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December 7, 2021
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BRIEFING
Haines Fire District
meets Dec. 13
HAINES — The Haines
Fire Protection District will
have its monthly board
of directors meeting on
Monday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.
at the main fi re station,
816 Cole St. in Haines.
All citizens in the district
are welcome to attend.
COVID-19 safety protocols
will be in effect.
Baker City Police
hosting Angel Tree
The Baker City Police
Department is hosting,
in partnership with The
Salvation Army, an Angel
Tree decorated with gift
tags in the front entrance
of the Police Department
at 1768 Auburn Ave. Angel
Tree gift tags are special
wished-for items given
during the holiday season
to children in need within
our community.
If you would like to pick
up an Angel Tree gift tag
and purchase the gift for
a local child, you can then
return the unwrapped gift
to the Police Department.
The last day to turn in a
gift is Friday, Dec.17.
For more information,
call Phoebe Wachtel at
541-524-2014, extension
603, or Susan Bland with
The Salvation Army at 541-
523-5853.
WEATHER
Today
45 / 32
Partly sunny
Wednesday
45 / 21
Cloudy
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Baker City’s Main Street bustling
for annual Christmas parade
By SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Baker City bustled throughout
the day Saturday, Dec. 4, with mul-
tiple holiday events including a big
bazaar and a Cookie Crawl, culmi-
nating in the return of the Baker
County Chamber of Commerce’s
Christmas parade.
The anticipated event was can-
celed in 2020 due to the pandemic.
But this year, on an unusually
mild evening for early December
with the temperature around 40 and
no precipitation, more than 50 en-
tries made their way south on Main
Street, lighting the darkness.
“I couldn’t be happier with how
things turned out,” said Shelly Cutler,
the Chamber’s executive director.
Entries included trucks and other
vehicles festooned with lights, as well
as Cub Scouts bearing the American
fl ag at the front of the parade, vintage
tractors and a variety of other spirited
fl oats that earned waves and ap-
plause from children and adults who
lined both sides of Main Street.
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Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Waiting for storms
Anthony
Lakes Ski Area
needs quite a bit
of snow to open
By JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
When you run a ski
area, the term “record high
temperature” might as well
be one four-letter word.
A couple of early fall
storms whitened the slopes
at Anthony Lakes Ski Area,
but that promising start
devolved into a period of
unseasonably mild tem-
peratures, said Chelsea
Judy, marketing director for
the resort in the Elkhorn
Mountains west of North
Powder.
Although a bit of snow
still lingers in sheltered
areas, there’s not enough
to thrust a measuring stick
into it to get a reading,
Judy said.
“I wouldn’t call it a
(snow) base yet,” she said
on Thursday morning,
Dec. 2.
That was just a day
after the temperature rose
to 54 degrees at the Baker
City Airport, breaking the
previous record high, for
the fi rst day of December, of
53 set in 2013.
But Judy points out that
at Anthony Lakes, with
the highest base elevation
(7,100 feet) among North-
west ski areas, the transi-
tion to full-fl edged winter
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to open,” she said. “We’re
all excited to ski.”
Judy pointed out that
attendance was up at ski
areas across the nation
last winter, a trend indus-
try offi cials attributed in
part to people looking for
outdoor activities during
the pandemic.
On the viral front, Judy
said this winter should be
different from the last at
Anthony Lakes.
Barring any new state-
imposed restrictions, the
plan is to open the lodge
as usual this winter and
have a normal parking
system, she said.
Last winter, by con-
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald trast, Anthony Lakes
encouraged visitors to use
A couple inches of snow covered the slopes at
their vehicles as a stag-
Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort on Sunday
ing spot, and although
morning, Dec. 5. The ski area, in the Elkhorn
Mountains west of North Powder, needs about two restrooms were available,
the lodge was otherwise
feet of snow for a partial opening.
closed.
Although face masks
can be, and often is, rapid. mountains this week.
will be required indoors,
Weak storms brought
“A couple of good storms”
light snow to the area late they will not be mandated
can sometimes be enough
Saturday, Dec. 4, and again in lift lines, as was the
to kick off the ski season,
Monday, Dec. 6, and cooler case last winter, Judy
she said.
temperatures, and a chance said.
Typically, Anthony
One change from last
Lakes needs about two feet for more snow, is forecast
winter that will carry
of snow to start running the for later in the week as
over to 2021-22 is on the
lift, although a deeper base well.
With snow scarce across Nordic side.
is required to fully open all
Judy said the mobile
Oregon and the Northwest,
the downhill runs.
Nordic “outpost” — a con-
Judy said she expects
The weather forecast
verted trailer — will again
skiers and snowboard-
looked promising late last
ers will be eager to make be parked in the Elkhorn
week, but the National
their fi rst runs when the Crest trailhead lot about
Weather Service, after
a quarter-mile east of the
consulting its sophisticated weather allows.
lodge, just off the highway.
“We’re defi nitely ex-
computer models, tempered
pecting pretty big num-
its initial predictions for
signifi cant snowfall in the bers as soon as we’re able
See, Ski/Page A3
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BAKER CITY STEER
WRESTLER JESSE BROWN AT
NATIONAL FINALS RODEO
Brown
adds to
winnings
at NFR
By ANNIE FOWLER and
JAYSON JACOBY
EO Media Group
Jesse Brown, professional
steer wrestler from Baker City,
added to his winnings at the
National Finals Rodeo with a
fourth-place fi nish Friday, Dec.
3 in the second round of the 10-
day event in Las Vegas.
Brown, who entered the
National Finals ranked second
in the world, had a time of 3.7
seconds and won $9,144 in the
second round.
He was in a two-way tie for
fi fth place in the fi rst round on
Dec. 2, winning $5,661.
Through the fourth round at
the National Finals, Brown, a
2011 Baker High School gradu-
ate, was in sixth place in the
world standings with winnings
of $117,163.27 this season.
Brown tied for ninth in both
the third round on Saturday,
Dec. 4 and the fourth round on
Sunday, Dec. 5, fi nishing out of
the money.
Brown had a stout steer dur-
ing Sunday’s Round 4. He took
his steer down in 5 seconds, but
was two places out of picking up
a check.
“He was pretty full,” Brown
said. “He was big. There’s still six
nights left and a lot of money.”
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