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

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Garden Club meets Wednesday The Baker County Garden Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the Sunridge Inn. The subject will be where to plant your flowers. New members are always welcome.

• Heinz, the largest buyer of potatoes grown in Baker Valley, won't be contracting with local farmers starting this year

By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com

Baker Valley's eight potatogrowers are scrambling to find a buyer for 2015 beforethey'reforced to plant less-valuablecrops on their former spud acreage.

Farmers had a"bombshell dropped on us" Jan. 22 when officials from Heinz announced the com-

pany, which in recent years bought about 80 percent of the potatoes grown in Baker Valley, won't be renewing the contract with localgrowers, said Mark Ward, apotato farmer and president of the Malheur Potato Bargaining Association.

That group, its name notwithstanding, represents

potato farmers from Baker as well as Malheur counties, Ward said.

Potatoes are Baker County's second most-valuablecash crop,with sales of $12.2 million in 2013, the most recent year for which records are available.

Only beef cattle — at $62.1 million — contributed more to the county's $98

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Joe Patton says he's buying another Dodge pickup truck just like the one that was totaled on Jan. 17 on Interstate 84 near Baker City. "It gave its all for us," Patton said.

By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald

wo weeks after the truck he was riding in was smashed in a massive pile up on Interstate84 near Baker City, Chuck Carey's phone message from that day brings a chuckle: "Everybody's OK. We kind of gotin acar wreck."

He definitely downplayed the situation in this message he left for his wife, Jeanine.

In reality, these four men — Carey, Travis Submitted photo Birmingham andJoe The impact of the crash collapsed the roof of Joe Patton's pickup truck. All four Patton of Baker City, men inside the truck escaped without major injuries. and Leroy Thompson of Sumpter — could have been crushed between two semi trucks.

Carey says people have called them lucky.

He has a diferent opinion.

'You look at everything — there were so many miracles," he says."My belief says it's more than ,$$4%ES chance. Blessed is good fortune and being watched over.

We were blessed thatday." he four men — plus a fifth, Wes Christensen, on most days — carpool to work at Ash Grove Cementin Durkee.

"The story starts on Friday," Carey says.

That was Friday, Jan. 16, when the men were deciding who would drive the 25-mile route the next day.

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Lions Club collecting used glasses, hearing aids for re-use The Baker City Lions Club is collecting used glasses and hearing aids to be distributed to people who need them.

Prescription glasses, reading glasses and sunglasses will be accepted.

Collection boxes are set up at Baker Vision Clinic, Clothes Outlet, Ryder Brothers, Tec Copier Systems, St. Luke's (EOMAj Clinic, St. Alphonsus Medical Center, Meadowbrook, Settlers Park, Eagle Optical or the Elks Club.

The bright yellow containers are clearly marked with the purple Lions Club logo.

Lions members will pick up donations on Feb. 24. Then they will work in groups to sort and count them. The glasses and hearing aids will then be sent off for cleaning and restoration so they can be provided to low income people in the U.S. and other countries.

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Valentine's Day dinner at Adventist School The Baker Valley 7thday Adventist School will have a Valentine's Day dinner, Saturday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m. The dinner will be at the school, 42171 Chico Road, and promises delightful food, entertainment and a photo booth.

The students are using this dinner as a fundraiser for an educational trip toWashington, D.C., during spring break this March.

All are welcome to attend. Tickets are $15 each or $25 per couple and $12 per child. They can be purchased atThe Sycamore Tree or from a student.

million agriculture economy that year.

Of the3,800 acres planted in potatoes, Heinz, which owns the Ore-Ida brand, bought spuds from 3,000 of those acres, Ward said.

Simplot bought potatoes from the remaining 800 acres, he said.

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T ODAY Issue 113, 16 pages

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From left, LeroyThompson, Joe Patton, Chuck Carey and Travis Birmingham look at photographs from the day of th e accident.

Unemployment and a stalled economy remain lingering specters inside the political realm of Eastern Oregon, but new Baker County Commission Chairman Bill Harvey is determined to change that paradigm.

Harvey, who defeated threeterm incumbent Fred Warner Jr. in 2014 for the county's top elected position, Har v ey said Thursday that his focus has been, and will remain, a simple one: Finding jobs.

'That was my whole premise in running for this positio n,"Harvey said.

Harvey isn't the first area politician to voice a resolve to extinguish the dual economic maladies of unemployment and a stagnant economy, and he probably won't be the last.

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BHS grad rate tops state avg.

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Baker School District Superintendent Walt Wegener points with pride at the 80 percentgraduation rate at Baker High School, which has shown steady improvement over the past four years.

The Oregon Department of Education released graduationratesforthe 2013-14 school year Friday, showing the statewiderate at72 percent.

Baker High School's graduationrateisbased on 128 Oregon diplomas and four modified diplomas awarded for the year. When 13 GED certifi catesare added to the total, the district's cohort completionratetotals87.88.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015

BAKER COUNTY CALENDAR THURSDAY, FEB. 5 • Brooklyn Primary SchoolTaco Feed:4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Baker County Event Center, 2600 East St. • Medical Springs Rural Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the Pondosa Station.

FRIDAY, FEB. 6 • BakerFFA Drive-Through Barbecue: 5p.m .to7 p.m.; $12 tickets are available from FFAstudents or by emailing sbinghamIbaker.k12.or.us TUESDAY, FEB. 10 • Baker City Council:7 p.m. City Hall,1655 First St. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11 • Lower Powder River Irrigation District Board:6 p.m. at the Sunridge.

TUESDAY, FEB. 17 • Baker School Board:Meeting rescheduled for Feb. 24.

• Baker Rural Fire Protection District Board:7 p.m. at the Pocahontas Fire Station.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 • Baker County Commission:9 a.m., Courthouse, 1995 Third St. FRIDAY, FEB. 20 • Open house for 5J superintendent candidates:4 p.m. to 6p.m.,BakerHigh SchoolCommons, 2500 ESt.

TURNING BACK THE PAGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald Feb. 2, 1965 The Baker Valley Irrigation District (BVID) has indicated that the land owners within the district may be able to vote on the Mason Dam contract as early as March15, it was reported today.

The information was made public in a letter to the land owners by BVID secretary John C. Hesketh along with a brochure explaining various features of the project.

25 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald Feb. 2, 1990 Baker City firefighters stopped a blaze that threatened many of the downtown historic district's important structures early today.

Firefighters were called to the Palmer Building, 1801 Main St., at 6:46 a.m.

As thick gray smoke covered Baker City's Main Street like a London fog, about 40 firefighters with three Baker City engines, a Baker City ladder truck, a Baker Rural Fire District engine, and a Rural Fire District tanker responded to the blaze.

10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald Feb. 2, 2005 Weather, we know, will fool and tease and betray us, but ever since the days when Pearl Harbor was just a place to park ships, Baker County's snow surveyors could trust January.

Until now.

For the first time in a run of record-keeping that started in 1939, the snowpack high in the Elkhorn Mountains shrank during January.

ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald Feb. 3, 2014 When eighthgraderKate Jesenko'steacher announced the assignment in December, Kate didn't dread the task ahead.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

The assignment from Chelsea Hurliman, who teaches at Baker Middle School, was more than just classwork.

It was also a contest — the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars "Patriots Pen" essay competition.

Hurliman wasn't surprised that Kate, 13, earned an "A" on the assignment.

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In addition to the brownie bakers and the meatcookers,there'sacrew to preBaker FFA members are gearing up pare the green beans, adding bacon and for their February drive-through barbeonions to make them extra tasty. And othersprepare thepotatoes,which are cue fundraiser.

The tri-tip meal will be offered for $12 donated by area potato producers.

And then there are those who are a plate in conjunction with the home basketball games against La Grande Friday. responsible for getting the utensils and Preparations for the meal begin napkins ready and putting the bottled with seasoning the meat a few days in water on ice.

By 5 p.m. the students are primed to advance, says Seth Bingham, who's in his second year at BHS where he teaches ag start delivering the meals curb side or classes and is the FFA adviser. Bingham serving them in the BHS Commons. The replaced longtime ag teacher Randy food will be available until 7 p.m.

Bingham said past barbecues have Newman.

"He and his student established this brought in anywhere from 350 to 700 tradition years ago," Bingham said of the diners. The tickets will be counted before drive-through barbecues.

Friday and then another 150 or so meals will be added to accommodate walk-in Students, supervised by a parent, will bake the brownies Thursday night in customers who didn't buy tickets. preparation for the Friday meal.

Last year, the FFA members also sold They will begin cooking the meat rafHe tickets for chances to win two pig halves. This year, the rafHe prize will be a about noon on Friday. '%e have three or four crews," BingTraegerbarbecue grilldonated by PGG ham said. in La Grande. Tickets are being sold for ccollins©bakercityherald.com

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"I'm enCOuraged. My WhOlemanner iS to be

future solid economic foundation he said. encouraged when others might be discouraged."

'There arefantasticopporContinued ~om Page1A Yet Harvey said he and — Bill Harvey, chairman, tunities. All we need to do is Baker County Board of Commissioners fellow commissioners Mark get the state to help us open Bennett and it up for mining companies," Tim L. Kerns ment to future success is a resources, especially when it he said. are already simple one: working hard to comes to access.

Another key attribute to "For years they tell you to on the road attract business while also finding success, Harvey said, towardfi nding paving the way to leverage go out and promote tourism will be teaching legislators solutions to existinglocalresources for and recreation and they cut and other critical regional unemployment Ben n ett future prosperity. us off at the knees," he said. stakeholders about Baker '%e are looking for every and a declining Another issue that still County's natural resource economic base. opportunity we can. We are resonates with Harvey is the opportunities.

"I'm going to try to educate, '%e are doing working on a lot of regularecentlegaldecision regarda lotofm eetings tions that are holding Baker ing the Sno-Basin logging en- tell them 'Hey, wake up. with economic County back," he said. deavor. The project — which Thesearejob opportunities development While he said he is optiinvolved six separate logging and we need them,' " he said. and the mining K ems mistic, Harvey also remains operations— was effectively Harvey said he does not industry," he frustrated regarding what shut down by a legal decision see a dark horizon for the sald. he believes are rules and in late 2014. county.

"I'mencouraged.My whole "Frankly it makes me The mining industry, regulationsthat restrict he said, may be especially Baker County from reaching angry," Harvey said of the im- manner is to be encourfruitful in terms oflong-term economic success. He said pactofthecourtdecision. aged when others might be economic growth. there appears to be a two Harvey said mining oppor- discouraged.

Iw ant to give "Thereisa lotofopportudivergentmessages promottunities in Baker County are Baker County hope we (the nity there," he said. ed byfederal forestofficials obvious. The mining industry commissioners) are standing Harvey said one key eleregarding use of natural could be a key pillar in a up for them," Harvey said.

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$5 each. Money from the rafHe will go to help FFA students pay dues and buy new FFA jackets.

A portion of the proceeds from the drive-through barbecue will got to the FFA's Helping Hand Fund to provide assistance forthosein need.

The rest will be used to defray expenses for FFA members traveling to various competitions throughout the year.

The Baker Chapter has 50 to 60 active members this year, Bingham said.

They will travel to the state convention at Silverlon in March and compete in Career Development Events (CDEsl during the year.

They also plan to send members to the national convention, which is scheduled Oct. 28-31 at Louisville, Kentucky. Last year, Baker FFA sent its Vet Science team to the national competition.

Tickets for the drive-through barbecue or the rafHe may be purchased from any FFA member or by emailing sbingham@ baker.k12.or.us

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OB1TUARY 'Red' Cuttum

in 1955, he served in the U.S. Army Reserves and then in Lavon"Red" Cullum, 81, the National Guard for three of Haines, died Jan. 23, 2015, years. at his home with his wife by In 1965, he married Venita his side.

Remmerde andthey celThere will ebrated their 49th anniverbe no funeral. sary in October 2014.

There will be Red movedtoSumpter in a memorial 1973 and worked in minservice to be an- ing for several years, then nounced later. operatedthe service station.

Red Red w a s born He went into business for Cullum on July 23, himself with"Red's Excavat1933, at Palo ing and Hauling," which he Alto, California. He lived operated until 1993 when he most of his childhood and and his wife built"Sumpter early adult years in the San Francisco BayArea. He mar- Pines RV Park." They operated the park until 2006 ried"Ginger"and they had a son, Duane, who now lives in when they sold it and retired to Haines.

Alaska.

Survivors include his Red entered the service in 1952 and was sent to Korea. wife; his son; and his sister, After his honorable discharge Sandra.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015

SAVED Continued from Page1A Carey said it was his turn to drive, which would have put the men in a 2011 Chevy Traverse, a small SUV. But Patton won out and the next morning they left Baker City in his four-door Dodge Ram pickup truck.

"Had we been driving my car, we'd ...be taking a dirt nap," Carey says, shaking his head at the thought.'That pickupsaved our life."

The other option, Birmingham's Suburban, is a big rig, too, but it has shorter headrests than the Dodge.

"Had we not all had high headrests, we'd have broken our necks," Carey says.

On Saturday, Jan. 17, Patton picked up Carey, Birmingham andThompson iChristensen wasn't work-

ing that dayl and they left Baker City at 5 a.m. It was 28 degrees.

Their commute is 30 minutes, and their shift starts at 6 a.m.

But that day, they encounteredfog atthe Pleasant Valley Exit 313, about nine miles east of Baker City.

Then, about 16 miles east of Baker City, they saw a car on the side ofroad. The driver had on hazard lights and was honking the horn.

The men just thought it was a fellow Ash Grove employee.

"I changed lanes and the pickup wiggled," Patton says.

He slowed down and switched the pickup into four-wheel drive.

Carey says the road hadn't beenslick beforethat.

"It looked like rain on the road," Birmingham says.

Then they saw headlights ahead in the fog.

