FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015
THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 5
Local
Trail named after Neal Bork Power outage
affects 449
BY MEGHAN ANDERSCH
Meghan@TheBakerCountyPress.com
“It was his passion. He
lived from weekend to
weekend to go snowmo-
biling,” recalled Marlene
Bork of husband Neal, who
passed away earlier this
year.
Bork was very involved
in the Blue Mountain
Sumpter Valley Snow-
mobile Club, including
serving as President for the
past five or six years.
Marlene said Neal was
sometimes known as, “the
guy you didn’t want to
follow if you weren’t sea-
soned. He enjoyed going
challenging places.”
She said he loved the
sport and loved being
around other snowmobil-
ers.
During November’s
Snowmobile Club meet-
ing, Director Elden Doser
presented a sign made by
Melvin Cross re-designat-
ing the 1090 snowmobile
trail as the Neal Bork 1090
Trail.
Doser said they felt it
was appropriate to desig-
nate the trail as a memorial
of Bork. He explained that
there were some problems
several years ago and the
club had to find a new
route. Bork found a new
way through and (after
receiving all necessary
permissions), brought up
his Cat, helped open up the
route, and get it going.
Doser said, “Without
him, we probably wouldn’t
have this particular trail.”
Doser said that when-
ever help was needed,
whether it was mechanical
A power outage Tuesday in the Medical Springs and
Keating areas started approximately 12:56 p.m., with
about 449 members affected. The cause was weather
related due to snowfall.
Oregon Trail Electric Co-op (OTEC) crews dispatched
and were on site with estimated time on restoration of
3:30 p.m., but power was restored earlier at around 3:06
p.m.
Local OSP
trooper gets
award
On November 6, 2015 the Oregon Police Officer's As-
sociation (OPOA) held their annual recognition banquet.
At the ceremony the following Oregon State Troopers
were recognized, including local trooper Brad Duncan:
Unit Citation Award- Oregon State Police Major Crime
Team: Lieutenant Darrin Lux, Lieutenant Jeff Fitzgerald,
Detective Bryan Scott, Sergeant Annie Harris-Powers,
Detective Jess Elzy, Detective Travis Lee, Detective Jes-
sica Hall, and Detective Ray Stallsworth
Life Saving Award- Senior Trooper Bradley Duncan.
The Oregon State Police is very proud of all of the ef-
forts of the members of the department and congratulate
those who received awards.
Photos courtesy o f Elden Doser
Top: Jim Sheller and Marlene Bork. Lower: The sign after being hung to mark
the trail.
work on the grooming Cat,
serving as president, or
assistance during the Poker
Run, Bork was always
willing to lend a hand.
Jim Sheller, Grooming
Chairman of the Snowmo-
bile Club, said Bork was
the heart of the grooming
team. He said, “Neal was
my right-hand man and I
miss him dearly.”
The new sign was posted
on a place on the trail with
a scenic valley view. As
stated on the club website
(sumptersnowmobileclub.
wordpress.com), “We think
Neal would love the view
from here!”
Huntington Food Bank thanks
Walmart for donation
BY EILEEN DRIVER
Eileen@TheBakerCountyPress.com
The Huntington Food
Bank surprised their clients
with Thanksgiving turkeys
in addition to their regular
food boxes on distribution
day, Saturday, November
21.
Food Bank Committee
Member Ed Hughes said,
“We have been working to-
ward getting Thanksgiving
turkeys for a while, but
didn’t know until the day
before if we would have
them or not.”
The food bank work-
ers and recipients wish to
thank Walmart in Ontario
for their hard work in find-
ing an extra 60 turkeys
and getting them delivered
on time, which was not
easy during high buying
turkey season.
According to food bank
Treasurer Kathy Hughes,
“Walmart gave us such a
generously low price on
the turkeys that it allowed
even our limited budget to
be able to afford it.”
The Huntington food
bank serves 50-70 low-
income Baker and Malheur
county families every
month.
Eileen Driver / The Baker County Press
Timothy Burns of the Walmart meat department stands by the donations.
The food boxes hold
enough food to feed
individuals and families
for about a week, which
supplements their monthly
food budget and helps
them make ends meet.
The addition of the tur-
keys not only adds another
meal or two but allows
a family to celebrate the
Thanksgiving holiday with
the spirit with which it was
meant to be celebrated,
with thanks for the com-
munity and generosity of
spirit of those around us.
