WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Hazy sunshine Partly sunny and nice 82° 57° 79° 51° TUESDAY Sunny and delightful Partly sunny PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 84° 57° 86° 62° 77° 47° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 81° 46° 85° 58° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 85° 81° 98° (1981) 62° 52° 34° (1910) 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" 0.00" 0.12" 11.37" 7.69" 8.50" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 88° 82° 99° (1944) 0.00" 0.00" 0.09" 6.65" 5.40" 6.21" SUN AND MOON Sep 19 Bend 79/47 Burns 84/46 6:26 a.m. 7:18 p.m. 9:26 p.m. 10:08 a.m. First Full Sep 27 Oct 5 Caldwell 88/61 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 65 83 79 69 84 80 77 81 85 85 81 82 79 79 65 68 88 83 82 72 80 76 76 79 71 81 82 Lo 51 49 47 57 46 49 54 55 58 53 45 52 48 54 52 54 58 51 57 58 44 56 51 48 55 59 50 W c pc pc pc pc t pc pc pc pc pc t t pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. Hi 72 80 79 75 84 77 78 78 81 82 84 78 75 83 68 69 87 79 79 76 80 79 74 75 76 78 80 Lo 49 42 46 62 42 47 48 50 46 52 49 42 41 55 48 51 55 45 51 54 41 51 50 42 51 54 46 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c s pc s s s pc pc pc s s s s s c pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 87 89 90 63 68 63 63 77 82 65 81 Lo 68 81 69 49 54 52 49 67 64 49 72 W c t s t r pc t pc pc s s Sun. Hi 83 89 90 64 69 70 67 75 82 66 81 Lo 64 80 69 53 50 57 56 66 63 50 73 W r t s c pc pc c t c s pc WINDS Medford 79/54 PRECIPITATION Sep 12 John Day 85/53 Ontario 88/58 67° 51° 34° (1929) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 77/56 Eugene 77/54 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 80° 48° Spokane Wenatchee 76/51 75/51 Tacoma Moses 64/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 82/52 77/51 63/52 64/50 82/50 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 66/54 81/59 Lewiston 85/56 Astoria 84/58 65/51 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 72/58 Pendleton 80/49 The Dalles 85/58 82/57 78/56 La Grande Salem 82/52 76/56 Corvallis 76/54 HIGH 89° 63° Seattle 64/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 86° 54° Today WEDNESDAY Sun and clouds Saturday, September 9, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 81/45 REGIONAL FORECAST Western Washington: A brief shower or two today; partly sunny across the south. Mostly cloudy tonight. Eastern Washington: Hazy sunshine today; smoke from area fi res will lead to poor air quality. Cascades: Hazy sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight. Times of sun and clouds tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds breaking for some sun at the coast today; hazy sun elsewhere. Sunday WNW 4-8 WNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Warmer across the north tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Hazy sun today; a thunderstorm in spots in the south. Today WSW 8-16 W 8-16 1 3 5 5 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday -10s showers t-storms HERMISTON — The Hermiston School Board will vote Monday on moving high school graduation to a new venue. 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The council will also consider an ordinance amending the franchise section of the city’s code, allowing the city to start collecting franchise fees on internet sales from cable TV providers such as Charter, which has previously only paid franchise fees on cable, not internet. The council meeting begins Monday at 7 p.m. at city hall, 180 N.E. Second St. approve moving graduation to the Toyota Center in Kennewick for the June 2018 ceremony. The statement also requests that district administrators review the event after one year and look for potential options within Hermiston for graduation in 2019. The potential of a new graduation venue has been discussed for the past several months, as this year’s grad- uation ceremony revealed that the student population has outgrown the traditional venue of the Hermiston High School gymnasium. Options discussed at previous meetings were the Toyota Center, Kennison Field or the EOTEC rodeo arena. Community members were encouraged to partic- ipate in a survey in August, discussing their thoughts on where graduation should be held. At the board’s work session in late August, it was revealed that EOTEC was the most popular option among the 859 people who responded to the survey, with 46 percent of respondents in favor of that venue. The Toyota Center drew mixed responses from those surveyed, with 36 percent in 50s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 101° in El Centro, Calif. Low 29° in Baraga Plains, Mich. Groups mull parade over air quality concerns Hermiston School Board to decide grad venue 0s National Summary: Hurricane Irma will approach South Florida today, bringing increasing rain and wind from Miami down through the Keys. Much of the rest of the East will be dry. The West will remain hot and smoky. Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group PENDLETON — School groups are keeping a close eye on the air quality index as they decide whether or not to participate in Saturday’s Dress-Up Parade, which marks the beginning of Round-Up week in Pendleton. “Although unfortunate, some groups are having to make the hard decision to withdraw from participation in (Saturday’s) activities due to a variety of factors,” said Chris Fritsch, Pendleton School District superinten- dent, in a statement Friday. “I know and appreciate how important traditions are to schools and communities, but in this case I stand firm by our position of student safety over tradition.” Pendleton High School has already rescheduled its football game versus Rex Putnam High School for 11 a.m. Saturday, provided air quality is at a comfortable level for outdoor activity. Smoke from multiple wildfires across the region has made for hazy conditions during the week, and patchy smoke will remain in the forecast through at least Tuesday. As of Friday evening, air quality in Pendleton was listed as moderate, according to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Fritsch said he and athletic director Troy Jerome will check the air quality first thing Saturday morning to make a determination on activities during the day. The Dress-Up Parade begins at 10 a.m., starting at Pendleton City Hall and heading east before turning back west along Court Avenue and ending at the Round-Up Grounds. -0s street department capital improvement plan, which the council will also be asked to approve. The plan includes pavement preservation and major projects such as paving East Theater Lane and widening North First Street. It assumes an average of $400,000 per year from the legislature’s transportation package and $400,000 from the franchise fee increase. Companies affected are Umatilla Electric Coopera- tive, Cascade Natural Gas, Charter Communications, Eastern Oregon Telecom, EZ Part of 20th Street closed Monday for signal repairs PENDLETON — A lane near a well-traveled intersection will be closed for three hours Monday to repair a vehicle detection loop connected to a nearby traffic signal. According to a Thursday email from City Engineer Tim Simons, the two southbound lanes of Southwest 20th Street north of Southwest Court Avenue will be closed from 2 to 5 p.m. while contractors install three loops. The loops were damaged during the recent installation of a water main under 20th Street. The signals have been running on a timer rather than a vehicle detector ever since. Simons wrote that Monday was the only day the signal contractor had available to do the work. “Staff feels that it is important to try to get the detectors replaced and the signal up and fully running before the heart of Round-up, rather than wait until late September, which was the only other option,” he wrote. There’s also some concern that the signal contractor, who is traveling from the Salem area, might have to take an alternative route because of the fire and smoke. Simons wrote that he would inform everyone if there was a delay in the contractor’s arrival. Wolf killed near Meacham MEACHAM — A wolf was killed Thursday near Meacham, shot by an employee of the Cunningham Sheep Company, on whose land multiple predations have occurred. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that the non-breeding, adult female wolf was a member of the Meacham Pack. It was legally killed under an authorized permit. It is the fifth wolf killed for attacking livestock since August in Oregon.