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Friday, November 4, 2016 • Volume 3, Issue 45
Veteran Profile: Local ties
to ‘The Perfect Storm’
• BURNT RIVER
GRAD TALKS
ABOUT HISTORICAL
STORM
BY TODD ARRIOLA
Todd@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Halloween weekend
marked the 25th anniver-
sary of the “No-Name
Storm,” a devastating
Northeastern combination
of three weather systems,
which fi rst developed
on Monday, October 28,
1991, later to be immortal-
ized along with stories of
heroic acts and tragedy in
the 1997 Sebastian Junger
book, The Perfect Storm,
and in the 2000 fi lm of
the same name featuring
George Clooney and Mark
Wahlberg.
One of the sailors who
risked his life, and played a
pivotal role in the danger-
ous ocean rescues during
that storm is Burnt River
High School graduate
Shane Greenbank, who
served aboard the 205-foot
U.S. Coast Guard Cut-
ter (USCGC) Tamaroa
(WMEC-166).
“As the storm was
building, the Tam (one of
the Tamoroa’s nicknames)
dropped anchor in P Town
(Provincetown, Massachu-
setts), hoping that it would
sit there, and ride it out,”
Greenbank said.
A distress call came in
from the 32-foot Satori
(named as, and portrayed
by the Mistral in the fi lm),
75 miles off of Nantucket,
whose captain was Ray
Leonard, along with
friends Karen Stimpson,
and Susan Bylander.
Greenbank said when
the Tam arrived on site
Leonard didn’t want to
leave the Satori.
Stimpson and Bylander
received permission from
Leonard to give the Sa-
tori’s position earlier, and
while Stimpson did this,
she had also issued a May-
day, which was relayed to
the Tam.
Todd Arriola/ The Baker County Press
Shane Greenbank (left) and Todd Arriola in a photo
captured from a video aboard ship in 1991.
Greenbank lowered the
“ribby,” a rigid hull infl at-
able boat (RHIB) with twin
outboards, from the upper
deck of the Tam using a
crane—there were two of
them, called “Tam 1,” and
“Tam 2,” one at the port
side of the upper deck,
or, O-1 deck, and one at
starboard.
SEE PERFECT STORM
PAGE 5
Local travels
Sumpter Museum gets
‘Ghost Mine’ display on loan to Standing
Rock
Submitted Photo
Larry Overman detaches the cables from the dozer, which hauled the blower down from the mine. Carey
Clarke of Sumpter helped haul the loaned display piece down on Sunday.
Submitted Photo.
BY KERRY McQUISTEN
with contributions by
Meghan Andersch
News@TheBakerCountyPress.com
According to Toni
Thompson of the Sumpter
Valley Museum Associa-
tion, the display they re-
ceived on loan last Sunday
may very well be the last
and only mine blower of
its size and type still in
operating condition.
And now the Sumpter
Municipal Museum has
it—at least for a while.
The blower had been
used in the Crescent Mine,
which was featured on the
SyFy Channel’s “Ghost
Mine.”
The manufacturer, B.
F. Strutevant, said owner
Larry Overman, who ap-
peared on two seasons of
that show, “Was the fi rst
manufacturer of blowers in
the U.S. We put it on loan
to the Sumpter Museum
because we wanted to keep
local history of the Cres-
cent Mine and artifacts in
the area.”
A local individual had
recovered it in the 1990s
and Overman acquired it
in 2011.
Cary Clarke of Clarke
Construction said the
movement of the heavy
piece of equipment all
transpired on Sunday.
He said he went up to the
mine and hauled the blow-
er down to the Sumpter
Municipal Museum, where
it will be on display for an
undetermined amount of
time.
The Overmans—Larry
with wife Stacie—had
completed a celebrity
appearance at the Wicked
Ways Masquerade Ball the
evening prior.
Friday
Sunny and mild, highs in the upper 50s.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, lows near freezing.
Saturday
Sunny to start then late increasing clouds. Highs
in the upper 50s. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy
with scattered showers. Chance of precipitation
is 40%. Lows in the upper 30s.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers. Chance
of precipitation is 30%. Highs in the mid 50s.
Sunday Night: Lows in the mid 30s.
Top: The overall view of the camp. Below:
Christopher “Doc” Keefauver poses outside the
medic tent where he volunteered.
BY KERRY McQUISTEN
News@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Submitted Photo
B.F. Sturtevant was the fi rst manufacturer of mine
blowers in the U.S.
Christopher Keefauver of Baker City—better known
locally as “Doc”—traveled with his brother Douglas to
the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation recently. Due to
their family roots, the pair were the designated ambassa-
dors of the Tribe of the Whitetop Band of Native Indians,
Manchester, KY.
“There were over 230 Native American tribes support-
ing this—all tribes were recognized whether offi cial or
unoffi cial,” Keefauver said. “Never have so many tribes
come together. That in itself was a historical moment and
we were glad to have taken a small part in it.”
At present the reservation is the site of a struggle be-
tween protestors of the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline,
proponents, and authorities. The pipeline, a $3.7 billion
project that would carry 470,000 barrels of crude oil per
day across four states, is believed by some Native Ameri-
cans to signify the fulfi llment of a prophecy about a black
snake that would slither across the land, destroying it.
Others, both Native American and not, disagree.
SEE STANDING ROCK PAGE 5
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OTEC Youth Tour apps out
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