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Sheriff ‘frustrated’ by new gun control law
A special good day to Herald
subscriber Raymond Berryman
of Baker City.
Travis Ash says his office ‘will not focus on
investigations on magazine capacity issues’
BRIEFING
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Albertsons to give away
holiday meals Nov. 22
Baker City Albertsons, 1120
Campbell St., will be distributing
holiday meals for those in need
on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at 12:30
p.m. The fi re department, police
department, sheriff’s offi ce
and The Salvation Army will
be assisting the effort. Meals
donated are from the Turkey
Bucks program that has been
running in the store since
mid-October.
Adventist Church
planning food drive
the measure,” Ash wrote in a statement
his office issued Monday, Nov. 14. “I’m
Baker County Sheriff
frustrated just like many of
Travis Ash said Monday,
you are. I fully expect legal
Nov. 14 that he’s “frus-
challenges to be filed in our
More
trated” by the passage of
court systems regarding
inside
Measure 114, the gun con-
some or all of the compo-
Please turn to
trol measure, in the Nov. 8
nents of Measure 114.”
Page A5 for a
election.
Alan M. Gottlieb,
story about the
But Ash, unlike some
founder of the Second
future of Mea-
other sheriffs, isn’t vowing
Amendment Foundation,
sure 114 in Or-
to completely ignore en-
based in Bellevue, Wash-
egon.
forcement of the new law,
ington, told The Oregonian
which is slated to take effect
that the group has already
Jan. 15, 2023, after it passed
written a first draft of a law-
by a margin of 51% to 49%.
suit seeking an injunction to block the
“I have been fielding several ques-
new law from taking effect.
See Sheriff / A3
tions along with many concerns about
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
M&R Glasgow/Flickr
Oregon voters this month narrowly passed Measure 114, one of the more stringent gun
control laws in the nation.
The Baker City Seventh-day
Adventist Church is holding a
food drive to help fi ll Thanks-
giving baskets. The church dis-
tributed bags on Nov. 17, then
will return Saturday, Nov. 19, to
collect donations. Anyone who
doesn’t receive a bag, but would
like to donate, can call Valerie
Tachenko, 541-377-2260, or
the church, 541-523-4913.
BAKER CITY
Stray
bighorn
sheep
captured
Free Thanksgiving
meal at Calvary Baptist
Church
Calvary Baptist Church will
have a free Thanksgiving Day
meal on Thursday, Nov. 24 from
3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Browning
Hall at the church, 2130 Fourth
St. in Baker City.
Browning Hall is also the
site for the church’s weekly
free community dinners, each
Thursday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Ram was released Friday after
receiving clean bill of health
BY IAN CRAWFORD AND JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
WEATHER
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Baker City residents are accustomed to
mule deer roaming in town, but on Tuesday
afternoon, Nov. 15, a much different wildlife
visitor showed up.
A bighorn sheep ram, typically seen
clambering on cliffs and among craggy
peaks, wandered into the west side of Baker
City.
The 4-year-old ram, from the Burnt River
Canyon herd southeast of town, received a
lot of attention on social media, with several
people getting photographs or videos.
Employees from the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) searched for
the ram as dusk fell Tuesday, but they had
no luck finding the animal.
But on Wednesday morning, Nov. 16, bi-
ologists tracked down the ram and shot it
with a tranquilizer dart to immobilize the
powerful animal, which was in a yard at
15th and Broadway streets, about five blocks
west of the railroad tracks.
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An Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative truck lifts the community Christmas
tree for transport to the Court Street Park on Friday morning, Nov. 18, 2022.
Monday
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Baker’s tree
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Baker County
runners compete
at cross-country
nationals
Community Christmas tree returns to Court Street Plaza
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
soconner@bakercityherald.com
Although snow was absent, the
temperature was certainly appro-
priately chilly for the annual felling
of Baker City’s community Christ-
mas tree.
It was in the teens when work-
ers gathered at Kathy Rayl’s south
Baker City home, at 235 Fourth
St., to wrestle with the blue spruce
Rayl donated.
Rayl said the tree is too big for
its location, with branches reach-
ing above the power lines near her
home.
“It’s too big for the space and
it’s beautiful,” Rayl said. “Maybe
somebody else can enjoy it, at least
for a while.”
Workers from Baker City, Ore-
gon Trail Electric Cooperative and
Superior Towing joined to bring
Rayl’s tree to its new, temporary
home in the Court Street Plaza,
between Main and Resort streets.
As he has every year since 1979,
Chuck Carey wielded the chain
saw to cut this year’s community
tree.
The tree’s lights will be turned
on after the Baker County Cham-
ber of Commerce’s Twilight
Christmas Parade, set to start at
5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3.
Baker City Herald
See Tree / A2
No print paper on Thanksgiving holiday
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Baker City
Herald will not publish a print edition on Thursday, Nov. 25.
An e-edition only paper will be published on Thanksgiving
and will be available to paid subscribers through the Herald’s
website, bakercityherald.com.
TODAY
Issue 82
12 pages
Classified ....................B2-B4
Comics ..............................B5
Community News.............A2
The Thanksgiving e-edition will include local stories, an
opinion page and sports. To make sure you are subscribed to
the e-edition, call the EO Media Group customer service line
at 800-781-3214.
Crossword ...............B2 & B4
Dear Abby .........................B6
Horoscope ........................B2
Jayson Jacoby ..................A4
Lottery Results .................A2
News of Record ................A2
Three Baker County runners competed in
the NAIA cross-country championships Fri-
day morning, Nov. 18 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Justin Ash, a sophomore at Eastern Ore-
gon University, was the Mountaineers’ top
finisher, placing 51st in the 8-kilometer
course in a time of 25:02.5. Ash, who is from
Baker City, competed for Powder Valley
High School.
His teammate, Caleb Brown, a freshman
from Pine Eagle High School in Halfway,
finished 212th in a time of 26:28.1.
EOU finished 12th in the team standings.
In the women’s race, Emma Baeth, a fresh-
man and 2022 Baker High School graduate
competing for Southern Oregon University,
placed 156th in the 5-kilometer race in a
time of 19:24.2.
Opinion .............................A4
Outdoors .................B1 & B6
Senior Menus ...................A2
Sports ...............................A6
Turning Backs ..................A2
Weather ............................B6