A2 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022
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50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
July 5, 1972
SUMPTER — John Day’s Morgan Contrell triggered past
a 41-man fi eld to tote away the overall shooter award here
Sunday at Sumpter Valley Days’ fi rst annual black powder
shoot. Contrell won the Hawken Match and the group shoot,
and placed second in the store and fi fth in the axe shoot to
claim the honor.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
July 4, 1997
St. Elizabeth Health Services administrators are proud of
the care being provided to nursing home residents despite a
recent state inspection that listed defi ciencies.
Rob Mannix, chief operating offi cer, and Joan Weaver,
nursing director, said the defi ciences are more refl ective of
a tougher inspection than a decline in the nursing home’s
quality of care.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
July 4, 2012
Tyler Schlipf wants to pursue a career in fi lm, so he had a
ready answer when a CBS news crew requested a guide this
weekend.
“I said certainly,” says Schlipf, who will be a senior this
year at Baker High School.
CBS is coming to fi lm the adventures of the Rand McNally
Best of the Road team, which arrives Saturday. Baker City is
a fi nalist in the “most beautiful” category for the 2012 Best
Small Towns contest sponsored by Rand McNally.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
July 6, 2021
Haines was its usual bustling self on Independence Day,
a distinct change from the relatively placid 2020 version of
the holiday.
A year ago, with the COVID-19 pandemic well underway,
some of the traditional events in the community, population
about 415, were canceled.
The list included the parade, cowboy breakfast and arts
festival.
In 2020 two other cornerstones of the holiday — the two-
day Haines Stampede Rodeo and a fi reworks display after
dark on the Fourth — did happen.
This year, on a sizzling Sunday, the regular roster of
Haines festivities was on display.
Garla Rowe, of Friends of Haines, the volunteer group that
organizes the events with the exception of the Haines Stam-
pede, said this spring that she was excited about the return
of the favorite events after the one-year hiatus.
“I’m really excited for the Fourth this year,” Rowe said
in May. “I think the community needs to have something
positive to celebrate.”
The Haines Stampede had a large turnout of spectators
on both days, July 3 and 4, despite the persistent heat wave
that pushed temperatures to near triple digits.
“The sunnyside bleachers were as full as we could expect
when it’s nearly 100 degrees outside,” said Kristi Bain,
rodeo secretary. “You don’t expect that kind of crowd when
it’s that kind of heat.”
The rodeo performances started at 5 p.m. on Saturday
and 1:30 on Sunday, each running for about four hours.
In addition to the adult events, kids 13 and younger
participated in saddle bronc, steer riding, breakaway roping,
barrel racing and wild pony races.
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SENIOR MENUS
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
FRIDAY (July 8): Baked ham, candied yams, green beans,
rolls, ambrosia, cinnamon rolls
MONDAY (July 11): Chili cheeseburgers, tater tots, corn,
green salad, chocolate pudding
TUESDAY (July 12): Barbecued ribs, baked beans, broccoli,
rolls, coleslaw, cookies
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.
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EOU receives money to help
prepare rural students for college
BY ANDREW CUTLER
The Observer
LA GRANDE — A program to help
recruit and retain rural students at East-
ern Oregon University is getting a boost.
Oregon U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and
Jeff Merkley announced recently that
roughly $1.2 million in grant money
will go to Eastern to power a new pro-
gram called Achieving Careers for Rural
Oregon Student Success, or ACROSS.
The program’s goal is to increase out-
Oregon Public Broadcasting/Contributed Photo
reach to schools in the region and pro-
Students walk on the Eastern Oregon Univer-
vide courses that allow students to earn
sity campus during the 2021 fall term.
credits for high school and college at the
same time.
ground. Brown said she and the new
“Part of our case is, we’re ‘Oregon’s
hires will be able to travel to schools
Rural University,’ this is what we do,”
throughout the region to meet students
Tim Seydel, Eastern’s vice president for
in person and talk to them about EOU.
university advancement, said. “We’re
“We have some obvious places
primed to do this.”
where we get students. We get people
Seydel said the ACROSS program ide- from Pendleton. We get people from
ally could save students up to a full year
La Grande High. We get people from
of tuition and get students into the work- Baker,” Brown said. “But there are some
force sooner.
small schools where they’ve reached out
“It’ll expedite their college completion to us, so, let’s go out there.”
because they would be able to come in
EOU will begin implementing the
as, essentially, a sophomore if they do
program in October, when it can offi-
it all,” he said. “And that can fast track
cially access the grant money. But Brown
them into career pathways within the
told OPB that the university is starting to
workforce.”
do some work in the meantime.
Kathleen Brown, Eastern’s associate
Part of preparing the ACROSS pro-
director of early college initiatives, told
gram will be beefing up what Brown
Oregon Public Broadcasting the fund-
called “pre-college success courses.” She
ing will help the university hire two col-
said that means increasing both online
lege engagement specialists to support
and in-person dual-credit offerings for
the ACROSS program as it gets off the
rural high school students.
