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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
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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7.57"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Corvallis
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LOW
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84°
102° (2013)
65°
56°
38° (1949)
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July 1
July 8
New
July 15
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8:19 p.m.
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John Day
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Ontario
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Bend
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Burns
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Caldwell
101/65
Medford
108/71
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
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Eugene
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HIGH
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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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
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
91/59
101/70 Lewiston
101/61
Astoria
100/67
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
95/66
Pendleton 92/58
The Dalles 101/62
99/65
103/68
La Grande
Salem
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96/61
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
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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.
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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.
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Capital Bureau
SALEM — Disap-
pointed with legislative
inaction, labor and other
advocates tooN the ¿rst step
Tuesday toward a 2016
ballot measure proposing
a $15 statewide minimum
wage by 2019.
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.
Meanwhile,
House
Speaker
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McKay Creek Estates
presents:
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increase this session.
Lawmakers heard several
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Kotek had offered a
compromise plan to raise
it in stages to $13 by 2018,
coupled with a provision
to let cities and counties
set it even higher. The
House Rules Committee
conducted two hearings but
has not advanced it.
“Democrats said if
we gave them a majority
in the Legislature, they
would take bold action to
ensure that every Orego-
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to succeed,” said Kristi
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NATIONAL CITIES
Forecasts and graphics provided by
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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.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 112° in Needles, Calif.
Low 38° in Leadville, Colo.
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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
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WORLD CITIES
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Coastal Oregon: Delightful today with
plenty of sun. A moonlit sky tonight.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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