SPORTS A3
Baker girls place 7th
at state track meet
SPORTS A5
SPORTS A6
Powder Valley, Pine
Eagle athletes
excel at state
Baker baseball,
softball teams both
advance to playoff s
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Council to
discuss
ambulance
proposal
to county
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Volunteers sought
to set out fl ags on
Memorial Day
Volunteers will gather at
6 a.m. on Memorial Day,
Monday, May 30, at Mount
Hope Cemetery to place
about 550 American fl ags,
each featuring the name of a
military veteran. A Memorial
Day ceremony will start at
11 a.m. that day in the vet-
erans section at the south
end of the cemetery, and
volunteers are needed to
help remove the fl ags after
the ceremony.
Chess club plans
tournament June 10
The Baker School District
chess club is planning its
fi rst summer chess tourna-
ment on Friday, June 10,
at the Baker Early Learning
Center, 2725 Seventh St.,
from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This tournament is for
players from kindergarten
through adults. There is no
cost to participate.
Registration is open
now and closes June 1. To
register, go to https://bit.
ly/3lArlsN.
For more information,
email ian.wolfe@bakersd.
org or angela.lattin@
bakersd.org or call/text
541-212-8435.
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Logan Hannigan-Downs photo
Baker senior Emma Baeth celebrates after
winning the 1,500-meter race at the Class 4A state
track meet on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Hayward
Field in Eugene. Baeth set a new school record.
Even the exhilaration of winning a
state title can’t mask the toll that pace
takes on legs and lungs.
mma Baeth was sprinting
The ecstasy of success comes with
the agony of fatigue.
the final yards to the finish
Yet Baeth was overwhelmed not
line with no other runner on with exhaustion but with the rec-
ognition that she was a few sec-
either side, and she couldn’t quite
onds away from accomplishing
a goal she hadn’t quite dared to
believe what was happening.
hope for.
“I thought, ‘oh my goodness, what’s
Baeth, a senior at Baker High
happening?’ ” she said the day after
School, couldn’t believe she was
about to win a state championship winning the 1,500 at the Class 4A
state track meet on Saturday, May 21.
in the 1,500-meter race.
Quite a lot was happening, actually.
She couldn’t believe she was go-
ing to accomplish that goal in Eu-
Besides claiming the coveted state
gene’s Hayward Field, the place
championship, Baeth had broken the
where many Olympians, includ-
BHS record for the 1,500 set in 2002
ing some of Baeth’s own idols,
by Danielle Jordan.
have competed.
Baeth, who will compete in track
Perhaps most shocking of all, Ba-
and cross-country at Southern Or-
eth couldn’t believe how good she felt. egon University, where she plans to
Physically good.
major in nursing, said she actually
She had, after all, just run slightly had looked at Jordan’s record on the
less than a mile in well under five
wooden board at BHS just before
minutes.
leaving for the state meet.
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Jordan’s time was 4:45.83.
That was about 12 seconds faster
than Baeth’s best time in the 1,500.
That’s a huge difference, she said
— 1,500-meter runners don’t ex-
pect to trim 12 seconds from their
best time in a single race.
“I didn’t really think I would be
able to,” Baeth said. “That’s so fast.”
But then the race started.
And as she loped along with
the lead group of runners, Baeth
glanced occasionally at the elapsed
times that showed every 100 me-
ters.
“I thought, ‘wow, we’re really go-
ing fast,’ ” Baeth said with a laugh.
But she was even more surprised
— “shocking” is the adjective she
chooses more than once in talking
about the race — by how relatively
easy it felt to keep the pace.
“About a half-mile in I was think-
ing that I feel surprisingly so good
right now,” she said.
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State confirms another wolf
attack on calves near Richland
Baker City Herald
State wildlife biologists have
confirmed another wolf attack on
cattle north of Richland.
The most recent in a series of in-
vestigations in that area, about 40
miles east of Baker City, happened
on May 19, according to the Ore-
gon Department of Fish and Wild-
life (ODFW).
