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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Wednesday, June 16:
Deschutes County cases: 9,963 (15 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 81 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,283 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,359 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 205,698 (247 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,744 (7 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Wednesday: 24 (5 in ICU)
New COVID-19 cases per day
129 new cases
EMAIL
100
90
50
new
cases
*Jan. 31: No
data reported.
June 10:
Number
includes several
days of data
due to a
reporting delay.
70
60
50
40
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
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74
new
cases
80
(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
110
(April 10)
(Feb. 17)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
120
(May 8)
7-day
average
(Nov. 27)
130
115 new
cases
(Jan. 1)
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
(April 29)
108 new cases
90
new
cases
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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(May 20)
1st case
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(March 11)
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La Pine man arrested after police chase
A La Pine man was arrested early Wednes-
day morning after eluding law enforcement
officers and fleeing from his vehicle following
an attempted traffic stop, according to the De-
schutes County Sheriff’s Office.
Brackery Lester, 27, was driving a red Honda
Civic on Burgess Road near Meadow Lane in
La Pine when a sheriff’s dep-
uty attempted to pull him
over for driving without tail
lights about 11:43 p.m.
Lester refused to pull over
and led the deputy west on
Burgess Road, then north on
Forest Road 4330, according
to the sheriff’s office.
Lester
Lester continued on the forest
road for about 1½ miles before
stopping and running from his car.
Additional deputies and officers from Bend
and Sunriver police departments responded and
made a perimeter. Bend Police used a drone
and police dog to track Lester.
Shortly after 1 a.m., the drone operator notified
officers that Lester appeared to be hiding under a
log. The police dog and officer then found Lester
about a half a mile away from his car.
Lester was arrested and booked into the De-
schutes County jail on charges of attempting to
elude, driving while suspended and a parole vi-
olation.
Lester has a lengthy criminal history of drug
possession and sexual assault. He was previ-
ously convicted of reckless driving after elud-
ing police in May 2020.
Central Oregon Fire Info seeks input
Central Oregon Fire Info, a multiagency
source of information on wildfire, prescribed
burns and smoke, is seeking the public’s help to
improve its service.
The website, run by a group of agencies in-
cluding the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature
Conservancy, is asking the public to fill out an
online survey to help guide its communication
efforts.
The survey includes questions on how resi-
dents get information on fire activity, and what
residents do to limit the impact of smoke. The
survey is open until July 5 and takes less than
five minutes to complete. Find the survey in En-
glish or Spanish at www.centraloregonfire.org.
Central Oregon Fire Info encourages resi-
dents to sign up for text alerts that contain in-
formation on this areas active fires. To get the
alerts, text COFIRE to 888-777.
COCC to require COVID-19 vaccines
for residence hall, some programs
Starting in the fall term, which begins Sept.
20, Central Oregon Community College will
require all Wickiup Residence Hall students to
be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Vaccinations will also be required for stu-
dents and faculty under specific disciplines and
programs.
These programs include, but are not limited
to, dental assisting, early childhood education,
emergency medical technician, massage ther-
apy, medical assisting, nursing, nursing assis-
tant, paramedicine, pharmacy technician and
veterinary technician.
Per Oregon state law, individuals will be
able to request an exemption. Students living
at Wickiup Hall who are not vaccinated due to
the exemption will be required to take a weekly
COVID test.
The college is encouraging all other students
to get vaccinated and is offering incentives to stu-
dents who get a COVID-19 shot. Incentives are
expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Governor signs human composting bill
Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill passed by
the Legislature legalizing human composting.
She signed House Bill 2574 on Tuesday, which
will legalize what’s also known as natural or-
ganic reduction. It also clarifies rules surround-
ing alkaline hydrolysis, known as aqua crema-
tion. The law goes into effect July 1, 2022.
Rep. Pam Marsh, who co-sponsored the bill
with Rep. Brian Clem, said the state plans to
have its rules in place for natural organic re-
duction facilities by 2022.