Two trucks blocked the freeway — a semi-truck in the left lane and a car hauler in the right.

Patton came to a stop behind the semi. ''We stopped behind him,

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"He said, 'it's a semi. He's notstopping. We're going to get hit.'"

— Joe Patton, remembering what his passenger, Travis Birmingham, said as a semi bore down on them

and as soon as we did I knew I should move," Patton says.

He shifted into reverse and began backing up, hoping to angle into the space between the two big trucks.

Then Birmingham looked behind them.

"He said 'It's a semi. He's not stopping. We're going to get hit,' " Patton remembers.

"I could tell by his voice it was going fast," Thompson says.

Birmingham watched the truck barreling toward them, but he turned around to look forwardright before impact. ''We got hit on three different sides in a second," he says.

"It was a pretty wicked explosion," Patton says.

The semi shoved Patton's pickup toward the car hauler, where the driver'sside of the pickup collided with a red sedan on the hauler ithe impact broke the half-inch chains securing the car to the hauler).

The second deck of the hauler crushed the roof of Patton's pickup. ''We were in the air when we hit it," Carey says.

The pickup bounced off the hauler and spun, coming to restpointed west on thefreeway against the guardrail.

The four men immediately checked on each other.

"I turned to ask how Travis was and he was wadded up in the back," Carey says.

"Barefoot," Patton says with a grin.

"I had socks on," Birmingham retorts.

Everything in the cab except the clothes they were wearing went flying on impact — Birmingham's boots iwhich weren't laced upl fl ew forward underneath the seat, their hats came off and Thompson's lunch pail

vehicles. The freeway was closed for about 12 hours while everything was cleaned up.

With Patton's pickup obviously out of commission, Birmingham called his step-

escaped his hands.

The front seats had brodad, Dean Sappe, who picked ken, the rear window blew up themen and took them out and the driver's side to the emergency room at St. curtain airbag had deployed. Alphonsus Medical Center in Then the foursome realBaker City by 7 a.m. ized that more trucks could Thompson has a cracked be coming toward the wreck. vertebra and is wearing a They scrambled to get out. neck brace, and Birmingham The driver side doors were has a cracked rib and bruised crushed, and the passenger lung. Carey's back is still sore side doors were shoved into and Patton came out with each other, but when Thomp- bruises.

"A day or two after everyson opened his, the front one opened too. bodyfeltlikethey'd been beat ''We exited posthaste,"Pat- up," Carey says. ton says.

They noticed other things Thompson went over the as well — Birmingham cringguardrail and headed down es atthesightofheadlights, the embankment toward Old and Thompson woke with Highway 30. a start that night when the "I didn't loiter" he says. moonlight shone on his face.

As they looked at the Carey decided to go to wreckage, the men realized work on Sunday.

"I thought I was fine," he that if Patton's pickup hadn't been angled toward the car says. hauler, they would have been Then he drove to work sandwiched between the two the next day, and saw lights semi trucks. flashing at the bridge right They estimate the one that beforethe crash site.

"I panicked," he says. hit them was going at least 50 mph, and it shoved the As he drove through the stopped semi another length crash zone, he says his hands and a half down the road. would have been shaking Also, Carey says, if the uncontrollably ifhe hadn't guardrail hadn't stopped been gripping the steering their pickup, it would have wheel so tightly. rolled down to the highway and possibly onto the nearby atton bought his railroad tracks. pickup six months Soon after they exited the before the crash. He truck, a train came rumbling plans to buy another Dodge down those tracks. just like it.

"It was worth every penny. heir lunches, which It gave its all for us," Patton had been in the says. pickup bed, were And although the Ash strewn along the freeway, Grove co-workers drive at and Patton's heavy toolbox appropriate speeds forthe had shot out of the back and road conditions, they are wrapped around the fuel quicker to exit the freeway tank of the car hauler truck. these days if the weather is The pickup's fuel tank was iffy, preferring the slower, but cracked and leaking diesel. uncrowded, Highway 30. ''We don't stay on it now if All told, this section of freeit's foggy," Patton says. way had three or four crash zonesthatinvolved about 20

LOCAL BRIEFING Farmers Market seeks poster artwork The Baker City Farmers Market is seeking artwork for the 2015 Market poster. Submissions must be received

by April 17. Artwork should depict an aspect of Farmers M arket isuch asfresh produce orcolorfulvendor stalls) that will translate well into poster form.

A prizeisawarded totheselected artist.Form ore information, call Ann Mehafly at 541-519-0698.

Skills USA club formed at BHS Skills USA, a new club aligned with Baker Technical Institute, has been formed at Baker High School.

The club offers students an opportunity to advance their strengths in various areas, such as welding, ag mechanics, art, constructing, drafling and engineering.

"As a club, we will work on various community projects in addition to testing our skills though competitions with other chapters in Halfway, Vale and Elgin," club member Austin Rasmussen said in a press release.

The club initially had 16 members. Students meet at 3:35 p.m. every Tuesday in Room 138 at BHS. The next meeting will be Feb. 3.

FBLA competition Feb. 5 at EOU LA GRANDE — The annual Regional Skills Competition for the Future Business Leaders of America will be held Thursday, Feb. 5, at EOU. More than 400 students from 14 regional high schools have registered to compete. The event culminates with a public awards assembly at 12:30 p.m. in McKenzie Theatre in Loso Hall.

Participants will be tested in 40 diferent businessrelated fields including agribusiness, computer problem solving, cyber security, global business, network design, and sports and entertainment management. Public speaking and mock interviews are also scheduled.

The top 10 finishers from each event will compete at the state conference in Portland April 9-11. From there, the top contestants advance to the national competition in Chicago this summer.

FBLA chapters from Baker, Elgin, John Day, Helix, Heppner, Imbler, La Grande, Milton-Freewater, Nyssa, Ontario, Pendleton, Stanfield, Union and Vale are participating.

Watershed Council membership meeting The Powder Basin Watershed Council's first membership meeting will be Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Baker School District office, 2090 Fourth St. The agenda includes a discussion of the Council's annual report and work plan. Everyone is invited.

More information is available by calling 541-523-7288 or by email at pbwcoutreach@yvestoffice.net.

— Compiled from staff reports and press releasessubmitted to the Baker City Herald. To contribute items to Local Briefing, call 541-528-8678,email to neIos@bakereityherald.com, or bri nginformation to the Herald office at 1915 First St.

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Crushedhetweentws trucks,hewalksawaywithscratches ByAndrew Theen The Oregonian

PORTLAND — Kaleb Whitby drove into the dense fog on the familiar and unremarkable stretch of Interstate 84just east of Baker City about an hour before sunrise.

He'd only been on the road for a matter of minutes on Jan. 17 after driving from rural Washington the night before. The 27-year-old was already engrossed in an audiobook and pondering when to eat the prepackaged cinnamon pastry he'd grabbed for breakfast. Then he saw the semi-truck trailer in front ofhim start to sway.

He downshifled, tapped his brakes and felt his truck slip on the black ice underneath him. He aimed for the back of the trailer as he lost control.

Whitby is a former high school running back and line-

backer and a stout 250-pound former professional weightiiker. He's taken big hits before, so hebraced forim pact.

He struck the tractor-trailer head on. He slid about 30 feet.

The airbag didn't deploy.

Whitby's 2008 Chevy Silverado went silent.

Immobilized, he turned to his right and through the rear passenger window saw another set of headlights coming straight for him.

He looked away.

All he could do was pray.

By all reasonable expectations of physics and the laws of man, Whitby should have died on Interstate 84 on Jan. 17, leaving his wife a widow and his son fatherless.

Instead, he walked away with a black eye, a few scratches and a grainy cell phone photograph that

circled the globe.

Other people might have emerged from the wreckage changed in some way, but Whitby's story isn't one of epiphanies acquired after sweet life-saving salvation.

It's a life affirming moment, not a life changing one, largelybecause ofhis strong religious beliefs and because his life was going well before the wreck that should have ended it.

The eldest of nine, Whitby grew up on his devoutly Mormon family's sprawling 1,000-plusacrefarm about 30 miles north of Richland, Washington.

In 2007, Whitby left for a two-year mission in Brazil.

He graduated from Brigham Young University in 2012,

and briefly chased a career and dream of Olympic glory as aprofessional weightlifter.

Last May, he came home from the South Carolina townhouse where he'd lived while training. He moved back, along with his wife, two dogs and 2-year-old son, looking for steady income and to help his father and three uncles run the acres of alf alfa and appletrees, cattle and beans. The farm has sustained four branches of the Whitby family tree for decades.

The morning of the crash, Whitby was on the road to Council, Idaho, to track a shipment of about 160 heifers the family had recently purchased. It was their

first time working with this seller, so Whitby planned to follow the shipment to its ultimate destination in Colorado, where the cattle would be fed up before their eventual slaughter.

He was driving the first pickup of his own, a 2008 extended cab Chevy Silverado he bought in July. He'd already tacked more than 15,000 miles on the odometer driving to and from the nearby Tri-Cities area and other work trips. The farm boy is a confident, comfortable driver; he's been navigating family trucks around the farm since even before he could see over a steering wheel.

As he saw that second set ofheadlights coming toward him through the fog, Whitby

immediately thought the worst — this was the end of all of that. Who would look after his wife, Camille, five months pregnant with their second child?

He remembers thinldng he was going to die, wondering if this was his time. The second semi crushed him from behind."It was loud, and it was hard," he said. Yet he felt surprisingly cushioned.

Whitby didn't go crashing to the ground."I was along for the ride," he said.

The wreck, the last in a multi-car chain of accidents thatstretched overa quarter mile that morning, crumpled the Chevy's extended cab into a capsule-like shell.

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We were pleased to hear from Dan Ermovick, the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest's recreation planner, that a new Forest Service snowmobile policy won't have any immediate eAect on snowmobilers on the Wallowa-Whitman.

We'll be happier still if it turns out there's no significant long-term eA'ect, either.

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Althougha federaljudge disagreed in 2013,we think Forest Service oKcials were right in 2005 when they excluded snowmobiles from the national Travel Management Plan (TMP) rule.

That's the controversial rule requiring each national forest to designate where visitors can drive motor vehicles.

Among the reasons Forest Service oKcials cited to justify the TMP rule is that motor vehicle tires can dig ruts in soR ground, leading to erosion and other environmentaldamage.

Snowmobiles, for the obvious reason that they're driven on snow rather than on soil, pose no such threat.

Indeed, snow is so eA'ective at protecting the ground &om erosion that on many national forests, including the Wallowa-Whitman, logging sometimes is allowed only when the snow reaches a certain

depth.

Logging equipment obviously is much heavier than any snowmobile.

A member of the Idaho group that filed the lawsuit that led to the 2013 ruling and subsequently to the Forest Service's new snowmobile policy — it requires national forests to decide where snowmobiles are allowed — cited such issues as noise, exhaust and conKcts with cross-country skiers as reasons why snowmobiles should be brought under the TMP umbrella.

Such conKcts might exist on national forests near urban centers, but we don't believe there's any problem on the 2.4 million acre Wallowa-Whitman.

In one area with the potential for conKcts — Anthony Lakes Ski Area — already has a restriction on snowmobiles while the resort is open.

Moreover, skiers and snowshoers have more than half a million acres of wilderness available on the forest where snowmobiles, and other motor vehicles, already are prohibited.

The Wallowa-Whitman's current snowmobile rules are sensible and suKcient.

t contro o e er With the president's recent lawlessness on executive amnesty and GOP efforts to beat it back, it's easy to forget that just three and a half years ago, we were on the cusp of a grand bargain.

President Barack Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner would tackle a range ofever-presentfi scalcrises,everyone would make tough concessions, and the nation would be on sound fiscal footing for a generation.

Alas, it was not to be. In a rare moment of fortitude, the speaker wouldn't go along with the massive tax increases the president wanted. Wise, since the alleged spending reductions would come only in future Congresses — which can't be bound by the present one. Tax hikes, of course, would come on the tront end.

And therein lies the problem with "grand bargains" or "budget deals:" Statists get the tax increases up tront, basedon theirfalse promises offuture spending cuts that never materialize.

Think back to the moment that began the demise of President George H.W. Bush. He broke his famous"Read my lips, no new taxes" pledge in the spirit of getting a"budget deal" with the Democratic Congress.

Why was this deal even necessary?

Because liberals had grown tired of the ironclad spending cuts 4nown then as "sequestration") in legislation that bore the name of then-Sens. Phil Gramm, Warren Rudman and Ernest Hollings.

Under their bill, without a balanced budget, there were across-the-board cuts

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seekingtooverridethosetwo restrictions on spending will need a two-thirds supermajority in each house of Congress.

Similarly, a two-thirds vote will be the to bring spending under control. Again, threshold for both creating new taxes atter about four years, liberals had their and increasing existing ones. And the pefill of fiscal responsibility, and the budget riodic, kick-the-can debt ceiling dramas? deal relegated Gramm-Rudman-HolWell, the limit won't increase withoutlings obsolete and largely forgotten. you guessed it — a two-thirds majority.

With politicians in both parties unwillLastly, Lee's BBA has what might be ing to tackle out-of-control spending called an automatic trigger: Any Member of Congress is granted standing and and debt, clearly a balanced budget amendment iBBAl to the constitution is a causeofaction toenforceitin court, the only vehicle to rein in the spending upon acquiring the signatures of onethird the members of either body. If the that will bankrupt the republic. Not all BBAs are created equal, however; and political class — of either party — tries it's important that conservatives line up an end-run on spending caps, conserbehindSen.Mike Lee, R-Utah. vatives have a backstop: the Federal Lee's Bill, S.J. Res. 2, has the kind Judiciary.

