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Local, 5A A collision between two minivans at an uncontrolled Baker City intersection Tuesday afternoon left one of the vehicles upside down.

Neither driver was hurt in the accident.

By Pat Caldwell For the Baker City Herald

A beleaguered Baker County timber sale is once again in legal limbo after a federal judge issued a ruling last week in Portland.

The Wallowa-Whitman N ational Forest' s29,000-acre Snow Basin project, once seen bysome elected leaders as amodel forforestrestoration, is in a holding pattern in the wake of Judge Marco Hernandez's 55-page opinion released Dec. 9.

Three of the proposed five timber sales that make up theprojecthave been sold, but only one has been logged.

Progress is now stalled on the two that were sold.

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Free Christmas eve dinner Calvary Baptist Church in Baker City is hosting a free Christmas Eve dinner at 5:30 p.m. at the church, 2130 Fourth St. (main entrance at corner ofThird and Broadway).

A candlelight service will follow at 6:30 p.m.

Everyone is welcome.

More information is available by calling the church office at 541-5233891.

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Grants for historic building preservation Baker City's Historic District Design Review Commission and Historic Baker City Inc. have received a $6,000 matching grant from the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.

The recipients have to match the grant amount, dollar for dollar.

Any historic building in the city's historic district is eligible to apply for a grant. Work must be done byAug. 1, 2015.

Building owners should send a one-page proposal to: Baker City, Attn: Amy Stahman, PO. Box 650, Baker City, OR 97814. Deadline is Jan. 15, 201 5.Proposals should include a description of the project and its estimated cost.

More information is available by emailing Stahman at astahman@ bakercity.com.

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Teacher David Frazey, center, checks progress on a wall frame project being constructed by freshmen Evan Bigler, left, and PrestonWaggoner.

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What Jerry Peacock describes as a"vocational program on steroids" has been established at Baker High School this fall.

It's called Baker Technical Institute iBTIl and it appears to be a hit with the students enrolled in programs aimed at helping set them on a pathway to success once they

graduate.

About 200 kids who attend Baker High School and Eagle Cap innovative high school are enrolled in BTI this winter.

Students in the engineering and building construction classes wear lab coats identifying them as team members at Baker Technical Institute. The sign outside the former kindergarten entrance proclaims the

Cornucopia jail on historic list The Cornucopia Jailhouse in eastern Baker County is among Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.

Thirteen individual properties in Baker County are now listed in the National Register, along with the Baker City downtown district, which includes dozens of structures. More information is available online at www.oregonheritage. org. Click on "National Register" at left of page.

new program's name and motto — Where Careers Begin."

Students are producing prototype designs on a 3-D p rinter and learnPeac o ck ing computer-aided design. Others are cultivating crops fertilized by tilapia they are raising in an aquaponics class.

Other"career pathways" included at BTI are more agriculture programs, culinary arts and health services.

Peacock stepped away from a 22-year career as Baker High School principal to take the lead of BTI, a program he's convinced will better serve BHS students and the community.

'The whole concept sprung out of the fact that Baker City has an economic development issue," he said.

It followed that if the community is to improve its position in that regard, itmust develop a trained workforce.

"No one will want to locate here if you don't have a workforce with some skills," Peacock said.

The other issue is the reality that not all students are cut out to be college kids, yet that's where educational programs have historically focused their energy.

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BHS juniors Jacob Riles, left, Marco Vela, Wyatt Knadle and Shaun Lepley join classmates at stations to create ideas, designs or seek solutions to any problems they encounter.

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Baker County voters will decide in the May 2015 primary election whether to make Baker County Commissioner positions non-partisan for future elections.

Randy Joseph, who lives near Sumpter, submitted an initiative petition earlier this year to make that change.

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Joseph neededtocollectatleast437 valid signatures to put the measure on the ballot.

CountyClerk Tami Green on Tuesday certified that of the 588 signatures Joseph submitted, 545were valid.

Ifvotersapprove themeasure it wouldn't affect the three current commissioners.

Tim L. Kerns, Mark Bennett, and Commission Chairman-elect Bill Harvey, who was elected in November and takes office Jan. 1, are all Republicans.

Harvey and Bennett, an incumbent who was re-elected in November, are serving four-year terms that continue through 2018.

Kerns' term continues through 2016.

Unless one of the commissionersleaves offi ceearly, the next commission election will be in 2016, for Kerns' position.

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BAKER COUNTY CALENDAR THURSDAY, DEC. 18 • Swingin' with Sam:Powder River Dance Club meets, 6:30 to 8 p.m.,Vets Club, 2005ValleyAve. FRIDAY, DEC. 19 • KeithTaylor:Plays piano,5 p.m. to 6 p.m.,Veterans Center, 1901 Main St.; free admission.

• Victorian Christmas magic show:7 p.m., Iron Gate Theater, Basche-Sage Place; $10adults, $8 children; show continues at7 p.m.Saturdayand 3 p.m .Sunday.

• Live music:Stefannie Gordon plays fiddle,7 p.m., Geiser Grand Hotel,1996 Main St. SATURDAY, DEC. 20 • HighTea:2 p.m., Geiser Grand Hotel,1996 Main St.; Victorian tea and hotel tour; $24 adults, $12 ages 14and younger; reservations required by calling 541-523-1889.

TURNING BACK THE PAGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald Dec. 17, 1964 The mercury dipped to near record lows at Baker in the pre-dawn hours today and the weatherman said there is more to come.

The official weather observer station at Radio KBKR reported a low of 24 below in downtown Baker during the early morning hours.

The Federal Aviation Agency reported 22 below between 5 and 6 a.m. at the Baker airport. The record low for December was reported 24 below at the airport in 1939.

Many cars stalled today as residents went to work in sub-zero weather.

25 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald Dec. 18, 1989 Brick sales to help fund the Oregon Trail Interpretive Centerhave reached $34,500,accordingto Joyce Badgley Smith, Oregon Trail Preservation Trust executive director.

The number of bricks sold as of Friday afternoon was 478, or 23.9 percent of the 2,000-brick goal. Each of the bricks, having the buyers' inscription, will be built into the interpretive center, which is scheduled to be completed in May 1992.

Bricks are available for donations ranging from $50 to $1,000.

10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald Dec. 16, 2004 Linda Button couldn't stand the thought that some children faced an empty house and idle time in the hours after school.

So last year she started a club — aptly named the "After School Club" — to provide a place where youngsters can play games, stretch their creativity with crafts and spend time with other youth.

ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald Dec. 24, 2013 Gary Baxter had never cried over a tree until his mother sent him one by mail.

That tree he watered well, with his tears.

The little fir also had quite a thirst for beer, but more about that later.

The more salient point is that it was a Christmas tree.

Hardly an unusual item, of course.

Unless you're a soldier stationed in Vietnam in 1969.

Which Baxter was, in that long ago December.

Baxter, who was 10 when he moved from Astoria to Baker City with his parents, Ray and Irene, shipped out for Vietnam on July 4, 1969.

He was already an apprentice metal worker at Valley Metal and Heating in Baker City, and he transferred his skills to the Army.

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Continued ~om Page1A Joseph said he started the initiative campaign in part because Oregon has a closed primary system.

That means that in some partisan races, more than half ofthecounty'seligible votersdon'tgetto vote.

The May 2014 primary is an example.

Two of the three Baker County Commission positions were on the ballot — Bennett's, and the chairman position held by Fred Warner Jr. Each drew one challenger — Dick Fleming ran against Bennett, and Harvey against Warner.

All four candidates are Republicans.

As a result, only registered Republican voters were able to cast a ballot in the two commission races in the primary.

About 49 percent of Baker County voters are registered Republicans.

"Independents and Democrats were excluded," Joseph sald.

County commissioners are the only elected positions in Baker County government that are partisan. Of Oregon's 36 counties, 28 have non-partisan county commissioners.

Joseph pointed out that voters in three of Baker County's neighbors — Grant, Union and Wallowa — have recently added their counties to the roster of 28 with nonpartisan county commissioners.

Joseph said that while he was collecting signatures earlier this year for his initiative, about two-thirds of the voters he talked with agreed to sign the petition.

Among the voters who refused to sign, Joseph said some are "adamantly opposed" to making the county commission positions non-partisan, while others weren't familiar with the situation.

Joseph, a registered Democrat, ran unsuccessfully for a county commission position in 2008. He is a member of the Baker County Planning Commission.

OBITUARY Bertha Bales Baker City, 1937-2014

Bertha Ann Bales, 77, of Baker City died Dec. 14, 2014, at Boise.

A Memorial Mass will be celebrated in the spring of 2015.

Bertha was born on June 15, 1937, at Baker City to Wayne Morris and Anna Domby Morris.

She graduated fiom Hereford High School in 1955.

Bertha On Ap r il 12, 1959, Bertha married Darrell Bales R. B ales in Baker City and in this marriage, they had two sons, Brad and Brian. During their marriage, the most important occupation Bertha had was being a wife and mother, but she also was a bank teller for the First National Bank and Bank ofAmerica and she also worked for the Baker County Health Department. Bertha took time to bake, ride horses, and hosted many family reunions.

Bertha is survived by her husband, Darrell Bales; her sons, Brad Bales of Dayton, and Brian Bales and daughterin-law, Karen, of Medford; a brother, Larry Morris and his wife, Rocky, of Baker City; sisters-in-law, Sally Farmer and Patty Moyes, both of Baker City; two grandchildren, Kelly and Kevin Bales; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Bertha was preceded in death by her parents; a sister-inlaw, Roberta Bard; and her brothers-in-law, Dennis Bales and Clifford Farmer.

Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Francis de Sales Cathedral Church through Coles Tribute Center, 1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.

3acobBingham new BCLA president Jacob Bingham has been elected president of the Baker County Livestock Association.

"I express my sincere appreciation and I hope you will too in acknowledging our past president Frederick Phillips Jr. and others before him who have led this association," Bingham said in a press release."My hat's off also to Connie Colton for servingastreasurer forthepast14 years."

Other BCLA officers are: Drew Martin, first vice president; Martin Arritola, treasurer; and Dotty Miles, secretary.

Democrats to meet Thursday The Baker County Democrats will hold their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Rogers Fellowship Hall at 1995 Fourth Street. A potluck holiday buffet will precede the meeting. They will continue to lay plans for positive Democratic initiatives leading to the 2016 presidential primary. Coffeeishotat6:30 p.m. for some social time.

Forest Service has summer jobs The Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, and Malheur National Forestswillsoon begin accepting applications for temporary jobs in a variety of programs including firefighting, recreation, timber, survey crews, archaeology and botany.

This 2015 application and hiring process is taking place a little earlier than it has in past years, according to the Forest Service.

Applicants interested in temporary positions need to apply online to open vacancies available through www.USAjobs.gov.

Vacancies will be available in three phases: • Phase 1 hiring includes all temporary fire-related jobs and posit ions thatstartpriorto Ma y 1,2015.The time period for candidates to submit applications for all fire-related temporary jobs is Jan. 6-12, 2015. Apply on www.USAjobs.gov.

• Phase 2 involves all non-fire related temporary positions not addressed in Phase 1. Candidates will need to submit applications for non-fire related temporary jobs from Feb. 4-10, 2015.

•Phase 3isthe"catch all"period,forpositionsthatwere not filled during Phase 1 or Phase 2. This phase is intended to fill positions that were not filled during the first two phases of the process More information about jobs, locations and contact inform ation for supervisors,isavailable on each national forest's website: • Wallowa-Whitman: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/Wallowa-WhitmanEmployment • Umatilla: wwwfs.usda.gov/goto/UmatillaEmployment • Malheur: wwwfs.usda.gov/goto/MalheurEmployment Applicants are reminded to apply to the assigned announcement number associated with the position of interest and select only those duty locations where they are willing to work.

Perspective employees are also encouraged to contactthe local supervisor for positionsthey are interested in.

