THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS — 3
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017
Business / Agriculture
White Pebbles and Sand coming
BY SAMANTHA
O’CONNER
Tons Price Range Wtd Avg
No new sales reported this week.
Last week:
Alfalfa / Large Square Good/ Premium
30 160.00-160.00 160.00
Alfalfa Large Square Good
220 150.00-150.00 14=50.00
USDA Market News Service—AMS.USDA.gov
— Cattle Market Report —
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Vale, Oregon
Cattle sold through the auction: 2,145
Samantha O’Conner / The Baker County Press
Denise Raley, owner.
sustaining farming system,
product.
Éminence is an award-
winning company, some
of their awards being
“Favorite Skin Care Line
8th Consecutive Year,
Professional’s Choice
Awards, American Spa,
2016,” “Best Body Scrubs,
Dermascope Aesthetician’s
Choice Awards, 2015,”
“Innovate Awards: Philan-
thropic Initiatives, Inter-
national Spa Association,
2016,” and many others.
Éminence has a facility in
Canada, and that is where
Raley’s orders are shipped
from.
Raley has owned busi-
nesses in the past and was
inspired to open Pebbles
and Sand, LLC after expe-
riencing bad skin and acne.
Éminence worked for her.
Raley explained that
taking care of the external
skin is just as important as
taking care of other health
and nutrition.
“It’s really not about
being beautiful; it’s about
feeling beautiful,” ex-
plained Raley. “And when
you’re healthy and you’re
vital, and you’re feeding
yourself the right things,
it will come to the out-
side. How you feel about
yourself will just radiate
from you and that’s what I
want to give people. I want
them to love the skin that
they’re in and I want them
to feel the best that they’ve
ever felt.”
Raley explained that
they will offer Éminence
facials, vitamins and min-
erals, and organic skin care
products.
Raley is an esthetician—
someone who has special
training in administering
facials, aromatherapy, and
hair and skin care, so she
will not be offering body
massages.
She explained there is a
technique used by Hungar-
ians where in an Éminence
facial, people are un-
clothed to the waist, they
lay on the table draped,
and their back will get the
treatment as well as their
face.
They will offer skin
scans that will tell them if
a product is helping their
skin and if that product is
making a difference. They
will also offer body wraps
and sugaring, an alterna-
tive to waxing.
Raley is also a licensed
nail technician and will
be offering manicures and
pedicures; however, she
will not use or remove
false nails.
They will use a line
called LCN for hands and
feet and she explained that
it is “5-free;” it does not
have the main five bad in-
gredients used in nail pol-
ish. She is also a certified
eyelash technician and she
will offer eyelash exten-
sions, using an American
made adhesive that is
formaldehyde free.
Raley said why she
named it White Pebbles
and Sand: “The white
pebble is referenced in the
Bible.
“A Catholic monk para-
phrased the verse to mean
you have three selves. The
person you think you are,
the person other people
think you are, and the
person God knows you are.
The white pebble repre-
sents the latter.
“The white pebble is a
very simple metaphor that
audaciously asks the ques-
tion; ‘Who is your authen-
tic self?’”
Sumpter’s bear problems
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McKinney said they
explained there are not as
many berries as there were,
and the bears are coming
down lower looking for
food. She said they have
been all over town.
This issue was addressed
in the Around the Water
Tower mailer, which ex-
plained the issue with the
hot, dry summer contrib-
uting to less browsing.
Residents are encouraged
not to put their garbage out
for the bears to get into.
Bears are especially drawn
to garbage.
McKinney stated it is her
understanding that when
the bears are trapped, they
are destroyed.
The ODFW website
(http://www.dfw.state.
or.us/wildlife/living_with/
black_bears.asp) states,
“Once habituated to find-
ing food near homes, bears
can become a threat to hu-
man safety and must often
be euthanized.”
The website lists sug-
gestions for bear-proofing
yards, including keeping
pet food inside, hang-
ing bird feeders at least
ten feet off the ground,
keeping barbecues clean,
putting garbage out just
before pick-up, and pur-
chasing bear-proof garbage
cans if necessary.
Back in early September,
two separate bear incidents
were reported.
On the evening of
September 7, 2017, a
black bear was shot and
wounded near the area of
Sumpter Stage Highway
and Cemetery Road.
The Baker County Sher-
iff’s Office and Oregon
State Police searched the
area but were unable to
locate the bear.
There was a separate
report on the morning of
September 8th of a bear
creating a disturbance
on Spaulding Ridge near
Sumpter.
On September 7, Doug
Forell was in his residence
at 39484 Sumpter Stage
Highway when he heard a
commotion outside.
As he opened the door to
his residence he came face
to face with a bear.
Forell shut his door, and
the bear pushed on the
door.
Forell retrieved a hand-
gun and shot the bear from
inside the house while the
bear was still on his porch.
The bear ran off but was
wounded.
OSP Troopers and Sher-
iff Travis Ash tracked the
bear as far as they could,
but it was some time later
before the bear was found.
That incident occurred
between 9 p.m. and mid-
night.
There was an additional
report of another bear
causing an incident in the
Spaulding Ridge area.
This was not believed to
be the same wounded bear.
City Council: SAFER grant
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That topic came later in
the agenda.
First, Mayor Downing
called for Citizen Par-
ticipation for anything that
was not already on the
evening’s agenda.
There was none.
Downing then moved
on to the first item on the
agenda.
Budget Resolution 3802
Friday, October 6, 2017 — Eastern Oregon
Prices trended generally steady to lower on lighter
volume this week. Precipitation fell in much of the
reporting area and has hindered haying progress.
