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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com
October 11, 2019
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Herald subscriber Karen
Cloudt of Baker City.
Local, 2A
The Baker City Planning
Commission will have a
public hearing Wednesday,
Oct. 16, 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.
Oregon, 8A
SALEM (AP) — If law-
makers again fail to pass
a law regulating Oregon’s
greenhouse gas emissions
next year, voters could be
called on to do it.
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Michigan
teen gets
his goat
Vape
Major Milestone ban
scares
local
shops
Virginia Buchfi nck Celebrates Her 100th Birthday
BRIEFING
■ Six-month statewide ban
on flavored vaping products,
a popular way for people to
stop smoking cigarettes,
could take effect today
Quartet to perform
John Coltrane’s
music tonight at
Churchill School
The Rob Scheps/Matt
Cooper Quartet will pres-
ent an evening of the
music of John Coltrane
tonight at 6:30 at Churchill
School (3451 Broadway
St., Baker City). Tickets are
$8 in advance or $10 at the
door at Churchill School.
Advance tickets for the
Churchill show are avail-
able at Sweet Wife Baking
in Baker City.
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Theresa Ball is trying to fi gure out how
to keep her Baker City business open after
it becomes illegal to sell her most popular
products.
That challenge could begin as soon as
today.
On Oct. 4 Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
signed an executive order calling for a six-
month statewide ban on the sale of fl avored
vaping products.
Those are liquids that are vaporized in a
battery-powered device and inhaled.
Ball, who opened the Baker City Vape
shop at 1820 First St. in 2013, said fl avored
vaping products containing nicotine consti-
tute about 85% of the sales at her business.
WEATHER
Today
53 / 20
Mostly sunny
See Vaping/Page 3A
Saturday
59 / 30
Graffiti cleanup
leads to citations
Partly sunny
Sunday
60 / 27
Lisa Britton/For the Baker City Herald
Virginia Buchfi nck, a longtime Baker City resident, turned 100 on Thursday.
By Chris Collins
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
Cloudy
A plan to clean up graffi ti at the Baker
City Skate Park last month took a wrong
turn even before the work got started.
The issue began when three Baker High
School athletes volunteered to paint over
the graffi ti as service to the community.
Joyce Bornstedt, technical administra-
tive supervisor for the city’s Public Works
department, said she routinely receives
complaints about inappropriate graffi ti be-
ing painted at the skate park.
By Lisa Britton
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mailed.
For the Baker City Herald
Virginia Buchfi nck always
thought 100 years was a long time
away.
Today, cards bearing that number
line a shelf in her Baker City home.
A note near her chair reads: “Hap-
py 99 years, 11 months, 24 days.”
She turned 100 on Thursday, Oct.
10.
“It’s almost unreal,” Buchfi nck
said Monday. “God must have a rea-
son for me still being here. I’m very
blessed to be where I am, and in the
health I am.”
A party to celebrate this milestone
is set for Saturday, Oct. 12, from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. at the First Lutheran
Church fellowship hall, 1734 Third
St.
A century of change
Virginia was born Oct. 10, 1919 at
West Linn.
Life has changed more than a
little bit in 100 years.
“We’re living in a different age.
Totally,” she said.
When asked what affected her life
the most, she doesn’t hesitate.
“Indoor plumbing.”
See Virginia/Page 8A
TODAY
Issue 66, 16 pages
See Graffi ti/Page 2A
Autumn chill
cracks the
record books
Submitted photo
Virginia Buchfi nck as a girl. She was born Oct. 10, 1919,
at West Linn, southeast of Portland. Buchfi nck, who
moved to Baker City in 1949, will celebrate her 100th
birthday with a party Saturday afternoon at the First
Lutheran Church.
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 3B-6B
Comics ....................... 7B
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........5B & 6B
Dear Abby ................. 8B
Horoscope ........5B & 6B
Jayson Jacoby ..........4A
News of Record ........2A
The potent cold front that barged through
Baker County Tuesday afternoon ushered
in record-breaking chill more common to
December than to early October.
The temperature plummeted to 15 de-
grees Thursday morning at the Baker City
Airport. That broke the previous record low
for Oct. 10 of 19 degrees, set in 2001. Today’s
low of 17 tied the daily record, set in 1990.
See Chill/Page 3A
Obituaries ..................2A
Opinion ......................4A
Outdoors ..........1B & 2B
Senior Menus ...........2A
Sports ........................7A
Weather ..................... 8B
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