2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021
HARVEY
Continued from Page 1A
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
May 6, 1971
County extension agent John Hesketh announced to the
county court yesterday morning that the expanded food
and nutrition program in Baker is in operational status.
He said 25 families are signed up for the program, most
of the initial contacts coming from welfare of the Offi ce
of Economic Opportunity. Most are on the food stamp
program, but this is not a requirement to take advantage
of the service.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 6, 1996
You still have a chance to buy a lot adjacent to the land
where Baker City wants to build nine new holes for its
public golf course.
City offi cials had thought earlier this year that they had
buyers for all seven of the lots. But one potential buyer
decided not to purchase one of the lots, City Attorney Tim
Collins said.
The lot is still available for $35,000. Terms are available,
Collins said.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 6, 2011
Baker City is pretty diminutive in terms of population,
but it’s making a big showing in an online beauty contest.
Baker City is vying for the title “Most Beautiful” in an
Internet competition for small towns sponsored by Rand
McNally (the atlas maker) and USA Today.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 7, 2020
Baker County has its fi rst confi rmed case of the corona-
virus.
The Baker County Health Department announced
Wednesday morning that a county resident had tested
positive. The Department declined to give any information
about the person or the circumstances under which the
person was tested, citing a federal health privacy law.
Holly Kerns, Baker County public information offi cer,
said she could not provide information that might in any
way identify the person. Kerns said the county was noti-
fi ed of the confi rmed case Wednesday a short time before
a press release was issued at 10:14 a.m.
While Kerns said she understands the public’s concern
and desire for more information about the person, federal
privacy rules, known by the acronym HIPAA (Health Insur-
ance Portability and Accountability Act), prohibit authori-
ties from releasing any individually identifying health
information.
“I know the public is looking for that information, and
I’m sorry there isn’t more that we can provide legally,”
Kerns said.
The person who tested positive has been directed to
isolate from others for the duration of the illness, which is
until they are symptom-free for 72 hours, according to a
press release from the Health Department.
The Health Department will employ “contact tracing”
to interview the infected person and try to identify people
who the person might have been in contact within the
past 14 days.
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ FRIDAY: Baked ham, candied yams, mixed vegetables,
green salad, rolls, tapioca pudding
■ MONDAY (May 10): Meatloaf, red potatoes, mixed
vegetables, coleslaw, rolls, apple crisp
■ TUESDAY (May 11): Chicken strips, mashed potatoes
with country gravy, corn, biscuits, Jell-O and cottage cheese
salad, cookies
■ WEDNESDAY (May 12): Ham and cheese sandwich, split
pea soup, ptoato salad, bread pudding
■ THURSDAY (May 13): Fettuccine Bolognese, Italian
vegetables, breadsticks, 3-bean salad, lemon squares
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $4.50 donation (60 and older),
$6.75 for those under 60. Meals must be picked up; no
dining on site.
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“This is my own statement.
It has no refl ection on any-
body here or staff members
in any department,” Harvey
said.
Among the topics he men-
tioned:
• That he has intimidated
department heads.
“I have not heard this
before and it is not true,”
Harvey said. “If it is true, it’s
only by a very few and none
have come forward personally
to visit with me about it.”
• That he and his son have
a contracting business, and
that he has advocated for his
son’s project at the planning
level.
Neither is true, Harvey
said.
“We both own our own
companies,” he said.
Records from the Oregon
Secretary of State’s offi ce
shows that Harvey’s son, Wil-
liam Shawn Harvey, owns W.
Harvey General Contracting
LLC, and that Commissioner
Harvey owns Bill Harvey
Custom Builder Inc.
• That he has meddled in
a city project to improve sec-
tions of 10th Street.
“For the record, this was
my project that I presented
to Cliff Bentz as projects re-
quested by him for improve-
ments in Baker County,” Har-
vey said. “This was a county
project fi rst and foremost.
I then worked with, a year
before, with a group of busi-
RISK LEVEL
ness owners on 10th Street
to come to a list of improve-
ments that they would have
liked to have seen. I then
worked with our roadmaster
to fi ne tune that list and
worked with ODOT’s help to
include other projects.”
“This was my project, is
my project, and I will con-
tinue to work on it as long as
I’m in offi ce,” Harvey said.
Harvey built the Tenth
Street Complex offi ces at
3370 10th St., which includes
the Baker City DMV offi ce
and the Intermountain Law
offi ce.
The property belongs to
Rock Creek Developments
LLC, which Harvey and his
wife, Lorrie, own.
