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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
November 12, 1972
HALFWAY — Pine-Eagle celebrated a birthday here Saturday
afternoon with Umatilla furnishing the best present of all — a
berth in the state semifi nal playoffs.
It was halfback Curt Randall who made another circuit
through the calendar, but it was diffi cult to tell who the birthday
boy was in the jubilant Spartan dressing room. The Spartans
were still hopping with adrenaline after completely dominating
Umatilla for three quarters of a quarterfi nal bout to crush the
Vikings 20-7 in Pine-Eagle’s biggest offensive show of the year.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 12, 1997
Air Force Airman Ryan P. Leigh has graduated from basic
military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio,
Texas.
During the six weeks of training, he studied the Air Force
mission, organization, and customs and received special
training in human relations.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 12, 2012
Jim Thomas, adjutant for the Veterans of Foreign Wars’
Anthony Lakes post, spoke Sunday morning to about fi ve
dozen residents in front of the Veterans Memorial outside of
the Baker County Courthouse.
Today, Monday, is the legal Veterans Day holiday this year.
Sunday, however, was the true day of observance, which
occurs during the 11th month, on the 11th day and at the
11th hour.
Veterans Day is devoted to remembering all of those who
served, living or dead. Thomas devoted a signifi cant portion of
time talking about those who died while serving their country.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 13, 2021
VIRTUE FLAT — Cole Hauter twists the throttle and his mo-
torcycle suddenly races up a rock-strewn slope that looks like a
fi ne place to fall down.
The rear knobby tire fl ings a stream of dirt more than 20 feet
in his wake, the sort of brown fountain a grenade explosion
might spawn.
In a few seconds Hauter has disappeared, the only evi-
dence of his presence the banshee-like rasp of the Yamaha
YZ450FX’s 450 cc single-cylinder engine echoing through the
sagebrush gullies.
His progress through the contorted terrain at this off-highway
vehicle riding area east of Baker City is so rapid that it confuses
the eye. As Hauter zooms from the base of a knob to its
summit and beyond in a handful of seconds he seems to be, if
not defying gravity and other immutable physical laws, then at
least giving them a good stretch. Although there is no obvious
pattern to Hauter’s progress, he is riding on this gusty evening
of Nov. 4 for a particular purpose.
Practice.
In two weeks he’ll be speeding through similar topography, at
speeds up to 120 mph, more than 1,000 miles away.
On the morning of Nov. 18 Hauter, a 25-year-old Baker City
resident, will jump onto a motorcycle very much like this one
and start racing south through the desert of Mexico’s Baja
Peninsula. He’ll be part of a seven-rider team competing in the
54th Baja 1000 — the ultimate competition in off-road racing.
And in that instant when he starts rolling, Hauter will fulfi ll
a goal that dates back two decades, to when he was a boy
whose head wouldn’t have reached the handlebars of his
current Yamaha.
“It’s something I’ve been dreaming of since I was fi ve,”
Hauter said.
Back then Hauter rode a comparatively tame Honda 70.
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SENIOR MENUS
MONDAY (Nov. 14): Salisbury steak, au gratin potatoes,
green beans, rolls, broccoli-bacon salad, cheesecake
TUESDAY (Nov. 15): Stuffed peppers, scalloped potatoes,
peas, cottage cheese with fruit
WEDNESDAY (Nov. 16): Sweet-and-sour chicken, brown
rice, Oriental vegetables, rolls, Asian slaw salad, cinnamon
rolls
THURSDAY (Nov. 17): Thanksgiving lunch: Roasted turkey
with stuffi ng, butternut squash with apples and cranberries,
vegetables, cranberry sauce, rolls, broccoli-bacon salad,
pumpkin pie
FRIDAY (Nov. 18): Baked ziti, garlic bread, carrots, green
salad, ice cream
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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ANTHONY LAKE
Local
Briefing
Lions Club volunteers
screened 510 students
for vision issues
This fall, 10 volunteers with the
Baker City Lions Club conducted
vision screenings for local students.
In the Baker School District, the
club screened 510 students, result-
ing in 76 student referrals for vision
conditions.
At North Powder Charter School,
they screened 134 students and re-
ferred 18 for vision concerns.
Book reading features
‘High Contrast’
A book reading featuring An-
drew Kaza and his book “High
Contrast: A Story of Basketball,
Race and Politics in Oregon 1972,”
is set for Thursday, Nov. 17 at 6 p.m.
at Crossroads Carnegie Art Center,
2020 Auburn Ave.
The event is sponsored by Betty’s
Books. In the book, Kaza recounts
the March 25, 1972, Class AAA
boys state championship basketball
game in Portland’s Memorial Col-
iseum, pitting the underdog Baker
Bulldogs against the powerful Jef-
ferson Democrats from Portland.
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Anthony Lake is a popular summer fishing destination.
Warm water caused
trout deaths in July
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Advent retreat
scheduled for Nov. 19
The approximately 200 hatchery rainbow
trout that died in late July after being released
in Anthony Lake succumbed to thermal shock
when they splashed into the comparatively
warmer surface water in the alpine lake, a state
fish biologist said.
“It was a temperature difference between
the transport and the water body they’re re-
leased in,” said Joe Lemanski, district fish bi-
ologist at the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife’s (ODFW) La Grande office.
Although the water is generally cool in An-
thony Lake, at elevation 7,100 feet, direct mid-
summer sunlight can warm the top layer to as
much as 60 to 70 degrees, Lemanski said.
Water in the hatchery transport truck that
delivered the trout to the 22-acre lake on July
26, by contrast, was likely in the 50s or below,
he said.
“With a good amount of sunlight and am-
bient heat, it can heat up really quickly,” Le-
manski said. “By July we’d already had a few
100 degree days, and by the time they were
released the temperature difference was too
great.”
