2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
■ Baker County Board of Commissioners: 9 a.m.; work
session to discuss the Request for Proposals for operating
a visitor center in Baker City. Due to space limitations,
citizens are encouraged to watch the meeting using a
Zoom link which is available on the county’s website, www.
bakercounty.org/online/meetings.html
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
May 10, 1971
Oregon State Police may get the opportunity to use
helicopters in their law enforcement work soon but not as
extensively as was originally proposed by the Joint Ways
and Means subcommittee in Salem.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 10, 1996
As part of its plan to emphasize that marijuana and other
illegal drugs are not tolerated, the Baker School District
will use a drug-sniffi ng dog to check lockers at Baker High
School this month.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 11, 2011
A federal appeals court has ruled that Baker City Police
had probable cause to arrest an Oregon man on suspicion
that he was driving drunk during Miners Jubilee in 2007.
Walter Gage, who lives in Toledo and was 72 at the time
of the arrest, sued the city in April 2009.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
May 12, 2020
A team of Baker County “contact tracers” is continuing
to try to identify and interview anyone who had close con-
tact with the only county resident who has tested positive
for the coronavirus.
The process can take up to a few weeks, said Nancy
Staten, administrator of the Baker County Health Depart-
ment.
The county announced April 6 that one person had
tested positive.
County offi cials have not identifi ed the person or given
any other information about the circumstances, including
the person’s age range or severity of symptoms, citing
federal health privacy laws.
County Commissioner Mark Bennett said Friday that the
person was recovering at home.
Staten said contact tracing protocol from the Oregon
Health Authority (OHA) calls for tracers to identify people
who have been in “close contact” with a person who
tested positive for coronavirus. “Close contact” is defi ned
as being near the person for at least 15 minutes, Staten
said.
She said people interviewed by contact tracers could
include family and friends of the person who tested posi-
tive.
She declined to say approximately how many people
the Baker County team has identifi ed, or expects to inter-
view, in connection with the county’s single confi rmed
case, again citing privacy laws.
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S ENIOR M ENUS
■ 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
potatoes, peas and carrots, rolls, green salad, cherry
cheesecake
■ MONDAY (May 17): Pork roast, red potatoes, mixed
vegetables, rolls, fruit, cookies
■ TUESDAY (May 18): Chicken ala king over a biscuit,
carrots, broccoli-bacon 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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Forest Service to cull wild horse herd
By Michael Kohn
The (Bend) Bulletin
A herd of more than 120
horses roaming free in the
Ochoco National Forest will
be cut in half as part of a man-
agement plan to control their
numbers.
The 2021 Ochoco Wild
Horse Management Plan will
establish a management level
of 47 to 57 horses that can
reside in the national forest,
according to a news release
on Friday from the U.S. Forest
Service.
The Big Summit herd is the
only one in Oregon and Wash-
ington to be managed solely by
the U.S. Forest Service. Most
of the other wild horse herds
in the Pacifi c Northwest are
managed by the Bureau of
Land Management.
The number of horses per-
mitted in the herd takes into
account forage availability in
winter and the management
of a lack of genetic variability
in the horse herd. The decision
also includes an emergency ac-
tion plan that provides proto-
cols for how the Forest Service
will intervene on behalf of sick,
injured or starving horses.
The herd is located about 25
to 30 miles east of Prineville
and grazes on 27,000 acres of
land located at 4,000 to 7,000
feet in elevation.
The management plan,
which became effective on Fri-
day, updates the original herd
management plan drafted 46
years ago.
The horses are believed
to have fi rst appeared in the
Ryan Brennecke/The (Bend) Bulletin File
A wild horse is seen within the Big Summit Wild Horse Territory, a 27,300-acre range
near the western edge of the Ochoco National Forest in 2018.
area in the 1920s, when it
is believed that ranchers at
that time turned loose quality
animals from a good breeding
stock to ensure a future supply
of good horses.
“In general, wild horses
and burros are descendants of
animals released by or escaped
from Spanish explorers, ranch-
ers, miners or Native Ameri-
cans,” said Kassidy Kern, a
spokesperson for the Ochoco
National Forest.
While horse lovers are fond
of seeing the animals roaming
wild in the forest, the For-
est Service says the herd is
damaging riparian areas by
chewing up forage along river
banks.
“The horses will be managed
COVID
Continued from Page 1A
People who were in close contact with
one of the seven people will have to
quarantine.
As of today, two employees and 41
through gathers beginning
in the fall of 2021,” said Kern.
“It will likely take fi ve years
or more to gather down to the
appropriate management level
set out in this plan.”
Kern said about 100 horses
will need to be removed over
that fi ve-year period. The cur-
rent herd size is between 120
to 150 horses.
“Gathering a little at a time
allows us to gather valuable
genetic information to work
with wild horse genetics
experts to ensure that we have
adequate genetic variability in
the herd,” said Kern. “Addition-
ally, when we bait the horses
into the corrals, we typically
only get smaller bands of 5-10
at a time. Gathering this
students across the district — including
22 students at Brooklyn — are quarant-
ing, according to the district.
Baker Superintendent Mark Witty
urged people to take precautions against
the virus.
