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i Record-Courier
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13,2015
Three Sumpter City
Councilors Face Recall
News of Record
Marriages
July 25- Joshua Lee Srack to Lillian Michelle Hull,
both of Baker City.
Aug, 4- Ricky Dèe Leggett to Machelle Kathleen
Bemardy, both of Baker City.
Arrests
Aug. 5- Austin Tylor Schneider arrested for
Disorderly Conduct H.
Aug. 5- Joshua Gerald Vanderpool arrested for
Assault IV.
Aug. 6- Bobby Alan Sickler arrested for Contempt
of Court.
Aug. 6- Jacob Kyle Grammon arrested for Trespass
I, Contempt of Court, and Probation Violation.
Aug. 7- Michael Joseph Johnson arrested for
Violation of Restraining Order and Possession of
Methamphetamine.
Aug. 7- Joseph Daniel Ring arrested for Contempt
of Court.
Aug. 7- James Donald Doyle arrested for DUDE.
Aug. 7- Samuel Allen Makinson arrested for DUH.
Aug. 7- Joseph Matousch arrested for Assault TV
Domestic.
Aug. 8- Daniel James Rofoenberger arrested for
Probation Violation, Parole Violation and Failure to
Register as a Sex Offender.
Aug; 9- Jamie Joseph Weiss arrested for Theft HI.
Aug. 9- Zachary William Steele arrested for
Possession of Methamphetamine.
Baker County Circuit Court
July 31- State of Ore. v. Taylor Ryan Coe regarding
Criminal Tresspass I, misdemeanor.
Aug. 3- Tia M. Page v. Justin R. Page regarding
Domestic Relations Dissolution.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. V; Tyson Blaine Streeter re
garding Felon in Possession of a Firearm, felony.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Tonia Lee Sullivan regarding
Burglary H, felony.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Jacob Daniel Walker
regarding Failure to Report as Sex Offender,
misdemeanor.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Joseph William Dial
regarding Possession of Methamphetamine, felony.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Amcsha Marie Dodge
regarding Unlawful Delivery of
Methamphetamine, felony.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Aimie Katherine Grove
regarding Disorderly Conduct H, misdemeanor.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Travis Scott Jones regarding
Failure to Report as a Sex Offender, misdemeanor.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Kyle Craig Koontz
regarding Criminal Mischief HE, misdemeanor.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Nathan Lee Paulsen
regarding Possession of Methamphetamine) felony.
Aug. 4- State of Ore. v. Austin Edward Scott
regarding Assault II, felony
Aug. 5- State of Ore. v. Robert Bixler regarding
Sexual Abuse HI, misdemeanor.
Aug. 5- State of'Ore. v. Echo Moran regarding
DUH, misdemeanor.
Aug. 5- State of Ore. v. Hunter Guy Blazier
■ regarding Minor in Possession/Purchàse of
Alcohol,misdemeanor. !
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On Monday, Aug. 10 the Baker County Clerk's
office certified signatures to recall three Sumpter
councilors including Ada Oakley, Toni Thompson
and G. Leanne Woolf. All three had five days to
respond with a Statement of Justification or
resign their position according to County Clerk,
Cindy Carpenter. Thompson has stated she will
submit her letter, of resignation at this week's City
Council meeting. Woolf and Oakley responded
with their Statement of Justification as of late
Tuesday. This recall election will be held on Sept.
15,2015 and the ballots will be mailed Aug. 26.
Lime Hill Fire Contained
The Lime. Hill Fire which burned more than
12,000 acres west of Huntington was contained
on Sunday according to Larry Moore, spokesper
son for BLM. The cause of the fire is still under
investigation. It is expected the fire will be
considered controlled very soon..
Submitted photo
Hand Crew from New Mexico moves to mop-up
Lime Hill Fire
Sinkhole to Receive
Final Repairs
The sinkhole on Anthony Lakes Highway (For
est Service Road 73) near the crossing of Antone
Creek will receive final repairs on Monday, Aug.
17 through Thursday Aug. 20. Forest Service
Road 73 will be closed to through traffic at the
construction site during repairs beginning Aug. 17-
20. The sinkhole is located on a narrow section of
road and the undercutting from Antone Creek will
prevent crews from piloting traffic around the con-,
struction site.
