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BAKER'S LUKAS HUGGINS MADE A KEY CATCH DURING THE SHRINE GAME
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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com
August 4, 2014
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Shriners Put On A Spectacle
Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Peg Perkins of Baker City.
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Local, 3A Schedule of events for the Baker County Fair, which is under way this week in Baker City.
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Community NightOut event
Tuesday The annual Baker Community Night Out, which brings police and community partners together with neighborhood residents to celebrate summer, is scheduledTuesday. The event will be from 5:30p.m.to 8:30 p.m.at Geiser-Pollman Park. A free meal of hamburgers, chips, fruit and a drink will be served. People will receive one free raffle ticket as they go through the food line. Additional raffle tickets will be on sale at the same location for $1 for one ticket, $5 for 10 tickets, or $20 for an "arm spread" of tickets, organizers said in a press release. There also will be free ice cream, a car seat clinic, free snow cones and information and sales booths. Manpower for the event is provided by the Baker County Prevention Coalition, which includes members from the Juvenile Department, New Direction Northwest Inc. Prevention, the Baker City Police Department and the Baker City Herald. Event organizers are Cristi Vega and Lynette Perry of Baker City Events and Phoebe Wachtel of the Baker City Police Department. And singer Frank Carlson will provide music for the event. Booth space — free for nonprofit organizations and $15 for sales — is still available. To reserve a space, to donate raffle items or cash, or for more information, call 541-519-5653.
Kiwanis Parent ReSOurCe Fair Set The annual Baker City Kiwanis Club's Parent Resource Fair is set for Monday andTuesday, Aug. 11 and12, in conjunction with school registration for Grades K-5. The fair will be in the Baker High School commons, 2500 E St., Monday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. andTuesday from 8 a.m. to1 p.m.
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Al Kader Oriental Band and dancers provide lively entertainment for Shrine parade spectators Saturday in Baker City. The morning parade was followed at 4 p.m. with the East-West Shrine All-Star Football Game. The West took home the win.Page 6A has the story and photo about the game, which was plagued with lightning and delays.
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Shriners' wives and other family members shake plastic clappers as parade units zoom past. Ray Liercke is a member of the El KorahTin Lizzies, small Model-A style cars, from Mountain Home, Idaho.
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By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com
A relentless barrage of thunderstorms during the weekend brought hail and torrential rain to parts of Baker County as well as hundreds of lightning bolts that ignited more than two dozen wildfires. Most of the new blazes are less than one acre. But a group of fires ignited Friday night or earlySunday in theNorth Fork John Day Wilderness northeast of Granite prompted the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest to close a pair ofhiking trails and part of a forest road. Dubbed the Mount Ireland Complex, the fires are mainly in the Baldy Creek area north of Mount Ireland, which is topped by a Wallowa-Whitman fire lookout station. The biggest of the blazes has burned about 20 acres. Both trails leading to Baldy Lake — one follows Baldy Creek for six miles from a trailhead off the Elkhorn Drive Scenic Byway,the other trailstarts ata ridgecrest about amile west ofthelake — are closed to the public. Alsoclosed isforestroad 7335 along Onion Creek, from its junction with road 7340 east. See Fire 4 IceI Page 2A
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Schoolregistrationnextweek Blaze closes Registration for Baker schools is scheduled for next week.
Keating and Haines
• Keating and Haines, Monday, Aug. 11, from 8 a.m. to noon Brooklyn and South at Baker High School Baker — at BAKER • At each school, HIGH SCHOOL, 2500 Tuesday, Aug. 12, from 7 a.m. to noon E St. • Monday, Aug. 11: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. • Tuesday, Aug. 12: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Seventh Grade: Monday, Aug. 11: Noon to 6:30 p.m. • Eighth Grade: Tuesday, Aug. 12: Noon to 6:30 p.m.
Baker High School
to 2 p.m. • Thursday, Aug. 14 — Sophomores: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Freshmen: Noon to 2 p.m.
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EAGLE CAP, 2725 — at BAKER HIGH Seventh St. Baker Middle School SCHOOL, 2500 E St. • Wednesday and — at BAKER MIDDLE • Wednesday, Aug. 13 Thursday, Aug. 13-14: 9 SCHOOL, 2320 — Seniors: 9 a.m. to 11
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Hiking dookauthor tosgeakin Baker William L. Sullivan, an Oregon author best known for his series ofhiking guidebooks, will give a presentation Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn Ave. Sullivan's talk is titled"Oregon for the Curious," and is a travelogueofodditiesaround the state, including Ritter Hot Springs, the Hat Point lookout,
and the Owyhee River's Chalk Basin. The show includes two very short readings from his new short story collection, 'The Oregon Variations." This book features at least one story connected with each of Oregon's 36 counties. In addition to the hiking guides, Sullivan publishes a
variety ofboth fiction and nonfiction titles. This summer, Sullivan and his wife, Janell, are spending time in Eastern Oregon to update some of the information in anticipationofa third edition ofoneof his guides, "100 Hikes in Eastern Oregon," which includes many trails in the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains.
Imnaha Road By Katy Nesbrtt VVesCom News Serwce
ENTERPRISE — The Five Mile Fire burning upriver from the town of Imnaha prompted Wallowa County to close the Imnaha Road to the public. The Hat Point Road from Imnaha is also closed. The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest' spublicaffairsoffi ce said structures are potentially at risk, as is an Idaho Power transmission line. Wallowa County Commission Chairman Mike Hayward said he got a call Sunday from Paul Karvoski, the county's emergency services manager. "He said there's a lot of fire trafftc on the road above town, quite a few fisherman and locals trying to move livestock so they thoughtitbestforsafety saketo closeit," Hayward said. According to the Blue Mountain Interagency Dispatch Center, the fire has burned 1,800 acres since it broke out Sunday afternoon. Its cause is unknown. See ImnahaIPage 2A
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