A2 — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
Returning to campus
Turning Back the Pages
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
September 25, 1971
The Enterprise Savages came into Halfway Friday
night looking for heads, but Pine-Eagle disappointed
them by shaving the invaders 7-0. Last year, the Spar-
tans stopped the Savages 14-6 to keep Enterprise out of
the state playoffs. Thus Enterprise would have liked to
return the favor.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 25, 1996
The Baker CIty Council on Tuesday voted 5-1 to accept
a $129 check from Borden Granger as payment for use of
the city’s golf course greens aerator, which the city twice
used in 1995 to aerate Granger’s grass tennis court.
After the council meeting, City Manager Karen Woolard
said the city’s golf board, of which she is a member,
should have objected when Granger first asked, on
March 22, 1995, for the city to aerate his court.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 26, 2011
PORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife will kill two wolves from the Imnaha wolf pack af-
ter they were blamed for a livestock kill in Eastern Oregon.
The department tracked an adult male wolf with a GPS
collar to the location of a calf that was killed earlier this
week.
Killing the adult male and a second, uncollared wolf
leaves two wolves in the pack.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
September 26, 2020
If Baker County residents can continue to avoid the
coronavirus for the next couple of weeks, younger Baker
School District students might be able to return to their
classrooms by Oct. 12.
The Baker School Board agreed to proceed with that
plan for preschool through sixth-grade students after
discussing the situation during a work session Thursday
night.
Director Katie Lamb, whose husband, Dr. Eric Lamb, is
the Baker County public health officer and thus involved
in determining whether the school district is meeting state
requirements for in-person classes, recused herself from
commenting on the issue during Thursday’s session.
Superintendent Mark Witty outlined the case for return-
ing to in-person classes for preschoolers at Haines and
Keating and for all students in Grades K-6 throughout the
District.
Students in Grades 7-12 will continue to take online
classes, even if younger students do return to classrooms
Oct. 12, Witty said.
That’s because state guidelines call for students to
interact with 50 or fewer people per week. That is not pos-
sible for students at Baker Middle School and Baker High
School because of their rotating class schedules, which
put them in contact with up to 100 people per week, Witty
said.
The younger students, on the other hand, meet in self-
contained classrooms, which makes it easier to limit the
number of people each student is in contact with.
The school board’s discussion was prompted in part by
recent declining trends in the number of COVID-19 cases
in Baker County.
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Senior Menus
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green beans, ambrosia, brownies
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unique in that we were requir-
ing the vaccination, or an ex-
emption, contingent upon FDA
LA GRANDE — After
full approval of the vaccine.
spending more than a year
dealing with in-person and hy- That kicked in late last month,
brid learning schedules, officials and now people have until Oct.
22 to complete either getting
with Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity are excited at the prospect their vaccinations or having an
of life resuming a more normal exemption on file.”
Seydel said students made
look on campus in 2021-22.
it clear they wanted to get the
Classes are set to begin
on-campus, in-person experi-
on campus Monday, Sept. 27.
The school started its 93rd
ence.
academic year on Sept. 20 with
“Everybody wants to get to
the annual Convocation, while that place where we can have a
students started moving back safe, healthy, active campus en-
into residence halls on Sept. 22. vironment,” he said. “Because
“This fall we are planning
really what we’re here for is the
to be 100% in-person, in the
students.”
classroom,” said Tim Seydel,
Eastern’s vice president for
Handling exemptions
university advancement.
Seydel said handling vac-
“Students in the classes, being cine exemptions is not new
taught directly in-person with for the university. For years,
faculty? You bet.”
schools have been required to
Despite the seemingly
have vaccine exemptions for
return to normal appearance
students as it relates to other
of things on campus, it doesn’t vaccines. Eastern has been
mean Eastern isn’t taking the following that same process for
continuing pandemic seriously. COVID exemptions.
“We’re following all the
“The university makes that
state and federal guidance. The decision, but we follow state
big things that people would
and federal guidelines,” Seydel
notice on campus is that we
said. “So the exemptions we’re
are continuing to wear face
currently allowing are medical
masks inside and in classes,”
and nonmedical exemptions,
he said. “Students would be
including religious exemptions.
required to wear a face mask in Those have to meet federal
class, and then outside where
standards.”
physical distancing is not really
Seydel said students seek-
possible.”
ing exemptions go through
In June, the school an-
Student Affairs and employee
nounced that it would require cases are handled by the
school’s Human Resources
all students and employees to
be fully vaccinated against CO- department.
“With nonmedical exemp-
VID-19. Seydel said response
to that mandate was, overall,
tions, there’s an education
fairly positive.
module they need to take part
“Everybody was expecting
in and gather some more in-
something like that to come,
formation from them,” he said.
especially when we were
“And then they either have an
seeing requirements other
exemption on file or they’re vac-
institutions,” he said. “Ours was cinated.”
By ANDREW CUTLER
The (La Grande) Observer
Noxious weed
of the week
By JEFFREY PETTINGILL
Halogeton (Halogeton
glomeratus) is an annual
weed imported from Asia that
grows in heavily disturbed
areas such as roadways,
sheep trails, and over grazed
pastures and rangelands. It
particularly likes alkaline
soils and semi-arid high
desert areas with winter
livestock grazing.
Due to the decline of sheep
being grazed, this weed has
not had much of a presence in
the ranges such as the area
east of Baker City.
