A4 The BulleTin • Friday, June 18, 2021
TODAY
Tenants
It’s Friday, June 18, the 169th day
of 2021. There are 196 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1812, the War of 1812 began
as the United States Congress
approved, and President James
Madison signed, a declaration of
war against Britain.
In 1778, American forces en-
tered Philadelphia as the British
withdrew during the Revolu-
tionary War.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte
met defeat at Waterloo as British
and Prussian troops defeated
the French in Belgium.
In 1873, suffragist Susan B.
Anthony was found guilty by
a judge in Canandaigua, New
York, of breaking the law by
casting a vote in the 1872 presi-
dential election. The judge fined
Anthony $100, but she never
paid the penalty.
In 1964, President Lyndon B.
Johnson and Japanese Prime
Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to
each other by telephone as they
inaugurated the first trans-Pa-
cific cable completed by AT&T
between Japan and Hawaii.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter
and Soviet President Leonid
I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II
strategic arms limitation treaty
in Vienna.
In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride
became America’s first woman
in space as she and four col-
leagues blasted off aboard the
space shuttle Challenger on a
six-day mission.
In 1992, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Georgia v. McCollum,
ruled that criminal defendants
could not use race as a basis for
excluding potential jurors from
their trials.
In 2003, baseball Hall-of-Famer
Larry Doby, who broke the
American League’s color barrier
in 1947, died in Montclair, N.J.,
at age 79.
In 2010, death row inmate
Ronnie Lee Gardner died in
a barrage of bullets as Utah
carried out its first firing squad
execution in 14 years. Gardner
had been sentenced to death
for fatally shooting attorney
Michael Burdell during a failed
escape attempt from a Salt Lake
City courthouse.
In 2018, President Donald
Trump announced that he was
directing the Pentagon to create
the “Space Force” as an indepen-
dent service branch. Troubled
rapper-singer XXXTentacion
was shot and killed in Florida in
what police called an apparent
robbery attempt.
Ten years ago: Clarence Clem-
ons, the saxophone player for
the E Street Band who was one
of the key influences in Bruce
Springsteen’s life and music,
died in Florida at 69.
Five years ago: With California’s
Yosemite Falls as a backdrop,
President Barack Obama said
climate change was damaging
national parks, with rising tem-
peratures causing Yosemite’s
meadows to dry out and raising
the prospect of a glacier pre-
serve without its glaciers.
One year ago: The abandoned
bus that was central to the book
and movie “Into the Wild” was
removed by helicopter from the
Alaska wilderness; it had become
a lure for dangerous pilgrimages.
Dame Vera Lynn, who serenated
British troops during World War II
with sentimental favorites “We’ll
Meet Again” and “The White
Cliffs of Dover,” died at 103.
Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen.
Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is 84.
Sir Paul McCartney is 79. For-
mer Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb.,
is 71. Actor Isabella Rossellini is
69. Actor Carol Kane is 69. Actor
Brian Benben is 65. Actor An-
drea Evans is 64. Figure skater
Kurt Browning is 55. R&B singer
Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men) is
50. Actor Mara Hobel is 50. Sing-
er-songwriter Ray LaMontagne
is 48. Rapper Silkk the Shocker is
46. Actor Alana de la Garza is 45.
Country singer Blake Shelton is
45. Actor Renee Olstead is 32.
Continued from A1
But they now will be com-
pensated for the rest — and
without a proposed tax credit
that would have taken money
out of state coffers for a few
years.
Counting $200 million
that the Legislature approved
Dec. 21 for tenants and land-
lords, and $300 million more
in federal funds that Congress
approved in December and
March, Oregon has amassed
more than $500 million avail-
able for rental assistance. But
much of that money has not
yet reached landlords.
The agreement is intended
to head off the potential evic-
tion of thousands of renters
who are awaiting assistance but
faced the prospect of being un-
able to pay rent as of July 1.
“Oregon renters who are in
line for rent assistance desper-
ately need protection when the
eviction moratorium ends,”
Assault
Continued from A1
“We are shocked by this vi-
olence and I am deeply con-
cerned to learn that prisoners
under the control of DOC,
whose mission is to promote
and protect public safety, can
easily escape and harm the
general public,” Shiga wrote to
Brown in a letter dated April
30.
Shiga’s letter described the
injuries suffered by the Japa-
nese nationals: One woman
sustained a skull fracture and
cerebral hemorrhaging and the
other underwent four surger-
ies to address the complicated
fracture of her arm.
About 9,000 Japanese people
live in the state, the diplomat
told the governor.
“In response to this incident,
we will have to consider how
we, the Japanese community,
should think about safety in
Oregon,” he wrote.
What, if any, response Shiga
received from Brown is un-
clear. Brown’s office has not yet
responded to questions from
The Oregonian.
The Department of Correc-
tions released the letter to The
Oregonian on Wednesday in
response to a public records
request.
