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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Thursday, July 1:
Deschutes County cases: 10,112 (12 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,305 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,396 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 41 (1 new death)
Oregon cases: 208,834 (198 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,778 (4 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 13 (4 in ICU)
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(May 20)
1st case
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March 2020
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(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
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(April 10)
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28 new cases
130
(April 29)
108 new cases
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Bend vet’s plan to rename
Highway 30 hits a detour
Never lost a vote
Tobiason is a retired U.S.
Efforts by Bend’s Dick Tobi- Army lieutenant colonel who
ason to rename U.S. Highway
founded the one-man non-
30 for Oregon military veter-
profit Bend Heroes Founda-
ans hit a speed bump in the
tion. He asked state Sen. Tim
just-completed 2021 legislative Knopp, a Bend Republican, to
session.
introduce SB 790 to rename
Members of the House
one of the national highways
Committee on Veterans Af-
that extends from Oregon to
fairs and Emergency Manage-
the East Coast. Oregon’s 477-
ment tabled Senate Bill 790, a
mile section of the highway
bill proposed on Tobiason’s be- has so far not been named to
half to rename the road from
honor any veterans. SB 790
Astoria to the Idaho border
The bill stalled in the House
the Oregon Vet-
Committee on Veterans
erans Memorial
and Emergency Man-
Highway. The com-
agement. That com-
mittee asked Ore-
mittee tabled SB 790
gon’s Department
in favor of House Bill
of Transportation
2700, which expanded
to clarify that the
the state’s 2011 roadside
proposed name
memorial sign rules for
would not conflict
veterans killed in action
Tobiason
with other highways
to include those who were
honoring veterans.
formerly designated as un-
Tobiason’s legislation could
accounted for or prisoners of
be reintroduced in the short
war.
2022 legislative session, which
At the same time, the com-
begins Feb. 1.This was the first mittee asked ODOT to make
time in a dozen years of leg-
sure Tobiason’s proposed
islative efforts to rename Or-
name for Highway 30 would
egon highways for veterans
not conflict with any of the
that Tobiason had been turned dozen names on other Oregon
away by lawmakers.
highways honoring veterans
“The Legislature bungled it,” from several wars and con-
Tobiason said. “Now I have the flicts. Possible conflicts could
job of telling veterans that they include the long stretch from
won’t get it this session, but it
Portland to the Idaho border
will probably come up next
where Highway 30 overlaps
session.”
with Interstate 84. The inter-
BY KEVIN HARDEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
state is already designated the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Highway. It also is part of six
major roads designed Blue
Star Memorial Highways. Two
decades ago, Portland’s Inter-
state 205 was designated the
Veterans Memorial Highway.
Long stretch of highway
U.S. Highway 30 extends
3,073 miles to Atlantic City,
New Jersey. It is the only ma-
jor highway in Oregon not
designated to honor veterans.
It crosses 11 states and is the
nation’s third longest coast-to-
coast highway.
Oregon’s section of the
highway that winds along the
Columbia River from the As-
toria-Megler Bridge through
Scappoose and Portland be-
fore heading east as part of
Interstate 84, is the beginning
of Tobiason’s plans for the
road. He’s working with vet-
erans groups and lawmakers
in other states to get the same
designation.
Tobiason’s Bend Heroes
Foundation has also asked
Congress to designate the
3,365-mile U.S. Highway 20,
which begins at Newport on
the Oregon Coast and heads
east to Boston, the National
Medal of Honor Highway. Or-
egon’s section of Highway 20 is
already known as the Medal of
Honor Highway.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Massage parlor owner
arrested for sex abuse
A Bend man was arrested
Wednesday night following an
accusation he sexually abused
a female customer at the spa he
owns, where he allegedly gave
illegal massages, according to
the Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office.
Deputies arrested Michael
Patrick Boyle, 60, on suspicion
of third-degree
sex abuse and ha-
rassment. He was
also arrested on
suspicion of three
counts of perform-
ing massages with-
out a valid state li-
Boyle
cense, according to
the sheriff’s office.
Boyle owns Hop in the Spa on
W. Cascade Avenue in Sisters.
Calls to Boyle and Hop in
patio
world
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Live Life Outdoors
patio world
Regional firefighters
respond to 21 new starts
Roughly 23 new fires
in Northeast Oregon
Firefighters in Central Or-
egon responded to 21 new
fires that erupted Wednesday
amid hot weather and hun-
dreds of lightning strikes.
Kassidy Kern, a spokes-
person for the U.S. Forest
Service, said firefighters were
responding to multiple starts,
most of them ranging in size
from 1 to 15 acres.
One of the fires was burn-
ing near the town of Mitch-
ell. The Wheeler County
Sheriff’s Office issued some
evacuations for that fire, said
Kern. The other fires were lo-
cated in remote, uninhabited
areas.
The largest of the new fires
is the Wrentham Market Fire
estimated at 10,000 acres east
of Durfur in Wasco County,
according to a release from
Central Oregon Fire Info.
The fire is mostly burning
through wheat and brush
and Wednesday was moving
toward the Lower Deschutes
River.
Closer to Bend, the Rat-
tlesnake Fire burned around
100 acres on the Warm
Springs Reservation before
jumping the Deschutes River
where it grew to an estimated
4,700 acres.
Other fires include the
Ryegrass Fire and Incident
460. Ryegrass is located on
1,000 acres east of the Maury
Mountains and south of the
Paulina Highway. Incident
460, near Pringle Falls Camp-
ground northwest of La Pine
on the Deschutes National
Forest, was contained at half
an acre.
Passing thunderstorms
Wednesday ignited a flurry
of new fires in Northeast Or-
egon.
Approximately 23 fires have
been confirmed out of more
than 40 incidents reported as
of 11 a.m. July 1 to the Blue
Mountain and John Day in-
teragency dispatch centers, ac-
cording to a press release.
Initial attack resources have
been busy responding to these
incidents with support from
aerial resources.
Of the new fires, the larg-
est is the Lewis Rock fire 4½
miles south of Mitchell at 75
acres. Other new fires were
reported about 12 miles east
of Prairie City, 20 miles east
of Seneca, 7½ miles south
of Lonerock, about 11 miles
north of Spray, 5 miles south
of Ukiah, 10 miles north of
Ukiah, 19 miles southeast of
Ukiah and 18 miles northeast
of Prairie City. Most were less
than an acre.
The largest fire remains the
Lovlett Corral fire 10.8 miles
northwest of Monument,
which was reported Tuesday.
Burning in grass and timber,
the fire is 100% lined, and
the cause of the fire is under
investigation. The High Des-
ert Interagency Type 3 Inci-
dent Management Team took
command of the fire at 6 a.m.
Thursday. Fire behavior is
creeping and smoldering with
larger fuels burning in the in-
terior. Current resources as-
signed include 13 engines, six
crews, two dozers, six water
tenders and one helicopter.
—Bulletin staff and wire reports
the Spa were not returned
Thursday. Boyle has yet
to be charged in circuit
court, and no future court
dates are listed in the state
criminal justice database.
The sheriff’s office asks
anyone with information
about Hop in the Spa to
call deputy Michael Hud-
son at 541-693-6911 in refer-
ence to case 21-30013.
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