• That Harvey and Com-
missioner Bruce Nichols
have “hated each other” since
high school.
“The truth is I did not go
to high school in Baker City
but I did work for Safeway
50 years ago and may have
worked with Bruce,” Harvey
said. “I did work with his
brother, which we got along
well.”
Harvey said he and his
wife had hired Nichols, who
is a CPA, and they had at-
tended the same church.
“In the past election I used
my Facebook page to show
my support for his reelection
and asked all of my friends
to support him and vote for
him,” Harvey said. “The fact
and truth is I do not hate Mr.
Nichols. We just disagree on
a few issues but I will not
hate him for that.”
• That Harvey treats
county staff “like crap.”
“This is completely untrue,
I have always been polite and
respectful to people I come
in contact with,” he said. “We
may disagree on an issue but
I have not treated anybody
poorly.”
• That he misuses his
position for his own personal
advantage or to benefi t his
business.
“This has never happened
and it is completely untrue,”
Harvey said.
Harvey said that in the
past year he and his wife do-
nated countless hours to help
Baker County’s Hewitt and
Holcomb parks near Richland
and other projects at no cost
to the county. He said many
times they had paid their own
expenses to take their RV to
the parks for multiple week-
ends in a row to help the new
staff managing the parks.
“Through my efforts this
past year, I have saved the
county citizens by either
supervising construction
projects or doing the work
myself,” Harvey said. “This
has totaled over $33,000 on
four projects which include
Bishop Springs repair work,
Halfway Road Department
rebuilding their shop, repair
work at Hewitt-Holcomb
parks and the Fourth Street
Remodel Project and the East
Eagle Bridge replacement
project.”
Harvey said he had been
working nights and weekends
Although state offi cials are reviewing
county risk levels every week rather
than every two weeks, as in the past,
they continue to assess counties on a
two-week basis.
During the most recent two-week
period, April 1 through May 1, Baker
County had 61 new cases and a test
positivity rate of 10.6%.
(The case total includes people who
tested positive as well as presumptive
cases — people who had symptoms
consistent with COVID-19 and were in
close contact with someone who tested
positive, but who didn’t test positive
themselves. The county doesn’t separate
positive tests and presumptive cases, list-
ing the two together as total cases.)
The thresholds for extreme risk are 60
or more new cases over two weeks, and a
positivity rate of 10% or higher.
The county’s two-week records ex-
ceeded the fi rst metric by two cases, and
the second by 0.7%.
However, during the second week the
case total (from 42 to 19) and positivity
rate (from 13.6% to 7%) both dropped.
Continued from Page 1A
The state continues to exceed the
former limit, with 345 patients statewide
on Tuesday.
But the increase in hospitalizations
was 14.9%.
“Oregon no longer meets the statewide
metrics,” Brown said in a statement.
“Based on today’s numbers, I am keeping
my commitment to Oregonians.”
All 15 counties, including Baker, will
move to high risk starting Friday.
At that level, restaurants and bars can
have indoor dining at 25% of capacity or
up to 50 total people, including workers,
whichever is fewer.
Capacity limits are the same for fi t-
ness centers, theaters and museums.
Brown said last month that even if
both statewide hospitalization limits
were exceeded, individual counties could
potentially drop from extreme risk based
on their case counts and test positivity
rates.
But Baker County would not have
qualifi ed, even though its case count
No return to extreme risk?
and positivity rate have both dropped
Brown said on Tuesday that she
substantially over the past 10 days.
so much so he did not have
a day off the for half of April,
all of May and half of June in
2020, at no additional cost to
the county.
“I say all of this not to get
praise or enrich myself but
to serve the citizens of Baker
County like I promised,”
Harvey said. “I ask that we
do everything possible to stop
the negativity so we can all
get back to doing our jobs. All
of this has hurt my family,
my friends, my coworkers,
and the citizens of our county.
I’m asking that please, let’s
stop this and get back to our
jobs and serve the citizens
of Baker County. Thank you
very much.”
In September 2020, Baker
County District Attorney
Greg Baxter fi led a complaint
with the Oregon Government
Ethics Commission outlining
Harvey’s alleged violations of
state ethics laws.
An investigator for the
state agency found a “pre-
ponderance of evidence”
that Harvey tried to use his
position to benefi t himself,
his son and his son’s business
and that he failed to disclose
confl icts of interest last year.
Harvey has denied that he
committed any violations.
