2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2020
BAKER COUNTY OFFICIAL IS UNIT COMMANDER FOR VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION
Medical Reserve Corps seeks members
By Andrew Cutler
East Oregonian
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
TUESDAY, MAY 26
■ Baker School District Budget Committee: 5 p.m.,
Zoom video meeting; for details about how to access the
meeting, call the District Offi ce, 541-524-2260.
TUESDAY, MAY 26
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m., City Hall, 1655 First St. For
details on how to access meeting go to bakercity.com
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27
■ Baker County Commission: 9 a.m. to noon; for details
about how to access the meeting, go to bakercounty.org
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
May 26, 1970
UNITY — Voters in the Hereford-Unity-Ironside School
District approved the district’s revised 1970-71 school bud-
get of $207,324 by a vote of 118 yes votes to 90 no votes.
On May 4 the district’s voters had rejected the district’s
proposed budget of $215,324. The voters in the district
have to vote on the entire budget as it has no tax base.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 26, 1995
For the second time this week, the Baker Ranger District
has sent an unresolved appeal of a timber sale to the U.S.
Forest Service’s regional offi ce in Portland.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 26, 2010
The owner of Baker City’s four grass tennis courts has
asked the city’s Planning Commission for permission to
leave the court lights shining until 10 p.m. on as many as
10 nights per year, instead of the current lights-out time of
9 p.m.
Don McClure, who bought the courts a few years ago
from original owners Borden and Sandy Granger, also
wants to play host to tennis tournaments on as many as
30 days per year, eight days more than the current city-
imposed limit of 22.
PENDLETON — As
Oregon residents work to get
back to some sort of normalcy,
the Oregon Health Authority
is increasing efforts to recruit
health care professionals to
join the State Emergency
Registry of Volunteers across
the state.
Since March, SERV-OR
has added more than 800
volunteers, strengthening
OHA’s ability to contain
COVID-19 cases and building
the capacity of the volunteer
program to respond to future
emergencies.
The effort is picking up
steam in Eastern Oregon.
“There has been a sig-
nifi cant increase in people
volunteering for different
regions across the state for
the Eastern Oregon Medi-
cal Reserve Corps (EOMRC)
and for Serve Oregon,” said
Jason Yencopal, emergency
management director for
Baker County and the unit
commander of the Eastern
Oregon Medical Reserve
Corps. “And we’ve seen that
increase in Eastern Oregon,
too.”
Yencopal said about 30
volunteers have been added
around the 10-county region
that makes up the EOMRC,
bringing the total volunteers
in the region to about 90.
Having volunteers spread out
in all of the counties under
the EOMRC umbrella helps
cut down on response times
if volunteers are needed to
travel from, say, Pendleton to
Burns, Yencopal said.
“If we only have volunteers
in three counties out of the
10, we’re always pulling from
those three,” he said. “If we
can get them spread out all
over the region, the drive
time for volunteers to re-
spond in the case of a severe
outbreak would decrease
and make our response time
increase.”
The Oregon Health
Authority is planning for
volunteers to be a key part
of the state’s COVID-19
recovery effort by supporting
contact tracing, testing and
community wellness cam-
paigns, and studies of long-
term community effects and
mass vaccination programs.
Volunteers who sign up in
the coming days will have
the opportunity to train and
deploy quickly.
“The objective is to get
enough contact tracers
for the counties and then,
whether it’s county or state,
we have enough contact
tracers to support positive
cases in order to be able to go
through that process to keep
people safe and to reduce the
spread,” Yencopal said.
Getting the word out to po-
tential volunteers in Eastern
Oregon has been productive.
“It’s been positive,” said
Ray Denny, public safety
director for the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation and a manager
for the EOMRC.
The EOMRC is a group of
doctors, nurses, emergency
medical technicians and
residents around Eastern
Oregon. The organization
falls under the State Emer-
gency Registry of Volunteers.
