2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Poster contest winners announced
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
FRIDAY, FEB. 14
■ Live Music by Keith Taylor: Ragtime piano, 4:30 p.m. to
5:30 p.m., Crossroads, 2020 Auburn Ave.; no charge.
MONDAY, FEB. 17
■ National Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Free Fee
Day: In observance of Presidents Day holiday; hours
change to 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily on this day; call 541-523-
1843 for more information; the Center is 5 miles east of
Baker City, just off Highway 86.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m.,
Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
THURSDAY, FEB. 20
■ Baker Rural Fire Protection District Board: 5:30 p.m.
at the Pocahontas Fire Station.
■ Baker School Board: 6 p.m., Council chambers at Baker
City Hall, 1655 First St.
TUESDAY FEB. 25
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., City Hall, 1655 First St.
MONDAY, MARCH 2
■ Haines Fire Protection District Board: 6 p.m. at the
Haines Library.
Three South Baker Intermediate
sixth-graders were named as local win-
ners in the Oregon State Elks Associa-
tions’ annual Eye Injury Prevention
Poster Contest.
First place went to Chase Roy.
Taylor Johnson was awarded second
BARBER
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“It’s an art form,” Eide said.
“It’s something you’ll never
master. There are people that
have master barber titles but
you really truly can never
master this art form. Every
single person has a different
hair type, hair texture, colors,
densities, and things like
that. So you’re always con-
stantly learning new tricks.”
Eide said he might attend
a barber convention in Los
Angeles to learn more tricks
of the trade.
Eide also learned how
to make wigs for cancer
patients during training at
place, and Cadell Mills created the third-
place entry.
All three posters will be sent to the
Elks district competition, and if they are
chosen at that level the students would
compete in the state contest in March,
said John Clark, Baker City fi re chief.
The poster contest, which started in
September 2019, was open to students
in grades 4, 5 and 6 at South Baker,
Keating and Haines schools.
A total of 110 students submitted
posters to the local contest, sponsored by
Baker Elks Lodge 338.
House that, as its name
implies, primarily focused on
beard trimming.
But Eide said he had
always
wanted to return to
— Timmy Eide, who recently
Baker City. When he saw the
opened a barbershop in
wood interior and decor at
Baker City
2000 Broadway — a location
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He that had been a barbershop
became medically certifi ed
for decades — he decided it
in making wigs not only for
was perfect.
cancer patients, but also for
Wes Dickison owned
veterans and others.
Dickison’s Barber Shop at
Eide said he was motivated that location after his uncle,
to learn wig-making in part
Rod Dickison, turned it over
due to the loss of his mother to him in 2005. Rod Dickison
to pancreatic cancer a few
died Sept. 10, 2005.
years ago.
Eide hopes to add a
Eide lived in Idaho for sev- “speakeasy” to his shop some
en years and owned a shop
day, saying the name means
in Nampa called the Beard
“communication.”
“It’s an art form. It’s
something you’ll never
master.”
“The barbershop histori-
cally has been a place where
men would meet up and talk
about what’s going on in the
community, almost like a
coffee club in the morning,”
Eide said.
He also wants to add an
area in the basement with
a few couches where people
can go and play old school
Nintento video games and
others.
His ultimate goal is to have
a place where cellphones
aren’t allowed, forcing people
to have face-to-face conversa-
tions.
“That is pretty much my
dream, is to have something
like that,” Eide said.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
February 13, 1970
Approximately one-third of all boys from the ages of 8
to 18 are in Scouting — either Cubs, Scouts or Explorers.
This was one of the statements made by Erv Williams,
main speaker at the annual Boy Scout Father Son Banquet
Wednesday night.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 13, 1995
OXBOW RESERVOIR — Like a classroom of second-
graders who just heard the recess bell, 10 Rocky Mountain
bighorn sheep sprint for freedom the instant Dick Hum-
prheys opens the trailer door.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 12, 2010
Baker County’s farmers and ranchers fared better — sta-
tistically speaking, anyway — than the statewide average
during a dismal 2009 for Oregon’s agriculture industry.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 13, 2019
Baker County voters in November overwhelmingly
approved an ordinance designed to prevent the enforce-
ment of laws violating the Second Amendment and the
ordinance could receive its fi rst test later this year.
At least 12 bills have been introduced in the Oregon
Legislature that deal with fi rearms or ammunition in some
way.
