2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2019
SCHOOLS
Continued from Page 1A
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23
■ Baker City Farmers Market: 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.,
downtown at the Court Avenue Plaza; last market of the
season.
FRIDAY, NOV. 1
■ Live Music by Keith Taylor: Ragtime piano, 4:30 p.m. to
5:30 p.m., Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, 2020 Auburn
Ave.; no charge.
■ First Friday Art Shows: Baker City art galleries are open
late to showcase the month’s new artwork; opening times
vary between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. at Crossroads Carnegie
Art Center, Peterson’s Gallery and others.
MONDAY, NOV. 4
■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 6 p.m. at the
Haines Library. (New time begins this month.)
TUESDAY, NOV. 5
■ Local Community Advisory Council in coordination
with the Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care
Organization (which serves Oregon Health Plan
members in the region): Community meeting, noon to 2
p.m. at the Oregon Trail Electric Co-op Building at 4005 23rd
St. in Baker City.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
October 24, 1969
HAINES — Telephone subscribers here are up in
arms over an improvement, resulting in possible higher
charges.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
October 24, 1994
Kenneth Lockwood, who spent his entire working career
with KBKR radio station, including 33 years as owner, died
Oct. 23, 1994, at St. Elizabeth Health Services. He was 71.
Committee member Martin
Arritola, who led the Board
through a slide presentation
of the recommendations Mon-
day, said the group agreed to
recommend the Board ask
voters to approve a 10-year
bond, that would include $1.4
million interest.
The $7.5 million bond
would boost property taxes
within the school district by
66 cents per $1,000 of as-
sessed value over the 10-year
term.
Arritola said under the
plan, the owner of a home
with the district’s median
assessed value of $108,320
would pay an additional
$71.49 per year to pay for the
school improvements.
Arritolla said he and some
of the other committee mem-
bers had wanted to go with
a fi ve-year bond repayment
schedule, but that would have
increased the cost per $1,000
of assessed value to a level
approaching the $1.97 per
thousand that voters turned
down in November 2018.
That bond measure, which
also would have had a 30-
year repayment, was defeated
by a vote of 4,725 to 2,185
“Due to feedback from the
community and a lot of lower
income, fi xed-income resi-
dents — to be able to sell this
bond — we wanted a dollar
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald fi le photo
Baker High School would be remodeled to accommodate seventh- and eighth-grad-
ers if voters approve a bond measure in May 2020.
per thousand assessed value
to be as low as we could get
it,” Aritolla said.
Another committee
member, retired Dr. Robert
McKim, said he also favored a
fi ve-year repayment term on
the bond.
“The people who vote for it
are going to get the oppor-
tunity to pay it off instead of
their kids,” he said. “I can ac-
cept this, but I was trying to
make it over a shorter period
of time.”
Committee member Travis
Cook said the length of the
bond repayment was the only
area in which the committee
members disagreed. Members
fi nally reached consensus
on the 10-year plan in their
effort to try to convince voters
to approve the measure.
As proposed, the commit-
Board buys parking lot
By Chris Collins
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
October 23, 2009
Matea Huggins isn’t even a teenager yet but already
she’s the star of a hunting tale that would enchant listen-
ers at any Oregon campfi re.
It’s even true, this story.
On Sunday Matea, who’s 12, pulled off a feat that fewer
than 100 hunters in the state, almost all of them at least
twice her ago, can boast about.
Matea bagged a mountain goat.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
October 24, 2018
One of Baker County’s unique attractions will soon
close for the season in advance of winter’s deep snows,
but plans are afoot to open more of the Sumpter Dredge
to visitors in the future.
There is no timeline, but the long-term goal is to allow
visitors to tour sections of the upper two stories of the
hulking gold-mining machine, said Garrett Groth, ranger
at the Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Area.
That could include the third-fl oor winch room, where a
worker controlled many of the functions of the 1,240-ton
behemoth.
Groth said he hopes the park will have up to $250,000
available for work inside the dredge, although the Oregon
Parks and Recreation Department might need to divert
some of that money to other park properties in Harney
County.
Any project inside the dredge, which operated from
1935 until 1954, is challenging because of potential
confl icts between modern safety standards for stairs
and other facilities, and the need to preserve the historic
nature of the machine, Groth said.
O REGON L OTTERY
MEGABUCKS, Oct. 21
4 — 17 — 18 — 41 — 43 — 47
Next jackpot: $4.8 million
MEGA MILLIONS, Oct. 22
5 — 11 — 14 — 23 — 25
Mega 10
Next jackpot: $93 million
WIN FOR LIFE, Oct. 21
2 — 3 — 74 — 77
PICK 4, Oct. 22
• 1 p.m.: 5 — 4 — 9 — 4
• 4 p.m.: 1 — 6 — 7 — 2
• 7 p.m.: 1 — 6 — 8 — 1
• 10 p.m.: 2 — 4 — 1 — 0
LUCKY LINES, Oct. 22
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
The Baker School Board Monday night
agreed to spend $60,000 to purchase a
vacant lot near Brooklyn School to expand
parking.
The lot, at 1353 Washington Ave., is
owned by David Wright of Baker City. Its
real market value is listed as $49,160, ac-
cording to Baker County Assessor’s Offi ce
records.
The lot has room for about 28 parking
spaces once it is brought up to city require-
ments, Superintendent Mark Witty said.
“We are trying to get more parking,”
he told the Board, which considered the
purchase in executive (closed to the public)
session prior to the open meeting. “I know
the community would defi nitely appreciate
that.
“I personally think parking is a major
consideration for us both at Brooklyn and
South Baker,” Witty said.
Director Kevin Cassidy said he recalls
the challenges when he was a student at
Brooklyn at a time when the school housed
Grades 1-6. Now, with an enrollment of
about 430 students, nearing the numbers
at Baker High School, additional parking
defi nitely is needed, he said.
“I’m hopeful that even though there’s
concern about (the District) buying prop-
erty that’s not being utilized in the moment
... I think it’s a great opportunity,” Cassidy
said.
Director Julie Huntington spoke in sup-
port of “anything we can do to add to the
safety of getting kids transferred.”
Lua Berniece Osborn was
born on Aug. 27, 1920, at
Berniece Osborn, 99, of
Prosser, Nebraska. She mar-
Baker City, died Oct. 18,
ried C.D. Goodman and had
2019, at her home.
seven children. On Jan. 12,
A celebration of Bernice’s
1971, Berniece married John
life will take
L. Osborn. Berniece lived in
place during
Baker City for 65 years and
the senior meal
for many years she worked
at the Commu-
for Safeway.
nity Connection
Her favorite color was
Senior Center,
red. She loved to get out and
Berniece garden; she enjoyed roses,
2810 Cedar St.,
Osborn
on Thursday,
cactus and anything that
Oct. 24 from
bloomed. Berniece liked to
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wear watch Oregon and Oklahoma
your favorite hat in honor of football and her favorite
Berniece if you’d like.
baseball team was the Se-
Berniece Osborn
Baker City, 1920-2019
Next jackpot: $27,000
S ENIOR M ENUS
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., 11:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $4.50 donation (60 and older), $6.75 for
those under 60.
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Brooklyn School
• Would serve Grades K-2.
The school, which today has
students from K-3, exceeds its
intended capacity.
• Safety and security up-
grades, including secure entry
• Restroom addition
North Baker Building,
Haines and Keating
Schools
• Safety and security
upgrades
Committee members
In addition to Arritola,
Cook and McKim, committee
members were Jess Blatch-
ford, Stacy DeLong, Riley
Hall, Coby Mastrude, Lynette
Perry, Wes Price, Angela Robb
and Danae Simonski.
