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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Sizzling sunshine and very hot Very hot Very hot with blazing sunshine 99° 65° 103° 68° SATURDAY SUNDAY Sunny and very hot Partly sunny and very hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 102° 67° 99° 65° 98° 65° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 101° 62° 105° 68° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 96° 84° 108° (1924) 69° 55° 36° (1898) 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 0.00" 0.06" 1.06" 5.00" 7.49" 7.57" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Corvallis 97/58 LOW 98° 84° 102° (2013) 65° 56° 38° (1949) 0.00" 0.02" 0.59" 3.16" 4.19" 5.70" SUN AND MOON July 1 July 8 New July 15 5:09 a.m. 8:48 p.m. 8:19 p.m. 5:05 a.m. First John Day 96/66 Ontario 103/68 Bend 96/63 Burns 99/58 Caldwell 101/65 Medford 108/71 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 96/59 Eugene 95/58 HIGH 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 101° 68° Spokane Wenatchee 95/67 101/71 Tacoma Moses 89/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 100/66 93/53 79/56 91/56 102/64 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 91/59 101/70 Lewiston 101/61 Astoria 100/67 76/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 95/66 Pendleton 92/58 The Dalles 101/62 99/65 103/68 La Grande Salem 94/63 96/61 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 102° 67° Seattle 88/63 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 103° 66° Today 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 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine and hot today. A moonlit sky tonight. Sunny and very hot tomorrow. Western Washington: Sunny today. Clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. July 23 Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear and moonlit tonight. Sizzling sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Hot today with sunshine. Clear and mild tonight. Northern California: Mostly sunny today; a stray thunderstorm in central parts in the afternoon. Hi 89 95 85 90 71 75 101 85 82 61 79 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ (DVW2UHJRQLDQ(USPS 164-980)LVSXEOLVKHGGDLO\H[FHSW6XQGD\0RQGD\ DQG'HFE\WKH(20HGLD*URXS6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 3HULRGLFDOVSRVWDJHSDLGDW3HQGOHWRQ25Postmaster:VHQGDGGUHVVFKDQJHVWR (DVW2UHJRQLDQ6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 2 -10s Lo 64 84 65 63 55 56 71 67 65 44 71 W pc c s pc t pc s s s pc r Hi 91 95 86 78 68 73 92 87 83 62 81 Thu. Lo 64 84 64 60 52 53 66 68 63 43 70 SW 3-6 N 4-8 5 7 7 5 &KLHIVZDQWDQVZHUV Local police chiefs Stuart Roberts of Pend- leton, Rick Stokoe of Boardman, Darla Huxel of Umatilla, Bryon =umwalt of Stan¿eld and Jason Edmiston of Hermiston lined up in favor of Sun Ridge. They met Thursday in Pendleton and discussed the dispatch situation. Huxel said there is no doubt the Sun Ridge system is a sight better than what agencies used for years under the now-defunct Chemical Stock- pile Emergency Preparedness Program. That program was clunky, lacked compatibility with police using computers in the ¿eld and did not allow agencies to share information, but it was free to the local agencies. When CSEPP was closing shop a couple of years ago, Stokoe said, local law enforce- ment looked for a better replacement. Several companies pitched their wares, he said, and when they were done, every department head from Sheriff Terry Rowan on down the line agreed to go with Sun Ridge because of what it could offer for the price. “We all voted on it and said that’s the one,” Stokoe said, and he wants everyone to honor that agreement. As a group Thursday, they expressed concern the county’s attitude could prompt Sun Ridge to throw up its hands and walk away. Stokoe said this also goes back to the need for an advisory board to oversee the day-to-day operations of the dispatch center. Such a board, he said, would be able to see what the dispatch center costs, where its money is going and if the center meets industry standards. Roberts concurred. “The advisory group or the user board is aimed at taking ownership of that product,” he said. Lieuallen said she is not opposed to the advisory board, and Umatilla County Commissioner Bill Elfering is in the midst of recruiting representatives from local police departments for the board. Lieuallen also said the county is not giving up on Sun Ridge. “We just want it to work for us and our busy dispatch center,” she said. “What we do is too critical to go down.” Richards said no doubt Umatilla County is taking up a big chunk of Sun Ridge’s attention, but the company is dedicated to a solution. ——— Contact Phil Wright at pwright@eastore- gonian.com or 541-966-0833. flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles 2 Hi 96 83 82 86 92 86 101 74 92 83 70 71 95 87 74 98 71 75 91 92 78 90 84 110 93 85 Lo 71 68 69 65 63 71 69 63 74 62 54 57 77 61 60 75 53 58 75 77 63 72 68 84 75 64 W t t t t s t s t t pc pc pc s t pc t sh t s t pc t t t t t Hi 94 84 79 81 88 84 103 78 90 74 71 74 95 82 75 102 71 74 90 95 75 91 78 105 91 82 Thur. 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Oregon’s current state- wide minimum is $9.25 per hour, second only to Washington’s $9.47 among the states. But several cities — Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles — are gradually raising their minimums to $15. Advocates ¿led prelim- inary paperwork for the measure several weeks ago, but on Tuesday, they ¿led with state elections of¿cials the 2,000 signa- tures that will trigger a ballot title from the attorney general. The title is an of¿cial summary required before advocates can collect the 88,184 signatures to qualify the measure for the November 2016 ballot. Those petition signa- tures are due in about a year. If voters approve it, Oregon’s minimum wage would go to $11.50 in 2017, $13.25 in 2018 and $15 in 2019. Afterward, annual increases would be linked to the Consumer Price Index, as has been the practice since voters approved it in 2002. 