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Pools
Continued from A1
Outdoor swim lessons,
recreation sessions and
family swim times are of-
fered in the outdoor pools.
Lap swim will return to in-
creased capacity and more
than two swimmers to a
lane for circle swimming.
Also starting next week,
the outdoor splash pool will
be open seven days a week.
Oregon Health Authority
guidance allows for social
activities to return to the
Bend Senior Center at the
Larkspur Community Cen-
ter. Starting Monday , social
activities include billiards
and drop-in game times.
Summer also brings ex-
panded hours at park dis-
trict facilities starting Mon-
day. Hours are as follows:
LEFT: D’Auntie Carol collects a dollar bill from a guest while performing during Drag Brunch at 10 Barrel Brewing’s east-side location in Bend on Sunday.
RIGHT: The crowd cheers as a performer dances and lip-syncs to a song during Drag Brunch. Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin photos
Pride
Continued from A1
Virtual meetings were not an option
because meeting remotely does not
have the same effect, Boyce said. With-
out the in-person meetings, many par-
ticipants lost the sense of comradery
and support, she said.
“I think that the lack of support ser-
vices in the community for now a year
and a half has been devastating to our
community,” Boyce said.
Boyce, 67, a Bend resident since 2004,
said the lack of connection has been
especially hard on younger LGBTQ
people and older seniors. The younger
people need the sense of community to
embrace their new identities, while the
older people were already struggling
with isolation the pandemic brought,
Boyce said.
“The impact on the community as a
Legislature
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• Labor unions want bo-
nuses for front-line workers
who stayed on the job during
the pandemic.
• Recovery from disasters in
2020 are still going on — wild-
fire-recovery relief for those
stuck in the wake of the Labor
Day blazes that swept 1 million
acres.
• Financial help for busi-
nesses that held on during the
COVID-19 crisis but are run-
ning out of money and time to
rebound during the busy sum-
mer season.
Neither COVID-19 or the
fire crisis is over. Fire offi-
cials have predicted the 2021
fire season could cause major
damage across the state be-
cause of drought conditions.
And COVID-19 continues to
“rage” through unvaccinated
groups, according to the Or-
egon Health Authority. There
were just 127 new cases and no
new deaths reported in Ore-
gon on Monday. But demand
for vaccination has dropped
off significantly. Less than
half of all Oregon residents
whole is the same impact that was on
the non-LGBTQ community, which
is a sense of isolation,” Boyce said. “At
the same time, couple that with already
feeling somewhat isolated. Then it be-
comes compounded and it’s particularly
bad for people who are young or old.”
In the height of the pandemic lock-
down, Boyce also worried about the
transgender community. Transgender
rights were being challenged by the
Trump administration, from access to
bathrooms to medical care. Many in the
community felt helpless, Boyce said.
“So then the trans community here,
they had no one to talk to about this,”
Boyce said.
Seeing the pain from the past year
and a half makes the upcoming PFLAG
meetings and Pride events that much
more special, Boyce said.
“I’m happy for what looks to be a
promising future for this community,”
have been fully vaccinated,
and there remains no federal-
ly-approved vaccine for those
younger than 12.
So many unvaccinated peo-
ple aid the incubation of new,
more virulent variants. The
United Kingdom canceled a
major reopening of businesses
because of a sharp surge in
cases linked to the new Delta
variant first found in India.
Democrats are trying to
get as much done as they can
with the time left. There re-
main scores of bills and proj-
ects stuck in a conga line that
stretches from the House to the
Senate and back.
Any hiccup could end up
with Democrats playing a
game of chicken with the Or-
egon Constitution, which says
lawmakers get 160-days to
write, propose, vote, amend,
and get a bill to Gov. Kate
Brown. On Jan. 19, the clock
starts ticking down 24 hours
a day, seven-days a week,
through weekends and holi-
days, fires, floods, ice storms
and lightning strikes, pandem-
ics and political pauses.
What started Tuesday, Jan. 19,
must end by Sunday, June 27.
she said, “because it’s a very strong
community, and we need each other.”
Jamie Nesbitt, president of OUT
Central Oregon, which formed as a
nonprofit organization three years ago,
said it was important for the organi-
zation to stay visible through the pan-
demic. The organization launched a
campaign, where it handed out “You
Are Welcome Here,” stickers to busi-
nesses in Bend and across the globe.
