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COVID-19 data for Sunday, June 6:
Deschutes County cases: 9,769 (19 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 79 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,236 (5 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,337 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 203,252 (258 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,694 (3 new deaths)
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(Nov. 27)
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70
60
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50
(Nov. 14)
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(July 16)
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16 new cases
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STATE & REGION BRIEFING
Magnitude 3.9 earthquake hits near Mount Hood
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Government Camp
on Saturday, powerful enough that servers at Charlie’s Mountain
View restaurant reported feeling the Earth tremble, if only just a
little bit.
The quake struck less than 4 miles to the northeast of Govern-
ment Camp just after 8:50 p.m.
Andy Diaz said he was counting his till at Charlie’s when he felt
something shake. He looked up from the cash in his hands and saw
a colleague firing up the restaurant’s milkshake machine. Diaz, 23,
figured the matter was settled — the machine must have misfired.
Another co-worker, Valerie Tergerson, was taking beer orders
for a table of six when she heard the wood in the building creak
like it does during a major wind gust. But there was no wind. No-
body had seemed to notice anything strange, and the customers
were still giving her their orders.
“Then I kind of thought, maybe this was all in my head?” Terg-
erson said about half an hour after the quake.
Within minutes, though, word got around. A table with some
regular customers told Tergerson they also felt a shake, and an-
other co-worker called Diaz on the phone to say the same.
“He confirmed that I’m not crazy,” Diaz said of his friend.
Only five quakes over magnitude 2.5 have hit Oregon land so
far this year. The 3.9 quake has been the strongest of the lot.
The Saturday quake was not the only one in the neighborhood
that night, with 2.3 and 2.1 magnitude quakes striking near Gov-
ernment Camp at 8:55 p.m. and 9:14 p.m., respectively.
Rafting accident kills deputy in Northeast Oregon
An Eastern Oregon sheriff’s deputy was killed while off-duty in
a rafting accident near Minam State Park in Wallowa County, au-
thorities said Sunday.
Senior Deputy Jason Post, 34, died Saturday after he and three
other adults were thrown from their raft, Lt. Sterrin Ward said.
Post was unable to reach the shore and his body was found shortly
afterward. The three others survived.
Post had served as a deputy at the Umatilla County Sheriff’s
Office for the past decade. He left in April to join Umatilla County
Parole and Probation in order to be spend more time with his
wife and their baby girl, Sterrin said.
A procession of deputies joined by officers from other agen-
cies escorted Post’s body from a funeral home in La Grande to his
home in Pendleton, where he was honored by law enforcement
and first responders. He leaves behind a wife and baby girl.
Oregon Youth Authority reopens MacLaren facility
The Oregon Youth Authority said it is opening MacLaren
Youth Correctional Facility to visitors.
The locked 271-bed facility in Woodburn houses male juvenile
offenders. It is the state’s largest youth correctional facility.
Visitation at the facility and others in the youth authority was
halted last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Oregon Department of Corrections also suspended visi-
tation at the state’s prisons. COVID-19 swept through the prison
system, infecting 3,614 prisoners, according to the agency. There
is no word on when visitation will be allowed at state prisons.
The youth authority advised families to contact a youth’s case
coordinator or living unit manager to schedule a visit.
Man hit by MAX train in Portland dies
A man who was hit by a MAX train near Interstate 84 has died,
Portland Police said Saturday. The police bureau, which did not
identify the man, said he was in their custody earlier that day be-
fore being released because of COVID-19 restrictions on which
charges warrant booking a person in jail.
The day’s events began around noon, when the man went up
the stairs of a residential property and “stood over” a woman, per
the account she gave police. The woman told the intruder to leave,
which he did, but only after her husband and son came to help.
A responding officer found the man and asked him to stop.
The man kept walking but was arrested later when more police
came to the scene, the police bureau said. Police let him go with a
citation for first-degree criminal trespass.
Then, around 2:30 p.m., police learned a man was walking in
traffic on both sides of I-84 and swinging a large rock and a pipe
at passing cars.
Police tried to stop traffic so they could get to the scene, but it
was too late: The man had run in front of a MAX train. By the
time police arrived, he was dead. Officers confirmed it was the
same person from the trespassing incident earlier that afternoon.
Police with release his name once they contact next of kin.
Washington couple arrested in starvation death of child
The adoptive parents of a 15-year-old Vancouver, Washington,
boy who died from starvation in November were arrested Friday
in Stockton, California.
Felicia Adams-Franks, 52, and Jesse Costillo Franks, 56, will
appear in a Washington courtroom on second-degree murder
and homicide by abuse charges. Adams-Franks legally adopted
Karreon Franks and his two brothers in 2012 in California. She is
their aunt, court records show. Karreon reportedly had a rare ge-
netic disorder that affected his development, had severe autism
and was legally blind, according to court records.
