WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
Mostly sunny and
nice
83° 54°
84° 56°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny
Sun and clouds
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
89° 61°
96° 66°
92° 63°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
86° 55°
87° 55°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
91°
87°
106° (1897)
55°
57°
43° (1904)
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"
0.07"
0.24"
11.37"
7.34"
8.19"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
93°
87°
105° (1967)
52°
57°
44° (1987)
0.00"
0.06"
0.12"
6.65"
4.99"
6.04"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 21
Aug 29
Full
6:00 a.m.
7:56 p.m.
3:30 a.m.
6:40 p.m.
Last
Sep 5
Sep 12
John Day
83/48
Ontario
90/57
Bend
82/47
Burns
84/42
Caldwell
90/55
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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82
82
72
84
80
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80
87
83
86
80
77
91
63
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90
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
69
83
82
72
82
79
82
81
86
82
86
80
78
92
65
68
88
85
84
79
84
84
79
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
83
94
87
69
75
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Hi
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WINDS
Medford
91/55
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
Albany
81/51
Eugene
80/49
TEMPERATURE
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
96° 66°
Spokane
Wenatchee
79/53
83/58
Tacoma
Moses
74/50
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 84/52
78/48
68/52
76/49
87/52
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
74/53
84/58 Lewiston
86/54
Astoria
85/56
67/54
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
77/55
Pendleton 80/46
The Dalles 87/55
83/54
84/58
La Grande
Salem
80/47
81/53
Corvallis
81/50
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
98° 66°
Seattle
73/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
92° 58°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny and
very warm
Saturday, August 19, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
86/48
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to
partly cloudy today; pleasant. Clear to partly
cloudy tonight.
Western Washington: Clouds giving way to
sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear to
partly cloudy tonight. Sunshine and patchy
clouds tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today; pleasant.
A star-studded sky tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly
sunny elsewhere.
Sunday
WSW 4-8
W 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Increasingly windy today.
Today
WSW 4-8
W 6-12
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National Summary: Rain will depart New England today as more storms sweep across the
lower Great Lakes. Flooding downpours will target South Florida as storms pop up across
the Southeast and Gulf coasts and High Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Needles, Calif.
Low 32° in Leadville, Colo.
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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90
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Louisville
89
Memphis
92
Miami
91
Milwaukee
82
Minneapolis
81
Nashville
90
New Orleans
91
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
98
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
89
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
79
Providence
87
Raleigh
92
Rapid City
93
Reno
95
Sacramento
91
St. Louis
91
Salt Lake City
94
San Diego
76
San Francisco
73
Seattle
73
Tucson
96
Washington, DC 90
Wichita
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Health study coming Athena celebrates PGG building purchase
to Umatilla County
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
East Oregonian
Umatilla County resi-
dents will soon have the
chance to participate in a
health survey that impacts
public
health
policy
around the United States.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
puts out an annual survey
called the National Health
and Nutrition Examination
Survey, which aims to
assess the health and diet
of people from different
parts of the United
States. Surveyors will be
interviewing people in
Umatilla County from
Sept. 7 through Oct. 31.
Each year, the survey
focuses on people in 15
counties throughout the
United States. Those
counties are divided into
neighborhoods, and from
there, several individuals
or households will be
selected randomly. Those
who have been selected
will receive a notifi cation
in the mail.
Umatilla County Public
Health Director Jim Setzer
said the survey has played
a big role in setting health
policy.
“We’re representing a
certain number of coun-
ties, and they use a cluster
sample strategy,” he said.
He added that the survey
has helped the CDC prior-
itize health problems in
the U.S.
“The survey was helpful
in identifying blood levels
of lead,” he said. “Then,
the CDC works with the
government to come up
with policies, and see if
those policies work.”
Setzer said one of the
goals of his department
is to encourage people to
take the survey seriously.
“We hope to get out in
front of it,” he said. “It’s
not a scam.”
The survey can cause
some raised eyebrows,
Setzer said, as it has
surveyors coming to
peoples’ homes and asking
them a series of personal
questions about their
health, diet and disease
background. But he said
the surveyors will come
with a letter from him,
County
Commissioner
George Murdock and
county health offi cer Dr.
Jon Hitzman.
“I don’t know how
much weight my signature
carries,” said Setzer. “But
we’ll do our best to reas-
sure people.”
Those who are selected
are done so based on their
age, gender and racial
or ethnic background.
According to the CDC, the
information of all partici-
pants in the survey is kept
confi dential.
In addition to the
in-home
interview,
participants will also go
to Hermiston to undergo
some medical tests.
Setzer said transporta-
tion to the medical tests
will be provided, and
participants will be paid
$120 to take part in the
study.
Setzer
said
while
people can choose to opt
out on some or all parts of
the survey, he hopes they
will participate.
He said he didn’t know
whether all population
groups get the same set of
questions, but that the aim
is to look for differences in
the population.
