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2A — BAKER CITY HERALD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2020 SOLAR 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 January 2, 1970 Former Baker City Fire Chief Babe Transue, 68, retired from city employment Wednesday following 29 years of service. 25 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald January 2, 1995 Sen.-elect Greg Walden, R-Hood River, who has been chosen to represent sprawling District 28 in the Legis- lature, introduced himself to Baker County constituents Friday. 10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald January 1, 2010 Hikers and horseback riders who travel trails through the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will have reason to rejoice in 2010. And in 2011. After the snow melts this spring the Wallowa-Whitman will embark on its most ambitious trail-maintenance cam- paign in many years. ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald January 2, 2019 Luke Gibson will start work Jan. 28 as executive director of the Baker County YMCA. Gibson, 39, of Sheridan, Wyoming, has been the youth and adult sports director for the YMCA in Sheridan for the past 14 years. His experience and emphasis on fundraising were part of the reason he was chosen for the Baker County posi- tion, said Lindy Petrik, who has served as interim director for the Baker County YMCA since early October. Petrik replaced Heidi Dalton, who served as CEO for six years. Petrik will return to her role on the YMCA board of direc- tors when Gibson takes over. Gibson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration, also served as a city councilor in Sheridan, which has a population of about 17,000. Prior to interviewing for the Baker County YMCA posi- tion, Gibson had never visited Baker City. He grew up in Gooding, Idaho, about a four-hour drive from Baker City. O REGON L OTTERY MEGABUCKS, Dec. 30 2 — 11 — 32 — 33 — 35 — 38 Next jackpot: $8.1 million MEGA MILLIONS, Dec. 31 30 — 44 — 49 — 53 — 56 Mega 11 Next jackpot: $60 million WIN FOR LIFE, Dec. 30 17 — 18 — 54 — 73 PICK 4, Dec. 31 • 1 p.m.: 1 — 1 — 9 — 3 • 4 p.m.: 1 — 9 — 9 — 9 • 7 p.m.: 7 — 0 — 9 — 3 • 10 p.m.: 6 — 1 — 8 — 0 “When you build something from scratch, the fi rst time you take it out things will start breaking,” Spaugh said. “It’s worth it, a trial by fi re.” Creating the car, she said, allows students to put theo- ries learned in classrooms to work on a real-world project. “The learning happens when you’re designing, build- ing, testing,” she said. She learned a lot about how cars work. “I had a decent idea of how it worked in a gasoline car,” she said. “This showed me how it works in an electric car, down to the nitty-gritty.” Heading Down Under To compete in the race, Spaugh and her teammates took a term off school. She arrived in Australia on Aug. 28 to arrange transportation, food and other logistics of supporting a team through the middle of the continent. The rest of the team ar- rived Sept. 4. They spent the remainder of that month testing and tweaking their solar car while camping in the Outback. Growing up in Eastern Or- miles at 55 mph. The team had fi ve rental vehicles — several to haul supplies and one outfi tted with antennae to collect data transmitted from the solar car. Although they’d struggled with a bug in the electrical — Sarah Spaugh system and issues with the motor controller, Spaugh said egon, Spaugh is no stranger the car was working great as to the outdoors. That wasn’t race day approached. the case with some of her The Challenge ran from teammates. Oct. 13 to Oct. 20. The route “You have people who had started in Darwin in the never camped in their lives,” Northern Territory and trav- she said. eled the Stuart Highway to During testing the Stan- Port Augusta, and then High- ford team traveled the race way 1 to fi nish in Adelaide in course in reverse, from Ad- South Australia. elaide north to Darwin. The The remote nature of route is approximately 3,000 inland Australia requires kilometers (1,864 miles). careful planning for gas stops “It’s a big experience being and food supplies. there,” Spaugh said. “Getting “There’s a stretch where the car functioning, and fi x- you go a couple days without ing it when it breaks down.” a grocery store,” Spaugh said. During tests the team The battery fi re that ended recorded data to determine the Stanford team’s race is how much energy the car still a bit of a mystery. The uses at various speeds. students know it was caused The goal, Spaugh said, by a short circuit, but they was “to get the fastest time will have to wait until the car possible without running out returns in a few months to of battery.” investigate. On a fl at road with no “Then we use it to teach wind, she estimates the Stan- the next generation of team ford car could go about 250 how to solar car. Or how to “When you build something from scratch, the fi rst time you take it out things will start breaking. It’s worth it, a trial by fi re.” APPEAL Continued from Page 1A Blair said he’s skeptical about Con- nors’ claim that it’s “virtually impossible” for Verizon to build a tower anywhere other than on the parcel the company proposed. But in any case that issue is not within the Planning Commission’s juris- diction, Blair said. “It’s not our responsibility to fi nd them a suitable location for their tower,” he said. Connors also cites court decisions as precedent giving wireless companies “a considerable amount of discretion” in de- termining whether a gap in cell coverage justifi es the construction of a tower. In the appeal, Connors pointed out that the proposed site for the tower, a 2.12-acre property owned by Carney and Deborah Lansford, is in the general industrial zone. “The (city’s development code) spe- cifi cally required Verizon to consider industrial zoned properties fi rst before considering other sites for the telecom- munications tower, which it did in this “It’s not our responsibility to fi nd them a suitable location for their tower.” — Alan Blair, former longtime member of the Baker City Planning Commission who was among 5 commissioners who voted to deny a conditional use permit to Verizon Wireless to build a 70-foot cell tower case,” Connors wrote. The development code allows Verizon to build a cell tower of up to 50 feet tall on the industrial property without a conditional use permit. The property is just north of D Street between East and Clark streets, near Leo Adler Field and the Baker County Fairgrounds. Several people who either testifi ed to the Planning Commission