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A special good day to Herald subscriber Dale Buxton of Baker City.

Results from website survey The most recent poll question posted on the Herald's website, www. bakercityherald.com, was: "The Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally returns to Baker City next weekend. I'll be: Results:

• Lightning sparks blazes; city, state and feds impose fire restrictions

WATCHING: 42 RIDING: 19 NEITHER: 160

By Pat Caldwell

The new poll question is: "How much has Baker City's UV water treatment plan eased your concerns about cryptosporidium?"

Choices are: Completely; A lot; A little; Not at all.

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Sports, 6A MINNEAPOLISDerek Jeter soaked in the adulation from fans and players during one more night on baseball's national stage, set the tone for the American League with a pregame speech and then delivered two final All-Star hits.

The AL kept up nearly two decades of dominanceby beating the National League 5-3 Tuesday for its 13th win in 17 years.

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Baker City's most recent water facilities master plan dates to 2000, Public Works Director Michelle Owen said.

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City Council cancels 3uly 22 meeting The Baker City Council has canceled its regular meeting schedule for July 22.

City Manager Mike Kee said there were few items, none critical, on the Council's agenda.

It was also possible that with councilors being out of town there wouldn't be a quorum of at least four councilors attending.

The Council's next regularly scheduled meeting wil be Aug. 12.

TraNc delays at Hells Canyon Dam this week Drivers should expect brief delays through Friday while crossing Hells Canyon Dam. Crews are working on the face of the dam.

A traffic flagger will be stationed on the Idaho side of the dam, and a message board at the Oxbow bridge will give updates about the road status.

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The Baker City Public Works Department can now move forward on a critical blueprint after securing funds to update its water facilitiesmaster plan.

The city announced last week it obtained a grantand a forgivable loan — combined for a totalof$40,000— from the Infrastructure Finance Authority iIFAl to utilize to update the city's Water Facilities Master Plan. The IFA issued a $20,000 grant to the city and a $20,000forgivableloan.The totalcostof updatingthe master plan isestimated tobe

Smoke from the Hurricane Creek fire in the Eagle CapWilderness billows above Highway 82 in Wallowa County. The lightning-caused fire has forced the closure of the Hurricane Creek trailhead.

By Jayson Jacoby ]]acoby©bakercityherald.com

Northeastern Oregon's reprieve from the fire season is over.

A series oflightning storms, combined with the hot, dry weather that has dominated duringJuly,hasbrought more than a dozen wildfires to the region this week.

And with no significant change in the weather forecast, local, state and federal agencies will soon impose more stringent fire restrictions.

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, starting Saturday, will prohibit the use of chain saws between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. each day.

Firewood cutting is still allowed, but chain saws can't be used during that seven-hour pertod.

Also taking effect Saturday on the Wallowa-Whitman is a ban on driving motorized vehicles off designated roads, or on roads that are blocked by an dirtberm, logs,boulders,gates

BAKER CITY BURN BAN TAKES EFFECT THURSDAY

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Please turn to Page 3A for a story about the ban on open burning, which is taking effect about a month earlier than usual.

or other barricade.

The Oregon Department of Forestry on Tuesday instituted a regulated use closure, which tightens fire restrictions on lands the agency protects.

Lightning, meanwhile, has ignited fires across the region.

The largest are in Wallowa County and across the Snake River in Idaho.

The Pittsburg fire is in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area has burned more than 6,400 acres north of Pittsburg Landing.

The fire is burning mainly in

grass.

In Oregon, the Hurricane Creek re fiin the Eagle Cap Wilderness near Joseph has burned120 acresoftim ber and forcedthe ForestService to close the Hurricane Creek trailhead, a popular entry point into the Eagle Cap. SeeFire Season IPage 8A

Changes at ci police, sheriff's ofFice

By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com

The titles were changed, but two of Baker County's familiar law enforcement faces remained the same when the new fiscal year got under way July 1.

At the Baker City Police Department, Sgt. Kirk McCormick, 56, retired under the Public Employees Retirement System iPERSl. He has been rehired in the position oflieutenant and will bepaid by contractata savingtothe city, said Jeannie Dexter, Finance Department manager.

A similar change took place at the SherifFs Offtce, where Undersheriff Warren Thompson, 54, has moved, at his request, into the position oflieutenant to manage the Baker County Jail, said Sheriff Mitch Southwick.

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BHS assistant principal position eliminated

By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com

The Baker School District has eliminated the assistant principal position at the high school for the coming year.

Instead, Chelsea Hurliman, who has taught Baker Middle School science and language artsforthepastfouryears,willserveasdean of students at BHS. See SchoolslPageGA

Baker Sanitarymighttake trash frsmtws csunlies

By Jayson Jacoby jacoby©bakeratyherald.com

Baker Sanitary Service is asking the Baker County Planning Commission to allow the company to accept waste fiom Grant and Wallowa counties.

Baker Sanitary currently buries

trash fiom Baker and Union counties at the landfill the company owns near Sutton Creek, about three miles southeast of Baker Cit. Baker Sanitary started taking Union County's trash in 2006.

The Planning Commission will

consider the request duringits meeting Thursday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at the Courthouse, 1995 Third St. According to Baker Sanitary Service's application, the trash haulers in both Grant and Wallowa counties asked the company about the possibil-

ity ofb~ was t e to the Baker Sanitary landfill, which opened in 1971.

Baker Sanitary President David Henry said the company did not solicit business fiom either the Grant County or Wallowa County trash hauler.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2014

BAKER COUNTY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 • Baker City Farmers Market:3:30-6:30 p.m. at the Community Events Center, 2600 East St., Baker City.

SUNDAY, JULY 20 • Powder River Music Review:2 p.m., Geiser-Pollman Park, Madison and Grove Streets; $5 suggested donation to help build a bandstand pavilion in the park.

MONDAY, JULY 21 • Baker Web Academy & Baker Early College Board:5 p.m., Nort h BakerCampus, 2725 Seventh St. TUESDAY, JULY 22 • Baker City Council:Meeting canceled; the next Council session will be at7 p.m. Aug. 12 at City Hall,1655 First St. • WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 • Baker City Farmers Market:3:30-6:30 p.m. at the Community Events Center, 2600 East St., Baker City.

TURNING BACK THE PAGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald July 16, 1964 The Baker County LivestockAssociation has authorized a study to see if it would be feasible to form a league for the protection of the industry.

Willard Bunch, a member of the organization's taxation committee, presented the league proposal to the association last night and it received overwhelming support.

The main purpose of the league would be to act as a lobby in Washington, D.C., to assist in obtaining favorable legislation for the protection of the industry.

25 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald July 16, 1989 High winds blew through Baker Friday evening knocking out power to the downtown area, scattering tree limbs and clearing most of the crowd gathered in the park for the arts and crafts exhibits of the Miners Jubilee.

Winds gusted up to 45 mph for about 30 minutes beginning at 4:30 p.m., according to unofficial reports from weather observers at the Baker Airport. The winds were in association with several thunderstorms recorded Friday, according to a spokesman at the airport ... ... About 1,000 customers in Baker's downtown business district were without power from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday.

The outage happened when high winds knocked wires together causing two circuits to shut down.

10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald July 16, 2004 The Union-Baker Education Service District Board has scheduled a training session at Haines Monday to help directors get better acquainted....

"We'll talk a little about boardsmanship — how are we going to treat each other," said Superintendent Ed Schumacher.

"The board needs to getto know each other. " Deon Strommer of Baker City joined the board in February and Rich Cason, board chair, of Elgin recently completed his first year on the board.

Directors have come under fire from a citizen watchdog committee critical of district operations in the past six months.

Strommer is a former member of the group, theWorkforce/Education Development Committee.

ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald July 24, 2013 Baker County Planning Commissioners onTuesday denied conditional-use permits for construction of a pair of wind farms near Huntington and Lime.

Commissioners began deliberating about the projects last week. The large number of public comments at that time resulted in a meeting lasting more than four hours.

Tuesday's meeting concluded after about 3"/2 hours. .

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OBITUARIES Edna Aichete-Harwood

hometown of Baker, where he joined his father's mediEdna Mae Aichele-Harcal practice. During the 53 wood, 91, of Baker City, a years in Baker, she and John former resident of Miltonraised eight children.

Freewater and North Powder, Her career was important to her and when condiedJuly 7,2014,atSettler's Park, an assisted living and tacted by others, she would memory care center. "special" a patient, providHer funeral ing individual care during will be at 11 a hospital stay. She also a.m. Friday, July volunteeredforthe localRed 18, at the MunCross. selle-Rhodes Later Esther returned to Funeral Home, hospital nursing and worked Edna 902 S. Main at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Aichele- St . , in MiltonEsther Higgins Baker as it transitioned to Harwood Fr e e water.

Formerly Baker City, 1922-2014 St. Elizabeth Community Interment will Esther Berniece NatterHospital. She worked there lund Higgins, 91, formerly until Dr. John needed an be afterward at the MiltonFreewater Cemetery. of Baker City, died July 11, oSce nurse and she began Visitations will be from 7 her career working with Dr. 2014, while residing at the SpringRidge Court Assisted John at the Higgins Clinic p.m.to9 p.m .Thursday,July Living facility at Charbonin 1976.

17, at the funeral home.

Edna was born on Jan. Together they provided neau.

The rosary many years of medical care 31, 1923, at Hazelgreen, will be said at to Baker County residents.

Mo.,to Claude E.and Mary Mae Bowling. She lived in After Dr. John retired in 6 p.m. SunMissouri and Texas before day at Gray's 1996, he suffered a stroke moving to Oregon in 1938 and Esther lovingly cared West & Co. where she met and married Pioneer Chapel, for him until his death in Emanuel Aichele in 1941.

Esther 15 0 0 Dewey 2002. As a nurse, she took They madetheirhome at Higgins Av e. Mass of careofstrangers,asa m othMilton-Freewater where they Marvin Coombes Christian Burial er to eight and grandmother raised three children. Edna Halfway, 1937-2014 will be celebrated at 10 of 26, she took care ofher Marvin Coombes, 77, of a.m. Monday at St. Francis family and as a wife her love enjoyedhomemaking, canonly grew bigger through ning, cooking, sewing, raising Halfway, died July 8, 2014, at de Sales Cathedral, First lowers,reading and being in- Halfway. f and Church streets. Intertime and sickness.

There will be ment will be at Mount Hope In 2005 Esther moved to volved in her children's school and church activities. a private family Cemetery. There will be a SpringRidge Court Assisted Later, she enjoyed working gathering later luncheon afterward at St. Living in Charbonneau to be as a home-care provider, nursthis summer.

Francis Parish Hall. closer to her family. She was es assi stant,home childcare Marvin Esther was born on Oct. lovingly cared for there. She provider 4aby-sittingl and in was born on 25, 1922, at Mount Harris, was able to enjoy many more the fruit packing houses. Her Marvin Mar ch 3, 1937, Colo., to Swedish immigrant family dinners, birthdays favorite job was working as a Coombes at Wendell, parents, Johann Alfred and and reunions while living teaching assistant at the local Idaho, to Marion Signe Leontine Natterlund. near her children. day care and preschool center. Kenneth and Eva Donetta The family settled at Westfir Survivors include her chilEmanuel died in 1987.

Mecham Coombes. He was where her father worked in dren, John A. Higgins and She married Jack Woods of raised and educated in Wash- the lumber mill. his wife, Barbara, Timothy J. Milton-Freewater in 1989. ington and Idaho. Marvin She was one of four girls and his wife, Paula, Mary ElThey divorced in 1994. enlisted in the U.S. Army and rearedby her father after len Salomone and her husEdna married James G. served from 1955 to 1962. her mother's death when band, Vincent, Patricia Ann, Harwood of Echo in 1996.

He married Donna Hess on she was 5 years old. Johann Catherine E. Schild and her They met at a yard sale and April 14, 1959. They had four had promised Signe that husband, Milton, Frances M. Edna always thought she got daughters, and divorced in he would keep the family Hellings and her husband, a great bargain.

1977. During his life, Marvin together.

Esther developed Glen, and Thomas A. and his The couple lived at Weston worked as a heavy equipher value of family and home wife, Ann; her daughter-inbefore moving to North Pow- m ent operator and a livestock from his example. law, Nancy L. Higgins; and der in 2002 where they lived truck driver. Marvin enjoyed Esther's first experiences a large extended family who until they entered the asfishing and horseback riding. in nursing were at Sacred loved her. sisted living center in Baker One ofhis favorite sayings Heart Hospital in Eugene She was preceded in death was "It is what it is."

City in 2013. Edna recently beforeshe enrolled atGood by her husband, Dr. John; entered the memory care unit Marvin was a friend to Samaritan Hospital School her son, Matthew P.; and her where she lived for the last everyone, he was honest and of Nursing in Portland. She grandchild, Tyler J. Higgins. five weeks ofher life. was a stand up guy. No matmet her future husband, Memorial contributions While at North Powder, ter what life threw at him, he John, while she was on her m ay be made tothe SprinEdna andJim attended tried to do the right thing. As obstetrics rotation there. gRidgeCourt Employee the Methodist Church and far as Marvin was concerned They were married in Baker Recognition Fund through Gray's West & Co. Pioneer enjoyed baking zucchini therewas no betterplace to in July of 1944. bread and cooking together. live than in Halfway.

After Dr. John's army Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., She loved visiting friends and Marvin loved his family service, they returned to his Baker City, OR 97814. family. If you met her once, and friends.

"He will be missed by us you were her friend for life.

