4-H Club Plants Trees At Fairgrounds
On Tuesday, in honor of Arbor Day, members of the Baker City Top Dogs 4-H Club planted two trees in the area of the Baker County Fairgrounds where the Dog Shows are held every year. There has been no shade for the dogs and the club thought this would be a good community project.
Top Dog Taylor Murphy worked with the Fair Board and the City Council to coordinate the planting. Club members, Jake Skillings, Murphy, Tonita Britt and Lindsey Livingston, under supervision of club leader, Dee James, with shovels and gloved hands helped plant the trees.
The trees were purchased with a grant from the Baker County Tree Board and the money earned by the Club through can collections. Top Dogs does a community service project every year to give back to the community.
This project was a partnership between the Baker County Tree Board, Baker County Fair Board, the 4-H program, OSU Master Gardeners, and the OSU Extension Service.
Superintendent Candidates Visit Baker
By Eden Taylor
The Baker 5J staff, students and public were able to meet the three finalists in the search for superintendent on April 22 and 23. The public was invited to meet and question each candidate in separate meetings on both Thursday night and Friday morning.
George Park, who most recently was the superintendent in Panguitch, Utah, is originally from the Tri-Cities in Washington. Park had received the Frederick Emmos Terman Award at Stanford University for outstanding teaching. He was a history teacher. Park saw his role of a superintendent as that of a coach and being able to have a wonderful effect in validating the careers of others. He is highly qualified and showed great poise in the question/answer session.
Cole’s Attorney Files Motion To Suppress Evidence
By Debby Schoeningh
Baker City Attorney Robert Moon Jr. has filed a motion to suppress evidence obtained by the state on behalf of Brian Cole.
Cole, 47, of Baker City was cited and released Oct. 31, 2009, for furnishing alcohol to a minor while he and a 17-year-old female, unrelated to him, were discovered by a Baker County Sheriff’s Deputy parked in his vehicle at the Pocahontas Rural Fire Station. Along with Cole’s citation, the juvenile was issued a citation for minor in possession of alcohol and released to her mother.
After further investigation, on Feb. 10, 2010, Sean Riddell with the Oregon Department of Justice, who has been asked to prosecute the case, added a second charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor and four counts of third degree sexual abuse to Cole’s original charge.
ODFW Increases Bag Limits At Thief Valley Reservoir
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announced the adoption of a temporary administrative rule increasing the daily bag limit for trout at Thief Valley Reservoir. The rule is effective May 1, 2010 and increases the daily bag limit allowed from five to 15 fish, with no minimum size limit. The possession limit of two daily bag limits remains in affect as do all other Oregon sport fishing regulations.
With below normal precipitation so far this winter and spring, ODFW fisheries managers are anticipating water storage levels at Thief Valley Reservoir will be low enough by mid to late summer to cause significant mortality of stocked rainbow trout.
In previous years ODFW has waited until low reservoir storage levels are imminent before making rule changes to facilitate harvest of trout before they are lost. Anglers have reported fishing conditions in mid summer are poor and reasonable opportunities to harvest these fish are extremely limited. In response, ODFW is liberalizing the bag limit immediately to provide better opportunities to harvest these fish while angling conditions at the reservoir are good.
Thief Valley Reservoir is located on the Powder River near Baker City in the Southeast Oregon fishing zone.
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