BLM schedules open houses on B2H project The BLM has scheduled a series of open houses, including two in Baker County, during January to give residents a chance to learn about the draft environmental impact statement iDEISl for the proposed Boardman-to-Hemingway power line.

Idaho Power Co. wants to build that transmission line through Baker County. The BLM's DEIS is slated to be released Friday. The two local open houses: •Thursday,Jan.8,Sunridge Inn,BakerCity,5 p.m .to 8 p.m.

•Friday, Jan.9,Durkee Community Hall,Durkee,5 p.m .to 8 p.m.

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Bonnie Taie: 73, of Baker City died Dec. 16, 2014, at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise. Arrangements are by Coles Tribute Center.

Baker City Police ASSAULT IV (Domestic) and HARASSMENT: Anthony Allan Myers, 35, of 2036 Grove St., 7:58 p.m.Tuesday, at his home; jailed.

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VOCATION Continued from Page1A "Inorderto betterthe community and better kids' chances, we developed BTI," Peacock said.

Five years ago, the space in the northwest wing of Baker High School was occupied by vocational-technical programs, including a forestry program eliminated in 2009.

From that year until this year, kindergartners met in part of the area, which was transformedinto classrooms for little kids.

This year, kindergartners were moved to Brooklyn Primary School and the space at BHS again was transformed.

It'sbecome a more sophisticated version of what is now termed"careerand technical training."

Peacock says the new program aims to give students more options as they plan their futures.

'There are threeobjectives to BTI," Peacock said.

The first is to create an environment where students can learn job skills that transferto the realworld.

Secondly, students will be exposed to career pathways that can be used as a springboard to help them decide which direction to follow after high school: the job market, job certification and training, or study at a community college or four-year college or university.

Along the way they also will learn"soft skills" needed to succeed on whatever path they choose, Peacock said.

Those skills, which are valued by all employers and needed to succeed in college as well, include getting to work or class on time, working hard while they are there and demonstrating initiative.

Initiative is a term not all students are familiar with, Peacock says.

"And they can't look it up on their cellphones because they don't know how to spell it," he said.'We're trying to change a culture. It's going to be a challenge, but we're seeing some changes. We've come a long way in a short time."

The Baker School District

received about $100,000 as its share of a Career and Technical Education RevitalizationGrant awarded to 140 Oregon schools. Baker is part of a consortium that includes Baker, Elgin, Pine-Eagle

iHalfwayl and Vale school districts. The grant was awarded last year and implemented this fall.

BTI instructors include Burke Smejkal, who leads students through an aquaponics class and is the "Engineer Your World" instructor.

Smejkal also teaches BHS science classes and is an adviser at Eagle Cap innovative high school for part ofhis day.

He joined the district first as a Web Academy teacher three years ago and has worked w ith BHS andEagleCap for two years.

Smejkal attended a twoweek training at the University of Texas at Austin to prepare to teach the engineering class, which he says is geared toward helping students develop "habits of mind" toward engineering.

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BMS. The culinary arts career pathway is taught by 22-year veteran BHS teacher Gerre Richardson. She also teaches S. John Collins/ Baker City Herald vocational health classes at Grant Ermovick, a senior at Baker High School, has beBaker High School. come experienced utilizing the 3-D Printer, at right, and is The health services career often called on to mentor younger students. pathway is taught by two Blue Mountain Community College instructors. Kelly Lethlean is the instructor for the certified nursing assisStudents rotate through 14 different construction trade tant program, and Sonya De areas. They are blueprint reading, estimation skills, La Torre teaches the phleweatherization, green technology, masonry, concrete, botomy classes, which will surveying and site planning, painting, electrical, plumbing, begin in the second semester. roof framing, wall framing, drywall and finish carpentry.

BMCC also is working A computer software program pairs students based on with BTI to secure grants their interest in a particular topic for seven lab periods. for an Industrial AutomaStudents meet in the construction module lab on Tuesdays tion Technology/MechatronandThursdaysand then in the classroom on Mondays icsprogram designed to and Wednesdaysto study topicssuch asapplied math and train students to work with to learn about hand tools and power tools. mechanical and electrical At the end of the seven-period session, students will systems, said Peggy Hudson, again be randomly paired with another team member to who directs BMCC programs begin learning about another construction skill in a differin Baker County. ent module.

The agriculture pathway, "That's a soft skill — learning to work with somebody which Peacock says is an they're totally unfamiliar with and maybe don't like or "absolute must in any rural do like," said instructor David Frazey. "It's like real-life job community," is taught by experience."

Seth Bingham, who's in his Students have the option of taking a test to be certisecond year at BHS. fied in a certain skill area to demonstrate competence to In addition to adding a prospective employers. computer science program — Chris Collins down the line as money becomes avail able,a m echanics career pathway will be added students last year, has grown building construction classes. when a qualified instructor to 21 this year and keeps stu- Frazey began his 24-year can be found. dents busy for the 55-minute career at BHS teaching draftPeacock said the next step period, Smejkal said. ing and woods classes. In his will be to begin working He and his students third year he developed a to developapprenticeship recentlyproduced avideoto construction class. programs with employers in competeforprizesof$250, These days he spends half the region.

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BHS junior Sam Tatlock is learning masonry skills.

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The 3-D Printer actually creates objects designed by students. Nuts and bolts are in the foreground. Students are working to design more strength into a snowmobile's forward ski struts. to improve their skills or learn some new ones.

BTI is one of a kind, Peacock says, and he credits the Baker School Board with having the vision to pursue

the project.

'They were concerned about the number of kids not having their needs met at college or anyplace else," Peacock said.

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W at counties actua nee The Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program was supposed to be a temporary source of money for counties, including Baker, that sufered when logging in federal forests plummeted starting in early 1990s.

Counties receive 25 percent of revenue from timbersaleson federalland within their borders.

Fourteen years aker it started, SRS still exists, but

barely. A pending federal budget bill doesn't include SRS payments for 2015.

Baker County likely will fare better than most counties should SRS end. That's because another federal program — Payment In Lieu of Taxes — will make up most of the diference.

But the problem persists — relatively little logging is being done on public land in Eastern Oregon despite a growing need to thin overcrowded forests that are vulnerable to insects, disease and fire.

This is due in part to Congress' failure to pass bills such as Rep. Greg Walden's Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities act.

We're not talking about clearcutting the region's few remaining stands of old growth ponderosa pines.

These days loggers mainly cut relatively small fir trees.

This kind of work helps counties, local economies and, unlike programs such as SRS, the environment.

Your views Enhanced interrogation? It really works Years ago, as a young pilot who might be shot down over enemy territory, I was required to attend the Survival and Escape and Evasion school at Stead AFB in Nevada. The 72 hours of enhanced interrogation techniques I underwent, although simulated, made me a believer in the efficacy of the process. It works.

Perhaps Senator Feinstein should have the privilege of attending that school, now at Fairchild AFB in Washington.

Or, better yet, we could just waterboard her.

May the United States of America have a merry Christmas. And may 2015 be a prosperous year in which intelligence is a concept practiced in our nation's Capitol.

Robert Heriza Baker City

Enjoying our local treasure: the river For those citizens of Baker City who don't already know, I want to draw your attention to one of your greatest treasures — the river.

My wife and I moved here about mid September. It wasn't long til I had my line in the water most every day. It was like winning the lottery. A beautiful river full of magnificent rainbow trout, not two blocks from my front door!

Did I mention the paved pathway, stretching alongside for two miles? It is truly a retiree's dream.

After seeing me fishing, on a daily basis, quite a few curious locals mustered up the courage to admit"I thought the river was closed for fishing?" I would be more than happy to keep the Baker stretch of the Powder all to myselfbut being that Christmas is around the corner I feel it is my duty to share.

Your river is open year round ialthough I admit that it is pretty much closed when completely froze st®. You may use bait and keep 'em April 26 to Oct. 31 il kept a couple hook-swallowing beauties for breakfast); the rest of the year is catch and release using artificial flies and lures ino

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Since it is flowing smoothly, for the moment, I have decided that my Christmas present to this treasure iyours and mine) will be to forego my daily fishing tomorrow and instead take a big garbage bag and pick up the incredible amount of trash imysteriously escaping the many, wellplaced receptacles) that lines the bank of this incredible resource. I only wish my arms were long enough to reach to the other side.

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The best defense against these attacksisclear:strong data encryption and more secure technology systems.

The leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies hold a different view. Most prominently, James Comey, the FBI director, is lobbying Congress to require that electronics manufacturers create intentional security holes so-called back doors that would enable the government to access data on every American's cellphone and computer, even if it is protectedby strong encryption.

Unfortunately, there are no magic keys that can be used only by good guys for legitimate reasons. There is only strong security or weak security.

Americans are demanding strong security for their personal data. Comey and others are suggesting that security features shouldn't be too strong, because this could interfere with surveillance conducted for law enforcement or intelligence purposes. The problem with this logic is that building a back door intoevery cellphone,tablet,orlaptop means deliberately creating weaknesses that hackers and foreign governments can exploit. Mandating back doors also removes the incentive for companies to developmore secure products atthe time people need them most; if you're building a wall with a hole in it, how much are you going invest in locks and barbed wire? What these officials are proposingwould be bad forpersonal data security and bad for business and must be opposed by Congress.

In Silicon Valley several weeks ago I convened a roundtable of executives from America's most innovative tech companies. They made it clear that widespread availability of data encryp-

their products."

Built-in backdoors have been tried RON WYDEN elsewhere with disastrous results. In 2005,forexample,Greece discovered that dozens of its senior government tion technology is what consumers are officials' phones had been under surveildemanding. lance for nearly a year. The eavesdropIt is also good public policy. For years, per was never identified, but the vulnerofficials of intelligence agencies like ability was clear: built-in wiretapping featuresintended to be accessibleonly the NSA, as well as the Department of to government agencies following a legal Justice, made misleading and outright inaccurate statements before Congress process.

Chinese hackers have proved how agabouttheirdata surveillance programs.

Not once, but repeatedly over more than gressively they will exploit any security a decade. These agencies spied on huge vulnerability. A report last year by a numbers oflaw-abiding Americans, and leading cyber security company identitheir dragnet surveillance of Americans' fied more than 100 intrusions in U.S. networks from a single cyber espionage data did not make our country safer.

Most Americans accept that there are unit in Shanghai. As another tech times their government needs to rely company leader told me, 'Why would we on clandestine methods of intelligence leave a backdoor lying around?"

Why indeed. The U.S. House of Repgathering to protect national security and ensure public safety. But they resentatives recognized how dangerous this idea was and in June approved also expect government agencies and officials to operate within the boundar293-123, a bipartisan amendment that ies of the law, and they now know how would prohibit the government from egregiously intelligence agencies abused mandating that technology companies their trust. build security weaknesses into any of This breach of trust is also hurting their products. I introduced legislation in the Senate to accomplish the same U.S. technology companies' bottom line, particularly when trying to sell services goal, and willagain atthe startofthe next session. and devices in foreign markets. The Technology is a tool that can be put to president's own surveillance review legitimate or illegitimate use. And adgroup noted that concern about U.S. surveillance policies "can directly reduce vances in technology always pose a new the market share of U.S. companies." challenge to law enforcement agencies.

One industry estimate suggests that But curtailing innovation on data seculost market share will cost just the U.S. rity is no solution, and certainly won't cloud computing sector $21 billion to restore public trust in tech companies or $35 billion over the next three years. government agencies. Instead we should Tech firms are now investing heavily give law enforcement and intelligence in new systems, including encryption, to agencies the resources that they need to adapt, and give the public the data protect consumers from cyber attacks and rebuild the trust of their customers. security they demand.

As one participant at my roundtable put it, "I'd be shocked if anyone in the indus- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is a member of the try takes the foot off the pedal in terms Serrrrte Intelligence Committee. He wrote ofbuilding security and encryption into this for the Los Angeles Times.

