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Wolf hit, killed by vehicle
■ Adult male wolf from Cornucopia pack was hit on Highway 86 near Richland, likely early Thursday
Oregon, 3A
By Jayson Jacoby
PENDLETON — For
the second year in a row,
Pendleton Bike Week is
canceled. The organizers
behind the motorcycle rally
made the announcement
on the event’s website.
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
An adult wolf from the Cornuco-
pia pack in eastern Baker County
was hit and killed by a car on
Highway 86 near Richland either
late Wednesday night or early
Thursday, April 8.
Several motorists reported the
dead wolf, starting around 6:30
a.m. Thursday, said Brian Ratliff,
district wildlife biologist at the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW) offi ce in Baker
City.
The wolf was hit near Milepost
36, about fi ve miles west of Rich-
land.
Ratliff said he doesn’t know who
hit the wolf. No one has reported
doing so.
The dead wolf, a male weighing
95 pounds, was born in the spring
of 2019 along with two other pups,
Ratliff said. That litter elevated the
group of wolves to pack status.
Although the wolf did not have a
tracking collar, Ratliff said a GPS
signal from a collar fi tted to a female
wolf in the Cornucopia pack, also
part of the pack’s spring 2019 litter,
showed that that wolf, early Thurs-
day morning, was near the point on
the highway where the male wolf
was killed.
See Wolf/Page 3A
BRIEFING
Virtual book fair
benefi ts Baker
Early Learning Ctr.
Cycling
Classic
returns
Baker Little League Prepares To Start Season May 1
Baker Early Learning
Center is holding a virtual
Scholastic Book Fair from
April 8 through April 20.
BELC earns 25% of the
book sales. All proceeds
will be added to the
school’s playground fund.
To purchase books, fol-
low these steps:
Through Google, search
for Scholastic Book Fairs.
Click on: Find a Fair. Search
for Baker Early Lrng
Center.
Purchase books from the
online store or the virtual
fair. For quicker access, go
to https://bookfairs.scholas-
tic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/
homepage.do?method=ho
mepage&url=bakerearlylr
ngcenter
Information is also
posted on the Baker Early
Learning Center’s Face-
book page.
WEATHER
By Lisa Britton
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
Brian Cimmiyotti says bicy-
clists are ready to race again,
and he’s looking forward to
putting on the Baker City
Cycling Classic this summer.
“I think there’s a pent-up
demand,” he said.
Cimmiyotti took over as
race director in 2020, but that
event was canceled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
This year’s race is set for
June 25-27.
See Bicycles/Page 6A
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
More than 100 volunteers gathered at Wade Williams Field on April 3 to prepare the park, owned by the
Baker Elks Lodge, for the upcoming Baker Little League season.
Today
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Sunday
53 / 21
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Let’s Play Ball!
Monday
56 / 26
Mostly sunny
Full forecast on the
back of the B section.
By Corey Kirk, Baker City Herald
When the calendars fl ip from April to May, for the fi rst time in two years
Wade Williams Field and the softball complex on 17th Street will echo with the
sounds of bats on balls and the sight of parents watching the games.
COVID
related
death
reported
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A 75-year-old Baker City
man who died on April 3
is the 13th county resident
to die after testing positive
for COVID-19, the Oregon
Health Authority (OHA)
reported Friday, April 9.
See COVID/Page 3A
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that are mailed.
The Baker Little League, which
canceled the 2020 season due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, is set to return
May 1.
Jason McClaughry, Baker Little
League president, said preparation for
the 2021 season started not long after
the diffi cult decision to cancel the 2020
schedule.
“The fi rst thing we do every year is
to work on getting new board mem-
bers or fi lling the board to help run
league operations for the next year,”
McClaughry said.
One of the board’s
bigger challenges, not
surprisingly, was work-
ing closely with the Or-
egon Health Authority
and the Baker County
Health Department to McClaughry
ensure this long-await-
ed season can be played safely.
“Putting a procedure and protocol
together for how we are going to get
kids back on the fi eld, and doing it
safely with all the expectations that
we have these days,” McClaughry said.
McClaughry recognized that
this offseason, following the 2020
cancellation, was not going to be like
previous ones.
“Before, we would be looking at
putting teams together, register-
ing players, looking at equipment
purchases, and uniforms; we’ve been
having to look at other things under
the current COVID-19 pandemic
restrictions and guidelines on how we
would operate a season,” he said.
By Samantha O’Conner
See Little League/Page 2A
release, any Brooklyn students who
are quarantined because they were
A fourth employee at Brooklyn Pri- in close contact with the teacher —
mary School has tested positive for
being with six feet for 15 minutes or
COVID-19, the Baker School District more during a 24-hour period — will
reported Thursday morning, April 8. be able to use the District’s distance
The District announced on April
learning platform while quarantin-
2 that one Brooklyn employee, and
ing.
two substitute teachers, had tested
Students in the teacher’s class
positive.
started distance learning Thursday
According to Thursday’s press
as a precaution, but no students have
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TODAY
Issue 142, 14 pages
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 3B-6B
Comics ....................... 7B
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........3B & 6B
Dear Abby ................. 8B
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tested positive, said Lindsey McDow-
ell, the District’s public information
and communications coordinator.
As was the case with the three
other workers, the teacher who most
recently tested positive was infected
outside the school, based on an in-
vestigation from the Baker County
Health Department, McDowell said.
One of Baker County’s
major summer events —
three of them, actually — are
slated to return in 2021 after
being casualties of the CO-
VID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The trio of outdoor fl ea
markets at Sumpter, the
historic town about 28 miles
west of Baker City, are
scheduled for four-day runs
around Memorial Day, the
Fourth of July and Labor
Day weekends.
See School/Page 3A
See Sumpter/Page 3A
Fourth school employee tests positive
By Jayson Jacoby
Sumpter’s
three flea
markets
planned
Horoscope ........4B & 6B
Jayson Jacoby ..........4A
News of Record ........2A
Obituaries ..................2A
Opinion ......................4A
Outdoors ..........1B & 3B
Sports ........................5A
Turning Backs ...........2A
Weather ..................... 8B
TUESDAY — BAKER VS. LA GRANDE IN SEASON’S FINAL FOOTBALL GAME