2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Huntington Christmas bazaar Dec. 6, 7
HUNTINGTON — The Huntington
Historical Society’s annual Christmas
bazaar and fundraiser is set for Dec.
6 from noon to 5 p.m. and Dec. 7 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Huntington
School. There will be bingo games,
hand-crafted gifts, baked goods and
hot drinks. Santa will also make an
appearance. The venue is wheelchair-
accessible.
More information is available by call-
ing Jenny at 208-407-2701.
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
THURSDAY, NOV. 28
■ Thanksgiving Day.
FRIDAY, NOV. 29
■ National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Family Fun
Day: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center 5 miles east of Baker
City just off Highway 86; the event includes pioneer games,
tall tales from the Oregon Trail and a selfi e station; for $3
per person, make three seasonal crafts to take home; hours
are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Nov. 30.
SUNDAY, DEC. 1
■ National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Free
Admission during December: Beginning Dec. 2, the
center will shift to its winter schedule of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday through Sunday.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m.,
Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
THURSDAY, DEC. 5
■ National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Free-Fee
Days: Free admission; information about winter hours is
available by calling 541-523-1843.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
November 25, 1969
The Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs paid
$18,149,828 in 1969-70 taxes Nov. 15 on the properties of
39,950 war veterans who have state farm and home loans.
In Baker County, the tax on 225 properties this year was
$60,655.80.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 25, 1994
The Baker County Court signed a resolution reaffi rming
the county’s snowmobile ordinance during the regular
court session Wednesday.
Four roads near Unity and Hereford have been added to
the list of designated county snowmobile roads.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 25, 2009
The state plans to repave the rutted section of Inter-
state 84 where a Colorado church van crashed earlier this
month.
Three of the 16 people in the van died.
The Oregon Department of Transportation had patched
some sections of the freeway in preparation for the repav-
ing, which could happen as soon as next year.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 26, 2018
The Baker County Planning Commission has scheduled
a public hearing Dec. 11 to consider a California com-
pany’s application to install solar power panels on private
land near Baker City.
The hearing will start at 5 p.m. at the Courthouse, 1995
Third St. in Baker City.
Enerparc Inc. of Oakland has applied for a conditional-
use permit on behalf of the property owner, Hat Brand
Land & Livestock LLC of Baker City. Brent Gyllenberg is
Hat Brand’s manager, according to Oregon Corporation
Division records.
The solar power array would consist of 45,000 to 55,000
panels installed on 90 to 100 acres of rangeland near Sut-
ton Creek Road, about six miles southeast of Baker City.
The property is about one mile east of the landfi ll and
about 7/10th of a mile south of Interstate 84.
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which will provide lunch for
the children; Thatcher’s Ace
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Hardware, which has provided
Partners who have joined
gift-wrapping supplies for all
the police department for the
gifts; Community Connection,
shopping spree include Bi-Mart, which supplies the transporta-
where it will take place; Blue
tion; and the Nazarene Church,
Mountain Baptist Church,
which provides the venue for
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ TUESDAY: Baked ham, sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables,
roll, green salad, tapioca
■ WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, potatoes and gravy, broccoli-
blend vegetables, bread, gelatin with fruit, cinnamon roll
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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this event possible,” Duman
said.
To donate to the program,
visit the Baker City Police De-
partment at 1768 Valley Ave., or
call the office at 541-523-3644,
and ask for Detective Shannon
Regan, event coordinator.
O BITUARIES
Kelsey Dennis
17th Street. Kelsey built stock cars and
raced at the Baker race track where he
won trophies. Other hobbies included
hunting and fi shing. He enjoyed bird
hunting along with big game hunting
and he harvested many trophy deer and
elk. Kelsey was an incredible marksman
and loved to demonstrate his skills by
fl ipping a bottle cap up in the air and
drawing his pistol and hitting the cap.
The family owned and operated
Dennis Auto Wrecking from 1957 until
1962. In 1961 the family bought land on
Dogtown Creek (Dry Creek), southeast
of Baker where Kelsey built a beautiful
home and ranched until 1971. Kelsey
was the owner operator of Dennis Well
Drilling from 1973 to 1995 and drilled
hundreds of wells in Eastern Oregon,
and he also held an Idaho license. In
1978 Kelsey and Patricia built a home at
Old Auburn and lived there for 24 years
where he enjoyed mining for gold. Kelsey
was a talented inventor and a gifted
metal fabricator. Some of the items he
built are still in use today.
