit Court.
See Goddard / A4
See Music / A4
WILDFIRE IN OREGON
By MIChaEL KOhN
The Bulletin
By GarrETT aNdrEWs
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Bend settles
in dispute over
parking off
Galveston
By BrENNa VIssEr
The Bulletin
John Locher/AP file
Firefighters with the Monitor Fire department wait in an area destroyed by a wildfire
near Mill City on the North santiam river in 2020.
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After roughly three years of lit-
igation, the city of Bend and the
owner of the Bakery Building, which
is home to Sunriver Brewing off
Galveston Avenue, have reached a
$35,000 settlement regarding a park-
ing dispute with a neighboring busi-
ness.
The dispute led to the city with-
drawing the land use permit for Boss
Rambler Beer Club, which is the
neighboring business to the Bakery
Building, and the owner of the Bak-
ery Building, Mikel Lomsky, receiv-
ing the settlement.
See Parking / A4
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