A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
January 22, 1972
UNITY — The contrasting moods in the Huntington and
Burnt River camps after the Locos’ 74-48 win Friday night
did much in painting the duo’s Baker A League picture.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
January 22, 1997
While not abandoning plans for student-athlete drug
testing, the Baker School District Tuesday night gave its
OK to shifting its focus to a proposal to place a “student
resource” offi cer in the schools.
Superintendent Arnold Coe told the board that it
would be diffi cult to fund mandatory drug tests of student
athletes because of projected shortfalls in next year’s
budget. The district has begun tightening its belt in an
attempt to raise cash reserves for 1997-98.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
January 23, 2012
Baker City Police are alerting community residents and
businesses to be on the lookout for fake $20 bills that
have been found circulating throughout the region.
Police Chief Wyn Lohner said the counterfeit bills have
shown up in Baker, Malheur and Union counties.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
January 23, 2021
Construction crews are building a liquid fertilizer
storage and distribution facility in Baker City’s industrial
park that is slated to open early this spring.
The Simplot Grower Solutions operation will employ
seven people initially, with the potential to increase to
about a dozen workers, Josh Jordan, senior manager for
communications and public relations for the J.R. Simplot
Company, wrote in an email to the Herald.
The Idaho company bought a 14.28-acre parcel from
Baker City in the city’s 64-acre Elkhorn View Industrial Park
at the northwest corner of the city.
Simplot paid $235,620 for the property, which is west
of 17th Street and south of Pocahontas Road. The parcel
is just south of the Behlen Mfg. Co.’s livestock equipment
factory.
In his email, Jordan wrote that Simplot has operated a
temporary Simplot Grower Solutions facility in Baker City. It
is near the railroad tracks north of Broadway Street.
The facility under construction is “part of a longer-term
plan to build a permanent facility to meet the needs of
area farmers, many of whom grow potatoes that we use at
our processing facilities,” Jordan wrote.
The Baker City facility will not produce fertilizer.
Simplot has two main production plants, one in
Pocatello, Idaho, and one in Rock Springs, Wyoming, that
supply the company’s more than 200 Grower Solutions
stores, Jordan wrote in his email.
Jordan wrote that the Baker City business, in addition
to selling fertilizer mixes to customers’ specifi cations, will
offer other crop products, crop advisers and other services
to local farmers.
“The facility will have 2,300 tons of capacity and
enhanced capabilities to blend a variety of applications
more quickly and effi ciently. It will also include a new truck
scale and offer some enhanced services all aimed at
doing more to serve growers,” Jordan wrote.
OREGON LOTTERY
MEGABUCKS, JAN. 19
WIN FOR LIFE, JAN. 19
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17 — 38 — 40 — 53
Next jackpot: $8.6 million
PICK 4, JAN. 20
POWERBALL, JAN. 19
• 1 p.m.: 5 — 1 — 6 — 8
• 4 p.m.: 4 — 9 — 0 — 8
• 7 p.m.: 2 — 6 — 5 — 2
• 10 p.m.: 0 — 6 — 2 — 4
11 — 15 — 43 — 55 — 61 PB 10
Next jackpot: $76 million
MEGA MILLIONS, JAN. 18
LUCKY LINES, JAN. 20
4 — 19 — 39 — 42 — 52 Mega 9
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Next jackpot: $15,000
Next jackpot: $376 million
SENIOR MENUS
MONDAY (Jan. 24): Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes
with gravy, corn, rolls, broccoli-and-bacon salad, apple
crisp
TUESDAY (Jan. 25): Ground beef steak with onions,
scalloped potatoes, peas-and-carrots salad, rolls, green
salad, cookies
WEDNESDAY (Jan. 26): Hot turkey sandwich, mashed
potatoes with gravy, mixed vegetables, macaroni salad,
birthday cake
THURSDAY (Jan. 27): Pork roast, baby red potatoes,
carrots, rolls, cottage cheese with fruit, brownies
FRIDAY (Jan. 28): Spaghetti, garlic bread, broccoli, green
salad, apple crisp
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 donation (60 and older), $7.50
for those under 60.
