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June 23, 2014
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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Charles Carey of Baker City.
Sports, 6A MANAUS, BrazilThey were less than 30 seconds away. The Americans were about to romp into the round of16 at theWorld Cup, about to walk off with their first comefrom-behind win at soccer's showcase. About to advancewith a game to spare. About to win consecutive World Cup games for the first time since 1930. But they wilted in theAmazon heat and humidity. Varela's goal on a diving header off Cristiano Ronaldo's cross 41/2 minutes into five minutes of stoppage time gave Portugal a 2-2 tie Sunday on an exhausting night in the rainforest capital.
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The new structures for Rock Garden Greenhouse on Cedar Street find Mark Servid in the midst of a flower sale with Sandi McGinn.
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$1,000 donations The Baker City Bandstand Project has received a pair of $1,000 donations from local families. James D. "Jim" Van Cleave and his wife, Ines, chose to commemorate Jim's World War II military service, and their 68-year marriage, with their donation. The Van Cleave family homesteaded in Hereford in 1906. Dick Hindman honored his late wife Joyce's love of learning, and his own love of bands, with his donation. A drum major in high school, Hindman was director of the Baker Elks Drum and Bugle Corps for manyyears. The Hindman family has been in Baker Valley since 1863. "We really appreciate this kind of support," Dave Hunsaker, chairman of the Baker City Bandstand Committee, said in a press release. "We're making good progress toward our goal of building a facility that will be an asset to the entire community and Baker County." The bandstand will be built at Geiser-Pollman Park. For more information about the Bandstand project, go to www. bakercitybandstand.org or phone Hunsaker at 541-523-9980.
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An interest in plants and a desiretostay home to raise her three daughters inspired Dona Servid to establish a greenhouse at her home onHunt Mountain Lane. That was 25 years ago — she can track the date because she was Servid p r e gnant with her youngest daughter, Sarah, at the time. Otherwise one year flows into the next as the 58-year-old continues to work at home even after raising those three girls to adulthood. Amy is 29; Alexa is 26 and is planning afallwedding;and Sarah is 25. From November to June, Dona tends the flowers and plants that are the foundation of Rock Garden Greenhouse at the base of
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The Rock Garden Greenhouse complex will one day offer food service from the building left of the greenhouses. the Elkhorn Mountains. And while she is nurturing the plants, arranging baskets and deadheading wilted blossoms, her husband, Mark, and her sister, Eileen Gyllenberg, stafF the new greenhouses on Cedar Street daily. Eileen works most of the day Monday through Thursday and Mark takes over after finishing his day job as a dental hygienist at Baker Dental Group. He also spends all day at the site on most Fridays, Satur-
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days and Sundays. Dona recalls how the business got its start with a tiny 12-by-4-foot greenhouse that sat at the end of the trailer house they lived in beforetheirpresent home was built. "I've grown bigger than I thought I would," Donna said ofher family's Rock Garden Greenhouse while taking an afternoon break to be interviewed. The beauty of the Elkhorn Mountains out the frontdoor oftheServids'
home and the Wallowa Mountains to the northeastare hard for avisitor to miss, not to mention the colorful pansies, petunias and geraniums growing in the nearby greenhouses. But as her busy season is winding down, Dona admits that she is less than enthusiastic about the work at this time of year when she misses the view while her mind is focused on her work. See Growing/Page 8A
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At her home along the foothills of Hunt Mountain, northwest of Baker City, Dona Servid grooms the flowers that will be sold in town at the family's Rock Garden Greenhouse.
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Fire durns 241acres BLM officials are searching for the source of a human-caused fire that burned 247 acres of rangeland near Durkee on Saturday evening. The fire started on private land near Plano Road on the northeast side of Gold Hill, said Cassandra Sleckenstein, lead dispatcher at the BLM's Vale District fire office. See Fire/Page 8A
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With just a week left in the fiscal year, Baker City Manager Mike Kee said he beheves the city's ship of state appears to be moving forward into Kee the future on a steady, balanced course. Kee said Friday his theme issimple:steady asshe goes. Kee's confidence is based on acouple offactors. For one, the often stressful budget committee sessions in May are over and the budget approved by that board will most likely be ratified Tuesday night by the City Council when it meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First St. The budget, Kee said, is one of the brightspotsofthe past year. See City/Page 8A
Looking for a phone booth? To buy, not use. Baker City is selling about 125 items, including a phone boothas wellassome of the playground equipment removed this spring from Geiser-Pollman Park, on ebay. The city's online auction started Saturday evening, and bidding will continue until 10:10 p.m. on July 1, city spokesman Tom Fisk said. Besides the playground equipment, which includes swings and the four-seat bouncy toy but not the merrygo-round, you can bid on the four-way flashing traffic light that used to hang at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Resort Street. SeeAuction IPage2A
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