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2A — BAKER CITY HERALD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 Witty speaking to City Club of Portland B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR FRIDAY, SEPT. 6 ■ 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. ■ 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. MONDAY, SEPT. 9 ■ Medical Springs Rural Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the Pondosa Station. TUESDAY, SEPT. 10 ■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., City Hall, 1655 First St. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11 ■ Baker City Farmers Market: 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Downtown at the Court Avenue Plaza. ■ Lower Powder River Irrigation District Board: 6 p.m. at Barley Brown’s, 2190 Main St. THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 ■ Baker School Board: 6 p.m., Council chambers at City Hall, 1655 First St.; meeting moved from usual third Thursday of the month. T URNING B ACK THE P AGES 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald September 6, 1969 Bulldog injuries, a tough, experienced Nampa line, and a fumble, cost Baker a 20-0 loss from the Nampa Bulldogs Friday night in Idaho. 25 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald September 6, 1994 Baker City residents should boil their drinking water for the next three days to make sure the water, which may not have enough chlorine, is safe. City workers are searching for what caused the equip- ment that adds chlorine to the water to malfunction. 10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald September 7, 2009 Federal workers have killed the pair of gray wolves that killed 29 livestock at two Keating Valley ranches this spring and summer. Employees from Wildlife Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, killed the wolves, a male and a female, Saturday morning on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest north of Keating. ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald September 7, 2018 Oregon’s U.S. senators are asking federal offi cials to re- view the criteria for rating the severity of drought, arguing that the current process misses important measurements. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, co- signed a letter Thursday to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. The offi cial U.S. drought monitor, which federal offi cials use to determine such things as declaring drought disas- ters and making federal aid available to affected farmers and ranchers, is produced weekly at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- tion, part of the Commerce Department, and the Agricul- ture Department contribute to the Drought Monitor, which was established in 1999. In their letter, Merkley and Wyden note that the Drought Monitor factors in rainfall, but the senators wrote that they have had constituents ask whether the offi cials who pro- duce the weekly drought map are also considering such factors as heat waves or scanty winter snowpacks. O REGON L OTTERY MEGABUCKS, Sept. 4 4 — 8 — 30 — 52 — 59 PB 2 PICK 4, Sept. 5 • 1 p.m.: 0 — 0 — 4 — 6 • 4 p.m.: 5 — 9 — 8 — 6 • 7 p.m.: 9 — 0 — 0 — 4 • 10 p.m.: 1 — 3 — 4 — 2 Next jackpot: $40 million LUCKY LINES, Sept. 5 WIN FOR LIFE, Sept. 4 7 — 9 —48 — 57 2-5-10-15-20-21-27-32 6 — 8 — 11 — 21 — 27 — 47 Next jackpot: $4.6 million POWERBALL, Sept. 4 Baker School District Superintendent Mark Witty will speak about rural schools and the Student Success Act as part of a panel appearing before the City Club of Port- land today. The Friday Forum will be broadcast online at youtube. com/user/pdxcityclub and on the website pdxcityclub.org/ live/ Witty will join Miriam Calderon, Oregon’s Early Learning System director, and Parsa Chanramy, policy and implementation director of Stand for Children, a District Children’s Institute. Friday Forum, the club’s signature event, “features a discussion about the most timely and signifi cant public matters,” she stated in the press release. “Mark was asked to sit on the panel because of his deep history as a K-12 leader in rural Oregon and his interest in expanding essential early education programming in Baker City,” Pacifi co-Cogan stated. “He also has the unique set of experiences that allow him to speak eloquently about CHARGES unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and one count of attempting to flee or elude Continued from Page 1A police, both Class C felonies; two counts Hedman, who was arrested near Baker of second-degree criminal mischief, Class City on July 9, was represented by Baker C misdemeanors; and one count each of City attorney Damien Yervasi. Assistant reckless driving, second-degree criminal District Attorney Michael Spaulding repre- trespass and failure to perform the duties sented the state. of a driver involved in an accident, all Class Upon Hedman’s return to Washington A misdemeanors. to face the more serious charges, the Baker A grand jury indicted Hedman on the County charges will be dismissed. charges on July 11. Baxter set bail at In response to a question from Baxter $100,000, requiring the full amount to be during Wednesday’s hearing, Spaulding paid before Hedman could be released, said Bob and Robbie Borders, who live on rather than 10 percent as is allowed in Taggert Lane north of Baker City where some cases. Hedman is accused of stealing two of their The Washington fugitive warrant charg- vehicles, supported the state’s action. es him with fi rst-degree murder in the Hedman has been held at the Baker death of Kyle J. Martz, 35, of Walla Walla, County Jail since July 9 on two counts of Washington, and theft of Martz’s Toyota MINING warrant more mining, the group would fi ll the trench and Continued from Page 1A level the disturbed area. The group wants to conduct “We will not leave this area a “bulk test,” which would with any cost to the county,” involve digging a trench about Tofsrud told commissioners. 