A2 — BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
September 9, 1971
Hopes to reach a satisfactory conclusion by Sept. 15
to the long rankling airport management controversy
were quashed last night as city councilmen bogged
down in legal questions during a reading of a proposed
fl ying service lease.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 9, 1996
Dr. Leslie Elms has joined the Baker Vision Clinic as a
licensed optometrist.
Elms, who joined the clinic Tuesday, graduated with
honors from Pacifi c University in Forest Grove May 19.
She received her optometric license in late August.
Elms is a 1988 Baker High School graduate. She is the
daughter of Steve and Linda Perry and the wife of Russell
Elms of Baker City.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 9, 2011
Forest Service offi cials have called in a team from the
Washington Department of Natural Resources to oversee
the effort to douse a wildfi re near Anthony Lakes.
Lightning sparked the Chicken Hill fi re on Monday.
The blaze, near Forest Road 5185 about six miles north-
west of Anthony Lakes, grew to 110 acres on Thursday,
said Judy Wing, public affairs offi cer for the Wallowa-Whit-
man National Forest.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 10, 2020
Gissel Loza’s dining room table turned into a classroom
Tuesday morning.
With her fi ve children, ranging from pre-kindergartner
Victoria Loza to sophomore Geovanny Loza, attending
classes online, Gissel had to make adjustments to the
family’s home near Haines as the school year started in an
unconventional way due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But even though having fi ve students, each watching a
separate computer screen and all sitting at the same table
initially, sounds chaotic, Gissel said she was pleased by
how smoothly Tuesday proceeded.
Well, relatively smoothly.
“It’s overwhelming at fi rst,” Gissel said with a chuckle
during a phone interview Tuesday afternoon.
At one point she was trying to simultaneously help two
of her children who couldn’t sign in to their classes.
And although Gissel was gratifi ed for the Wi-Fi hot spot
device that the Baker School District provided to acceler-
ate her sluggish internet connection, with fi ve laptops
humming away the bandwidth was stretched, fi guratively
speaking.
“There was some blurriness,” she said.
The fi ve students aren’t all online at the same time
throughout the day, fortunately.
Geovanny and his younger brother, Leonardo, who is
an eighth-grader, have a longer schedule, with classes
extending into the afternoon.
(Geovanny picked up his materials for high school
classes Tuesday and started classes today, Gissel said.)
Ricardo, who’s a sixth-grader, along with Bernardo, a
fourth-grader, and Victoria, have morning classes.
OREGON LOTTERY
MEGABUCKS, Sept. 6
MEGA MILLIONS, Sept. 7
WIN FOR LIFE, Sept. 6
24 — 30 — 41 — 54
PICK 4, Sept. 7
• 1 p.m.: 0 — 9 — 7 — 5
• 4 p.m.: 3 — 4 — 7 — 1
• 7 p.m.: 4 — 7 — 6 — 9
• 10 p.m.: 3 — 0 — 6 — 7
LUCKY LINES, Sept. 7
15 — 17 — 25 — 32 — 53
1-6-10-14-20-24-27-32
15 — 17 — 19 — 20 — 28 — 37
Next jackpot: $2.8 million
POWERBALL, Sept. 6
11 — 20 — 22 — 33 — 54 PB 24
Next jackpot: $388 million
Mega
12
Next jackpot: $368 million
Next jackpot: $14,000
SENIOR MENUS
FRIDAY: Baked ham, candied yams, green beans and
tomatoes, rolls, carrot-raisin salad, cookies
MONDAY (Sept. 13): Chicken cordon bleu, rice pilaf,
mixed vegetables, rolls, fruit cup, sherbet
TUESDAY (Sept. 14): Baked ziti, garlic rolls, vegetables,
broccoli-and-bacon salad, cookies
WEDNESDAY (Sept. 15): Barbecued ribs, baked beans,
corn, cornbread, potato salad, apple crisp
THURSDAY (Sept. 16): Breaded pork loin, baked
potatoes, peas, rolls, coleslaw, cheesecake
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 donation (60 and older), $7.50
for those under 60.
CONTACT THE HERALD
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Fax: 541-833-6414
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Copyright © 2021
Noxious weed of the week
beyond the landscape in the
By JEFFREY PETTINGILL
Baker County Weed Control District Richland area.
