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5*1 ************EQR[_QT 0074A**C007 BAKER COUNTY LIBRARY The flowers above are made into cards by Phyllis Badgley. See bottom of this page (A Flowery Note) for further description. Exp 05/07/2016 ^ourier 1 Positively Baker County www.therconline.com Est. Haines 1901 ~ Haines, Baker County, Oregon Volume 114, Number 26 • 10 Pages • 75 cents Bringing Art, Agriculture and Awareness of Parkinson's Together By Gina Perkins Late afternoon oh Saturday there was quite a shin-dig in the Court Street Plaza. Cohort 4 of the Ford Foundation Leadership Program hosted a community celebration and unveiling of the Salt Lick Bronze which was the brain child of Whit Deschner. Able to see art in even the most common of items one might find in Eastern Oregon, a salt block licked into different forms by cat tle, Deschner created an annual event which has generated $60,000 over the years for re search on Parkinson's Disease at Oregon Health Science Uni versity. Deschner himself has Parkinson's. The Cohort not only raised enough money and in kind do nations for the bronze to be cast and placed on the Court Street Plaza, but had enough money left to put on a very nice compli mentary dinner complete with gourmet pizza, fresh water Photo by Gina Pekins melon, beverages and dessert Tanya Denne standing next to Salt Lick Bronze for community members from local restaurants. The event in cluded musical entertainment, as well. The project cost $30,000 according to Jeff Nelson, one of the Cohort members. And that's not all. The Cohort donated $500 to Tanya Denne, a BHS graduate who received her bachelor's degree from Uni versity of Portland and is re searching the plant Mucuna pruriens, "the seeds of which are a natural source of levodopa, the percursor compound to the neu rotransmitter dopamine. L-zdopa has been proven successful in the treatment of Parkinson's dis ease," according to information shared by Denne. Denne says she plans to study at JSS in Ooty, India from Sept.- Nov. 2015 and her project pro posal is $30,000. The Baker City Lions Club is accepting dona tions toward the cost of her field research and travel. To help fur ther fund her goal, Denne will be featured during First Friday, July 3 with her pottery jewelry at Terry Drever Gee's newly renovated Photo by Gina Pekins building located at 1790 Main Street in Baker City. Tanya's fa Ruth Boyd, Becky Fitzpatrick and Jeff Nelson were part of Cohort 4 ther, Jon Denne, will also have pottery for sale. During that time, Tanya will be showing her video explaining her research and project and will also begin a big Phyllis Badgley, 91 of Baker City, loves flowers and sending online fundraising campaign the special handwritten notes. For several years, she has been end of the month. pressing flowers from her garden as well as wild flowers, del More information can be ob icately arranging them with tweezers, and then taking them to tained on Denne's proposal by Hudson Printing to have note cards made. On Monday of this calling 619-916-8581 or emailing week, she visited the Record-Courier office and generously her at tanyadenne @gmail.com. gave me two of her cards. I lined them up with others she had and took a photo of them and have* featured them in our masthead this week above. The Delphinium on the far right was a start passed down from her grandmother, to her mother, and to Phyllis, who also provided a start to her daughter, Joyce Hunsaker. Phyllis says she has sent cards to people around the world. A Flowery Note 0 94922 23720 0 Fur Fun Dog Show July 4 at 2 p.m. in Sumpter Sponsored by Soda Mountain Pet Supplies Hells Canyon Junior Rodeo June 27 & 28 Rodeo Start times: Noon on Sat., 10:30 a.m. Sun. Parade Sat. 10:30 a.m. Welcome Baker City Cycling Classic Riders! Photo by Lynn Perkins The hard work, sweat and tears of those involved with the Baker City Bandstand Project saw their years of work and planning come to life on Monday as Natural Structures began erecting the band shell in Geier-Pollman Park. See BANDSTAND on page 2 for more photos 1940 BHS Graduate to be Honored at Warhawk Air Museum Submitted by Phyllis Badgley Elva Guyer and daughter Ellen Youngbluth and her husband David of Prineville, invite the friends of the late Donald R. Guyer to attend a spe cial event in his honor. The unveiling and dedication of Marine Capt. Donald R. Guyer’s WWII and Korean Memorabilia will take place July 11, 2015 in Nampa, Idaho at the Warhawk Air Museum at 2 p.m., Pa cific Standard Time. See GUYER on page 2 Friday Stampede Net Proceeds Help Shriners Colleen Taylor of the Haines Stampede Association says the Friday tradition will continue with the net proceeds from the July 3 rodeo being donated to the Baker County Shrine Club to assist with the purchase of the Shrine Steer. Those funds in turn are donated to the Shriners Hospital for Chil dren in Portland. "We've been able to donate $12,000 so far over the years," said Taylor. The rodeo Friday, July 3, begins at 5:30 p.m. Saturday's start time is 1:30 p.m. Sierra Bingham is doing great and continuing to improve daily according to all reports from her family! What an amazing young lady! 4005 23rd Street • PO Box 226 Baker City, OR 97814 (541) 523-3616
