A12 The BulleTin • Thursday, June 3, 2021
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TODAY
FRIDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
89°
LOW
53°
Partly sunny and very
warm
Partly sunny and very
warm
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
97°
69° 97° in 2021
64°
40° 22° in 1902
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.43" in 1993
Month to date (normal)
0.00" (0.07")
Year to date (normal)
2.15" (5.09")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.93"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Fri.
Sun
5:24am/8:43pm 5:24am/8:44pm
Moon
2:35am/2:14pm 2:55am/3:17pm
Mercury 6:12am/9:25pm 6:08am/9:18pm
Venus
6:34am/10:10pm 6:35am/10:12pm
Mars
8:27am/11:43pm 8:26am/11:41pm
Jupiter 1:15am/11:50am 1:11am/11:46am
Saturn 12:28am/10:14am 12:24am/10:10am
Uranus
3:52am/6:01pm 3:48am/5:58pm
New
First
Full
Last
Jun 10
Jun 17
Jun 24
Jul 1
Tonight's sky: Just below the bowl of the Big
Dipper and above Leo's head is constellation
of Leo Minor.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
9
9
5
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
MONDAY
72°
40°
Sunny and cooler but
pleasant
EAST: Breezy and
hot Thursday with
some sunshine. An
afternoon shower or
brief thunderstorm will
move through.
CENTRAL: Sunny to
partly cloudy, breezy
and hot Thursday.
There will be a brief
afternoon shower in
parts of the area.
WEST: Mostly sunny
and not as warm
Thursday. Fair and
comfortable at night.
Partly sunny and
pleasant Friday.
70°
38°
Mostly sunny
Times of clouds and sun
Astoria
63/48
Partly sunny with a shower
possible
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47821
86%
Wickiup
65485
33%
Crescent Lake
24694
28%
Ochoco Reservoir
9623
22%
Prineville
79986
54%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
120
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1380
Deschutes R. below Bend
123
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1620
Little Deschutes near La Pine
82
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
16
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
10
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
242
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
45
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
11
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: USDA Forest Service
Delta-8
Continued from A11
The effort by industry lead-
ers to rein in the booming but
unchecked sector comes as
chemists and health advocates
sound alarms over potentially
dangerous contaminants,
such as lead and arsenic, and
unpredictable potency levels
in some commercially avail-
able products. Two tests of
Delta-8 samples — one by the
U.S. Cannabis Council trade
group and another commis-
sioned by Bloomberg News
— found high levels of intox-
icants in several of the prod-
ucts, as well as metals in some
of them.
Delta-8 is particularly con-
cerning to some scientists be-
cause it can be easy to make.
Poison control centers are
seeing an uptick in incidents
related to Delta-8, and many
health workers don’t know
what the substance is or how
best to treat patients suffering
ill effects, said Christopher
Holstege, director of the Blue
Ridge Poison Center in Char-
lottesville, Virginia. “We’ve
had at least 10 calls in the last
couple of months, and a cou-
ple of people hospitalized.”
Some of the industry’s larg-
est cannabis operators are
worried that contaminated
and dangerous items could
torpedo an otherwise prom-
ising line of products, which
some big-name companies
already offer or are planning
to introduce. On top of the
health concerns, unregu-
“The states have got to get
their hands around this.”
— Boris Jordan, executive chairman of Curaleaf Holdings Inc.
lated Delta-8 risks becoming
a competitive threat to their
existing offerings, sold in
states they can’t get into, and
it’s undercutting their prices
by avoiding license fees, taxes
and quality testing.
Regulators “should look to
clamp down and stop this un-
regulated market,” said Steve
Hawkins, interim chief execu-
tive officer of the U.S. Canna-
bis Council. The council has
already consulted with state
governments on Delta-8, he
said, and it will step up efforts
this week to encourage the
U.S. Food and Drug Adminis-
tration and the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration to take
action.
Boris Jordan, executive
chairman of Curaleaf Hold-
ings Inc., one of the industry’s
biggest companies, compared
the situation to the vape cri-
sis from a couple years ago,
when black-market products
caused lung illnesses, souring
regulators on even approved
products.
