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2A — BAKER CITY HERALD SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020 WATER 50 YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald August 1, 1970 An August baseball program will get under way at Leo Adler Field on Monday, according to Bob Armstrong. High school and college age youths, including those not attending school, will participate in the program. Boys not eligible for the Babe Ruth baseball program in 1971 are also invited to participate. 25 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald August 1, 1995 Teskey Inc., doing business as Gray’s West & Co. Pio- neer Chapel in Baker City, has applied with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for an air contami- nant discharge permit needed to operate a crematorium. Teskey Inc. plans to install the crematorium at the funeral home at 1500 Dewey Ave., said owner Dennis Teskey. The permit would be for 10 years. 10 YEARS AGO from the Baker City Herald August 2, 2010 Three lightning-caused fi res merged into a single blaze Friday in the Elkhorn Mountains north of Granite, forcing a group of campers to evacuate a wilderness lake and prompting the Forest Service to close three hiking trails. Crews contained the 30-acre Drinkwater Complex, which burned near Baldy Lake, on Sunday evening, Deb- bie Wilkins, information offi cer with the fi re-management team, said this morning. N EWS OF R ECORD FUNERAL PENDING Annie Tomat: Interment of her cremains, Aug. 1 at 4 p.m. at the Eagle Valley Cemetery in Richland. POLICE LOG Baker City Police Arrests, citations FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH TERMS OF DUII DIVERSION (Baker County Circuit Court warrant): Jacob Paul Kanalz, 30, O REGON L OTTERY MEGABUCKS, July 29 12 — 22 — 28 — 32 — 34 — 38 Next jackpot: $4.7 million POWERBALL, July 29 7 — 29 — 35 — 40 — 45 PB 26 Next jackpot: $137 million MEGA MILLIONS, July 28 17 — 20 — 27 — 31 — 34 Mega 19 Next jackpot: $22 million WIN FOR LIFE, July 29 4 — 29 — 32 — 77 PICK 4, July 30 • 1 p.m.: 0 — 5 — 2 — 7 • 4 p.m.: 5 — 2 — 3 — 6 • 7 p.m.: 4 — 6 — 7 — 8 • 10 p.m.: 7 — 3 — 9 — 9 LUCKY LINES, July 30 3-6-11-15-18-23-27-31 Next jackpot: $24,000 S ENIOR M ENUS ■ MONDAY: Beef tips over mashed potatoes, carrots, biscuit, fruit cup, lemon bars ■ TUESDAY: Chicken cordon bleu with hollandaise sauce, baked potato, mixed vegetables, roll, broccoli-bacon salad, apple crisp ■ WEDNESDAY: Old-fashioned steak, rice pilaf, broccoli- blend vegetables, roll, coleslaw, cake ■ THURSDAY: Baked ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, cornbread, beet-and-onion salad, cheesecake ■ FRIDAY: Chicken salad croissant sandwich, potato salad, corn, fruit cup, cookies 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, under 60. Meals must be picked up; there is no dining on site. C ONTACT THE H ERALD 1668 Resort St. Open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone: 541-523-3673 Fax: 541-833-6414 Publisher Karrine Brogoitti kbrogoitti@lagrandeobserver. com Jayson Jacoby, editor jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Advertising email ads@bakercityherald.com Classifi ed email classified@bakercityherald.com Circulation email circ@bakercityherald.com ISSN-8756-6419 Serving Baker County since 1870 Published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays except Christmas Day by the Baker Publishing Co., a part of EO Media Group, at 1668 Resort St. (P.O. Box 807), Baker City, OR 97814. Subscription rates per month are: Baker City (97814), $10.80; all others, $12.50. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Baker City Herald, P.O. Box 807, Baker City, OR 97814. Periodicals Postage Paid at Pendleton, Oregon 97801 Copyright © 2020 of 3060 Elm St., 4 p.m. Wednes- day, at 2339 East St.; cited and released. FOURTH-DEGREE ASSAULT: Tamra Kay Fine, 46, transient, 4:22 p.m. Wednesday, at the cor- ner of East and Madison streets; cited and released. Police Chief Ray Duman said Fine assaulted Sydney Slobig, 20, of Baker City causing injury to Slobig’s left eye and right leg. THIRD-DEGREE THEFT: Korah Anne Butler, 18, of Cody, Wyoming, 3:48 p.m. Thursday, on Pocahontas Road; cited and released. Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce Arrests, citations CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County Circuit Court warrant on original charge of failure to ap- pear): Kenneth Edward Hackett, 50, of Baker City, 6:41 p.m. Thurs- day, at 2120 Eighth St.; cited and released. SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL TRESPASSING and THIRD- DEGREE THEFT (Baker County Justice Court warrant:) Justin Michael Shelton, 30, of 400 Sec- ond St., 11:16 a.m. Wednesday, at 1226 Washington Ave.; cited and released. PROBATION VIOLATION (Bak- er County Circuit Court warrant): Tamara Kay Fine, 46, transient, 4 p.m. Wednesday, at 2339 East St.; cited and released. O BITUARIES JoAnne Hardy ONE YEAR AGO from the Baker City Herald August 2, 2019 Nathan Goodrich has no problem letting the