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September 23, 2019
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Reinert of Baker City.
Sports, 6A
Powder Valley ran its
Class 1A football season
record to 3-0 Friday with a
46-14 Old Oregon League
win over Pine-Eagle at
Halfway.
BAKER ROUTS ELMIRA, 53-6
Baker Sixth-Graders Attend Outdoor School
Messy Lessons
Sports, 7A
SISTERS — Baker
fi nished third in its bracket
Saturday at the Sisters
Invitational volleyball
tournament.
The Bulldogs won their
opening match, defeating
Stayton 21-25, 25-22, 15-9.
BAKER CITY MANAGER
Warner
hopes to
retire
from PERS
but stay
on the job
By Samantha O’Conner
BRIEFING
socconer@bakercityherald.com
and Jayson Jacoby
Prescription drug
dropoff event set
for Tuesday
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker City Manager Fred
Warner Jr. hopes to retire at
the end of this year — but he
wants to continue doing the
same job for at least another
year.
Warner
This possibility exists
through Oregon’s Public Em-
ployees Retirement System (PERS).
PERS allows certain public employees to
retire and begin collecting their pension, but
continue to work for a public agency.
“I don’t want to retire, I just want to retire
from PERS and keep working as the city
manager,” Warner, 65, said on Friday.
Residents can drop
off unused, expired or
unwanted prescription
medications for no charge
on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at
Community Connection,
2810 Cedar St. The Baker
County Sheriff’s Offi ce also
accepts medications at
3410 K St. during regular
business hours, Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
The Prescription Drug
Take Back Program is a col-
laboration of the Sheriff’s
Offi ce, Baker County Safe
Communities Coalition
and New Directions North-
west Inc.
See Warner/Page 2A
Great Salt Lick
auction raises
almost $17,000
for Parkinson’s
research
WEATHER
Today
69 / 42
Partly sunny
Tuesday
75 / 38
Partly sunny
Full forecast on the back
of the B section.
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
A study about soils found at different depths has Henry Hester with dirty hands as he and
others get the feel of three different types of soil to be used for their experiments.
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Alex Hammans led
Baker with 194
yards rushing in
an easy win Friday
By Chris Collins
Baker City’s unique fundraising event for
Parkinson’s disease research, the Great Salt
Lick auction, raised almost $17,000 Satur-
day, the second-most in its 13-year history.
Whit Deschner, who started the event,
said the move this year from Crossroads
Carnegie Art Center to the Churchill School
was well-timed.
“We’ll miss its old home, Crossroads,”
Deschner said, “but we are excited using its
new location, Churchill School. I don’t think
Crossroads could have squeezed this crowd
in.”
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
Baker School District sixth-graders
headed for the Anthony Lakes area of
the Elkhorn Mountains last week for
this year’s Outdoor School experience.
The weather, which turned cold and
rainy, was part of the daily experience for
the students, who moved inside to sleep
on the fl oors of the Anthony Lakes Lodge
at night — boys on the top fl oor, girls on
the bottom.
A skiff of snow added an extra ele-
ment of adventure as 180 Baker School
District sixth-graders from South Baker
Intermediate and Haines and Keating
schools rotated through lessons aimed
at helping them better understand and
safely enjoy the outdoors.
Dorothy Mason, who has coordinated
the program since 2010, is phasing out
of her role. In her stead, Luke Burton,
a child development specialist at South
Baker, was hired through an extra-duty
contract to take the lead this year. Doro-
thy and her husband, Bob Mason, both
retired wildlife biologists, taught wildlife
habitat classes as they have for many
years.
See Outdoor/Page 3A
TODAY
Issue 58, 14 pages
See Salt Lick/Page 2A
Safeway staff
builds beds
for local kids
By Samantha O’Conner
soconner@bakercityherald.com
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
Thursday classes at the Outdoor School remind stu-
dents that weather can change quickly in the moun-
tains. Students faced rain, hail and snow.
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 4B-7B
Comics ....................... 3B
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........6B & 7B
Dear Abby ................. 8B
Home ................1B & 2B
Horoscope ........6B & 7B
Lottery Results ..........2A
Employees from Baker City’s Safeway
store worked Saturday to build 10 bunk
beds that will be available to local children.
The Safeway staff coordinated with Sleep
in Heavenly Peace, a nonprofi t based in
Twin Falls, Idaho, that provides bunk beds
to children in need.
Brandon Sweet, director of the Baker
City Safeway, said he and another employee
learned about Sleep in Heavenly Peace dur-
ing a Rotary Club meeting.
See Beds/Page 2A
News of Record ........2A
Obituaries ..................2A
Opinion ......................4A
Senior Menus ...........2A
Sports .................. 5A-8A
Weather ..................... 8B
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