Kelsey was a very proud American,
appropriately born on the Fourth of July.
Kelsey was an American patriot interest-
ed in Republican politics and was never
shy about stating his political opinion.
He was a member of the National Rifl e
Association and a property rights group,
Oregonians in Action.
Kelsey is survived by his four children,
Linda Dennis Patton of Baker City,
Kelsey Earle Dennis of Yuma, Arizona,
Stephen Dennis of the Durkee area and
Valerie Dennis Russell and her husband,
Bob, of Medical Springs; seven grandchil-
dren and numerous great-grandchildren
and great-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife,
Patricia; his parents and his three broth-
ers, LaVaughn, Wayne and Lynn Dennis,
as well as his stepfather, Clyde Wilkins.
For those who would like to make a
donation in memory of Kelsey, the family
suggests either the local YHEC (Youth
Hunter Education Challenge) or Baker
County Meals on Wheels through Tami’s
Pine Valley Funeral Home & Crema-
tion Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR
97834. Online condolences can be made
at www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.
com
Baker City, 1930-2019
Kelsey Dale Dennis, 89, died on Oct.
28, 2019, at Baker City.
Kelsey was a beloved father who was
loved very much and will be
dearly missed. Kelsey was
a hardworking, honest man
and those who knew him
will always remember his
warm smile and kind blue
Kelsey
eyes.
Dennis
Kelsey was born on July
4, 1930, in his family’s
home on Broadway Street in Baker City.
He was the third son of Earle Francis
Dennis and Verlie Agnes Graven Den-
nis. Kelsey lived nearly his entire life in
Baker County. Kelsey was from a pioneer
family. His paternal great-great grand-
father, Abraham Tharpe, traveled the
Oregon Trail to the territory of Oregon
in 1845 where his son, Abraham, was
born in 1848. Kelsey’s grandfather David
Dennis (1861-1941), came from Mower,
Minnesota, on the Oregon Trail in the
1870s settling at Joseph, and in 1897 he
married Augusta Tharpe (1871-1936).
Later the family moved to Baker County
in the Hells Canyon area in the very fi rst
years of the 1900s. Kelsey’s maternal
grandparents, Clint Graven, (1884-1967)
and Callie Rose Graven (1884-1921),
came from Amega, Missouri, in 1904
settling at New Bridge where later that
year Kelsey’s mother, Verlie, was born.
Kelsey had many memories of Baker
in the 1930s where some ranchers still
came to town on horses or in wagons.
There were still horse-watering troughs
on Main Street and the trains were
driven with steam engines.
Kelsey attended Baker Schools and
played football and basketball. Kelsey
was the quarterback of the football team
and was a letterman. He also was a
member of 4-H and raised a black Angus
bull which was controversial to the area
ranchers at that time since Herefords
were mainly raised. It was in high school
that Kelsey met Patricia Dusbabek, and
they were married in 1947. They had
four children. In 1948 the couple lived at
Roseburg where Kelsey was a log scaler
at the Roseburg Mill. In 1949 the family
moved back to Baker and Kelsey worked
for the Chevrolet Garage. In 1952 the
family moved to the Territory of Alaska Tiz Landers
and lived in Juneau for a couple of years Richland, 1939-2019
Tiz Landers, 80, a longtime Halfway
where Kelsey worked as a mechanic.
and Richland resident, died Nov. 17,
In 1954 the family moved back to
2019, at her home in Richland with her
Baker where Kelsey built a house on
family at her side.
A family gathering will
take place at a later date.
Tiz Jaraldine was born
on Oct. 3, 1939, at Half-
way to LeRoy and Leslie
Tiz
Smelcer. She was the
Landers
youngest of four children.
Tiz was raised on the
Smelcer Ranch in Pine Town. She at-
tended fi rst through eighth grades at
Pine Town School and then went on to
Halfway High.
