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Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 TUESDAY • June 1, 2021 SPORTS PULLOUT, A5-8 Graduation season Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles about exceptional high school graduates in the class of 2021 across Central Oregon. OSU-CASCADES Agriculture is her passion: Redmond senior is also an FFA officer 5 soon-to-be grads hope to bring women into computer science BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin O n June 13, five women are ex- pected to earn bachelor’s de- grees in computer science from Oregon State University-Cascades. Although these women have differing backgrounds, they had three things in common. All of them were looking for a second career after their initial paths fizzled — they didn’t step onto campus straight out of high school. None had ever studied computer programming before. And all five realized they were walk- ing into a field with very few women — or other people who aren’t cisgen- der white men — in it. They want to fix that. BY JACKSON HOGAN The Bulletin K ylie Baldwin’s love of agriculture comes naturally. The Redmond High School se- nior has lived on a farm her whole life. Baldwin’s a beekeeper and also helps her family raise goats. She’s been involved in either 4-H or Future Farmers of America, since she was 5. Baldwin hopes to become an agriculture teacher and educate future generations about the importance of farms. “I think it’s so important for students to not have unanswered questions about what’s put on their plate,” said Baldwin, 17. “Agriculture feeds us three meals a day, and puts fuel in our vehicles.” Submitted photo Redmond High School senior Kylie Baldwin. See Graduate / A4 Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Clockwise from bottom, Shayla Lane, Kristen Orue, Adrianna Guevarra, Marji Simonds and Natashia White are expecting to graduate with computer science degrees from OSU-Cascades. See OSU-Cascades / A4 SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PORTLAND SACRIFICES REMEMBERED Anarchy and crime: Twin crises hijack a movement BY SCOTT WILSON The Washington Post The church, on the edge of Portland , was built to hold thousands, and on this drizzly day the pews of Mannahouse were filled with hundreds of mourners, scattered through- out the broad, high-ceilinged chamber to comply with pan- demic rules. Nearly all of them were Black. They had gathered to me- morialize Jalon Yoakum, 33, who had been killed in a pizza restaurant parking lot this month. Portland is a w hite city, over- whelmingly so — African Americans account for just 6% of the population. But it is Black people such as Yoakum, an as- piring union electrician, who are dying at near-historic rates and filling churches with grief. On May 12, Yoakum, a fa- ther of two young boys, be- came the city’s 30th homicide victim this year. That is five times more than were recorded during the same period in 2020, a frightening pace that could see more slayings here by the end of the year than in the past four decades. After months of social-justice activism that made Portland a vivid, sometimes violent fo- cal point for a nation debating the same issues around police accountability and reform, the movement here has splintered into bickering groups, at odds over tactics, goals and an overall direction for how to make the city safer, with the police force still at the debate’s bitter center. The sharpening conflict be- tween rising violent crime and efforts to reduce the size of police departments has played out across the American West throughout this pandemic year. Above, Jean Stark, of Redmond, and her sister, Shirley Ludlow, of Prineville, place flowers on their parents’ graves following a Memorial Day service at Deschutes Memorial Gardens in Bend on Monday. CENTRAL OREGONIANS TURN OUT IN GREATER NUMBERS THIS YEAR FOR A BEND MEMORIAL AS PANDEMIC CONTINUES Bulletin staff report pandemic is not a valid enough reason for Bob Cusick to not recognize the valor of veterans. On Monday, he and about 100 people gathered at the Deschutes Memorial Garden to pay homage to Central Oregon’s veterans. Cusick, a Bend resident and commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1643, may have modified some of the traditions, like eliminating the poppy march, but nothing was going to get in the way of the recognition veterans deserved, he said. A See Memorial / A4 “I’m not going to let COVID-19 stop our Memorial Day service. Our country’s freedom wouldn’t be here were it not for our veterans who were killed in action.” — Bob Cusick, a U.S. Marine Corp Vietnam veteran and Honor Guard member. Pictured above, veterans prepare a rifle salute during the Memorial Day service at Deschutes Memorial Gardens. Dean Guernsey/Bulletin photos TODAY’S WEATHER INDEX Business Classifieds Comics A11 A13 A9-10 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A7 A8 A7 Kid Scoop Local/State Lottery A12 A2-3 A6 Obituaries Puzzles Sports A4 A10 A5-7 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 14 pages, 1 section DAILY Sunny High 97, Low 60 Page A14 See Portland / A13 U|xaIICGHy02329lz[