“The states have got to get
their hands around this,” he
said.
‘THC Light’
Delta-8 tetrahydrocannab-
inol is a naturally occurring
compound found in low lev-
els in marijuana plants. The
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
79/60/0.10
Akron
70/58/0.08
Albany
74/46/0.19
Albuquerque
82/58/Tr
Anchorage
57/45/0.00
Atlanta
81/64/0.00
Atlantic City
76/59/0.01
Austin
86/66/0.00
Baltimore
81/62/0.00
Billings
88/56/0.00
Birmingham
86/69/0.16
Bismarck
90/50/0.00
Boise
96/63/0.00
Boston
79/58/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 74/56/Tr
Buffalo
79/53/Tr
Burlington, VT
82/54/0.00
Caribou, ME
78/47/0.00
Charleston, SC 85/68/Tr
Charlotte
81/66/Tr
Chattanooga
79/67/0.06
Cheyenne
74/46/0.00
Chicago
78/55/0.00
Cincinnati
67/62/0.57
Cleveland
68/58/0.30
Colorado Springs 73/47/0.00
Columbia, MO
74/60/0.00
Columbia, SC
85/62/0.01
Columbus, GA
87/63/0.00
Columbus, OH
68/62/0.14
Concord, NH
83/44/0.00
Corpus Christi
90/69/Tr
Dallas
83/60/Tr
Dayton
66/60/0.91
Denver
75/49/0.00
Des Moines
82/54/0.00
Detroit
67/58/0.53
Duluth
76/56/0.06
El Paso
94/62/Tr
Fairbanks
67/45/0.02
Fargo
90/52/Tr
Flagstaff
79/41/0.00
Grand Rapids
78/50/0.00
Green Bay
81/56/0.00
Greensboro
79/62/Tr
Harrisburg
78/63/0.00
Hartford, CT
82/50/0.01
Helena
92/54/0.00
Honolulu
87/74/0.00
Houston
91/69/1.89
Huntsville
81/64/1.64
Indianapolis
70/60/0.55
Jackson, MS
86/72/1.46
Jacksonville
87/63/Tr
Today
Hi/Lo/W
77/63/t
71/61/t
72/61/t
83/62/c
58/48/pc
84/68/t
70/64/t
79/67/t
82/67/t
95/66/s
82/66/t
95/63/s
100/67/s
71/65/sh
69/62/t
69/60/t
72/63/t
70/58/sh
80/71/t
82/66/t
81/65/t
79/53/s
85/65/pc
72/60/t
72/60/t
77/54/t
79/60/pc
81/67/t
87/68/t
73/60/t
75/62/sh
84/69/t
81/68/t
71/60/t
82/56/s
84/61/pc
76/59/c
80/58/pc
89/64/pc
69/53/c
94/64/pc
80/48/pc
82/59/pc
85/62/pc
77/65/t
78/65/t
72/63/t
94/63/s
86/74/pc
83/71/t
81/62/t
71/58/pc
84/68/t
85/68/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
76/56/t
78/64/s
62/47/pc
105/75/pc
100/83/pc
81/55/s
78/68/s
77/57/pc
68/52/t
73/53/pc
65/57/pc
88/74/s
88/65/pc
89/55/s
89/79/s
65/46/sh
62/47/pc
78/60/t
76/49/s
92/84/t
67/58/pc
74/57/s
58/38/s
67/61/s
68/54/pc
74/57/pc
86/58/pc
90/85/t
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
79/64/t
81/64/pc
76/58/t
83/62/pc
56/47/c
84/68/t
70/63/t
78/66/t
82/63/t
94/61/pc
85/66/t
101/65/s
94/61/s
76/64/t
72/61/t
76/64/pc
81/62/pc
78/55/c
85/71/t
85/64/t
85/63/t
85/58/s
88/68/pc
81/62/pc
82/66/pc
83/59/s
84/63/s
85/66/t
86/68/t
81/61/pc
81/58/pc
80/70/t
81/67/t
82/63/pc
87/59/s
88/67/s
83/64/pc
89/68/s
90/66/c
69/50/c
100/68/s
81/48/pc
84/64/pc
88/69/s
83/62/t
80/61/t
75/60/t
89/56/pc
86/75/pc
79/70/t
84/63/t
82/62/pc
83/69/t
88/69/t
molecule is almost identical to
that of Delta-9 THC — com-
monly known as just “THC,”
the main psychoactive com-
pound in marijuana — and
some users say Delta-8 offers
a more-relaxing, “THC-light”
kind of high.
