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A4 The BulleTin • SaTurday, auguST 21, 2021 Treaty Continued from A1 “The 1865 treaty was a terrible doc- ument that should never have been written. It has been a thorn in our side,” said Louie Pitt, Warm Springs director of government affairs and planning. Pitt spent the better part of the past two decades lobbying officials to annul the treaty. No original document could be lo- cated, said Pitt. But a copy of the doc- ument was burned earlier this year by tribal members. The ceremony at Warm Springs Friday featured traditional drumming performed by tribal members. Pitt said the tribes are proud of the treaty that was signed 10 years ear- lier, in 1855, which established the Warm Springs Reservation and al- lowed tribal members to hunt and fish elsewhere in the state, including traditional fishing areas along the Co- lumbia River. “The first treaty allowed us to keep our way of life,” said Pitt. “The creator gave us this place for thousands of years, and we are still here and we are going to keep on taking care of what’s ours, what the creator gave us.” The 1865 treaty was largely ignored by Warm Springs members, and the state of Oregon did not enforce the act in a meaningful way, but the treaty still existed on paper until last year. The U.S. House of Representatives annulled the treaty in September and former President Donald Trump for- malized the decision with a stroke of his pen. The Bureau of Indian Affairs says even though the annulment was largely symbolic and has few re- al-world impacts, it helps build trust between the government and the Tribes. “It’s a recognition by the federal government that it has made mistakes in the past and it’s trying to clean those up,” said Bryan Mercier, north- west regional director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, who was instrumental in having the Lovejoy Continued from A1 Prosecutor Mara Houck read his statement to Oregon State Police to the court. The Bend native is accused of being drunk when he drove. The day after the incident, Lovejoy posted $12,000 and was released from Deschutes County jail. With Lovejoy out on bail while he awaits trial, the state requested he wear an ankle monitor for alcohol. “Clearly, the general legal prohibition against 19-year- olds consuming alcohol did not prevent Mr. Lovejoy from consuming alcohol this par- ticular day,” said Houck, who supported the request by out- lining the state’s case against Lovejoy. On Aug. 11, Rich Wolf, 61, was cycling into town on Cas- cade Lakes Highway, seven miles southwest of Bend, a half-mile from Seventh Moun- tain Resort. Lovejoy was driv- ing a Toyota Land Cruiser in the same direction. “Preliminary crash recon- struction indicates that Mr. Lovejoy swerved almost into the ditch, onto the shoulder, Prineville Continued from A1 It was unoccupied at the time of the fire. Firefighters were able to save some personal items, but many burned. “There is no damage cost es- timate at this time,” said Crook County Fire & Rescue Division Chief Russell Deboodt. “But the home was severely dam- aged.” The Demaris family lived in the house between the early ‘70s and 1994. Demaris and her husband entered the home into the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Thomas M. Baldwin, “Old Tom,” was the manager and builder of Prineville’s First Na- tional Bank when he built the home over a century ago. Baldwin handpicked all the lumber and hauled over rock from the quarry outside of Prineville. Famed Portland architect John V. Bennes de- signed the home, Demaris said. According to the home’s entry in the National Regis- ter of Historic Places, it is “the best-designed and most fine- ly-finished Colonial Revival house in Prineville.” “It was an absolutely stun- ning home inside,” Demaris said. “Hardly a knot in any of the wood.” The original cost to build the home was roughly $4,000. Demaris bought the home for $24,000. After Baldwin died, the Stearns family — well-know Prineville pioneers — moved in. The Stearns sisters occu- pied the house longer than Submitted Rich Wolf rides a track bike. and on his way back onto the roadway, struck Mr. Wolf,” Houck said. Wolf suffered “massive” physical trauma. A chiroprac- tor who called 911 told the op- erator he did not feel comfort- able performing