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CONTACT YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS President Barack Obama: The White House, 1600 PennsylvaniaAve.,Washington, D.C. 20500; 202-456-1414; fax 202456-2461; to send comments, go to www.whitehouse.gov/contact.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley: D.C. office: 313 Hart Senate Office Building,U.S. Senate,Washington, D.C.,20510; 202-224-3753; fax 202-228-3997. Portland office: One WorldTrade Center, 121 S.W. Salmon St. Suite 1250, Portland, OR 97204; 503-326-3386; fax 503-326-2900. Pendleton office: 310 S.E. Second St. Suite 105, Pendleton 97801; 541-278-1129; merkley.senate.gov.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden: D.C. office: 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-5244; fax 202-228-2717 La Grande office: 105 Fir St., No. 210, La Grande, OR 97850; 541962-7691; fax, 541-963-0885; wyden.senate.gov.

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (2nd District): D.C. office: 2182 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20515, 202-225-6730; fax 202-225-5774. La Grande office: 1211 Washington Ave., La Grande, OR 97850;541-624-2400, fax, 541-624-2402; walden.house g OV.

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Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler: 350Winter St. N.E., Suite 100,Salem, OR 97301-3896; 503-378-4329.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum: Justice Building,Salem, OR 97301-4096; 503-378-4400.

Oregon Legislature: Legislative documents and information are available online at www.leg.state.or.us.

State Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ontarioj: Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., H-475, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1460. District office: RO. Box 1027, Ontario, OR 97914; 541-889-8866.

State Sen. Ted Ferrioli (R-John Dayl: Salem office: 900 Court St. N.E., S-323, Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1950. District office: 111 Skyline Drive, John Day, OR 97845; 541-490-6528.

Baker City Hall: 1655 First Street, PO. Box 650, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-6541; fax 541-524-2049. City Council meets the second and fourthTUesdays at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers.

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Baker County Commission: Baker County Courthouse 1995 3rd St., Baker City, OR 97814; 541-523-8200. Meets the first and third Wednesdays at 9 a.m.; Fred Warner Jr. (chairj, Mark Bennett, Tim Kerns.

Baker County departments:541-523-8200. Mitch Southwick, sheriff; Jeff Smith, roadmaster; Matt Shirtcliff, district attorney; Alice Durflinger, countytreasUrer;Tami Green, county clerk; Kerry Savage, county assessor.

Baker School District: 20904th Street, Baker City, OR 97814; 541-524-2260; fax 541-524-2564. Superintendent: Walt Wegener. Board meets the thirdTuesday of the month at 6 p.m., Baker School District 5J office boardroom; Andrew Bryan, Kevin Cassidy, Chris Hawkins, Kyle Knight, Rich McKim.

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By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com

A collision between two minivans at an uncontrolled Baker City intersection Tuesday afternoon left one of the vehicles upside (lown.

Neither driver was hurt in the accident, which happened about 3:30 p.m. at First and B streets.

There were no passengers in either minivan.

Neither street has a stop sign at that intersection.

Jeanie Dexter was driving north on First Street, on her way to pick up her kids from school.

A greenminivan,driven by Theresa Hayes, was heading east on B Street.

"I didn't see the green van until I hit it," Dexter said.

She said she had slowed for a gold SUV that was waiting to turn south from B Street to First Street as she entered the intersection.

Hayes'van fl ipped upside down in the collision.

She was on her way to buy a present for her grandchild.

Hayes was shaking as she talked about the accident. sWe were both right there. I fig-

LOGGING Continued from Page1A Combined, Snow Basin is the biggestlogging projecton the Wallowa-Whitman in 20 years, with an estimated 35 million to 50 million boardfeet of timber among the five sales.

Fred Warner Jr., chairman of the Baker County Board of Commissioners, had a succinct response to Hernandez's ruling.

"Basically it is a bunch of BS,"Warnersaid."I'm hopeful the Forest Service will appeal this."

Hernandez's opinion is in response to a lawsuit filed in 2012 by the Hells Canyon Preservation Council of La Grande, and the League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountain Diversity Project.

Baker Countyfi led as a legal intervenor in the case, joining ForestService regional forester Kent Connaughton as a defendant.

In his Dec. 9 ruling, Herndandez concluded that the ForestServiceviolated the National Environmental Policy Act in three instances.

Hernandez declared the Forest Service did not furnishreportsfrom some ofits scientists in the appendices of its draft and final environmental impact statements and failed to disclose those reports during the public comment period.

Hernandez also wrote that the Forest Service's analysis ofthecumulative effectsof the Snow Basin project on the Wallowa-Whitman is insufficient.

In particular the Forest Serviceused a specifi carea — the Eagle Creek watershed— toevaluate the impact of the project on the pileated woodpecker and American marten instead of assessing the cumulative impactacrossthe entireforest.

Possibly the most significant of Hernandez's rulings is that the Forest Service failed to justify allowing loggerstocutlivetreeslarger than 21 inches in diameter.

The Forest Service agreed in theearly 1990s to stop cuttingtreesofthatsizein national forestseastofthe Cascades in Oregon and Washington. The agreement, known as the "eastside screens," was intended to forestall a lawsuit from environmental groups that want to preservethe relatively small amount of older trees remaining in the region.

Warner said the 21-inch trees are all white fir that shouldbe removed toboost the growth of the more firetolerantponderosa pine and tamarack trees.

'They weren't going to cut any trees other than white

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SALEM iAPl — The state Employment Department says a large increase in jobs in November has pushedOregon employment totals above the peakreached before the Great Recession.

The agency said Tuesday that seasonally adjusted payroll figures for the month were 3,000 greater than in December 2007.

Total employment is estimated at more than 1.7 million.

The estimate for November's gainswas 11,200 — the largest one-month gain since 1990, when comparablerecords started Those monthly figures frequently are revised later. On Tuesday, forexample,theagency cutitsestimate of9,900 new jobs in October by 2,500.

Jobs gains have not reduced the Oregonunemployment rate, which has been hovering around 7 percent for months.

That's because as the economy improves,peoplewho hadn'tbeen looking for jobs rejoin the labor force.

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Two minivans collidedTuesday afternoon at the uncontrolled intersection of First and B streets in Baker City. Theresa Hayes of Baker City was driving the minivan that flipped upside down. Jeanie Dexter of Baker City was driving the other vehicle. Neither driver was hurt in the accident, and no citations have been issued. ured if I put on my brakes, I would gethit — so I hit the gas. Then I was hit, "she said."IguessIm ade a bad choice. Next thing I know, I was upside down."

Hayes said she and Dexter walked to each other to make sure they were both OK. Donna Bunnell lives on B Street

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Service will appeal this."

— Fred Wamer Jr., chairman, Baker County Board of Commissioners

fir which everyone agrees should be out of there," he said.

The plaintiffs in the Snow Basin lawsuit disagree.

Although environmental groups have agreed that cutting smaller firs can be beneficial in some areas, they believe the 21-inch limit should remain in effect.

"Hells Canyon Preservation Council has always taken issue with the routine cutting of old growth and insteadadvocates forprojects focused on cutting the smallerdiameter treesthat, due largely to fire suppression, are over abundant on the landscape,"said Veronica Warnock, conservation director for Hells Canyon Preservation Council.

"The judge's order is clear — the Forest Service was violating the law. This is a great outcome for the animals and

"We wereboth right there. I

f iguredifIputon my brakes,I wouldgethit — so Ihit thegas."

— Driver Theresa Hayes

and watched the collision from a block away.

speciesthat depend on old forests to thrive,"Warnock said.

Snow Basin remains stalled until the Forest Service makes a decision on its next move. The agency could appealthe court' sopinion, return to square one and addressthe issues singled out by the court, or let the venture fade away.

Warner said the judge's opinion means the three remaining timber sales that are part of Snow Basin might never be sold, or the trees cut.

"The judge has pretty much killed the project,"Warner said."

It'sgoing to take a couple of years to work all through this stuff. The Forest Service will have to figure out what the judge wants. It's goingtoslow theprojecttoa

"This has been waiting to happen for some time," Bunnell.

She saiditappeared to her that Hayes' van was exceeding the speed limit, which is 25 mph in that area.

No citations have been issued, said Lt. Kirk McCormick of the Baker City Police Department.

crawl," he said.

Warner said he was disappointed by Hernandez's ruling. sWe were hopeful we could do some healthy forest restorati on,"Warner said. ''What we were trying to do was get enough itimberl volume to keep theJohn Day mill running. I really thought that the project would be something we could be proud of and now it's in the toilet," Warner said.

Warnock, though, said the plaintiffs are "really happy with the decision."

She said they are particularly pleased that Hernandez concluded the Forest Service needs to consider effects across the Wallowa-Whitman of such things as allowing 21-inch-plus trees to be cut, rather than focusing just on

the Snow Basin area.

'You need to do a forestwide amendment,"Warnock said.sWe've been bringing this up for years. Our position is they ithe Forest Service) need to do it right and if that takes time, it takes time."

Scott Horngren, a Portland attorney with the American Forest Resource Council, who is representing the defendants in the case, said any kind of amendment to the Wallowa-Whitman's forest plan would indeed take a lot of time.

"My worry gets magnified that if you did a plan amendment for the entire forestand allow 21-inch trees to be cut, that is a significant plan amendment," Horngren said. Which means you have to start over. Until the

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significant plan amendment isdone you are outofrestoration iworkl.n Boise Cascade bought the first Snow Basin timber sale, called Puzzle, and the company finished most of the logging there, said Lindsay Warness, forest policy analyst at the company's La Grande office.

Boise bought a second sale, Skull, and Blue Mountain Lumber ofPendleton bought another sale, called Empire.

W arness said afederalappeals court ruling this spring, which deals with some of the issues in Hernandez's recent ruling, has blocked any work on bothofthose sales.

— JaySOn JaCOby O f tlIB Baker

City Herald contributed to this story.

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Baker played very similar games Monday and Tuesday against Pendleton and Emmett.

The Bulldogs played their nonleague girls basketball opponents close most of the game each night, then faded in the fourth quarter.

Baker lost 50-44 to Pendleton Monday, and 42-35 to Emmett Tuesday in the Baker gym.

Against Pendleton, the Bulldogs fell behind 12-5 midway through the first quarterbeforebattling back.

Baker finished the period on a 13-0 run to take an 1812 lead at the break.

The Bulldogs then scored just one point in the first 7:18 ofthesecond quarter before scoring the final six points of the half to enter halfbme in a 25-25 tie.

The score remained deadlocked at 33-33 entering the fourth quarter.

Baker then built a 39-33 advantagebeforePendleton roared back to take a 46-44 edge with 1:38 left in the game.

Baker then missed an attempt at the tying basket and wasforced tofoul.

But apparently they fouled too hard. The Bulldogs were whistled for two consecutive intentional fouls.

Each time Pendleton shot two free throws and kept possesion of the ball.

The Buckaroos ended up

BRIEFING Southern Idaho baseball camp planned TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Registration is now open for the 32nd annual Southern Idaho Baseball Camp to be held Dec. 27-29 at CSI Expo Center at Twin Falls.

For an online application google CSI Winter Camp, or call Boomer Walkerat 1-208-308-4024.

Baker swimmers place fourth at home meet Baker placed fourth Saturday at its home invitational swim meet at Sam-0 Swim Center.

The Bulldogs earned eight first-place awards.

Baker swims at the La Grande Invitational Saturday.

