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TUESDAY BAKER BULLDOGS ROUT NEWPORT FOR FIRST FOOTBALL WIN: SPORTS, A6 In SPORTS, A5 Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com September 28, 2021 Local • Home & Living • Sports IN THIS EDITION: QUICK HITS Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Phyllis Badgley of Baker City. Sports, A5 EUGENE — Third-ranked Oregon had a fast start and a big fi nish against Arizona. Anthony Brown threw for 206 yards and three touchdowns, and the Ducks handed the Wildcats their 16th straight loss with a 41-19 victory on Saturday night, Sept. 25. Oregon (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12) extended its winning streak at Autzen Stadium to 15 games. The Ducks are the lone undefeated team left in the Pac-12. BRIEFING Tables available for annual Christmas bazaar Dec. 3-4 Baker County is hosting the annual Christmas bazaar Dec. 3 and 4 at the Baker County Fairgrounds show barn. Tables are $40, and there are spots avail- able. To reserve a table, call the Baker County Exten- sion Offi ce at 541-523-6418. In addition, the county is looking for volunteers to help with the bazaar. More information is avail- able on the Baker County 4-H Facebook page, or by calling the Extension Offi ce or emailing to khauserk@ oregonstate.edu. The bazaar hours will be noon to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4. WEATHER Today 56 / 25 Rain showers Wednesday 62 / 29 Sunny Full forecast on the back of the B section. The space below is for a postage label for issues that are mailed. Traffi c fears $1.50 Eastside resident worries about uncontrolled residential intersections By JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald Darlene Harff, who lives near the intersection of Cherry and Broadway streets, worries that crashes will happen due to the lack of stop signs at the intersection. way might be more likely to use Cherry, Owen said. She said the city doesn’t have any traffi c counts from streets in the area. Harff said she saw drivers going around “road closed” signs on Washington during a repaving project this sum- mer — some of whom even stopped to move the signs. “The whole time this road was supposed to be closed, they were fl ying down here like crazy,” Harff said.“I’m like, this is insane.” Harff, who moved to Baker City from Minneapolis seven years ago, said she had contacted Baker City with her concerns. She said her residential neighborhood in Minne- apolis had stop signs every other block. “So, you couldn’t go more than a couple of blocks with- out stopping,” she said. Harff said she has even seen people drive through stop signs in Baker City. She has also heard from people all over town that inatten- tive drivers, especially at uncontrolled intersections, are “a real, real problem.” About half of Baker City’s intersections are un- controlled, most of those in residential areas that don’t have collector streets. She said that on some Saturday nights it sounds like a race track as drivers speed down Cherry Street. “My neighbor on the other side of the block, she says a lot of them over there don’t even stop at the stop sign (at Balm and Washington),” Harff said. “And some guy came fl ying through one night and he lost control of his car and he smashed into the neighbor across the street’s gar- bage can.” Harff said she has trav- eled all over the country, visiting 48 states, and across Canada. “I’ve been in a lot of big cities, little cities. I’ve never seen anything like the way they go fl ying through it. It’s just crazy,” Harff said. “It’s just worrisome. There’s been so many near accidents on the intersection and all we asked for was a stop sign. One stop sign to slow them down between Campbell to Washington.” See, Traffi c/Page A3 The art of flowers ing was Thursday, Sept. 16. In addition to fl ower Mollie Collings and Shel- arrangements — Terrill prefers creating large dis- ley Terrill wanted a slower pace of life, and that’s what plays, such as for weddings and other events— the shop they found in Baker City. features smaller creations “Smaller town, to slow down a little,” Collings said. they call “botanical art” that And now they’re drawing include succulents and ferns. Collings has an associ- on years of experience in the fl oral industry to open a ate’s degree in art. “I have a love for plants, shop called Baker Floral & so I put the two together,” Botanicals. she said. “I’m probably the “We’ve both been in the biggest plant nerd you’ll fl oral industry all of our meet.” working lives,” Terrill said. Their fl oral supplies They relocated from come from several wholesale Vancouver, Washington, in dealers, including one that June 2021. The fl oral shop is located at 2300 Broadway provides fl owers from a Hillsboro business. St., at the corner of Broad- “We like to use local,” way and Fourth streets. Their offi cial grand open- Collings said. By LISA BRITTON lbritton@bakercityherald.com Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald Shelley Terrill, left, and Mollie Collings opened Baker Floral & Botanicals in September. She said some plants, such as maidenhair fern, are not made for a long transport. “It does not ship well — it’s super delicate,” she said. The shop offers premade fl ower arrangements as well as special orders. They feature local artwork as well, and will be open late for the First Friday art walk on Oct. 1. Baker Floral & Botanicals is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call the shop at 541-519-6059 or follow updates on Facebook. Nonprofi t aims to reduce child abuse 5054 to set up an appoint- ment. The email address is