Delta-8 products are sold in
gas stations and smoke shops
across the country, falling in
a gray area of U.S. law. Under
the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp —
cannabis containing less than
0.3% THC content — can be
transported and sold within
the country. CBD, an increas-
ingly popular cannabinoid ex-
tracted from hemp, is allowed
as well, but there was little
said about the dozens of other
compounds that can be ex-
tracted, such as Delta-8.
Some companies and law-
yers therefore argue Delta-8 is
legal because it can be derived
from CBD, which is made
from hemp. Others say it de-
pends on the interpretation of
a DEA rule over “synthetically
derived” cannabinoids, which
are illegal.
Given the ambiguity, com-
panies are taking a risk by
selling the products, said
Laura Bianchi, a partner at
cannabis-focused law firm Bi-
anchi & Brandt. Manufactur-
ers “could face some enforce-
ment action from the DEA or
consequences from another
agency such as the FDA.”
When asked about the
products, the FDA referred
questions to the DEA, which
wouldn’t go into detail about
Delta-8 because it said it’s cur-
rently in the rule-making pro-
cess regarding how the Farm
Bill has been implemented.
“There is a lot to learn about
the impacts of marijuana and
its chemical constituents,” the
agency said.
Legal questions aren’t
hurting demand. U.S. sales
in April of products listing
Delta-8 soared 144% from a
year earlier, according to can-
nabis data provider Headset.
Unexpected Substances
The lack of oversight in this
relatively new market is rais-
ing concerns about what un-
expected and potentially dan-
gerous substances are ending
up in commercially available
products.
The U.S. Cannabis Council
said it tested 16 Delta-8 prod-
ucts from vendors across the
U.S. and found that all but one
of them exceeded the allow-
able level of THC. On average,
they had more than 10 times
the legal limit. Seven of the
samples also exceeded lim-
its on metals such as copper,
chromium or nickel.
“This represents a major
consumer safety issue, posing
dangers greater than the ‘vape
crisis’ of 2019,” the group said
in a report it plans to release
this week, a copy of which was
viewed by Bloomberg News.
79/57/0.00
79/61/0.00
58/45/0.06
107/82/0.00
100/84/0.00
80/61/0.00
79/67/0.00
75/52/0.14
68/50/0.12
72/46/0.00
63/55/0.02
91/76/0.00
90/70/0.00
86/55/Tr
88/73/0.14
64/50/0.05
62/49/0.00
70/57/0.08
71/53/0.00
90/84/0.00
63/55/0.02
78/60/0.00
55/35/0.00
67/63/Tr
67/54/0.02
81/55/0.00
82/54/0.00
86/81/0.46
75/58/pc
80/63/s
61/49/pc
107/77/pc
100/82/pc
83/58/s
78/68/s
76/61/pc
65/51/t
76/54/pc
65/58/sh
89/73/s
88/66/s
79/46/pc
90/80/pc
64/49/c
63/46/pc
79/60/pc
68/43/pc
91/80/t
69/58/c
74/58/s
57/35/s
67/61/s
71/56/s
66/53/pc
84/58/t
92/84/t
Freebies
Continued from A11
Other new incentives include
a $2 million commitment from
DoorDash to provide gift cards
to community health centers
to be used to drive people to
get vaccinated. CVS launched a
sweepstakes with prizes includ-
ing free cruises and Super Bowl
tickets. Major League Baseball
will host on-site vaccine clinics
and ticket giveaways at games.
And Kroger will give $1 mil-
lion to a vaccinated person
each week this month and doz-
ens of people free groceries for
the year.