Senate Bill 501, which has received the most publicity,
is also the most restrictive. It would require gun buyers to
acquire a permit, limit people from possessing guns with
a capacity of no more than fi ve rounds, limit the amount
of ammunition a person can buy to 20 rounds in a 30-day
period, require background checks for ammunition pur-
chases and require gun owners to secure fi rearms with a
trigger or cable lock.
O REGON L OTTERY
MEGABUCKS, Feb. 10
4 — 22 — 26 — 35 — 38 — 39
Next jackpot: $3.8 million
MEGA MILLIONS, Feb. 11
4 — 6 — 32 — 52 — 64
Mega
6
Next jackpot: $40 million
WIN FOR LIFE, Feb. 10
20 — 34 — 35 — 73
PICK 4, Feb. 11
• 1 p.m.: 0 — 0 — 2 — 9
• 4 p.m.: 8 — 0 — 6 — 0
• 7 p.m.: 4 — 8 — 1 — 0
• 10 p.m.: 3 — 8 — 0 — 0
LUCKY LINES, Feb. 11
1-8-12-13-17-21-26-30
TAXES
rooms, collects the biggest
share of the lodging taxes.
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In the 2014-15 fi scal year,
At issue is the Baker
Sunridge guests paid about
County lodging tax.
$194,000 in lodging taxes —
An ordinance requires
about 42% of the total paid
owners of motels, bed-and-
that year, according to county
breakfasts and other lodging records.
businesses in most of Baker
The Super 8 has 72 rooms
County, including Baker
and Motel 6 has 40 rooms.
City, to collect a 7% tax on
The county’s lawsuit
each room rate and give that addresses declining lodg-
money to the county.
ing tax collections, reading:
A county ordinance requires “Beginning in 2018 the tax
that 70% of the tax revenue be collected by Defendant at its
spent for tourism promotion, three establishments dropped
25% for economic develop-
precipitously as compared to
ment and 5% for adminis-
prior time periods.”
trative expenses the county
County offi cials, citing
incurs in collecting the tax.
the lodging tax ordinance’s
Lodging tax revenue
requirement that motels,
dropped from $625,000 in
with 72-hour notice, turn over
fi scal 2016-17 to $538,000 in
accounting records related to
fi scal 2017-18.
room rentals, sought records
The county projected the
from the Sunridge, Super 8
revenue to dip again, to
and Motel 6.
$420,000, for the current fi scal
“The purpose of this request
year, which ends June 30,
for records was to verify the
2020.
accuracy of the informa-
The Sunridge, the county’s tion set out on Transient
largest motel with about 150 Lodging tax returns fi led by
sports. She graduated from
La Grande High School in
Gloria Bailey, 70, of Baker 1968.
City, died Feb. 8, 2020, at her
Gloria
home, surrounded by family. worked as a
A celebration of her life
CNA at St.
will be scheduled later, with Elizabeth’s
the place and time to be an- in Baker City
Gloria
nounced.
and at Grande
Bailey
Gloria Jean Bailey was
Ronde Hospital
born on Dec. 10, 1949, at St. in La Grande.
Elizabeth Hospital in Baker She also worked at various
to Francis and Dorothy
senior living facilities. Nurs-
Phillips. She was raised
ing was a passion and caring
and educated in both Baker for the ill and aged made her
and Union counties. Gloria
career fulfi lled.
was very active in school
Gloria loved dear sweet
with the pep club for school Doug Bailey to the depths of
Gloria Bailey
Baker City, 1949-2020
S ENIOR M ENUS
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.
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lodging records for Motel 6,
and that company offi cials
claimed reports were not
available for the Sunridge Inn
from January through March
2018.
Last summer Baker
County commissioners said
the reason the county ended
its contract with economic
developer Greg Smith was
declining lodging tax rev-
enue, which paid for Smith’s
$96,000 annual contract.
County offi cials attributed
the drop in part due to reno-
vations at the Sunridge Inn
that temporarily reduced the
number of rooms available in
that motel.
Bill Harvey, chairman of the
Baker County Board of Com-
missioners, said that although
he can’t comment specifi cally
about the lawsuit, without the
records the county is demand-
ing, county offi cials can’t
determine whether the three
motels have been complying
with the lodging tax ordi-
nance.
O BITUARY
Next jackpot: $42,000
■ FRIDAY: Beef pot roast, scalloped potatoes, green beans,
roll, pea-and-onion salad, berry cheesecake
■ MONDAY (Feb. 17): Closed in observance of Presidents
Day.
