2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
POSTERS
“That’s been the toughest
part of this, not being able
to see the grandbabies.”
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TUESDAY, APRIL 28
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., City Hall; details of how the
public will access the meeting will be announced later.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
■ Baker County Commission: 9 am. to noon; for details
about how the public will access the meeting, go to
bakercounty.org
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
April 25, 1970
“Well blow me down,” was J.Q. Freeman’s response as he
walked up to receive the plaque awarded him Friday night
upon being named 1970 Baker County Father of the Year by
the Baker County CowBelles.
Freeman, who lives in the Sutton Creek area, was spon-
sored by three organizations including the J.Q. Livestock
Club. He is the 13th Baker County father to receive the Cow-
Belles’ annual award which was fi rst presented in 1958.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
April 25, 1995
The U.S. Forest Service’s unsuccessful appeal to the
U.S. Supreme Court was an attempt to avoid a precedent
environmental groups and others could use to force national
forests to spend months analyzing the effects of their long-
term management plans on threatened species.
The appeal, on behalf of the Wallowa-Whitman and Uma-
tilla national forest, was based on a Pacifi c Rivers Council
suit, said Rich Tobin, the Wallowa-Whitman’s public affairs
offi cer.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
April 26, 2010
The Baker School Board agreed Friday night to hire Walter
H. Wegener Jr., interim superintendent of the San Juan Is-
land School District at Friday Harbor, Wash., as Baker School
District’s next superintendent.
Wegener was one of three fi nalists for the job.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
April 26, 2019
Baker City is working to make its parks ADA accessible.
The project includes building accessible sidewalks at
Cedar Acres Park, South Baker Park, and the traffi c island
at the end of River Park. The city bought ADA-accessible
tables from Natural Structures in 2016, and installed them
the next year.
“Somewhere along the way we lost the fact that they
were actually ADA-accessible tables but we didn’t have
any ADA access to them,” said Joyce Bornstedt, the city’s
technical administrative supervisor. “So we thought, be-
ing as we haven’t had any really big projects in the parks
department this year, so we have a little bit of money still
available in the fi scal year, that we would go ahead and
put those accesses in so they could be utilized the way
they are supposed to be.”
Discussion on the project began in March and the proj-
ect itself began in April as the weather improved enough
for concrete work.
The new sidewalks at South Baker and River Park will
cost about $1,500 each. At Cedar Acres, in the northeast
corner of town between Park and Idlewood streets, the
city had already put in the curb work and ramping when
doing the playground improvement in 2017.
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ MONDAY (April 27): Chicken ala king over a biscuit, peas,
fruit, brownies
■ TUESDAY (April 28): Meat lasagna, caulifl ower, garlic
breadsticks, green salad, ice cream
■ WEDNESDAY (April 29): Salisbury steak, potatoes and
gravy, green beans, roll, fruit ambrosia, birthday cake
■ THURSDAY (April 30): Baked ham, au gratin potatoes,
mixed vegetables, roll, gelatin with fruit, cinnamon roll
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. Due to the coronavirus crisis, meals must be
picked up; there is no dining on site.
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And so for more than a
month Watson has had to
forego hugs from her great-
granddaughters in favor of
waves as they sit in a car
parked in front of her home.
“That’s been the toughest
part of this, not being able to
see the grandbabies,” Watson
said.
Price said her daughters
have also struggled to adjust
to the temporary restrictions
on something so natural, and
beloved.
“It hurts their hearts to not
be able to hug her,” Price said.
Watson, who has lived in
Baker City since 1989, said
she has seen on TV how some
people are trying to maintain
a semblance of social contact
through such rituals as going
outside at the same time each
evening to howl or yell.
She got to thinking about
her granddaughters.
McKynzie, a second-grader
at Haines Elementary, hasn’t
been able to attend school or
the gymnastics and ballet
classes she’s taken for three
years.
“I thought I could give them
a project because they’re going
Submitted photo
Lincoln Price
bonkers,” Watson said with a
laugh.