The enemy
Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia
myrsinites)
The attack
Like its relative, Leafy
spurge (Euphorbia esula) it
produces a milky white sap
that can cause severe eye
The strategy
This listed noxious weed damage as well as rashes. It
is toxic to most animals. As
(thus prohibited to have) is
a perennial plant and one of most of the plant spreads by
its roots it has the ability to
the most aggressive plants
spread into lawns, pastures,
that one can still obtain
and under structures to show
and plant into a landscape.
up in most unwanted areas. If
Although most people are
it gets too close to water it will
warned about planting it,
spread rapidly and take up
it continues to be bought,
planted, spread to unwanted all the water and nutrients
that are needed for desirables
areas, and then eventually
Garden Association
an attempt to control/eradi- to grow.
Myrtle spurge is a fast-growing plant that produces a
cate takes place. This plant
toxic white sap.
develops a great taproot and The defense
the property. If you do have it
spreads by seeds, which are
Don’t plant it — once this gets to about six inches,
launched from the seed pod plant is established you can
retreat. If it starts spread-
and need to control it, contact
to a distance of 15 feet. The
ing in your rangeland and
try to remove it by digging
the County Weed District and
fl owers are an inconspicuous up the top 12 inches of the
pastures, going after it with
we will help.
green, and surrounded by
soil where it exists, every few Tordon 22K is best when it is
yellowish bracts that give the months. Generally, attack-
fl owering (late June to early
Jeffrey Pettingill is supervi-
entire plant a yellow-green
ing it in your landscape with July). There are no biological
sor of the Baker County Weed
appearance. The leaves are
insects available, although I
a combination of Roundup
Control District. He can be
large and clasp around the
and 2,4D amine is best. Keep am sure goats will seek it out,
reached at 541-523-0618 or
stem spirally. It is spreading after it. When the regrowth
as well as all other forbs on
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LOCAL BRIEFING
Steelhead daily limit
cut to one fi sh in
Hells Canyon
Due to low returns, the
daily bag limit for hatchery
summer steelhead has been
reduced to one fi sh per day
for the Snake River below
Hells Canyon Dam.
Passage of steelhead at
Bonneville Dam has been
historically low and fi sher-
ies managers from Oregon,
Idaho, and Washington
are expecting about 10,000
hatchery steelhead to pass
Lower Granite Dam near
Clarkston, Washington. The
10-year average for hatchery
steelhead passage is about
70,000 fi sh. This means some
hatchery programs in the
Snake River Basin might
struggle to collect the fi sh
needed to spawn the next
generation.
“The intent of reducing
the bag limit to one fi sh per
day is to ensure enough
hatchery fi sh return to the
trap at Hells Canyon Dam so
we can meet production ob-
jectives,” said Kyle Bratcher,
district fi sh biologist at the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife’s Enterprise
offi ce. “While we expect to
narrowly meet broodstock
collection goals, reducing the
bag limit will allow us some
breathing room if we come
up short of our projections.”
Summer steelhead are
making their way through
the mainstem Columbia and
Snake Rivers. Although the
steelhead season opened
on Sept. 1, Bratcher doesn’t
expect catch rates to pick
up late in the month. The
best fi shing typically begins
in October and continues
throughout the winter.
Residents hope to start
informal discussions
about investing
A group of Baker City
residents is looking to start
meeting occasionally to
share their knowledge about
investing, budgeting and
economic planning.
Organizer Rick Rienks
emphasized that the gather-
ings will not involve any
sales pitches, nor will any
personal information be
given.
The meetings would be for
educational purposes only,
Rienks said, to help people
understand their options
with investing their money.
Meetings are tentatively
planned for the downstairs
room at the west end of
Crossroads Carnegie Art
Center, on every other
Sunday.
People interested in par-
ticipating can contact Colter
at Shameless Tees, 1921
Main St.
OBITUARIES
‘Glenn’ Jennings
Hopper (Richmond, deceased), and
Daren Jennings (Stefanie Bistline);
seven grandchildren: Douglas Hopper,
Marvin “Glenn”
Zachary Simmons (Melissa), Brian
Jennings, 92, of Walla
Simmons (Chantelle), Dannielle Slater
Walla, Washington, and
(James), Christopher Jennings (Gil-
formerly of Baker City
lian), Holden Bistline (Darci Ghramm),
and Union, died Aug.
‘Glenn’
and Hardy Bistline-Jennings; and 10
20, 2021, at his care
Jennings
great-grandchildren: Devon, Sean,
home under the loving
Francesca, Madeline, Johnno, Judah,
care of his daugh-
Brennan, Thad, Lyla and Joseph.
ter, Karen.
