WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Sunshine mixing
with some clouds
Some sun with a
shower; breezy
64° 50°
62° 39°
TUESDAY
Periods of clouds
and sunshine
Warmer with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
60° 41°
64° 41°
73° 51°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
67° 41°
68° 52°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
57°
66°
95° (1926)
39°
42°
24° (1907)
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
0.01"
1.94"
1.08"
8.21"
4.35"
5.04"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
62°
68°
91° (1939)
0.00"
0.95"
0.81"
5.88"
2.98"
3.92"
SUN AND MOON
May 10
Bend
63/40
5:46 a.m.
8:00 p.m.
8:39 a.m.
11:59 p.m.
Last
New
May 18
May 25
Caldwell
64/43
Burns
60/39
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
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60
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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WINDS
Medford
73/48
PRECIPITATION
May 2
John Day
63/42
Ontario
66/44
41°
42°
28° (1935)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
66/46
Eugene
66/48
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
77° 51°
Spokane
Wenatchee
58/44
62/44
Tacoma
Moses
57/43
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 63/48
58/45
54/46
57/42
66/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
62/48
66/51 Lewiston
69/53
Astoria
64/49
56/45
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/48
Pendleton 57/39
The Dalles 68/52
64/50
67/48
La Grande
Salem
63/45
65/47
Corvallis
67/48
HIGH
68° 41°
Seattle
56/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 43°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Partial sunshine
Saturday, April 29, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
65/37
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Clouds for the south,
the mountains and the Idaho border today;
clouds and sun in north and the Cascades.
Cascades: Partly sunny and milder today.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
periods of rain, except a shower in spots
across the south.
Northern California: Plenty of sun today.
Warmer in central parts; cold in the interior
mountains.
Sunday
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Rain across the north
today; partly sunny in central parts. Sunny
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine mix-
ing with some clouds today; warmer.
Today
WSW 6-12
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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. ©2017
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Staff photo by George Plaven
“There are a lot of
members who are good
friends, who are just part
of our dog family,” she
said. “We want to continue
supporting the smaller
shows.”
Lisa Haney, a handler
PENDLETON —
Personal-use firewood
permits will go on sale
Monday for the Umatilla
National Forest at
participating stores in
Umatilla and Morrow
counties.
Permits cost $5 per cord,
with a minimum purchase of
four cords for $20. The limit
for firewood on the forest is
12 cords per home per year.
Firewood cutters are
required to carry an ax,
shovel and minimum
8-ounce fire extinguisher
while cutting in the forest.
Chainsaws also need to
be equipped with a spark
arrester to prevent fires.
Mountain travel can be
hazardous during spring,
and drivers should avoid
heading off roads and onto
wet, unstable ground or
fragile meadows where the
environment can be damaged
by vehicles. Many roads may
still be inaccessible due to
snow, and woodcutters should
check with the local ranger
district office beforehand.
Local vendors will
sell firewood permits in
four-pack packets, with an
additional $2 fee per packet.
The following vendors have
permits for sale: Southgate
Mini-Mart, Pendleton;
Smitty’s Ace Hardware,
Hermiston; Mentzer &
Elliott and J&D’s Food Mart,
Pilot Rock; Zip Zone 2,
Milton-Freewater; Heppner
Shell; Athena Grocery;
Rhode’s Supply, Ukiah.
For more information,
contact the Umatilla
National Forest at 541-278-
3716.
Non-injury house
fire in Hermiston
HERMISTON —
Umatilla County Fire District
1 responded Friday evening
to a house fire on 160 W.
Beebe Ln. No one was
injured in the fire, which was
called in around 6 p.m. The
owner of the house, the only
resident, was not inside at the
time, but was at the scene.
Battalion Chief Jimmy
Davis said crews don’t yet
know what caused the fire,
which started in an upstairs
bedroom.
“As far as we know it was
contained to the upstairs,” he
said. “At this point, there’s
no indication as to what the
source of the fire was.”
He said they didn’t know
the extent of the damage, but
the ceiling was pulled off in
the effort.
Four fire engines and
a medic unit were present
at the scene. Firefighters
had the blaze under control
within a few minutes, but
there was still smoke coming
off the top of the house
about a half hour later.
Student-built home
on the market
HERMISTON —
Hermiston School District
students have almost
finished their third home
through the Columbia Basin
Student Homebuilders
program and are preparing it
for sale.
