2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021
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B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: Work session
at 9 a.m. at the Courthouse, 1995 Third St., to discuss
the request for proposals for operating a visitors center.
Citizens are encouraged to join using the Zoom link at
www.bakercounty.org/online/meetings.html.
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
May 8, 1971
Fred Warner was sworn in as the 1971-72 president
Baker Chapter of the Future Farmers of America last night
before a crowd of nearly 220 people who attended the an-
nual parent-son banquet of the FFA. Warner was given the
oath of offi ce by outgoing president Craig Conklin.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 8, 1996
Some members of the volunteer group that helps
operate the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center worry that
attendance and donations will drop when the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management begins charging admission fees later
this year.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 9, 2011
While searchers were scouring Baker County’s back-
country for her in early April, Rita Chretien was a couple
hundred miles away and already more than two weeks
into a 49-day ordeal.
Her remarkable tale of survival ended Friday when hunt-
ers found her, malnourished but relatively healthy, along
the remote Nevada mountain road where the van Rita, 56,
and her husband, Albert, were traveling in got stuck in the
mud on March 19.
The search is continuing for Albert Chretien, 59, who left
the stranded van on March 22 and went for help.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 9, 2020
A group of Oregon churches and individuals, including
as lead plaintiff the Elkhorn Baptist Church in Baker City,
is suing Gov. Kate Brown claiming her executive orders
imposing restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic
are unconstitutional.
The plaintiffs fi led the suit in Baker County Circuit Court
on Wednesday.
They are represented by attorney Ray D. Hacke of the
Pacifi c Justice Institute in Salem. Hacke said the Institute
is a nonprofi t law fi rm that defends religious liberty. It
opened its Salem offi ce about two years ago.
The plaintiffs are asking for a preliminary injunction
prohibiting the governor from enforcing the executive
orders, including the ban on gatherings of more than 25
people, which has affected many church services.
Hacke said Thursday afternoon that he also fi led a
motion asking a judge to grant the plaintiffs a temporary
restraining order.
That order would prevent the governor from imposing
terms of the executive order, including the prohibition
on larger gatherings if participants can’t maintain social
distancing.
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■ 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, potato salad, bread pudding
■ THURSDAY (May 13): Fettuccine Bolognese, Italian
vegetables, breadsticks, 3-bean salad, lemon squares
■ FRIDAY (May 14): Barbecued pork ribs, scalloped
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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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the 2000s, a big case might have involved
ounces of drugs and hundreds or a few
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thousand dollars in cash.
Police also found a stolen 9 mm hand-
But he said the amounts, both of drugs
gun and ammunition, along with “other
and cash, have been increasing in cases,
items indicative of narcotics traffi cking,” such as the arrest of Carroll, when the
according to the press release from Lt. Ty narcotics enforcement team focuses on
Duby of the Baker City Police Depart-
larger suspected traffi ckers such as Car-
ment.
roll.
Carroll is accused of unlawful deliv-
Members of the Baker County Narcot-
ery of meth, being a felon in possession
ics Enforcement Team, with assistance
of a fi rearm, theft by receiving, money
from the Blue Mountain Narcotics
laundering and engaging in fi nancial
Enforcement Team, Oregon State Police
transactions in property derived from
and Baker City Police, executed a search
unlawful activity.
warrant for Carroll, his car and the motel
Duby said Carroll formerly lived in
room on Thursday.
Baker City, and police believe he still
This arrest was a culmination of an on-
spends a fair amount of time in this area. going investigation initiated by the Baker
Duby said that when he worked for the County Narcotics Enforcement Team into
Oregon State Police in Baker County in meth and heroin distribution as well as
ASBESTOS
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The county bought the
building in August 2020 from
New Directions Northwest for
$500,000. The 5,000-square-
foot building was constructed
in 1970.
That building now houses
the Baker County Health
Department.
Nichols said that before the
county bought the building,
New Directions Northwest
disclosed that the building
possibly had materials that
contained asbestos. Oregon
law requires such a disclo-
sure.
County Commission Chair-
man Bill Harvey, who is a
building contractor, said he
did the demolition work that
the Department of Environ-
mental Quality (DEQ) cites in
its notice of civil penalty and
assessment to the county.
