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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Janette Titus of Baker City.
lunches • Proposal to hire lieutenant under one-year contract spurred debate, however
Results from website survey
By Pat Caldwell
The most recent poll question posted on the Herald's website, www. bakercityherald.com, was: "What are your plans for Memorial Day weekend?" Results:
The proposal to add a fulltime, contract lieutenant's slot to the Baker City Police Departmentrostertriggered vigorous debate during last week's budget hearings but the concept will be part of
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the final fiscal plan submitted to the City Council for ratification in June. At issue was a proposal by Police Chief Wyn Lohner to drop one of three current sergeantpositions and add the new lieutenant slot. The new lieutenant position
will be structured under a one-year contract. Also, the position will be non-union and will not be eligible for overtime pay. The blueprint proved controversial because city officials want to move one of the current, activeduty police sergeants into
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The new poll question is: "What do you think about Baker City's personnel costs?" Choices are: "About right," "Spending too much," "Spending too little."
Studies in Earth Science at Pine-Eagle Charter School at Halfway put students in seventh and eighth grades in the dirt Tuesday afternoon. Students hoping to find fossils buried in various strata behind the Always Welcome Inn Motel include Rhyan Vannice,right,Haden Kuta,above, andTayler Farley. The fossil hunts are led by Jay VanTassell, professor of geology at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande. He's been coming to the site for 12 years. Students have made important scientific discoveries here, he said.
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Night Baker Art Guild will be presenting the film "The Monuments Men" Thursday at the historic Eltrym Theater, beginning with live storytelling at 6:30 p.m. and the movie at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students and seniors. "The Monuments Men" is a 2014American-German war film directed by George Clooney, written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov, and starring Clooney,Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett. Loosely based on the non-fiction book, "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, NaziThieves and the GreatestTreasure Hunt in History" by Robert M. Edsel, the film follows an allied group, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, tasked with finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items before their destruction by Hitler during World War II.
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Children visiting GeiserPollman Park this summer will not only get the chance to frolic in the new playground, but they11 also be offered a free lunch. The park has been added as a third lunch site for the Baker School District's summer program, which is available free to everyone 18 and younger Monday through Friday. The program will run from June 16 through Aug. 22, said Jessica Wickert, thedistrict'sFood Services director. Lunch will not be served at Brooklyn Primary School this summer, but instead will be offered at the North Baker Campus at 2725 Seventh St. Baker City Christian Church will again open its doors at 675 Highway 7 to the summer lunch program. Lunch at the park will begin at 11:15 a.m., just after the library's summer reading sessions end each day, Wickert said. The Christian Church meals will be served beginning at 11:45 a.m. and lunch will be served at noon daily at the North Baker site. See Lunches/Page 8A
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Oregon State University is naming its newest residence hall for the late William "Bill" Tebeau, an OSU alumnus and Baker City native who made history in Oregon both as a student and as a professional. Tebeau died July 5, 2013, in Salem, at age
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87. He graduated from Baker H igh School Tebe a u in 1943 and, because he wanted to be an engineer, he applied to Oregon State University. Tebeau didn't mention on his application that he was
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A piece of turtle shell, found by Abby Graven, is a rare find. The cliff has two important layers and each offers different rewards, according to VanTassell. The lower layer is an ancient lake bottom where students find parts of sunfish or turtle shells. Higher up is a river bed offering other types of fish and mammals.
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His race was no minor matterin 1943. Although OSU was founded 75 years earlier, no black man had yet graduated from the university. See Tebeau/Page 8A
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