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Exploring Buck Gulch
near Sumpter
North Powder church
nearing milestone
Suspect, bystander
hurt in shooting
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Richard Chaves
named interim
co-president at EOU
LA GRANDE — The Eastern
Oregon University Board of
Trustees voted on Friday, Aug.
19 to appoint Richard Chaves
of Baker City, and Lara Moore,
vice president of fi nance and
administration, as interim
co-presidents.
Chaves was board president.
He resigned that position and
will join Moore as co-president
starting Sept. 1.
EOU president Tom Insko
announced his resignation in
early August.
“We don’t make this choice
lightly,” Cheryl Martin, board
vice chair, said in a press re-
lease. “We want to provide the
university, and most important-
ly, our students, with stability,
continuity and momentum as
they come into the new year.”
Climate Vigil plans
two events Aug. 26
Climate Vigil, a local organi-
zation, is hosting two events on
Friday, Aug. 26 at Crossroads
Carnegie Art Center, 2020
Auburn Ave.
• Lunch and learn (bring your
lunch), noon to 1 p.m.
• Live music and sidewalk
art, 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
More information about
Climate Vigil is available by
emailing peter@climatevigil.org
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Baker City Herald
Fantastic
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Aaron Kellar shows his ewe, which sold for $8 a pound, to potential buyers during the 4-H auction on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
4-H auction brings in second-highest total on record
BY CLAYTON FRANKE
cfranke@bakercityherald.com
The 2022 Baker County 4-H livestock
auction had a tough act to follow.
The 2021 auction set the all-time
record, and by a wide margin, with
$517,000 in sales.
This year’s event, which took place on
Aug. 12, didn’t match its immediate pre-
decessor.
But it came in as a solid runner-up,
with $421,784 in sales.
That easily eclipsed the $327,069
from the 2020 sale, which was the re-
cord-setter until it was overtaken two
years in a row.
Jake Collier, a member of the sales
committee, said he was thrilled with the
results.
“It was packed,” Collier said of the
large crowd that filled the Cockram
Arena on Aug. 12, including 182 buyers.
“I’m looking at these numbers going,
‘It was a fantastic sale.’ ”
Collier said 152 members of 4-H
clubs sold livestock, including sheep,
rabbits, goats, steers, pigs and one tur-
key.
The turkey sold for $27 a pound.
Collier said the biggest difference be-
tween the 2021 and 2022 auctions is that
there were fewer steers up for grabs this
year.
Although steers generally sell for the
lowest price per pound of any livestock
— an average of $4.14 this year — they’re
also the heaviest by a substantial margin.
Steers garnered close to $300,000
in sales this year, compared with
$362,350 in 2021 (and an average of
$4.57 per pound).
Pigs brought in the second-highest
figure in this year’s auction, at just over
$67,000.
As with steers, the average price per
pound for swine was down a bit from
last year — $6.73 compared with $7.34.
But the steer and swine prices were
offset somewhat by higher bids for
goats and sheep.
Goats averaged $10.85 per pound,
up from $9.07 in 2021, for a total of
$17,500 this year.
Rabbits sold for the highest price of
any animal at $41.69 per pound.
Collier said more add-ons are com-
ing in daily.
The fair will release an upcoming
“thank you” to auction buyers shortly,
he said.
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Girl Scout
hoping to
make a
splash
Penelope
Simmons, 17, is
raising money for
a splash pad at
Baker City’s
Central Park
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Penelope Simmons is go-
ing for the gold as she raises
money with a goal of help-
ing bring a splash pad to
Baker City’s Central Park.
Penelope, 17, is working
toward her Girl Scout Gold
Award, the highest award a
Girl Scout can earn.
“It’s like the Eagle Scout
for Boy Scouts and it has to
be sustainable, it has to in-
volve the community, and
it has to cost nothing (for
the community),” Penelope
said.
She’s been a Girl Scout
for 10 years, but this is her
last year to participate.
To use the splash pad
project for her Gold
Award, she has to finish it
by September 2023, said
her mom, Charline Sim-
mons.
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TODAY
Issue 43
12 pages
The roster of potential can-
didates for Baker City Council
is growing.
As of Friday morning, Aug.