He denies the agency’s
claims that the building ma-
terials he removed contained
asbestos.
“I was the one who did
the work, that’s why I know
they’re wrong,” Harvey said.
“I don’t believe anything was
done wrong.”
According to DEQ docu-
ments, around Aug. 10, 2020,
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Street building and properly
disposed of the material.
The work the county did
previously, without a license
or having a certifi ed contrac-
tor, qualifi ed as an “asbestos
abatement project,” as defi ned
by an Oregon administrative
rule, because removing the
fl ooring had the potential to
release asbestos fi bers into
the air.
The DEQ civil penalty as-
sessment and order includes
a $3,600 fi ne for removing the
Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald asbestos without a license.
Renovations underway at the Baker County Health De-
The DEQ also assessed
partment on Dec. 30, 2020.
a $4,800 fi ne due to the
county placing the asbestos-
workers began removing
tos abatement license and
containing fl ooring in an open
about 280 square feet of vinyl failed to properly package
dumpster.
fl ooring, cutting it into sec-
the resulting waste, leaving it
The county also violated a
tions and putting the mate-
in a dumpster for over three state rule by failing to have
rial into a dumpster outside weeks.”
an accredited inspector sur-
the building. The fl ooring was
On Oct. 7, 2020, according vey the building for asbestos
taken to the Baker Sanitary to DEQ records, an accredited prior to the renovation, ac-
Service landfi ll southeast of
inspector collected samples of cording to DEQ.
town on Sept. 1.
the vinyl fl ooring from inside
But the DEQ is not assess-
“To protect the public from the Fourth Street building,
ing a fi ne for that violation.
asbestos exposure, DEQ
and an analysis showed that
“DEQ appreciates your ef-
requires that asbestos abat- both layers of fl ooring and
forts to minimize the impacts
ment projects be performed
a layer beneath the fl ooring
of the violation by eventu-
only by contractors who
contained asbestos.
ally hiring a licensed abate-
are specially trained and
According to DEQ, from
ment contractor to properly
licensed,” the DEQ letter
Nov. 16-26, 2020, a licensed
package and dispose of the
to the county reads. “The
asbestos abatement con-
asbestos containing materi-
county removed portions of
tractor, hired by the county,
als. DEQ considered these
asbestos containing vinyl
removed the remaining vinyl efforts when determining the
fl ooring without an asbes-
fl ooring from the Fourth
amount of civil penalty.”
O BITUARIES
fi shing, gardening, pottery,
scrapbooking, card making
Betty J. Perry, 93, of Baker and playing in a card group,
City, died April 23, 2021, at
knitting, painting and read-
Settler’s Park.
ing. She was a blessing and
A private family interment will be missed by family and
will take place
friends.
at a later date
She is survived by her sons
at Mount Hope
and daughters-in-law, Dave
Cemetery.
and Twila Perry of Cheyenne,
Mrs. Perry
Wyoming, and Steve and
was born on
Linda Perry of Baker City;
Betty
July 18, 1927,
her daughter, Sharon Love
Perry
at Colorado
of Eagle Point, Oregon; her
Springs, Colo-
brother, Fred Reed of Oregon
rado, to Thomas and Hazel
City; her sister, Bev Williams
E. (Greenleaf) Smith. She
of Oregon; six grandchildren,
attended school in Bend.
11 great-grandchildren and
She was a mother, wife
four great-great-grandchil-
and artist. Growing up in the dren.
Depression years, she was
She was preceded in death
always aware of thrift. She
by her husband, her parents
and her sister rode ponies to and a sister.
a one-room school and at 15
Those wishing to make
years old she ran an elevator, contributions in her memory
and was a dental assistant.
may direct them to the Diabe-
She married Jack W. Perry, a tes Foundation through Coles
war veteran, in Bend on May Tribute Center, 1950 Place
4, 1946.
St., Baker City, OR 97814.
Her hobbies were camping, To light a candle in Betty’s
Betty Perry
Baker City, 1927-2021
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
Donald L. Neugart: 74, of
Baker City, died May 4, 2021,
at Saint Alphonsus Hospital
in Nampa, Idaho. To leave an
online condolence for Donald’s
family, go to www.grayswestco.
com.
