2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019
TIRES
Continued from Page 1A
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
FRIDAY, JAN. 3
■ 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, JAN. 6
■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 7 p.m. at the
Haines Library.
TUESDAY, JAN. 7
■ Local Community Advisory Council (LCAC): 1 p.m. to
2 p.m., at the Community Connection meeting room, 2810
Cedar St.; lunch will be provided.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 8
■ Baker School Board: Work session, 5 p.m., Council
Chambers in Baker City Hall, 1655 First St.
■ Lower Powder River Irrigation District Board: 6 p.m.
at Barley Brown’s, 2190 Main St.
FRIDAY, JAN. 10
■ 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; continues most Fridays.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
December 30, 1969
Education was the big news in Baker County during
1969. That was the year that saw Magic Valley Christian
College move from Albion, Idaho, to Baker and become
Baker College.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
December 30, 1994
WEISER — Baker continued to show signs of improve-
ment Thursday but still couldn’t put a complete game
together.
The Bulldogs stumbled enough times to drop a 57-49
non-league boys basketball game to Weiser.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
December 30, 2009
The BLM has approved a Baker County man’s proposal
to install six wind turbines on public land just north of
Huntington. Randy Joseph, who lives in Sumpter Valley,
applied for a permit for the Lime Wind Project in June 2007.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
December 31, 2018
Jason Todd doesn’t drive to the store to buy his favorite
beverage.
He just walks down to his basement.
Dozens of brown glass bottles stand in rows, as orderly
as soldiers at attention, in the space below the stairs lead-
ing to the cellar of the 103-year-old home that Todd and his
wife, Crystal, own in Baker City.
Each 12-ounce bottle contains kombucha.
That’s the fi zzy fermented fl avored tea, served cold, that
the Todds have been brewing in their home for the past
two years.
The couple, who moved to Baker City in 2015 and have
a four-year-old son, Luke, started selling kombucha in 2017
under the name JungleBooch Raw Kombucha Teas.
The whole process, from brewing to bottling, happens
inside their home.
Jason, 36, who has a teaching contract with the Baker
School District and also oversees its digital media among
other duties, jokes that his friends and customers in effect
subsidize his thirst for kombucha.
O REGON L OTTERY
MEGABUCKS, Dec. 28
2 — 6 — 11 — 15 — 37 — 39
Next jackpot: $8 million
POWERBALL, Dec. 28
20 — 23 — 39 — 59 — 60 PB 18
Next jackpot: $220 million
MEGA MILLIONS, Dec. 27
17 — 34 — 40 — 63 — 64
Mega 24
Next jackpot: $55 million
“It’s synonymous with ser-
vice in the Pacifi c Northwest,”
Brown said. “The value is in
the name.”
In the event that a new
owner declined to continue
the company’s relationship
with Lew Brothers and the
64 other independent stores,
Brown said he expects those
store owners would pick a dif-
ferent tire supplier.
“All of our employees work
for Lew Brothers, and their
jobs are not at risk,” Brown
said of the 18 people who work
at the Baker City location at
210 Bridge St., just east of the
Powder River.
But although Brown
acknowledges it’s nice to have
other options as an indepen-
dent store, he very much
wants to continue his family’s
50-year association with Les
Schwab Tires.
“Jim and I worked here
all through high school in
the 1970s, so we don’t know
anything different,” Rocky
Brown said. “We hope for the
future that it continues to be
a Les Schwab store and that
our family will be involved for
generations to come.
“We’ve always been Les
Schwab boys.”
Lew Brothers was started
in 1916 by Rocky and Jim’s
great uncles, Albert and
Franklin Lew.
The store’s original loca-
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
Lew Brothers Tires of Baker City has been affi liated with the Les Schwab company
since 1970. Lew Brothers is one of the 65 independent stores in the chain, which has
about 500 locations around the West.
tion was on the south side of
Washington Avenue between
Main and First streets, in the
building now occupied by the
Flower Box.
Pleas Brown and his cousin,
Franklin Lew’s son, also
named Franklin, bought the
business in 1946, and Pleas
Brown later bought out his
cousin.
Lew Brothers moved to a
building on Bridge Street,
just across the river from its
current site, in the 1950s. That
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The Northeastern Oregon snowpack
typically peaks in March, and it’s not
uncommon for a series of midwinter
storms to boost a sparse pack to near or
even above average.
Indeed, the National Weather Service
is forecasting signifi cant snowfall for the
higher elevations of the region later this
week.
More than a foot of snow could fall in
the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountains
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Wes Morgan, manager of the Burnt
River Irrigation District in southern
Baker County, said that although he’d
prefer a more robust snowpack, it’s too
early to be especially worried about
summer water supplies.
Photo by Phil Riendl
“There’s lots of winter left,” Morgan
Rock Creek Butte is the tallest peak in the Elkhorns, at 9,106 feet.
said. “It’s way too early to predict.”
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
Lillian E. Marr: 85, of Haines,
died Dec. 26, 2019, at her home.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Coles Tribute Center.