O BITUARY
1-7-10-15-19-21-27-32
■ THURSDAY: Hearty beef stew, broccoli-blend vegetables,
cornbread, applesauce, cinnamon roll
■ FRIDAY: Baked ham, sweet potato, peas, roll, green salad,
cake
• HMS would be trans-
formed for Grades 5-6
• Safety and security up-
grades, including secure entry
Baker High School
and reconfi gured parent/stu-
• Remodel to include
dent drop-off area
Grades 7-12. The high school,
• Refresh historic character
of building with new win-
which was built to accom-
modate 830 students, houses dows, historic entry on Fourth
only about 450 now.
Street and exterior upgrades
• Safety and security up-
• 7,000-square-foot addi-
grades, including secure entry tion for multi-purpose room
addition
(serving as cafeteria/kitchen)
• Dedicated commons area and locker rooms
for Grades 7-8
• Modernize existing locker South Baker School
• Would serve Grades 3-4.
rooms
The school, which today has
• Grades 7-8 locker room
students from grades 4, 5
addition
and 6, exceeds its intended
• Remodel science class-
capacity.
rooms for Grades 7-8 use
• Safety and security up-
Helen M. Stack Building,
grades, including secure entry
which formerly served
• New staff parking lot to
Grades 7-8
increase parking and acces-
sibility for parents
tee’s recommendations for
use of the bond measure and
other revenue include:
winners
Week of October 14
John Beam
attle Mariners.
Berniece belonged to the
Elks with her husband, John.
She loved to dance whether
it be at the Elks, the Senior
Center or any place that had
music. She loved playing
pinochle with all her lady
friends. Favorite phrases to
her seven children included
“Do it right the fi rst time and
you will never have to do it
over again,” “Can’t never did
a thing,” “If you can’t say any-
thing nice, don’t say anything
at all.” Berniece loved travel-
ing with family, spending time
in her cabin on Olive Creek,
reading and crocheting many
doilies and afghans.
Berniece was very proud
of her large family. She loved
getting phone calls and
texting with family. She had a
joyful personality and a “love
of life.” Known as the “Hat
Lady,” she kept everyone
guessing which hat she was
going to wear.
A unique moment in
Berniece’s life was when she
served John F. Kennedy at
the Pastime Bar/Restaurant
before he became president.
She had no clue who he was
until he was elected.
Berniece is survived by
her daughters, Eddy D. Beck,
Lua Berniece Bird (Tom),
Glynda M. Anderson (Bill)
and Shielah Reeder; her sons,
Chuck Goodman (Beth) and
Don Goodman (Diana); her
daughter-in-law, Carolyn;
grandchildren and great-
grandchildren, too numerous
to count and she loved every
one of them; one brother,
Robert (Patty); and numerous
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Homer and
Violet Goble; her husband of
26 years, John Osborn; the
husband of her children, C.D.
Goodman; her sons, George
Goodman and Dennis Good-
man; and fi ve brothers.
For those who would
like to make a donation in
memory of Berniece, the fam-
ily suggests the Community
Connection Senior Center
through Tami’s Pine Valley
Funeral Home & Crema-
tion Services, P.O. Box 543,
Halfway, OR 97834. Online
condolences may be made at
www.tamispinevalleyfuneral-
home.com
Missed 4, beat tiebreaker
Wins $25
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Monty White
New Hope for Eastern Oregon Animals
Missed 4, missed tiebreaker
Wins $15
John Heriza
Missed 5
Wins $10
Tie-Breaker:
Southern OR 31 @ Eastern OR 25
Fundraising Banquet
Saturday, October 26th
Community Connection
2810 Cedar Street, Baker City
Spaghetti Dinner at 6 pm, followed by Auction
Tickets $15 adults, $12 youth age 12 & under
Tickets available at Betty’s Books
Proceeds benefi t Powder Pals dog &
Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Programs
Questions? Call 541-403-2710