The practice was first legalized in Washing-
ton state in 2020.
— Bulletin staff and wire reports
Juneteenth becoming federal, state holiday
BY KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
United States will soon have a
new federal holiday commem-
orating the end of slavery in
the nation.
The House voted 415-14
Wednesday to make June-
teenth, or June 19, the 12th
federal holiday. The bill now
goes to President Joe Biden’s
desk to be signed into law.
Juneteenth commemorates
when the last enslaved Afri-
can Americans learned they
were free. Confederate soldiers
surrendered in April 1865,
but word didn’t reach the last
enslaved Black people until
June 19, when Union soldiers
brought the news of freedom
to Galveston, Texas. That was
also about 2½ years after the
Emancipation Proclamation
freeing slaves in the Southern
states.
It’s the first new federal hol-
iday since Martin Luther King
Jr. Day was created in 1983.
“Our federal holidays are
purposely few in number and
recognize the most important
milestones,” said Rep. Caro-
lyn Maloney, D-N.Y. “I can-
not think of a more important
milestone to commemorate
than the end of slavery in the
United. States.”
The Senate passed the bill a
day earlier under a unanimous
consent agreement that expe-
dites the process for considering
legislation. The vast majority
of states recognize Juneteenth
as a holiday or have an offi-
cial observance of the day, and
most states hold celebrations.
Juneteenth is a paid holiday for
state employees in Texas, New
York, Virginia and Washington.
It was made a state holiday in
Oregon this year, after passing
the Oregon Senate earlier this
month and being signed by the
governor Friday.
The federal holiday will be
known as Juneteenth National
Independence Day.
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Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La.,
said he would vote for the bill
and he supported the establish-
ment of a federal holiday, but
he was upset that the name of
the holiday included the word
independence rather than
emancipation. “Why would the
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Hornet found in 2nd
Washington county
BY DON JENKINS
Capital Press
An Asian giant hornet has
been found in Snohomish
County, Washington, south
of where it was previously
detected. It is apparently a
separate introduction of the
dangerous wasp to the U.S.,
state and federal officials said
Wednesday.
A person reported finding
the dead hornet near Marys-
ville, about 35 miles north of
Seattle, to the state Depart-
ment of Agriculture on June 4.
The department picked up the
dried-out, male specimen on
June 8.
Entomologists with the state
and U.S. Department of Agri-
culture confirmed the speci-
men was an Asian giant hornet
on June 11. The find wasn’t
announced by the government
until nearly a week later.
DNA testing and the color
of the hornet suggest it was
unrelated to specimens found
in Whatcom County and Brit-
ish Columbia to the north in
2019 and 2020, entomologists
said.
Given the time of year and
the hornet’s sex, entomologists
believe the specimen was from
last year and wasn’t discovered
until now, according to the
state agriculture department.
Male hornets usually don’t
begin emerging until July.
“This new report continues
to underscore how important
public reporting is for all sus-
pected invasive species, but
especially Asian giant hornet,”
state agriculture department
entomologist Sven Spichiger
Karla Salp/WSDA
The Washington State Depart-
ment of Agriculture has reported
that an Asian giant hornet was
found in Snohomish County,
about 35 miles north of Seattle.
The world’s largest wasps, they
are destructive to honeybee col-
onies and can even kill a human,
though it’s rare.
said in a statement.
“We’ll now be setting traps
in the area and encouraging
citizen scientists to trap in Sno-
homish and King counties.
None of this would have hap-
pened without an alert resident
taking the time to snap a photo
and submit a report,” he said.
Asian giant hornets, the
world’s largest wasps, attack
honeybees and other polli-
nators. The Washington state
agriculture department found
and eradicated one nest last
year in Whatcom County.
The nest was more than
70 miles north of Marysville.
The state agriculture de-
partment said there was no
obvious way for hornets in
Whatcom County to reach
Snohomish County, skipping
over Skagit County.
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