combination of a lightning bolt and summer heat do part of his work. This particular task involves reintroducing wildfi re, and its multiple potential benefi ts, to Oregon’s biggest wilder- ness area. Which is no small matter, and not only because the Eagle Cap Wilderness sprawls across 365,000 acres. The wilderness is part of Goodrich’s responsibility as fi re management offi cer for the northern part of the Wallowa- Whitman National Forest. For the past quarter century or so the Wallowa-Whitman has had a policy under which lightning fi res, under certain conditions, can burn naturally. During that period more than a dozen fi res have burned in the Eagle Cap without being subject to the Forest Ser- vice’s standard fi refi ghting tactics. Some of these blazes have spread over a few hundred acres or more. The latest of these fi res was sparked by lightning on July 14. But Goodrich and other Forest Service offi cials didn’t know the blaze was smoldering in Granite Gulch, near the center of the wilderness north of the Minam River, until Sunday. That’s when a hiker reported smoke in Granite Gulch. Since then Goodrich has monitored the fi re by way of airplane fl ights and by having fi re experts visit the site to gauge fuel moisture levels and collect other data that will be fed into a computer model predicting the fi re’s behavior through the rest of the summer and into autumn. The fi re has burned about 20 acres, which makes it relatively small by the standards of these “leave” fi res in the Eagle Cap. city’s parks, the Baker Sports Complex, Mount Hope Cemetery and the Quail Ridge Golf Course. “I selected those because they’re the nonrevenue sources, they’re not really paying for their water directly, so we defi nitely want to hit those guys fi rst and not bother or pester the residents,” Owen said. “But again I think it’s im- portant everybody conserve water and not waste it.” Because city crews are replacing a section of the city’s main water pipeline (see related story at the bottom of Page 1A), some streams, including Salmon Creek, aren’t available now. “That makes our supply just a little bit tighter than normal,” said Owen. She said the city plans to drill a second backup well next fall to increase the water supply. Unity, 1935-2012 Florence Joan (JoAnne) Stiff Hardy, 84, died peace- fully and went to be with her Lord and God on the beautiful Sunday morning of July 19, 2020, with family by her side. Recitation of the rosary will take place on Saturday, Aug. 8, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Francis de Sales Cathe- dral in Baker City, followed by a eulogy. A funeral Mass JoAnne of Resurrection Hardy will begin at 10 a.m. There will be livestreaming of the Mass, which can be accessed at the following link: https:// www.youtube.com/channel/ UCT0gtOg_f7HWOs8sIL- 9gCUw/videos, then you enter Yese Na Velugus Fr. Suresh. Family and friends are invited to an outdoor reception following the Mass. Father Camillus Fernando (Father Cami) will offi ciate the Rite of Committal on Sunday, Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. at the Unity Cemetery, the place of JoAnne’s interment. JoAnne was born on Dec. 4, 1935, at Baker City, the youngest of fi ve children born to Robert Earl Stiff and Clarice (Coffman) Stiff. JoAnne married George Hardy, the love of her life, on Dec. 30, 1954, at Baker City. They made their family home on the Hardy Ranch in Unity, where they raised their six steadfast children. JoAnne possessed an extraordinary gift of hospi- tality. She knew no stranger. She loved people and en- joyed being in their company. Her home was open to many, whom she generously fed and imparted bits of wisdom. One stop at the ranch, and you were family. She enjoyed traveling. When George wouldn’t go with her, she’d take a friend or another family mem- ber along to share in her adventure. JoAnne was a woman of many talents — cooking, canning, sewing, crocheting, and knitting. She was always eager to learn from others. She always enjoyed making quilts with the Burnt River Home Extension Ladies and tak- ing classes provided by the Baker County Extension in her area. She even tried her hand at upholstering and painting. JoAnne certainly had a green thumb when it came to growing houseplants and she had a gift for music. She loved to sing, dance, play the piano, and for many, many years, she could be heard leading the singing while playing the organ at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. JoAnne did so much to help her family and fi ll the needs in her community. Over the years she was a Cub Scout and 4-H leader, taught piano lessons, taught kindergarten in her home before it was available in the schools, cooked and served at the school cafeteria, drove school/sports bus, refereed volleyball games, wrote a weekly “news” column of the Burnt River area for The Record-Courier newspaper, worked as a U.S. Census taker, worked at Stratton’s store, cleaned houses and cared for the elderly. As an employee of the Forest Service, she