2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2019
MADISON
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B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
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.
MONDAY, DEC. 2
■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the
Haines Library.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 4
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m.,
Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
FRIDAY, DEC. 6
■ 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, DEC. 9
■ Baker County Library Board: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Riverside
meeting room at the library, 2400 Resort St.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
November 29, 1969
“The Drug Scene Within Our Society,” will be examined
for Baker area residents on Monday at 9:45 a.m. in the
Education Service District building, 2090 Fourth St., in the
third contemporary lecture presented by the division of
Continuing Education.
But her parents, John and
Angie Sullivan, who weren’t
home at the time, saw what
they say is a clear case of bul-
lying, or even harassment or
assault, based on the surveil-
lance cameras at their home
that recorded two separate
videos of just a little more
than a minute each of the rock
throwing and snowball pelting
their daughter endured.
The attackers were four
boys, ranging in age from 9 to
11, the Sullivans said.
The bullying actually start-
ed on Nov. 20, they said, when
their daughter was heckled
on the playground by the boys
who called her names and
made derogatory comments
about her. Madison returned
to school on Thursday, but was
upset by the treatment she’d
received on the previous day
and so her parents brought
her home from school early.
When Madison returned to
school this Monday, she was
attacked after school just as
she arrived at the gate to her
family home.
“No kid should be victim-
ized at their own house after
school,” John Sullivan said.
“Where is she supposed to feel
safe at?”
The incident began with
the boys throwing rocks at
her from across the street. As
they approached they began
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 29, 1994
Saturday’s Twilight Christmas Parade in Baker City drew
41 entrants and a large turnout of spectators.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 30, 2009
There will be a new Class 4A football champion in
Oregon this season.
That’s because last year’s champion, Astoria, fell 21-14
to Baker Saturday in the 4A quarterfi nals at Bulldog Me-
morial Stadium.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 30, 2018
Superintendent Mark Witty and members of the Baker
School Board are on a mission.
They hope to hear from voters who represent the
opinions of the 4,744 people who opposed the District’s
$48 million bond measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, and then
use what they hear to go back to those same voters with a
plan the naysayers would support.
That was the consensus after a discussion of the topic
Wednesday as part of a day-long work session at the
District Offi ce.
Had the measure passed, the bond money would have
been paired with a $4 million state matching grant to build
a new elementary school and to make other improve-
ments throughout the District. To obtain that grant a
second time, which Witty said would be a possibility, the
District would have to seek approval of another bond in a
November election.
On Nov. 6, voters rejected the proposed measure, with
4,747 voting no and 2,199 voting yes.
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LUCKY LINES, Nov. 28
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Next jackpot: $12,000
S ENIOR M ENUS
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those under 60.
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Madison’s dad, John
Sullivan, wonders what
makes the four boys want
do these kinds of things to
others.
GOLD
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
Madison Sullivan received
support from friends when
she returned to school
Tuesday.
making snowballs to throw at
her. One video shows the four
boys standing face-to-face with
Madison as they took turns
throwing snowballs directly at
her face and head.
The Sullivans credit a fi fth
boy in the group with seeking
help for their daughter. They
don’t know who scared the
group away, but it’s apparent
from the video that they were
told to stop their attack on
Madison and quickly ran from
the scene together.
The boys have been identi-
fi ed through posting of the
video clip on Facebook.
South Baker administrators
have taken action, but because
of the boys ages and confi den-
tiality requirements, they will
not say what that action has
been.
The Sullivans said Tuesday
that they were told by a parent
of one of the boys that the four
were suspended from school
for three days.
Superintendent Mark Witty
said Tuesday that school ad-
ministrators followed policies
and procedures put in place to
handle such situations.
“From my view it was man-
aged appropriately,” Witty said.
He noted that while the
school cannot supervise stu-
dents once they leave school
property, administrators do
have the authority to apply
school rules when student
behaviors, including those on
social media, affect the ability
will not be any fuel and/or
chemical storage facilities.
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Fuel required for the equip-
The proposal calls for the
ment will be provided by a
company to pay a lease fee,
fuel truck from a reputable
but the amount hasn’t been
fuel delivery company”.
determined.
The main equipment they
If the bulk test shows the
plan to use is a Skyline that
level of gold is below the
can reach to 1,500 feet in
operating cost and profi t, the length and dig down to 300
operation will stop and the
feet.
trenches dug will be leveled,
That’s much deeper than
according to the proposal.
the fl oating dredge managed
In a previous presentation when it was working the
to the commissioners, Tofsrud gravels of Sumpter Valley up
said the excavated earth will until 1954.
go through a processing plant
That dredge is the center-
to separate the gold.
piece of a state park in nearby
The process will also re-
Sumpter.
trieve other valuable miner-
According to Tofsrud’s
als as well as mercury.
proposal, the processing plant
“And we need a signifi cant can handle up to 400 cubic
amount of water for the
yards of material per hour.
gold plant,” Tofsrud said in
The test will require a
September. “The gold plant
trench that is approximately
will not use any water, it will 700 feet long, 150 to 600 feet
recycle it. It will pump water wide, and 100 feet deep to
from the area below and go
reach bedrock.
through the gold plant and
In the proposal, they state
send it back clean. We don’t
“Given that the Team will
use water, it’s total recycling.” cover all expenses initially
According to their proposal, for the bulk test, it is impera-
“During the bulk test there
tive that proper research is
of others to receive a free and
appropriate public education.
