WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
FRIDAY
Pleasant with
some sun
A couple of
afternoon showers
71° 50°
69° 56°
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower or two
Today
SUNDAY
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
Mostly sunny and
comfortable
Beautiful with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
67° 49°
75° 50°
82° 55°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
73° 57°
76° 53°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
67°
77°
98° (1974)
50°
52°
35° (1910)
PRECIPITATION
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
0.00"
0.95"
0.67"
10.10"
5.92"
7.18"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
73°
79°
99° (1933)
Bend
69/46
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0.24"
0.31"
6.55"
4.35"
5.42"
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WORLD CITIES
John Day
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Ontario
78/52
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New
Albany
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Eugene
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
88° 53°
Spokane
Wenatchee
67/50
71/53
Tacoma
Moses
67/49
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 73/51
66/47
61/52
66/50
73/49
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
67/53
74/55 Lewiston
77/53
Astoria
74/52
62/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
68/54
Pendleton 68/42
The Dalles 76/53
71/50
75/54
La Grande
Salem
70/45
68/52
Corvallis
69/50
HIGH
81° 52°
Seattle
66/53
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
73° 52°
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
71/42
Thursday
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today. Areas of
low clouds early; otherwise, mostly sunny
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Pleasant
today with sun and some clouds, but more
clouds near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a shower in spots at the coast.
Today
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Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today,
except sunnier near the Idaho border.
Mostly cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today; warmer.
Plenty of clouds tonight; a little rain across
the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; sunny elsewhere.
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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Forecasts and graphics provided by
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A little slice of Hermiston made its
way into Portland’s Rose Festival over
the weekend.
Hermiston was one of a handful of
Oregon cities invited to add a mini-
float representing their community to
the Grand Floral Parade watched by
hundreds of thousands of people in
person and on television.
The rules of the parade dictate that
every visible part of the floats must be
made of organic material, providing a
challenge for Hermiston’s committee of
volunteer float-builders. After settling on
a classic Hermiston watermelon slice for
the design they used colored rice, moss,
carnations, seeds, parsley, wheat and
Kermit mums to cover the chicken wire
and burlap frame.
Committee member Karie Walchli
said a variety of Hermiston businesses
donated materials and expertise for the
project, which helped show off Hermis-
ton’s watermelons and new city logo to
the west side of the state.
“Portland gave the city of Hermiston’s
Contributed photo by Karie Walchli
This float represented Hermiston in
the Portland Rose Festival’s Grand
Floral Parade.
watermelon float a warm welcome and
were excited to know that melon season
is just around the corner,” she wrote in
an email.
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Mayor David Drotzmann said during
Monday’s city council meeting that when
the float moved down the street, everyone
“knew exactly who was coming” before
it got close enough to read the Hermiston
logo. He said he and the volunteer
committee got together after work each
week to glue grains of rice and other
materials over every surface.
“I think they did a good job of repre-
senting our community,” he said. “It was
a great experience.”
Drotzmann said officer Victor Guti-
errez, who drove the float, had only a
small slot to look out of, so Drotzmann
wore a neon green shirt and walked right
in front of him to lead the way through
the parade route. Other committee
members walked beside the float in
Hermiston-themed T-shirts.
“It was very fun, very bright, very
cheerful and very popular,” councilor
Jackie Myers said.
The float will also appear in the
Umatilla County Fair parade in August.
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RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The state’s largest solar
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Reservation land near Richland.
The 20-megawatt solar project will be built by French
company Neoen. The Tri-City Herald says it should be
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The Tri-City Development Council says the project
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Such symptoms have included coughing and headaches.
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Dozens of Hanford workers have sought medical
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since 2016. Some reported smelling suspicious odors and
some experienced respiratory problems.
Oregon jobless rate drops to 3.6 percent
PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s record-low
unemployment rate keeps setting new records.
The state Employment Department said Tuesday
the jobless rate for May was 3.6 percent, a slight drop
from April’s record-low rate of 3.7 percent. The U.S.
employment rate for May was 4.3 percent.
Another unemployment measure, known as U-6, fell to
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About half the country is now in
compliance with the federal law, meaning
those residents have until Oct. 21, 2020,
before being required to show the REAL
ID compliant identification. Most of the
remaining states, including Oregon, have
been granted various extensions; several
of them passed bills addressing REAL
ID this year, including Washington state,
Maine, Minnesota, Alaska, Montana and
Missouri.
Oregon began the compliance process
in 2008, but those efforts were blocked
the following year when the Legislature
passed a law prohibiting further progress
unless federal funds were made available.
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reconsidering that ban through SB 374,
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Low 22° in Bellemont, Ariz.
Real ID bill heads to Senate for vote
expired last week and is now in a grace
period until July 10, buying a little more
time for entering certain federal buildings
or military bases where the Real ID law
is also enforced. Passage of a Real ID law
like SB 374 had usually be enough to help
the state secure another extension.
Now noncompliant states may no
longer get a break, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security Secretary John F.
Kelly recently told Congress.
“We are somewhat concerned by
comments made by the Secretary of
Homeland Security to Congress last week,
which would tend to indicate somewhat
less confidence that we would be granted
extensions, even with passage of a bill,”
Amy Joyce, legislative liaison for the
Oregon Department of Transportation,
told the Transportation and Economic
Development Subcommittee on Monday.
“He intends to make a decision this week
regarding additional extensions, so time is
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SALEM (AP) — Oregon lawmakers
have advanced a proposal that would allow
the state to issue state driver’s licenses and
identification cards in compliance with
federal standards borne after the 9/11
attacks beginning in the next three years.
Senate Bill 374 passed on Monday of
committee with unanimous support and
now heads to the Senate floor.
Even if the proposal ultimately
becomes law, Oregon residents thinking
about booking flights for next year’s family
vacation or work trips still might consider
getting their passports updated beforehand
if need be.
In January, the Transportation Security
Administration will begin enforcing the
federal 2005 Real ID Act at U.S. airports,
meaning state-issued IDs that aren’t in
compliance or don’t have a special exten-
sion will be useless for domestic travel,
requiring travelers to instead use their
passports or some other alternative.
Oregon’s third federal extension
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