■ TUESDAY (Feb. 18): Cabbage rolls, parslied red potatoes,
carrots, bread, broccoli-bacon salad, cheese cake
■ WEDNESDAY (Feb. 19): Spaghetti with beef sauce,
broccoli-blend vegetables, garlic bread, green salad, apple
crisp
■ THURSDAY (Feb. 20): Pork fi let mignon, potatoes and
gravy, mixed vegetables, roll, carrot-raisin salad, ice cream
Defendant,” according to the
lawsuit. “Despite repeated re-
quests by Plaintiff’s represen-
tatives Defendant has failed
to provide all of the request
records.”
The lawsuit lists specifi c
records:
• Registration cards for
the Super 8 for February and
June of 2018
• Monthly reports from
Motel 6 showing total rev-
enue, exempt revenue and
other room statistics from
July 2017 through June 2018,
daily reports from February
and June of 2018, registration
cards from February and June
of 2018, and the number of
rooms and average percent-
age rented in each calendar
quarter.
• Exempt revenue monthly
reports from July 2017 to
June 2018 for the Sunridge
Inn.
The lawsuit also states that
DK Hotel Management has
failed to give the county ac-
cess to software used to track
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
Ernest ‘Ernie’ Metcalf:
80, of Baker City, died Feb.
11, 2020, at his home with his
family at his side. A memorial
service will take place later,
with the date and time to be
announced. Arrangements
are under the direction of
Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services.
Online condolences can be
made at www.tamispine
valleyfuneralhome.com
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE IN-
FLUENCE OF INTOXICANTS:
Dena Rene Turner, 46, of
2810 Seventh St., 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, on Highway 30 near
Haines; jailed.
her soul and supported him
in all his endeavors. They
met at her sister’s wedding
on Feb. 13, 1969, and were
married on June 5, 1971, at
St. Francis de Sales Cathe-
dral in Baker City.
Drag racing was a passion
for both Doug and Gloria.
They especially loved racing
in their ’72 Chevy pickup
in Walla Walla and the
Boise Nightfi re event. The
togetherness, hand-holding,
laughter, sorrow, win, lose
— it was always wild while
they were together.
Gloria’s children made
her life complete with much
happiness to see the boys
grow up, though it was
much too fast. They gave
her grandchildren that she
so very dearly loved and
cherished.
Gloria wrote this in-
formation to be added to
her obituary: “I love you
all, remember our picnics,
rodeos, water fi ghts and rock
surfi ng at Catherine Creek,
we had a lot of fun. Thank
you all for making my life.
Exciting News!
Dr. Derek Blankenship is
joining Baker Vision Clinic
Baker Vision Clinic would like to welcome Dr. Derek
Blankenship. Dr. Blankenship will start seeing patients March
3, 2020. Derek was born and raised in Baker City. Following
high school, he attended George Fox University where he
graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He then attended Midwestern
University Arizona College of Optometry where he graduated with a Doctorate of
Optometry in 2018. Upon graduation from Optometry school Dr. Blankenship has
been practicing in Pendleton, Oregon. Baker Vision Clinic is very excited to welcome
him back home!
Dr. Blankenship is warm and engaging. He easily connects with people through his
open honest desire to help others. He enjoys the outdoors and cannot wait to show his
wife and son all that is special to him about Baker.
Dr. Derek Blankenship is accepting patients now.
Please contact Baker Vision Clinic today at 541-523-5858 to make an appointment.
Get healthy, be happy and
wise up (haha-hee-hee).”
Gloria is survived by her
sons, Douglas “Mic” and
Brent Bailey “BA Babs”;
her grandchildren, Gage,
Darian, Jasey and Keegan
Bailey, and Issac Nordbye;
her great-granddaughter,
Blakely Guilliams; her
sisters, Shirley Rogers and
Patty Phillips; and numer-
ous nephews, nieces, greats
and great-greats, aunts,
uncles and cousins galore.
Gloria was preceded in
death by her husband, Doug
Bailey; her sister, Marjorie
Miller; her brother-in-law,
Chuck Rogers; and her cous-
in, Debra Burris-Bradley.
For those who would
like to make a donation in
memory of Gloria, the family
suggests either Shriners
Hospital or Special Olym-
pics through Tami’s Pine
Valley Funeral Home &
Cremation Services, P.O.
Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Online condolences can be
made at www.tamispine
valleyfuneralhome.com
It’s staying
lighter longer,
but still winter!
When kids are
out & about,
have them
wear refl ective
clothing.
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