Oregon and four other states
are holding vaccine-incentive
lotteries, similar to one in Ohio.
Additionally, the White
House is partnering with early
childhood centers such as
KinderCare, Learning Care
Group, Bright Horizons and
more than 500 YMCAs to pro-
vide free child care coverage for
Americans looking for shots or
needing assistance while recov-
ering from side effects.
The administration is also
launching a new partnership
to bring vaccine education
and even doses to more than
a thousand Black-owned bar-
bershops and beauty salons,
building on a successful pilot
program in Maryland.
“The fact remains that de-
spite all the progress, those who
are unvaccinated still remain
Cyberattack
Continued from A11
Visit Bend
Continued from A11
Tillamook County will re-
develop the parking lot in
Pacific City and a mountain
bike trail in Coos Bay will be
developed, Dugan said.
“We wanted to fund
enough meaningful proj-
ects and enough projects to
have meaning,” Dugan said.
“There will be flexibility. We
wanted to start with a mean-
ingful dollar amount and
grow it as we go.”
Over the years the market-
ing nonprofit has attempted
to address the impact of
tourism on recreational ar-
eas. It launched a Visit Like
a Local initiative and Pledge
for the Wild, which took do-
nations from visitors who
wanted to support recre-
ational areas.
For years Visit Bend has
funded the marketing of cul-
tural tourism with 7.5% of
its annual budget. This year
that’s $340,000.
The transient room tax
funds Visit Bend’s marketing
effort to promote tourism in
Bend. Since the start of the
pandemic, the group has not
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
56/50/1.11
78/55/0.00
77/50/0.03
107/81/0.00
67/62/0.26
83/47/Tr
79/67/1.23
73/60/0.00
70/63/0.82
80/49/0.00
83/68/1.10
86/76/0.62
75/54/0.00
84/60/Tr
74/65/1.19
88/75/0.15
75/62/0.00
79/60/Tr
81/62/0.07
75/55/Tr
84/51/0.00
89/71/Tr
106/78/0.00
79/55/0.00
79/61/0.00
106/80/0.00
69/59/0.08
79/47/0.00
76/55/0.00
81/60/1.81
82/48/0.00
97/63/0.00
82/59/0.04
78/51/Tr
93/58/0.00
73/63/0.03
91/62/0.00
86/69/0.07
71/62/0.00
67/53/0.00
74/56/0.00
79/47/Tr
82/67/1.52
85/60/0.00
83/51/0.00
94/64/0.00
66/59/0.21
90/74/0.31
101/71/0.00
76/58/0.13
81/64/0.00
76/61/0.06
100/57/0.00
105/76/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
51/45/r
81/62/pc
81/58/pc
106/81/s
72/58/t
86/62/pc
82/63/pc
77/62/pc
75/61/t
84/64/pc
81/65/c
86/78/sh
82/65/pc
86/67/pc
78/62/t
85/74/t
73/66/t
79/67/t
81/70/t
80/60/pc
85/64/pc
88/73/t
108/77/s
82/60/pc
79/67/t
106/81/s
70/60/t
68/60/sh
69/63/t
78/68/t
86/59/s
97/63/s
78/68/t
71/60/t
94/60/s
81/64/pc
96/68/s
79/69/t
69/62/c
68/55/pc
79/57/pc
80/53/t
83/69/t
73/52/pc
90/63/pc
91/59/s
75/56/pc
89/75/t
101/72/pc
82/63/pc
81/69/t
81/61/pc
95/57/pc
104/70/s
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
58/46/r
86/67/s
83/65/pc
107/79/s
80/58/s
92/67/s
85/66/t
80/61/pc
84/62/pc
87/68/s
84/68/pc
88/79/t
85/68/s
94/74/s
82/62/pc
84/74/t
76/64/t
80/64/t
82/67/t
82/63/t
92/69/s
87/73/t
107/77/s
85/63/s
81/64/t
106/80/pc
78/61/t
76/58/pc
73/62/t
83/65/t
95/62/s
95/60/s
83/63/t
81/63/pc
92/54/s
86/67/s
99/69/s
78/68/t
70/62/pc
67/54/pc
78/53/pc
82/53/t
87/70/t
69/53/pc
95/69/s
82/52/s
80/61/s
87/75/t
101/71/pc
85/66/t
81/65/t
84/64/s
86/51/s
106/70/s
110/89/0.00
71/56/0.07
81/57/0.04
68/48/0.00
75/57/0.00
84/72/0.82
97/77/0.00
82/68/0.00
72/46/0.00
81/50/0.00
81/59/0.02
81/70/0.00
74/55/0.00
73/48/0.00
79/58/0.00
72/50/0.00
86/59/0.00
75/71/0.11
90/82/0.06
69/45/0.00
70/54/0.04
94/79/0.00
78/69/0.00
77/64/0.00
77/55/0.02
82/57/0.00
72/46/0.00
70/50/0.00
109/81/s
70/56/t
69/61/r
68/52/c
76/56/pc
86/76/pc
96/79/t
82/71/pc
70/51/sh
69/58/sh
79/62/t
83/72/s
78/56/pc
73/46/pc
77/59/pc
74/62/pc
73/58/r
