A4 The BulleTin • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
TODAY
Fireworks
Today is Tuesday, June 29, the
180th day of 2021. There are 185
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On June 29, 1927, the first
trans-Pacific airplane flight was
completed as U.S. Army Air
Corps Lt. Lester J. Maitland and
Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger ar-
rived at Wheeler Field in Hawaii
aboard the Bird of Paradise, an
Atlantic-Fokker C-2, after flying
2,400 miles from Oakland, Cali-
fornia, in 25 hours, 50 minutes.
In 1520, Montezuma II, the ninth
and last emperor of the Aztecs,
died in Tenochtitlan under
unclear circumstances (some
say he was killed by his own sub-
jects; others, by the Spanish).
In 1613, London’s original Globe
Theatre, where many of Shake-
speare’s plays were performed,
was destroyed by a fire sparked
by a cannon shot during a per-
formance of “Henry VIII.”
In 1767, Britain approved the
Townshend Revenue Act, which
imposed import duties on glass,
paint, oil, lead, paper and tea
shipped to the American colo-
nies. Colonists bitterly protested,
prompting Parliament to repeal
the duties — except for tea.
In 1946, authorities in Brit-
ish-ruled Palestine arrested
more than 2,700 Jews in an at-
tempt to stamp out extremists.
In 1956, film star Marilyn Mon-
roe married playwright Arthur
Miller in a civil ceremony in
White Plains, New York
In 1967, Jerusalem was re-uni-
fied as Israel removed barricades
separating the Old City from the
Israeli sector.
In 1970, the United States ended
a two-month military offensive
into Cambodia.
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down a trio of death
sentences, saying the way they
had been imposed constituted
cruel and unusual punishment.
(The ruling prompted states to
effectively impose a moratorium
on executions until their capital
punishment laws could be
revised.)
In 1995, the space shuttle At-
lantis and the Russian Mir space
station linked in orbit, beginning
a historic five-day voyage as a
single ship. Actor Lana Turner
died in Century City, California,
at age 74.
In 2006, the Supreme Court
ruled, 5-3, that President George
W. Bush’s plan to try Guanta-
namo Bay detainees in military
tribunals violated U.S. and inter-
national law.
In 2009, disgraced financier Ber-
nard Madoff received a 150-year
sentence for his multibillion-dol-
lar fraud. (Madoff died in prison
in April 2021.)
Ten years ago: In the first rul-
ing by a federal appeals court
on President Barack Obama’s
health care overhaul, a panel in
Cincinnati handed the adminis-
tration a victory by agreeing that
the government could require a
minimum amount of insurance
for Americans. Greece fended
off bankruptcy as lawmakers
backed austerity measures in
the face of riots that left more
than 100 injured.
Five years ago: President
Barack Obama and the leaders
of Mexico and Canada, meeting
in Ottawa, pushed back force-
fully against the isolationist
and anti-immigrant sentiments
roiling Britain and championed
by GOP presidential candidate
Donald Trump.
One year ago: Two published
studies revealed that at least 285
U.S. children had developed a
serious inflammatory condition
linked to the coronavirus. Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell became the highest-ranking
Republican in Congress to
encourage Americans to wear
a mask as protection against
the coronavirus. Former police
officer Joseph James DeAngelo,
the Golden State Killer who
terrorized Northern California in
the 1970s, pleaded guilty to 13
counts of murder in exchange
for a life sentence instead of a
possible death penalty.
Today’s Birthdays: Songwriter
L. Russell Brown is 81. Sing-
er-songwriter Garland Jeffreys
is 78. Actor Gary Busey is 77. Co-
median Richard Lewis is 74. Rock
musician Ian Paice (Deep Purple)
is 73. Actor Amanda Donohoe is
59. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
is 58. Producer-writer Matthew
Weiner is 56. Actor Christina
Chang is 50. Actor Lance Barber
is 48. Actor-dancer Will Kemp is
44. Actor Zuleikha Robinson is
44. Rock musician Sam Farrar is
43. Actor Luke Kirby is 43. Singer
Nicole Scherzinger is 43. Come-
dian-writer Colin Jost is 39. Actor
Lily Rabe is 39. R&B singer Aun-
drea Fimbres is 38. NBA forward
Kawhi Leonard is 30. Actor Camila
Mendes (TV: “Riverdale”) is 27.
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— Associated Press
The emergency order is subject to
ratification by the Bend City Council
on July 21.
The Deschutes County Commission
also discussed a possible ban on fire-
works for people in the rural parts of
the county on Monday, but declined
to do so. The county did issue public
use restrictions that bar fireworks and
other activities that could spark fires on
county property and lands that are not
part of a rural fire protection district or
protected by the Oregon Department of
Forestry.
Commissioner Tony DeBone said he
wasn’t in favor of a ban, saying he pre-
ferred to rely on personal responsibility.
“The folks who are going to do it are
still going to do it,” DeBone said.
Commissioner Phil Chang said he
could see both sides of the issue, but ul-
timately was reluctant to initiate a ban.