Some of the data
collected includes statis-
tics on obesity, cholesterol
levels, heart disease, and
Human Papillomavirus, or
HPV.
Each year, the survey
collects data for about
5,000 people around the
U.S. The survey has been
around since 1960.
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Standing underneath the
Pendleton Grain Growers
sign in Athena, Robin Barrett,
band leader of the Coyotes,
mused aloud about what the
old store should be turned
into.
An airport? Or maybe an
aquarium? he asked the crowd
at a block party Friday to cele-
brate a change in ownership.
While Barrett’s sugges-
tions were clearly in jest, the
Athena Mainstreet Associa-
tion is serious about restoring
the building that PGG left
behind in 2014.
Through
contributions
from community members
and organizations, the asso-
ciation raised $55,200 and
purchased it for $45,000 in
May.
Athena Mainstreet board
member April Vorhauer-Flatt
said the block party — replete
with music, food and chil-
dren’s activities — was a way
to celebrate the community’s
contributions and show them
what’s next.
Vorhauer-Flatt said the
association want to begin
cleaning up the interior, which
is cased in oil and soot after a
furnace malfunction, but they
need to assess whether its safe
for volunteers.
The best residents could
do Friday was peer through
the building’s glass door to
Photo by Antonio Sierra
Robin Barrett and Coyote Kings perform at a block
party in front of the old Athena Pendleton Grain
Growers building Friday.
get a peek into the interior of
a structure that was originally
built in 1904.
A longtime hardware store,
PGG bought the building
in 1956 and operated it for
the next 58 years before it
shuttered its retail division in
2014.
Among the association’s
plans for the buildings in the
next few years is to rename
it after the building’s original
owner, J.H. Stahl, restore
the façade and hold a series
of community meetings to
decide the use of the building.
Athena resident Danielle
Holden said there are already
about 10 suggestions for how
to repurpose the building
— including turning it into
a gym, a civic center or a
revived retail space — and
she was supportive of all of
them.
Holden, who signed up
with Athena Mainstreet to
volunteer for cleanup activi-
ties, said she was excited when
she heard that the nonprofi t
had bought the building,
alleviating her concerns that
the building would sit empty
and start to decay.
“It’s a big building in a
small town,” she said.
Another big building in
the small town is the Gem
Theater, which is just a few
doors down from the PGG
building.
Gem
Theater
board
member Rob McIntyre
opened up the more than a
century-old theater to block
party attendees, exposing
them to the scent of fresh
wood from all the restoration
work contractors and volun-
teers have done.
McIntyre said he has been
involved with restoring the
theater and estimates the
board is only $250,000 away
from completing the ultimate
goal of turning the space
into a 300-seat auditorium
complete with an orchestra
pit and space for a 1921
Wurlitzer organ.
The theater will also
include a two-bedroom apart-
ment on the upper fl oors, the
rent revenue going toward the
maintenance of the theater.
“You’re going to have to
be a music fan to live here,”
McIntyre said.
Having been in the
restoration game for more
than a decade, McIntyre said
volunteer recruitment will be
critical to the restoration of
the PGG building.
With the
extra money,
my dream
car became
a reality.
Wildfi re causes evacuations in prime eclipse zone
PORTLAND (AP) —
Residents of more than 400
homes in a prime eclipse-
viewing location in Oregon
were ordered to evacuate
Friday because of a rapidly
growing wildfi re that had
already closed access to a
portion of a wilderness area
and a regional highway.
The late afternoon order
threatened to create more
tie-ups on rural and narrow
roads already expected to be
burdened with up to 200,000
visitors coming to the area
from all over the world to
watch Monday’s total solar
eclipse.
About 1 million people
are expected in Oregon,
where the moon’s shadow
fi rst makes landfall in the
continental U.S.
The nearly 11-square-mile
wildfi re in the Deschutes
National Forest was about
six miles west of the town
of Sisters, which sits on the
southern edge of the 70-mile
swath of Oregon where the
moon will completely blot
out the sun.
Sisters itself will experi-
ence 34 seconds of totality
and is a popular tourist
destination even without an
eclipse brewing, but heavy
smoke and the rapidly
growing fi re have prompted
offi cials to close nearby
campsites, recreational areas
and roads.
So far fi re crews have
not been able to contain any
part of the wildfi re and the
McKenzie Pass Highway
242 has been closed between
Highway 126 and Sisters,
said Susie Heisey, a public
information offi cer with
Central Oregon Dispatch.
The closures will likely
have a big impact on people
traveling through the region
for the eclipse, she said, and
the risk is high for more
confl agrations in the area
with so many campers.
“There’s absolutely no
campfi res allowed and no
burning allowed. So we’re
just hoping that everyone
that’s here to enjoy the
eclipse” follows the rules,
Heisey said.
Nearly two dozen other
fi res are also burning in
Oregon, including nine more
in the best eclipse-viewing
zone. Large portions of the
Mount Jefferson Wilderness,
in central Oregon’s Willa-
mette National Forest, are
also closed.
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