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July 29, 2015
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A special good day to Herald subscriber Lee Hackwith of Baker City.
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Year's final Hunter Education class The last Hunter Education class scheduled for Baker City for 2015 will begin Aug. 17 at 6 p.m. at the Powder River Sportsman Club at Broadway and Eighth. Pre-registration can be done at ODFW point of sale locations or online at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife websitewww.dfw.state.or.us. Full class schedule and additional information is available on this website also as well as at point of sale locations. Course fee is $10, payable at signup. Class size is limited. If you are 18 and plan to hunt this year, you will need to complete this course. There will also be a field day for online and home studystudents on Aug. 29. More information is available by calling BillTaylor at 541403-0900.
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Tuesday, Aug. 4 Baker City's annual Community Night Out event is set for Tuesday, Aug. 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at GeiserPollman Park. Donations will be accepted. The event includes a dinner menu of hamburgers, chips, fruit, pop and water. Raffle tickets will be available for $1 each or 10 for $5, or a double arm spread for $20. Singer Frank Carlson will perform. There will be retail sales booths, information booths, snowcones at the Sheriff's Office wagon, and a scholastic book fair at the library to benefit the Baker County Community Literacy Coalition.
Ice cream social planned Aug. 11 The Baker United Methodist Church will host its annual Ice Cream Social event on August 11. There will be home-baked pie, and hand-turned ice cream starting at 6 p.m. on the Methodist Church lawn.
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Brenda Payton says the kindergarten staff is looking forward to extra hours in the school day ir ~ this year. ' lo "We've been working w laam m a W tai toward getting all-day kindergarten for years. ~ r . We are thrilled," said e' Payton, head teacher of kindergarten at Brooklyn - i' Primary. Across Oregon, school districtsare gearing up for the switch to all-day kindergarten. In the Baker School District, Haines and Keating already had full-day s~. kindergarten. At Brooklyn, the switch meant hiring three more teachers,two addition paraprofessionals and putting in another modular building. —g ': fN' Two of the new teachers have experience teaching all-day kindergarten. To accommodate the additional building, the playground equipment was rearranged and blacktopextended for more play area. Each modular contains two classrooms. Last year, the six kindergarten classeswere split— three in the morning and three in the afternoon. a a S The extra classroom was used for a program called BOOST, which ext tended the kindergarten day by two hours. This helped staff adjust to a longer kindergarten day. "It showed us what we can do with the extra S. John Collins /BakerCity Herald time," said Gwen O'Neal, Concrete work continues at Brooklyn Primary to allow off-street parking so school Brooklyn principal. buses can safely unload students. Landscaping will include other concrete pads for "We've worked out a lot various projects, like benches and a flagpole. of the kinks," Payton said. "We planned what a reings were the best we've writing Without Tears." "We can finally answer "They want to be ally good structured day had," O'Neal said. that question," Payton The kindergarten staff would look like for them." prepared," O'Neal said. said."It will be so much "The kindergarten staff is more developmentally apBy the end of the year, have attended several as many as 45 percent of trainings in the last few amazing." propriate." all kindergartners had months including writing, And what will a typical an introduction to all-day participated in BOOST. day look like in all-day SeeBrooklyn/Page 9A "Kindergarten screenkindergarten and "Handkindergarten? 1
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Marijuana prohibition is once again in the spotlight at Baker City Hall. In spite of the adoption of an ordinance banning the herband itsrelated businesses last spring by the Council, the issue was revisited Tuesday night. With the recent passage by Oregon's Legislature of HB 3400 and its signing into law by the governor, Baker City councilors conducted and approvedthe fi rstreading of another ordinance that will ban marijuana within the city limits. The new state law allows local jurisdictions in 15 Oregon counties in which 55 percentormore ofthevoters votedagainstMeasure 91 to implement marijuana prohibition, City Manager Mike Kee explained. He also told councilors why the new ordinance was necessaryafter discussing the issue with the city's new lawyer Drew Martin and Police Chief Wyn Lohner. SeeCouncil/Page 8A
High-speed chase ends in arrest NORTH POWDERPolice have arrested adriver accusedofleading officers on a chase in two states at speeds reaching 146 mph. At about 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, Idaho State Police were in pursuit of a gray 2014 Ford Mustang SeeChaselPage 10A
lifeFlightgetsnewheliyadat Bakerhosyital critical care nurse manager at St. Alphonsus. The helipad was funded Air ambulance helicopters now have an improvedby money raised at the 2014 Festival ofTreesand a grant and safer — placeto land from the Leo Adler Foundaat St. Alphonsus Medical tion. Center-Baker City. "The whole community The helipad was recently expanded in concrete with a helped bring this," said Laura big red H and the St. Alphon- Huggins, marketing and communications director for sus name and logo. The previous pad was basi- St.Alphonsus. cally an asphalt pad extendOn July 22, a LifeFlight ed from the parking lot. Network crew landed at St. Alphonsus for a sort of unAlso, the first road that veiling event of the helipad. takes off Midway Drive LifeFlight is based in toward the emergency room has beenblocked offfortraf- Aurora and has helicopters fic control and safety. throughout the Pacific North''When you're pushing a west. The closest to Baker City is La Grande, followed patient in the middle of the night, knowing you're not by Ontario and Pendleton. going to get hit means so much," said Carolyn Kerbs, SeeHelipad/Page 10A By Lisa Britton
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LifeFlight helicopters have a new landing pad at the Baker City hospital.
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