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FRIDAY BAKER BOYS WITHSTAND WEISER’S EARLY ONSLAUGHT TO WIN, 71-61: PAGE 6A Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com January 3, 2020 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 John Busch of Baker City. BRIEFING Adopted Wild Horse A Fixture At Oregon Trail Interpretive Center The Name’s Norm Applicants sought for 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 appointed will serve through December 2020, and would be eligible to run for a four-year term in November 2020. Today 40 / 33 Partly sunny Saturday 42 / 27 Rain or snow showers Sunday 39 / 27 Rain or snow showers 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. Rape suspect in jail in Idaho ■ Bill David Gonyer, who lives near Baker City, awaits extradition S. John Collins / Baker City Herald A horse called Norm, an adopted wild stallion, is very affectionate with owner Debbie Henshaw and others. By Samantha O’Conner soconner@bakercityherald.com WEATHER Baker’s Riley Flanagan goes to the basket Thursday Nearly six years ago, visitors to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center near Baker City met a new volunteer who loves peppermints. He also likes to give kisses. Norm is an 11-year-old wild mus- tang gathered from public land near Murderers Creek in Grant County. His owners, Debbie and Calvin Henshaw of Baker City, adopted Norm in 2014, when he was 6. “It was a mutual bonding,” said Debbie, 55. She’s been raising horses for 35 years. Calvin, 59, did all of the training on the horses and she does “back up training.” Debbie brought Norm to the Interpretive Center on July 4, 2014, to introduce him to people. “We liked it so much that fi rst time that we took him up just to expose him, that we just kept doing it,” Debbie said. As a wild horse, Norm needed time to become accustomed to being around people. “Back then, for a couple of years, we did a program called Horse Sense, where we taught how horses use their instincts to survive in the wild,” said Debbie, who works to promote the adoption of wild horses gathered from Oregon and other states in the West. See Arrest/Page 3A Idaho robbery suspects arrested in Baker S. John Collins / Baker City Herald Norm stands easy for owner Debbie Henshaw as he gets his hooves See Norm/Page 2A trimmed and fi led by farrier Alan Elsberry Thursday morning. Bull & Bronc Riding will be on TV By Jayson Jacoby jjacoby@bakercityherald.com One of Baker City’s biggest events — the annual bull and bronc riding competition in July — will continue in 2020 for its 26th year, but under new management. And for the fi rst time the rodeo, a major draw during Miners Jubilee, will be televised. This year’s bronc and bull riding competitions will be the fi rst in which Ken McPheron won’t be involved, said his son, Shane Pierce. Pierce said his dad, who is in his TODAY Issue 111, 14 pages A Baker County man is in jail in Idaho, awaiting extradition to Oregon on charges that he raped and sexually abused a minor girl. Bill David Gonyer, 73, was arrested Dec. 28 in Ada County, Gonyer Idaho, on a Baker County warrant that includes fi rst-, second- and third- degree rape, sex abuse and sodomy, using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct and other charges. The incidents, which are alleged to have happened in Baker County between May 1, 2019, and Dec. 20, 2019, involve a girl known to Gonyer, according to court documents. He is being held in lieu of $1,128,000 bail as he awaits extradition, the documents state. 80s and has overseen the event as a volunteer, has been looking to retire from that position for the past fi ve years. The Baker City Bronc and Bull Riding events have joined the Chal- lenge of Champions Tour, a series of 18 rodeos in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California and Nevada. This year’s Baker City competitions will both be televised on The Cowboy Channel, Pierce said. The cable net- work is affi liated with RFD-TV. “We’re super excited,” said Pierce, who is a member of board of directors Calendar ....................2A Classified ............. 3B-6B Comics ....................... 7B Community News ....3A Crossword ........5B & 6B Dear Abby ................. 8B for Baker City Bronc & Bull Riding Inc. Pierce said that although he would have liked to take over for his father, that wasn’t possible given his work and family obligations. But he said the volunteer board, which includes McPheron, Ken Helgerson, Rich Lien, Greg Ham- mond and Nick Lien, was committed to making sure the bull and bronc riding events continue into a second quarter-century. See Rodeo/Page 3A Horoscope ................. 5B Jayson Jacoby ..........4A News of Record ........2A Opinion ......................4A Outdoors ................... 1B Senior Menus ...........2A Two Idaho robbery suspects were arrested Thursday at a Baker City laundry and are being held at the Baker County Jail awaiting extradition to Idaho. Police were notifi ed by the Caldwell Police Depart- ment that the suspects, Guillermo Pascual, 29, of Caldwell, and Jennifer Dodgson, 24, of Nampa, were in Baker City, Police Chief Ray Duman stated in a press release. Offi cers and detectives from the Baker City Police Department and Oregon State Police troopers arrest- ed the pair without incident at 12:44 p.m. Thursday at the Elm Street Laundry at 944 Elm St. The two are accused of robbing a convenience store at the corner of Ustick Road and Cleveland Boule- vard in Caldwell Wednes- day night. Dodgson allegedly as- saulted a female cashier and then forcibly took money out of the register, Duman said. Sports .............. 5A & 6A Turning Backs ...........2A Weather ..................... 8B MONDAY — BAKER HIGH SCHOOL WEEKEND SPORTS ROUND UP
