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Good Day Wish
To A Subscriber
A special good day to Herald
subscriber Michele Cantrell of
Baker City.
BRIEFING
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Nominees sought for
Baker County Fair
Family
First camp at Eastern Oregon
Museum combined art,
history, even gold panning
Baker County Friends of the
Fairgrounds are seeking nomi-
nees for the 2022 Fair Family of
the Year. Nominations are due
by July 10. Nomination letters
can be emailed to bakercity-
friendsofthefair@gmail.com.
BY LISA BRITTON
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
Chastain receives
$2,500 scholarship
Connor Chastain, a 2022
Baker High School graduate,
has received a $2,500 scholar-
ship to attend trade school.
The scholarship is from the
Oregon Trail Electric Cooper-
ative Member Foundation.
The money is from unclaimed
capital credits. Applications for
trade and lineman school schol-
arships are open year-round.
To apply, go to www.otec.coop/
scholarships.
Volunteers needed to
help with library book
sale July 14-17
Friends of the Baker County
Library need volunteers to help
sort books and to work as ca-
shiers during the book sale July
14-17. Volunteers can sign up at
the library, 2400 Resort St., or
by calling Jen at 541-519-7828.
Baker County Garden
Club to meet July 6
The Baker County Garden
Club will meet July 6 at 10:30
a.m. at the Eastern Oregon
Museum, 610 Third St. in
Haines. Please bring a sack
lunch. Water and chairs will be
provided. New members are
always welcome.
WEATHER
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Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
A yearling male black bear in a birch tree on the east side of Foothill Drive in Baker City on Sunday morning, July
3, 2022.
Bearly hanging on
Crowd applauds as
young black bear
safely extricated
from a tree along
Foothill Drive
HAINES — Cayden Sandberg is a bundle
of impatient energy.
When he finally gets the nod from Jes-
sie Street, Sandberg gently extracts his paper
from beneath the glass and takes it to a pan
of water.
He rinses. ...and rinses and rinses some
more.
The paper turns a brilliant blue with white
designs created by
objects placed on the “I just want the
light-sensitive paper.
kids to have
Satisfied with his
work of art, Sandberg fun and have
lays it in the sun to
something to take
dry, then quickly of-
fers to help someone away from it.”
else create their own
creative piece.
— Logan Nedrow, co-
This art lesson was director of the Haines
part of the Haines
Museum Camp
Museum Camp held
June 27-30 at the Eastern Oregon Museum.
This is the first such camp offered at the
museum, and it was directed by Logan
Nedrow and Chris Aldrich.
“It’s to pique their interest,” Aldrich said as
she helped youngsters thread string through a
button to create a whirligig toy.
Aldrich is a board member for the museum
and youth outreach volunteer.
Nedrow, a 2019 graduate of North Powder
See Campers / A3
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
It was a perfectly ordinary sum-
mer Sunday morning on Foothill
Drive, until the bear arrived.
The yearling male black bear’s
appearance a little before 8 a.m.
on July 3 gave residents in the
south Baker City neighborhood
an unusual bit of excitement on
the holiday weekend.
This show didn’t involve fire-
works, although there was a tran-
quilizer dart gun.
Lasted longer, too — more
than two and a half hours elapsed
while a state wildlife biologist, po-
lice from three agencies and other
officials worked to bring the bear
down from its perch about 25 feet
up in a birch tree, place the ani-
mal in a cage and drive it out of
town to be released in the wild.
A crowd of about 20 people
who had watched the incident,
many of them Foothill Drive res-
idents, clapped and cheered, with
yells of “good job” and “thank
you” resounding as the episode
concluded with no injuries, either
human or ursine.
Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald
Brian Ratliff, center, with white hat, wildlife biologist for the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife, loads a black bear into a cage on Sunday
morning, July 3, 2022.
Brian Ratliff, district wild-
life biologist at the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife’s
(ODFW) Baker City office, who
shot the bear with a tranquilizer
dart, said with a chuckle that it
was his first standing ovation.
