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May 30, 2014
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SALEM — Improving employment will lead to a slight uptick in Oregon state revenue, inching closer to the threshold that would trigger "kicker" tax rebates for individuals, state economistssaidWednesday. The rebates would kick in if actual revenue over the two-year budget cycles exceeds the original projections by at least 2 percent. If it happens, the additional revenue — which would total at least $290 million — would be returned to taxpayers.
• City manager says all city staA' are evaluated By Pat Caldwell pcaldt/t/ell©bakercltyherald.com
Sports, SA SAN ANTONIO —Tim Duncan had 22 points and 12 rebounds, Manu Ginobili scored 19 points and San Antonio rolled to a 117-89 victory over Oklahoma City in Game 5Thursdaynight, taking a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.
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Road over Hells Canyon Dam closed 3une 2-5 and 3une 9-12 The road over Hells Canyon Dam will be closed to all traffic from 8:30 a.m. to11 a.m. and from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PDT June 2,3,4 and 5, and again on June 9,10,11 and12. A traffic flagger will be on the Idaho side of the dam, and a message board will be in place across the Oxbow bridge. The closure is necessary because heavy equipment will be working on the dam, removing the barriers that keep water from the spill gates while maintenance work was being done earlier this year.
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A crew of volunteers prepare the former community garden, at the north side of the rodeo arena, for cultivation and planting. Teresa Schwab, right, organizer for the Baker City Community Garden, soaked the base of metal fence posts Tuesday to help with their removal. LaurieWittich, left, with Mountain Valley Mental Health, works with Michael Fedderly to pull posts. By Chris Collins ccolllns©bakercltyherald.com
A self -described"do-gooder"who is passionate about helping others has thrownherenergyinto developing a community garden. Teresa Schwab, 50, moved to Baker City 10 months ago to join her aunt, Susan Fleming, who works at Ace Nursery. On Tuesday, Schwab led the first of many work parties planned to prepare, cultivate and nurturethe garden site, which sits just north of the rodeo arena on Baker County Fairgrounds property. Small-scale
gardens have been planted at the site in the past. Schwab says her goal in developing the garden is to help people — who wouldn't otherwise be able to — grow their own food. And as she looks toward the future, Schwab hopes to build a second community garden in another area of town and a third after that to allow residents to walk to the one nearest their neighborhood. Schwab said she attended the Fair Board's meeting last month in the hope oflaunching the project. "I told them my vision and was
given their blessing," she said. That vision includes the creation of 10 gardenplotsmeasuring 15feetby 50 feet — enough space to plantcrops to feeda fam il y offourorto beshared by multiple people, she says. The plots will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis after an application is completed. For this year, gardeners will share the costofwaterto grow theircrops.A slidingfeebased on each person'sability to pay, to a maximum of $25 for the season, will be charged, Schwab said. See Garden/Bge 7A
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Baker City Police arrested two peopleon charges ofdriving under the influence of intoxicants — one drug-related and the other impaired by alcohol — over the Memorial
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Correction:A story on Page 2B of the May 21 edition listed the wrong phone number for Janet Standeford at Experience Works, a nonprofit organization that helps senior citizens find work. To apply or to receive more information, call 541850-4573.
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An older section of a NewTribes Mission building, right by power pole, has been incorporated into the new Bureau of Land Management structure on H Street in Baker City.
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trom the U.S. General Services Administration (GSAl, a federal agency that helps secure oSce space for other agencies, including the BLM. "The focus was to develop oSce space for the BLM," Thompson said. The GSA has signed a 10year lease for $2.1 million forabout 7,000 square feet of ofltce space, said Stephanie Kenitzer, public affairs manager for the agency's Northwest/Arctic Region.
The high-visibility traSc campaign was paid for by a grant that funds overtime for ofltcers during certain holidaysand specialevents. 'The goal of the campaign is to deter drivers trom getting behind the wheel after they have been drinking," 0$cer Shannon Regan, who is coordinating the campaign, statedin a pressrelease. "0$cers look for traSc violations, distracted drivers and indicators forpotentially impaired drivers on the roadway." Regan said the drunken driver arrested had a bloodalcohol content of more than twice the legal limit of.08. Baker City Police also: • Issued two citations to minors allegedly possessing alcohol.
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One of the key issues tied to therecent proposalto hand out cost-of-living wage increases to 17 nonunion Baker City workers centered on the perception that annual employee evaluations were not performed, prompting at least one city councilor to voice opposition tothe concept last week during the city budget committee sessions. Councilor ~ r™ Dennis Dorrah said during the budget meetings that he could not supD orr a h port the wage increases unless they were tied to annual performance assessments. "Iguess my biggest problemisnottheraise as much as the fact there are no evaluations being done," Dorrah said. Dorrah said that his perceptionwas that raiseswere "just automatic."
About 30 local employees trom the BLM are slated to move into their new oSce in Baker City this September. The workers had been sharing oSce space for the past nine years with their counterparts from another federal agency, the Forest Service, in a compound of modular buildings at 3285 11th St. When Forest Service oScialsdecided lastyearto move out of the modulars,
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and to build a new oSce nearby, the BLM stafFhad to nd fi new accommodations, said Carolyn Chad, associate districtmanager for the BLM's Vale District. The BLM employees from Baker City work mainly on the Baker Resource Area, which is part of the Vale District. The new BLM ofltce is close— just acrossH Street to the north on the former site of the New Tribes Mission. The property, which includes several buildings,
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was originally the headquarters for a U.S. Air Force radar base. Don Thompson of North Bend said he and his brother, Dan, who are partnersin a development company and construction firm, bought the Baker City propertylate lastyear. The sales price was
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0$ce. Don Thompson said he and his brother bought the former New Tribes site afterreading a prospectus
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