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May 1, 2021
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Local, 3A
Baker City Police offi cers
deployed a spike strip on
Wednesday evening, April
28, to stop a car that had
led Oregon State Police
troopers on a high-speed
chase along Interstate 84.
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Baker Bulldog Memorial Stadium Was Built in 1950
Football Stadium
Refurbish Proposed
Oregon, 5A
The Oregon House, on a
largely party-line vote, ap-
proved a bill that combines
storage requirements for
fi rearms with a narrower
ban on guns in some
public places. The 34-24
vote on Thursday, April
29, sends the revamped
Senate Bill 554 back to the
Senate, which can vote to
accept the changes — and
send it to Gov. Kate Brown
— or reject it and force a
joint panel to negotiate the
differences.
HAINES — The Haines
Fire Protection District will
have its monthly Board of
Directors meeting on Mon-
day, May 10 at 6 p.m. in the
main fi re station, 816 Cole
St. The meeting is open
the public, and COVID-19
safety procedures will be
in effect.
WEATHER
Today
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Turning sunny
Sunday
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County
turns
down
doses
■ Health Dept.
has many more
COVID-19 vaccine
doses than it needs
based on demand
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
BRIEFING
Haines Fire District
meeting set May 10
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Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Baker Bulldog Memorial Stadium, just west of Baker High School, was built in 1950.
By Corey Kirk
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
For the fi rst time since it
opened back in 1950, the Baker
Bulldog Memorial Stadium
could be in line for a major
renovation project.
But the Baker School District
athletic department likely will
need to raise more than $4 mil-
lion through grants and private
donations to bring the plan to
fruition at the football stadium
at Ninth and E streets just west
of Baker High School.
“Obviously we are in the
very, very early stages,” said
Buell Gonzales Jr., the school
district’s athletic director.
See Stadium/Page 2A
Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Improving access for people with disabilities is one of the major parts of a
proposed three-year renovation of Baker Bulldog Memorial Stadium.
The Baker County Health
Department has hundreds
more doses of COVID-19
vaccine than it has residents
interested in being inocu-
lated.
“The level of interest has
certainly decreased this past
week,” Nancy Staten, the
department’s director, said
on Friday morning, April 30.
Less than a month ago
the health department was
scheduling bi-weekly clinics
at Baker High School during
which more than 600 people
received either their fi rst or
second dose of the Moderna
vaccine.
But as of Friday, the
department didn’t have a
single person on a waiting
list for a vaccination, Staten
said.
Residents continue to call
occasionally asking about
vaccines, and Staten said
the department is making
appointments for people
as soon as possible, usually
within a few days.
The challenge, she said, is
scheduling vaccinations to
ensure that the department
doesn’t waste any doses.
See Doses/Page 3A
Partly sunny
Monday
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Partly sunny
Full forecast on the
back of the B section.
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a postage label for issues
that are mailed.
ANNUAL KINDERGARTEN EGG DROP
Kindergartners try
to crack the code
By Lisa Britton
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
Landon Hull shaded his eyes to see
the man, high in the sky, who was rais-
ing a package above his head.
With a quick countdown, Tim Banis-
ter tossed the box out of his Oregon Trail
Electric Cooperative bucket truck.
It landed with a thud on the black-
top outside the Baker Early Learning
Center.
Hull wasn’t sure if his raw egg sur-
vived the drop or not.
But he knew he did his best to cushion
the fragile cargo.
“Lots of bubble wrap. I used all of it,”
he said.
Hull and his fellow kindergartners
participated in the annual kindergarten
egg drop on Thursday, April 29.
This traditional family project chal-
lenges the students to build something
that will protect an egg from a high drop.
There were a few rules.
The egg had to be raw, and the pack-
age could be no larger than seven inches
square.
Each of the three kindergarten classes
took a turn outside to watch the egg toss.
TODAY
Issue 151, 12 pages
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Paizley Coley discovered that her
egg survived the drop from a bucket
truck on Thursday, April 29.
Quite a few eggs were secured inside
boxes. Several were outfi tted with para-
chutes, and one had orange streamers.
Calendar ....................2A
Classified ............. 2B-4B
Comics ....................... 5B
See Crack/Page 3A
Community News ....3A
Crossword ........2B & 4B
Dear Abby ................. 6B
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Tim Banister of Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative drops a pack-
age containing a raw egg from his bucket truck on Thursday,
April 29. Each year, Baker kindergartners use bubble wrap and
other materials to keep their egg intact after a fall.
Horoscope ........2B & 4B
Jayson Jacoby ..........4A
News of Record ........2A
Opinion ......................4A
Outdoors ..........1B & 6B
Senior Menus ...........2A
Sports ........................6A
Turning Backs ...........2A
Weather ..................... 6B
TUESDAY — ARTIST MAKING HIS MARK WHILE LIVING IN HALFWAY