Baker City Gets A Trolley
By Eden Taylor
A new trolley will be driving around Baker City beginning Monday, July 13. Community Connection has purchased the trolley bus, which will take a scheduled, fixed route in Baker City providing public transportation. A free introductory period will begin on July 13.
Mary Jo Carpenter, Baker County Manager for Community Connections, says the focus of the trolley is to provide good public transit for the community and to enhance the historical theme of Baker City. The trolley will be operating during Miners’ Jubilee.
Local Man Arrested In Horse Abandonment Case
James Charles Harmon, 30, of Baker City, has been arrested in connection with the abandonment of five Appaloosa foals on Highway 7. The horses were young enough that they were not weaned and were unable to survive on their own.
Harmon has been charged with five counts of animal abandonment, four counts of second degree animal neglect and one count of first degree animal neglect.
Baker County Sheriff Mitch Southwick said Wednesday morning that another arrest is pending.
Civil Rights Activist And Former BHS Graduate Honored
Rev. Bruce Klunder, Civil Rights activist who was killed in 1964 during a Cleveland Ohio protest, was honored at the Baker County Courthouse last week. A bulldozer backed over him during the protest, which was being held at a construction site for a segregated school for black children. Klunder and four others slipped through barriers and threw themselves down in front of and behind a bulldozer, shouting to the operator. The operator did not hear them and Bruce was killed when it backed over him. He was 26.
Klunder graduated from Baker High School as an honor student at the age of 16. He was the center on his high school league-champion and state quarter final football team, played trumpet in the school band, and was active in several high school clubs and organizations. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1958 and from Yale Divinity School in 1961.
Commission Hears Vital County Issues
By Eden Taylor
In their regular session on July 1, the Baker County Commissioners heard reports on vital issues and made an important decision on the Auburn Gulch Road.
In an addition to the agenda, Ken Helgerson appeared before the commission to ask for a decision on Auburn Gulch Road as to whether or not it would be designated an RS2477 Road. In light of a controversy which began June 30 and was still ongoing as the commissioners met, the decision needed to be immediate. The controversy included Herman Pilcher, whose lock was cut on his gate, and an excavator, possibly stolen, that had been brought across Pilcher’s property to a mine on USFS land. A couple of officers from the Sheriff’s Office were at the scene.
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