She loved reading her Bible all," family members said. and her faith saw her through Survivors include his OUT OF COUNTY PAROLE DEATHS life and health challenges. daughters, Kathy Miller of PROBATION DETAINER: Andrea Myron Painter: 66, of Her memory failed in the last Hermiston, Julie Schreck of Kytola, 34, 312 Hillcrest Place, Halfway, died July 14, 2014, at 12:54 p.m. Tuesday at 3325 Pocayear ofher life, but during her Anaheim, Calif, Cindy Storie Nyssa. Arrangements are under the direction ofTami's PineValley hontas Road; jailed. last few days, she was very of Plant City, Fla., and Kelly Home Br Cremation Serclear about going home to be Alderson of Cashmere, Wash.; Funeral Baker County Sheriff vices. Notice of service date and in the presence of the Lord. his brothers, Bill Coombes Arrests, citations time, and online condolences, OUT OF COUNTYWARRANT, "Her smile and laughter and David Hanson; his twin are at www.tamispinevalleyfuFAILURETO REGISTER AS A neralhome.com. brought joy to her famsister, Marva Lundquist; SEX OFFENDER: Steven Edward ily, friends and world," her eight grandchildren and six Norris,48, 255 Second St., North POLICE LOG Powder, 9:34 p.m. Tuesday at his Baker City, 1923-2014

daughter, Glenda, said.

Edna was preceded in death by her husbands, Emanuel Aichele and Jack Woods; a son, Douglas Gideon Aichele; son-in-law, Bruce Carter; and brother, Clarence Bowling.

Survivors include her husband, James Harwood of Baker City; a son, Manuel Claude Aichele ofArizona; a daughter, Glenda M. Carterof North Powder; a sister, Evelyn Lucille Moore of Missouri; 11 grandchildren, including Lisa Aichele of North Powder; 18 great-grandchildren, including Dylan Steele and Zachary Steele of North Powder; three great-greatgrandchildren; and several stepchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Memorial contributions m ay be made to theN orth Powder Library through the Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main St., Milton-Freewater, OR 97862.

Leave an online condolence at www.munsellerhodes.com

great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Don Coombes; and a sister, Ilene Saylor.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 7847, through Tami's Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.

Online condolences may be made at www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.

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SENIOR MENUS • THURSDAY:Spaghetti with meat sauce, cauliflower, green salad, garlic bread, bread pudding • FRIDAY:Baked cod,cupofclam chowder,peasand carrots, coleslaw, roll, brownie Public luncheon atthe Senior Center,2810 Cedar St., noon; $3.50donation (60 and older), $5.75 for those under 60.

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TAanh goufor gour hindness The family of Kathi Hulthuis sincerely thanLs all those who supporteJ us Juring our time of sorrow P rememhrance. Your unselfish generosity anJ LinJness maJe us proul to live in or visit this welcoming community. S p ecifically we want to thanL Kathi's fellow teachers anJ staff from our excellent BaLer City schools.

Memhers of the Nazarene Church Community of

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keep in step with the Oregon Department of Forestry, The Baker City Fire which on Tuesday instituted Department has instituted a a regulated closure of ODFburn ban that will take effect protected lands due to fire this Thursday at 12:01 a.m. danger.

The ban prohibits all open The Baker City burn ban burning, including burn bar- will remain in place until imrels, within city limits. proving weather conditions ''We decided itwastim e," lead to reduced fire danger.

"If the weather cools down Baker City Fire Chief Jim Price said Tuesday afternoon. to 75 and it rains for a week ''We've been out of town three straight, we could take the times in the last week on ban ofE" Price said."I don't large fires." anticipate that happening."

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FIRE SEASON Continued ~om Page1A Firefighters built a control line Tuesday on the blaze's northwest side, which is closest to private land, Forest Service spokesman Dave Schmitt said.

A total of 24 firefighters were working on the blaze, with aerial assistance kom a helicopter dumping water and a singleengine airplane dropping fire retardant.

About 3 p.m. Tuesday the Forest Service's fire lookout on the summit of Mount Ireland, about eight miles northw est of Sumpter,reported ablaze about a mile south of the lookout.

The blaze near Downie Lake has burned about three acres, said Keith Dunn, assistant fire management officer for the Wallowa-Whitman's Burnt-Powder Fire Zone.

TRASH Continued ~om Page1A Henry said Baker Sanitary won't negotiate with either hauler unless Baker County gives the company approval.

Clark's Disposal in John Day has been hauling trash to a landfill at Boardman, and the company told Baker Sanitary it would be less expensive to truck trash to Baker City instead.

with bans during the last two years coming into effect around mid-August.

"Mostly in the city what we're worried about is the tall grass," Price said. Poorly m aintained properties also pose a risk.

While the fire department's worldoad may increase for the first week after the ban, Price said that the goal during that time will be to educate residents, not fine them. ''We're not running out to try and be overly agressive

That includes the main fire of about two acres, along with several spot fires, some asfarasaquarter-mileto theeast, Dunn said.

The fire burned on both public land and a privately owned patented mining claim, he said.

Although fire crews haven't confirmed the cause, lightning is the likely culprit, Dunn said. Lightning strikes were recorded in the area on Sunday.

The fire started in an area with plentiful dead and down timber, as well as thickets of subalpine fir trees. Those can prove challenging for firefighters because subalpine firs are rich in flammable resin, and their dense network oflimbs grows right to the ground, so fire can easily spread kom the ground to trees.

Dunn said a pair of fire engines, one kom the Forest Service and one from the

Henry said even if Clark's Disposaldecides tohaultrash toBaker County, the deliveries probably wouldn't start until late 2015.

In the case of Wallowa County, Rahn's Sanitary Service of Enterprise might be interested in trucking waste to Baker Sanitary's landfill, but Henry said that is much less likely than with Grant County.

Wallowa County Commissioners agreedlastweek toreduce disposal rates for Rahn at the Wallowa

in penalizing people," Price sald.

First-time offenders will receive a warning, while repeat violators will begin to see increasing fines.

"Anyone that violates the burn ban is taking a lot ofliability on themselves," Price said."If they start a fire it'd be hard to argue that they weren't negligent."

Price doesn't think this will be much of an issue, however.

"Most kankly are happy

with ithe banl," he said.

"They know what's going on."

Oregon Department of Forestry, worked on the blaze Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Two single-engine air tankers"boxed in" the fire with swathes of retardant, and a helicopter dumped water on the hottest spots, Dunn said.

The proximity of Downie Lake, less than a mile kom the fire, aided firefighting efforts because the helicopter coulddrop aload ofwaterevery couple minutes, he said.

Dunn said a dozen or so Forest Service firefighters will be joined today by two 10-man crews of inmates kom the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario. ''We'd like to get it mopped up today," Dunn said. ~ty Nesbitt of WesComNews Seruice contributed to this story.

County landfill from $28.50 per ton to $26 per ton, although for only one year.

According to Baker Sanitary's application, taking waste kom Grant and Wallowa counties would have a "quite small" effect on the company's landfill capacity.

On average, Baker Sanitary dumps about 800 tons of Baker County trash per month at its landfill, and about 1,400 tons per month kom Union County.

BRIEFING

Livestock judging contest winners named

The Poco-Wing 4-H Club had a livestock judging field day last month at the Thomas Angus Ranch.

Thirty-four people attended. Judges were Bob Harrell, Eugene Hawes and Chelsea White.

Winners:

3uniors 1st, Abigayle Whitney; 2nd, Camber Downing; 3rd, Kolten Dahl

Seniors 1st, Eliza Rushton; 2nd, Ashlee Brinton; 3rd, Jennie Foltz

Adults 1st, Matt Dahl; 2nd, Tyler Thomas; 3rd, Mark Coomer Cody De Carli won the weight-guessing prize.

Friends of Baker County Library book sale The Baker County Friends of the Library's annual Miners Jubilee Book Sale is scheduled for July 18-20 at the Library, 2400 Resort St. There will be an exclusive presale event for Friends members only on July 17 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Non-members can join the group that evening for $10.

Book sale hours are: • Friday, July 18: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Saturday, July 19: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Sunday,July20:10 a.m .to 4 p.m .

The sale will continue the following week, July 21-27, during regular library hours.

Baker County Democrats meet Thursday The Baker County Democrats will have their regular monthly meeting this Thursday, July 17 at 7 p.m. in the Rogers Fellowship Hall at 1995 Fourth St. They will continue working on plans for the fall campaign, and will watch a documentary about the increase in childhoodpoverty.Coffeeishotat6:30 p.m. for socialtim e.

Grant and Wallowa counties would each bring an estimated 250 tons per month.

Moreover, the money Baker Sanitary would receive would make it more likely that they could afford to install protective liners in newly opened sections of the landfill, according to the application.

Without the additional revenue the company might have to close the landfill because the liner, which state regulatory officials require,

would be too expensive.

In that scenario, Baker Sanitary probablywould have to haulBaker County trash to a landfill in Payette, Idaho. That would result in higher disposal costs for the company and, inevitably ,foritscustomers, according to the application.

It's unlikely that any counties besides Grant and Wallowa would be interested in disposing of waste at the Baker Sanitary landfill, Henry sald.

County seeks parole violator William Everett Rachau Jr., 26, has abscondedkom the supervisionofthe Baker County Parole and Pmbation Departmenton a conviction for deliveringmethamphetamine.

The Departmentis asking the public for help in finding Rachau. Baker Countyresidents should not attempt to appm hend him, however, said Will Benson, Parole and Pmbation supervtsor.

Rachau has bmwnhair and hazel eyes. Heis 5 feet,6inches tall and weighs 185 pounds.

Anyone with information about Rachau is asked to call Pamleand Pmbation at 541-523-8217; the Rachau nearest policedepartment; or the Baker County Consolidated Dispatch Center's business number,541-523-6415; or send theinformationvia email to parole@bakercounty.

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me icine Editorial from The (Bend) Bulletin:

The Oregon Health Authority is working on regulations to control the sale of edible marijuana products and ensure that packaging is child-resistant.

It's a particular problem with lollipops, cookies and other treats that include marijuana but aren't visibly diferent from snacks kids routinely consume.

In Oregon, only medical marijuana sales are legal, but those treats sure don't look like medicine. The state is wise to take steps to use packaging and labeling to protect children — and adults, too — from consuming marijuana without knowing it.

In Colorado, where the nation's first legal recreational sales of marijuana started this year, edibles have caused problems for kids and adults alike.

The body responds differently to eaten vs. smoked marijuana in ways that make it diKcult to control the impact, even for adults who know what they are consuming. For kids, access is easy when adults don't secure their marijuana purchases.

Oregon's Legislature passed Senate Bill 1531 in its 2014 session to allow local governments to regulate new dispensaries selling medical marijuana, and to allow the state to regulate packaging, among other items. The OHA is taking comments until Aug. 22 on its proposed regulations to carry out the law.

On Wednesday, the Deschutes County Commission endorsed plans by the county's Public Health Advisory Board to submit a comment saying We, as a Public Health Advisory Board, share a general consensus that strict regulations be in place in order to prevent marijuana-based products from being sold by medical marijuana dispensaries that are packaged or marketed in a manner that is attractive to youth."

We agree. The law says it's medicine, so package it like medicine. Require child-resistant prescription containers for all marijuana, whether it's in leaf-form or added to lollipops or brownies. The dangers are substantial, especially for kids, who deserve protection from risky marketing and confusing packaging.

Your views Can't we have a City Council thatworks forthe city?

personal agenda is more important than that of city business is by far the most I have been asked many times by compelling reason I can think of for not various citizens to run for City Council. wanting to run for public office. My hat is off to now Roger Coles, Dennis DorNow I would like to make public my reasons for not running. rah, and now simply Councilor Richard I can't remember in my 33 years livLangrell for doing the right thing. You ing here a single city council that wasn't have my full support as well as symdysfunctional in one way or another. The pathy. As for the other four Councilors, citizensvote forw hat they perceive to be have you ever thought actions such as citizens interested in representing the yours are always seen negatively by any city as a whole in matters of importance. business thinking of relocating to Baker City. You did this the very same week What we always end up with sadly is we will have thousands of visitors to our several worthy council members doing fair city, what will they think of you? exactly that, and a few that bring their own personal agenda that serves them Bill Ward and not the citizens.

Baker City This current Council is case in point.

The citizens voted for the councilors, and Bentz is right: We can accomplish more together as thepaper pointed out thecitizens have no vote as to who is chosen mayor.

I was impressed by Rep. Cliff Bentz's But each voter realizes one of the seven calm and thoughtful response to the controversy that exists in our use of would be elected mayor and therefore natural resources i"Bentz: Timber we wouldn't vote for any councilor we felt would be inadequate in the job. gridlock annoys," July 7l. While others Unfortunately, four councilors felt may promote conflict and confrontation, that rather than wait for the seating of a Bentz reminds us that collaboration can new City Council in order to pick a new produce win-win solutions that benefit mayor they would vote Richard out now. us all, and he specifically calls for"a Will we ever have a Council that will sturdy line of communication between learntorespectand disagree atthe stateand federalagenciesand local same time, and the key word here is re- governments."

It's likely that such vigorous commuspect. We have four councilors that like children when the game doesn't go their nication actually can overcome environmental lawsuit barriers and lead to way, they take the ball and go home.

The four councilors that decided their increased, sustainable employment in

the timber industry. Bentz urges us to explore additional job creation opportunities, as well, and so do I. In my opinion, a most productive first step toward wage growth and prosperity in our community would be to recognize the epic damage caused by the growing inequality of wealth in our country.