It'sa liberalspend-o-crat' sworst ofrealteeth in itnecessary toforce Congress to make the tough decisions nightmare, which is all the reason any could need to getbehind they were elected to make. Again, BBAs conservative can vary. A simple amendment that said, Mike Lee's BBA. for instance, "outlays shall not exceed Six years ago, Rick Santelli launched revenues in a fiscal year," opens the door the tea party movement with his "Stop for yet more tax increases. Politicians ad- the spending!" rant, which resonated all dicted to spending other people's money across Middle America. We've come a won't go cold-turkey, not when they can long way, and there's a lot more work to simply hike taxes. do. The beginning of the 114th Congress The Lee BBA has several key compois the ideal time to take the first step in nents that set it apart from the alternarestoring fiscal sanity; we urge all grassrootsconservatives toreach outtotheir tives. Not only must outlays not exceed revenues for a given year, spending shall senatorsand representatives,asking not exceed 18 percent of the country's them to support S.J. Res 2. grossdomesticproductforthe previous year.

JennyBethMartin isco-founderofTea Itgetsbetter— forthoseofusin favor Party Patriots. She wrote thisfor CQ-Roll of fiscal responsibility, anyway. Anyone Ca/l.

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GUEST EDITORIAL Editorial from The (Bend) Bulletin: There's a move afoot in Oregon to give parents the right to have their children skip statewidestandardized testsforw hatever reason they choose. It brings together such unlikely bedfellows as liberal Rep. Lew Frederick, D-Portland, and conservative Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend.

Frederick has introduced a bill to allow parents to opt their children out for more than the currently allowed reasons of religion or disability; Knopp told the Bend-La Pine School Board recently he was considering introducing a similar bill in the state Senate.

Both are bad ideas.

Standardizedtests,theircriticsnotwithstanding, play important roles in public education.

They give parents a concrete toolto measure the quality of a child's school, for one thing. And while test scores should not play the starring role in such assessments, it is useful to know that scores are measuring the same things across the state and, when Smarter Balanced tests go into use this spring, acrossanother 16 states.

Every bit as important is the value of standardizedteststo educators.

Again, they're not the only way school administrations have of judging whether students are learning, teachers are teaching well and curriculum choices have been made correctly. They're an important piece of the task, however, and school district officials say they would lose something were scores diminished dramatically.

That's exactly what would happen if parents could opt their children out at will and chose to do so in large numbers. As the number of participants in such exams drops, so, too, does the validity of results. And although individual children could be assessed in other

ways, broader assessments would be hard to come by.

Secondary-school education is big business in Oregon, consuming as it does 40 percent of the state's general-fund budget on top of some $5 billion in local property-tax dollars.

Taxpayers and parents both have a right to judge if that money is being spent wisely, and standardized tests make the judgment easier.

Knopp, a man who values spending tax dollars as carefully as possible, knows that. So, too, should Frederick. Both should drop plans to giveparents and theirchildren a pass when it comes to standardized tests.

CONTACT YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS President Barack Obama: The White House, 1600 PennsylvaniaAve.,Washington, D.C. 20500; 202-456-1414; fax 202456-2461; to send comments, go to www.whitehouse.gov/contact.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley: D.C. office: 313 Hart Senate Office Building,U.S. Senate,Washington, D.C.,20510; 202-224-3753; fax 202-228-3997. Portland office: One WorldTrade Center, 121 S.W. Salmon St. Suite 1250, Portland, OR 97204; 503-326-3386; fax 503-326-2900. Pendleton office: 310 S.E. Second St. Suite 105, Pendleton 97801; 541-278-1129; merkley.senate.gov.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden: D.C. office: 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-5244; fax 202-228-2717 La Grande office: 105 Fir St., No. 210, La Grande, OR 97850; 541962-7691; fax, 541-963-0885; wyden.senate.gov.

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (2nd District): D.C. office: 2182 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515, 202-225-6730; fax 202-225-5774. La Grande office: 1211 Washington Ave., La Grande, OR 97850;541-624-2400, fax, 541-624-2402; walden.house g OV.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber: 254 State Capitol, Salem, OR

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Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown: 900 Court St. N.E., Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1523.

Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler: 350Winter St. N.E., Suite 100,Salem, OR 97301-3896; 503-378-4329.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum: Justice Building,Salem, OR 97301-4096; 503-378-4400.

Oregon Legislature: Legislative documents and information are available online at www.leg.state.or.us.

State Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ontario): Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., H-475, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1460. District office: P.O. Box 1027, Ontario, OR 97914; 541-889-8866.

State Sen. Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day): Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., S-323, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1950. District office: 111 Skyline Drive, John Day, OR 97845; 541-490-6528.

Baker City Hall: 1655 First Street, PO. Box 650, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-6541; fax 541-524-2049. City Council meets the second and fourthTUesdays at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers.

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Baker City administration: 541-523-6541. Mike Kee, city manager;Wyn Lohner, police chief; Mark John, fire chief; Michelle Owen, public works director; Luke Yeaton, HR manager and city recorder.

Baker County Commission: Baker County Courthouse 1995 3rd St., Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-8200. Meets the first and third Wednesdays at 9 a.m.; Bill Harvey (chair), Mark Bennett, Tim Kerns.

Baker County departments:541-523-8200. Mitch Southwick, sheriff; Jeff Smith, roadmaster; Matt Shirtcliff, district attorney; Alice Durflinger, county treasurer; Cindy Carpenter, county clerk; Kerry Savage, county assessor.

Baker School District: 20904th Street, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-524-2260; fax 541-524-2564. Superintendent: Walt Wegener. Board meets the thirdTuesday of the month at 6 p.m., Baker School District 5J office boardroom; Andrew Bryan, Kevin Cassidy, Chris Hawkins, Kyle Knight, Rich McKim.

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who graduated from the Web Academy, shows improvement from the 18 percent in past years.

The Baker Web Academy and Baker Early College enroll students from throughout the state. About 40 Baker students take part in the classes, which are housed in the North Baker Education Center.

Wegener said that it's not surprising students in the Baker Early College aren't focused on high school graduation, when many of them are on their way to earning college degrees. sWe are working on improving our overall process, "he said ofthe reportfrom those schools.

and thereis no reason to believe it won't continue to get better."

— Walt Wegener, Baker Schools superintendent, talking about Baker High School's graduation rate

GRADUATE Continued ~om Page1A ''We're stillworried about the20 percent who don't graduate,"Wegener said,buthe expects statistics to continue to improve.

"It's growing steadily and there is no reason tobelieveitwon'tcontinue to getbetter," he said.sWe're working on it."

The cohort includes the number of students who first entered high school in 2010-11 and were expected to graduate in 2014. The BHS adjusted cohort totaled 165 students, after 23 students who are no longer attending school in the district were removedfrom the statistics.

The Baker School District's overall graduateratedrops to66.55 percent when the totalnumber ofdiplomas awarded isfactored in. And an additional 26 GED certificates awardedbrings thecompleter rate to 75.34 percent.

That also includes a total of 190 Oregon diplomas and seven modified diplomas awardedlastyear,from the adjusted cohort of 296 students.

In addition to the BHS totals, those include: • Baker Early College: 30 diplomas awardedfrom a cohortof37 fora graduation rate of 81.08; one GED awarded brings the completerrateto 83.78.

• Baker Web Academy: 21 from a cohort of 63 for agraduation rate of33.33 percent.Six GEDs brings the completer rate to 42.86.

• Eagle Cap innovative high school:13 from acohortof18 fora graduation rate of 72.22 percent.

• Elkhorn Adolescent Treatment Center: One modified diploma was awarded.

Wegener noted that the 33.33 percent

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Potato harvest in the fall of 201 3 at Ward Farms in Baker Valley.

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The loss of the Heinz contract forces Baker Valley's eightgrowers tolook for another buyer.

"Growers hope to have something in place within 30 days,"Ward said.

Having signed contracts is crucial because without them farmers would have to plant a different crop, and with spring approaching, time is short to make that decision.

One potential option, Ward said, is to contract with the Oregon Potato Company, which is based in Pasco, Washington, and has operations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

However, Ward said he believesthat each farmer would have to negotiate with the Oregon Potato Company, rather than having the

Malheur Potato Bargaining Association represent allthe growers as has happened in the past.

Ifpotatofarmers areforced to planta different crop on some oralloftheir acreage, the likely replacements are alfalfa orwheat.

Neither is as valuable, on a per-acre basis, as potatoes are, Ward said.

Both alfalfa and wheat costconsiderably lessto grow, which partially offsets their lower value, he said.

Nonetheless, he expects that because wheat and alfalfa prices have dropped over the past several months, any Baker Valley farmers who have to reduce theirpotato acreage this year will earn less than they would have with spuds in the ground.

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Shattered glass, a Farm Continued ~om Page 3A Boy brand trucker hat and a The impact cocooned notebook were visible inside Whitbyinside amid shattered what remained of the cab. glassand hisscattered belongBob Baker has seen more mgs. than his share of twisted steel Whitby took quick stock of co5ns since he started buildthe situation and realized he ing his Eastern Oregon towwas fine. His biggest fear was ing empire in 1969. When his yet another truck barreling crewsgotthecalltorespond down the road to finish the to the 26-vehicle wreck just job. outside Baker City, cleanup He wasn't going to wait for work that took them 13 hours, that possibility, and fumbled he assumed there would be a for the Leatherman pocketbody count.

"I knew that the next knife he carried in his pants pocket. The force of the crash morning we were going to had poppedthe knifeoutof hearthree,fourdead,atleast," his pocket and between his Baker said.

T-shirt and black soft-shell Of the dozen vehicles towed jacket. to his yard that day, one left Whitby was upright, but him shaking his head, conuncomfortable. His right leg founded: Whitby's truck. This began to go numb because his one made no sense. This one, legs could barely move. He he said, was positively unreal. found the knife and started The wreckage of the truck, cutting the seat beltin an driverless and bleak in the effort to dislodge the steering tow yard, tells a story of what-ifs: Whatif Whitby had wheel wedged into his right hip. been driving faster than a As he worked, emergency careful 30 miles an hour that crews and other stranded morning? Whatifhis brother travelersdiscovered the Brigham, a 275-pound teenremarkable scene. Whitby ager, had made the trip with thought he could get out ofhis him? What ifhe hadn't bought truck without the Jaws of Life. the truck with the extended He saw a gap at his feet. cab? Whatif the airbag had Another trucker laid on opened in that tight space? the highway, slick with diesel Whitby said he believes God fuel, and reached up into played a role in his survival. the wreckage. He pulled But he doesn't know why he Whitby's left foot up and then walked away, virtually unhurt, out of what remained of the while other people aren't as Silverado. fortunate.

"I'm not better,"Whitby One foot free, Whitby was able to turn his body and face said."I just know that I can't the driver's side door. He even- control it, the Heavenly Father tually slid down until he was does have a plan for us, and on the pavement. He crawled we have the ability to choose on all fours through the tight and make our own choices. space next to his pickup, then But he does watch out for us." stood to run from the tunnel Whitbyis a matter-of-fact created by the trailers on guy. Once he was safely out of either side. his truck, he called his parents All told, it took about 30 to ask for a ride home. He'd minutes to exlricate Whitby been in an accident, he said. from the crumbled truck.

He went to Saint Alphonsus Before his escape, trucker Medical Center as a precauSergi Karplyuk asked Whitby tion, one ofadozen people ifhe could take a picture with treated there for various injuhis cell phone. He thought ries from the chain of ice-reWhitby's survival was a latedaccidents.Herodein the miracle and wanted to share front seat of the ambulance. the moment with the world.

Alisa and Jeb Whitby drove Nobody would have betheir own pickup to get their lieved him otherwise. son, using back roads to get Days after the wreck, the past the highway closures. truck resembled a disfigured, The trip, which usually takes post-bat tleTransformer asit around three hours, took rested near a chain link fence almost double that. in a Baker Cityimpound lot.

On the way out of town, the The snow-kissed Elkhorn family stopped at the Baker Mountains gleamed in the City Subway. Whitby ran into

a law enforcement officer he recognized from the wreck scene and asked the man whether he could retrieve his personal items from the truck.

The officer looked at him in awe: You're the guy in the truck?

Back home, Alisa Whitby sat her son down at the kitchen counter and cut out theshapesoftw osemi-trucks and a pickup out of scratch paper. Now, tell me again what happened, she said to him.

Continued from Page1A Simplot officials made a "verbal commitment" in December to renew the contract for those acres for 2015, and Ward said he is scheduled to meet with Simplot on Feb. 11.

Ward said Heinzofficials told him the company, in his words, "is going in a different direction."

Specifically, Ward said he believes the company does not want to negotiate contracts with associations that representindividualfarmers, but instead would prefer to procureitspotatoesfrom a single, larger source.

Heinz officials could not be reached for comment in time forthisstory.

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"It's unreal how bad it is."

Every time she sees the picture now, she pauses. She reaches out to pinch her husband's freckled arm Yep,n she laughs,"he's still here."

At first, Whitby didn't understand what all the hubbub was about. Gradually, as he helped his father feed cows in between calls from the media, the scope of the wreck dawned on him.

Maybe the little things don't matter to him as much as they used to — such as his well-worn boots that are somewhere in the wreckage ofhis truck, along with the gym bag that carried workout clothes and reminders ofhis weightlifbng days. Maybe he won't sweat the small stuff quite so much.

"I make sure to say thank you more often," he said.

But he's not scarred by his near-death experience. He's not reliving it or paralyzed by it. He's not a different man, just one with a heck of a story.

About 24 hours after the accident, he did what he does every Sunday morning: Drove his family to church.

Whitby and his wife both teach Sunday school at the same church he attended as a child, seven miles from home.

He leads the teenage boys' class and started Sunday's class as he would any other, with a familiar question: "How was your week?"

The Burnt River School District at Unity showed just 40 percent of its students graduating based on the report.

