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Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com
June 2, 2020
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A special good day to
Herald subscriber Richard
Taie of Baker City.
Community, 3A
The Baker City Farmers
Market opens Wednesday
with a few changes due to
the coronavirus pandemic.
The market runs from 3
p.m. to 6 p.m. at Court
Plaza on Main Street. Cus-
tomers are asked to enter
on the Main Street side,
and exit at Resort Street.
BRIEFING
$1.50
Whip up
your own
mayo
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Ready To Read virus
testing
coming
Donor Buys Books For Geiser Grand Employees’ Kids, Grandkids
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Mounted Posse’s
Youth Trail Ride
set June 27-28
Baker County’s rate of testing for corona-
virus should accelerate soon.
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker
City has been asked to participate in a
testing program through the Oregon Health
Authority, said Priscilla Lynn, CEO of the
hospital.
The goal is to test up to 15 people per
week who come to the hospital for an issue
other than the virus, Lynn said.
The purpose is to test people who have no
symptoms consistent with COVID-19, she
said.
The Baker County
Mounted Posse’s annual
Youth Trail Ride for ages 12
to 15 is scheduled for June
27 and 28. Billed as a “true
wilderness adventure,” the
event includes horseback
riding, camping, good
food, fun learning projects,
crafts, games, singing and
campfi res.
The event is sponsored
by donations from local
businesses and the Mount-
ed Posse. Applications are
available at Step Forward
Activities, 3720 10th St. in
Baker City, or by calling
Jodie Radabaugh at 541-
524-9358 or Keith Rada-
baugh at 541-403-0757.
See Testing/Page 3A
County Fair
will happen,
with changes
The Baker County Fair will go on as
scheduled, Aug. 3-7, but the annual event
will be different due to the coronavirus
pandemic.
“This fair won’t look like it usually does,
but it is important to the Fair Board that
our local youth have the opportunity to
show their 4-H and FFA projects,” Ron
Rowan, chairman of the Baker County Fair
Board, said in a press release. “They’ve
put a lot of effort into their exhibits, and
we want them to have the opportunity to
showcase their work.”
WEATHER
Today
78 / 47
Mostly sunny
Wednesday
78 / 46
Mostly sunny
See Fair/Page 3A
Correction: The phone
number for Jeffrey
Pettingill, Baker County’s
new weed control
supervisor, was wrong
in a story on Page 2A of
the May 30, issue. His cell
number is 541-519-0204.
The space below is for
a postage label for issues
that are mailed.
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
Reanna Clark, 6 months old, has a fi rm grasp on her new book, “Pat the Bunny,” as she sits
on the lap of her older brother, Colton, 12.
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Reanna Clark seems more
interested in tasting her brand
new book than reading it.
Which is pretty typical be-
havior for a 6-month-old.
But Reanna’s older brother,
Colton, who’s 12, is eager to
start turning the pages of his
volumes, which include Gary
Paulsen’s “Tucket’s Travels,” a
series chronicling the adven-
tures of a 14-year-old boy who
is kidnapped while traveling
on the Oregon Trail in 1847.
“I like to read whatever
looks good,” Colton said.
His younger brother, Gage,
7, is examining a stack of
books, including one of Tedd
Arnold’s “Fly Guy” stories.
The Clarks are inspecting
their new books in the lobby
of the Geiser Grand Hotel on
Baker City’s Main Street.
This is not a coincidence.
Their mother, Mandy Clark,
is the front desk manager at
the restored 131-year-old hotel
that is a Baker City landmark.
The Clarks’ books — and
about two dozen more — were
donated to the children and
grandchildren of Geiser Grand
employees by a longtime guest
who wasn’t able to make her
annual visit this year due to
the coronavirus pandemic.
Geiser Grand owner Bar-
Campgrounds
opening June 8
bara Sidway said the donor,
who asked that she remain
anonymous, called recently
to say that she wouldn’t be
traveling to Baker City.
But the guest had a request.
She asked Sidway to
compile a list of Geiser Grand
employees’ kids and grand-
kids, including their ages and
interests.
Then the donor called Caro-
lyn Kulog, owner of Betty’s
Books in Baker City, and
ordered books for each child.
Most received two or three.
“She’s so thoughtful,” Sid-
way said of the donor.
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
One of Baker County’s larger and more
popular forest campgrounds, closed this
spring due to the coronavirus pandemic,
will open for the season on Monday, June 8.
Union Creek Campground is on the north
shore of Phillips Reservoir, about 17 miles
southwest of Baker City.
The campground has 74 sites, including
20 with electrical, water and septic hook-
ups and 18 with electrical and water only.
Union Creek also has several bathrooms
with fl ush toilets, as well as paved trails, a
fi sh-cleaning station and picnic sites.
See Books/Page 3A
See Camping/Page 2A
21-unit subdivision proposed near freeway
■ Residential development planned east of Birch Street between D and E
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A former Baker City couple wants
to build a 21-lot residential subdivi-
sion west of Interstate 84 and north
of Campbell Street.
TODAY
Issue 14, 14 pages
Jim and Carla Michel, who live in
Meridian, Idaho, have applied for a
preliminary plat for the Silver Birch
subdivision on 3.7 acres they own
east of Birch Street between D and
E streets.
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 3B-6B
Comics ....................... 7B
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........5B & 6B
Dear Abby ................. 8B
The property is north of the Sun-
ridge Inn.
Jim Michel, who grew up in Baker
City and owned a logging company
here before moving to Idaho six
years ago, said he has owned the
Home ................... 1B-3B
Horoscope ................. 5B
Letters ........................4A
bare land for more than 30 years.
The parcel is in the low-density
residential zone.
Michel said he decided to build
a subdivision based in part on the
pattern of residential growth in that
northeast part of the city over the
past 15 years or so.
Lottery Results ..........2A
News of Record ........2A
Obituaries ..................2A
See Homes/Page 3A
Opinion ......................4A
Turning Backs ...........2A
Weather ..................... 8B
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