On Nov. 27, Adams and Franks took Karreon Franks to Peace-
Health Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, where he was
pronounced dead 14 minutes later.
Funeral home staff reported “concerns with Karreon’s ap-
pearance,” and the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office re-
sponded and conducted an autopsy, a search warrant affidavit
said. The autopsy report, which authorities received in May, found
Karreon weighed 61 pounds and showed abnormal bone and hair
growth, as well as lesions, likely caused by starvation, court re-
cords state.
— Bulletin wire reports
TOURISM
McKenzie River still open after
wildfire, but expect to see scars
BY ADAM DUVERNAY
The Register-Guard (Eugene)
A wildfire that last year
burned through the McKen-
zie River Valley may have, for
the time, altered the area’s lush
character, but its residents are
still relying on people visiting.
The Holiday Farm Fire, one
of several large blazes in Ore-
gon that started around Labor
Day, scorched about 173,000
acres in the valley, destroy-
ing many residents’ homes
and livelihoods. The area, like
many places in the state, has
come to rely on its natural
beauty to attract visitors for
fishing, hunting, biking, hiking
and other outdoor activities.
In 2019, more than 12,700
people worked in the out-
door recreation tourism in-
dustry in Lane County, jobs
responsible for $492 million
in compensations, according
to a recent report from Travel
Oregon. Thousands of those
outdoor recreation workers
are in the McKenzie River
Valley and large parts of Lane
and Douglas counties, where
2019 trip-related spending was
about $407 million.
The towns and areas along
Highway 126 are undergoing
massive cleanup efforts, and
rebuilding is just getting un-
derway. For those there who
rely on visitors’ dollars, the
summer season is an import-
ant time, but they’re warning
things aren’t quite the same.
“We need people to come
up and visit and play and eat
and stay, if they can find a
place,” said Jonnie Helfrich,
co-owner of A. Helfrich Out-
fitter, which offers guided
fishing and rafting trips on
the McKenzie River. “And just
know it’ll take a while before it
ever looks, at least portions of
it, like it did before again. But
Mother Nature will recover.”
A. Helfrich Outfitter isn’t
suffering from fewer visitors
because of the fire, she said,
and the pandemic was far
worse for business. But while
she’s put information about
the fire damage on their web-
site, she’s also been telling cli-
Gillian Flaccus/AP file
The McKenzie River flows through an area of forestland burned by a
2020 wildfire near Blue River on May 17. The area east of Eugene was
one of many places in Western Oregon devastated in the fall.
ents directly what they should
expect.
Her rafting trips on the
McKenzie River always have
varied in length and loca-
tion, but now most trips in-
clude at least a partial cruise
through the burn zone, where
riverbanks are still burnt and
largely bare. In the case of their
most popular rafting trip, the
16-mile Hamlin-to-Helfrich
float, “you’re going to see evi-
dence of the fire from start to
finish.”
Hosting visitors has become
a major part of the McKen-
zie River Valley’s way of life,
according to Andy Vobora,
Travel Lane County’s vice
president of stakeholder rela-
tions.
“Tourism is significant up-
river. The community has re-
ally rallied around that,” he
said. “They still want people to
come up and experience the
area.”
Many recreation businesses
in the valley already have
strong bookings for the sum-
mer, Vobora said, and annual
events and festivals aim to draw
as many guests as possible.
But visitor might struggle to
find places to stay.
“We are stunningly full.
We’ve never been busier,”
said Kent Roberts, a manager
at Harbick’s County Inn on
McKenzie Highway near
Rainbow. “It’s been absolutely
crazy.”
Right now, Harbick’s
County Inn is full up on week-
days largely with guests who
are in the valley as part of the
cleanup effort and with recre-
ational travelers on weekends.
Some of the other lodgings
in the area burned in the wild-
fire, but Harbick’s County Inn
is just upriver of where the fire
began before the wind drove
flames downriver toward Blue
River. Roberts said some of his
guests had trouble finding a
place to spend the night.
“I don’t care if it’s three
weeks from now, you’d bet-
ter get a reservation because
we are that busy,” Roberts
said. “We’re just barely edg-
ing into the season where I’m
going to have to tell a bunch
of these workers that I don’t
have a place for them anymore
because I have all these golf
groups, hikers, bikers, etc. that
are my summer clientele.”
Also spared from the flames
was Tokatee Golf Club, where
business has been good.
“We’d be even busier if we
weren’t so far from town, and
without the delays on the
roads caused by cleanup,” said
Dan King, the club’s head golf
professional.
But King and Roberts said
both are having trouble find-
ing staff because there are
limited housing options in
the area. The Holiday Farm
Fire destroyed more than 400
homes.