The Ethics Commission
was initially scheduled to re-
view the investigator’s report
during its April 30 meeting,
but Harvey had scheduling
confl icts that day, and the
discussion was postponed
until the Commission’s June
11 meeting.
doesn’t expect any of the 15 counties to
return to extreme risk “for the duration
of the pandemic.”
She said last month that no county
would remain at that level for more
than three weeks, starting April 30.
Brown urged Oregonians to be
vigilant in trying to reduce the spread
of the virus.
“Let me be clear: across the state,
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations
are still high, and Oregon is not out of
the woods yet,” Brown said. “With our
statewide hospitalization rate stabi-
lizing, our hospitals should have the
capacity to continue treating patients
with severe cases of COVID-19 and
other serious medical conditions in the
coming weeks.
“I know this will bring relief to
many across the state. However, the
lifting of Extreme Risk health and
safety measures comes with great
personal responsibility for us all,”
Brown said.
The governor said her goal is to
have the state fully open, with no risk
levels and related restrictions, by the
end of June. Brown said vaccinations
are the key to meeting that goal.
O BITUARY
‘Andy’ Anderson
Fomerly of Baker City, 1926-2021
Elwin Roy “Andy” Ander-
son, 95, of Boise, and formerly
of Baker City, died April 29,
2021. He will be dearly missed
by friends and family.
His memorial
service will be
Monday, May 10
at 2 p.m. MDT at
the Cloverdale
Funeral Home
‘Andy’
in Boise. Due to
Anderson
COVID-19, at-
tendance will be
restricted. The service will be
webcast live at www.clover-
dalefuneralhome.com.
Andy was born on April 18,
1926, at Baker to Roy and
Lenora (Hewitt) Anderson. He
was the middle child between
two sisters, Edith and Grace.
He was educated in Baker
schools and graduated high
school in 1944. He imme-
diately joined the US Navy
and went to boot camp, then
became a radio and signal-
man. He served in Pearl
Harbor after it was attacked
and in post-war Japan. While
in the US Navy Reserve, he
was recalled to active duty
during the Korean confl ict.
He began working for the US
Post Offi ce in Baker following
honorable discharge in 1951.
He moved his family to Boise
to take a new position with
the post offi ce. He retired
there after 35 years of service.
He married the love of
his life, Beverly DeMastus,
formerly of Unity. They have
four sons: Gary, Ron, Gregg
and Larry, all living in Boise.
They also have six grandchil-
dren and fi ve great-grandchil-
dren.
Andy was a proud, yet
humble man. He left a list of
the things he was proud of,
where he knew family would
fi nd it. Top of the list was
always his family. He was a
great father, supporting and
teaching four boys. He was
very proud of his sons’ ac-
complishments and military
service. He was also proud of
his service in the US Navy,
and proud that he donated
over 32 gallons of blood to the
American Red Cross over the
years. He volunteered at the
Idaho State Veteran’s Home
for the last eight years.
Andy skied until he was
86 years old. He was given
a Distinguished Service
Award by the Intermountain
National Ski Patrol for as-
sisting injured skiers down
the mountain. He especially
enjoyed volunteering at the
Idaho Warhawk Museum. He
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
Verla Boles: 88, of Baker City,
died May 3, 2021, at Meadow-
brook Place. Arrangements are
under the direction of Tami’s Pine
Valley Funeral Home & Crema-
tion Services. Online condolences
can be made at www.tamispine-
valleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker
County Justice Court warrant):
Kaitlan M. Galvan, 23, Baker City,
12:59 a.m. Tuesday, May 4 on
Church between First and Sec-
ond streets; cited and released.
CONTEMPT OF COURT:
Joshua Adam Carpenter, 35,
Baker City, 7:32 p.m. Monday,
May 3 in the 1800 block of East
Street; jailed.
Oregon State Police
Arrests, citations
NEGOTIATING A BAD CHECK:
participated in the Bridging
Generations program where
he educated school children
about his military experi-
ences. He was a life member
of the American Legion and
multiple county historic soci-
eties. He enjoyed local history,
stamp and coin collecting. He
competed in the swimming
portion of multiple triathlons
and was proud of his many
trophies.
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Steven Michael McBride, 39,
Baker City, 11:12 p.m. Monday,
May 3 at Campbell and Oak
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CONTEMPT OF COURT: Malia
Leialoha Quiroz, 37, Baker City,
1:42 a.m. Monday, May 3 at Oak
Street and Washington Avenue;
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