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SATURDAY • August 21, 2021 • Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 Bend North Little League’s World Series memories are still fresh 5 years later Sports, B1 Central Oregon | COVID-19 vaccines Warm Springs Tribes celebrate end of treaty that denied rights Educators fear mandate may lead to resignations BY NICOLE BALES The Bulletin Central Oregon educators in nearly all of the region’s school districts are concerned that Gov. Kate Brown’s new vacci- nation mandate will contribute to staffing shortages. School districts are already having a difficult time hiring staff, particularly classified staff, which include bus driv- ers and teaching assistants who tend to earn lower wages. The problem is part of a national trend, and educators are wait- ing to see what effect the man- date will have on the situation. But Brown’s announcement Thursday that all K-12 edu- cators, school staff and volun- teers must be vaccinated no later than Oct. 18 put a sharper point on the problem. “Do I think we will have a handful of people who quit and resign? Absolutely,” said Sarah Barclay, the president of the Bend Education Association, which represents more than 1,000 teachers at Bend-La Pine Schools. “Hopefully we don’t lose so many folks that we have trouble staffing our classrooms in three weeks here.” Barclay said that while the vast majority of teachers are vaccinated against the coro- navirus, there is a small group that is still undecided or ada- mantly against the vaccine. See Vaccines / A7 HAWTHORNE AVENUE Pedestrian bridge proposed to connect east and west Bend Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin Sen. Jeff Merkley speaks during a 1865 Treaty Nullification event in Warm Springs. Treaty of 1865 sought to prevent members from hunting, fishing off the reservation BY MICHAEL KOHN • The Bulletin BY BRENNA VISSER The Bulletin fraudulent treaty Friday that was signed more than 150 years ago. Imagine if there was a way to walk or bike between Juniper Park and Drake Park in one straight shot, in 15 minutes or less, in Bend. That possibility is what a group of people in the world of engineering and development is currently proposing to the Bend City Council with the creation of the Hawthorne Av- enue pedestrian bridge. The bridge, which would span U.S. Highway 97 and the railroad tracks, would be a di- rect way to connect the east Valerie Switzler, a member of the Confed- erated Tribes of Warm Springs, talks about some of the history be- hind the 1855 Treaty with the Tribes of Mid- dle Oregon while view- ing the treaty’s exhibit in 2018 at the Museum at Warm Springs. The ceremony on the Warm Springs reservation marked the end of the Treaty of 1865, which was an at- tempt by the U.S. government to restrict the movement and rights of Central Oregon’s Native Americans. The Treaty of 1865 required Warm Springs resi- dents to ask permission before they could leave the reservation. It also had them relinquish their off-res- ervation rights to fish, hunt, collect roots and berries, pasture animals and erect houses. Tribal authorities at the time were duped into signing the treaty by U.S. authorities. Bulletin file See Treaty / A4 Suspect reportedly said ‘I’ve been drinking all day’ BY DYLAN JEFFERIES The Bulletin collision, Flynn David Lovejoy reportedly said, “I was the one The 19-year-old Bend man accused of who hit the guy on the manslaughter in the bike. I’ve been drink- death of a cyclist this ing all day while fish- month allegedly gave ing, and I’m drunk.” Flynn Lovejoy himself up right away. Lovejoy made his When contacted first court appearance by officers at Seventh Friday in Deschutes Mountain Resort, about a half- County Circuit Court. See Lovejoy / A4 mile from the scene of the fatal BY GARRETT ANDREWS The Bulletin Partly sunny High 71, Low 46 Page A8 INDEX See Hawthorne / A7 Historic home burns in Prineville CYCLIST’S DEATH TODAY’S WEATHER and west sides of town, said Councilor Anthony Broad- man, who has been an advo- cate for the proposal. Con- necting east and west Bend has long been a goal for the city, with several projects included that improve connections in the transportation general obli- gation bond passed last fall. Out of the $190 million ap- proved for transportation proj- ects in this bond, $12 million was earmarked for jump-start- ing east to west improvements at Greenwood, Franklin and Hawthorne avenues. Crook County Fire & Rescue The historic 113-year-old Thomas M. Baldwin house, located in Prineville at First Street and Main Street, suf- fered extensive fire damage Thursday . Business Classifieds Comics A5-6 B6 B3-4 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A7 B4 A7 Local/State Lottery Nation/World A2 B2 Axx Obituaries Puzzles Sports Prineville resident Sandy De- maris started getting the phone calls Thursday afternoon, each one the same. “Your old house is burning down!” When Demaris arrived outside the historic 113-year-old Thomas M. Baldwin house, located in Prineville at the intersection of First Street and Main Street, she couldn’t believe what she saw. The second and third stories looked destroyed. Water from fire A6 B4 B1-3 hoses was streaming out the upper windows and the front door. A cen- tury’s worth of memories was going up in flames. “What a tragedy,” the 77-year-old Demaris said Friday of the home she had lived in for more than 20 years. The fire was sparked by an elec- trical failure about 2:13 p.m. Thurs- day, according to Crook County Fire & Rescue. Firefighters quickly contained the fire, but damage was extensive. It remains standing, though. See Prineville / A4 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 14 pages, 2 sections DAILY M embers of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs celebrated the annulment of a U|xaIICGHy02329lz[