Located in the Fieldstone
Crossing cul-de-sac at 875
SW Angus Ct., it is listed
at $379,000. The public is
invited to a grand opening of
flurries
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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
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from Ridgefield, Wash-
ington, spent Friday after-
noon bathing and drying
Tabasco, a male Chow Chow
that was tops for his breed
last year.
“Every breed has its own
standard of perfection,” she
said. “The judge is trying to
find the best dog that exem-
plifies their standard.”
The show is essentially
a process of elimination.
Dogs compete first against
their breed, and then against
the winners of other breeds
within one of seven groups:
sporting dogs, hounds,
non-sporting dogs, working
dogs, herding dogs, terriers
and toys.
From there, a single
champion is crowned best in
show.
“I think it’s is a nice
opportunity for families
to come out and see the
different breeds, and see
what purebred dogs are all
about,” Haney said.
BRIEFLY
Firewood permits
on sale Monday
for Umatilla forest
rain
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 104° in Zapata, Texas
Low 8° in Leadville, Colo.
Dog show returns to convention center
Sammie, a flat-coated retriever, jumps for attention
outside the Pendleton Convention Center ahead of this
weekend’s annual Walla Walla Kennel Club Dog Show.
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National Summary: A major storm will bring severe weather from the southern Plains to
the Ohio Valley today. Flooding downpours will occur over the central Plains and middle
Mississippi Valley, while snow falls on the Rockies.
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For the second consec-
utive year, Pendleton will
host the annual Walla Walla
Kennel Club Dog Show
with competitions Saturday
and Sunday at the Pendleton
Convention Center.
Both shows are free to
the public. Judging begins
at 8 a.m., with more than
500 dogs representing 151
different breeds.
Dog handlers, including
some professionals, arrived
at the convention center
Friday to set up and prepare.
Dinah Baggenstos, of The
Dalles, will be showing 14
dogs, from Irish red and
white setters to retrievers.
Baggenstos has been
handling dogs profession-
ally for nearly 50 years, and
said she enjoys supporting
the Walla Walla Kennel
Club.
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the home, called Fieldstone
#3, on Friday, June 9 from 1
to 6 p.m. The students will
hos the viewing along with
American West Properties
Hermiston.
Curt Berger, the student
home builder director,
encouraged the community
to come and admire the
students’ work.
“Our students are excited
for the opportunity to show
the completed home,” he
said. “They have done a
tremendous amount of work.”
The structure is the third
of 11 homes that will be built
by the group of students. The
home has four bedrooms,
two and a half bathrooms
and a three-car garage. It
also has many amenities
including a security system,
a surround-sound speaker
system, an outdoor kitchen
and a gas fireplace. It also
has a fully landscaped and
fenced yard.
Anyone interested in
scheduling a tour can call
541-564-0888.
KOVACH: Four finalists
to interview next week
for superintendent job
Continued from 1A
announcement in February,
but it’s clear that he wasn’t
meeting board expectations.
Between the time Kovach
started the position in July
2016 and his resignation
announcement Feb. 14, the
board met with him three
times behind closed doors to
discuss his job performance.
During
the
final
performance review in late
January, the board provided
Kovach with an official
mid-year evaluation, where
he scored poorly.
The board selected
Kovach to replace the
retiring
Jon
Peterson
in March 2016. The
then-principal of Ontario
High School had 25 years
experience as a teacher
and administrator in Crane,
Nyssa and Ontario.
Yoshioka, a longtime
Pendleton teacher and
administrator, will now
take the district reins as the
board completes a search
for a new superintendent.
McBee said the board chose
Yoshioka because he held
the license requirements
and there was not a desire
to run a separate search for
an interim superintendent.
Prior to joining the
district’s central office
in 2015, Yoshioka was a
teacher and administrator at
Sunridge Middle School for
15 years.
Four outside finalists
have been selected to
interview for the permanent
superintendent position and
the board expects to select a
candidate in early May.
The candidates are
Aaron Chavez, superin-
tendent of the Wahluke
School District in central
Washington, Chris Fritsch,
assistant superintendent of
Longview Public Schools in
southwestern Washington,
J.T. Stroder, superintendent
of Gardiner Public Schools
in Montana, and Jim
Wagner,
superintendent
of Kimball Area Public
Schools in Minnesota.
The new superintendent
is expected to start July 1.
The family of Austin Bieren
THANK YOU!
To the local
communities,
Patriot Guard &
Burns Mortuary
for the all the love
& support we
have received
during our
difficult time.
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