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Baker High School expects more than 30 foreign students
By SAMANTHA
O’CONNER
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — A vari-
ety of accents will be heard
during conversations in
the hallways at Baker High
School starting this fall.
The Baker School District
has enrolled 43 foreign
students through its Oregon
International School charter
school program.
Ten of those students,
from the Isle of Jersey in the
English Channel between
England and France, will
spend about a month in Baker
City this fall.
A group of Baker High
School students, and one staff
member, will travel to Jersey
to study there for a month.
The remaining 33 foreign
students are enrolled at BHS
for the entire school year, said
Lindsey McDowell, public
information and communi-
cations coordinator for the
school district.
Students are from the
following countries:
• Ukraine, nine.
• Cambodia, seven.
• Thailand, six.
• Italy, six.
• Spain, four.
• Taiwan, one.
Mark Witty, for mer
school district superintendent
who now works as execu-
tive director for the Interna-
tional School, a one-third
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald, File
The Baker School District in March 2022 bought this historic home at 1706 Washington Ave.,
Baker City, as housing for visiting students attending Baker High School through the Oregon
International School program.
time position and one of four
OIS staff, said the Ukraine
students, whose country has
been roiled by the invasion of
the Russian army, are getting
their F-1 visas approved in
Poland.
The contingent includes
six girls and three boys, he
said.
Seven female students
will be living in one of the
homes the school district
bought earlier this year to
house OIS students.
Five male students will
live in the other house,
McDowell said.
The remaining students
will live with individual host
families.
The district is still look-
ing for host families for three
girls and one boy from the
Isle of Jersey during their
one-month visit, McDowell
said.
International School
history
The Baker School District
started the OIS program
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about four years ago, but the
pandemic interrupted progress.
The district also had to
wait for approval of its appli-
cation for a student visa
program under which Oregon
will pay the district the stan-
dard per-student rate for each
visiting student.
That revenue is part of
the district’s projection that
the OIS will bring in more in
revenue for the district than
it will spend. A financial
projection the school board
reviewed this spring esti-
mated a surplus of $28,000
from the first year, with
surpluses rising to $134,000
the second year and to
$248,000 the third year.
Those projections include
the district’s payments on
the two homes the district
bought, one for $295,000 and
one for $490,000. The district
estimates it will spend about
$85,000 more for renovations
of the two homes.
In addition to bringing
international students to
Baker City, a goal of the OIS
is to make it easier for local
students to study abroad.
“We just need to build
those pathways for those
opportunities and that’s
what we’re doing right now,”
Witty said. “The next three
months will be building more
of those.”
Among the countries local
officials have had discussions
with are Germany, Ecuador,
Wales and Japan.
“The benefit of what
we’re doing now is using
that momentum and, let’s
be honest, any revenue that
comes in above the tuition
that we invest back into
this program is really dedi-
cated then in sending our
kids abroad and all of these
unique opportunities,” said
Thomas Joseph, OIS princi-
pal and instructor and its only
full-time employee.
Joseph said he is looking
at potential exchange agree-
Remembering one of La Grande’s finest
Trice was hard to tackle
because he was quick and
elusive and strong.
“He was tough as nails. He
could take a hit like nobody
else,” Davis said.
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dor.
“It’s a phenomenal fit.
Most schools are in the
capital of Ecuador and both
schools want to take students
from the United States,” he
said.
Joseph said he has wanted
to engage South America,
and one of his visions is to
bring students together in a
college-level course, writing
121, to discuss world issues
in a research-based course.
He said issues such as
agriculture are of common
interest in Eastern Oregon,
South America and Mexico.
“Just bring kids together
around targeted issues that
affect us regionally and
just have kids meet kids,
the entrepreneurial aspects
of that probably speak for
themselves. This is exciting,”
Joseph said.
Witty said they OIS staff
have had conversations with
officials from a high school in
Japan. He said an agreement
with that school would be a
boon for the program.
“We’re stoked about
having that potential because
in Oregon, that is tied to the
third language taught in
Oregon, especially around
the Portland Metro suburbs,”
Witty said.
He noted OIS will be
working with students across
the state, not only in the
Baker School District.
LA GRANDE — The
legacy of Doug Trice, a man
who tirelessly lifted Special
Olympians to new heights,
was solidified during the
weekend.
Trice died May 6, 2020,
at the age of 68. A cele-
bration of life saluting the
revered community volun-
teer included a ribbon cutting
ceremony Saturday, July 30,
for a field named in Trice’s
honor.
The La Grande City Coun-
cil renamed the field for Trice
on Sept. 7, 2020, but the
pandemic delayed the cere-
monies until the weekend.
Trice’s sister, Gwen, said
the service helped her bring
a sense of closure she had not
experienced until now.
“It was hard to put a lid on
the grief, spirit and emotions,”
she said.
Gwen Trice said her
brother was a man of remark-
able humility.
“He never sought the spot-
light. He always focused
the shine of the spotlight on
others,” she said.
Frank Thomas, of Cove,
who grew up with Trice,
described him as his best
friend, a man who had
remarkable concern for
everyone and an uncommon
temperament.
“In 68 years, I never saw
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A photo of a young Doug
Trice was on display at his
celebration of life service
Saturday, July 30, 2022, at
Pioneer Park, La Grande.
him get mad, even once,” he
said.
Gwen Trice credited her
brother with treating every-
one like a family member.
“Doug belonged to all of
us,” she said.
Trice was a star running
back at La Grande High
School in the late 1960s before
leaving for Monmouth where
he attended Western Oregon
University, then named
Oregon College of Educa-
tion. Trice enjoyed a sterling
football career at Western and
was later named to its athletic
hall of fame. His teammates at
Western included Kurt Davis,
who now lives in Central
Oregon.
“Doug was an amazing
football player and an even
better person,” Davis said at
the celebration of life service.
After graduating from
Western, Trice returned to La
Grande and took a job with
Union Pacific Railroad where
he worked before retiring.
Trice, who studied education at
Western, put his college educa-
tion to work while serving as
a Special Olympics coach
in Union County. He was
so successful he was named
assistant coach for Team USA
at the World Games in Shang-
hai, China, in 2007. That same
year, he received a Governor’s
Gold Award from then Gov.
Ted Kulongoski for his work in
Special Olympics. Four years
later, Trice was selected as a
Special Olympics coach for
Team USA in Athens, Greece.
Davis said to watch Trice
work with athletes was to see
a master at work.
“It was just a gift,” he said.
Davis said Trice was able
to connect with people of all
types.
“He made people feel
special,” he said.
Scott Hansell, a classmate
of Trice’s at LHS, said he had
a good naturedness about him
that few others share.
“He deserved an angel and
now is an angel,” he said.
IN BRIEF
La Grande woman dies in
crash with wrong-way driver
PENDLETON — A La Grande woman died
Friday, July 29, in Umatilla County in a head-on
crash on Interstate 84 with a wrong-way driver.
Kari Lindeman, 44, was killed when the
Ford Fiesta she was driving collided with a
Dodge 3500 pickup driven by Gabriel Velas-
quez, 55, of Kennewick, who was traveling
in the wrong direction in the eastbound lane
near milepost 216, 5 miles east of Pendleton,
according to preliminary data from Oregon
State Police.
Lindeman died at the scene, OSP reported.
Velasquez suffered serious injuries. An emer-
gency helicopter flew him to Providence St.
Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla.
The westbound lanes were closed for six
hours during the investigation. OSP was
assisted by the Umatilla Tribal Fire Depart-
ment, Umatilla Tribal Police Department and
Oregon Department of Transportation.
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