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HERMISTON CLAIMS TEAM TITLES INMATES SUE FOUR PRISONS SPORTS/1B REGION/3A FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 141st Year, No. 149 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2016 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD Your Weekend • • • Cattle Barons Weekend Buckaroo BBQ Challenge “The Odd Couple” at BMCC Bob Clap Theatre Milton-Freewater Junior Show and sale For times and places see Coming Events, 5A Catch a movie Warner Bros. Pictures via AP An orphan pulls a sword out of a rock, propelling a series of CGI-laden battles in “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” For showtime, Page 5A Weekend Weather Fri Sat Sun 56/39 58/39 60/40 Hanford’s collapsed tunnel may have gone unnoticed By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — The large sinkhole that caved in a tunnel fi lled with radioactive waste at a sprawling Washington state nuclear waste repository may have gone unnoticed for days before its discovery because workers do not patrol tunnel sites daily, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday. The sinkhole was found Tuesday, prompting an emergency at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation with evacuations of some workers and orders for others to stay inside buildings scattered across the 500 square-mile Staff photo by E.J. Harris Rob Brooks, with the National Weather Service, talks about the different types of weather with a group of Sunridge Middle School sixth-graders during outdoor school at the Kiwanis Camp in the Umatilla National Forest east of Pendleton. A rite of passage Pendleton sixth-graders hit the forest for Outdoor School By GEORGE PLAVEN East Oregonian Gorgie Jones-Hoisington cupped the moth tightly in both hands as she rushed over to show her teacher, Chris Schulze, at Buck Creek Camp in the Umatilla National Forest. Field studies had just wrapped up Thursday afternoon at Pend- leton Outdoor School, where roughly 90 sixth-graders were given an up-close look at the environment from local experts. Jones-Hoisington, 12, used what she learned to correctly identify the moth she caught earlier as Staff photo by E.J. Harris Sunridge sixth-grader Gorgie Jones-Hoisington holds out a moth she found Thursday during outdoor school. “These experiences can awaken something in kids they don’t forget.” — Chris Schulze, Sunridge science teacher Staff photo by E.J. Harris Sunridge sixth graders Gavin Clark, Rebekah Edmonds, Sage Wyland and Grace Moses make leaf imprints on Thursday. female, based on its size. “Those are good moments,” Schulze said as Jones-Hoisington hurried to her next activity. “It makes you proud as a teacher.” Outdoor School is an annual rite of passage for sixth-graders in Pendleton, as well as fi fth-graders in Hermiston, as they head out into the forest for several days of hands-on activities and adventure. The program brings kids to Buck Creek, adjacent to the North Fork Umatilla Wilderness Area, for three days of hiking, campfi res, art projects and interactive science. See SCHOOL/10A See HANFORD/2A Spray grapples with County work group to focus on housing shortage predicted infl ux By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian Room to grow Cities in Umatilla County have been spearheading individual efforts to tackle their housing shortages, but county plan- ning director Tamra Mabbott hopes to bring all those heads together to promote housing development county-wide. Mabbott is forming a work group to fi nd solutions to the county’s housing crunch. To guide their efforts, her department put together an inventory of residential lands in both the unincorporated parts of the county and inside each of its 13 cities. Residential lands on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation were not included. City Residential Undeveloped Adams 185 32 Athena 492 20 Echo 383 62 Helix 85 13 Hermiston 5,510 915 Milton-Freewater 2,026 109 Pendleton 5,509 522 Pilot Rock 687 61 Stanfi eld 759 94 Ukiah 178 43 Umatilla 1,875 265 Weston 367 66 County 4,081 570 See HOUSING/10A Total residential parcels, and number that are undeveloped. of eclipse tourists By AARON SCOTT Oregon Public Broadcasting Upward of a million people are expected to fl ood Oregon for the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, which has cities across the state scrambling to prepare. Some have been planning for months. Others are just beginning. Nestled along the John Day River is one of the smallest towns in the eclipse’s path of totality: Spray. Population: 160 people, one convenience store, one gas pump and one small food counter that closes at 6 p.m. Drop into this bucolic setting 8,000 to 12,000 visitors, the town’s estimate for the eclipse, and you have a mind-boggling ratio of about 100 tourists for every townsperson. How is that going to work? On the evening of May 2, some 20 people gathered in a church recreation room that doubles as a commu- nity center to try to fi gure See ECLIPSE/2A
