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REGION East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Mostly cloudy and cold Cold with rain and snow showers 46° 34° 44° 28° TUESDAY Variable clouds, a shower; cold Chilly with rain PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 41° 23° 42° 26° 44° 30° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 46° 30° 49° 34° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 47° 55° 76° (1975) 40° 36° 10° (1935) 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 0.09" 0.09" 0.11" 13.79" 10.34" 10.10" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 53° 57° 72° (1945) 0.03" 0.03" 0.10" 7.83" 7.33" 7.38" SUN AND MOON Nov 18 Bend 42/29 First 7:39 a.m. 5:37 p.m. 6:31 p.m. 7:56 a.m. Full Nov 26 Dec 3 Caldwell 47/31 Burns 39/16 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 50 42 42 52 39 39 50 45 49 40 40 42 39 51 51 53 49 49 46 49 44 51 35 38 47 46 44 Lo 39 20 29 43 16 26 39 33 34 29 20 29 28 34 42 44 30 33 34 41 27 41 27 25 42 34 30 W r r pc pc c c c c pc c pc c c pc r pc r pc c r pc r sf c r c pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. Hi 48 44 43 51 39 40 49 43 46 42 41 43 39 50 51 52 47 46 44 50 46 52 35 38 49 44 42 Lo 32 21 22 41 14 24 33 27 30 26 18 27 25 31 38 39 28 27 28 36 22 35 20 25 36 30 19 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r sn c r sn c r c c c sn sn c r r r c c sn r c r sn c r c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 58 78 66 55 78 34 59 69 53 65 68 Lo 35 67 51 37 50 31 39 55 36 61 50 W s sh s r pc pc r pc s sh pc Sun. Hi 58 80 68 50 78 40 51 69 58 66 61 Lo 38 70 51 33 50 35 36 54 46 62 54 W s s pc pc pc c sh t pc pc s WINDS Medford 51/34 PRECIPITATION Nov 10 John Day 40/29 Ontario 49/30 41° 35° 0° (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 Last New Albany 50/42 Eugene 50/39 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 42° 29° Spokane Wenatchee 35/27 38/26 Tacoma Moses 46/33 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 41/32 38/30 47/39 46/35 44/30 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 46/40 46/34 Lewiston 49/35 Astoria 42/31 50/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 49/41 Pendleton 39/26 The Dalles 49/34 46/34 49/35 La Grande Salem 42/29 51/41 Corvallis 51/39 HIGH 41° 24° Seattle 44/37 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 44° 22° Today WEDNESDAY Partly sunny and chilly Saturday, November 4, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 40/20 Sunday NW 4-8 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. Periods of rain across the north; a shower in central parts. Eastern and Central Oregon: Rather cloudy and cold today; a little rain in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Periods of rain today; any time at the coast, in the afternoon elsewhere. Today SW 4-8 WSW 6-12 Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a couple of fl urries near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: Mainly cloudy and cold today; a bit of rain, snow mixing in in central parts. 0 1 2 211 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 To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. 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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 92° in McAllen, Texas Low 1° in Langdon, N.D. 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 73 78 61 59 32 79 47 52 81 69 50 59 89 70 52 81 30 38 87 86 62 84 61 75 81 70 Lo 47 62 55 50 16 63 32 45 59 53 48 54 69 35 49 61 22 22 76 70 58 62 49 56 65 60 W pc sh pc r sn pc r s pc c r r s pc r pc c c sh pc r s c c c c Sun. 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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 HERMISTON VenuWorks estimates a profitable EOTEC in three years “We took a leap of faith together knowing there would be some losses in the first year.” By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian The Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center board plans to contract with VenuWorks to run its facility, and the management company believes it can get EOTEC profitable in three years. The Iowa-based venue-management company operates arenas, conference centers, fair- grounds and other facilities, including Toyota Center and Three Rivers Convention Center in the Tri-Cities “I totally have confidence in VenuWorks,” board member and hotelier Vijay Patel said. “I’ve seen how they operate in Kennewick ... I can assure you it’s a class A team and they will help us bring in more events than we would otherwise.” The board unanimously passed a motion directing a subcommittee and interim manager Nate Rivera to negotiate a contract with VenuWorks to vote on at a special Nov. 21 meeting. During a presentation to the board, Corey Pearson, executive director of the Three Rivers campus