85/65/t
90/80/sh
69/45/pc
61/56/sh
98/81/pc
78/67/s
78/68/pc
71/58/t
68/52/pc
75/54/pc
72/54/c
105/81/s
68/55/t
81/62/c
72/52/s
76/57/pc
86/77/t
97/80/pc
77/65/r
71/52/pc
82/61/pc
70/57/sh
79/70/s
79/58/s
63/45/pc
78/60/pc
64/52/r
74/60/s
80/66/pc
89/79/t
69/49/pc
67/48/pc
92/79/sh
78/67/s
75/68/r
82/63/sh
64/52/r
78/57/pc
73/55/pc
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 118°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 27°
at West Yellowstone,
MT
Precipitation: 4.77"
at Fort Myers, FL
FIRE INDEX
Very high
Very high
Very high
Very high
Very high
Variably cloudy with a
shower possible
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today
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Today
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City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
71/54/0.00 63/48/pc 63/50/pc
La Grande
94/55/0.00 88/57/t
83/48/s
Portland
90/66/0.00 79/51/pc 77/54/pc
Baker City
92/45/0.00 90/54/t
85/44/s
La Pine
95/46/0.00 86/47/pc 79/42/pc
Prineville
95/52/0.00 92/54/pc 79/46/pc
Brookings
59/50/Tr
63/49/pc 63/47/pc
Medford
97/69/0.00 93/59/s 89/52/pc
Redmond
99/54/0.00 90/51/pc 85/44/s
Burns
96/51/0.00 93/55/t
89/47/s
Newport
59/54/Tr
59/47/pc 58/49/pc
Roseburg
94/61/0.00 84/54/pc 81/50/pc
Eugene
91/60/0.00 82/49/pc 78/49/pc
North Bend
64/53/0.00 63/51/pc 63/50/pc
Salem
92/60/0.00 83/50/pc 79/52/pc
Klamath Falls
95/51/0.00 89/49/s 86/41/pc
Ontario
99/60/0.00 101/71/c 97/63/s
Sisters
90/51/0.00 88/53/pc 83/47/s
Lakeview
93/47/0.00 91/53/t
87/47/pc
Pendleton
100/59/0.00 94/60/t
87/53/s
The Dalles
98/66/0.00 90/60/pc 83/56/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
69°
44°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
99/63
Rufus
Hermiston
85/58
99/64
92/63
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
94/60
79/45 79/51
87/51
Wasco
90/54 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
89/52
88/60
94/60
Sandy
90/60
McMinnville
66/45
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
77/49
Maupin
Government
81/46
88/57
90/54
Camp
91/58 Condon 88/56
Union
Lincoln City
84/54
69/46
89/55
Salem
61/46
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
83/50
Madras
92/54
Albany
84/53
Newport
Baker City
90/54
91/54
Mitchell
59/47
79/46
90/54
Camp Sherman
87/53
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
87/54
90/51
76/47
Day
Prineville
59/47
91/55
Ontario
Sisters
92/54
Paulina
91/55
101/71
Florence
Eugene 88/53
Bend Brothers 90/50
Vale
63/49
82/49
89/53
86/49
Sunriver
102/73
Nyssa
88/52
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
103/74
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
86/47
89/50
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
99/60
82/52
83/52
Fort
Rock
64/48
93/55
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
89/50
92/56
High: 102°
85/46
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Hermiston
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
62/50
84/54
91/50
94/56
Low: 43°
Marsh
Lake
94/55
Port Orford
86/45
91/50
at Meacham
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
65/51
Pass
97/64
Chiloquin
93/53
93/56
Rome
Medford
86/51
Gold Beach
93/59
99/63
61/50
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
98/60
89/58
89/49
97/57
63/49
91/53
Seaside
63/47
Cannon Beach
61/47
WEDNESDAY
67°
41°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
TUESDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Very high
SUNDAY
70°
41°
84°
47°
Mostly clear and mild
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
SATURDAY
marketed the region. From
July through March the city
of Bend collected $7.5 mil-
lion in transient room tax,
which is 0.6% less than the
same time the year before.
