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Members of Baker High
School’s Future Busi-
ness Leaders of America
organized the 2021 FBLA
Regional Skills Conference
— virtual style, of course,
because of the COVID-19
pandemic.
Baker High School Volleyball Team Is Back On The Court
Bumping Bulldogs
Flatten the
hills with
snowshoes
Visitor
center
back on
county
agenda
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
BRIEFING
A little more than a year
after the Baker County
Board of Commissioners was
slated to award a contract to
run a visitor center in Baker
City, the matter remain
unresolved.
But commissioners will
resume their discussion of
the issue when they convene
on Wednesday, March 3, at
the Courthouse, 1995 Third
St. Commissioners likely will
take up the visitor services
contract around 9:45 a.m.
The contract was on the
agenda on Feb. 19, 2020, but
commissioners decided to
delay a decision.
Open house for
volunteers at
Heritage Museum
People interested in
working as a volunteer
at the Baker Heritage
Museum in Baker City are
invited to an open house
on Tuesday, March 2, from
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the
Museum, 2480 Grove St.
Masks will be required.
More information is avail-
able by calling Gracie
Hardy at 541-523-9308 or
by email, ghardy@baker-
county.org
Haines Fire District
Board to meet
HAINES — The Haines
Fire Protection District
Board will have its month-
ly meeting on Monday,
March 8, at 6 p.m. at the
main station, 816 Cole St.
COVID-19 safety protocols
will be followed.
WEATHER
Today
35 / 18
Mostly sunny
Sunday
37 / 22
Morning snow
Monday
39 / 23
Partly cloudy
Full forecast on the
back of the B section.
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Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Gretchen Morgan bumps the ball during a volleyball practice at Baker High School on Feb. 24. At far left is
Fern Bruck, and Montana Williams is in the background.
Corey Kirk, Baker City Herald
The Baker High School volleyball team has a lot to get used to during a
season fi rst postponed, and now shortened, by the pandemic.
A new coach.
A new schedule.
The new experience of playing while winter, not summer, is waning.
But both the Bulldogs and their
new coach, Ali Abrego, are excited to
be back in the BHS gym, practicing in
preparation for their fi rst match, set
for March 2 at 5 p.m. at home against
Burns.
“I’m grateful because it is my last
year,” senior Hayden Paulsen said. “It’s
depressing that I don’t get the actual
season but I am very grateful that I get
to be back in the gym with my team.”
Abrego, who is a special education
teacher at Baker Middle School, is
working with a young roster, including
multiple sophomores.
“It’s really fun having a new coach,
she’s hard on us which is really good,
and she goes straight to the point and
I love her as a coach,” said one of those
sophomores, Macey Moore.
Abrego was able to get acquainted
with her team last fall during a fi ve-
week mini-season.
Practice for the regular season,
Eltrym
Theater
to reopen
March 5
By Lisa Britton
For the Baker City Herald
which includes 12 matches scheduled
between March 2 and April 5, started
Monday, Feb. 22.
“I’m really thankful we had those
fi ve weeks in the fall to kind of get a
preview of what we would be seeing,”
Abrego said on Wednesday, Feb. 24.
“What we saw in the fall has improved
over the last few days I have seen the
kids.”
Terry McQuisten will wel-
come moviegoers back to the
Eltrym Theater on March
5 — the 13th anniversary of
when she and her husband,
Dan, purchased the business.
And, as of a Wednesday,
Feb. 24, announcement from
the state, theaters can now
sell concessions.
See Bulldogs/Page 6A
See Theater/Page 2A
Proposal To Shift Idaho Border West
Border issue
on the ballot
■ Measure on May 18 ballot an early
step in process that could move Baker,
other counties into Idaho, but change
would require approval from both state
legislatures as well as Congress
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A nonprofi t promoting a proposal to add 18 Oregon coun-
ties to Idaho, including Baker County, gathered enough
signatures to put a related measure on the county’s May 18
special election ballot.
The measure wouldn’t directly deal with Move Oregon’s
Border’s proposal to expand Idaho.
Rather, if voters approve the measure in May, the Baker
County Board of Commissioners would be required to meet
on the second Wednesday every March, July and November
“to discuss how to promote the interests of Baker County in
any negotiations regarding relocating the state borders of
TODAY
Issue 124, 14 pages
Classified ............. 2B-4B
Comics ....................... 5B
Community News ....3A
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An effort called Move Oregon’s Border would expand Idaho’s border to encompass
parts of Eastern, Central and Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Idaho to include Baker County,” according to
the ballot title.
Actually moving the states’ border would
require the approval of both the Oregon and
Idaho legislatures, and of Congress.
To put the measure on the Baker County
Crossword ........2B & 4B
Dear Abby ................. 6B
Horoscope ........3B & 4B
Jayson Jacoby ..........4A
News of Record ........2A
Obituaries ..................2A
ballot, Move Oregon’s Border had to collect at
least 496 valid signatures from registered vot-
ers in the county, said Stefanie Kirby, Baker
County clerk.
Opinion ......................4A
Outdoors ..........1B & 2B
Senior Menus ...........2A
See Border/Page 2A
Sports ........................6A
Turning Backs ...........2A
Weather ..................... 6B
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