Superintendent Lorrie Andrews said her school district, which reorganized as a distanceeducation charterschoolseveralyears ago also offersclassesto students outside the district. sWe have several of those who have droppedout ofschoolforvariousreasonsteen parents or expectant mothers," she said ''We work with them to finish up and obtain a high school diploma.

"It's agood experience forthose kidsto have the opportunity to finish their high schooleducation,"she said.

But that doesn't add up to a high percentageofgraduatesbased on a four-year cohort, she added. Just four of 10 students graduated last year. But the five-year cohort shows a 100 percent graduation rate, she pointed out.

The Pine-Eagle Charter School at Halfway awarded13 Oregon diplomas and one modified diploma to its 14-student cohort for a 100-percentcompletion rate.

Huntington also posted a 100-percent graduation rate with all three students in the cohort receiving Oregon diplomas.

The North Powder Charter School ended the year with a 90-percent graduation rate with 18 diplomas awarded toa cohortof20 students.

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Whitby slept like a baby that night, just like most nights. His wife did not.

At first, Camille intentionally avoided the now-famous picture ofher husband — the one showing a young man wedged into the crumpled remains of a pickup, two tractor trailers looming on each side.

"I knew it was bad," she said."Smashed between two semis, it's not going to be

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with 3 minutes remaining to take its only lead of the Baker's Cecylee Bruce has game, 22-21. spent most of the Greater Sand and Bruce then Oregon League girls basket- helped Baker regain the ball season splitting playing lead. time between the varsity Sand scored a traditional and junior varsity teams. three-point play, and Bruce With starter Michelle added a basket on a pass Freese out with a sprained from Sand as the Bulldogs finger at Mac-Hi Friday, took a 26-22 advantage with Bruce got more varsity acless than 2 minutes left. tion than usual.

Again, Mac-Hi battled And it paid offforthe back. The Pioneers tied the Bulldogs. game at 28-28 on a rebound Bruce scored four ofher basket with less than 10 five points in the fourth seconds left. quarter, including a pair of Then, after a Mac-Hi game-winning free throws timeout, Sand found Bruce with 2.3 seconds left to lift cutting for the basket. Bruce Baker to a 30-28 win. was fouled with 2.3 seconds "It was a barn burner," left. said Baker coach Jenny Although just 1-of-4 from Mowe-Joseph. the line before that, Bruce "It was gritty of the girls calmly hit both shots. to pull out the win."

Mac-Hi had one last try Even without Freese, who to win the game, but a desMowe-Joseph said is experation three-point try was off the mark. pected back Tuesday when Baker travels to Ontario, Sand led Baker with 14 the Bulldogs controlled the points, threesteals,two first half of Friday's game. rebounds and two blocked Brie Sand scored six shots. first-half points to help Kourtney Lehman added the Bulldogs build a 17-12 eight rebounds. halftimeedge.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — The final 125 seconds included a perfect possession by Tom Brady for the go-ahead points, a juggling catch that could have been the play of the year, and a victory-clinching, end-zone interception on a pass — not run — from the 1.

A Super Bowl that got off to a slow start wound up with a'Whoa!a finish, a lot like the New England Patriots' entire season.

Brady threw two of his four touchdown passes in the final quarter to erase a double-digit deficit, rookie Malcolm Butler picked off Russell Wilson's short throw while Marshawn Lynch watched, and the Patriots ended a decade drought without an NFL title by beating the defending champion Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in a taut classic Sunday night.

"Every team has a journey," said Brady, who was voted Super Bowl MVP for a record-tying third time, "and a lot of people lost faith in us early. But we held strong. We held together."

He was talking about the preceding months, not minutes. But either made sense.

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Yet Sunday night, when coach Bill Belichick was asked when he knew he had a special team, he pointed to halfbme of that poor performance against the Chiefs. awe weren't having a good day, but we kept fighting," Belichick said."To me, if there was ever a time that we were not going to compete as hard, that would have been it.... The fight and the competitiveness was there, and that gave me a lot of confidence going into the next week's game. That was a key point in our season."

And so perhaps these Patriots were prepared to weather the scrutiny that came with an NFL investigation into whether they deliberately deflated footballs in the AFC championship game two weeks ago. They compartmentalized that and focused on the Super Bowl.

Perhaps they were prepared to set aside Brady's two interceptions that helped dig a 24-14 hole in the fourth quarter. They moved into the lead after Brady connected with Danny Amendola from 4 yards out for one score with about 8 minutes left, then hit Julian Edelman from 3 yards for another TD with 2:02 remaining.

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Lynch gained 102 yards on 24 carries and scored an earlier TD, leaving many mystified as to why Seattle wouldn't have handed off to him in that vital situation.

Even some of the Seahawks were bewildered.

"I don't understand how you don't give it to the best back in the league," linebacker Bruce Irvin said.awe were on the half-yard-line and we throw a slant. I don't know what the offense had going on, what they saw."

With the retractable roof open on a cloudless evening, the Patriots i15-4l won the fourth Lombardi Trophy of the Brady-Belichick partnership, adding to those from the Super Bowls played in 2002, '04 and '05. They lost their last two trips to the big game, though, in 2008 and 2012, both times against the New York Giants.

This time, though, Brady and New England pulled it out — and in the process, prevented Seattle i14-5l from the ninth set ofback-to-back Super Bowl championships.

At age 37, Brady went 37 for 50 for 328 yards and

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And the receiver, Ricardo Lockette, who Bevell said, "could have done a better job staying strong on the ball."

Quarterback Russell Wilson wishes he had that pass back.

"I thought it was going to be a touchdown," Wilson said. "But I put the blame on me. I'm the one who threw it."

matched his childhood idol, Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana, for most Super Bowl MVP awards. Brady also broke Montana's Super Bowl record formost career touchdown passes, getting to 13.

On the drive that resulted in the winning points, Brady went 8 for 8 for 65 yards.

"He'ssocalm and collected,"Amendola said about his quarterback."He's the best.

He gets everybody to play at a higher level. He's our leader emotionally."

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Perhaps they were prepared for a shotgun pass by Wilson two plays later from the 1, rather than a run by the barrel-chested Lynch, who tied for the league lead in touchdown runs this season with 13.

Butler sure was ready, and his pick sealed the ultimate outcome, even if everyone had to wait while the officials cleared up a field-wide brawl. ''When they passed the ball, I was kind of surprised by it," Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork said."But at the same time, we made the

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Because they didn't go into Beast Mode, the Seattle Seahawks found themselves in Spin Mode.

They were left to explain why they turned Marshawn Lynch — the running back known as "The Beast" — into a decoy with the game on the line and chose instead to pass the ball on second-and-goal from the 1.

Malcolm Butler intercepted that pass with 20 seconds left to preserve New England's 28-24 Super Bowl victory.

Within moments, the second-guessing had begun on what will surely be one of the most debated calls in NFL history.

"I made the decision.

I said, 'Throw the ball,'" coach Pete Carroll said.

"Nobodyto blame but me."

But there was plenty of blame to go around.

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BRIEFING O'Neal places third at NWSCQualifier No. 2 BEND — Former Baker athlete Danny O'Neal placed third in the slalom Jan. 24-25 at the Northwest Collegiate Ski Conference race at Mount Bachelor.

O'Neal, who skis for Oregon State-Cascade, finished the two runs in 1:27.44.

Former Bakerite shines in college track DEFIANCE, Ohio — Former Baker City resident and Moses Lake High School graduate, Kayla Grigg, earned Dean's List recognition at Indiana Tech for fall term, with a 3.934 GPA taking 16 semester courses toward her double-major in Sports Management and Marketing.

Grigg, the daughter of Colleen iOttl and Mark Grigg of Moses Lake, earned academic and athletic scholarships for track & field and is the only Warrior in her recruiting class to compete in both running and field events for the defending NAIA National Champions.

On Jan.24,Grigg competed at the Defiance Open.

The invitational was the biggest meet in the history of the George M. Smart Center and consisted of 11 teams and 494 athletes.

Grigg competed in the high jump, shot put and long jump. Her best long jump mark earned her a personal best of 17 feet, 9.5 inches and first place in her third collegiate meet. She is currently ranked 13th in the national NAIA standings in the long jump.

The leap is a provisional "B" standard and only 2 1/2 inches shy of the "A" standard qualification, for the Indoor Track & Field national championships in March.

In recognition of her efforts, Grigg earned Field Athlete of the Week honors and is featured on the Warrior athletic website this week.

Trinity Bible College men on 4-game streak ELLENDALE, N.D.— The Trinity Bible College men's basketball team is on a four-game winning streak through Jan. 27.

Braden Phillips, a sophomore from Baker City, scored 14 points during the streak. He was 5-of-21 from the field, 4-of-6 from the free throw line, with 14 rebounds, threeassists,tw o blocked shots and a steal.

Abrego places 22nd at Bronco Invite BOISE — Ali Abrego, a Northwest Nazarene University sophomore from North Powder, placed 22nd in the women's high jump Jan. 24 at the Bronco Invitational track and field meet.

Abregocleared a height of4 feet,7.6 inches.

No. 7 OSU womenstorm past Trojans CORVALLIS iAPl — Even when the offense wasn't quite working, No. 7 Oregon State could rely on its defense.

"The old saying, defense wins games," guard Jamie Weisner said."Our offense was a little stagnant to begin with, but we just putting it on defensively and finally our offense clicked a little more and that's when we pulled away."

Weisner scored 21 points and Oregon State held USC to itslowest pointoutput ever in a 68-35 victory on Saturday.

Deven Hunter added 15 points and 10 rebounds for Oregon State i19-1, 9-0 Pac-12l which is off to the best start in school history with just one loss so far this season, on Dec. 28 at Tennessee. The Beavers have won 31 oftheir last34 games dating back to last season.

Kaneisha Horn had 10 points for the Trojans i11-9, 3-6l, who have lost four straight and five of its last seven.

The Trojans shot just 25 percent from the floor for the game i14-of-56l. They had a particularly hard start to the second half, going more than six minutes without hitting a shot from the floor.

Weisner was named the Pac-12 player of the week afterscoring 21 points in Oregon State's68-57 victory at No. 12 Arizona State last Sunday.

Lady Ducks nip UCLA at buzzer EUGENE iAPl — Jillian Alleyne scored the final 10 points, including a last-second layup to lift Oregon past UCLA, 67-65 to open the second half of the Pac-12 season Saturday.

The Ducks i9-11, 2-7 Pac-12l completed a season sweep of UCLA by holding the Bruins without a field goal after Corinna Costa's jumper gave them a 64-60 lead with 3:39 remaining, and UCLA's only point the rest of the way came on the first of two free throws by Costa.

Alleyne, who finished with season highs in points i30l and rebounds i25l, opened her closing run with a three-point play and tied it at 65-65 with another three-point play.

Jordin Canada missed a jumper with 1:39 left for UCLA and Kari Korver and Nirra Fields both missed 3-pointattempts. Fields gota stealwith:29 left,but turned the ball over and Oregon called time out.

Fields finished with 15 points for UCLA i8-12, 4-5l.

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Baker swimmers earned three individual first-place awards Saturday at the Baker Invitational at Sam-0 Swim Center.

Jared Miller won the boys 200 freest yle and 100 butterfly, and Charity Rushton won the girls500freestyle.

In the team standings, the Bulldogs placed seventh in the 7-team meet.

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Baker Invitational (Baker results) Team standings— La Grande 945,K ndleton 9055, Hood Rrver Valley 638, Redmond 3635, The Dales333, Hermiston 268, Baker230 Boys events 50 freestyle — 8 Mansuetti, 26 74 13 Barnes, 2748 100 freestyle— 8 Barnes, 1 01 15 9 Mansuetti, 1 01 19200 freestyle — 1 Miller, 1 50 90 100 butterfly — 1 Miller, 5707 Girls events 100 backstroke —6 Jones Bedolla, 1 16 24 11 Bennett, 1 3543 14 Jones Bedolla, 32 38 50 freestyle — 8 Lien, 2929 11 Cross, 3076 16 E Rushton, 3287 36 Callovvay, 4210 100 freestyle —4 Lien, 1 0503 11 Cross, 1 1003 18 E Rushton, 12121 200 freestyle —3 C Rushton,2 14 58 500 freestyle — 1 C Rush ton, 60687 200 freestyle relay — 3 Baker (Jones Bedolla, Lien, Cross, C Rushton), 2 01 36

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"Zarom Bruce played really well and Baker used a double-double from Zarom Bruce and a 10-0 run midway we got some great play from Brandon through the fourth quarter Friday Stairs," Richardson said.

"In fact that group really put some to defeatMac-Hi 56-46 in a Greater Oregon League boys basketball game at ignition into our defense. They brought Milton-Freewater. a lot of energy off the bench."

Bruce led the way with 21 points With Baker leading just 8-7, the and 10 rebounds as Baker improved its group entered the game. Bruce scored GOL record to 2-1.

10 first-quarter points, Sand four and Bruce, Bryson Smith and Brandon Smith two as Baker took a 20-15 lead Stairs came off the bench as a single at the break. unit to join Logan Scott and Logan Bruce, Smith and Stairs each scored Sand during several stretches in the four points in the second quarter as game.

Baker built its lead to 34-27 at halftime. cWe'd been working on that combinaThen Mac-Hi made its run. tion during practice and it was working The Pioneers cut Baker's lead to 46well," said Baker coach Joel Richardson. 44 with 5:13 left in the game.

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Djokovic beat Murray 7-6 i5l, 6-7 i4l, 6-3, 6-0 in Sunday's final, relegating the Scotsman to runner-up status for the fourth time in four tries in the Australian Open final. Murray had lost twice previously to Djokovic — in 2011 and 2013 — and to Roger Federer in 2010.

The No. 1-ranked Djokovic, meanwhile, is a perfect 5-for-5 in Australian Open finals.

Djokovic swung momentum in a close match with a service break in the eighth game of the third set, winning four straight points.

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"I liked the way we shared the ball," Richardson said.

