COMMUNITY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
BAKER CITY HERALD — 3A
STORM
Man dies in I-84 crash
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By Chris Collins
The weather station near-
est the fi re, at Mule Peak
Lookout about three air
miles southwest of the fi re,
recorded 0.19 of an inch of
rain.
Higher amounts were
recorded elsewhere, including
0.83 of an inch at the Oregon
Trail Interpretive Center and
0.23 of an inch at the Baker
City Airport.
Sunday was the wettest
day at the airport since
March 24, when 0.32 of an
inch fell.
Fire offi cials don’t consider
Sunday’s storm a “season-
ending event,” referring to
the offi cial end of fi re season,
said Larisa Bogardus, a pub-
lic information offi cer for the
BLM serving in that capacity
for the Granite Gulch fi re.
But with the ground still
wet, and temperatures fore-
cast to remain below average
much of this week and a
chance of additional rain, it’s
“highly unlikely” that the fi re
will generate much smoke,
Bogardus said.
A similar situation prevails
at the region’s other large
blaze, the 204 Cow fi re burn-
ing in the extreme southwest
corner of Baker County about
17 miles southwest of Unity.
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
U.S. Forest Service photo
This photo, taken early Saturday from Granite Butte, shows low-lying smoke from the
Granite Gulch fi re in the Minam River Canyon at the confl uence with Elk Creek.
The 204 Cow fi re, started
by lightning on Aug. 9, has
burned 9,668 acres and is
73% contained.
According to an update
from fi re managers this
morning, “cool wet weather
continues over the fi re area
today, making fi re spread
very unlikely in the near
future. Rainfall and high hu-
midity are penetrating more
deeply into burnable mate-
rial. Isolated concentrations
of heavy fuels will continue to
smolder and produce smoke.”
Managers expect to cancel
the road closures near the
fi re soon.
The fi rst major rainstorm
of the season also prompted
the Umatilla National Forest
to end restrictions on camp-
fi res and other activities on
that forest.
As of press time this morn-
School board to transfer
Central Building to BTI
The Baker School Board is
expected to approve transfer
of ownership of the historic
Central Building Thursday
night from the 5J School
District to the Baker Techni-
cal Institute
The regular meeting will
begin at 6 p.m. at City Hall,
1655 First St. The September
meeting has been resched-
uled to Sept. 12 instead of the
usual third Thursday of the
month because of scheduling
confl icts.
After ownership transfer
of the Central Building is
completed, BTI will be able to
seek grant funding to clean
up asbestos and lead paint
contamination in the building
through its brownfi eld/envi-
ronmental science curriculum
at Baker High School.
Speaking at the August
meeting, Superintendent
Mark Witty told the Board
that the class could possibly
acquire more grant funding to
complete the work needed to
restore the historic building
and transform it into a com-
munity asset that could be
used for purposes other than
a school building.
The regular meeting will
be preceded by an executive
(closed to the public) session
beginning at 5:30 p.m., at
Baker City Hall, 1615 First
St. The closed meeting will be
for the purpose of negotiat-
ing property transactions as
allowed by the Oregon Public
Meeting law.
In other business Thursday
night, the Board will review
personnel reports:
• Assistant Superintendent
Betty Palmer has announced
that she has retired through
the Public Employee Retire-
ment System (PERS), effec-
tive Sept. 1, but will continue
to work on contract with the
District through June 30.
• Tim Taylor has retired
from his position as a bus
driver.
• New classifi ed employees
hired for the coming year
are Taylor Baker, parapro-
fessional, Keating Elemen-
tary School; Veronica Baxter,
BESST (Behavioral Educa-
tion Social Skills Teaching)
clinical paraprofessional at
Brooklyn Primary School;
Calli Gulick, South Baker In-
termediate School secretary;
and Jami Standish, South
Baker paraprofessional.
• Extra-duty new hires:
Mike Long, Baker Middle
School football coach; Wayne
Dyke, BMS football coach;
Alayna Carpenter, BMS
cross-country coach; Ethan
Wolston, Baker High School
assistant cross-country coach;
John Quintela, BHS JV boys
soccer coach; and Adam Robb,
BHS JV girls soccer coach.
BLUEGRASS
tenor and baritone. He taught country-swing band and sang
banjo and guitar at EOC and in a gospel quartet.
