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FRIDAY TRAIL BLAZERS’ ROAD WOES CONTINUE WITH LOSS AT MILWAUKEE: PAGE 5A In OUTDOORS, 1B Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com November 22, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: Local • Health & Fitness • Outdoors • TV QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Gary Hester of Baker City. BRIEFING New Owner Plans One Last Dance At the Former Royal Cafe Royal Treatment Blasting will delay traffi c near Oxbow on Monday Drivers planning to travel to Hells Canyon Dam Monday should expect delays of up to two hours starting around 1 p.m. PST while crews use explosives to blast rock to widen the shoulder of the road between Oxbow and Hells Canyon dams. The project is expected to be fi nished by the middle of December. $1.50 Final day of an epic bike tour Board gets no response to bond proposal ■ School district schedules another work session on the topic for January 9 Pet supply collection drive under way By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com PayneWest Insurance is having a pet supply collection drive for Best Friends of Baker through Dec. 13. People can drop off adult dog and cat food (wet or dry), dry kitten and dry puppy food, kitty litter and kitten milk replace- ment powder and nursing bottles at PayneWest, at 2001 Main St. (corner of Main Street and Washing- ton Avenue). The Baker School Board alloted 25 minutes on its agenda Thursday night to accept public input about a proposed bond measure set to go before voters in May. That time slot was fi lled with other mat- ters, however, because not a single person showed up to discuss the proposed $7.5 mil- lion bond measure. The bond, which would be repaid over a 10-year period is estimated to cost Baker School District residents 66 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value. It would be paired with a $4 million state matching grant and $5 million from the Baker School District for a total of $16.5 million to fund school improvements. As planning continues, the Board has scheduled a work session for Thursday, Jan. 9, beginning at 5 p.m. Superintendent Mark Witty said the work session would allow the Board to review other input received on the proposal and to take a closer look at details the Board would like to see in the fi nal plan. In other business Thursday night, Tom Joseph, Baker High School director of specifi c secondary programs, outlined plans for the District’s proposed Oregon Interna- tional School. WEATHER Today 49 / 19 Mostly sunny Saturday 50 / 27 Mostly cloudy Sunday See Schools/Page 5A 49 / 25 Rain showers possible S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Full forecast on the back of the B section. Jessica French continues preparing the stainless steel fl oor for the one-last-dance event planned for the night of the Baker City Christmas parade and tree lighting, Dec. 7. 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. By Samantha O’Conner soconner@bakercityherald.com A former favorite spot for nightlife in Baker City is get- ting a royal makeover just in time for the Christmas parade and tree-lighting event on Saturday, Dec. 7. Jeff Jentzsch of Rupert, Idaho, recently bought the former Royal Cafe and Lounge, a longtime popular dance place, at 1902 Main St., as an invest- ment. Jentzsch said someone mentioned that it would be fun to have one last dance before he remodels the interior of the building, which is on the east side of Main Street just north S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Jeff Jentzsch explains plans for the restoration of the historic building. of Court Avenue. He was intrigued. “The stainless steel fl oor is still there and that’s what we’re trying to do, is get this back to a semi-presentable state and do one last dance,” Jentzsch said. The dance will take place af- ter the tree-lighting ceremony, and those attending will have the option to buy a piece of memorabilia from the historic Kennedy Building, constructed around 1900. Jentzsch sent in a slab of the steel fl oor to Natural Struc- tures in Baker City, where workers are slicing the sheet into coaster-sized pieces. The pieces work as a ticket as well, but they will have paper tickets too. Police seize stolen car By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com A car that police believe was stolen Sunday during a robbery in Baker City was recovered by the Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce Wednesday at Haines. The investigation began Tuesday while Sheriff Travis Ash and Deputy Eric Colton were in Haines investigating a report of ve- hicles blocking the alley behind the Haines Mercantile, a Sheriff’s Offi ce press release stated. A 1994 Honda Civic, occupied by Paul Lloyd Niehaus, 52, and Jamie Lynne Star- board, 39, pulled up to the site while offi cers were investigating. Ash checked the status of the Honda Civic and found that it had been stolen in Baker City Sunday. See Royal/Page 3A See Stolen/Page 5A Weather fluctuations affect prescribed fires By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Autumn weather that careened between extremes has had a pro- found effect on prescribed burning plans on public lands in Northeast- ern Oregon. “It was a different sort of fall,” TODAY Issue 84, 16 pages said Steve Hawkins, fuels program manager for the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. The season swapped the typical sequence, starting with tempera- tures more typical of winter, then transitioning to a long spell of abnormally warm and dry weather. Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 3B-6B Comics ....................... 7B Community News ....3A Crossword ........5B & 6B Dear Abby ................. 8B Crews ended up burning about 2,500 acres, mostly in three areas — Goose Creek about 20 miles northeast of Baker City; near Unity Reservoir; and in the Wolf Creek area northwest of North Powder. That’s more acreage than Hawkins expected would be burned Horoscope ........5B & 6B Jayson Jacoby ..........4A News of Record ........2A back in early October, after a series of Pacifi c storms doused the region with rain and snow. During that time, the grass and pine needles that carry fl ames across the ground were too wet to sustain blazes. Obituaries ..................2A Opinion ......................4A Outdoors ..........1B & 2B See Fire/Page 2A Senior Menus ...........2A Sports ........................5A Weather ..................... 8B MONDAY — DUCKS, BEAVERS, BRONCOS COLLEGE FOOTBALL ACTION
