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Oregonians can now use an online tool to find out when and where they can get vaccinations for the novel cor- onavirus. The tool called Get Vaccinated Ore- gon allows users to answer basic questions to learn if they are eligible and get linked to information about vaccinations in their counties, according to officials with the Oregon Health Author- ity. Users can sign up for alerts to get notified about vaccination events or The arches are raised for the Gerry Frank Salem Rotary Amphitheater in Riverfront Park on Monday. find out when they may become eligi- BRIAN HAYES / STATESMAN JOURNAL ble. The program, Inside launched Monday, was State reports developed by Google in lowest daily partnership with the case count state. since Get Vaccinated Ore- Arches go up October. 2A gon comes as approxi- mately 168,000 adults age 80 and older be- Structure for the stage cover of new Rotary came eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine Monday, though nearly 33,000 amphitheater being raised at Riverfront Park people age 80 or above have already been vaccinated, officials said. Capi Lynn Salem Statesman Journal | USA TODAY NETWORK While vaccine supplies are expected to increase in the coming weeks, The Rotary Club of Salem announced Monday, just as arches for supplies are scarce. State health offi- the stage cover were being lifted into place, that fundraising for the “This is an cials asked for patience as more than new amphitheater at Riverfront Park has reached its $4 million intricate, 700,000 seniors age 65 and older will goal. become eligible for vaccines over the “What was a dream five years ago is now becoming a reality one-of-a-kind next four weeks. thanks to the incredible generosity of Rotarians and many others structure that has “My promise to older Oregonians is across the region,” project co–chair Barry Nelson said. this: if you want a vaccination, you will The Gerry Frank Salem Rotary Amphitheater isn’t expected to be involved the get one,” Oregon Health Authority Di- completed until early summer, but this week a crane begins to raise rector Patrick Allen said in a release the framework for the intricate basket weave-designed roof, cho- expertise and Monday. “But it may not be tomorrow, sen in recognition of the Kalapuya people who once called the river- ingenuity of many this week or even two weeks from front their home. now.” The curved glulam beam that will face Front Street NE is about local businesses.” The program is now one of four six feet wide and arches about 35 feet in the air, spanning 100 feet Ken Van Osdol ways to get local vaccine information. across two plinths of what will be the front of the stage. Rotary project co-chair Residents also have the option of “This is an intricate, one-of-a-kind structure that has involved using an orange chatbot on the the expertise and ingenuity of many local businesses,” Rotary pro- covidvaccine.oregon.gov website to ject co-chair Ken Van Osdol said, singling out CB|Two Architects, find out if they’re eligible for a vaccine Dalke Construction, Western Wood Structures, Far West Steel, San- in Oregon or get answers to other tiam Steel and Landis Consulting for assisting with the project. questions about vaccines. The project commemorates Rotary’s 100 years of service to the Those who are vaccine-eligible in Clackamas, Columbia, Marion, Mult- See AMPHITHEATER, Page 3A February 9, 2021 6:52 pm (GMT -8:00) Powered by TECNAVIASee VACCINE, Page 3A

Study: Smoke from wildfires brings economic damage Predicts effects may homes and buildings and forced evacu- ations. persist for months, years Oregon and Colorado fires damaged or destroyed more than 10,000 build- Brian P.D. Hannon ings. Five of the six largest wildfires in Associated Press California’s history occurred in 2020. Accompanying the fires was smoke The damage caused by wildfires can that left Western communities im- be devastating, gutting structures and mersed in gray and orange haze that driving out people who live and work blotted the sky and caused normally hot nearby. And researchers say the smoke midday temperatures to remain at cool from the annually recurring blazes also nighttime levels in some areas. delivers economic damage to areas that Wildfire smoke plumes – and their were never touched by the flames. economic impact – can travel far be- Beyond the toll wildfire smoke can yond the blazes, said Eric Zou, assistant have on the health of those in affected professor of economics at the Univer- areas, there are infrastructure and busi- sity of Oregon. ness costs, experts said. “When we think about health and la- Expenses paid by homeowners to im- bor market effects of wildfire, it is im- prove or increase measures to protect portant to think beyond the areas in the their properties and the impact of immediate vicinity of the fires,” Zou smoke on livelihoods and budgets can said. be significant. The European Union’s Copernicus In this Sept. 8 photo, taken at 9:02 a.m., vehicles travel west on Ferry St. SE in Wildfires that burned thousands of Atmosphere Monitoring Service report- downtown Salem. A combination of high winds and multiple wildfires brought square miles throughout the U.S. West smoke, poor air quality and low visibility to the Willamette Valley in September. last year knocked out power, destroyed See SMOKE, Page 6A BRIAN HAYES/STATESMAN JOURNAL

