FRIDAY DISTRICT ATTORNEY HONORED, COMMUNITY NEWS, PAGE 3A In OUTDOORS Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com August 23, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Mike Trindle of Baker City. Local • Health & Fitness • Outdoors • TV $1.50 Annual Memory Cruise and Steak Feed Saturday Cruisin’ Baker City Sports, 6A LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — New England Patriots safety Patrick Chung has been indicted in New Hampshire on a charge of cocaine possession, according to court paper- work released Thursday. A Belknap County grand jury indicted the 32-year- old Chung on Aug. 8. EO Media Group Special event scheduled Saturday WEATHER Today 89 / 49 Partly cloudy Saturday 88 / 43 Mostly sunny and pleasant Sunday 81 / 41 Sunny and pleasant Full forecast on the back of the B section. The space below will be blank on issues delivered or sold from boxes. The space is for a postage label for issues that are mailed. Gun violence solutions offered By Phil Wright BRIEFING The monthly Founda- tion of Hope night is scheduled Saturday at the Ruda Ranch just west of Baker City. The event, which in- cludes a barbecue potluck, begins at 5 p.m. Those at- tending are asked to bring a side dish or dessert. Music and a special message will be presented by Dick and Jill Schoen- berg of Tri-Cities, Wash- ington. Follower of the Fir S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Bob and Cheri Ward of Baker City look for any opportunity to start up and drive away in their classic cars. engine compartment on the sold their home in California while he worked. pickup. and were moved to Baker Cherie worked as a man- The annual Memory Cruise The Ward’s have been in within a month. ager in a veterinarian offi ce. is gearing up for its 29th year the Memory Cruise for 13 “It’s been a dream come When they moved to Baker Saturday. years. true for us,” said Cherie. City in 2005 she worked brief- Between 140-180 cars will “Almost always you see Bob and Cherie met in ly at a vet’s offi ce and then be shown at this year’s event cars that you haven’t seen 1971 on a blind date, were worked in medical records at at Geiser-Pollman Park. before,” Bob said. married in 1973, and were the hospital. Wayne Ryder, one of the “It’s been fun. It’s been a part of Pickups Limited of She then transferred to La organizers of the event, said lifelong journey since 1976 to Southern California, a large Grande where she worked registration begins at 8 a.m. present,” Cherie said. club for car enthusiasts. as a medical records analyst with a raffl e during the day They moved to Baker 14 Cherie said the club used to for a little over nine months, and live music. years ago from Winnetka, in have 12 chapters. The Wards commuting between Baker They have 40 awards that California’s San Fernando were in the Burbank Chapter. and La Grande through Com- will be given out at 4 p.m. Valley. They joined the club after munity Connection. The Durkee Steak Feed at They had driven through Bob bought his truck and Bob worked in a carpentry the Quail Ridge Golf Course Baker on vacation not long were club members for 24 business, Blue Mountain will go from 5 p.m. to 8:30 after they were married. years. Workshops, and then at the p.m. and the Downtown “And we thought, ‘what a While in California, Bob 5J School District as an IT Cruise will begin at 8:30. cute little place,’ ” Cherie said. worked in the aerospace in- (information technology) Among the cars to be “And wouldn’t it be a great dustry and then with Disney. technician. shown will be Bob and Cherie place to retire.” Cherie said Bob worked The couple retired last year. Ward’s 1956 Ford pickup Cherie explained that they on the truck as a side project truck that Bob has rebuilt three times. Bob, 66, had always wanted a ’56 pickup since he had seen one driving by his high school. Cherie , 67, explained he fi nally got his pickup after they were married. “He brought it home and it was on a fl at bed trailer and in boxes and he’s rebuilt it three times,” said Cherie. “The last time was in 1988.” In previous years, they had also showed Cherie’s 1967 Ford Mustang, but this year they decided to only show the pickup. In getting ready for the Memory Cruise, they clean and wax the exterior, pol- S. John Collins / Baker City Herald ish the wheels, do detailing and other steps to have their Three vertical tail lights haven't changed since the original Mustangs hit the streets. truck ready for the show. Cherie also cleaned the By Samantha O’Conner soconner@bakercityherald.com TODAY Issue 45, 14 pages and identity theft. Police found scales and packaging materials as well as multiple drivers licenses and Social Security cards, Duman said. The evidence will be submitted to the Baker County District Attor- ney’s Offi ce for possible indictment, Duman said. He declined to identify residents at that address pending further investigation. Detectives executed the second search warrant at 1905 15th St. Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 4B-7B Comics ....................... 3B Community News ....3A Crossword ........6B & 7B Dear Abby ................. 8B See Guns/Page 2A Commission approves 2 purchases By Brandon Taylor btaylor@bakercityherald.com Monday where they also seized evi- dence of methamphetamine distribu- tion. Officers arrested Brandon Robert Radle, 31, on a charge of unlawful possession of meth; and Chuck Wayne Briney, 26, on an outstanding Baker County war- rant charging him with violating his release agreement. The Baker County com- missioners approved two new Road Department purchases during their regularly scheduled open meeting Wednesday. The commission ap- proved the Road De- partment’s purchase of a 50-ton lowboy trailer from Load King Cus- tom Truck Source at $87,138 — the lowest of the three bids. The new lowboy will update the Road Department’s fl eet. The only other lowboy the department has is a 40-ton lowboy trailer that had to be rebuilt twice, according to Road Master Nolan Perkins. The Road Department will keep the old lowboy for lighter loads and emergencies. The County Commis- sion also approved the Road Department’s pur- chase of a 1991 Autocar snow plow for $8,500 from The General Ser- vices Awdministration. The new snow plow will update the Road Depart- ment’s fl eet back to its 2016 fl eet size of three snowplows. See Guns/Page 2A See County/Page 5A Reorganized task force makes arrests Members of a newly reorganized Baker County Drug Task Force ar- rested two men and seized evidence of methamphetamine distribution after executing search warrants at two west Baker City homes Monday. No arrests were made at the fi rst home at 3220 14th St., Baker City Police Chief Ray Duman stated in a press release issued Thursday. Detectives seized evidence related to distribution of methamphetamine PENDLETON — Bare- ly a day after back-to-back mass shootings rocked the nation, police in Hermis- ton on Aug. 5 were track- ing down who shot and injured two teen boys. Pendleton police three days later were chas- ing their own shooting suspect, who ended the pursuit when he shot himself in the head. The East Oregonian and its sister publica- tions in Eastern Oregon reached out to police chiefs, sheriffs, lawmak- ers, mental health care providers, school offi cials and others to ask them to give their ideas for curbing gun violence. We asked them to provide no more than a few hundred words and to stay away from culture issues of violence or legal issues of gun rights. Not everyone we asked participated. In some cases we accommodated sources who preferred short interviews. We pri- marily edited responses for length and clarity. What follows are their ideas. Horoscope........6B & 7B Jayson Jacoby ..........4A Lottery.........................2A News of Record ........2A Opinion ......................4A Outdoors ............1B& 2B MONDAY — MEMORY CRUISE WEEKEND FOLLOWUP Senior Menus.............2A Sports ........................6A Weather ..................... 8B