STATE A3
SPORTS A7
SPORTS A8
Rains swell McKay
Reservoir near Pendleton
Baker girls 1st, boys 2nd
at ‘Ray Day’ Invitational
Baker tennis players qualify
for regional tournament
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Snowpack’s
spring surge
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Good Day Wish
To A Subscriber
A special good day to
Herald subscriber Gail
Kelsey of Baker City.
April storms continue
into May, boosting
snowpack above
average in places
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Baker High School
presents ‘SHOUT!’
the musical
Baker High School will
present “SHOUT! The Mod
Musical” at 7 p.m. Saturday,
May 14, and 3 p.m. Sunday,
May 15. Admission is free
but tickets are required.
Donations will be accept-
ed. Tickets are available at
Crossroads Carnegie Art
Center, Sweet Wife Baking
and the front offi ce at BHS.
Local students named
to EOU dean’s list
LA GRANDE — Baker
County students were
among the 590 named
to the dean’s list for the
winter 2022 term at Eastern
Oregon University. To qualify,
students must earn a GPA of
3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale
while completing at least 12
hours of graded coursework.
• Baker City — Bryan
Ames, Alayne Bennett, Koedi
Birmingham, Renee Blincoe,
Candys Bogner, Melody Cas-
tello, Isabella Evans, Henry
Hoelscher, Abagail Hunt,
Julia Krohn, Makayla Ogg,
Hayden Paulsen, Savannah
Potter, Jayme Ramos, Mitch-
ell Stephens
• Haines — Ashley Dyke,
Samuel Pointer
• Halfway — Wyatt Page
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Special Swimmer
Contributed Photo
Baker City’s Caitlyn Calaway
to represent Oregon at Special
Olympics USA Games in June
Caitlyn Calaway swims the
butterfly. She will represent
Oregon at the Special Olympics
USA Games in early June in
Orlando, Florida.
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
C
Calaway is the first Baker County res-
ident to qualify for the Special Olympics
in more than 20 years.
“This is her first time getting to go and
represent for nationals,” said Kareen Harris
Bybee, Calaway’s mother. “It’s a big honor.
She is very excited. And she is training for
it. She goes and swims three times a week.”
See, Swimmer/Page A3
Today
Wolves kill 1
calf, injure 2
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Contributed Photo
Caitlyn Calaway of Baker City, who has been swimming
for about 10 years, will compete in three events as an
Oregon representative in the Special Olympics USA
Games in June at Orlando, Florida.
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Rachel Pregnancy Center
fundraiser is underway
Nonprofit offers
support for
women, men
TODAY
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Wolves from the Cornucopia pack
killed a calf north of Richland last week
and injured two other calves in the same
area about two weeks ago, according
to the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW).
ODFW biologists on May 5 investi-
gated both cases, which happened in the
same area.
In the case of the dead calf, ODFW
staff found the carcass of the approxi-
mately 225-pound calf on a 5,400-acre
public land grazing allotment managed
by the Bureau of Land Management.
The carcass was mostly eaten, but most
of the hide was intact, according to an
ODFW report. Biologists estimated the
calf died about a day earlier, on May 4.
They skinned the carcass and found
pre-mortem bite scrapes on the outside
and back of the calf’s right rear left above
the leg, with underlying trauma up to
one inch deep to the muscle tissue. There
was also trauma to the right shoulder
and throat.
See, Wolves/Page A3
Motorcycle
rider’s condition
improves
Baker City Herald
The Rachel Pregnancy Center’s
annual baby bottle fundraising drive
started on Mother’s Day and will con-
tinue through Father’s Day, June 19.
The event is the Center’s most im-
portant fundraiser, said Vera Grove,
director of the nonprofit Rachel
Center and its only paid employee.
During the campaign, baskets of
baby bottles, in which donations of
cash and change can be left, will be
available at local churches. Dona-
tions can also be made at the Rachel
Center, 2192 Court Ave., during reg-
ular hours — Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(except noon to 1 p.m., when the of-
fice is closed for lunch). Those who
would prefer to write a check can
pick up an envelope at any of the col-
lection sites and mail the donation to
Rachel Pregnancy Center, P.O. Box
1086, Baker City, OR 97814. Online
donations can be made at www.bak-
erpregnancyhelp.org.
Although the Mother’s Day to
Father’s Day campaign is the Ra-
April showers couldn’t completely
make up for a meager winter snowpack
in the mountains of Northeastern Ore-
gon.
But the month put on a pretty fair
rally.
And so far May has maintained the
momentum, with snow falling not only
in the mountains but also, most recently
on Sunday, May 8, and Monday, May 9,
in the valleys.
A persistent weather pattern over the
past month that has pushed cool storms
through the region regularly, laden with
Pacific moisture, has transformed a pal-
try snowpack into one that, in some
places, has soared well above average.
Statistics illustrate how stark the rever-
sal has been.
During March, which in many years is
the snowiest month at higher elevations,
the water content in the snow — the sta-
tistic that best predicts summer water
supplies — dropped at 13 of 17 measur-
ing sites around the region. The water
content was below average at all of those
places by the end of March.
See, Snowpack/Page A3
aitlyn Calaway will realize
a longtime dream when
she represents Baker City,
and Oregon, as a swimmer at
the Special Olympics USA Games
June 5-12 at Orlando, Florida.
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Vera Grove, director of the Rachel Pregnancy Center in Baker City, organizes cloth-
ing in the girls room on Jan. 18, 2022. The center provides help for those experi-
encing an unexpected pregnancy and offers counseling, parenting classes, baby
clothes, diapers, and more.
chel Center’s major annual fund-
raiser, it accepts donations at any
time, Grove said.
The Rachel Center offers help to
women and men who are dealing
with financial or emotional prob-
lems related to an unplanned preg-
nancy. The organization does not
receive government aid and relies
solely on community support.
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Among the services the Center
provides are the voluntary “Earn
While Your Learn” classes, in which
clients take classes ranging from pre-
natal care to parenting instructions
for infants, toddlers and older chil-
dren, along with relationship and
money management advice.
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A Baker City man who was seriously
hurt in a motorcycle crash May 4 is im-
proving in a Boise hospital.
Terris Blain Webb, 50, who was in
critical condition after being brought
to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in
Boise, had improved to fair condition as
of Monday, May 9, hospital spokesman
Mark Snider said.
Webb was hurt when the motorcycle
he was riding went off Highway 86 along
the Powder River and plunged down a
25-foot embankment on the afternoon
of May 4.
Webb was riding east on the high-
way through the Powder River Canyon,
about 27 miles east of Baker City and 13
miles west of Richland. He rode off the
highway on a curve, according to an Or-
egon State Police report.
Police found Webb a short distance
from the Honda motorcycle.
A LifeFlight helicopter brought Webb
to the Boise hospital.
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