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November 17, 2014
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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Mike Crane of Baker City.
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Delays on Highway 86 Motorists should expect delays of up to 20 minutes starting around 7 p.m. onThursday, Nov. 20, and continuing until 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 21. An oversized transport carrying transformer equipment will be traveling from Baker City east to the Idaho border. The load is expected to take about half a day as it travels around 10 miles per hourthrough Baker County, primarily on Highway 86. To evenly distribute the 357,636-pound gross weight of the shipment, it will move down the center of the roadway, taking up both travel lanes of two-lane highway. Traffic will be stopped at regular intervals with pilot cars informing the movers when to pull over to allow oncoming vehicles and backed up traffic to pass. The oversize load will begin its journey near the intersection of 10th and Broadway streets in Baker City, then travel north on 10th Street to Hughes Lane, east on Hughes Lane to Cedar Street, then north to Highway 86. The transport will take a short detour west of Richland along Dance Hall Road and Dry Gulch Road to avoid an irrigation line that crosses over the state highway. The travel dates and timemay change depending on weather and other unforeseen conditions. Alerts will be posted on TripCheck. com during the move and commuters are reminded to check the website before heading out. The transport vehicle and cargo will be121 feet long,18 feet wide and 19 feet and 3 inches tall. The freight contains no hazardous materials.
OathKeepers meet Tuesday Baker County OathKeepers will meet Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Courthouse, 1995Third St. The group will discuss emergency preparedness at the personal, family, neighborhood andcommunity levels.
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• Scoutsofallsortscanvassed Baker City tocollectdonated food
• Low temperatures Sunday and todaysetdaily records, but November's chilliest spell, in 1955, remains intact By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com
Ifyou think it's cold now you ought to have been in Baker in November 1955. For those residents who were here then, the current cold snap might conjure fiigid memories of that month nearly six decades ago. Although the cold spell that started late last week is the most extreme for any November since 1985, in its early stages it didn't break anyrecords. The impediment was 1955. The arctic air that enveloped Baker County in November of that year set a standard for chill that remains unchallenged. SeeColdlPage 3A
BAKER'S CHILLY HISTORY LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS
• NOVEMBER 12 All-time record This year -1 (1955) 4 • NOVEMBER 13 All-time record This year 3 (1959) 10 • NOVEMBER 14 All-time record This year -1 5 (1955) 8 • NOVEMBER 15 All-time record This year -7 -16 (1955) • NOVEMBER 16 All-time record This year 3 (1955) • NOVEMBER 16 All-time record This year 4+ 1 (1958) 'New record
Kathy Orr / Baker City Herald
Club Scouts from Pack 452, Dyson Robb, front, andThomas Smithson, middle, and Mike Webb take in bags of food donated to local food banks on Saturday.
By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
The sub-fi eezingweather did not stop Scouts of all kinds from completing their mission of compassion and charity Saturday. Girl, Boy and Cub Scouts, along with youth groups from local churches, braved the icy cold to collect food from local residents to fill area food banks in the annual Scouting for Food Drive. At 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, parents, pack and troop leaders arrived at the County Courthousetostrategize about picking upfood thatlocalresidents lefton theirporches across town. Last week, Scouts went door to door in Baker City and left fliers requesting food donations that would be picked up on Sat. before noon. Heather Dallstream, mother of two Cub Scouts who participatedinthe drive,said theannual event teaches the children great morals.
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Open enrollment for health insurance started Saturday and continues through Feb. 15. However, thosewho bought a qualified health plan through Cover Oregon last winter need to re-enroll through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace by Dec. 15 to ensure coverage by Jan. 1. "Otherwise there will be a gap in coverage," saidKatieRudi,patientresourcecoordinator at St. Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City.
Kathy Orr / Baker City Herald
Baker High School students, from left, Porter Cline, McKenna Bachman and Nate tttingsworth separate canned goods that are donated to local food banks.
'%e feel it's important to show the kids how to be in service to the community and help
people," Dallstream said. See Scouts/Fbge 2A
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