Memorial Day Service
VFW District 6 Commander was the featured speaker during Monday’s Memorial Day Service at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Five flags were placed into service with the nearly 500 that are displayed in the Avenue of Flags. Those veterans honored were Donald A. Stoner, U.S. Marine Corps; James A. Poston; Roy H. Engelhardt, World War II; Vivian K. Sipp, U.S. Navy WAVES; and Dale E. Clark, Army Air Corps. The flags were donated by families of the Veterans.
Along with the Avenue of Flags, individual flags were placed on the graves of those veterans who served our country.
School Board Considers 4-Day Week
By Eden Taylor
Baker 5J Superintendent Don Ulrey told the School Board that there will be additional program reductions and more staff layoffs during the School Board Meeting on May 19. After a grueling budget board session, and a work session on the 4-day school week, the school board meeting began 1⁄2 hour late.
Ulrey said major changes that have already been made include closing two buildings, laying off staff and/or reducing hours or number of days worked, restructured grade level schools, kindergarten moved to Baker High School (BHS) freezing all purchase orders, cutting five days, remodeling a wing at BHS and Helen M. Stack buildings, employee contracts and benefits negotiated. He said other considerations, which will not be implemented until more studies, surveys and presentations are made, may include: a four-day school week, contracting out services, number of days eliminated next year, transportation of food service programs, timelines for implementation of new reductions, and additional program reductions and/or staff layoffs.
Roads Continue To Be An Issue For County Commission
By Eden Taylor
The standoff continues between the Forest Service and private citizens when it comes to roads in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest. The private citizen group, comprised mostly of miners who use the roads on USFS land to access their mining claims insists that the roads were in place previous to the Federal Government taking over the land as National Forest. Forest Service Superintendent Steve Ellis and Forest Ranger Ken Anderson said it doesn’t matter when the road was built, if a road is on National Forest land, it would come under the USFS Travel Management Plan. The County Commissioners, on the other hand, do not want to take sides. They want to rely on their own investigation to determine if the County has jurisdiction over the roads in question or if they don’t. So the stalemate continues.
Ellis briefed the County Commissioners on two subjects during the regular session of the County Commission meeting on May 20.
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