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50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
November 3, 1972
Baker’s Gary Hammond may have recorded a fi rst in the
history of the University of Oregon’s basketball clinic last
Saturday.
The highly successful retired Bulldog coach may have
become the fi rst prep mentor to lecture at the annual clinic.
He was in the select company of Dick Harter, head Duck
basketball coach, and Bobby Boyd, University of Southern
California coach.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
October 31, 1997
An unfortunate combination of wind, rain and fog faced
hunters who were lucky enough to draw a tag for the fi rst
bull elk rifl e season that began Wednesday.
A hunter who was lost Thursday night was found safe this
morning southwest of Unity.
Hunting success was low, accordiing to reports from the
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Oregon State
Police.
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Wolves kill one, possibly two, calves
on the right hind leg above the hock.
“The severity, size and location of these
wounds are consistent with injuries to cattle
attacked by wolves,” the ODFW investiga-
tion report states.
The biologist estimated that the calf was
killed three days earlier.
The other carcass was missing — the report
doesn’t explain why — and that case was listed
as “possible/unknown” for a wolf attack.
Oregon State Police announced recently
that the breeding female wolf from what
had been the Lookout Mountain pack was
illegally shot and killed, probably on Oct. 2.
Baker City Herald
Wolves in the Lookout Mountain area
east of Baker City killed one calf, and possi-
bly killed a second, the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announced
Friday, Oct. 27.
A biologist investigated on Thursday,
Oct. 27. The previous day, the carcasses
of two 500-pound calves were found in a
5,000-acre privately owned pasture near Big
Lookout Mountain.
At the time of the investigation, only one
of the carcasses was present. The biologist
found more than 25 pre-morten bite scrapes
The pack’s breeding male wolf was found
dead in July. There was no evidence of
poaching in the male wolf’s death.
Brian Ratliff, district wildlife biologist at
ODFW’s Baker City office, said the deaths
of the two breeding wolves mean there is no
longer a functioning pack in the Lookout
Mountain area.
The group of wolves in that area consists
of a yearling wolf born in the spring of 2021
(the gender is not known) and an unknown
number of pups born in the spring of 2022,
Ratliff said.
None of those wolves has a tracking collar.
Arrest
NOXIOUS WEED OF THE WEEK: GOLDENROD
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Police ordered both the
driver and passenger to get out
of the car, but instead the driver
continued south on Highway
245, nearly colliding with an
OSP vehicle.
Police followed the SUV for
another quarter mile. When the
vehicle veered onto the shoul-
der, police vehicles surrounded
it. Neither the driver nor the
passenger got out.
About 10:25 p.m., the pas-
senger left the vehicle. Police
“physically removed” the driver,
Heughins.
The passenger was not
charged with any crimes.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 2, 2012
Work began in Central Park on an amphitheater and
should continue through the month, according to the city.
Money for the project, $100,000, comes from the Ford
Family Foundation. The grant is specifi cally for creating
public convening space.
The stage will be a semi-circle shape and would have a
35-foot diameter if it were circular, said Michelle Owen, the
city’s public works director.
People would sit on stones embedded in the hillside to
watch activities on the stage.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 2, 2021
Baker County offi cials have talked with the state about
potential options if local pharmacies need help with a tem-
porary staffi ng shortage.
Jason Yencopal, the county’s emergency management
director, said he has talked with the Oregon Health Authority
(OHA) about the possibility of providing pharmacy workers if
necessary.
As of Monday, Nov. 1, no Baker City pharmacies had con-
tacted the county seeking help with staffi ng, Yencopal said.
The pharmacy at the Baker City Bi-Mart store is slated to
close Nov. 9; the store itself will remain open.
That would leave the county with three pharmacies, in the
Safeway, Albertsons and Rite Aid stores.
Helen Loennig, pharmacist and pharmacy manager at
Bi-Mart, said she’s “really worried about what’s going to hap-
pen” when the Bi-Mart pharmacy closes and many prescrip-
tions are transferred to one of the remaining pharmacies.
