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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityheralckcom
October 10, 2014
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A special good day to Herald subscriber Jo Ann Eddy of Baker City.
Not registered to vote? Deadline to sign up for Nov. 4 election is Tuesday
• A new math curriculum is challenging Baker students, teachers
Tuesday, Oct. 14, is the last dayto register to vote in the Nov. 4 election. You can register online at http://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/ voteinor.aspx (you must have a valid driver's license) or at the Baker County Clerk's Office in the Courthouse, 1995 Third St. in Baker City. The Clerk's Office will mail ballots on Oct. 15.
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Lise Yervasi, who lives near Sparta in Baker County, with the wild mustang she has been training since late August.
Columbus Day closures Monday is Columbus Day, and mail will not be delivered. Baker schools will be open as usual, as will Baker Clty Hall and the Baker County Courthouse. Some, but not all, banks will be open. The Baker City Herald will publish as usual.
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Domestic violence vigil Tuesday evening Baker County has joined with other communities across the nation to designate October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. MayDay Inc. of Baker City will have its annual Candlelight Vigil on Tuesday, Oct. 14. This year's vigil, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., will be outdoors at the Court Street Plaza (corner of Main and Court Streets). Lynette Perry will speak about her experience in an abusive relationship in 1975. The vigil will also include impact statements from other domestic violence survivors and live music performed by Nancy Ames. Visual tributes and luminaries will honor the victims of domestic violence. Coffee, hot cocoa and cookies will be served. Anyone who is concerned about domestic violence or wants to show their support is urged to attend. Call MayDay at 541-523-9472 for information about the vigi.
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By Jayson Jacoby iiacoby©bakercityherald.com
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Fifth-grade teacher Merrie Hensley gives Hayden Younger help with his math.
By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com
Mh-grade teacher Merrie Hensley can be found on YouTube these days trying to help her students learn a new way to understand old math lessons. Hensley's instruction can be accessed fiom any computer by typing YouTube into the web browser and then simply searching her name: Merrie Hensley. Her voice and invisible pencil
ON PAGE 7A: Free help with homework available online through Baker County Library guide students through lessons based on the"Engage New York" processthatusesplace-value charts and strategies and small black dots, which are termed disks, to represent numbers on the charts. Rectangles are drawn as "tape diagrams" to help students
understand word problems that require them to use division to find an answer. Hensley's demonstrations also include examples ofhow the problems would be solved using traditional procedures. Hensley said she learned about the YouTube system at a math conference she attended last summer.
By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com
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Curriculumdirector:Newmath unveilino'justplainunfair' Curriculum director Anthony Johnson is as fi ustrated as anyone with the speed at which new math lessons were introduced at the elementary level in the Baker School District this fall. Not because he doesn't think the lessons will benefit students, but because there has been little time to prepare teachers, students and parents for the changes. Teachers are overworked, students are fiustrated and parents are concerned.
Lise Yervasi is perplexed about the BLM's insistence that she turn over to the agency a wild horse she's been training since late August at her ranch in northern Baker County. Perplexed and angry. The situation started when Yervasi, an accomplished equestrian who also was diagnosed four years ago with an autoimmune motor neuron disease isimilar to ALS), drove to the BLM's wild horse corrals near Burns to pick up the mustang. The bay horse, officially Mustang 1703, although Yervasi named the animal Oberon, was captured two years ago as a yearling in the Coyote Lake Herd Management Area about 80 miles southwest of Burns.
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Baker's new DAV vehicle is a Ford Flex, similar to this one.
Veterans get a new ride By Jayson Jacoby iiacoby©bakercityherald.com
Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald
Merrie Hensley, who has taught in Baker schools for 22 years, has createdYouTube tutorials to help students better understand new math lessons introduced this fall.
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Local veterans who need a ride to the Veterans Administration hospital in Boise can make the trip in style. More style than before, anyway. Disabled American Veterans iDAV) has replaced its well-worn 2010 Ford Explorer with a brand new Ford Flex, said Carl Swinyer of Sumpter, one of six people who drive veterans to appointments in Boise. The 2014 model can seat six, Swinyer said. See Veterans/PageGA
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