In this time of not
enough jobs and higher
and higher food prices,
with more families signing
up for food boxes every
month, the food bank vol-
unteers feel privileged to
be able to help out as much
as they can.
The Food Bank would
also like to thank its finan-
cial partners whose yearly
donations make the food
bank possible: Huntington
Lions Club, Huntington
Christian Center and Ash
Grove Cement.
Library to hold painting workshop
Baker County Public Li-
brary will host an abstract
painting workshop on
Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, 5
p.m. – 7 p.m. at 2400 Re-
sort Street in Baker City.
Have fun learning how
to control chaos and create
beautiful art in the process!
SK Cothren, artist,
writer, M. Ed teaches the
event. Create 1-2 abstract
paintings in 2 hours. Be-
ginners welcome!
SK Cothren spends her
days in the fun mode of
creating art and writing.
Books were her favorite
toys as a child, so it is no
surprise that writing is her
first love. SK embraced
painting with a passion
and has created hundreds
of multimedia paintings.
Along the way, she earned
a M.Ed and taught teens
and adults from middle
school to college.
This program is part of
a series of art workshops
and events brought to rural
eastern Oregon through
local public libraries.
Funding for the events is
provided by a grant from
ArtPlaceAmerica.
Entrepreneur
workshop
scheduled
Oregon has a new law that allows regular folks to
invest in Oregon businesses, and encourages Oregon’s
entrepreneurs to raise capital from their neighbors. The
Northeast Community Capital Collaborative (NEOC3)
and Hatch Oregon are teaming up to help Northeast Or-
egonian entrepreneurs prepare their own capital campaign
with an extensive workshop series that will take place in
Baker City and Joseph.
The Community Public Offering (CPO) is a new law
in Oregon that creates an exemption for Oregon small
business owners to raise up to $250,000 in loan or equity
agreements with Oregon residents, who do not need to be
accredited investors. The CPO exemption has a maximum
per-person, per-deal investment of $2,500. Check out
existing Oregon CPOs at https://secure.hatchoregon.com/.
If this sounds like an interesting capital-raising strategy,
sign up for Hatch Oregon’s free Intro to the CPO webinar
for entrepreneurs on Dec. 9 (12 p.m.). Topics covered:
Whether a CPO is right for you and your business
Costs of raising capital this way
Time commitments required for a successful raise
Technical requirements of the rules (disclosure docu-
ments, business plan review, legal compliance)
What the Hatch platform offers
What the Investor Ready accelerator offers
Because Hatch has USDA funding to support CPO
training in Northeast Oregon, they have waived the fee
for residents of Baker, Union, and Wallowa counties.
Registration via Hatch Oregon at http://www.eventbrite.
com. Use the promo code NEOEDD to waive the $50
registration fee.
An entrepreneur or business owner who has a business
plan may then apply to participate in the InvestOR Ready
Accelerator, which will run from mid-January through
February (Mondays in Baker City and Tuesdays in Jo-
seph; dates TBD). The multiple-session workshop series
will delve more deeply into the intricacies of the CPO;
apply here http://hatchoregon.com/IRA-application. The
$2,500 fee is also waived for residents of Baker, Union,
and Wallowa counties.
NEOC3 is a community partnership that’s spreading
the word about local investing, to educate people about
their ability to take more control of their financial futures.
The Northeast Oregon Economic Development
District’s mission is to provide resources and facilitate
quality decision-making for the benefit of entrepreneurs,
businesses and communities in Baker, Union, and Wal-
lowa counties. Learn more about its programs and busi-
ness support at www.neoedd.org.
Barley’s Pale
Ale gets award
Barley Brown’s Hand Truck Pale Ale won a People’s
Choice vote by readers as reported by The Oregonian.
Locals can follow at oregonlive.com/best as that news-
paper begins a “Best of” award process on December 3.
Hand Truck Pale Ale also won a gold judge’s award in
the 2014 Great American Beer Festival and a silver in the
2014 North American Beer awards.
According to the article, “The paler ales category in-
cluded pale, blonde, golden and cream ales. The 20 final-
ists received the most votes in the paler ales category of
our mega-survey asking readers to nominate their favorite
Oregon beers.”