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Wolves kill two calves
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EOU planning normal
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Herald subscriber Diane
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BRIEFING
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Free community fair for
moms set for June 1
The Baker City Mothers of
Preschoolers group — MOPS
— has scheduled a free
community moms’ fair for
Wednesday, June 1, from 9
a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Baker
City Nazarene Church, 1250
Hughes Lane. All moms are
welcome. There will be infor-
mational booths from Build-
ing Healthy Families, Baker
County Health Department/
WIC, Child Care Resource
Center, Baker City Police
Department and more.
Childcare will be available,
along with a preschool class
and a class for older kids.
WEEKEND
STORM
sets soggy milestones
Farmers Market opens
for season on June 2
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Flags at Mount Hope Cemetery on Memorial Day,
May 30, 2022.
The Baker City Farmers
Market opens Thursday,
June 2, at Central Park —
directly east of Resort Street
from the market’s previous
location at Court Plaza.
The market will run from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays
every week through Oct. 13.
Baker City’s wettest 3-day
stretch since 2015
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Open house set June 2
for curb ramp project
B
Residents can learn
about a major project start-
ing soon to replace or install
new wheelchair-accessible
curb ramps in Baker City
during an open house
Thursday, June 2 from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m. at Baker City
Hall, 1655 First St.
aker City hasn’t been this soggy in
several years.
A spring that was already nota-
bly damp and cool reached a new
level of liquid notoriety during the
Memorial Day weekend.
The period that traditionally
marks the start of the summer sea-
son instead more resembled late
winter, including heavy snow in
some parts of the mountains.
Saturday, May 28, was the sec-
ond-dampest day at the Baker
City Airport in almost seven years.
Since July 2015, only one other
day — Oct. 22, 2021 — splashed
more rain into the gauge at the
airport.
But it was a near thing.
Saturday’s rain total was 0.57 of
an inch, just below Oct. 22, 2021’s
total of 0.59.
That October day was the wet-
test at the airport since July 10,
WEATHER
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Today
64/40
Partly sunny
Wednesday
71/45
Increasing clouds
2015, when an unusual summer
storm — a deluge that last sev-
eral hours rather than coming in
a single intense thundershower —
dumped 2.03 inches at the airport.
(That July day was, and is, the
second-wettest day at the airport,
where records date to 1943. The
champion is Aug. 31, 1984, when
a cloudburst saturated the airport
with 2.29 inches of rain.)
The Memorial Day weekend
was wet pretty much throughout.
And it got an early start.
On Thursday, May 26, a late af-
ternoon thundershower not only
broke the heat — the high that day
was 84 degrees, the warmest so far
in 2022 — but it also dropped 0.03
of an inch at the airport.
Cold, rain move Memorial
Day ceremony indoors
With weather conditions more appropriate
for hypothermia than for honoring America’s
war dead, Baker City’s annual Memorial Day
ceremony was moved from Mount Hope
Cemetery.
The event, originally scheduled for 11 a.m.
on Monday, May 30, in the cemetery’s veterans
section, was changed to 2 p.m. at the 41 Club,
which is owned by the American Legion, said
Jerry Hunter, who helps organize the event.
Hunter said the weather, with a steady rain
falling and the temperature around 40, was too
bad to justify having an outdoor ceremony.
Wet weather during the weekend had
another effect.
The Baker City Rotary Club decided not to
put up American flags around town because
flag etiquette dictates that they are not to be
put out in inclement weather, said Dotty Miles, a
member of the Rotary Club.
Storing the flags while they’re wet can also
cause mold to form.
“We stood ready to unfurl them for the first
time this year but will have them out in all their
glory for Flag Day June 14, the 4th of July, Labor
Day, 9/11, Veterans Day,” Miles wrote in an email
to the Baker City Herald. “We are so sorry but
know the rain is welcome to the largest industry
in Baker County — agriculture.”
See, Storm/Page A5
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of the B section.
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Local students win BHS graduate inducted into
Sports Hall of Fame
OTEC scholarships N. Carolina
Brooks has coached
Baker City Herald
Oregon Trail Electric Co-
operative and the OTEC
Member Foundation have
awarded college scholar-
ships to 24 students in the
cooperative’s area, which
includes parts of Baker,
Union, Grant and Harney
counties.
Twenty students, some
graduating from high school
this year and some currently
attending college, received
$5,000 scholarships.
OTEC has also awarded
four OTEC-EOU Ru-
ral Scholarship Program
awards, which pays all tui-
tion and fees for four years
at Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity in La Grande for stu-
dents who commit to gradu-
ating from EOU.
See, OTEC / PageA3
TODAY
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won seven NCAA national championships
— including three straight, 2005-07 — and
21 Atlantic Coast Conference titles.
His teams’ 140 victories are the most for
any women’s golf coach in Division 1 his-
tory.
Brooks is also a seven-time national
Baker City Herald
DURHAM, North Carolina — Dan
coach of the year, and a member of the
Brooks, a 1976 graduate of Baker High
Duke University Sports Hall of Fame, the
School and the head women’s golf coach at Women’s Golf Coaches Hall of Fame, the
Duke University for almost 40 years, was
Carolinas Golf Association Hall of Fame
recently inducted into the North
and the National Golf Coaches As-
Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.
sociation Hall.
Brooks, 63, who grew up in
Brooks has coached at least one
Baker City, is the son of Col-
first- or second-team All-Amer-
leen Brooks and the late Howard
ican in each season at Duke,
Brooks.
the only school to accomplish
His childhood home is just a
that feat.
block or so from Quail Ridge Golf
Five Duke golfers have won Na-
Brooks
Course.
tional Player of the Year accolades.
He played golf at Oregon State
In December 2020 Brooks was
University, where he earned a bachelor of
one of two coaches for the U.S. women’s
science degree in history in 1981.
team that competed in the annual Arnold
He earned a master’s degree in liberal
Palmer Cup, an event that pits American
arts at Duke in 1996, where he has been the college golfers against a team of players
head women’s golf coach for 37 years.
who are from outside the U.S. but who also
During his tenure, the Blue Devils have
play golf for an American college.
women’s golf at Duke
University for 37 years
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