The Corps supports local
county health departments,
area hospitals, emergency
management offi ces and
local response teams in a
10-county area: Baker, Grant,
Gilliam, Harney, Malheur,
Morrow, Umatilla, Union,
Wallowa and Wheeler.
In addition to helping with
disease outbreaks, SERV-
OR volunteers are ready to
respond to other emergen-
cies and natural disasters,
such as fl ooding, wildfi re
and earthquakes. A couple
of events the EOMRC has
been involved with, Yencopal
said, include the solar eclipse
in 2017 and supporting the
Red Cross shelter during the
February fl ooding in Uma-
tilla County.
Health care professionals
can register to volunteer with
SERV-OR at SERV-OR.org.
“Oregon’s health care
workers are our most valu-
able asset in the fi ght against
COVID-19,” said OHA Direc-
tor Patrick Allen. “Their skills
and energy are saving lives
O BITUARIES
‘Shorty’ Welch
daughter in-law, Michael and Cody
Welch of Sheridan, Wyoming; his two
Leon D. “Shorty” Welch, 75, a long-
brothers and sisters-in-law, Wayne “Lar-
time resident of the Vernonia and Rich- ry” and Lorna Welch of British Colum-
land communities, died May 20, 2020, at bia, Canada, and Darwin Lee and Linda
his home in Richland.
Welch of Vernonia; his sister, Darlene
Shorty was born on June 21, 1944,
Faye Mcleod of Vernonia; and his sister
at North Platte, Nebraska, the son of
and brother-in-law, Gayle Rogene and
the late Wayne Lester and
Clifford Yokley of Atwater, California;
Idris Inez (Dillon) Welch.
his three grandchildren, Kyler Canun
As a young child he moved
Welch of Oklahoma, Scout Avery Welch
with his family from
of Sheridan, Wyoming, and Grace Ann
Nebraska to the Vernonia
Dahlen of Sheridan,Wyoming; along
community, where he was
with numerous nieces and nephews.
Shorty
raised and received his
Shorty was preceded in death by his
Welch
education having been a
parents, Wayne Lester and Idris Inez
graduate of Vernonia High
Welch, and his brother, Ronald “Ron”
School.
Welch.
Following his graduation, he worked
For those who would like to make
in the logging industry until he enlisted a donation in memory of Shorty, the
in the United States Army in June 1965 family suggests Creating Memories
at Portland.
(helping those children with ability in
Upon his return from Vietnam and
their challenges to enjoy hunting, fi sh-
honorable discharge from the Army,
ing, camping and more) through Tami’s
Shorty made his home in the Vernonia Pine Valley Funeral Home & Crema-
community and worked with numerous tion Services, P.O. Box 543 Halfway, OR
logging companies in the area. Even-
97834. Online condolences can be made
tually, he made his way up to Alaska
at www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.
where he also worked in the logging
com
industry for close to 30 years. Shorty
Raelene Maddox
enjoyed his retirement in Richland for
Baker City, 1944-2020
20 years.
Raelene Florene Maddox, 73, of Baker
Among his special interests, he
City, died on May 19, 2020, at her home.
enjoyed spending time with his family
There will be a private memorial ser-
and many friends, hunting and fi shing
with his brothers and nephews, cutting vice at a later date.
Raelene was born on Dec. 16, 1946, at
fi rewood, and making friends every-
Abilene, Texas, to Raymond DeFrenne
where he went.
and Mary Minor (Axe) DeFrenne. She
Shorty is survived by his son and
Richland, 1944-2020
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 27, 2019
Jim Lampkins pauses in his war story, the memories
from 75 years ago still raw in his mind.
“Our toughest duty was Okinawa,” he said.
Stationed on a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Pacifi c theater
during World War II, Lampkins’ ship was on “picket” duty
sent halfway to Japan. Their mission: intercept Japanese
kamikaze pilots before they got to the main fl eet.
“We never got hit,” Lampkins said.
Other ships weren’t so lucky. Lampkins and other sail-
ors were charged with fi nding the survivors.
“There weren’t many — oil burning on the water, the
ship still exploding,” he said.
