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A special good day to Herald subscriber Gary Baxter of Baker City.
Community, 3A The unveiling and dedication of an exhibit honoring the late Donald R. Guyer, a Navy officer and Marine Corps pilot from Baker City, is scheduled for July11 at theWarhawkAir Museum in Nampa, Idaho. The exhibit features memorabilia from Capt. Guyer's service in World War II and the Korean War. The dedication will start at 2 p.m. PDT.
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• Bingham family's third heart transplant won't be their last one
LEO'S LASTING LEGACY Special section inside today honors Leo Adler, Baker City philanthropist whose gift to his beloved city has totaled almost $28 million in college scholarships and community grants sincehisdeath,atage 98,on Nov.2,1993
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Oregon, 6A SALEM (AP) — Oregon drivers may have to pay higher fees to drive under a proposal that would help launch a major information technology project for the DMV. The increased fees would include some skills tests and fees for obtaining various licenses and permits required to drive in Oregon.
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The controversial process that could ban motor vehicles from many roads on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and restrict cross-country driving has been officially postponed, with no timeline for its resumption. But that's not to say all work on the Travel Management Plan iTMP) has ceased, or that the debate over the endeavor has gone quiet. Some residents who opposed the WallowaWhitman's initial plan to ban motor vehicles from about3,000 milesofroads — a plan scrapped a month after it was unveiled in March 2012 following protests not only from the public but also Congressman Greg Walden — remain suspicious of the forest as officials acknowledge that they're still working on a different part of the TMP. It's known as Subpart A.
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Sports, 7A UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — One mystery was solved Thursday in the U.S. Open. Chambers Bay can be as hard as the USGA wants it to be. Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson shared the lead at 5-under 65, and the other 23 players who managed to break par in a gentle debut of the new golf course off Puget Sound agreed that it likely will only get tougher the rest of the way. Another mystery deepened. Tiger Woods. In a hole deeper than that bunker he found by topping a 3-wood on his final hole, Woods sunk to another low with the highest opening round of his PGATour career and his worst score by three shots in two decades at the U.S. Open. He shot an 80, which would have been even more shocking if he hadn't had two scores even worse already this year.
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Sierra Bingham, 15, of North Powder, before her second heart transplant surgery earlier this year. She's sharing her hospital bed with her brother, Gage, who suffers from the same heart ailment and likely will need a transplant in the future.
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By Lisa Britton For the Baker City Herald
One family. Three heart transplants in nine years. And the most recent — Tuesday night — isn't the last. "I wish I could say we're done, but no," says Stacy Bingham. Stacy and Jason Bingham, who live outside of Haines, have five children — Sierra, Megan, Lindsey, Hunter and
Gage. Sierra, 15, has now had two heart transplants — the first in August 2006 and the second this week. Lindsey had a heart transplant Feb. 14, 2013. All three surgeries took place at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California. Gage will be next. All three children were diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart
muscle that causes the organ to become enlarged. The twoother Bingham children, Megan and Hunter,do not have the disease. "His echo iechocardiogram, which measures heart activity) is continually getting worse," But this week, it is Sierra who was wheeled into the operating room.
Attorneys in a civil lawsuit pitting one group of Sumpter residents and property owners against the city and four Sumpter city officials have asked for a settlement conference. The plaintiffs are Myron Woodley, Edward Marshall, Connie Marshall, Karen Peters, Patsy Lindrose and Vernon Hollopeter. They filed the lawsuit in December 2012 naming as defendants the city of Sumpter, Mayor JohnYoung and CouncilorsMyrna Clarke, Leanne Woolf and Marlene Bork.
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CountVcommissionersoiltoiluV2Srooerties By Joshua Dillen ldillen©bakercityherald.com
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Baker County Commissioners voted Wednesday to purchase two properties for county use. After tabling a discussion June 3 about the possible purchase of property and buildings that the county leases now from the Oregon Department of Transportation iODOT) on South Bridge Street, commissioners decided Wednesday to
buythatparcelfor $100,000. See Countyl Page6A
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Baker CountyCommissioners decided Wednesday to buy the former site of ODOT's maintenance station.
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