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A2 The BulleTin • Wednesday, January 5, 2022 The Bulletin LOCAL, STATE & REGION how to reach us CIRCULATION didn’t receive your paper? start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-11 a.m. saturday-sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION 541-382-1811 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. ONLINE www.bendbulletin.com EMAIL bulletin@bendbulletin.com AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 NEWSROOM EMAIL Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 sW upper Terrace drive suite 200 Bend, Or 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. 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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU COVID-19 data for Tuesday, Jan. 4 Northeast Oregon residents recount memorable 1983 visit BY DICK MASON The (la Grande) Observer COVE — A leather fisher- man’s cap worn by Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu saved the day for a party he was traveling with on Interstate 84 in Baker County four decades ago. The South African was riding in a car with Rustin Kimsey, then the bishop of the Eastern Ore- gon Diocese of the Episcopalian Church, and his wife, Gretchen, on a hot August day in 1983. The three had left the Ascen- sion School Camp in Cove a half hour earlier. They were bound for the airport in Boise, Idaho. They were supposed to pick up Tutu’s daughter, M’Pho, before returning to Cove where Tutu was making presentations during a weeklong conference. The trip to Boise was going well until the car overheated be- cause of a malfunctioning radia- tor. The vehicle was stranded on the side of I-84, and the situation looked bleak before Tutu spotted a drainage ditch below the road. “Undaunted by the steepness and while wearing his leather fisherman’s cap, he scampered down the ravine, dipped his hat into the drain ditch and brought enough water to our overheated radiator to cool it. Soon we were on our way again,” Gretchen Kimsey said. The three, after a stop in Baker City for repair work, made it to Boise to pick up Tutu’s daughter and soon returned to Cove. Gretchen Kimsey has fond memories of that day and of Tutu, who died Dec. 26 at the age of 90. Kimsey’s hus- band, Rustin, had become a good friend of Tutu’s after get- ting to know him at interna- tional meetings of Episcopalian church leaders. Tutu, who had just attended a meeting of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, B.C., had come to Cove to speak at the Ascension Deschutes County cases: 27,227 (280 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 215 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 3,730 (59 new cases) Crook County deaths: 60 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 4,526 (21 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 69 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 435,453 (4,540 new cases) Oregon deaths: 5,710 (44 new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Tuesday: 28 (3 in iCu). The Bulletin had been tracking the seven-day average case count based on state data since local cases were first reported, until the state stopped providing county-level data for weekends or holidays. When data is available, The Bulletin will continue to publish information about the pandemic. State sets 1-day COVID record with 4,540 cases ascension school Camp via The (la Grande) Observer Oregon set a record Tuesday for coronavirus cases reported for a single day, at 4,540 confirmed or presumed infections, with nearly half coming in the Portland metro area. The latest case load pro- pelled Oregon to 2,776 cases a day on average over the past week, another new high. But the sharp case surge prompted by the uber-con- tagious omicron variant has not yet produced as big an uptick in the number of Oregonians hospitalized with coronavirus, with hos- pitalizations still less than half of the peak from the delta variant. Cases as of Tuesday are up 144% in the past week while the number of peo- ple who tested positive and are actively hospitalized is up 28%. Although omicron is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, right, takes part in services during his 1983 visit to the Ascension School Camp in Cove. School Camp at Rustin Kimsey’s invitation. ‘He spoke straight to the heart’ The Kimseys were among about 70 people who attended the 1983 conference. Tutu was well known at the time but not yet in the international spotlight in 1983. He was a year away from be- ing awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent oppo- sition to apartheid in South Af- rica. Tutu, on the verge of major celebrity status, was able to move about freely in Northeastern Or- egon. “He was not well known yet. I think it