THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 3
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016
Business & Ag
Taste of Baker fi lls Main Street
BY SAMANTHA
O’CONNER
USDA Market News Service—AMS.USDA.gov
Samantha O’Conner / The Baker County Press
Foodies walked down Main Street sampling the wares of various restaurants.
the different things that
people offer and all the dif-
ferent businesses that are
downtown always helps.”
“I’ve been here almost
three years and we’ve done
it every year, so I assume
we’ve done it since the
beginning,” explained
Rhonda Hillman with the
Sycamore Tree. “We love
Taste of Baker because
we get to see all the locals
coming out and we get to
just interact with every-
body, so we’ll defi nitely
keep doing it as long as
they have it.”
Other businesses were
new to the event, such as
Lefty’s Taphouse, Earth
and Vine, Copper Belt, and
the Main Event.
“This is our fi rst year
to do it,” said Lisa Raffety,
owner of the Main Event.
“We decided to give it a try
and it’s been awesome. An
hour in and we’re almost
sold out. We don’t serve
this on our menu, this is a
special but it gives people
the opportunity to see what
our specials are besides
our regular menu. And we
did one thing that’s on the
regular menu. It’s fun, we
will do it again and we’ll
probably up it and maybe
do three things next year.
We just wanted to see how
it went.”
“This is our second
year,” said Rick Stout,
owner of Lefty’s Taphouse.
“We’ve been open for a
year and a half now and so
we did it last year and this
is our second. I think it’s a
good event for Baker and
it’s growing well and the
weather has always been
nice so that helps. I will
defi nitely continue. I’m
hoping to expand our menu
next year to put a little
more on there to offer to
people.”
“As a sole entity busi-
ness, this is our fi rst year,”
said Travis Cook, owner
of Copper Belt. “We’ve
always participated in con-
junction with Bella down
the street since we started
in 2010-11 is when we
started having wine avail-
able, so four or fi ve years
now. I enjoy it, it’s fun, it
brings out people, it gets
names out, it allows people
to try lots of fun stuff and
kinda just a good excuse
to get out on the town and
when the weather’s good,
it’s great, people get out
and have fun.”
“My anniversary is
Black Friday and it will
be eight years here at this
location” explained Mary
Stevenson, owner of Earth
and Vine. “It gets people
out that normally don’t
come in and they can come
just taste what we have.”
Stevenson plans to
continue participating in
the Taste of Baker.
Historic Baker City
president Larry Abell and
secretary Rosemary Abell,
have helped with the Taste
of Baker for three years.
Larry Abell explained
they made three times the
amount of money this year
than they had in the begin-
ning, making it a success-
ful event.
“We want to thank all
the venders who partici-
pated, the Historic Baker
City Board of Directors
who participated, all
the volunteers who sold
tokens, and all the people
who visited intentionally or
unintentionally. We want to
thank everyone who made
it successful,” said Larry
Abell.
Larry Abell explained
the people’s choice
scarecrow went to Lefty’s
Hop Fairy on Valley and
Main. He also explained
the downtown Halloween
Trick-or-Treating will be
held on Halloween from
4-6 p.m.
with OTEC,” said Board
President George Gal-
loway. “It’s been a long,
competitive vetting process
and Les brings 22 years of
leadership experience with
16 years of senior utility
leadership to the table.”
Penning most recently
served as the Chief Opera-
tions Offi cer and Deputy
General Manager for
Powder River Energy
Corporation (PRECorp), a
transmission and distribu-
tion cooperative with 140
employees, serving 28,000
meters, in Wyoming and
Montana.
“I am excited for the
opportunity to serve as
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OTEC’s General Man-
ager,” said Penning. “It is
a great privilege and honor
to be given the responsibil-
ity of taking the reins and
continuing to build on the
success OTEC members,
employees and leader-
ship have been able to
accomplish over the past
28 years. My family and I
are looking forward to our
new adventures in Eastern
Oregon and joining the
OTEC community.”
