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Selling fireworks a round-the-clock job

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Becca Notbohm, right, and her fellow members of the Baker City Church of the Nazarene were surprised at the amount of work and preparation required to operate a fireworks stand. The church has a stand set up in the Safeway parking lot on East Campbell Street. (Baker City Herald/Nathan Hellman)
To Becca Notbohm, it sounded simple.

“My thought was we would come sell fireworks and go home.”

But Notbohm and her fellow members at the Church of the Nazarene soon discovered things would be a little different.

Before opening their tent in the Safeway parking lot off Campbell Street, it become clear that there’s more to selling fireworks than helping customers find the perfect value pack or remembering to offer a “punk” at the end of each transaction.

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Council wrestles with property rules

To say Baker City’s Property Maintenance ordinance is a work in progress assumes city councilors are making actual progress.

They are, to be sure. But at a work session Tuesday morning, councilors didn’t have all the progress they’ve made so far in front of them.

They had a draft of the ordinance, with changes highlighted in red. But some changes councilors said that they’d agreed to previously had been omitted from the most recent draft.

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