By ED MERRIMAN

Baker City Herald

Tyler Brown, left, owner of Barley Brown's Brew Pub, and brewmaster Shawn Kelso peruse the copy of Maxim magazine in which Barley's Tumble Off pale ale was picked as one of the top 25 new beers in America.

Barley Brown’s Brew Pub’s Tumble Off pale ale was picked as one of the 25 best new beers in America in the latest issue of Maxim magazine.

The six-page feature includes a map of the United States covered with labels from the 25 beers chosen by the magazine’s editors and staff.

“They wanted us to send along some of our logos. Luckily, we just got a brand new logo for our Tumble Off pale ale,” said Tyler Brown, who owns Barley Brown’s and crafted Tumble Off along with brewmaster Shawn Kelso.

The logo features a scenic illustration from Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort in the background, with a foreground drawing of Moose Stephens, a regular fixture for years at Anthony Lakes and Barley Brown’s, holding a pair of skis.

“It’s a cool logo,” Brown said.

Crossing guard duty each morning at Brooklyn Primary is in the hands of Rachael Nickens of Baker City.(Baker City Herald/S.John Collins)

Nickens is volunteering as a crossing guard to escort children across Washington Avenue at Ash Street.

It’s not that she has spare time on her hands that she doesn’t know how to fill.

Nickens works at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, but she’s rearranged her work day to fit in the crossing-guard duty.

She was prompted to volunteer after her son, Garrett, who’s a Brooklyn third-grader, was nearly hit by a teenage speeder traveling down Washington.

Like a mother hen protecting her chicks, Nickens was propelled to action.

She called the school.

She called the police.

She called the Brooklyn Parent-Teacher Organization and she met with the Baker County Traffic Safety Commission researching ways to protect her son and his Brooklyn schoolmates.

Nickens believes children and adults in the community need to be better educated about the 20-mph speed limit in school zones. Signs posted around the school inform drivers that the school-zone speed is in effect from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. when classes are in session.

On her first day of crossing-guard duty, Nickens said a driver actually drove around her while she was crossing with children.