“Now is not the time to let our guards
BALLOTS
would leverage the $4 million
with another $4 million from
Continued from Page 1A
a state grant, and $4 million
One box, on the west
from the district’s capital proj-
(Fourth Street) side of the
ects budget for a $12 million
County Courthouse, 1995
project.
Third St., is available around
The money would pay to
the clock.
install new heating, cooling
The May 18 ballot includes and ventilation systems at all
multiple items, some of which schools, as well as improved
will be decided by voters
security systems.
countywide, while others are
The district would replace
limited to certain districts or the roof at South Baker
cities.
Intermediate School and
build a cafeteria and kitchen
Baker 5J School District
at Baker Middle School, the
bond measure
only school that lacks such
This measure, which is on facilities.
the ballot only for voters who
If voters approve the
live within the school dis-
measure, property tax rates
trict’s boundaries, would raise would increase, for fi ve years,
property taxes on property
by about 66 cents per $1,000
within the district for fi ve
of assessed value.
years to raise $4 million for
Baker 5J School Board
school improvements.
There is one contested race,
The measure, if passed,
way minimizes stress on the
animals.”
According to the decision no-
tice, horses removed from the
territory may end up in one
of three places. These include
the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment corral facility in Burns
or a Forest Service corral.
A third option could see the
horses transported to leased
or contracted private facilities,
where they will be prepared
for adoption or sale.
After removal of the horses,
the numbers will be main-
tained through contraception
and sterilization.
For more information on
the project and to view the
decision notice, visit the project
web page: go.usa.gov/xH375
down,” Witty said. “Please stay home
if you are sick, wash your hands often,
maintain physical distancing, wear your
masks, and become vaccinated if you
can.”
Last week’s cases were the fi rst in the
district since the week of April 19-23.
with Jessica Dougherty and
Koby Myer both vying for
position 3.
Only voters who live within
the school district’s boundar-
ies will have this race on their
ballot.
Move Oregon’s Border con-
tends that the political incli-
nations of residents in those
counties aligns more closely
with Idaho state government
than with Oregon.
The measure on the ballot
doesn’t deal directly with
Halfway marijuana
moving the border — do-
measure
ing that would require the
The 257 registered vot-
approval of both the Oregon
ers in Halfway will decide
and Idaho legislatures, and of
whether to allow not only
Congress.
dispensaries but other
Rather, if Baker County
marijuana-related businesses, voters approve the measure,
including growers, producers the Baker County Board of
and processors within the city Commissioners would be re-
limits.
quired to meet on the second
Wednesday every March, July
Move Oregon’s Border
and November “to discuss
One measure that will be
how to promote the interests
on all voters’ ballots deals
of Baker County in any nego-
with a nonprofi t organiza-
tiations regarding relocating
tion’s campaign to add 18
the state borders of Idaho to
Oregon counties, including
include Baker County,” ac-
Baker, to Idaho.
cording to the ballot title.
N EWS OF R ECORD
DEATHS
David ‘Dave’ Curtis: 86, of
Baker City, died peacefully May
8, 2021, surrounded by his fam-
ily at Saint Alphonsus Regional
Medical Center in Baker City. A
memorial service will take place
later, the time and place to be
announced. Online condolences
can be made at www.tamispine-
valleyfuneralhome.com.
Joan Arlene Wendt: 82,
of Redmond, and a former
longtime Baker City resident,
died April 27, 2021. She, along
with her husband, Jack, owned
and operated Wendt Floral
Design in Baker City. There will
be a service, time and place to
be announced later. Memorial
contributions in Joan’s name
can be made to Hospice of Red-
mond or Thelma’s Place through
Whispering Pines Funeral Home,
3168 N.E. Third St., Prineville, OR
97754. To light a candle for Joan
or to leave an online condolence
for her family, go to www.whis-
peringpinesfuneralhome.com.
FUNERAL PENDING
John Randall: Celebration
of his life will take place on
Sunday, May 30 at 1 p.m. at the
Eagle Valley Grange Park in Rich-
land, with food and beverages
following. Those who would like
to make a donation in John’s
memory may do so to the Hilary
Bonn Benevolence Fund, or the
charity of one’s choice, through
Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home,
P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Online condolences can be
made at www.tamispinevalley-
funeralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
SECOND-DEGREE CRIMINAL
TRESPASSING: Timothy Kelly
Slaney, 32, Baker City, 4:05 a.m.
Monday, May 10 in the 2200
block of Court Avenue; cited and
released.
HARASSMENT, SECOND-
DEGREE CRIMINAL TRESPASS-
ING: Adrianna Dione Morris,
23, transient, 9:53 a.m. Sunday,
May 9 in the 200 block of Bridge
Street; cited and released.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Trenton
Keith Dowdy, 20, Baker City, 3:49
a.m. Saturday, May 8 at Myrtle
and Seventh streets; cited and
released.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
GIVING FALSE INFORMATION
TO A POLICE OFFICER: Suchuki
Ekit Kikku Jr., 27, Boise, 1:28 a.m.
Monday, May 10 in the 500 block
of Campbell Street; cited and
released.
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