19, 10 people had at least ex-
pressed an interest in running
in the Nov. 8 election, City Re-
corder Dallas Brockett said.
The deadline to file as a can-
didate, including submitting
at least 46 signatures from reg-
istered voters who live within
the city limits, was 5 p.m. on
Friday.
As of 9:30 a.m. on Friday,
the county clerk’s office had
verified signatures for two can-
didates — incumbent Dean
Guyer, and Katie LaFavor,
Brockett said.
Another incumbent, Ken-
yon Damschen, had submitted
his signatures.
The other potential candi-
dates are incumbent Johnny
Waggoner Sr., along with Ed
Traverso, Joe Johnson, Don-
ald Cody, Bev Calder and Ray
Duman.
Brockett said one other pos-
sible candidate had expressed
an interest but had not re-
turned her packet as of Friday
morning. He didn’t have that
person’s name.
Although the deadline to
submit signatures was 5 p.m.
on Friday, the signatures don’t
have to be verified by that
deadline, Brockett said. But
prospective candidates won’t
have a chance to gather addi-
tional signatures if the petitions
they turned in Friday fall short.
Brockett said the city council
in 2020 passed a resolution that
allowed candidates that year to
pay a filing fee in lieu of gather-
ing signatures — a change in-
tended to reduce close contacts
during the pandemic.
That resolution has since
expired, though, so candidates
this year must meet the sig-
nature requirement, Brockett
said.
The city council is working
on a resolution that would re-
instate the filing fee option for
future elections, he said.
See Race / A3
A glorious
move
Janine McCluskey/Contributed Photo
A convoy of military vehicles takes a break on Aug. 19, 2022, while en route to a visit in Baker City
on Aug. 24.
Movable Museum
Convoy of
military vehicles
to stop in Baker
City on Aug. 24
BY CLAYTON FRANKE
cfranke@bakercityherald.com
Dan McCluskey is head-
ing for Baker City in his
three-quarter ton Viet-
nam-era M37 cargo truck.
But his rig — along with
the 32 other military ve-
hicles he’s traveling with
— won’t be delivering any
cargo.
Instead, McCluskey de-
scribes the convoy as a
moving museum.
“Our goal is to show ev-
erybody how the military
used their vehicles,” Mc-
Cluskey said. “They see
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military vehicles in muse-
ums on static display, but
we’re out there to show
them how they used them
in motion.”
“We’re putting hundreds
of miles on them, day in,
day out. This is how they
moved them in convoy or-
der.”
McCluskey, a member
of the Military Vehicle
Preservation Association
(MVPA), is the convoy
commander for the 2022
MVPA Northwest Parks
Motor Convoy, which
is scheduled to arrive in
Baker City on Wednes-
day afternoon, Aug. 24,
and spend the night at the
Baker County Fairgrounds
north of Campbell Street
between Grove and East
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Rick Gloria,
county’s veterans
service officer, has
a new office
BY CLAYTON FRANKE
cfranke@bakercityherald.com
streets.
McCluskey said the con-
voy is “fully on track for all
of the scheduled stops.”
After spending the night
of Aug. 23 at the Grant
County Fairgrounds in
John Day, the convoy will
stop in Sumpter for lunch
on Aug. 24 and arrive in
Baker City via Highway 7.
He guessed the line of ve-
hicles would roll north on
Main Street through down-
town Baker City at around
3 o’clock to 4 o’clock that af-
ternoon.
Then, the convoy will ar-
range in close order at the
fairgrounds.
“We encourage the pub-
lic to come out and visit,”
McCluskey said.
The Baker County Veterans
Service Office recently moved
a few blocks north to the
Baker County Health Depart-
ment building, 2200 Fourth St.
Rick Gloria, the county’s
veteran service officer, offi-
cially moved into the new of-
fice on Aug. 1.
His previous location was
in the lower level of the Baker
County Courthouse, 1995
Third St.
He said county commis-
sioners decided to move the
veterans office into the health
department because around
half of the services he provides
are related to medical issues.
Gloria said the new loca-
tion, since it’s on the ground
level, is more wheelchair ac-
cessible than the old court-
house office, where visitors
had to use a steep ramp to
reach the door.
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