A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
February 21, 1972
Long cold springs the past two years have cut into the
deer herds, but the worst is yet to come, Bill Brown, Oregon
Game Commission regional supervisor, said at Monday
night’s Powder River Sportsmen’s Club deer hearing.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 21, 1997
Baker moved one step closer to securing the Greater
Oregon League’s number one berth at the Class 3A state
girls basketball tournament Thursday evening.
The Bulldogs, the GOL regular season champion,
advanced to the league’s post-season championship game
with a 70-41 thumping of Vale on the Baker fl oor.
Baker, who had beaten the Vikings twice during the
regular season, improved its season record to 19-3.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 22, 2012
About 60 people came to visit with U.S. Rep. Greg
Walden, R-Ore., during a town hall meeting Tuesday at the
Geiser Grand Hotel.
Baker County Commissioner Tim Kerns introduced
Walden and noted that between his service fi rst as a state
legislator, then as a congressman, Walden has commuted
from Salem and Washington, D.C., so often that the total
distance traveled equates to four round trips to the moon.
Walden, who is running this year against Joyce Segers
of Ashland for a seventh two-year term representing the
Second Congressional District, addressed a variety of
topics with local signifi cance that he’s worked on.
He wants logging to increase in Oregon’s national
forests. Walden said two-thirds of the state’s sawmills have
closed, and 45,000 mill jobs have been lost, since 1980.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
February 23, 2021
Kevin Multop is standing in the garage behind his Baker
City home, peering into a cauldron in which an aromatic
liquid is bubbling.
The odor is rich and a bit sweet.
Malty.
But even if you didn’t recognize the scent you would
need the briefest of glances at the garage’s fi berboard
walls to offer a confi dent guess at what Multop is up to on
this snowy February morning.
There is a poster-size photo of Multop and his wife,
Jessica, each clutching a one-liter mug at a Munich beer
garden.
On the opposite wall hangs a chart listing beer styles, a
document modeled on the periodic table of elements.
Multop taps the button on a digital display and uncoils
a length of garden hose.
The contents of the stainless steel container, burbling
along at a rolling boil, are the beginnings of Multop’s latest
batch of beer.
He’s been brewing his own ales for several years.
But the biggest items in this garage — both literally, in
size, and fi guratively, in signifi cance — dominate the center
of the space.
This pair of stainless steel vats represents Multop’s
ambitious plans for his beermaking.
These vessels, each capable of producing 60 gallons
of brew, or 12 times the capacity of his current setup, are
the key to Multop’s plan to open North Seven Brewing Co.,
Baker City’s second brewery, late this spring.
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Man sentenced to 56 months
in prison for probation violation
Baker City Herald
A Baker City man has been
sentenced to 56 months in state
prison for failing to complete
conditions of his probation, in-
cluding not completing an inpa-
tient drug treatment program.
Loren D. Prevo, 29, was sen-
tenced on Feb. 11, in Baker
County Circuit Court.
Prior to the sentencing by
Judge Matt Shirtcliff, Mi-
chael Spaulding, chief dep-
uty district attorney in Baker
County, cited Prevo’s failure
to complete treatment and to
check in as required with his
probation officer.
The case dates to March
8, 2021, when Prevo was ar-
rested on charges including
delivery of methamphetamine
and oxycodone, unlawful pos-
session of heroin and meth,
and being a felon in posses-
sion of a restricted weapon.
He pleaded guilty on April
19, 2021, to the meth deliv-
ery and restricted weapons
charges. The other charges
were dismissed in an agree-
ment with the district attor-
ney’s office, and Shirtcliff
sentenced Prevo to probation
with conditions including
completing drug treatment.
Baker City man’s body found near I-84
Baker City Herald
A Baker County Sheriff’s Of-
fice sergeant found the body of
a Baker City man near Interstate
84 Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 15,
about two days after the man’s
brother reported him missing.
The body of Andrew Levi
Myers, 44, of 2970 Walnut
St. No. 4, was in a grassy area
near the eastbound onramp
at the North Baker City free-
way interchange.
There is no indication of
foul play and the death doesn’t
appear suspicious, Sheriff Tra-
vis Ash said.
Myers’ brother had reported
him missing about 11:30 a.m.
on Sunday, Feb. 13, said Sgt.
Wayne Chastain of the Baker
City Police Department.
Myers’ brother hadn’t seen
Andrew for about three days,
which was an unusually long
period, and when he went to
Andrew’s apartment to check
on him, Andrew wasn’t there.
Two days earlier, on the af-
ternoon of Friday, Feb. 11,
Sgt. Eric Colton of the Sher-
iff ’s Office had seen Myers
walking on North Cedar Road
near the A Frame trailer park
and the freeway, Ash said.
Chastain said at least one
other person also saw a man,
who they believed was Myers,
in that area about an hour after
Colton did.
