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June 9, 2014
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Traffic delays during Cycling Classic 3une 27-29 The Baker City Cycling Classic will take place June 27-29. Motorist can expect delays on Friday afternoon, June 27, on Highway 30 in Baker City and Haines, Highway 237 between North Powder and Union, and Highway 203 from Union through Medical Springs and on to Interstate 84. Racing begins at1:30 p.m. and will conclude around 6 p.m. that day. On Saturday, June 28 two races will take place. The first starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Nazarene Church, 1250 Hughes Lane, and heads out to Highway 30, where riders will pedal north to Davenport Road, then to Chandler Lane and to Old Oregon Trail road, finishing about a mile from Highway 86. There will be a detour for northbound traffic on Highway 30 at Hughes Lane, via Chico Lane. The detour will be in effect from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The second stage of Saturday is the Tour d'Town Criterium and Kids Races in downtown Baker City, scheduled from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. There will be parking restrictions on Main, Valley, First, Second, 10thlBroadway, Court and Washington from Saturday morning through 8 p.m. Saturday. The Baker City Police Department and YMCA will host the Kids Bike Rodeo from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with the Kids Races starting at1 p.m. It's free and open to ages 4-15. On Sunday, June 29, drivers can expect delays on Highway 203 and the Anthony Lakes Highway. The final stage of the race will end at Anthony Lakes. The annual Cycling Classic, put on by Baker Loves Bikes, donates more than $5,000 each year to Baker High School and local volunteer groups. More information is available at www.bakercitycycling.org.
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Leading the pack of 87 senior Bulldogs into the future are, front, Alex Hurst, left, and Raina Smull. Each of these graduates will step into the future with memories and friends with the ability and skills to find their own individual pathway in life. By Chris Collins
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erry Peacock was in his element as he addressed the 87 graduating seniors of the Baker High School Class of 2014 assembled on the football field, and the family and fiiends who packed the stadium to honor them Sunday afternoon. 'There's a perfect storm a brewin'," Peacock joked with his audience."I've got a big audience, I've got a mic in my hand and I've got something you want — you're not going anywhere until I'm done." As he has done for the past 22 years as the big dawg on campus and the longest tenured high school principal in Oregon, Peacock reached out to the graduates with words of encouragement and high expectations and in the hope that each will find success. His address followed speeches by salutatorians Ryan Cashen and Brandon Ellwanger, and preceded remarks fiom valedictorians Samantha Searles and Ian Rasmussen. See Graduation/Bge 8A
Bicyclists racing across the country • 4,233-mile route passes Baker City By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com
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Everything comes to an end as Jennie Foltz receives the last dip l oma handed out by Principal Jerry Peacock.
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A blueprintto create a merit-basedwage boost policy for a group of 16 nonunion Baker City employees will be on the City Council's agenda Tuesday rnght. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First St. The proposal is a product ofdiscussion and debate during the city's budget committee meetings last month. The budget committee, which consists of the seven city councilors and seven city residents, rejected a proposed 1.5-percentcost-of-living pay raiseforthe 16 employees. But the City Council has the final say on the matter, and it appears thatfourof the seven councilors are in favoroftheme rit-based pay raise concept, City Manager Mike Kee said Friday. He said councilors Barbara Johnson, Mike Downing, Clair Button and Kim Mosier had talked with him about the concept. Baker City Mayor Richard Langrell said he knew there was some"talk" about the proposal. SeeRaiseslPage 8A
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A groupof43bicyclists partici pating in a race that sounds more like a punishment than a sporting event will be riding through Baker City the next day or so. Some of them will, anyway. The leaders have already been through town after pedaling more than 580 miles in less than two days. The inaugural Trans Am Bike Race started Saturday morning at 5 o'clock in Astoria. It ends, 4,233 miles later, in Yorktown, Va. As youmight have figured based on that mileage, the racerouteisfarfrom the shortest way across the country. Nor did riders follow a directpath acrossOregon.
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