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MEMORIAL DAY BAKER CITY FLYOVER An Oregon Air National Guard F-15 jet fighter will perform a flyover of Mount Hope Cemetery on Memorial Day, probably between 11:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. The jet is part of the 173rd Fighter Wing, 114th Fighter Squadron out of Klamath Falls. The jet will be doing a flyover in La Grande about 11:30 a.m., so it should arrive over Baker City several minutes later. The Lone Pine chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution helped arrange for the flyover. AVENUE OF FLAGS Several community organizations are joining to erect and take down American flags at Mount Hope Cemetery. More volunteers are welcome to join in the Avenue of Flag effort to place about 400 flags at the cemetery, a press release about the event stated. Here is the holiday weekend schedule: • Saturday, May 238 a.m., place individual flags on the graves of Elks Lodge members and veterans. • Monday, May 25 — 6 a.m., put up large flags; 5 p.m., take down large flags. Lunch will be served around noon at the Baker Elks Lodge, 1896 Second St. •Tuesday, May 26 — 8 a.m., pick up individual flags. The memorial service starts at 11 a.m. Monday in the veterans area of the cemetery. To have a large veterans memorial flag set on a pole for the service, call Doug Riggs at 541-519-7424. RICHLANDMALFWAY The Halfway Veterans of ForeignWars Post No. 7847 will be performing Memorial Day services on Monday, May25, at 11 a.m. atthe Eagle Valley Cemetery in Richland and at noon at the Pine Valley Cemetery.
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million, which includes just over $5 million in unappropriated funds for next fiscal year. The current year's
budget is about $19 million. There were several changes before the approvalthat came justbefore 9 o'clock Thursday night. The Baker City Council must adopt the approved budget by the end of June and may make changes to it before it does. The committee approved funding a school resource
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An Eastern Oregon RegionalTheatre performance in 2009.
iCOPSl grant the city accepted earlier this year.
A total of$62,500 ofthe $125,000 grantisincluded in the budget as revenue for the position, with another $22,500 coming from the school district to fund the position that will cost the city
By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald
The posters provide a walk through 13 seasons of community theater — laugh-out-loud comedies, creepymysteries,tearjerker dramas, silly melodramas and musicals that showcased local singing talent. And now thefuture ofEastern Oregon Regional Theatre is uncertain. Lynne Burroughs and Abby Dennisfounded Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre iEORTl in 2003. They, along with Jean Simpson-Geddes, produced two plays that year — 'The Taming of the Shrew" and "Crimes of the Heart." That season launched a community mainstay that added to the localculture,and provided aplacefor people to try their hand at acting. Now Burroughs is retiring from the theater as she and her husband, Phil, move to Talent, near Ashland, this summer. Lynne Burroughs will return this fall to direct sWBKR Live Retro Radio" in October and "A Christmas Carol" in November. The future of EORT will be discussed during a meeting at 7 p.m. June 2, at the Iron Gate Theatre,
nearly $97,000. See Budget/Page 5A
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Lynne Burroughs is one of the tvvo co-founders of the Eastern Oregon RegionaITheatre. upstairs in Basche-Sage Place, 2101 Main St. Everyone who has an interest in live theater is invited to attend. With Burroughs' departure, the theater is in need of an artistic director and business manager to keep operations going, said Kelly Brickman, president of the EORT
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board of directors. A decision must be made by Sept. 1, which is when grant applications must be completed for the coming year. If no one has expressed interest in continuing the theater, it will be discontinued. "Lynne Burroughs and Phil Burroughs,asthe biggestcheerleader, have done so much for this community," said Ginger Savage, who will lead the discussion June 2. "EORT is Lynne Burroughs and her sweat and blood. She has had a great group of stalwart community volunteers who have been so loyal to the theatre." W hen EORT began in 2003,the theater didn't have a permanent location. See Theatre/Fbge 5A
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Eastern Oregon RegionalTheatre's performance of the musical "Nunsense."
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Baker County residents participating in the Ford Institute Leadership Program are designing and building a nine-hole discgolfcourseat the Baker Sports Complex. The course isslated tobe finished this year. The course will be open to everyone at no charge. Disc golf, also known as Frisbeegolfafter the bestknown brand of plastic discs, has rules similar to traditional golf, except players throw plasti cdiscs.The goal is to advance from the tee to the "green" — it's actually a basket — with as few throws as possible. Disc golf players often use threediferent types ofdiscs — one for long distances, one for medium, and one for short throws to the basket. But it's also possible to play the game with only one (hsc. Disc sets will be available for checkout from the Baker County Public Library this summer. For more information go to www.facebook.com/baker-
discgolf.
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After almost three hours ofdiscussion and debate,the Baker City Budget Committee approved the proposed
budget of more than $19.4
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