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SCIENCE A6
Baker City gets ready to
celebrate Miners Jubilee
Baker youth competes at
trapshooting nationals
Webb space telescope
yields stellar images
INSET: Delicioso
restaurant had a
colorful fl oat in
the 2021 Miners
Jubilee parade.
BACKGROUND:
The Miners
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A special good day to Herald
subscriber Ronald Waltman of
Baker City.
BRIEFING
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Entries sought for
Miners Jubilee parade
There's still time to enter a
fl oat in the Miners Jubilee pa-
rade, which happens Saturday,
July 16.
The theme is "Honoring Our
Heritage." The entry fee is $25.
Find a registration form at min-
ersjubilee.com.
Floats must check in by 9
a.m. at Baker Middle School.
The parade starts at 11 a.m.
For more information, call the
Baker County Chamber at
541-523-5855.
Miners Jubilee Fun
Run/Walk July 16
The Miners Jubilee Fun Run
and Walk, a fundraiser for the
Baker High School track and
fi eld and cross-country teams,
is set for 8 a.m. on Saturday,
July 16. The event includes
10K and 5K runs, and a 5K
walk. Cost is $25 per person, or
$10 for those 10 and younger.
The course starts at Kicks
Sportswear, 1801 Main St.,
and runners and walkers who
aren’t pre-registered can sign
up at Kicks starting at 7 a.m. on
July 16.
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Juvenile fatally shot in school parking lot
Another youth arrested
after overnight shooting
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
A male juvenile was shot and killed
in the parking lot at the Baker Techni-
cal Institute, on the Baker High School
campus, early on Wednesday, July 13,
and another male juvenile has been ar-
rested in connection with the shooting.
The shooting was reported at
12:25 a.m., according to a press release
from the Baker County Sheriff’s Office.
The caller told a dispatcher that the
shooting suspect had fled.
Baker City Police officers responded
and found a male juvenile with a gun-
shot wound. Efforts to save the victim
were not successful.
Police also found a female juvenile at
the scene who was not hurt.
Police did not release the names or
ages of any of the juveniles involved.
Greg Baxter, Baker County district
attorney, said the suspect was taken
to a juvenile detention facility in The
Dalles.
Police released few details about the
circumstances.
The initial press release, sent at
5:50 a.m., stated that “there is no dan-
ger to the public at this time.”
The release did not mention that a
suspect had been arrested.
Bulgaria
to
Baker City
Peter Dejong/Associated Press, File
Psilocybin mushrooms were
legalized for therapeutic use
in Oregon by a 2020 ballot
measure.
Council
wants to
take ban
to voters
Stoyan ‘Tony’ Ivanov traveled
from his home country to sell
educational books here this summer
Tony Ivanov plants a tree in Bulgaria. He plants a tree
for every customer he has while selling educational
books in the United States during the summer.
Ivanov is working in Baker City this summer.
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
BY CLAYTON FRANKE
cfranke@bakercityherald.com
T
his summer, some parents of
young children in Baker City will
smile and wave to a tall young
man dressed in a light-colored polo tucked
into his shorts and carrying a binder of
educational pamphlets.
WEATHER
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Sunny
Tony Ivanov/Contributed Photos
Tony Ivanov poses with members of the Phipps family in Baker City, one
of his customers as a door-to-door peddler of educational books.
Sunny
Full forecast on the back
of the B section.
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for issues that are mailed.
See Shooting / A3
PSILOCYBIN
Friends of the Baker County
Library need volunteers to
help sort books and to work as
cashiers 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.
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An updated press release at 7:14 a.m.
stated that a juvenile had been arrested.
The release didn’t list the suspect’s
gender. Baxter confirmed that the sus-
pect, like the victim, is male.
Ashley McClay, public information
officer for the sheriff’s office, wrote in
an email to the Herald on Wednesday
afternoon that the shooting suspect
was arrested “in the early morning
hours” of Wednesday.
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Volunteers needed
for library book sale
Friday
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2022 • $1.50
“I love education. Education
can get you from one state to
another or from one country
to another.”
— Stoyan “Tony” Ivanov, a Bulgarian resident
who is selling books in Baker City this summer
The man is Stoyan “Tony” Ivanov, Baker City’s
newest peddler.
He traveled a great distance to offer his wares,
coming to Baker City from Bulgaria.
“I see my clients around a lot,” Ivanov, 28,
said recently, waving at a woman as she passed
through the drive-thru window while he paid for
a drink at the Little Pig restaurant on 10th Street.
About a month ago, Ivanov moved from Bul-
garia to Baker City for the summer with a cul-
tural exchange visa, and his work has already fos-
tered ties to the community. He recently received
his official peddler’s license from the city, allow-
ing him to do his job — go door to door each day
selling educational materials to families.
See Bulgaria / A2
The Baker City Coun-
cil has voted 5-1 to ask city
voters, by way of a ballot
measure Nov. 8, to ban the
production and therapeu-
tic use of psilocybin, the
psychoactive ingredient in
“magic mushrooms.”
Councilors decided
during their Tuesday, July
12 meeting to instruct city
staff to prepare an ordi-
nance and a title for the
ballot measure.
Councilors will review
those during their next
meeting, set for July 26.
Councilor Kenyon Dam-
schen voted against the
motion. He declined to
comment further.
Councilor Jason Spriet
abstained from the mo-
tion, saying he did not have
enough information to
make a decision.
The psilocybin issue
arises from Measure 109,
which Oregon voters ap-
proved in November 2020.
A majority of Baker
County voters — almost
64% — opposed the mea-
sure, which passed state-
wide by 57% to 43%.
See Mushrooms / A3
Fire danger creeping higher
Agencies have yet
to impose campfire,
other restrictions
First talk about region’s geology
BY LISA BRITTON
lbritton@bakercityherald.com
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
The wildfire season has been
pretty tranquil in Northeastern
Oregon, but Al Crouch and Na-
than Goodrich are beginning to
detect the potential for boister-
ous days to come.
They see it in the grass, nour-
ished by plentiful spring rain
but now curing into tinder be-
neath the July sun.
See Fire / A3
TODAY
Issue 27
6 pages
New monthly lecture
series starts July 28
Vale District Bureau of Land Management/Contributed Photo
The Willowcreek fire burns in northern Malheur County on Wednesday,
June 29, 2022.
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A new lecture series launches this
month in Baker City to shed light on
a variety of topics.
“I just wanted to put together
something that’s positive for the
Burns
community,” said Sandy Lewis, who
is helping organize the series.
The Baker Community Sciences and Arts Lecture
Series begins Thursday, July 28, when Dr. Scott Burns
from Portland State University talks about “The Dy-
namic Geology of Eastern Oregon.”
See Lecture / A2
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