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Bend hits highest recorded temperature
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
June’s historic heat wave didn’t
just bring record-breaking tempera-
tures to Bend. It brought the highest
temperature ever recorded in the
city.
Temperatures over the last three
days of June reached 102 degrees,
104 degrees and 107 degrees, ac-
cording to the National Weather
Service in Pendleton.
Each temperature set a new re-
cord for the month, said Ann Ad-
ams, an assistant meteorologist at
the weather service in Pendleton.
“Each day overwrote whatever was
the previous record,” Adams said.
The high of 107 degrees on
Wednesday became an all-time re-
cord for Bend. The previous records
were 106 degrees Aug. 1, 1916, and
104 degrees July 27, 1939, according
to weather service data.
“It’s a record for the month of
June, and I believe after looking at
the other months it’s an all-time
high,” Adams said.
The extreme heat in June led to
Bend being hotter and drier than
normal, according to the weather
service’s monthly climate sum-
mary.
The average temperature last
month in Bend was 65 degrees,
which was 7.9 degrees above nor-
mal. Overall, the average tempera-
ture was the second warmest for
June on record in Bend. It is behind
65.8 degrees in June 2015, according
to the weather service.
High temperatures in Bend last
month averaged 81.4 degrees, which
was 9.1 degrees above normal.
See Heat / A6
NORTH UNIT IRRIGATION
Downtown Bend
Parking might cost you more
Area water
allotments
cut amid
heat wave
BY MICHAEL KOHN
The Bulletin
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Vehicles park in a Zone A section along Bond Street in downtown Bend on Wednesday.
The North Unit Irrigation District,
which serves Jefferson County farm-
land, has cut water allotments to pa-
trons for the second time in less than
two weeks in a move to conserve water.
In an emergency board meeting
Wednesday, Deschutes River water
rights holders in the district were re-
duced from 0.9 acre-feet per acre to
0.8 acre-feet per acre, according to
Mike Britton, general manager of the
district. Crooked River water rights
holders were reduced from 0.4 acre-
feet per acre to 0.3 acre-feet per acre.
Water allotments are already tight
for North Unit patrons, who receive
the smallest water allotments among
irrigators in the Deschutes Basin.
Many farmers have had to fallow 30%
to 60% of their farmland this year in
order to have enough water for their
remaining crops.
See Water / A6
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
P
arking in downtown Bend is go-
ing to be a different experience
starting this summer.
Historically, Bend has had
free, two-hour parking downtown
during business hours, and allowed a
driver to move at least 750 feet away to
another space when that two hours was
up.
But new changes, which took effect
Thursday, no longer allow drivers to do
this. Instead, those who want to stay lon-
ger than two hours downtown need to go
to a paid-parking lot or to the paid-park-
ing garage.
“The intention is really to give you
more choices based on how long you
are staying,” said Tobias Marx, the city’s
parking manager.
The changes are several years in the
making, with strategies originally being
outlined in the Downtown Parking Stra-
tegic Management Plan, which was ad-
opted by the Bend City Council in 2017.
The Downtown Parking Advisory Com-
mittee then worked on the specifics.
Downtown lots, which used to include
two hours of free parking, no longer will,
and people will continue to be charged
$1 per hour to park in these lots or the
parking garage.
The basic idea is that the best way to
manage parking when there is high de-
mand is to charge for it, Marx said.
See Parking / A4
Residents ready for Fourth of July fun
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
Driving his 1931 Model A road-
ster hot rod in the Redmond Fourth
of July Parade became a tradition
for Greg Horn.
The retired teacher and school
bus driver enjoyed showing off his
shiny blue vintage car and riding in
the parade with fellow members of
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The Bend-based car club was
disappointed last year when the
Fourth of July Parade was canceled
due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was another blow after the club
stopped meeting regularly, Horn
said.
“It took its toll on our club in that
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we hadn’t been able to meet and
stay in that spirit,” Horn said.
Horn and other participants
in Fourth of July activities across
Central Oregon are gearing up for
a busy holiday. Patriotic festivities
have returned this weekend after
having to be canceled or modified
last summer due to the pandemic.
See Fourth / A4
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John and Cheryl Nelson wave to a car
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No arrests yet
in attack at
Drake Park
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
No arrests have been made and po-
lice are still seeking witnesses to an al-
leged attack Sunday evening near the
Deschutes River access point at Drake
Park that sent a young man to the
hospital with serious injuries.
“We’re looking for anything at this
point,” said Bend Police Lt. Adam
Juhnke. “We’re looking for people to
come forward.”
Juhnke said Thursday the depart-
ment had no new information to re-
lease since its initial statement Mon-
day evening.
According to that statement, at
5:19 p.m. Sunday, a fight among “ju-
veniles” in front of houses on NW
Riverside Boulevard in Bend was re-
ported to 911.
See Attack / A4
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