There's been a heartbreaking decline of the middle class.

American wages have been stagnant or shri nldng for thepast35 years,as good-payingjobswerelosttocomputer automation and off-shoring. Profits have increasingly gone to an elite few, who are lightly taxed.

One widely-discussed solution: engaging with all levels of government, we could increase incomes by enhancing the Earned Income Tax Credit. If more families had a livable income, it would quickly and substantially increase the amount of money circulating in Baker County and elsewhere, and more jobs would follow. Everyone would benefit.

Abraham Lincoln warned us that "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Fighting each other, we invite disintegration. Let us not allow fear and ideology to cloud mutual respect and high regard. Working together we can realize the potential of our collective genius to discover surprising, new solutions that transcend our individual views.

Marshall McComb Baker City

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Mental hospital memorial questions Lettersto the editor • We welcome letters on any issue of public interest.

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Editorial from The Albany Democrat-Herald: They numbered in the thousands, the copper urns containing the cremated remains of patients who had been forgotten inside the halls of the old Oregon state mental hospital.

The urns, some 3,500 of them, were discoveredin thebowels ofthe decrepit facility, where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed. The urns were discoveredin 2005,as lawmakers toured the hospital.

The discovery added a punctuation mark to the history of the hospital, which iasAssociated Press reporter Jonathan Coopernoted in Monday's front-pagestory)became a symbol of Oregon's — and the nation's — dark legacy of treating the mentally ill by warehousing them, out of sight, out of mind.

Between 1913 and 1971, more than 5,300people were cremated at the hos-

pital. Most were patients at the mental institution, as Cooper reported, but not all of them. Some of them died at local hospitals or the state tuberculosishospital.

Some died ata state penitentiary or the Fairview Training Center, where people with developmental disabilities were institutionalized.

Some of the patients stayed for a lifetime at the hospital for conditions like depression and bipolar disorderailments that we now can treat on an outpatientbasis.

The AssociatedPress story reported on a research effort to unearth the personal stories behind those urns — and to reunite the remains with surviving relatives. On Monday, officials dedicateda memorial to those patients.

Give a big measure ofcreditfor this effortto state Senate President Peter Courtney, who led an effort to replace the hospital and build the memorial.

With any luck, the memorial will of-

fer a stark warning about the personal iand societal) price we pay for trying to sweep mental health issues under the rug — a warning that should still resonate with chilling force even today.

"At the time, they just put them in a safe place and treated them with what they knew to treat them," said Sharon Weber, who led the two-year research project to connect the lives ofreal peopletotheirremains.

That was the reasoning they used back then.

We know now where that

led.

We like to think that we've made progress since then, and — truthfully — we have.

The memorial isa good idea and long overdue. But it leaves unanswered vital questions: Who is being left in the shadows today? What can we do today to make sure we don't have to install another memorial like this one?

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.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber: 254 State Capitol, Salem, OR

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Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown: 900 Court St. N.E., Salem, OR 97301; 503-986-1523.

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 wwwdeg.state.or.us.

State Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ontario): 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 Day): 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 City administration: 541-523-6541. Mike Kee, city manager;Wyn Lohner, police chief; Jim Price, fire chief; Michelle Owen, public works director; Becky Fitzpatrick, HR manager and city recorder.

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. (chair), 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, Mark Henderson, Kyle Knight, Rich McKim.

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POLICE Continued from Page1A Thompson said he believes the change will be a"win-win for the isherif'sl office and the jail." ''We've gota greatcorrections team here and we wanted to do everything we could to keep it at that standard," Thompson said.

In both cases, the public should see little change in services, the police chief and the sherif said.

"It's really no change operationally," Baker City Police Chief Wyn Lohner said of McCormick's new title.

Likewise for Thompson, although his main focus is on jail management since the change. He is a sworn patrol officer as well and will fill in on patrol when needed. And he will continue to serve with the SherifFs Department's Search and Rescue Team.

McCormick's new title comes with a $60 per month pay raise, Dexter said. As a sergeant, he would have earned $5,940 monthly under the new police contract, which provided a 1.5-percent raise. Under his new contract he will earn $6,000 per month.

But because McCormick is retired under the PERS system, the city will no longer have to contribute 22.16 percent of McCormick's pay into his retirement fund. And because he is no longer a member of the police union, he isn't eligible for overtime pay, Dexter said. He will, however, continue to qualify for the city's health insurance coverage.

Taking McCormick out of the police union alsomakes itm ore appropriate for him to conduct internal investigations, Lohner said.

"It's always better not to have one union member investigating another union member."

Thompson took a reduction in pay to transfer to the jail commander's position, Southwick said.

He earned $65,952 as undersheriIE a position he's held since Southwick first took office in 2005. Thompson's new salary is

$61,017 per year.

With Thompson's move to the jail, Sgt. Travis Ash, 39, has been promoted to patrol lieutenant. Lt. Will Benson, 40, will continue in his role over Baker County Parole and Probation, which also is supervised by the

sheriIK Southwick said he moved the savings &om Thompson's salary reduction to the two other lieutenants, to compensate them forincreased training they have received.

Benson and Ash will earn $63,458 in the new fiscal year, up from the base salary

of $61,017. Ash had earned $59,196 as a sergeant.

Back at the city, Dustin Newman has been promotedtotheopen sergeant'sposition.He came to the department in March &om Polk County where he had worked as a sergeant for seven years. Newman was originally hired to fill the position of Josh Bryant, who resigned. Newman will earn $5,077 per month in his new position, up &om $4,722 as apatroloffi cer.

Mike Regan is the department's other sergeant. Regan, 40, has been with the Baker City Police since August 1998. He was promotedtosergeantin 2008.Hissalary is

$5,940 per month.

Other officers are Michael Lary, 48, who joined the Baker City department on May 20 after serving asa sergeant forthe Burns Tribal Policeforfouryears.Heispaid $4,225 per month on Step 1 of the department's salary schedule.

Coleton Smith, 24, a new recruit who joined the department on Nov. 19, 2013, earns a starting salary of $4,050 per month.

The most recent hire, Matthew Watkins, 30, who came to the department on June 24 fiom West Jordan, Utah, and earned the Step 1 salary, is no longer with the Baker City Police Department, Lohner said Tues-

day.

"Both the department and Olficer Watkins realized atter a very short time that this was not going to be a good fit for the department or for Olficer Watkins," Lohner said.'We wish him the best in his future endeavors."

That leaves the department one short of its full roster of 14 sworn officers, Lohner said. He is in the process of filling that position.

The one nonsworn position, that of code enforcement officer, was filled by Mark Powell atter the resignation of Ruthie Boyd.

Powell, who recently completed the Reserve Academy training, earns $2,709.

Lohner said Boyd decided after a short time on the job that the code enforcement position was not"a good fit" for her.

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we will look for any improvements that need to be made over the next 20 years," Owen said. She also said the city's water distribution system will be reviewed as partoftheplan update.

"Meaning the pipes that bringwater to people's homes. We will focus on leak detection or any upgrades we need to do in our circulation dead lines," she said.

The plan update, though, will not include wastewater, she said.

"Wastewater is a whole separate thing. I will be doing an update on the wastewater in the next couple of years," Owen said.

The city already budgeted

year and in the next budget cycle.

That is why, she said, the monies from the IFA are so critical.

"It ithe loan and grant) is a goodnews story.Itisa good

thing," Owen said.

Now with the additional funds the city can move ahead with a plan to put out bidson the project.

"It means I can put together an RFP iRequest for Proposal)," Owen said.

City Manager Mike Kee agreed the IFA assistance was crucial and now the city can take steps to finish the project. ''We are good to go. Just need to step through the hoops. Usually it is an engineer firm that does things like this. We will put an RFP togetherand advertise it widely," Kee said.

The city, Owen said, face a two-year deadline to finish the update plan.

"I'd anticipate at least a year to do this. Data gathering and things like that takes longer than you think.

Owen said the master plan updateeffortis an opportunity.

"Safety improvements, things we could do diferently, this is a time to investigate these &om a broad perspective," Owen said.

gram,"Wegener said.

The goal is to help stuContinued from Page1A dents succeed in whatever She will earn about $4,500 circumstances they might more in the role for working find themselves in and to an additional 22 days, added build a supportive school to herteacher's salary of environment. about $40,236 per year.

Hurliman's role will be Superintendent Walt more focused on student Wegener said today that as relationships and less on dean of students, Hurliman discipline, Wegener said. will serve as an"organizaShe will work to coorditionalstudent advocate." nate services provided by ''We'retrying to see to it other specialists in the buildthat we have a comprehening, including the guidance sivestudent serviceprocounselor, a mental health

therapist, the liaison for homeless students and the principal.

N o final plans have been made fortheschoolresource officer position.

The superintendent updated the Baker School Board on staffing changes Tuesdaynight.

A full list of the new faces that will be seen in the classrooms when the 2014-15 school year gets under way will be published in Friday's issue of the Herald.

Continued ~om Page1A "It is time. We've changed our treatment system. We are now doing UV. We've made some progress on the mountain iwater transmission line) so we know where we are headed on that project," Owen said.

A previous loan — to fund the construction of the city's permanent UV water treatment facility — actually triggeredthe need forthe Water Facilities Master Plan update, Owen said.

"As part of the agreement to receive the loan for the UV plan, we had to agree to update our master plan within two years," Owens said.

A water facilities plan is an in-depth review designed to pinpointissues and opportunities, Owen said.

"It looks at the overall water system for Baker City.

That means we will look at the transmission system, how to bring the water to town, then we will look at the treatment system. Right now that is chlorine and UV and

$40,000fortheupdateplan, Owen said. She said the city by itself could not afford a

one-time, $80,000 outlay. So Owen said her plan was to

request $40,000 this budget

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NEOEDD and partners receive foodsystems grants The Northeast Oregon Economic Development District is distributing grant funding to regional food system programs this summer.

The Meyer Memorial Trust awarded $22,000 to the 12-member Community Food System Coalition to support continued work on a statewide food-system planning. The coalition includes Oregon Rural Action and the District working in partnership with Wallowa, Union, Baker, Umatilla and Malheur counties.

EcoTrustawarded the district$1,500 to supportfarm-to-preschoolactivities in Wallowa County. The Magic Garden, a partner in the Wallowa County Food System Council, will expand harvest ieldtripsand activitiesforpreschoolers. f The grant will also help purchase garden supplies to engage children in growing gardens and enjoying &esh produce. The project will involve the Magic Garden/ Joseph Charter School: Wallowa County Head Start; Building Healthy Families; Academic Building Center, LLC; Creative Tree and Learning Tree Montessori.

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Inez McKinney of Albany picks her share of lamberts as the ripening cherries head into prime time this week in Joyce Grove's orchard off of Mt. Glen Road north of La Grande. The Groves purchased the property with the orchard in 2003.

Union County FSAcommittee nomination period now open The UnionCounty Farm ServiceAgency committee is seeking nominations for Local Administrative Area No. 3, which covers the Cove and Union areas.

Anyone who is nominated should actively parti cipatein the operation ofa farm or ranch and be qualified for committee work.

A producer is eligible if they reside in LAA No. 3 and are eligible to vote.

County committee members help deliver FSA farm programs at the local level. Farmers and ranchers who serve on county committees help with the decisions necessary to administer the programs in their county. They operate within official regulationsdesigned tocarry outfederal laws. County committee members apply their judgment and knowledge to make local decisions and to ensure FSA agriculturalprograms servetheneeds oflocal producers.

Farmers and ranchers may nominate themselves or others, and organizations representing minorities and women are encouraged to nominate candidates. To become a candidate, an eligible individual must sign the nomination form, FSA669A. The form and other information about FSA county committee elections are available online at http://wwwfsa.usda. gov/elections.

Completed nomination forms must be postmarkedorreceived by closeofbusiness Aug. 1. Elections will take place this

fall.

BEO Bancorp reports second quarter earnings BEO Bancorp and its subsidiary, Bank of Eastern Oregon, announced second quarter consolidated net income of $726,000, or 63 cents per share, compared to $762,000, or 72 cents per share, for second quarter 2013.

Year to date earnings were more than$1.2 million, up 10.5 percentyear over year. Total assetswere $307.4 million,up 7.1percent year over year. Net loans of $256.5 million were up 5.3 percent fiom the same period in 2013, while deposits were at $265.2 million, up 4.9 percentyear over year. ''While second quarter numbers are slightly behind last year, our year-todate numbers are up significantly,"said President and CEO Jeff Bailey.aWe are an agricultural and natural resource-based institution; with our loan to asset ratio at 83.5percent and loan todepositratio at 96.8 percent, I expect good results through our peak borrowing season."

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Joyce Grove and her husband, Monte, inherited the cherry orchard when they were looking for their perfect house more than a decade ago. Since then, Joyce has taken her 10 acres of cherry trees and turned it into a small business.

The Cherrie Grove, located off of Starr Lane in La Grande, was 37 acres of orchards before the Groves moved in. The previous owner sold his produce commercially but later split his land into two platsof10 acresand oneplat of 17 acres.

The Groves were looking for property to put a house on in 2003 when they found it. aWe just happened to find the perfect spot, "Grovesaid.aWe inheritedthe treestoo."

'You're very busy maintaining an orchard," she said."Before we started spraying organically, we're getting up early, watering,

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Joyce sold the cherries commercially for three to four years, but one year the company they sold to dumped 500 pounds oftheir cherries because they didn't need them, she said. And the Groves didn't sell to them again. aWe got very upset," she said.

'That was one of our best years."

