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FRIDAY BAKER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES GREATER OREGON LEAGUE ALL STARS: PG. 6A In OUTDOORS, 1B Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com November 29, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: Local • Health & Fitness • Outdoors • TV $1.50 QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Bev Linscott of Baker City. Oregon, 3A WASHINGTON, D.C. — Oregon’s two U.S. sena- tors are probing the USDA over what they describe as “unintended and poten- tially harmful effects” of the agency’s interim hemp rule, which was released last month. In a letter sent Nov. 20 to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley outlined concerns raised by farmers, researchers and regulators that could impact industrial hemp production in Oregon and across the country. Haines Post Offi ce Clerk Reuses Materials For Holiday Decorations Rejoice & Recycle ccollins@bakercityherald.com HOWARD BUTTE — Fire detection has come a long way in the 75 years since Smokey the Bear was fi rst created to remind us, “Only you can prevent for- est fi res.” In fact, it now includes technology almost un- imaginable when Smokey was created in 1944. Today, alongside a wooden lookout tower built in 1946 on 4,319-foot- tall Howard Butte stands a 110-foot-tall metal tower topped by a 360-degree, high-defi nition camera. WEATHER Today 27 / 8 Mostly cloudy and frigid 27 / 12 S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Recycled paper, magazines and junk mail become decor for a Christmas atmosphere at the Haines Post Of- fi ce. Stacy Dinger, postal clerk, brings out a work in progress recently, an arbor made of packing paper. Mainly cloudy and cold Sunday 29 / 22 A little morning snow 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. Walk home takes bad turn By Chris Collins Local, 5A Saturday Icy visit to alpine lake When the fi rst snow of the season fell Monday in Baker City, some took the time to enjoy it. Others complained as the harsh reality of winter set in even though it came a bit later than in some years past. And still others used it as an opportunity to bully a schoolmate and cause hurt and unhappiness. Snowball fi ghts can be fun if they are fought on equal ground. But four against one has little chance of ending happily for the one. Madison Sullivan found herself in that situation on her way home from South Baker Intermediate School Monday afternoon. Madison turned 12 on Nov. 14. She was diagnosed with autism when she was 21 months old. Because she has autism, she wasn’t quite sure what was happening to her when four students from school ganged up on her to repeatedly throw snowballs at her face from close range while she stood at the front gate of her home Monday afternoon. See Madison/Page 2A By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald HAINES — Stacy Dinger is creating a winter wonderland one piece of junk mail at a time. Dinger is the postal clerk at the Haines Post Offi ce. She decorates the space for every holiday season, and this year she wanted to try something different for the holidays. “I try to decorate the offi ce for every holiday as much as I possibly can,” she said. Her theme is “Recycling in a Winter Wonderland.” “Everything I have is recycled from the community,” she said. To start, she asked her postal “Everything I have customers to is recycled from donate any junk the community.” mail or catalogs they didn’t want — Stacy Dinger, Haines Post Offi ce to take home. She then set about turning those items into decora- tions. The junk mail fl yers, for example, became paper maché snowballs spray painted white and sprinkled with glitter. “They turned out ever so cute,” she said. The catalogs became miniature trees — each page is folded three times — and also spray painted white. Even simple paper wasn’t safe from her crafty hands. Dinger weaved the brown paper that comes in Amazon boxes into an arbor that will be front and center in the window. County approves dredge tailing test By Samantha O’Conner soconner@bakercityherald.com S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Magazines are folded page by page to make trees for one of Dinger’s wintry scenes at the post offi ce. Baker County com- missioners have agreed to move ahead with a company’s proposal to lease 25 acres of county property in the Sumpter Valley and determine whether gold deposits are suffi cient to justify mining. During a special meeting Tuesday, Erik Tofsrud, the project manager, presented a lease proposal to commis- sioners. Commission Chairman Bill Harvey said the next step is for Tofsrud to send him a written statement confi rming Tofsrud and his partners will follow all state regulations. The written statement will be presented to the county attorney for review. See Decorate/Page 3A TODAY Issue 87, 14 pages Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 3B-6B Comics ....................... 7B See Gold/Page 2A Community News.............3A Crossword................5B & 6B Dear Abby...........................8B Horoscope ................5B & 6B Jayson Jacoby...................4A Lottery.................................2A News of Record.........2A Opinion ......................4A Outdoors ................... 1B Sports.................................6A Turning Back the Pages....2A Weather..............................8B MONDAY — CIVIL WAR FOOTBALL FOLLOW: DUCKS VS. BEAVERS
