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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Showers around
this afternoon
Partly sunny with
showers around
Periods of rain
47° 33°
46° 37°
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Breezy and mild
with rain
A morning shower;
rather cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 48°
58° 49°
59° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
47° 34°
44° 37°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
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33°
44°
28°
66° (1934) -18° (1950)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.09"
0.86"
0.76"
1.47"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
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28°
45°
29°
64° (1934) -28° (1950)
Medford
55/44
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.03"
0.13"
0.06"
0.57"
0.60"
1.34"
Klamath Falls
55/35
Feb 3
New
Feb 11
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Eastern and Central Oregon: Periods of
rain today; arriving in the afternoon across
the north.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with a
couple of showers. Periods of rain across the
south tonight.
Feb 25
Eastern Washington: Cloudy. Morning snow,
then rain in the mountains; showers across the
south, near the Idaho border and the Cascades.
Cascades: Cloudy today; periods of rain;
however, dry across the north.
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Northern California: Mostly cloudy today;
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WORLD CITIES
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Occasional rain today and
tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow.
7:15 a.m.
5:04 p.m.
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6:44 a.m.
First
Feb 18
Today
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
59° 43°
Spokane
Wenatchee
39/31
41/33
Tacoma
Moses
52/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 40/31
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52/42
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Kennewick Walla Walla
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47/35 Lewiston
47/34
Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 43/29
The Dalles 47/34
47/33
46/36
La Grande
Salem
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51/40
Albany
Corvallis 51/41
50/42
John Day
47/32
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
44/33
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46/34
Caldwell
Burns
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HIGH
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Seattle
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ALMANAC
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National Summary: Light snow will spread from the northern Rockies to the north-
ern Plains as rain spreads from Texas to Louisiana today. Rain and snow will fall on the
Northwest as Arctic air grips the Northeast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 85° in Miami, Fla.
Low -31° in Embarrass, Minn.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
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Detroit
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Fargo
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Indianapolis
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Kansas City
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LUNCH: USDA reimburses school district $3 per meal served
Continued from 1A
The USDA reimburses
the school district $3 per
meal served, and each meal
costs the district about $1.70.
The rest is used to cover
overhead expenses.
Some people see the
program as a middle class
entitlement, but Concannon
said many families in those
high-poverty districts made
just barely enough money
not to qualify for free or re-
duced lunch but still strug-
gled to make ends meet.
“The rationale behind that
is to simplify the administra-
tive process for school staff
and to feed those students,”
he said.
Concannon said CEP
schools across the country
are reporting fewer absent or
late students and fewer trips
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headache or stomachache.
“We want kids not to be
struggling in school because
they’re hungry,” he said.
The program is also de-
signed to cut down on child-
hood obesity, he said. The
USDA meals, with a whole
grain, protein, fruit, vege-
table and one percent milk,
are often healthier than
meals that parents send
with their children.
Concannon said the
USDA has been working
with universities to study
what factors lead to students
making the healthiest school
lunch decisions. The layout
of the lunchroom makes a
difference, they found. Stu-
dents also take more fruits
and vegetables from the sal-
ad bar if there is better light-
ing, if they have more time
to eat and if they eat lunch
after recess instead of before.
He said at elementary
schools they also found
that colorful signs naming
choices “Gameday grapes”
or “Champion Caesar sal-
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proved popular.
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and vegetables,” she said.
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Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Nattalie Gray, 11, of Hermiston, sings “God Bless the U.S.A.” to open the first legis-
lative session of the year at the Capitol in Salem as House Speaker Tina Kotek and
Joe Prange, journal editor for the Chief Clerk of the House, listen.
Young singer opens legislative session
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
While most of her peers sat
in class on Monday morning,
Nattalie Gray sang to the Ore-
gon House of Representatives.
The 11-year-old stood
behind a microphone at the
front of the chamber and
performed “God Bless the
U.S.A.” to open the legisla-
tive session. Nattalie stayed
on pitch as the 60 represen-
tatives watched, one getting
a picture with a smartphone.
House Speaker Tina Kotek
looked on from the head of
the chamber with a smile.
Rep. Greg Smith, R-Hep-
pner, had invited Nattalie to
sing after hearing her belt
out the national anthem at
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a Heppner football game
played at Hermiston’s Ken-
nison Field. Smith said
the song choice was hers,
though Smith asked her to
sing “something patriotic.”
Nattalie sings the way
most people breathe, said her
mother, Heidi, who watched
the performance with Bruce
from a side aisle that runs
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brushes her teeth,” Heidi
said. “She’s been singing
since birth — she came out
singing.”
The Armand Larive stu-
dent isn’t a member of her
school choir, but studies voice
and is the youngest mem-
ber of the song team for her
church youth group at New
Hope Church. Last summer,
she sang an hour-long concert
at the Umatilla County Fair.
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