was fun for him to be anonymous,” Gretchen Kimsey, who lives in The Dalles, said. Kimsey marveled at Tutu’s ability to connect and communi- cate with people using plainspo- ken brilliance at the conference BRAD SCHMIDT The Oregonian in Cove. “He never spoke in complex terms. He spoke straight to the heart,” she said. Kimsey was also struck by Tutu’s sense of humor, which he displayed during his visit to Ore- gon and throughout his life. “He brought laughter to a lot of people’s lives, and we all know how healing laughter can be,” she said. Kimsey said her husband shared Tutu’s sense of humor. “That is what drew them to- gether,” she said. Rustin Kimsey died in 2015, and Tutu was among those who attended his service in The Dalles. Tutu came unannounced, Gretchen Kimsey said, because he did not want to take away at- tention from his friend. “We were so happy to see him,” Gretchen Kimsey said. “It was such a wonderful gesture.” less severe than previous coronavirus variants, hos- pitals nonetheless are ex- pected to see an influx in patients. Modeling by Ore- gon Health & Science Uni- versity projects about 1,650 people hospitalized Jan. 31 — more than triple today’s number and what would be a record. While cases nationally have been exploding at ex- ponential rates in recent weeks, Oregon so far has fared comparatively well. Despite blowing past pre- vious highs from the delta surge, Oregon as of Mon- day had the sixth-lowest case rate per capita over the past week among all states. Oregon is one of only a handful of states with an in- door mask mandate. The cases reported Tues- day by the Oregon Health Authority smashed by more than 1,000 the previous single-day record of 3,534 from Dec. 30. LOCAL & STATE BRIEFING Bend students nominated for U.S. service academies Four Central Oregon stu- dents have been nominated to attend United States military academies during the 2022- 2023 school year. The Service Academy Nom- ination Board, a group of five retired armed forces officials from the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Air National Guard and Oregon Army Na- tional Guard, reviewed stu- dents on the basis of academics, extracurriculars and character before recommending them for the prestigious academies. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, accepted the board’s recom- mendations and nominated the following students: • Maxwell Andersen, from Summit High School, who was nominated to the U.S. Naval Academy. • Dawson Blackburn, from Bend High School, who was nominated to the U.S. Military Academy. • Gaven Henry, from Sisters High School, who was nomi- nated to the U.S. Air Force and Naval academies. • Tara Jessen, from Summit High School, who was nom- inated to the U.S. Air Force Academy. Students will learn if they are accepted into their respective academies in spring 2022. Bulletin inserts missing due to weather Due to inclement weather, some grocery store inserts and magazines, such as Relish and Parade, have not made it to The Bulletin’s distribution cen- ter for inserting into the news- paper. We will include them in an edition of The Bulletin as soon as they arrive. Relish and Pa- rade will be in our e-editions as well. We apologize for the in- convenience. 3 Redmond residents die in crash on icy Highway 97 Three Redmond residents died after their vehicle spun out of control on an icy U.S. Highway 97 and crashed into a truck Monday evening. The crash shut down High- way 97 north of Terrebonne for approximately five hours, Ore- gon State Police reported. Police and emergency medi- cal personnel responded to the crash just before 10 p.m. Police reported Jared Lewis, 39, from Redmond, had been driving a Dodge Durango and lost con- trol of the vehicle while travel- ing north and passing on the icy highway. The vehicle spun into the oncoming lane and crashed into an International 749 utility truck, driven by Colton Jen- nings, a 26-year-old from Ban- don who was uninjured. Lewis and his two passen- gers, Kristopher Frisbee, 44, and Heather Good, 40, died in the crash. Uncle, nephew ID’d as victims in Portland slaying An uncle and his nephew have been identified as the vic- tims of a double homicide in northeast Portland on New Year’s Day. Portland police said Andre Foster, 43, and his nephew, 21-year-old Quayan Foster, were killed after being shot. Both men were from Portland. The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s office ruled their deaths homicides.Police didn’t say if they have found any sus- pects or made any arrests. Officers found three in- jured men after responding to reports of a shooting before 2 a.m. Saturday. One of the victims died at the scene, and another was taken to a hospital where he also died. 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