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LAFAYETTE — Bob Burger always kept a copy of the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center brochure next to his phone.
That’s because people would often call the former Lafayette mayor, thinking they were calling the rec center that was named after him. Burger didn’t want to tell them they had called the wrong number, so when confused callers would ask about gymnastics or the pool schedule, he would just look up the information and pass it along.
“He was always giving and always putting people first,” said Curt Cheesman, Lafayette’s director of recreation.
Burger died Sunday at age 85.
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