“We felt over the last year that we
need to make sure the community rec-
ognizes that we as an organization are
still thinking about them,” Nesbitt said.
Nesbitt, 58, who moved to Bend
with his partner five years ago, said the
sticker campaign was a success, but it is
just as rewarding to see the calendar fill
up with in-person events throughout
the year.
“It’s important for community mem-
bers to know that there’s a consistent
meeting up that they can rely on and
look forward to,” Nesbitt said.
One of those events was Drag Brunch
at 10 Barrel Brewing’s east-side location
in Bend. Quiris was one of the partici-
pants in the Sunday drag performance
in the brewery. Quiris performs under
the stage name Caressa Banana.
The performance was as much a cel-
ebration of Pride month as it was a cele-
bration that events had returned. Quiris
thought about friends in the LGBTQ
community who struggled with their
mental health over the past year and
didn’t have places like drag shows to
connect.
Sometimes Quiris doesn’t know how
he made it through.
“If I had to go through another year
of literally just being at my house and
only talking to other people through a
mask,” he said, “I wouldn’t survive.”
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• Monday-Friday:
6 a.m.-8 p.m.
• Saturday: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Sunday: Closed
Schedules and programs
are available on the Bend
Park & Recreation District
website. A face covering or
vaccination verification is
required for facility users.
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Democrats are trying to get as much done as they can with
the time left. There remain scores of bills and projects stuck
in a conga line that stretches from the House to the Senate
and back. Any hiccup could end up with Democrats playing
a game of chicken with the Oregon Constitution, which says
lawmakers get 160-days to write, propose, vote, amend, and
get a bill to Gov. Kate Brown.
Yes, Senate President Peter
Courtney, D-Salem, on Mon-
day introduced Senate Joint
Resolution 24 on directing the
Legislature to adjourn. One
thing missing: a date. The ac-
tual date and time is a fill-in-
the-blanks amendment yet to
come.
While not eager to say where
the agenda might fall short,
Democratic lawmakers in re-
cent days have said it is un-
likely that major campaign
finance reform will be able to
elbow its way into the final
agenda.
Attempts by some Demo-
crats to revise criminal sen-
tencing laws to allow for more
discretion on the part of judges
has slowed to a stop, facing op-
position from Republicans and
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some Democrats who support
minimum sentences for major
crimes.
One development that is
welcome in Salem is the ap-
parent end of walkouts and
slowdowns by the Republican
minorities in the House and
Senate.
Kotek and House Minority
Leader Christine Drazan,
R-Canby, struck a deal.
Drazan promised Republi-
cans would stop slowing bills
and wouldn’t walk out. Kotek,
in exchange, gave Republicans
an equal number of seats as
Democrats on the House Re-
districting Committee. The
Senate did not make the same
switch, and Democrats hold
the chairmanship and a 3-2
majority.
Kotek and Courtney also
agreed that all lawmakers —
Democrats and Republicans
— could submit projects and
programs financed with a
$240 million slice of Oregon’s
share of the $1.9 trillion na-
tionwide recovery investment
under the American Rescue
Plan Act backed by President
Joe Biden and approved by
Congress.
Each senator could pick $4
million in one-time projects.
House members could desig-
nate $2 million.
The catch: The money will
be included in the second to
last bill to come up for a vote
before adjournment.
But lawmakers who change
their mind and block or slow
legislation will find blue pencil
slashes through their projects.
If they are going to have to
stay in the building, Republi-
cans will make as much noise
as they can.
A Democrat-backed bill
to suspend testing for high
school subject competency
tests for three years due to the
struggles of learning at home
during the pandemic won ap-
proval in the House, but re-
Reporter: 541-617-7818,
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proach from Drazan.
“I worry that by adopting
this bill we’re giving up on our
kids,” Drazan said.
Republicans also continued
to attack the governor’s poli-
cies requiring people claiming
to be vaccinated in order to
gain entry to some venues to
show their certification of in-
oculations.
More than 20 GOP lawmak-
ers, using the popular conser-
vative term “vaccination pass-
ports” for the certificates, tried
to force a vote on a bill to bar
requiring Oregonians to pro-
duce proof of inoculation.
“It’s a violation of our pri-
vacy and our freedoms. It’s dis-
criminatory, and it shows the
governor doesn’t believe Or-
egonians can be trusted,” said
Rep. Mark Owens, R-Crane,
one of the key sponsors.
