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A special good day to Herald subscriber Jim Darnell of Baker City.

Local, 3A Charlie's Ice Cream Parlor closed Dec. 1 and will re-open this spring with a completely new and fresh look. J.R. and Dana Streifel sold the business Nov. 1 to Daniel Batchelor and Jodi Furtney, longtime family friends and new business partners. "Our families have been close friends and when the opportunity arose, we decided we wanted to do this together and make it happen," Furtney said.

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Baker City Councilors plan to pick from among three applicants Tuesday night to fill a vacancy on the sevenmember Council. The position has been vacant since R. Mack Augenfeld resigned in late November due to health reasons. Applicants to replace Augenfeld are Dawn Buckelew, Judy Head and Daniel Lowe.

Sports, 6A MINNEAPOLIS — Even as Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh trotted out for what his coach called a "chip shot" gamewinning field goal try, ever-optimistic Seattle coach Pete Carroll kept right on believing his Seahawks weren't done yet. Walsh misseda 27-yard field goal in the closing seconds, keeping the Seahawks' dreams of returning to the Super Bowl for a third straight season alive with a 10-9 victory over the Vikings in the wild-card playoff game on Sunday at frigidTCF Bank Stadium.

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Bingham family will be featured on 'Dateline' Sunday evening The Bingham family of North Powder will again be featured on Dateline and their story is scheduled to air Sunday, Jan. 17 at 10 p.m. on NBC. The Binghams are currently in California awaiting a heart transplant for their youngest child, Gage. This will be the fourth heart transplant for a Bingham child. Sierra has had two (2006 and 2015) and Lindsey had one in 2013. Jason and Stacy Bingham have five children: Sierra, Megan, Lindsey, Hunter and Gage. The family regularly updates their blog: http:I/jasonandstacybingham.blogspot. coml

See Council IPage 2A Lisa Briston /For the Baker Clty Herald

Nancy Coffelt displays one of her eight illustrations for the book "What's Cookin'7A Happy Birthday Counting Book."The illustrations are on exhibit at the Baker City Library. A $250,000 grant from ArtPlace America will bring more art and workshops to libraries across Eastern Oregon.

By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald

A grant from ArtPlace America is bringing more art and workshops into rural libraries across Eastern Oregon, including Baker City. sWe'd like 30 programs a month," saidBrian Vegter,artresourcecoordinator for libraries in five counties iBaker, Malheur, Grant, Harney and

Lake). The $250,000 grant was awarded to Libraries of Eastern Oregon iLEOl, which encompasses 15 counties from Hood River east to the Idaho border and south to the California and Nevada borders. Vegter said 30 of the 55 libraries across those counties have enough spacefor specialprograms and workshops, including Baker City's. The grant was announced in August and programs started in October. So far, the Baker Library District

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making the library a place to immerseyoursel fin the arts." — Brian Vegter, art resource coordinator for libraries in Baker, Malheur, Grant, Harney and Lake counties

has hosted dulcimer workshops and performances with Heidi Muller and Bob Webb, plus art workshops with Sara Cothren. "The main inspiration is making the library a place to immerse yourself in the arts,"Vegter said. Right now, the Baker City Library, 2400 Resort St., has an exhibit of Nancy Coffelt's eight original illustrations for the book'What's Cookin'? A Happy BirthdayCounting Book." The framed artwork is displayed in the reading area that faces Powder River. It will be up through January. Coffelt also donated two copies of

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the children's book to the library. Coffelt started herartisticcareer in 1984 and since then has shown and sold artwork across the U.S. She published her first book in 1992. Since then, she's written more books for children, young adult, middle grade and nonfiction. Vegter has plans to bring more artists, authors and filmmakers to local libraries. He said many will present at a "circuit of libraries." sWe'regetting world-class presenterstocome and alltheprograms arefree to thepublic,"Vegter sald. He said the ArtPlace grant helps supplement the money libraries budgetforspecialprograms. "This helps them do more than what they have the money for,"he sald. For the Baker City library, programs are announced on the Facebook page and in local media.

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BURNS — Over a cup of coffeeFriday morning, Candy Tiller explained why many ranchers in rural counties, like Harney County, are frustrated when it comes to grazing on federally man-

aged land. "Our lands are not being taken care oflike they should be," she said."iFederal agenciesl are not utilizing the locals' knowledge." Tiller, 60 and from Burns, tracesher family treeback to homesteaders.

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The red and black face of Darth Maul, a character from the "StarWars" saga, comes to life with help from Landon Dougherty, 7, Friday at the Baker City Library. Makers Club participants created their favorite characters at one of the Stars Wars stations.

The force awakened Friday afternoon at the Baker City Library.Youths who joined the Makers Club involved the construction of light sabers for participants including, from left, DanielWachtel, 11, HenryWood, 12, and Adrian Allen, 11. The club is designed for children in grades 4-8. Younger kids are welcome with a parent or other adult to help. The next club meeting is scheduled for Jan. 22 at 2:30 p.m. at the library, 2400 Resort St. The theme will be "It's Puzzling."

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The biggest lotteryjackpot in history is boosting Baker City's economy even though theodds ofa localresident winning the prize are tiny. Customers at Gas 'N Snack on 10th Street not only are buying more Powerball tickets, which doesn't help the business' bottom line, they're also buying other items, which does, manager Dawna Young said. See Powerball/Page 2A

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