Baker Invitational (Baker results) Team scores —Pendleton 1,207, La Grande 910, Hermiston 446, Baker 322 Girls200freestyle —2 Rushton,22326 Girls50freestyle —3 Bachman,2702 4 Rushton, 2762 5 Cross, 2920 Boys50freestyle— 7 Mansuetti,2709 8 Myers,2826 Boys100butterfly —1 Miller, 56 82 Girls 100 butterfly —1 Calloway, 5113 Girls 100 freestyle —1 Bachman, 10018 Girls50freestyle —1 Jones Bedolla,3349 8 Collard,4014 11 Benett,4095 16 Cal loway, 44 21 Boys 50freestyle — 1 Barnes, 29 58 Girls 500 freestyle —2 Lien, 64759 Girls 100backstroke —3 Jones Bedolla, 1 1819 4 Cross1 2289 Girls50backstroke —1 Bennett, 43 77 Boys 50 backstroke —1 Barnes, 40 55 Girls 100 breaststroke —2 Lien, 1 22 65 Boys 100breaststroke —1 Miller, 1 0765 8 Myers, 1 22 7712 Mansuetti, 1 2739

Regional ORWAY wrestling meet Saturday

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Baker's Kylie Severson battles for a loose ball against Emmett. scoring the final eight points of the game.

Brie Sand led Baker with 12 points.

Against Emmett, Baker forcedsix tiesand fivelead changes.

The Bulldogs led 8-7 after one quarter, buttrailed 19-18 at halfbme.

With the game knotted at 28-28 Emmett scored the final five points of the third

periodto take the lead for

good.

Sand and Michelle Freese each tallied 11 points for the Bulldogs.

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Pendleton 1213 8 1 7 — 50 Baker 18 7 811 — 44 Three-point baskets —H Greb, Bodmer 2, Philhps Fouled out —none Total foulsPendleton 12, Baker 16 Technicals —none

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EMMETT (42) Yates 1 0-0 2, Lyter 2 5-910, Heath, Smith 1 1 2 3, Marg 1 1 2 4, Tucker 0 2 2 2, McMillan 7 4819, Kaison1012 Totals1313-2442

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Bruce 1 1 2 3, Flanagan 2 0 0 4, Huggins 1 2 2 4, Sand 5 14 11, Lemmon, Tatlock 1 0-2 2, Philhps 0 0-2 0, Freese 1 912 11, Severson 0 0-20, Lehman Totals11 132635 Emmett 71214 9 — 42 Baker 81010 7 — 35 Three-point baskets —Lyter, Marg, McMillan Fouled out —Freese Total fouls —Em mett 19, Baker 22 Technicals —none

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Baker Mat Club will be hosting this year's Regional Wrestling Tournament for ORWAY on Saturday, Dec. 20 beginning at 10 a.m. at Baker High School. Wrestlers competingwillrange from 5-15 yearsofage.

Organizersareexpecting 350 participants from Eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. This will be one of the largest tournaments ever hosted by Baker and is expected to bring nearly 1,000 people into the community.

This year Baker Mat Club has risen to some of the highest numbers ever seen in Baker with 60 wrestlers competing.

The tournament will be run online through trackwrestling.com and will give live updates throughout the tournament. Several parents and community members are helping run the tournament.

Baker 3V2 girls sweep two opponents Baker's JV2 girls basketball team swept Pendleton and Emmett Monday and Tuesday at BHS. Monday, Baker won 39-27. Megan Tool led the Bulldogs with 10 points.

Tuesday, Baker topped Emmett 24-16. Josie Ash led Baker with 10 points.

Baker's JV girls split their two games, defeating Pendleton 47-39, but losing 35-34 to Emmett.

Blazers win game, lose Lopez PORTLAND — Portland was dealt a tough blow in what should have been a straightforward win against shorthanded San Antonio.

Starting center Robin Lopez broke his right hand in the third quarter and will be out for"a while," coach Terry Stottssaid afterthe Blazersdefeatedthe Spurs 108-95 on Monday night.

Lopez has not missed a game for the Blazers since coming to the team in the summer of 2013. He gave Portland some badly needed stability at the position.

"It's a little frustrating," said Lopez, who said there was perhaps two breaks in his hand, and that it would be reevaluated on Tuesday."I've been pretty fortunate with injuries in my career."

Portland will likely start Chris Kaman, who has been Lopez's backup this season after signing with the Blazers as a free agent this summer.

"He's a big part of this offense and this team and our identity," LaMarcus Aldridge said about Lopez."He does so many things that people don't notice. He's a hard worker, the guy that does all the things that nobody else really does in the first unit. So it's going to be tough."

Aldridge had 23 points and 14 rebounds for his 13th double-double this season. Damian Lillard also had 23 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for Portland, which has won seven of nine.

Kawhi Leonard had 21 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs, who had just 10 players available. Tim Duncan, who had 15 points and nine rebounds in a 99-91 victory the night before, was given the night ofK — Anne M. Peterson, Associated Press

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A broad base of people will add their views to the Baker School Board's efforts to hire a new superintendent.

Directors Kevin Cassidy and Chris Hawkins updated their fellow board members Tuesday night on progress toward replacing Superintendent Walt Wegener, who will retire June 30.

Twelve applications were pared to six after a board review Thursdayin executive

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The 30-member volunteer group that will assist the board indudes business leadersselected by theBaker CountyChamber ofCommerce Board; parent groups representingthedistrict's different grade levels; school district employees; and community members.

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'That's when it will become more public about who and what we're doing. ''We appreciate thefolks who brought themselves forward," he added.'We went to groups and asked them to

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In other business Tuesday, Jessica Wickert,food services director ,reported thatthe summer lunch program fed about 100 students daily at Geiser-Pollman Park and another 100 at the North Baker Education Center in conjunction with the summer reading program. Another 50 to 75 snacks were served daily to children at Sam-0 Swim Center.

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The equipment has been put to use during the school year as well.

Wickert said she and Tish Henes, who teaches PE classes at Brooklyn Primary School, haveappliedforanothergrant to promote nutrition and physical education. Wickert said she would use her portion to buy a new refiigerator to store milk Breakfast isbeing served in the classroom at Brooklyn this year to kee up space for PE classes, Wickert said.

Lunch is served to 325 students a day at the K-3 school, induding 45 to 50 kindergartners.

The district has received another donation of 2,000 pounds ofbeef kom Baker County cattlemen at a cost of

$2.36 per pound. Thecattlemen were not able to pay for processing costs as they have in the past, but the districtis applying for a grantkom the Adler Foundation for help in thatarea,W ickertsaid.

Hawkins, an Oregon State Police officer, suggested that the DistrictAttorney's Office might have money available kom restitution paid by those convictedofpoaching,cattle rustling or other crimes to help pay those costs.

A new computer program that will keep more detailed lunch records kom a central location also is beingimplemented. Wickert said it will allow her to run the reports and take that burden off the schoolsecretariesaswellas processing applicationsforfiee and reduced-price meals.

Director Rich McKim asked if there have been any changes in the number of students who qualify for kee lunches. ''When are we going to start measuring success by the number of kidswedon'thave to feed?"he asked.

Wickert said the number of children q~ g f o r kee and reduced-price meals is"growing, not shrinking."

The board also approved a resolution endorsing the Promise of Oregon and the Promise of Baker campaigns that urge increased funding for Oregon schools.

Ben Merrill, Baker High School principal, gave a presentation showing how the BHS website has incorporated the Promise" philosophy. Students of the month kom each school will now be touted as "Promise" students, directing attention to their aspirations for the future and the need for funding to help them reach their goals.

Doug Dalton, the district's chief financial officer, said he will be looking for additional modular buildings to add at Brooklyn and Haines schools with the likelihood of the Legislature funding full-day kindergarten.

Dalton said enrollment at Bakerschoolsisexpected to drop by about 30 students in 2015-16, but the charter schools are continuing to grow, bringing total enrolment to about 2,300.

The Baker Web Academy expects to enroll 650 students next year and another 200 are expected to take part in the Early College program, Dalton said. Just 40 of those students live in the Baker School District.

The dist rictsends 95 percentofthe state school fundingitreceivesforthose students to the charter schools, Dalton said. The Baker School District keeps 5 percent and shares half of that with the district in which the charterschoolstudentsreside, he said.

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To be eligible, there must be a defined relationship to a reclamation project located within the boundaries of the Pacific Northwest Region. Reclamation expects to awardabout 12 grantsofup to$25,000, depending on reclamation's final fiscal year2015 appropriations from Congress.

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NEOEDD receives grant from Oregon Community Foundation ENTERPRISE — The Northeast Oregon Economic Development District was awarded a $10,000 two-part grant from theOregon Community Foundation, completing a two-part grant that was initiated in 2013.

The grant supports NEOEDD's continuing efforts to create a"local financing ecosystem" to meet the needs ofbusinesses and citizens in Northeast Oregon.

The grant comes from the Glen and Jean McKenzie Fund. »We have made some important progress in 2014, hosting a number of informational programs in Baker, Union and Wallowa counties," says NEOEDD Executive Director Lisa Dawson.»With Oregon's new Community Public Offering program becoming a reality, we need this grant funding to support our local-investing workshops that educate the public about theiroptions."

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The column carries news about business events, startups and owners and employees who earn awards and recognition or make significant gains in their careers.

There is no charge for inclusion in the column, which is editorial in nature and is not ad space or a marketing tool. Products and services will be discussed only in general terms.

Email items to biz@lagrandeobserver.com or call them in to 541-963-3161.

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I literally grew up in the food industry. My first job in high school was working at a small grocery store; I then graduated to McDonald's, worked through college at a convenience store and spent summers at a Hunt-Wesson ketchup factory, working the graveyard shift on the sanitation crew. Post college I worked for leaders Nestle and Coca-Cola.

Here are five major lessons I learned in my time in the food industry. By the way, I never actually worked at a foodcourtbutdid spend plenty of time in kitchens all over the country.

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WALLOWA — Maintaining the rural lifestyle in a world eager for locally grown food is how the Hawkins Sisters Ranch raises its chickens.

Mary Hawkins,a fourth-generation Wallowa rancher, oversees the operation on the family farm.

Two years into full-time chicken ranching, Hawkins said she first tried raising chickens in 2008.

This go-around, she sought help througha U.S.Department of Agriculture microloan program.

"The operating and term loan allowed me to buy hoops, wire, lumber,waterers,feeders and crates," Hawkins said.

She said she cares for the chickens by herself most of the year but hires help during the busy season.

In the spring, day-old Cornish Cross chicks arrive by mail.

Hawkins said this hybrid is a common, commercially-raised breed.

"Cornish Cross are very fast growing with lots ofbreast meat," she said.

In eight weeks, they grow into a 4-pound dressed bird.

"They don't go around and grazea lotbutarem ore economical to produce, and the feed conversion rate is extraordinary," Hawkins said.

She feeds her chickens a mix

Mary Hawkins said she processes about 1,000 chickens for meat each summer at Reinford Custom Cuts in Cove. They can be purchased by eraiili n maryhawkinswallowa@ gmail.com or calling 541398-0004. They are delivered as whole, clean, frozen and individually vacuum-packed chickens.

Eggs and meat are also sold through the Carman Ranch Buying Club, www.farmigo. com/store/carmanranch and distributed in the Portland metro area.

she'sdeveloped ofcamelina seed, barley, wheat, peas and crab m eal.

A bird thatdoesn'tgraze much needs more protein, so she adds methionine and amino acid specifically formulated for birds who don't graze.

For extra nutrition, Hawkins saidshe sproutswheat berries by soaking overnight, spreading them out on a cookie sheet and keeping them moist until a threeinchblades ofgrasssprout.

"Growing grass has all sorts of magical properties," Hawkins said."A good sprouting system could allow me to extend the season of the pastured poultry."

Typically, she raises her meat chickens from May to October in open air hoop houses with soft wood chips she gets from IntegratedBiomass,a sm allwoods product mill in Wallowa.

She said she also raises Colored Broilers, similar to Freedom Rangers or Poulet Rouge. They take 13to 14w eeks tomature to a 4-pound carcass.

"They take more feed, time and labor, but are good grazers and foragersand produce a lotofdark meat," Hawkins said.

