Baker City Herald 12-14-15

Page 1

I

4R

• g

e

• • •

) ~/ - 2

M X

/

Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityheratd.com

December 14, 2015

>N >H>s aD>i'>oN: L ocal • Home @Living • Sports Monday $ QUICIC HITS

ea o

A special good day to Herald subscriber Carmen Erskine of Baker City. PORTLAND — A semitrailer truck hauling fuel crashed into a parked railroad tanker on Sunday, sparking a fire that sent up plumes of black smoke visible for miles. The truck driver was killed, and authorities continued to investigate the cause of the crash, Portland police said Dozens of firefighters rushed to the scene from around Portland and nearby Vancouver, Washington as flames reached 70 feet tall. The rail tankers, which contained liquid asphalt, did not leak.

e ue

• Weekend storm boosts snowpack far ahead of where it was last year

ls

~

tra

+r

"

~

~

-

ccollins©bakercityherald.com

HALFWAY — The Clear Creek Music Festival has been awarded grants for the 2016 festival by the Leo Adler Community Fund, the Buerkel-Zoellner Foundation based in North Powder, and the FredW. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The latter two funds were founded specifically to support education and the arts in Oregon, goals shared by the local festival held each July in Pine Valley. For more information about the Clear Creek Music Festival, visit the website at clearcreek musicfestival.org.

About 10 policecruisersconverged with lights flashing on the Super 8 motel Friday afternoon as police arrested an Idaho man suspected of robbing a Boise bank Thursday evening. Mark Allen Price, 46, was taken into custody without incident at 3:34 p.m. Friday in the motelparking lot,said Lt. Dustin Newman of the Baker City Police Department. cThe good Lord was looking Price out for us," Newman said."Everything went exactly right." Price did not have any weapons at the time of the arrest, Newman said. Boise Police notified Baker County authorities Friday morning that Price was thought to be in the Baker City area. Through the course of their investigation Friday, officers learned that Price was staying at the Super 8 at 250

r

h

vr

*

'•

I

' f' • J' c' I

Campbell St.

er

. /rr~.

l

>" I r

*

SeeCaught/Page 2A

BRIEFING Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald

Snow piles up over the weekend along the Anthony Lakes Highway northwest of Baker City.

at Methodist

Church The Baker United Methodist Church invites the public to attend a Christmas Eve service on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. at the church, 1919 Second St. Due to the holidays, the Tuesday Activity Club will take a vacation and will restart on Jan 5.

First Lutheran

plans candlelight service The community is invited to join First Lutheran Church for its annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. It will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, at the church at 1734 Third St. The Christmas Day service will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 25.

WEATHER

Today

32/21 Clearing

Tuesday

• Mark Allen Price, who is accused of robbing a Boise bank Thursday evening, was arrested Friday afternoon at the Super 8 Motel in Baker City By Chris Collins

Local, 3A

Christmas Eve service

<

NortheasternOregonSnowpacKONIo FastStart

Good Day Wish To A Subscriber

Oregon, 3A

B RYSON SMITH

By Jayson Jacoby ]]acoby©bakercityherald.com

The snowstorm that swept across Northeastern Oregon this weekend was precisely what the drought-stricken region needed. Now it needs about half a dozen more just like it. The storm brought nearly two feet of snow to the higher peaks in the Elkhorns and Wallowas. But even lower elevation sitesadded several inches of the kind ofheavy, wet snow that will help replenish depleted aquifers and refill reservoirs. "I'm starting to get encouraged," said Jerry Franke of the Burnt River Irrigation District in southern Baker County.

WdatAQiierence

Middle School, MayDay Inc. receive grants By Chris Collins

STATION

AVERAGE FOR 12/14/14 12/14/15 DEC. 14

Aneroid Lake Bourne Eilertson Meadow Gold Center

High Ridge Moss Springs

SNOW W ATER

45 6

Q4

4S

53

Schneider Meadows Taylor Green

44

SeeSnow IPage2A

ll ll

1.2" 2.4"

Mount Howard

Tipton Wolf Creek

ll

3

SNO W WA T E R

7Q 52

33 46

ll ll

1.2"

ll

2S

ll

32

ll

ll

5.8"

6.3" 6.5"

5.6"

57

ll

6.9"

ll ll

43

ll

ll ll

6.6"

7Q 45 46

ll

44

ll

ll

33

ll

ll

41

II

ccollins©bakercityherald.com

The OregonCommunity Foundation has awardedfunding toBaker Middle School and MayDay Inc. as part of its fall grants to support Eastern Oregon youth and families. The Baker Middle School will use the $21,000 grant to improve the grounds to the west of the Baker Middle School for students and community members, said Chris Carmiencke, BMS principal. Mindi Vaughn, who served as the school's principal before Carmiencke was hired this year, submitted the original proposal, the first-year principal said. The plan is to expand the playground area to possibly include one or two outdoor basketball courts, a four-square court and picnic benches for students earning special privileges to use for outdoor dining. SeeGrants/Page 8A

Source: Natural Resources Conservation Service

iiarvevcontinuestofocusondoostinglogging By Pat Caldwell For the Baker City Herald

Bill Harvey will reach his oneyear anniversary as the Baker County Commission Chairman next month and one of his primary goals — to open up the

county's public forests to commercial logging — remains as critical now as it was during the election that elevated him to the county's top political slot. Harvey's aim to expand commercial and fire salvage logging

is the central pillar in his plan to createmore jobsthatboastliving wages. Harvey said last week that he is confident his goal is achievable. "I believe we will have salvage logging immediately. And I

believe we will get into green side logging, too," he said. H arveysaidsalvage logging has been happening on private land in the area since summer. See HarveyIPage8A

Harvey

33/21 Partly sunny

TO D A T Issue 94, 18 pages

Carendar....................2A C lassified............. 5B-BB Comics....................... 4B

C o m m u nity News....3A Hom e . ............1BBB,BB Lo t t e ryResurts..........2A Op i n i on..... ............ 4A C r o ssword........BB & BB H o r o scope........BB & BB N e w s of Record........2A Sp o r t s .... 6A-10A D e a r Abby ............... 10B L e t t ers........................4A Obi t u aries..................2A We a t h er.... .......... 1 0 B

Full forecast on the baCk Of the B SeCtiOn. 8

•000

•000

51153 00102

•000

o


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.