Since then, Cherrie Grove has turned into a &esh market and u-pick for customers.

They offer already picked cherries for a slightly higher price, or welcome customers to go and pick themselves.

Over the years, the orchard has gotten smaller. The Cherrie Grove has gone&om approximately350 cherry trees to 125.

"The reason is our well is down 735 feet and we can't water all the orchard," Grove said.

Additionally, the income generatedfrom the salesofthe cherries barely breaks Cherrie Grove even.

Cherries are sold for $1 pound if picked beforehand, and 75 cents per pound for u-pick.

"There's people who can't afford

kids come. The + come from the orchards with the faces covered in cherry juice."

The cherry season has not quite started yet, she said. This time last year, they had already startedto pick. aWe're about a week offa she sald.

Grovesaidtheorchard isat 3,000 feet and located in a little cove.

"It depends on how the previous winter was," she said.'The lowerpart ofthe orchard seems to be OK, but as it's gradually going up the hill we're losing more trees."

The orchard is 60 years old, too, she said. Cherries like the warmer weather so the Groves are waiting for thatto setin.

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In a recent U.S. Open, the first place winner collected $1.44 million and second

place earned $865,000.

If a business can simply improve how it operates and what it does by, say, 7 percent, some significant things will result.

A 3 percent improvement might not mean too much and perhaps might be too little to even undertake. It's hard to get anyone excited abouta 3 percent improvement. Five percent is better; and double digit growth might even scare some people &om even thinking about it, but what about a 7 percent improvement; what would that mean?

Seven percent is a significant number. People can relate to this number; in many cultures it is considered a "luckynumber."

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to pay more," she said. Cherries go for more than $3 per pound in certainplacesand Grove doesn't want to raisetheprices.

Despite the financial portion of the business, the Groves will continue to supply the locals with cherriesfor acouple more years.

"Our oldest customer has been 98 years old, and our youngest was 2 months old," Grove recalled."I love it when the little

NEW BUSINESS

— From staff reports

Small Business Happenings covers Northeast Oregon's small-business community.

The column carries news about business events, staitupsand 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.

Baker County residents can submit items to news@bakercityherald.com or call them in to 541-523-3673.

ne of the most interestingbehavioralconcepts discovered is the winning edge. This principle states that small differences in key action areas can translate into enormous differences in results.

The single degree between 211 degrees Fahrenheit and 212 degrees Fahrenheit, for example, turns what was simply hot water into steam. The creation and use of steam to power engines, first in ships, later in trains, and also in some of the first automobiles, was the first significant leap in transportation in centuries.

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Calico Light Weapon Systems is moving its world headquarters &om its current location in Cornelius to Elgin, bringing with it jobs for the community and apossibl eboostto the region's economy.

"I've always loved the northeastern corner of Oregon," Calico Weapons President Chris Holmgren said."The people I've met and some of our fiiends who live in thearea have been nothing but advocates for us."

However, Holmgren admitted that it also had to do with the region he's moving out of that didn't appreciate what his company manufactures.

About the business Calico Weapons, originally based California, made instrumentation for the oil industry in the 1970s and began making firearms in 1979. Chris Holmgren purchased the company in 2006. Sales go through dealers and distributor networks, as they cannot sell to consumers because of state laws and regulations.

"Eastern Oregon can be more open minded and understanding," he said.'What I do doesn't mean I bring the devil with me."

Union County Economic Development President Mark Davidson said he's glad Calico Weapons chose Union County for its headquarters.

"Any business that relocates to Union County and brings in manufacturing jobs is good for SeeRelocation / Page 2B

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• App OA'ers interactive to ols such as location and topic-based search, turn-by-turn navigation, digital postcards, accessot travel alerts VVesCom News Servicestaff

Know of someone planning a trip to Northeast Oregon? Tell them there's an app for that.

The staffs at the La Grande Observer and Baker City Herald have launched a free app available on iTunes and for Android called "Go! Northeast Oregon."

The app is partnered with the newspapers' annual visitor guides and weekly GO! print and online magazines.

"Mobile information delivery is the fastest growing segment of our business, and it makes sense that we share the information we publish in our magazines and online with locals and tourists via their smartphones," said Observer/ Herald Publisher Kari Borgen.'The location-basedfeatures ofthe app are really useful for getting turn-byturn directions on your phone to our Northeast Oregon attractions."

The Northeast Oregon app can be used even if data and Wi-Fi are unavailable to find recreation, lodging, dining and other information.

The appoffersusersinteractive

ORCHARD Continued from Page 1B A"good year" for Grove isbased on the tasteofthe cherry. However, when selling commercially, a good year isbased on the size ofthe cherry.

"Little cherries go for ice cream and other items that fall under the category of 'freezer,"' she explained."I want it big enough to taste.

The locals like the way they taste."

Grove also began spraying the orchard organically.

'There's no chemical anymore," she said."The flavors of the cherries is still good. They're not tasting like

tools such as location and topicbased search, turn-by-turn navigation, digital postcards and access to currenttravel alerts.

"Our tourism marketing partners in Baker, Union and Wallowa counties have been a greathelp to us in developing therightkind ofinformation for the app," Borgen said."It's been a good collaboration between The Observer and Baker Gty Herald and our local business community to putuseful information literallyinto the hands of locals and visitors."

The idea for the app came from the Baker City Herald and The Observer recognizing the growth of mobile apps as an opportunity to deliver local news and information through smartphones. While many newspapers have used mobile apps to repackage their news content, Borgen says the leadership team forthe two papersdecided that the growth market was in providing local information to tourists in an app, since there wasn't an app for Northeast Oregon information.

Go! Northeast Oregonisn't the only app beinglaunched byWestern Com-

municationsnewspapers Observer, Herald win circulation association awards this summer. The Curry Coastal Pilotin BmokThe Baker City Herald and the La Grande Observer each won awards ings, Del Norle Triplicate in the annual Northwest International Circulation Executives competiin Crescent Gty, Calif, tion recently announced at the organization's annual conference in Las Bergen a n d the Union Democnt Vegas. in Sonora, Calif, also Both newspapers won awards in the same category, Branding Oprecentlylaunched tourism-based apps portunities/Community Programs under 50,000 circulation. fortheirrespectivem arkets.

The Observer took second place for the Blue and Gold promotion and The apps have already drawn partnership with Eastern Oregon University, which featured the EOU praise for the company. Editor & football preview, GameDay, and tailgating events connecting commuPublisher, an industry-focused pubnity and university. lication, profiled the apps in a story The Baker City Herald earned third place in the same category for its that appeared June 3 on its website. sponsorship and promotion of Powder River Music Revue, music in "It's gratifying for The Observer the park summer Sundays to promote fundraising for the Bandstand and Baker City Herald to be recogProject. nized along with our sister publica"Both teams have worked very hard to make these community parttions for innovation," Borgen said. nerships a huge success," said Carolyn Thompson, regional circulation Partnering with Western Comdirector. "It's awesome to be able to represent small community papers munications is Bar-Z, a company in such a large competition and continue to be recognized as leaders in based in Austin, Texas, focused on our community." providing mobile solutions to pubNICE is an organization of circulation executives representing lishers. The company has developed newspapers fromWashington, Oregon,Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Utah, more than 300 apps — 60 percent Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. of those include newspaper clients.

Bar-Z founder and chiefexecutive of— I/I/esComNewsService staff ficer M Little told Editor & Publisher thathis company appmached Western we've received to the app and what Communications aboutintmducing apps for Crested Butte, Colo., and mobile tourism apps into their marSedona, Ariz., among others. Their it says about our development as an kets. Since tourism is animportant expertiseand track record resulted information business." in Go! Northeast Oregon turning Go! Northeast Oregon is availpartin their communities, Little said publishers thoughtitwas agood idea. out to be an outstanding mobile app able for download for iPhones and "Bar-Z has an outstanding repufor our area," Borgen said. 'We're iPads on the App Store, and for tationfordelivering greattourism reallyexcited about the reception Android devices on Google Play.

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through August. However, the Groves' orchard has not starteditsseason yet. coming outfothe store. We'vebeendoingit forfive Joyce said her husband years and we have done really well with it." plans to retire in a couple of years and she thinks they — Joyce Groveco-owner,with her husband, Monte, may keep some trees for of Cheme Grove themselves. She said she makes an excellent cherry they're coming out of the Grove said her best year barbecuesauce that' sto"die for," but there's no definite store.

We've been doing itfor was in 2008 when she collected3,000 pounds of time frame on when or if five years and we have done really well with it." cherries. The second best was theydecideto closethe When she was selling in 2011 when she collected orchard. commercially, Grove had to Cherrie Grove ispartof 2,500 pounds.

"Some of the trees are fully the Oregon Rural Action, a use the chemical spray on the orchard, which required nonprofit organization that loaded with cherries," she different types ofspray. said."Some don't have a lot of promotes social justice, agriThe fruit flies were also fruit.

Itm ightbe a good year, culture and economic stability. enjoying the chemical that The orchardislisted but I won't know until I start selling." amongst other local farms was sprayed on the cherries Typically, the cherry seaand foodvendors in thelocal too much, which affected the cmp. son begins in June and goes area and across Oregon.

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Joyce Grove heads back to the scales with another bucket of freshly-picked lamberts from her orchard on the slopes of Mt. Glen north of La Grande. Cherrie Grove sells already picked cherries and also offers u-pick cherries at a lower price.

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Davidson said he doesn't see it being an issue in Union County. "iTheir firearms) are legal products under Continued from Page 1B the laws of Oregon and the United States," the city and the county," Davidson said.'We're Davidson said."I think we have a long standing support of the right to bear arms in Union pleased to have them come into the community and we welcome them."

County. I think theQ be welcomed."

Holmgren said with the mass shootings Calico' sbiggestcustomers arepeoplewho like to shoot and those who like to show offtheir across the country, people lashed out at him and his company. unique firearms. The firearms aren't made for ''We gottheoccasional letterand people ask- hunters. ing us to stop manufacturing," Holmgren said.

Holmgren purchased the company in 2006.

"However, the most recent and most disturbHe was working for a business that sent him ing one came from San Jose, Calif. It was after to school to learn more about machine techhours and the business was closed. Someone nology. During that time, friends and family called and threatened to kill us. My wife took it would ask him to fix their guns.

"I'vealways loved guns,"hesaid."Inever very seriously and I called the police."

Holmgren said the police got involved and saw anything wrong with owning a firearm."

Construction has not started in Elgin for contacted the caller and told him, if he's found in Oregon, hewould be punished. thenew headquarters.Holmgren was vague Interestingly enough, the mass shooting on the timing and future location of the comthat sparked the controversy of added gun pany but said the move will be soon. ''We want to make Elgin a bustling little control has increased Holmgren's gun sales, the owner said. city and we want it to be known to be a big "Every time the president comes out on manufacturer of firearms," he said."It's a small, quaint community. Nobody is throwing gun control our sales go up," he said."They do say he's the best gun salesman in the last their hat in the ring to go to Elgin. Fortunate50 years. I don't like what he's doing though. ly for me, I've always looked at that region He's self-breeding fear. People should have as agreat place to be.Thecoolpartisthat we've had nothing but great reception. People the right to buy what they want. I don't care what you want. If you don't want to buy in the community and the people we've met weapons, then don't. But if you want to buy have been nothing but absolutely, undeniably excited for us."

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THE OBSERVER a BAKER CITY HERALD — 5B

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

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105 - Announcements 110- Self Help Groups 120 - Community Calendar 130 - Auction Sales 140 - Yard, Garage Sales, 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, Stock Trailers 650- Horses, Mules, Tack 660 - Livestock 670 - Poultry 675 - Rabbits, Small Animals 680 - Irrigation 690 - Pasture

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

300 - Financial/Service

310 - Mortgages, Contracts, Loans 320 - Business Investments 330 - Business Opportunities 340 - Adult Care Baker Co 345 - Adult Care Union Co 350 - Day Care Baker Co 355 - Day Care Union Co 360 - Schools 8 Instruction 380 - Service Directory

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Mon., Wed. & Thurs.

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Presbytenan Church, 1995 4th St. (4th & Court Sts.) Baker City. Open, No smoking.

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

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3 EASY STEPS w e m i g h t h a v e i t - g arde n c h ai r s , 1406 5th St. clothes (mostly girl), hanging c hi l d r e n's La-Z-Boy recliners, vinLa Grande 1 Register your kitchen appliances, 1yr YARD S A LE to ~ hel clothes. 1406 6th St. tage porch wing, old account before you old couches & recliner, 14 Brad Fr e J r. ICidne LG OR leave bicycle, 1930s clannet, books, games, farm t . S t . J ly ~T I 2 Call to stop your recorder & d aisy bb items to name a few.

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Q Ave. Behind SandNew items daily Cash items! 7am-5pm train, old bottles, tonka only. 67294 Timberline man hotel. trucks, many tools, Yard Sales are $12 50 for Rd. Summerville YARD SALE. Sat. 19th chainsaw, scroll saw, 5 lines, and $1 00 for NNUAL M T V iew each additional line are at and enloy & MUCH MORE! LIVING ESTATE Sale. 158a-2p. 2409 East 0 4 neighborhood garage Call for more info Ave. LG Tools, baby sale July 18th & 19th YARD SALE. 1707 X 1110608 S. McAlister. IC 541-963-3161 541-963-3161 Across f ro m ( t e nnis i tems, mu l t i - f a m i l y 8am-? Fri. back yard 7Ave., LG. Sat. 19th. i tems, & X B o x 3 6 0 Must have a minimum of 8a-1p. Just make a ofcourt). Fn. 18th & Sat. sale. 10106 Mt Fanny.