According to an ODFW report,
a rancher found two injured calves
while checking a herd on the after-
noon of May 17 in a 600-acre pri-
vate land parcel in the Immigrant
Gulch area north of Eagle Valley.
ODFW biologists investigated
on Thursday, May 19, examining
those two calves as well as four
other calves that had wounds.
Biologists concluded that wolves
from the Cornucopia pack had
attacked the two calves whose in-
juries prompted the rancher to re-
port the incident. The attack hap-
pened about two to three weeks
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earlier, according to an ODFW
report.
Both calves had bite scrapes up
to 1/8th inch wide on the outside of
their hindquarters above the hocks,
with corresponding tissue trauma,
according to the report.
One calf had an open wound
measuring about 3.5 by 2.5 inches,
as well as multiple tooth punctures
about 1/8th of an inch in diameter.
The other calf had a 1-inch by
1-inch open wound on the outside
of its left hind leg above the hock,
and a pair of tooth puncture marks
1/8th of an inch in diameter.
According to the report, “The
bite marks and location, size, and
depth of the injuries on the first two
calves are consistent with wolf at-
tacks on live calves.”
Biologists surmised that the
calves were attacked around the
same time.
Of the four other calves that biol-
ogists examined, one had a 1-inch
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long by 1/8th-inch-long bite scrape
with a healed puncture wound on
its right rear leg near the hip. Six
healed scrapes were on the same
area of the leg.
Biologists determined this was
a “probable” wolf attack based on
the size and location of the injuries,
which probably happened about the
same time as the confirmed attacks
on the two other calves.
The three other calves also had
scrape wounds, but “lacked suffi-
cient evidence to be able to deter-
mine the cause,” according to an
ODFW report.
Those three cases were deemed
“possible/unknown.”
Earlier this spring, ODFW biol-
ogists concluded that wolves from
the Cornucopia pack had killed one
calf and injured at least three others
in the same area north of Richland.
Wolves from the Keating pack
also injured a calf in the Keating
Valley in early May.
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City manager will
present draft
proposal during
Tuesday’s meeting
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
The Baker City Council on Tuesday,
May 24, will review a draft of the city’s
proposal to Baker County for continu-
ing to provide ambulance service.
Councilors will meet at 7 p.m.
at City Hall, 1655
First St.
Baker County,
which is responsible
under Oregon law for
choosing ambulance
providers, recently
sent out a request for
proposals (RFP) for
Cannon
the Baker Ambulance
Service Area.
The Baker City Fire Department is
the current ambulance provider for
that area, which includes Baker City
and about two-thirds of the rest of
the county.
The deadline to submit proposals is
June 3.
On March 22 the City Council, af-
ter reviewing a report from City Man-
ager Jonathan Cannon about the city’s
financial struggles to operate ambu-
lances, voted to notify the county that
the city intended to curtail ambulance
service on Sept. 30, 2022.
Ending that service would cost the
city about $1 million annual in ambu-
lance revenue, and would force the city
to lay off six firefighter/paramedics,
reducing the department’s overall staff-
ing from 16.25 full-time equivalents
to 10.5.
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Baker school
district hires
principal for
Early Learning
Center
Baker City Herald
The Baker School Board on Thursday,
May 19, approved the hiring of Cristina
Hyde as director/principal of the Baker
Early Learning Center starting this fall.
The Early Learning Center, in the
former North Baker School building at
2725 Seventh St., opened Oct. 9, 2020,
after a $2.3 million building renova-
tion. The facility houses service pro-
viders for families of children from
birth to age 5 as well as preschool and
kindergarten classrooms.
Money to pay for the renovation came
from several sources, including the
Baker School District, the state Student
Investment Act, Preschool Promise pro-
gram, and multiple private grants.
Hyde comes to the Baker School
District from Pullman, Washington,
where she has worked as director of
special education for the Pullman
School District for the past three years,
according to a press release from the
Baker School District.
She started her teaching career in
Alaska in 2007 and moved to Oregon in
2013 to serve as Head Start director for
the Coquille Indian Tribe in Coos Bay.
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