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,
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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
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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