900 feet long, 300 feet wide “That has been an under- and 80 to 100 feet deep, accord- standing with Commissioner ing to the proposal submitted (Bill) Harvey since we started to the county. talking about this two years Rainier Skyline Excavators ago.” would be ready to start the test Commissioners will have to in March 2020. The process put out a request for proposals would determine whether in case other companies are it’s fi nancially feasible to do also interested in doing testing larger-scale gold mining in the on county property. tailings. The proposed bulk test has If the bulk test shows gold the potential to determine the concentrations too small to mining prospects for the tail- the potential challenges and opportunities presented by the SSA, the CTE (Career Techni- cal Education) work that has grown with Measure 98, and can highlight the continued unmet need for educational re- sources in Baker City and the surrounding areas,” she said. In addition to bringing the rural perspective to the con- versation about the Student Success Act, Witty said he will talk about the Baker School District’s collaborative efforts to develop an early learning initiative focused on serving children before age 5. pickup truck from Martz’s home at Walla Walla, Washington on July 8. Hedman has been held in lieu of $1 mil- lion fi xed bail on those charges. The Baker County incident began about 10:30 p.m. the night of July 8 when county, city and state police responded to a call from Bob Borders reporting that his 1988 Ford F350 pickup truck was being driven away from his property. While attempting to elude police during the incident, offi cers said Hedman returned to the Borders’ home and took a second vehicle, a 2000 Jeep Wrangler. According to police, Hedman admitted he struck Martz with an ax multiple times the night of July 8 before stealing the vic- tim’s vehicle and fl eeing to Oregon, where he was arrested after trying to elude police. ings, Harvey, the Commission chairman, said. “In one year’s time, we can know whether or not we’re go- ing to move forward,” Harvey said. “And then we would need to do public hearings saying we’ve proven that it’s viable and we’re looking at this as a total project and then this will be the end result.” The county owns about 900 acres of tailings left by the dredge that operated from 1935 to 1954. Over the past several years county offi cials have had mul- tiple discussions with miners who expressed an interest in plying the tailings for gold. In its proposal Wednesday, Rainier Skyline Excavators wrote that it has researched the dredge’s operation and found that an estimated 40% of the gold was recovered. In other business Wednes- day, Maggie Schirack, direc- tor of the Baker Heritage Museum, told commissioners the Museum, at 2480 Grove St., had about 5,500 visitors this year. Schirack said the museum was awarded a National Pres- ervation Trust grant of $5,000 for an engineering assessment for capital improvements. O BITUARY National Guard and served his country as an offi cer in Company F. He retired George Guy McCoy, 79, a former from the Guard in 1983 and from the Baker City resident, died Aug. 18, 2019, City in the late 1990s and spent his at home with his wife, Susan, at his retirement in Baker; Richland, Washing- side in Emmett, Idaho, following a brief ton; and Emmett, Idaho. illness. Guy loved the outdoors. Growing up There will be a graveside in Keating provided plenty of opportuni- memorial service conduct- ties for hunting and fi shing. He enjoyed ed by Coles Tribute Center hunting with his brother, Ray, and with in Baker City in the spring numerous friends. Some of his fondest of 2020. memories and funniest stories involved Guy was born on Nov. 10, deer or elk hunting. Guy 1939, at Tehachapi, Califor- He was fascinated by blackpowder nia, to Lillian Louise Ray McCoy rifl es, which he used when he portrayed and George Henry McCoy. a mountain man or Oregon Trail immi- After moving to Keating with his family, grant at many venues. He also enjoyed he attended Keating Grade School and camping and was a campground volun- graduated from Baker High School in teer at Phillips Lake, outside of Baker. 1957. He was an amateur photographer and His classmates remember him as an avid lover of music. He performed in a funny and talented man who loved choir and theatre productions during music. He worked at Basche-Sage Hard- high school and throughout his life. ware Store and eventually went to work One of his fondest memories was sing- for the City of Baker, spending 35-plus ing with Baker’s Dozen, a vocal group years maintaining the water system. that he helped to create and direct. He In 1957 he joined the Oregon Army also performed in community theatre, ‘Guy’ McCoy Former Baker City resident, 1939-2019 highlighted by his portrayal of Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” Guy was preceded in death by his father, George; his brother, Ray; his mother, Lillian; and his sister, Elva. Survivors include his wife, Susan (Francis) McCoy, and her children, Jen- nifer Holm, and her husband, Jason, and Jeff Aldrich and his wife, Amy; his fi rst wife, Gail, and their children, Robert McCoy and his wife, Amy, Kathy Krob and her husband, Jeff, and Carol Porter. He had numerous grandchildren – Matt, Melissa, Jacob, Kelly, Lilly, Liam, Alexis, Karly, Sarah, Joel, Nathan, Helena, Sophia, Jason Jr., Emily, Jessica, and Brianna – and many close friends. The Potter Funeral Chapel of Em- mett is in charge of cremation and memorial arrangements. In lieu of fl owers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Orpheum Theater in care of Aletha Bonebrake, 2347 Campbell St., Baker City, OR 97814 or Redeemer Lutheran Church, 520 Thayer Drive, Richland, Washing- ton, 99352. Next jackpot: $11,000 N EWS OF R ECORD S ENIOR M ENUS ■ MONDAY: Chicken broccoli Alfredo over fettuccine, mixed vegetables, garlic bread, cottage cheese with fruit, lemon bars ■ TUESDAY: Salisbury steak, potatoes and gravy, beet-and- onion salad, cinnamon roll 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. C ONTACT THE H ERALD 1668 Resort St. Open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone: 541-523-3673 Copyright © 2019 Fax: 541-833-6414 Regional publisher Christopher Rush crush@eomediagroup.com Publisher Karrine Brogoitti kbrogoitti@lagrandeobserver. com Jayson Jacoby, editor jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Advertising email ads@bakercityherald.com Classifi ed email classified@bakercityherald.com Circulation email circ@bakercityherald.com press release stated. The Student Success Act creates a new business tax to Witty generate about $1 billion a year for education from early learn- ing to Grade 12. The City Club of Portland is a civic organization that holds forums on public issues related to Portland, the metro region, and the state, said Danielle Pacifi co-Cogan, who serves on the City Club board of governors and works at the ISSN-8756-6419 Serving Baker County since 1870 Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays except Christmas Day by the Baker Publishing Co., a part of EO Media Group, at 1668 Resort St. (P.O. Box 807), Baker City, OR 97814. Subscription rates per month are: $10.80; by mail $12.50. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Baker City Herald, P.O. Box 807, Baker City, OR 97814. Periodicals Postage Paid at Baker City, Oregon 97814 DEATHS Arlene Fulton: 92, of Baker City, died Sept. 3, 2019, at her home. Her memorial service will be Saturday, Sept. 14, at 1 p.m. at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Following the service, friends are invited to join the family for a reception at Coles Tribute Center, 1950 Place St. Me- morial contributions can be made to Heart ’N Home Hospice or Best Friends of Baker through Gray’s West & Co., 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814. To light a candle in memory of Arlene, or to leave a condolence for her family, go to www.grayswest.com FUNERALS PENDING Kasey Wright: A Celebration of life will take place Saturday, Sept. 7, at 4 p.m. at the Skyline Event Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. For those who would like to make a memorial donation in honor of Kasey, the family asks that those donations be directed to Kasey’s 11-year-old son, Juke, as an account will be set up for him for education, clothing and miscellaneous needs (checks may be made to his grandma, Gayle Peters) through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condolences may be made at www.tamispinevalleyfuneral home.com Loren C. Barnett: His family will have a celebration of his life FINAL SALE OF THE SEASON ON ALL NURSERY STOCK PERENNIALS 50% OFF SHRUBS 20% OFF • CONIFERS 10% OFF TREES 10% OFF • 2" CALIPER TREES 25% OFF Sales runs till Sept. 28th! Open Tues - Sat 9-5 600 Elm St, Baker City 541-523-3708 on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 1 p.m. at Bill Barnett’s residence, 6095 Grace St. in Baker City. To light a candle in Loren’s memory, or to leave a condolence for his fam- ily, go to www.grayswestco.com Sharlene Ann (Neumann, Valeen, Montgomery) Cole: Her memorial service will be Monday, Sept. 23, at 11 a.m. at the McEwen Fellowship Church near Sumpter. Donations in her honor should be directed to Heart ’N Home Hospice or the McEwen Fellowship through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condolences may be made at www.tamispinevalleyfuneral home.com POLICE LOG Baker City Police Arrests, citations FOURTH-DEGREE ASSAULT (Baker County Circuit Court warrant): Morgan Louise Davis, 30, of 2610 Fourth St., 6:17 p.m. Thursday, at her home; jailed. Oregon State Police Arrests, citations UNLAWFUL/UNSAFE LANE CHANGE: Nasario Manuel Barajas, 34, of The Dalles, 1 p.m. Sunday, on Interstate 84 at the milepost 306 westbound exit; cited and released. The citation was issued after investigation of a two-vehicle crash. Police said Barajas had parked his Toyota Rav on the right shoulder of the highway and when he began to merge back onto the road, he failed to see a passing Ford F250 pickup truck driven by Laura- Lee Wade-Mattson. Police said Barajas’ vehicle struck the pickup in the right rear. Barajas’ vehicle was disabled in the collision and came to a rest upright partially blocking the westbound travel lane. There were no injuries. FAILURE TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER: Darin Ray Stone, 36, of Baker City, 3:12 p.m. Tuesday, in the 2400 block of 10th Street; cited and released. FAILURE TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER: Brent Alexan- der Breshears, 28, of La Grande, 3:32 p.m. Tuesday, at the Baker County Jail where he is being held on other charges. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU- ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Dante Kai Mora, 28, of Pasco, Washing- ton, 5:28 p.m. Wednesday, on Interstate 84 at Baker City; jailed and later granted a conditional release.