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January 25, 2016

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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscribers Greg and Mary Jo Mahoney of Baker City.

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Haines Chili Feed set for Feb. 5 in school gym HAINES —The annual Haines School Chili Feed, the school's major fundraiser, is set for Friday, Feb. 5, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the school gym. The all-you-can-eat menu features chili and baked potatoes. Desserts will also be sold. Tickets for the dinner and a raffle are sold in advance by Haines students or at the door. Dinner tickets are $5 for adults and $3.50 for children. More information is available by calling Heather Heriza at 541-519-6048.

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Two more men are vying to be the next Republican candidate for county commissioner. Local cattle rancher Kody

Justus has paid the $50

South Baker School spaghetti feed, auction is set for 3an. 28 The South Baker School spaghetti feed and silent auction fundraiser is set for Thursday, Jan. 28, from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the school, 1285Third St. Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for ages 12 and under for the all-youcan-eat meal.

Brooklyn taco feed Feb. 4 at Events Center Brooklyn Primary School's annual taco feed fundraiser will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Community Events Center, 2600 East St. The evening includes a taco dinner, a book fair, silent auction and a variety of raffle prizes. Dinner is $6 adults, $3 children. Raffle tickets are $1 each, $5 for six or $20 for 25. Tickets will be sold prior to the event and will also be available during the fundraiser. Money raised at the feed helps fund field trips for the students, technology for classrooms, art and science

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Logging crews are salvaging burned timber from the Cornet/Windy Ridge fire south of Baker City.

The first Forest Service salvage logging operation is underway on the Cornet/Windy Ridge Fire. Boise Cascade was awarded the sale, which will yield 7.5 million boardfeetoftimber from danger treeremoval along open roads in the burned area. The sale was advertised by the ForestServiceatan appraised value

of $285,000. Boise Cascadewas the only bidder and was awarded the saleatthe appraised price. The salvage loggingoperation started Jan. 17. 'sr Q •, aWe're happy to see the sawyers out here beginning felling operations,"Whitman District Ranger Jeff Wallowa-Whitman National Forest photo Tomac statedin a pressrelease. Atong thrower, which follows behind loggers, moves logs from the "I'mvery proud ofhow quickly and hillside to the roadside where they're loaded onto trucks. efficiently my stafFworked to accomplish the necessary planning and thankful to the community and the measures. The stafF at the Whitman feetdanger treeremoval sale along otheragenciesfortheir support." District then went to work analyzing open roads, then two 250-acre sales Of the 104,000-acre fire,30,035 the 30,035acresforpossible salvage totaling 2.5 million board feet and a logging opportunities. 1million board feetdanger treereacres are on Forest Service administered lands. Immediately after Eleven million board feet of wood moval sale done in conjunction with the fi re,a Burned Area Emergency will be extracted overthe courseof the Oregon Department of Transpor2016 from the Cornet/Windy Ridge Response Team was brought in to tation along Highway 245. evaluate the efFects of the fire and to Fire on Forest Service administered implement necessary public safety lands. First, the 7.5 million boardSeeLogging/Fbge8A

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'quiet zone' By Joshua Dillen

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By Pat Caldwell For the Baker City Herald

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County Clerk's office or collect signatures. By paying the fee, Justus is officially a candidate in the primary election, while the other two will be once they have collected enough signatures. They need to gather 114 signatures — which equates to 2 percent of the total GOP voters who cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election. Once those signatures are certified by the county clerk, they will be official candidates. In other election news, District Attorney Matt ShirtclifF has filed for reelectionaccording to the Secretary of State's Elections Division database. No others have filed as a candidatefor the position.

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filing fee to be a candidate and CPA Bruce Nichols fileda prospective candidate petition Friday as Republicans, according to Baker County Clerk Cindy Carpenter. Dave Hunsaker of Baker City filed a prospective candidatepetition lastweek to run as a Republican for the commission seat that Tim K. Kerns will vacate at the end of the year. Potential candidates can

Oregon Senate Minority leader Ted Ferrioli admits he is fi ustrated. Ferrioli, who represents Senate District 30 — which includes Baker Countyremains hesitant to name a single annoyance but he ticks ofF a list that includes a possible minimum wage hike for Oregon and a proposalto tax corporations in the state that produce

sales in excess of $25 million ayear. Added to those issues are the ongoing standofFin Harney County at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and theprospectofa short, 35-day legislative session next month. In short, Ferrioli admits thereare a hostofpolitical challenges he must tackle for his constituents. "And I've got most of my communities that are los-

ing population and I can't get any flexibility for these communities under Oregon land-use laws," he said."So yes, I am a little fi ustrated.a One issue Ferrioli said he isdeeplyconcerned about is what he believes is undue influence of unions on the political framework of the state. Ferrioli said one highprofile initiative — Gov. Kate Brown's minimum wage plan — is a symptom

of an ailing political system where, in his view, deals are struck to appease unions. The governor's recent presentation, in which Brown proposed raising the state's minimum wage from the current $9.25 per hour

to $13.50 by 2022, except to $15.52 in the Portland area, is nothing more than an electedleader takingcare of a big financial supporter, Ferrioli contends. SeeFerrioli/Fbge 5A

The Baker City Council will discuss the possibility of creatinga railroad "quiet zone" — in which passing trains don't have to blow their whistles at city crossings — during Tuesday's Council meeting. In orderto createthe zone the city must constructland dividers ateach crossing to make it virtually impossible for vehicles to pass through it when the crossing arms are lowered. Their estimated cost would

be $40,000 to $60,000. This will be a preliminary dtscusston. SeeCouncil/Page 2A

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