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COVID-19 data for Wednesday, June 9:
Deschutes County cases: 9,804 (19 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 80 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,243 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,347 (6 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 203,933 (269 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,716 (16 new deaths)
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St. Charles Bend on Wednesday: 22 (4 in ICU)
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LOCAL BRIEFING
COCC campuses to fully
reopen in August
Central Oregon Community
College plans to fully reopen
all of its campuses to students
and the public Aug. 23.
COCC’s Bend campus will
also reopen its track, field and
trails to the public, accord-
ing to a statement released
Wednesday by Jennifer Kovitz,
a campus spokesperson.
The college closed its cam-
puses to the public due to the
COVID-19 pandemic March
23, 2020. Classes and services
were offered remotely.
COCC’s summer term be-
gins June 21 and the term will
still offer about 20% of courses
in-person.
In the fall term, which be-
gins Sept. 20, about half of the
classes will be in person, Kovitz
said. The remaining half will
be offered virtually.
COCC will closely follow the
latest state and federal guidance
to adapt reopening plans as
necessary. The college’s current
face-mask policy also remains
in place and requires face masks
in all indoor spaces, as well as
outdoors where 6 feet of dis-
tance cannot be maintained.
Guide now online for first
Deschutes fair since 2019
After a year away, the
Deschutes County Fair will
again be held this summer,
and the 2021 Fair Contest
Guidebook that goes with it is
now available online at www.
deschutesfair.com.
The guidebook outlines
hundreds of different contest
categories, including quilts,
photography, baked goods and
others in which residents can
compete.
A new application is avail-
able for those competing in
4-H and the Future Farmers
of America livestock competi-
tions this year, according to a
statement from the Deschutes
County Fair & Expo Center.
Due to COVID-19, there are
significant changes to camping
to allow for more space between
campers. Campers are also able
to pre-register for space online.
Tickets for the fair, which
will be held July 28 to Aug. 1,
will go on sale July 5 and will
be sold only online at www.de-
schutesfair.com. There will be
limited availability of tickets at
the box office during the event.
New app explores
Central Oregon history
The Deschutes Historical
Museum in Bend released a
free app for smartphones and
tablets that allows people to ex-
plore the history of the region.
The “Historic Deschutes”
app can be downloaded
through the Apple or Goo-
gle stores on Apple or An-
droid phones or tablets. Links
to download the app can be
found at the museum’s website,
www.deschuteshistory.org.
Once downloaded, the app
connects people with the history
behind Central Oregon’s most
recognizable landmarks and the
hidden history of the area.
People can explore sites on
their own or through themed
tours on the app, including the
origins of Bend’s Drake Park
and several sites along U.S.
Highway 97 from Terrebonne
to La Pine.
For more information,
call the museum at 541-
389-1813 or email info@
deschuteshistory.org.
— Bulletin staff reports
General punished over
sinking of Marine vehicle
that killed 1 from Bend
the 15th MEU near San Clem-
ente Island off the San Diego
SAN DIEGO — The high-
coast last summer when an as-
est-ranking Marine officer
sault amphibious vehicle with
bearing some responsibility
16 troops inside began taking
for the fatal 2020 sinking of
on water.
an amphibious vehicle off the
According to a Marine Corps
coast of San Diego is being for- investigation, the troops on
mally disciplined by the Ma-
board had not been properly
rine Corps, the service said
trained to escape the vehicle
Wednesday.
while in the water and
Maj. Gen. Robert
the vehicle commander
Castellvi, who was the
waited too long — 45
commanding general
minutes — to order
of the Camp Pendle-
an evacuation. When
ton-based 1st Marine
another AAV made its
Division at the time
way to the floundering
of the accident, will
vehicle, it struck it on
Ostrovsky
not return to his cur-
the side, tilting the first
rent job as the Marine
AAV into an oncoming
Corps inspector general. He
wave, which poured in through
also received what the Marines an open escape hatch.
described as “adverse admin-
The vehicle quickly sank,
istrative action” — that is, he
killing eight Marines and one
was “personally and formally”
sailor. They ranged in age from
counseled by the commandant 18 to 23. Those killed included
of the Marine Corps, Gen. Da- two Marines from Oregon:
vid Berger.
Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, of Bend,
Castellvi failed to “properly
and Chase D. Sweetwood, of
train the Marines and sailors
Portland.
for whom he was entrusted”
The Marine Corps sus-
and inadequately evaluated the pended waterborne opera-
amphibious platoon before it
tions of AAVs after the acci-
was attached to the 15th Ma-
dent pending inspections of
rine Expeditionary Unit, the
the Corps’ vehicles. In April, it
Marines said.
resumed limited waterborne
That platoon — Battal-
operations, but ship-to-shore
ion Landing Team 1/4 — was
operations remain on hold, the
training for a deployment with Marines said Wednesday.
