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Baker City Memory Cruise
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To A Subscriber
A special good day to
Herald subscriber Scott
Sherman of Baker City.
Local, 2A
Oregon’s newly formed
Governor’s Task Force on
the Outdoors will meet for
its third session of the year
Tuesday in Baker City.
The public meeting will
be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
the Sunridge Inn and Con-
ference Center, 1 Sunridge
Lane.
A Classic Lives On
BRIEFING
Garden Club to
meet Sept. 4
The Baker County Gar-
den Club’s next meeting is
set for Wednesday, Sept. 4.
It will begin at 10:30 a.m.
at Oregon Trail Landscape
& Nursery, 600 Elm St.
Members are asked to
bring a sack lunch and a
chair. New members are
welcome.
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Mostly sunny
Tuesday
88 / 45
Mostly sunny
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Fire
growth
slows
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Oregon, 5A
PENDLETON — The
massive Boardman to
Hemingway Transmission
Line has cost around $100
million without the instal-
lation of a single utility
pole.
The 300-plus-mile,
500-kilovolt line could be
ready to carry juice as
early as 2026 at a cost of
$1 billion or more. Idaho
Power, Pacifi cCorp and
Bonneville Power Admin-
istration teamed up on the
project, and Idaho Power
is spearheading the local,
state and federal permit-
ting work.
Summer
veggies
+ pasta
Brandon Taylor / Baker City Herald
Ron Robbel’s 1936 DeSoto Airfl ow won Best in Show in the Memory Cruise car judging at Geiser-Pollman
Park on Saturday afternoon.
The Granite Gulch fi re
was relatively tranquil over
the weekend, but with hot,
dry and potentially windy
weather predicted over the
next several days, the blaze
in the Eagle Cap Wilder-
ness could begin to spread
again as it did at times last
week.
The fi re, started by light-
ning July 14 in Granite
Gulch north of the Minam
River, moved “very slowly”
Saturday and Sunday, said
Larisa Bogardus, public af-
fairs offi cer for the Granite
Gulch fi re.
“It was mainly smolder-
ing, burning the surface
debris, which is ideal,” Bog-
ardus said this morning.
Fire offi cials anticipated
the fi re, fanned by strong
winds, could produce a
column of smoke during
the weekend.
By Brandon Taylor
btaylor@bakercityherald.com
See Fire/Page 3A
Hot rods and classic cars fi lled
Geiser-Pollman Park Saturday for
the 29th-annual Memory Cruise.
Ron Robbel, 78, from Bend, won
Best in Show for his aubergine-
hued 1936 DeSoto Airfl ow. It was
his fi rst time in Baker City and his
fi rst time building a street rod. He
originally bought the car in 2002
as a parts car — to be stripped
and used to rebuild a different
DeSoto. When that car was built,
he had the leftover skeleton and
he decided to build another car
around that.
Ghostly fl ames wrap around the
front end of the vehicle. A chrome
angel ornament was mounted on
the hood. Copper rings encircled
the headlights and copper hubcaps
decorate the tires.
Robbel said he doesn’t know
how much money he has put into
the car — he hasn’t added up all
the receipts.
“It wouldn’t make a difference,”
he said, but he estimates he has
spent about $100,000 over the past
11 years building the prize-win-
ning DeSoto.
See Classic/Page 3A
Bicyclist
nabbed
trying to
steal a
chain saw
Brandon Taylor / Baker City Herald
Best in Show winner Ron Robbel, 78, from Bend, left, talks about his
prize-winning 1936 DeSoto with Baker City resident Ray Koontz, 56, dur-
ing Saturday’s Memory Cruise at Geiser-Pollman Park.
Store employees and a
bystander thwarted the
efforts of a La Grande man
Thursday as he tried to get
away on his bicycle with a
chain saw he is accused of
taking from Cliff’s Saws
and Cycles.
Baker City Police
arrested Chad La Vern
Profi tt, 46, on charges of
second-degree burglary and
fi rst-degree theft, Chief Ray
Duman stated in a press
release.
See Theft/Page 3A
Project at Campbell Street Interchange Planned For Late Summer 2020
ODOT to build sidewalks under Interstate 84
The Oregon Department of Transportation plans
to build sidewalks and wheelchair-accessible ramps
beneath the Interstate 84 overpass at the Campbell
Street interchange during the late summer of 2020.
The $538,000 project, using federal money, will
connect to the existing sidewalks near the Baker
Truck Corral on the south side of Campbell Street,
and near the Sunridge Inn on the north side of the
street.
ODOT also plans to restripe Campbell Street in
that area to a three-lane confi guration, with one trav-
el lane in each direction and a center turn lane, said
Michelle Owen, Baker City public works director.
The Baker City Council during its meeting Tues-
day evening will consider approving an agreement
with the state for the project. The meeting starts at 7
p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First St.
Although ODOT would build the sidewalks and
ramps, the city would be responsibile for maintain-
ance.
See Council/Page 2A
TODAY
Issue 46, 14 pages
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Jayson Jacoby / Baker City Herald
The Oregon Department of Transportation plans to build sidewalks under Interstate 84 at
the Campbell Street interchange late next summer. ODOT will also restripe the area to a
three-lane confi guration to match the rest of Campbell Street to the west.
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