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A2 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 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 news@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. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 B ADMINISTRATION Publisher Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341 Editor Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166 Former lawyer 1906 Oregon Trail time capsule found to be empty who stole over $3.4 million pleads guilty BY DICK MASON The Observer (La Grande) LA GRANDE — Dale Counsell had his ham- mers and chisels ready to help him retrieve a 116- year old message from the past. Unfortunately, the Union County historian didn’t need these tools on Thursday for the past proved to be elusive in La Grande when a time capsule was opened and turned out to be empty. Counsell was among about 200 people gath- ered for the opening of a time capsule reputed to be in the stone Oregon Trail marker put up by fron- tiersman Ezra Meeker, the pioneer who spent the later part of his life memo- rializing the Oregon Trail. The marker, installed in 1906, was removed from its base by a backhoe with assistance from the La Grande Parks and Recre- ation Department. Dennis Larsen, the au- thor of several books about Meeker, then examined the stone marker and found a space for a time capsule. “I’ve looked at it and unfortunately it is empty,” Larsen told the crowd. The author, who lives in State bar says it’s worst fraud by a lawyer in state history Associated Press Isabella Crowley/The Observer Dale Counsell collects rock samples from inside an Oregon Trail marker in La Grande on Thursday. The samples will be sent off to Washington State University for analysis in an effort to determine the marker’s original placement. Lacy, Washington, said he was not surprised that the time capsule was empty because a number of peo- ple have reported that the marker was moved several times in the Walnut Street area after it was installed in 1906. The marker is now in the front yard of Jack and Jennifer Boyd. Jack Boyd noted that the empty time capsule may give rise to a new mystery as people try to find out what happened to its contents. “This is something that could be put into a Steven Spielberg movie,” he said. Larsen is happy that the time capsule, though empty, gave rise to a gath- ering of people interested in Oregon Trail history. “It was a good block party,” he said. The time capsule, ac- cording to a Meeker journal entry, included a speech read by the mayor of La Grande on April 10, 1906, at a dedication cere- mony for the marker. 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The Bulletin retains ownership and copyright protection of all staff-prepared news copy, advertising copy and news or ad illustrations. They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. MORROW COUNTY Commissioners fire county administrator BY PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian HEPPNER — At a packed public meeting Tuesday, Morrow County commissioners voted 2-1 to fire Darrell Green, who has been county administrator for 4½ years. Green told the board he learned in August there may have been a complaint against him and an inves- tigation to see if he violated nepo- tism rules. But no one addressed the complaint with him at the time. He told the board that in his ten- ure he never received any verbal or written warnings, and even Tuesday did not have the full information about what led to his firing. Green asked commissioners about any complaint against him. Commission Chair Jim Doherty and Commissioner Melissa Lind- sey said they would not make state- ments on the advice of attorneys. But Commissioner Don Russell said he had been trying to obtain information about the investigation for months, with no luck. Without knowing more, he said, he could not support Green’s termination. Doherty and Lindsey voted to fire Green, while Russell voted against it. A former Portland personal injury law- yer who stole more than $3.4 million from her clients has pleaded guilty to seven fed- eral charges in what the Oregon State Bar has called the worst fraud by a lawyer in the state’s history. Lori E. Deveny, who relinquished her law license in Oregon in May 2018, pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, two counts of aggravated iden- tity theft, money laundering and filing a false income tax return from 2012, The Or- egonian reported. Deveny, 56, stole money she held in trust for her clients and used it to pay off credit card debt and loans and to support a lavish lifestyle, federal prosecutors said. The expenses included big game hunt- ing trips to Africa, taxidermy costs for big game hunting trophies, other vacations, her husband’s photography business, home re- modeling and expensive cigars, according to investigators from the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI. Prosecutors will seek a sentence of about 10 years for Deveny, Assistant U.S. Attor- ney Claire M. Fay told the court. The money came from insurance pro- ceeds that were supposed to be paid to her clients. The