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November 10, 2020
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A special good day to
Herald subscriber Janet
Kahn of Baker City.
Local, 3A
Veterans Day Ceremony Set For Wednesday At Courthouse
Traditional Tribute
Conservation groups
are increasing the reward
for information leading to
the arrest and conviction
of whoever shot a female
gray wolf in Baker County.
The wolf, killed about
Oct. 29, was found by a
hunter in the Wallowa-
Whitman National Forest
about 8 miles northeast of
Halfway, within the terri-
tory of the Pine Creek Pack.
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker County restaurants will have to
limit their capacity to 50 people, including
customers and staff, from Nov. 11-25 under
a 2-week “pause” that Gov. Kate Brown an-
nounced Monday as part of her strategy to
reduce the recent surge in COVID-19 cases.
Brown announced on Friday that fi ve
counties — Malheur, Marion, Multnomah,
Umatilla and Jackson — would start the
restrictions on Nov. 11.
The governor said fi ve other counties —
Baker, Union, Clackamas, Washington and
Linn — could be added to the list based on
her review of statistics after the weekend.
BOISE — BYU hasn’t
had many chances this
season to prove that it’s
deserving of its lofty No. 9
ranking. On Friday night,
the Cougars took full ad-
vantage of their fi rst game
against a ranked team.
And it was nothing short
of impressive.
Zach Wilson threw for
359 yards and two touch-
downs and Tyler Allgeier
rushed for 123 yards and
a pair of scores as BYU
routed No. 21 Boise State
51-17.
See Pause/Page 3A
Storm closed
I-84 Sunday
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
The fi rst widespread snowstorm of the
season swept across Northeastern Oregon
Sunday morning and some drivers strug-
gled to stay on a slippery stretch of Inter-
state 84 through the Blue Mountains.
A rash of minor accidents in the west-
bound lanes of the freeway between La
Grande and Pendleton prompted the
Oregon Department of Transportation
(ODOT) to close the westbound lanes for
about 4 hours Wednesday afternoon.
Home & Living, 1B
LA GRANDE — Whether
you need clothes, furniture
or help with mowing your
lawn, the Buy Nothing
La Grande/Island City
and Surrounding Areas
Facebook group has you
covered. The group is part
of an international move-
ment focused on giving.
See Freeway/Page 3A
WEATHER
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A Veterans Day ceremony is planned for 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the memorial on the east
side of the Baker County Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
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By Jayson Jacoby
Snow showers
likely
Wednesday
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Snow showers
in the morning
Full forecast on the back
of the B section.
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County
on 2-week
‘pause’
By Jayson Jacoby
Sports, 6A
Today
$1.50
Ducks
roll past
Stanford
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Kenneth Anderson was prac-
ticing for what might have been
his own death when the news
arrived aboard his Navy ship
anchored at San Diego.
It was August 1945.
The United States had
dropped the second atomic
bomb on Japan.
The Japanese surrendered.
World War II was over.
And Anderson, neither old
enough to buy a beer nor to cast
a vote, was safe.
He was an 18-year-old motor
machinist’s mate third class.
For the previous several
weeks Anderson
and his shipmates,
along with about
500 Marines, had
been preparing
for the impending
Anderson
American inva-
sion of Japan.
Anderson, who likely would
have been assigned to a landing
craft to make sure its diesel
engine kept running to deliver
the Marines to the beach, knew
how dangerous it was to be part
of an amphibious assault force.
“It would have been bad,” he
said.
Ceremony Planned
Veterans Day ceremony
is set for Wednesday at 11
a.m. at the memorial on
the east side of the Baker
County Courthouse lawn,
1995 Third St. Terrie Evarts,
who served in the U.S.
Army from 1974-77, will
give a brief speech. She
also served in the Alaska
Army National Guard from
1977-92. People attending
are asked to wear a face
mask and observe social
distancing.
Baker Police
investigating
sexual assault
By Chris Collins
ccollins@bakercityherald.com
Baker City Police are investigating a re-
port of fi rst-degree sexual assault involving
two teenagers.
Police Chief Ray Duman said both the
male suspect and the female victim are
younger than 18.
The two teens knew each other, Duman
said. The crime is alleged to have happened
between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday
at a Baker City home.
See Veterans/Page 3A
See Assault/Page 3A
City Council to consider two possible
alternatives to police use of force policy
■ Some councilors have objected to policy required as part of application for $1.5 million federal grant
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker City Manager Fred Warner
Jr. is proposing alternative versions
of the excessive force policy for the
police department that some coun-
cilors have objected to.
An offi cial from Business Oregon,
the state agency that oversees a
federal grant program, told the city
that it must approve the policy to
qualify for a $1.5 million grant that
New Directions Northwest plans to
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use to build a Wellness Center for
its clients who are in addiction or
mental health treatment.
But Councilors Doni Bruland and
Lynette Perry balked at approving
the 2-paragraph policy, calling it
government overreach.
“I do not believe a state bureau-
cratic agency should dictate to a
community what laws or policies we
need to do,” Bruland said during the
City Council’s Oct. 13 meeting, when
Warner fi rst asked councilors to
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approve the policy to qualify for the
$1.5 million Community Develop-
ment Block Grant.
“Our state laws are changing on a
dime and I’m really in fear that if we
pass this we would really be putting
our populace in danger,” Perry said.
Bruland and Perry have pointed
out that the Baker City Police
Department has an existing 8-page
use of force policy which states, in
its fi rst paragraph, that “Offi cers
shall use only that amount of force
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that reasonably appears necessary
given the facts and circumstances
perceived by the offi cer at the time of
the event to accomplish a legitimate
law enforcement purpose.”
Baker City Police Chief Ray
Duman, however, told councilors
that he has no concerns about the
proposed policy, saying it would not
affect how police offi cers do their
jobs.
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