“With his broad spec-
trum of experience ... the
board of directors was
— Cattle Market Report —
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Vale, Oregon
Cattle sold through the auction: 2355
Steer Calves
300-400# Bulk 133.00 - 151.00 Top 154.00
400-500# Bulk 106.00 - 132.50 Top 134.00
500-600# Bulk 101.00 - 121.50 Top 122.50
Heifer Calves
300-400# Bulk 114.00 - 129.00 Top 131.00
400-500# Bulk 98.00 - 128.00 Top 131.00
500-600# Bulk 96.00 - 113.50 Top 114.00
Yearling Steers
600-700# Bulk 94.00 - 117.50 Top 121.00
700-800# Bulk 94.00 - 109.50 Top 111.00
800-900# Bulk 93.00 - 105.00 Top 108.50
900-1,000# Bulk N/A Top N/A
Yearling Heifers
600-700# Bulk 89.00 - 102.00 Top 107.00
700-800# Bulk 87.00 - 97.50 Top 98.00
800-900# Bulk 84.00 - 91.00 Top 93.00
900-1,000# Bulk 76.00 - 84.00 Top 85.00
Thin Shelly Cows 42.00 - 53.00
Butcher Cows 54.00 - 62.00
Butcher Bulls 49.00 - 64.00
Pairs Young N/A
Hfretts. 68.00 - 83.00
Stock Cows Young - N/A
ProducersLivestock.com
541-473-3136
— Log Price Report —
Price per 1,000 board feet: Northeast Oregon
OTEC gets new manager
The Oregon Trail Electric
Cooperative’s board of
directors is pleased to an-
nounce Les Penning has
been selected for the posi-
tion of General Manager.
A South Dakota native
with formal education in
Industrial Technology and
Business, Penning will
arrive in early December
to replace Werner Buehler,
who after nine years serv-
ing as General Manager of
OTEC and 46 years in the
electrical utility industry,
announced his plans for
retirement beginning Janu-
ary 2017.
“We are happy to wel-
come Les into his new role
Friday, October 14, 2016 — Eastern Oregon
Prices trended generally steady compared to week
ago prices. Most demand lays with the retail/stable
hay. According to some producers, horse owners
are starting to prefer lower sugar, higher protein
hay.
Tons Price Range Wtd Avg
This week:
Alfalfa — Large Square Supreme
113 140.00-140.00 140.00
Alfalfa — Large Square Good / Premium
500 150.00-150.00 150.00
Alfalfa— Large Square Good
400 115.00-115.00 115.00
Samantha@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Saturday, October 8,
Baker County locals and
visitors celebrated the
annual Taste of Baker. Res-
taurant and business own-
ers and workers offered
samples of their menus or
specialties for participants
to enjoy.
“I’ve been here for
twelve years,” said Bob
Bixler, who attended the
event. “This is one of the
coolest things in Baker.”
The Taste of Baker is
an annual event that has
grown over the years.
Many restaurants and busi-
nesses have participated in
the past, including Bella’s,
Sweet Wife Bakery, and
the Sycamore Tree.
“This is its twentieth
year and my business is
nineteen years old and
we’ve always done food
in the past but this year
I decided I was going to
do something different
and I went to Tunisia this
year, so I brought back all
this beautiful pottery and
we’re having a big huge
sale on Tunisian Pottery,”
explained Beverly Calder,
owner of Bella’s. “It’s a
fabulous event and this
event is really one of the
most fun things that hap-
pen all year. Everybody
comes down town and
there are a lot of people in
Baker County who aren’t
downtown all the time
and this is kind of our best
night out and I think it’s
incredibly fun.”
“I think we’ve done it
for the past six years, we
used to set up when I had
my whole sale bakery on
the corner, we used to set
up in front of Earth and
Vine,” said Jenny Mowe,
owner of Sweet Wife
Bakery. “I think it’s a fun
event, anything that draws
people down town and gets
to get them out and see all
— Weekly Hay Report —
Photo courtesy of OTEC.
Les Penning
excited to be able to offer
Les this opportunity,” said
Galloway. ““We look for-
ward to working with him
in the coming months to
ensure a smooth transition
of leadership.”
Currently the local log market is fl ooded with
fi re salvage logs. The log buyer for Malheur
Lumber Co. stated they have all the logs they
need under contract and are not accepting any
new purchases. BCC/LLC of La Grande has
receive so many burned fi re salvage logs they
are no longer accepting logs at the La Grande
log yard. Any additional pine logs have to be
delivered to the Elgin Log yard cut in plywood
lengths and to a 8 inch top. For these pine
logs cut in plywood lengths, BCC is offering
$280.00/mbf. They are also paying $420.00/
mbf for Doug Fir & Western Larch. For White
Fir they are offi ng $325.00/mbf. At the Pilot
Rock Saw Mill BCC is offi ng $360.00/mbf for a
12 to 15 inch top, for 16 to 19 inch top $400.00/
mbf & offi ng $425.00/mbf for 20 inch plus top
Courtesy of Arvid Andersen,
Andersen Forestry Consulting
— Precious Metals Report —
Price per ounce, USD
Gold: $1,256.40
Silver: $17.48
Platinum: $937.55
Palladium: $639.17
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Corn: $354.00/bu/USD
Wheat: $423.75/bu/USD
Soybeans: $978.25/bu/USD
Oats: $200.00 bu/USD
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Canola: $496.10 CAD/mwt
Live Cattle: $99.00/lb./USD
Feeder Cattle: $117.23/lb./USD
Lean Hogs: $41.60/lb./USD
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