WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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87
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
90
87
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77
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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
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7
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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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rain
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flurries
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snow
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cold front
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warm front stationary front
110s
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low
National Summary: As heat builds over the Central states, hot and humid air will spur spot-
ty heavy thunderstorms in the Deep South, Atlantic coast and interior Southwest today.
Severe storms will affect the Upper Midwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in Needles, Calif.
Low 27° in Bodie State Park, 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
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Today
Hi
Louisville
94
Memphis
95
Miami
90
Milwaukee
79
Minneapolis
86
Nashville
95
New Orleans
89
New York City
90
Oklahoma City
98
Omaha
98
Philadelphia
92
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
84
Providence
88
Raleigh
93
Rapid City
102
Reno
94
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
100
Salt Lake City
97
San Diego
78
San Francisco
72
Seattle
77
Tucson
94
Washington, DC 95
Wichita
99
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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.”
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