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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Thursday, May 20:
Deschutes County cases: 9,311 (42 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 77 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,161 (8 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,240 (5 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 37 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 197,356 (603 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,606 (5 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Thursday: 45 (7 in ICU)
129 new cases
90
new
cases
120
7-day
average
110
103 new cases
(April 23)
100
(Nov. 27)
90
74 new cases
80
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
60
50
(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
30
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
EMAIL
(Jan. 1)
(Feb. 17)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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130
(April 29)
108 new cases
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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about the COVID-19
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
March 2020
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
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January 2021
February
March
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Teachers, school worker get state honors
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Two Central Oregon teachers re-
ceived regional teacher of the year
awards Thursday morning, making
them finalists for the 2022 Oregon
Teacher of the Year. And a grounds
maintenance worker for Bend-La Pine
Schools was named the top classified
employee in Oregon that same day.
Steve Wetherald, a graduation coach
at Bend High School, was named the
High Desert Regional Teacher of the
Year at a ceremony Thursday morning
in his school.
Before moving to graduation coach-
ing this school year, Wetherald spent
Wetherald
Hanson
Plant
20 years as a special education teacher
at Bend High School and Pilot Butte
Middle School. He is also a graduate of
Bend High , class of 1988.
“It’s a strange feeling, but it does feel
really good,” Wetherald said of winning
the award.
Jill Plant, a music teacher at the
Warm Springs K-8 Acad-
emy, was named the Jefferson
County Regional Teacher of
the Year, according to an Ore-
gon Department of Education
press release.
Wetherald and Plant re-
ceived $500 along with their
awards and are among 16 final-
ists for the 2022 Oregon Teacher of the
Year. That educator will meet President
Joe Biden, along with the 49 other state-
wide teachers of the year.
If he gets to speak with Biden,
Wetherald said he’d ask the president to
fully fund special education.
Meanwhile, Brian Hanson, mem-
ber of Bend-La Pine Schools’ outdoor
crew, was named employee of the year
Thursday afternoon by the Oregon
School Employees Association, which is
the statewide union for classified, non-
teaching school staff.
Hanson, who is also the president of
the local classified union, has worked
school grounds for Bend-La Pine for
six years, according to a school district
press release.
Before then, he was an educational
assistant in special education classes for
five years in Bend-La Pine, the release
stated.
Reporter: 541-617-7854,
jhogan@bendbulletin.com
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CORRECTIONS
Wilderness permits
available Friday
night group can have up to 12
people.
Central Cascades Wilder-
ness Permits for the Deschutes
and Willamette national forests
will be available Friday.
Starting at 7 a.m. , people
will be able to reserve permits
within a seven-day window.
Throughout the season, per-
mits will become available for
trips starting in seven days. For
example, a permit to hike on
July 8 would become available
July 1.
For multiday, overnight
trips, only the start date of a
trip needs to be within the
seven days.
The wilderness permit sys-
tem will remain in place until
Sept. 24.
The permits are required for
all overnight use in the Mount
Jefferson, Mount Washington,
and Three Sisters wilderness
areas, according to the U.S.
Forest Service.
All reservations must be
made through Recreation.gov
or by calling 877-444-6777 or
877-833-6777.
There is a $1 processing
charge for day-use permits
per person and a $6 process-
ing charge for overnight-use
permits per group. An over-
Bend Park and Rec eases
mask requirements
The Bend Park & Recreation
District has announced new
guidelines for wearing masks
at its parks and facilities based
on new guidelines from the
Oregon Health Authority.
Changes, which take effect
Friday, include the following:
Outdoor activities: Face
coverings will not be required
for outdoor activities, includ-
ing park district youth and
adult sports programs, outdoor
swimming and roller skat-
ing and when in parks and on
trails.
Indoor activities: Face cov-
erings will no longer be re-
quired indoors if fully vacci-
nated and verified by staff at
recreation facilities. If patrons
are unvaccinated or unable to
verify vaccination, they must
wear a mask while indoors.
Patrons to facilities are asked
to bring a vaccination card, a
copy or digital photo will work,
and staff will provide a one-
time vaccine verification pro-
cess to patrons with household
accounts.
All indoor youth activities
still require masks. Large out-
door gatherings or events re-
serving space on park district
property may require masks.
Face coverings are no lon-
ger required for parks and
trails. However, the Oregon
Health Authority recommends
individuals who are unvacci-
nated or are at higher risk for
COVID-19 continue to wear a
face covering when at crowded
outdoor areas.
in a written statement. “We
hope that these funds can help
to ease the financial challenges
prompted by our most recent
shutdowns and capacity limits.”
In Deschutes County, the
Central Oregon Intergovern-
mental Council will administer
the grants.
Grant funds will be made
available in all 15 counties that
were moved to extreme risk in
April, with a total of $20 mil-
lion in funding made available
by the state, according to the
county.
Businesses selected to re-
ceive funds will get checks in
late June.
— Bulletin staff reports
Located in Downtown Bend
$1.3M available in relief
funds to businesses
Deschutes County is con-
tributing $1.3 million in relief
funds to businesses that were
directly impacted by operating
under COVID-19 extreme risk
guidelines the week of April 30,
according to the county.
Businesses can apply for the
relief funds starting at noon
Friday. Program eligibility in-
formation can be found at
www.deschutes.org/covidrelief.
“We know that this past year
has been absolutely devastat-
ing for so many of our local
businesses,” Deschutes County
Commissioner Patti Adair said
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Fake, stolen vaccination
cards are proliferating
BY DOUGLAS PERRY
The Oregonian
Oregon announced Tues-
day that fully vaccinated peo-
ple can go maskless in public
indoor spaces, but only with
proof that they’ve been inocu-
lated against COVID-19. Some
other states are considering
similar approaches as they fully
reopen their economies.
Anticipation of this devel-
opment is surely one of the
reasons fake vaccination cards
have been selling briskly on
eBay, Etsy and other internet
sites for weeks.
“We are seeing these vac-
cination cards being sold on
many social-media platforms,
including Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and even TikTok,”
FBI Special Agent Jeanette
Harper said last month.
An official vaccination card,
which is a 3- by-4-inch piece
of common heavy-stock paper
with straightforward printing
on it, is relatively easy to fraud-
ulently reproduce. Selling (or
buying) fake vaccination cards
could result in a prison sen-
tence of up to five years, as well
as a fine, the FBI says.
Legitimate vaccination cards
also are being stolen. Police in
Nassau County, New York, this
week arrested a pharmacy em-
ployee for stealing more than
50 blank vaccination cards,
Forbes reports.
Zachary Honig, 21, told
police he was going to “share
them with family members
and friends, so that they could
go into venues and possibly
even use them at schools.”
There have been a handful
of similar arrests in other states
in recent weeks.
This thriving trade in fake
and stolen vaccination cards
could make Oregon’s new
COVID-19 policy difficult for
entertainment venues, retailers
and eateries.
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