The BulleTin • Monday, May 24, 2021 A3
TODAY
Today is Monday, May 24, the
144th day of 2021. There are 221
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 24, 1935, the first major
league baseball game to be
played at night took place at
Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as
the Reds beat the Philadelphia
Phillies, 2-1.
In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse
transmitted the message
“What hath God wrought” from
Washington to Baltimore as he
formally opened America’s first
telegraph line.
In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge,
linking Brooklyn and Manhat-
tan, was dedicated by President
Chester Alan Arthur and New
York Gov. Grover Cleveland.
In 1941, the German battleship
Bismarck sank the British battle
cruiser HMS Hood in the North
Atlantic, killing all but three of
the 1,418 men on board.
In 1961, a group of Freedom
Riders was arrested after arriving
at a bus terminal in Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, charged with breaching
the peace for entering white-des-
ignated areas. (They ended up
serving 60 days in jail.)
In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpen-
ter became the second Ameri-
can to orbit the Earth as he flew
aboard Aurora 7.
In 1974, American jazz compos-
er and bandleader Duke Elling-
ton, 75, died in New York.
In 1976, Britain and France
opened trans-Atlantic Concorde
supersonic transport service to
Washington.
In 1980, Iran rejected a call by
the World Court in The Hague to
release the American hostages.
In 1991, the feminist film drama
“Thelma & Louise,” starring
Susan Sarandon (as Louise) and
Geena Davis (as Thelma), was
released by MGM.
In 1994, four Islamic fundamen-
talists convicted of bombing
New York’s World Trade Center
in 1993 were each sentenced to
240 years in prison.
In 1995, former British Prime
Minister Harold Wilson died in
London at age 79.
In 2001, 23 people were killed
when the floor of a Jerusalem
wedding hall collapsed beneath
dancing guests, sending them
plunging several stories into the
basement.
Ten years ago: Egyptian author-
ities ordered former President
Hosni Mubarak tried on charges
of corruption as well as conspir-
acy in the deadly shooting of
protesters who’d driven him from
power. (An appeals court cleared
Mubarak in the deaths of the pro-
testers; he would be sentenced
to three years in prison on the
corruption charges.) President
Barack Obama was honored
with a state dinner in London as
he continued his visit to Britain.
Oprah Winfrey taped the final
episode of her long-running talk
show.
Five years ago: Democratic
front-runner Hillary Clinton
and presumptive Republican
nominee Donald Trump each
won primaries in Washington
state. Protests outside a Donald
Trump rally in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, turned violent as
demonstrators threw burning
T-shirts, plastic bottles and other
items at police officers, over-
turned trash cans and knocked
down barricades.
One year ago: The White House
broadened its travel ban against
countries hard hit by the corona-
virus, saying it would deny ad-
mission to foreigners who had
recently been in Brazil. The New
York Times devoted its Sunday
front page to a long list of names
of those who had died of the
coronavirus in the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu went on trial on
corruption charges, becoming
the country’s first sitting prime
minister to be tried.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-co-
median-impressionist Stanley
Baxter is 95. Jazz musician
Archie Shepp is 84. Comedian
Tommy Chong is 83. Singer Bob
Dylan is 80. Singer Patti LaBelle
is 77. Actor Priscilla Presley is
76. Country singer Mike Reid is
74. Actor Jim Broadbent is 72.
Actor Alfred Molina is 68. Singer
Rosanne Cash is 66. Actor Cliff
Parisi is 61. Actor Kristin Scott
Thomas is 61. Rock musician Viv-
ian Trimble is 58. Actor John C.
Reilly is 56. Actor Dana Ashbrook
is 54. Actor Eric Close is 54. Actor
Carl Payne is 52. Rock musician
Rich Robinson is 52. Former MLB
pitcher Bartolo Colon is 48. Actor
Bryan Greenberg is 43. Actor
Owen Benjamin is 41. Actor Billy
L. Sullivan is 41. Actor-rapper
Jerod Mixon (aka Big Tyme) is 40.
Dancer-choreographer-singer
Mark Ballas is 35. Country singer
Billy Gilman is 33. Rapper/pro-
ducer G-Eazy is 32.
— Associated Press
Oregon mom turns
grief into joy, helps with
playground makeover
BY CAITLYN M. MAY
Albany Democrat-Herald
On May 6, laughter returned
to Waterloo Park. It was the last
piece of a 10,000-piece puzzle
held together by the efforts of a
community, local government
and a grieving mother.
More than a year ago, Sweet
Home resident Rachel May-
nard made several phone calls
to Linn County Parks and Rec-
reation. Waterloo Park had
been repeatedly vandalized
and there were holes in nearly
every slide and the play struc-
ture was failing. Even the tun-
nel slide had to be removed,
a blow to the Maynard boys,
Zachary and William. who
would sit at either end and yell
through the tube.
“I called again and (Linn
County Parks and Recreation
Director) Brian (Carroll) got
back to me and said, ‘Why
don’t you get involved and help
design the park?’”
Maynard’s impulsive reac-
tion was summed up in one
word: “What?”
“I was like, I can’t do that.
But they walked me through it
and after I’d been designing it
for a month, there was an open
spot on the parks board.”
Maynard joined the board,
but the May 6 reveal of the
park was much more than the
end to a journey that saw her
advocate for a safe playground
for her boys. It was a reminder
that one would not get the
chance to call through a slide
or run over the new grass area
or jump off the swings.