“As someone who feels they do prac-
tice common sense, and who has gotten
a lot of enjoyment out of fireworks …
I’m not super excited about considering
banning them,” Chang said Monday.
Goodman-Campbell said that if
people choose to go outside of the city
to use fireworks, they are showing a
disregard for the safety of the commu-
nity.
“I believe that the vast majority of
people in Bend genuinely care about
the safety and lives of our neighbors
and they need to show that care by not
lighting off fireworks,” she said.
In its declaration Monday, the city
noted that fireworks sparked a fire at
Stover Park in northeast Bend on Fri-
day. Bend Fire & Rescue prevented
the fire from spreading beyond the
park. But fireworks remain a fire risk
in a community in deep drought con-
ditions. Fireworks cause more than
19,000 fires a year in the U.S., accord-
ing to the city.
Under the emergency order, use of
any fireworks carries a fine up to $750,
according to the city.
Residents can report the use of fire-
works via email at fireworks@bendore-
gon.gov.
If the fireworks are posing an imme-
diate safety risk to a person or property,
residents are asked to call 911.
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Reporter: 541-633-2160, bvisser@bendbulletin.com
Hospitals see spike
in heat-related visits
PORTLAND — Oregon
hospitals over the weekend
saw a sharp increase in the
number of people experi-
encing heat-related illnesses,
according to the Oregon
Health Authority.
Agency spokesperson De-
lia Hernández said 128 peo-
ple visited Oregon hospitals
for heat-related illnesses on
Sunday, The Oregonian re-
ported.
Richard Leman, a pub-
lic health expert with the
Oregon Health Author-
ity, among other things
urged people to use fans
or air conditioning, avoid
hot food and heavy meals
and to close windows and
shades during the after-
noon, the hottest part of
the day.
“The sharp increase in
heat-related illness visits is
quite concerning,” he said.
“Temperatures that get
above 100 can be extremely
dangerous if we don’t take
care of ourselves.”
— The Associated Press
Homeless
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“Emerson had shade and
was a few degrees cooler than
Hunnell Road, where there is
no shade or trees,” he said. “To
act like they’re unrelated, is dis-
ingenuous.”
Garrity confirmed that two
individuals died at the Hunnell
Road location. One, a wheel-
chair user, had previously lived
at the Emerson Avenue camp,
he said.
“One found was deceased
for a few days, and heat may
have still been a factor,” he said.
“It’s been crazy hot the past few
days. Just because it was a few
days ago, that is not indicative
that it’s not heat related.”
Garrity also mentioned a
third death that occurred at
Hunnell Road over the week-
end, a potential overdose.
“While that’s not necessarily
heat related, in my experience
and with mutual aid groups,
people have been relapsing
more, campers who are either
clean or high functioning have
been having greater struggles
than they used to, possibly be-
cause of the stress of evictions,”
he said.
According to Garrity, some
individuals who were evicted
from the camp at Emerson Av-
enue and moved to the camp
at Hunnell Road were recently
given eviction notices.
Ultimately, Garrity said,
the city of Bend needs to take
responsibility for the conse-
quences of evicting homeless
people from camps without
providing them with some-
where else to go.
“The city made a policy de-
cision to evict people and is
now also giving eviction no-
tices at places where people
were moved to,” he said. “These
are all connected matters. This
is the city’s continued crim-
inalization of homelessness
in the community.”“Whether
someone lives on Emerson or
Hunnell here, the bottom line
is that no one should die on the
streets of Bend,” said Bend City
Councilor Megan Perkins. “It
is a societal failure and it has
been ignored for way too long.
The City Council is working
every day to solve this issue,
but it’s going to take some time.
In the meantime, we are trying
to provide as many resources
as we can to make sure every-
one is safe in this heat.”
Cooling centers and other
resources
As temperatures rise in Cen-
tral Oregon, homeless outreach
organizations are working to
ensure that homeless individu-
als have access to cooling cen-
ters and needed resources.
Dean Guernsey/Bulletin photos
“We lost two of our neigh-
bors. That tragedy happened
last weekend,” said Morgan
Schmidt, a pastor at the First
Presbyterian Church of Bend,
which is functioning as a cool-
ing center for the homeless
from noon to 5 p.m. on week-
ends. Shepherd’s House Min-
istries, in partnership with the
First Presbyterian Church, is
functioning as a cooling cen-
ter from noon to 5 p.m. on
weekdays.
Tony Mitchell, executive
director for the Jefferson
County Faith Based Network,
was driving around Madras in
a van with staff and volunteers
all weekend picking up home-
less individuals and transport-
ing them to a cooling shelter
at the Madras Free Methodist
Church.
Overall, they picked up
around 15 people, and Mitch-
ell expects that there will be
more throughout the week as
temperatures rise.
“It’s intense out there,” he
said. “This is not a joke this
week. But this has given us a
proof of concept, and a test
run at that. It’s really simple.
