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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
DESCHUTES COUNTY
129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Friday, May 21:
Deschutes County cases: 9,346 (35 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 78 (1 new death)
Crook County cases: 1,165 (4 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,250 (10 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 37 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 197,851 (504 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,613 (7 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Friday: 41 (9 in ICU)
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
7-day
average
(Feb. 17)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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120
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
90
new
cases
130
(April 29)
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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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
November
December
January 2021
February
March
April
May
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LOCAL, STATE BRIEFING
City of Bend facilities
to reopen to the public
The city of Bend will reopen
some of its public facilities in a
limited capacity starting Mon-
day.
Visitors will be asked to wear
a mask or face covering while
inside city facilities regardless
of their vaccination status.
According to an announce-
ment from the city, commu-
nity members are still asked to
continue conducting business
online or over the phone if
possible.
Bend City Hall at 710 NW
Wall St. will be open from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The utility billing building at
639 NW Franklin Ave. will be
open 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and
1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Bend Police Depart-
ment at 555 NE 15th St. will be
open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. begin-
ning Wednesday due to a con-
struction project.
Municipal Court at 555 NE
15th St. will be open 9 a.m. to
noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Public meetings will still be
held virtually.
For more information , visit
bendoregon.gov.
Bend man arraigned on
charges of luring minor
A Bend man is accused of
attempting to solicit sex with a
child younger than 16 and pro-
viding the child with metham-
phetamine and marijuana.
Timothy Leroy Henkel,
52, was arrested May 13 and
charged by a district attorney’s
information
the next day
in Deschutes
County Cir-
cuit Court.
On
Wednesday,
a grand jury
Henkel
approved up-
dated charges
for Henkel, and Friday, he was
arraigned on those charges be-
fore Judge Raymond Crutchley.
Prosecutors allege that from
May 11 through 13, Henkel
used an online communication
tool to describe sexual scenar-
ios to an unnamed child, and
took a “substantial step” toward
physically meeting the child.
He’s charged with five felo-
nies: first-degree online sex-
ual corruption of a child, sec-
ond-degree sexual corruption
of a child, luring a minor, de-
livery of methamphetamine to
a minor and delivery of mari-
juana to a minor.
As of Friday, Henkel re-
mained an inmate of the De-
schutes County jail.
Woman faces bias crime
charge after shoving child
PORTLAND — A woman
faces a bias crime charge after
police say she shoved a child to
the ground and told them she
did it because of his race.
Around 11:30 a.m. Thurs-
day, the Washington County
Sheriff’s Office received re-
ports of a disturbance at a retail
store in Cedar Hills .
A deputy arrived and heard
from witnesses that a woman
had pushed a 9-year-old to the
ground . Lacy Lenahan, 31, told
deputies that she specifically
shoved the child because of
his race and while in the store
intentionally threw an item at
someone because of race, ac-
cording to the sheriff’s office.
— Bulletin staff, wire reports
GRANT COUNTY
Organizers drop Project Turnkey
plan after community concerns
BY STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Organizers in Grant County
abandoned the idea to buy
and convert a hotel into tran-
sitional housing Thursday.
County officials applied
for a Project Turnkey grant, a
statewide program that con-
verts motels and hotels to per-
manent transitional or emer-
gency housing, but according
to a Thursday news release,
they are not going to accept
funding to purchase Dreamers
Lodge for transitional hous-
ing. The housing was intended
for people impacted by wild-
fires, COVID-19 and those
released from incarceration as
they enter back into society.
“After careful consideration
and listening to the sentiment
of Grant County residents,
the Project Turnkey Steer-
ing Committee has decided
not to accept the funding to
purchase Dreamers Lodge
for transitional housing,” the
news release said.
After an emotional — and
at times hostile — public
meeting Wednesday in the
Trowbridge Pavilion at the
Grant County Fairgrounds,
those in attendance voted
down the project 75-50.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Community members raise their hands for a “yes” vote for Project Turnkey on Wednesday in the Trow-
bridge Pavilion of the Grant County Fairgrounds.
The Oregon Legislature al-
located a total of $65 million
for Project Turnkey for the
purpose of acquiring motels
or hotels for use as shelter for
people experiencing home-
lessness or at risk of homeless-
ness in November.
The city of Bend has been
trying to find a suitable loca-
tion for housing with funding
help from Project Turnkey.
Lawmakers approve bill to require colleges
to post the cost of textbooks in advance
BY CHRIS LEHMAN
The Oregonian
Oregon lawmakers have
signed off on a bill that would
require public colleges and
universities to inform students
about the cost of most of their
textbooks before they sign up
for a course.
The Oregon Senate ap-
proved House Bill 2919
Thursday on a 24-1 vote. It
earlier passed the House, and
is now headed for the desk of
Gov. Kate Brown.
It would require schools
to “prominently display” the
estimated cost of course ma-
terials for at least 75% of the
for-credit courses offered. The
information would need to be
available by the time course
registration began for each
term.
The Senate approved the
bill without debate. If the gov-
ernor signs it, the bill would
take effect with the 2022-2023
academic year.
In committee testimony,
several college students spoke
of being surprised when they
learned the cost of textbooks
long after they had signed up
for a class.
“Sometimes I don’t find out
about the necessary textbooks
for my class until the first day
of school, and then I have to
scramble to figure out how I
am going to buy $400 worth
of books during the first week
of the term,” said Kierra Wing,
a student at Portland State
University.
“Sometimes, this means
sacrificing our groceries so
I can buy a $125 code that
grants me only 90 days of ac-
cess to a mandatory textbook,
or racking up credit card debt
on a pricey textbook I just
found out I need but I’ll only
use once.”
Separately, the Senate also
passed a bill Thursday that
would require public colleges
and universities to publicly
post the cost and description
of mandatory student fees.
House Bill 2542 was previ-
ously approved in the House
and is also headed for the gov-
ernor’s desk.
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