Ash said a possible ping from
Myers’ cellphone on Monday,
Feb. 14, gave a location in an
area that included the North
Baker freeway interchange.
Colton was driving in that
area the next day when he
found Myers’ body, Ash said.
Oregon’s indoor mask rule could end March 21
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
The first day of spring could
be a new beginning in the
COVID-19 pandemic, with
the likely lifting of indoor
masking mandates, a state re-
port forecast on Thursday,
Feb. 17.
The drop in daily hospi-
talizations from the omicron
wave of the pandemic is ac-
celerating and will pass below
400 per day by March 20, ac-
cording to the latest pandemic
forecast by the Oregon Health
& Science University.
Gov. Kate Brown said
Feb. 7 that she would lift the
state’s indoor masking man-
date when hospitalizations
fell below 400 or no later than
March 31. At the time, the
OHSU forecast put the hospi-
talization goal at the far end of
the timeline.
But the incredibly rapid rise
of the omicron variant to re-
cord numbers of cases is now
being matched by its decline.
Hospitalizations could go be-
low 100 per day by the first
week of May, the OHSU fore-
cast showed.
The number of people with
COVID-19 in Oregon hospi-
tals dropped from the omi-
cron wave peak of 1,130 on
Dropping safeguards early
could slow the decline of omi-
cron and push the end of the
mask mandate closer to the
March 31 date.
“This doesn’t mean that
we’re out of the woods,”
Graven said. “The number
of cases are still significantly
higher than they have been for
most of the pandemic, but the
decline over the past week pro-
vides relief for hospitals oper-
ating under severe strain.”
Gov. Jay Inslee of Wash-
ington said Thursday, Feb.
17, that he would order in-
door mask mandates dropped
March 21, a day after Oregon’s
projected date. Inslee said his
order would include schools.
New Mexico dropped in-
door mask mandates imme-
Contributed Photo, File diately on Thursday. Califor-
Cherrie Carlson-Conklin of Baker City used a variety of colorful patterns nia announced plans to move
COVID-19 from pandemic
for the face masks she made in 2020, early in the pandemic.
to endemic status, meaning it
Jan. 27 to 788 as of Thursday,
The OHSU report cau-
would be handled as a major
Feb. 17.
tioned Oregonians to not get
but manageable ongoing risk.
“Oregonians are doing the
ahead of current public health
“We’re going to live with
right thing, and it’s paying off,” recommendations. The new
this,” California Gov. Gavin
said Dr. Peter Graven, OHSU’s forecast date is still more than Newsom told the New York
lead forecaster.
a month away, not today.
Times on Thursday. “We’re not
Brown had not yet com-
“It will be important to
in denial of the hell that has
mented on the new forecast
keep it up if we’re going to
been the last two years. This is
as of Thursday evening. The
have a more manageable im- not like World War II, where
forecast was released late in
pact on our health system,”
we can have a ticker-tape pa-
the afternoon.
Graven said.
rade and announce the end.”
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DEATHS
Lynn R. Baker: 84, of Baker City, died
Feb. 17, 2022, at Saint Alphonsus
Medical Center in Baker CIty. At his
request, disposition was by cremation.
Services are under the direction of Coles
Tribute Center. Memorial contributions
can be made to the Shriners Hospital for
Children through Coles Tribute Center,
1950 Place St., Baker City, OR 97814. To
light a candle in Lynn’s memory, go to
www.colestributecenter.com.
FUNERALS PENDING
Rhonda Culley: A celebration of her
life will take place on Saturday, Feb. 26,
at 1 p.m. at the Community Connection
Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., in Baker
City. For those who would like to make a
memorial donation in honor of Rhonda,
the family suggests Heart ‘N Home
Hospice through Tami’s Pine Valley
Funeral Home & Cremation Services,
P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Online condolences can be shared at
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
James Bacon: Memorial service with
military honors will take place Saturday,
March 12, at the Harvest Church,
3720 Birch St. in Baker City. Memorial
donations in Jim’s name can be made
to the Powder River Sportsmen’s Club
rifle range, through Tami’s Pine Valley
Funeral Home & Cremation Services,
P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834.
Online condolences can be shared at
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker County Sheriff’s Offce
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker County
Circuit Court warrant): Guy Evan
Lefthand, 53, Haines, 6:44 p.m. Sunday,
Feb. 20, in Haines; jailed.
FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM,
RESISTING ARREST, MENACING,
RECKLESSLY ENDANGERING ANOTHER
(out-of-county warrant): Levi Westly
Albert Fine, 27, John Day, 3:56 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 18, at the Sheriff’s Office.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (out-of-county
warrant): Darion Alyssa Marie Grove,
27, Baker City, 1:44 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18,
in the 3400 block of 13th Street; cited
and released.
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