WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY FRIDAY Plenty of sunshine Mostly sunny; breezy in the p.m. 91° 60° 85° 54° SATURDAY Nice with plenty of sunshine Mostly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 87° 59° 91° 58° 98° 58° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 88° 59° 94° 65° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 92° 89° 108° (1960) 52° 59° 43° (1915) 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" Trace 0.18" 11.30" 7.27" 7.75" through 3 p.m. yesterday Eugene 81/52 TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 92° 90° 109° (1960) 49° 59° 43° (1945) July 23 July 30 Full Aug 7 Bend 85/49 Caldwell 95/58 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 68 87 85 63 88 86 81 87 94 90 84 89 86 90 62 66 96 95 91 82 88 82 88 85 80 93 93 Lo 56 48 49 52 47 51 52 56 65 53 44 55 51 57 52 55 62 61 60 60 45 56 60 46 57 65 58 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 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 68 82 82 64 86 82 77 83 88 86 82 84 80 89 62 65 94 88 85 76 84 78 81 80 75 87 86 Lo 53 46 46 51 45 48 48 53 59 51 44 49 46 56 49 52 61 54 54 57 43 54 55 43 55 60 55 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c s s pc s s c s s s s s s pc pc pc s s s c s c pc s c s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 90 87 88 77 72 68 86 85 88 63 87 Lo 77 81 69 62 53 52 65 63 76 48 77 W t c s t t pc t pc pc pc t Thu. Hi 93 89 86 70 75 69 76 85 89 62 87 Lo 76 80 69 58 53 54 57 67 78 45 79 W t r s pc pc sh t s c s pc WINDS Medford 90/57 0.00" 0.00" 0.13" 6.59" 4.94" 5.83" SUN AND MOON John Day 90/53 Ontario 96/62 Burns 88/47 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 82/54 Corvallis 81/53 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 101° 62° Spokane Wenatchee 88/60 90/62 Tacoma Moses 78/55 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 92/60 86/55 68/57 77/55 93/58 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 77/57 93/65 Lewiston 95/64 Astoria 94/62 68/56 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 82/60 Pendleton 86/51 The Dalles 94/65 91/60 89/63 La Grande Salem 89/55 82/56 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 94° 60° Seattle 77/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 90° 63° Today SUNDAY Plenty of sun Wednesday, July 19, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 84/44 REGIONAL FORECAST 5:24 a.m. 8:38 p.m. 2:00 a.m. 4:50 p.m. Last Eastern Washington: Sunny today; how- ever, hazy sun in the north and mountains. Mainly clear tonight. Cascades: Pleasant today with plenty of sunshine. Mainly clear tonight. Northern California: Partly sunny at the coast today; sunny elsewhere. Aug 14 Western Washington: Mostly sunny today, except clouds breaking for some sun at the coast. Thursday WSW 10-20 W 8-16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Clouds breaking for some sun today. A passing shower tonight, but dry in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun- shine today. Clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. Today WSW 8-16 W 6-12 2 5 7 7 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 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 211 S.E. 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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 93 91 86 94 93 92 95 89 89 92 85 89 97 96 88 91 78 80 88 93 89 89 93 101 95 85 Lo 69 73 75 72 65 73 62 71 73 69 71 71 80 65 71 72 55 61 73 76 72 73 77 85 73 65 W pc s s pc pc s s pc t s t pc s s pc t c t pc pc s t s t s pc Thur. 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ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Danni Halladay 541-278-2683 • dhalladay@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@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 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 Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group 18,000 voters registered as ‘other’ run gamut Family, strangers rally together after parade death By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — It takes all kinds: Democrat, Republican, Frisbiterian. About 18,000 of the approximately 2.55 million registered voters in Oregon choose “other” as their party affiliation when they register to vote. Most — about 11,000 — leave the space next to the “other” box blank. More than 700 have written in “Inde- pendent,” even though Oregon has an official Independent Party and there’s also a “non-affiliated” option. Others, according to data provided by the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office, get a bit more creative. Some appear to think they’ve found a clever play on “party” — keg, tea, toga. There are communists, anarchists and one voter who imagines him- or herself politically aligned with the hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. Some voters have chosen historical relics like the Bull Moose Party or the American Whig party. Others still pick designations that seem to convey a sort of Oregonian ethos: “Beer party,” “Cannabis,” “Cascadia Independence.” And some just beg more questions: “Heinz 57,” “Atomic Temptations Vibrations,” “champions of the lower case.” Some of the more whimsical names are reminiscent of the “Jedi census phenomenon,” when, in the early Courtesy Secretary of State’s Office About 18,000 of the approximately 2.55 million registered voters in Ore- gon choose “other” as their party affiliation when they register to vote. 2000s, thousands of people in English- speaking countries designated “Jedi,” the Star Wars order of knights, as their religion when polled by census-takers. The irreverent “other” voters repre- sent a “classic way to protest,” Jim Moore, director of the Tom McCall Center for Policy Innovation at Pacific University, said. In countries where voting is required, Moore said, “joke votes” can be common. There’s a key distinction here, though: registering to vote isn’t required in Oregon. So while these “other” voters make the effort to register, they may be conveying displeasure with the party system. So what’s voter participation like for these “other” voters, who take the trouble to register but are “meh” about the pre-designated choices? About 69.8 percent of registered “others” cast ballots in the November 2016 election, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office. That’s compared to 89.3 percent of registered Republicans, 87.9 of registered Democrats, 79.4 percent of registered Independents and 61.1 percent of non-affiliated voters. BAKER CITY (AP) — A small Eastern Oregon city’s parade this past weekend started out as a celebration, but ended in devastation. Baker City was rocked to its core when Dylan Thomas fell off a float and later died at a hospital — on his seventh birthday. Dylan’s family has since received an outpouring of support from the community, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Monday. His mother, Megan Thomas, said vigils, a fundraiser and a memorial service have brought the already tight-knit commu- nity even closer together. “I don’t even know how to describe it,” Thomas said. “I’ve gotten an outpouring of support. The response from everyone in the whole, entire community has been so supportive.” Dylan was sitting on a float with his 10-year-old sister when he fell and was struck by the vehicle’s rear wheels. He died later at a nearby hospital. Thomas said her son was “a loving, energetic little boy who loved life and would do anything to make anyone smile.” “He could put a smile on anyone’s face, even a stranger,” Thomas said. Dylan was born in Klamath Falls and lived in Oregon his whole life, she said. Dylan had played soccer with the local YMCA, which sponsored the parade float he was on. He had just finished first grade. Chaplains and mental health workers were available to counsel those who witnessed or were otherwise affected by the death, authorities said. Baker City Police Chief Wyn Lohner, who was leading the parade with his grandchil- dren in tow when the accident happened, called the boy’s death a “tragic accident.” Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincere- ly regrets any errors. 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