The Wallowa-Whitman Nationaj Forest will up
date the website www.fs.usda.gov/wallowa-whit-
man and facebook page www.facebook.
com/WallowaWhitmanNF beginning Monday Au
gust 17 with information about the construction
and lane closures.
' During construction, Anthony Lakes and the
surrounding areas will remain accessible from
Sumpter on Forest Road 73, from Ukiah on Forest
Road 52 and from La Grande on Forest Road. 51.
The estimated completion date is Thursday morn
ing, Aug. 20.
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An alternate route around the construction area
is available on Forest Service Road 7312 from
Pilcher Creek Reservoir. This is a two fane gravel
road recommended for high clearance vehicles.
Fred Kelly Grant Group
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Coordination 101
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DATES:
August 20,2015 through August 22,2M5
TIME:
August 20, 2015
Registration 7:30 am
Presentation 8:30 am
LOCATION: Baker County Event Center
2600 East Street, Baker City, Oregon
(Located just off Campbell and East)
Includes:
• Lunch for 3 days
• Workbook & Brochure ■
• Intensive Training
• Interactive Problem
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Solving
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Fred Kelly Grant has listed "success after success” over the years in which die coordination
process was used by toed agencies acfcisS the West toJblock grating restrictions oh federal land,
reverse forest closures or to get federal agencies to back off ftomprntected-species .restrictions.
This is one of die gteatest opportunities eastern Oregon has. The ability to leam fiom a man who
Contact Person:
Lome Harvey
has been doing to for 25 years along with others he has trained and who have become successful.
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Phone:
541-519-5470
E-mail:
lorrierharvey@gnail.com
Address:
3370 Will Street, Suite C
Baker Qty, OR 97814
in using coordination in thor own counties for. over 20 yeas.
We are bringing this to Baker City to help Eastern Oregon Businesses, Orgamzatkwand Counties-'
learn what makes the ihandatory Coordination process wife Federal and State Agencies a necessary
tad for sixcessfiil working relationships.
TRAINERS
Make checks out to
“Keep the Fight”
This event is
privately sponsored
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Sylvia Milligan -Siskiyou Comity, California, Chair Recreation Outdoors Coalition •
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Sean Curtis ~ Modoc County, California, Natural Resource Advisor & Analyst
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Dick Wright - Shasta County
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Sally Rapoza - Northern California/Oregon "State ofJefferson
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Terri Hall ~ Invited Texas instrumental in stopping Trans Texas corridor)
Community
Helps Supervise
To the Editor:
In a recent letter to the editor,
Jerry Boyd sounds like he knows
all about the predatory sex of
fender, whose recent move back to
Baker City was publicly an
nounced. Boyd's letter was in re
action to the offender's statement in
the newspaper lamenting that his
family has suffered through the no
toriety caused by foe public an
nouncement. Boyd pointed out that
foe statement contained no mea
culpa or remorse for his past of
fenses.
I have no specific knowledge of
foe offender in question other than
what was contained in foe public
announcement, and probably Boyd
doesn't either. But from my expe
rience supervising from 15 to 20
sex offenders at a time over my
eight-year tenure as Director of foe
Baker County Parole and Proba
tion Department, I’can provide
some general information.
Most important statistic: during
those eight years not one of the
many sex offenders, supervised in
Baker County committed another
offense against a child.
While on parole/probation, every
sex offender, among other condi
tions, was obliged by foe parole
board/court to have no contact with
minors and to attend sex offender
treatment. As part of that treatment
the offender was required to take
disclosure polygraph exams to
come up with a definitive fist pf all
victims. And then had to write
apology letters to all victims mak
ing clear that foe offender was frilly
responsible for foe offense against
foe child.
It takes a community to help pa
role/probation officers supervise
sex offenders. NIMBY—not in my
backyard—as desired by Boyd, is
counterproductive. Local example:
A sex offender bom and raised in
Baker got out of prison and found
an apartment in North Baker. Once
aware of his presence, some neigh
bors pressured foe landlord to kick
him out—"not in our backyard."
The only other place he found to
rent was near North Baker School
in a much Jess desirable neighbor
hood, due to proximity to an ele
mentary school and to lack of
observant relatives and neighbors.
