SPORTS A5
HOME & LIVING B1
Baker boys, girls 2nd
at La Grande meet
Strawberry pie sweetens spring
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Winter
makes
a fierce
return
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Herald subscriber Tim Rouse
of Vancouver, Washington.
BRIEFING
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‘Durkee Stories’ event
April 12 at Baker
Heritage Museum
Baker Heritage Museum
will host “Durkee Stories,” a
conversation with Gary Bloom-
er, on Tuesday, April 12, at
the museum, 2480 Grove St.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and
the presentation begins at 6
p.m. Attendance is free.
Bloomer, a long-time
Durkee rancher, will share sto-
ries about the town’s history
and the Opal Mine.
Walk for Awareness
of child sex traffi cking
May 14
The Baker County Soropti-
mists are planning the Walk for
Awareness, a 5K run or walk
to raise awareness about the
issue of child sex traffi cking
and raise money to combat
the problem, for Saturday, May
14. Pre-register at walk-for-
awareness.ticketleap.com/
registernow. Entry is $30 with
a shirt (register by April 14 to
guarantee shirt size), or $10
without a shirt. A family can
register for $25.
On May 14, registration
starts at 9 a.m., and the event
begins at 10 a.m. T-shirts will
be sold at the walk for $25.
All proceeds will be donated
to Shared Hope International,
which aims to end sex traf-
fi cking by raising awareness
about the problem, provide
services to survivors of sex
traffi cking, and help states
improve laws for this crime.
WEATHER
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Today
36/17
Mostly cloudy
Wednesday
April’s second
week looks
chilly, damp
BY JAYSON JACOBY AND
SAMANTHA O’CONNER
Baker City Herald
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Shane Alderson, owner of Baboon Creek Outfitters in Baker City, gives a quick introduction to orienteering during a Friday Academy
activity for grades 1-3 on Friday, April 8, 2022.
Finding Their Way
Baker students learn to
navigate with a compass
BY LISA BRITTON
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
P
atrick Oberlander peers at the compass in
his hand.
He looks up, then looks back at the dial.
Then he spins in a circle, hoping to orient himself.
“The black has to line up with black, and the red with the red,” he says.
Once that happens on the compass, he points across Geiser-Poll-
man Park.
“We’re supposed to go this way,” he says, side-stepping across the Powder
River Pavilion to keep the compass pointing the right direction.
On Friday, April 8, youth from grades 1 to 3 explored the park by us-
ing a compass during a special orienteering program led by Shane Al-
derson of Baboon Creek Outfitters in Baker City.
This outing was part of the Baker School District’s Friday Academy.
For the Friday Academy sessions each week, grades 1-3 gather at the
Baker Heritage Museum, just across Grove Street from Geiser-Poll-
man Park, and students in grades 4-6 meet at the YMCA gymnasium
on Church Street.
Sessions for all include one hour of academics, and two hours of a
STEM activity (science, technology, engineering and math).
Community partners include the Baker Heritage Museum, OSU
Extension Service, Bureau of Land Management, GO-STEM and the
YMCA. Each group is also accompanied by a paraprofessional from the
school district, and a high school student.
“We could not do it without community partners,” said Heidi Stocks,
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
coordinator for Friday Academy.
Harley Ackerman, left, and Patrick Oberlander
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See, Students/Page A3
Forget flowers.
The April showers that barged
into Baker County this week
brought one thing more immedi-
ate — high school sporting events
cancellations.
The few flowers that have ap-
peared so far were bending be-
neath their frozen burden.
See, Winter/Page A3
Anthony
Lakes
wraps up
successful
ski season
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
It wasn’t the snowiest winter
on record, but Anthony Lakes
Mountain Resort had plenty
on its slopes to keep skiers and
snowboarders sliding all season.
“Overall we had a great sea-
son,” said Chelsea Judy, market-
ing director for the ski area in
the Elkhorn Mountains about 35
miles northwest of Baker City.
A dearth of early storms de-
layed the start of the season until
Dec. 18.
But once the resort was open,
the snow base was sufficient, de-
spite a prolonged dry stretch that
lasted for most of February, to
keep Anthony Lakes on its usual
work to find their way with a compass around
Geiser-Pollman Park on Friday, April 8, 2022.
See, Resort/Page A3
Snow showers
Full forecast on the back
of the B section.
Baker students excel at FBLA conference
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Baker High School and
Baker Middle School had
five state champions at the
Oregon State Business Lead-
ership Conference April 7-9
at Portland.
Several other Baker stu-
dents qualified for the na-
tional conference in Chicago
June 29 to July 2.
The state conference was
an in-person event for the
first time since 2019. The
2020 and 2021 conferences
were done virtually due to
the pandemic.
“It was really nice to be
back in person at the FBLA
state conference this week,”
Baker FBLA advisor Toni
Zikmund said. “Baker
walked away with five state
champions and a great deal
of memories.
“While things were not
totally back to normal at the
state conference, we are very
thankful it was in person
again so that members could
get a sense of what FBLA
is really all about. Students
were able to hear our inspi-
rational keynote speaker, at-
tend workshops and watch
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other student presentations
as well. This allowed them to
become more familiar with
other events that they may
want to compete with in
the future.”
Baker had 16 high school
and five middle school stu-
dents compete at the state
conference.
“We are small but mighty
this year,” Zikmund said.
In addition to Baker’s re-
sults in various contests, Ab-
bey Benson won the $2,000
Foundation Scholarship for
her involvement in FBLA
over the past six years.
The top four finishers in
each high school event, and
the top two in middle level
events, qualified for the na-
tional conference.
Zikmund thanked Bryan
Tweit, of HatchLab in Baker
City, for helping prepare
Baker students for their
speaking events. He also
served as a judge for two days
during the state conference.
Baker’s state champions
• Harris Gaslin, exploring
economics (middle level)
• Cadell Mills and Lilly
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Comics ..............................B5
Community News.............A2
Wilson, business ethics (mid-
dle level)
• Cadell Mills, interper-
sonal communication (mid-
dle level)
• Te’ygan Coley and Camp-
bell Vanderwiele, hospitality
and event management (high
school level)
“I believe this is due to both
their public speaking practice
in the leadership class and
their work experience in the
field,” Zikmund said of Coley
and Vanderwiele. “They both
work as baristas for Coffee
Corral. Te’ygan also works
in marketing for HatchLab,
and Campbell owns her own
catering business. Their im-
promptu role-playing sce-
nario was to introduce a new
drink into stores — very fit-
ting for them.”
• Ashlyn Dalton, Introduc-
tion to public speaking (high
school level)
“Ashlyn destroyed the com-
petition with her incredible
speech,” Zikmund said. “In
my opinion it was better than
the junior/senior level win-
ning speech.”
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Dear Abby .........................B6
Home & LIving .......B1 & B2
See, FBLA/Page A3
Contributed photo
Te’ygan Coley, left, and Campbell Vanderwiele were state champions
in the hospitality and event management event at the Oregon FBLA
State Leadership Conference April 7-9, 2022, in  Portland.
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Opinion .............................A4
Senior Menus ...................A2
Sports ..................... A5 & A6
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Turning Backs ..................A2
Weather ............................B6