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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
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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
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See Hawthorne / A7
Historic home burns in Prineville
CYCLIST’S DEATH
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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 .
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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
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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
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