A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
June 30, 1972
The gym at North Baker elementary school was recom-
mended to house the majority of third graders for next year
by the Special Committee on Student Housing.
According to the committee, the areas under consider-
ation included the Air Force cantonment area, St. Francis
gym, National Guard armory, local church basements,
elementary school gyms, and the vacated Foodland store.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
June 30, 1997
MILTON-FREEWATER — The Baker County Diamondbacks
American Legion baseball team won three of four games
during the weekend at the Milton-Freewater tournament.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
June 29, 2012
Oregon wildlife biologists have a new wolf to wonder
about.
A trail camera in the Eagle Cap Wilderness took a photo-
graph on June 4 of a female wolf.
This wolf raises a couple of interesting questions for the
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW).
First, the wolf was in an area that none of Oregon’s known
wolf packs has been roaming, said Michelle Dennehy, a
spokewoman for ODFW.
Second, the photograph is clear enough that biologists
confi rmed the female wolf is lactating.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
June 29, 2021
Trevor Lewis is standing beside the black skeleton of what
used to be a willow tree, and he knows how it looks.
It looks bad.
Dead.
For drivers whizzing past at 55 mph on Highway 7, just a
few hundred feet north of where Lewis stands beside Deer
Creek, the charred limbs of the creekside willows, and the
rusty orange needles of some nearby ponderosa pines, are
conspicuous.
But it’s a different color that draws Lewis’ eyes, and those
of his companions and fellow U.S. Forest Service employees
— Kendall Cikanek, Steve Hawkins and Keith Dunn — on the
hot afternoon of June 22.
Green.
That shade is widespread in this meadow between the
highway and Phillips Reservoir, the latter scarcely visible, so
shrunken it is by severe drought.
Lewis thrusts his arm into a spray of green foliage that’s
bursting from a patch of black ground.
This is a willow too.
A new willow, fresh as lettuce plucked from a garden, and
about knee-high on Lewis’ tan pants.
Its fl exible shoots and lance-shaped leaves have risen
from the ash since fl ames swept through here almost two
months to the day.
That was no ordinary fi re.
Lewis, who most often tries to douse fl ames as an
assistant fi re management offi cer for the Wallowa-Whitman
National Forest’s Whitman Ranger District, was on that April
day in charge of kindling fi res.
And today he and the others have returned to have a look
at the early results of their handiwork.
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SENIOR MENUS
FRIDAY (July 1): Beef stew, broccoli, biscuits, green salad,
peach crisp
MONDAY (July 4): Closed for Independence Day
TUESDAY (July 5): Salisbury steak, scalloped potatoes, corn,
biscuits, fruit cup, ice cream
WEDNESDAY (July 6): Chicken cordon bleu with hollandaise,
rice pilaf, peas and carrots, rolls, green salad, cookies
THURSDAY (July 7): Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes
with gravy, mixed vegetables, rolls, green salad, bread pud-
ding
Public luncheon at the Senior Center, 2810 Cedar St., from
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; $5 donation (60 and older), $7.50
for those under 60.
Herald’s summer intern introduces himself
BY CLAYTON FRANKE
cfranke@bakercityherald.com
Hi, readers. My name is
Clayton Franke, and if you
continue to read the Herald
over the next 10 weeks, you’ll
probably see my byline. So,
here’s a little bit about me.
I graduated from the Uni-
versity of Oregon with a de-
gree in journalism this year,
and on June 27 I started a
10-week internship at the
Baker City Herald through the
Charles Snowden Program for
Excellence in Journalism. It’s
my first experience working
as a full-time reporter. In Eu-
gene, I worked on the sports
desk at the student newspaper,
The Daily Emerald, and as a
2005 Washington Ave., Suite 101
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Herald’s office onto Washing-
ton Avenue, there are snow-
capped peaks on my left and a
brewery on my right.
