FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2015
Outdoor Rec / Local
THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 7
2015 Baker County Fair open Bravery and
heartache
class results announced
The Baker County Fair’s
2015 open class results are
as follow:
Special Contests
Domestic Diva :
1st – Colleen Collier
2nd – Rocky Morris
Spirits of Baker County:
1 st – Charles Macaluso
2nd – Jim Thompson
3rd – Jim Thompson
Coloring Contest:
Pee-wee -
Juniors – Abby Orr
Seniors – Katie Wilde
Scarecrow:
Bobbi Sullivan
Baker County Talent Show
Youth Division
1st – Abigayle Whitnah
2nd – Micah Gotzman
3rd – Morgan Myers
Best of Show & Reserve
Best Of Show
Best Of Show – Jo Owen
Reserve Best of Show –
Dawson Vanderwiele
Open Class Results
Overall Department
Champions:
Foods – Lance Risdal
Food Preservation – Wend-
ee Morrissey
Crafts – Dawson Vander-
wiele
Needlework – Jo Owen
Photography – Mike
Katona
Art – Brenda Goshorn
Horticulture – Campbell
Vanderwiele
Poultry – Zack Morrison
Rabbits – John Gaarsland
Open Class Division
Exhibitors and Awards:
Art, Craft, Horticulture,
Food, Food Preservation,
Photography, Needlework,
Poultry, Sheep, & Rabbit
Pee-Wee Division:
Seth Bingham – 2 Blue
Janie Bingham – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue, 1 Red
Range Bingham – 2 Blue
Bay Blair – 1 Reserve
Champion, 1 Blue, 1 Red
Isabel Cunningham – 2
Blue
Abigail Cunningham – 2
Blue, 1 Red
Campbell Daley – 3 Blue
Landon Dougherty – 1
Blue
Liam Dougherty – 1 Blue
Aaron Kellar – 1 Red
Ethan Kellar – 1 Red
David Kerns – 2 Blue, 1
Red
Jonathon Kerns – 1 Re-
serve Champion, 2 Blue
Chase Myatt – 4 Blue
Tyler Myatt – 1 Reserve
Champion, 2 Blue
Sky Nesser – 1 Blue
Conner Norton – 5 Blue,
1 Red
Kate Norton – 1 Reserve
Champion, 2 Blue, 1 Red
Khalia-Ann Phlaum – 1
Red, 1 Blue
Lance Risdal – Overall
Champion, Grand Cham-
pion, 4 Blue
Addyson Roseborough – 1
Grand Champion, 4 Blue,
1 Red
Alexis Rupel – 2 Grand
Champion, 1 Reserve
Champion, 4 Blue
Winter Smith – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue
Addison Supan – 1 Blue
Ella Wilde – 1 Red
Youth Division:
Ashlyn Bauer – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue
Kerryn Bauer – 2 Blue
Jodie Bingham – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue, 1 Red
Kristin Cantrell – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue, 2 Red
Cooper Daley – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue, 2 Red
Kiera Dean – 3 Red
Westen Downing – 1
Grand Champion, 1 Blue
Jorden Griffi th – 2 Red
Emma Hardesty – 1 Re-
serve Champion, 2 Blue,
1 Red
Wyatte Harris – 1 Blue
Zoey Justus – 3 Blue
Emma Kersgaard – 1 Re-
serve Champion, 4 Blue,
3 Red
Julianne Kersgaard – 3
Blue, 3 Red
Gunnar Lahaug – 1 Blue,
1 Red
Zach Morrison – 1 Best of
Show, 1 Grand Champion,
1 Reserve Champion, 6
Blue, 1 Red
Kathryn Nelson – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue
Clark Norton – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Abby Orr – 2 Reserve
Champion, 5 Blue, 1 Red
Emma Orr – 1 Blue, 2 Red
Jessup Orr – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Reserve
Champion, 4 Blue, 2 Red
Braiden Parret – 2 Blue,
1 Red
Cassie Pettit – 2 Blue
