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MARCH 30–APRIL 6, 2022 WWW.GOEASTERNOREGON.COM Try a new challenge at Modern Board Game Night See First Friday art shows PAGE 4 Join Fishtrap Fireside PAGE 8 PAGE 7 Watch ‘The Adam Project’ PAGE 15 Jennifer Colton/Go! Magazine Join Modern Board Game Night on the second Tuesday of every month at Pendleton Center for the Arts in Pendleton. INSIDE SPORTS A6 Go! Magazine Arts & entertainment magazine Baker softball routs Marsing, improves to 3-0 IN THIS EDITION: LOCAL • BUSINESS & AG LIFE • SPORTS QUICK HITS ————— Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Carl and Nancee Heath of Baker City. Lenten Retreat at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2022 • $1.50 Hands-on Group tours Baker Technical Institute BRIEFING ————— Ladies golf and bridge season starts April 13 The Ladies Golf and Bridge Association at Quail Ridge Golf Course in Baker City has been active for more than 50 years, and its opening day for 2022 is set for Wednesday, April 13. The event features golf in the morning, a noon luncheon cooked by Terrie Boettcher, and bridge in the afternoon. Ladies can participate in any or all of the activities. The one-time membership fee is $10, and lunch is $9 per week. Those planning to have lunch are asked to make a reservation, by the day before the event, by calling Dianne Ellingson at 541-519-4703 or Jennifer Godwin at 541-519-2060. Organizers said they look forward to meeting new neighbors and enjoying fellowship and friendship. Quail Ridge Golf Course is at 2801 Indiana Ave. The course’s phone number is 541-523-2358. Serving Baker County since 1870 • bakercityherald.com learning Event scheduled for April 4 in Baker City Baker City Herald Baker City’s next American Red Cross blood drive is set for Monday, April 4, and Myrna Ev- ans, the local coordinator, said it’s going to be one of the bigger one- day drives here in many years. The Red Cross will bring more machines and phlebotomists than usual to accommodate more donors, including those who don’t sign up in advance, although that’s recommended, Evans said. BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER soconner@bakercityherald.com A rainy day didn’t deter the Baker Technical Institute from welcoming state legislators, county commissioners, Blue Mountain Community College representatives, and company representatives from around the region for a tour on Monday morning, March 28. State Sen. Lynn Findley, program, training in agriculture, R-Vale, whose district includes natural sciences and natural re- Baker County, had sources, and it recently visited BTI, which is partnered with Oregon based at the Baker High Trail Electric Cooper- School campus, a couple ative to start a utility years ago. worker training center. Findley, along with Sandy Mitchell, pro- BTI President Doug gram coordinator for Dalton, worked with the BTI, explained that BTI is Eastern Oregon Work- a technical college. Findley force Board to plan the “We contract back with tour showcasing what the Baker School District BTI has to offer students and and provide all of the (grades) 7-12 adults. About 20 people partici- CTE (career technical education) pated in Monday’s event, includ- programs and then we also are li- ing another legislator, Sen. Bill censed as a technical college in the Hansell, a Republican from Ath- state of Oregon through HECC, ena, in Umatilla County. Higher Education Coordinating “I toured BTI about two years Commission,” Mitchell said. ago and was so impressed with this She said BTI partners with in- facility and what you guys do up dustries across the Pacific North- here,” Findley said. west to take BTI training programs The facility, which started to other communities. about eight years ago in the Baker “Right now, we’re in Eastern 5J School District, offers a heavy Idaho. In Idaho Falls, we have 20 equipment operator school, a students that we’re training in con- truck driving school, a health care struction,” Mitchell said. “So, last Blood drive slots filling up Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald State Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, tries his hand at a truck-driving simulator at Baker Technical Institute on Monday, March 28, 2022. week they actually poured concrete and they’re learning concrete ma- sonry at a rest area. We do commu- nity projects and our instructors will go in and teach them.” She said all 20 of the students learned skills in blueprint reading, construction math, how to find the volume, what you need for con- crete, and how to order it. Mitchell said BTI instructors also set up at remote location mobile classrooms with trailers that contain simulators that students use to learn how to operate heavy equipment such as backhoes and excavators. See, Learning/Page A5 St. Francis de Sales Cathedral Parish is present- ing a Lenten Retreat with Fr. Bailey Clemons, starting with Stations of the Cross on Friday, April 1 at 5 p.m. and continuing on Saturday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. See, Blood/Page A2 Police called to disturbance during GOP forum No one arrested during governor candidate event March 25 at Baker Elks Lodge BY JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com Two Baker City Police officers responded to a complaint about audience behavior during a fo- rum featuring several Republican candidates for Oregon governor Friday evening, March 25, at the Baker Elks Lodge. Officers Justin Prevo and Jon- athan Parsons responded to the Lodge, at 1896 Second St., around 6:09 p.m., according to the dispatch log. They escorted a few people from the Elks Lodge early in the forum, which started about 6 p.m. Police didn’t make any ar- rests and no charges were filed, Police Chief Ty Duby said. WEATHER ————— Today 49/23 Mostly sunny Friday 58/35 See, Forum/Page A3 Partly sunny Samantha O’Conner/Baker City Herald Doug Dalton, president of Baker Technical Institute, inside the greenhouse at Baker High School where FFA students raise plants for fundraising sales. Full forecast on the back of the B section. The space below is for a postage label for issues that are mailed. Presbyterian Church begins raising money to help Ukraine BY LISA BRITTON lbritton@bakercityherald.com Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times-TNS First Presbyterian Church in Baker City has committed to raise money during April to help hu- manitarian efforts in Ukraine. The local church Session, the Pres- byterian’s governing body, launched the fundraising effort through Pres- byterian Disaster Assistance, which is already working in Ukraine and bordering countries to provide shel- ter, meals, medicines and hygiene products following the invasion of Russian military forces on Feb. 24. According to the UN Refugee agency, nearly 4 million refugees have left Ukraine since the invasion. But not everyone can leave — men between the ages of 18 and 80 are required to stay to defend the country. A man comforts his wife in Lviv, Ukraine, before she boards a train to Przemysl, Poland, on March 19, 2022. TODAY Issue 135 28 pages Business .................B1 & B2 Classified ....................B2-B4 Comics ..............................B5 Community News.............A2 Crossword ...............B2 & B4 Dear Abby .........................B7 Horoscope ..............B3 & B4 Lottery Results .................A2 News of Record ................A2 Monday interrupted March’s dry stretch It was the wettest day in Baker City since October 2021 Baker City Herald It was hardly a deluge of Bib- lical proportions, but by recent Baker County standards it was a significantly soggy day just the same. An early spring storm dropped 0.22 of an inch of rain on Monday, March 28, at the Baker City Airport. That was no record-setter (the most rainfall recorded at the air- port on that date is 0.32, in 1989), but it was the most moisture to accumulate in the airport’s rain gauge in a single day in more than five months. See, Church/Page A3 Opinion .............................A4 Senior Menus ...................A2 Sports ...............................A6 See, Rain/Page A5 Sudoku..............................B7 Turning Backs ..................A2 Weather ............................B6