Glenn was preceded in death by his
Glenn was born on Nov. 20, 1928, at
wife, Eloise Jennings; his grandson,
Cedaredge, Colorado, to Samuel Eu-
Jared Hopper; his son-in-law, Richmond
gene and Ethel Florida Lowe. He was
the youngest of eight children. After the Hopper; and his second wife, Mary
10th grade, he moved to Keene, Texas, Jennings.
Memorial contributions can be made
and then to Glendale, California, before
to the Baker City Seventh-day Adven-
returning to Cedaredge. There he
married Eloise Foster on Aug. 22, 1948. tist Church through Gray’s West &
Mother always had a chore for Dad, but Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave.,
Baker City, OR 97814.
he enjoyed playing many table games
and time with friends and family when
‘Joe’ Lawrence
he wasn’t working.
Glenn had many adventures, includ- 1928-2021
ing getting lost for three days in the
Joseph Q. “Joe” Lawrence, 93, died
Uncompahgre National Forest when
Aug. 24, 2021, at Pioneer Place Assisted
taking a shortcut home from a week
Living.
away logging. He mined in Colorado
Services will take place at a later
and logged in Alaska, Colorado and
date, to be announced.
Oregon before retiring at age 62. He
Joe was born on April 27, 1928, at
had a log fall on his truck, a log fall on Ontario to Camillious Photient Law-
his shoulder, and he logged a tree full of rence and Margaret Ellen Thomas. Joe
bees, being stung multiple times.
attended grade school and high school
After Eloise passed in 2002, he mar- in Vale. He excelled in football, baseball,
ried Mary Cline on June 22, 2003.
and basketball. When he was not busy
He leaves behind his three chil-
with school or sports, you would fi nd
dren, Sharon Simmons (Kent), Karen
him hunting and fi shing.
Formerly of Baker City, 1928-2021
Joe served in the Army and fought in
the Korean War. Joe married the love of
his life, Maxine Lois Wirth, on Sept. 3,
1960. He and Maxine were married until
her death on Oct. 19, 2009.
Joe worked on many ranches and
in construction, and owned Lawrence
Logging from 1976-1984. He sold his log-
ging operation to his son, Pat Browning,
with plans to retire. After a short time
he became bored with retirement. He
then started subcontracting through Pat,
piling brush, as well as logging salvage
sales. He fi nally retired for good in 1990.
Joe was an avid hunter, fi sherman,
and trapper. He trapped through 2019
and was still skinning coyotes until 2020.
Joe was one of a kind. He was hardwork-
ing, honest, loyal and fair. He was a true
friend, confi dant, role model, and hero to
many. He fi ercely loved all of his children
and grandchildren.
Joe is survived by his sister-in-law,
Colleen Lawrence; his son and daughter-
in-law, Mike and Diane Browning; his
daughter, Judi Browning; his son, Pat
Browning; his son, Daniel Lawrence; 15
grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren;
and six great-great-grandchildren.
Joe was preceded in death by his
father, Camillous Lawrence; his mother,
Mary Ellen (Nellie) Thompson; his
brother, Dan Lawrence; his sister, Mar-
garet Courtney; his loving wife, Maxine
Lawrence; his son, Thomas Browning;
his granddaughter, Kristin Browning;
and his beloved dog, Zeek.
NEWS OF RECORD
DEATHS
Viola Perkins: 95, died Sept.
7, 2021, at Settler’s Park. A grave-
side service and dinner will be
planned for the end of September.
Stanley Powell: 86, of Baker
City, died Sept. 6, 2021, at his
residence in Settler’s Park Assisted
Living Community. To leave an
online condolence for Stanley’s
family, go to www.grayswestco.
com.
Donna Weir: Graveside
service will be Saturday, Sept.
25 at 11 a.m. at the Eagle Valley
Cemetery in Richland. Arrange-
ments are under the direction of
Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home
& Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at
www.tamispinevalleyfuneral-
home.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
PROBATION VIOLATION:
Pearl Naomi Adair, 41, Baker
City, 3:48 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7
at the police department; jailed.
PAROLE VIOLATION: Adam
Troy Shelton, 48, Baker City,
6:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7 in
the 3700 block of Birch Street;
jailed.
Baker County Sheriff’s
Offi ce
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Union
County warrant): Victor Salinas
Jr., 32, Baker City, 10:24 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 7 at the Court-
house; cited and released.
“You’ll love the work we do. I guarantee it.” - JR
FUNERALS PENDING
David Coughlin: Celebration
of life, Sunday, Sept. 19 at 4 p.m.
at the Quail Ridge Golf Course,
2801 Indiana Ave. in Baker City.
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