fraud occurred from April 2011 through May 2018, according to the plea agreement. The Oregon State Bar has approved $1.3 million in payouts from its Client Security Fund resulting from claims submitted by clients who said they lost money as a result of Deveny’s dishonesty as their lawyer. She will remain out of custody until her sentencing in November. She’ll pay at least $3.4 million in restitution and forfeit $52,620, according to Fay. Deveny told the court she is being treated for a mental ill- ness but said she wasn’t taking any medica- tion that interfered with her ability to un- derstand the court proceeding. Deveny had faced a 24-count indictment in federal court. She also is being prose- cuted in Multnomah County Circuit Court on 92 counts of theft, forgery and other charges. LOCAL BRIEFING COVID-19 community levels for Central Oregon The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mon- itors community levels of COVID-19 to help commu- nities decide what preven- tion steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium or high and are determined by looking at hos- pital beds being used, hospital admissions and the total num- ber of new COVID-19 cases in an area. Nine Oregon counties have reached high levels of COVID community spread. The CDC listed the follow- ing levels for Central Oregon: Deschutes County: Me- dium Crook County: Medium Jefferson County: Medium Precautions the CDC rec- ommends for communities with low levels: • Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines. • Get tested if you have symptoms. Additional precautions for communities with medium levels: • If you are at high risk for severe illness, talk to your health care provider about whether you need to wear a mask and take other precau- tions. Hazardous waste disposal events for La Pine, Sisters Deschutes County will hold free summer household haz- ardous waste disposal events in July. One-day collection events hosted by Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste will be held in Sisters and La Pine. The Sisters event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 16 at the Sisters Recycling Center, 328 Sisters Park Drive. The La Pine event will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 30 at La Pine High School, 51633 Coach Road. Residents will be able to drop off household hazardous waste. Acceptable products include lawn and gardening products, photo and pool/ spa chemicals, paint, cleaning solutions, motor oil, used re- chargeable batteries, fluores- cent bulbs and tubes and small propane tanks of 5-gallons and smaller. The events will not accept business-generated hazardous waste, medical waste, explo- sives, fireworks, ammunition, drums/barrels or compressed gas cylinders. The county’s free household hazardous waste drop-off fa- cility at Knott Landfill in Bend is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second and fourth Friday and Saturday of each month. County Solid Waste Direc- tor Chad Centola said oddball items still turn up after a prop- erty owner cleans out an old barn or basement. DDT, an insecticide banned in the 1960s, still shows up. As does elemental mercury, commonly used in gold min- ing. Once, someone dropped off what county employees thought were sticks of dy- namite, but turned out to be silver iodide flares, used for seeding clouds to rain. “I’ve done this long enough, I’d never say I’ve seen it all,” Centola said. For information, visit www. deschutes.org/sw or call the Department of Solid Waste at 541-317-3163. Bend’s two Jersey Mike’s locations allegedly violated child labor law Federal labor officials said the two Bend locations of Jersey Mike’s Subs violated child labor law as part of a na- tional investigation into the Manasquan, New Jersey-based sandwich chain. The locations at 222 NE Emerson St. and 143 SW Cen- tury Drive, as well as eight restaurants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Caro- lina, allowed 14- and 15-year- old employees to work more hours than allowed under the law, according to a statement Tuesday by the U.S. Depart- ment of Labor. The Fair Labor Standards Act mandates that 14- and 15-year-old workers not work past 7 p.m. or more than three hours on school days, and not past 9 p.m. in the summer. Jer- sey Mike’s also failed to main- tain proof-of-age documents for minor workers. The company was ordered to pay $24,000 in civil penal- ties. ❝ Anecdotal evidence sug- gests some employers have responded to the nationwide labor shortage through child labor, though it’s too early to say for certain, according to Charlene Rachor, Department of Labor wage and hour dis- trict director for New Jersey. At the time of the investiga- tion, the two Bend locations were operated by the corpo- rate office, Rachor said. Jersey Mike’s has approxi- mately 2,000 franchise loca- tions opened and under de- velopment, according to the Department of Labor. — Bulletin staff reports I have been working with The Bulletin for over 3 months and they continue to impress me with their hard work, innovative ads, and amazing reels. 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