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September 18, 2019
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Baker’s Brylan
Robb, right, battles
Weiser Monday
Baker Cowboy Jesse Brown Sets Steer Wrestling Record At Pendleton Rodeo
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Community Choir
starts rehearsals
on Monday
The Baker Community
Choir will begin rehearsals
on Monday, Sept. 23 for its
Christmas performances.
Rehearsals are scheduled
for every Monday at 7 p.m.
in the choir practice room
at Baker High School,
2500 E St. Choir members
should arrive by 6:45 p.m.
this Monday to receive
their music. No experience
is necessary, and singers
from high school age and
up are welcome. Middle
school students can join if
accompanied by an adult.
Cost is $15 per person.
Christmas concerts are set
for Dec. 13, 14 and 15.
More information
is available by calling
LaVonne Yeoumans at 541-
523-2347.
Baker County
Seniors to meet
Baker County Senior
Citizens Inc., the nonprofi t
that raises money to sup-
port senior services, will
have its annual meeting
Friday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m.
at the Senior Center, 2810
Cedar St. All Baker County
senior citizens are encour-
aged to attend.
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Rain showers
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Jesse Brown leaps from his horse onto a steer during the steer wrestling event at the 2019 Pendleton
Round-Up. Brown won the event and set a new arena record of 3.7 seconds.
fourth Round Up, said he was espe-
cially excited to set a record at such
Cowboys have been tangling with a renowned rodeo — and in the fi nal
steers at the Pendleton Round Up for round no less.
more than 100 years but Baker City
“It’s a big one,” he said of the Round
cowboy Jesse Brown needed less than Up, which started in 1910. “It’s one
4 seconds to make history.
of the most prestigious rodeos in the
Brown, 27, not only won the steer
world.”
wrestling event at the famous rodeo
And Brown’s event, steer wrestling,
on Saturday.
has been part of the annual Septem-
In the fi nals Brown brought his
ber event almost as long, dating to
steer down in 3.7 seconds.
1911.
His performance broke the Round
Brown, who competed in team
Up arena record of 3.8 seconds set in roping at Montana State University
2002 by K.C. Jones and equalled in
after transferring from Washington
2014 by Casey Martin.
State University, where he played
Brown, a 2011 Baker High School football, said steer wrestling “fi ts me
graduate who was competing in his
the best” among rodeo events.
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
He’s ranked 25th in the world in
the event.
Brown said his goal for 2020 is to
qualify for the biggest spectacle in
rodeo — the National Finals Rodeo
that happens each December in Las
Vegas.
Although Brown’s 3.7-second time
in Saturday’s fi nals at Pendleton was
an arena record it wasn’t his own
personal best time.
That’s 3.6 seconds.
(The world record is 2.4 seconds.)
The explanation, Brown said, is in
the unique nature of steer wrestling
at Pendleton.
See Round Up/Page 3A
Thursday
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Bulldogger Jesse
Brown wrestles
his steer to the
ground to clinch
the steer wrestling
title Saturday
at the Pendle-
ton Round Up.
Brown’s time in
the fi nal round,
3.7 seconds, set a
new record for the
prestigious rodeo.
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Full forecast on the back
of the B section.
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New
exhibit
opens
at the
Trail
Center
The Oregon Trail
Interpretive Center will
celebrate Frontier Day on
Sunday, Sept. 22, with the
grand opening for a black-
smith shop.
Visitors can watch black-
smithing demonstrations,
pan for gold, see living his-
tory performers and sample
Dutch oven cooking.
The Frontier Day events
are scheduled from 1 p.m.
to 3 p.m.
The Interpretive Center
is open daily from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. The Center is
off Highway 86 about fi ve
miles east of Baker City.
Admission is $8 (two
days) for ages 16 and over,
$4.50 for seniors 62 and
over (free with a senior
pass), and free for ages 15
and younger.
Cell
tower
proposed
The Baker City Plan-
ning Commission will have
a public hearing Oct. 18 to
consider an application for
a 70-foot-tall cell tower on
the north side of D Street
between East and Clark
streets.
The hearing is set for 6
p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First
St.
Verizon Wireless is the
applicant. Carney and Debo-
rah Lansford own the 2.12-
acre property, which has a
storage building business.
See Tower/Page 3A
Infestation bugs Baker residents
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
It was around the time the 11th can
of Raid went dry that Stephanie Tweit
began to be seriously perturbed.
Although it might have been the
ninth can of bug killer, or the sixth.
There was a lot of bugs, and cans.
“It’s the weirdest thing,” said Tweit,
one of several residents in a north Baker
City neighborhood who have been deal-
ing with an infestation of what seem to
be either chinch bugs or seed bugs.
Whatever an entomologist might call
them, Tweit’s assessment is succinct.
“They’re driving everybody nuts.”
Tweit, who has lived on the west side
of Cedar near Hughes Lane since 2003,
said this is the fi rst such insectile inva-
sion she’s seen there.
“This is a new thing,” she said Mon-
day afternoon.
Submitted photo
A closeup of one of the
bugs at Bryan and Stepha-
See Bugged/Page 6A nie Tweit’s home.
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
Bugs crawl around
the wood frame of
a hot tub at Bryan
and Stephanie Tweit’s
home on Cedar Street
in north Baker City.
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