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played a major role in bring-
Hal Spence of Dallas, Or-
Ron Emmons, well-known ing national bluegrass acts to egon, played guitar and sang
as the front man for the popu- this part of the state.
tenor for 27 years with The
lar Cabbage Hill bluegrass
McClellan resides at Or-
Sawtooth Mountain Boys, one
band, will bring his college
egon City and plays rhythm of the nation’s best-known
classmates Hugh McClellan, guitar, harmonica and is
bluegrass bands, whose
Boyer and Hal Spence back to known for his low, lonesome
travels included three tours of
Eastern Oregon for Round-
bass voice. He’s also fronted a Europe.
Up week, Lavadour said. The
group will be joined by Alan
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during freshmen orienta-
tion week at Eastern Oregon
College (now Eastern Oregon
University) in La Grande.
They connected with Spence
and McClellan through their
involvement in the EOC Am-
bassadors, a musical touring
group that performed high
school assemblies all over the
Northwest.
The name EOCenes is a
play on the college’s mono-
gram, EOC (which later
became EOU) and the Eocene
epoch, a period on the geologi-
Weekly Specials September 9-15
cal time scale that occurred
Monday
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55 million to 34 million years
Tuesday
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ago.
Wednesday
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Emmons, who lives at
Thursday
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Hermiston, has played
Friday
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mandolin and sung lead
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tenor and baritone with
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the Blue Mountain Crested
Saturday
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Wheatgrass Boys, the Muddy
Sunday
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Bottom Boys, Blue Heat and
BUFFETS
The Thatchmasters, as well
Monday - Friday 11 AM - 2 PM
Lunch includes Salad Bar, Entree,
as Cabbage Hill.
Grilled Bread, Baked Bean & Vegetable
Boyer, a longtime Haines
221 Bridge Street • 541-523-5844
Sunday 8 AM - 11 AM
resident, plays banjo and
Open Daily 6 AM - 8 PM
Sunday Buffet includes Chocolate Fountain
guitar, and sings lead,
Baker Valley Travel
541-523-9353 • 877-550-9353
ing the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest had not
changed its public use restric-
tions.
Sunday’s soggy and cool
weather was preceded by
thunderstorms that brought
widespread lightning, but
also rain showers, on Friday
night.
Lightning ignited about a
dozen wildfi res across North-
eastern Oregon, including
several in Baker County, but
crews from the Forest Service
and Oregon Department of
Forestry took advantage of
the rain and quickly stopped
the blazes. None burned
more than 2 acres.
A 19-year-old Beaverton man died Sunday after-
noon when the vehicle in which he was traveling as
a passenger was involved in a three-vehicle crash on
Interstate 84 near Farewell Bend.
Aislynn Hoang, 19, of Salt Lake City was the driver
of the Subaru Crosstrek in which Garrett Carpenter
was riding when he died, an Oregon State Police press
release stated.
The road was wet when the crash took place about
1:36 p.m. Sunday. Police said Hoang lost control of her
vehicle as she attempted to pass an eastbound truck
and semitrailer. The Subaru struck the semitrailer,
crossed the median into the westbound lanes and col-
lided with a Ford F150 pickup truck pulling a trailer.
Hoang was fl own\ by air ambulance to a Boise hos-
pital for treatment, police said. No information about
her condition was available in time for this report.
The pickup truck was driven by John Mcpherson,
67, of Port Orchard, Washington. He and his passenger,
Lou Anne Heim, 64, also of Port Orchard, were trans-
ported by Treasure Valley Medics to an area hospital,
police said. Information about their conditions also
were not available in time for this report.
The truck driver, whose name was not released
by OSP, was not hurt in the crash, the press release
stated.
FISHING
spring.
These fi sh are of legal
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size to ensure anglers have
The bag limits will be
a fi shing opportunity dur-
suspended from Sept. 11 to ing the spring and through
Oct. 15. In addition, during midsummer when the
that period anglers can
reservoir generally is near
keep fi sh of any size, and
full.
use any harvest method,
This year ODFW
including by hand or dip
stocked 2,500 legal-size
net.
rainbow in the reservoir
In previous years when the fi rst week of April,
Thief Valley Reservoir
5,000 legal-size and 500
emptied, ODFW has re-
trophy rainbow the second
stocked the reservoir with week of April, and 5,000
rainbow trout the following legal-size trout in mid-May.
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