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BRIEFING
Fun run/walk set
Oct. 16 to benefi t
BHS cross-country
The inaugural Okto-
berfest 5K fun run/walk,
a benefi t for the Baker
High School cross-country
teams, is set for Saturday,
Oct. 16. The event is in con-
junction with Crossroads
Carnegie Art Center’s
drive-thru Oktoberfest
dinner and virtual auction
that day.
The run/walk will start
at 8 a.m. at Central Park,
along the Leo Adler Me-
morial Parkway between
Washington and Valley
avenues, and end at the
Baker County Fairgrounds.
At the midway point, along
Hughes Lane, participants
will pick up as many pota-
toes as possible and carry
them to the fi nish line,
where the spuds will be
donated to the Northeast
Oregon Compassion Cen-
ter for its food boxes.
Costumes are encour-
aged. Registration will
start at 7 a.m. at Central
Park on the day of the
event, or go to https://one.
bidpal.net/21oktoberfest.
Gold cards for sale
Bulldog Gold Cards,
which benefi t the BHS
football team and offer
discounts at local busi-
nesses, are for sale for $10
at the front offi ce at BHS,
2500 E St.
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Preparing for trouble
OTEC linemen learn
to deal with emergencies
in remote work areas
By JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Dr. Kaare Tingelstad is looking for
someone with a fractured pelvis.
A volunteer.
Travis Smart springs to his feet
with an agility not generally associ-
ated with pelvic fractures.
He also has a splint on his lower
right leg but this seems not to im-
pede him either.
Smart lies on his back, reclin-
ing on a blanket spread across the
granitic sand near Anthony Lakes
Mountain Resort’s lodge.
Tingelstad and Robbie Langrell
each grab one end of a bright orange
swath of nylon which is rolled into a
makeshift rope.
Then they start a curious routine,
rather like a square dance, circling
Smart as he lies still, the nylon pull-
ing tight against his hips.
“Is that pretty tight?” Tingelstad
asks the supine Smart.
“It’s pretty tight,” Smart confi rms.
“What do we do with him now?”
Tingelstad asks the 10 or so people
who stand in a rough circle, watching
as Smart is trussed up.
The correct answer is what you
don’t do with someone whose pelvis
is broken — which is move him.
“He stays there, as comfortable
and warm as you can make him,”
Tingelstad says.
Smart, whose sense of humor,
unlike his pelvis, has not been con-
stricted, chimes in.
“Hand me a beer and go get the
helicopter,” he says.
Laughter spreads through the
thin alpine air on this sunny, but a
bit blustery, early October morning.
This is serious business, to be
sure.
But it’s not an emergency.
Smart’s pelvis is perfectly intact.
So is his right leg.
The purpose of this gathering on
Tuesday, Oct. 5 isn’t to save some-
one’s life — or even their pelvis.
The goal is to learn.
By SAMANTHA O’CONNER
and JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
Joseph Hathaway/Contributed Photo
Dr. Kaare Tingelstad, left, and Robbie Langrell, right, demonstrate
the method for splinting a fractured pelvis. Their “patient” during a
training on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort is Travis
Smart, a lineman for Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative in La Grande.
Joseph Hathaway/Contributed Photo
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative employees practice the stair carry
method of transporting an injured person during a training on
Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort. From left, Tyler
Thomas, a substation technician, Blake Eckstein (being carried),
general foreman, and Al Dockweiler, a journeyman lineman.
The students are linemen from
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative in
Baker and Union counties, as well as
two Anthony Lakes employees.
Tuesday was the second day of
a two-day session where Tingelstad
and Langrell taught the workers how
to deal with a variety of potentially
life-threatening situations, including
injuries and hypothermia.
See, OTEC/Page A3
Baker City Manager Jon
Cannon said
the actions
encouraged in
a fl ier distrib-
uted recently
in the city,
including
calling on city
and county of-
Cannon
fi cials to defy
Gov. Kate Brown’s vaccine
mandate, could put the city’s
insurance coverage at risk.