Samantha@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Near the end of October
or the beginning of No-
vember, Denise Raley will
open the doors to White
Pebbles and Sand, LLC.
Raley explained that
they will have a grand
opening before the
Thanksgiving holiday
season.
“It is going to be, for
lack of a better definition,
an organic spa,” explained
Raley. “So, organic hasn’t
really been defined clearly
by the FDA, but society
as a whole, we understand
it to be something that is
not chemically-laden or
harmful to the body. So
all the products that I use
and the supplements that
I’m encouraging people
to take are all organic,
completely safe, you could
even eat the product that I
am using.”
One line of products
Raley will be using is
called Éminence Organic
Skin Care, and she has just
been awarded the right to
partner with them and use
their line.
“I’m really excited to
bring it to Baker,” said
Raley. “Alecia Keys, some
of the big Hollywood
names that use it, have
phenomenal skin and they
are really conscious about
the overall health of the
body. So, that’s kind of
where we’re taking this
spa is just to make sure
that anybody—that maybe
their health isn’t quite what
they want it to be, maybe
they’re fighting cancer and
have some chemotherapy
going on, every product
that we use in and for
our treatments, without
being certain I guess if
they have an allergy to a
natural product, would not
hinder their health or their
recovery.”
Éminence was founded
in 1958 in Hungary and
is a biodynamic, a self-
— Weekly Hay Report —
Amending the 2017-2018
City Manager Fred
Warner addressed Council
informing them that Com-
munity Development Man-
ager Robin Nudd, applied
for and received a grant
from The National Trust
for Historic Preservation
to be used for a feasibil-
ity study for the Central
Building at Baker Middle
School.
Hunter Noack has been
working with Nudd in an
effort to survey the rapidly
deteriorating building,
formulate a plan and then
purchase and repair the
building thus saving the
historic landmark.
Nudd received the grant
October 5, 2017.
This was an unforeseen
event during the 2017-
2018 budget process and
therefore was not account-
ed for in the final budget.
The grant is $5000 and
does require a grant match,
which Noack will provide.
This resolution is
required to amend the
current 2017 -2018 budget
allowing for the received
funds to be spent.
Upon a motion to ap-
prove the resolution by
Councilor McQuisten and
seconded by Councilor
Joseph the motion passed
by unanimous vote.
SEE CITY COUNCIL
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Steer Calves
300-400# Bulk 181.00-209.00 Top 217.00
400-500# Bulk 159.00-193.00 Top 200.00
500-600# Bulk 145.00-163.00 Top 164.00
Heifer Calves
300-400# Bulk 154.00-181.00 Top 182.00
400-500# Bulk 136.00-161.00 Top 173.00
500-600# Bulk 129.00-147.00 Top 147.75
Yearling Steers
600-700# Bulk 134.00-158.00 Top 163.50
700-800# Bulk 132.00-143.00 Top 145.50
800-900# Bulk 123.00-137.00 Top 139.00
900-1,000# Bulk N/A Top N/A
Yearling Heifers
600-700# Bulk 131.00-144.00 Top 146.75
700-800# Bulk 119.00-128.00 Top 132.00
800-900# Bulk 117.00-126.00 Top 130.00
900-1,000# Bulk N/A Top N/A
Thin Shelly Cows 42.00-59.00
Butcher Cows 63.00- 69.00
Butcher Bulls 65.00-79.00
Stock Cows N/A
Younger Hfrts. 76.00-103.00
Stock Cows - 875.00-1075.00
ProducersLivestock.com
541-473-3136
— Log Price Report —
Prices are based on the majority of saw mills in
Northeastern Oregon and Central Idaho. The prices
listed below are a composite prices of various saw-
mills willing to visit with me about this topic.
Ponderosa Pine—small diameter class 8-11 inches
diameter class $250 per mbf. Only one sawmill was
willing to buy small diameter pine at this time.
Ponderosa Pine—medium diameter class 12-17
inches diameter class $300 to $350 per mbf
Ponderosa Pine-large diameter class 18 plus inches
diameter class $380 to $410 per mbf
The Pine prices are still approximately $40 per mbf
below average lumber/log market due to 2017 fire
salvage
Doug Fir & Western Larch—$380 to $420 per
mbf. Normal prices typically ranged between $425
to $475 per mbf.
White Fir-$300 per mbf. Normal prices typically
ranged between $340 to $360 per mbf.
Engelmann Spruce—$350 at one Idaho sawmill,
other sawmills including with White fir prices.
In general, the log prices still impacted from 2015
fire season and fire salvage that resulted. Sawmills
are starting to get log yard inventory in line with
sawmill production needs. With a new Administra-
tion as of 1/20/2017, a more normal economic envi-
ronment should result and hopefully a more healthy
housing situation will result in a better climate for
Northeast Oregon Sawmill and private forest land-
owners.
Courtesy of Arvid Andersen,
Andersen Forestry Consulting
— Precious Metals Report —
Price per ounce, USD
Gold: $1,292.30
Silver: $17.16
Platinum: $932.45
Palladium: $937.25
Bloomberg.com
— Ag Commodities —
Corn: $349.25/bu/USD
Wheat: $435.25/bu/USD
Soybeans: $966.00/bu/USD
Oats: $249.50 bu/USD
Rough Rice: $12.02/cwt/USD
Canola: $495.20 CAD/mwt
Live Cattle: $118.80//lb./USD
Feeder Cattle: $156.15/lb./USD
Lean Hogs: $61.55/lb./USD
Bloomberg.com