"I thought our reinforcements played well. This time of year you need that."

Baker travels to Ontario Tuesday.

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Baker completed a busy week by placing second at the Homedale dual wrestling tournamentSaturday.

The Bulldogs finished the day 4-1. Baker defeated Payette 42-21, Union/Pine-Eagle 51-12, lost50-20toVale,beat Parma 36-30 and defeated Homedale 36-27.

Baker coach Brandon Young said the Parma and Homedale matches each came down to the last matches of the dual.

Both times freshman Sam Harper sealed the win for the Bulldogs.

"Against Parma we were tied 30-30, but Parma had a forfeit at 170, which put Baker up 36-30. Then against Homedale the score was Baker 30, Homedale 27 going into Sam Harper's match," Young said.

"He went after Houser of Homedale. He knew what he had to do and that it was all up to him at that point.

"Prior to the dual we talked to him that this situation could come up. He was prepared and took on the challenge for the team," Young said.

Jace Hays pinned Homedale's returning state champion Andy Montes. Hays had built a 7-1 lead and then caught Montes on his back for the fall.

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Logan Valentine defeated Taran Hardwick of Union by a 3-2 decision.

"Logan wrestled a very smart match," Young said.

The Bulldogs are now 9-6 on the season and 2-1 in the

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Damian Lillard and Wesley Matthews scored 19 pointsapiece for Portland.

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TEMPE, Ariz.— Oregon's '%e haven't been beaten triptothe deserthad been a like that in a really long Cook said. nightmare. A blowout loss to Young was 3 of 11 from the time,"Altman said.'%hen Arizonafollowed by an extra- field before his mid-range they hit the shot there ito long ride in a rickety bus. force OT), it would have been jumper gave him 14 points Then Joseph Young and really easy for the momenas the Ducks i15-7, 5-4) Elgin Cook turned the bounced back from a 90-56 tum to shift their way. I Ducks' fortunes, sending thought our guys did a real rout at No. 6 Arizonathem into the second half coach Dana Altman's worst good job fighting through." of the Pac-12 season with a loss in his five seasonsShaquielle McKissic winning conference record. two days earlier. scored a career-high 24 Young shook off a poor That was followed by a points, including an offlengthy trip to Tempe on an balance, 24-footerwith 1.2 shooting night to hit a jumper with 25.6 seconds left old bus that made Oregon seconds left in regulation to in overtime, Cook added 23 late for practice on Thursday. tie it for Arizona State. But McKissic lost the ball on the points and Oregon pulled out Buses were at a premium Associated Press

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Young answered with the game's final basket.

Young added seven assists, often giving Cook good looks. Cook was 8 of 12 from the field and hit all six free throws while adding six rebounds in 40 minutes.

"It's like two or three people crashing on Joe every time he draws the ball," Cook said."I'm just trying to find open areas."

McKissic bailed out Arizona State at the end of regulation with his tying shot from the left wing after a play broke down.

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Tra Holder added 16 pointsforArizona State i1111, 3-6), which saw starting center Eric Jacobsen ieight points) foul out at the end of regulation.

McKissic blocked Cook's shot in the lane with under a minute left in overtime and Oregon leading 66-65.

McKissic's driving layup on the ensuing possession put Arizona State ahead, but

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Picturing the good times I'vecome to realizethatthe adage"A picture is worth a thousand words" just doesn't always cut it. Lately, my home pictures have been worth much more.

They have come with a great deal of laughter, tranquility, self worth and motivation.

A few months ago we decided to cover a wall in our dining room with 4-by-6-inch photos of places we've been and fun things we've done as a family. The idea came from a friend who is really good about documenting her family's adventures. I often found myselflooking at her photos on her walls asking questions like, 'Where's this? How old are your kids in this one?

How far in did you have to hike to get there?" I finally realized I should do the same in my home.

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MY MUSINGS AARON HARRELL

Shown up on the slopes by a 6-year-old I'mpretty sure Isaid abad word.

My memory is a little foggy since I was caught in the midst of a maelstrom of fl ailing legs,skisand embarrassment. To be fair, I have said imore than) my share ofbad words. I was in the U.S. Navy for six years, so I have probably said your share ofbad words too. I am not boasting, just stating a fact. There have even been stints over that six-year period when I had a"swear jar" that collectedquartersevery time Isw ore.

The empty jam jars filled up faster than I care to admit. But I digress. I didn't startoffdelving into thecrassnature of my vocabulary. I started out talking about falling. And skis.

It was last year, at some point during skiseason ithat' saboutas accurateas you are going to get from me since my memory is failing faster than a liberal arts major in a calculus class).

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The winter sun has warmed some soil just enough to entice early-spring bulbs to poke through the ground.

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"It is a little early," said Janice Cowan, horticulture agent for the OSU Extension 0$ce in Baker City."Mine are trying to come through, too."

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I know that they no longer leave our valley in the winter, but on a day when the sun is out and the temperature has pushed up to 40 degrees by four o'clock in the afternoon, it just makes you feel like a moment taken out of previous springs.

You immediately want to go outside and check to see if the early daffodils are starting to push their noses through the cold soil. They were.

There was so much that it made me want to do, this miniature bout of spring with summer to follow.

It wasn't time.

There was still snow on the hill from Morgan Lake, edging down until close to where I used to live and I wondered if the fruit trees were noticing.

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Spring bulbs are already sprouting.

Along trip with a great surprise at the end This has been a long trip and I'm so happy that you are still with me. All of us will be relieved when we leave Canada and head for home.

Our last stop was at Fort Steele, so there is a lot of territory to coveron thislastleg ofour journey. We could have retraced our route back through Idaho, but our choice was to travel along the Canadian border until we found an interesting crossing into Washington.

Between Fort Steele and the crossingwas about 300 milesof scenic loops that cut into and out of each other. You could plan to make a loop or not depending on the amount of time you had to spend. We wanted to see certain areas so we chose some of the longerstretches ofroad.This

ing about lunch time. We cruised located in Canada's only true the fi iendly downtown area and desert area and on the WashingOUT SABOUT spotted several likely places we ton-Canadian border. As there GINNY MAMMEN would visit. The more we drove was nothing very exciting across around the more we realized that the borderwe decided to stayin was probably not our best choice, this was another of those tourist Canada one more night. although we saw some spectacu- towns that was not RV-friendly.

Information we had pointed to lar scenery.

How disappointing. So on we the popular Haynes Point ProvinWe climbed high mountains went until we could find a place cial Park on Osoyoos Lake just where it was preferableto drive to pull over and make a sandwich outside of town. We drove to the on the mountain side of the road in our Casita. park to take a look. By this time because of deep gorges — so We had not made reservations we were ready to stop. What we for our last night in Canada so deepthe bottom was notvisible. found was a quite narrow sand There were signs for caribou and were open to finding something spit reaching far out into the lake bighorn sheep crossings. We did that looked promising. The shaped something like a needle farther we went the more we see six or seven of the sheep, but with a large eye being the oneto our disappointment no caribou. realizedthat therewere two Since this is a popular tourist things that tourists really needed way road around which camping siteswere placed.Most ofthe driving area there were a numto be on the alert for — RV/ sites were on the lake edge with ber of small inviting towns — one campingareas and gas stations. just a few iwhich were taken) in in particular, Nelson — that Both seemed to elude us on the the middle of the eye. whole trip. had attracted our attention. So much so that we drove more than Evening was approaching as 100 miles to check itoutarrivwe entered the town of Osoyoos SeeLong TriplPage 2B

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the slopes. Anyone who has tried to go up a hill while fully Continued ~om Page 1B strapped onto a snowboard My wife had spent the first will likely back me up on this partoftheyearconvalescing one. after having minor leg surSo I took a lesson and after gery on New Year's Eve. The a few seasons, I can now get doctorhad prescribed atleast around OK on two planks a month of avoiding exercise instead of one. And my skis aren't attached. Lucky me! that would put strain on the incision, so several times it So I help Trinity over to the was just my daughter Trinity Wonder Carpet ialso known and I who headed up to ski to most of us as the magic at Anthony Lakes Mountain carpet), which is a moving walkway that hauls beginResort. My son wasn't old enough to really get into skiners up a small hill so they ing yet, but my daughter was can take short runs while in her second season. just learning the ropes. It is a I think the feeling ofbeing greatlittledevicethatworks on snow, with no firm connec- well. No, that's not right. It tion to terra firma, is unnerv- works well form ostpeople. ing to most people when they First of all, I like to think first try skiing or snowboard- that I have a certain amount ing, and it was no different for of coordination. I'm not clumTrinity. She was making good sy, in general. Most people progress, though, and we had hop on the magic carpet and installed an accessory on the are gently carried up the hill. tipsofher skisthatprevented Sometimes it takes people a her from crossing the tips inot time ortwo to gettheirsea a good result...ever) and also legs, but most take to it easily. from doing the splits ithis also Not me. Ten years and that rarely results in a happy end- conniving device still has my number.

Whether Iam on a ingl. While this little gadget comes in very handy going snowboard or skis, I have a hard time not sliding around down the hill, it is markedly or falling. It appears that I less so going back up the hill.

Enter dad. also have a hard time not A few years ago I switched saying bad words. But I keep from snowboarding to skiing. going back. That's what dads Myreasoning is that it would are supposed to do, right?

Through all of my flailing be easier to get around and help the kids when they were about, my daughter can scoot learning their way around right onto the magic carpet,

and in three years I don't think she has fallen more than a couple of times. She alsonavigates the process with grace that I wish I had.

Sure she has her moments, but she's 6. Six-year-old children rarely have the life experienceorvision tosee that momentary setbacks are rarely worth getting excited about. But adults do have the experience, and occasionally the vision. But still the swearing.

Just this last weekend we were skiing in Idaho. My son has improved quite a bit in the few times he has skied and now even wants to go off the jumps! I figure that it is a small jump and we never really go that fast, so why not? We started down the run with my son skiing between my skis and my hands lightly on his shoulders. As we approached the jump, I let go of him and slowed a little. The problem was that his ski then proceeded to bump into mine and he promptly did a face plant in the snow, landing well short of the jump.

Whoops.

He rolled over, a blank stare on his face, and then we both cracked up. And he didn't say a bad word.

I swear.

Aaron Harrell is a Baker City husband and dad.

DORY

days of my youth. I was being pushed too quickly, too far, to accomplish my desires.

Continued ~om Page 1B Would I be given the time, permission to Winter was the time to knit and crochet, accomplish? Where did I fit in in the scheme do hand-embroidery and mend seams or of things? darn holes in socks.Itw asa tim eto doindoor The sunhad moved away from our partof things like gather yard sale items and clean the town and out into the valley, and with it closets, organize and make progresssettlingthe birds. in.

No, there was another January robin in It was also a time to write and file, ready my front yard, lighting so easily on the fragile important papers for tax-filing time. A time for branch of a tree, looking around expectantly, contemplation. A time to organize the mind then flying away, maybe to its nest where it as well as the house and decide on unfinished could tuck its head under its wing for warmth. projects.

The day was growing colder without the I had told Brenda just the day before that sunshine. Had it, too, heard the momentarily I was already involved in projects — five of call of spring? Was winter still on board so them, thinking of specifics. It had included that I could catch up on some of my many four in writing — possible future columns projects? underway — and the other one with crochet It would be great, I decided, if I could clone hook and yarn in hand. What I had failed to myself. That would be a really great help to take into consideration was the fact that one have several of me in my house, each one dowas a book, two possibly growing into features ing a particular chosen job. rather than columns as my enthusiasm for Daphne, of course, wouldn't be of any great their history grew. help because she is the one who multiplies the When I made a new list athome, I found things I have to do. She's great on ideas but that forgotten were two unfinished novels of fiction and a house needing my care. And, now, slow on delivery.

I watched for the dependable arrival of my I have added my weekly column deadlines afternoon newspaper. Maybe it was time to and the spring housecleaning. The list now catch up on the news already researched and tentatively numbers a full dozen and I am written about rather than my own. beginning to wonder just how I am going to My projects, grown in number with promise finish them all on a time schedule, for they all of more, could wait a little longer. need to be done at the same time.

I'd hate to be without something of interest The yellow daffodils, planted by the former to do. owner, are coming up to bloom.

Itappearsthereisno dangerofthat.

The grass will turn green and demand waMy printer gave up and must be replaced. ter and mowing, and I wonder how far ahead I will be with the ink-and-pen projects, and the My slow dial-up computer is over 16 years old and... But, I'll keep writing, writing, writing. desire to spend more time outside.

It was only January. We should have had more snow and staying longer as in the olden Contact Dory by emailat fleshman&oni.com

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ever been there, decided that this was not the

Continued from Page 1B We learned that one needed to take care as the water around the sandbar was quite deep, there was a lot of poison ivy, and high wind warnings were common. Not only that, but the only exit to the mainland was chained and locked at 10 p.m. If this didn't discourage us, I don't know what would.

Fortunately we were able to find a spot in the Nk'Mip RV Park just outside the other side of town in the Nk'Mip Resort owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band. It is advertize as Canada's Snowbird destination.

This tells me that it must really get cold elsewhere in Canada because the resort's winter temperatures are similar to ours here in Eastern Oregon. Maybe just less snow since it is a desert area.

If wehad not been in thehomebound mood we might have explored the resort a bit more.

There were many activities to enjoy such as various water sports, golfing inearly all year long), riding stables, restaurants, and a cultural center. By the way, they even have their own vineyard and winery.

W e crossed the border atOsoyoos and headed down Route 97 through a rather unpopulated part of Washington, which suited us fine because we were no longer in thetouristmode. A stop forgasgave me a good laugh when I saw the hand soap in the restroom — alarge spray bottleof409.

