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A special good day to Herald subscriber Charles Maslowski of Baker City.
Local, 3A Don't be surprised if you hear sirens and see fire trucks this Saturday. Federal, state and local fire departments from around Baker County will come together to participate in the 11th-annual Baker County Fire ServiceTask Performance Exercise, also known within the fire service as the Scavenger Hunt.
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• Section runs from Myrtle Street to trailhead near Wade Williams
• Speakers urge Council to ban use of some weed-killers in public places in the city
Oregon, 6A GRANTS PASSState biologists are telling the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission there is enough information to consider taking the gray wolf off the state endangered species list. A draft status review was postedTuesday on the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife website with materials for the commission's next meeting, April 24 in Bend. The meeting's agenda includes a formal staff recommendation that the commission determine there is significant information to start the rulemaking process.
Community orchestra concert set for Friday The Baker Community Orchestra will have its spring concert Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m. at the Veteran Advocates of Ore-Ida Events Center, at Court Avenue and Main Street in Baker City. There is no admission charge. The orchestra, under the direction of Kelly Brickman, will perform a mix of classical and show music, as well as original compositions. Composers include Leonard Bernstein, Ludwig von Beethoven, RimskyKorsakov and W. A. Mozart. Hymn from Beethoven's 6th Symphony, The Russian Sailors' Dance from The Red Poppy, and an original composition, Fantasy on a Slavic Theme, are among the pieces the Orchestra has prepared.
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Crews from the Baker City PublicWorks Department are building a new section of the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway. The path, which will be paved this summer, will run from the Myrtle Street bridge to a trailhead nearWadeWilliams Park.
Several citizens asked the Baker City Council Tuesday to ban the use of some herbicides in parksand other publi cspaces. Yvonne Da Torre told councilors she is concernedthatthe city oritscontractorsare using glyphosate or 2,4-D, common weed-killers. "Personally I would like to see the chemicals banned from public spaces especially 4ecause of) the effect they have on children," Da Torre sald. She noted that the World Health Organization%HOl recently declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is "probably carcinogenic" to people. "Many ofus have known thatfora long time," Da Torre said. Monsanto, the company that makes Roundup, disputes the WHOs conclusion. Da Torre asked the councilors if they had done any research on the chemicals. Mayor Kim Mosier said she knew about the WHO and its recent declaration. Michelle Owen, the city's public works director ,said city crews and contractorsuse both herbicides on various municipal properties including the golf course, parks and at the alrport. See Herbicide/Page GA
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Baker City's longest path is getting, well, longer. But walkers will have to wait until summer to stroll the newest segment of the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway iLAMPl. City crews recently started carving the route of the path, which starts at the Myrtle Street bridge and continues south on the east bank of the Powder River. The section, which is slightly less than a quarter-mile long, will end at a trailhead the city is also working on, said Michelle Owen, the city's public works director. See Path/Page 8A
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The new section of the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway will follow the Powder River south from Myrtle Street before veering east toward a new trailhead, near the southeast corner of Wade Williams Park, that will have 11 parking spaces, a picnic table, benches and trees.
Turbo, the Baker City Police's drug-detecting dog, helped officers find methamphetamine that led to the arrest of a local woman Monday morning. Police arrested Heather Nicole Govern, 25, 3670 Ninth Drive, for possession of meth. Govern was taken to the Baker County Jail, and later released. See Turbo/Page GA
oman o es o in owner o ins' o os • Ivy Nelson found pictures tucked into photo album she bought
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By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald
Ivy Nelson just wants the photos to find a proper home. She recently bought a photo album at The Salvation Army, and when she unzipped a pocketin the back shediscovered astack of photographs documenting the early life of twin girls. Most have nothing written on the back.
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But several are labeled with"Linda Joan" and "Laura Jean Redmond." The date for the baby pictures is March 1959. Nelson said the photos document the girls iom baby toabout age 7or 8. f "I would really like to find who these belong to," she said.'The whole album was empty. I think they just got overlooked." The photos are now at the Baker City Herald offtce, 1915 First St.
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Ivy Nelson of Baker City hopes to find the owner of a series of photos of these twin girls.
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