Shelters
Continued from A1
The city has yet to receive
confirmation that it is being
recommended for grant dol-
lars, but Deschutes County was
specifically mentioned when
additional funding was voted
on by the state House of Rep-
resentatives earlier this month,
Eagan said.
To complete the $2.5 mil-
lion purchase, the plan is for
the city to receive $2.4 million
from Project Turnkey and for
the city to provide the remain-
ing $100,000 from local funds.
NeighborImpact, the non-
profit organization that will
run the shelter, has received
enough funding to run the fa-
cility for two years, according
to Eagan.
The facility will be moni-
tored 24 hours a day, and offer
case management to connect
residents with services.
The council also unani-
Patty Wentz, a spokeswoman
for Stable Homes for Ore-
gon Families, said after the
House Rules Committee vote
Wednesday night on the re-
vised Senate Bill 278.
The revised Senate Bill 278
requires a vote in the Senate,
which approved a different ver-
sion March 24.
A different bill (SB 282)
signed May 19 by Gov. Kate
Brown bars evictions for failure
to pay past-due rent during the
pandemic until Feb. 28, 2022.
But it requires tenants to be
current on rent as of July 1.
10,000 and growing
According to the Oregon
Housing and Community Ser-
vices Department, 10,830 ap-
plications for rental assistance
are pending from tenants as of
Tuesday. That figure represents
more than 26,000 people. An-
other 6,600 applications have
been started; they are excluded
from the total.
Nearly two-thirds of the
completed applications orig-
inated in the Portland metro
area.
Statewide, two-thirds of
the applicants are from white
households and 18% from His-
panic households, based on
ethnicity.
By race, 47% were from
white households and 18%
from Black households. (His-
panics can be of any race, ac-
cording to the U.S. Census.)
Rep. Julie Fahey, a Democrat
from Eugene, presented the
elements of a bill that in its ini-
tial stages had threatened once
again to widen a rift between
tenants and landlords.
“The Legislature ensures
that tenants who have done ev-
erything right in this process
have a safe harbor from evic-
tion as they await their assis-
tance,” she said.
Though Fahey sits on the
Rules Committee, she also
led the House Committee on
Housing during the current
session. Fahey gave credit to
No tax credit
Rep. Jack Zika, a Republican
from Redmond who also sits
on both panels, had proposed
a tax credit to offset landlords’
losses of 20% from past-due
rents when they accepted pay-
ments from a $150 million
state compensation fund that
lawmakers set up in Decem-
ber. Landlords would have
subtracted those losses directly
from their income taxes under
that proposal, which was iden-
tical to Senate Bill 330.
“This will be better for
landlords than having to go
through a tax credit process,”
Fahey said. “Those landlords
have already applied (for state
payments), been verified, and
in many cases have received
checks, so they already have
that relationship and it should
be fairly easy to administer
these payments.”
e
Colette Peters, director of
Oregon’s prison system, re-
leased a statement to the news
organization calling the attack
“a terrible crime.”
She said her agency is work-
ing with investigators to “en-
sure the perpetrator is held
accountable” and said inmates
assigned to outside work crews
“are thoroughly vetted.”
“Lunn made the terrible de-
cision to assault two innocent
women—forever altering their
lives,” she said.
A corrections department
spokeswoman on Friday said
Peters is concerned that Lunn’s
actions “will likely jeopardize
public perception” of inmate
work programs.
At the time, Lunn was serv-
ing a three-year sentence for
a home invasion robbery in
Multnomah County.
He was convicted of sec-
ond-degree robbery, a Measure
11 offense that comes with a
mandatory minimum sen-
tence.
Court records show Lunn
at the time of his arrest for the
robbery had 13 prior felony
convictions and one misde-
meanor conviction, all prop-
erty and drug crimes.
Lunn has not been charged
in the attacks of the two
women at the campground.
According to the Depart-
ment of Corrections, Lunn was
transferred to the South Fork
Forest Camp in Tillamook on
Oct. 13. South Fork is a mini-
mum-security prison operated
by the Department of Correc-
tions and the Oregon Board of
Forestry.
About 200 inmates who are
within four years of release
are housed at the camp, where
they are assigned to work
crews that perform forest man-
agement and disaster relief in
northwest Oregon.
Lunn, according to prison
records, had no disciplinary re-
cord while in prison.
On April 14, Lunn was as-
signed to a work crew that was
dispatched to the Gales Creek
Campground in the Tillamook
Forest, on the western edge of
Washington County.
At some point, Lunn —
listed in prison records as 6’3
and 260 pounds — allegedly
left the crew and encountered
the women.
Authorities said Lunn stole
one of the women’s cars and
fled. He was captured that
night in the woods of Sauvie Is-
land, about an hour away from
the campground.
The Department of Cor-
rections that day announced
that Lunn had walked away,
assaulted two women and stole
their car. It did not disclose
the extent of the injuries to the
women.
