A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
March 4, 1972
HERMISTON — Baker has the secret for top
heavyweight watchers: displace the weight downward.
The Bulldogs put a reluctant Hermiston on the diet and
this was the immediate results:
“There were four teams, but now there are just three,” a
smiling Gary Hammond said as his Bulldogs put Hermiston
out of the playoff picture 57-55 Friday night.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 4, 1997
Baker City has scheduled a public meeting Wednesday
evening to discuss its proposal to either dump dirt in the
gully beneath the steep Indiana Avenue hill to reduce the
grade, or build a new street that bypasses the dangerous
slope.
The city closed the hill in early December, saying snow
and ice made the gravel road too hazardous for traffi c.
It remains closed while city offi cials decide what to do
with the street
The grade on the east slope is 16 percent; that means
the road rises (or drops) 16 vertical feet for every 100
feet of road. That’s the steepest section of street the city
maintains.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 2, 2012
Pine Eagle played Condon/Wheeler toe to toe for most
of the game Wednesday, but it was a two-minute period in
the second quarter that did the Spartans in.
Condon/Wheeler used a 13-2 run midway through the
second period to build a 10-point lead on the way to a
71-56 win in the quarterfi nals at the Class 1A state girls
basketball tournament at Baker High School.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 4, 2021
The Class 1A state tournaments don’t just bring exciting
basketball to Baker City.
They bring business.
The infl ux of hundreds of visitors who arrive from across
Oregon to watch their sons and daughters, grandsons and
granddaughters, compete at Baker High School also fi lls
motels and restaurants during late winter, an otherwise
sluggish period for the area’s tourism economy.
“Economically it’s huge,” said Shelly Cutler, executive
director of the Baker County Chamber of Commerce. “Each
one of those folks, they’re dining out, they’re shopping
downtown.”
In a report after the 2020 tournaments, Kathy Taylor,
co-director of the events, wrote that “the motels reported
that they were full from Wednesday evening through
Saturday morning. Some teams stayed Tuesday night and
some stayed Saturday night depending on their games.”
Total attendance at the tournament over the four days
was 9,493.
Cutler pointed out that many of the teams that play in
the state tournaments hail from towns much smaller than
Baker City. For some visitors, then, the trip to the “big city”
offers shopping opportunities they don’t have close to
home.
“That’s a big deal,” Cutler said. “I get calls from families
weeks in advance, when they think they might qualify (for
the tournament), asking where they can stay, eat, what
they can do. People are excited to be here.”
That’s a cultural piece that we miss too.”
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coleslaw, cinnamon rolls
MONDAY (March 7): Lasagna, garlic bread, green salad,
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TUESDAY (March 8): Baked ham, candied yams, peas and
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Weed of the week: Bur buttercup
BY JEFFREY PETTINGILL
Baker County Weed Control
Supervisor
The Enemy
Bur buttercup (Ceratoceph-
ala testiculatus) (Ranunculus
spp.)
This plant is worth an an-
nual update and is proba-
bly starting to grow already.
This is a low-growing annual
that emerges very early in
the spring. This is the plant
that we get phone calls on in
spring when it is too late to do
anything about it. It is a very
short-growing plant, usu-
ally 1 to 4 inches, which has a
yellow flower and succulent
looking deeply lobed leaves.
When the plant dries up in
early spring it develops short
spines that aggravate bare feet
and animal’s paws. It shows
up in those areas of bare
ground near driveways, min-
imally disturbed roadsides,
and wastelands.
The Attack
Because this plant germi-
nates late in the fall or early
spring (sometimes under the
snow) it is up and growing
before the desirable plants
have the chance to germinate.
This weed generally does not
bother people until the pine-
cone like flower starts to dry
out and becomes very prickly.
This weed is very toxic to
sheep and is a relative to the
tall buttercup that kills cattle
in the high country.
The Defense
Because this plant is a very
shortlived annual plant, me-
chanical control can be very
effective.
If you see the small light-
green plants growing now or
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the soil so when the plants
continue to grow they will
absorb the herbicide and
die off.
Prevention is one of the
best tools for control of this
weed. If the plant is growing
in your lawn areas, simply
plant grass into those areas
in the fall or early spring (af-
ter you remove the weeds)
as this plant does not like
any competition. This is one
weed you want to get a jump
on so call your County Weed
Superintendent for proper
identification.
