2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2020
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
TUESDAY, MAY 12
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., Zoom video meeting; more
information is available by contacting klafavor@cityhall.
com or 541-524-2033.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13
■ Baker County Commission: 9 a.m. to noon; for details
about how to access the meeting, go to bakercounty.org
THURSDAY, MAY 21
■ Baker School Board: 6 p.m. via Zoom video session;
more information is available by calling the District Offi ce,
541-524-2260.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
May 9, 1970
Charlie Chandler and Denzil Robbins walked off with
the top two awards given out by the Baker High School
Future Farmers of America chapter and its Parent and Son
banquet in the high school Friday evening. Chandler was
named the chapter’s star chapter farmer and Robbins was
named the star chapter’s greenhand.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 8, 1995
Shouting slogans such as “What do we want? Justice;
When do we want it? Now,” state employees from Baker
City picketed the offi ces where they normally work this
morning on the fi rst day of a statewide strike.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 7, 2010
Baker County residents again came away disappointed
after a three-hour session in which Idaho Power Co.
offi cials laid out plans for construction of a 500-kilovolt
transmission line from Boardman to Hemingway, Idaho.
Idaho Power announced last month that its preferred
route will travel about a mile east of the Oregon Trail
Interpretive Center.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 8, 2019
Tourism is on a decade-long growth trend in Baker
County, and Timothy Bishop is working to maintain that
momentum.
So is Linea Gagliano.
Bishop, who is Baker County’s contract tourism market-
ing director, and Gagliano, director of global communica-
tions for Travel Oregon, met Tuesday morning on the fi fth
fl oor of the Baker Tower to sift through the latest reports
showing how much visitors contribute to the economies
of Baker County, Eastern Oregon and the state.
They gathered in the offi ce of Greg Smith, Baker
County’s contract economic developer, along with Jamie
Porter, industry communications content editor for Travel
Oregon, and Alana Garner Carollo, who was in just her
second day as executive director of the Eastern Oregon
Visitors Association.
Smith participated by phone.
The reports from Dean Runyan Associates show that
since a drop during the Great Recession, travel spending
has increased every year since.
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ FRIDAY: Baked cod, cup of clam chowder, roll, coleslaw,
lemon bar
■ MONDAY (MAY 11): Baked ham, sweet potatoes, peas,
biscuit, carrot-raisin salad, apple crisp
■ TUESDAY (MAY 12): Chicken Kiev with hollandaise,
broccoli-blend vegetables, roll, gelatin with fruit, tapioca
■ WEDNESDAY (MAY 13): Cabbage rolls, parslied red
potatoes, carrots, bread, pea-and-onion salad, cinnamon
rolls
■ THURSDAY (MAY 14): Pork tips over fettuccine, green
beans, bread, coleslaw, bread pudding
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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Submitted photo
Jessica Anderson, PE teacher at South Baker Intermediate and Haines Elementary schools, demonstrates the ob-
stacle course she built in her front yard as part of the video lessons she is using while schools are closed due to the
coronavirus pandemic.
PE teachers improvise as
virus forces online classes
By Corey Kirk
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
Last fall you’d often see PE
teacher Jessica Anderson at
either Haines Elementary or
South Baker Intermediate
school surrounded by her stu-
dents, a cup of coffee in hand
as she prepared to put the
kids through their paces.
Half a year later, An-
derson’s class preparation
includes a computer, a video
camera and editing software.
“This is something the
entire country of PE teach-
ers were doing,” Anderson
said this week. “I like to give
personal videos because I feel
like the kids need to still see
me, they still need consis-
tency.”
Anderson, in common with
educators around Baker City
and elsewhere, were faced
with changes in their daily
routines due to coronavirus
pandemic.
While other teachers can
transfer their classroom
instruction to the screen, PE
teachers faced a different
challenge.
“We just started brain-
“I like to give personal
videos because I feel
like the kids need to still
see me, they still need
consistency.”
— Jessica Anderson, PE
teacher at South Baker
Intermediate and Haines
Elementary schools
storming ideas of what that
would look like,” said Matt
Banta, PE teacher at Baker
High School.
Because the school closure
instituted in March was origi-
nally intended to be tempo-
rary, before Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown extended it through
the rest of the academic year,
teachers prepared for both
possibilities.
“Initially we were hoping to
come back so we kind of came
up with a contingency plan for
both,” Banta said.
