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Pedestrian
hit, killed by
freight train
ANTHONY LAKES MOUNTAIN RESORT
A special good day to Herald
subscriber Bill Tipton of Baker
City.
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Baker City Herald
A man was hit and killed by a freight train near
the railroad bridge over the Powder River in south-
east Baker City about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, ac-
cording to Union Pacific Railroad.
The train was traveling east, according to Mike
Jaixen, senior manager of communications for
Union Pacific.
The bridge is southeast of Wade Williams Field.
Baker City Police are investigating the case.
Police Chief Ty Duby said officers are trying to
determine whether or not the man was on the rail-
road tracks intentionally.
Police don’t believe foul play was involved, Duby
said.
Duby said the man, whom he didn’t name, was in-
volved in a reported disturbance in the area that po-
lice responded to a couple hours earlier, late on Sat-
urday. He said officers were searching for the man
when they found his body.
Duby said it appears as though the train crew
wasn’t aware the man was on the tracks, as Union
Pacific didn’t notify the policy department about
a possible incident, which happens when the train
crew knows that a pedestrian might have been
struck.
The federal regulation that requires locomotive
horns be sounded for 15 to 20 seconds before enter-
ing a crossing where streets and tracks intersect does
not apply to a bridge on railroad property, Jaixen
said.
Locomotive engineers retain the authority to
sound the horn in emergency situations.
Matt Baldwin/Contributed Photo
Fresh snow at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort in late October 2022.
Snowy Celebration
Anthony Lakes could get an early start on its 60th birthday celebration
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Anthony Lakes Mountain
Resort is preparing to cele-
brate a milestone this winter,
and the weather might deliver
an early gift.
After a first month of au-
tumn that more resembled
summer, a powerful storm
dropped about 14 inches of
snow recently on the ski area
in the Elkhorn Mountains
about 34 miles northwest of
Baker City.
And unlike some years,
when an early snowfall is a
mere tease that quickly melts,
the current weather pattern
looks more promising.
“This is definitely the best
start we’ve seen in a very long
time,” said Chelsea Judy, An-
thony Lakes marketing direc-
tor.
Driver arrested
after trying to
elude police
Baker City Herald
Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort
Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort is celebrating its 60th birthday this
winter.
“I think it’s here to stay.”
After a stretch of warmer,
drier weather that continued
through Halloween, a parade
of potent Pacific storms is
forecast to persist for at least
the next several days.
See Celebration / A3
A Caldwell, Idaho, woman was arrested Satur-
day night, Oct. 29, for driving under the influence
of intoxicants and attempting to elude police after
she twice drove away from attempted traffic stops
on the Dooley Mountain Highway south of Baker
City.
Julene Chirinos Heughins, 37, was arrested about
10:25 p.m.
The incident started about 8:36 p.m. when Baker
County Sheriff Travis Ash received a report of an
SUV, with front end damage, in the ditch along
Highway 7. The person who called police believed
the driver was intoxicated.
Sheriff’s deputies found the vehicle about
8:56 p.m., according to a press release from the sher-
iff’s office. The driver, who showed signs of impair-
ment, didn’t cooperate with deputies or with Oregon
State Police officers who responded.
The driver then pulled away, heading south on
Highway 245 toward Dooley Mountain.
Police followed the vehicle, which went a short
distance at low speeds and pulled into a turnout.
The lone passenger in the car then began yelling
at police while videoing them, according to the press
release.
See Arrest / A2
Sheriff’s
Office vies for
grant for
tracking dog
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
The Baker County Sheriff’s office is
competing for a $1,500 grant that would
help the agency buy a tracking dog that
would be used in the patrol division and
for search and rescue operations.
The competition was done by on-
line voting, Oct. 24-31. People could
vote once per day, and the sheriff’s office,
through posts on its Facebook page, en-
couraged residents to vote daily.
See Dog / A2
TODAY
Issue 74
12 pages
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Community News.............A2
Rain could be a boon for deer
A flush of green grass could help
deer put on weight prior to winter
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Deer have plenty to eat this fall in
Baker County.
But the food isn’t especially nutri-
tious.
That deficiency might yet be cor-
rected, though, at least partially, thanks
to the recent dramatic shift in the
weather pattern, said Brian Ratliff, dis-
trict wildlife biologist at the Oregon De-
partment of Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW)
Baker City office.
Rain, which was conspicuous by its
absence from the middle of September
through the first three weeks of October,
returned with the first in a series of Pa-
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Home & Living ........B1 & B2
cific storms arriving Oct. 21.
That moisture could spur a late, but
beneficial, flush of fresh green grass on
deer winter range, Ratliff said.
Some of the range, anyway.
Ratliff said the lower temperatures
that arrived with the rain could keep the
soil temperature, at higher elevations
and on north-facing slopes, from reach-
ing the 50-degree level that is generally
required for grasses to grow.
For that reason, rain tends to be more
beneficial if it arrives in early October
rather than late in the month, when
temperatures begin to drop, he said.
Ratliff is more optimistic, though,
about the lower, south-facing winter
range where a significant percentage of
the county’s deer herds spend the colder
months.
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Lottery Results .................A2
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Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald, File
New grass growth greens a slope near
Brownlee Reservoir in eastern Baker
County on Nov. 7, 2021. Wildlife biolo-
gists say a fall green up can help deer
See Rain / A2 survive the winter.
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