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Jefferson County deaths: 42 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 217,690 (804 new cases)
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The U.S. Postal Service released a stamp Tuesday honoring Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin.
New postal stamp honors
author Ursula K. Le Guin
BY LIZZY ACKER
The Oregonian
World-famous speculative
fiction writer and former Port-
land mainstay Ursula K. Le
Guin will now travel the world
on U.S. postage. The writer,
who died at age 88 in 2019, was
honored Tuesday when a new
Forever stamp featuring her
face was unveiled at the Port-
land Art Museum.
“Ursula once said she
wanted to see science fiction
step over the old walls of con-
vention and hit right into the
next wall — and start to break
it down, too,” Joseph Corbett,
U.S. Postal Service chief fi-
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“She felt the ideas repre-
sented in her fiction could help
people become more aware of
other ways to do things, other
ways to be and to help people
wake up,” Corbett said.
The stamp is the 33rd in the
Postal Service’s Literary Arts
series. It features a portrait of
Le Guin that is taken from a
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the wintry world and charac-
ters she created in “The Left
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Man gets 23 years for shooting at
3 Salem cops, injuring detective
The Associated Press
SALEM — A Salem man
has been sentenced to 23 years
in prison for shooting at three
Salem police officers in a car
chase during a drug investiga-
tion.
Alejandro Maciel-Salcedo
pleaded guilty to first- and
second-degree attempted
murder, assault, unlawful
use of a weapon and felon in
possession of a firearm, The
Statesman Journal reported.
Four counts of first-degree at-
tempted murder charges were
dropped as part of a plea agree-
ment.
The Marion County Dis-
trict Attorney’s office said Ma-
ciel-Salcedo shot at Salem po-
lice detectives Angus Emmons,
Oscar Zambrano and Anthony
Burke in July 2020.
On that day, Emmons,
Zambrano and Burke were
conducting surveillance on
Maciel-Salcedo and his as-
sociates, who they alleged
facilitated the delivery of a
quarter-pound of metham-
phetamine.
The detectives were plac-
ing a tracking device on Ma-
ciel-Salcedo’s car when his
nephew saw the detectives and
told Maciel-Salcedo.
Zambrano and Burke ran to
their undercover vehicle, and
Emmons drove them from the
scene, prosecutors said. Ma-
ciel-Salcedo followed, accord-
ing to the district attorney’s
office.
As Emmons drove they
heard a gunshot and saw Ma-
ciel-Salcedo’s car approach-
ing. As Maciel-Salcedo pulled
alongside the detective’s ve-
hicle, at least three additional
shots were fired. Emmons was
struck in his left arm, officials
said.
Maciel-Salcedo returned to
a residence and SWAT officers
found him in an attic crawl
space.
State to spend $538M
on water projects
BY MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
A devastating drought
helped compel Oregon law-
makers to spend big on water
legislation in 2021, investing
in long-range planning as well
as specific projects.
Natural resource organi-
zations have applauded the
Legislature’s focus on resolv-
ing water quantity and quality
problems but warn that it can’t
rest on its laurels, since these
challenges won’t be solved in
a year.
“There’s still a lot of work
that needs to happen,” said
April Snell, executive direc-
tor of the Oregon Water Re-
sources Congress, which rep-
resents irrigation districts.
The Legislature allocated
more than $538 million for
water investments during this
year’s session. That included
$275 million in federal coro-
navirus relief funding for in-
frastructure projects, which
was largely directed toward
municipal improvements.
Agriculture-related projects
also received money — in-
cluding $14 million to up-
grade Wallowa Dam and $10
million for piping canals in
the Deschutes Basin.
A fund for water supply de-
velopment grants was replen-
ished with $30 million.
Jeff Stone, executive direc-
tor of the Oregon Association
of Nurseries, said the Legis-
lature should clarify that the
grants are meant to fund stor-
age projects, such as reservoirs
that save winter runoff for irri-
gation use.
Stone said the grants have
mostly gone to conservation
projects, which are helpful, but
getting serious about climate
change will mean extending
water resources.
“It’s not doing what we cre-
ated it to do,” he said.
Lawmakers devoted $1 mil-
lion to study the reallocation
of water behind 13 federal
dams in the Willamette Basin.
Though the dams are ad-
ministered by the federal gov-
ernment, water transfers and
wildlife impacts come under
the jurisdiction of state regu-
lators.
The money will allow state
regulators to study how the
transfers should be carried
out, which will involve in-
put from irrigators, cities and
environmental groups, said
Mary Anne Cooper, vice pres-
ident of public policy for the
Oregon Farm Bureau.
The money will hopefully
resolve conflicts over water
transfers “on the front end,” so
farmers don’t have to litigate to
protect their interests, she said.
About $2.4 million was
specifically allocated to study
all 18 major hydrologic ba-
sins with new technology that
measures evapotranspiration
and assistance from the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Those studies will allow
regulators to better under-
stand groundwater resources
across the state, which is
meant to prevent over-allo-
cation.
“We need to identify those
areas of concern before they
get critical,” said Rep. Mark
Owens, R-Crane. “The cur-
rent way we’re managing the
groundwater resource is not
beneficial to anyone.”
LOCAL BRIEFING
Bend-La Pine debuts
superintendent podcast
Curious about how Bend-La
Pine Schools are preparing to
open this fall?
