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Deschutes County cases: 40,838 (401 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 231 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 5,202 (62 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 61 (1 new death)
Jefferson County cases: 6,411 (35 new cases)
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Oregon deaths: 6,086 (19 new deaths)
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Crews rescue 3 climbers in 5 days
ZANE SPARLING
The Oregonian
Authorities on Thursday
warned mountaineers to take
precautions on Mount Hood
after rescue crews performed
three missions over five days,
including saving one man who
was seriously hurt.
George Stevens, 28, was with
two friends Tuesday evening
when he attempted to snow-
board down from the steep
Hogsback snow ridge. Instead,
he slid on ice and plummeted
into a gaping fumarole — or
volcanic vent — and was un-
able to escape, according to the
Hood River County Sheriff’s
Office.
Volunteers with the Hood
River Crag Rats and Portland
Mountain Rescue responded
to the area, known as Dev-
ils Kitchen, about 8:30 p.m.
They belayed a rescuer who
was wearing a respirator and
gas monitors down to Stevens
about midnight. He was placed
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High winds whip snow off the western peaks of Mount Hood as seen from Government Camp.
in a litter and hoisted to the
surface.
The rescuers set up a rope
system to take Stevens, an
Idaho resident, down 2,500 feet
to the top of Timberline Ski
Area’s Palmer chair lift. From
there, a snow tractor took Ste-
vens to an ambulance at the
Timberline Lodge parking lot.
The volunteers cleared the
mountain at 4:30 a.m. Wednes-
day.
“It was well below freezing,
pitch black dark, but it was
clear so it was beautiful,” said
Paige Baugher of Portland
Mountain Rescue, estimating
the wind speed at 20 mph.
The first of the three recent
rescue missions started after
Iain Moses, 27, reached the
summit of Oregon’s tallest peak
about 9:50 a.m. Saturday but
realized his equipment was
failing and that he could not
descend alone.
Rescuers escorted Moses,
a Eugene resident, down the
mountain.
The sheriff’s office reported
he was unhurt and “in good
shape.”
Then, late Saturday night,
rescuers saved a climber who
had missed Timberline Lodge
on descent and “ended up far
off track,” Baugher said.
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Deschutes Soil and Water
Conservation District offers
grants for on-farm projects
The Deschutes Soil and Water Con-
servation District announced it has
$300,000 in available funding to help
farmers and ranchers improve and up-
grade their irrigation systems.
The announcement, made in a press
release, says the funding is for its On-
Farm Efficiency Water Conservation
Investment Program.
One objective of the program is to
help farmers currently using flood irri-
gation convert to sprinkler systems. Pri-
ority will also be given to projects that
reduce off-site impacts to water bodies,
including streams, rivers and irrigation
canals.
Erin Kilcullen, general manager for
Deschutes Soil and Water Conserva-
Chief justice asks
lawyers to act as
public defenders
associated Press
PORTLAND — Oregon
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Martha Walters in an unusual
public request is asking mem-
bers of the State Bar to take on
clients in need of public de-
fense.
In a letter Thursday, Walters
asked members of the Oregon
State Bar to “help in represent-
ing those who are accused of a
crime and cannot afford coun-
sel,” calling it a very basic and
fundamental right that Oregon
is struggling to accommodate,
Oregon Public Broadcasting
reported.
The Sixth Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution affords
people charged with crimes a
lawyer provided by the state if
they cannot afford their own.
As of Friday, over 40 people
in Oregon did not have a pub-
lic defender. Of those 26 were
in custody, according to the
Office of Public Defense Ser-
vices.
The shortage is most pro-
nounced in the state’s largest
counties, including Mult-
nomah, Marion, Lane and
Washington.
A report released last week
by the American Bar Associ-
ation found Oregon has just
30% of the public defenders it
needs to do adequate represen-
tation for its current caseload.
tion District, said that between 23% to
26% of Central Oregon Irrigation Dis-
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Kotek’s departure prompts
appointments in the Legislature
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
The departure of former
Oregon House Speaker Tina
Kotek, a Democrat, to run for
governor has led to several ap-
pointments, one to fill her dis-
trict seat and another within
the party’s leadership in the
Legislature.
On Thursday, Multnomah
County commissioners ap-
pointed Travis Nelson, a reg-
istered nurse to the House
District 44 seat in Portland
vacated by Kotek.
According to the House
Majority Office, Nelson will
be the first Black LGBTQ+
member of the House and the
10th member of color in the
current House. There have
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Irrigation wheels help water fields on a farm between Tumalo and Sisters in 2018.
trict patrons use flood irrigation, and
around 1% of Tumalo Irrigation Dis-
trict patrons use flood irrigation.
Funding is available only to De-
schutes County landowners with wa-
ter rights. Eligibility requires that the
landowner produces hay or other ag-
ricultural crops or raises agricultural
livestock.
Funding limits are set at $20,000
or 75% of the total cost of the project,
whichever is less. Applications are avail-
able through the Conservation District
website. Landowners who meet the crite-
ria for the funding must apply by Feb. 11.
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been a few white gay men,
including current Rep. Rob
Nosse of Portland
Nelson will be sworn in at
7:30 a.m. Tuesday, 30 minutes
before the start of the 2022
legislative session. He will
serve through Jan. 9, 2023, but
is a candidate for a full two-
year term in the May 17 Dem-
ocratic primary.
Nelson earned a degree in
nursing from Washington
State University. He moved to
the Portland area in 2005. He
is a board-certified registered
nurse, a member of the Ore-
gon Nurses Association and a
founding member of the Alli-
ance of Black Nurses of Ore-
gon. He also has been a union
representative and a former
Black Caucus chair of the
Democratic Party of Oregon.
In the Legislature, Rep.
Tawna Sanchez, D-Portland,
will be the next House co-
leader of the Legislature’s joint
budget-writing committee.
Sanchez’s appointment will
take effect Tuesday, when Rep.
Dan Rayfield, of Corvallis,
who holds the co-leader posi-
tion, is expected to be named
House Speaker, succeeding
Kotek. The speaker appoints
the leaders and members of all
committees. Sanchez, director
of family services at the Native
American Youth and Family
Center in Portland, would be
the first Native American to
hold one of the Legislature’s
most influential positions.