Cannon also said that
the fl ier’s call for residents to
withhold their property taxes
if city and county offi cials
fail to act on the mandate
could leave the city unable to
provide its usual services.
The one-page fl ier, head-
lined “Community Call To
Action,” includes an offer to
“join the movement at www.
BakerCountyUnited@proton-
mail.com.”
The group also has a web-
site, bakercountyunited.com.
Property taxes are a sig-
nifi cant source of revenue for
Baker City’s budget. The city
receives about $3.6 million
per year in property taxes,
and the largest share of that
money, almost $3 million for
the current fi scal year that
started July 1, goes to the
general fund.
That fund includes the
police and fi re departments.
See, Mandate/Page A3
Wolves kill
12 sheep
north of Elgin
Baker City Herald
Stepping up to preserve history
steel and wood on a concrete
foundation.
“When you look at the
A project to replace the
courthouse, you see this
granite steps and stone
(tuff) stone all over, you
facade leading to the main
think it’s a stone building,”
entrance of the Baker
he said. “But really, what
County Courthouse should
you’re looking at would be
be fi nished by the end of
thick stone siding. It’s liter-
November.
ally just a facade on the exte-
The work is in its fi nal
rior part of the building.”
phase, said Dan McQuisten,
The deterioration of the
the county’s facilities man-
tuffstone facade around
ager.
the steps threatened the
“In general, the scope of
integrity of the structures,
the project or the intent of
McQuisten said.
the project was to address
The county sought to fi nd
some long-term deteriora-
replacement materials simi-
tion in the stone facade
lar to the originals, he said.
that surrounded the steps
Workers have removed
at the courthouse and it’s
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
been a long, ongoing project Workers are replacing the steps leading to the main the granite steps below
the main entrance, on the
over the last several years,” entrance at the Baker County Courthouse.
east side of the Courthouse,
McQuisten said.
as well as the underlying
it’s rotted out,” McQuisten
McQuisten said the
The project has a
material that was wicking
said.
facade, made of a type of
$65,000 budget, and
The tuffstone is also used moisture and accelerating
compressed volcanic ash
McQuisten said he’s not
the deterioration.
in several other historic
known as tuffstone, which
yet sure whether the
With everything dried,
county will spend the entire was quarried near Pleasant buildings, including Baker
City Hall and St. Francis de workers are installing new
Valley between Baker City
amount.
steps and facade stone.
Sales Cathedral.
and Durkee, has deterio-
Workers over the past
“Hopefully that will be
McQuisten said the
several years have replaced rated over the decades due
another 100 plus year fi x,”
Courthouse, fi nished in
to the ravages of weather.
other sets of steps at the
“For lack of a better term, 1909, is mainly built of brick, McQuisten said.
Courthouse, 1995 Third St.
By SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
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TODAY
Issue 64, 32 pages
Business ...........B1 & B2
Calendar ....................A2
Classified ............. B2-B4
Comics ....................... B5
Community News ....A3
Crossword ........B2 & B4
Dear Abby ................. B6
Horoscope ........B2 & B4
Letters ........................A4
Lottery Results ..........A2
News of Record ........A2
Obituaries ..................A2
A wolf pack in Union
County north of Elgin has
killed 12 ewe sheep and
injured two guard dogs
protecting sheep over the past
week or so, according to the
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife (ODFW).
The attacks are attributed
to the Balloon Tree pack,
according to ODFW investi-
gations.
That pack’s breeding pair
produced pups for the fi rst
time in 2020, with at least
three surviving through the
end of that year.
Attack on sheep
An employee of a sheep
rancher found three dead
adult ewes on Sept. 29 on a
private, timbered pasture,
according to ODFW.
Offi cials from ODFW and
from the federal USDA Wild-
life Service agency arrived on
Sept. 30 and found four more
dead ewes. Wildlife Service
employees then found three
more dead ewes on Oct. 1,
and one dead and one injured
ewe on Oct. 1. Workers
euthanized the injured ewe
that day.
See, Wolves/Page A3
Opinion ......................A4
Sports ........................A6
Weather ..................... B6
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