BY ANDREW DYER
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Bill letting DAs, prisoners ask
for conviction reviews passes
convicted of a crime based on outdated fo-
rensic science.
Kaplan said California and Washington
A bill that would allow a district attor-
have similar policies that are used sparingly.
ney and a person convicted of a crime to
She called it “one of the most important
ask a judge to revisit a conviction or reduce
pieces of criminal justice reform legislation
a prison sentence has passed both cham-
bers of the Legislature and now heads to the that Oregon” has undertaken in a long time.
Deschutes County District At-
governor’s desk.
torney John Hummel, a supporter
Senate Bill 819 was hailed Tues-
day by advocates and supporters as
of the bill, said prosecutors should
among the most significant changes
always seek justice even if it’s long
to the criminal justice system to
after a sentence has been handed
emerge from the legislative session.
down.
The bill gives prosecutors and
He said every prosecutor will
a person with a conviction the
review these cases differently. He
Hummel
chance to jointly ask a judge to
said his office would likely use
make a change that could include
the bill in cases when people have
dropping a felony to a misdemeanor, eras-
done their time and are “doing great in life”
ing a conviction altogether or reducing the
but cannot reach certain goals due to their
length of a person’s sentence.
felony past.
The district attorney would have to agree
He offered an example of a person whose
to the petition before it could be heard by
crimes were the result of addiction. Say the
the court.
person served time, got out, entered drug
The bill was requested by the Criminal
treatment, lived crime-free for a decade but
Justice Reform Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law still couldn’t apply for a social worker li-
School. Aliza Kaplan, a law school profes-
cense because of the criminal history.
sor who runs the clinic, said the bill would
“I cannot fathom why I need to keep that
be most useful in cases where someone was person saddled with a conviction,” he said.
BY NOELLE CROMBIE
The Oregonian
House votes to delay paid family leave
Oregon’s new program of paid family leave
would be delayed under a bill that has cleared the
House. A vote of 33-19 on Tuesday moved House
Bill 3398 to the Senate.
The starting date for contributions by employers
and employees would be put off by one year, from
Jan. 1, 2022, to Jan. 1, 2023. The starting date for
benefit payments would be Sept. 3, 2023, instead
of Jan. 1.
The 2019 Legislature approved the program.
Eight other states and Washington, D.C., have
started or are preparing similar programs.
“This is an important program that had some
pretty aggressive timelines to begin with,” Majority
Leader Barbara Smith Warner, D-Portland, said in
presenting the bill.
Employers would contribute 40% and employ-
ees 60% of a new fund based on payroll deduc-
tions. Workers who earn at least $1,000 during the
previous year would qualify for up to 12 weeks
of paid family leave, the maximum benefit set at
$1,215 per week.
Affordable housing bill goes to Brown
The Legislature has approved a measure expand-
ing options for the development of affordable hous-
ing. The final version of Senate Bill 8 was passed by
the Senate 25-5 on Tuesday. It previously passed the
House and now heads to Gov. Kate Brown.
The bill restricts local jurisdictions’ ability to
deny affordable housing developments on land
not zoned for residential use within urban growth
boundaries and allow for increased density in cer-
tain situations.
The bill makes it easier for public housing au-
thorities, nonprofits and religious institutions to
push affordable housing projects through local
zoning and conditional use development pro-
cesses. Senate President Peter Courtney, the mea-
sure’s chief sponsor, said the effort is about more
than creating new opportunities for affordable
housing; it’s about creating them specifically where
they’re needed.
Racist lyrics dropped from state song
The Legislature has approved changes to the
lyrics of Oregon’s state song to remove racist lan-
guage and make the lyrics more inclusive.
House Concurrent Resolution 11, approved
Monday by a vote of 47-6, modifies the lyrics, while
keeping the same music of “Oregon, My Oregon.” If
reflects the “significant cultural, historical, economic
and societal evolution in Oregon” since the state
song was adopted in 1927, The Oregonian reported.
The first verse, which referred to Oregon as “con-
quered and held by free men; fairest and the best,”
was replaced with new lyrics emphasizing Oregon’s
natural beauty and “rolling rivers.” There are other
small changes throughout.
The resolution now heads to Gov. Kate Brown’s
desk for her signature.
— Bulletin staff and wire reports