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Home adaptation or modification can provide friendlier elder living so older occupants may continue to life safely in the comfort of their home. Know Your Numbers TUESDAY, JULY 28, 3:30 PM Are you at risk for diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases? Learn about the numbers and what they mean for various screenings to stay in control of your health. We will talk about cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI) numbers and more. For more information or to RSVP, call us at (541) 276-1987 or visit us today! The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 110s NATIONAL CITIES Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 makes it easy to introduce problems. Sun Ridge sends out ¿xes and updates on a constant basis to all its software users to help set things right. For example, he said, the county’s system went down Tuesday, June 23, at 2 p.m., and by 7 that night Sun Ridge had a newer version of the software so that particular problem will not resurface again. rain 20s Today The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ 10s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 112° in Needles, Calif. Low 38° in Leadville, Colo. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme SUBSCRIPTION RATES /RFDOKRPHGHOLYHU\ 6DYLQJVRIIFRYHUSULFH (=3D\ SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW (=3D\ RQH\HDUUDWHZLWKDPRQWKO\FUHGLWRUGHELWFDUGFKHFNFKDUJH 0s National Summary: Heavy showers and locally severe storms will stretch from the Gulf Coast to New England today. Storms will dot the central and northern Plains. Mainly dry storms will speckle the Southwest. W s c s t t sh t s s s c Thursday -0s showers t-storms 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. DISPATCH: Sun Ridge has close to 200 agencies using its products this year has 124 failures, the Morrow County Sheriff’s Of¿ce 29, Pendleton police 12, 8matilla police 10 and Stan¿eld has six. Most likely these have been brief. “In these situations, our software is attempting to read or write to the database on the server and getting no response,” Richards said in an email. “After 15 or 30 seconds, an error message is displayed to the user and they have to restart the application.” Sun Ridge uncovered this Tuesday, according to Richards, and noti¿ed the county and its Internet technology folks during a conference call to discuss the dispatch prob- lems. The county’s Internet even left the center in a scramble to get back online before Tues- day’s meeting when what should have been moments of down time for a maintenance task turned into a three-hour failure. Sun Ridge has close to 200 agencies using its products, Richards said, most in California, but the Umatilla Tribal Police Department also is a user, as was Hermiston police before it consolidated with the sheriff’s of¿ce last year. He said he has con¿dence in the software, but it is not perfect. Network failures happen occasionally but have never been an issue. He said the number of problems Umatilla County has seems to be unique. Aside from the volume of network issues, Sun Ridge tracked 67 problems with the dispatch from April 20 to June 26. Some required software updates, several were from users, and most Sun Ridge was able to ¿x. Sun Ridge engineers try to test for every- thing a user could do wrong, Richards said, and then build guardrails to prevent users from going off the tracks. Richards said he could not provide “even decent percentage guesses” on how many problems might be from human error, but they happen frequently. Users tend to be creative in doing things the experts did not anticipate, he said, “And the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Of¿ce has been extremely clever in doing what we don’t expect.” Lieuallen said the Tuesday meeting was productive in identifying problems and solutions. The county plans on purchasing new servers for the center, she said, and the county’s Internet technology department will work with the technicians from the InterMountain Education Service District, Pendleton, to hammer out connectivity issues. Some agencies use the county’s network and others the ESD’s, so syncing everyone should cut down on troubles. Richards said the basic dispatch center uses hundreds of computer programs that “are not little standalone guys,” so it takes consid- erable engineering to have programs work together. He compared the systems to a game of pick-up sticks: Drop a lot of sticks on the Àoor and try to pick up one without moving any others. “This is the game we play constantly,” he said, and a seemingly innocuous change could ripple through other parts of the system. That W s s s c s s s s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s UV INDEX TODAY Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group Continued from 1A Lo 55 54 61 58 60 59 56 63 68 65 59 61 50 70 51 54 70 66 68 63 58 59 68 56 62 74 67 Today Didn’t receive your paper?&DOO EHIRUHSP7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\ RUEHIRUHDP6DWXUGD\ for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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