6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019
LOCAL & STATE
WHISTLES
ings, the same number as in Baker City.
Quiet Zone proponents say that elimi-
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nating train whistles would improve safety
“I have also had customers call the offi ce due to the upgrades at crossings.
and ask if we are located near the tracks,”
In other business Tuesday, County
Folkman wrote. “While we are located over Commissioner Chairman Bill Harvey told
half a mile from the rail line, the horns
councilors about the county’s plan to hire
blow in such a manner that we might as
an employee to coordinate economic devel-
well be. This face has negatively impacted opment efforts in the city and county.
my business.”
The coordinator’s primary function will
Others attending Tuesday’s meet-
be “to focus on the establishment, imple-
ing voiced concerns about train whistles
mentation and follow through of business
harming South Baker students’ health and development efforts designed to increase
interfering with their ability to learn.
the number of family wage jobs in Baker
Baker School District Superintendent
County.”
Mark Witty and school board member Julie
Commissioners this summer ended the
Huntington wrote a letter to the Council
county’s contract with economic developer
supporting the Quiet Zone proposal.
Greg Smith.
Councilor Ken Gross said he wants to
Councilors on Tuesday also:
see closer to a majority of people support-
• Recommended the Oregon Liquor
ing the Quiet Zone. He also would like to
Control Commission approve a liquor
see citizens help raise money to make a
license for a brewery that John Coop and
Quiet Zone possible.
Twila Lavery plan to open next spring
To qualify for a Quiet Zone, the city
in the basement of the Ison House, 1790
would have to install new equipment at
Washington Ave.
railroad crossings to ensure vehicles can’t
• Tabled a discussion about asking
get to the tracks. La Grande, which re-
voters to make changes to the city charter
cently received a Quiet Zone designation, is related to the requirement that voters ap-
spending about $200,000 for its fi ve cross- prove the sale of city property.
COUNCIL
Edge Saws and Powder
River Precision.
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Simplot owns a fertilizer
Simplot, based in Boise,
distribution plant near the
will pay $235,620 for the
railroad tracks north of
property in the northeast
Broadway Street.
corner of the Industrial
Simpson said the com-
Park, which is west of 17th pany can “hardly handle the
Street and south of Poca-
volumes we have.”
hontas Road.
“Our company is making
The price of $16,500 per a commitment to be in this
acre is the same as what
community and moving
the city received for 2.2
forward to building and
acres it sold earlier this
owning a piece of property
year in another section of
and operating it long term,”
the 64-acre Industrial Park, Simpson said.
which the city owns.
Councilor Lynette Perry
Current businesses in
raised concerns about the
the area include Behlen
new plant emitting odors.
Manufacturing, Cutters
Simpson said the site won’t
produce smells or smoke.
“We want to be here, we
want to be a good neighbor,
and a good steward of this
community,” Simpson said.
He said workers at the
Baker City facility will mix
nutrients with fertilizer
based on customers’ needs.
According to a staff report
to the City Council, Simplot
will retain its current local
workforce and add one or
two jobs at the new site in
the Industrial Park.
City Manager Fred
Warner Jr. told councilors
Tuesday that the facility
will employ six full-time
workers and four part-time.
Photos courtesy of Idaho State Police
Donald B. Jordan’s Chevrolet Tahoe SUV after it plunged off the Kleinschmidt Grade
on the Idaho side of Hells Canyon.
Photos courtesy of Idaho State Police
Jordan’s vehicle is visible in the lower center of the photo (red arrow).
Trooper describes
car’s plunge off
Hells Canyon road
■ Donald Jordan’s SUV went off Kleinschmidt Grade on Nov. 5
ravine the night of Nov. 5.
Jordan was rescued early
A Portland man who was
the next morning by members
seriously injured when his ve- of the Baker County Sheriff’s
hicle landed in the bottom of a Search and Rescue Team and
ravine off Kleinschmidt Grade other volunteers from the
on the Idaho side of Hells
Halfway and Oxbow areas.
Canyon last week has been
Members of the Adams County
released from St. Alphonsus
Sheriff’s Department, ABT
Medical Center in Boise, Mark Towing and the Idaho State
Snider, hospital spokesman,
Police also were involved in the
said Tuesday.
rescue.
Snider had no other details
Idaho State Trooper Andrew
about the condition of the
Fisher, resident trooper at
victim, 44-year-old Donald B.
Meridian, provided a few more
Jordan.
details of the crash and rescue
He was trapped in his 2011 effort in an email to the Herald.
Chevy Tahoe overnight after
The rescue effort got under-
he drove off the left shoulder of way about 1:30 a.m. PST on
the steep winding road, about Nov. 6 when he received a call
75 miles east of Baker City,
reporting the single-vehicle
and rolled to the bottom of the crash.
Fisher said Jordan went
off
the road about 8:30 p.m.
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Fisher said Jordan was
traveling with a friend, whose
name was not available in
time for this story. The friend,
who was in a separate vehicle,
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Jordan failed to arrive at their
hunting camp.
Jordan and his crashed
Chevy Tahoe were found at
about 12:30 a.m. PST at the
bottom of a ravine. Once he
and his vehicle were found, a
GPS spot locator was activated
and emergency resources were
notifi ed, Fisher said.
Jordan was trapped in his
vehicle for about 9fi hours,
Fisher said.
The Baker County Search
and Rescue Team was acti-
vated at 2 a.m. to help bring
Jordan up the steep grade.
Sheriff Travis Ash and SAR
members responded and began
a technical rope rescue to reach
Jordan.
The SAR team and volun-
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and Halfway-Oxbow Ambu-
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a rope-and-winch system to
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