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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Morning fog; mostly sunny Partly sunny 63° 41° 68° 47° THURSDAY FRIDAY Sunshine Today SATURDAY 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 Plenty of sunshine Sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 39° 61° 41° 63° 43° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 68° 46° 63° 37° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 63° 60° 82° (1933) 41° 38° 19° (1916) 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" 1.41" 0.75" 13.70" 9.48" 9.69" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 65° 62° 80° (1933) Burns 64/25 0.00" 0.79" 0.46" 7.80" 6.65" 7.02" SUN AND MOON Nov 3 7:24 a.m. 5:54 p.m. 11:55 a.m. 9:22 p.m. Last New Nov 10 Nov 18 Caldwell 62/34 Klamath Falls 73/32 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Visit our showroom: 102 E Columbia Dr. Kennewick, WA 99336 Hi 61 82 74 65 64 33 69 73 66 81 62 Lo 48 72 55 54 44 25 49 49 45 63 54 W c s s c pc c pc s s c r Wednesday NE 3-6 N 4-8 WSW 6-12 WSW 6-12 0 2 3 3 2 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 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. 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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 Solar energy company makes $1 billion bet on Oregon JONATHAN BACH Statesman Journal SALEM — A national solar energy company is betting nearly $1 billion on an Oregon development spree, including five new solar farms in Marion and Polk counties. Cypress Creek Renew- ables, a developer that sells electricity to utility compa- nies and already operates seven solar sites in Oregon, is building farms near Salem, Silverton, Gervais, Turner and Grand Ronde. Cypress Creek, which operates in 15 states, has its largest group of farms in North Carolina, where more than 100 are either operating or under construction, company officials say. The Marion and Polk county farms will cover about 12 acres each, producing enough energy to power some 450 homes. They should be churning out electricity by year’s end or shortly afterward, company officials said. The farms will sell energy to Portland General Electric, which will send it to its utility ratepayers. The Willamette Valley’s population density is such “that solar’s needed in this area as part of the renewable energy mix,” said Cypress Creek spokeswoman Amy Berg Pickett. “So it’s good to site solar where the energy is going to be used.” Company officials say they try their best to hire local workers to build the farms and believe the proj- ects will create “hundreds of good-paying jobs” in Marion and Polk counties. In 2016, slightly more than 4,500 people worked in solar energy jobs in Oregon, up 50 percent from 2,999 in 2015, according to the Solar Foundation, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. Cypress Creek started working in Oregon in 2014. Six farms are generating electricity in Malheur County and one in Deschutes County. At some of those sites, the company took advantage of a taxpayer-fu- eled effort by state officials to increase renewable energy supplies. During the 2016 session, Oregon lawmakers approved the formation of a Solar Development Incentive program to stimulate solar energy construction. It works by paying companies half a cent each month for every kilowatt-hour of electricity they produce. Payments expire after five years. Under the program, Business Oregon, the state’s economic development agency, plans to pay Cypress Creek $2,035,225 for four of the solar projects in Deschutes and Malheur counties. About $246,000 has already been paid. Otherwise, the agency isn’t giving the company any loans or incentives, spokesman Nathan Buehler said in an email. Cypress Creek is also taking advantage of federal solar investment tax credits, which allow the company to deduct 30 percent from the amount it’s invested in a solar project, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. In September, while writing to two U.S. congressmen chairing a subcommittee on energy and power, Cypress Creek Chief Executive Matt McGovern said, “In Oregon we have 17 projects either operational or in construction totaling just shy of $500 million in investment, with another $346 million worth in devel- opment.” The company also is building two new projects in southern Oregon, as well as two more in other parts of the Willamette Valley. “We will not be blan- keting the state with solar. No solar company will, because there’s no avenue for that,” Berg Pickett said. At the Cypress Creek farm just outside of Silverton, mid-October clouds blanket the sky — not ideal weather for a solar harvest. “Typically, solar farms generate energy on all daylight hours, even if there’s some clouds or some snow,” Berg Pickett explained. “The production would just be less.” Tribes seek reparations over sacred site destroyed by highway expansion By STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND — Govern- ment lawyers asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by tribal elders who say a sacred site was destroyed to expand a highway near Oregon’s Mount Hood. U.S. Justice Department attorney Ben Schifman said in a telephone hearing that the elders were not substantially burdened by the expansion of U.S. 26 and lacked standing to sue. The elders from Yakama Nation and the Confeder- ated Tribes of Grande Ronde claim the Federal Highway Administration violated the Religious Freedom Resto- ration Act. Their attorney Patio Rooms Awnings · Sunrooms Pergolas · Patio Covers All Season Shades Solar Screens & More! Stephanie Barclay said the government in 2008 could have widened the road without bulldozing a site that included a stone altar and medicinal plants. Rather than money, the Native Americans are asking for a historical marker, a rebuilt altar and for the planting of new trees and plants. “Even more importantly, one of the things the