Tragic incident
In July, Maynard was at Lewis
Creek Park in Sweet Home with
her boys and friends when a
jet ski came crashing into the
swimming area. The driver had
lost control of the vehicle and
struck two children: Kennedy
Swenson and Zachary May-
nard, both 6.
Kennedy sustained serious
injuries to her clavicle in addi-
tion to a broken jaw. Zachary
had severe head trauma. Both
children were airlifted and
while Kennedy was discharged
three days later with a long re-
covery ahead, Zachary died at
the hospital three days after the
incident.
In November, the Linn
County District Attorney’s
Office announced it would
not charge Antonio Cassano-
va-Gonzalez, 23, of Salem, in
Forestry
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The state has appealed that
2019 verdict, but the issue at
question — whether to manage
state forests for multiple out-
comes, including conservation,
or primarily for timber harvests
— goes to the heart of the state’s
forestry debate and urban-rural
divide. Meanwhile, the agency
is working on another contro-
versial plan to adopt hard, fed-
erally supervised conservation
commitments on state forests.
And it is facing big debates over
forest carbon policy.
The agency also regulates
logging on private forestland in
the state. But it has been rele-
gated to a bystander in that de-
bate as conservation groups and
the timber products industry
are looking to negotiate their
own accord governing conser-
vation rules on those lands.
While most directors of state
departments report directly
to Oregon’s governor, forestry
is one of a handful whose top
official is overseen by an inde-
pendent board.
Gov. Kate Brown finally suc-
ceeded this spring in remaking
the Board of Forestry after sev-
eral failed attempts to get nomi-
nees confirmed amid opposition
from lawmakers in timber de-
pendent counties. Not long after,
Daugherty resigned. But deep
questions about the board’s ef-
fectiveness remain, even as law-
makers consider pumping $75
million more into the agency’s
budget to bolster its wildfire re-
sponse and mitigation activities.
Jim Kelly, the board’s recently
appointed chair, acknowledged
those concerns in a letter sent
May 17 to Taylor, who has ques-
tioned whether the state even
the incident. He was not un-
der the influence a the time
but had removed his life jacket,
which was equipped with a
safety switch to stop the jet ski.
In doing so, he placed it over
the handle bars of the water-
craft, which caused enough
pressure on the throttle to accel-
erate the vehicle and throw off
Cassanova-Gonzalez. No longer
wearing the life jacket, he had
no way to stop the vehicle as it
took off toward the beach.
Zachary will not get a chance
to play on the new play structure
but his little brother William is a
constant presence there.
“He thinks it’s his park,” Ra-
chel Maynard said. “The first
few visits he said, “Mommy why
are there kids on my Waterloo?’”
With sidewalks to access the
structure, ADA-compliant ac-
cessibility and several new fea-
tures, the Waterloo project cost
about $141,000 according to
Carroll.
A lot of that money, he said,
came from the county’s tran-
sient lodging tax.
“It was a great way to be able
to spend that money,” Maynard
said, adding that the experi-
ence of designing the park ex-
ceeded her expectations.
When the structure first ar-
rived, she said, it was in about
10,000 pieces and she and Wil-
liam would go about once a
week to check on the progress.
“The staff for county parks
went above and beyond,” she
said. “They pieced it together
at the shop and there were
parts everywhere.”
So many parts, Carroll said,
that it took days to inventory
them to ensure everything had
arrived safely.
“It’s beautiful,” Maynard said
of the park. “It’s for kids 2 to 12
and you can see your kids from
every angle of the park which
is big for me as a mom.”
On May 6 when Maynard
stood before a small crowd to
open the park, she noted it had
been one of Zachary’s favorite
places. But his memory and
the changes that have been im-
plemented will extend beyond
the park.
Carroll said Maynard’s ef-
forts have helped tremen-
dously in adding to the com-
munity.
“We appreciate the effort Ra-
chel and the community put
into that play structure and
making sure it happened,” he
said.
needs the citizen board.
Kelly told the senator that the
department was as at a cross-
roads and needed big structural
and cultural changes.
“I understand that there are
arguments favoring not pour-
ing money and resources into
a Department with such chal-
lenges,” he said. “It is true that
we have not had a strong his-
tory of financial oversight of
the Department. I would be
the first to agree with legisla-
tors who have proposed that
we should seriously look at a
different form of governance.”
But he said the board had
new members who bring high-
level financial expertise and
business acumen, and that they
were committed to fundamen-
tal changes at the agency.
“As chair I commit to no lon-
ger allowing the Department to
snow the Board with ‘We have
got it all under control’ mes-
sages,” he wrote. “The Board of
Forestry is a volunteer board,
and in my view the Department
has a long history of ‘managing’
the Board. My commitment
is to change that dynamic so
all Oregonians can have confi-
dence in the Department.”
At Thursday’s board meet-
ing, members discussed the
qualifications they’re look-
ing for in both an interim
and permanent successor to
Daugherty. The board wants
to move quickly on an interim
leader, and it plans to circulate
a résumé of one candidate to
board members as soon as this
week. But Kelly acknowledged
the new bill circulating and
said the board’s role might be
relegated to consulting on the
permanent replacement if that
authority is transferred to the
governor’s office.