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WEDNESDAY • September 21, 2022 Serving Central Oregon since 1903 • $1.50 Tre’Shaun Harrison leads OSU receivers as the Beavers prepare to host USC READY TO RECEIVE SPORTS, A5 » Candidate forum SAFEWAY SHOOTING Competing visions of Bend’s future Bend Mayor, council candidates outline views for voters BY ZACK DEMARS The Bulletin A lot more than just names are on the ballot for Bend residents voting in this fall’s City Council election. The races, with two people running for mayor and nine others running to fill three council seats, are shaping up to be something of a referendum on a City Council that’s been supportive of providing homeless services and tends to prefer denser development over ur- ban sprawl. Candidates made rapid-fire pitches Monday to local chamber of com- merce members gathered at Bend’s Open Space Event Studios, making their cases for why they should be chosen to chart the city’s course for the next several years. The forum largely focused on housing, transpor- tation and development in the Bend Central District. In the race for mayor, candidate Melanie Kebler pointed to her work on the current council as she asks vot- ers to choose her over Chris Piper, a former city councilor. “Right now what I’m consistently hearing out there when talking to folks is that the biggest pressure on our businesses is a lack of workers,” Kebler said. “We’ve got to make Bend the place where workers can afford to live, and a place where businesses don’t just survive but they have the opportunity to thrive and to scale up and be that pillar of our community.” Kebler told the crowd Monday that housing has been her priority as a councilor, saying previous councils hadn’t done enough to address home- lessness but that this one has helped establish shelters and a city-county joint office on the issue. She said the council’s work to get property off Ste- vens Road included in city limits will council to discuss city gun rules also increase housing stock. In his opening remarks, Piper pitched himself as an alternative to a council that he said has become too political. “I’m running for mayor because I’ll bring a different point of view that will contribute to the progressive council’s conversations,” Piper said. “We will walk into (council) chambers and check our political hat and shed our personal agendas at the door, so that council focuses on the funda- mentals of city government and that residents are feeling respected and heard.” BY ANNA KAMINSKI The Bulletin See Forum / A4 Two Bend city council- ors have expressed interest in banning the possession of loaded firearms in pub- lic, a partial response to last month’s deadly shooting at the east-side Bend Safeway. The council is expected to discuss gun safety measures at a work session Wednesday. While state and federal laws retain most of the authority in regulating firearms and am- munition, Oregon cities are able to regulate loaded fire- arm possession and the sale of used firearms via city ordi- nances. Councilors Melanie Kebler and Barb Campbell said they are interested in developing city ordinances that limit the use and sale of some weapons. High Desert Museum The North American river otter pup swims in the Autzen Otter Exhibit at the High Desert Museum on Tuesday. Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin See Council / A13 OREGON LEGISLATURE Otterly adorable PAC boosts Republican efforts in campaigns Orphaned pup to join Pitch and Brook in the Autzen Otter Exhibit of months as part of helping him become he new North American river otter confident in the habitat and also allowing pup at the High Desert Museum the three otters to become familiar with will be introduced full time into the each other, the museum said. Autzen Otter Exhibit with the exhibit’s two “We supervised early interactions other resident otters on Wednesday, the while the baby otter was small to make first time museum patrons can see him. sure everyone stayed safe,” Museum Cu- The otter pup, which was orphaned rator of Wildlife Jon Nelson said in a pre- and found at a golf course near Sunriver, pared statement. “He’s not quite as big was brought to the museum for care in as the older otters yet, but they are all June. When the otter arrived at 8 weeks getting along well and enjoying playing, old, he weighed 2.4 pounds, was ema- eating and napping together. They do ciated and dehydrated, and quite a bit of roughhousing, there was no sign of and the baby holds his his mother. Now, own with Pitch and he is about 5½ Brook.” months old Before ex- and weighs posing the 15 pounds, otter pup, it also needed the High time to Desert Mu- become a seum said proficient in a news swimmer. release Tues- Wildlife cura- day. The otter tors helped the pup has already otter splash in the spent time in- museum’s stream and side the exhibit with in a children’s play pool the other otters, Brook The new otter pup rolls around on a before bringing him and Pitch. The otter into the water inside the pup was introduced in patch of rocks and grass. Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin exhibit. doses over the course Bulletin staff report T TODAY’S WEATHER A few showers High 60, Low 45 Page A12 INDEX Business Classifieds Comics A11-12 A13-14 A9-10 Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope A7 A8 A7 Local/State Lottery Obituaries A2 A6 A4 Puzzles Sports Weather A10 A5-7 A12 A fund with ties to Oregon’s richest resident, the nation’s largest landowner and a re- cently retired congressman is fueling a surge in contribu- tions for Republicans running for the legislature. Bring Balance to Salem PAC has raised over $3.31 million since it was created in November 2021. The group’s goal is to reduce Democratic influence in state politics. The political newcomer to the campaign finance scene is playing a significant role as the Nov. 8 election looms closer. As of Tuesday, it’s 58 days until Nov. 8 — though ballots go out in the mail to voters much sooner, with the initial batches sent to in state resi- dents on Oct. 19. See PAC / A4 The Bulletin An Independent Newspaper We use recycled newsprint Vol. 117, No. 329, 14 pages, 1 sections DAILY Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin Jon Nelson, curator of wildlife at the High Desert Museum, scratches the belly of the North American river otter pup while working in the Autzen Otter Exhibit at the High Desert Museum on Tuesday. BY GARY A. WARNER Oregon Capital Bureau U|xaIICGHy02329lz[
