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June 3, 2021
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New Owner Renovating Former Foursquare Church
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JUNE 3, 2021
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Sports, 6A
DENVER — On Damian
Lillard’s record-breaking
night when he was hitting
one shot after another
from behind the arc and
almost beyond belief, it
was Michael Porter Jr. who
quietly sank the biggest
basket of all.
MPJ’s 3-pointer from the
left corner barely fl uttered
the net with 1:33 left in
the second overtime and
proved the game-winner
as the Denver Nuggets
squelched an epic come-
back by the Portland Trail
Blazers with a 147-140 win
Tuesday night in Game
5 of their best-of-seven
playoff series.
Lillard’s night included
a franchise playoff record
55 points and NBA playoff
record 12 3-pointers.
WEATHER
Today
92 / 55
Mostly sunny
Friday
84 / 48
Mostly sunny
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Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald
Gordon Holman is renovating the former Foursquare Church at Third Street and Court Avenue.
Body of
missing
man
found
in river
The body of a Baker City
man reported
missing on
May 25 was
found in the
Powder River
near Hughes
Rust
Lane Tuesday
morning, June 1.
The state medical ex-
aminer’s offi cer confi rmed
Wednesday afternoon
that the body was that of
Raleigh David Rust, 46,
Ashley McClay, public
information offi cer for the
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce, wrote in an email to
the Baker City Herald.
McClay didn’t have the
cause of death, but she said
foul play was not involved.
See Missing/Page 3A
By Samantha O’Conner
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Wolves
kill calf
near
Keating
Gordon Holman hopes his ef-
forts to restore a longtime church
in Baker City will result in a
congregation once again gathering
inside to worship.
Holman bought the former
Foursquare Church, at the corner
of Court and Third streets, near
the Baker County Courthouse, in
November 2020.
He said the building, construct-
ed in 1929, had been vacant for
about four years.
Holman said that after he
bought the structure he hoped
representatives from a local church
might approach him and propose
to lease the building.
“I thought there was likely going
to be interest in approaching me
and talking about them getting in-
volved and possibly leasing it since
it would be much more doable if
they did not have to have the bur-
den of maintenance of a property
that size and age,” Holman said.
But when he didn’t receive any
such overtures, Holman rolled up
his sleeves and got started on the
renovations himself.
If he doesn’t find a church inter-
ested in locating there, he plans
to use the space for community
activities and making it available
for a variety of events.
See Renovation/Page 3A
Wolves from the Keating
pack killed a four-month-
old calf on a private pasture
north of Keating Valley
last weekend, the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW) said.
A ranch employee check-
ing cattle the morning of
Monday, May 31, found the
dead calf, which had been
dragged under a fence. The
carcass was about 12 feet
outside the fence for the
400-acre private pasture.
The carcass was intact
and had not been scav-
enged, according to an
ODFW report. An ODFW
biologist who examined the
carcass Monday estimated
the calf had died 24 to 36
hours earlier.
Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald
Gordon Holman, who is renovating the former Foursquare Church, plans
to install ADA-compliant ramps to make the basement accessible.
Bracing For A Potentially Busy Wildfi re Season
Fire managers: threats from
the sky, and on the ground
■ Lightning starts most fires in Northeastern Oregon, but human-caused
blazes pose a serious risk as well, in part because they’re impossible to predict
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Noel Livingston and Joel Mc-
Craw ponder the coming fi re season
with not a small amount of dread.
In this sense the pair shares
something in common with people
across Oregon, and indeed across
the West, whose task it is to deal
with wildfi res.
TODAY
Issue 10, 22 pages
The combination of the drought
affl icting much of the region, and
fresh memories of the fi res that
destroyed sections of several towns
and killed 11 people in western
and southern Oregon in September
2020, is a troubling concoction.
But Livingston and McCraw,
though their general concerns are
typical of those in their business
Business ...........1B & 2B
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Comics ....................... 7B
Community News ....3A
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Dear Abby ................. 8B
at the cusp of another potentially
fi ery summer, have a perspective
that’s notably different, in one key
respect, from some of their counter-
parts.
Livingston and McCraw work on
the 2.3-million-acre Wallowa-Whit-
man National Forest.
See Fires/Page 5A
Horoscope ........4B & 6B
Lottery Results ..........2A
News of Record ........3A
Obituaries ..................2A
Opinion ......................4A
Senior Menus ...........2A
See Wolves/Page 3A
Bike for the
Health of It
event June 13
By Lisa Britton
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
Bicycle riders of all ages
are invited to a one-day
Bike for the Health of It
event on Sunday, June 13.
It is sponsored by The
Trailhead, in partnership
with Baker School District.
The event will be held
at Central Park in Baker
City from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
(Central Park is just east
of Resort Street, between
Washington and Valley
avenues.)
See Bikes/Page 3A
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Turning Backs ...........2A
Weather ..................... 8B
SATURDAY — TWO BROTHERS, TWO BHS CLASSES, ONE PANDEMIC