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Copyright © 2022
Power companies announce new
deal on Boardman to Hemingway line
EAST OREGONIAN
PORTLAND — Idaho
Power, PacifiCorp and the
Bonneville Power Administra-
tion have reached a non-bind-
ing agreement on the massive
Boardman to Hemingway
transmission line.
The BPA in a press release
Wednesday, Jan. 19, announced
that the agreement clarifies and
updates roles and responsibili-
ties for the B2H project.
“The proposed agreement
is an important step for this
500-kilovolt, 290-mile trans-
mission line, which would de-
liver 1,000 megawatts of reli-
able, affordable power in each
direction between the Pacific
Northwest and Mountain
west,” according to the press
release.
Under the new deal, Idaho
Power and PacifiCorp will
jointly own the B2H trans-
mission line, with PacifiCorp
owning 55% and Idaho Power
owning 45%.
Idaho Power will acquire an
ownership interest in Pacifi-
Corp transmission lines and
other equipment between east-
ern Idaho and the Four Cor-
ners Substation in northwest
New Mexico. B2H and those
acquisitions amplify Idaho
Power’s connections to key en-
ergy markets that will help the
company meet rapidly growing
customer demand.
The Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration will transfer its
ownership interest in B2H to
Idaho Power and will not par-
ticipate in construction or have
any ownership interest in the
transmission line project.
Facilities PacifiCorp uses to
serve BPA’s customers in and
around southeast Idaho will
S. John Collins/Baker City Herald, File
The proposed Boardman to Hemingway power transmission line could follow the route of an existing line
that runs along the eastern edge of Baker Valley near Highway 86.
be transferred to Idaho Power.
BPA will acquire transmission
service over Idaho Power’s
transmission system, includ-
ing the newly constructed
B2H, to serve public utility
customers in Idaho, Wyoming
and Montana.
More information about
BPA’s effort to serve these cus-
tomers and its public process
to consider the agreement is
available in BPA’s letter to the
region.
PacifiCorp will acquire
Idaho Power transmission as-
sets across southern Idaho that,
combined with its majority
stake in Boardman-Heming-
way, will increase its contigu-
ous power transfer capability
between its western and east-
ern systems, and will acquire
additional transmission service
from BPA to enable it to serve
its growing customer base in
central Oregon.
With the non-binding term
sheet developed, the three or-
ganizations move into a ne-
gotiation phase to finalize the
agreements and seek regu-
latory approval. Concurrent
with this press release, BPA is
issuing a letter to its regional
stakeholders and customers
that outlines the proposal, de-
scribes the background and
explains the process for en-
gaging with BPA on this topic.
Construction of the line is
set to begin in 2023, and B2H
is anticipated to come online
in 2026.
The term sheet and back-
ground information about
B2H is available at the project
website.
Scholarships available
through P.E.O. Sisterhood
BAKER CITY HERALD
Chapter AX of the P.E.O.
Sisterhood will award two aca-
demic scholarships to two grad-
uating senior girls from high
schools in Baker County and/
or North Powder this spring.
All women students from Baker
County or North Powder who
plan to enroll in an accredited
college or university are eligible.
The scholarships are awarded on
the basis of academic achieve-
ment, goals, activities, financial
need and personal character.
The Gertrude Fortner-Rose
Haskell Scholarship was
named for two charter mem-
bers of Chapter AX who
strongly believed in higher ed-
ucation for women.
The Mildred F. Rogers Chap-
ter AX P.E.O. Scholarship was
established in 2000 by her
daughter, Edna Harrell, and her
grandchildren. Mrs. Rogers was
a longtime member of Chapter
AX, being initiated in 1951 and
holding the office of president
in 1952. She was a descendent
of Oregon Trail pioneer grand-
parents and lived her entire life
in Baker City. Always a loyal
citizen, she gave of herself to the
community of Baker City and
to its people, so that future gen-
erations woul have the oppor-
tunity to appreciate life as she
had. She died at the age of 100.