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Allow an h o ur. G uy s tuff, h u n d reds o f books & c o okbooks, sm. appliances, furniture, lighting, househ old, baby, l ot s o f clothes, cheap. Over 100 formals. Bag Day S unday, books a n d lewelry 1/2 price.

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FOUND SET of k e ys brown leather peice on 2sets 541-963-1017

Baker City Animal Clinic

541-523-3611

PLEASE CHECKthe Animal Shelter webslte In

La Grande if you have a lost or found pet. www.bmhumane.or

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MEET S I NGLES right now! No paid operators, lust real people Thursday- 7 p.m. l ike y o u . Bro ws e 606 W Hwy 82, Wallowa greetings, ex change Assembly of God church m essages and c o n541-263-0208 n ect live. Try it f r e e .

CaII n ow : AL-ANON MEETING 877-955-5505. (PNDC) in Elgin Wednesday Warnors Meeting times

1st & 3rd Wednesday Evenings ©7:00 pm Elgin Methodist Church 7th and Birch

210 - Help WantedBaker Co. Saint Alphonsus Nedical Center BAKER CITY

EXECUTIVE ASSITANT to President and CEO, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center — Baker City OR

Minimum of three (3) AL-ANON. At t i tude of years office and Gratitude. W e d n e ssecretanal expenence. days, 12:15 — 1:30pm. Able to exercise cntical Faith Lutheran Church. thinking skills in 1 2th & G e k eler, La conlunction with Grande. ever-changing, high pnonty issues. Excellent BAKER COUNTY interpersonal skills to Cancer Support Group relate with individuals at Meets 3rd Thursday of all levels within the every month at St. Lukes/EOMA © 7 PM hospital and community.

Must possess excellent Contact: 541-523-4242 secretanal, time CIRCLE OF FRIENDS management, and (For spouses w/spouses interpersonal skills and who have long term be proficient in Microsoft terminaI illnesses) Suite, Outlook, Meets 1st Monday of and Quickbase. every month at St. Lukes/EOMA©11:30 AM To apply, please visit $5.00 Catered Lunch www.saintalphonsus.org Must RSVP for lunch /bakercity 541-523-4242 ew Direclions'

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ments at n o c h arge. JOIN OUR TEAM! For Baker City call: 2 NEW POSITIONS J uli e — 541-523-3673 For LaGrande call: Developmental E n ca — 541-963-31 61 Disabilities-Case Mgr

Goin' Straight Group M t ct ,

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Fn. & Sat. -8 PM Episcopal Church Basement 2177 1st Street Baker City First Saturday of every month at 4 PM Pot Luck —Speaker Meeting

A ssist c l ients w i t h community services

to achieve goals and maintain independence. BA or equivalent w o r k e x p e rience with DD certificate desired.

Mental Health Counselor Provides culturally competent and appropnate behavioral health treatment for Baker City residents.

M- F; 8-5. Avail. for cnsis work on rotati ng s h i f ts . P r e f e r LCSW or LPC .

Excellent Benefits Package, includes Free Health Insurance 8rPaid Educational Training

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: Monday, Thursday, & Fnday at8pm. Episcopal

www.newdirectionsnw.org

Church 2177 First St., Baker City.

541-523-7400 for app.

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

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801 - Wanted to Buy 810- Condos, Townhouses, Baker Co 815 - Condos, Townhouses, Union Co 820 - Houses for Sale, Baker Co 825 - Houses for 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 - Christmas Trees 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

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VFW Hall, 2005 Valley Ave., Baker 541-523-4988

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

AA MEETING: Powder River Group Mon.; 7 PM -8 PM Wed.; 7 PM -8 PM Fn.; 7 PM -8 PM Grove St. Apts.

Corner of Grove & D Sts. Baker City, Open Nonsmoking Wheel Chair Accessible

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160 - Lost & Found BLACK MD. dog found WalMart parking lot.

541-963-3603 FOUND CAMRA, Wal Mart Area. Call to ID 541-91 0-6911

COPY, SHIP 8E MAIL 2101 Main St. in Baker City is accepting applications for a full-time position, M-F. Apply in person.

EXPERIENCED STYLISTS Needed for Busy Salon!

All Clientele Welcome Reasonable Rent CaII Now 541-519-6777 LOCAL VETERINARY Clinic is looking for a

PT ICennel Cleaner.

Must have experience cleaning and sanitizing.

Please submit resume to Blind Box ¹ 175, c/o Baker City Herald, P.O. Box 807, Baker City, OR, 97814.

PT WAITRESS NEEDED Country Cottage Cafe.

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210 - Help WantedBaker Co. ASSISTED LIVING com- HUMAN RESOURCE munity in Baker City, Manager/City Recorder Oregon is seeking a City of Baker City is acdedicated and caring cepting a p p l ications R egistered Nurse t o for the position of HR M anager/City Re)oin our team. This position i s r e s p o nsible corder. Salary range: for health care supervi$3,420-$3,846/mo plus sion for our residents g enerous be n e f i t s a nd works w it h t h e package. Q u a l if icacommunity director to t ions, a p p l i c a t i o n s , s upervise a n d t r a i n supplemental q u e stionnaire, position depersonal care staff and coordinate a n c i llary scription and )ob anservices. Must h ave nouncement are availcurrent RN license and able at W o r kSource Oregon, 1575 Dewey prefer 1 year in-home health or genatnc nursAvenue, Baker City, ing. Rehab, restorative OR 97814, Baker City experience and nurse Hall or at www.bakerdelegation helpful. Poc ity.com. O pe n u n t i l sition is part-time 10f illed, first r eview o f 16 HOURS/WEEIC with a pplications o n J u l y some on call availabil15, 2014. ity. Competitive comEEO Employer p ensation based o n experience .

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E NTRY L E V E L L A - MILIEU/CLASSROOM B ORER, Mt . E m i l y AIDE: HS Diploma, FT. Assist with classroom, Lumber — Perform a

vaned activities, transp ortin g c hi l dr e n .

variety of tasks associated with the processing and manufactunng of lumber i n cluding, b ut n o t l i m i t e d t o , clean-up responsibilities. Benefits include: retir e m e n t p l an; health, dental, and vision coverage; and life

BS Degree in Accounting or Business Administration or equivalent Work Expenence Min. 4yrs Expenence in a Supervisory Position Preferred Excellent Benefit

Grande Ronde Child Center provides intensive mental health and a cademic se rvice t o c hildren a ge s 4 - 1 2 .

C loses 7 / 2 2/14 o r f illed .

P r iv a t e non-profit. www. rcckids.or (541) 963-8666

insurance. Apply now at Worksource Oregon or o nl i ne at www.bc.com/careers.

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LA GRANDE Retirement Apartments 767Z 7th Street, La Grande, Oregon 97850

725 - Apartment Rentals Union Co. SENIOR AND DISABLED HOUSING

THE OBSERVER a BAKER CITY HERALD —9B 745 - Duplex Rentals 752 - Houses for 820 - Houses For 855 - Lots & Prop780 - Storage Units Union Co. Rent Union Co. Sale Baker Co. erty Union Co. ACCEPTING APPLICA- 1 BDRM in Cove, $450, 7X11 UNIT, $30 mo. FSBO: B E A U T IFUL B EAUTIFUL V I E W TIONS o n n e w er 2 w/s/g pd. NE Property $25 dep.

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Senior and Disabled Clean & well appointed 1 GREEN TREE & 2 bedroom units in a $750 mo, $600 dep.

Complex APARTMENTS quiet location. Housing Ref req. 541-786-2364 2310 East Q Avenue for those of 62 years or 541-963-5320 Affordable Housing!

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541-963-0906 by munity Room, featurIncludes W/S/G TDD 1-800-735-2900 GSL Properties ing a theater room, a RV spaces avail. Nice Located Behind pool table, full kitchen This institute is an equal quiet downtown location La Grande and island, and an 541-523-2777 opportunity provider.

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1507 1 ST. St . 3 b / 2 b A PLUS RENTALS home, W/D included, has storage units fenced yard, $875/mo. availab!e.

541-963-1210 5x12 $30 per mo.

2 BDRM, 1 ba, Ig yd, no 8x8 $25-$35 per mo. $30 per mo. smoking, n o pet s 8x10 'plus deposit' $750/mo, $700 dep.

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(541 ) 910-0354 c arpet, tile & w o o d f loors. 1/ 4 a c r e l o t ROSE RIDGE 2 SubdiviMIII STOIULSI 3BDRM, 2BA, w/s paid, completely landscaped sion, Cove, OR. City: a/c, HUD approved, • Secure with automatic sprinSewer/VVater available.

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W/S/G paid $1200/mo. ATTRACTIVE 2-BDRM m/I $69,900-$74,900.

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541-403-1223 • Fenced Area management. C h eck pattio, fence. $950/mo & drapes throughout. funded housing. 1, 2, 740 - Duplex Rentals (6-foot barb) out our rental link on Stove, fndge, high effiand 3 bedroom units 825 - Houses for our w ebs i t e Baker Co. ciency ga s f u r nace. 3bdrm, 2ba. double gaIIEW 11x36 units LA GRANDE, OR with rent based on inwww.ranchnhome.co rage, shed, $900/mo Sale Union Co. for aBig Boy Toys" 2-BDRM, 1-BATH, DU- Nice yard, attractively come when available. m or c aII THUNDERBIRD HOUSE FOR SALE plex W/Carport. S/VV/G l andscaped , e as y 541-963-9226 Ranch-N-Home Realty, maintenance. No pets, S25-1688 APARTMENTS Inc. No Pets/Smoking.

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North Ash. To see call Garage, Close to down TTY: 1(800)735-2900 I COVE APARTMENTS CaII 5 4 1 - 5 23-0527 r efundable d e p o s it . town & EOU $1,400/m 541-963-3614 I CLASSIC STORAGE 541-523-4807 1906 Cove Avenue "This institute is an Days or 541-523-5459 Pets Ok! 541-263-0706 541-524-1534 Evenings.

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Senior Living f rig, DW, w / d h o o k multifamily housing 541-805-91 23 NO smoking/pets. ups, incl water, gas, AVAIL. AUG. 1ST. 2 SECURE STORAGE properties.

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COFFEE BREAK

Hamas attacks continue, Israeli strikes ramp upagain

Booklet helps nervous parents talk to their kids about sex

Egypt's cease-fire proposal was observed only by Israel, and only for a few hours early Tuesday, while Hamas militants continued firing rockets into Israel, prompting the resumption of heavy airstrikes.

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DEAR ABBY: My daughterjust turned who find it diKcult to discuss these topics with their children.

18,andI need to discuss the facts oflife with her.

Idon'tknow where tostart.

DEARABBY: I recently started a summer My mom told me absolutely nothing and jobin the fttting room ofa clothing store.

I know my daughter needs to be educated in Customers often ask me what Ithink about a simplebut very understandable way — es- their out ftts, and the most common question pecially in these times. Do you still have your is, "Does this make me look fat?"How do I booklet that gives teens answers to questions answer if the outftt does make the woman on sex? I need ideas on how to approach this. look fat? These women want honesty, but how — NERVOUS do I avoid sounding rude?

MOM IN ILLINOIS DEAR NERVOUS MOM:

9 a.m. Israel had accepted the Egyptian proposal, but set it aside after 50 rockets are launched from Gaza; by day's end, about 125 rockets, mortars had been fired

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Because many parents find ABBY Try this:"The color is great thesubjectofsex embarrassing, they postpone discusson you. Let's get it in another ing it with their children. When"the talk" sizeand it'llbe perfect.Sometimes garfinally happens, it is often too late. Their ments have been mismarked." ilt's true.) child's head is filled with information reDEAR ABBY: I raised my children to ceived from contemporaries, and often what stay with me when we were in a store. They they've heard is inaccurate. didn't touch things displayed on the shelves Today, children are maturing years earlier because the items were not theirs and we than they did a generation ago. It's not weren't going to purchase them. We didn't unusualto hear aboutteens engagingin have cellphones when my children grew up. adult activities at much younger ages than However, even now Ineverremove mine from teens of earlier generations. That is why it's my purse while I'm in a store. so importantfor parents iand guardians) to Is there a nice way to tell other shoppers to begin discussions about alcohol, drugs and put their phones away and pay attention to family values well before their children start their children while shopping and suggest experimenting. My booklet,'What Every that it might not be safe for their kids to run Teen Should Know," was written to help throughtheaislesorrollcanned goods down parents break the ice and get the conversa- them? I am not sure about their children's tion going. It can be ordered by sending your safety, but I'm positive itisn't safe for me name and address plus check or money when their children are acting this way. order for $7 iU.S. funds) to Dear Abby Teen — MEME IN THE WEST Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL DEAR MEME: No, I don't think there is.

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Shipping and handling are You appearto bepartofa generation that included in the price. had the time ior took the time) to teach You should review it before starting the these things to their kids.

I agree that children should be taught to discussion so you can prepare beforehand to respectthe property ofothers and to ask answer questions or guide the conversation.

My booklet provides answers to frequently beforetouching it.Ialso agree thatleavasked questions, such as: How old must a girl ing items in an aisle could be dangerous to shoppers whose attention may be fixed on be before she can get pregnant? Can she get pregnant the first time she has sex? How old the store shelves instead of the floor.

But because so many parents today seem must a boy be before he can father a child?

Another important topic is how to avoid to have "forgotten" to convey these important lessons, then caveat emptor — but in date rape and what to do if it happens.