About a third of the way down the state we hit Route 17 which took us into an even less settledarea.We passed theturnoffto Grand Coulee Dam and, although neither of us had

As lunch time drew near we started looking for a good pulling over spot, but nothing looked very promising. The terrain was mostly flat with some scrubby looking trees and plants and not very appealing. As we traveled down the road we noticed a Washington state park that had a rather nice looking building and parking lot but not much else. But it was a good place to stop. We had no idea what a treatwe were about to see.

As we walked toward the building we saw an area that had been cordoned off and wandered toward it. Then we saw the magnificent Dry Falls. Who knew that someplace so close had something like this?

The Falls, five times the width of Niagara Falls, are thought to be the largest to have ever existed. Some 20,000 years ago, when parts of North America were covered by glaciers, icesheetscaused dams in several areas, backing up the normal flow of water. As the Ice Age was ending, a catastrophic flood finally resulted in water being channeled through the Upper Grand Coulee at the rate of 65 miles per hour and over this gigantic 400 foot falls. It is thought that the flow of the falls was 10 times the current flow of all the rivers in the world combined. iWikipedial.

Where we stood that day was once under hundreds of feet of water. One must really see it to appreciate the immenseness and power of that flowing body of water. This is a must for a return trip someday next summer. With a picnic lunch, of course.

Explore! Be ready for the unexpected!

Come home with memories! Enjoy!

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It's the start of February and I'm still thinking about which painting projects I'll tackle as the light gets better and the weather warmer.

Just before Christmas, the Paint Quality Institute sent me a list oflast-minute gifts for the do-it-yourself painter.

Idon'twrite about products anymore, but I thought the list was worth passing along, even post-holidays: • A cutting-in tool. The most time-consuming part of apaintjob can becutting in corners and edges.

This can reduce the time required.

• A masking tool. Another way to speed painting around edges and corners is with an automatic masking-tape dispenser. Similar

to packing-tapedispensers, such tools allow the painter to quickly apply the tape and cutitto the desired length with a quick flick of the wrist.

What about an aluminum bench? When painting interior walls and ceilings, the pros use a sturdy bench, which is easier to work from,easier tom ove,and m akes for a m ore stable painting platform than a ladder.It'salso a handy place to sit down and take a break.

Then there's the shorthandled paintbrush. If you've ever done any painting, you know what a challenge it can be to use a brush orpaintrollerbehind toilets ,radiators and heavy furniture, or in tight areas, for that matter. That's why thisissuch agood ideathe mini-brush makes it

PICTURES Continued ~om Page 1B I went through photo files and printed our favorites. The best ones made it to the wall and the others are in a handful of cheap photo albums that I keep within a kid's easy reach. Our kids immediately took notice of the pictures and would comment whenever new ones made it on the wall. As my husband says, "Those pictures make life seem a little better when you deal with the daily grind oflife." It's true.

Life is meant to be enjoyed but the realityis that much ofit can be dull and repetitive. Being reminded of the good times can be a great way to have a positive outlook on life. It's also great motivation to continue to make the effort to have fun as a family.

There are many times that I'm in the other room and I hear my boys laughing.

Figuring they are up to no good I'm often pleasantly surprised to find them sitting on the floor flipping through the photo albums or looking at the rotating pictures on our screen saver. My four-year-old tells his little brother all about what's going on in the picture and they snicker before moving on to the next. It's those moments that I'm

easy to apply paint in those hard-to-reach spots.

• A paintbrush light.

Remember what I said about waiting for the light to improve? Cloudy days and dim lighting can make painting difficult. But a battery-powered source of illumination that attaches right to the brush handle?

That can counter the gloom,and brighten dark areas to make painting easier.

• A brush comb. This handy little item helps stretch the life of those expensive paintbrushes by removing paint residue from the bristles. Some models even double as squeegees that remove excess paint from rolle rcovers.

My go-to source about all things paint is the Paint Quality Institute's Web site, www.paintqualitycom.

reminded it's small and simple things that can bring happiness to a home. It can take a lot of effort to have fun, and with just a bit more effort that fun memory can last even longer.

I realized that such a simple thing as photos can help me accomplish some of the responsibilities I have as a parent. I want my kids to have a genuine image of their self worth. I want them to be reminded that they can do hard things. I want them to know what true happiness is and how blessed they are. I want them to know that the other people in those pictures will always be there for them. Letting them visually see it for themselves through photos will be one way to accomplish that.

Don't let those pictures stay in a file on your computer or think that putting them on Facebook is enough. Print them out and do something with them. Help your kids remember that life should be enjoyed and then be motivated to enjoy it with them.

Meg Hawks is a ~ Grande mom of two boys.

She enj oysspending time outdoor with her family and friends. She can becontacted at megtzawks@gmail.com

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PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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Baker City Wednesdays — 2:30 PM 25 cents per card Everyone invited!

BINGO: TU ES., 1 p. m., Senior Center 2810 Cedar St. Baker City

Exercise Class;

9:30AM (FREE) WANTED: BUILDING matenals, free or cheap.

Willing to salvage matenals. Needed to repair fire damage that occured tomy home 1/20/14

KIWANIS CLUB 541-523-9263 of Baker City Tuesday at 12:00 PM Sunndge Inn Restaurant, 110 - Self-Help Group Meetings 1 Sunndge Ln. For more information call AA MEETING LIST (541)523-6027 WALLOWA COUNTY

LAMINATION

ENTERPRISE 113 1/2 E Main St. PH: 541-398-1327 Sunday's 10am-noon.

Wednesday (women only) 11 a.m.— noon

Up to 17 1/2 inches wide any length $1.00 per foot iThe Observer i s not responsible for flaws in material or machi ne error) THE OBSERVER 1406 Fifth • 541-963-3161

WALLOWA 606 W Hwy 82 PH: 541-263-0208 Sunday 7:00p.m.-8:00 p.m.

AA MEETING: Survior Group.

Mon., Wed. btt Thurs.

12:05 pm-1:05 pm.

Presbytenan Church, 1995 4th St. (4th btt Court Sts.) Baker City. Open, No smoking.

CHECK YOUR AD ON THE FIRST DAY OF PUBLICATION We make every effort t o a v o i d err o r s .

However mistakes d o s l i p thr o u g h .

Check your ads the first day of publication btt please call us immediately if you find an error. Northeast Oregon Classifieds will cheerfully make your correc-

AA MEETINGS 2614 N. 3rd Street La Grande MON, I/I/ED, FRI NOON-1 PM TUESDA Y 7AM-8AM TUE, I/I/ED, THU 7PM-8PM SAT, SUN 10AM-11AM

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PREGNANCY SUPPORT GROUP Pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, post-partum.

541-786-9755 PUBLIC BINGO Community Connection,

2810 Cedar St., Baker.

Every Monday Doors open, 6:30 p.m.

Early bird game, 7 p.m. followed by reg. games.

All ages welcome!

541-523-6591

ACCEPTANCE GROUP of Overeaters Anonymous meets Tuesdays at 7pm.

110 - Self-Help Group Meetings AL-ANON MEETING

110 - Self-Help Group Meetings NORTHEAST OREGON

Are you troubled by someone else's dnnking? Al-anon can help.

ENTERPRISE Safe Harbors conference room 401 NE 1st St, Suite B PH: 541-426-4004 Monday 10am — 11am

CLASSIFIEDS of fers Powder River Group Estate Sale Self Help btt Support 107 N River, Enterpnse, Mon.; 7 PM -8 PM G roup An n o u n c e Sat. btt Sun. Feb. 7th btt Wed.; 7 PM -8 PM ments at n o c h arge.

Fn.; 7 PM -8 PM 8th, from 9 am-4pm.

For Baker City call: Grove St. Apts.

More stuff t han you J uli e — 541-523-3673 Corner of Grove btt D Sts. can imagine — antiques, For LaGrande call: Baker City, Open canvas, denim, materiE n ca — 541-963-31 61 Nonsmoking als, sewing machines, Wheel Chair Accessible tools, e lectrical and LA GRAND E Al-Anon . plumbing s u p p l i es, YO YO DIETING? Thursday night, FreeI ewelry , f u r n i t u r e , Unhappy about your dom G roup, 6-7pm. metal signs, baby furweight?

Faith Lutheran Church, n iture, and so m u c h Ca II 541-523-5128.

12th btt Gekeler, LG. more!

Tues.,noon 541-605-01 50 Welcom Inn 145 - Yard, Garage 175 Campbell St. NARACOTICS Sales-Union Co. ANONYMOUS 120 - Community

AL-ANON MEETING in Elgin.

Meeting times

1st btt 3rd Wednesday

Evenings ©6:00 pm Elgin Methodist Church 7th and Birch

AL-ANON Concerned about someone else's drinking?

Sat., 9 a.m.

Northeast OR Compassion Center, 1250 Hughes Ln. Baker City

(541)523-3431

AL-ANON Wed., 4 p.m.

Halfway Library Corner of Church St. btt Grove Ln., Halfway.

First Saturday of every month at 4 PM Pot Luck — Speaker Meeting

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS can help!

24 HOUR HOTLINE (541 ) 624-51 1 7

Rear Basement Entrance at 1501 0 Ave.

www oregonaadistnct29 com

NEED TO TALKto an AA member one on one? Call our 24 HOUR HOTLINE 541-624-5117

Serving Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties

You too can use this A tt e n t i o n G e t t e r .

Ask how you can Set your ad to stand out like this!

140 - Yard, Garage Sales-Baker Co.

TAICE US ON YOUR PHONE! LEAVE YOUR PAPER AT HOME

'Visa, Mastercard, and Discover are accepted.'

FULL editions of The Baker City Herald are now available online.

Yard Sales are $12.50 for 5 lines, and $1.00 for

1. Register your account before you leave 2 . Call to s t o p y o u r pnnt paper 3. Log in wherever you are at a nd enloy

105 - Announcements 110- Self Help Groups 120 - Community Calendar 130 - Auction Sales 140 - Yard, Garage Sales, Baker Co 143 - Wallowa Co 145- Union Co 150 - Bazaars, Fundraisers 160- Lost 8 Found 170 - Love Lines 180 - Personals

541-523-3673

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AA MEETING: Pine Eagle Sobriety Group Tues.; 7 p.m. — 8 p.m.

Must have a minimum of 10Yard Sale ad's to pnnt the map.

210- Help Wanted, Baker Co 220 - Union Co 230 - Out of Area 280 - Situations Wanted

300 - Financial/Service 310- Mortgages,Contracts, Loans 320 - Business Investments 330 - Business Opportunities 340 - Adult Care Baker Co 345 - Adult Care Union Co 350 - Day Care Baker Co 355 - Day Care Union Co 360 - Schools 8 Instruction 380 - Service Directory

400 - General Merchandise

Halfway, Oregon Open / NoSmoking Wheel Chair Accessible

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UNION COUNTY

Have your ad STAND OUT for as little as $1 extra

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LOCAL RETAIL agricultural company, looking for people to deliver to btt service local c u stomers. A class A CDL or able to acquire one within 30 days. Benefit package included. Interested a p p licants, please apply at Baker City Employment Office

When responding to Blind Box Ads:Please be sure when you address your resumes that the address is complete with all information required, including the

Blind Box Number. This is the only way we have of making sure your resume gets to the proper place.

BAKER SCHOOL DISTRICT 5J is currently DENTAL ASSISTANT

accepting applications Elgin Family Dental Clinic is l o o k i n g f o r a for an assistant track part-time/on-call dental coach at Baker High S chool. F o r a c o m - assistant. Competitive wages offered, great p lete d e s cription o f staff to work with, and t he p o s i t io n g o t o o pportunity t o g r o w www.baker.k12.or.us with our clinic. Please or contact the employsubmit r e s u m e t o ment division .

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Our office is creating a 220 - Help Wanted MISSING YOUR PET? Union Co. new position for a CerCheck the tified Dental Assistant Baker City Animal Clinic THE CITY of La Grande C.D.A. with EF DA and is accepting applica541-523-3611 radiology. This Iob will tions for the following offer 30 hours a week posltlon: on average with 401 IC PLEASE CHECK Utility Worker II

Blue Mountain Humane Association

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600 - Farmers Market 605 - Market Basket 610 - Boarding/Training 620 - Farm Equipment 8 Supplies 630 - Feeds 640 - Horse, Stock Trailers 650- Horses, Mules, Tack 660 - Livestock 670 - Poultry 675 - Rabbits, Small Animals 680 - Irrigation 690 - Pasture

700 - Rentals 701 - Wanted to Rent 705 - RoommateWanted 710- Rooms for Rent 720 - Apartment Rentals 730 - Furnished Apartments 740- Duplex Rentals Baker Co 745 - Duplex Rentals Union Co 750 - Houses for Rent 760 - Commercial Rentals 770 - Vacation Rentals 780 - Storage Units 790 - Property Management 795 -Mobile Home Spaces

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900 - Transportation 902 - Aviation 910 - ATVs,Motorcycles,Snowmobiles 915 - Boats 8 Motors 920 - Campers 925 - Motor Homes 930 - Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels 940 - Utility Trailers 950- Heavy Equipment 960 - Auto Parts 970 - Autos for Sale 990 - Four-Wheel Drive

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AL-ANON (For spouses w/spouses VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Do you wish the who have long term POST 3048 drinking would stop? terminaI illnesses) Meets 1st Monday of MONTHLY MEETING Every 2nd btt 4th every month at St. 2nd Thurs. of the month. Wednesday at 5:30 PM Lukes/EOMA©11:30 AM Post btt Auxiliary meet at Baker County Library 6:30 p.m. VFW Hall, Corner of Campbell 6i Resort $5.00 Catered Lunch Must RSVP for lunch 2005 Valley Ave., Baker Baker City 541-523-4242 541-523-4988 541-626-1067

405 - Antiques 410- Arts 8 Crafts 415 - Building Materials 420 - Christmas Trees 425 - Computers/Electronics 430- For Sale or Trade 435 - Fuel Supplies 440 - Household Items 445 - Lawns 8 Gardens 450 - Miscellaneous 460 - Musical Column 465 - Sporting Goods 470 - Tools 475 - Wanted to Buy 480 - FREEItems

Endorsement for 5,000 gal. water truck in the North D a k o t a O il Fields. Great Pay btt Negotiable Hours 541-403-0494

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Contact: 541-523-4242

A Chnst-centered 12 step program. A place where you can heal.

