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COVID-19: Oregon
nears vaccination goal
Museum to preserve
homesteading history
Brown:
‘Normalcy’
in sight, but
gaps remain
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon is about 90,000 people short of its
goal to get at least one shot of vaccine into
the arms of the state’s eligible adults in order
to lift most COVID-19 restrictions by June
25, state officials said Friday.
“We are so close to fully reopening our
economy,” Gov. Kate Brown said during an
afternoon press conference.
Brown has said when 70% of eligible
adults are vaccinated statewide, she will lift
mask, social distance, restaurant occupancy,
audience size and other limits in all 36 coun-
ties.
The official mark as of noon Friday: 67%.
After a spring that saw Oregon residents
racing to get vaccinated, the pace has slowed
to the point that supply far outstrips de-
mand.
The Oregon Health Authority reported
Friday that 15,761 doses of COVID vac-
cines per day were being administered. That
is down from an early April peak that saw
more than 50,000 shots administered on
some days.
To date, 2,303,485 people in Oregon have
had at least one dose.
See Vaccination / A4
PLANTAE
Co-founder
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charges
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Ted Stahl of Bend walks past the Hollinshead-Matson Historic House on Friday while visiting Hollinshead Park with his son.
BY KYLE SPURR • The Bulletin
W
alking through the doors of the small, 1915 farmhouse in
Bend’s Hollinshead Park, is like stepping back in time. The
kitchen is full of cast iron cookware, and the living room
and bedrooms look untouched with century-old, wooden furniture.
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
The preserved homestead is in the
process of becoming a museum, where
visitors can get a firsthand experience
of the region’s agricultural history.
For more than three decades, the
unoccupied Hollinshead-Matson His-
toric House has been preserved by
Bend resident Sharron Rosengarth,
one of five Matson children to grow
The co-founder of Central Oregon mar-
ijuana manufacturer and retailer Plantae,
once accused of enslaving an employee, now
faces far fewer criminal charges, but he’s out
as an owner of the company.
Accusations of involuntary servitude,
strangulation and robbery have been
dropped from the indictment of An-
drew J. Anderson, among other criminal
charges.
up in the house, and her late-husband
Tony Rosengarth.
Sharron Rosengarth, 81, was born
in the house in 1939. Her father, James
Matson, who helped deliver her at
birth, grew potatoes and ran a dairy
farm on the property. The family lived
in the house until 1946.
See Museum / A7
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A display of historic items at the Hollinshead-Matson His-
toric House at Hollinshead Park.
See Plantae / A7
OREGON
Lawmakers propose new stimulus payments for essential workers
Oregon lawmakers will con-
sider a proposal to pay essen-
tial workers who stayed on the
job through the pandemic up
to $2,000 in new stimulus pay-
ments and a separate $1,200
payment to unemployed Ore-
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gonians who return to work in
front-line jobs by fall.
Labor leaders and some
Democratic lawmakers have
been pushing to use money
from the latest federal stim-
ulus bill to reward essential
workers for their work during
COVID-19. The $1.9 trillion
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American Rescue Plan that
Congress approved in March
authorizes states to spend some
of their stimulus money to re-
ward essential workers and get
others back on the job.
Oregon received $2.6 billion
in all.
A proposal being circulated
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Friday by SEIU Local 503, the
largest union representing Ore-
gon state employees, would use
$450 million of the state’s share
of that stimulus money for the
essential worker bonus and the
back-to-work incentive.
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• The essential worker bo-
nus would be $2,000 for work-
ers whose base pay was less
than the state’s average wage
in 2019 — roughly $26.50 an
hour — or $1,000 for workers
earning more than the aver-
age but less than 150% of it —
around $39.70 an hour. Work-
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ers making more than 150% of
the state average would receive
no bonus.
• Front-line workers who
were unemployed during the
pandemic but are back on the
job for at least four weeks by
Oct. 15 would receive $1,200.
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