Included is information on contraception thiscase,letthe shopper beware. and sexually transmitted diseases iand Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also how to recognize them). My booklet has known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by been distributed in doctors' offices and used her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby to promote discussion by educators and at www.DearAbby.com or PO. Box 69440, Los religious leaders, as well as parents like you Angeles, CA90069.

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Zahar was a key figure in Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza in 2007, while the other three were members of the Palestinian parliament elected in 2006. Many Hamas leaders have gone into hiding since the beginning of the Israeli offensive.

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Hamas rejected the plan and instead launched more rockets at Israel. The militant group views a significant easing of the blockade as key to its survival, but doesnotbelieve Egypt'scurrent rulers — who deposed a Hamas-friendly government in Cairo last year — can be fair brokers.

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BAICERCITY'S BULL RIDING EVENT CELEBRATES 20TH YEAR

• Ken and Shirley McPheron reflect on the history of Baker City's roughest event BRONC RIDING: FRIDAY, 7 p.m.

BULL RIDING:SATURDAY, 6 p.m.

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With this weekend's Miners Jubilee comes another edition of the feted Broncs & Bulls competition.

M ade up ofseparate bull and bronco riding events, the competiti on'stwo $25,000 cash purses have become some of the biggest in the region.

As a result, competitors travel fiom Australia, Canada and fiom across the United States for their shot at victory.

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Ken, 75, has been involved in rodeo his whole life, attending his first while he was still in diapers and riding his first bull when he was 14.

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There was quite a bit of dismay in the community when the Baker County Chamber of Commerce announced last August that it would no longer sponsor Miners Jubilee.

The Chamber arranged a meeting to recruit potential Jubilee organizers in September. Executive Director Debi Bainter offered all of the information fiom the Chamber to help organize KARI the event, but despite wheels BORGEN . spinning about how to move forward, there was no forward traction.

Employees at the Baker City Herald talked about how we could help ensure the continuation of Baker City's signature summer event. What would it take to organize Jubilee? Although we had some ideas, we had a lot of our own projects coming up iour mobile app, e-edition and website-hosting business, to name a fewl and so we waited, hoping someone would step up and offertocoordinate Miners Jubilee.

But by January 2014, there were no takers. So the Baker City Herald organized another meeting of interested volunteers, and offered to take on the solicitation, coordination and management of the vendors in the park. Broncs and Bulls planned to schedule their event the third weekend in July without interruption.

Since the Broncs and Bulls and park activities were only parts of Jubilee, it took an incredible investment in volunteer time to coordinate the many other events thatmake up theweekend. When someone volunteeredto organize an event,w eadded ittothelistof things that would happen during 2014 Miners Jubilee.

Chuck Chase of the Eastern Oregon Mining Association said the mining demonstrations and competitions — the heart of Miners Jubilee — would go on.

JR Vela agreed to coordinate the new Knights of Columbus bingo tent in the park, and the Baker Mat Club would again help with the garbage collection in the park and lining up the parade.

Angie Turner offered to take on the parade, with sponsorship of Community Bank and Historic Baker City. As Baker County Fair manager, Angie is also coordinating vendors in the Community Events Center, and she signed on the carnival for the weekend in the five-acre field at the north end of the Fairgrounds.

Bob Parker, OSU Extension forester, volunteered to puttogether aheritage demonstration oflogging activities.

Michaelle Clarke took on the Kids Activity Area, Deb Peters asked businesses for sponsorships, Cristi Vega organized Miners Jubilee buttons and Jeff Nelson offered to coordinate bed races.

Lynette Perry, the Herald's advertising director, organized music in the park and the street dance. There were others who came to meetings just because they wanted to help where needed.

We were lucky enough to be able to hire JJ Vela, who hadworked forthe Chamber during lastyear's Jubilee, to work as our summer events coordinator to manage the park activities iseerelated story on Page

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Shirley said the impetus for throwing a bull riding event in the first place came from a desire to bring money from fans and workers into Baker's economy.

'Those people buy gas, rent hotel rooms, they eat," she sald.

By 1995, the Miners Jubilee had also been without a signature event for a few years, and the Jubilee's future was in doubt.

The porcupine races had been a fixture of the event for nine years, but the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife banned the races in 1991.

'They didn't even know if the Miners Jubilee was going ito continue) — there was nothing for people to do," Shirley said.

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If it takes a village to raise a child, it took the heart of a small city to pitch in to organize this year's Miners Jubilee. ~ri Borgen is publisher of the Baker City Herald

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This Saturday marks the 20th-annual bull-riding event at the Baker County Fairgrounds in Baker City. The event has become an integral part of the July weekend that also includes Miners Jubilee. rodeo, Ken had managed to rid i ng industry, and he was in a ugural event. forge relationships with stock able to call on these when the dealers and others in the bull t i me came to organize that SeeBullish/Page 9C

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Gold sparkles and glimmers just often enough to keep an Elk Creek miner happily chasing his dream.

Ed Bechtel of Mount Vernon, Washington, has mineral rights to a 140-acre mining claim about six miles south of Baker City along Elk Creek, where he lives and works from April through October.

He dreams of fi nding a chunk of gold bigger than the famous 80-ounce Armstrong

A sampling of the gold Bechtel collects over time feeds the fever, he explains. At $1,295 an ounce (today's market), it's enough to pay for fuels used, maintenance and profit.

The larger nugget in hand he estimates is worth about $300. He found it in July 2013.

The largesthe's found weighed 2 ounces.The nuggets are about 85 percent gold and 10 percent silver, along with other non-precious minerals.

Editor's Note: Photosand interview were done tuly 15, 2018, during Project Dayshoot30. Photographers spent a 24-hour period recording a day in the life of Oregon. Ed Bechtel graciously allowed this photographer to record part ofhis day.

Ed Bechtel says the cool, clear pond on his property attracts ducks, herons and other wildlife. It's restful to the eyes and motivates his natural sense to preserve nature.

Nugget displayed at U.S. Bank in Baker City. Although the chances of such a find are slim indeed, it's enough to keepthe 62-year-old gold seeker pursuing his dream.

After acquiring the claim in 1999, Bechtel's pick, shovel and gold pan have taken the form of excavator, truck and trommel. His claim is called the New Hope Group. It's a m om-and-pop operation he shares with Jackie, his wife of 42 years, who handles the books, paperwork and inspiration.

Jackie spends her time between their Mount Vernon home and the camp trailer snuggled among the pines, creek, a pond with pristine aesthetics ,lush vegetation, wildlife and summer sun.

Most of the gold they find they sell to make jewelry.

They created a business, Elk Creek Treasures, to then sell the jewelry.

'The real treasure", Bechtel says, "is enjoying what we have here on earth, in this place, like the wildlife.

"He often seesdeer,elk, sometimes a bear and cougar to name a few wild inhabitants.

"It's more than gold," he says. Herons hunt for fish in the pond next to his camp as hummingbirds dart here and thereforsweetnessprovided by several feeders.

Maintaining the beauty of the land and keeping wildlife coming back is not only a high priority but a passion for Bechtel.

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No dirty water reaches the creek, he says. Three more ponds, each lower than the previous, catch overflow and allow sediment to settle out. He'll process three loads per day, 35 to 40 yards each, of excavated material. He said "an ounce of gold for every 35 yards is not too bad, ya know."

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But Bechtel takes land reclamationas seriously as gold extraction.

"The name of the game is to protect the environment," he says.

Running a one-man operation is fueled by self motivation, of which Bechtel is in no short supply, plus his skills of a heavy machinery operator, welder and electrician. He turns a metal lathe to fabricate new parts and repairs electric motors.

He retired from 34 years in the oil industry with highpressuregas,dieselandjet fuel at Anacortes, Wash., plus 10 yearsofmilitary service.

In one important way, Bechtel describes himself as "a patron of husbandry" for the land and takes it seriously.

That's why, for the Bechtels, Elk Creek provides enrichment beyond the lure of gold. Nature serves them peace of mind, purpose and a challenge.

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McKittrick played football at Oregon State, then served Who knew, when 118 stuin the Marine Corps. He was dentsgraduated from Baker an assistant coach for the High School in 1954, what LA Rams and San Diego Chargers before moving to would be accomplished by the 49ers, where he coached those graduates?

Turns out, plenty. for 21 years until his death in "I was looking it over and 2000. He was invited to speak even I'm impressed," says Joe at three BHS graduations.

McEnroe, a member of the Rev. Bruce Klunder was class who lives in Baker City. protesting theconstruction of Among the standouts are a segregated school when he Bobb McKittrick, who earned was crushed under the tire of a bulldozer. He is one of only five Super Bowl rings as an offensive linecoach forthe eight white people who are San Francisco 49ers, and listed on the National Civil Bruce Klunder, who was Rights Memorial in Montkilled in 1964 during a civil gomery, Ala. rights protest in Cleveland, Mike Doherty received Ohio. recognition for being Oregon's "winningest basketball coach" Classmates will come together this weekend for a 60- — with a record of 850-389 and three state titles — and year reunion during Miners Jubilee. They have gatherings received the National High plannedforFriday and SatSchool CoachesAssociation Hall of Fame Award in 2002. urday, but are yet undecided He retired fiom coaching in about joining in the parade.

As preparation for the 2012. reunion, classmates have Mike Hoft; a naval lieutencompiled information about ant commander, was reported as missing in action in 1970 some alumni who achieved when his A7A Corsair notable success.

McEnroe shared these crashed during an armed snippets about his classreconnaissance mission over mates: Cambodia, Laos and the Ho For the Baker City Herald

Chi Min Trail. In 1971, his wife, Mary, a member of the National League of Families of American Prisoners or Missing in Action, contacted a flag maker to create a flag of remembrance. Today, the POW/MIA flag is the only non-national flag to be fl own regularly.

The federal government officially declared Hoff as dead in 1978.

Ken Eng and Dave Eng were cousins who came to Baker from China at age 14. They knew no English, and teachers formed a group of students to meet after school to help them learn the language.

Ken graduatedfrom Stanford and MIT with honors and became a chemical engineer with General Electric.

He had a part in developing the Surveyor, an unmanned moon explorer, and was also a leader in developing nuclear power plants.

Dave became a mechanical engineer.

Marilyn Folkman Daggett helped start the community college in The Dalles in 1977, and today Columbia Gorge

Community College has two full campuses.

Joanne Stiff Hardy, while supervisoroftrailsforthe U.S. Forest Service, helped build the first handicapped trail in the Northwest between Wetmore and Yellowpine campgrounds.

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Don Nygord became involvedin the sportof shooting, and was a two-time

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Fortunately, one of the people who had helpedthe Baker County Chamber of Commercecoordinate park activities during past Jubilees was available and willing to take on the job.

JJ Vela is a 2012 Baker High School graduate, and a biology major at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

When Baker City Herald publisher Kari Borgen contacted Vela about working for the Herald during his summer break as summer events Coordinator, Vela didn't hesitate.

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Vela's duties since starting work at the Herald June 23 have included contacting vendors who had completed applications and finding new vendors, arranging for the necessary equipment

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The revenue generated from vendor fees is being used by the Herald to pay forVela'sjob as summer events coordinator.

Vela will return to Eastern Washington University in August to work as a resident assistant in the dorm and pursue hislasttw oyearsofcollege studies.

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Baker County Library parking lot will be reserved forhandicapped accessible parking from Thursday evening through Sunday evening of Miners Jubilee.

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Heritage Demonstrations at Baker County Fairgrounds.

Crosscut saw demonstration and logging sports exhibit that will include chokersetting, axe throwing and THURSDAY, 3ULY 17 chainsaw speed cutting.

• 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.— Ven• Noon to 4p.m. dor set up in Geiser-Pollman Knights of Columbus bingo Park tent in Geiser-Pollman Park • 1 p.m.— Historic Baker FRIDAY, 3ULY 18 City Inc. Kiddies Duck • 9a.m.to6p.m.

Race. Kids 12 and under Friends of the Library annu- can buy your duck for $2 al book sale, Baker County at downtown retailers, and Library, 2400 Resort St. be entered to win fabulous • Noon to 7 p.m.— Venprizes.

• 2 p.m.— Blacksmith dors open in Geiser-Pollman Park and at the Events demonstrations, wine tasting, "Paint Your Wagon" Center at Baker County Fairgrounds, 2600 East St. at Baker County Heritage Family Fun area in Park: Museum, 2480 Grove St. • 3 p.m.— Terry La Mont bounce house, obstacle course, face painting and Duo, Powder River Music games sponsored by KiRevue, Music in the Park wanis, Homestead Realty/ Carnival on Baker County Tasha's Treasures.

Fairgrounds five-acre field • 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 • 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.— Beer p.m.— Penny dig in Family garden open next to rodeo Fun area for ages 1-4, 5-8 grounds and 9-12 each period, spon• 7 p.m.— Baker City Bronc Riding at fairgrounds sored by Wells Fargo Bank.

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• 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.— BHS Track Team 5K Walk/Run and 10K run registration.

Event starts at 8 a.m. on Main Street in front of

Marilyn's Music, 1821 Main St. Registration forms may picked up at Kicks and the YMCA gym prior to the day of the event. Race day registration will begin at 7 a.m. in front of Kicks Sporting Goods, 1801 Main St. Event is a fundraiser for the BHS Track Team and is sponsored by Subway.

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Sidewalk Ssales and art exhibits on Main Street • 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. — Penny dig in Family Fun area for ages 1-4, 5-8 and 9-12 each period, sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank • 11 a.m.— Margie Mae and Hank Williams, Powder River Music Revue — Music in the Park • Noon to 4 p.m.— Heritage Demonstrations at Baker County Fairgrounds.

