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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Monday, June 28:
Deschutes County cases: 10,088 (5 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,300 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,385 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 208,222 (87 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,763 (zero new deaths)
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March 2020
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Bottle Bill’s 50th year to be marked with treasure hunt
BY ADAM DUVERNAY
The (Eugene) Register-Guard
Oregon is celebrating the
50th anniversary of the Bottle
Bill with simultaneous trea-
sure hunts across the state
— all in search of six golden
bottles hidden at different lo-
cations.
Participants in the Hidden
Bottle Hunt will scour six re-
gions across the state from July
7 to 11 for the gold-painted
bottles. The reward for finding
one: a $500 donation to their
choice of nonprofit.
The event is being put on by
the Oregon Beverage Recycling
Cooperative, the beverage in-
dustry-created cooperative that
operates the state’s redemption
centers for drink containers.
The Bottle Bill was enacted
in 1971 and took effect the
next year. The current law
has people pay a 10-cent con-
tainer deposit when they buy
beverage containers 3 liters or
less in size, with some excep-
tions. They then can return the
empty containers to redemp-
tion centers and get the 10-cent
refund value for each container
returned.
The recycling cooperative
has been divided into six sec-
tions for the Hidden Bottle
Hunt. One golden bottle will
be hidden somewhere within
each of the six areas.
6,600-acre fire
in Warm Springs
is 95% contained
BY SAVANNAH EADENS
The Oregonian
The S-503 Fire burning for
a week on the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs Reser-
vation is 95% contained as of
Monday morning, according to
fire officials.
The fire burned timber and
grasses on 6,679 acres of the res-
ervation. About 535 acres are
private holdings protected by
the Oregon Department of For-
estry. The fire is on the north
end of the Warm Springs Reser-
vation, about 2 miles east of U.S.
Highway 26 and 7 miles north-
west of Simnasho. The cause of
the fire remains unknown. It
was first reported June 18.
Firefighters and engine crews
have been working on cooling
hot spots and advancing into
the interior of the fire’s contain-
ment line for several days now,
officials said in a news release.
In the coming days, as the
temperature rises amid a his-
toric heat wave, and with a
dropping relative humidity,
there is an increased potential
for fires, officials said.
Evacuation Level 1 — Get
Set, as determined by the Wasco
County Sheriff’s Office, re-
mains in place for all residences
west of Kelly Springs Road and
Back Walters Road, extending
east of Kelly Springs to Reser-
vation Road, including Walters
Corners and the community of
Pine Grove.
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Scappoose police officer
accused of misconduct,
taking drug evidence
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
A Scappoose police officer
was arraigned on a 13-count in-
dictment Monday morning that
charges him with nine counts of
official misconduct, two counts
of unlawful delivery of oxyco-
done, and one count each of
tampering with physical evi-
dence and attempted delivery of
oxycodone.
Troy Alan Gainer, who
joined the police department
in August 2014, is accused of
taking drugs from police evi-
dence rooms for personal use
and soliciting the delivery of
oxycodone from a woman and
another man as early as 2018,
according to the indictment.
He’s accused of taking drugs
from the St. Helens Police
Department and Columbia
County Sheriff’s Office for per-
sonal use and failing to package
them for disposal between July
1, 2019, and Nov. 1, 2020.
He’s also accused of entering
the Scappoose Police Depart-
ment property room while off
duty on Oct. 15, 2020, to obtain
drugs for personal use, accord-
ing to the indictment.
On Jan. 19, 2020, Gainer is
accused of tampering with drug
evidence that was about to be
used in his prosecution, the in-
dictment says.
A grand jury heard testimony
in the case on June 1, 8 and 15
and returned the indictment on
Thursday.
On Monday, Gainer entered
a not guilty plea to all counts
of the indictment during his
first appearance in Columbia
County Circuit Court.
