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EOU's wrestling program, which enjoyed noteworthy success in the 1960s and 1970s, was cut about 35 years ago. Tim Seydel, vice president for university advancement at EOU, • A new $7.5 million said that if Oregon Department of a decision Transportation maintenance is made building at Meacham. to restore • Maintenance work at wresting, it the Camp RiverBendYouth would not be Transitional Facility. brought back • $1.25 million for the until the fall building of a new health of 2016 at the SeeFunding / Page 5A earliest. Eastern Oregon University is set to lose Hunt Hall but restore its wrestling program. Fundingforboth would be providedto EOU through bills passed Monday by the Legislatureforthe2015-17 biennium. The bills, which still must be signed by Gov. Kate Brown, also included legislation that would providefunding for: • A $4 million winter driving safety project on Interstate 84 between Pendleton and La Grande.
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BAKER CITY — A Baker City man died Tuesday morning at his Pine Creek home west of Baker City of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Harry Williams, 61, of 15367 Pine Creek Lane, shot himself in an outbuilding on his property, police said. The incident began when SeePolice / Page5A
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