At the age of 15, Tiz met Byrl Land-
ers, and they were united in marriage
on Dec. 2, 1959, at Weiser, Idaho. They
had three children, James (Gene), Leslie
and Steven (Steve). Tiz lived the ranch
and dairy life in Halfway until 1964
when they moved to Vanderhoof, British
Columbia, Canada, where she continued
the ranch style life. While in Vanderhoof
she was involved with the saddle club;
going to rodeos and gymkhana events.
Tiz loved to barrel race. She loved to use
a little off color fl are and referred to most
as ol’ ..... or little ...... as those close to her
know how to fi ll in the blank.
In 1973 the family moved back to Pine
Valley to help her parents on the Smelcer
Ranch. Then they started the Landers
Dairy and reopened the Lyric Theatre for
a number of years. After that Tiz went to
work in Baker City at McDonald’s and at
Marvin Wood Products.
After retiring she moved to Richland,
where she enjoyed her garden and fl ow-
ers. Tiz also liked to travel. She made
several trips to Alaska where she had
bought properties to spend summers up
there. She also loved to go gold panning
and hunting. In general she just loved
life and being in the outdoors.
Tiz is survived by her two sisters, Jane
Smelcer Buttice and Benita Smelcer
Thompson; her children, Gene and his
wife, Lori, Leslie and her husband, Rick
Morris, and Steve and Molly Landers; 8
grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren;
and numerous nieces and nephews.
Tiz was preceded in death by her par-
ents, Roy and Leslie Smelcer; her sister,
Volney Smelcer Facto; and her husband,
Byrl Landers (2019)
For those who would like to make a
donation in memory of Tiz, the family
suggests MISTI Cancer Center in Fruit-
land through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services, P.O. Box
543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condo-
lences can be made at www.tamispine-
valleyfuneralhome.com
N EWS OF R ECORD
O REGON L OTTERY
MEGABUCKS, Nov. 23
activities.
“We are appreciative to the
Baker County Sheriff’s Office,
the Baker City Police Associa-
tion, the Baker Fire Depart-
ment Association and several
individual financial contribu-
tions that have helped make
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
ASSAULT IV, MENACING and
HARASSMENT: Aaron L. Daniels,
51, of 1860 Plum St., 4:51 p.m.
Sunday, at East and Broadway
streets; jailed.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Melinia
Renee Owens, 50, of 3015 Col-
lege St., 2:16 p.m. Friday, in the
200 block of Campbell Street;
jailed.
THEFT III: Andrienna Dione
Morris, 22, of Baker City, 10:52
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and released.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Umatilla
County warrants): Dominic Mi-
chael Silva, 26, of Pendleton, 1:42
a.m. Sunday, on Campbell Street
in Baker City; jailed.
RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING
ANOTHER PERSON: Manuel
Delgado, date of birth unknown,
of Hidalgo, Texas, 9:45 p.m.
Friday, on Interstate 84, about 10
miles north of Baker City; cited
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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF INTOXICANTS —
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE:
Tammy J. Flocchini, 57, of Boise,
1:30 p.m. Nov. 19, Interstate 84,
about 5 miles south of Baker
City; police said Flocchini was
taken to the Baker County Jail
for evaluation and was cited and
released.
NO OPERATOR’S LICENSE,
DRIVING UNINSURED and FAIL-
URE TO INSTALL ID ON VEHICLE:
Ah Pu, 28, of Boise; 8:37 p.m.
Nov. 16, on Interstate 84 near
Baker City; cited and released.
POST-PRISON SUPERVISION
VIOLATION and PROBATION
VIOLATION (Baker County war-
rants): Lacey Dawn Kolb, 38, of
Huntington, 8:07 a.m. Nov. 14 at
Huntington; jailed.
PROBATION VIOLATION (Two
Baker County warrants): Andrew
Jay Culley, 30, of Baker City, 1:44
p.m. Nov. 14, in the 2700 block
of Second Street; jailed and later
released.
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DRIVING UNDER THE IN-
FLUENCE OF INTOXICANTS:
Nicholas Morgan Roberson, 30,
of Spokane, Washington, 12 a.m.
Saturday, on Interstate 84 about
5 miles north of Baker City;
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