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FRIDAY THE ANNUAL SNOWY EXCURSION TO FIND THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS TREE: PG. 1B Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com December 13, 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 Julie Adams of Baker City. BRIEFING 17TH OREGON LEADERSHIP SUMMIT IN PORTLAND Baker County Library’s Historic Photo Website Gets An Update Help With History Applicants sought to fi ll vacancy on Baker City Council Baker City residents interested in serving on the City Council have until 4 p.m. on Jan. 6 to submit an application. To be eligible, applicants must be registered to vote in Oregon, and have lived within the Baker City limits for at least 12 months prior to being appointed. The va- cancy on the seven-mem- ber City Council results from Councilor Ken Gross resigning at the end of this month due to his job being moved. The remaining six councilors plan to meet with applicants during a work session on Jan. 8, and then to appoint Gross’ replacement on Jan. 14. To apply, go to www.baker city.com and download the City Councilor application. Submit the application and a letter of interest to Katie LaFavor at City Hall, 1655 First St. The person ap- pointed will serve through December 2020, and would be eligible to run for a four-year term in the November 2020 election. WEATHER Today 39 / 24 Mostly cloudy Saturday 38 / 21 Mostly cloudy Sunday 37 / 19 Mostly cloudy 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. Lugging a freshly cut grand fi r back to the rig Locals will attend summit By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com Baker County Library Historic Photo Collection This photo from 1910 is Gary Dielman’s favorite. The scene is looking north on Baker City’s Main Street from Valley Avenue. By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald Access to Baker County’s history is richer than ever thanks to an up- dated program on the Baker County Library’s website. The library has preserved historic photographs for a number of years. The newest update is Past Perfect 5 and features an easy-to-navigate menu and search option. “It’s more user-friendly,” Perry Stokes, library director, said of the program. Access the collection here: https:// bakerlib.pastperfectonline.com/ From the library’s main website, bakerlib.org, click on “Historic Photos and Archives” to fi nd the collection. Gary Dielman is chair of the library board and has been instrumental in scanning, researching, and uploading the photos. In some cases, that’s quite a process. Take, for instance, the collection acquired last spring of photographs taken by Robert N. Gambs, who owned a studio in Baker City in the 1930s and ’40s. The boxes, which very nearly headed to the trash, were donated to the library by Gambs’ family. The seven boxes were full of photographs, negatives, and keepsakes. The negatives — about 1,000 — measure 8 inches by 10 inches. Diel- man’s scanner can scan only a portion of those negatives at a time. “I have to scan it three to four times,” Dielman said. Then he uses Photoshop to stitch “Anybody in the world can go to this website and get these pictures.” — Gary Dielman, chairman, Baker County Library Board the image together. The Gambs collection provides a glimpse into Baker City life during the late 1930s to 1950 — an era shy of photos in the library’s collection. “It fi lls a gap we didn’t have,” he said. Most of the library’s photos date from 1910 and earlier. The new program, Dielman said, al- lows users to enlarge a photo to truly see the detail. At the bottom right is a “Request Image” icon where anyone can access a copy of the photograph. “Anybody in the world can go to this website and get these pictures,” he said. Stokes said the new program includes Google indexing, so images from the library’s collection can turn in up a Google search. Obtaining a copy of a photograph is free because all the photos were donated to the library, Dielman said. The images can also be download- ed directly from the website. The home page allows searching by location, such as the 1700 block of Main Street, or 10th Street. Other categories are Small Towns, Ghost Towns, Mining Districts, and Other Topics. Each has a more specifi c list beneath the heading. Access The Collection THERE ARE 2 OPTIONS: • type this address into your browser: https://bakerlib.pastperfectonline. com/ • go to the Baker County Library District’s website, www.bakerlib. org, and click on “Historic Photos & Archives” The photo fi les contain a title, description, date, and photographer — if that information accompanied the photo or could be found through research. The collection’s main page is accented by a photograph Dielman chose for a simple reason. “It’s my favorite picture,” he said. “It’s a great picture of Baker City in 1910.” The photo (see above) captures Main Street looking north from Valley Avenue. A woman is walking up the middle of the street and a man in a carriage is tipping his hat to her. Stokes said 200 of the library’s photographs are also available on the Washington Rural Heritage database, which is a project of the Washington State Library and soon also the Oregon State Library. See Photos/Page 2A Baker County Library Historic Photo Collection An 1884 Hazeltine photo of the covered wagon, old couple, four kids, and motley livestock pulling their wagon. TODAY Issue 103, 14 pages Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 3B-6B Comics ....................... 7B Community News ....3A Crossword ........3B & 6B Dear Abby ................. 8B Horoscope ........3B & 6B Jayson Jacoby ..........4A News of Record ........2A Obituaries ..................2A Opinion ......................4A Outdoors ................... 1B A contingent of about 20 Baker County residents representing a wide range of government agencies, businesses and economic development interests will travel to Portland Sunday to participate in Monday’s 17th Oregon Leadership Summit in Portland. Mark Witty, Baker School District superintendent, said he led the charge to gather the group and to focus the session on eco- nomic opportunities. Those making the trip west will offer their perspectives of how collaboration between public and private enti- ties is needed to restore a middle class economy to rural communities. “The idea is to fi gure out ways the school district, pri- vate industry and local gov- ernment agencies can work together for the betterment of economic development in Baker County,” Witty said. The trip is being spon- sored jointly by the Baker School District, Umpqua Bank and the Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative to pay the $150 registration fee and cover motel expenses, Witty said. See Summit/Page 5A Facility committee to discuss B2H plan By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com PENDLETON — The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council will discuss the proposed Boardman to Hemingway (B2H) power transmission line, which would run through Baker County, when it meets next week at Pendleton. The Council, which is reviewing Idaho Power Company’s application to build the 293-mile, 500-ki- lovolt line, will convene at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Red Lion Inn, 304 S.E. Nye Ave. The Council will reconvene there at 8 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 20. Council members will discuss comments received on the draft proposed order authorizing construction of the line, which could start in 2023, as well as Idaho Power’s responses to those comments. See Power Line/Page 3A Senior Menus ...........2A Sports ........................6A Weather ..................... 8B MONDAY — BAKER BOYS, GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS
