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February 6, 2015
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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Terrie Evarts of Baker City.
Local, 3A NORTH POWDER — Powder Valley High School's building opened in 1916, the year the film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was released and quickly became a box office hit. Powder Valley High School is gearing up to celebrate its centennial. The school district is in the preliminary stage of organizing its celebration and is inviting people with old photos and historic information to come forward so it can later be shared with the public.
• Police arrested one Baker man Wednesday after a cloud of anhydrous ammonia wafted through a S. Baker neighborhood
By Chris Collins
likely, Police Chief Wyn Lohner sald. As the result of a two-day In a press release issued investi gation ofsuspected Thursday afternoon, Lohner drug activityin a south Baker stated that"until state requireCity neighborhood, police have ments are met by the property designatedproperty at301 owners, anyone found on that Second St. an''illegal drug lab property will be arrested for Crinnnal Trespass I." site." One person has been arPolice began a search of rested and more arrests are the south Baker City home ccollins©bakercityherald.com
Wednesday for evidence of drugcri mes aftera propane tank filled with anhydrous ammonia ruptured, sending noxious gas through the neighborhood. Lohner said a second tank of anhydrous ammonia was found in a search of the property, which is owned by David
was questioned and released Wednesday after refusing medical attention. Police arrested Kenneth Roy Street, 45,of2275 19th St., at 12:50 p.m. W ednesday at Baggerly's home on a charge of possession of methamphetamine.
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Pancake breaklast set hr Saturday NORTH POWDERThe Annual Groundhog Pancake Breakfast is scheduled Saturday at the Wolf Creek Grange at North Powder. Breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The cost is $3 for kids 10 and younger. They will be served two pancakes, eggs, meat and a drink. For $6, adults will be served three pancakes, eggs, two meats and a drink. The charge for a family of five is $20, with a $2 fee for each additional family member. Homemade maple bars by Nancy Simonis also will be available.
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Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation banquet Feb. 28 The Elkhorn Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has scheduled its 19th annualbig game banquet for Feb. 28 at the Baker Elks Lodge, 1896 Second St. Doors open at 5 p.m. There will be live and silent auctions, games and raffles. For membership and ticket information, call Rick Holden at 541-5232789or goto www. RMEForg/events.
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Leona Cameron cradles newborn Killian James Stanley at St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City. Cameron has retired after a 43-year career as a nurse during which she assisted with more than 2,000 births.
By Lisa Britton
"Who doesn't love babies~"
For the Baker City Herald
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Baker County's sage grouse populationseems to bedropping, and state biologists can't pinpoint the possible causes. So far the downward trend has had only one small effect — last year the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild-
eona Cameron cradles the bundle in her arm, her eyes rivetedatthe tiny,perfectface ofa baby only nine hours old. Her ease with a newborn comes from yearsofpractice— sheretired Jan. 29 after 28 years in the obstetrical (OBl department at St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City. Before that she worked in medical/ surgery first at Mercy Medical Center in Nampa and then in Baker City startingin 1985. "I've been in nursing for 43 years," she says. Cameron didn'tintend to work with babies when she started her career. 'The condition, when I applied (at
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— Leona Cameron, who has worked as a nurse for 43 years, including the past 28 years in the OB unit at St. Alphonsus-Baker City
Baker City), was'was I willing to work in OB?' I said yes." For the first two years, she worked in med/surg and only went to OB as needed. 'You just ran back and forth," she says. Previously, in Nampa, she'd worked in OB on rare occasions. "Ithoughtitwasterrifying because I didn't know a thing aboutit," she says. But she learned, especially after
making the switch full time in 1987. One ofher favorite parts,she says, is witnessing the interaction between a mom and her new baby. ' Who doesn't love babies?" she says with a smile. It's tough to know exactly how many babies Cameron has touched over the years. On average, about 140 babies are born each year at St. Alphonsus. If Cameron was involved with half ofthosebirths— 70 babiesover30 years — that would be 2,100. But chances are that number is higher. In her shift, Cameron could be present during any phase of childbirth — labor, delivery and postpartum care. See Nurse/Page 8A
hunting tags for sage youse in the county. But compared with other upland game birds such as chukar and quail, sage grouse are a minor species here. ODFW had issued a maximum of 20 tags in the county each year for more than a decade prior to 2014 — 10 tags for the Lookout Mountain unit, and 10 for the Sumpter unit. In most years, hunters didn't claim all of those tags, and they killed fewer than 10 sage grouse each year in Baker County, said Dave Budeau, upland game bird coordinator for ODFW. But the pressing issue with sage grouse isn't whether there's enough of the birds to justify a hunting season in the county. Rather, it's the decision the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is slated to make this September about whether to list sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species. Ifthe federalagency does list the bird, induding its habitatin Baker County, the local effects could be significant. Among other things, federal protectio n forthesagegrouse couldprompt new restrictions on livestock grazing on public land, something most of the county's ranchers depend on. Having access to public grazing allotments is crucial to the beef cattle industry, which generates about $62 million in annual sales in Baker County, by far the largestshareofthecounty's agriculture economy. See Grouse/PageGA
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