2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
TUESDAY, AUG. 27
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., City Hall, 1655 First St.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28
■ Baker City Farmers Market: 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.,
Downtown at the Court Avenue Plaza.
FRIDAY, AUG. 30
■ Live Music by Keith Taylor: Ragtime piano, 4:30 p.m. to
5:30 p.m., Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn
Ave.; no charge; continues most Fridays.
MONDAY, SEPT. 2
■ Labor Day
TUESDAY, SEPT. 3
■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m., at the
Haines Library.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m.,
Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
■ First Friday Art Shows: Baker City art galleries are open
late to showcase the month’s new artwork; opening times
vary between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. at Crossroads Carnegie
Art Center, Peterson’s Gallery and others.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
August 26, 1969
The Rough Ridge Fire is contained, but not controlled, the
Forest Service said this morning.
The Forest Service has moved its fi re crew camps from
Unity closer to the fi re. It has reestablished its Whiskey
Creek camp it was chased out of Sunday and has another
base camp set up at the Ironside Corral.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 25, 1994
Students in the Pine-Eagle School District will ease into
the new school year when classes begin Friday.
The district is implementing a 4 1/2-day week in 1994-95
and will kick off the new year with a half day. The remain-
der of the day will be used as in-service training for staff,
according to Superintendent Steve Peterson..
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 26, 2009
A proposed Baker County ordiannce that would impose
restrictions on outdoor lighting in rural areas drew criti-
cism from ranchers attending the Baker County Livestock
Association’s August meeting last week.
Deryl Leggett, who works at the Old West Federal Credit
Union in Baker City, alerted members of the Livestock As-
sociation to what he called a “rural lights out ordinance”
currently before the Baker County Planning Commission.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
August 27, 2019
A $2.6 million, grant-funded project to help Brooklyn
Primary and Baker High School better withstand earth-
quakes is almost fi nished.
Although the work was mainly structural and not read-
ily visible, crews from Griffi n Construction also installed
new windows at Brooklyn’s cafeteria.
The spaces were previously fi lled with glass blocks
painted to match the building.
Workers also replaced 49 skylights in Brooklyn’s class-
rooms and hallways.
Most of the money from the state grant was used to
install new, stronger roofs at both Brooklyn and BHS.
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Governor’s Task Force on the
Outdoors meets Tuesday in Baker
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 Confer-
ence Center, 1 Sunridge
Lane.
On the agenda:
• Reviewing participation
strategies
• Recommendations re-
COUNCIL
southwest corner of the city
above Reservoir Road. The city
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uses that well for aquifer stor-
Also on the City Council’s
age and recovery, a process by
agenda Tuesday:
which water from the water-
shed is pumped into the well
Engineering services for
during the winter and spring
new drinking water well
to replenish the aquifer.
City offi cials recommend
The new well at the golf
councilors approve a task
course, which will be an
order for $252,022 for the fi nal estimated 700 feet deep, could
design of the well by Mur-
be used for the same purpose,
raysmith Inc., a fi rm that has according to a report from
multiple offi ces in the West,
Murraysmith.
including Portland and Boise.
Drug dog vehicle
The task order includes
work during the current fi scal
The Police Department
year and the next fi scal year, is proposing to lease a 2020
which starts July 1, 2020.
Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, with
The city’s 2016 Water Facili- a package of equipment
ties Master Plan includes a
designed to accommodate the
recommendation that the city city’s drug-detecting dog.
drill a new well to help meet
The three-year lease is
peak demand and to give the $20,969 per year, and the city
city a backup source in case its could buy the vehicle after
main water supply — streams three years for $1. The sup-
and springs in the 10,000-acre plier is Emergency Responder
watershed in the Elkhorn
Services Inc. of Nampa, Idaho.
Mountains — is affected by a
The vehicle would replace
the Police Department’s
fi re or other event.
current canine SUV, a 2009
The well will be drilled at
Chevrolet Tahoe that has
the city-owned Quail Ridge
Golf Course south of Indiana about 104,000 miles.
The city has spent $8,000 to
Avenue.
The city has a current well $9,000 to maintain and repair
near its water reservoir at the that vehicle over the past two
John Kirby Jr.
Former Baker City resident, 1944-2019
John B. Kirby Jr., 75, a
former Baker City resident,
died Aug. 21, 2019, at San
Jose, California, surrounded
by his family.
There will be a service
Saturday, Aug. 31 at 10
a.m. at Mount
Hope Cem-
etery. Friends
are invited to
join the family
afterward at 990
John
Hillcrest Circle
Kirby Jr.
for refl ections
and refresh-
ments.
John was born on Feb. 28,
1944, at Baker City to John
B. and Marcella Davis Kirby.
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Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $4.50 donation (60 and older), $6.75 for
those under 60.
He attended St. Francis
Academy and Baker High
School, graduating from Vale
High School with the class
of 1962. He loved growing
up in Eastern Oregon and
riding horses. In high school,
he rode race horses for a brief
period, until his mother was
summoned to the hospital
after a bad fall.
He once rode a horse from
Medical Springs to visit the
neighbors (Spencer Fam-
ily) in Keating. One of the
Spencer girls later became
his wife. He married Mary
Janine Spencer on June 11,
1966, and they shared 53
years together.
He fi nished his college
education at Eastern Oregon
University in 1966 and later
earned his master’s degree
from Oregon State Univer-
sity.
