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NORTH POWDER RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
December 1, 1972
River Brook subdivision near Hughes Lane on the Powder
River is complete and ready for occupancy, according to Bruce
and Bill Kirkpatrick, owners. The 15-acre subdivision, contain-
ing 58 lots, is planned for mobile homes, factory-built and mod-
ular type homes designed to be set on permanent foundations.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
December 1, 1997
HAINES — No one was injured today when 12 cars of a
Union Pacifi c train derailed at the north end of Haines a few
minutes after midnight.
One of the cars was carrying naphthalene, a toxic substance
used to make industrial cleaners, but that car remained upright
and did not leak, said Mike Furtney, a Union Pacifi c spokesman
in San Francisco.
Eric Schoenfeld of the Haines Fire Department, which
responded to the derailment, said the car carrying naphthalene
was intact.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
November 30, 2012
The Baker City Police Department is seeking help from the
community in an investigation of what Chief Wyn Lohner terms
a “very disturbing” animal abuse crime.
Lohner said police are investigating the bludgeoning of a
domestic cat that fi rst had its limbs bound, its head covered
and then was placed inside a plastic bag.
The bag contained a “signifi cant amount of blood and body
fl uids,” Lohner said.
The animal’s dead body was found in a backpack that had
been left in a residential garbage can in front of a south Baker
City home.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
December 2, 2021
Baker School District teachers Bibiana Gifft and Nicole
Merchant have received the Outstanding Middle/Secondary
Agricultural Award for an 11-state region for their agriculture
education program.
The pair traveled to New Orleans on Tuesday, Nov. 30 to
receive the award on stage at the National Association of Agri-
cultural Educators (NAAE) National Conference.
“We were so proud to be announced, especially because
there were some other impressive programs across the state in
the running as well,” Gifft wrote to the Baker City Herald.
Gifft, an FFA agricultural teacher, said the application pro-
cess, which started last year at the state level, is arduous.
“The application process includes a very long application,
featuring categories including: classroom instruction, experien-
tial learning, student leadership, program marketing, commu-
nity partnerships, and professional growth of the agriculture
instructors,” Gifft wrote. “We also submit multiple pages of
supplemental documents (usually photos and newspaper
clippings).”
Merchant, the agricultural science teacher and FFA advisor
for the Baker Technical Institute at Baker High School, said in a
written statement that she and Gifft applied and received the
Outstanding Middle/Secondary Agriculture Program for Oregon
in 2020.
“After you win your state then you apply the following spring
for the national level,” Merchant said. “They select a national
winner from each region and we are in region 1 and there are
six regions in total.”
According to its website, the NAAE is a federation of state
agricultural educators associations with more than 9,000
members. They are involved in school-based agricultural educa-
tion at any level and state and national education leadership.
They advocate for agricultural education, provide profession-
al development for agricultural educators and work to recruit
and retain agricultural educators in the profession.
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MONDAY (Dec. 5): Chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes
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The Observer, File
The North Powder Rural Fire Protection District’s new fire station at 710 E St., North Powder, is ready for service Saturday, March 20, 2021. In 2022
the Wildhorse Foundation awarded the North Powder Rural Fire Department a grant of $19,813 to help it purchase a utilitarian terrain side-by-
side vehicle plus a Stokes basket for transporting patients off-road.
Department gets grant to help
purchase off-road rescue vehicle
BY DICK MASON
The Observer
NORTH POWDER — The North Pow-
der Rural Fire Department is a step closer
to getting the funding it needs to purchase
an off-road vehicle that will make it easier to
rescue people who cannot be reached by an
ambulance.
The Wildhorse Foundation has awarded
the department a grant of $19,813 to help
it purchase a utilitarian terrain side-by-side
vehicle plus a Stokes basket for transporting
patients.
The side-by-side UTV would have room
for multiple riders, including space for trans-
porting people with injuries. The grant puts
the North Powder department about halfway
toward raising the approximately $38,000
needed to purchase the vehicle and Stokes
basket, according to Colby Thompson, chief
of the North Powder Rural
ing job, but it takes time for its
“We have to call
Fire Department.
personnel to get to the North
search and rescue or Powder area in an emergency.