According to state law,
70% of the transient room
tax goes to the city’s general
fund to pay for things like
police or firefighters.
Bend city Councilor
Anthony Broadman said
amending the law to allow
for funding of tourism-re-
lated facilities has been a fo-
cus of his because the com-
munity will benefit as well.
“This allows us as a com-
munity who live here to ben-
efit more from the taxes the
city collects from tourists,”
Broadman said. “By the vir-
tue of the travel industry
and Visit Bend and the city
all working together right
out the gate, we’ve achieved
something so important.
“The people of Bend will
benefit from tourism-related
facilities more than they ever
would benefit from the tran-
sient room tax as a promo-
tional tool.”
e e
Reporter: 541-633-2117,
sroig@bendbulletin.com
The attack targeted servers
supporting JBS’s operations in
North America and Austra-
lia. Backup servers weren’t af-
fected and the company said it
was not aware of any customer,
supplier or employee data be-
ing compromised.
JBS said late Tuesday that it
had made “significant prog-
ress” and expected the “vast
majority” of its plants to be op-
erating Wednesday.
It is not known if JBS paid a
ransom. The company hasn’t
discussed it in public state-
ments, and did not respond
to phone and email messages
Wednesday seeking comment.
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
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Singapore
Stockholm
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at risk of getting seriously ill or
dying or spreading the disease
to others,” said Rowe.
Aiming to make injections
even more convenient, Biden
is announcing that many
pharmacies are extending
their hours this month — and
thousands will remain open
overnight on Fridays. The
White House is also stepping
up its efforts to help employ-
ers run on-site vaccination
clinics.
About 63% of the adult U.S.
population have received at
least one dose of a COVID-19
vaccine and 133.9 million are
fully vaccinated. The rate of
new vaccinations has slowed
to an average below 555,000
per day, down from more than
800,000 when incentives like
lotteries were announced, and
down from a peak of nearly 2
million per day in early April
when demand for shots was
much higher.
The lengths to which the
U.S. is resorting to convince
Americans to take a shot stands
in contrast to much of the
world, where vaccines are far
less plentiful. Facing a mount-
ing U.S. surplus, the Biden
administration is planning to
begin sharing 80 million doses
with the world this month.
“All over the world peo-
ple are desperate to get a shot
that every American can get at
their neighborhood drugstore,”
Biden said.
The FBI and the White
House declined to comment
on the ransom. White House
Press Secretary Jen Psaki said
Wednesday the U.S. is con-
sidering all options in dealing
with the attack.
“I can assure you that we are
raising this through the highest
levels of the U.S. government,”
she said.
JBS is the second-largest
producer of beef, pork and
chicken in the U.S. If it were to
shut down for even one day,
the U.S. would lose almost a
quarter of its beef-processing
capacity, or the equivalent of
20,000 beef cows, according to
Trey Malone, an assistant pro-
fessor of agriculture at Michi-
gan State University.