bakerreliefnursery1927@ A new nonprofi t with gmail.com. a mission to help rural “The Relief Nursery children and families and model provides compre- reduce child abuse rates is hensive family services in operating in Baker City. The Baker Relief Nursery safe and nurturing environ- ments to children ages 6 and was certifi ed in April 2021. It is the 39th certifi ed Relief under whose families are Nursery program in Oregon. enduring situations such The Baker Relief Nursery as social isolation, children is at 1925 16th St. The staff with special needs, mental or physical health challenges, encourages people with or recovery from domestic questions to call 541-239- By SAMANTHA O’CONNER jjacoby@bakercityherald.com TODAY Issue 60, 14 pages All quiet on wolves No wolves killed, or attacks on cattle, since Sept. 17 By SAMANTHA O’CONNER soconner@bakercityherald.com Darlene Harff watches cars zoom through the un- controlled intersections near her home on Cherry Street in east Baker City, and as she watches, she worries. Harff estimates that about 90% of drivers she watches don’t slow down, and prepare to yield to traf- fi c to their right as the law requires, as they approach intersections on Cherry. Harff, whose home is on Cherry Street between Broadway Street and Washington Avenue, said that when the Albertsons grocery store was closed for several months in 2015 and 2016, traffi c lessened. But it has increased since, she said. “I think we get the traf- fi c because they think it’s the through street from the stores,” Harff said. Michelle Owen, Baker City’s director of public works, said Cherry Street, although it’s designated as a local street rather than a “collector” street — one designed to carry more traffi c — likely attracts more drivers than other north-south streets in the area for the reason Harff cited. Because Cherry is about midway between the two north-south collector streets in the area — Clark and Birch — drivers head- ing to or from the Baker Towne Square and Safe- Beavers upset Trojans Classified ............. B4-B6 Comics ....................... B7 Community News ....A3 violence or addiction, among others,” said RaeAnn Butler, the Nursery’s program coor- dinator. “Our entire model is based on strengthening these families in Baker County and North Powder, helping reduce the number and severity of signifi cant stresses while building their little ones’ social-emotional skills in our therapeutic classroom.” Katherine Molder Col- lins, the interim executive Crossword ........B5 & B6 Dear Abby ................. B8 Home ....................B1-B4 director for the Baker Relief Nursery, said the Relief Nursery concept dates to 1976 in Eugene, when a group of woman, some with a background in social ser- vices, sought a new approach to dealing with child abuse. The founders researched statistics and found that more than half of abused children were six or younger, Collins said. See, Nursery/Page A3 Horoscope ........B5 & B6 Letters ........................A4 Lottery Results ..........A2 News of Record ........A2 Obituaries ..................A2 Opinion ......................A4 THURSDAY — GO! MAGAZINE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE No additional wolves have been killed from the Lookout Mountain pack in eastern Baker County since Sept. 17, and the pack hasn’t been im- plicated in any recent attacks on cattle. Wolves from the Lookout Mountain pack have killed at least six head of cattle, and injured three others, since mid July. On the morning of Sept. 17, employees from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild- life (ODFW), fi ring rifl es from a helicopter, shot and killed three wolves from the pack, including its breeding male. Michelle Dennehy, an ODFW spokesperson, wrote in an email to the Herald Mon- day morning, Sept. 27, that no wolves have been killed since Sept. 17. ODFW announced on Sept. 16 that agency workers in- tended to kill up to four wolves from the pack, not including the breeding female. Four ranchers who have lost cattle to wolves are also authorized to kill up to two wolves from the pack, not including the breeding female. That permit continues through Oct. 31. ODFW employees shot and killed two other Lookout Mountain wolves, both of them pups born this spring, on Aug. 1. The most recent confi rmed wolf attack on cattle hap- pened on Sept. 16, according to ODFW reports. ODFW employees found the carcass of a 450-pound calf on Sept. 17 on private land near Daly Creek, north of Lookout Mountain. ODFW workers also con- fi rmed on Sept. 20 that wolves had injured a 450-pound calf, also on private land, but biolo- gists estimated that attack happened about three weeks earlier. The calf was found in the Timber Canyon area north of Little Lookout Mountain. ODFW offi cials estimate the Lookout Mountain pack consists of six wolves, includ- ing the breeding female. By killing the breeding male, ODFW hopes to still allow the breeding female to raise any remaining juveniles. Reducing the number of juveniles she will need to feed increases the likelihood that some will survive, according to a press release from the agency. Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash sent a letter to ODFW Director Curt Melcher on Sept. 13 asking the state to kill the entire Lookout Moun- tain pack. Three days later ODFW announced that it would try to kill up to four wolves, citing the ongoing threat to livestock and the evidence that the Lookout Mountain pack has been targeting cattle despite signifi cant populations of elk and deer in the area. Senior Menus ...........A2 Sports .............. A5 & A6 Weather ..................... B8