cleaned offi ces and helped build the fi rst wheelchair accessible trail at Wetmore, a Wallowa- Whitman campground, and she retired as one of Unity’s postmasters, a job she thor- oughly loved. Most of all, JoAnne loved and took great pride in her family. She took the cross of having Alzheimer’s in stride. She said God gave her six children because he knew it would take all of them to take care of her. She also knew the blessings that came from her friends. She would say, “You just can’t beat good friends.” She was a strong woman, full of life, with a feisty personal- ity, deep faith, and loved to laugh. She will be missed by all who knew and loved her. JoAnne is survived by her six children: Sherri (John) Stelljes, Theresa (Ed) Schumacher, Rob (Kelly) Hardy, Bryan (Jeanette) Hardy, Dan (Kristen) Hardy, and Alicia Mena; 18 grand- children and 31 great-grand- children; her sister, Drucilla (Wayne) Carpenter; and her brothers, Duane (Carol) Stiff, Carl (Barbara) Stiff, Greg (Kay) Stiff, Jim (Lisa) Stiff, and Eddie (Anna) Hackett; along with many nieces and nephews. JoAnne was preceded in death by George, her hus- band of nearly 60 years; and her sister, LaVaughn Gould. For those who would like to make a memorial dona- tion in JoAnne’s memory, the family suggests St. Joseph’s Catholic Church or Ronald McDonald House Charities, in care of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Crema- tion Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condolences can be made at www.tamispinevalleyfuneral home.com Timothy Endicott during his lifetime, the last be- ing Cougar Mountain, which Timothy Charles Endicott, he truly enjoyed. 60, joined his father and Tim was also a talented brother in heaven several athlete, playing baseball from days ago. Little League through high There will be no service at school as a pitcher. He also en- this time, but his family will joyed basketball and football, scatter his ashes winning the local Punt, Pass at his favorite and Kick competition at 8 fi shing hole in years old. the future. He had a great love for his Tim was born family, including his daughter, on April 13, Alison, and granddaughter, Timothy 1960, at Baker Lainee, who he didn’t get Endicott City to Alan and the chance to enjoy. He was Nancy Endicott. always ready to go fi shing Tim attended St. Francis and had a beautiful yard and Academy, where he learned fl owers wherever he lived, just to play the guitar. He played like his father. with the church folk group Tim is survived by his from second to eighth grade. mother; his brother, Doug He discovered at an early age (Sandy); his daughter, Alison that he was blessed with per- (Steven and Lainee); his fect pitch, which enabled him nephews, Jason, Nic and Cris to help tune all band and or- Endicott (Lacey and children), chestra instruments at Baker and Chase Endicott and sons; High School. He was a very and many cousins and friends. talented musician and was Tim, you have some pretty asked to play stand-up bass awesome people to keep you with the Grande Ronde Sym- company! Rest in pain-free phony his high school junior peace, his family said. and senior years. His fi rst love To light a candle for Tim or was always music. He played to leave a condolence for his at Blue Mountain Community family, go to www.grayswest College and in several bands co.com Baker City, 1960-2012 Steel on the inside where it matters most. 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I guarantee it.” - JR 225 H Street • East of I-84 • 541-523-3200 • grumpysrepair.com S199235-1 T URNING B ACK THE P AGES Owen said water use was rising even before the recent hot spell, when Continued from Page 1A temperatures topped 90 on the six days The city’s main source of water is a of July, including three days of 100 or series of about a dozen streams and above. springs in the 10,000-acre watershed on She attributes the higher water the east slopes of the Elkhorns, about 12 demand in part to more people staying miles west of Baker City. The city taps home due to the coronavirus pandemic, streams including Elk, Salmon, Marble and while there watering their lawns and Mill creeks. and gardens and fi lling pools. During the summer, when the On Wednesday the city distributed a streamfl ows decrease at the same time notice asking residents to voluntarily water usage peaks, the city supple- curtail their use. ments the watershed with water from It’s the fi rst of four stages in the city’s Goodrich Lake and from its well. water curtailment plan. The city is not The city was the fi rst in Oregon to imposing any requirements. receive a permit from the state, about a “So this is just a wake-up call to folks decade ago, that allows the city to divert that they need to be smart about their water from watershed streams into the water use and conserve where they well during the winter and spring. The can,” Owen said. city then pumps that water back to the She has required a reduction to 70% surface during summer. of normal water use for irrigation at the