Ratliff helped load the bear into
the cage on a trailer connected to
his ODFW pickup truck.
He estimated the bear weighed
about 150 pounds.
Bruin runs from golf course
The episode started when the
bear was seen at Quail Ridge
Golf Course, on the hill directly
west of Foothill Drive.
The Baker County Dispatch
Center received a call about the
bear at 7:51 a.m.
Julie Bouchard, who lives at
235 Foothill, on the west side of
the street, said she had just let
out three dogs, one of her own
and two belonging to her daugh-
ter-in-law, Megan Cloyd, when
she heard someone yelling, from
the golf course, about a bear.
Bouchard, fearing an ur-
sine-canine tussle, quickly
brought the dogs inside — Louie,
her boxer-bulldog mix, and
Cloyd’s black Labradors, Lola,
and Lola’s daughter, Sammy.
See Bear / A3
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‘Doc’ Bryant reflects on life at 97
His story includes a
stint chasing German
submarines during
World War II
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
H. Hiram “Doc” Bryant lights
up when he speaks of life. He
swings his hands animatedly, and
spends a fair deal of his energy
smiling in conversation.
From the outside, it might ap-
pear he lives an almost spartan
life, but within Doc’s story is a sea
of experience, vast as the blue At-
lantic.
When Doc was born in Septem-
ber 1924, the Soviet Union was
turning two.
Hitler was in prison draft-
ing “Mein Kampf,” and Calvin
Coolidge was about to become
president.
The twenties roared then as
they roar now.
TODAY
Issue 23
12 pages
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
H. Hiram ‘Doc’ Bryant of Baker City
will turn 98 in September 2022.
The world was bracing for fierce
change, but for Doc it was to come
even sooner.
“In 1937 my dad and I, and a
neighbor man and his son, went
fishing,” he said. “We had never
taken a round bottom boat, like a
canoe, we had a bigger boat, but it
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was getting crowded. Dad insisted
on taking the little boat (alone).
He was a stock man for Stude-
baker. Loved hunting and fishing,
he was a good Dad.”
“We went on ahead around (the
lake island) with the big boat and
were fishing, and I heard a holler.
I told my buddy, Kaiser, and I said,
‘that’s Dad.’ ”
His friend disagreed.
“No, that sounded like a cow.”
But Doc insisted they go back,
and they found his father had
indeed rolled out of the canoe,
and the current carried it away
from his reach as he attempted
to swim.
His straw hat and cane pole
were left floating in the lake.
He drowned at age 39.
“It left Mom with five kids, and
I’ve carried that burden all my
life,” Doc said, his voice wavering.
“Mom never remarried, but she
raised us.”
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Emma Bain, 9, tried out the whirligig toy she
made at the Eastern Oregon Museum camp on
Tuesday, June 28, 2022.,
Weiser, Idaho,
woman dies
in crash in
Hells Canyon
Baker City Herald
A Weiser, Idaho, woman died on Friday,
July 1 after the car she was driving crashed and
went into Hells Canyon Reservoir north of
Oxbow.
Jewel Kay Salley, 77, died in the accident.
She was alone in the vehicle.
The incident was reported to Baker County
Dispatch at about 9:31 p.m. on Friday. Several
people reported a vehicle rolling on the Or-
egon side of the reservoir along Homestead
Road, and traveling down an embankment
into the water.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office deputies re-
sponded along with the Halfway/Oxbow am-
bulance.
Deputies searched the area but didn’t find
anyone. Witnesses told deputies they didn’t see
anyone get out of the vehicle, which was sub-
merged in about 20 feet of water.
Divers from the Baker County Search and
Rescue team arrived early on Saturday, July 2.
The car was removed from the water, and dep-
uties found Salley’s body.
She was driving south on Homestead Road,
toward Oxbow, when, for an unknown reason,
the car went off the road, according to a press
release from the Sheriff’s Office.
The Sheriff’s Office thanked the Halfway/
Oxbow ambulance, Baker County Search and
Rescue and Halfway Towing and Repair for
assisting in the incident.
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