A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2021
Sprinter suspended
is erased. Fourth-place
fi nisher Jenna Prandini is
AP Sports Writers
expected to get Richard-
American champion
son’s spot in the 100.
Sha’Carri Richardson
Richardson accepted a
cannot run in the Olympic 30-day suspension that
100-meter race after test-
ends July 27, which would
ing positive for a chemical be in time to run in the
found in marijuana.
women’s relays.
Richardson, who won the
The 21-year-old sprinter
100 at Olympic trials in
was expected to face Ja-
10.86 seconds on June 19, maica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-
told of her ban Friday, July Pryce in one of the most
2 on the “Today Show.” She highly anticipated races of
tested positive at the Olym- the Olympic track meet.
pic trials and so her result
On Thursday, as reports
By Eddie Pells and
Pat Graham
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
The rebuilt bar at Sweet Wife Baking was the “swan song” for Randy Joseph, whose
son, Loran, is co-owner of the bake shop. Randy Joseph died suddenly on May 27,
2020, at age 69.
SWEET WIFE
The world is ready for the
Olympic Games to return
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The building most recently
housed Stockman’s Bar.
The Joseph family bought
the building in August 2019
with plans to renovate it for
the bake shop’s new home.
“We’d talked about expand-
ing,” Jenny said.
Loran and his father,
Randy Joseph, tackled the
renovation. They stripped the
walls to the original brick,
shored up the structural sup-
ports, and removed the false
ceiling.
“We completely gutted it,”
Jenny said.
The back bar was intact,
but only pieces of the actual
bar remained in the building.
“We had four legs and two
panels,” Loran said.
Randy designed and built
the bar, and had a hand in
most of the other improve-
ments.
“He did all of the design,”
Loran said.
But Randy won’t be there
for the reopening.
He passed away suddenly
on May 27, 2020. He was 69.
“This was his swan song,”
Loran said of the bar, inlaid
with strips of wood in a
chevron pattern requested by
Jenny.
After Randy’s death, Loran
built the front counter to
match the bar design.
Although adding cocktails
and dinner are a future
endeavor, for now patrons
can sit at the bar to eat their
swirled about her possible
marijuana use, Richardson
put out a tweet that said,
simply: “I am human.” On
Friday, she went on TV and
said she smoked marijuana
as a way of coping with her
mother’s recent death.
“I was defi nitely trig-
gered and blinded by emo-
tions, blinded by badness,
and hurting, and hiding
hurt,” she said on “Today.” “I
know I can’t hide myself, so
in some type of way, I was
trying to hide my pain.”
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Kayla Keith makes a selection from the wall of tools in
Sweet Wife Baking’s new location on Main Street.
Sweet Wife treats.
The new space has in-
creased seating both inside
and outside. Customers can
enter either from Main Street
or through the back door on
Resort Street.
“I want someplace for the
community to come. I’ve
always wanted that,” Jenny
said.
The shop’s work space is
outfi tted with a wall full of
bakery tools, a new oven,
a walk-in freezer and a
60-quart mixer.
Jenny started Sweet Wife
in January of 2011, and
started offering retail sales
in August 2015 in its Resort
Street location.
To stay updated on Sweet
Wife Baking, follow the shop
on Facebook and Instagram
or check the website at www.
sweetwifebaking.com.
The Summer Olympics
are a highlight for sports
fans. Whether it’s watching
Michael Phelps dominate
in the pool, Simone Biles
sticking a landing in her
fl oor routine, or Sha’Carri
Richardson exploding out of the starting
block, patriotism courses through the veins
of every sports fan glued to their television
for the non-stop action.
What was supposed to be the highlight
of the summer of 2020 was understandably
placed on the shelf as the world fi gured
how to maneuver through the COVID-19
pandemic. Now, just a year later, the pur-
pose of the games in Tokyo isn’t going to be
the medal count.
These Olympics have gained a newfound
perspective.
Let’s not neglect that around the country,
professional sports have slowly returned to
something approaching normalcy. We have
seen professional athletes go through fewer
COVID-19 protocols. Mask wearing went
from mandatory to a matter of preference.
Most importantly, we have begun to see
fans being allowed to return to the stands,
and even capacity limitations being lifted.
That’s just in our
country — things are
returning to normal
COREY
worldwide.
KIRK
According to the
website www.Statis-
ta.com, for the 2016
Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, more than 3.6
billion viewers tuned in to TV coverage.
As the fi rst event with global appeal since
the pandemic started, it wouldn’t surprise
me if the 2021 Tokyo Olympics viewership
eclipses that fi gure.
These Olympic games are destined to
help mend a world that has endured quar-
antine, social distancing and the cancella-
tion of most large gatherings.
The world, frankly, needs these games.
I am excited to see the ripple effect of
what is to come after the Tokyo Olympics
conclude Aug. 8. It’s going to be a major
component of seeing a drastic return to
world events. The entire world is ready to
return to what it was, and if these Olympic
games go without a hitch, we may be closer
to where we were pre-pandemic.
Corey Kirk is the Baker City Herald’s
sports editor.
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GET WHERE
YOU’RE GOING
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
The new location of Sweet Wife Baking has increased seating, both inside and out-
side. Starting July 8, the shop will be open Thursday through Sunday.
FIRES
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The biggest fi re burned
three acres near the upper
Grande Ronde River. The fi re,
along Clear Creek near Camp
Carson south of Starkey, had
not been confi rmed as a light-
ning fi re as of press time.
The fi re was reported at
6:35 a.m. on Thursday, July 1.
It burned in grass, timber and
slash.
Other blazes, confi rmed
as lightning-sparked, were
reported in that area on
Thursday morning.
• Forest Road 73, Elkhorn
Drive Scenic Byway, about
15 miles west of Haines and
southwest of Anthony Lakes,
reported at 6:39 a.m. The fi re
burned one-third of an acre in
dead and down timber.
The fi re was contained at
12:08 p.m. on Thursday.
• Big Four Mine, Umatilla
National Forest about 25
miles west of Haines, reported
at 9:06 a.m. The fi re burned
about .15 of an acre in young
timber, and was contained at
6 a.m. on Friday, July 2.
• Meadowbrook Creek, 11
miles southeast of Starkey,
9:36 a.m. Thursday. The fi re
burned one-tenth of an acre
and was contained at 2:03
p.m. on Thursday.
• Crane Creek area, about
four miles north of Granite,
9:51 a.m. Thursday. The fi re
burned one-tenth of an acre
and was contained at 1:33
p.m. Thursday.
• Chicken Creek area,
11 miles south of Starkey,
12:19 p.m. Thursday. The fi re
burned one-tenth of an acre
and was contained at 2:35
p.m. Thursday.
According to a Forest
Service press release, fi re
crews have confi rmed 23 new
fi res this week between the
Blue Mountain and John Day
dispatch centers.
Garrett said local fi refi ght-
ing resources so far have een
suffi cient to quickly respond
to new fi re reporters.
There is increasing com-
petition for aircraft to fi ght
fi res, however, with large fi res
burning in several western
states.
The hot weather is fore-
cast to continue for at least
another week.
Thursday was the fourth
straight day with a record
high temperature at the
Baker City Airport. It was the
warmest June on record, with
an average high temperature
of 84.3 degrees. The previous
record was 84.1, set in 1961.
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