LOCAL & STATE
6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald, File
Bicycle racers compete in the criterium in downtown Baker City during the 2016 Cycling Classic.
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald, File
Former Baker City resident Jason Hardrath, second from left, competed in the 2016 Cycling Classic in Baker City.
BICYCLES
“It’s an awesome race. I just want to keep it going.”
grocery store,” he said.
Cimmiyotti lives in Uma-
—Brian Cimmiyotti, director, Baker City Cycling Classic
Continued from Page 1A
tilla and helps run his fam-
The event features four
ily’s bicycle shops — one in
stages stretched across three
“Most of them didn’t request There’s nothing like it. That’s
Hermiston, one in Kennewick,
days: a road race on Friday,
a refund,” he said.
the draw.”
Washington. He said he’s well
June 25, a time trial and
He’s still working out
Fields are limited to 100
accustomed to the health
Criterium on Saturday, and
logistics, but hopes to put
racers but have never filled, he guidelines.
a fi nal road race that ends at
on a similar race that has
said. Several draw only 20 or
He’s also not a stranger to
Anthony Lakes on Sunday.
happened every year (except
30 entrants.
bike races — he put on the
Registration opened Wednes- 2020) since 2001.
Packet pickup will likely look Echo Red 2 Red mountain
day, April 7. Cimmiyotti said
“We can do it in a modified
different, with face coverings
bike race a few weeks ago.
many riders — about 100 regis- way, but my goal is to put on
required and a one-way entry
Cimmiyotti participated in
tered for the 2020 race — rolled the race people expect,” he said. and exit.
the Baker City race four or
their entry fees to 2021.
“It’s the hardest stage race.
“You handle it just like a
fi ve times in its early years.
When Brian Vegter, the
former BCCC director, told the
Oregon Bicycle Racing Asso-
ciation he was ready to hand
the reins to someone else,
OBRA contacted Cimmiyotti.
He agreed to be director.
“It’s an awesome race. I just
want to keep it going,” he said.
Although late June is
offi cially summer, he knows
from experience that Eastern
Oregon weather can throw a
curveball — he raced the year
it snowed.
“The hardest thing about
bike racing is you can’t
control the weather,” he said.
“You set the date and hope
the weather is good.”
Registration information
is available on the website,
www.bakercitycyclingclassic.
com. Entry is $180 through
May 5, then increases to
$225. Registration closes
June 23.
Information is also posted
on the Facebook page for
Baker City Cycling Classic.
Legislative committee approves police reform bills
so many reforms in the wake of the
death of George Floyd last May in
SALEM — Republicans and
Minneapolis. Black Lives Matter
Democrats on the Oregon House
demonstrations were held in cities
Judiciary Committee unanimously
across Oregon after Floyd died in
approved almost a dozen bills on
police custody. In Portland, protests
police reform, a show of bipartisan
went on for more than 100 straight
unity in a Legislature that has been days.
bitterly divided.
“During this past year, more than
The bills approved Tuesday
ever, we’ve seen Oregonians, urban
evening, April 6, involve regulating
and rural, standing up to make their
use of tear gas, requiring a publicly
voices heard in calling for racial
accessible database that names
justice and police accountability —
offi cers disciplined for misconduct,
even in the middle of a pandemic
and limiting arbitrators’ decisions on — because the need for change is so
offi cers’ misconduct cases.
pressing,” Brown said.
Gov. Kate Brown congratulated
Sandy Chung, executive director of
the committee for pushing forward
the American Civil Liberties Union
By Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
of Oregon, said the committee’s ac-
tion represents “important, biparti-
san steps to make necessary reforms
for Oregon communities.”
Rep. Christine Drazan, the Repub-
lican leader in the House, came on
as a guest speaker to praise the com-
mittee for its bipartisan cooperation.
Over many weeks, the committee’s
six Democrats and four Republicans
had debated and heard public testi-
mony on the bills. They also ham-
mered out dozens of amendments.
The committee then proceeded
to unanimously approve nine police
reform bills. Another bill, requiring
police to be trained in airway and
circulatory anatomy and physiology,
Rich, poor,
old, young.
Compassion
doesn’t
discriminate.
was unanimously passed on April 1.
The bills, which go to the House
fl oor for a vote or to the Ways and
Means Committee for funding,
would, among other things:
• Set the groundwork for equity
training as part of basic training
for police offi cers, and add at least
one member from a marginalized
or historically underrepresented
community to the Board on Public
Safety Standards and Training.
• Regulate use of chemical agents,
impact projectiles and sound devices
by law enforcement.
• Have the Oregon Criminal
Justice Commission establish a
detailed statewide database on
use of physical force by police and
deaths in custody. The database
must be searchable and available to
the public.
• Require the Department of Pub-
lic Safety Standards and Training to
create a uniform background check-
list for law enforcement agencies
to use when hiring, and to include
applicant’s tendencies and opinions
toward diverse cultures and races.
• Require police working in crowd
management to have identifying
information on uniforms or tacti-
cal helmets, either their fi rst initial
and last name or a unique identifi er
assigned by the offi cer’s law enforce-
ment agency.
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