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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com

June 26, 2015

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The Baker City Cycling Classic is underway and motorists should plan for parking restrictions downtown on Saturday and road detours and delays Saturday and Sunday.

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A special good day to Herald subscriber Ernest Metcalf of Baker City.

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• Beth and Patrick Morrissey recall a critical conversation from 1972

Oregon, 5A SALEM — After months of negotiations and right before recreational pot becomes legal, Oregon House legislators passed a bill W ednesday setting up the state's legal marijuana market. The measure creates regulations for medical and recreational marijuana and includes a compromise allowing local jurisdictions to opt out of legalization.

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Music Review Sunday benefits MayDay Inc. This week's Powder River Music Review will benefit MayDay Inc. of Baker City. The concert, on Sunday, June 28, at 2 p.m. in Geiser-Pollman Park, will feature pianist, guitarist and singer Brady Goss. Goss is a talented and energetic performer who will entertain listeners of all ages. A suggested donation of$5canbe made in advance at MayDay, 1834 Main St., or Betty's Books, or made at the concert on Sunday. All donations will support MayDay's work to prevent domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse in Baker County.

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Monday, 3uly 6 Due to the Fourth of July weekend, Baker County Commission Chairman Bill Harvey has movedhismonthly First Friday meeting with county residents from July 3 to Monday, July 6. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Courthouse, 1995 Third St.

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Patrick and Beth Morrissey enjoy the music played by grandson Ryan Johnson of Brookings. Beth says family has always come first for the Baker City couple.

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At the time the Morrisseys had been married just over a The birth of the Baker year. They had six children beCounty YMCA happened on a fall day in 1972. tween them, all from previous Beth Morrissey was driving marriages. to pick up her daughter, Betty, But the conversation the from Baker High School when couple had that autumn aftershe noticed something that noon led to the conception of upset her. what became one of the Morris"Kids, all standing around on seys' favorite sayings, one Beth recites now with a laugh: the streetcorners,"Beth said "The Y is our child." recently, remembering that day almost 43 years ago. What Beth told Patrick when "Talking and smoking with she returned home that day nothing to do." in 1972 is that she thought Beth was concerned — for the kids she had seen merely those kids, and for her daughneeded an option besides loitering on the streets. ter, who was a junior in high "I thought if they had a place school. She expressed her fears to to go and exercise, maybe they her husband, Patrick, when she wouldn't do that," Beth said. The problem, Patrick told got home. kkaufman©bakercityhera(d.com

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Baker City is nearly as foreign to La'akeaiLa-ah-kay-uhl Kaufinan as was Israel, where she spent last summer with rockets exploding overhead while she herded goats and sheep. Or Morocco, where she completed a four-month study abroad program this spring, before packing her bags and heading for Eastern Oregon to join the Baker City Herald staff for the

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After voting tobuy two different properties at a commission meeting earlier this month, Commission Chair Bill Harvey said the deal isn't final regarding one of them. The purchase of a property at South Bridge Street that is leased by the County and houses its weed department has been temporarily delayed while Harvey waits to hear back from the Oregon Department of Transportation.

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her, is that unless kids were good enough to be on organized sports teams, there were few outlets for them to do that. One of those few options was due to Beth's efforts. She would teachan occasional exercise class in a local rented building. Patrick understood the dilemma at a personal level. Patrick served three years in the Army during World War II, sleeping in foxholes, dodging enemy shelling and dive bombers. Yet he will be the first to tell you that he wasn't cut out fororganized athletics. "I was little, immature, there was no way I could be in sports," he said.

The egg-kying weather that slouched into Baker County today could break records this weekend that date to the Kennedy administration. We might even endure the hottest temperature ever measured here during June. The National Weather Service forecasts a high of 102 degrees on Sunday at the airport. That would tie the all-time June record, set on June 17, 1961. The temperature at the airport has reached triple digits just one other time during June. That was on the very next day — June 18, 1961, when the high was 101. Sunday is the only day for which the WeatherService ispredicting thetemperature will top 100. But the forecast high for Saturday is 99. That would set a record for June 27. The currentrecord is 95,setin 2006. The Weather Service on Thursday scaled back slightly the expected severity of the heat wave. The agency's meteorologistswereprompted to make that change because it's possible that the high pressureridge responsibleforthe heat will also haul some monsoonal moisture north as it barges in from the desert Southwest. See Historic Heat/Page 2A

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summer. Kaufinan, a native of Maui, Hawaii, is one of 16 college journalists chosen fiom among 64 applicants fiom 11 colleges to participate in the annual Snowden Kau fman Internship program. It is sponsored by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

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This will be Kaufinan's first experience writing for a newspaper. She has written feature magazine articles in the pastand has a specialinterest in environmental and social justice issues. Kaufinan said she initially felt scared when she was told she'd be spending the summer working in Baker City. She learned in researching the area that the entire Northeastern Oregon county has only about 16,000

people, 95 percent of whom are white. "I'd never heard of the publication and I'd never heard of the city," she said.'This was going to be so different." Kaufinan said she began to feel better about the assignment after visiting with Coby Hutzler, who was the 2014 Snowden intern at the Baker City Herald. SeeKaufman IPage 3A

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