Hawkins Sisters also raise Red Sex Links, Rhode Island Reds and Delaware Araucanas, a breed Hawkins called"barnyard, oldtimey chickens."

She said she experimented with other commercial breeds but found them too high strung, and though they produce a lot of eggs at first, they"burn out" early and stop laying. The breeds she now prefers layfor abouttwo years before they become stewing hens.

She said she gets her laying hens as chicks and raises them in open, free range houses in various locations around the ranch. They areraised on the same rations as the meat chickens until they are adults.

To protect her flocks she uses electrified netting to keep out the stray dogs and weasels. Overnight,they are keptin their hoop houses,covered duringthe winter.

In the food industry, like many industries, your career is what you make of it. Being a"jack of all trades and master of none" is invaluable, because itserves asthe foundation for becoming a general manager.

I spent time in production, operations management, inventory control, finance, sales analysis, marketing and business development.

The lesson learned is that it pays to keep learning everything you can about your employer and your industry even if you don't like the subject because as an owner or in a position ofleadership, you will be expected to understand how everything fits togetherfor the organization.

Plans, who has plans?

A huge life lesson I learned from a mentor is that if you want to be successful, you have to have a plan.

My experience is that only two functional areas in business actually have written plans.

The first is marketing, responsible forcreating revenue. The other is the financialdepartment,responsible forreporting revenue, costs and profits.

That other departments I SeeKeller / Page 2B

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NYSSA — Three straight years of dry conditions and below-average snowpacks have cost farmers in Eastern Oregon tens of millions of dollars.

The irrigation supply for farmers in Malheur County who get their water from the Owyhee Project began to run out in July this year and was completely shut off in August, two months earlier than normal.

That happened despite the fact that the annual irrigation allotment for farmers who get their water from the Owyhee Irriga-

tion District was already slashed from theusual 4 acre-feetto 1.7 acre-feet thisyear.

"It had a huge negative impact," Nyssa farmer Craig Froerersaid about the sparsewater supply this year.»We definitely need this drought to go away."

The Owyhee Project supplies waterto118,000 acresofirrigated land west of the Snake River.

About 1,800 farms depend on the water, most in Eastern Oregon and some around Homedale and Marsing in southwestern Idaho.

Owyhee Reservoir was designed to hold a two-year supply of irrigation water. But that area

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Onions are the main cash crop in this area. Many farmers left ground idle or planted less water-intensive crops this year to ensure they had enough water fortheironion crops.

Oregon State University cropping systems extension agent Bill Buhrig estimates about 15 to 20 percent of farm ground in the county was left idle this year as a result of the drought.

In some areas, where water was most scarce, as much as one-third of the farm ground was left idle.

OSU extension agents wrll estimate the drought's economic impact on Eastern Oregon agriculture when the USDA data becomesavailable,butbased on interviews with farmers, it's likely in the tens of millions of dollars.

Farm cash receipts in Malheur County totaled $359 million in 2012, according to the Census of Agriculture.

Because farmers adjusted theiroperations todealwith the expected water shortage by reducing acreage and planting cropsthatuse lesswater,m ostof SeeDrought / Page 2B

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WASHINGTON — It's another political victoryforthepopular potato.

For the first time, low-income women would be able to pay for white potatoes with government-subsidized vouchers issued by the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, known as WIC. The potato provision ispartofam assive spending bill Congress is considering before the end of the year.

White potatoes have been excluded from WIC since fruits and vegetables were first allowed under the program in 2009. It's not that white potatoes themselves aren't nutritious, but they're often used to make &ench fries, which are usually fiied or baked in unhealthy fats and oils.

The Institute of Medicine had recommended that they be excluded, saying WIC recipients already eat enough white potatoes.

The potato industry has aggressively lobbied for inclusion, saying it's not as much aboutsalesastheperception thatpotatoes aren't asnutritiousasothervegetables.

Lawmakers from roughly 40 potato-growing stateshave been pushing for severalyearsto include the potato in the program.

The potato' sadvocatesargue that it providespotassium, dietary fiberand folate, a water-soluble B vitamin, which can be helpful for pregnant women. They say it is also economical, which could help low-income m others stretch theirdollars.

Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican from the potato-growing state of Maine, has long promoted the nutritional attributes of potatoes, including potassium.

"Potatoes are cholesterol-fiee, fat-fiee and sodium-free and can be prepared in countless healthy ways," she said in a statement Wednesday.

The potato industry had another major legislative victory in 2011, when Congress voted to thwart the Agriculture Department's recommendation that only two servings a week ofpotatoes and other starchy vegetables be served in federally subsidized school lunches. The USDA effort was an attempt to limit the proliferation of french fiies on school lunch lines.

W IC provides grants to statestoprovide food vouchers to low-income pregnant women, women who have recently given birth and infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk. Only a handful offoods meant toboostnutrition are allowed, such as whole grains, low-fat dairy and fiuits and vegetables.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has opposedeffortstoadd white potatoesto WIC, but he said in a letter to a member of Congress earlier this year that USDA would move up a regular review of the WIC food package by more than a year so the department could seek the assistance of the institute to learn if excluding white potatoes "is still supported by the most current science available."

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into this trap. the price. Ongoing learning should be part of the responAt Nestle, I was the first Continued from Page 1B person in the division to take sibility ofleadership in every organization. It is nothing advantage of the tuition reimbursement program more than an investment in spent time in had no plan offered.

Idid nothavetopay the future of the company. was astounding. It wasn't any money out of pocket As a leader, your role is thatthe leadersin charge of when I was earning my these departments weren't to teach and one of the best MBA. dedicated or hard working. ways to do this is to share They did not have plans But when I was taking the what you have learned along because the organization was coursework, there were only the way so others won't make not aligned. a few people who encourthe same mistakes you did.

This lack of alignment aged me and plenty of people manifested itself in many who thought it was a waste Ken Kelleris a syndicated of time and the company's ways, the biggest one being business columnist focused thatthe companies struggled money. on the leadership needs of Things change in the world small and midsizecloselyheld to achievestrategicgoalsand when they did, it was almost ofbusiness and those caught companies. Contact him at unprepared or unaware pay always well beyond the KenKeller@SBCglobal.net. desired date of accomplishment.

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As the leader, you are responsible for making sure that both goals and plans existfordepartments and

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Organizations need goals.

People need goals. Without goals, not much will get done.

But a lot of money, time and other resources will go to wasteforlack ofgoalsand holdingpeople accountable for accomplishing them.

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Continued ~om Page 1B the crops that were planted came out average to aboveaverage, Buhrig said.

But all the ground that was left idle had to have had a major impact, he

added.

''We had average yields but we didn't have average production valley-wide because so much acreage was left fallow because of the lack of water," Buhrig said. ''We did a very good job with what we had to work with this year ... but we didn't have as much production as we normally do."

Farmers didn't decrease their onion acreage; they left a lot of ground idle that would have gone to other crops, such as corn and sugar beets, said Nyssa farmer Paul Skeen, president of the Malheur County Onion Growers Association.

Sugar beets and corn, both high-water crops, were the biggestlosersin the area this year in terms of acreagedeclines due to the water scarcity.

About 26,000 acres of grain and silage corn and 8,700 acres of sugar beets are normally grown in Malheur County each year, but sugar beet acreage dropped to 4,700 this year and corn acreage was down by about half, Buhrig said.

Those farmers who left land idle still have expenses on that ground tied to irrigation system payments, taxes, land rent or payments and weed control costs, Skeen said.

"All your expenses are still there and you're literally not generating any-

supplemental water pumped fium the Snake River.

Idaho growers near Homedale and Marsing who get their water &om the Owyhee Project also took a big hit this year. A lot fewer dry bean acres were planted as aresultofthe scarce water supply, said Treasure Valley Seed Co. Production Manager Don Tolmie.

The net result of the idled acreage and crop switches was that the valley's important onion crop came through fine.

About 11,000 acres of onions are typically planted on the Oregon side of the Snake River and 9,000 on the Idaho side, but industry leaders said that number was up about 8 percent this year. And many growers this year switched their onions to a drip irrigation system, which increased yields.

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Like many farmers in the area, Froerer moved some ofhis onions to parts of the valley that had more water.

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WhatI am sayingis that individuals with creativity and an aim to destabilize or reinvigorate can turn an industry upside down. Howard Schultz did it with Starbucks.

Herb Kelleher did it with Southwest Airlines.

Insteadofsaying "no,"start asking "why not?" Those two words alone can be a creative tool that can change the fortunes of the organization you leadin a shortperiod oftim e.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014

PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA,UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

DEADLINES: LINE ADS: Monday: noon Friday Wednesday: noon Tuesday Friday: noo nThursday DISPLAY ADS:

2 days prior to publication date

Baker City Herald: 541-523-3673 ® www.dakercityherald.com• classifiedsOdakercityherald.com• Fax: 541-523-6426 The Observer: 541-963-3161 ® www.la randeodserver.com• classifieds©lagrandeodserver.com • Fax:541-963-3674

100 - Announcements 105 - Announcements 110 - Self Help Groups 120 - Community Calendar 130 - Auction Sales 140- Yard, GarageSales, Baker Co 143 - Wallowa Co 145 - Union Co 150 - Bazaars,Fundraisers 160 - Lost 8 Found 170 - Love Lines 180 - Personals

605 - Market Basket 610 - Boarding/Training 620 - Farm Equipment 8 Supplies 630 - Feeds 640 - Horse, StockTrailers 650- Horses, Mules,Tack 660 - Livestock 670 - Poultry 675 - Rabbits, Small Animals 680 - Irrigation 690 - Pasture

700 - Rentals

200 Employment 210- Help Wanted, Baker Co 220- Union Co 230- Out of Area 280 - Situations Wanted

701 - Wanted to Rent 705 - RoommateWanted 710 - Roomsfor Rent 720 - Apartment Rentals 730 - Furnished Apartments 740- Duplex Rentals Baker Co 745 - Duplex Rentals Union Co 750 - Housesfor Rent 760 - Commercial Rentals 770 - Vacation Rentals 780 - Storage Units 790 - Property Management 795 Mobile Home Spaces

300 - Financial/Service 310 - Mortgages,Contracts, Loans 320 - BusinessInvestments 330 - BusinessOpportunities 340 - Adult Care Baker Co 345 - Adult Care Union Co 350- Day CareBaker Co 355- Day CareUnion Co 360 - Schools 8 Instruction 380 - Service Directory

800 - Real Estate 801 - Wanted to Buy 810 - Condos,Townhouses,Baker Co 815 - Condos,Townhouses,Union Co 820 - Houses for Sale, Baker Co 825 - Housesfor Sale, Union Co 840- Mobile Homes,Baker Co 845 - Mobile Homes,Union Co 850 - Lots 8 Property, Baker Co 855 - Lots 8 Property, Union Co 860 - Ranches,Farms 870 - Investment Property 880 - Commercial Property

405 - Antiques 410 - Arts 8 Crafts 415 - Building Materials 420 - ChristmasTrees 425 - Computers/Electronics 430- For Sale or Trade 435 - Fuel Supplies 440 - Household Items 445 - Lawns 8 Gardens 450 - Miscellaneous 460 - Musical Column 465 - Sporting Goods 470 - Tools 475 - Wanted to Buy 480 - FREE Items

900 - Transportation 902 - Aviation 910 - ATVs,Motorcycles, Snowmobiles 915 - Boats 8 Motors 920 - Campers 925 - Motor Homes 930- Travel Trailers, 5th Wheels 940 - Utility Trailers 950 - Heavy Equipment 960 - Auto Parts 970 - Autos for Sale 990 - Four-Wheel Drive

500- Pets 8 Supplies 505 - Free to a GoodHome 510- Lost 8 Found 520 - Pet Grooming 525 - Pet Boarding/Training 530 - Pet Schools, Instruction 550 - Pets, General

1000 - Legals

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1st-6th grades 1734 3rd St. Use Valley St. entrance under Kid's Club sign

LAMINATION Up to 17 1/2 inches wide any length $1.00 per foot (The Observeris not responsible for flaws in material or machine error) THE OBSERVER 1406 Fifth • 541-963-3161

Baker County's breastfeeding support group. Meets every 2nd (It 4th Thursday of the month 11 a.m. —Noon St. Luke's EOMA, 3950 17th St. 541-523-3681

CHECK YOUR AD ON THE FIRST DAY OF PUBLICATION We make every effort t o a v o i d err o r s .