It’s about a meal, hydration.
It’s great to have something
like a TV, some socialization, a
place to hang.”
According to Mitchell, any-
one in the community can use
the space for shelter.
“One guy came in the other
People rest in the Shepherd’s House Ministries cooling shelter in Bend
on Monday. Bend’s temperature reached 108 degrees.
Jon Eveland pours water over his
head to stay cool.
day who didn’t have AC and
he was having a really hard
time,” he said.
Mitchell said the space can
accommodate around 25 peo-
ple, but that no one will be
turned away.
James Cook, who is help-
ing run cooling centers in
Redmond, said that there was
a pretty good crowd at 17th
Avenue and Greenwood Ave-
nue, where a cooling center is
located and where volunteers
were doing street outreach on
the weekend from 2 to 6 p.m.
According to Cook, an
additional cooling center is
being made available at the
Mountain View Fellowship.
Transportation to the center
will be provided at 17th and
Greenwood at noon this week.
“Street outreach will be there
with ice and water and fruit
OBITUARY
Wilma Marie Stenger
October 3, 1926 - June 13, 2021
Wilma
Marie
Stenger
of Redmond OR passed
peacefully on June 13, 2021.
Born in Mt. Angel Oregon on
Oct. 3, 1926. Graduated from
Silverton OR High in 1944.
She enjoyed an acti ve life of
traveling on bus tours from
coast to coast and Canada.
One of her favorites was the
Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. In her spare ti me she
loved sewing, knitti ng, and baking. Her favorite was
making bread, rolls, and apple pies. Playing all types
of board games and cards, especially pinochle, at
the Redmond Sr. Center was another love of hers.
She is survived by her daughter Judy Chase (Roy)
from Ocean Park, WA.
Three grandkids Lonnie Parsons (Steve) of Madras,
Ken Oti s (Lisa) of Toledo OR, and Travis Stenger
of Olympia WA. Six great-grandkids and three
great-great-grandkids. Preceded in death was her
husband Kenneth Stenger and son Roger Stenger.
A memorial will be planned for later this fall.
and stuff like that,” Cook said.
As the week progresses and
temperatures rise, more vol-
unteers will likely be needed.
“We’re pretty good for the
next couple days, but after that
it could get iffy. It’s pretty ob-
vious we’ll need to stay open
all week, and after the next
few days, we’ll need more vol-
unteers. If too many show up,
we can always say no.”
Mitchell in Madras said
the cooling center could use
donations of sleeping mats,
sleeping bags and serving
utensils.
“Our volunteer train is
starting to pick up,” Mitchell
said. “Folks are donating dif-
ferent things for lunches and
stuff.”
Schmidt said donations are
being accepted at the First
Presbyterian Church in Bend,
and that more volunteers are
needed.
Items most in need in-
clude coolers, ice, small tow-
els, bandanas, water bottles,
Gatorade, electrolyte packets,
misters, baby wipes, sun hats,
sunscreen and deodorant.
“No more popsicles or ice
cream,” she said.
Shepherd’s House is also in
need of donated bottled water.
Overall, homeless outreach
workers expressed gratitude
for being able to help as Cen-
tral Oregon grapples with the
extreme heat wave.
“Things are going well, and
we feel fortunate to be do-
ing this,” Mitchell said. “Un-
housed folks are not who you
think they are. When you get
up close and personal and
share that joint humanity and
share conversations about
life, you’re just always learn-
ing things that just amaze you
about who the folks are that
we’re serving.”
On Saturday and Sun-
day, a total of six people were
seen throughout St. Charles
Health System’s four Central
Oregon hospitals for heat-re-
lated medical issues, said Lisa
Goodman, St. Charles Health
System spokeswoman.
OBITUARY
John Harold Anderson
September 10, 1938 - April 29, 2021
John Anderson passed away
peacefully in his sleep at
Partners In Care-Bend on
Thursday April 29, 2021 with
his 3 children by his side.
John was born Sept. 10, 1938
in Amery, Wisconsin to Axel
and Essie (Rowland) Anderson.
He lived in Briti sh Columbia,
Canada with his parents and
sister, Darlene before moving
back to the states to Sweet
Home, OR , then sett ling in Central Oregon.
He att ended Redmond High School, then enlisted in the
US Army in 1956. He was honorably discharged in 1958
and moved back to Central Oregon where he met the
love of his life, Frieda Releford. They married in 1962 and
had 3 children: Susan Bethea, of Oakland, CA, and John
Anderson and Kristi Toman of Bend.
John worked as a heavy equipment operator, working
for most of the major companies in Central Oregon unti l
he reti red in 1996.
He loved Hot Rods, family gatherings, animals, and
sharing his stories of the adventures he had during his
life. He will be greatly missed.
John is survived by his 3 children, 7 grandchildren, & 10
great-grandchildren.
A Celebrati on of Life will be held at The Elks-63120 Boyd
Acres Rd in Bend on Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
Donati ons can be made to Partners In Care-Bend
Hospice.