“Troy cooperated during the
investigation and sat down with
Forest Grove investigators,” said
his lawyer, Dan Thenell. “We
have seen the indictment but
not the discovery, and therefore,
are not aware of what the state’s
evidence is to support these
charges.”
Gainer started as a reserve
officer for Scappoose police in
September 2000 before he was
hired as a full officer in August
2004. He was promoted to ser-
geant on Sept. 25, 2014, but
then took a voluntarily demo-
tion on March 6, 2017, accord-
ing to state certification records.
The golden bottles are
crafted from BottleDrop Re-
fillables — bottles used in its
refillable beverage program
— painted by an Oregon artist
group and include a 50th anni-
versary label and a metal em-
blem honoring the milestone,
according to the BottleDrop
website.
The golden bottles will be
wrapped to prevent breakage
and covered in a burlap sack
to protect them from the ele-
ments while they are waiting to
be found.
A new clue to each bot-
tles’ locations will be re-
leased each day of the trea-
sure hunt, or until the bottle
Extra tips for the hunt
• All the bottles will be hidden outside in parks or on public property,
not private property. The bottles will not be hidden in any commu-
nity garden spaces.
• The bottles may be concealed, but will not be buried or hidden in
a way that requires treasure hunters to uproot plants or otherwise
damage park property.
• Public park hours and COVID-19 prevention protocols both should
be observed.
• The Hidden Bottle Hunt is open to Oregon residents at least 18 years
old.
Full rules for the Hidden Bottle Hunt can be found at
bottledropcenters.com/files/HiddenBottleHunt_Rules.pdf.
is found, according to the
website. The first clue will be
published at 10 a.m. July 7 at
bottledropcenters.com/hunt, as
well as in emails and on social
media.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Suspect in alleged fake
contractor scheme
arrested for second time
sada is not licensed or insured a website to check contractor
to conduct these services in
licenses at http://search.ccb.
Oregon.
state.or.us/search/
Victims of the scam
St. Charles to continue to
claimed they provided down
A California man arrested
payments during an in-per-
require face coverings
in May in a fraud-
son meeting, accord-
ulent contractor
Face coverings and physical
ing to the release, but
scheme that he al-
distancing will be maintained
Quesada never re-
legedly ran in De-
turned in some cases. at St. Charles Health System’s
schutes and Crook
In other instances, he four hospitals and clinics, de-
counties has been
spite Gov. Kate Brown’s de-
began a project and
arrested for a sec-
would discontinue his cision to reopen the state on
ond time on new
Wednesday.
work before comple-
Jacob Quesada tion, or the work was
charges, according
In a prepared statement,
to a release from the
St. Charles said it would con-
sub standard.
Deschutes County
tinue to screen patients for
According to the
Sheriff’s Office.
COVID-19 symptoms and
release, detectives believe
On Wednesday , Jacob Que- there may be additional vic-
check temperatures regardless
sada was arrested on new
tims and ask members of the of vaccination status.
charges when five additional
St. Charles has hospitals in
public to come forward if they
cases of alleged fraud came to suspect they are victims of
Bend, Redmond, Prineville
light after the initial investi-
and Madras and family care
fraud. Reports can be made
gation and arrest, which oc-
clinics in Bend, La Pine, Ma-
to Vander Kamp at 541-550-
curred on May 27. Quesada
dras, Prineville, Redmond
4869.
had been released on bail after
and Sisters.
The Oregon Construction
the earlier arrest, according
— Bulletin staff reports
Contractors Board maintains
to Sgt. Kent Vander Kamp,
a spokesperson for the De-
schutes County Sheriff’s Of-
fice.
Quesada mainly used Face-
book to advertise his handy-
man services and went by sev-
eral names including Jay Q,
Jay Que, Jacob Quesada or Jay
Winz, according to the sher-
iff’s office. He advertised ser-
Look for Central Oregon events and add your own
vices for residential and com-
mercial flooring, decking and
painting installations. Que-
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