Loennig also sent an email to Nancy Staten, director
of the Baker County Health Department, regarding the
situation.
“We are about to have a Pharmacy Health Crisis,” Loennig
wrote in the Oct. 27 email to Staten.
Loennig said in a previous interview with the Herald that
the Bi-Mart pharmacy has been processing about 1,500
prescriptions per week.
In addition to the transferring of prescriptions from the
Bi-Mart pharmacy, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown’s vaccination
mandate, which took effect Oct. 18, could also have an
effect on staffi ng, Loennig said.
The mandate applies to pharmacists and pharmacy
technicians. Loennig said two of the seven employees at
the Bi-Mart pharmacy in Baker City had left their jobs due
to the mandate.
According to the OHA, as of Oct. 4, 87% of pharmacists in
Oregon were vaccinated, and 82% of pharmacy technicians.
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$7.50 for those under 60.
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Goldenrod flowers can each produce hundreds of seeds.
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Perennial spreads through its roots
BY JEFFREY PETTINGILL
The enemy: Missouri goldenrod (Solidago
missouriensis)
This native perennial plant grows to a height
of 4 feet and produces hundreds of seeds from
each bright yellow columnar flower that grow
at the end of the plants. Although the plant pro-
duces thousands of seeds it generally spreads by
creeping roots.
The alternate narrow leaves follow single
stems that contain web-like veins and are some-
times toothed.
We typically find this plant on ditch banks
and in marshy areas.
Due to flower color many people will mistake
this plant for leafy spurge. There are over 100
species of Solidago species in North America.
As this plant spread mainly by roots, it can
outcompete other desireable plants, and fur-
thermore increases the chance of fires getting
out of hand when burning the ditch banks.
This plant is also undesireable as a food
source for livestock, therefore the plants increase
in numbers as the livestock eat away the other
plants and this helps it creep from ditch/creek
bank into the pastures.
The defense
This is another plant in the sunflower family
(like thistles), which makes the choice of herbi-
cides easy — the Pyridine family of herbicides
such as Milestone,
Opensight, or Curtail are all effective. Be ex-
tremely careful as to make sure your product is
Rain
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Those areas, which include
the slopes along the Snake
River between Richland and
Huntington, and in the hills on
the north side of the Keating
Valley, could still green up be-
fore heavy snow arrives.
“We did get enough rain to
potentially see a response with
the grass,” Ratliff said. “We’ll
just have to see if it happens.”
Prior to the rain, it was ex-
tremely dry at all elevations.
Although there was plenty
of grass thanks to the damp
spring, that grass had cured
Rich Olds/Contributed Photo
Missouri goldenrod commonly grows on ditch
banks and in marshy areas.
labeled and if so not to get it on the inside of the
ditch.
As this plant is native to the area there are no
bio-controls available outside of runaway grass-
hoppers or the like. You can get goats to eat it as
with most species that appear to have a woody
stem in the fall.
Call your local weed professional such as your
County Weed Supervisor for proper identifica-
tion and more information.
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Dog
Jeffrey Pettingill, supervisor of the Baker County Weed
District, can be reached at 541-523-0618 or 541-519-0204.
and wasn’t as nutritious as
green foliage, Ratliff said.
With dry grass so am-
ple, deer are generally able to
maintain their body weight,
he said.
But they need protein-rich
green grass to pack on the fat
layer that can sustain them
through the winter, when they
need to burn more calories to
maintain their body tempera-
ture and, potentially, to dig
through snow to reach forage.
Ratliff said that even if the
recent rain doesn’t yield a late
flush of green grass, he’s opti-
mistic about the prospects for
deer to fare well this winter.
“Animals are in great body
condition right now,” he said.
“I’m not incredibly worried
about deer. We’re not going
into winter with deer starving.”
Ratliff said fawns and buck
deer tend to be most suscep-
tible to the deprivations of
winter.