Kacee Phlaum – 1 Blue
Jordynn Risdal – 1 Grand
Champion, 7 Blue, 1 Red
Maya Smith – Reserve
Champion, 3 Blue, 2 Red
Skye Smith – Grand
Champion, 1 Blue, 1 Red
Campbell Vanderwiele
– 1 Overall Champion, 1
Grand Champion, 4 Blue,
1 Red
Katie Wilde – 1 Blue, 2
Red
Teen Division:
Jessica Adams – 1 Grand
Champion, 4 Blue, 3 Red
Kobe Cantrell – 1 Red
Chloe Deputy – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Daniel Deputy – 1 Reserve
Champion, 1 Blue
Lisa Finley – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Reserve
Champion, 2 Blue
Marisa Fuzi – 2 Blue, 1
Red
Danica Parrett – 1 Reserve
Champion, 4 Blue, 5 Red
Andrea Pettit – 3 Blue, 2
Red
Sami Sexton – 3 Blue, 1
Red
Dawson Vanderwiele – 1
Best of Show, 1 Overall
Champion, 1 Grand Cham-
pion, 2 Blue, 1 Red
Adult Division:
Rochelle Adams – 1 Blue,
1 Red
Wendy Bingham – 1 Re-
serve Champion, 2 Blue
Patricia Bradford – 1
Grand Champion, 1 Re-
serve Champion, 2 Blue,
1 Red
Bryan Dalke – 1 Blue, 1
Red
Courtney Emery – 3 Blue
Kim Finley – 1 Blue, 2
Red
Sarah Fry – 1 Blue
Tami Foltz – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Reserve
Champion
Lisa Fuzi – 1 Blue
Heather Goshorn – 1
Grand Champion, 2 Blue,
2 Red
Donna Griffi th – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Heidi Justus – 2 Blue
Stacey Lahaug – 1 Blue
Wendee Morrissey – 1
Overall Champion, 1
Grand Champion, 1 Re-
serve Champion, 4 Blue
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Emery Owen – 1 Red
Mark Lee Owen – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Sarah Owen – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Lacey Risdal – 1 Reserve
Champion, 1 Blue
Amy Roseborough – 4
Blue, 2 Red
Ginger Savage – 1 Reserve
Champion, 2 Blue
Lynn Schmitt – 1 Grand
Champion, 4 Blue
Bobbi Sullivan – 1 Reserve
Champion, 2 Blue
Jason Sullivan – 2 Red
Angie Turner – 1 Blue
Jessie Wilson - 2 Blue, 2
Red
Christena Cook – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue
Senior Division:
Alana Clark – 1 Blue, 1
Red
Terrie Boettcher – 4 Blue
Karen Bouchard – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Blue, 1 Red
Ruthie Crum – 2 Blue
Cindi Davis – 5 Blue
Bobbie Dougherty – 6
Blue, 1 Red
John Gaarsland –1 Best of
Show, 1 Grand Champion,
1 Reserve Best of Show, 1
Reserve Champion, 2 Blue
Brenda Goshorn – 1 Over-
all Champion, 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Reserve
Champion, 3 Blue, 1 Red
Mack Goshorn Jr. – 1 Re-
serve Champion, 2 Blue
Jean Hulick – 1 Grand
Champion, 3 Blue, 4 Red
Mike Katona – 1 Overall
Champion, 1 Grand Cham-
pion, 4 Blue, 2 Red
Penny Kester – 2 Blue, 1
Red
Cherryl Martin – 2 Blue,
3 Red
Jerri McClarin – 1 Grand
Champion, 2 Reserve
Champion, 12 Blue, 2 Red
Jo Owen – 1 Best of Show,
1 Overall Champion, 1
Grand Champion, 2 Blue
Shirley Owen – 2 Blue, 2
Red
Beverly Schaer – 2 Re-
serve Champion, 6 Blue,
2 Red
Susie Thompson – 5 Blue
Professionals:
Abigail Martin – 1 Grand
Champion, 1 Blue, 2 Red
Cassie Martin – 3 Blue
Dakota Martin – 1 Reserve
Champion, 4 Blue
Prineville
boat ramp
closed
Beginning Friday, Au-
gust 21, the last developed
boat ramp on Prineville
Reservoir will be closed
for the year to trailered
boat launching.