Sen. Lynn Findley, R-Vale,
was a lead sponsor in the Sen-
ate. The bill said it was “at the
request of the Eastern Oregon
Counties Association.”
The effort was defeated 35-
20, leaving the bill on Kotek’s
desk, where it unlikely to move
prior to adjournment.
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OBITUARY
NED BEATTY • 1937-2021
Character actor left huge impression
than 150 movies and shows.
the world today.”
Beatty’s appearance in “Net-
He was equally memorable
NEW YORK — Ned Beatty,
work,” scripted by Paddy
as Otis, the idiot henchman of
the Oscar-nominated character Chayefsky and directed by
villainous Lex Luthor in the first
actor who in half a century of
Sidney Lumet, was brief but ti-
two Christopher Reeve “Super-
American movies, in-
tanic. His three-min-
man” movies and as the racist
cluding “Deliverance,”
ute monologue ranks
sheriff in “White Lightning.”
“Network” and “Super-
among the greatest in
In a 1977 interview, he had
man,” was a booming,
movies. Jensen sum-
explained why he preferred be-
indelible presence in
mons anchorman
ing a supporting actor.
even the smallest parts,
Howard Beale (Peter
“Stars never want to throw
has died. He was 83.
Finch) to a long, dimly the audience a curveball, but
Beatty’s manager,
my great joy is throwing cur-
lit boardroom. “You
Beatty
Deborah Miller, said
have meddled with the veballs,” he told The New York
Beatty died Sunday
primal forces of nature, Times. “Being a star cuts down
of natural causes at his home
on your effectiveness as an ac-
Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!”
in Los Angeles surrounded by
tor because you become an
Beatty shouts from across the
friends and loved ones.
identifiable part of a product
boardroom before explaining
After years in regional the-
that there is no America, no de- and somewhat predictable. You
ater, Beatty was cast in 1972’s
have to mind your P’s and Q’s
mocracy. “There is only IBM
“Deliverance” as Bobby Trippe, and ITT and AT&T and Du-
and nurture your fans. But I
the happy-go-lucky member of Pont, Dow, Union Carbide, and like to surprise the audience, to
a male river-boating party ter-
Exxon. Those are the nations of do the unexpected.”
rorized by backwoods thugs.
The scene in which Trippe
is brutalized and forced to
“squeal like a pig” became the
most memorable in the movie .
Life in reverse…financial longevity and peace of mind.
“For people like me, there’s a
lot of ‘I know you! I know you!
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What have I seen you in?’” Be-
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car nomination, as supporting
actor for his role as corporate ex-
ecutive Arthur Jensen in 1976’s
“Network,” but he contributed to
some of the most popular mov-
ies of his time and worked con-
stantly, his credits including more
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AP Film Writer
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William Crowe passed away unexpectedly at his home
on a ranch in Bainville, Montana on May 29, 2021 at the
age of 38. Will was born October 12, 1982 in Santa Cruz,
California. He spent his childhood in Bend, OR where he
played soccer, swam on the local swim team and was
acti ve in 4H. His fi rst loves in early childhood were his
stuff ed bear, his cowboy boots and cowboy hat. Aft er
graduati ng high school, William spent ti me in the Navy
as a Fire Control Technician on the USS Lincoln aircraft
carrier, followed by a tour of duty in Iraq. Aft er the
Navy, William worked in Idaho as a building contractor,
in Washington state as a windmill welder and in the oil
industry in N. Dakota. Finally, William seemed to have
found his true calling as a “Northern Montana Cowboy”
on a catt le and grain ranch where he lived and worked
unti l the end of his life. William enjoyed his life in
Montana. His needs were simple. He loved his friends,
his dog Heidi, his truck and helping others. He was a
brilliant thinker with a love of reading and a personality
that was HUGE. Wherever he went on his journey
through adulthood, William developed close and lasti ng
friendships.
William is survived by his parents Sally Crowe of Bend,
OR, Fred and Genie Crowe of Dayton, WA and his sister
Cameron Crowe in New York City. He was preceded in
death in 1999 by his sister and best friend, Katherine
Crowe. Additi onally, his grandparents preceded him in
death - Madalyn Doke who was from Santa Cruz, CA and
Bend, OR, and Dick and Saralee Crowe who were from
Dos Palos, CA.