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STATE
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
County Fair Officials Discuss
Plans for Building Up
Exhibits
S. John Collins/Baker City Herald, File
The proposed Boardman to Hemingway power transmission line could follow
the route of an existing line that runs along the eastern edge of Baker Valley
near Highway 86.
Power companies announce
new deal on line between
Boardman and Hemingway
East Oregonian
PORTLAND — Idaho Power,
PacifiCorp and the Bonneville
Power Administration have reached
a non-binding agreement on the mas-
sive Boardman to Hemingway trans-
mission line.
The BPA in a press release
Wednesday, Jan. 19, announced that
the agreement clarifies and updates
roles and responsibilities for the
B2H project.
“The proposed agreement is an
important step for this 500-kilovolt,
290-mile transmission line, which
would deliver 1,000 megawatts of
reliable, affordable power in each
direction between the Pacific North-
west and mountain West,” according
to the press release.
Under the new deal, Idaho Power
and PacifiCorp will jointly own the
B2H transmission line, with Pacifi-
Corp owning 55% and Idaho Power
owning 45%.
Idaho Power will acquire an own-
ership interest in PacifiCorp trans-
mission lines and other equipment
between eastern Idaho and the Four
Corners Substation in northwest
New Mexico. B2H and those acqui-
sitions amplify Idaho Power’s con-
nections to key energy markets that
will help the company meet rapidly
growing customer demand.
The Bonneville Power Admin-
istration will transfer its ownership
interest in B2H to Idaho Power and
will not participate in construction
or have any ownership interest in the
transmission line project.
Facilities PacifiCorp uses to serve
BPA’s customers in and around
southeast Idaho will be transferred to
Idaho Power. BPA will acquire trans-
mission service over Idaho Pow-
er’s transmission system, including
the newly constructed B2H, to serve
public utility customers in Idaho,
Wyoming and Montana.
More information about BPA’s
effort to serve these customers and
its public process to consider the
agreement is available in BPA’s let-
ter to the region.
PacifiCorp will acquire Idaho
Power transmission assets across
southern Idaho that, combined with
its majority stake in Boardman-Hem-
ingway, will increase its contiguous
power transfer capability between
its western and eastern systems, and
will acquire additional transmis-
sion service from BPA to enable it to
serve its growing customer base in
central Oregon.
With the non-binding term sheet
developed, the three organizations
move into a negotiation phase to
finalize the agreements and seek reg-
ulatory approval. Concurrent with
this press release, BPA is issuing
a letter to its regional stakeholders
and customers that outlines the pro-
posal, describes the background and
explains the process for engaging
with BPA on this topic.
Construction of the line is set to
begin in 2023, and B2H is antici-
pated to come online in 2026.
The term sheet and background
information about B2H is available
at the project website.
A meeting of the superinten-
dents of the various departments
of the Grant County Fair met with
County Agent Farrell at at his office
in Canyon City recently, and went
through in detail all departments
of exhibits from the livestock to
the lowly spud, as set forth in last
year’s premium list. These pre-
mium lists have been copied from
year to year for many years and
many errors have crept in, also dis-
crepancies and inequalities of pre-
miums offered. The old list needed
a thorough revamping; much has
become obsolete and many new
items needed to be included. Each
superintendent made his sugges-
tions of eliminations, additions and
corrections, which will be included
in the list as printed this year.
The livestock department
included horses, cattle, hogs, and
sheep under one superintendent,
this will be divided and two super-
intendents appointed. In the poultry
department many classes of fowls
are no longer bred, and new breeds
come into being. And the same
right down the line.
Renewal of community booths
was urged. There were none last
year, but they are of much inter-
est and benefit to the fair. More
buildings for stock are needed; the
4-H has grown greatly in size and
importance in recent years, a larger
show ring was suggested and a
revamping of the interior of main
hall urged.
It was recommended that a
chairman for each community be
appointed to create local interest in
exhibits; that the fair premium list
be gotten out in ample time and pos-
sible pamphlets of premiums only
be mailed two months ahead of the
issuance of the regular premium list
that folks may plan on preparing
exhibits well in advance, and occa-
sional newspaper items with sug-
gestions as to how to prepare exhib-
its and urging exhibits regardless of
reward to make the exhibits exten-
sive whether they are good, bad or
indifferent. People are prone not to
go to the trouble of bringing exhib-
its unless they are positive they will
get a premium, and that should not
be. It is a county fair, not a contest
among a select few to see who gets
a ribbon.
Last year the fair was a flop so
far as exhibits are concerned. Few
flowers, few canned goods, but lit-
tle fruit, no community exhibits at
Blue Mountain Eagle, File
The shattered remains of Evan Sherman’s two-seat helicopter rest next to
a wood fence 12 miles west of Mt. Vernon at Widow’s Creek Ranch in this
photo from January 1997. Sherman survived the accidental crash.
all, and so on down the line. Peo-
ple were disgusted and well they
should be but it was their own fault.
If everyone would bring something
even if it is a one legged chicken, a
fallen cake, or a homemade shawl
we would have a fair and a good
one.
50 YEARS AGO
Stockgrowers Zeroing In on
Animal Health Care
Emphasis will be on livestock
diseases when the Grant County
Stockgrowers meet here Satur-
day, Feb. 5, for their annual winter
meeting.
The sessions will be conducted
at the Monument Grange Hall, start-
ing at 11 a.m., and Grange ladies
will serve a luncheon at noon.
Dr. Grant Pribanic, Baker, the
new federal veterinarian for this
area, will be a guest speaker. He is
with the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture’s animal disease control
unit.
There also will be a discussion
of pulmonary emphysema — or
grass poisoning, as it is known —
and a report on discussions held
in Salem last week on this topic,
according to William K. Farrell,
Stockgrowers secretary.
Farrell and Garland Meador,
Prairie City, who took his seat
on the State Board of Agricul-
ture this week, will discuss the
county resource economic study
now under way, as will Russ You-
mans, a community development
specialist at Oregon State Univer-
sity who has been involved in the
project.
Time also will be given to dis-
cussion of several other resolutions
passed at the October Meeting,
including one dealing with noxious
weeds, Farrell said.
25 YEARS AGO
Helicopter mishap injures
pilot at ranch
WIDOW’S CREEK RANCH
— A helicopter accident Monday
12 miles west of Mt. Vernon at
Widow’s Creek Ranch injured pilot
Evan Sherman.
According to neighbor Stan
Powell, Sherman was attempting
to take off in his two-seat helicop-
ter about 9 a.m. when the helicop-
ter lurched off its trailer, the tail hit
the ground and it bounced twice
before coming to rest against a
wood fence.
Powell, who lives south and
above Sherman’s property, had
a bird’s-eye view of the accident
from his house.
Powell and his wife, Bonnie,
called 911 dispatch and then sped
down the hill to help Sherman, who
had gotten out of the helicopter,
walked a few feet and collapsed.
Powell held Sherman’s head
for almost an hour in sub-freezing
morning weather. Bonnie brought
down two pillows and blankets to
help keep Sherman warm.
Powell said he thought the heli-
copter’s skids had frozen to the
trailer, inhibiting takeoff.
Powell said Sherman often flew
his helicopter.
“He bought the helicopter in
Arizona and taught himself how to
fly,” Powell said.
Sherman was taken to Blue
Mountain Hospital by Grant
County Ambulance.
He returned home Monday
night. He sustained a broken collar-
bone in the crash.
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