Baker City Nazarene Church, every Tues. at 6:15 PM. More info. call 541-523-9845

220 - Help Wanted Union Co. WANTED: CDLw/tanker IT IS UNLAWFUL (Sub-

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BAKER COUNTY Cancer Support Group oi visit Meets 3rd Thursday of www.ore onaadistnct29 every month at .com St. Lukes/EOMA © 7 PM

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210 - Help WantedBaker Co.

ALL YARD SALE ADS MUST BE PREPAID

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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS:

Monday, Thursday, btt families btt fnends of al- Fnday at8pm. Episcopal c oho l i c s .

U n i on Church 2177 First St., Baker City.

County. 568 — 4856 or 963-5772 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS AL-ANON. At t i tude o f HELP Gratitude. W e d n e sdays, 12:15 — 1:30pm. LINE-1-800-766-3724 Meetings: Faith Lutheran Church.

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Ultimately, your word is more valuable than Carpentry, Cedar St www.lcb.state.or.us to tune that the stars will unveil to you at vari- TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You've anything elseyou may haveto offer. c heck t h e lic e n s e ANTLER BUYER Elk, Chain Link Fences, ous points in your early development. In probably scheduled your day very carefully SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) - Putting status before contractNew Construction St FAMILY HOUSING deer, moose, buying many ways, this will be like catching light- ahead of time, yet you may have to juggle yourbestfoot forward involves more than ing with the business.

Handyman Services. all grades. Fair honest We offer clean, attractive ning in a bottle — difficult to do and, once certain duties as the unexpected arises. mere manners. How you look, what you say Persons doing l andKip Carter Construction two b edroom a partp rices. Call N ate a t scape maintenance do done, impossible to repeat! But you can do it GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Focus on and where you come from matter, too.

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CLETA I KATIE"S 541-910-9339 or 505 - Free to a goo CREATIONS 541-910-5964 home Odd's St End's This institute is an equal opportunity 1220 Court Ave. 435 Fuel Supplies provider.

Baker City, OR TDD 1-800-545-1833 Closed Sun. St Mon. Tues. — Fn.; 10am - 5pm FIREWOOD PRICES REDUCED Sat.; 10am — 3pm 34 Edmund ACROSS Free to good home $140 in the rounds 4" Hillary's title D 5. H Roofing 5. to 12" in DIA, $170 ads are FREE! 1 Big Dipper 36 Fall guys Answer to Previous Puzzle split. Red Fir St Hard(4 lines for 3 days) Construction, inc FURNISHED STUDIO bear 37 Doctrine wood $205 split. DeCCB¹192854. New roofs Utilites paid including 39Iivered in the valley.

D ON PO P E R E E L 5 Launder St reroofs. Shingles, internet/cable. $575/mo 550 Pets (541)786-0407 Wiedersehen metal. All phases of 9 Somber 541-388-8382 E K E AW R Y URSA construction. Pole evergreen 41 Mate's LODGEPOLE: Split St deW R E S T L E R B R E D buildings a specialty.

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18 Wet blankets volcano ask for Erica 541-403-1969 Reasonable rates, fast Rentals Union Co. 58 Want-ad abbr.

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630 - Feeds Rent based on income tractor is bonded St in19 Novelist WE HAVE MOVED! 1, 2 and 3-bedrooms sured. Venfy the con— Levin Our new location is 1ST, 2ND, St 3rd cutting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 OPEN SOON! tractor's CCB license 3370 17tI1 St 20 Hwys.

Alfalfa big bales. Imbler through the CCB ConSam Haines 0R 541-534-4835 23 Missouri hrs.

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15 16 17 27 Narrow inlet AVAILABLE AT OUTSTANDING amt. of orchard grass • Community Room 29 Battery size THE OBSERVER COMPUTER SERVICES $ 220/ton, 2n d c r o p • Playground Area 18 19 20 30 Go undercover $40 flat rate / any issue Alfalfa $220/ton. 1st • WiFi NEWSPAPER Specializing in: PC-Tune crop A lfa lfa g rass, 31 Language BUNDLES up, pop-ups, adware, some rain, $165/ton.

Northeast Oregon 21 22 Burning or packing? suffix spyware and virus Small bales, Baker City Housing Authority $1.00 each 33 Water source removal. Also, training, 541-51 9-0693 2608 May Lane 23 24 25 26 27 28 35 Took stock?

29 30 31 new computer setup and 541-963-5360 ext. 26 NEWSPRINT 38 Like the Tower data transfer, pnnter For more information SUPREME QUALITY ROLL ENDS Of PiSa install and Wifi issues. grass hay. No rain, barn 32 33 34 35 36 Art pro!ects St more!

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43 Polar explorer Dale Bogardus TOP QUALITY 25 ton 45 Hard roll 1406 Fifth Street 541-297-5831 CENTURY 21 grass hay for sale.

42 44 45 541-963-31 61 46 Cube Of CottOn PROPERTY Small bales. No rain, POE CARPENTRY MANAGEMENT 47 LOOSen undercover.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015

PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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Baker City HeraId: 541-523-3673e www.bakercityheraId.com • classifiedsObakercityheraId.com• Fax: 541-523-6426 The Observer: 541-963-3161e www.lagrandeobserver.com • classifiedsOlagrandeobserver.com • Fax: 541-963-3674 xg w 725 - Apartment Rentals Union Co. FAMILY HOUSING Pinehurst Apartments 1502 21st St. La Grande A ttractive one and tw o bedroom units. Rent based on income. Income restrictions ap-

ply. Now accepting applications. Call Lone at (541)963-9292.

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BEAUTY SALON/ Office space perfect for one or two operaMallard Heights ters 15x18, icludeds 870 N 15th Ave restroom a n d off street parking.

Elgin, OR 97827 $500 mo Ltt $250 dep Now accepting applica541-91 0-3696 tions f o r fed e r a l ly COMMERCIAL OR retail f unded ho using f o r space for lease in hist hos e t hat a re t oric Sommer H e l m sixty-two years of age Building, 1215 Washor older, and h andii ngton A v e ac r o s s capped or disabled of from post office. 1000 any age. 1 and 2 bedplus s.f. great location room units w it h r e nt $700 per month with 5 b ased o n i nco m e year lease option. All when available.

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Apartments 541-91 0-3696 A FFORDABLE S T U DENT HOUSING. 5 INDUSTRIAL P ROP800 N 15th Ave bd, 5 ba, plus shared Elgin, OR 97827 ERTY. 2 bay shop with kitchen, all u tillities office. 541-910-1442 paid, no smoking, no Now accepting applica$800/mo Ltt $700 PRIME COMMERCIAL tions f o r fed e r a l ly pets, dep. 541-910-3696 space for Rent. 1000 funded housing. 1, 2, sq. ft. plus 250 sq. ft. and 3 bedroom units Beautiful B r and New loft, office and bathwith rent based on in3bd, 2b a a l l a p p l i- room, w/s i n cluded, come when available. ances, fenced yard, paved parking, located garage, Ltt yard care. in Island City. MUST Proiect phone number: $1,100mo + dep.

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NEWER 4 BD, 2 ba, gas, 541-523-9050 A/C, energy efficient, dw, garage, no smok- .12 X 20 storage with roll ing/pets, $895/mo. up door, $70 mth, $60 541-963-9430 deposit 541-910-3696

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3-BDRM, 2 bath, Mfg. home. Carport, storage, fenced yard. $650/mo, plus deposit. NO smoking, NO pets. References.541-523-5563 SUNFIRE REAL Estate LLC. has Houses, Duplexes Ltt Apartments for rent. Call Cheryl Guzman fo r l i s t ings, 541-523-7727.

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FOUND: SHOTGUN on Hwy 86. To identify call 541-893-6574 LegaI No. 00039821 Published: January 30, February 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 2015

1001 - Baker County Legal Notices to F I D E L ITY NAT IONAL TITLE I NS CO, as Trustee, in favor of WELLS FARGO BANIC, N.A., as Beneficiary, dated 9/22/2008, recorded 10/1/2008, as Inst r u m e n t No. 08400374B, in the Official Records of Baker C ounty , Or ego n , which covers the following descnbed real p roperty s i t uated i n

Baker County, Oregon: LOT 4 AND LOT "C", IRON HORSE VILLAGE, ACCORDING TO THE O F FICIAL PLAT THEREOF, IN THE CITY OF SUMPT ER, COUNTY O F BAICER AND STATE OF OREGON. APN: 0953732D / 905 /16696 and 09S3732D / 920 / 1 6696 Comm only known as : 4 IRON HORSE LOOP SUMPTER, OREGON 97877 Th e c u r r e nt b eneficiary is : W e l l s Fa rgo Ba nk, N.A. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the above-described real property to satisfy the o b ligations secured by t he Deed of Trust and notice has been recorded pursuant t o ORS 86.752(3). The default for which the foreclos ure is m ad e i s t h e grantor's failure to pay when due, the following sums:

2007 NUWA HitchHiker Champagne 37CKRD TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE TS No . : $39,999 022091-OR Loan No.: Tnple axles, Bigfoot Iack " ' " ' 8066 Referleveling system, 2 new ence is made to t hat 6-volt battenes, 4 Slides, certain trust deed (the Rear Dining/ICitchen, "Deed of Trust") exelarge pantry, double cuted by P H I LIP J fndge/freezer. Mid living TAYLOR AND MARY room w/fireplace and M HENNESSY TAYsurround sound. Awning LOR, HUSBAND AND 16', water 100 gal, tanks WIFE AN D E L IZA- Delinquent Payments: 50/50/50, 2 new PowerBETH DALTON ENG- Date: house 2100 generators.

L ISH, A SING L E 09/01/1 3 thru 05/01/14 Blue Book Value 50IC!!

WOMAN, as Grantor, No.: 9 541-519-1488 Amount: $842.50 Total: $7,582.50

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1001 - Baker County Legal Notices would not then be due h ad no d e f ault o c curred), together with the costs, t r u stee's and attorneys' f e es, and curing any other default complained of i n the Notice of D e fault by tendering the performance required u nder th e D e e d o f Trust at any time not later than five days before the date last set for sale. Without limiting the trustee's disclaimer of representations o r w a r r a nties, Oregon law r e quires the trustee to state in this notice that some

residential p r o p erty sold at a trustee's sale may have been used in ma nu f a c t u r i n g methamphetamines, the chemical compon ents o f w h i c h a r e k nown t o b e t o x i c .

Prospective purchasers of residential property should be aware of this potential danger b efore d e c i ding t o p lace a bi d f o r t h i s property at th e t r ustee's sale. In construi ng t hi s

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masculine gender includes th e f e m i n ine a nd the n e uter, t h e singular includes plural, the word "grantor" includes any success or in interest to t h e

grantor as well as any other persons owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by the Deed o f Trust, th e w o r d s "trustee" and 'beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: 1/9/2015 CLEAR RECON CORP 621 SW Mornson Street, Suite 4 25 Por t l and, O R 97205 858-750-7600 Legal No. 00039668 Published: January 26, F ebruary 2 , 9 , 16 , 2015

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1010 - Union Co. Legal Notices gations secured by the trust deed and a notice of default has been rec orded p u rsuant t o Oregon Revised Statutes 86.752(3); the def ault fo r w h i c h t h e foreclosure is made is grantor's failure to pay when due the following sums: $18,859.48 with interest thereon at the rate of 10 percent per annum beginning 10/03/07;plus advances of $500.00; tog ether w it h t i t l e e x pense, costs, trustee's fees an d a t t o rney's fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection ofthe above descnbed real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if a p plicable.

By reason of said default th e b e neficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligat ion secured by t h e t rust d e e d i m m e d i ately due and payable, s aid sums being t h e f ollowing , t o w it : $18,859.48 with interest thereon at the rate of 10 percent per ann um b e g i n ni ng

1 0/03/07; p l u s a d vances of $500.00; tog ether w it h t i t l e e x pense, costs, trustee's fees an d a t t o r neys fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection ofthe above descnbed real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if a p plicable.

