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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
BAKER CITY HERALD — 3A
Retired teacher draws on childhood
in Baker City to inspire her books
■ Nancy Bond’s second book, featuring
poems, was published in November 2018,
and her third is set to come out this fall
By Lisa Britton
For the Baker City Herald
Nancy Bond drew on her
30 years of teaching when she
penned the poems for “Lemon
Pie and Dog Spit.”
The title comes from one of
the poems.
“I thought it would catch a
kid’s eye,” she said.
Bond grew up in Baker
City (her maiden name is
Kelly) and now lives in West-
ern Oregon. She spent her
career teaching elementary
school, earned a certifi cate
for teaching children with
disabilities, and privately
tutored students up to eighth
grade.
Her fi rst published book is
a memoir titled “Lemonade
Under the Lilacs.”
In “Lemon Pie and Dog
Spit,” Bond used at least 10
types of poetry throughout
the book.
“It’s a teaching tool,” she
said, for those using poetry in
the classroom.
The types include acrostic,
haiku, cinquain, sonnet, ode,
and straight rhyme. The
poems cover topics such as
Learn about historic North Powder Ice
Plant Sunday at E. Oregon Museum
HAINES — Jim Peters of Colorado will talk about
the Pacifi c Fruit Express Company’s ice house, which
operated in North Powder from 1910 to 1937, during
a free event Sunday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. at the Eastern
Oregon Museum, 610 Third St. in Haines.
Baker County Democrats have guest
speaker for September 19 meeting
Eileen Kiely, secretary of the Democratic Party of
Oregon and former candidate for the state legislature,
will be the guest speaker at the Baker County Demo-
crats’ monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 19 at Roger
Fellowship Hall, 1995 Fourth St., between the Court-
house and Baker Middle School.
Pizza, coffee and tea will be served at 5:30 p.m., with
the meeting starting at 6 p.m. All are welcome.
“I want children to know
poetry doesn’t have to
rhyme.”
— Nancy Bond
fears, uncertainty, death, and
bullying.
“This book is for teachers,
parents and counselors as
well as children,” she said.
“I call them poems with a
purpose. They are jumping off
points to instigate discus-
sions. Reading them out loud
is like a counseling session.”
Bond retired from teaching
in 1994.
“I wish I’d had this book
then,” she said.
In additions to the life les-
sons, she said the book is also
a fun read and introduction
to poetry.
“I want children to know
poetry doesn’t have to rhyme,”
she said. “When you men-
tion poetry, they immediately
think they have to rhyme and
that they can’t do it.”
The illustrations are a
mixture — most are by Emily
Lux, but about one-third are
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west of Haines through September 21
The owners of the historic Rock Creek Power Plant,
in the Elkhorn Mountains west of Haines, will offer
free tours Sept. 12-21, by appointment. To schedule
a tour call Terry Daugherty at 208-412-9813 or Don
Wagner at 208-412-9812. The power plant was built in
1903 and closed in 1995.
Cowboy action shoot set for Saturday
at Virtue Flat range near Baker City
Jayson Jacoby / Baker City Herald
Nancy Bond, who grew up in Baker City, published her
second book, “Lemon Pie and Dog Spit,” last November.
Her third book is scheduled for release later this year.
by children “from all walks of
life, ages from 5 to 15,” Bond
said. Each child signed his or
her artwork.
“Lemon Pie and Dog Spit”
was published in November
2018. It is available at Betty’s
Books and on Amazon.
Her third book is sched-
uled to release in November
2019. It is based on a dog her
parents had on a ranch on
Pocahontas Road near Baker
City.
A cowboy action shoot event is set for Saturday, Sept.
14 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Powder River Sports-
man’s Club’s Virtue Flat Range about a mile east of the
Interpretive Center north of Highway 86.
Entry fee is $10 per person. The course of fi re in-
cludes fi ve or six stages of 25 to 30 rounds. Competitors
are encouraged to dress in period western wear or B
movie dress. Targets are steel and clay birds.
In cowboy action shooting competitors use single-
action revolvers, lever-action rifl es from before 1896, or
replicas, as well as double-barrel or Winchester Model
97 shotguns
— From staff reports and press releases
BLM’s Vale District ending fire restrictions as of Saturday
VALE — Starting Saturday, Sept.
14, the BLM’s Vale District will can-
cel fi re use restrictions on all Vale
BLM-administered lands, including
Bureau of Reclamation lands, in
Eastern Oregon.
Fire managers have determined
that cooler temperatures, shorter
days, current weather projections
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Another 10 people includ-
ing the perpetrator died in a
shooting that left 27 others
injured Aug. 4 in an nightclub
district of Dayton, Ohio,
Offi cers from the Oregon
State Police, Baker City Police
and Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce will be attending the lo-
cal training along with those
from any other interested
agencies in the area, Klecker
said.
Baker City Fire Depart-
ment also is expected to send
people for the training. And
Undersherff Jef Van Arsdall
said he plans to include Sher-
iff’s Department dispatchers,
Parole and Probation offi cers
and corrections staff from the
jail.
“The big goal is to be able to
provide as real a training as
possible,” Klecker said. “When
folks debrief afterward they
will identify areas that need
to be worked on or tweaked.”
Neighbors around Brook-
lyn Primary School at 1350
Washington Ave. will be noti-
fi ed about the day-long Fri-
day and Saturday trainings
the night before. Klecker said
offi cials will go door-to-door
on Thursday, Sept. 26, to let
people know there will be an
abundance of police vehicles
around the school for a train-
ing exercise and that there is
no need to be alarmed.
