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Health Dept. fi elds calls about vaccine for kids
Good Day Wish
To A Subscriber
By JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A special good day to
Herald subscriber William
Berry of Sumpter.
The Baker County
Health Department has
been fi elding phone calls
from parents who want to
have their children, ages 5
to 11, vaccinated against
COVID-19.
But as the Health De-
partment noted in a Face-
book post on Friday, Oct. 29,
State, A3
ONTARIO — One of the
country’s most sparsely
populated and persistently
defended high desert wild
lands may soon be subject
to frequent sonic booms
and shrieking fi ghter jets.
The Mountain Home Air
Force Base in southwest-
ern Idaho is proposing to
expand military training
allowances across large
portions of the Owyhee
Desert — a 9-million-acre
landscape of shrub steppe
and remote canyons span-
ning three states cherished
by tribes, ranchers, sports-
men, paddlers, hikers,
conservationists, scientists
and stargazers.
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those parents will have to
wait a bit longer.
Although the Food and
Drug Administration has
cleared the use of the Pfi zer
vaccine for that age group,
the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention could
give fi nal approval for the
vaccine later this week.
There are an estimated
28 million American chil-
dren in that age range.
In Baker County there
are about 1,000 children in
that age group, based on
data from the U.S. Census
Bureau and the Portland
State University Popula-
tion Research Center. That’s
about 16.8% of the county’s
population.
“We’ve had some inter-
est from parents wanting
to get that protection for
their kids, but it hasn’t
been overwhelming yet,”
Nancy Staten, director of the
Health Department, said
on Monday, Nov. 1. “We are
keeping a list, so if people
are interested, they can call
the Health Department. We
will make the vaccines avail-
able once fi nal authorization
has been given.”
Filmmakers
Featured
Sports, A5
EUGENE — Over the
course of three weeks it’s
been coming together
for Oregon quarterback
Anthony Brown Jr.
Brown threw for a
career-high 307 yards and
three touchdowns and No.
7 Oregon had a season-
high 568 yards of offense
in a 52-29 victory over
Colorado on Saturday,
Oct. 30.
Sports, A6
BERKELEY, Calif. —
After three straight Pac-12
losses to open the season,
California is starting to fi nd
its stride. Chase Garbers
threw one of his three TD
passes one play after a
partially blocked punt and
the Golden Bears beat Or-
egon State 39-25 Saturday,
Oct. 30.
Joanna Priestley/Contributed image
Paul Harrod, a production designer and director of animated and live-action fi lms, has worked in the
fi lm industry for three decades. He will discuss his work of the years during a First Friday event at
Churchill School on Nov. 5.
Joanna Priestley and her husband, Paul Harrod, are
featured artists for First Friday at Churchill School
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signer and director of animated
and live-action fi lms, with
Joanna Priestley is thankful an emphasis on stop-motion
for a change of scenery and time animation.
They will be the featured
to work on her art.
artists during First Friday, Nov.
“During the pandemic, I
5, at Churchill.
haven’t felt as creative,” she
Harrod, who can’t talk about
said.
Priestley is a fi lmmaker, and his current project due to a
has created 32 fi lms in her style nondisclosure agreement, will
present a slideshow about his
of drawn animation.
work over the years.
She and her husband, Paul
Priestley will play her latest
Harrod, are spending two weeks
fi lm, titled “Jung & Restless.”
at Churchill School in Baker
City as the resident artists.
Harrod is a production de-
See, Artists/Page A3
By LISA BRITTON
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
WEATHER
Cloudy
Bulldogs
advance
Joanna Priestley/Contributed image
Joanna Priestley has fi nished 32 drawn
animation fi lms. She will show her
latest, “Jung & Restless,” during First
Friday at Churchill School.
Residents ages 12 to 17
have been eligible to be vac-
cinated since May 2021.
In Baker County there
are about 1,110 residents in
that age group, and 25% of
them are vaccinated against
COVID-19, according to the
Oregon Health Authority
(OHA).
See, Vaccine/Page A3
Police looking
for missing
17-year-old girl
By JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker City Police posted
a notice on the department’s
Facebook page
Monday, Nov. 1
asking for infor-
mation about a
17-year-old Bak-
er High School
student whom
police describe
as “missing and
Gately
endangered.”
Kaitlyn Rose Gately was
last seen leaving BHS on Oct.
28, Baker City Police Sgt. Mike
Regan said.
Kaitlyn was wearing blue
clothing with the Disney char-
acter “Stitch” and was carrying
a black backpack. She is 5-foot-4
inches tall and weighs about 135
pounds. She has brown hair with
purple tinting and wears black-
framed glasses.
Anyone with information
about Kaitlyn is asked to con-
tact Offi cer Lance Woodward,
the Baker City Police’s school
resource offi cer, at 541-523-3644,
or by email, schoolresourceoffi -
cer@bakercitypd.gov.
Regan said Kaitlyn’s mother
initially reported her daughter
as a runaway on the evening of
Oct. 28.
Regan said police became
more concerned about Kaitlyn
because they haven’t been able
to confi rm that she’s had any
contact with anyone since leav-
ing school that afternoon.
Regan said he has assigned
Woodward to follow up on any
leads police receive about Kait-
lyn’s whereabouts.
Regan said police did receive
permission to search a Baker
City home where Kaitlyn’s moth-
er believed she might be, but
Kaitlyn was not at that address.
County seeks state help with possible pharmacy crisis
By JAYSON JACOBY and
SAMANTHA O’CONNER
Baker City Herald
Baker County offi cials
have talked with the state
about potential options if
local pharmacies need help
with a temporary staffi ng
shortage.
Jason Yencopal, the
county’s emergency man-
agement director, said he
has talked with the Oregon
Health Authority (OHA)
about the possibility of pro-
viding pharmacy workers if
necessary.
As of Monday, Nov. 1,
no Baker City pharmacies
had contacted the county
seeking help with staffi ng,
Yencopal said.
The pharmacy at the
Baker City Bi-Mart store
is slated to close Nov. 9; the
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store itself will remain open.
That would leave the
county with three pharma-
cies, in the Safeway, Albert-
sons and Rite Aid stores.
Helen Loennig, pharma-
cist and pharmacy man-
ager at Bi-Mart, said she’s
“really worried about what’s
going to happen” when the
Bi-Mart pharmacy closes
and many prescriptions are
transferred to one of the
remaining pharmacies.
Loennig also sent an
email to Nancy Staten, di-
rector of the Baker County
Health Department, regard-
ing the situation.
“We are about to have a
Pharmacy Health Crisis,”
Loennig wrote in the Oct.
Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald
27 email to Staten.
Customers line up Monday morning, Nov. 1 at the Rite Aid store in Baker City,
waiting for the pharmacy to open at 10 a.m. The pharmacy reduced its hours on
See Crisis/Page A3 Sept. 24 due to “staffi ng issues,” according to a sign at the store.
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