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. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801.
2
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016
Subscriber services:
For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255
211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211
333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211
Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed major holidays
4
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Sunshine
elsewhere.
Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255
before noon Tuesday through Friday
or before 10 a.m. Saturday
for same-day redelivery
— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
7
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Local home delivery Savings off cover price
EZPay
$14.50
41 percent
52 weeks
$173.67
41 percent
26 weeks
$91.86
38 percent
13 weeks
$47.77
36 percent
*EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge
Single copy price:
$1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday
Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group
-10s
-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Storms will drench areas from Florida to Texas today. Severe thunder-
storms will rumble over the central and northern Plains. A few storms are forecast to dot
the lower part of the mid-Atlantic.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 115° in Needles, Calif.
Low 34° in Boca Reservoir, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
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
Hi
92
92
86
89
86
87
100
87
96
83
88
90
95
91
91
95
74
78
87
89
87
95
89
112
91
88
Lo
69
73
73
72
62
74
66
71
79
71
68
68
78
59
69
73
55
58
75
77
71
74
71
89
73
68
W
pc
t
pc
pc
t
t
s
s
s
t
pc
s
t
t
pc
pc
c
pc
s
t
pc
s
pc
s
t
pc
Thur.
Hi
95
91
87
90
85
87
100
91
98
80
80
87
95
90
86
96
70
80
86
94
86
98
84
113
88
86
Lo
69
72
75
73
60
73
65
70
79
68
65
69
77
61
66
74
56
58
76
77
69
74
67
91
73
68
W
pc
pc
pc
t
t
pc
s
pc
pc
t
t
pc
t
t
pc
pc
c
pc
s
t
pc
pc
t
s
t
s
Today
Hi
Louisville
88
Memphis
89
Miami
92
Milwaukee
87
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
90
New Orleans
89
New York City
90
Oklahoma City
91
Omaha
88
Philadelphia
91
Phoenix
112
Portland, ME
86
Providence
91
Raleigh
95
Rapid City
79
Reno
103
Sacramento
105
St. Louis
88
Salt Lake City
101
San Diego
79
San Francisco
76
Seattle
82
Tucson
104
Washington, DC 91
Wichita
93
Lo
74
74
80
68
65
73
78
75
71
69
74
91
64
68
75
56
65
63
74
71
69
56
60
81
77
73
W
t
t
pc
t
pc
t
t
s
t
pc
s
pc
pc
s
t
t
s
s
pc
s
pc
pc
s
pc
pc
t
Thur.
Hi
82
84
91
75
79
83
92
90
94
81
93
112
86
91
96
76
103
104
87
102
78
75
85
104
92
91
Lo
73
72
80
65
62
71
79
74
70
66
76
90
65
71
75
56
68
63
71
74
68
56
61
81
76
70
W
t
t
t
pc
pc
t
pc
pc
pc
t
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
t
s
s
t
s
pc
pc
s
t
t
t
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson
541-278-2669 • jperkinson@eastoregonian.com
Advertising Services: Laura Jensen
541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com
Multimedia Consultants:
• Terri Briggs
541-278-2678 • tbriggs@eastoregonian.com
• Amanda Jacobs
541-278-2683 • ajacobs@eastoregonian.com
• Jeanne Jewett
541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com
• Chris McClellan
541-966-0827 • cmcclellan@eastoregonian.com
• Stephanie Newsom
541-278-2687 • snewsom@eastoregonian.com
• Dayle Stinson
541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com
• Audra Workman
541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com
Classiied & Legal Advertising
1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678
classiieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com
NEWS
• To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 •
fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com
• To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News:
email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at
541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers in at 541-966-0818.
• To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries:
email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian.
com/community/announcements
• To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel
Wattenburger, 211 S.E. 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.
Investigation of
bias complaint
clears Lottery
commissioners
PORTLAND (AP) — An
outside investigation found
no wrongdoing on the part
of two Oregon Lottery
commissioners who had been
accused of discriminating
against an Iranian-American
lottery manager.
Former Lottery director
Jack Roberts sought the
investigation shortly before
Gov. Kate Brown ired
him in April. He expressed
concern that national origin
was the reason Liz Carle
and Mary Wheat opposed a
promotion for the manager.
The outside review found
Corrections
The July 26 article “Parks & Litigation” misspelled a
League of Oregon Cities lobbyist’s name. His name is Scott
Winkels. 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.
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.