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January 23, 2015

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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Gordon Schaad of Baker City.

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Farmers Market membership meeting 3an. 28 The Baker City Farmers Market will have a membership meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center (upstairs — there is a ballet class until 5:15 p.m. so do not come early). Agenda items include the election of board members, discussion of how the market went this past season, including the new location, and how to get more community involvement. More information is available by calling Amy Young at 541-5235203 or emailing bakercityfarmersmarketor@ gmail.com.

Brooklyn Taco Feed set Feb. 5 Brooklyn Primary School's annualTaco Feed and Book Sale is scheduledThursday, Feb. 5. The event will be from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Baker County Event Center, 2600 East St. Raffle tickets are on sale for a variety of prizes that will be awarded in drawings during the evening.

Abuse prevention training planned The Baker City Church of the Nazarene has scheduled an Abuse Prevention Training for Sunday, Jan. 25. The training will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the fellowship hall at the church at 1250 Hughes Lane. Baker County District Attorney Matt Shirtcliff will be the instructor. Topics will include: • Child abuse detection • Mandatory reporting • First responder information • Policies and procedures regarding child physical and sexual abuse.

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Oregon Liquor Control Commission Chair, Rob Patridge, explains the role of the OLCC in marijuana regulations Thursday at the Baker City Armory.

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While stoners across the statelook forward to their first legal toke of wacky weed inJuly,the Oregon Liquor Control Commission

(OLCCl is gathering information to help formulate rules regarding the recreational sale of marijuana in 2016. About 100 residents from across Oregon attended an OLCC marijuana"listening session" at the Armory in Baker City Thursday. The purpose of the meeting was to hear from the public about how marijuana regulation should work in local communities across the state. The ballot initiative passed in November tasks the OLCC with regulating marijuana and products derived f'rom the psychoactive herb. It also gives the OLCC the authority to tax and license the drug in all of itsforms. Klamath County District Attorney and OLCC Commission Chair Rob Patridge outlined the details of Measure 91 and OLCC's role in a PowerPoint presentation. Patridge pointed out he was personallyopposed to the measure. "It's the OLCC's job to put in place the measures to implement the rules to allow for licensing and

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An audience participant,Theodore Dart, says he came to find out how the OLCC and taxation on marijuana will affect his business in North Powder. Dart operates a patient co-op, where he provides "certified tested medical cannabis" to his clients. He explained that licenses will be issued to producers (growersl, processors, wholesalersand retailers.Licenseescan possess multiple typesoflicenses. Impaired driving is not defined in the measure. It requires OLCC to examine research and to present a reportto the Legislature.

July 1 is when possession and home production becomes legal. March through October is the period when OLCC will make rules regardingmarijuana regulation and its legal production forretailsale afterconsidering community input. See Marij uanaI page8A

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Crews worked to begin clearing the rock slide that has closed the only road to Hells Canyon Dam.

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distribution and those kinds of things. I'm not here to relitigate whether recreational marijuana is good policy or bad policy," Patridge said. ''What I'm here to talk to you about is how can we put this thing together in a safe and responsible manner for communities throughout the stateofOregon."

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Full forecast on the back of the B section.

Baker City Police added two more names to the list of 11 people picked up earlier this week in a drug sting by the Baker County Narcotics Enforcement Team. Police served a search warrant at 2036 Grove St. at 9:52 am. He n d rikThursday sen based on information obtained in the earlier investigation, Police C hief Wyn M ye r s Lohner said in a press release. Taken into custody were: • Carmon Deon Hendriksen, 26, of 2036 Grove St., who was charged with one count of delivering methamphetamineand one count of possessing methamphetamine. • Anthony Allan Myers, 35, of 2036 Grove St., who was charged with one count of violating his release agreement. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are likely, police said.

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OXBOW — No one was injured by a large rock slide three miles north of Hells Canyon Park Wednesday afternoon that has completely closedthe only road to Hells Canyon Dam. The road could be closed for up to a week, Brad Bowlin, Idaho Power Co. spokesman, stated in a press release. Motorists will not be allowed past Hells Canyon Park until the road is safe, he said. The slide is about 60 yards long. More unstable material on the clifF above the slide alsomust be removed before

the road is safe. Crews won't know the extent of repairs needed for the road surface until the slide is cleared. Idaho Power crews worked for several hours Wednesday to clear one lane long enough fordrivers stranded between the slide and Hells Canyon Dam to exit, Bowlin said. The road was then closed to allow crews to continue working and also because ofthe threat ofadditional slides. Some of the boulders on the road are so large they have to be blasted to make them small enough to remove.

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Baker County Veterans Services 0$cer Rick Gloria gave a report to the Baker County commissioners concerning his department Wednesday. He spoke about veterans claims management software VetraSpec. The Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVAl is using the sofbvare to expedite claims by veterans. The online system allows veteransserviceoffi cersto accessinformation easier and more expeditiously for the veterans they serve. "Right now we have 107 veterans enrolled in VetraSpec," Gloria said. His goal is to get the rest of the veterans in Baker County enrolled with the sofbvare to help with claims management. Gloria said his office has more than 800 files of active veterans. He said there are approximately 2,000 veterans in the county or about 8 percent of the county's population. See Commission/Page 5A

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