However mistakes d o s l i p thr o u g h .

MON, VVED, FRI NOON-1 PM TUESDA Y 7AM-8AM TUE, VVED, THU 7PM-8PM SAT, SUN 10AM-11AM AL-ANON MEETING Are you troubled by someone else's dnnking? Al-anon can help.

ENTERPRISE Safe Harbors conference room 401 NE 1st St, Suite B PH: 541-426-4004 Monday 10am — 11am

AL-ANON Concerned about someone else's drinking?

Sat., 9 a.m.

Northeast OR Compassion Center, 1250 Hughes Ln. Baker City (541)523-3431 AL-ANON-HELP FOR families (It fnends of alc oho l i c s .

U n i on County. 568 — 4856 or 963-5772 AL-ANON. At t i tude of Gratitude. W e d n e sdays, 12:15 — 1:30pm.

Faith Lutheran Church.

1 2th (It Gekeler, L a Grande.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS can help!

24 HOUR HOTLINE (541 ) 624-51 1 7

110 - Self-Help Group Meetings NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS HELP LINE-1-800-766-3724 Meetings: 8:OOPM:Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fnday Noon: Thursday 6:OOPM: Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (Women's) 7:OOPM: Saturday

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32 Room warmers 35 Gull cousin 36 Summer quaff 39 Long-answer exam 40 Polite cough 42 Dr.'s visit 43 Darth's daughter 44 Travel on snow 45 Grassy field 46 Cast a vote 47 Business VIP 48 — vous plait 50 Six-pointers

ENTERPRISE 113 1/2 E Main St. PH: 541-398-1327 Sunday's 10am-noon.

Wednesday (women only) 11 a.m.— noon

WALLOWA 606 W Hwy 82 PH: 541-263-0208 Sunday 7:00p.m.-8:00 p.m.

AL-ANON MEETING in Elgin.

Meeting times

ALL YARD SALE ADS MUST BE PREPAID You can drop off your payment at: The Observer 1406 5th St. La Grande

OR 'Visa, Mastercard, and Discover are accepted.'

EATING TOO MUCH? DIETS DON'T WORK! Fn., 8:45 a.m.

Presbyterian Church 1995 Fourth St. (use alley entrance) CaI k 541-523-5128 www.oa.org/podcast/

Yard Sales are $12.50 for 5 lines, and $1.00 for each additional line.

Callfor more info: 541-963-3161.

Must have a minimum of 10Yard Sale ad's to pnnt the map.

2ND ANNUAL AA MEETING: CHRISTMAS SALE Powder River Group Sat. 12/20 8am-2pm, Mon.; 7 PM -8 PM 807 F Ave. LG. Art, Wed.; 7 PM -8 PM Chnstmas decor, Fn.; 7 PM -8 PM books, DVD's, house Grove St. Apts.

(It kitchen needs, hand Corner of Grove (It D Sts. knit scarfs (It hats.

Baker City, Open Nonsmoking Wheel Chair Accessible 160 - Lost & Found

UNION COUNTY AA Meeting

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BLACK M I N I ATURE S chnauzer male 1 1 months old became missing around May Lane area. Reward if found and r eturned.

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(It white male dog in Wingville area. Call Best Fnends of Baker 541-51 9-7387

FOUND: SUNNYSLOPE Rd in Baker. Long haired tabby cat w/white. VERY friendly. 541-523-7352

MISSING YOUR PET? Check the Baker City Animal Clinic

541-523-3611

PLEASE CHECK Blue Mountain Humane Association

Facebook Page, if you have a lost or found pet.

180 - Personals MEET S I NGLES right now! No paid operators, lust real people l ike y o u . Bro ws e greetings, ex change m essages and c o nn ect live. Try it f r e e .

CaII n ow : 877-955-5505. (PNDC)

PREGNANT? CONSIDERING AD OPTION? Call us first. Living exp enses , h ous i n g , medical, and c o ntin-

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First Saturday of every month at 4 PM Pot Luck — Speaker Meeting

are now available online.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Monday, Thursday, (It Fnday at8pm. Episcopal

1. Register your account before you leave 2 . Call to s t o p y o u r pnnt paper 3. Log in wherever you are at and enloy

Church 2177 First St., Baker City.

NEED TO TALKto an AA member one on one? Call our 24 HOUR HOTLINE 541-624-5117

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210 - Help WantedBaker Co. WANTED: CDLw/tanker Endorsement for 5,000 gal. water truck in the North Dakota Oil Fields. Great Pay (It Negotiable Hours 541-403-0494 The Powder Basin Watershed Council is seeking an Executive Assistant. Email

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by Stella Wilder WEDNESDAY,DECEMBER17, 20)4 YOUR BIRTHDAY byStella Wilder Born today, you know the difference between right and wrong, andyou will always apply this knowledge to your endeavorswhether in yourpersonal life or the professional arena. You may struggle, now and then, with certain opportunities that appear tooffer trem endous rewardswhile demanding that you compromise your rather rigid standards, but it is quite likely that your standards will win out almost every time.

Though you're perfectly willing to take the easy road when it doesn't conflict with your morals or beliefs, you are not one to ignore yourscruplessimply forthe sake ofexpedience.

THURSDAY,DECEMHER)8 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You're striving for something that others can only dream about, and today you may find yoursel fclosertoyourgoalthan everbefore.

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Check your ads the www oregonaadistrict29 com Sales-Baker Co. first day of publicaServing Baker, Union, tion (It please call us and Wallowa Counties ALL ADS FOR: immediately if you GARAGE SALES, BAKER COUNTY find an error. NorthMOVING SALES, east Oregon Classi- Cancer Support Group YARD SALES, must fieds will cheerfully Meets 3rd Thursday of be PREPAIDat make your correcevery month at The Baker City Herald St. Lukes/EOMA © 7 PM Office, 1915 First St., tion (It extend your ad 1 day.

Contact: 541-523-4242 Baker City or The Observer Office, PREGNANCY CIRCLE OF FRIENDS 1406 Fifth Street, SUPPORT GROUP (For spouses w/spouses LaGrande.

Pre-pregnancy, who have long term pregnancy, post-partum. terminaI illnesses) 541-786-9755 Meets 1st Monday of HUGE ESTATE every month at St. LIQUIDATION SETTLER'S PARK Lukes/EOMA©11:30 AM 7445 Madison St. ACTIVITIES $5.00 Catered Lunch Fri. & Sat; 7:30-3:30 Must RSVP for lunch Dining set (It furniture, 1st (It 3rd FRIDAY 541-523-4242 glassware, fishing, tools, (every month) kitchenware, clothing, Ceramics with Donna NORTHEAST OREGON linens, mirrors, oil lamps, 9:00 AM — Noon.

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MONDAY NIGHT ments at n o c h arge. You won t want to miss Nail Care For Baker City call: this one!!

J uli e — 541-523-3673 6:00 PM (FREE) For LaGrande call: TUESDAY NIGHTS E n ca — 541-963-31 61 Indoor Moving Sale Craft Time 6:00 PM BVSDA Gym LA GRAND E Al-Anon .

(Sm.charge for matenals) Chico Rd. Thursday night, Free- Dec.42171 18-19 • 8am-3pm dom G roup, 6-7pm.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Householditems, some Faith Lutheran Church, furniture and lots of kids Bible Study; 10:30 AM 12th (It Gekeler, LG. stuff, toys, boots, etc.

Public Bingo; 1:30 PM 541-605-01 50 ( .25 cents per card) NARACOTICS EVERY MORNING ANONYMOUS (M onday —nday) F Goin' Straight Group TAICE US ON YOUR Exercise Class; M t ct , PHONE! 9:30AM (FREE) Tues. — Thurs.

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PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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$12.27 per hour, with benefits. C o o rdinate the Transportation Opt ions p r o g ra m f or Baker, Union, and Wallowa counties, including development, implementation, and ongoing operations. Develop Veteran's medical transportation program in Ba ke r C ounty. Must p a s s pre-employment drug screen an d c r i m i nal history b a c k g round check. Apply at Oregon Employment office by Tuesday, Dec. 3 0th, 2014 at 5 p m .

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All real estate advertised h ere-in is s u blect t o Senior a n d Di s a b l ed the Federal Fair HousHousing. A c c e pt ing ing Act, which makes applications for those it illegal to a dvertise aged 62 years or older any preference, limitaas well as those distions or discnmination abled or handicapped based on race, color, of any age. Income rereligion, sex, handicap, strictions apply. Call f amilial status or n aCandi: 541-523-6578 tional origin, or inten-

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FAMILY HOUSING •The Elms, 2920 Elm Horse hay, Alfalfa, sm. available on an equal S t., Baker City. C u ramt. of orchard grass opportunity basis. re n t ly a v a i I a b I e Pinehurst Apartments EQUAL HOUSING $ 220/ton, 2n d c r o p OPPORTUNITY 1502 21st St. 2-bdrm a p a rtments.

VIAGRA 100mg or CIA- Alfalfa $220/ton. 1st La Grande Most utilities paid. On L IS 20mg. 4 0 t a b s crop A lfa lfa g rass, site laundry f a cilities some rain, $165/ton. +10 FREE all for $99 and playground. Ac- A ttractive one and tw o Small bales, Baker City including FREE, Fast bedroom units. Rent cepts HUD vouchers. and Discreet S H I P- 541-51 9-0693 based on income. InCall M ic h e l l e at PING. 1-888-836-0780 come restrictions ap720 Apartment (541)523-5908. or M e t r o - M e ds.net ALFAFA C E RTIFIED ply. Now accepting apRentals Baker Co. (PNDC) w eed-free , s m al l plications. Call Lone at eSPECIALe bales. $220/00 ton. no 2335 BAKER ST. (541 ) 963-9292. $200 off r ain. La Gran d e .

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FSBO: 3-BDRM, 2 bath home for rent or lease option to buy. No pets. $1000/mo plus deposit 1880 Pear Street 541-379-2645

NEWLY REMODELED 3 PLUS bdrm, 2 b a th W/S/G paid. $825/mo Call 541-523-5665 or 541-51 9-4607

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LLC. has Houses, DuDENT HOUSING. 5 plexes Ltt Apartments bd, 5 ba, plus shared kitchen, all u tillities for rent. Call Cheryl Guzman fo r l i s t ings, paid, no smoking, no 541-523-7727. pets, $800/mo Ltt $700 dep. 541-910-3696 TAKING APPLICATIONS: HIGHLAND VIEW 1 Ltt 2-bdrm. units: LG STU D IOApt. R ea dy Beautiful B r and New Apartments 12/15, all utilities pd.

3bd, 2b a a l l a p p l i- Partially furnished. No $450mo 541-910-0811 pets. We check referances, fenced yard, 800 N 15th Ave ences. 541-523-2922 Elgin, OR 97827 garage, Ltt yard care.

STUDIO APARTMENTS HUD A P P ROVED, $1,100mo + dep. Mt. 752 - Houses for Now accepting applicaEmily Prop. Mgt. walking distance to loRent Union Co. 541-962-1074 tions f o r fed e r a l ly c al businesses a n d funded housing. 1, 2, 2BDRM, 1BA. New garestaurants, for more and 3 bedroom units rage, Very clean, 1yr i nfo r m a t i o n c al l NICE DUPLEX, 3b/1.5b, with rent based on inlease. $800/mo.

