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MONDAY BAKER FOOTBALL OPENS SEASON BY SHUTTING OUT NYSSA, 38-0: PAGE 6A KEEPING YOU CONNECTED. Wireless Service Where You Live & Play. Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com September 9, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: Local • Home & Living • Sports Monday $1.50 GRANITE GULCH FIRE IN EAGLE CAP WILDERNESS Paving Project At Baker City Airport Smoother Sailing Sweet Finish To Summer: Homemade ice cream recipes Home/Living: Page 1B QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Robert Black of Baker City. jjacoby@bakercityherald.com University Women meeting Tuesday Blood drive set for Sept. 16 at Nazarene Church The American Red Cross has scheduled a blood drive for Sept. 16 at the Nazarene Church, 1250 Hughes Lane. Please call Myrna Evans at 541-523-5368 to make, cancel, or reschedule an appointment. Please note the change in venue to the Nazarene Church. WEATHER Today 67 / 41 Rain showers Tuesday 67 / 40 Chance of storms 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. Rain, cool temps stifle blaze By Jayson Jacoby BRIEFING The Baker chapter of American Association of University Women will have a membership meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 1198 D St. The program pre- senter is Adriene Oster from Baker High School, who will describe her work with the Oregon Teacher Pathway program. Halfway • 541-540-6115 Richland • 541-893-6115 S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Crews prepared the base for a layer of fresh asphalt on an apron at the Baker City Airport. Paving started Thursday and fi nished Friday. The rebuilt area will be available for helicopter parking as well as other pur- poses. “The primary purpose of the apron replacement was to have a clearly A previously bumpy part of the marked area for helicopters,” Owen Baker City Airport has a fresh layer of said. blacktop thanks to federal and state She said as many as 10 or 11 grants. helicopters have been stationed at the The $1.49 million project to rebuild airport during previous fi re seasons. the south apron at the city-owned Mike Becker General Contractor airport didn’t require the city to spend Inc. of La Grande had the contract to any money from its general fund replace the south apron. budget, said Michelle Owen, the city’s This summer’s project is Phase II at public works director. the airport. The Federal Aviation Administra- In the summer of 2017 the city re- tion (FAA) paid most the cost — about built the apron near the offi ce of Baker $1.34 million. Aircraft, and installed a 6,000-gallon The remaining $150,000 is from a JetA fuel tank. state grant funded by taxes pilots pay The project cost $1.64 million, and as on aviation fuel, Owen said. with this year’s work, the FAA paid the The pavement that was replaced on lion’s share, at $1.25 million. The city the south apron was installed in the received a grant from the state to cover 1960s, and it was both old and deterio- the remaining $386,000 Owen said. rated, Owen said. The next project planned at the The south apron will be equipped airport is comparatively small. with tie-downs for helicopters, among Owen said city offi cials hope to apply other uses. a sealer to the airport’s main runway, Coincidentally, a fl eet of fi ve heavy probably in the summer of 2021. The helicopters has been stationed at the estimated cost is $130,000, and Owen airport for more than a week to help said the goal is use an FAA grant to douse hot spots on the 204 Cow fi re cover 90%, and a state grant for the southwest of Unity. remaining 10%. Owen said that because the south The city does budget money each apron wasn’t available due to construc- year in case a state grant isn’t avail- tion, helicopters were “parked all over,” able, Owen said, because offi cials don’t Owen said. want to have to turn down FAA grants Because some of the aircraft were that pay up to 90% of the cost of major parked near the airport’s secondary projects. runway, it has been closed while the See Airport/Page 3A helicopters are here, she said. By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Baker City Council Meets Tuesday The Baker City Council will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First St. The brief agenda includes an update from Dawn Kitzmiller of the building department, but no action items. Councilors are also scheduled to convene in an executive session, closed to the public, immediately following the regular meeting. The executive session is allowed under Oregon’s Public Meetings Law on the topic “to consider preliminary negotiations involving matters of trade or commerce in which the governing body is in competition with governing bodies in other states or nations.” City Manager Fred Warner Jr. said city staff will be talking with councilors about how the city will put together its proposal to continue to provide ambulance services within the city and much of Baker County. County commissioners, who choose ambulance providers, plan to send a request for proposals for the service. TODAY Issue 52, 16 pages Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 4B-7B Comics ....................... 3B of Dr. Cynthia Holmes and is part of the Blue Heron Live Music Series of the Pendleton Center for the Arts, Lavadour said. Tickets are $12 and avail- able at pendletonarts.org Community News ....3A Crossword ........5B & 7B Dear Abby ................. 8B Fishing limits ending at Thief Valley or by calling 541-278-9201. Early ticket purchases are recommended. More infor- mation is available online at pendletonarts.org. See Bluegrass/Page 3A See Fishing/Page 3A Submitted photo Duane Boyer of Haines, second from right, is a member of The EOCenes, a blue- grass band that will perform Thursday and Friday in Pendleton. St., is located in the heart of downtown Pendleton in the renovated Carn- egie Library Building on the Umatilla River. The performance is made pos- sible through the support See Storm/Page 3A With Thief Valley Res- ervoir near North Powder projected to reach its mini- mum level later this month, state offi cials have decided to cancel daily fi sh catch limits starting Wednesday, Sept. 11. The Oregon Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has done this in the late summer several years over the past decade or so. The goal is to encourage people to harvest stocked rainbow trout before the reservoir is drained, doom- ing the fi sh. Thief Valley is at about 10 percent of its capacity. “When the water level reaches dead storage, large numbers of trout get trapped in isolated pools,” said Tim Bailey, ODFW fi sh biologist. “Most fi sh will be stressed in the warm, turbid water and die.” ODFW is removing the daily catch and possession limits now because once the reservoir is at minimum pool it’s more diffi cult to catch fi sh, Bailey said. Haines man to perform during Round Up PENDLETON — Just as the traditions of Round- Up Week come back around each September, the Pendleton Center for the Arts will again offer top-notch bluegrass, featur- ing some of the fi nest musi- cians in the Northwest. The EOCenes (formerly Cabbage Hill), featuring Haines musician Duane Boyer, will take the stage on two nights, Thursday, Sept. 12, and Friday, Sept. 13, Roberta Lavadour, the center’s executive director stated in a press release. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show begins at 7 p.m. The Pendleton Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main A late summer storm that swept in Sunday morning and felt more like autumn quelled the Granite Gulch fi re in the Eagle Cap Wil- derness. The storm, which brought rain and caused tempera- tures to dip into the 30s in the wilderness, didn’t extin- guish the lighting-sparked fi re that’s been burning in the Minam River Canyon since July 14. But it brought the fi re, which has burned about 5,555 acres, to a “virtual standstill,” according to a press release from the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Home ................1B & 2B Horoscope ........5B & 7B Lottery Results ..........2A News of Record ........2A Opinion ......................4A Senior Menus ...........2A Sports .................. 5A-8A Turning Backs ...........2A Weather ..................... 8B WEDNESDAY — GO! MAGAZINE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