Then he pauses, collecting his thoughts.
“The ones who weren’t ... we took their life jacket and
dog tags. It was terrible.”
Lampkins turns 97 on June 14. He enlisted with the U.S.
Navy in 1942 in Enterprise, where he worked at a bank
post-graduation.
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ WEDNESDAY: Spaghetti with beef sauce, caulifl ower,
garlic bread, pea-and-onion salad, birthday cake
■ THURSDAY: Breaded pork loin, baked potato, mixed
vegetables, roll, broccoli-bacon salad, cheesecake
■ FRIDAY: Boneless chicken breast with cream gravy,
mashed potatoes, broccoli-blend vegetables, roll, fruit
ambrosia, apple crisp
■ MONDAY (June 1): Chicken broccoli Alfredo over
fettuccine, biscuit, fruit cup, lemon bars
■ TUESDAY (June 2): Meatloaf, potatoes and gravy, green
beans, roll, carrot-raisin salad, sherbet
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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every day, in every part of
the state. SERV-OR provides
another opportunity to give
back and support response
efforts while connecting
volunteers to high-quality
training.”
While the backbone of the
EOMRC are health care vol-
unteers, Denny said there is
a need for volunteers without
a medical background.
“Sometimes we just need
somebody there to help direct
people. We don’t want to take
a nurse and put them in that
role unless we have to,” he
said. “We’d rather have them
be able to immunize or what-
ever we’re doing there. So,
we would be looking for some
regular volunteers as well.”
SERV-OR is Oregon’s
roster of licensed physicians,
nurses, pharmacists, Emer-
gency Medical Technicians,
behavioral health providers,
respiratory therapists and
other medical professionals
who have registered to volun-
teer in response to local, state
or federal emergencies.
“When our health care
system was preparing for
the worst of this, volunteer
health care workers an-
swered the call,” Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown said. “I want to
commend all our health care
professionals and volunteers
for their incredible work
protecting the lives, safety,
and wellness of Oregonians
during this crisis.”
graduated high school in
1965. On July 20, 1968,
Raelene married James
Maddox at Santa Rosa,
California. Together they
had two children, James and
Raelene
Mary. Raelene’s main oc-
Maddox
cupation was being a mother
and housewife, but she also
worked for the health care industry for 40
years until her retirement in 2008. She
enjoyed crafts, computer graphics and
spending time with her family. She was
very proud to have raised two very success-
ful children.
Raelene is survived by her husband of
53 years, James E. Maddox of Baker City;
her son, James C. Maddox of Hawaii; her
daughter, Mary LaVelle Miller of Lewis-
town, Montana; four grandchildren and
nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her
mother, Mary Minor DeFrenne.
To light a candle in memory of Raelene,
or to leave a condolence for her family, go
to www.grayswestco.com
Diane Miller
Medical Springs
Diane Miller, 76, of Medi-
cal Springs, died March 25,
2020, at her home, surround-
ed by the love of her family.
Arrangements are under
Diane
the direction of Tami’s Pine
Miller
Valley Funeral Home &
Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at www.tamispi-
nevalleyfuneralhome.com
N EWS OF R ECORD
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
FOURTH-DEGREE ASSAULT
(domestic), HARASSMENT: Adri-
enna Dione Morris, 22, transient,
10:32 p.m. Saturday in the 1500
block of Sixth Street; jailed. Morris
was also cited on a Baker County
Justice Court warrant.
OFFENSIVE LITTERING: Juan
Pablo Burgos, 58, transient, 10:27
p.m. Saturday at Cherry and Camp-
bell streets; cited and released.
SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL
TRESPASSING: Jamie Joseph
Weiss, 55, transient, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday at Sam-O Park, cited and
released. Weiss was also cited on a
Baker County Justice Court warrant
for contempt of court on 8:38 a.m.
Saturday at Birch and Campbell
streets.
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker
County Justice Court warrant): Mi-
chael E. Cassidy, 63, Baker City, 5:57
a.m. Saturday in the 2900 block of
10th Street; cited and released.
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