BAKER – The Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery will soon be renamed after a former mayor of Baker.
Starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 7, the cemetery will be called the Norman E. “Pete” Heine Memorial Gardens.
Heine passed away in December 2024 at the age of 96. In 2022, current mayor Darnell Waites and the Baker City Council passed an ordinance that the cemetery would be renamed upon Heine’s passing…