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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com

January 15, 2016

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A special good day to Herald subscriber Pat Schlicter of Baker City.

No school Monday There will be no school Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The federal holiday takes place on the third Monday in January each year. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. While the Baker School District routinely schedules classes on Fridays when students get a Monday holiday off, that is not the case next week. Students will get Friday, Jan. 22, off as well. Teachers, on the other hand, will be on the job preparing report cards for the nine-week grading session, which ends Thursday.

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Scholarships available Chapter AX of the PE.O. Sisterhood will award academic scholarships to two graduating senior girls from high schools in Baker County and North Powder in May 2016. • The Gertrude Fortner-Rose Haskell Scholarship. •The Mildred F. Rogers Chapter AX PE.O. Scholarship applications are available in the guidance office at high schools in Baker County (Baker, PineEagle, Burnt River and Huntington) and North Powder. Baker High School applicants must return applications to the high school office by 8 a.m. on Feb. 29. Other Baker County and North Powder applicants must mail applications to arrive by 8 a.m. on Feb. 29. Mail applications to Dorothy Mason, P.O. Box 446, Baker City, OR 97814. All women students from Baker County or North Powder, who plan to enroll in an accredited college or university, are eligible. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic achievement, goals, activities, financial need and personal character. More information is available by calling Mason at 541-523-7642.

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Tanya Denne visits with the children at the Paniya Tribal Village in lndia.

By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald

Tanya Denne is on a mission to help people with Parkinson's disease, and her passion has taken her most of the way around the world, to Ooty, India. Denne is studying a plant called Mucuna pruriens and its potential to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's, a degenerative disease that affects the nervous system. Denne grew up in Baker City. Her interest in Mucuna stems from a very personal story — her grandmother died of Alzheimer's disease, and that inspired her to study neuroscience. "I wantedto prevent or cure what happened to my beloved grandmother," she said in an email interview from India. After graduating from the University of Portland, Denne volunteered at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSUl in Portland for five years to study Mucuna and Parkinson's.

State Rep. Cliff Bentz said he put the question to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown as succinctly as he could. '%hy in the world would you impose such a thing on Eastern Oregon?" the Ontario Rep ublican asked Ben t z the governor, a Democrat, Thursday at the Capitol. The "thing" Bentz referred to is Brown's proposal, which she unveiled earlier in the day,toboostthestate's minimum wage to $13.50 by 2022, except in the Portland area where the wage would

reach $15.52 by that year. Brown's plan would increase the minimum wage

to $10.25 — $1above the current minimum — starting Jan. 1, 2017, in areas outside Portland's urban growth boundary.

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Tanya Denne visits with Dr. Rajan, right, who works at the JSS College of Pharmacy in Ooty, lndia. Here he is showing her the specimens of Mucuna pruriens he has collected. Then she wanted to go to India and study Mucuna in its natural environment. "I was inspired to dig deeper into Mucuna's Ayurvedic roots in India," Denne sald. She's corresponded by email with Dr.

years. "I'm sure he had his doubts over the years if I would ever make it to India," she said."And rightfully so — many people suggestedIjustm ove on to another project or just begin medical school."

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ores ans uein e em er enough logging to keep the region's sawmills operating atcurrent levelsorto Lindsay Warness didn't like the draft version of restore the Blue Mountains' the Forest Service's plan to ailing forests. manage 5t72 million acres in But others assailed the Northeastern Oregon and 2014 draft plan from the Southeastern Washington opposite flank, arguing when it was unveiled almost that the Forest Service was calling for too much logging, two years ago. Warness was hardly alone livestock grazing and motorin that opinion. ized vehicle access. A forest policy analyst for Critics on both sides won't Boise Cascade in La Grande, have to wait too much longer Warness contends the to find out whether the final ForestService'sdraftplans version of the management for the Wallowa-Whitman, plans will change their Umatilla and Malheur naviews. tionalforestsdidn'tpropose That document should be By Jayson Jacoby

ready bythe end ofSeptember, said Sabrina Stadler, team leaderfortheforest plans revision project. The managementplans forthe three national forests are vital documents that will guide how the Forest Service manages those vast public lands for the next 15 years or so. More than 1,000 people sent written comments to the agencyduring a fi vemonth period after the draft plan debuted in March 2014. Many commenters, among them Warness, focused on what they deemed flaws in

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the Forest Service's proposed approach. The volume of comments, and thewidespread dissatisfaction with the draft plan, promptedForestService officials to, as they put it, "reengage" with the public. That meant, in part, a series of more than a dozen public meetings across the region in 2015 at which Forest Service officials asked residents tosuggestways to improve the draft management plans.

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down to business Baker City's newest city councilor says there are no particular issues concerning the city's government that he intends to focus on. Daniel Lowe, 68, a retired surgeon who was appointed Tuesday, said he will simply do the best he can to make the best decisions forthe Lowe city and help it run as efficientiy as possible. "I don't have a burning hot issue that requires my presence at the council," he said. During his first two days as a councilor, Lowe said he immersed himself in learning how Baker City functions. "I have been incredibly impressedby theorganization and support from the city employees — the (cityl manager and top management in the city to assist in training (mel in this job," he said.

S.P. Dhanabal, principal of JSS College of Pharmacy Ooty, India, for the last six

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