A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
January 13, 1972
Highway traffi c was halted for more than four hours
yesterday, when zero visibility and drifted roads caused the
closure of Highway 30 between Haines and North Powder.
Bentz: River Democracy Act
would harm Oregon, not help
25 YEARS AGO
Local streams on the list
from the Baker City Herald
January 13, 1997
Baker City business people crammed into the
Oregon Trail Restaurant Friday to greet the newly hired
administrator of St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Robert Mannix Jr., 46, began the job of chief operating
offi cer Monday. He replaces Jeffrey Drop, who served as
interim president after Rod Barton’s Aug. 30 resignation.
Mannix, who grew up in upstate New York, comes to
Baker City from Lake Havasu City, Ariz.
Among the 4,700 miles of rivers
and streams included in the
proposed River Democracy Act
are several in and near Baker
County, including:
• North Powder River, 6 miles
• Dutch Flat Creek, 6.7 miles
• Van Patten Creek, 1.6 miles
• Rock Creek, 7.3 miles
• North Fork Rock Creek, 3.3 miles
• Killamacue Creek, 4 miles
• East Eagle Creek, 3.7 miles
• West Eagle Creek, 6.3 miles
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
January 13, 2012
Cancer patients in need of chemotherapy treatments
no longer have to make the trip to Fruitland or Boise.
The Billie Ruth Bootsma Clinic opened in September
2011 in a remodeled wing at St. Alphonsus Medical
Center-Baker City to provide a variety of infusion services.
By October, the clinic was offering chemotherapy
treatment thanks to an affi liation with Grande Ronde
Hospital in La Grande.
Dr. Maynard Bronstein, an oncologist, relocated to
La Grande in September, and since October has been
spending Fridays in Baker City.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
January 14, 2021
Kerry McQuisten is Baker City’s new mayor.
City councilors, who choose the mayor from among
their colleagues, elected McQuisten by a 6-1 vote Tuesday
night at City Hall. Councilor Lynette Perry nominated
McQuisten.
Councilor Heather Sells voted for Shane Alderson. Both
Sells and Alderson are, like McQuisten, new councilors
who were elected Nov. 3.
“I feel humbled by the confi dence voters and then the
other elected councilors have shown in me,” McQuisten
said. “I’m also grateful for the chance to do some good in
the community as mayor. My hope is that more citizens will
turn out and start making their voices heard. I think the
new city manager and council will bring some positive new
changes, which is exciting.”
The Council, also by a 6-1 margin, elected Perry as
vice mayor. Councilor Jason Spriet voted for Alderson.
McQuisten nominated Perry.
Baker City’s charter doesn’t give the mayor veto power.
The mayor presides over City Council meetings, enforces
Council rules and signs ordinances and resolutions.
The vice mayor assumes those duties when the mayor
isn’t available.
Tuesday’s 20-minute meeting was the fi rst for fi ve
of the six councilors elected Nov. 3 — McQuisten, Sells,
Alderson, Joanna Dixon and Johnny Waggoner Sr.
Spriet, the lone incumbent on the Nov. 3 ballot, was
also elected.
Perry was elected to a four-year term in 2018 and was
not on the ballot.
It was also the fi rst meeting for City Manager Jonathan
Cannon, whom the previous City Council hired in
November.
All seven councilors attended Tuesday’s meeting in
person at City Hall.
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A reach of Rock Creek, which flows down the east slopes of the Elk-
horn Mountains west of Haines, is among the streams proposed for
designation under the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
have serious and unanswered
concerns about the dangers
Congressman Cliff Bentz
the act presents.”
during a five-minute floor
Bentz also criticized the
speech in Washington, D.C.,
way that Wyden went about
on Tuesday, Jan. 11,
compiling a list of
expressed opposition
potential stream and
to a bill that would
river segments.
designate thousands
“The approach the
of miles of streams in
bill’s sponsors used
Oregon as protected
in developing this bill
under the federal
was seriously flawed
Wild and Scenic Riv-
because river and
Bentz
ers Act.
stream nominations
Bentz, the only Re-
were solicited from
publican member of Oregon’s
various groups and the general
congressional delegation, rep- public without any clear legal
resents the Second Congressio- or scientific analysis to iden-
nal District, which includes all tify those rivers, streams, and
of the state east of the Cascades. creeks that would qualify as
Another Oregon lawmaker, scenic,” Bentz said during his
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, floor speech. “If a scientific or
introduced the River Democ- legal analysis exists, the spon-
racy Act last year.
sors should share it.”
The bill, in its current ver-
According to Wyden, the
sion, would add about 4,700
River Democracy Act was de-
miles of rivers and streams to
veloped based on more than
those protected by the Wild
15,000 nominations from
and Scenic Rivers Act.
2,500 Oregonians.
There would be a one-mile-
Wyden said the River De-
wide corridor along each reach. mocracy Act would not limit
That’s twice the usual width for uses of private property, nor
such designations, Bentz noted would it prohibit thinning
in his floor speech.
and other forest-restoration
Bentz, who was sworn in as a work on public land within
congressman in January 2021, the one-mile corridor.
cited concerns expressed by
He said the bill also would
county commissioners in the
require land management
20 counties in his district. That agencies such as the Forest
includes Baker County Com-
Service and Bureau of Land
mission Chairman Bill Harvey, Management to assess wild-
who in an April 2021 letter to
fire risks in each wild and
the editor to the Baker City
scenic river corridor.