John was drafted by the
Army in April 1967. He was
sent to Fort Eustis, Virginia,
where he spent the remain-
der of his service commit-
ment. Upon discharge, he
and Jan traveled to Quere-
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Commission.
The task force had its fi rst
meeting in May at Silver
Falls State Park.
The governor tapped the
Offi ce of Outdoor Recreation,
established in 2017 within
the Oregon Parks and Recre-
ation Department, to guide
the task force.
The task force is com-
posed of private and public
sector representatives and
is chaired by Commissioner
Jon Blasher of the Oregon
State Parks and Recreation
Commission.
The task force will deliver
its fi nal report in April 2020
including:
• Recommendations for
legislation
• Investment of existing
public and private resources
• Future funding
• High-level management
strategies.
years, according to a report to
city councilors.
The city has about $70,000
in its narcotic canine fund,
all of which is from donations
and fundraisers, and offi cials
are planning a community
fundraiser for the program in
December.
A fundraiser in 2018
brought in almost $40,000.
In a report to councilors,
City Manager Fred Warner Jr.
wrote: “The Council may want
to work on language that
spells out a process for the
granting of events that may
have noise that is offensive to
some individuals.”
Noise ordinance
Councilors will discuss re-
cent concerns by two residents
regarding noise from concerts
during Miners Jubilee in July
and the Eastern Oregon Trib-
ute Fest earlier this month.
The city’s existing ordinance
reads that “No person shall
make, assist in making or per-
mit any loud, disturbing or un-
necessary noise which either
annoys, disturbs, inures or
endangers the comfort, repose,
health, safety or peace of oth-
ers for a period of fi ve minutes
or more in any fi fteen minute
period except as exempted for
construction activities.”
The ordinance also cites
noise created by a “musical
instrument,” but t allows the
city manager to approve a
“concert or similar event.”
Possible charter changes
Councilors will discuss
asking voters in May 2020
to make changes to the city
charter.
In particular, Warner cites
the charter requirement that
voters approve the sale of
any city-owned items worth
more than $10,000. Warner
notes that vehicles and heavy
equipment often are worth
more than that, and requir-
ing voters to approve the sale
of, for instance, a backhoe, is
cumbersome.
Surplus vehicles
Councilors will consider
a proposal to sell two city
vehicles — a 2002 Ford Crown
Victoria, and a 1997 Ford
F-350 ambulance.
Neither vehicle has an
estimated value of more than
$10,000, so voter approval
would not be required.
O BITUARIES
LUCKY LINES, Aug. 25
S ENIOR M ENUS
garding economic impacts
• A group discussion of
draft recommendations
• Time for public com-
ments.
Gov. Kate Brown estab-
lished the task force earlier
this year, with the directive
to explore long-term strate-
gies for elevating outdoor
recreation in the state.
Task force members were
appointed by the Oregon
State Parks and Recreation
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Englehart; his nephew, Brian
Englehart; and many cousins
and second cousins.
John was preceded in death
by his parents and his sisters,
Marcella and Julia.
In lieu of fl owers, the family
suggests memorial contribu-
tions to the Hand-to-Heart
Scholarship Fund, Crossroads
Carnegie Arts Center, Baker
City OR 97814. The scholar-
ship allows those students who
need help fi nancially to attend
art, dance, or elective classes of
their desire and choosing.
‘Bob’ Stoaks
Former Baker City resident, 1926-2019
Robert E. “Bob” Stoaks, 93,
of Ontario, a former Baker
City resident, died Aug. 17,
2019.
There will be a memorial
potluck at 1 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 31, at the Park Commu-
nity Church, 193 Holly Road,
in Ontario.
Bob was born on May 5,
1926, at Monterey Park,
California, to Robert and
Betsy Stoaks. He was a U.S.
veteran.
He married Diane Witter
and they moved to Baker
City in the 1960s to work on
a ranch at Keating.
They had two children,
Sharon and Robert; seven
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
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taro, Mexico, to teach in a
bilingual high school. Their
fi rst daughter, Shannon
Raquel, was born and they
lived in Mexico for two years.
The family returned to
Oregon and John pursued
his career as an independent
sales representative selling
reference, library books and
Checkpoint Security Systems
for more than 30 years in
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. Their second daughter,
Celeste, was born in Portland
at this time.
During one summer break,
John enrolled in an art class
and his interest in drawing
and painting was rekindled
from childhood. He spent his
retirement years perfecting
his skills in watercolors, char-
coal and oil painting. He won
a number of prizes for his art
and his works have been sold
throughout Oregon, Washing-
ton and Idaho.
In later years he enjoyed
visiting Barnes and Noble and
drinking lattés with his family
and especially his grandchil-
dren. Family and art were the
pillars of his life.
John is survived by his wife,
Jan; his daughters, Raquel and
Celeste; his son-in-law, Marc;
his granddaughter, Bridget;
his grandson, Ben; his sister,
Shannon Sullivan; his nieces,
Marcy Haines and Dawn
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Our special THANK YOU to the Baker City
Herald and to so many of our family and
friends for making us “celebrities” for our
70th wedding anniversary. The pictures and
stories of our 70 years, along with the
attendance at our party, all the cards and
phone calls, certainly made our anniversary
truly special and one to remember.
- Wayne & Dru Carpenter