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Good Day Wish
To A Subscriber
BAKER CITY
Woman gets
73 months
for burglary,
other crimes
A special good day to
Herald subscriber Pattie
Burlew of Baker City.
BRIEFING
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Nominees sought
for 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.
Pearl Adair recently spent
14 months in a state prison
on two local convictions
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
‘Trunks of Junk’ sale aids
scholarship program
“Trunks of Junk,” a parking
lot rummage sale at the Bak-
er Christian Church on July 8,
will benefi t scholarships for
local women. P.E.O. Chapter
CJ members will host this
event at the church, 675
Highway 7, from 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. or until the car trunks
are empty of items.
Bailey earns award
from Edward Jones
Katherine A. Bailey, an
Edward Jones fi nancial ad-
visor in Baker City, recently
earned the fi rm’s Frank Fin-
negan Award for exceptional
achievement in building
client relationships.
Bailey was one of only
2,089 Edward Jones fi nancial
advisors to receive the Frank
Finnegan award, named for
Finnegan, who joined Edward
Jones in 1953 in St. Louis
after playing pro baseball.
Bailey was presented with
the award at the Edward
Jones regional meeting in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her
offi ce is at 2017 First St. in
Baker City.
WEATHER
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Today
80/44
Sunny
Sunday
88/53
Sunny
Monday
94/54
Sunny
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Snow continued to block the
Elkhorn Drive Scenic Byway
near Anthony Lakes on June 23,
2022. Crews from Anthony Lakes
Mountain Resort opened one lane
of the byway on Friday, June 24.
SNOW
Chelsea Judy/Contributed Photo
STICKS AROUND
BY JAYSON JACOBY • jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
D
an Story didn’t figure a Harley-
Davidson motorcycle was a fitting
substitute for a snowmobile.
thony Lakes Mountain
Resort.
A worker from Anthony
Lakes plowed through drifts
on Thursday, June 23 and man-
aged to open one car width of the
byway by Friday morning, June 24,
said Peter Johnson, the resort’s gen-
eral manager.
He said the snow should melt
relatively rapidly with even warmer
temperatures forecast early next
week, and more of the black as-
phalt exposed, which absorbs heat
and facilitates melting.
The drifts aren’t solely the rem-
nants of winter blizzards that de-
lighted skiers and snowboarders,
though.
Starting in early April and con-
tinuing into the middle of June, a
persistent weather pattern brought a
series of unseasonably chilly storms
into the region. Snow, in some cases
many inches of snow, has accumu-
lated at higher elevations, including
sections of the byway.
But as the rumble of the distant
engine materialized into a visible
vehicle, Story had to concede that it
was indeed a Harley rolling through
a slushy snowdrift on the highest
paved road in Northeastern Oregon.
That incongruous sight, along
the Elkhorn Drive Scenic Byway on
Wednesday, June 22, was perhaps
appropriate in what’s been an ab-
normal season for the byway and
for other forest roads, said Story,
road manager for the Whitman
District on the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest.
The hottest weather in nine
months blistered the region
Wednesday — the high at the
Baker City Airport was 87 — but
winter refused to relinquish its
reign in the Elkhorn Mountains.
It wasn’t the temperature.
Sunshine on the day after the
summer solstice warmed even the
peaks well into the 60s.
Yes despite the heat, deep snow
continued to block a four-mile
section of the byway near An-
Dan Story/Contributed Photo
On June 13, 2022, fresh snow
covered the Elkhorn Drive
Scenic Byway. Warmer weather
has melted the new snow, but
lingering drifts continue to block
about four miles of the paved
route near Anthony Lakes.
A Baker City woman who has been
convicted of multiple crimes in dif-
ferent areas of Baker County since
2019, including Baker City, Durkee
and Halfway, and spent 14 months
in prison in 2019 and 2020, has been
sentenced to 73 months in prison for
three other offenses.
Pearl Naomi Adair, 41, who is de-
scribed as homeless in court records,
was sentenced on Wednesday, June
22, by Judge Matt Shirtcliff in Baker
County Circuit Court on two convic-
tions in Baker County. She had pre-
viously been sentenced on a Union
County theft conviction.
Adair will be incarcerated at the
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, the
women’s state prison in Wilsonville.
She had been sent to Coffee
Creek on April 21, 2022, to serve
a 17-month sentence in the Union
County case. Adair pleaded guilty
in April 2021 to first-degree theft
for stealing an antique sewing ma-
chine from a La Grande business in
December 2020. She was sentenced
to 24 months of probation on that
conviction, but her probation was
revoked in March 2022 because she
failed to report to her probation of-
ficer or complete substance abuse
treatment as required, according to
Union County court records.
See Sentence / A3
“It’s been a crazy
spring with the
late snow and
these really cool
temperatures.”
— Dan Story, road manager,
Whitman District, Wallowa-
Whitman National Forest
Baker County Library District
A new public phone has been installed
outside the Baker County Library, 2400
Resort St.
See Byway / A3
Baker County
Library adds
Blockbusters a boon for Eltrym Theater public phone
Moviehouse having its
busiest June since 2004
Baker CIty Herald
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Fighter planes, dinosaurs and a
space ranger have helped bring the
Eltrym Theater out of the pandemic
doldrums.
A trio of recently released block-
busters — “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Ju-
rassic World: Dominion,” and “Light-
year” — have attracted big audiences
to Baker City’s historic moviehouse
over the past month.
“We’ve been having our busiest June
since 2004,” said Terry McQuisten,
who with her husband, Dan, owns
the Eltrym. “We were hoping to get to
80% of our sales projections, but we’re
far over that for the month of June. It’s
been really uplifting for everybody.”
“Top Gun: Maverick,” the sequel to
the 1986 Tom Cruise film, has been a
boon for the theater industry nation-
wide, bringing in more than $900
million worldwide.
The movie, which opened May 27,
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The Eltrym Theater’s marquee on June 24, 2022, showed the three blockbusters that
have made this the busiest June for the historic theater since 2004.
remains in the rotation at the Eltrym
almost a month later.
“We’ve been so busy with ‘Top
Gun,’ which we knew was going to be
big but at the same time got pushed
off three or four years,” McQuisten
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said. “ ‘Top Gun’ is kind of different
because it’s a throwback, it brought a
lot of varied and different people to
the same space together, it brought
back that escapism.”
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The Baker County Public Library
has installed a new public phone at
the Baker City branch, 2400 Resort
St., where users can make local calls,
and outbound-only long-distance
calls up to 20 minutes, for free.
“It’s like a no-pay payphone,” Perry
Stokes, director of the Baker County
Library District, said in a press re-
lease. “But instead of dropping in
coins or entering prepaid call plan
numbers, you only have to pick up
the handset and dial a number.”
The long-distance calls are free be-
cause the phone makes calls through
the library’s internet connection
rather than a landline.
“Previously, due to cost, we had to
block long-distance calls on our cour-
tesy phone,” Stokes added. “These
days, that is a huge barrier to just mak-
ing a simple call to a mobile phone
with an out-of-area number, even
though that phone owner is a local res-
ident. But with VoIP over the internet,
long-distance becomes a non-issue.
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