Herald, wrote that the River
Wyden’s website includes
Democracy Act could increase a list of testimonials from
the risk of wildfires along the
elected officials, business own-
designated streams by limit-
ers and residents in Oregon
ing or prohibiting logging and who support the bill.
other work designed to reduce
The list includes Mike Hig-
the fire threat.
gins, a farmer and retired sci-
Bentz, in his floor speech,
ence teacher from Halfway,
warned that if the River De-
who wrote: “As a fifth-gener-
mocracy Act becomes law, riv- ation eastern Oregonian I’m a
ers and streams could be placed strong supporter of Oregon’s
“in a bureaucratic wasteland
clean wild rivers. I applaud
where it will take years, if not
Senator Wyden for his lead-
decades, to initiate and then
ership and vision in thinking
complete plans that may or
about protecting our clean
may not allow the treatment
drinking water sources and
activities needed right now.”
the lifeblood of our wildlands
Bentz argued that the River
as wild and scenic rivers. This
Democracy Act’s proposed
is a gift to our children and
method of reducing wild-
their children for generations
fire risk — lighting controlled
to come.”
blazes to lower fuel loads — is a
“dangerous” approach if it’s not
preceded by removing trees.
“Prescribed burning before
thinning puts at extreme risk
the very rivers and watersheds
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 January 14-20 
my 62 county commissioners
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
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FUNERAL PENDING
Janice Gyllenberg: A celebration of
Janice’s life will take place Saturday, Jan.
22, at 1 p.m. at the Baker City Church
of the Nazarene, 1250 Hughes Lane.
Friends are invited to join the family
for a dinner reception immediately
following the service at the Family
Life Center adjacent to the Nazarene
Church. For those who would like to
make a donation in Janice’s memory,
the family suggests the Nazarene
Compassion Center either online at
http://neoregoncompassioncenter.org
or through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Online condolences can be shared at
www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
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Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
CONTEMPT OF COURT: Joseph Palmer,
41, Baker City, 8:32 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11,
in the 1500 block of Campbell Street;
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Jarma Myers
August 8, 1959 - Deceember 24, 2021
Jarma Myers, 62, of
Baker City, died at her
home on December 24,
2021.
Jarma was
born August 8,
1959 in Salinas,
California. She
attended
first
through
fifth
grades at Ch-
ualar California
Union School.
At age 10, Jar-
ma moved with her family
to Baker City, OR where
she completed her educa-
tion. She left Baker High
School in 1977 to work at
Bud and Louis Morgan’s
Hidden Valley Horse
Ranch on Wolf Creek. The
Morgans loved her like a
daughter. She trained and
tended their horses and
took kids on trail rides.
She spent a lot of time
with horses, breaking and
training them for herself
and friends.
Jarma met Fred My-
ers at a bonfire party
when she asked Fred for
a match. He said, “Clint
Eastwood?” She replied,
“You wish!” They were
married six months later
on December 23, 1977.
Jarma worked cleaning
homes for elderly folks
for 20 years. The people
she took care of loved
her; if they had a problem,
they called Jarma. Fur-
nace acting up, plumbing
backing up or 11:30 p.m.
“I fell” she was out the
door and gone by 11:32
p.m., she was always
there when you needed
her and they believed she
could do anything. For
10 years she did chores
on her parent’s ranch and
poured concrete with her
husband.
Jarma nurtured many
bummer lambs, colts,
calves and babies of all
types including human.
She took in any animal
in need or person. Jarma
gave the best hugs; she
was a hugger.
Her favorite color was
blue; she loved snap drag-
ons and her beloved “Bo-
ris the Cat.” Her life phi-
losophy was live and let
live. She had many catch
phrases she would use, for
example, instead of curs-
ing she would say, “What
the blue blazes!” or when
you did something clum-
sy, she’d say, “it’s a good
thing you’re pretty “or for
any reason at all she’d
say, “By Krykees!”
She was a member
of 4H and a 4H mentor.
She was also a member
of the Bowling
League.
Memorable
dates in her life
were the births
of her sons and
grandkids. She
accomplished
making friends
everywhere she
went. If she was
driving down the highway
and came across someone
broke down or who was
on foot she would stop
and make sure they were
OK. She now has friends
in 9 or 10 states and is a
hero to a young family in
Canada.
Jarma was proud of her
home of 40 years on W.
Sutton Street. When she
was around her sisters or
B.F.F Muffy, be prepared
for laughter that shook
windows.
She would most like
to be remembered for her
open ears, her kindness to
the young, old, and every-
one. Jarma loved her fam-
ily deeply and especially
being grandma to 8 won-
derful grandkids.
Fred said, “She was
my wife for 44 years and
the love of my life. Jar-
ma’s touch gave comfort,
her smile was sunshine,
her hugs were healing, her
feisty spirit was fun. She
was my fishing and hunt-
ing partner for the last
12 years. She was truly
a wonderful person to be
around; the joy she gave
will be missed greatly by
many.”
She was preceded in
death by her parents John
and Kay Dobbel of Baker
City.
Jarma is survived by
her husband Fred Myers;
sons Lukus B. Myers and
Zackery H. Myers; broth-
ers Jonathan and Jay Dob-
bel; sisters Johnnett Toll,
Jodie Radabaugh, and
Janeece Hitz; grandchil-
dren Brandon, Gryphin,
Daniel, Logan, Brooks,
Canyon, Rylee and Sage-
lyn.
For those who would
like to make a donation in
memory of Jarma the fam-
ily suggests 4H through
Tami’s Pine Valley Funer-
al Home and Cremation
Services, PO Box 543
Halfway, OR 97834. On-
line condolences can be
shared at www.tamispine-
valleyfuneralhome.com.
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