CPR. “He did not see the point,” Houck said. Wolf’s bicycle and helmet “Les Schwabs’ grandson had his wedding there. Dean Templeton rented a room there once. He later ran for President of the United States.” — Sandy Demaris, Prineville resident any resident, and, according to Demaris, the home is known in Prineville as the “Stea- rns house,” not the “Baldwin House.” A prior owner converted the home into a bed and breakfast, a tradition Demaris continued. “Les Schwabs’ grandson had his wedding there,” Demaris said. “Dean Templeton rented a room there once. He later ran for President of the United States.” Due to the severity of the damage, Demaris felt doubtful the home could be restored. “They’ll never be able to re- place the lumber or the crafts- manship,” she said. Demaris sold the home to Lucy and Craig Woodward in 1994. The Woodwards con- verted the home into corporate offices. After retiring, they moved into the home, and they thought about turning it into an event center or a museum, Demaris said. Now, its future is uncertain. Despite its storied history, the home only knew some five owners, according to Demaris. “Not many families lived there,” she said. “When you moved there, you stayed there.” e Reporter: 503-380-5285, d jefferies@bendbulletin.com T RINITY E PISCOPAL C HURCH Love God, Love Your Neighbor, Love Yourself Worship online @ trinitybend.org Meal schedule @ familykitchen.org were broken and spread up to 150 feet down the road. Police say when they located Lovejoy, there was damage on his Land Cruiser consis- tent with hitting a cyclist. He smelled strongly of alcohol, had poor balance and was “taking care to speak slowly and deliberately,” Houck said. He reportedly consented to providing a blood sample to test for intoxicants. The state is awaiting those results. Lovejoy’s attorney, Bryan Donahue, objected to the ankle monitor provision, saying his client had been admitted to an outpatient addiction treatment center in Coburg, Serenity treaty annulled, described the treaty as an “alarmingly devious move un- dertaken by the United States federal government to undermine the rights and sovereignty of Native tribes.” “We have a responsibility to do ev- erything we can to right those morally reprehensible wrongs,” said Merkley. “I was thrilled when this historical travesty was finally acknowledged by the U.S. government and we success- fully nullified this fraud.” e Reporter: 541-617-7818, mkohn@bendbulletin.com Lane, which doesn’t allow pa- tients to wear the monitors. Donahue disagreed his client being under 21 was relevant to his release conditions. “I’m not sure why the state think’s that’s an exceptional fact,” he said. In the end, Judge Raymond Crutchley did not require the ankle monitor, provided Love- joy remain enrolled in the ad- diction program. Other condi- tions include a prohibition on consuming alcohol and going to bars. Wolf’s wife attended Friday’s hearing remotely, though she choose not to speak. Wolf kept a home in Bend and one in Klamath Falls, where he worked as a senior manager at Jeld-Wen. He was serious about cyclocross and track rac- ing, and a longtime member of Sunnyside Sports Cycling Team. Before the pandemic, team- mates would regularly pile into vehicles and caravan to Portland to compete in cyclocross events, according to team member Karen Kenlan. “You get to spend a lot of time with your teammates not racing,” she said. “I have a lot of good memories of Rich. A lot of good memories. “If you ask anyone on our team, they’d all tell you Rich was the friendliest, nicest, great- Wolf est guy in the world.” For a time, Wolf was a teammate of Marika Stone, the Bend dentist killed by an impaired driver while riding with friends on Dodds Road northeast of Bend in December 2017. “To lose two teammates in three years is traumatic. It shouldn’t happen to anyone,” Kenlan said. Kenlan is helping raise money on a GoFundMe page to run ads against drunk and drugged driving in Wolf’s honor. The woman who killed Stone, Shantel Witt, swore at Stone’s friends and lamented cyclists being “all over the road.” Witt’s callousness helped earn her a conviction for first-degree manslaughter. In 2017, Jonathan Chase Adams was hit and killed by a FedEx driver, Trent Sage, near downtown Bend. e Reporter: 541-383-0325, gandrews@bendbulletin.com
