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BAKER VOLLEYBALL AVENGES LOSS TO WEISER, TOPS MAC-HI: PAGE 5A WEDNESDAY Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com October 2, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Tom Van Diepen of Baker City. BRIEFING Local • Business & AgLife • Go! magazine $1.50 Offi cers Participate In Active Threat Training At Brooklyn Primary School Police Preparation City burn ban lifted The Baker City Fire Department has offi cially lifted all burning restric- tions effective today, Fire Chief John Clark has an- nounced. Residents should note that a burn permit is still required for any open burning, including fi re pits and burn barrels in Baker City. Additionally, burn barrels must meet specifi c construction requirements, he stated. WEATHER Today 57 / 32 Partly sunny Thursday 61 / 34 Partly sunny Full forecast on the back of the B section. 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. Haines man still missing ■ Searchers have been looking for Andy Dennis since Sunday in the Wallowa Mtns. By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Money available for emergency food, shelter programs Baker County will receive $8,734 from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shel- ter Program. Organizations providing these services to Baker County residents can request an application for funds from Joe Hayes at Community Connec- tion of Baker County, 2810 Cedar St., Baker City, OR 97814. Please call 541- 523-6591, extension 11, or email your request for an application to joe@ccno. org. Applications can be mailed in, emailed back or dropped off. The applica- tion deadline is Friday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. Lacy Churchfi eld, left, and Hailey Zikmund go up for a block Monday S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Kyle Ebeling, left, Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce corrections deputy, and Becky Monahan, Baker County Parole and Probation deputy, head down a hall at Brooklyn Primary School while instructing frightened students to stay safely in a bathroom during a training exercise. By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com Brooklyn Primary School became an eerie scene of chaos and violence Friday and Saturday afternoons as shots rang out in the hallways and teenagers fell to the fl oor with wounds sustained by the gunfi re. The good news is the wounds weren’t real and neither was the gunfi re. The shots came from pistols and rifl es loaded with plastic silicone bul- lets, known as “simunition” rounds and used for training. And the injuries were described on tags hung around the necks of the volunteers who helped bring a greater degree of realism to the scenarios played out both afternoons. A group of teenagers, who also were joined by a few adults on Friday, fi lled the empty school with shrieks of ter- ror as they ran aimlessly through the hallways seeking safety and crying out for help for themselves and their injured friends. It was all a part of “active threat” scenarios conducted during training brought to Baker City by offi cers with the state Depart- ment of Public Safety Standards and Training. Baker City Police, Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce and Oregon State Police offi cers were joined by others from agencies in Union and Umatilla counties for the exercises. Dispatchers also participated along with EMTs and paramedics from the Baker City Searchers are navigating a section of the steep and snowy Wallowa Mountains for the fourth straight day looking for signs of a Haines man who went Dennis missing while hunting deer over the weekend. The search for Andrew Dean “Andy” Dennis, 60, is focused on the area around Crater Lake, near East Eagle Creek about 32 air miles northeast of Baker City. Ground crews are work- ing along with two heli- copters in the quest to fi nd Dennis, who relatives say is very familiar with that area. See Search/Page 6A $164K grant means city can build accessible playground ■ Construction could happen in May 2020 By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Law enforcement moves down the hallway past wounded students toward the shooter’s room. Volunteer Naomi Woodward, center, is among those waiting for help. Fire Department. The volunteer victims were recruit- ed to provide added realistic confusion to scenes that police and emergency responders likely would encounter should an actual school shooting or other active threat take place in the community. “Any time we can get the commu- nity involved it adds to the training,” said Jim de Sully, regional training manager for the DPSST in Salem. See Training/Page 6A S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Student volunteers at Friday’s training include, second from left, Sydney Younger, Naomi Woodward, center, and Lincoln Nemec, at back. Jim de Sully of the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training is second from right, with Lance Wood- ward, Baker City Police school resource officer, foreground right. Baker City’s plan to build a playground accessible to children of all abilities received a major boost recently when a state board approved a $164,000 grant. The grant from the Or- egon Parks and Recreation Department will cover more than half the project’s estimated cost of $281,000, said Joyce Bornstedt, the city’s technical administra- tive supervisor. “It’s very exciting,” Born- stedt said Tuesday of the state grant that puts the city on track to build the new playground at Geiser- Pollman Park in the spring of 2020. Karla Macy of Baker City is also enthusiastic. Her 3-year-old son, Augustus, has spina bifi da, and Macy has been promot- ing the city’s fundraising campaign for the all-inclu- sive playground addition at Geiser-Pollman. See Play/Page 2A TODAY Issue 62, 26 pages Business ...........1B & 2B Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 4B-8B Comics ....................... 9B Community News ....3A Crossword ........5B & 6B Dear Abby ............... 10B Horoscope ........5B & 6B Letters ........................4A Lottery Results ..........2A News of Record ........6A Obituaries ..................2A Opinion ......................4A Sports ........................5A Weather ................... 10B FRIDAY — GETTING IN ONE LAST DAY-HIKE IN THE ELKHORN MOUNTAINS