And the initial unfamiliar-
ity is also what intrigues me
about Baker City. I’m ready
to explore a totally foreign
town, and my new summer
job caters to exactly that —
each story is an opportunity
to meet a new person or see a
new sight, something unique.
While there’s only so many
stories to go around in 10
weeks, I’m looking forward to
getting to know all of you.
And I hope, after reading
this, that when you do see my
byline in the Herald, you won’t
turn the page.
Local Briefing
First CASA garden tour July 9
The inaugural CASA Garden Tour is
planned for Saturday, July 9, from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
The tour is $15, and maps will be sold
at Compass Real Estate, corner of Main
and Campbell streets, between 8:45 a.m.
and noon on July 9.
The tour features six yards of various
sizes. Two are several miles outside of
town on Pocahontas Road.
This event is a fundraiser for CASA
of Eastern Oregon, which covers Baker,
Union, Malheur, Lake and Harney counties.
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advo-
cates) provides every abused or neglected
child in Eastern Oregon with a caring,
consistent adult to advocate for their
well-being in court. To learn more, visit
casaeo.org or CASA of Eastern Oregon
Inc. on Facebook.
Baker County Garden Club to tour
Eastern Oregon Museum July 6
The Baker County Garden Club will
meet Wednesday, July 6 at 10:30 a.m. at
the Eastern Oregon Museum in Haines,
610 Third St. Please bring a sack lunch.
Water and chairs will be provided. New
members are welcome.
‘Trunks of Junk’ sale July 8
“Trunks of Junk,” a parking lot rum-
mage sale at the Baker Christian Church
on July 8, will benefit scholarships for
local women. P.E.O. Chapter CJ mem-
bers 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.
Tennis tournament July 15-16
The 2022 Inspire Open tennis tour-
nament is set for July 15 and 16 in Baker
City.
There are three categories for doubles
teams: beginner, intermediate and ad-
vanced.
Beginner doubles play Friday from
1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Game night, which is free
for tournament participants, is Friday
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Intermediate doubles play Saturday
from 8 a.m. to noon, followed by ad-
vanced doubles from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Cost is $20 per player, with a $100 cap
for families.
Players must register by Monday, July
11. To sign up, call or text Shane Cun-
ningham, 541-519-8284.
Local students on OIT president’s list
KLAMATH FALLS — Three Baker
City students were named to the spring
term president’s list at the Oregon Insti-
tute of Technology. To qualify, students
must have a GPA of at least 3.7.
• Zachary Wise, civil engineering
• Anna Stafford, respiratory care
• Kristian Krohn, information technol-
ogy
Student earns honors at Whitman
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Morgan
Stone of Baker City earned academic
distinction during the spring semester
at Whitman College. To qualify, stu-
dents must complete at least 12 credit
hours with a GPA of at least 3.5.
Metro West to park ambulances near hospital
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Metro West Ambulance,
the Hillsboro company that
is replacing the Baker City
Fire Department as ambu-
lance provider in Baker City
and much of Baker County,
will temporarily park its am-
bulances in a parking lot near
Saint Alphonsus Medical Cen-
ter-Baker City.
Metro West staff will also
use part of the building for of-
fice space.
Baker County commission-
ers, who voted June 8 to hire
Metro West on a five-year
contract, approved a tempo-
rary agreement on Wednes-
day, June 29 regarding ambu-
lance parking.
The vehicles will be based
at the Saint Alphonsus Med-
ical Group Baker City Clinic
(formerly the Baker Clinic) at
3175 Pocahontas Road, just
east of the hospital.
Saint Alphonsus is not
charging the county for Metro
West’s use of the building, said
Jason Yencopal, the county’s
emergency management di-
rector.
Yencopal said the initial
plan was to possibly use an-
other former medical office,
where Dr. Charles Hofmann
had his practice, on 17th Street
just south of Pocahontas.
But Yencopal said there was
water damage in the building,
after the water service was in-
advertently left on, so that op-
tion wasn’t available.