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2504 N Depot St. LG hookups, W / S i n541-963-751 7 cluded, $775/mo. Call Prolect phone number: These little ads really 3 BD, 1.5 bath, fenced 541-437-0452 work! Join the thou541-963-1210. y a rd. $900/m o. L o TTY: 1(800)735-2900 sands of other people cated 10200 GrandVERY NICE, 3 bd, 2 ba, in this area vvho are "This institute is an equal view Dr. Island City. carport, paved driver egular users of t h e opportunity provider." w ay, e l e c t ri c h e a t , Ca II 541-963-2343 classified. See hovv rock hearth w/ gas fire- 3 BDRM, 2 bath in LG. 2 p lace, A C , f ri d g e , car garage, large yard, simple and effective stove, DW. Carpeted t hey can be . W e ' re $ 1000 pe r m o , n o storage shed, handipets. 541-963-4174. open from 7:30 a.m. capped accessible, no to 5 p.m. for your conp ets, n o s m o k i n g , 5BD, 2BA, 2 bed main www.La rande venience. $800/mo, $500 dep. floor Ltt 3 down. $785 Rentals.com 541-963-891 8.

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750 - Houses For Rent Baker Co. OREGON TRAIL PLAZA

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2212 Cove Avenue, Includes W/S/G La Grande RV spaces avail. Nice Clean Ltt well appointed 1 quiet downtown location Senior and Ltt 2 bedroom units in a 541-523-2777 Disabled Complex quiet location. Housing 1-BDRM, 1 bath. W/S infor those of 62 years Affordable Housing! c luded. G a s h e a t , o r older, as w ell a s Rent based on income. fenced yard. $525/mo. t hose d i s a b le d or Income restnctions apply.

541-51 9-6654 h andicapped of a n y Call now to apply! age. Rent based on in- 2-BDRM MOBILE home, come. HUD vouchers Haines. No pets, referBeautifully updated accepted. Please call ences required. $400.

Community Room, 541-963-0906 + dep. 541-523 3110 featunng a theater room, TDD 1-800-735-2900 a pool table, full kitchen and island, and an This institute is an equal 2-BDRM, 1 b a th. W/S electnc fireplace. opportunity provider paid. Gas heat, range, Renovated units! fridge, fenced yard. $ 575/mo p lu s d e p .

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3 -BDRM W / G A R A G E . www.virdianmgt.com UNION COUNTY Fenced yard. In Baker TTY 1-800-735-2900 Senior Living City. $550.00 + dep.

541-856-3642 This institute is an Equal Mallard Heights 4/5 BDRM, 2 bath house 870 N 15th Ave $950/mo. 1st, last Ltt Elgin, OR 97827 deposit. Available Dec.

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PUBLISHED BY THE LAGRANDE OBSERVER & THE BAKER CITY HERALD - SERVING WALLOWA, UNION & BAKER COUNTIES

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LARGE 2BDRM 1 bath, $750.00.

541-91 0-0354 NICE 3 bdrm, 2 bath in Union. $650 plus Dep. Mt Emily Prop Mgmt 541-962-1074.

SOUTHSIDE, CLOSE to schools, 4 bd , 3 b a, woodstove, office, iac uzzi tu b i n m a s t e r suite, dbl ca r ga rage, f ruit t r e e s , g a r d e n spot, no smoking, no

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541-91 0-3696 SPACIOUS 8E CLEAN, 3bd, 2ba, $875/mo.

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760 - Commercial Rentals 16 X 2 5 G a rage Bay w/11' celing & 10 x 10 Roll-up door. $200/mo +fees. 541-519-6273 25X40 SHOP, gas heat, roll up & walk-in doors, $375. (541)963-4071, LG.

BEARCO BUSINESS PARK Has 3,000 sq ft. also 16x30 storage units Availible Now! Ca II 541-963-7711

BEAUTY SALON/ Office space perfect for one or two operaters 15x18, icludeds restroom a n d off street parking. $500 mo & $250 dep 541-91 0-3696

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COMMERCIAL OR retail space for lease in his- 795 -Mobile Home t oric Sommer H e l m Spaces Building, 1215 Washi ngton A v e ac r o s s SPACES AVAILABLE, one block from Safefrom post office. 1000 way, trailer/RV spaces. plus s.f. great location W ater, s e w er , g a r $800 per month with 5 bage. $200. Jeri, manyear lease option. All a ger.

La Gra n d e utilities included a n d 541-962-6246 parking in. A v ailable n ow , pl eas e call 54 1-786-1133for more information and VI ewI n g .

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800 — $700 1-1994 XLT Indy A dministrative S e r v ACCS600 — $700 ices Department at a 1-1992 Polans Indy cost of $2.00 Classic — $500 1-1992 Polans Lite Fred Warner Jr, Deluxe — $250 Commission Chair Purchase all or one!

Price negotiable LegaI No. 00039387 Call 547-579-4530 or Published: December 17, see at 974 Washington 2014 Avenue, Baker City, OR GRAZING PERMIT 930 - Recreational Assessment Available Vehicles for Public Review THE SALE of RVs not beanng an Oregon in- The Baker Field Office, signia of compliance is Vale Distnct BLM, has illegal: cal l B u i lding completed for public Codes (503) 373-1257. review an Environmental Assessment (EA) regarding grazing on public lands. The EA analyzes a l t e rnative land management ac-

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Standards for Rangeland Health and management obiectives of the BLM B aker Resource Area Management Plan. The proiect area is within the

Powder River Canyon Geographic Unit which is located northeast of Baker C i ty , i n t he Medical Springs area (Proposed Grazing Permit Renewal Actions for Powder River Canyon Geographic Unit, Environmental Assessment

DOI-BLM-OR-V0502013-043-EA).

The purpose of the EA is to analyze the environmental and socio-economic impacts of four different management alternatives, including continuation of current 970 - Autos For Sal management, on the NEW 1-BDRM home. 40 Salt Creek Allotment acres. Denny Cr. rd. ' 99 C A DILLAC S T S . t hat f a i led t o m e e t powdernveriay©gmailGood condition.$4000 Standard for Rangecom.

541-523-2797 land Health due to live-

B1X113, 1818 Z Ave, LG. OFFICE SPACE approx Utilities available, 700 sq ft, 2 offices, re$36k. 541-963-2668 cept area, break room, common r e strooms, BEAUTIFUL VIEW lot in a ll utilitie s pa i d , Cove, Oregon. Build $500/mo + $450 dep. y our d r ea m h o m e .

541-91 0-3696 Septic approved, electnc within feet, stream r unning through l o t .

A mazing v i e w s of mountains & v a l l ey.

3.02 acres, $62,000 208-761-4843

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YOU SALE Sale at C' s S t orage SHOULD BE P RE3 107 Cove Ave . L a SENT AT THIS HEAR- On December 29, 2014 Gran d e , OR .

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4 s tudd e d t i res , w/ 2001 Manufactured mounted on new nms, INDUSTRIAL P ROP3 bdrm Home $69,000 ( will only fi t a 2 0 1 0 ERTY. 2 bay shop with w / $ 1 5,000. d o w n .

Canyon or Colorado) office. 541-910-1442 541-519-9846 Durkee $500.00 541-975-4380.

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TRUCIC OR BOAT TO $94,900 JUST STEPS HE R ITAG E FOR THE BLM is taking comments BLIND. Free 3 Day Vaon the E A t h r o ugh AWAY FROM THE cation, Tax Deductible, January 26, 2015. The GRANDE RONDE RIVFree Towing, All Padocument m a y be a .m. a t t he Uni o n ER. Come build a home viewed from the Vale If a petition for termiCounty Sheriff's Of - The owner or r eputed perwork Taken Care on this property or Of. CAL L Dist r ic t w e b s it e nation o f p a r e ntal fice, 1109 IC Ave, La owner of the property place a manufactured 1-800-401-4106 htt: w w w . blm. ov or rights has been filed, Grande, Oregon, the to be sold is: home on it. The large (PNDC) /distncts/vale/ lanshn defendant's i n t e rest 1. Unit ¹ A - 2 3 W a yne you must request reshop has manyuses. will be sold, subiect to H eisel a m o unt d u e ~dex. h . C o m m ents a ppointment o f a 14683545 may be submitted in lawyer to represent redemption, in the real $290.00.

Century 21 w riting t o t h e B L M you in the terminaproperty c o m m o nly 2. Unit ¹ D -55 Barbera Eagle Cap Realty, Baker Field Office at: tion proceeding. To known as: 67021 End Williams amount due 541-9634511. o btain a c our t - a p $240.00.

Road, Summerville, Or p ointed l a w ye r y o u Bureau of Land 97876. The court case 3. Unit ¹ D- 2 1 J a red Management m ust c o ntact: M r s . n um b e r Is Whipple amount due ROSE RIDGE 2 SubdiviBaker Field Office Melanie Donithan at 13-05-48378, w h e re $185.00. sion, Cove, OR. City: P.O. Box 947 Chelan County JuveNATIONSTAR MORT- 4 . Unit ¹ A 36 Cor y Sewer/VVater available. n ile C e n t er , ( 5 0 9 ) GAGE,LLC, Its SuccesBaker City, OR 97814 ICingsmith amount due Regular price: 1 acre 1001 - Baker County 667-6351. sors and/or Assigns, is $215.00. m/I $69,900-$74,900.

Legal Notices In addition, co m ments plaintiff, and Fred R. 5. Unit ¹ B-38 and C-17 We also provide property m ay b e su b m i t t e d THE HEARING WILL Freels, an i ndividual; Russ Osterloh amount NOTICE OF management. C heck DETERMINE IF YOUR Irma M. Freels, an indielectronically by email due $890.00.

SHERIFF'S SALE out our rental link on t o: BLM OR B - PARENTAL RIGHTS v idual; A l l Par t i e s 6. Unit ¹ D-27 ICasey Hall our w ebs i t e IC Mail©blm. ov.

TO YOUR CHILD ARE Claiming An Interest In amount due $275.00. www.ranchnhome.co On January 06, 2015, at Please include "ComTERMINATED. IF The R ea l P r o p erty 7. Unit ¹ B-41 Ted the hour of 9:00 a.m. m or c aII m ents o n Pow d e r YOU DO NOT A PCommonly ICnown as C ramer amount d u e at the Baker County Ranch-N-Home Realty, PEAR AT THE HEAR- 67021 End Road, Som$535.00.

C ourt H o use, 1 9 9 5 River Canyon" on the In c 541-963-5450.

T hird S t reet , B a k e r s ubiect line o f y o u r I NG T H E C O U R T merville, Or 97876, are C's Storage is foreclosemail so it will be forMAY ENTER AN ORdefendants. The sale ing the lien.

City, Oregon, the deI warded properly within DER IN YOUR ABis a public auction to Property will be sold on I fendant's interest will the field office.

SENCE TERMINATthe highest bidder for J anuary 5, 2 0 1 5 a t be sold, subiect to reING YOUR PARENc ash o r cas h i e r ' s 12:00 pm by auction. demption, in the real BBO - Commercial TAL RIGHTS. check, in hand, made property c o m m o nly Contact John Rademacher at 541-523-1417. out to U n ion County Published: December 3 Property known as: 14645 S. To request a copy of S heriff's Office. F o r and 17,2014 R ock C r ee k L a n e , BEST CORNER location the Notice and Summ ore information o n H aines, O R 9 7 8 3 3 . LegaI No. 00039384 for lease on A dams this sale go to: LegalNo. 00039191 mons, and TerminaThe court case num- Published: December 17, Ave. LG. 1100 sq. ft.

2014 t ion P e t ition, c a l l www.ore onshenffs. ber is 14-316, where Lg. pnvate parking. ReDSHS at com sales.htm CIRCUIT COURTOF m odel or us e a s i s . TIM A. ICERNS AND 509-665-5300 .

