Baker City Herald Daily Paper 07-13-15

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July 13, 2015

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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Doug Hicks of Baker City.

Oregon, 6A The Oregon Department ofTransportation has started gearing up for the increase in speed limits drivers will likely see on rural sections of Central and Eastern Oregon highways next year. Lawmakers approved the higher limits July 3, and the bill is currently waiting for Gov. Kate Brown's signature.

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• Friday was the second-wettest day on record in Baker City By Jayson Jacoby jacoby©bakercityheraId

Frederick Phillips had never in his 63 years seen a rainstorm the likes of the one Friday evening that doused his ranch east of Baker City. The slow-moving thundershower filled dusty desert

gulches with muddy water that flattened fences and alfalfa fields and fouled cattle pastures with debris. 'Tve never seen Ritter Creek carry that much water," Phillips said Sunday.

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Flood debris clogs an irrigation ditch near Keating.

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The inaugural GridironTailgate and GrillOff, a fundraiser for the Shrine steer purchase during halftime of the East-West Shrine AllStar Football gameAug. 1, is planned prior to the game. The event, which includes food sales and a live auction at 2 p.m., will run from noon to 6 p.m. at 342010th St. It's sponsored by the Baker County Cattlewomen and the Baker County Livestock Association.

By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com

GOP selling raNe tickets hr guns, painting at 3ubilee The Baker County Republican Party will have a booth at Miners Jubilee to finish its latest gun raffle and draw the winner on Sunday afternoon, the last day of Jubilee. Tickets for the Henry lever action 45-70 and the Smithfield 9 mm will be sold at the booth during Jubilee until we are sold out. Only 500 tickets will be sold totally. Tickets are $10 each. The GOP's booth will be at the corner of Campbell and Grove streets. Republicans will also be raffling off an original oil painting of Baker Valley by local artist George Keister. Keister donated his painting to the party to help with fundraising. The painting will be on display at the booth and the tickets will sell for $1 each or 6 for $5. The GOP will have other candidate information and a fewelected officials at the booth. For more information or to volunteer, call Suzan at 541-519-5035 or Kody at 541-519-4061.

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Louis Deckard prepares an onion for slicing. The end product is a fried onion bloom.

By La'akea Kaufman kkaufman©bakercityherald.com

If you found yourself on the corner of Court and Main this weekend, amid the rain and the rumble of bikes, you probably experienced it. The air was different there — thick with the smell ofhot oil bubbling tirelessly in the fiyers, and the scent of batter didn't just waft. It enveloped. 'You want a deep fiied PB and J with powdered sugar and chocolate saucedrizzled overit?"LouisDeckard asks a customer.'We can do that." Indeed, Deckard does all that and more. He owns one of three food carts that were stationed on Court Avenue during the Hells Canyon Motorcycle

nYoucan pretty muchpy anything and it'll taste good."

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Decker said he was inspired by the success of an experiment he did deepfiying Sour Patch Kids candies. 'Then, I thought: everybody likes Rally. Deckard has been running his busi- pickles on their hamburgers and relness for 15 years, and he's probably ish on their hot dogs," Deckard said. "And everyone likes something if it's fiied every kind of sweet thing you might think of. on a stick." And some you might not. And so the pickled corndog was born. Oreos, Milky Ways, York Peppermint Patties, even fiied ice cream 'You can pretty much fiy anything and i01 taste good," Deckard said. sandwiches. Deckard says he's worked the Hells But people tended to playit safe Canyon Rally for six or seven years during the Motorcycle Rally, Deckard now, with a slight variation in prodsaid. His bestsellers were his Philly ucts each year. cheesesteaks and his onion blooms. His new item on the menu this yearisa pickled corndog — a hotdog, See Deep-FriedIPage 3A — Louis Deckard, food cart owner

Riderdiesincrashenrotleto Baker One motorcyclist was killed and another was injuredin separate crashes during the weekend. Oregon State Police said a Bend motorcyclist who was reported overdue to arrive in Baker City Thursday was found dead atthebottom of a steep embankment

off Highway 26 near the Wheeler/Grant County line Friday morning. Michael C. Denmark, 64, was traveling to Baker City for the Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally, Lt. Bill Fugate, Oregon State Police spokesman, said in a press release.

The Grant County 9-1-1 Denmark's body was found center and the Oregon State about 9 a.m. Friday on Police received reportsthat Highway 26in Wheeler Denmark was overdue and County at Milepost 93. missing at about 10 p.m. Police said Denmark's Thursday. Attempts to find 2007 Yamaha motorcycle him during the night were was traveling east on Highunsuccessful. way 26 when it left the road. OSP Sgt. Tom Hutchinson of John Day said See Crash/Bge 8A

Lobbying efforts by the Baker School District's former superintendent and others haveresulted in a new Oregon law that will make it easier for schools to hire specialists without academic credentials to teach career and technical education classes. House Bill 3166 authorizes a threeyear pilotprogram in which three school districts, including Baker, will be allowed to hire skilled people of good character to train students in noncore courses such as diesel mechanics, welding or construction, said Walt Wegener. Wegener, who retired as Baker School District superintendent on June 30, spentthelast Wegener fo ur months of his five-year tenure working as a consultant and lobbying on the district's behalf in Salem. Betty Palmer, former South Baker School principal, served as interim superintendent. Andrew Bryan, Baker School Board chair said Wegener's work paves the way forthedistrictto expand programs at the Baker Technical Institute iBTIl. SeeTeachersIPage 2A

Driver tops

120 mph during chase By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com

A Baker City man who led police on a high-speed chase through the east side of town and onto the freeway is in jail today facing multiple charges. Michael Ray Schulte 29 of 1555 Baker St., drove away from police who attempted to pull him over at 4:06 a.m. today at Oak Street and Washington Avenue, said Police Chief Wyn Lohner. SeeChaselPage 8A

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