To light a candle in memory of
Lillian, or to leave a condolence
for her family, go to www.coles-
tributecenter.com
James Harrison: 82, of Rich-
land, died Dec. 27, 2019, at St.
Luke’s Medical Center in Boise.
A traditional funeral service will
take place in Richland, with the
time and date to be announced.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Tami’s Pine Valley
Funeral Home & Cremation Ser-
vices. Online condolences can be
made at www.tamispinevalleyfu-
neralhome.com
FUNERAL PENDING
Wayne Wilson: Memorial
service will take place Saturday,
Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Pine Bap-
tist Church in Halfway. Arrange-
ments are under the direction of
1668 Resort St.
Open Monday through Friday
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker
Justice Court warrant): Jessica
Dianne Stricker, 41, 1880 Plum
St., 6:44 p.m. Sunday at her
1809 1st Street, Baker City
www.eltrym.com
Next jackpot: $43,000
C ONTACT THE H ERALD
POLICE LOG
ELTRYM
HISTORIC THEATER
3-7-12-13-19-22-26-30
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.
Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home
& Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at
www.tamispinevalleyfuneral-
home.com
DEC 27 - JAN 2
LUCKY LINES, Dec. 29
■ TUESDAY: Meat lasagna, peas, garlic breadstick, green
salad, apple crisp
Brown said Lew Broth-
ers was the second tire store
to become an independent
dealer under the Les Schwab
brand — of the 65 such deal-
ers, only the one in Roseburg
has been with the company
longer, he said.
At that time Les Schwab
owned about 36 stores,
but the name already had
considerable “clout” in the tire
business, Brown said.
“It’s been just a great as-
sociation,” he said.
SNOW
WIN FOR LIFE, Dec. 28
1 — 45 — 55 — 65
PICK 4, Dec. 29
• 1 p.m.: 3 — 1 — 4 — 7
• 4 p.m.: 9 — 3 — 3 — 3
• 7 p.m.: 0 — 0 — 0 — 2
• 10 p.m.: 4 — 0 — 9 — 4
S ENIOR M ENUS
building was destroyed in a
fi re, Brown said, after which
the business moved to its cur-
rent location, the former site of
an Oldsmobile car dealership.
Brown said Lew Brothers
was a U.S. Royal dealership
at the time, dealing in the
Uniroyal tire brand.
Around 1970, Les Schwab,
the company’s founder and
namesake, came to Baker
City looking to expand the
business he had started in
1952.
Celebrate
Where
Memories
Are Made
Happy New Year!
Live Music New Year’s Eve
by Duane Boyer’s Local Family
Bluegrass/Country Band
Open New Year’s Day
Famous for Iron Branded Steaks,
Chuck Wagon Salad Bar & Delectable Desserts!
OPEN FOR DINNER: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri at 4:30 pm
Sat 3:30 pm & Sun 12:30 pm • Closed Tues
10 miles north of Baker City on
Hwy 30 in Haines, Oregon
541-856-3639 • www.hainessteakhouse.com
LITTLE
WOMEN
PG
FRI-SUN: (12:45) (3:45) 6:45
MON-THURS: (3:45) 6:45
STAR WARS:
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FRI-SUN: (12:30) (3:30) 6:30
MON-THURS: (3:30) 6:30
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NEXT LEVEL PG-13
FRI-SUN: (1:00) (4:00) 7:00
MON-THURS: (4:00) 7:00
( )Bargain Matinee
Show Times: 541-523-2522
Offi ce: 541-523-5439
home; jailed.
VIOLATION OF RELEASE
AGREEMENT (Baker County
Circuit Court warrant): Lacey Ma-
rie Foersterling, 20, 305 Fourth
St., 4:14 p.m. Sunday in the 200
block of Campbell Street; jailed.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Carl
Joseph Spraw, 21, Baker City,
12:55 a.m. Saturday at Fourth
and Baker streets; jailed.
FAILURE TO REGISTER AS A
SEX OFFENDER (Baker County
CIrcuit Court warrant): Amanda
Marie Dixon, 1, 1560 Indiana Ave.
No. 107, 12:51 p.m. Saturday at
Grove and Madison streets; cited
and released.
CONTEMPT OF COURT
(Grant County warrant), DRIV-
ING WHILE SUSPENDED: Matt
Wayne Fitzmaurice, 42, 1680 Oak
St., 2:09 p.m. Saturday in the
4000 block of Cedar Street.
HARASSMENT, STRANGULA-
TION: Robert Edward Nichols,
32, 2425 Clark St., 12:06 p.m.
Friday at his home; jailed.
OUT OF COUNTY WAR-
RANTS: Kari Jean Morse, 33,
3610 Midway Drive, 3:56 p.m.
Friday at her home.
HARASSMENT: Kenna Mariah
Simonis, 23, 2920 Elm St., 6:50
p.m. Friday at her home.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
HARASSMENT: Megan Re-
becca Beam, 33, Richland, 3:16
p.m. Saturday at East Dry Creek;
jailed.