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TODAY
Today is Thursday, June 3, the
154th day of 2021. There are 211
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 3, 1989, Iran’s spiritual
leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, died. On the same
day, Chinese army troops began
their sweep of Beijing to crush
student-led pro-democracy
demonstrations.
In 1621, the Dutch West India
Co. received its charter for a
trade monopoly in parts of the
Americas and Africa.
In 1861, Illinois Sen. Stephen
A. Douglas, the Democratic
presidential nominee in the
1860 election, died in Chicago of
typhoid fever; he was 48.
In 1937, Edward, The Duke of
Windsor, who had abdicated the
British throne, married Wallis
Simpson in a private ceremony
in Monts, France.
In 1943, Los Angeles saw the
beginning of its “Zoot Suit Riots”
as white servicemen clashed
with young Latinos wearing dis-
tinctive-looking zoot suits; the
violence finally ended when mil-
itary officials declared the city
off limits to enlisted personnel.
In 1948, the 200-inch reflecting
Hale Telescope at the Palomar
Mountain Observatory in Cali-
fornia was dedicated.
In 1962, Air France Flight 007, a
U.S.-bound Boeing 707, crashed
while attempting to take off
from Orly Airport near Paris;
all but two of the 132 people
aboard were killed.
In 1965, astronaut Edward H.
White became the first Ameri-
can to “walk” in space during the
flight of Gemini 4.
In 1977, the United States and
Cuba agreed to set up diplo-
matic interests sections in each
other’s countries; Cuba also an-
nounced the immediate release
of 10 Americans jailed on drug
charges.
In 2004, President George W.
Bush announced the resignation
of CIA Director George Tenet
amid a controversy over intelli-
gence lapses about suspected
weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq and the September 11
terrorist attacks.
In 2008, Barack Obama claimed
the Democratic presidential
nomination.
In 2010, BP sliced off a pipe with
giant shears to make way for a
cap in the latest bid to curtail the
worst oil spill in U.S. history. Em-
my-winning actor Rue McClana-
han, 76, died in New York.
In 2016, heavyweight boxing
champion Muhammad Ali died
at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizo-
na, at age 74.
Ten years ago: Former Dem-
ocratic presidential hopeful
John Edwards admitted he had
“done wrong” and hurt others
but strongly denied breaking
the law after federal prosecu-
tors charged him with using
$925,000 in under-the-table
campaign contributions to hide
his mistress and baby during his
2008 White House run. Physi-
cian-assisted suicide advocate
Dr. Jack Kevorkian died at a Mich-
igan hospital at 83. Actor James
Arness (TV: “Gunsmoke”), 88,
died in Brentwood, California.
Five years ago: Republican
presidential candidate Donald
Trump was quoted in The Wall
Street Journal as saying that U.S.
District Judge Gonzalo Curiel,
who was presiding over a law-
suit brought by former Trump
University students, had an
“absolute conflict” in handling
the case because he was “of
Mexican heritage.”
One year ago: Prosecutors
charged three more police
officers in the death of George
Floyd and filed a new, tougher
charge of second-degree mur-
der against Derek Chauvin, the
officer who was caught on video
pressing his knee to Floyd’s
neck. (Chauvin would be con-
victed on all charges.) Results
published in the New England
Journal of Medicine found that
hydroxychloroquine, a malaria
drug, was no better than pla-
cebo pills in preventing illness
from the coronavirus.
Today’s Birthdays: The former
president of Cuba, Raul Castro, is
90. Actor Irma P. Hall is 86. Rock
singer Ian Hunter (Mott The
Hoople) is 82. World Golf Hall of
Famer Hale Irwin is 76. Musician
Too Slim (Riders in the Sky) is 73.
Singer Suzi Quatro is 71. Singer
Deneice Williams is 71. Singer
Dan Hill is 67. Actor Suzie Plak-
son is 63. Actor Scott Valentine
is 63. Rock musician Kerry King
(Slayer) is 57. Rock singer-musi-
cian Mike Gordon is 56. TV host
Anderson Cooper is 54. Country
singer Jamie O’Neal is 53. Tennis
player Rafael Nadal is 35. Actor
Josh Segarra is 35. Actor-singer
Lalaine is 34. Actor Sean Berdy is
28. Actor Anne Winters is 27.
— Associated Press
State: Schools should plan to offer 5 full days this fall
BY EDER CAMPUZANO
The Oregonian
School will look much more
normal this fall, with students
attending class in-person for five
full days, teachers taking regu-
lar attendance and both going
about unmasked during recess
and other outdoor activities.
But the Oregon Department
of Education, which is draft-
ing its coronavirus mitigation
guidelines for the new year,
might still require students to
wear face masks in classrooms
and ask districts to offer an
all-remote learning option.
The draft guidelines, which
the agency will officially adopt
in late July, are not final nor
do they lay out exactly what
the future holds for Oregon’s
approximately 560,000 public
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian file
Mason Graham, 10, does schoolwork inside Jessica Minch’s fourth
grade class at Kelso Elementary School in Sandy on March 29.
K-12 students.