The ramp is unsafe to
launch boats because the
water level has receded
to the end of the ramp.
The low water level on
the reservoir prompted
early closure of two other
developed boat ramps mid-
summer this year.
The reservoir has plenty
of water for other recre-
ational watercraft such as
kayaks, canoes, paddle
boards and small portable
motorized boats.
These can still be
launched manually from
any accessible, walk-in
beach. This is a good
option for those looking
to get out and enjoy the
reservoir throughout the
rest of the summer.
The main campground
and day use area will re-
main open year round.
Submitted Photos..
Top: Flames came down closely behind the Haney
home in Burnt River Canyon. Lower: Kody Justus
fi ghts fl ames with a 4-wheeler and a water tank.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
Lees lives off-the-grid and had his own power supply
to run his pump and he began dumping water all around
his residence as the fi re approached. He also ran around
dowsing fl ames with a self-contained water tank strapped
to his back.
After the fi ght, Lees reports only the loss of his back
fence, a corner post, and about half the trees on his prop-
erty.
“If I wasn’t there it’d all be gone now,” he said.
Near Lees’ property, on Alder Creek Road, stood the
old Johnson homestead, which was one of the fi rst home-
steads in Baker County, according to Lees. The historic
home was lost to the blaze, he said. Lees also reported
that the late Sid Johnson had planted thousands of trees
around the newer constructed Johnson home and that all
those trees were lost to the blaze. The newer Johnson resi-
dence was not lost in the fi re.
“It’s just tragic. Sid put so much work into the planting
and care for those trees. He had put in hundreds of eight-
foot pieces of metal to funnel water to the trees and now
there are just the remnants of those metal pipes,” Lees
said.
Lees’ daughter Jenny Long lives in Stices Gulch and
has her own fi re story to tell.
She was able to get back in via a sheriff’s department
escort after the fi re swept past the Stices Gulch area to
assess the damage to her property.
“The power in Stices Gulch is on but was burned out at
our house,” Long said. “We have limited access because
they are still sawing hazardous trees.”
Long reported that the phone distribution box, owned
by the Oregon Telephone Company, had been damaged
during the fi re and that phone service was still out in
Stices Gulch.
“The next danger now is fl ash fl ooding,” said Long.
She explained other concerns of Stices Gulch resi-
dents including soil erosion issues, the falling of large
boulders during the rainy season, and the proliferation of
cheat grass. County Commissioner Mark Bennett echoed
Long’s concern about the rampant growth of weeds after
the fi res and the need for federal assistance for restoration
on private lands.
Milton Prowell has spent all 91-years of his life as a
Baker County resident and this 2015 fi re season is the
worst he’s witnessed. Prowell owns 360-acres of timber-
land in the Beaver Creek area.
“I lost about all of it,” Prowell said after fi re swept
through his property. “After the fi re came through about
25 years ago I planted 12,000 to 14,000 trees on it, mostly
Ponderosa pine, some fi r and Tamarack. It all burned. All
but maybe 10 acres.”
Prowell explained that he also had cattle grazing on his
property and the fi re cost him three-months of grazing
pasture that he had sold.
Pamela and Jim Haney work as caretakers at the Lost
Dutchman Mine Association’s Burnt River Camp.
Pamela says that she’s heard some criticism from peo-
ple who think that an earlier, more aggressive fi refi ghting
action would have stopped the Windy Ridge Fire before it
could grow to catastrophic size.
“The day the fi re started they were trying to get it
out,” she explained. “There were six or eight engines
there when it started. They built a fi re-break and the fi re
jumped the break. They were on it when it started and the
Forest Service, BLM, and ODF crews did a really good
job.”
She said that two fi re engines, one from the City of
Enterprise and one from Halfway, stayed with them all
week.
Several campers were evacuated from the Burnt River
Camp and after the fi re swept past, one tent remained
standing amidst the devastation, said Haney.
She reported the fi re has receded from the area and
returned several times. On August 18, she said that the
power remained out as the result of a back-burning effort
that took down a power pole.
Haney said during a trip August 18 into Baker City for
supplies and fuel to power the generator, “We’re not out
of the woods yet.”