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Central Oregon voters
Employer
voice opinions for change overpays
ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM
staffers,
asks for
$2M back
BY BRYCE DOLE
The Bulletin
Employees with St. Charles Health System
are being asked to repay roughly $2 million
after a ransomware attack on a global work-
force management provider kept health sys-
tem staff from accessing timecard data for
months.
In December, an attack on Ultimate Kro-
nos Group, a company that holds time-
keeping and scheduling data for workplaces
nationwide, prevented St. Charles Health
System from accessing employee timecard
data from Nov. 28 to Jan. 22.
After spending weeks repaying regional
health care staff who had been underpaid,
St. Charles is now asking for money back
from 2,358 staffers who were overpaid, St.
Charles spokeswoman Lisa Goodman said
in an email to The Bulletin on Friday.
That’s an average of about $780 per per-
son, Goodman said.
See St. Charles / A4
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Carson Janssen, owner of Janssen Metalworks in La Pine, was one of several Central Oregonians who spoke to reporters for the Voter Voices project.
He talked about the changes he’d like to see in his rural town and the region.
River near Bend
too risky to get
kayaker’s remains
BY HANNAH SEIBOLD AND ZACHARY JONES NEURAY • EO Media Group
O
regon voter voices often go unamplified because the state is not a major player on the national stage due to
its strong democratic tilt driven by the metropolitan areas. To capture the least heard voter voices — youth
and those living in rural areas — EO Media Group partnered with students from the University of Oregon’s
Catalyst Journalism Project to provide a platform for their views in all regions of the state.
to Bend to La Pine spoke to re-
porters about what their friends,
family and neighbors feel would
make Oregon and the U.S. a bet-
ter place for all.
“If we just met over the fence
and had a conversation then
things could actually change,” said
Prineville resident Diane Belnavis.
“
“We have different beliefs, but we all love
the same thing. This community is forced to interact
with each other, and I just love it. I’ve always
lived rurally. I like to farm.”
— Diane Belnavis, Prineville resident
See Voters / A7
The Nov. 8 general election is more than 12
weeks away, but Wednesday was the deadline to
mail “submarine ballots” to some voters.
That’s the name of ballots that go to military
and overseas voters who won’t be able to get a
ballot, cast their votes and get it back to their
county clerks in time to be counted. Like those
on the USS Oregon attack submarine sub-
merged somewhere in the seven seas.
The deadline, which is covered in Oregon
Revised Statute 253.565, is just one of many
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coming and going as the election draws closer.
One of the key dates next week will decide if a
top candidate for governor goes on the Nov. 8
ballot.
Deadline looms for ‘Run, Betsy, Run’
The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office has
said it needs to have petitions seeking to put
former state Sen. Betsy Johnson on the Nov. 8
ballot submitted no later than Tuesday. That
will give officials two weeks to make sure the
petitions add up.
See Election / A4
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See Kayaker / A3
Illegal marijuana grow in Madras
linked to international drug group
Submarine ballots sent; Betsy
Brigades race to beat deadlines
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
The general location of the body of Alex
Kollar, the kayaker who went missing on the
Deschutes River last fall, is known, but con-
ditions on the river make it far too danger-
ous to safely retrieve his remains.
Kollar was reported missing on the De-
schutes River on Oct. 1 after he was last seen
by friends upstream from Meadow Camp
near Lava Island Falls.
Local/State
Lottery
Puzzles
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Drug police searched a
Madras property Friday
morning, seizing 60 pounds
of unprocessed marijuana
and 807 plants tied to an in-
ternational drug organization
operating around Central
Oregon, according to police.
The alleged illicit grow site
at 637 NE 10th St. also con-
tained evidence the outfit
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allegedly stole tens of thou-
sands of gallons of water, ac-
cording to Sgt. Kent Vander
Kamp of the multiagency
Central Oregon Drug En-
forcement team.
The search began around
7:30 a.m. The home was un-
occupied and no arrests were
made, though evidence col-
lected will aid in ongoing
investigations, according to
Vander Kamp.
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“We are probably going to
announce some more arrests
next week,” he told The Bul-
letin.
The 10th Street property
consists of a home and large
detached storage shed. The
home, a rental, was largely
vacant. The outbuilding con-
tained three grow rooms with
plants in different stages of
maturity, Vander Kamp said.
See Madras / A3
DAILY
The Voter Voices project
started in Central Oregon. The
tri-county area is comprised of
one metro area, Bend, and sev-
eral rural cities. People were
asked about their concerns and
hopes rather than their political
affiliation or particular candi-
dates in an effort to have an open
dialogue. Voters from Madras
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The Bulletin
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