An automated weather station just east of
Anthony Lake, and at nearly the same eleva-
tion, recorded a high temperature of 75 de-
grees on July 26, the day 2,000 rainbow trout
were released in the lake.
High temperatures over the previous two
weeks ranged from 64 degrees to 79 degrees.
Lemanski said ODFW began to get reports
from anglers soon after the July 26 release, in-
cluding one report from a Forest Service em-
ployee who took photos of dead fish.
The dead trout were concentrated near the
An Advent retreat, “The Second
Coming of Christ! Conversion,
Hope and Humility” is set for Satur-
day, Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, 2235
First St. in Baker City. Cost is $20,
and includes lunch.The retreat will
be presented by Father B. Clements.
To register, call 541-523-4521.
OTEC sponsoring
food drive through Nov. 14
Oregon Trail Electric Coopera-
tive (OTEC) is sponsoring a com-
munity food drive to help provide
meals to local residents for Thanks-
giving. Through Monday, Nov. 14,
OTEC members can drop off non-
perishable food at any OTEC office.
In Baker City that’s at 4005 23rd St.,
just south of Pocahontas Road west
of the railroad tracks. All food will
be donated to food banks across
OTEC’s service territory for distri-
bution before Thanksgiving. More
information is available by emailing
communications@otec.coop or call-
ing 541-523-3616.
Final Sciences & Arts
lecture set for Nov. 17
The fifth and final Baker Com-
munity Sciences & Arts Lecture will
be Nov. 17 at the OTEC conference
room, 4005 23rd St. Doors open
5:30 p.m., and the lecture starts
promptly at 6 p.m. The lecture is
titled “A Brief History of Art: Fabu-
lous Facts, Divine Discoveries, and
Creative Connections.” Award-win-
ning local artist, teacher and writer
Nancy Coffelt will share her exper-
tise and inspiration. The series was
supported in part by a grant from
the Baker County Cultural Trust
Coalition, funded by the Oregon
Cultural Trust, the Baker chapter
of AAUW, Amplify Marketing and
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative.
Man whose home was condemned,
torn down describes his depression
Lucas Gwin
concedes property
was ‘messy,’ but he
contends he was
treated unfairly
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Turkey Trot scheduled for
Thanksgiving morning
The man who owned
a home that Baker City
had torn down in early
August after the city’s
building official deemed
it dangerous says the ex-
perience has left him in
a “crippling state of de-
pression.”
Lucas Buddy Lee
Gwin, 37, whose home
was at 1975 Birch St. in
east Baker City, at the
corner of Birch Street
and Washington Ave-
nue, wrote in an email
to the Baker City Herald
that he’s been “looking
at what I do have and
trying to learn to let go
of the pain and anger of
what I’ve lost.”
The 15th annual Turkey Trot
run/walk happens Thanksgiving
morning, Nov. 24, in front of Kicks
Sports on Main Street.
Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.
and the event begins at 9 a.m.
Participants are asked to bring a
non-perishable food item to donate.
Proceeds from the event support
the Northeast Oregon Compassion
Center. Entry is $15 per person.
Register online at www.neoregon-
compassioncenter.org or find a link
on the Facebook page, www.face-
book.com/NortheastOregonCom-
passionCenter. Participants can also
register the day of the race from
7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Awards will be given for the top
overall finishers and teams.
See Condemned / A5
News of Record
POLICE LOG
Oregon State Police
Accident report
On Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7:14 a.m.,
police responded to a single vehicle
rollover on the westbound lanes of
Interstate 84 near Milepost 320. A Ford
F-250 pickup truck driven by Jose Juan
Morales Zavala, 30, of Payette, Idaho,
lost traction and struck a hill on the
right side of the freeway, causing it to
roll at least once before coming to a
stop upright. Morales Zavala and his
boat ramp at the southeast corner of the lake
— which is where the hatchery truck disgorges
its load of rainbow trout.
Lemanski said it doesn’t appear that a large
number of fish were dead before they were re-
leased, however, since there were no reports of
dead fish floating near the boat ramp during
or immediately after the release.
He suspects most of the fish died within a
day or less, based on the timing of the reports.
This summer, prior to the lab test results,
Lemanski said thermal shock was a possible
cause for the fish deaths.
He noted that there were no reports of dead
trout after 2,000 rainbows were released in An-
thony Lake, at the same site, three weeks ear-
lier, on July 5.
Temperatures were much cooler during the
two weeks prior to the July 5 release, with the
high below 60 degrees on several days.
Indeed, lingering snowdrifts, the result of an
abnormally cool, wet spring that brought snow
to the area as late as mid June, delayed the sec-
ond trout release until July 26.
“They were hoping to get those fish in a few
weeks earlier, but the snow accumulated pre-
vented an earlier release,” Lemanski said.
After reports started coming in about dead
trout near the boat ramp, ODFW officials col-
lected some carcasses.
“A handful of specimens were taken to our
fish health lab at EOU, they evaluated them for
everything — blood, tissue, bacteria, virology,”
Lemanski said.
The tests confirmed thermal shock as the
cause, and ruled out other, potentially more
troubling, problems such as toxins in the wa-
ter, an infection in the trout, or failures with
the hatchery truck or release procedures.
passenger, Daniel Garrett Lovins, 21, of
Payette, had minor injuries and were
taken to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center
in Baker City by ambulance, according
to an OSP report.
Contributed Photo
Lucas Gwin with his pet pig.
The family of
Clay Gyllenberg
expresses their sincere appreciation for the
outpouring of love at his recent passing.
We are humbled by all your prayers, phone calls,
flowers, food, and support at his celebration of
life. We are blessed to live in a caring community.
Sincerely,
Chris, Cody and Dusty Gyllenberg
Gyllenberg Family
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