The Sullivans are disap-
pointed with the three-day
suspension. They don’t believe
that it is appropriate for what
happened to their daughter or
that it provides any guar-
antees that the boys will be
monitored to prevent it from
happening again.
“I’m just outraged,” Angie
said. “I don’t know what to do.
“Her sisters found her sit-
ting and crying on the porch in
the cold all by herself.”
Madison’s father usually is
at the house when she comes
home from school at 3:30, but
on Monday he was working
late.
Fortunately, her two older
sisters, Tiffany and Brooklyn
Niehaus, ages 16 and 15
respectively, stopped by the
house outside of their usual
routine that day.
In their fi rst visit with
police, the Sullivans were told
that because Madison was not
seriously hurt and because
of the boys’ young ages, no
criminal action could be taken
against them.
After meeting with the
parents and learning more
about the incident, Chief Ray
Duman said Tuesday that
there would be an investiga-
tion and that any evidence and
information gathered would
be turned over to the Baker
County Juvenile Department
for further consideration on
whether to take the matter
before the court.
Because the boys all are
younger than 12, under
Oregon law they have no “cul-
pable mental state” to commit
a crime, Duman said.
Their parents could be held
accountable to pay for any
damages, such as medical bills
if Madison had required a doc-
tor’s care, he said.
The court also could impose
a curfew on the boys or order
other requirements as deemed
appropriate.
“This thing needs to get
investigated and we’re going
to do the right thing and we’re
going to investigate,” Duman
said.
“This should never happen,”
he said. “I hope this is a com-
munity learning event.”
Witty said the schools will
continue to work on improv-
ing school climate and offering
strategies aimed at helping
prevent bullying among
students.
“All of us want to treat
each other with kindness and
respect,” he said. “Those are
critical traits for school and for
the workplace.”
He noted that the District
serves 1,750 students.
“The vast majority every
single day treat each other and
our staff with great respect,”
he said.
Duman said Detective
Shannon Regan will con-
tinue looking into the matter
involving Madison and the
boys.
Duman said the police will
have no control over how the
case moves forward once the
investigation is complete.
“A lot of these things are
learn as we go,” Duman said,
regarding the decision of
whether or not to pursue in-
vestigation of the incident. “If
we’ve made mistakes we’re
going to correct them.”
Child safety is something
everyone in the community
should take responsibility for,
he said.
Duman said he is proud of
his Baker City Police Depart-
ment employees who respond
to 1,000 calls a month with
just two offi cers per shift.
“We’re doing the best we
can,” he said. “I’d put these
guys up against anybody I’ve
ever worked with.
“They are doing a good job
for this community,” he said.
carried out in order to fully
assess the actual gold content
and ensure that it will cover
expenses with a reasonable
profi t.”
Tofsrud’s timeline calls for
the test to be done in May
and June 2020, with analysis
of the gold content, and the
subsequent decision about
whether to try to proceed
with mining, from September
through November 2020.
Rainier Skyline Excavators
Inc. Special Projects RSE,
the company submitting the
proposal, formed a team for
the bulk test.
The team includes; Rainier
Skyline (RSE) of Auburn,
WEA, Shukran Investment
Inc. (SII) of Vancouver, BC,
Canada, Yellow Eagle Mining
(YEM) of Utah, and Mark
Ferns, former geologist with
the Oregon Department of
Geology and Mineral Indus-
tries offi ce in Baker City.
The lease says RSE under-
stands the county wants to
bring a portion of the tailings
area back to its original
status in the rest of the valley
after the test.
“RSE further understands
that the county does not
have the fi nancial capacity to
future reclamation after the
bulk test. Hence it will be nec-
essary for RSE team to verify
the information from existing
gold plant data.”
S. John Collins/Baker City Herald
Angie Sullivan says she
hopes to raise more aware-
ness about bullying.
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
Laura Chapman: 76, of
Baker City and formerly of
Elgin, died on Nov. 26, 2019, at
a Baker City care center. There
will be a graveside service at 2
p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the Elgin
Cemetery. A full obituary will
be published later. Loveland
Funeral Chapel & Crematory
in La Grande is in charge of ar-
rangements.
POLICE LOG
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A
MOTOR VEHICLE, CRIMINAL
TRESPASS II and PROBATION
VIOLATION: Aaron Dale Duvall,
29, of 2210 Colorado Place, Tues-
day, at his home; jailed.