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BRIEFING
Timmy Eide’s New Barbershop Is Bustling
The Cutting Edge
Ag scholarships
offered
Eastern Oregon stu-
dents who plan to pursue
agricultural studies in
college are eligible for
two scholarships aimed
at preserving the region’s
ranching heritage.
Applications for the
Pendleton Cattle Barons
and the Protect the Harvest
scholarships are due by
March 1 and are available
online at www.cattlebar-
ons.net
Applicants for the fi ve
Cattle Barons scholar-
ships must be residents of
Umatilla, Morrow, Grant,
Baker, Wallowa or Union
counties. One Protect the
Harvest scholarship will be
awarded to a student from
Umatilla, Morrow, Union
or Wallowa counties, the
website states.
To qualify for the schol-
arships, students must
currently be or plan to be
enrolled in undergraduate
or graduate agricultural
studies.
Final selection of
scholarship winners will
be made during the Cattle
Barons Weekend sched-
uled May 1-2 at the Pendle-
ton Convention Center,
Round-Up Pavilion and
Happy Canyon Arena.
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Taxi firm
seeks
license
By Samantha O’Conner
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Baker City, which has been without a taxi
service for more than a month, could soon
have at least one licensed cab company.
Police Chief Ray Duman told the City
Council during its meeting Tuesday that
the city received an application Jan. 29 from
David and Stephanie Sanders, who want to
operate Elkhorn Taxi.
Their application is pending as city offi -
cials wait for confi rmation of the company’s
liability insurance, which the city’s taxi
ordinance requires.
In other business Tuesday, councilors
discussed a parcel the city owns on Val-
ley Avenue, adjacent to Central Park, that
could be sold, with the proceeds used to buy
a larger parcel off Resort Street as access to
the park.
See Council/Page 3A
Downing’s
last meeting
as councilor
will be Feb. 25
WEATHER
Today
Hailey Zikmund
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
A new barber in town, Timmy Eide, cuts and shapes hair for Albert Jones of Sumpter Mon-
day. Eide set up his barbering chair in a building at First and Broadway streets that has
housed a barbershop for decades.
By Samantha O’Conner
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Timmy Eide’s scissors have
been getting quite a workout
this winter.
Since opening his barber-
shop at Broadway and First
streets in mid-November,
Eide, who grew up in Baker
City, said the hair has been
fl ying.
“It’s been crazy busy here
since it opened,” Eide, 36, said
of his shop, Speak A Barber
& Spot.
Eide, who has been a barber
for seven years, offers fl attops
and other classic cuts, as well
as beard trims and hot shaves.
He doesn’t do hair coloring
but he said he might obtain
his license for coloring.
“Baker’s not really a place
where men will get their hair
colored I don’t think that
much,” he said. “But teenagers
will.”
Eide, who said he attended
“pretty much every school
except Churchill” while grow-
ing up in Baker City, has had
other jobs, but he knew he
always wanted to be a barber.
“I just like helping people,”
said Eide, who noted how a
fresh haircut can make people
feel better.
Eide joined the Job Corps in
Astoria originally for culinary
school, but he often cut hair
for others while in that posi-
tion.
Starting at age 21 he sold
TODAY
Issue 128, 22 pages
Baker City Council member and former
mayor Mike Downing announced during
Tuesday’s Council meeting that he will be
moving outside the city limits
soon and will no longer be
eligible to serve as a councilor.
His last meeting will be Feb.
25.
The city charter requires
Downing
that councilors live within the
city limits.
“I’ve had a great time on the council,
been here for seven years now,” Downing
said Tuesday. “I’ve had a lot of fun with it
but I’ve had a lot going on these past seven
years. It’s been a good learning experience
but it’s time to focus more on my health. I’m
on good recovery and road to remission for
my leukemia but I need to spend more time
with my kids.”
Downing served a two-year term as
mayor, from 2017 to 2019.
County sues
to get lodging
tax records
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
A blackboard outlines the facts of business at Timmy Eide’s
barbershop at First and Broadway streets.
subscriptions for several
newspapers in the Northwest,
including the Baker City
Herald and The La Grande
Observer, for 15 years while
attending school.
Business ...........1B & 2B
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 3B-6B
He attended barber college
for six months at Hilliard,
Washington, and continues to
learn today.
Comics ....................... 7B
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........5B & 6B
Baker County has fi led a lawsuit asking a
judge to order the company that owns three
motels in Baker City to give the county re-
cords related to lodging taxes paid by motel
guests in parts of 2017 and 2018.
Patrick M. Gregg, an attorney from Pend-
leton, fi led the suit Jan. 21 on the county’s
behalf.
The defendant is DK Hotel Management
LLC. The company owns the Quality Inn
Sunridge Inn, 1 Sunridge Lane; the Super 8
by Wyndham, 250 Campbell St.; and Motel
6 Baker City, 175 Campbell St., according to
the complaint.
Offi cials from the company could not be
reached for comment.
See Barber/Page 2A
Dear Abby ................. 8B
Horoscope ........5B & 6B
Letters ........................4A
See Taxes/Page 2A
Lottery Results ..........2A
News of Record ........2A
Obituaries ..................2A
Opinion ......................4A
Sports ........................5A
Weather ..................... 8B
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