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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Gordon Schaad of Baker City.
Oregon, 5A ALFALFA — Michael Hughes could grow pot in his Bend backyard if he wanted to. As long as they were out of view, he could grow the plants, cut and dry the flowers, smoke themand get high. But he can't grow hemp there. He bought a license to grow hemp, but a variety of factors has made it more difficult to grow hemp than marijuana and other crops in Oregon.
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The Baker City Council's Tuesday appointment of Sandy Lewis to fill a vacancy on the seven-member Council isn't official. The Council has scheduled a special meeting tonight at 6 o'clock at City Hall, 1655 First St., to conduct a L ew i s second vote. The reason is a clause in the city charter. It states that councilors will fill a vacancy"by appointment by a majority of the council." Lewis, one of four applicants,received votesfrom three of the six councilors: Rosemary Abell, Michael Downing and Mayor Kim Mosier. City Manager Mike Kee said after reviewing the ordinance, '%e don't think thatthreevotesconstitutes a majority." Randy Daugherty receivedtwo votesduring Tuesday's meeting — from Councilors Richard Langrell and Jim Thomas — and Michael Meyers received one vote, from Mack Augenfeld. Daugherty has withdrawn from considerationfor the position, so councilors tonight will choose from among Lewis, Meyers and Dawn Buckelew. Buckelew did not receive any votes on Tuesday.
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Glow Run/Walk Oct. 30 benefits Brooklyn School Brooklyn Primary School is sponsoring a Glow Run andWalk Friday, Oct. 30 at the Sports Complex in Baker City. The course is a loop and participants can choose their distance: one lap is a half mile; two laps is one mile, three laps is 1.5 miles. Everyone is encouraged to wear bright clothes and decorate themselves with glow sticks. The path will be marked with solar lights. It will start around 5:45 p.m., or a little later if it's not quite dark enough. Entry is $5 per person or $20 for a family. The community is welcome. Proceeds will go toward Field Day for Brooklyn students held in June. Entry forms are available at the Baker YMCA Fitness Center, and prior to the race starting around 5 p.m. Prizes will be given away through a raffle system — names will be drawn throughout the event. For more information, call Lisa at 541-518-2087 or Kcia at 541-519-5482.
Baker Roatary Club's Coats for Kids Drive The Baker Rotary Club's Coats for Kids winter coat drive starts Oct. 24. On that day and again on Nov. 7, people can bring a child's coat (new or gently used) to Sorbenots in Baker City and receive a free 12-, 16- or 24-ounce drink.
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Homecoming queen Ashley Knoll is escorted by her father, Chris, flower girl Jaxyn Ramos and card bearer Jack Joseph at halftime during Baker High School's last regular season home game. The queen shared the spotlight with her court of 11 princesses and their escorts. Homecoming king was Morgan Scilacci.
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Baker blue granite is being used to constructa Japanese medieval castle wall in Portland. A private quarry outside of Baker City is the source for stone in the wall that is part of a $33.5 million Portland Japanese Garden Expansion project. The massive stones, which are as big as a car and weigh hundreds of tons, will be used to construct the 21-foothigh by 140-foot-long zig-zagging wall at the Garden. The wall will contain 1,000 tons of the Eastern Oregon granite when it is completed. Manager of the quarry, Dan Dunn, would like to keep its location undisclosed, said Claire Foster, communicationsspecialistfor theJapanese Garden. "Dan Dunn ... is very protective of the location — understandably so," she said. 'This quarry is only used for specific, one-of-a-kind projects like the castle wall." Foster said the Baker blue granite is very high quality and unique in its color. The Baker County quarry is one of the few places in Oregon where it's possible to find native granite. "Using local stones and plants is very important to the Portland Japanese Garden, which is a synthesis of Japanese garden arts and Pacific Northwest materials," she said. Project Architect Balazs Bognar saidit'sa beautifuland superiorstone with just the right color and texture forthe project.Healsoexplained the importance of where the stone comes from. "It was important to us that the material come from a local source. The project ism ade specialby being 'of the place,' which also means that m aterials should come from as close to the sit e aspossible,"Bognar said.'%e chose the local Baker blue granite for its excellent, timeless qualities." The wall will be one of a kind and the first such structure in the country. 15th generation Japanese stonemason Suminori Awata travelled to
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Portland Japanese Garden Curator Sadafumi Uchiyama examines a boulder of Baker blue granite. "This is a defiant landscape," he said. Uchiyama worked with master stone mason Suminori Awata to select several feature stones, weighing approximately 8 tons each, for a CastleWall at the Garden's new Cultural Village.
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throughout Japan, Europe and Asia. Bognar estimates they are working on up to a hundred projects at any given time around the world. The Japanese expansion is one of three synthesisfoJapanesegarden arts Garden projects in the United States they are and Pacific Northwest materials." or will be working on. 55 of the boulders have been shaped — Claire Foster, communications specialist, Portland Japanese Garden into cornerstones — foundation stones — that will carry the weight of the wall. the quarry near Baker City in midUnder the direction of Awata and Septembertopersonally selectgranite two of the top stonemasons in the bouldersfortheconstruction project country — Kyle Schlagenhauf and at the Japanese Garden in Portland. "It is amazing that this will be the Matt Driscoll — gardeners from the first real Japanese castle wall in many gardens have been splitting and facing the boulders to prepare them for years, perhaps in centuries," Bognar theirplacement as partofthewall's said.cTo have Awata san's technique bring this to life in the U.S. is really foundation. an honor, and combining his experThe Japanese Garden is closed due to the expansion, and will re-open tise with Mr. Dunn's will make for a unique wall unlike even those here in May 1. The castle wall's construction is Japan." Bognar works for Kenga Kuma and scheduledforJanuary through May. Fostersaid each boulder was removed Associates, a Japanese architecture irm headquarteredin Tokyo and f carefully using heavy machinery Paris which designed the wall and in a way that wouldn't damage the buildings that are part of the expanquarry's landscape. sion project. The firm has designed projects See Granxte/Fbge 6A
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another term Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash will run for election in 2016. The Baker County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously in March to appoint Ash, a Ash lieutenant in the sherif's office, to replace Mitch Southwick. Southwick resigned April 30. His term continues through the end of 2016. Ash has worked at the sherif's office since 2005. SeeSherifflPage 8A
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