plain- tiffs are asking for in this case is simply for the judge to say what the federal government did was against the law,” Barclay said after the hearing. “The federal government does not get to destroy sacred sites of Native Americans with impunity.” Judge Youlee Yim You 3 0 will decide whether the case filed nine years ago moves forward. She did not indicate when she will rule. The Oregon Depart- ment of Transportation widened the highway after receiving complaints about a dangerous stretch east of Portland. Residents believed the addition of a center-turn lane would increase safety. Schifman said the Reli- gious Freedom Restoration Act does not apply in this case because the elders have not been denied a public benefit or forced to violate their religion. He said if every individual were to have a religious veto over the use of public land, nearly all projects would grind to a halt. Schifman noted that the th Anniversary Celebration! n ig h t Grand Prize - 3 trip to Las Vegas & $500 gift c Though the hearing was conducted by telephone, a sizable group of Native Americans listened in at the federal courthouse in downtown Portland. Plaintiff Carol Logan, from the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, said she worshipped for decades at the site known as Ana Kwna Nchi nchi Patat, or the “Place of Big Big Trees.” “This is where our ances- tors rest, and yet they rip the soil apart like an open wound,” she said. WELCOMES ard! OPEN HOUSE NOV. 16 541-567-4305 • Hwy 395, Hermiston www.cottagefl owersonline.com Promotion ends Nov. 11. License #188965 plaintiffs have access to visit the roadside area. “No one has been threatened by federal law enforcement officers with any kind of trespass or any criminal penalty for visiting the site,” he said. Barclay said access is useless when the elements that made it special are gone: “It would be like telling Christians that they can still access a church when the walls have been knocked down and the remainder has been covered in a mound of dirt.” WEEKLY DRAWINGS! Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun 12pm-5pm (Call for Showroom Hours) www.mybackyardbydesign.com Wed. W s s s c pc pc pc s s pc pc UV INDEX TODAY Eastern Washington: Areas of fog during the morning; otherwise, mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Cascades: Warm today with plenty of sunshine; pleasant in central parts. Clear tonight. Northern California: Sunny today. Very warm in central parts; pleasant at the coast. Mainly clear tonight. Want Year Around Outdoor Space? W e’ve Got Solutions! 541-720-0772 W c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc c c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Today Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group FREE Estimates! Lo 44 73 56 56 48 24 51 52 45 63 56 SUBSCRIPTION RATES East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. MEDFORD (AP) — The Oregon State Marine Board is consid- ering a plan that would no longer require people who rent commercial rafts and kayaks to carry Aquatic Invasive Species permits. The Mail Tribune reports while raft-rental companies still would be required to buy the same permits to outfit their fleets, their customers would not have to physically carry proof while on waterways. Just the company name on the raft would suffice, thereby saving the Marine Board printing costs and reducing water authorities’ need to check for permits. Hi 65 81 73 66 68 34 66 70 66 78 63 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Oregon rafters may get a break on permits Lo 43 40 44 53 33 41 46 44 46 49 34 43 41 43 46 49 40 43 47 47 44 47 38 41 46 49 41 Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny and pleasant today. Clear tonight, but partly cloudy in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Patchy fog in the morning; otherwise, mostly sunny today. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Increasing cloudiness tonight. A shower tomorrow. www.eastoregonian.com TILLAMOOK (AP) — Highway 101 through Tillamook has reopened after 5 inches of rain shut down part of the road and caused flooding that damaged cars and forced at least one business to close. KGW-TV reports that the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office says the mountains got 10 inches of rain and the Wilson River rose 5 feet above flood stage at the storm’s height. Flooding is common in the area during heavy winter rains, but authori- ties say events like these typically don’t happen this early in the season. Hi 59 67 71 70 66 65 67 66 68 69 73 67 66 74 60 64 62 67 68 63 71 67 58 67 62 66 67 (in mph) Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays Highway reopens after heavy flooding in Tillamook W s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. WINDS — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — BRIEFLY Lo 45 28 40 53 25 37 43 41 37 41 32 40 39 44 47 48 33 37 41 45 34 43 40 37 43 44 34 Today Medford 79/44 PRECIPITATION Oct 27 Bend 68/40 Hi 67 65 68 71 64 63 66 62 63 69 73 64 63 79 66 70 62 62 63 69 69 69 59 67 67 64 65 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. WORLD CITIES John Day 69/41 Ontario 62/33 40° 37° 20° (1935) 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 First Full Albany 68/42 Eugene 66/43 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 63° 40° Spokane Wenatchee 59/40 58/40 Tacoma Moses 64/39 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 62/37 62/42 65/47 64/40 65/34 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 66/42 64/44 Lewiston 61/37 Astoria 65/42 67/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 69/45 Pendleton 63/37 The Dalles 63/37 63/41 64/39 La Grande Salem 64/40 69/43 Corvallis 68/43 HIGH 62° 41° Seattle 64/46 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 64° 38° Tuesday, October 24, 2017 *No purchase necessary. Must be 21 years of age to enter. One entry per day. 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