Fawns are vulnerable be-
cause they’re small and less
able to stay warm.
The issue with bucks is en-
ergy — they expend a lot of
calories chasing does during
the fall breeding season, and
as a result enter winter with
scantier fat reserves than fe-
male deer.
Winners of the week-long
competition will be announced
Nov. 3.
Sheriff Travis Ash said he’s
been working for more than a
year and a half on a plan to start
an Aftermath K9 unit.
“I’m wanting to bring a search
dog into the sheriff’s office that
searches for live people or evi-
dence,” Ash said.
The focus of the new K9 is to
find lost people, suspects and ev-
idence, Ash said.
The sheriff’s office currently
has a privately owned dog who
belongs to one of the members.
“He’s trained to go out and
will locate people in front of
him,” Ash said. “So, when he
finds them, he will sit or bark or
make a noise or he’ll run back to
his handler and take the handler
to the missing person.”
Ash said he wants to add to
the department’s resources a dog
that’s “more of a search and res-
cue based dog, where we’re go-
ing out and when they locate the
missing person or suspect they
will either come back or sound
off or they sit with the person.”
“I’m looking for a dog that’s
going to seek out suspects, seek
out lost people, and evidence.
That’s the route I want to go with
one,” Ash said.
K9 units vary in price. Ash
said he’s anticipating a cost of
$15,000 to $20,000, with the on-
going cost of caring for the dog.
“We’re applying for grants and
seeing if we can get that alternate
source of funding out there to
purchase the animal,” Ash said.
The sheriff’s office has also
applied for other grants, includ-
ing one from the Farm Credit
Service Bureau.
Ash said the county’s search
and rescue department is mov-
ing toward nonprofit status,
which would make the agency
eligible for more grants.
“I’m hoping by this time next
year we’ll have this up and run-
ning,” Ash said of the K9 unit.
“But it just depends too; it de-
pends what dogs we locate and
what’s available out there for
us and that’ll fit our needs that
we’re looking for.”
News of Record
DEATHS
Jane Ann Wiegand: 86, of Baker City,
died Oct. 26, 2022, at her residence.
Arrangements are under the direction
of Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. To
leave an online condolence for Jane’s
family, go to www.grayswestco.com.
Gerald Floyd Grover: 83, of Baker
city, died Oct. 28, 2022, at his home.
Arrangements are under the direction
of Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. To
leave an online condolence for Gerald’s
family, go to www.grayswestco.com.
Bruce Clark: 75, of Baker City, died Oct.
30, 2022, at Saint Alphonsus Medical
Center-Baker City. A celebration of
Bruce’s life will be announced later.
Arrangements are under the direction
of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home &
Cremation Services. Condolences and
memories can be shared online at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
Justin James Smith: 21, of Baker
City, died Oct. 30, 2022, in Baker City.
Arrangements are under the direction
of Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel. To
leave an online condolence for Justin’s
family, go to www.grayswestco.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
FIRST-DEGREE THEFT, FIRST-DEGREE
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: Tyson James
Balius, 25, Baker City, 8:49 a.m. Sunday,
Oct. 30 in the 3500 block of Place Street;
cited and released.
PROBATION VIOLATION: K-Leigh
Rhuhanna Pogue, 27, Baker City,
4:05 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30 at Resort and
Campbell streets; jailed.
SECOND-DEGREE DISORDERLY
CONDUCT: Sean Dean Taylor, 31, Baker
City, 8:31 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at Cedar
and H streets; cited and released.
THIRD-DEGREE THEFT, CONTEMPT
OF COURT (3 Baker County Justice
Court warrants): Chloe Taylor-Virginia
Stoffelsen, 26, Baker City, 1:59 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 28 at 1205 Campbell St.;
cited and released.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
PROBATION VIOLATION (Baker
County Circuit Court warrant):
Andrew Jay Culley, 33, Baker City,
11:20 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28 in the 3400
block of 13th Street; jailed.
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