Odett Patterson: 73, of
Baker City, died May 6, 2021, at
her residence in Settler’s Park
Assisted Living Facility. Arrange-
ments are under the direction
of Coles Tribute Center. To leave
an online condolence for Odett’s
family, go to www.colestribute-
center.com.
POLICE LOG
ISSN-8756-6419
Serving Baker County since 1870
crimes involving fi rearms in the Baker
County area and surrounding jurisdic-
tions, according to the press release.
Carroll, who is under parole supervi-
sion from Malheur County, has also
pleaded guilty to crimes in Baker City.
He pleaded guilty on March 11, 2015, in
Baker County Circuit Court to being a
felon in possession of a fi rearm. On Dec.
18, 2013, he pleaded guilty to attempt-
ing to elude a police offi cer, and on Sept.
29, 2011, he pleaded guilty to delivery
of meth. Both convictions were also in
Baker County Circuit Court.
The Baker County Narcotics Enforce-
ment Team includes members from the
Baker City Police Department and is
supported by the Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce, the Baker County District Attor-
ney’s Offi ce and the Oregon State Police.
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
PROBATION VIOLATION:
Raleigh David Rust, 46, Baker
City, 4:38 p.m. Thursday, May
6 at East and Campbell streets;
jailed.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker
County Circuit Court warrant):
Brandi Nicole Bowen, 32, 1:59
p.m. Thursday, May 6 in the 1500
block of Campbell Street; cited
and released.
FIRST-DEGREE CRIMINAL
TRESPASSING (Baker County
Justice Court warrant): Adrienna
Dione Morris, 23, transient, 9:27
p.m. Wednesday, May 5; cited
and released.
HINDERING PROSECUTION,
FOURTH-DEGREE ASSAULT,
SECOND-DEGREE DISORDERLY
CONDUCT, HARASSMENT
(Baker County Circuit Court
warrants): Tamara Kay Fine, 47,
Baker City, 4:36 p.m. Wednesday,
May 5 in the 1400 block of Baker
Street; jailed.
VIOLATION OF RELEASE
AGREEMENT: Kadin Patrick
Bailey, 20, Baker City, 1:12 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5 at the Court-
house; cited and released.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
FRAUDULENT USE OF A
CREDIT CARD, SECOND-DE-
GREE THEFT: James Dewayne
Reedy, 54, Baker City, 2:38 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5 at the Baker
County Jail, where he was in
custody on other charges.
memory, go to www.colestrib-
utecenter.com.
Ralph Allen
Baker City, 1959-2021
Ralph Brian Allen, 62, of
Baker City, died on March 29,
2021, at his home with his
loving daughters by his side.
Ralph, also known as Bri-
an, was born on
Feb. 13, 1959, at
Independence,
Iowa, to Thorton
Allen and Janet
Fiffl es. Brian
Ralph
obtained his
Allen
GED and joined
the United
States Army at the age of
17. He served his country for
the better part of four years;
Brian earned several awards
and medals, including the
Army Occupational Medal,
a Sharpshooter M16 award,
and a German Army Marks-
manship Badge.
His hobbies included
camping, fi shing, traveling,
woodcarving, and surviving
life. Brian loved his family
and friends. He was proud
to have traveled half of
the world, bought a car he
loved, and he was proud to
be clean and sober, quitting
cigarettes as well. He was
happy that he was able to
see marijuana legalized. Be-
fore he passed, Brian found
forgiveness and Jesus.
He will be missed every
moment of every day; his
family will hold tight to the
memories that were made,
and they love him dearly
and will see him again.
Brian is survived by his
daughter, Crystal Allen, and
her children, Devyn Efi rd
and Jacob Efi rd, of Baker
City; his daughter, Kimberly
Hartford, and her children,
Elizabeth Titus, Tasha
Titus, Melissa Titus, Lacy
Titus, Shyann Reid, and
Saherra Hartford of Haines;
his sister, Julie Abiles of
Arizona; three great-grand-
children, Arya, Luna and
Sabastion; and his neph-
ews Josh, Andy, David and
Nathan.
Brian was preceded in
death by his parents, Thor-
ton Allen and Janet Fiffl es;
his son, Roy Allen; his sis-
ters, Virginia Allen Olney and
Lilly June Efi rd; and a niece,
Tasha Allen.
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