The vehicle will make it
possible for fire department
This will no longer be an issue
carry them out.”
when the North Powder fire de-
crews to reach individuals in
— Colby Thompson,
partment has its own off-road
difficult to reach places like
chief of the North
side-by-side.
steep rocky or brush-filled
Powder Rural Fire
“This will help us get people
terrain. Thompson said the
Department
out faster,” Thompson said.
Stokes basket would make it
The North Powder Rural
easier to carry patients out
Fire Department has applied for grants from
and could be secured within the UTV side-
other private sources for the purchase of the
by-side.
off-road rescue vehicle. Thompson said there
He said presently the North Powder de-
is a chance his department could receive the
partment has only two options when it must
grants soon. “I’d like to have them by the end
get to patients its ambulance cannot get to.
“We have to call search and rescue or carry of the year,” he said.
Thompson said he’s hopeful, with the ad-
them out,” he said.
Thompson said Union County Search and dition of other grants, the department might
have the UTV and Stokes basket by early
Rescue, which has the vehicles needed to get
to places difficult to reach, does an outstand- 2023.
Eastern Oregon University presidential
search committee is appointed
BY DICK MASON
The Observer
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon
University Board of Trustees is a step
closer to getting its search for a new pres-
ident into high gear.
The board has named a 22-member
presidential search committee to help
it find a successor to Tom Insko, who
stepped down in August. The search
committee is headed by David Nelson,
of Pendleton, a former member of the
EOU Board of Trustees and a state sena-
tor from 1997 to 2013. Nelson served as
chair of the board of trustees from 2015
through 2020.
The committee members will also in-
clude administrators, members of the
faculty and classified staff, students, two
current members of the board of trust-
ees, three former members of the board
of trustees and Portland State University
President Stephen Percy. The state requires
that each presidential search committee for
state universities have a president of a pub-
lic Oregon state university on its presiden-
tial search committees.
The EOU search committee was se-
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lected by Cheryl Martin, chair of the
EOU Board of Trustees. Martin said that
not everyone who wanted to serve on the
search committee could be appointed.
She said, though, that there will be many
opportunities in the future for people to
give public input on the selection process
in the future.
Martin said she feels good about the
chances of the search to go well.
“I know and trust we will find the right
person for EOU,” the board chair said
at a meeting of the board of trustees on
Wednesday, Nov. 9.
The board of trustees will soon hire
an executive search firm to assist with se-
lecting a new president.
EOU has received 11 requests for
proposals from executive search firms
and will select its finalists this week and
hire a firm shortly thereafter, Martin
said.
The board of trustees approved a res-
olution outlining how its search will be
conducted in late September. The resolu-
tion states that the board’s goal is to have
a new president in place by the middle of
next year.
News of Record
DEATHS
Sandra Scott: 73, of Baker City, died Nov. 26, 2022,
at her home. Arrangements are under the direction
of Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation
Services. Online condolences can be shared at www.
tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
FUNERAL PENDING
Judith Schroeder: A Mass of Christian burial will be Saturday,
Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. at Saint Francis de Sales Cathedral in Baker
City. A graveside committal will follow at Mount Hope
Cemetery. Friends are invited to join the family for a reception
immediately following the committal back at the church.
For those who would like to make a memorial donation in
honor of Judy the family suggests the Alzheimer’s Association
through Tami’s Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation
Services, P.O. Box 543, Halfway, OR 97834. Online condolences
can be shared at www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO APPEAR (Baker County Circuit Court
warrant): Debra Renee Efird, 48, Baker City, 9:56 a.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 29 in the 1200 block of B Street; jailed.
Baker County Sheriff’s Office
Arrests, citations
CONTEMPT OF COURT (Baker County Justice Court
warrant): Thomas Doyle Owsley, 58, Baker City, 8:52 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 28 in the 1000 block of Resort Street; cited and
released.
Baker County Parole and Probation
PROBATION VIOLATION: Craig Anthony Willey, 44, Baker
City, 2:48 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29 at the sheriff’s office; jailed.
PROBATION VIOLATION: Caleb James Mansuetti, 21, Baker
City, 5:24 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28 in the 3400 block of 13th
Street; jailed.
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