She settled on art — some-
thing the girls would enjoy
working on, and something
that she could put up in her
front window so passers-by
could see it.
“People pay attention to
kids’ artwork,” Watson said.
She encouraged her great-
granddaughters to choose a
theme that’s inspirational and
related to the pandemic.
Watson’s daughter — and
Price’s mom — Colleen Klas-
This Together!!”
Lincoln even contributed
some multi-colored crayon
scribbles.
And fi nally, and perhaps
— Laura Watson
most importantly, Olivia’s
sen, who also lives in Baker
poster has a hand-written
City, bought poster board for
message at the bottom right.
the project.
“We love you Grammy!”
McKynzie and Olivia were
When the sisters were
eager to get started, their mom fi nished with their posters —
said.
both adorned with outlines of
They already had art sup-
their hands — they were eager
plies at home, and McKynzie
to deliver them to Grammy.
was able to arrange to bring
They did so on Tuesday.
more from her Haines class-
“They were so excited,” Price
room.
said. “They were very proud
She learned to draw bubble of their work and proud that
letters while working on
Grandma gushed over their
Grammy’s posters.
handprints. They keep asking
“We made an art experience to drive by Grammy’s house
out of it,” Price said.
to see their posters. Grams
Watson said she wasn’t
is always giving the kids
surprised that McKynzie took cookies and treats and isn’t
charge.
able to share with them and
“Of course I’m prejudiced,
is bummed she can’t send out
but she’s very bright,” Watson snacks or treats, so for them to
said of her great-granddaugh- be able to give her something
ter. “She really thinks things
was very meaningful as it was
through.”
made with love.”
McKynzie chose a pink
Watson taped the posters in
poster, wrote “Wash Your
her front window right away.
Hands” and “Be Kind,” and
She hopes they brighten
accented the scene with hearts, other people’s days as much as
fl owers and stars.
they do hers while she waits for
Olivia’s poster is bright
the crisis to pass and the day to
yellow and bears the now-
arrive when she can again hug
familiar adage: “We Are All In her great-grandchildren.
DRIVE-IN
employee open the container for hot foods
rather than doing it themselves.
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At McDonald’s, business, even at the
Katie Poe, who has worked at York’s for drive-thru, slowed earlier in the pandem-
almost a year, said business has stayed
ic but has begun to pick up the past few
about the same during the pandemic.
weeks, said Shantel Bates, a department
“It’s been good,” Poe said.
manager.
York’s is asking customers to comply
With customers limited to using the
with social distancing, and to have an
drive-thru window, Bates said some
people are walking because they have
trailers too big to fi t in the drive-thru
lane.
McDonald’s manager John Bates said
business at the Baker City location is
down 15.5% since the fi rst of March.
McDonald’s is offering free “thank you
meals” for fi rst responders and health
care workers.
O BITUARY
Joanne Doucette
Haines, 1933-2020
Joanne Helen (Coleman) Doucette, 86,
died April 21, 2020, surrounded by fam-
ily at her home near Haines.
Due to COVID-19, Catholic services to
be held in Keizer will be announced at a
later date.
Motivated by her deep faith, Joanne
courageously waged a 12-
year battle with leukemia.
A beautiful person inside
and out, she was a loyal,
wonderful wife, mother,
grandmother, great-grand-
Joanne
mother, and “Auntie,” and
Doucette
she approached life with a
moral and earnest passion
to always give her best effort. Her hard-
working values enabled her to be good at
just about everything she did. She also
lived by the philosophy that the great-
est gift she had to give was the gift of
self and service to others. Her enormous
heart, wonderful soul, kind but energetic
spirit, and selfl ess generosity were an
inspiring example to her family, friends
and all who were fortunate enough to
have known her.
