60YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 3, 1957

The kids of Baker had their own parade today and it was a colorful event with everything form bikes designed as pinto horses to rocketships as the kids competed for prizes in seven divisions.

25YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 3, 1992

Revenues from the state’s video poker game should be used for regional tourism marketing.

That’s what Ric Ingham, Visitor and Convention Bureau executive director, told the Baker County Court Wednesday. He presented a preliminary proposal that calls for several Eastern Oregon counties pooling video poker revenue for a regional marketing program.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 3, 2007

No one was hurt when a three-engine jetboat carrying 13 passengers down one of the rougher rapids on the Snake River in Hells Canyon hit a rock and sank Friday afternoon.

The passengers and the two crew members on the boat, which is owned by Hells Canyon Adventures III LLC of Oxbow, got off the 40-foot aluminum vessel before it went under at Wild Sheep Rapid.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 4, 2016

HAINES — Travis Hack wields a staff-sized hook to carry chuck meat toward a concrete pit in the Haines City Park.

He notes that this particular chunk is heavy compared to the estimated 360 pounds of separated meat already sitting in the wide hole on this Sunday evening. Still, Hack manages to neatly place the wrapped food next to entrées that hundreds of Baker County residents will enjoy on the Fourth of July.

The raw meat sizzles as it makes contact with the bottom of the pit. Earlier that morning, Hack and his eight companions started an applewood fire in the pit. It has been burning all day.