To OREGON FOR UNION JULIE ICERNS, hus- SUPERIOR COURT OF 541-805-91 23 WASHINGTON v iew in f o r m a t i o n Published: November 26, band and wife is plainCOUNTY about your rights in 2014 and December 3, tiff, and KENNETH B. COUNTY OF CHELAN this proceeding, go JUVENILE DIVISION 10,17, 2014 BAIN AND ICRISTINE to DEUTSCHE BANIC NAM. BAIN, husband and www.atg.wa.gov/TRM Legal No. 00039149 STATE OF TIONAL TRUST COMwife is defendant. The .aspx.

WAS H I NGTON PANY, AS TRUSTEE sale is a public auction FOR TH E R E G ISto the highest bidder Placing an ad in classiDATED this 15th day of TERED HOLDERS OF for cash or cashier's In re the Dependency of fied is a very simple proDecember , 2014 by MORGAN STANLEY check, in hand, made EMILY MARIE KOENIG ICIM MORRISON, Che- cess. Just call the classiABS CAPITAL 1 INC. out to Baker County D.O.B.: 2/3/2000 lan County Clerk.

2 007-NC4 M O R T MEDICAL/BUSINESS f ied d e p a r t m en t a n d S heriff's Office. F o r CONDO FO R SALE m ore information o n GAG E PA SS we'll help you word your Legal No. 00039378 ) THROUGH CERTIFIO R L E AS E A v a i l . t hi s s a le go a d f o r m ax i m u m Published: December 17, 1/1/15 Next to Grande C ATES, S ERI E S to: w w w . ore onsherresponse.

24,31, 2014 2007-NC4, Ronde Hospital. Beauiffs.com/sales.htm tiful view of the valley.

CAUSE NO.: 14-7-70079-5 Plaintiff, 700 Sunset Suite C. LegalNo. 00039176 LaGrande , Ca l l Published: November 26, 701-21 0-11 38 V. December 3, 10, 17, NOTICE AND SUMMONS 2014

BY PUBLICATION CHARLES ICOCH, KATH(Termination) PUBLIC NOTICE LEEN ICOCH, BERPursuan t to O RS NICE M O N T ANEZ E i E i I * * 294.250, a schedule of TO: ~ AICA BERNICE SPACE, T OD D S PA CE, Bake r Co u nty ' s Garri us Fowler CREDIT SERVICES OF Monthly Expenditures Mother Exceeding $ 5 0 0 .00 OREGON, FIA CARD SERVICES NA, JEF(Newspaper Report) A Petition to Te rminate P arental Rights w a s FREY HINES, UNITED for the month of No910 - ATV, MotorcySTATES OF AMERv ember, 2 0 1 4 h a s filed on 12/4/2014; A Baker City Herald Fact Finding hearing been prepared. This ICA, INTERNAL REVEcles, Snowmobiles 541-523-3673 schedule, along with w ill be h eld o n t h i s NUE SERVICE, AND FOR SALE: matter on: 1/21/2015 PERSONS OR PARminutes of the Board The snow is falling and it La Grande Observer T IES UNK N O W N of County C o m m is- at 10:30am at Chelan is time to purchase a 541-963-3161 County Juvenile Court, sioners' proceedings C LAIM I N G A N Y "starter snowmobile" f or N o vember, h a s 3 00 W a s hi n g t o n RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, •

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I IBrandon Smith, OSB ¹124584 E ma il: bsmith© No. 14-09-49293 robinsontait.com Robinson Tait, P.S. Attorneys for Plaintiff P LAINTIFF'S S U M MONS BY PUBLICATel: (206) 676-9640 TION t rator w i t h i n t h i r t y Fax: (206) 676-9659 days along with the reTo: BERNICE quired filing f ee .

It Published: December 17 M ONTANEZ A I CA m ust b e i n pr o p e r 24, 31, 2014and BERNICE S P A CE, form and have proof of January 7, 2014 TODD SPACE, and service on th e p l aintiff's attorney or, if the LegaI No. 00039333 PERSONS OR PARTIES U N I CNO)ArN plaintiff does not have C LAIM I N G A N Y an attorney, proof of RIGHT, TITLE, LIEN, service on the plaintiff.

OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DE- I F YOU H A V E A N Y S CRIBED I N TH E QUESTIONS, YOU COMPLAINT HEREIN SHOULD SEE AN ATTORNEY IM M E D IIN THE NAME OF THE ATELY . If you need STATE OF OREGON: help in finding an attorY ou are h e reby r e ney, you may call the quired to appear and O regon St at e B a r ' s defend against the alLawyer Referral Servlegations contained in ice at (503) 684-3763 t he C o mplaint f i l e d or toll-free in Oregon against y o u i n t he at (800) 452-7636. a bove e n t itled p r o ceeding w i t hi n t h i rty The oblect of the said ac( 30) days f ro m t h e t ion a nd t h e re l i e f date of service of this sought to be obtained Summons upon you. t herein i s f u l l y s e t If you fail to appear forth in said complaint, and defend this matter and is bnefly stated as within thirty (30) days follows: from the date of publication specified herein Foreclosure of a Deed of a long w i t h t h e r e - Trust/Mortgage quired f il i n g f ee, DEUTSCHE BANIC NA- Grantors: TIONAL TRUST COM- Charles ICoch and ICathPANY, AS TRUSTEE leen ICoch FOR TH E R E GISTERED HOLDERS OF Property address: MORGAN STANLEY 520 N. 11th Street, Elgin, ABS CAPITAL 1 INC. OR 97827 2 007-NC4 M O R T GAG E P A S S Publication: THROUGH CERTIFI- The Observer C ATES, S ERI E S 2007-NC4 will apply to DATED this 17 day of the Court for the relief December, 2014. demanded in the Complaint. Th e f i rst date I IMatt Booth, OSB of publication is ¹082663 December 17, 2014.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FILING OF BALLOTTITLE At a regular meeting held on May 13, 2014, the City Council of the City of Granite approved by resolution, and filed with the Grant County Elections Official the following ballot title:

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City Notice

Date of Election

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Date of Notice

December 15, 2014

March 10, 2015

City of Granite

The following is the final ballot title of the measure to be submitted to the city's yoters.

Flhal Beltotl tt le Notice of receipt of ballot tltle hac been published and the ballot title challenge process has been completed.

Captioh 10 words which reasonably identifies the subject of the measure

Proposed 2015 City of Granite AfTlended Charter

4iuestiOh 20 words which plainiy phrases the chief purpose of themeasure

Shall the legal voters of the City of Granite adopt the proposed amended section 24 of the city charter?

Sufhlhary 175 wordswhich condsely and impartially surnrnarizes the rneasure and its major effect

An elective City officer shall be a qualified elector under the state constitution and shall have owned real

property within the City for at least one year prior to being elected or appointed to the office F o r purposes of this subsection the owner of real property shall be an individual appearing of the Deed to the subject real property andlor on a contract of sale as a contract purchaser. Should there be rnuitiple

owners of the property, each of those owners shall have one vote.

Estlatehathfy Statehteht 500 words that impartially expiains the measure andits effect, If required attach to this form

If the county is producing a yotel's' pamphlet an explanatory staternent must be subrnitted for any measure referred by the dty governing body and if required by local ordinance, for any initiative or referendum.

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AutltnriZed City OffiCial Not required to be notarized A By signing this documant. I hereby state that I am authorized by the city to svbmit this Notice of Ivleasure Eiection and I certify that

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Any legal voter of the City of Granite dissatisfied with the ballot title set forth above may petition the Grant County Circuit Court seeking a different ballot title and stating the reasons the ballot title set forth above is insufficient, not concise, or unfair. The petition must be filed not later than 5:00 p.m. of Friday, February 6, 2015. Any legal voter who files a petition as set forth above must notify the County Elections Official in writing that the petition has been filed not later than 5:00 p.m. on the next business day following the day the petition is filed.

Legal No.2-007083 Published: December 17, 2014

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NEW YORK — The price of oil has fallen by nearly half in just six months, a surprising and steep plunge that has consumers cheering, producers howling and economists wringing their hands over whether this is a good or bad thing.

The price of a barrel of oil is just under $56, down &om

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lower than at any time since the U.S. was still in recession in the spring of 2009.

So what's going on? A global imbalance of supply and demand that is rippling across the world economy, for better and worse.

Supplies go boom Years ofhigh oil prices, interrupted briefly by the recession, inspired drillers around the world to scour the earth's crustfor moreoil.

They found it.

Since 2008 oil companies in the US., for example, have increased production by 70 percent, or 3.5 million barrels ofoil per day. To put thatin perspecti ve,thatincrease alone is more than the productionofany OPEC member other than Saudi Arabia.

As US. production was rampingup, turmoil in the Middle East and NorthAlrica reduced supplies fiom Libya, Iran and elsewhere.A balance was struck Increasing supplies fiom outside of OPEC and fiom Iraq's recoveringoilindustry helped meetrisingdemand amund the world as other OPEC supplies waivered.

But now those OPEC supplies look more certain despite continuing turmoil, and

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Global demand is still expected to grow next year, but by far less than many households $100 amonth as thought earlier this year The they shop for holiday presents.

"Any time gas prices go down economies of China, Japan thatisagood thing,"said and Western Europe — the top oil consumers after the Randy Daniels, 30, who was U.S.— all appear to be weak- shoppingrecently at the Lenox ening. Oil demand falls when Square Mall in Atlanta."An extra 20 or 30 bucks in my economic growth stalls.

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person has extra challenges while driving — JUST WONDERING IN GEORGIA and has to be extra safety-conscious behind DEAR JUST WONDERING: You have the wheel. Add booze to that equation, and it my sympathy for your loss. Because you could mean disaster. You have spoken your mind and she has spoken hers. Because are concerned enough about the amount of time you're spending on adult Internet sites you're no longer comfortable eating with her, find another luncheon companion. that you're asking me about it, I think we both know that you're not spending enough time in the real world. If this has become DEARABBY: I feel like I am not apso much of a preoccupation that you're preciated at my husbard's family's holiday substituting porn for relationships with real gatherings. Everyone brings a dish, whileI people, then you are "overdosing" and could get assigned the leftover"- whichis usually a benefit &om talking to a psychologist about scdud. Itold my husbandIwanted to bring the it. 5ou might find it easier to confide in one dessert oneyear, so I mude a homemude pie. who's male.)

His sister proceeded to bring two store-bought pies in uddition to her dish. No one ate any of DEARABBY: Durirg a disagreement my pie except for my husband and me. Even with my boyfrv'end, he called me a "b--." We whenIbrirg the salad, no one eatsit, either.

Imay notbethebestcook,butIam agood have been together for 18 years, and he has never disrespected or degraded me that way one and my pie was perfect. Because this has before. He apologized later and said what he happened more than once, I feel discouruged meant wasI was acting like one(asifthat's about contributirg, and I have told that to my husband. Do you have any advice about any better), but I'm having a hard time gethow I can contribute withoutfeeling left out? tirg past this.

— NONAME, PLEASE, INMISSOURI W hen he called me that,Iwasstunned.I felt nauseated the rest of the day, as i fhe had DEAR NO NAME: Yes. Understand that literally punched me in the stomach. Am I wrorg to react this way? Am I making a big when families gather for holiday dinners deal out ofit, and should Ijust accept his year after year, they often want particular foods prepared in the way to which they are apology and let it go? Ijust feel so hurt.

— DEGRADED IN PENNSYLVANIA accustomed. While you may want to contribDEAR DEGRADED: People often say ute, you may not be able to do that unless things they don't mean — or something you are hosting the party. they later regret — in the heat of an arguFrom now on, unless you are asked to do ment. One slip of the tongue after 13 years otherwise, bring with you only a smile, your togethershouldn'tbe a deal-breaker.Accept appetite, and flowers or a bottle of wine. If hisapology and move on already. you do, there will be fewer hurt feelings and you'll save yourself some work.

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