Brown said the idea is to provide of-
ferings to help students “not just take
random dual credits but be able to really
focus and see what they can do so they
can be successful here.” But Brown said
EOU is still in the process of mapping
out what exactly those offerings will be.
“Different things such as econ or mu-
sic or whatever the major is — grab one
or two of their really dynamic classes
and be able to allow students to take
those here or online,” Brown said. “You
always have classes that have a few extra
spots in them, so why don’t we allow our
high school students to go in those?”
High school students who pass classes
through those dual credit pathways
would be able to apply the credits to a
degree at EOU, Brown said. And for stu-
dents who enroll at EOU, a big focus will
still be making sure that students are ac-
climated to college and have the support
they’re used to coming from smaller
communities.
“One of the things that we have is a
bunch of students will take these dual
credits, but then they come to a univer-
sity and it’s like, ‘Whoa, I don’t have the
exact same supports that I had before
because I had my mom, and I had my
dad, and I had my counselor and all my
teachers,’ ” Brown said.
At EOU, Brown said, there’s a recogni-
tion that rural students are coming from
tight-knit, small communities and might
have different experiences than students
from larger cities.
Local Briefing
Closures planned
on two forest roads
Sections of two roads on the Wal-
lowa-Whitman National Forest will be
closed at times during July due to road
work.
The Sumpter-Granite Highway will be
closed from Blue Springs Summit to the
Mount Ireland Road (Forest Road 7370)
during the following periods:
• 9 a.m. on July 18 to 5 p.m. on July 22.
• 9 a.m. on July 25 to 5 p.m. on July 29.
On the La Grande Ranger District,
Forest Road 5125 along the upper
Grande Ronde River will be closed from
July 5-31 from the Limber Jim Creek
crossing at the junction with Road 5130
while workers replace a culvert and build
a structure designed to help aquatic or-
ganisms pass.
Road 5130 will remain open during
the project.
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 coun-
ties.
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.
‘Trunks of Junk’ sale July 8
benefits scholarship program
“Trunks of Junk,” a parking lot
rummage sale at the Baker Christian
Church on July 8, will benefit scholar-
ships 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.
Tennis tournament
July 15-16 in Baker City
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 Fri-
day 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.
OTEC Foundation donates $1,500 for helicopter pad
The landing pad
will be built next to
a rural fire station
near Sumpter
Baker City Herald
The Oregon Trail Electric
Cooperative’s Member Foun-
dation has donated $1,500 to
the Powder River Rural Fire
Protection District in Sumpter
Valley to help the volunteer
district build a new helicopter
landing pad.
OTEC’s Member Foun-
dation, a nonprofit, oversees
charitable programs in the co-
operative’s service area, which
includes Baker, Union, Grant
and Harney counties.
“OTEC and the OTEC
Member Foundation place a
high value on strengthening
our partnerships with rural
fire departments and districts
across our service territory,”
said Lea Hoover, OTEC’s di-
rector of member and strategic
services, and executive director
of the Member Foundation.
“Especially as we enter wild-
fire season, it is critical that we
partner with them to help in-
crease resources for respond-
ing to emergencies and help
one another protect the com-
munities we call home.”
The $1,500 donation comes
from the Member Founda-
tion’s Member-to-Member Bill
Round Up Program, which
allows OTEC members to
round up their monthly bill to
the nearest dollar. The volun-
tary program has no effect on
OTEC rates. Members who
sign up for the program do-
nate an average of $12 per year,
or they can choose to make
a one-time donation of any
amount.
The Powder River Rural Fire
Protection District, which has
a station about a mile east of
Sumpter, is working to build a
landing pad for LifeFlight and
firefighting helicopters.
“On behalf of our volun-
teers, thank you to OTEC, and
all of you, the members that
round up,” Wes Morgan, the
Powder River district’s chief,
said. “This donation, along
with a safety grant from spe-
cial districts of Oregon, and
donated labor from volunteers,
will add another tool to serve
our area for firefighting and
emergency responses.”
Morgan said he hopes work
will get started soon on the
landing pad, and that it will be
finished by this fall. The pad
will be adjacent to the fire sta-
tion.
To sign up for the Mem-
ber-to-Member Bill Round Up
program, call OTEC at 541-
523-3616.
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POLICE LOG
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
INTOXICANTS: Cade Wyatt Browne, 23,
North Powder, 1:30 a.m. Monday, July
4 on Highway 30 at Chico Street; cited
and released.
DRIVING WHILE SUSPENDED: Jennifer
Lynn Dewey, 42, St. Helens, 1:51 p.m.
Sunday, July 3 on Highway 30 at Payton
Lane; cited and released.
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Linn County
warrant): Justin Jay Ransford, 25,
Caldwell, Idaho, 9:22 p.m. Friday, July 1
at the sheriff’s office; cited and released.
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