WH EREFORE, notice hereby is g i ven t h at the undersigned trustee will on A p ril 20, 2 015 at th e h our o f 10:00 o'clock, A.M. in accord with the standard of t i m e e s t ablishe d by O RS 187.110, at the following place: outside the main entrance of the Daniel Chaplin Building, 1001 4th Avenue Street, in the City of La Grande, County of Union, State of O r egon, sell at public auc-

1010 - Union Co. Legal Notices a nd trust d e ed , t o gether with t rustee's a nd attorney's f e e s n ot e x c e e ding t h e amounts provided by said ORS 86.778. Requests from persons named in ORS 86.778 f or rei n s t a t e m e n t quotes received less than six days prior to t he date set f o r t h e trustee's sale will be h onored only at t h e discretion of the beneficiary or if required by the terms of the loan d ocuments. I n c o n struing this notice, the

singular includes the plural, the word "grantor" includes any succ essor in i n terest t o the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which i s secured b y s a i d t rust deed, an d t h e words "trustee" and "beneficiary" i n c lude their respective successors in interest, if

a ny. T h e tr u s t e e ' s rules of auction may be ac c e s s e d at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference. You may also acc ess sale s t atus a t www.northwesttrust ee. c o m and www.USA-Foreclosure.com. For further i nformation, p l e a s e contact: Amy Rigsby N orthwest T r u s t e e Services, Inc. P.O. Box 997 B e II ev u e, WA 98009-0997

(425)586-1 900 ICoch, Charles S. and ICathlee n D. (T S¹ 9195.20001) 1002.276001-File No. Published: January 19, 26, 2015 and February 2, 9, 2015 LegaI No. 00039628

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE

On March 5, 2015 at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at t he U n i o n Co u n t y Date: NOTICE OF Foreclosure Sheriff's Office, 1109 07/02/1 4 thru 01/01/15 Sale ICAve, La Grande, OreNo.: 6 gon, the defendant's Amount: Miscellaneous houseinterest will b e s o ld, $1,092.78 hold furnishings, etc., sublect to redemption, Total: will be sold at A-1 Mini in the r ea l p r operty $6,556.68 S torage, 1 51 3 2 1 s t tion to the highest bidcommonly known as: Street on February 10, 3 012 Cove Ave, L a Late Charges: der for cash the inter2015 at 10:00 am. est in t h e d e s cribed Grande, Or 97850.The $42.13 court case number is r eal property w h i c h ¹24. The owner or re13-05-48425 w h e re Beneficiary Advances: the grantor had or had p uted ow ner o f t h e Nationstar Mortgage, $0.00 p ower t o c o nvey a t property to be sold is L LC is p l aintiff, a n d the time of the execuCharles Perkinson Sr. Foreclosure Fees and Carolina Len P orter; tion by grantor of the T he amount due o n Clinton G. Porter; UnExpenses: trust deed, t o gether the lien is $735.66 and ion Lumber Company, $735.00 w it h a ny i nt e r e s t A -1 M in i S t o rage i s I nc., d b a Br o n s o n which the grantor or foreclosing the lien.

L umber co m p a n y ; Total Required to grantor's successors Wilspier rentals, LLC, Reinstate: in interest acquired af¹236. The owner or reOther Persons or Part er the e x ecution of $16,903.41 p uted ow ner o f t h e ties including O c c uTOTAL REQUIRED TO the trust deed, to satproperty to be sold is pants , U n k no w n PA YOFF: isfy the foregoing obliE manuel Siten. T h e Claiming any Right, Ti$108,197.71 g ations t h ereby s e a mount du e o n t h e tle, Lien, Or interest in cured and the c o sts lien is ¹448.00 and A-1 t he P r o p e rt y DeBy reason of the default, and expenses of sale, Mini Storage is f o res cribed in t h e C o m the beneficiary has deincluding a reasonable closing the lien. plaint Herein is defenclared all obligations charge by the trustee. d ant. T h e s ale i s a secured by the Deed ¹342. The owner or reNotice is further given p ublic auction to t h e of Trust i m m ediately that for reinstatement p uted ow ner o f t h e highest bidder for cash Answer to Previous Puzzle due and payable, inor payoff quotes reproperty to be sold is or cashier's check, in cluding: the p rincipal Perry C h r i s t e nsen. quested pursuant t o hand, made out to UnUR S A WA S H Y EW sum of $94,086.09 toORS 8 6 . 7 8 6 and T he amount due o n ion County S heriff's 86.789 must be timely gether w it h i n t e rest the lien is $688.00 and F I NE A L O E UMA Office. For more inforthereon at the rate of c ommunicated i n a A -1 M in i S t o rage i s mation on this sale go 6 .5 % p e r a n n u m , foreclosing the lien. w ritten r e quest t h a t OB I S L E A R RUG f rom 8/ 1/2013 u n t il c omplies w i t h t h a t to: S PO I L S P O RT S statute addressed to www.ore onshenffs.co paid, plus all accrued ¹454. The owner or relate charges, and all the trustee's "Urgent m sales.htm PR O S IT p uted ow ner o f t h e trustee's fees, forecloRequest Desk" either property to be sold is C UD A P R C EA S E sure costs, and any by personal delivery to Published: February 2, ICyle R. Shute. The sums advanced by the the trustee's physical 9, 16, 5 23, 2015 SK E W S I R S A P S a mount du e o n t h e beneficiary pursuant to o ffices (call fo r a d lien is $438.00 and A-1 the terms and condidress) or by first class, T EN E T A U F A Y E Lega I ¹39817 Mini Storage is f o retions of the Deed of certified mail, r eturn closing the lien.

L I P S UB Trust Whereof, notice receipt requested, adhereby is g i ven t h at dressed to th e t r u sB U L L E T T RA I N the undersigned trus- ¹487. T h e owner or re- tee's post office box p uted ow ner o f t h e W AN T A I L G NA T tee, CLEAR RECON a ddress set f o rt h i n property to be sold is C ORP., w hose a d this notice. Due to poO L D E R N E E T NA Shane H. Duncan. The dress is 621 SW Mornt ential conflicts w i t h a mount du e o n t h e E EO D Y E D L OOM son Street, Suite 425, federal law, persons lien is $448.00 and A-1 Portland, OR 97205, having no record legal 2-3-15 Mini Storage is f o re© 2015 UFS, Dist. by Univ. Ucuck for UFS will on 5/21/2015, at or equitable interest in closing the lien. the hour of 10:00 AM, the sublect property standard time, as eswill only receive inforJanuary 2 6 5 Grimace 10 Maitablished b y ORS P ublished mation concerning the a nd Februa ry 2, 2015.

6 Authorizes (rum drink) 187.110, A T TH E lender's estimated or FRONT ENTRANCE Legal ¹ 39733 actual bid. Lender bid 7 Collections 11 Each and TO T H E BA I CER i nformation i s als o 8 Shorthand every COUNTY C O U RT- TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF available at the t rusexpert 17 Heating pipes H OUSE, 1995 3 R D SALE t ee' s w e b sit e , Fi l e No .

9 Give it the gas 19 Part of BYOB S T., B A ICE R, O R 9195.20001 Reference www.northwesttrus97814, sell at p u blic tee.com. Notice is fur23 Act up is made to that certain auction to the highest t her given t ha t a n y 24 Swelter trust deed made by 8 9 10 11 bidder for cash the inperson named in ORS Charles S. ICoch and 25 Black stone terest in the above-de86.778 has the right, ICathleen D. ICoch, hus26 Lobster pot 14 scribed real property a t any t im e p r io r t o b and an d w i f e , a s 27 Springs which the grantor had g rantor, t o D . R a h n five days before the or had power to cond ate last set fo r t h e 28 Masseuse H ostetter, P . C. , a n vey at the time it exesale, to have this foreOregon professional employer c uted th e D e e d o f closure p r o c e eding c orporation, as t r u s 29 Photo T rust, t o gether w i t h dismissed a n d t he t ee, in fav or of 30 Luge surface any interest which the trust deed reinstated Henderson Fuel Com33 Broncos great b y payment t o th e grantor or his succespany, an Oregon cor23 24 25 s ors i n i n t e rest a c beneficiary of the enJohnporation, as beneficitire amount then due quired after the execu37 Summer ary, dated 10/03/07, t ion of t h e D e e d o f 31 (other than such porrecorded 10/17/07, in Games org.

T rust, t o s a t isfy t h e tion of the principal as the mortgage records 39 Cornered foregoing obligations would not then be due of Union County, Ore34 thereby secured and h ad no d e f ault o c (2 wds.) gon, a s 2 0 0 7 5869, t he c o st s a n d e x curred) and by curing covenng the following 40 Scrumptious any other default com37 penses of sale, includdescnbed real property 42 Weapon for i ng a reas o n a b l e situated in said county plained of herein that fencing charge by the trustee. i s capable o f b e i n g and state, to wit: Lots Notice is further given 43 Break cured by tendenng the 5 and 6, in Block 20 of that any person named performance required suddenly Hindman's Addition to in ORS 86.778 has the under the obligation or 44 45 Elgin, Union County, 44 Even once nght to have the foretrust deed, and in addiOregon, according to 45 Monsieur's closure p r o c e e ding the recorded plat of t ion t o p a y i n g s a i d 50 pate dismissed a n d t he sums or tendenng the said addition. PROP46 Awful D eed of T r us t r e i nperformance necesERTY ADDRESS: Land stated by payment to s ary to cure the d e 53 47 Fiesta shout Elgin, OR 97827 Both the beneficiary of the f ault, b y p a y ing a l l the beneficiary and the 48 Pricey car logo e ntire a m o un t t h e n costs and expenses trustee have elected 56 49 — about time! d ue (other t han t h e actually incurred in ento sell the real propforcing the obligation portion of pnncipal that erty to satisfy the obli-

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DEARABBY: I have a problem with blushing. Whenever I'm the center of attention, even ifit's withjust one other person, my face goes bright red. This even happens when I'm not feeling embarrassed.

I've learned to cope with the feeling of my face flushing What I'm having trouble with is people's comments about why my face is so red. I've never been able to come up with a good response. Telling them I'm not really embarrassed is ~ i met with skepticism. Please F'"

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— RED-FACED IN MEMPHIS DEAR RED-FACED: My advice is to be upfront and tell the questioner that you don't know why it happens, but you're not embarrassed. As you already know, blushing can happenifsomeone suffersfrom a social phobia. In cases like that, counseling and support groups can help. However, because you find ithappening even when you are notpressured orembarrassed, discuss it with your physician to be sure there isn't an underlying physical problem.

DEARABBY: I've been dating my 42-yearold boyfriend, "Mike," for ayear. I love him, but he's a heavydrinker.H ehasa glassortwoof whiskey on a daily basis and goes through a huge bottle of whiskey every weekend. (He also drinks beer like water) When I asked him to cut back, he refused because he "loves"whiskey.

Ihaveneverseen him drunk oractintoxicated,soheobviously hasa high tolerance.

It bothers me that Mike drinks so much and that he won't cut back. I told himI wouldn't marry him unless he does. My problem is, I don't know whether he'san aIcoholicsince he doesn't ever show signs ofintoxication.

I've been told that aIcoholism is a progressive disease and that it will only increase.

What constitutes an alcoholic? Is it possible for Mike to drink every day but not be one? I don't want to lose him, but he also has a very bad temper, and I'm afraid it's not a good combination i f we were to get marrT'ed.

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Also, has it occurred to you that the whiskey may be part of what is causing Mike's bad temper? Large quantities of alcohol have been known to alter a person's perception, and the results can be explosive. If you haven't already done so, consider attending an AL-Anon meeting, which may confirm this.

I'm not a medical doctor, but it would be interesting to know what your boyfriend's

ABBY

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By Tiffany Hsu Los Angeles Times

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.

— Each year, the American Association of Drilling Engineers hosts a meeting here affectionately called the Liar's Club.

A cocktail-fueled crowd hears oil companies'well-drilling and production forecasts — estimates often so grandiose everyone understands they are exaggerations.

Pledges to drill thousands of wells are common.

But at this month's meeting, no one felt like telling tall tales. Fewer than 10 wells were promised, all by small, independent companies.

Giant firms — Chevron, Occidental — promised nothing, said Dave Rippy, general manager of Bakersfield Drilling Consultants, who has attendedfortwodecades.

"I've never seen anything like it," he said."It was very somber, very eerie."

Plunging oil prices worldwide are landing hard in Bakersfield, choking off the boom of recent years in one of America's great oil towns.

Since June, oil companies have let go more than 21,000 peoplenationwide, according to career counseling firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. In December, Canadian oil field services firm Ensign Energy Services notified California authorities that it planned to lay off as many as 700 workers in the state.

Drilling projects are being delayed or canceled. Only 14 drilling rigs are active on land in California, down from

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amount of alcohol he consumes, because the quantity you say Mike puts away may put him at risk for cirrhosis of the liver.

This may be more information than you asked for, but I don't think Mike is m arriage materialbecause itappears heis alreadywedded tohisbottle.

DEARABBY: Iam a 20-year oldwoman who works in an office with people who are in their 80s and older. I'm nice to everyone and treat them equally. Many of my coworkers have children who are about my age.Itake myjob seriously and carry myself with respect.

Lately, one of my male co-workers seems to be getting a little "too nice"with me.

He brings me treats in the mornings and sometimes pays for my lunch. Sometimes he gives me these uncomfortable back-pats and sometimes even on my lower back. He is married with two kids.

I havebeen turning down thebreakfast and lunch ojjers, but he still seems to want to bearound me.I'm notsurehow to make these things stop. I don't want to get any supervisors involved because I don't want to jeopardize anyone'sjob.Pleasehelp me .

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DEAR TOO CLOSE: The next time this man puts his hands on you, tell him to stop because it makes you uncomfortable. Say it in a firm, clearly audible tone that can be overheard by anyone close by. Then docu— TORNINNORTH CAROLINA ment the incident with date and time. This DEAR TORN: You are right to be conshould stop him. However, if he continues, cerned. Even if Mike promised "not to drink you must immediately discuss the problem so much," he might backslide on his promise with a supervisor.

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48 in June, according to oil field services company Baker Hughes in Houston. So far this year, the California Department of Conservationhas received 147 notices from oil and gas companies intending to engage in new drilling, down from 225 during the same period in 2014.

LastTuesday,supervisors in Kern County — Bakersfield is the county seatdeclared a fiscal emergency, citing lower property tax revenuefrom oilproperties.

The government could face a $61 million hole in its budget when the fiscal year begins July 1, according to projections from the county's assessor-recorder office. The decline in revenue for county services, fi reprotection and schoolsisexpected to be "the largest we've seen in a long time,"assistant assessorLee Smith said."It's going to impactallthedepartments."

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third-largest oil producer behind Texas and North Dakota,according to thefederal government. The majority of the supply comes from Kern, home to the five most productive petroleum fields in the state.

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That includes employees and soleproprietorsin such areas as drilling, refining, pipeline construction and machinery manufacturing.

Some 12,000 people are on oil and gas extraction and well-drilling payrolls in Bakersfield. Combined with related positions in refineries, pipeline transportation and more, nearly 7 percent of all jobs in the region are linked to petroleum — the highest percentage among large U.S. metropolitanareas.

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