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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com
September 19, 2014
iN mis aomoN: Local • Health@Fitness • Outdoors • TV QUICIC HITS
Brothers Irl clrITIS 2013 DOUBLE MURDER NEAR GRANITE
Charley'sIceCreamParlorStillAn Osdorn-OwnedBusiness
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A special good day to Herald subscriber Lynn Roehm of Baker City.
DRIVER REMINDER:
Pocahontas Road closed Monday, Tuesday between 10th Street and
railroad tracks Pocahontas Road will be closed to all traffic between 10th Street and the railroad tracks on Monday andTuesday while county crews repave the street. The street will be closed about 4 a.m. Monday, and is scheduled to re-open Wednesday morning.
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Results oflatest website survey
Dillan Easley, then 14, was not mature enough to understand nature ofhis conduct
The most recent poll question on www. bakercityherald.com was "Baker 5J's first day of school is the day after Labor Day. That is: JUST RIGHT: 212 TOO LATE: 59 TOO EARLY: 24
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Mark and Brandi Osborn have taken over operation of Charley's Ice Cream Parlor in Baker City with a little help from their daughter, Ava-Jane,4. By Lisa Britton
here," she said. W hen they took over,Brandi and Mark covered the windows of the shop withpaper and closed itfor six
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The current poll question is: "Will you vote yes or no to legalize recreational marijuana use in Oregon?
BRIEFING
Lutheran Church Kids Club started today, continues on most Fridays The First Lutheran Church Kids Club gets started today and continues most Fridays during the school year. Sessions will be Fridays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at First Lutheran Church at 1734Third St. Children are asked to enter on the Valley Avenue side of the church under the Kids Club sign. The free program is for all children in Grades 1-6. Kids Club meets each Friday that school is in session except on those occasional Fridays during the year when classes are scheduled. The program includes Bible lessons, games, skills and craft sessions and other activities. "This is a fun time as well as a learning time for the children," organizers said in a press release.
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With every little change — from the new paint to the new floor — she thoughtofJohn Osborn. days. "The whole time I was thinking During that time, they painted 'I wonder if John would like this?"' "everythingbut the ceiling,"replaced said Brandi Osborn, who now owns the floor and installed a new oven Charley's Ice Cream Parlor with and range. her husband, Mark Osborn, who is John had used plug-in electric John's son. burners to prepare the homemade John Osborn died July 2. He was soups and such. 61. "It would take 45 minutes to get He'd been trying to sell the ice water to boil," Brandi said. cream shop for several years, and Now, with the new appliances, she when he passed away it was left to can get ready for the lunch rush in his wife, Joyce, who already has a half the time. full-time job. The newowners have maintained "She came to us and asked if we the menu featuring sandwiches, were interested," Brandi said. "There pretzels, nachos and 28 fl avorsofice cream. was no way I could say no. I felt it A new addition is a rotisserie hot w as what Mark and Ineeded to do." Brandi is no stranger to Charley's dog cooker. "It's pretty much all the same — she started working there in 2009, and more recently she had filled in things John did, just in a new way," whenever John needed help. Brandi said. "It was really familiar to come in She's introducing new items for
the daily specials to expand the offerings. "Some people definitely don't like change,and some people are allfor it," she said. Charley's, in the Basche-Sage Place at the corner of Main and Broadway, has a fair share of regular customers. "They come for certain thingsthat's why they come back," she said. "I want to keep it the same feel John had inhere — a fun place to be and good place to hang out." In recent years, John had opened on Thanksgiving to offer a soup kitchen. Brandi said the Baker Elks Lodge — of which John was a m ember — has offered to take over that tradition, continuing it in John's name. Charley's hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Daily specials are posted on the
From the Blue Mountain Eagle CANYON CITY — Dillan Dakota Willford Easley will not be tried as an adultfor the shooting deaths of his foster father and another man last October at a hunting cabin near Granite. Visiting Malheur County Circuit Court Judge J. Burdette Pratt made the ruling Wednesday evening in Grant County Circuit Court. Easley was 14 at the time of the shootings on Oct. 4, 2014. He turned 15 on June 1. Pratt said he denied the waivertoadultcourtbecause Easley lacks sufficient sophistication and maturity to appreciate the nature of the conduct. Easley was with a hunting party that included his foster father, Michael Piete, 43, and Piete's uncle, Kenneth C. Gilliland, 64, both of Baker City.
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Baker Middle School students are being challenged this year to step out of the mainstream and into the realm of the Uncommon Man. Student Body President Dylan Mastrude and Vice President Zachary Schwin were two who accepted the challenge during a Sept. 10 assembly promoting the
philosophy. Both young men say they plan to make academics more of a priority in the coming year as partoftheirpledge. "I'll always put school before sports," Dylan said. He plans to participate in football, basketball and baseball during the year, but not to the neglect ofhisstudies. Zachary said he plans to study everyday afterschoolto keep his grades up, so he can also continue to do well in classes.
Both boys said the assembly made a big impression on them and their classmates. Itfeatured a videoofAustin Hatch telling his story of what motivates him to be an"Uncommon Man." Hatch lost his mother and younger sister and brother in a plane crash when he was 8. He and his father, who was piloting the plane, survived the crash. Eight years later, Hatch's stepm otherand father,wh o again was piloting the plane, died in a second crash in which Austin was the lone survivor. SeeUncommon/Page2A
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Dylan Mastrude, left, is student body president at Baker Middle School, and Zachary Schwin is vice president.
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