in Kennewick, displayed a cost/ revenue analysis estimating that under VenuWorks’ management EOTEC would be at a $116,350 loss for the first year of the facility, $93,362 loss for the second year and a $4,968 profit on year three. One reason for that, he said, is that even — David Drotzmann, mayor of Hermiston EO file photo The Hermiston Farm Fair was held at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center for the first time in December 2016. though VenuWorks would “come out swinging” with its marketing strategy, most conventions and trade shows book their events two or three years out. “Year one you’re marketing to groups that have already made a commitment somewhere else,” he said. Under the VenuWorks model, the EOTEC board would still have full control over setting budget and policies for the facility, but VenuWorks would provide recommendations based on their expertise and run day-to-day operations. The company has proposed a base fee of $10,000 per month for services including financial administration, marketing, event production, booking and consulting. Those costs would be in addition to payroll for a general manager, event manager/ administrative assistant and two operations staff. Rivera said EOTEC’s operating costs have been significantly more than budgeted in recent months because labor is being contracted, causing the current year’s budget to look a lot like VenuWorks’ year one projection. If EOTEC doesn’t change how it is operating the facility, he said, the budget will continue to look that way each year. Rivera said he felt Hermiston and Umatilla County taxpayers would rather EOTEC go with the safest option most likely to help the center start turning a profit within a few years. When board members questioned whether Umatilla County and the city of Hermiston would be willing to cover EOTEC’s projected losses for the first couple of years in addition to the $75,000 per year each had already committed, Mayor David Drotzmann said that the city had expected to have to help subsidize EOTEC for the first few years and he thought the city council would be willing to support Nominations sought for fisheries advisory groups East Oregonian Fishery managers in Oregon and Washington are looking to fill positions on two joint advisory commit- tees managed between the states, overseeing sport and commercial fishing interests on the Columbia and Snake rivers. Nominations will be accepted through Thursday, Nov. 30. Terms are for three years, from 2018-2020. Up to 20 people will be accepted on each advisory group — one for commer- cial fishing, and one for recreational fishing. The two committees meet two to four times per year to help develop recommendations for salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and smelt fisheries. Any group or individual may submit a nomination. Nominations should include a résumé with contact information and a statement describing the person’s fishing experience and interest in serving on the committee. Nominations can be mailed to John North at the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, 17330 S.E. Evelyn St., Clackamas, OR 97015, by fax at 971-673-6072 or email john.a.north@state.or.us. For more information, contact North at 971-673- 6029 or Tucker Jones at 971-673-6067. the amounts that VenuWorks had estimated. “We took a leap of faith together knowing there would be some losses in the first year,” he said, calling VenuWorks’ projections of getting EOTEC out of the red by year three “exciting.” Board members Dan Dorran and Don Miller said they had some reservations going into the discussion, but listening to Pearson’s presentation on behalf of VenuWorks had answered many of their questions and calmed some of their worries. Former EOTEC board member and current Farm- City Pro Rodeo board member David Bothum said three years ago when the EOTEC board toured the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick run by VenuWorks and the TRAC Center in Pasco run by a general manager not affiliated with a management company, the difference was “night and day.” In 2013 the Tri-City Herald reported that the TRAC Center had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars each year since opening in 1995. “At the time I thought how could we do anything but go with VenuWorks,” Bothum said. The EOTEC board plans to consider a finalized contract with VenuWorks on Nov. 21. The board also discussed continuing donations to the facility, including 3,700 pounds of winter wheat seed from Bracher Farms to help keep dust down, expertise and equipment from the OSU Extension Center to help plant it, and a “very generous” offer of Belmont wheel lines for irrigation from Elmer’s Irrigation. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4536. 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