He’s using the Google
Classroom online platform
to continue teaching even as
schools are closed.
“We are providing kids
with suggested workouts to
complete, ultimately they
are being asked to complete
a physical activity log for the
week,” Banta said.
Since he’s not able to
monitor his students directly,
Banta said he’s being reason-
able with his expectations.
“We are trying to be as
fl exible as possible, on the
(physical activity) log,” he said.
“We are asking for a parent-
guardian signature to verify
they have done the activity.”
Anderson, who works with
elementary students, said ac-
countability isn’t her biggest
concern.
Both she and Banta have
to address the possibility that
not all students will have ac-
cess to the equipment they’re
accustomed to having at
school. So they improvise.
“We worked to create a list
of basic household items that
can be used for weight train-
ing,” Banta said.
Knowing that not all of
her students could have the
necessary equipment, Ander-
sen also looks into household
items to encourage her stu-
dents to keep moving.
“I just did a little juggling
unit, and knowing that my
kids don’t have bean bags
at home, I have them get a
pair of socks and a rubber
band and they practice their
juggling with a pair of socks,”
Anderson said.
Anderson even taught her
students to build their own
running obstacle course, and
then she demonstrated with
her own.
“I was in my front yard and
I took cushions off of my out-
side patio and I hurdled over
that and ran around my pots,”
Anderson said. “I told the kids
to make their obstacle course
inside or outside.”
Anderson and Banta said
remote teaching has remind-
ed them how vital it is to have
social interaction with their
students.
Anderson, who works with
more than 500 students,
misses her time with the kids.
“I see kiddos at Haines and
South Baker every other day,
and I don’t anymore,” she
said. “I worry about them and
just having that interaction, I
really miss that.”
Man accused of throwing knives in park
p.m. at the park.
Hagedorn wrote in his media log report
A Baker City man arrested on a
that he responded to the alleged knife-
charge of third-degree criminal mischief throwing incident because Baker City
at Geiser-Pollman Park Friday is accused Police offi cers were busy with another
of throwing knives at trees, light poles,
call.
birds and squirrels and could face ad-
Hagedorn said Weiss placed the knives
ditional charges.
on the ground at Hagedorn’s request and
Oregon State Police Sr. Trooper Nicho- admitted to throwing knives at a tree
las Hagedorn cited and released Jamie
and a utility pole in the park. The offi cer
Joseph Weiss, 55, of Baker City at 5:04
seized the knives.
By Chris Collins
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
Face masks,
fabric and
elastic can
be donated
People interested in donat-
ing elastic and tightly woven
cotton fabric for making
homemade face masks can
bring them to the front lobby
at the Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce, 3410 K St.
Local crafters have been
sewing masks and they need
supplies, according to a press
release from Baker County.
Finished masks can be
placed in a drop box at Com-
munity Connection’s Senior
Center, 2810 Cedar St.
Instructions for making
masks is available at the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and
Prevention website, www.cdc.
gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/
downloads/DIY-cloth-face-
covering-instructions.pdf
He wrote in his report that upon fur-
ther investigation, Weiss reportedly had
thrown knives at and damaged multiple
trees in the park. Hagedorn stated that
he later learned that Weiss had been
throwing the knives at birds and squir-
rels as well, and at multiple utility poles
along Madison Street.
Hagedorn said the information would
be referred to the District Attorney’s offi ce
for consideration of additional charges.
N EWS OF R ECORD
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DEATHS
Audrey H. Brown: 85, of
Baker City, died on May 3, 2020,
at her home. Her graveside
service will be at 11 a.m. MDT
at the Kohlerlawn Cemetery in
Nampa, Idaho. Pastor Troy Tee-
ter of the Baker City Church of
the Nazarene will offi ciate. Vault
interment will take place after
the service. To light a candle in
Audrey’s memory, go to www.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
DEPOSITING LIGHTED
MATERIAL ON A HIGHWAY OR
FOREST LAND (Baker County
warrant): Gage Michael Nie-
haus, 20, of Haines, 1:23 p.m.
Monday, at the police depart-
ment; cited and released.
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Oregon State Police
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF INTOXICANTS
(Alcohol), RECKLESS DRIVING
and RECKLESSLY ENDAN-
GERING ANOTHER PERSON:
Uriel Arteaga Ochoa, 30, of
Pasco, Washington, 4:10 p.m.
Saturday, on Heritage Ranch
Road near Haines; cited and
released.
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