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September 28, 2021
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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