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November 3, 2014
iN mis aonioN: Local • Home @Living • Sports Monday QUICIC HITS
A special good day to Herald subscriber Maureen Beverlin of Baker City.
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OTEC offers High school students, returning students, and adults entering educational and technical programs can apply for one of OregonTrail Electric Cooperative's 28 annual scholarships. Twenty-six academic and two linemen scholarships are available. Each scholarship is $5,000. To be eligible, applicants: • Must receive or have legal guardians who receive electrical service from OTEC • Must be of good character • Must demonstrate a coherent degree plan • Must be planning to attend an accredited vocational school, technical school, college or university. Two of the scholarships are specifically for linemen school. Eight of the 26 academic scholarships are earmarked for returning college students. To apply for a scholarship go to www.otecc. com under the "community" tab and download an application. The application deadline is 5 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2015. Scholarship winners are selected by independent cooperative member committees in each of OTEC's four service counties.
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food drive set this weekend The Baker Valley Seventh-day Adventist Church will be starting its annual food drive Friday, Nov. 7. Each year the church collects nonperishable food items to be put intoThanksgiving food boxes for the needy in our area. The number of boxes varies from year to year, depending on the need, but usually between 165 and 250 boxes are given out. This Friday, the church will be passing out paper bags with an attached note explaining the purpose of the bags. The bags will then be collected on Sunday, Nov. 9. If you have any questions or if you would like to assist with this endeavor, please call the church's school at 541-523-4165.
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Mark Johnson, right, and his son, Kyle, with the bighorn sheep ram Mark bagged on Sept. 19 in the Burnt River Canyon of southern Baker County.
Walden: Senate maiority tdekey By Jayson Jacoby ]]acoby©bakercityherald.com
By Jayson Jacoby ]]acoby©bakercityherald.com
For Mark Johnson the whole thing came down to 415 yards of clear and mild September air. The hot summer days when he punished his legs and lungs on the steep slopes of the Burnt River Canyon. The quiet patient periods as he peered through binoculars at distant herds ofbighorn sheep. The practice shots and the firm recoil of the 7 mm rifle, shoving back against his shoulder. 415 yards. Four football fields. For the first time in his 60 years, Johnson squeezed the trigger with a bighornram's barrelchestcentered in thescope'sreticle. The first, and the last. "The moment of truth," Johnson, of Baker City, said this week, recalling that instant on the morning of Sept. 19 as his index finger slipped inside the trigger guard. "I said,'where did it go?'" Johnson recalls. His fiiend, Dan Blankenship, said the ram ran off. Johnson:"Did I hit it?" Blankenship: "I think you did." He was right.
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Congressman Greg Walden isn't promising t legislative miracles ifhis fellow Republicans gain a majority Wald e n in the U.S. Senate Tuesday, but Walden did tell a Baker City audience that he believes GOP control would yield tangible results locally as well as nationally. Walden, who is seeking his ninth term representing Oregon's 2nd Congressional District, told about 40 people who gathered Sunday afternoon at the Geiser Grand H otel that"elections matter."
Mark Johnson, right, had a lot of help with his once-in-a-lifetime bighorn sheep hunt in September. The list included, from left, Johnson's son, Kyle, Dan Blankenship and Dan Henes.
The bullet, hand-loaded by another of Johnson's fiiends, Steve Ritch, flew straight and true. The most interesting hunt of Johnson's life was over, and successful. "I was very fortunate," he said. He certainly was in a statistical sense. Johnson was the only person,
among something like 400 hunters who applied forit,toreceive atag to hunt bighorn rams in the Burnt River Canyon this September. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife issues that solitary tag each year through the agency's lottery system. SeeBighorn/Page5A
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enior caregrougmeetsmonthly By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald
Local organizations that provide elder care are coming together once a month to share news and learn aboutcurrentissues. Maleah Albanez is the one who saw a need to form such a group, which is called the Baker County Long Term Care Coordination Team. ''We're all here for the
elder population," she said. Albanez is the supervisor of operations at St. Alphonsus Care Center in Baker City, as well as the assistant to the chief nursing offtcer. She said about 30 people regularly attend the meetings,representing assisted living facilities, adult foster homes, home health, St. Alpohonsus, St. Luke's-EOMA, Community Connection and more in Baker City.
At the October meeting, Cheri Smith gave a presentation about Settlers Park's Memory Care Unit. Smith is the Legacy Court director, and is working on activities and programstoserve this specific population. Some examples are to providejobs,such ashelping make their beds, choosing their clothing or setting the tablefor am eal. "Those are things that
meant something, gave them a purpose," Smith told the group."Ifwe don'thave a purpose, we don't have a reason to live." Sometimes it's as simple as starting a conversation about pie. "Every woman has made one and every man has eaten them," she said with a smile.
About 30localresidents attended a town hall meeting Sunday night at the Geiser Grand Hotel to hear U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley
speak. Merkley, a Democrat who is seeking reelection, is on an Eastern Oregon campaign Merkley sw i ng. Today he will be in Ontario, Burns and other rural communities in the mostly red partofthis state before returning to Salem.
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