The same instruction
will be offered on each day,
and decreased overall fi re danger
justify the lifting, which is about two
weeks earlier than in past years.
But they warn that fi re season is
not over.
“Once grasses dry out in early
summer, they react quickly to
changes in the weather the rest
of the year,” said Al Crouch, fi re
mitigation and education specialist
for the Vale District. “Even though
it has been cool and wet recently, a
few days of warm, dry and windy
conditions can dry out dead grass
and brush quickly and elevate fi re
danger again.”
After lightning, equipment fi res
are the most common cause of
“The big goal is to be able to provide as
real a training as possible.”
— Ben Klecker, Eastern Oregon regional
training coordinator, Oregon Department of
Public Safety Standards and Training
allowing those attending to
participate as their schedules
allow, Klecker said.
“We’re running the train-
ings back-to-back in order
to maximize the number of
people able to attend,” he
said.
Each day will begin at 8
a.m. with classroom instruc-
tion. The sessions, which will
include a variety of scenarios,
will end at 5 p.m.
Plastic silicone bullets will
be used in scenarios that
include gunfi re, Klecker said.
Baker City Police Chief
Ray Duman, 60, a retired
Oregon State Police offi cer,
says he believes the overtime
cost involved in sending
the 12-person police staff,
including himself, through
the training, is well worth the
expense. There is no charge
for the instruction through
the DPSST.
“I will attempt to get every
one of our people through this
training scenario,” he said.
Duman believes the profes-
sional training his staff will
receive is vital to a successful
community response should
an active threat occur.
“When an incident like this
happens it’s total chaos,” he
said. “You react how you’re
trained.”
Duman acknowledges that
most offi cers probably will
never be faced with such a
situation during their careers,
or even during their lifetimes,
but honing their skills as a
team will help ensure a better
outcome for the community
should they be called to re-
spond one day, he said.
“The training determines
how the situation is going to
play out,” he said.
This month’s training is
the fi rst of three that will be
offered to help the community
become better prepared, Du-
man said.
Others will focus on mass
casualty response by emer-
gency medical providers and
law enforcement offi cers
and the third will focus on
helping community members
understand their role in a
large-scale incident.
The mass casualty re-
sponse was offered in La
Grande recently and some
Baker City offi cers partici-
pated in that event, Duman
said.
“It’s a good thing for our
community for this to be hap-
pening,” he said.
OSP Lt. Daniel Conner,
who was promoted to his new
rank in March, is the station
commander over OSP patrol
wildfi res on the Vale District. As
a precaution, keep vehicles off dry
grass, including ATVs and UTVs.
Check spark arrestors and keep
hot exhaust away from dry grasses.
“So far this year, we have experi-
enced fewer human-caused fi res
than normal,” Crouch said. “This is
largely due to the public’s fi re safety
offi ces in Baker, La Grande
and Enterprise. Conner, 40,
comes to the new position
after about 19 years in law
enforcement, including 15 of
those working drug enforce-
ment fi rst with the Baker
County Sheriff’s Offi ce and
then with OSP.
Conner believes that
teamwork building will be
one of the most valuable by-
products to come out of the
training.
Getting to know communi-
ty partners who will respond
side-by-side with law enforce-
ment during an active threat
situation is vital, Conner says.
“This gives us an opportu-
nity to work more cohesively
together,” he said. “Any time
we have the opportunity to
work with the locals, that’s
where the rubber meets the
road — to know who’s got my
back and who’s got my cover.”
Conner said the recent
training in La Grande was
the largest of its kind in
Union County history.
“We’re excited to be able to
have this kind of opportunity,”
he said.
Van Arsdall, who will serve
as an instructor for a por-
tion of the training, said he,
likewise, is looking forward to
the experience.
“I’ll help facilitate the train-
ings, but I want to go through
the training, too,” he said.
Van Ardall said he will be
working to recruit offi cers
from Union, Grant and Mal-
heur counties in the coming
practices and compliance with fi re
restrictions, and we want to thank
them for that.”
Campfi res must never be left
unattended or abandoned on federal
lands. To extinguish a campfi re,
pour water on the coals, stir them
with a shovel or other tool, and
drown them again.
weeks.
“It’s always good to get
everybody on the same page,”
he said.
Van Arsdall, 47, who has
worked in law enforcement
since 1996, including time as
a survival skills instructor in
the Willamette Valley, moved
to Baker City from Corval-
lis about four years ago with
his family. When a position
opened up with the Baker
County Sheriff’s Offi ce he
applied for the job and has
worked his way up to the role
of undersheriff.
Van Arsdall and the other
law enforcement leaders have
high praise for Klecker in
his fi rst year as the regional
training offi cer for Baker,
Union, Wallowa, Grant, Uma-
tilla, Morrow, Harney and
Malheur counties.
“Ben in his new role with
the academy is doing a really
good job,” Van Arsdall said.
Klecker, 38, also is happy
to be living and working in
Eastern Oregon.
He moved to Baker City a
year ago with his wife, Maria,
and their four children, ages
10, 8, 7 and 3. He works from
an offi ce at 1100 K Ave. in La
Grande, but he hopes to be
moving his work site to Baker
City in the future.
Klecker formerly had
worked for 2fi years as a
defensive tactics instructor
at the academy. Prior to that,
he spent 6fi years as a patrol
deputy with the Lincoln
County Sheriff’s Offi ce at
Newport.
Klecker said he has wanted
to live in Eastern Oregon
since he was 5 years old and
enjoys the outdoor activities
the area has to offer.
“This has been a positive
move for my family,” he said.
“My wife loves the snow.”
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