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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Doris Hutton of Baker City.
Oregon, 6A Figures obtained by The Associated Press show that since Measure 91 passed last November, there have been 411 new applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries and 51 since the start of July, when the Legislature voted to allow medical dispensaries to start selling recreational pot on Oct. 1.
• Michelle Ryan recalls Sept. 27, 2013, the day a pit bull fatally mauled her 5-year-old son • ODOT oficials say fence installed along I-84 in 2013 isn't working, so the agency plans to move it farther from the freeway shoulder
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Huckleberry Festival walk/ run, duathlon set for 3uly 25 NORTH POWDERThe Huckleberry Festival fun run/walk and duathlon is set for Saturday, July 25 in North Powder. Although the festival has always featured a run'walk event, this is the first year for the duathlon, which will be a 12-mile bike ride followed by a 5K run. Other distances for a run or walk are one mile, 5K and 10K. Entry fees are $20 for the 5K and 10K, $10 for the one-mile run and $45 for the duathlon (or $35 per person for teams). Proceeds will benefit new playground equipment for the elementary school. Registration is at 7 a.m. at the North Powder Fire Department on Third Street. Race start times are 8 a.m. for the duathlon, 8:15 a.m. for the 10K run'walk and 8:30 a.m. for the 5K and one mile. Information can be found online at http:// aasportsltd.com/huckleberry-festival-sports/.
Vacation Bible School starting First Lutheran Church will offer a fun-filled week of discovery during its annual Vacation Bible School July 20-24. "Camp Discovery: Jesus At WorkThrough Us" is the theme of this year's program. It will run from 9 a.m. to noon daily at the church at 1734Third St. First Lutheran's Vacation Bible School is designed for children in Grades 1-5. More information is available by calling Sharon Noble at 541523-1145.
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By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
The state's two-year, $435,000 experiment with a fence intended to keep snow from blowingacrossa section ofInterstate 84near Baker City didn't pan out. So the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOTl plans to move the snow fence a bit farther from the freeway's westbound lanes near the Baker Valley rest area. ODOT officials gave a presentation to Baker County Commissioners Wednesday, coveringboth themoving ofthe 3,300 feetof snow fence, and a plan to build a new section of snow fence several miles farther north along the freeway. ODOT Project Leader Sean Maloney told commissioners that the 3,300-foot section of fence on the east side of the freeway just south of the Culley Lane overpass needs to be moved because snow continues to drift onto the freeway there. 'That snow fence hasn't been doing its job properly," Maloney said.r We have to go back to the drawing board. It's not an exact science. There's a little bit of trial and error." Maloney said ODOT built the fence 70 feet from the freeway to keep it within the public right-of-way and to minimize the effect on the adjacent private landowner. See Fence/Page 12A
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Michelle Ryan, whose 5-year-old son, Jordan, was killed by a pit bull in Baker City in September 2013, has joined groups seeking to reduce fatal dog attacks.
By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com
Michelle Ryan has the details ofher son's death committed to memory, minute by minute. At 9:04 the morning of Sept. 27, 2013, her three children were playing on the floor at Mary Lane's home, where Michelle planned to leave the kids for a"play date" while she went to work. The times marking the tragedy are clear in Michelle's head because she was checking her phone to ensure she made it to her out-of-town job as a home careprovideron time that S. John Collins/BakerCity Herald morning. Michelle Ryan Michelle and Mary both Michelle said she took her grew up in Baker City and had kids to play at Mary's house become reacquainted through Nathan Craig, Michelle's fiance that morning after her efforts to find a baby sitter fell flat. at the time.
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(Michelle's sister actually responded in a text message agreeing to watch her niece and nephews, but Michelle never receivedthe text.) Mary happened to call while Michelle was rushing to find a placeto leaveher kidsand offereda helping hand. Mary said the Ryan children could come and play with her own kids while she cleaned house. When Michelle and her three arrived, Mary locked her pit bull in a bedroom. "She knew I didn't feel comfortable with having my kids around the dog," Michelle said, even though the kids had met the dog before and there had been no problems between them.
Jovial Jubilee goers might be able to avoid some of the trafftc about town this weekend. For the first time during Miners Jubilee, Community Connection of Baker County will be running a trolley service on Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The trolley will make stops at four motels and both of the RV parks in town. There will also be stops near the festivities at First and Washington, and at Grove Street just east of Geiser-Pollman Park. Rides will be available for $1 per passenger. The trolley will run starting at 5 p.m. from the Baker Truck Corral, and ending with its laststop atthe same place at10:41p.m. The route is similar to the one used last weekend during the Hells Canyon Motorcycle Race.
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By La'akea Kaufman Ikaufman©bakercityherald.com
Biologistsdlamewarmwater forsalmondeaths • Staterestricts fishing on many streams to protect native fish
TO D A T Issue 30, 28 pages
This is the third summer in the past decade in which water temperatures in the Middle Forkrose to the mid-70s, fatally State biologists say unusually warm high for some salmon, said Brent Smith, water killed about 120 wild chinook salmon earlier this month on the Middle a biologist at the Oregon Department of Fork of the John Day River about 50 miles Fish and Wildlife's John Day offtce. Biologists also blame warm water for southwest of Baker City. By Jayson Jacoby
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chinook die-offs along the Middle Fork in 2007 and 2013, Smith said. Cooler temperatures and heavyrain the past week have at least temporarily eased the threat to the salmon, he said. See Fish/Page8A
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