Jeffrey Pettingill, supervisor
of the Baker County Weed
District, can be reached at 541-
523-0618 or 541-519-0204.
in passing about the banning
of Russian vodka from store
The Oregon Liquor and Can- shelves. La Grande Liquor,
nabis Commission banned the however, only had two bot-
sale of Russian vodkas in all Or- tles of Russian-made vodka
egon liquor stores on Monday, — Russian Standard Vodka
Feb. 28, following the Russian
— and O’Dell said it was “an
invasion of Ukraine.
item that doesn’t sell very well
Independent operators of
in the first place.”
liquor stores were directed to
Customers were understand-
take Russian vodkas off their
ing, according to O’Dell.
shelves, aligning Oregon with
“I think everybody under-
other states that have acted to
stands why we’re doing it,” he
ban the sale of Russian made
said. “The questions we’ve been
products as a part of economic getting is ‘what’s Ukrainian
sanctions against Russian oper- vodka — and how do I get
ated businesses, according to a some?’ So my next order, that’s
press release from the OLCC.
what I’ll be doing, is ordering
In Oregon, the OLCC ef-
some Ukrainian vodka.”
fectively owns the supply of
Eastern Oregon produces
alcohol in the state, serving as several vodkas, including
a state-run monopoly for the
Glacier 45 vodka distilled in
industry.
Baker City, and 276 Vodka
“The state controls all the li- produced by Oregon Grain
quor that is in the store,” said
Growers Distillery in Pendle-
Liberty O’Dell, manager at La
ton. Both are quality vodkas,
Grande Liquor and Smoke
according to O’Dell.
Shoppe. “In fact, they are still
Across the state, about 5,000
the owners of the liquor. We’re bottles of Russian-made li-
beholden as agents of the state quor were for sale in 281 liquor
to follow their guidance. We
stores, according to the OLCC.
don’t take steps ahead of the
Those vodkas have since been
OLCC when they make guid-
removed from store shelves.
ance like that. It’s similar to a
Oregon liquor stores also are
library in that we don’t actually prohibited from fulfilling any
own the product. The liquor is customer “special order” re-
owned by the state.”
quests for Russian manufac-
Customers in and out of
tured liquor.
the liquor store commented
Vodkas with Russian sound-
BY ALEX WITTWER
EO Media Group
FUNERALS PENDING
James Bacon: Memorial service
with military honors will take place
Saturday, March 12, at 11 a.m. 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 Office
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF INTOXICANTS: Fernando Robles
Tizcareno, 33, Baker City, 1:02 a.m.
Wednesday, March 2, on Interstate
84 near Milepost 301, westbound.
ATTEMPT TO ELUDE (Baker County
warrant): Cory Dennis Deshirlia,
44, Huntington, 6:59 p.m. Tuesday,
March 1, in Huntington; jailed.
THIRD-DEGREE THEFT: Zachary
Aron Carter, 24, Baker City,
10:36 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28, at the
sheriff’s office; cited and released.
Oregon State Police
Arrests, citations
PAROLE VIOLATION: Austin Duane
Dunham, 25, Umatilla, 4:11 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 25, at Campbell and
Second streets; jailed and later
released.
ing names such as Smirnoff
and Stolichnaya that are pro-
duced outside of Russia and ar-
en’t subject to the ban, accord-
ing to the OLCC press release.
Stoli Group, the distillery that
makes Stolichnaya in Latvia,
offered up a statement on its
website that said “Stoli Group
has had a long history of fight-
ing oppression from the Rus-
sian regime,” and condemned
the Russian military actions in
Ukraine. Stoli is produced in
Latvia, while Smirnoff is pro-
duced in Illinois.
The move to ban Russian
vodkas can be seen as largely
symbolic as very few Russian
vodkas are imported to the
United States. A small number
of bars have gone viral online
for pouring out Stoli brand
vodkas, despite the vodka being
produced in Latvia, a NATO
member country.
A list of the vodka brands
that have been pulled from the
shelves can be found on the
OLCC website.
But even if the OLCC didn’t
outright ban the sale of Rus-
sian vodka, O’Dell said it
would be something he per-
sonally would have liked to see
pulled from store shelves.
“I would be advocating to do
it,” O’Dell said. “Me, the person,
would be advocating to do it.”
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in the early spring, you can
simply rake them out of the
ground. Their roots only ex-
tend into the soil just a few
inches. There are certain her-
bicides such as Telar XP and
Escort XP that are very effec-
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