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Continued from Page4C • 1 p.m.— Eastern Oregon Mining Association on Grove Street side of Geiser-Pollman Park, sponsored by Energy Trust of Oregon.

Oregon StateGold Panning Championships. Three divisions, Kids, Amateur, and Professional Class. The hand-steeling will start as soon as the gold panning competition ends.

Be sure to pick up your raffle ticket for'/ 2pound ofgold atthe EOMA booth.

• 2 p.m.— The High Desert Renegades, Powder River Music Revue — Music in the Park • 2 p.m.— Baker City Lions Club horseshoe tournament in park • 2 p.m.— Blacksmith demonstrations, Wine tasting, "Paint Your Wagon" atBaker County Heritage Museum Carnivalon Baker County Fairgrounds five-acre field • 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.— Baker City Bronc and Bull Riding Beer Garden

open • 6 p.m.— Baker City Bull Riding at thefairgrounds rodeo arena • 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.— Frank Carlson, Family Friendly Music Jam/ Street dance in Court Street Park

SUNDAY, 3ULY 20 • 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.— Baker Lions Club breakfast in the park • 7 a.m.— Two-man golf scramble tournament starts at Quail Ridge Golf Course.Call 541-523-2358 for information.

• 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.— Friends of the Library annual book sale, Baker County Library • 10 a.m.— Sunday worship service in the park • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.— Vendors open in Geiser-Pollman Park, and at Events Center, Baker County Fairgrounds • Noon to 3 p.m.— Family Fun Area bounce houses, sponsored by Homestead Realty/Tasha's Treasures

• 1 p.m.— Marv & Friends, Powder River Music Revue — Music in the Park • 1 p.m.— HBC-sponsored Duck and Beaver Races on the Powder River. Buy your duck or beaver for $2, and be entered to win fabulous prizes. Race takes place on Powder River and ends at Geiser-Pollman Park.

• 2 p.m.— Knights of Columbus Bingo at St. Francis Cathedral, First and Church Streets.

• 2 p.m.— Eastern Oregon Mining Association silent auction closes.

Winners of the silent auction and raffle for '/2pound ofgold announced, along with drawing for Jubilee Brass Medallion for lucky Jubilee Button wearer. Eastern Oregon Mining Associationon Grove Street at GeiserPollman Park, sponsored by Energy Trust of Oregon.

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Eloise Dielman of Baker City wrote this article after interviewing Colleen Brooks, Jane Hutton and Chary Mires on March 18, 2014. The fourth woman who played an integral role in the Adler House Museum, Scotty Haskell, died on May 23, 2007, at age 87.

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By Eloise Dielman The Adler House Museum, 2305 Main St., was built in 1890 by J. L. Baisley on land purchased from H.J. Fuller.

Baisley then sold the lot and residence to Levi An-

kenny for $6,000.

In 1899, Carl Adler, owner of the Crystal Palace l"quality jewelry and glassware") purchased the house from

Ankenny for $4,000. When the Adler family moved into the house, Carl and Laura Hirsh Adler had three children, Theresa, Sanford, and the youngest, Leo, age 4, born June 21, 1895.

Leo lived in the house for the next 93 years — the last 60 years, until his death on

Nov. 2, 1993, at age 98, as a bachelor businessman and philanthropist. He willed the house to the Baker County Museum Commission, who tookover itsdirection atthe close of the will's probate in 1994, and opened it as Adler House Museum in 1998.

It sounds like an easy transition, but the story behind the scenes of the four Baker City women who guided that transition shows the reality of what needed doing.

Chary Mires, Colleen Brooks, Jane Hutton and Scotty Haskell were the fourBaker County Museum Commission volunteers who bravely took the keys for their first look inside the

house in 1994. They knew the house had been unoccupied and not much looked after the year since Leo's death, and that it had been Leo's "bachelor pad" for 60 years, but they were not prepared for what they actually found.

Leo had moved into the back four rooms of the house, and closedoffthe rest.

Colleen Brooks says, 'We walked in the door and our mouths just dropped open. I think we all were thinking r We can't do this!' " Everything in the house was covered with coal dust, soot, and smoke from the coal-burning furnace and the five small coal heaters in the bedrooms and elsewhere.

It wasn't just a little dust; itwas deep dust covering the floors, the furniture, and the draperies. The rooms where Leo had lived were less dusty, but still covered with coal dust. The upstairs, which Leo had not used during his solo occupancy years, except for storage, had literally inches of dust, dirtand coaldust everywhere. The problem upstairs was increased by a window left open a goodly crack land no longer able to be closed) which let the wind blow in, and with it, who knows how many years of Baker City's dust storms, fall leaves, etc.

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ADLER Continued from Page 7C The roofhad leaked and the ceiling wallpaper was hanging in ropes and loops.

In short, it was a disaster.

The four women looked and inspected and went home to considertheir options.

According to Gene Rose, Adler's longtime fiiend and personal attorney, Adler's will stated: "My home located at 2304 Main Street, Baker, Oregon, together with all its furnishings,Ihereby give and devise to the Oregon Trail Regional Museum, a non-profit corporation, upon the following terms and conditions: "Said Oregon Trail Regional Museum may in its sole discretion utilize the home for whatever purpose it deems best, including but not limited to the right to keep myhome and furnishings as a part of the museum or as a home for the curator of the museum, or if in the event the said Oregon Trail Regional Museum deems it advisable, it may sell my home. I recognize that the financial demands upon the organization might be such that it will be impossible for it to keep and maintain my home, and I therefore give it sole discretion to determine whether the home should or shouldnot besold orfor whatever purpose the home shall be used. In the event of the failure of the Oregon Trail Regional Museum to accept said devise, then my residence and furnishings shall pass to the trust established hereinafter under paragraph 5.11 of this my Last Will and Testament."

Chary Mires recalls, "I made up my mind we should try to turn the house into a m useum. knew I Leo loved the house although most people thought he didn't care about it. Otherwise he wouldn't have willed it to us. I remember going up to Colleen's house and talking her into our taking it on. We talked a long time."

Jane and Scotty also agreedtotakeon theproject, so the four women resolved to do their best to turn the disaster into a Victorian museum. The women's preliminary research in antique catalogs showed that many of the pieces of furniture and other fixings of the house were the originals purchased

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The first project was the inventory of the dishes and other smaller non-Victorian items of the house, with the ideaofafundraiseryard sale to raisemoney forrepairs and for grant co-funding.

While the inventory was underwaythatsummer, and before cleaning was seriously begun, the women invited Barbara Sidway to come and givean estimate ofthe costof restoring the house. Barbara brought her expertise from restoring the Geiser Grand and otherprevious projects to bear on the Adler House and, after contemplating the depthand breadth ofwhat needed doing, estimated that

eventually got it as high as it could go. His effort at leveling the house caused further loosening of the"rubble" foundation — blocks of stone with smaller stones, sand and gravel between. He said the foundation would have to berepaired but thatthe floor joists needed to first be reinforced with metal beams.

Further, when he moved the house up to level it, the fireplace on the first floor, which had its base on the soil below, stayed attheprevious level. John shored it up below the floor of the house preventing further crumbling, and sealed it so that no one would inadvertently decide to build a fire. John repairs would cost $500,000. donated all this work, with That was a breathtaking the funding for the metal number because the four beams and other necessary women had no budget to materials coming &om a mad start with, and so far had just scramble for grant funding.

Chary Mires took over used their muscles, brooms, and dust rags to start "findthe job of finding appropriing" what lay beneath the ate grants and funding &om soiled surfaces. They could other philanthropic groups as well as the Adler Foundation. not even run vacuums at that point because the wiring She says, "The funds came in the house was the original, through when we needed and theyfeared an electrical them. We were lucky." short might set the house Fuzi was hired to do afire. further restoration work The four women were which he saw needed doing.

The four ladies of the Adler putting in long days, and occasionally all day, working on House came to regard him surface cleaning and invenalmost as a magician for his ability to make or camouflage tory, and say they often went home some evenings looking missingpartsordamaged like grubby homeless people. areas.

Jane Hutton says that Then, Dave Durr &om she went home one Friday af- Richland came and rewired ternoon, the evening she and the whole house for the cost her husband usually went of the materials and wiring.

Chary reports that Durr said, out for dinner, to hear her "Leo is making jobs for a lot husband say, "I'll take you out to eat if you'll go wash of people in Baker County for that black mustache otf." years to come, so it's my part She had rubbed under her of giving back." nose and created a Charlie In the meantime, the four Chaplin mustache as well women were continuing as havinglotsofother sooty extensive research on Victospots on clothing and skin. rian furnishings and fixings.

On an early inspection of Using what they learned, the house, John Fuzi discovthey were selecting from the ered a problem probably exhouse non-Victorian items, isted with the major support mostly dating &om the 1930s floor joists. The middle of the and 1940s, tosellata yard Adler House was sinking. sale to raise sufficient funds Fuzi, a member of the Mu- i$600l to run the furnace seum Commission, and also a during the coming second restorerofVictorian houses, winter. made atrip underneath They had experienced the the house where he found first winter without heat that the main floor joist had and did not want any more developed a bow toward the of that. The community ground which meant the willingly pitched in both by middle of the house was not donating additional items restingon itdueto a gap of for the sale, and by buying severalinches atthe middle. items at higher than normal Fuzi began jacking up the yard sale prices," the women beam a little at a time to say, because "the community keep from breaking it, and loved Leo, too, and wanted

something to remember him

by."

With the successful yard sale accomplished, they set about more cleaning and sorting, discovering that many of the things stored on the floor upstairs were broken parts &om important pieces downstairs. So they began putting things into "save and go" boxes, with anything that looked like a piece of something else in a special box called"parts." ''We were astonished by how many of the pieces we found fit on something that we found broken or missing a part downstairs," Jane said.

"Thank goodness Leo kept them."

Once the upstairs things were sorted into "save" and "go," the women had Dumpstersplaced under upstairs windows, with the necessity of removing one window in order to open it. They, their husbands, prison work crews, and any other willing workers, began to literally shovel out the inches of accumulated dirt, soot, pasteboard, cellulose packing material and other "junk."

They had to run repeatedly to a window with clean air coming in because they were having diKculty breathing in the room where they were working. Through all of this, they were careful to protect the wallpaper hanging &om the ceilings upstairs, which they intended to save becausethey believed itwas the original wallpaper. When the house was ready for show, they had done exactly that.

It took another yard sale to pay for the third winter's heat, another $600 earned with"don't save" items &om the house, again with items donated by members of the community to help raise the necessary funds. The warmth enabled the workers inside and outside the house to make steady progress, including inmates from the Powder River Correctional Facility who cleaned and refinished the hardwood floors, as well as dismantling, cleaning and restringing many sets of Venetian blinds.

Before itwastime for the grand opening on Leo's birthday,June 21,1998,they had a few more things to get accomplished.

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Scotty continued sorting through the papers and books in Leo's office and found his many philanthropic awards with pictures and

Continmd ~om Page 7C They began cleaning the walls with special microfiber cloths and a substance that felt like "Silly Putty," which was rolled on the wallpaper to clean down to the original colors.

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plaques, now on display in the office of the house. Betty Kuhl, of Betty's Books, went through stacks and stacks of books in the house, some old, and some book-of-the-month type books. Some of these were retai ned for present display, and the remainder became part of the fundraising effort for the house.

In one of the downstairs rooms,the women had found what they thought was an armoire, but which turned out to be a very old Murphy bed. They discovered marks on the floor in a room upstairs that showed where thatbedused tosit,butit was too heavy for them or their husbands to move.

Again the community, in the form of Smith Brothers Moving, came to the rescue and moved the armoire/ Murphy bed upstairs where it presently sits, and where it apparently sat for many years before.

Among the things to be looked into as the group moved forward with cleaning and assessing were nine trunks, some of which contained Victorian linens, unused, but showing coal dust markings along their fold lines, which Jane painstakingly de-stained and washed. A suitcase containeda complete setof sterling silver, now on display in the house — stored in canvas bags and tarnishfree when found. Other piecesofsterling from the pantry and kitchen area had to becleaned and polished.

While all this cleaning was taking place, others were working on restoring the antique furniture so it could be returned for public viewing. It seemed an unending job, which, Colleen says, took a lot of Murphy's Oil Soap and a good scrub brush, and sometimes a lot of ingenuity in putting something back together the way it should be, like the six-legged table.

The front porch had to be replaced and in removing it, the workers found a board which was apparently was the color of the original paint for the house.

When Chary took it to Art Craft Paint and Glass, they discovereditmatched a color called Standish White, which is actually a cream color. But the house exterior now matches what was apparently the original color.

It just recently had a second coatofpaint paid for by John Kinsman of Foundation for Historic Homes, a

ing the roof, replacing the front siding and the front porch, removing the old and installing the 26 new second $10,000 donation. windows, building the attic During the course of the access required by fire code, work, the women knew the and many other tasks and curtains would have to be chores.

"There are so many people replaced, so they were on the lookoutforappropriate to thank," says Colleen.