“So we looked at the Baker
Clinic there on Pocahontas,”
he said. “We had a current
agreement that they needed to
then add this information to
this additional space out at the
Baker Clinic.”
Initially, Metro West had
parked its ambulances in a
building at Second Street and
Valley avenue.
That’s where American Med-
ical Response (AMR), another
private company, parked its
ambulance in late May and
early June when it was tempo-
rarily operating ambulances
after Baker City Fire Chief Sean
Lee told the county that staffing
shortages meant the city fire de-
partment might not be able to
respond to simultaneous calls.
Commissioners also on
Wednesday unanimously ap-
proved a temporary agree-
ment with Metro West that
will be in place while the city
fire department transitions
out of ambulance service.
The Baker City Council, in
its initial notice to the county
on March 22, set a date of
Sept. 30, 2022, for ending am-
bulance service.
Yencopal said the county
will pay Metro West $1,000
per day, and reimburse the
county $500 for each trans-
port, regardless of how much
the company receives from the
patient transported.
He said Metro West has two
ambulances in Baker City, but
has enough employees to op-
erate only one.
“We’re working on trying
to get more staff out here,” he
said.
The county paid AMR
$3,700 per day during the two
weeks or so that company was
working here. AMR also re-
imbursed the county $500 for
each transport.
Metro West, like AMR be-
fore it, is the first call ambu-
lance, meaning the Baker City
Fire Department is called only
when Metro West’s ambulance
is already on a call.
When Metro West becomes
the sole ambulance provider,
the county will no longer pay
the company.
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FUNERAL PENDING
Merrilyn Seal: Celebration of
life will take place Friday, July 1 at
10 a.m. at Richard and Merrilyn’s
home at 46682 Fish Lake Road in
Halfway. The family requests that in
lieu of flowers, donations be made
to the Halfway Ambulance Fund
through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral
Home & Cremation Services, P.O.
Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online
condolences can be shared at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
CONTACT THE HERALD
writer for a student magazine
tunities similar to my home
and most recently as an intern state — that’s provided peace
for Eugene Weekly.
of mind as I settle into my new
Despite a pandemic-ridden
home.
college experience, I’m satisfied.
And settling in has taken
I grew up in Mis-
less time than ex-
soula, Montana, a col-
pected, I’ll admit. I
lege town, but despite
didn’t choose to come
an affinity for my
specifically to Baker,
home state, I moved
but I was sent here by
to Eugene in search of
the internship pro-
higher education.
gram, deployed on a
As it turns out,
reporting mission to
Baker City lies
Franke
what some in Eugene
roughly halfway, as
view as the far reaches
the crow flies, between those
of Oregon, to what might seem
two towns. It’s a comforting
like Mars to those west of the
coincidence — along with the
Cascades. Making this voyage
sights of snow-capped peaks,
seemed daunting at first.
ponderosa pines and plenty
But it seems promising —
of outdoor recreation oppor-
after all, when I step out of the
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
PROBATION VIOLATION (Baker County
and Malheur County warrants): Adrienna
Dione Morris, 24, Baker City, 5:30 a.m.
Tuesday, June 28 in the 2500 block of
Place Street; cited and released.
Oregon State Police
Arrests, citations
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County
Justice Court warrant): Laura Feign
Osterkamp, 58, Baker City, 7:02 p.m.
Tuesday, June 28 in the 3700 block of
Grace Street; cited and released.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF INTOXICANTS, DRIVING WHILE
SUSPENDED, VIOLATION OF RESTRAINING
ORDER: Rodney Lee Wade, 66, Walla
Walla, Washington, 2:54 p.m. Friday, June
24 at the Highway 203 Pond; jailed.
GIVING FALSE INFORMATION TO A POLICE
OFFICER, WARRANTS (Baker County
and out of state): Freddie Leroy Tate, 55,
Sumpter, 4:37 p.m. Sunday, June 26 at a
camp near Phillips Reservoir and the Black
Mountain Road; jailed.
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