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JUNE 22�29, 2022
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Celebrate
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LANEY
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Shakespeare
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LOCAL A2
NATION A6
Concert coming
to Churchill School
State OKs killing of more
Wallowa County wolves
Offi cial slams response
to Texas shooting
Laney Jones, on tour from
Nashville, Tennessee, plays at
Churchill School in Baker City
on Saturday, July 2, along with
Kathryn Claire and Margot Merah.
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Good Day Wish
To A Subscriber
$200,000
state grant
kickstarts
renovation
of historic
Main Street
theater
A special good day to
Herald subscriber Mickey
Lane of Richland.
BRIEFING
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Nominees sought
for Baker County
Fair Family
Baker County Friends of
the Fairgrounds are seeking
nominees for the 2022 Fair
Family of the Year. Nomi-
nations are due by July 10.
Nomination letters can be
emailed to bakercityfriend-
softhefair@gmail.com.
BY LISA BRITTON
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022 • $1.50
Orpheum’s
rebirth
Amelia Wentz on
dean’s list at George Fox
NEWBERG — Amelia Wentz
of Baker City was named to
the dean’s list for the spring
2022 semester at George Fox
University. To be eligible, stu-
dents must earn a GPA of at
least 3.5 and take 12 or more
hours of graded courses.
Wentz is a senior majoring
in nursing.
Four local women
awarded scholarships
Four Baker County women
have received scholarships
through the sponsorship of
Chapter CJ, P.E.O., Baker City.
• Savannah Potter, who
is attending Eastern Oregon
University, received a $4,000
Marguerite scholarship.
• Naomi Potter, who is at-
tending Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity, received a $2,000
Marguerite scholarship.
• Makenzie Hall, who is at-
tending Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity, received the $1,000
Marguerite scholarship.
• Karissa Kingsbury, who
is attending Oregon State
University, received a $500
Vivan Crawford Memorial
scholarship.
Contributed image
which will make its home
in the Orpheum when it is
complete.
The grant was one of 28
awarded to Oregon Main
Street Network organiza-
tions across the state for
projects that “encourage
economic revitalization.”
Baker City Downtown
solicited applications for
local projects, and a BCD
committee selected the
Orpheum to submit to the
state.
A 3D computer
rendering of what
the interior of the
renovated
Orpheum Theater
will look like.
See, Orpheum / Page A3
“Now we’re starting to
build. These two grants
have been spectacular.”
— Aletha Bonebrake, Orpheum building committee
Today
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
This photo, taken on June 3, 2022, before construction
started again, shows the interior of what will be the
Baker Orpheum Theatre in downtown Baker City.
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A downtown Baker City
business is reviving a major
summer event that seemed
destined to be canceled for the
third straight year.
Shameless Tees, a
screen-printing store at 1921
Main St., is coordinating what
it calls the Resurrection Rally
2022.
The event, planned for July
8-10, the weekend after Inde-
pendence Day, is intended to
bring hordes of motorcycle
riders back to Baker City.
The annual Hells Canyon
Motorcycle Rally, a tradition
for almost two decades that
attracted thousands of visi-
tors to the city, was canceled
in 2020 and 2021 due to the
pandemic.
In February of this year,
Mark Dukes, a partner in
High Desert Harley-David-
son of Meridian, Idaho, the
dealership that has organizes
the rally for the past few years,
said the business wouldn’t be
putting on the rally in 2022.
Dukes said in February
that the issue this year isn’t so
much concerns about how
the pandemic would progress,
but a shortage of employees at
the dealership, and an Oregon
Department of Transportation
project to build more than 300
wheelchair-accessible curb
cuts in Baker City this sum-
mer, including on Main Street.
See, Rally / Page A3
WEATHER
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Friday
Baker City event
is set for July 8-10
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
A
recent grant has
kickstarted work
again on the
Baker Orpheum
Theater renovation proj-
ect for phase five of the
six-phase endeavor on the
historic building at 1812
Main St.
The $200,000 grant
came from Oregon Heri-
tage, a division of Oregon
Parks and Recreation De-
partment.
“This is a big deal,” said
Aletha Bonebrake, chair
of the Orpheum building
committee. “The $200,000
is the largest amount
they’re allowed to give.”
Bonebrake is also a
board member for Eastern
Oregon Regional Theatre,
Business
reviving
major
biker rally
Mining
plan study
released
Wallowa-Whitman
proposing to OK
22 small-scale
mining operations
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
The Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest is propos-
ing to approve 22 mining
operation plans along Pow-
der River tributaries south-
west of Baker City and near
Sumpter.
The Wallowa-Whitman
last week released a draft en-
vironmental impact state-
ment (EIS) that’s been in the
works for about four years.
Some of the miners, how-
ever, have been waiting even
longer for their plans to be
approved.
The 224-page draft EIS an-
alyzes the potential environ-
mental effects from the pro-
posed mining operations on
the national forest.
See, Mining / Page A5
TODAY
Issue 18
34 pages
Business .................B1 & B6
Classified ....................B2-B4
Comics ..............................B5
Celebrating Leo’s legacy
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
D
avid Blair had to suppress a
sincere laugh when asked to
share a story about Leo Adler.
“Well! The ones I can tell,” Blair
said as he stood outside Adler’s long-
time home, now a museum, on Tues-
day afternoon, June 21.
On the lawn of the Adler House
Museum, 2305 Main St., residents
gathered to celebrate the 127th birth-
day of Adler, who died Nov. 2, 1993,
and left $20 million to the community
he loved for scholarships and a variety
of local projects.
“Leo would sometimes come
down to the fire station,” said Blair,
a division chief with the Baker City
Fire Department and a 31-year em-
ployee. “He would come right in,
and he had a kind of walk, a saun-
ter, and then a cane in his later years.
And he would ask to speak with the
fire chief. He’d ask the chief directly:
‘What do you need?’ and whatever
they needed he would just get out his
checkbook, sign one and hand it to
the fire chief.”
See, Adler / Page A3
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Residents gathered on the front lawn of the Adler House Museum on Tuesday, June 21,
2022, to honor the late Leo Adler, who was born on June 21, 1895. Adler, who left his $20
million estate to the community for scholarships and local projects, died Nov. 2, 1993.
Community News.............A2
Crossword ...............B2 & B3
Dear Abby .........................B6
Horoscope ..............B2 & B3
Lottery Results .................A2
News of Record ................A2
Opinion .............................A4
Senior Menus ...................A2
Sports ...............................A8
New trailer
aims to
curb city
speeders
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Prompted by an increase
in complaints from residents
about cars ignoring speed lim-
its on city streets, the Baker
City Police Department has
augmented its campaign to
deal with speeders.
And this new officer doesn’t
need lunch breaks.
Baker City Police recently
deployed a trailer that mea-
sures vehicles’ speed and dis-
plays the figure in bright lights
on a screen.
The trailer also features a
sign showing the speed limit
at that spot, so passing driv-
ers can see if they’re com-
plying.
The trailer was manufac-
tured by MPH Industries and
cost about $8,000, Police Chief
Ty Duby said.
The City Council included
money for the trailer in the
budget for this fiscal year.
Duby said the trailer will
be set up based on complaints
from residents.
“We get a lot of complaints
regarding speeding vehicles
in certain areas and in neigh-
borhoods,” Duby said. “We
thought that if we could get
a new, updated speed trailer
it would really help us with
those complaints.”
See, Trailer / Page A3
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Turning Backs ..................A2
Weather ............................B6