Joanne was born on May 6, 1933, at
Salem to Rose (Burger) and Francis
Ross Coleman. Raised in the small farm-
ing/rodeo town of St. Paul, she attended
St. Paul School and graduated from
Sacred Heart High School in Salem. A
rodeo princess, she met and soon mar-
ried the love of her life, Rudy Doucette, a
professional rodeo cowboy from Phoenix,
Arizona, on Aug. 16, 1952. Welcoming
a son, Dan, and later a daughter, Mary
Ann, Joanne nurtured their young fam-
ily while Rudy made their living as they
N EWS OF
R ECORD
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL
TRESPASSING: Edward Allen
Braswell, 44, of Baker City, 5:47
p.m. Wednesday, at Albertsons,
1120 Campbell St.; cited and
released.
PAROLE VIOLATION (Oregon
Parole Board warrant): Travis
Whiting-Good, 25, of Baker City,
6:56 p.m. Wednesday, at the
Sheriff’s Offi ce; jailed.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
FOURTH-DEGREE DOMESTIC
ASSAULT IN THE PRESENCE
OF A MINOR: Samantha Maria
Matte, 30, of Unity, about 7 p.m.
Wednesday, on Highway 26 near
Unity; jailed and later released.
traveled the rodeo circuit with a horse
van and trailer home.
When the kids reached school age,
they decided to settle in Southern
California’s San Fernando Valley in
1959 where Rudy was employed in the
motion picture industry, and another
daughter, Lori, was born. Joanne later
fulfi lled her career dream of becoming a
nurse, graduating from the Holy Cross
Hospital nursing program in Mission
Hills, California, in 1970. Specializing in
clinical nursing, she loved working with
patients (who loved her in return) at an
internal medicine practice in Newhall
for many years until both she and Rudy
retired in 1989.
They had always hoped to return to
the Willamette Valley, and were able to
fi nd their ideal retirement mini-ranch
home on 8 acres north of Keizer, where
they worked hard and lived happily
for over 30 years. An incredibly social
person, Joanne embraced the move, and
the opportunity to be near her siblings,
nieces, nephews, and cousins once again.
She had more time to pursue her pas-
sionate hobby of bowling, and joined
several local and travel leagues which
enabled her to create many wonderful,
lifelong friendships. She so enjoyed trips
to the beach with her devoted and dear
friend Linda, who was like family.
Joanne was a very active member of
St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Keizer.
An accomplished quilter, she sewed
many masterpieces for her children
and grandchildren. She loved playing
cards, sports, the Dodgers, and all things
competitive and challenging, attributing
that to an instinct acquired as a result of
being raised the youngest in a family of
fi ve brothers and one sister.
Declining health infl uenced Rudy
and Joanne’s diffi cult decision to leave
their beloved Keizer home and many
friends and relocate to the Haines area
in October of 2019 to be closer to family.
But they treasured the opportunity to
become more acquainted with their
Eastern Oregon area grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Joanne is survived by her devoted
and loving husband, Rudy, of Haines; a
sister, Rosemary Meier of Mount Angel;
her son, Dan, of Baker City; her daugh-
ters, Mary Ann (Jim) Ingram of Haines,
and Lori Wilmes (Eric) of Canby; eight
grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren,
and many special nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her
parents; her brothers, Bob, Jack, Don,
Max, and dearest Joe Coleman.
Joanne’s family wishes to express spe-
cial appreciation to all members of the
health care community in Baker City
who provided her with such competent
and compassionate care. Dr. Lamb and
his associates at St. Luke’s, Dr. Bron-
stein and the staff of the Billie Ruth
Bootsma Clinic, the ER, clinical, labora-
tory, radiology, clerical and all other staff
at Saint Alphonsus Hospital never failed
to treat her with respect and dignity.
Last but not least, thanks to Heart ’N
Home Hospice for the sensitive guidance
and assistance they provided.
Memorial contributions in memory of
Joanne can be made to a charity of one’s
choice through Coles Tribute Center,
1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814.
To light a candle in memory of Joanne,
or to leave a condolence for her family, go
to www.colestributecenter.com
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