It is a small plant with red,
succulent-looking stems and
small green to pink tubular
leaves. The flowers are very
inconspicuous. It is extremely
toxic to livestock, especially
sheep. It is responsible for
thousands of livestock poison-
ings each year.
Jeffrey Pettingill/Contributed Photo
Halogeton is poisonous to
livestock.
The defense
The greatest defense for this
weed is proper land steward-
ship. Maintaining a healthy
range and pasture is key to pre-
venting this weed from growing.
Once established, consistent,
dedicated weed control efforts
are a must. Mechanical control
will work for small infestations.
Once the species becomes a
major problem, using Escort XP
or Telar XP, with a surfactant,
is best. Early in the season
2,4-D ester works. Either way
if you don’t plan a revegetation
program, your efforts will be
useless. Many beneficial seed
species are available. Further-
The strategy
This plant is not extremely more, as this is a desert invader,
competitive but it is the first
the best time to plant your new
plant to grow once an area
seeds is in the fall — after the
becomes heavily disturbed. It’s first of October. Remember,
usually 5 to 6 inches in height, keeping your range, pasture,
but has been known to grow
or open fields healthy is key to
as tall as 18 inches. The plant keeping this and other weeds
produces thousands of seeds, from becoming a problem.
thus once established it is dif-
Jeffrey Pettingill, supervisor
ficult to keep from reproduc-
of the Baker County Weed Dis-
ing. In fact it can go so thick it
looks like a red/green carpet
trict, can be reached at 541-523-
over the soils.
0618 or 541-519-0204.
You’re still sweet,
cute, and oh so witty.
It’s hard to
believe
that you’ve
turned 50.
Happy
birthday, Jen!
Much love,
Your friends & family
Alex Wittwer/The (La Grande) Observer
Week of Welcome student leader Martin Heredia
welcomes a new freshman to the squad with a fist
bump during the Eastern Oregon University Week of
Welcome event on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021.
Seydel said there’s plenty
of ongoing conversations on
campus about the potential
impact Gov. Kate Brown’s vac-
cination mandate might have
on the university. Brown an-
nounced in August that health
care workers and educators,
support staff and volunteers
needed to be fully vaccinated
by Oct. 18 or six weeks after
full FDA approval, whichever
is later.
“A lot of people assume
that means you must be vacci-
nated,” he said. “And it’s really
you either need to be vac-
cinated or have an exemption
on file. And if you go through
the exemption process and
you’re denied there are some
guidelines.”
state’s Strong Start Program
to help provide support
services for students who
experienced gaps in their
education during 2020 and
2021 due to the pandemic.
“You didn’t have that
regular contact with stu-
dents at the high school level
(during distance learning).
So those students struggled,”
he said. “And then of course
they struggled with getting
simple things, like did they
have a laptop that could
actually work? Did they have
decent internet access where
they could do their classes at
home? What was the envi-
ronment like?”
Seydel also said some
students struggled with par-
ents who lost jobs, forcing the
Fall enrollment
student to find work or help
care for siblings.
Early projections on fall
“So they’re going to go
enrollment have the school
to college, how do we help
flat or possibly down 1% —
numbers the school is pleased them when they get here
with, Seydel said.
and provide support services
“We’re feeling pretty good for them,” he said. “We’re
about that given all the things starting in on that right now.
we’re working with and deal- It’s been exciting to help
keep students engaged and
ing with,” he said.
recreate those pathways
Seydel said Eastern Or-
egon received money from the to college.”
News of Record
DEATHS
John Alan Bennett: 70,
died Sept. 18, 2021, at Saint
Alphonsus Medical Center in
Boise. A celebration of his life
will take place Saturday, Oct.
2 at 11 a.m. at Gray’s West
& Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500
Dewey Ave. A reception will
follow at Coles Tribute Center,
1950 Place St. Memorial
contributions can be made to
the Eastern Oregon chapter
of FFA or to the Baker County
4-H Club in care of Gray’s
West & Co., 1500 Dewey Ave.,
Baker City, OR 97814. To light
a candle for John or to offer
online condolences to his
family, go to www.grayswest-
co.com.
Ronald ‘Ron’ Robinson:
80, a former Baker County
resident, died Sept. 23, 2021,
at his home in Springfield,
Oregon. Arrangements 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
FAILURE TO APPEAR
(Baker County Circuit Court
warrants): Justin Michael
Shelton, 31, Baker City,
2:53 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
22 in the 2700 block of Court
Avenue; jailed.
Obituary
Pamela Cantrall
She is survived
by her brothers, Dick
Martin, Keith Martin
Pam Cantrall,
and Rodney Martin;
74, passed away
her three children,
in her sleep on
Cary Cooper of Herm-
Aug. 12, 2021.
There will
iston, Dawn West of
Pamela
be a graveside
Albuquerque, New
Cantrall
service Oct. 2 at
Mexico, and Tammy
noon MDT at the
Peterson of Sandy, Or-
Alpha Cemetery in Cascade, egon; her stepchildren, Eric
Idaho.
Cantrall and Molly Carter;
Pam was born on Feb. 3, her 12 grandchildren and 1
1947, Robert and Leezetta
great-grandchild.
Martin. Pam enjoyed spend-
She was preceded in
death by her husband, Cal
ing time with her family
Cantrall; her brother, Timo-
playing games, and going
out to play bingo whenever thy Martin; and her sister,
she got the chance.
Karen Martin.
1947-2021
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