or submitted written comments noted that there are also homes in the area. Blair, who was a longtime chairman of the Planning Commission, said he be- lieves the city should have changed the zoning of that parcel years ago because of its proximity to residential neighbor- hoods. “To me that’s part of the problem — there’s no buffer (between the industrial and residential zones),” Blair said. In terms of views, Connors writes that the city’s zoning code “doesn’t preclude a conditional use merely because it is visible. Rather, (the code) requires that the visual impacts be minimized. Verizon sited and designed the tower in a way to minimize the view impacts to the great- est extent possible.” Connors also reiterated a point that Verizon made in other documents — that 70 feet “is the minimum height neces- sary to satisfy the coverage and capacity objectives and therefore minimizes the visual impacts to the extent practicable.” Verizon has also proposed to add green “branches” to the tower to simulate the appearance of a tree, something Connors contends in the appeal “will further mini- mize the visual impacts of the facility on the broader landscape.” Connors writes that the camoufl aged tower design is “considerably more expensive” than the unadorned version, and that the city’s zoning code doesn’t require such additions to cell towers. O BITUARY Betty McClinton Betty witnessed thousands of planes heading out to fi ght World War II, as well Betty Lou Dick McClinton, 89, died as hearing the sonic boom created by test Dec. 15, 2019, at Baker City. pilot Chuck Yeager breaking the sound Cremation was through Gray’s West barrier. for The Neptune Society. In 1950 she married David McClin- Born to a sweet couple ton and moved to China Lake in the from Iowa, Betty Lou Dick Mohave Desert. She had a unique view McClinton was born in of nuclear testing while working at the Burns, Wyoming, on March Naval Air Weapons Base. 7, 1930. Over the next 14 years, Betty had Betty Spending much of her three daughters, raising them in early childhood in Missouri, McClinton Southern California and the Bay Area of the family moved West in California. Always craving the excite- 1941, settling at Riverside, California. ment of moving, Betty also lived along Living close to March Air Force Base, the Central Coast of California, then Baker City, 1930-2019 Central and Eastern Oregon. During her life, she worked as a book- keeper, tax preparer, librarian, police records clerk, and dispatcher in addition to volunteering for the PTA, Girl Scouts, and many grade school functions. Betty lived her life to the fullest and had no fear of trying something new. Among her many accomplishments, she was a voracious reader, made the best potato salad, sang beautiful lullabies, and loved riding roller coasters. She will be missed by her three daugh- ters, son-in-law, two granddaughters, grandson, three great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. N EWS OF R ECORD LUCKY LINES, Dec. 31 1-8-11-16-18-23-25-30 Next jackpot: $45,000 S ENIOR M ENUS ■ THURSDAY: Boneless chicken breast with cream gravy, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, biscuit, cottage cheese with fruit, ice cream ■ FRIDAY: Barbecued pork ribs, au gratin potatoes, mixed vegetables, roll, fruit ambrosia DEATHS FUNERAL PENDING POLICE LOG Mary Louise Clark: 87, of Sandy, and formerly of Baker City, died Dec. 29, 2019, at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. To light a candle in memory of Mary Lou, or to leave a condolence for her family, go to www.grayswestco. com 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 Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Online condolences can be made at www.tamispinevalleyfuneral- Baker City Police Arrests, citations INTERFERING WITH A POLICE OFFICER and UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY INTO A MOTOR VEHICLE (Warrant): Tattiana Gabriel McK- enzie, 26, of 2707 Third St.; cited and released. home.com 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. Best Friends of Baker Saturday Market C ONTACT THE H ERALD Open EVERY Saturday 8 AM - 2 PM 1668 Resort St. Open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone: 541-523-3673 Copyright © 2020 Fax: 541-833-6414 Regional publisher Christopher Rush crush@eomediagroup.com Publisher Karrine Brogoitti kbrogoitti@lagrandeobserver. com Jayson Jacoby, editor jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Advertising email ads@bakercityherald.com Classifi ed email classified@bakercityherald.com Circulation email circ@bakercityherald.com not solar car,” Spaugh said with a smile. “A big thing in engineering is learning from your mistakes.” When the 60-pound battery pack caught fi re, Spaugh and her teammates pulled it out before the car, which is made of carbon fi ber, could ignite. “It’s carbon soaked in glue. It’s pretty fl ammable,” she said. The driver evacuated safely. “They can get out of the car in 15 seconds,” she said. With the disabled car in a trailer, the team completed the race route. Spaugh said many team- mates had saved money so they could spend more time exploring the region. She and a few others backpacked in New Zealand. She returned to the United States in mid- November. As she looks ahead at her master’s degree, Spaugh talks a lot about math and physics — concepts that don’t necessarily come easily to her. But she’s not discouraged by the diffi culty. “You have to go into math and physics with the idea of ‘I am capable of understanding this. I can do this.’ ” ISSN-8756-6419 Serving Baker County since 1870 Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays except Christmas Day by the Baker Publishing Co., a part of EO Media Group, at 1668 Resort St. (P.O. Box 807), Baker City, OR 97814. Subscription rates per month are: $10.80; by mail $12.50. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Baker City Herald, P.O. Box 807, Baker City, OR 97814. Periodicals Postage Paid at Baker City, Oregon 97814 BUY ONE GET ONE FREE SALE 2950 Church St, Baker City (fi rst left after Broadway turns into 10th) We accept debit, credit, cash & checks! Donations accepted Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays 9-1 (All proceeds benefi t the animals of Baker County) Baker County Sheriff DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU- ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: River Henry Colnot, 21, Richland, 2:07 a.m. today on Pine Creek Lane; jailed. UNION COUNTY WARRANT: Brandi Marie Kasinger, 30, 2627 12th St., 8:49 p.m. Tuesday at the Sheriff’s Offi ce; cited and released.