But the document does pro-
vide a look at which pandemic
policies and procedures that
the Department of Education
Elks
Hirko. To help with social dis-
tancing, spectators are encour-
aged to order from the conces-
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Those players include Jacob
sion stands through the team’s
Quinlan, a 2020 Bend High
website, bendelks.com. This
graduate, and Dylan Ander-
allows fans to order from their
man, a 2018 Summit High
seats, eliminating the need to
graduate. Both players are set
stand in line and form a crowd
to suit up for the Elks
for food and drinks.
Thursday night.
Fans are not re-
“They really help
quired to wear face
fill out the roster at
coverings while seated,
the beginning and end
but will be required to
of the season,” Hirko
mask up when head-
said of 10-day contract
ing to the bathrooms,
players. “They might
concessions or other
not make the full ros-
areas of the stadium.
Kyle Nobach,
ter, but they can show-
Tickets range from
a starting
case what they can do.”
$7 to $15 and are
outfielder
While summer
available for purchase
for the 2018
baseball returning to
at the stadium.
national
Bend after a year off
Dozens of little tasks
championship
due to the COVID-19
still need to be com-
Oregon State
pandemic is a step to-
pleted off the field to
University
ward a return to nor-
make sure the first
team, is
malcy, it does come
game runs smoothly.
making his
with several changes.
head coaching While on the field, it is
Five of the WCL
debut in Bend. about quickly building
teams based in Can-
a cohesive team with
ada — the Kelowna Falcons,
players from across the West
Victoria HarbourCats, Ed-
Coast who hope to improve
monton Riverhawks, Kam-
throughout the course of the
loops NorthPaws and Nanaimo next couple of months.
NightOwls — withdrew from
“The goal of this summer
the 2021 season due to “pan-
is tapping into the mindset of
demic-related border and gath- these players,” Nobach said.
ering limitations.”
“These players are at a point
And some COVID-related
where that is the biggest piece.
safety precautions will remain
We want to help develop rou-
at the 3,500-seat Genna Sta-
tines and have the players be
dium.
better than when they came
In an effort to maintain so-
to us.”
cial distancing, attendance is
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limited to 900, according to
Stabbings
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Due to Oregon law, he was
driven back to Prineville to
serve his post-prison supervi-
sion in the county where he was
convicted in 2014, despite hav-
ing no family or personal con-
nections in the area.
Weeks later outside the
Prineville Rite Aid, Myers al-
legedly stabbed a man, a friend
and former gang member who’d
walked up to greet him.
Myers, 29, is now facing at-
tempted murder charges in
two cases, for which he could
receive up to three decades in
prison.
He’s pleaded not guilty to all
charges. His public defenders in
both Malheur and Crook coun-
ties declined to comment.
In 2014, Myers was homeless
and a convicted felon. He typ-
ically stayed around the Port-
land area, but in October of that
year, he was living in Prineville.
Court records show he was
breaking into houses to fuel a
drug addiction and sleeping in
a park.
Myers was arrested after con-
venience store security cameras
showed him making purchases
with stolen credit cards. In his
backpack, police found items
stolen from several locations,
bolt cutters, a meth pipe and
hypodermic needles.
A judge in Crook County
sentenced him to 28 months
in prison for meth possession,
theft, burglary and identity
theft, and he was sent to the
Oregon State Penitentiary in
Salem.
At some point, Myers joined
the European Kindred, for years
the state’s largest white-power
prison gang. An “EK” tattoo
can be seen in his mugshot
under his right eye. In prison,
the gang is highly organized,
according to a profile by the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
Out of prison, members are of-
ten heavy users of meth.
In 2016, Myers assaulted cor-
rections officer Zackary Shan-
non with hot water and got
three years added to his sen-
tence.
Shannon remains at work
with the Department of Cor-
rections, according to spokes-
woman Betty Bernt.
In 2018, Myers used a shank
to stab another Oregon State
Penitentiary inmate John An-
drew Alexander.
Alexander, 52, is serving an
85-year sentence for child sex
crimes.
For stabbing Alexander, My-
ers was given an additional
13 months in prison and was
transferred to another correc-
tional facility.
On June 20, Myers missed
the morning call-out, according
to a corrections department in-
cident report.
Bean told an interviewer with
the Department of Corrections
he didn’t fight back, and nei-
ther he nor Myers said anything
Charles Barry Silveus
of Bend, OR
September 4, 1947 - May
23, 2021
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adopted last March the agency
is likely to adjust or even drop
as more Oregonians become
vaccinated and the state creeps
back toward normalcy.
The agency will likely en-
courage, rather than mandate,
that schools keep children
three feet apart “to the degree
possible,” a departure from its
current guidance. It will also
require districts to automati-
cally unenroll a student upon
a 10th consecutive absence,
a state rule the Department
of Education temporarily
dropped “to serve students to
the maximum extent possible.”
The Department of Educa-
tion also says it will relinquish
its role in deciding when and
whether districts can allow vis-
itors inside school buildings,
how to screen students for
symptoms of COVID-19 and
whether to split pupils into co-
horts.
But the agency will still re-
quire districts to plan how they
will isolate and quarantine stu-
dents and tell families if there’s
a positive case in a school.
On the academic side, the
department likely won’t allow
districts to keep a student from
moving up a grade level or
signing up for advanced classes
in a math or English sequence
based on how they performed
during the pandemic.
Likewise, academic achieve-
ment over the last 14 months
shouldn’t bar students from
participating in sports and
other extracurriculars.
The agency will officially
adopt its new rules July 22.
Until then, the Department
of Education is surveying
school officials across the state
on its draft guidelines.
Gorge fire prompts I-84 closure, evacuations
Bulletin wire reports
THE DALLES — A wildfire
in the Columbia River Gorge
near The Dalles prompted
Level 3 evacuations Wednes-
day afternoon and closed lo-
cal highways.
KOIN reports Level 3
“GO” evacuations were issued
around 2 p.m. for Pine Wood
Mobile Manor, Columbia
Gorge Discovery Center and
The Dalles Country Club.
Oregon State Police said In-
terstate 84 was briefly closed 5
miles west of The Dalles from
mileposts 87 to 64 near Hood
River due to fire and smoke.
Authorities say power lines
were down in the area. Power
had to be cut near Rowena so
that utility workers could re-
pair downed lines. Northern
Wasco County public utility
district said this would leave
about 320 customers with-
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One winner in each of Oregon’s 36 counties
will also win $10,000. The drawing will take place
on June 28, with names announced by July 4.
Jefferson County is the first county in the
state to propose expanding the lottery to ad-
ditional residents. With a small population of
about 23,000 people, the odds of winning in-
crease exponentially.
But Simmelink said he doesn’t want residents
to feel pressured to get a vaccine because of the
lottery.
“It’s everybody’s personal choice,” Simmelink
said. “I don’t know whether slinging money is
going to change that.”
Gov. Kate Brown announced the vaccine lot-
tery May 21. The campaign is funded through
$1.86 million in federal coronavirus relief
money and is being organized by the Oregon
Health Authority, Oregon Lottery and Oregon
State Treasury.
All Oregonians who received at least one
dose of the vaccine are entered to win. When
during the attack.
Myers was interviewed about
the alleged shanking, but the
report is not available to the
public. Corrections officers also
attempted to interview Myers’
cellmate, but he too refused,
telling them he “had nothing to
say to the state police.”
Corrections spokeswoman
Bernt said that at intake, staff
reviews many factors in devel-
oping an individualized plan for
each adult in custody.
“At intake it is also important
the AIC discloses any safety or
security concerns which could
impact housing placement,”
Bernt wrote to The Bulletin.
“The department makes ev-
ery effort to house each AIC in
the facility that best meets their
needs.”
The Malheur County district
out power. An estimated time
of repair wasn’t immediately
available.
Mid-Columbia Fire and
Rescue said crews were at the
scene battling the blaze.
A spokesperson for the
fire agency said the cause
for the fire was not immedi-
ately clear, but it is believed
to have started on the east
side of I-84 and jumped the
freeway.
names are drawn, no personal information will
be shared with Oregon Lottery, and winners
will be given the option to decline the prize to
preserve their patient privacy, according to the
governor’s office.
Current employees and family members of
the Oregon Lottery, governor’s office, treasurer’s
office and the Oregon Health Authority will not
be eligible to win.
Part of the state’s vaccine lottery will award
five $100,000 Oregon College Savings Plan
scholarships to residents between 12 and 17
years old.
Jefferson County is also including children in
its plan. The county plans to dedicate three of
the 11 prizes for residents under 18. The three
$10,000 awards would go into an Oregon Col-
lege Saving Plan account to be used for college
or trade schools.
All Oregon residents 12 and older are eligible
to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Times and
locations for vaccines in Jefferson County can
be found online at www.jeffco.net/publichealth/
page/covid-19-vaccination-information.
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attorney charged Myers with
attempted murder, first-de-
gree assault and other charges.
Myers’ bond was initially set at
$300,000. After a hearing, Mal-
heur County Circuit Judge Lung
S. Hung reduced the security
amount to $150,000 at Myers’ re-
quest. Myers posted security and
was driven back to Prineville.
On the evening of March 29,
he approached Nicholas Ryan
Rodin outside the Rite Aid in
Prineville. The two were friends
at one point in their lives, ac-
cording to court records. When
Rodin saw Myers, he walked
over to greet him, but Myers
allegedly produced a knife and
stabbed Rodin repeatedly.
Rodin lost consciousness
on his way to the hospital and
was eventually airlifted to St.
Charles Bend. He spent more
than a week in intensive care,
and he suffered a permanent in-
jury, according to court filings.
In seeking a higher sentence,
Crook County District Attor-
ney Wade Whiting is asserting a
number of “enhancement facts,”
including Myers’ persistent
criminal conduct, and that prior
penalties haven’t deterred him
and he was on release for simi-
lar crimes. Whiting also wrote
a lengthy memo to the court
asking to keep Myers locked up
ahead of trial.
“The defendant must be in-
carcerated to ensure public
safety,” Whiting wrote.
.Myers is currently an inmate
of the Crook County jail. In
April, a judge approved Whit-
ing’s request denying Myers bail.
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