The school district debuted a
new podcast Wednesday called
“Supe’s On!”
in an effort to
give commu-
nity members,
staff and fam-
ilies insight
into the deci-
sion-making
Cook
process and
community at
Bend-La Pine Schools.
“Supe’s On!” is hosted by Su-
perintendent Steven Cook. The
first episode featured an inter-
view with Julianne Repman,
director of communications
and safety for the district. Rep-
man discussed how the district
is preparing for school to re-
sume in the fall, including use
of masks, vaccinations, quaran-
tines and summer school.
Future episodes will feature
staff, board members, students
and community members.
“We hope this podcast will
be a great way for community
members to get an in-depth
perspective about the topics
they care about surrounding
education in Central Oregon,”
said Cook in a press release.
“We hope our staff and fami-
lies will tune in to hear directly
from the folks who are behind
the decisions that impact our
schools.”
You can listen to “Supe’s
On!” at Bend-La Pine Schools’
website. It will be available
soon on all streaming plat-
forms.
To suggest a topic for the
podcast or provide feedback,
send an email to podcast@
bend.k12.or.us.
Fairgoers recommended
to wear masks indoors
Deschutes County Fair &
Rodeo organizers recommend
that fairgoers wear masks while
inside at the event due to new
mask recommendations is-
sued by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and
the Oregon Health Authority.
“We recommend people
wear face coverings while in-
side, especially people that are
unvaccinated, and expect that
all of our guests will follow
guidelines to make this a safe
and welcoming event for ev-
eryone,” said Geoff Hinds, di-
rector of the Deschutes County
Fair & Expo Center.
On Tuesday, Oregon health
officials said everyone, whether
vaccinated or unvaccinated,
should begin wearing masks
in public indoor spaces due to
rapidly rising COVID-19 cases
across the state.
The recommendation
landed one day before the start
of the Deschutes County Fair
& Rodeo, the largest event held
in Deschutes County in over
a year.
Many elements of the fair
will be slightly different this
year. For example, all concerts
will occur outside, hand-wash-
ing stations will be available
throughout the fair and things
will be more spread out to
allow for social distancing,
Hinds said.
“We will have masks avail-
able throughout the fair for
anyone who doesn’t bring one
and wants one or if anyone’s
having issues with their mask,”
Hinds said.
Normally, the fair attracts
some 300,000 people, with a
cap of 50,000 attendees allowed
per day. This year, only 25,000
attendees will be allowed in per
day, Hinds said.
The fair began Wednesday
and continues through Sunday.
DA declines to charge
Sisters massage operator
The Deschutes County Dis-
trict Attorney’s Office declined
to charge the operator of a Sis-
ters spa arrested last month for
sexual assault.
Michael Patrick Boyle,
owner of Hop in the Spa, was
the subject of a notice to media
July 1 announcing his arrest.
This week, Deschutes
County District Attorney John
Hummel said he wasn’t certain
he could prove the allegations
against Boyle beyond a reason-
able doubt but said the wom-
an’s complaint that initiated the
arrest was “not frivolous.”
“I’m not saying he didn’t do
it, and I give the complain-
ing witness credit: He is not a
licensed massage therapist,”
Hummel said.
Hummel forwarded a com-
plaint to the Oregon State
Board of Massage Therapists,
which licenses massage ther-
apists.
For his part, Boyle told The
Bulletin he’s confident the mas-
sage board will find the proce-
dures he uses at his spa don’t
meet the technical definition of
“massage,” an assertion Hum-
mel rejects, calling him an “un-
licensed hack.”
“Nothing this man says
about massage should be lis-
tened to,” Hummel said.
Boyle said he and Hummel
spoke Wednesday morning
and the district attorney told
him he was “damn lucky I let
you go.”
Boyle is now looking at su-
ing the state.
“No. 1, we don’t do massage,
and No. 2, everything we do
has been approved by the Or-
egon Board of Massage Ther-
apists,” Boyle said. “What this
has cost me and my family in
terms of our reputations will
take years to get back.”
Jefferson County reveals
vaccine lottery winners
Jefferson County announced
the results of its lottery to re-
ward those who received the
COVID-19 vaccine.
The county gave $10,000
vaccine lottery prizes to 11
residents, totaling $110,000.
Three of the residents were stu-
dents under 18 and will have
the funds go into an Oregon
College Savings Plan account
for college or trade school.
The adult winners have been
identified as the following:
• Jonathan Gandy, Madras.
• Bergen Spring, Madras.
• James Manion, Madras.
• Steven Smith, Culver.
• Joseph Martinez, Warm
Springs.
• April Lepin, Madras.
• Stephen Jasa, Madras.
• Raymond Havelock,
Crooked River Ranch.
The students were not iden-
tified, but the county shared
the names of their parent or
guardian as follows:
• Liana Holyan, Warm
Springs.
• Sylvia Rufener, Madras.
• Norma Ruiz, Metolius.
The funds came from a
$220,400 grant Jefferson
County received from the state
to provide vaccine incentives
and planning. The remaining
funds will go to the county
health department.
In addition to the county’s
lottery, the state’s Take Your
Shot Oregon Campaign re-
cently awarded $1 million to
Chloe Zinda of McMinnville,
a student at Oregon State Uni-
versity.
The state’s lottery will also
include one $10,000 winner in
each of Oregon’s 36 counties.
The winners have not yet been
named.
— Bulletin staff reports