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January 26, 2015
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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber John Tabor Clarke 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.
Wildland fire refresher class set for Feb. 28 Eastern Oregon Training Group has scheduled a Wildland Fire Refresher Class, RT-130, for Saturday, Feb. 28. The class will begin at 8 a.m. at the Baker School District office, 2090 Fourth St. This is a required class for most firefighters and contractors who are planning on working for any federal or state agencies in the upcoming fire season. A qualified instructor from National Firefighter's Training and Carding Association will be teaching the class and membership in the Association is included with the class fee. This class has limited seating and is available on a first come, first served basis. This is the only class scheduled for 2015 in this area. The fee for the class is $100. Registration and payment of fee can be made at www.oregonfiretraining.com. More information is available by contacting Laurel Goodrich at 541-4030907, laurelgoodrich@ msn.com;orJeff Sherman, 541-519-6213, shermanrental@gmail. com.
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s Marian Taylor settles back in he cushy chair, Jennifer Herrman asks a question totally unrelated to cancer treatment. "What's your favorite color?"Herrman asks. Caught off guard,Taylor pauses, then answers "blue." Herrman leaves and soon returns bearing a bundle of blue — a handmade quilt donated by local quilters that Taylor can use throughout her chemotherapy treatments, then take home when she's finished. On her first day of chemotherapy for breast cancer, Taylor clutches the soft quilt on her lap as Riley Hall, a registered nurse, explains her treatment. Taylor was diagnosed a year ago, and first tried medication in pill form. "But that didn't work," she says. So now it is chemotherapy, which she can receive without leaving the city limits. "I think it's awesome that Idon'thave to travel, "she says. The Billie Ruth Bootsma Clinic opened in September 2011 at St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City. It is an outpatient clinic offering many services, including chemotherapy, allergy injections, blood transfusions, central line catheter care, hydration and supportive care, infusions, injections, IV antibiotics, therapeutic phlebotomy, treatment for autoimmune disorders, wound care and more.
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cancer, making it a chronic illness. Because of that, Bronstein doesn't think"fighting cancer" is the right mindset. "There are many people with incurable diseases," he said."Thereare lotsiof cancers) we can't cure, but we can manage." And, if faced with a diagnosis of cancer, he says knowledge is advantageous.
This summer the men and women who fill out the roster of Eastern Oregon's largest Army National Guard outfit will once againdeploy to a desert location to fulfill their annual training requirement. This year though the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment will not journey to its usual Annual Training location. Instead of the familiar, high desert landscape south of Boise, the battalion will deploy to anotherkind ofdesertThe Mojave. The battalion, consisting of Guard units from across the region including La Grande and Baker City, entered into the first phase of a six-month training cycle this month to prepare for a three-week stint at the U.S. Army's National Training Center situated at Fort Irwin, California, on the edge of the Mojave Desert. A rotation through the National Training Center is considered the "Super Bowl" of military maneuversand itsvastdesert landscape widely viewed as the most realistic in terms of war preparation. The battalion is scheduled to deploy to the Mojave training center in August. During its three-week deployment the battalion — which utilizes M1A2 SEP Abrams main battle tanks and Bradly fighting vehicles — will conduct mock battles against an "opposingforce"consisting of the U.S. Army's 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. The training is as close as a mihtary urnt can gettoactualwartime conditions and a rotation through the National Training Center is not just another two-week annual training tour, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Lt. Col. Brian Dean said. A rotation through the NTC is a notch above the usual two-week training session the battalion completes every summer south of Boise at the Orchard Combat Training Center. "Everyone calls it the Super Bowl of Army training forarmored forces.I've said it before, and I think the words get lost, NTC is the best armored training available anywhere in the world. Period. There is nothing better," Dean said.
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Marian Taylor, 71, gets connected to chemotherapy by Riley Hall, RN, during her first treatment at the Bootsma Clinic inside St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City. Having breast cancer has been "so stressfulTaylor says. "I'm so glad I can come here. It takes a lot of the pressure off she added. After three months of chemo, she'll have surgery at the hospital, Taylor says, but she will travel afterward for radiation treatments at Fruitland, Idaho.
town for her treatments and doctorappointments. "I could not imagine drivhe clinic is open five ing home from Fruitland aftertreatment,"she said. days a week, and on most Fridays Dr. Carey received the chemo Maynard Bronstein, who at the Billie Ruth Bootsma Clinic. specializes in oncology and hematology, comes from In additionto thetreatLa Grande to meet with ments, she was able to meet with Dr. Bronstein without patients. But that doesn't mean leaving town. "They do everything they cancertreatments are restricted to Fridays. can to keep us from travel"We can do their therapies ing," Carey says."And it's any day of the week — he's a greatatmosphere — I always available by phone," thoughtitwas great before I said Maureen Joseph, RN. needed it." Megan Carey, 27, says Carey approached her she's grateful that her diagnosis and treatment cancercould be treated close as just something she had to home. to do,and kept a positive She was diagnosed Jan. attitude. "I have to go through it 28, 2014, with a bone cancer more common in someone anyway," she said. 70 or older. It took a few weeks to Her first chemotherapy figure out the best order in treatment was a few weeks which to administer the chelater, on Valentine's Day, motherapy in order to keep and her last was on May 29, nausea at a minimum. "Everyone was great try2014. "When I first met her, she ing to find the best way to handle it," Carey said. was on crutches from bone biopsies, and now she's gone snowboarding," Joseph said ronstein has two with a smile as she chatted areas of focus — onwith Carey. cology icancerl and Although it's an experihematologyiblood disorders, ence she'd rather not repeat, such as anemia, high/low Carey said she's thankful bloodcounts and blood clotthat she didn't have to leave ting).
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Bone cancer was found and successfully treated in Megan Carey, 27, of Baker City. He works at Grande Ronde Hospital in La Grande, but comes to Baker City once a week through an affiliation between GRH and St. Alphonsus. Bronstein finished his fellowship in 2000, and since then has seen cancer become the leading cause of death in the United States, replacingheart disease. Advances in medicine have made it possiblefor some people to live with
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