The Department of Forestry
has not yet responded to ques-
tions from The Oregonian,
including who supervised the
work crew that day and the last
time Lunn was seen by a su-
pervisor.
Department of Corrections
records show he is being held
at the Oregon State Peniten-
tiary in Salem.
According to a 2014 agree-
ment between the Department
of Corrections and the Ore-
gon Department of Forestry, a
work crew “custodial supervi-
sor” from the prison system is
responsible for “maintaining
custodial supervision of in-
mates assigned to a project.”
The Department of Correc-
tions on Wednesday declined
to say whether corrections
staff was on site at the time of
Lunn’s escape.
The agency also declined to
say whether signs announcing
the presence of inmate work
crews were posted at the camp-
ground.
Shiga, the highest-ranking
Japanese diplomat in Oregon,
said his government worries
the incident will scare Japanese
people and businesses “and
that they will hesitate to ex-
pand their economic activities
here.”
“We also expect that many
students and tourists from
Japan will return to Oregon
when the pandemic ends,” he
told Brown.
He is also concerned about
the implications for tourism,
given the draw of outdoor ac-
tivities for Japanese visitors.
“Many people will be disap-
pointed and reluctant to visit
Oregon if it is seen as unsafe,”
he said.
Shiga went on to make three
requests: support from the
state for the injured women, a
thorough investigation of the
incident and measures to pre-
vent “similar failures” from
happening again and a public
statement from the govern-
ment regarding its commit-
ment to public safety.
“In order to limit the up-
set within the Japanese com-
munity caused by this recent
event, it would be desirable for
the responsible authorities to
make some statement show-
ing their utmost commitment
to ensuring the safety of public
spaces in the state,” he wrote.
He asked Brown to ensure
that signs announcing inmate
work crews be posted on all
public locations.
mously voted to enter a pur-
chase and sale agreement with
the Opportunity Foundation
to buy the building at 275 NE
Second St. for $2 million to se-
cure it as an overnight shelter.
The building was formerly
used as Bend’s warming shel-
ter and is now being run as a
long-term, overnight homeless
shelter.
The 10,000-square-foot
building would be purchased
with money from the federal
American Rescue Plan Act.
If environmental reviews and
inspections go well, the city
intends to close on the sale by
Sept. 15.
This shelter was opened at
the beginning of June thanks to
COVID-19 relief funding from
the city and NeighborImpact
and is currently run by Shep-
herd’s House Ministries.
It’s unclear when the Bend
Value Inn would be ready to
open as a shelter, Eagan said.
The city should know before
June 30 whether it will receive
Project Turnkey money. House
Bill 2004, passed 23-5 by the
Oregon Senate on Thurs-
day, adds $9.7 million to an
unspent $3.8 million to en-
able the Oregon Community
Foundation to fund four more
conversions of motels into
shelters under Project Turn-
key. Foundation officials said
they cannot disclose details
until purchase arrangements
are complete, but legislative
reports say the projects are in
Multnomah, Deschutes, Mal-
heur and Yamhill counties,
and will provide a total of 132
units..
e
legislative, agency and other
staffers for working out the
details.
The new legislation will em-
power the Oregon Housing
and Community Services De-
partment to give some of the
state and federal rental assis-
tance funds to an unspecified
third party, which would make
the payments to landlords
while state and local agencies
comb through tenant applica-
tions for rental assistance.
That money also will go di-
rectly to landlords once tenants
are deemed eligible for assis-
tance.
In addition to the state
agency, several community
action agencies or other local
organizations are helping ten-
ants. In Multnomah County,
it is Home Forward. In Wash-
ington County, the Housing
Services Department is part of
county government, as is the
Health, Housing and Human
Services Department in Clack-
amas County. Both suburban
counties also have housing au-
thorities.
Indulge
in Self Care
CALL TODAY TO BOOK
YOUR SPA EXPERIENCE!
HAIR•NAILS•LASHES•SKIN•BROWS
405 NE 3RD ST.
541-385-8060
Reporter: 541-633-2160,
bvisser@bendbulletin.com
patio
world
pwong@pamplinmedia.com
where quality matters
Find it all online
bendbulletin.com
— Associated Press
A S ENIOR M OMENT
Senior Living Solutions
A Senior Moment is committed to personally
assisting you with fi nding the right community
to meet your needs at no cost to you!
• Retirement living
• Foster care
• Memory/Alzheimer’s care • Nursing homes
• Independent living
• Assisted living
Nancy Gotchy, 541-408-0570 | Tiffany Plagmann, 541-788-3487
www.aseniormoment.us
We are 100% local, independent and not affi liated with any single provider network.
Live Life Outdoors
patio world
222 SE Reed Market Road - Bend
541-388-0022
patioworldbend.com Mon-Sat 9:30-5:30 Sun 10-5