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August 3, 2015
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A special good day to Herald subscriber Marty Lien of Baker City.
BRIEFING
Year's final Hunter Education class is set for Aug. 17
By Joshua Dillen
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 website — www.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 study students on Aug. 29. More information is available by calling Bill Taylor at 541-4030900.
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A Shriner brings his smile, American flags and a tiny "Tin Lizzie" car just big enough for one to the annual parade in Baker City Saturday. Various tiny car groups, even bathtubs on wheels, keep the streets lively. Temperatures already were nearing 100 by parade time, but that has never kept a kid from candy-snatching opportunities. Page 5 has additional Shrine Saturday photos.
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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 Geiser-Pollman 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.
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Extreme drought conditionsthis year are effecting the local water supply and mandatory usage restrictions may come into play before summer ends for Baker City residents. The city's watershed continuesto provide less water than normal as the summer progresses. City staff have been monitoring usage and will make a determination by Tuesday whether mandatorywater use restrictions will be implemented, Michelle Owen, Public Works director, said. "If the curtailment ordinanceisactivated then it would be activated at Stage 2 and odd/even irrigation would be required of residents rather than just voluntary as it is now," she stated in an email. At Stage 2 the city's water curtailment ordinance allows the city to impose restrict ions on water usage. When demand for water to the city's users is 80percent ofthe water supply and Goodrich and the aquiferstorage recov-
ery iASRl well are being used,Stage 2 is triggered. Stages 3 and 4 are put into place when Goodrich is at half and quarter capacityrespectively and demand is at 90 percent. At Stage 3, lawn watering and car and driveway washing will be prohib-
ited and parks, cemetery, school and sports complex irrigation will cease. At Stage 4 — which is emergency status — only water for human and animal consumptmn, and waterfor proper health and sanitation will be allowed from the domestic water supply. The water curtailment ordinance can be read at the city's website: www. bakercity.com/government/ ordinances. Since the beginning of July, municipal water users have been asked by the city to voluntarily conservewater by irrigating on odd or even dates correspondingtotheir addresses. iThis means that if your address is an odd number you should irrigate on the odd daysofthe month and if your address ends in an even number you should irrigateon even days of the month.) Larry McBroom, the city's engineering supervisor, estimates that the voluntary conservation has saved about a million gallonsofwater per day since the request. The school district, parks and cemetery were asked to limit their irrigation before the voluntary request was made of city users, Owen said. The city has asked them to conservea little mo re. See Water/Page 8A
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Local youth shooters have made their mark in New Mexico. The Oregon senior iages 15-18lteam scored an overall second place at the annual hunter education event. The junior team iages 9-15l garnered second place in archery at international shooting competition. The Youth Hunter Educa-
tion Challenge fYHECl was held in Raton, New Mexico, last week. The annual competition is hosted by the National Rifle Association at its Whittington Center. The senior team from Oregon placed first in the muzzeleloaderand orienteering, third in the responsibility exam and safety trail, second in the light hunting rifle and wildlife identification events, along with their overall second place in the nation for 15- to 18-year-olds. Participants from Baker
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Braden Stabler-Siewell competes in the hunting archery division. City were junior team member Gauge Bloomer,12, and senior team members Braden Stabler-Siewell and Ben Spaugh, both 17. Gauge's mother Tish Bloomer said the Oregon
team wasdescribed as "salty" by others at the competition. She said "I guess we are well-cured." Tish Bloomer is very proud of the Oregon competitors. "It's a really cool program,"
she said."I love to see the kids work so hard." Eldon"Buck" Buckner of Baker City is the director for YHEC in Oregon. He said this year was a little different.
"I thought the competition was a little stiffer this year." Buckner has been an instructor for the Baker County SherifFs OfFice. A competitiveshootersince age 14, he has been a pistol instructor since 1951. Buckner has won several shooting competitions throughout his lifetime. He helped to organize and coach the first team from the state in 2000. Other Oregon competitors were junior team members Kristy Morris of Eugene, Austin McCurdy of Roseburg, Emily Leavitt of Redmond and Logan Francis of Dexter. The senior team members were Christopher Leavitt of Redmond and Justin Smith and Karinda Pierin, both of Prineville. Christopher Leavittplaced first in the individual light hunting rifle i.22-caliberl event and second in the hunter responsibility exam. See YHEC/Page 8A
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