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November 6, 2015
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BaKerCity's NewIlrug-Iletecting Ilog Arrives
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FACE PROJECT IN ELIt',HORNS
A special good day to Herald subscriber Dalene Davis of Baker City.
Oregon, 5A PORTLAND — An Oregon nonprofit filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to reinstate a state law that would have allowed people to get driver's cards if they can't prove they are in the U.S. legally. The law was approved by the Legislature in 2013 but was overturned by voters the following year in a referendum.
BRIEFING
By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
Forest Ser vice waives fees Ior veterans Nov. 11 The U.S. Forest Service will not charge day-use fees for veterans at recreation sites in OregonandWashington on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. "We honor our veterans each November 11th and every other day of the year," Forest Service ChiefTom Tidwell said in a press release. "We hope that this time will serve as a way for our veterans and other visitors to find our national forests and grasslands as a year-round respite, a place where they can take time out for themselves." This fee waiver includes many picnic areas, boat launches, trailheads, and visitor centers.
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Baker County commissioners support a proposed Forest Service project in the Elkhorn Mountains that includes logging, but they want the agency to be more aggressive in cuttinglarger treestoreducethefi redanger. Commissioners on Wednesday approved a written comment for the 47,621-acre East Face project. Most of the acres are on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest north of the Anthony LakesHighway,divided between Baker and Union counties. Based on the proposal the Wallowa-Whitman unveiled last month in a 293-page environmental assessment iEAl, East Face would be oneofthebiggertim ber saleson theforest in the past 25 years. The project ,according tothe ForestService, is designed to reduce large wildfire risk and restoreforeststhathave been harmed by past logging and decades of fire suppression. The EA includes five alternative plans — including a no-action alternative — for the project, which would include prescribed burning and other fuels treatment, and pre-commercial thinning as well as commercial logging.
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Dinner at Elks
Lodge benefits Veterans Home The public is invited to the Baker Elks Lodge's annual steak dinner fundraiser on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lodge, 1896 Second St. The dinner is $10 and includes top sirloin steak, salad, baked potato and dessert. Veterans get a coupon for a free beverage of their choice. Gregg Hinrichsen, chairman of the Elks Lodge Trustees, said the dinner raises about $400 to $500, which is donated to The Dalles Veterans Home. Food is donated by the Oregon Trail Restaurant. For more information call 541-523-3338.
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By Chris Collins S. John Collins/ Baker City Herald
Baker City Police Officer Colton Smith recently received the department's new drug-detecting canine, Capa.
By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
Baker City Police Department once again has a canine offtcer. Capa, a 21-month-old male German shepherdand Belgian Malinois cross, started working Wednesday.
to that kind of stulKn The 63-pound drug-detecting dynamo lives to sniff out narcot1cs.
Smith said Capa is a super high-energy partner who is always working. "He's constantly going," Smith 'Tm glad to have iCapal sald. That energy was obvious at because i01 be a great thing for the community," said his the break room in the police handler, Offtcer Coleton Smith. department as Capa rapidly "For the guys who are out there moved aroundthe room, sni5ng transporting dope and causing a everything, and everybody. bunch of problems in town, this guy is going to help put an end See Capa/Page 8A
CANINE COP Capa is a 21-month old, 63-pound German shepherd/Belgian Malinois Cl OSS.
He replaces Turbo, who retired early mainly because he was trained to detect marijuana, which is now legal in Oregon for recreational use by people 21 and older.
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When Steven McBride requested that his parentsdeliversome clean socks and underwear to the Baker County Jail where he'll be staying for the next few days, he got more than he asked for. Police Chief Wyn Lohner said McBride's father arrived at the jail Saturday as his son had requested, but the corrections officer noticed something odd about the pair of socks thatwas delivered. Upon further inspection, Cpl. Jason Wirth found 5.2 grams ofheroin stashed in the socks, which had apparently been washed with the drug tucked inside. "Itwas good work by the correctionsofftcern Lohner said of Wirth's efforts to find the drugs during a routine search, which is standard procedure for items delivered to the jail. See Heroin/Page 8A
Today
48/25 Partly sunny
Saturday
50/32 Increasing clouds and breezy
Ilctoher feelhilmytoynuP Thermometer agreed • Average temp for the month was the second-highest ever for October in Baker
By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com
This October was the second-warmest on record in Baker City. Based on one statistic, anyway. That's the average daily temperature,
a measurement that factors in each day's highest, and lowest, temperatures. That number for October was 50.5 degrees at the Baker City Airport. Since 1943, when detailed records begin, only one October was warmer-
1988,when the average daily temperature was 52.8 degrees. iThe average, dating to 1943, is 45.8
degrees.) See Balmy/Page 5A
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