Scholarship applications are
available online at https://bhs.
baker5j.org or in the guidance
office at high schools in Baker
County (Baker, Pine Eagle, Burnt
River and Huntington) and Pow-
der Valley High School in North
Powder. BHS applicants must
return applications to the high
school office by 8 a.m. March 1,
2022. Other Baker County and
North Powder applicants must
mail applications to arrive no
later than 8 a.m. March 1, 2022,
to Dorothy Mason, P.O. Box 446,
Baker City, OR 97814.
Chapter AX of P.E.O. will also
award an academic scholarship to
one woman student who gradu-
ated from a high school in Baker
County and has completed at
least two years of accredited col-
lege or university. The Pat Fessel
Chapter AX P.E.O. Scholarship is
awarded on the basis of academic
achievement, goals, activities, fi-
nancial need and personal char-
acter. Pat Fessel was a 68-year
member of P.E.O. in chapters
throughout the country. She
graduated from Cottey College,
which is operated by P.E.O. She
was a cherished member of the
local Chapter AX in Baker City.
Application materials are
available on the BHS website at
https://bhs.baker5j.org. Click
on the “for students” section,
select “scholarships,” then scroll
to the bottom of the list. Appli-
cants must submit all materials
by mail, to be received by April
1, 2022, to Dorothy Mason, P.O.
Box 446, Baker City, OR 97814.
The P.E.O. sisterhood is an
international philanthropic ed-
ucational organization which
was founded in 1869 at Iowa
Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleas-
ant, Iowa. P.E.O. promotes
educational opportunities for
women through a variety of
scholarship and grant oppor-
tunities. The P.E.O. sisterhood
owns and supports Cottey Col-
lege in Nevada, Missouri. Chap-
ter AX was organized in 1932
in Baker City. For further infor-
mation about the scholarships,
contact Mason at 541-523-7642.
News of Record
DEATHS
Jimmy Gregory Sain: 63, of Baker
City, died Jan. 19, 2022, at his residence.
Arrangements are under the direction of
Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. To leave
an online condolence for Jimmy’s family,
go to www.grayswestco.com.
Dwight Brooks: 92, formerly of Richland,
died Jan. 17, 2022, in the comfort of his
home in Union. Arrangements are under
the direction of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services. Online
condolences can be made at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker County
warrant): Robert Michael Goodwin, 34,
Baker City, 8:10 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in
the 1900 block of Myrtle Street; jailed.
PROBATION VIOLATION (Umatilla County
warrant): Nicole Kerri Morris, 32, Baker
City, 10:04 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, in
the 3100 block of H Street; cited and
released.
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County
warrant): Keith Edward Gassin, Baker City,
7:31 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, in the 2300
block of Resort Street; cited and released.
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County
Justice Court warrant): John Marsik
Guthrie Jr., 50, Baker City, 9:44 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 19, at Campbell Street
and Washington Avenue; cited and
released.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
Frances Ann Yaggie
I’M FREE
Don’t grieve for me
for now I’m free,
I’m following the path
God laid for me
I took his hand when I
heard him call,
I turned my back and
left it all
I could not stay
another day,
To laugh, to love, to work
or play. Tasks left undone
must stay that way,
I’ve found that peace at the
close of day
If my parting has
left a void,
INTOXICANTS: Nicholas Edward Schwartz,
44, Baker City, 12:58 a.m. Friday, Jan. 21,
at Campbell and East streets; cited and
released.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Malheur County
warrant): Crystal Gayle Canapo, 38, Baker
City, 4:04 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, near
Oxbow; cited and released.
UNION COUNTY WARRANT: Brandi
Marie Kasinger, 32, Baker City, 2:10 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 20, at the Sheriff’s Office;
cited and released.
Then fill it with
remembered joy
A friendship shared, a
laugh, a kiss,
Ah yes, these things I too
will miss. Be not burdened
with times of sorrow,
I wish for you the sunshine
of tomorrow
My life’s been full, I’ve
savored much,
Good friends, good times,
my loved one’s touch
If my time seemed all too
brief, Don’t lengthen it now
with undue grief
Lift up your heart, rejoice
with me, God wanted me
now, He set me free.
“You’ll love the work we do. I guarantee it.” - JR
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