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ANALYSIS Stakes high at impeachment trial Outcome may well define House, and now the Senate. While he commands the loyalty of an unshaken future of politics, power core of supporters, dismay about his provocative rhetoric and erratic leader- Susan Page ship have cost his party the allegiance of USA TODAY millions of moderate and establishment Republicans. The consequences of the Senate im- “The whole Trump era has been quite peachment trial that opens Tuesday bad for Republicans,” said Charlie Dent, could be considerable for former Presi- a seven-term Republican congressman dent Donald Trump. from Pennsylvania who retired in 2018. And for almost everybody else. “People talk about the base being so de- Trump, accustomed to earning the voted to Donald Trump, but it seems to word “unprecedented” while he was in be a diminished base. You go to the sub- office over the past four years, will do it urbs and see nothing but disaster for the again out of office: the first president to Republican Party.” be impeached twice, and the first to face Based on his private conversations that historic rebuke even after he had with GOP officials, Dent said, if the im- moved out of the White House. That’s peachment vote were secret, 80 or 90 not the sort of distinction presidents senators would vote to convict Trump, a typically aspire to. number that would include a majority of But the stakes could be even higher Republicans. for others, especially the Republican But of course the vote isn’t secret. Party. In the wake of the Jan. 6 assault The fact that almost all Senate Repub- on the Capitol – the insurrection that The trial will spotlight and detail the prosecution’s case that Donald Trump licans are expected to stick with Trump, triggered these impeachment proceed- violated his oath of office. JOHN MINCHILLO/AP FILE whatever their private views, is evi- ings – a GOP civil war has been ignited dence of his clout. over the party’s direction and its toler- Biden has done his best to simply ig- ance for fringe conspiracy theorists. But a conviction would be a surprise, “The assessment of Trump’s presi- nore his predecessor’s impeachment. For Democrats, the trial will be an regardless of the arguments made by dency is already in and really unlikely to “I ran like hell to defeat him because I early test of the new majority leader, the nine House Democratic impeach- change, and that is: His presidency was thought he was unfit to be president,” Chuck Schumer of New York, and mem- ment managers being led by Maryland a failure,” said Jeffrey Engel, founding Biden told CBS’ Norah O’Donnell in an bers of his caucus. Last month, they Rep. Jamie Raskin. The safe bet is that director of the Center for Presidential interview broadcast Friday. Even so, he gained control of the Senate for the first Trump will be acquitted. History at Southern Methodist Univer- declined to say whether he thought the time in six years, albeit only courtesy of Conviction requires a two-thirds ma- sity and co-author of a book about im- Senate should convict Trump. “I’m not Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreak- jority – all 50 Democrats, say, plus 17 Re- peachment. “The only interesting ques- in the Senate now,” he said. “I’ll let the ing vote. Even President Joe Biden, de- publicans. In an earlier vote, 45 of the 50 tion historians are going to debate in Senate make that decision.” spite doing his best to ignore the risky Senate Republicans endorsed Trump’s years to come is: Do we put him above or Trump’s impeachment has been both business at the other end of Pennsylva- defense, saying a president can’t be im- below (James) Buchanan, or do we cre- a logistical and political headache for nia Avenue, isn’t likely to escape its ef- peached once out of office. (Constitu- ate a separate category?” Biden – a reminder that the 2020 elec- fects on his priorities and the capital’s tional scholars are divided on the ques- Republicans who were looking for- tion isn’t quite over. The trial consumes political landscape. tion, though most cite precedents that ward to a post-Trump era, one with less time and attention that the new admini- One thing the impeachment trial indicate a former president can be im- conflict and chaos, will have to wait. stration would like to use instead to con- can’t do: evict Trump from the Oval Of- peached.) The former president has exited firm its nominees for senior posts. fice. That said, it can do a lot to define For those senators, that process ar- Washington but not center stage, and And it will once again exacerbate the the direction of the nation’s politics. It gument makes irrelevant any substan- his trial will once again cast him in the partisan divide that Biden has pledged will set a precedent for political behav- tive debate over what the former presi- political spotlight. to heal. ior (what actions by presidents are con- dent actually did. He remains the single most powerful Congressional Democrats haven’t sidered acceptable?) and for the separa- For Trump, his second impeachment voice in the GOP. been swayed by concerns that the trial is tion of powers (how and when can Con- trial is more likely to reinforce opinions In the past five years, he has rede- going to complicate Biden’s start in the gress hold them accountable?). of him than change them. fined the party in his image. Unlike any White House. A Senate conviction would be anoth- But the trial will spotlight and detail other modern president, especially “It’s not about political conse- er first: the first time the Senate had the prosecution’s case that the former those who were defeated for reelection, quences,” said Steve Israel, a former found a president guilty in an impeach- president violated his oath of office – to he has made it clear that he intends to Democratic congressman who is now ment trial. The House impeachment of “preserve, protect and defend the Con- continue to be the face of his party even director of the Institute of Politics and Andrew Johnson in the 19th century and stitution of the United States” – when after his term has ended. Global Affairs at Cornell University. In Bill Clinton in the 20th ended in Senate he refused to accept the certified results At issue for the GOP are its electoral an interview, the eight-term New York acquittals. of the 2020 election, then rallied his fol- prospects ahead and even the possibil- representative called it “a moment of If Trump were convicted, a simple lowers before a mob of them stormed ity, being discussed by some, that dis- truth” for House and Senate Democrats. majority of the Senate could then vote to the Capitol. enchanted Republicans will split off to “It’s about establishing an historic rec- bar him from holding federal office Americans’ view of the 45th presi- form a third party. ord of Donald Trump’s role in an attack again, blocking the prospect of a 2024 dent, and history’s judgment, may During Trump’s tenure, Republicans on democracy and forcing Republicans bid to regain the White House. harden as a result. lost control of the House, then the White to say what side of history they’re on.”

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