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A2 The BulleTin • Thursday, January 20, 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 COVID-19 data for Wednesday, Jan. 19 Deschutes County cases: 36,193 (675 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 225 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 4,516 (93 new cases) Crook County deaths: 62 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 5,540 (49 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 549,942 (8,538 new cases) Oregon deaths: 5,908 (15 new deaths) COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles Bend on Wednesday: 58 (5 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. 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Call to ask about deadlines, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Phone ..........................................541-385-5809 Fax .................................................541-598-3150 email .......................obits@bendbulletin.com In early counts, 2 survive recall effort BY GARY ALLEN Oregon Capital Bureau An early count of bal- lots cast in the recall efforts against Newberg School Board Chairman Dave Brown and Vice-chairman Brian Shannon show the pair likely will con- tinue to hold their volunteer positions until at least next year, when their terms end. Brown and Shannon drew the ire of some students, fac- ulty and community members last year by, first, banning ban- ners for Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ issues from all schools, then banning all political ban- ners. Community members began gathering signatures for a recall this winter. Of 11,677 ballots counted by 8 p.m. Tuesday, about 51% voted against recalling Brown, with almost 49% in favor of ousting him. Shannon saw similar num- bers. Of 11,740 ballots cast in that race, the vice-chairman looked likely to hold his job by 51% to 49%. The drive to recall Brown and Shannon, both elected in 2019, came about after more than seven months of discord on the normally staid school board against a handful of con- stituents and by outside orga- nizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union. The lead-up to the elec- tion saw both sides canvasing neighborhoods with volun- teers going door-to-door, ad campaigns in print and on- line, skirmishes over campaign signs and letter-writing cam- paigns directed to newspapers. Mailers for and against the re- call stuffed local mailboxes for the past two weeks, and orga- nizations such as the anti-abor- tion Oregon Right to Life and teachers’ unions were increas- ingly visible as well. Yamhill County Clerk Brian Van Bergen, whose office is responsible for administering the election, said most of the ballots would be counted on election night, although a new state law gives voters an addi- tional two weeks to “cure” any ballots that surfaced with voter signature issues. In addition, because the school district is geographi- cally positioned within three counties, a final vote tally will not be possible for several days and could possibly alter the fi- nal results. How soon till legal psilocybin therapy rolls out in Oregon? While Allbee acknowledges the state is creating a program The state still has a lot of from scratch, she said they ar- work to do, but it won’t be too en’t without guides. long before Oregonians 21 and “Indigenous communities over will be able to do some- have practiced psilocybin use thing almost no one else in the for centuries,” she said, and the country can do — take psyche- substance is legal in different delic mushrooms in a thera- places around the world. peutic setting. As it works to create rules, Oregon is the first state in Allbee said, the advisory board the nation to vote to legalize has reviewed scientific litera- psilocybin, which researchers ture and invited a number of believe could help treat de- guest speakers with a wide ar- pression, post-traumatic stress ray of information and exper- disorder and addiction. And tise. They have held listening with a year to go before sessions and currently the implementation have a survey open deadline, the Or- on the section’s egon Health website. Authority is According working to to Allbee, develop a the agency system to will begin admin- the work ister the to com- psyche- plete the delic in rules in thera- Septem- peutic ber. settings in Final the state. rules are Accord- expected to ing to Mea- be adopted sure 109, by Dec. 31, so approved by Or- the psilocybin egon voters in No- section can start to 123rF vember of 2020, the accept applications for state has until Dec. four types of licenses 31, 2022, to set up on Jan. 2, 2023 — li- the framework that will regu- censes for facilitators, manu- late legal magic mushrooms. facturers, testing labs and ser- Officials say they are on vice centers. track to meet that deadline. When psilocybin services In June, OHA brought on will be available for Orego- Angela Allbee to manage the nians is less set in stone. newly-created Oregon Psilocy- Licensees can begin their bin Services Section. work once applications are ap- Allbee’s team is creating a proved, Modie said. training program, licensing, That process, he said, could and compliance tracking and take some time. Since the re- case management system, es- quirements aren’t final known tablishing a product tracking yet, it is hard to estimate when system, said OHA spokesper- that might be. son Jonathan Modie, in accor- For now, people interested dance with Measure 109, as in following the progress of well as developing policy and Oregon’s first-in-the-nation procedure for the license and effort can sign up for email compliance programs. updates. 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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. board over issues ranging from prohibiting political symbols in schools to hiring supplemen- tal legal counsel, terminating a popular school superinten- dent’s contract and possible violations of the state’s public meetings laws. The recalls center on Brown and Shannon, but the ire of the organizations questioning the board’s actions extend to board members Renee Pow- ell and Trevor DeHart. The rancor includes a number of lawsuits filed against the board by constituents and a local spe- cial education assistant, by the The Bulletin will feature your Happy Valentine’s Day messages in our classifi ed section on Sunday, Feb. 13. 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The spectacle began when a man donning a red nose, red wig and white face paint used his allotted speaking time near the beginning of the virtual meeting to diss Mayor Ted Wheeler. “I, as a member of the Clowning Society of Amer- ica, would like to nominate (Portland Mayor) Edward Tevis Wheeler for ‘Clown Of The Year,’” said the man, who identified himself as Ronald Grimaldi. The mayor thanked the bozo for his public testimony before pivoting to items on the council agenda. The Clowning Society of America does not exist. About 75 minutes later, a Texas-based YouTube co- median appeared prior to a council vote to approve a $22,500 settlement on a law- suit filed by a protester who claimed an injury by Port- land police in 2020. The comedian, Alex Stein, wore hospital scrubs and a surgical mask around his neck as he launched into a rhyming routine promoting vaccina- tions against the coronavirus, a schtick that garnered him national headlines last week when he delivered it before the Dallas City Council. This time the mayor, visibly miffed, cut Stein off. “This is on a settlement,” Wheeler said. “If you cannot speak to this issue, we’re going to move on.”