"Too many to list," adds fabric. Colleen happened to see that afabricstore chain Chary, "but they know who was going out ofbusiness, so they are, and we never could the women went to each of have done it without them." four stores from Pendleton The most expensive indito Boise and bought all they vidualpiece ofthe restorahad of a particular drapery tion was the living room fabric, measured and cut in wallpaper. Colleen and Jane appropriatelengths foreach researched old wallpaper unique window in the house. stylesfrom the late 1800s, Carol Sherrieb, then and JohnKinsman from Oregon Trail Regional the Foundation for Historic Museum volunteer director, Homes provided $10,000 for donated $500 toward buying the purchaseofappropriate the needed yardage. When wallpaper from a company they had the necessary in Australia which recreates fabric, Colleen sewed and historic wallpaper styles for later hung the drapes over home restorations. the new windows when the The group needed another painting and wallpapering $8,000 to pay for having it were done. applied, so thatrequired In order to finish the another grant application. cleaning and painting, Chary wrote many grant the furniture needed to applications, most of them be storedoffsite,so again eliciting help of some kind. husbands and friends with Colleen says, "By the time pickup trucks and utility we were done, the whole trailers were called into community was involved in action, with the pieces care- one way or another. And our fully moved and stored in a outside benefactors, such warehouse in the vicinity of as the Collins women, the Tasty Bake.

Murdochs, and Mr. KinsWhen the conditions in man, came to see 'their' the house reached a stage house several times during where jobs could be hired the process of cleaning and out, the women used local repairing, and again after contractorsand localvenwe were fi nished. And, of dors, although they did have course, the Adler Foundation to getsome ofthe pieces people have been with us all they needed from Renovaalong." tors' Supply in Portland.

A letter from Kay J. Maser David Gagnon from of Ashland captures the Sumpter rebuilt the front responsesofthose involved steps and Art Horvath rein viewing the masterful "recreation"oftheAdler paired the foundation with tuffstone from his Pleasant House: "I take this time to write Valley quarry, the stone of which is quarried pale to you because I want you to brown, but turns the presknow that the Adler House ent lovely gray color with was one of the high points of our 2-week trip to Northexposure to air.

Henry Levinger gave eastern Oregon: "I have a degree in money for area rugs for the floor. Henry's son, Dr. Larry architectural design. Ihave Levinger, paid for tuning toured hundreds ofhistorical the piano when it was time houses in the United States to greet the public. Chary and Europe. But never Mires' son-in-law, Curt have I enjoyed and been so Charlton, tilled, leveled and delighted with what you and seeded the lawns around the your colleagues have done house. Cashway provided with the Adler house. What sheetrock at cost, and the a joy and what a privilege it list goes on. was to tour a house that has Among the most tireless most of the original furnishof the volunteers was Harry ings, and that has been Williams, who participated restoredto perfection...itis in many stages: repairhighly unusual to find such a

historical gem.

'Thanks to you and the other members of your Historical society for the many hundreds of hours you devoted tocreating/restoring, and to caring about this fabulous home and its history. You did a fabulous job and I can only guess at the research and time that all of you devoted to this project!

'Thank you for your efforts in keeping the history of this part of Oregon ALIVE!" June 2014 marks the 20-year anniversary of the opening of the Adler House Museum. It is the "darling of Main Street" and a great sister museum to Baker Heritage Museum, just across the park,with both managed by the BakerCounty Museum Commission. So the question remains: How did the four women of the Adler House come out with their budget in undertaking this enormous community project which was predicted to cost

$500,000v The whole, including all services, labor, parts, and productscosta totalof

$145,000, plusa lotofsweat and hard work &om Colleen Brooks, Jane Hutton, Chary Mires and Scotty Haskell, plus numerous community volunteers and countless donations of time and materials.

Contributing Foundations included the Collins

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Histori cHomes ($10,000 original wallpaper grant plusthe recent $10,000 for exterior painting); Leo Adler

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What madetherenovation so much cheaper than the predicted? Colleen, Jane, and Chary say it was a labor of love of the community giving back to Leo Adler, who loved his hometown, and while alive helped with many community projects both locally and internationally. Through his financial legacy managed by the Leo Adler Foundation, he is still helping with those projects, plus providing college and university scholarships for the graduates of Baker County and Powder Valley high schools.

Chary concludes, "I know that somewhere Leo is smilmg to know what happened to his house. "

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BULLISH Continued ~om Page1A Despite these connections and fierce lobbying for local support, thenegative feedback nearly convinced Ken to dropthe idea altogether during a conversation with Shirley.

It was a short conversation.

"I said 'I'm gonna dump this, I don't want to do it,'" Ken said.

"I said, 'you shot your mouth ofE you're gonna do it!'"

Shirley said.

After that the couple spent many weekends traveling to regional bull riding competitions to rally rider support for an event in Baker.

It worked. r We finally got ithe riders) all gathered back up and believing in what we were going to do," Ken said.

At that point, the first event was ready to go, and not a moment too soon. ''When I put the bull riding on I started with $250 in my pocket," Ken said.

Where did things go fi'om there?

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First pigs, then broncs The McPherons said that their first bull riding event in Baker was a huge success.

With an estimated 1,300 spectators atthe Fairgrounds arena, and a line down the street to get in, seating was in high demand. ''We actually sat in the back of our son's pickup because we didn't have seats," Shirley said."It was basically standing room only."

Since the bull riding took place on the Saturday evening of Jubilee, another event was needed to fill the bill on Sundays.

So in 1995 and 1996, Ken oversaw muddy bouts of pig wrestling. The timed events would see slippery pigs directed into a mud pit via a chute, where a team of three people would be waiting to m uscle itup overa baleof hay as quickly as they could.

'The crowd loved it," he said."It was a kick in the ass.

"It was a community deal more than anything," he said.

Backlash from the animal rights community, though, put the pig wrestling event out ofbusiness.

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Ken McPheron hasbeen involved in rodeos since he was in diapers.

"It's beenpretty rewarding for my wife and I, to see these typefohorses come to Baker, and to get world championcowboys in here.It' sasignofsomething sayingyou're doing something right."

— Ken McPheron, who with his wife, Shirley, worked to bring the first bull-riding event to Baker City during Miners Jubilee in 1995 and later added the bronc-riding event

bronco riding into the picture in 1997.

Ken said that the first bronco riding event had a weak turnout, which he and othersatlributedtothe fact that fewer fans back then understood the ins and outs ofbronco riding.

Rich Lien, a former slructural iron- J. worker who now

helps build up rodeo grounds fo revents like Broncs & Bulls, said that interest in bronc riding has been on the upswing in recent years.

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"I dunno how many people are standing," he said.

The $25,000 bronco-riding purse is the largest in the Northwest, and McPheron said this is largely responsible for the high caliber of riders and horses that come to compete. r We've had numerous world champion bronco riders out here, some of the best there is," he said."Seems like every year we get a couple of world champions in here."

World champion horses have been coming in, too.

"It's been pretty rewarding for my wife and I, to see these type ofhorses come to Baker, and to get world

champion cowboys in here," Ken said.

"It's a sign of something saying you're doing something right."

Ken's also pleased with how much money the event's been able to donate tocharity. r We've given close to in 19 years," he said.

That said, Ken sees room for improvement.

"I'dliketo see m ore added money for the contestants," he said."I'd like to put on a

$50,000 bull ride one day."

For an event that almost didn't exist, the first bull ride in 1995 would set the tone

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"It's catching on with the younger crowd," he said.

Indeed, the bronc riding attendance at Broncs & Bulls — it's now a Friday&aturday evening event — has increased every year it's been held, and McPheron estimates that the weekend sees a 50/50 split in attendance.

The event's been adding seats each year to accommodategrowing number of spectat ors,butthat'sno longer an option. r We can't put any more seatshere,we're atfull capacity," Ken said.

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Staking aclaimstill possihle — hutthe choices are limited

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You're soothing your trail-worn toes in a limpid mountain stream when you glimpse, between shimmering ripples, a glitter that seems metallic.

Is it gold?

Perhaps.

Can you sik through a few pans of silt and gravel, collect a few grains of the shiny stuff and take it with you for testing?

Possibly.

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If the creekis notin a wilderness or a national recreation area, is not within a wild river corridor, and if no one else has staked a mining claim for that section of stream, the answer is a definit e maybe.

Absolute answers, alas, are about as rare as the mother lodewhen itcomes to federal mining law.

The original law, which politicians have tinkered with many times, dates to 1872.

But even though you'd needbiceps-straining stacks of paperto printevery federaland state statute related to mining, there are still places — including parts of Baker County — where a person can grab a gold pan or heft a rock hammer, and just go prospecting.

And returnhome with a few precious flecks stashed in a pocket.

Maybe.

"If you're just going to be out there with a pan, you don't need a permit or anything," said Sharon Mowery, a land law examiner at the Bureau of Land Management's Oregon state office in Portland.

(BLM oversees the staking of mining claims on both BLM and Forest Service land. Both agencies enforce laws related to how and where you can mine.)

What you will need, though, is an accurate map.

And more important, the ability to read it.

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The holder of a mining claim on public land has the exclusive right to prospect and collect minerals from the claim.

Federal law prohibits prospectingon certain sections of public land, Mowery said, including wilderness areas and some national recreation areas (including Hells Canyon NRA in Northeastern Oregon), wild river corridors and, not surprisingly, existing mining claims.

After all, that's why people stakeclaims — toprevent someone else from getting the goldorotherprecious metals.

Although you can prospect and even mine in an unclaimed area without staking your own claim, few miners do so once they've found a nugget or two.

The reason is obvious: No one wants to uncover a rich deposit and then loseitto a competitor who hasn't got his hands dirty, but who did fill out the proper forms.

Figuring out whether you're in a wilderness or national recreation area,or along a wild river, is relatively easy, because nationalforest and BLM district maps, which you can buy at any

agency office or at most sporting goods stores, show those areas.

But to find the boundaries of existing mining claims, unless you find a marker posted on atreeyou'llprobably have to domore than unfold a m ap and give it a brief glance.

According to BLM,"there are no published maps showing mining claims."

Both the BLM state office and the Baker County Clerk's office maintain mining claim records.

But you might have to search a while to determine whether the land where you want to prospect is available, or whether some other goldseeker got there first.

You can submit a request to BLM online at this Web site: www.or.blm.gov/lo/Costs%20 and%20Services.htm.

A simple search might cost you only the 80-centsper-page printing fee. But if officials spend more than 15 minutes pulling the records you want, BLM can tack on an $8 charge for each 15-min-

ute period thereafter.

The research, though potentially tedious and possibly expensive, is worthwhile, Mowery said.

You don't want to be branded a claim jumperand there are plenty of claims to jump in Northeastern Oregon.

There are more than 2,500activeclaims on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, and most gold-bearing streams on the forest (which is a lot of them) are partially or completely claimed.

Staking a claim So you've found an unclaimed spot on public land where you think you can turn a profi twith yourpan.

But can you prove that the land possesses this potential for profit?

This is one place where mining laws, as they're printed on paper, diverge from the way in which federal agencies enforcethoselaws on the ground.

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claim you stake is invalid unless you can convince federal officials that the property contains a"valuable mineraldeposit,"according to the Forest Service's Geology and Minerals Training Office in Missoula, Mont.

The aim of the law is to preventpeoplefrom staking claims when what they really care about is not mining, but, say, creating their own private hunting camp or vacation hideaway.

But although the laws seem strict, both the BLM and the Forest Service allow prospectors considerable latitude in proving the profit potential of each claim.

ForestServiceregulations, for example, state that the agency"should aid the legitim ate acti vitiesofa prospector making bona fide efforts to obtain a discovery on a good prospect."

Once you've staked your claim (and if you have fewer than 10 claims) you have two optionsforkeepingtheclaim active.

The first option is to pay the annual $140 maintenance fee by Aug. 31 each year.

The second option is to file a fee waiver form, which states that you will, during the next year, spend at least

Mowery said.

Placer claims, which are the most common type because they're usually easier and cheaper to work, are limited to 20 acres.

(Placers are gold deposits in stream beds or sediments.

Placer mining methods include panning, dredging and sluicing.l Claims for lode mining (diggingunderground tofi nd goldveins,a m ethod also known as hard-rock mining) can't exceed 1,500 feet in length along a lode or vein, and 300feeton each sideof the lode or vein.

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But only you can legally take the gold (or silver, or otherprecious metals).

Mining laws also limit the sorts of structures you can erect on your claim.

For example, don'tplan on staking a claim and then building a cute little log cabin there.

The law allows miners to buildstructures that are "reasonably necessary" to work their claims, according to theForest Service.

But on occasion a miner tries to stretch the definition of"reasonably necessary" well beyond its breaking point.

If, for example, you're a recreational miner who pans a few flakes or runs a suction dredge on a few summer weekends, then you're not likely to be able to convince federal officials that you need a three-room cabin, with knotty-pine walls and a satellite TV antenna, on your claim.

line to file the waiver form also is Aug. 31.

As with all matters pertaining to mining claims, you get the proper paperwork from, and pay your fees to, the BLM, even if your claim is on national forest land.

Although mining laws provide options for maintaining a claim, they aren't so flexible as far as staking the claim in the first place.

From theday you fi nd a potential claim, you have 90 days to stake it, Mowery said.

BLM's state office in Portland can provide all the properpapers.Officialsthere also will take some of your money.

The tab includes a onetimelocation fee of$184,a one-timeservicecharge of $10, and the first annual maintenance fee of $140.

Besides filling out forms and paying fees, you'll need to put in posts marking the boundaries of your claim,

You stakea claim,but you don't own it Government officials emphasize that staking a claim does not entitle you to control the land as if you owned it. You can't, for example, put up "private property" signs on your claim, or block access roadswith gates,he said.

The claim gives you the exclusive right to extract valuable minerals from the land — but that's all.

Hunters can hunt on your claim, hikers can hike across it andanglerscan toss a line in the same stream where you pan or dredge for

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