WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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90
63
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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
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HERMISTON — The
Hermiston School Board
will vote Monday on moving
high school graduation to a
new venue.
An agenda published on
the district website Friday
states that interim superin-
tendent Tricia Mooney will
recommend that the board
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Three young cowgirls — Juniper Courtade, Gabbi Hilding and Katelynn Newberry
— warm up for a kids’ rodeo Friday morning for Pendleton Presbyterian Preschool
students at the Helen McCune Gymnasium. Events included barrel racing, steer rop-
ing and wild cow milking. The event was moved from the church parking lot to the
gym to escape smoky air.
HERMISTON —
Hermiston City Council will
consider a series of resolu-
tions Monday increasing
franchise fees for natural gas,
electric and telecommunica-
tions companies.
Revenue from the fee
increase would go toward
implementing a five-year
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Kid’s rodeo heads inside
Hermiston to
consider franchise
fee increase
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support of the location but 37
percent against it.
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Wireless, Inland Develop-
ment Corporation, Windwave
Communications and M2
Machmedia. In most cases
the increase is from 3 percent
to 5 percent, and companies
will decide individually how
much of that increase to pass
along to their customers via
higher rates.
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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.