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A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021 Informal track meets planned at Baker High By Corey Kirk ckirk@bakercityherald.com Every other Tuesday for the next fi ve to six weeks, track and fi eld athletes are welcome to gather at Baker High School to make friends, compete and have fun. “It’s an open event to anybody, most of it is being able to get some practice so the high schoolers can come practice the high jump or pole vault and even the ju- nior highers can do the same,” said Suzy Cole, BHS track and fi eld coach and the lead organizer for this summer’s open events. “For the younger kids we do some warm ups and some fun runs, and have whatever races they want to run.” She hopes the summer open track Tuesday events will become a staple during summer vacation. “We’ve tried different things over the years, we’ve tried having more formal track meets, and that didn’t work as well and we tried having formal prac- tices,” Cole said. “This is the fi rst year we’ve tried having things like this. We Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald Ray Scott, left, and Bill Harmon, center, in the ditch, work on installing a pipeline that will extend seven miles between Baker City’s existing wastewater storage lagoons and a new lagoon under construction northeast of the airport. Djokovic wins 20th grand slam Matteo Berrettini, and, perhaps, by the weight of WIMBLEDON, England the milestone he was pursu- — The Wimbledon fi nal was ing, Djokovic shrugged all of locked up at a set apiece that off and steeled himself, after nearly 2 1/2 hours, and as he’s done so many times Novak Djokovic’s bid for a at so many moments on so record-tying 20th Grand many stages. Slam title was at a critical On each of the next two juncture, when he faced points, Djokovic, known two break points while for his baseline supremacy, thousands in the full-capac- charged forward. On each, ity crowd at Centre Court Berrettini’s passing attempt chanted his opponent’s fi rst found the net. name. An hour later, the match Bothered, perhaps, by was fi nished — Djokovic the challenge he was facing won 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 — between the lines Sunday, and so, too, was his stated and, perhaps, by the sup- desire to equal the total of port being thrown behind major championships col- By Howard Fendrich AP Tennis Writer BIG DIG Continued from Page A1 The city had to choose a lagoon site more than 10,000 feet from the Baker City Airport, because the lagoon could attract fl ocks of geese and other birds that can pose a danger to aircraft. The city bought the 51-acre property in 2019 for $123,000. The site is at the eastern end of Baker Valley, south of Highway 203. The city also paid $37,900 for an easement across another property that the pipeline will cross. Construction on the pipeline leading from the current lagoons to the new lagoon is underway on Lee Lane, north of the airport. The seven-mile pipeline will have to dip beneath both the Powder River and Interstate 84. The pipeline will be about 10 feet beneath the freeway, said Jeremy Wilson of Ander- son-Perry and Associates, the city’s engineering fi rm on the project. Wilson expects the pipeline to be fi nished by this fall based on current installation rates. Owen said the pipeline will be gravity-fed from the current lagoons to the new lagoon. “When it comes to irrigation season, this pipeline that we’re constructing can be pressur- ized so it can go either way because there’s an irrigator on the lagoon end and on the storage pond end,” Owen said. “So the pipeline can be pressurized so it can serve those irrigation needs during that irrigation season.” That will allow wastewa- ter to fl ow by gravity from the current lagoons to the new lagoon, and also to be pumped the opposite direc- tion. Owen said treated wastewa- ter will be used for irrigation at both sites. In November 2020 the City Council agreed to have the city borrow as much as $7.5 million from the state to pay for the wastewater project. The city will repay the loan over 30 years with a 1.36% annual in- terest rate. Annual payments would be about $300,000. The loan agreement is for up to $8 million, but Owen said the program includes a loan forgiveness of $500,000, so the maximum the city would actually borrow and fi nance is $7.5 million. Based on the bid amount from Gyllenberg Construc- tion, the city likely won’t need to borrow the full amount. Owen said the city initially had hoped to fi nish the work in October or November of this year. But delays in obtaining permits and some materials — including the pipe issue related to the Gulf Coast win- ter storms — have pushed back the estimated comple- tion date to next spring. Some parts of the construc- tion, including installing the liner for the new lagoon, can’t be done during cool weather, she said. “So the goal was to have it done this fall,” Owen said. “If we had a really warm No- vember, maybe. But I think more realistically we say it’ll be May of 2022.” thought we would give it a try, see how it goes doing an open event every other Tuesday.” Cole said she fondly remembers similar events in La Grande, where she grew up, and how they helped spark her interest in running. “I think I was six and seven when I ran them and I loved them,” she said. “That was the introduction to track for me and that’s what I want the kids to know, it could be fun for all ages.” Open track Tuesdays will start around 7 p.m. and continue through the third week of August. The events are free. The next is set for July 20. “It’s a great opportunity to meet other people in the community for parents, it’s a great opportunity for kids to socialize with all the different age levels with the different kids that come together,” Cole said. “It’s just a positive event socially, emotionally, and physically.” For more information, email Cole at suzy.cole@bakersd.org. lected by his biggest rivals, Roger Federer (who reached 20 in 2018) and Rafael Nadal (who did it last year). No other male tennis player has more than 14. “I consider myself best, and I believe that I am the best, otherwise I wouldn’t be talking confi dently about winning Slams and making history,” said Djokovic, a 34-year-old from Serbia who is ranked No. 1 and has spent more weeks in that top spot than any other man. “But whether I’m the greatest of all time or not, I leave that debate to other people.” STILL 1 # IN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Serving Baker and Surrounging Counties We offer landscape curbing and full service specialty and decorative concrete installation. 541-519-5268 stone.elitesprinklernland@gmail.com CCB#231936 LCB# 9809 -&8#3045*3&47$ #3*%(&45 • 8"-,*/48&-$0.& L E S S C H WA B WA S R A N K E D # 1 I N C U S T O M E R S AT I S FAC T I O N F O R A F T E R M A R K E T T I R E R E P L AC E M E N T, 2 Y E A R S I N A R OW For J.D. Power 2021 award Information, visit jdpower.com/awards LEW BROTHERS LES SCHWAB 210 Bridge Street, Baker City 541-523-3679 Walk-ins Welcome
