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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Coby Mastrude of Baker City.
Cold Cases, 1D La Grande Police are reviewing the 1983 murder of Dana DuMars. A La Grande man, Bart Cochran, was convicted of the crime in 1983 but an appeals court overturned that conviction in 1985 based in part on the interrogation tactics detectives employed. Prosecutors declined to try Cochran again, and no other suspect has been charged.
By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
It took most of Wednesday for the Baker County Comm ission and itsbudgetboard to consider and ultimately
approve the $25.7 million budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The meeting started at 8:15 a.m. and ended at 7 p.m. In the morning and early afternoon, board and commission members heard requests from county departments heads and stafFand other entities who are funded by the county, or hoped to be.
BRIEFING
Calvary Baptist Church washing cars Sunday to raise money for mission trip Members of the Calvary Baptist Church youth group will be washing cars Sunday, May31, to raise money for their June mission trip. Cars will be washed from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at CommercialTire, 341 5 10th St. Donations will be accepted and volunteers are welcome. More information is available by calling Rochelle Adams at 619726-9921.
Keating School fundraiser set for Saturday Keating Elementary School will perform "Peter Pan" outside at the school on Saturday, M ay 30, at5p.m .aspart of the school's annual dessert fundraiser. The play and a pulled pork dinner are free. The dessert fundraiser will follow. More information is available by calling the school at 541-523-2377.
Baker County Garden Club meets 3une 3 The Baker County Garden Club will meet Wednesday, June 3. The meeting will begin at10:30 a.m. at the Sunridge Restaurant. Members will discuss future programs and collections of dues. New members are always welcome.
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DJ McCauley of Baker City will spend this fall in Rome for an internship that includes working at theVatican.
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When this summer ends, DJ McCauley won't be returning to DeSales University in Pennsyl„t ~i,~~Iriihi vania. Instead, she will fly to Italy for a semester-long study abroad program that includes an internship at the Vatican. "I'll spend my fall semester in Rome," she said. McCauley, 20, is a 2012 graduate of Baker High School. While attending DeSales University in Center Valley, she has Riccardo De Luca/TNS focused her studies on a A large crowd gathers at St. Peter's square in Vatican City during a ceremony in biology degree while also October 201 2. playing softball, in which she has won multiple allShe heard that a past She will spend this sum"There's an oPPortunity (to mer working at DeSales conference honors. intern had a'WednesThis January, she day audience" with the meet the pope) but I'm not as a resident, adviser and appliedforoneof15 researcherforthe biology holdin m breath." opportunities to study storyabout it. department. She'll also be — oJ Mccauley, who will Although she hopes looking up places she'd like abroad at DeSales' Rome spend the fall semester campus. Out of those 15, to meet Pope Francis to visit while in Italy. ~udylng rn Rome and the t mingofher t 'p She is required to take five were chosen for internships at the Vatican. might make that diffour classes while there, ficult. and the internship counts McCauley will be an "The Pope is leaving when I go to Italy," as one, as does an introductory Italian intern for the Pontifical Council for Social ComMcCauley said. class. munications. In September, when her study abroad She' l l return to the States in December, "Iappliedforthatone semester begins, Pope Francis will be visit- and finish up her senior year at DeSales. ing Philadelphia, which is about 50 miles She ' s still not sure what her plan is folbecauseit's a photojournalism opportunity," she away from DeSales University. lowing graduation. "There's an opportunity ito meet him) said."I love photography, so it'll be perfect." but I'm not holding my breath," she said. See McCauley IPage 8A
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who depend on that water. Rep. Greg Walden, R-ore., On Wednesis criticizing the Obama ad- day the U.S. ministrationfora proposed Environmental rule that Walden contends Protection couldgivethefederal Agency iEPAl W ald e n announced its government more authority to regulate the use of water Waters of the United States in the West and potentially rule. harm farmers and ranchers EPA officials tout the rule
as away to protectstreams and wetlands from pollution, including tributaries of major rivers. They contend that the rule clarifies which waters are under federal jurisdiction through the 1972 Clean Water Act, but doesn't actually expand federal authority.
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The BLM has unveiled its plan to protecthabitatfor the sage grouse in Oregon, including more than 200,000 acres in Baker County. The fourvolume fi nal environmental impact statement iFEISl, which covers more than 1,000 pages, notes that Baker County has about 2 percentofwhat biologists believeisOregon'smost vitalsage grouse habitatknown as preliminary priority habitat. SeeGrouselPage 8A
Thieves, vandals hit forest facilities By Jayson Jacoby llacoby©bakercityherald.com
'The problem we had until this rule came out — there was not a clear definition as to what types ofstreams were subject to protect ion or not,"said Yvonne Vallette, an aquatic ecologist for the EPA in Portland.
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The past winter was a relatively tranquil one in terms of weather. But the season was less so at some campgrounds and picnic areas on the WallowaWhitman National Forest near Baker City. During the winter someone stole 14 metal fire rings, and one metal picnic table, from UnionCreek Campground on the north shore of Phillips Reservoir, about 18 miles southwest of Baker City, according toa press release from the WallowaWhitman.
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