Gary Dielman
Baker City
First Friday Moved to Aug. 14
'First Friday' with Commissioner Harvey has been moved
to Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 from 9-10 a.m. in the Commission.
Chambers of the Baker County Courthouse located at 1995
Third Street, Baker City. This time will be used to allow the
citizens to visit with the Commissioner about issues impacting
Baker County.
Keating, Medical Springs and
Baker County Experience Power
Outages
Monday, Aug. 10, beginning at 3 p.m., multiple power outages
were reported in Keating, Medical Springs and Baker County due
to high winds moving through the area.
285 members in the Keating/Medical Springs area and 110
members north of Baker.City lost power. OTEC crews were on
site and restored power to 50 members by 3:30 p.m., 285
members by 4:35 p.m., with all power restored by 5:30 p.m.
Anthony Lakes and areas west of North Powder lost power at
3:45 p.m. OTEC crews restored power to 8Ò members at 4:53
p.m..with all power restored at 7:45 p.m.
Please report your outages to our outage number: 1-866-430-
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Time for the
Senate to Act
on Wildfire
Prevention Bill
Around Oregon and throughout the West, another fire season
is well underway. Overstocked, diseased, and bug-infested
forests are at risk of the massive and catastrophic wildfire that
clog our air with smoke and threaten our streams. All this while
our mills are starving tor a reliable supply of timber and people
need jobs. It’s clear the status quo isn’t working for our forests,
our communities, or our environment. We can do better.
The U.S. House has passed a bipartisan bill—the Resilient
Federal Forests Act— that would help reduce the threat of
catastrophic wildfires and bring active management back to our
federal forests. Through active management, we can clean up
our forests, prevent these unnaturally large fires, protect our air,
and put people back to work in our forested communities.
Our bill puts into place much needed reforms to federal forest
policy; For example, the bill repeals the arbitrary and outdated
prohibition on harvesting trees over 21 inches in diameter on
nationafforests in eastern Oregon. “Temporarily” put in place in
1997, this rule still hasn’t been removed 20 years later! This
flawed, one-size-fits-all rule illustrates just how broken federal
forest management has ..become. The restriction greatly limits
forest managers’ ability to address site specific needs of the
forest on the ground and has only served to further tie up
projects in endless appeals and litigation.
Our plan also gives the Forest Service greater flexibility to
move quickly on projects to reduce the threat of fire around our
rural communities, streamlining projects developed through local
counties’ community wildfire protection plans.
Right now, after a fire, the Forest Service is able to reforest
less than three percent of areas burned. This plan would accel
erate the removal of timber after a fire (to help pay for replant
ing), and requires a large percent of the area impacted be
reforested within five years. Just like we do after other natural
disasters, we ought to clean up and rebuild after wildfires. As we
saw earlier this summer on the Buckskin Fire in southern
Oregon, failing to dean up only leads to future fires in old burn
scars full of fallen trees and snag that prove difficult and too
dangerous for firefighters.
This bill also cuts costs and streamlines rules for timber
production on legislation pertaining to Oregon’s unique O&C
Lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently
unveiled new management plans for these lands that would fall
short of the needs of local communities for a reliable supply of
timber to fund essential local services like schools, roads, and
law enforcement. The bill tells the BLM to go back to thè drawing
board, and propose new plans to actually provide sustainable
timber production for Oregon’s rural communities as required by
law.
Finally, the endless cycle of “fire borrowing”—forcing the
federal government to use wildfire prevention funds to pay for
fighting fire-^is ended under this bill. It fixes how we pay to fight
fire by allowing the Forest Service to apply for FEMA disaster
funds to pay for firefighting. This treats wildfire as the natural
disasters they are, similar to hurricanes dr tornados.
The Resilient Federal Forests Act will improve the health of our
forests and .our rural economies. During the last session of
Congress, the House twice passed bipartisan legislation 1
worked on to reform federal forest policy. The Senate failed to
take up forestry legislation. However, with new leadership in that
body I’m hopeful that the Senate will take meaningful action on
forestry legislation. We cannot let this opportunity pass us by
again. Our forested communities have already waited too long.
Now is the time to act.