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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY FRIDAY Sunshine Hot with plenty of sunshine 94° 61° 97° 63° SATURDAY Very hot with plenty of sunshine Sunny, breezy and not as hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 99° 68° 94° 60° 86° 57° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 98° 61° 101° 63° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 93° 90° 109° (1928) 63° 60° 40° (1908) 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" 0.80" 0.28" 7.32" 5.00" 7.90" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 96° 90° 109° (1939) 73° 60° 45° (1936) 0.00" 0.30" 0.18" 4.94" 3.25" 5.91" SUN AND MOON Aug 2 Aug 10 5:33 a.m. 8:30 p.m. 12:24 a.m. 2:29 p.m. Full Last Aug 18 Aug 24 John Day 96/57 Ontario 100/67 Bend 90/53 Burns 96/51 Caldwell 100/65 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 Hi 73 91 90 72 96 90 91 93 98 96 95 92 89 100 67 70 100 97 94 89 94 90 92 89 87 96 98 Lo 58 48 53 58 51 56 55 58 61 57 53 54 50 63 53 56 67 61 61 63 50 59 64 51 61 66 64 W pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 74 92 92 74 96 90 95 94 101 97 97 93 90 102 67 70 101 100 97 92 97 93 93 90 90 98 101 Lo 60 48 55 58 52 57 57 59 63 58 55 58 52 65 54 57 65 63 63 64 52 60 66 52 62 68 66 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 94 93 87 74 73 83 77 85 85 65 82 Lo 77 83 67 60 55 65 63 68 75 46 74 W pc sh s t t pc pc s t s c Thu. Hi 93 94 86 73 72 80 78 84 86 65 83 Lo 76 83 68 59 55 63 62 65 73 46 74 W t sh s t t sh pc s pc s pc WINDS Medford 100/63 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 91/57 Eugene 91/55 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 90° 56° Spokane Wenatchee 92/64 95/68 Tacoma Moses 83/56 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 97/67 91/54 74/56 85/55 98/64 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 84/59 96/66 Lewiston 99/61 Astoria 98/66 73/58 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 89/63 Pendleton 90/56 The Dalles 98/61 94/61 96/63 La Grande Salem 92/54 90/59 Corvallis 92/57 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 97° 63° Seattle 82/60 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 103° 71° Today SUNDAY Breezy with plenty of sunshine Wednesday, July 27, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 95/53 REGIONAL FORECAST 2 Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear tonight. Abundant sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Thursday WSW 3-6 WNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds and fog, then sunshine today, except mostly sunny in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; hot in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Clear tonight. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, except patchy low clouds and fog at the coast. Today WSW 4-8 WNW 4-8 5 7 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Waitsburg residents bristle at Nestle’s exploration By DIANE VER VALEN Walla Walla Union Bulletin WAITSBURG — Nestle has been ordered to stop all exploratory work in Waitsburg’s watershed imme- diately, while its city council considers the corporation’s interest in building a bottling plant in the town. It came as a surprise to nearly everyone in the room during a heated council meeting Wednesday night that explorations had already begun. Nestle contractors began clearing brush and conducting “fairly non-invasive” work to examine water spring sites Tuesday, according to Bruce Lauerman, a natural resources manager for Nestle Waters North America. News that the multibillion dollar, multinational business has its eye on 150 million gallons of Waitsburg’s annual spring and well-water supplies was not announced to the public until Tuesday. And while council members were told in exec- utive session last month of Nestle’s interest in building a $50 million water-bottling plant in town, according to council member Kate Hock- ersmith, no contracts or other agreements are in place. Grounds for beginning what might be a months-long study of the city water supplies were based on a handshake between Mayor Walt Goble, City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe and Nestle’s Lauerman, discussions at the meeting revealed. “I’m a little bit dumb- founded sitting here tonight,” said council member KC Kuykendall. His consternation and amazement at the situation was echoed by his peers on the council and in the murmurs from the crowd of more than 85 residents in the BRIEFLY Oregon invests millions in lawsuit against Oracle PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon oficials say the state has spent nearly $16 million so far building its case against the giant software company Oracle Corp. The Oregonian/Oregon Live reports that the Oregon Legislative Fiscal Ofice says the money went toward demonstrating that Oracle badly bungled the Cover Oregon health care exchange. The trial begins in January, and the Department of Justice estimated that the cost could be more than $27 million by next April. That would make the lawsuit one of the most expensive in department history. Not only is the case pricey, it’s mostly been kept under wraps. Oracle has argued for thousands of pages of evidence to be kept conidential and entire court hearings have been closed to the public. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. packed meeting room. “Here we are now with Nestle up there, doing I don’t know what, in our water- shed with some unknown, undeined scope of work,” Kuykendall said. “And the legislative body sitting here has been kept in the dark. And I just can’t believe that you, mayor, went down this path when we had an opportunity just a month ago to prepare if that was your plan.” Kuykendall demanded that all Nestle work at the springs “cease and desist” until the council has the opportunity to evaluate fully what its inten- tions are, what the duration of the study will be, and what the risk implications are to the city. “I don’t know that I can even talk about all the ques- tions I have at this point,” Hockersmith said. Council members voted unanimously to pass Kuyken- dall’s motion. The process Carle and Wheat’s concern was about performance, and there was no evidence it was based on origin. Their opposition did not stop the manager’s appointment. Acting lottery director Barry Pack said in a statement he considers the matter to be fully resolved. It’s not like her. Mom has always been so patient, but now when I ask her questions she gets angry. We can help. Call us with questions about aging and Alzheimers. 1-855-ORE-ADRC HelpForAlz.org OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAM will begin with a community meeting, details of which will be announced later. Nestle’s representatives are not invited, council members decided. “As frightening as Nestle is, the more frightening thing is that this council is clearly at its wit’s end,” said Waitsburg resident Markeeta Little Wolf. “This has to be stopped, and I respectfully request that you get the hell out of here until this council has enough infor- mation to make an informed decision.” The council did not dismiss a partnership with Nestle, however, and negotiations are likely to continue. “Let’s not be too foolish in our foment against the work that they’re doing,” Kuyken- dall said. “I think it’s a great idea to consider allowing this multibillion dollar corporation to spend thousands of dollars on these studies and we walk away with a great beneit.” Nestle has stated its exploration of the city’s water system will be conducted at no cost to the city, and any scientiic and “deep-dive” data they collect will be made available to the city — even if Nestle decides not to pursue a plant in Waitsburg. “This could be of great beneit to the city,” Mayor Goble said. “We have little hard data on our water system.” Many of the old maps the city once owned showing the locations and collection systems of Waitsburg’s springs are now lost or were burned in — what rumor has it — was a vindictive act of a former employee let go many decades ago, he said. Even at this early stage, the city’s public works depart- ment has located a large leak in the spring collection system in the cast-iron pipe works installed nearly 100 years ago. The leak would not likely have been spotted if Nestle hadn’t begun its study of the system, according to Jim Lynch of public works. So although council has asked Nestle to stop its explorations, the city will now ask the corporation’s subcon- tractor, who happens to be on the city’s small-works roster, to use its mini-excavator already on site to help repair the leak on the city’s dime.