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SPORTS PULLOUT, A5-8
Jefferson County offers own $10,000 vaccine prizes
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
Jefferson County commission-
ers are hoping a $10,000 incentive
will prompt more residents to get a
COVID-19 vaccination.
Commissioners approved
$10,000 vaccine lottery prizes to
11 residents, totaling $110,000.
The prizes are in addition to the
state’s plan to award one resident
in each county $10,000 for receiv-
ing at least the first dose of the vac-
cine. Final approval of the Jefferson
County plan, however, must come
from the state.
“Our board looked at it as an op-
portunity to keep the money local,”
said Kelly Simmelink, Jefferson
County commissioner.
INSIDE • Free beer, other new incentives
for Biden’s “vaccine sprint,” A11
how to award the $10,000 prizes
to the 11 additional winners,
Simmelink said. The county
hopes the winners will be drawn
at the same time as those in the
state’s Take Your Shot Oregon
Campaign, which will award
one Oregonian, 18 and older,
$1 million.
The funds come from a
$220,400 grant Jefferson County
received from the state to provide
vaccine incentives and planning.
The remaining funds will go to the
county health department.
The county is still determining
See Lottery / A4
BEND ELKS | VINCE GENNA STADIUM | THURSDAY NIGHT
Man faces
charges in
separate
stabbings
While in prison, Oregon man
allegedly attacked a relative
convicted of child molestation
THE
WAIT IS
FINALLY
OVER
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Dean Guernsey/Bulletin photos
BY BRIAN RATHBONE • The Bulletin
K
CROOK COUNTY INMATE’S
ATTEMPTED MURDER CASES
elsie Hirko hurriedly sorted hot dog buns and packed bags of peanuts Tuesday
at Bend’s Vince Genna Stadium. The Bend Elks co-owner was helping the
stadium get game-ready for the first time in nearly two years, as food and drinks
arrived to fill the concession stands ahead of Thursday night’s season opener.
Bend Elks head coach Kyle Nobach,
left, talks with third baseman
Eunsang Yu, of Seattle, in the Bend
Fieldhouse at Vince Genna Stadium on
Tuesday in Bend.
Bend Elks player Jake Snyder, of
Bellevue, Washington, practices
pitching at Vince Genna.
Around 6:45 a.m. June 20, Daniel Chris-
topher Bean was eating breakfast in a din-
ing hall at Snake River Correctional Insti-
tution when his nephew approached him
from behind and stabbed him more than
30 times with a 7-inch
metal shank.
Bean, a child molester
serving a 118-year sen-
tence, would need sta-
ples, stiches and sutures
to repair 11 separate in-
juries to his head, neck
Myers
and hands.
The Malheur County
District Attorney charged Nicholas Wil-
liam Myers with attempted murder for
his alleged attack on Bean. But despite
a record of violence as an inmate — he
was convicted of shanking an inmate in
2018 and throwing hot water on a guard
in 2016 — Myers was allowed to post bail
after his prison sentence concluded six
months later.
See Stabbings / A4
Legislature
nears the exit
with a flood
of legislation
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
“It is starting to feel real,” Hirko said. “We
are in a lot of last-minute crunch mode. But
we are excited to play baseball again.”
The Elks will take the field for the first time
since August 2019, making their long-awaited
return with their first of 31 regular season
home games. They’ll face NW Star Academy
Thursday at 6:35 p.m.
The Elks, who play in the college wood-
bat West Coast League against teams from
throughout the Northwest, have a new coach
this season. Kyle Nobach, a starting outfielder
for the 2018 national championship Oregon
State University team, was hired in late 2019
to lead the Elks, and is finally ready to make
his head coaching debut in Bend.
“I’m very excited about it,” Nobach said.
“You get to connect with a bunch of kids. I
wish I could put on the uni again. The com-
“It is starting to feel real.
We are in a lot of
last-minute crunch mode.
But we are excited to play
baseball again.”
— Kelsie Hirko, Elks co-owner
petition is what you miss, and that is why I
am excited to compete again.”
The Elks squad for Thursday’s game will
not be the same team that takes the field
throughout the course of the 10-week season.
A handful of prospective 2021 Elks are still
playing in the postseason with their respective
college teams.
Jordan Donahue, Gavin Logan, Greg Fuchs
as well as assistant coach Joey Wong are still
with Oregon State, while RJ Gordon and
Bryce Boettcher are still playing for the Uni-
versity of Oregon.
The Beavers play in the Fort Worth, Texas,
Regional starting Friday, and the Ducks play
in the Eugene Regional, also starting Friday.
But Nobach said he would not mind if the
players suiting up for his alma mater do not
make it to Bend until July due to making a
deep postseason run — a common occur-
rence while he was playing for the Beavers.
Because many of the players have yet to ar-
rive in Bend after a short rest from the college
season, the team is currently made up mostly
of players who signed 10-day contracts.
See Elks / A4
“Sine die is imminent,” declared Senate
President Peter Courtney on Tuesday, us-
ing one of the secret decoder ring-needed
terms of the Oregon Legislature.
Translation: We’re almost through for
2021.
But not so close you can’t pop a
last-minute bill into the hopper, which
Courtney did Tuesday morning with a bill
to ban horse racing in Oregon.
With just 25 days left before the Oregon
Constitution requires the Legislature to shut
down the 2021 session, Courtney’s dual ac-
tions reflected the frenzy of sometimes con-
trary activity in the House and Senate.
A day after Salem hit a record 96 de-
grees, the House and Senate were back to
turn up the heat on the pace of legal man-
ufacturing.
Gov. Kate Brown was signing bills at a
steady pace, including a new concealed
weapons ban for the Capitol. The an-
nouncement came as the Secretary of
State’s Office issued a notification of a pro-
posed referendum for the 2022 ballot that
would undo the law.
The House had 78 bills and resolutions
scheduled for a final vote on Wednes-
day. House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Port-
land, called a double session, with House
members called to the floor at 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Committee meetings began at
8 a.m., with some scheduled to start as late
as 5:30 p.m.
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Partly sunny
High 89, Low 53
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