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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
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pc
c
c
c
c
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c
pc
c
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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
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c
c
sn
sn
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r
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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
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s
pc
pc
pc
c
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pc
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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.
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0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Wet weather is in store from the lower Mississippi Valley to the central
Great Lakes and at lower elevations from the Great Basin to California today. Snow will fall
on the northern Plains and Rockies.
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
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c
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pc
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c
c
c
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Sun.
Hi
71
78
67
68
28
80
46
59
78
78
58
69
92
53
64
82
29
30
85
86
70
82
59
73
79
69
Lo
44
60
62
57
15
62
30
57
61
58
37
53
69
29
44
55
13
14
74
69
48
64
33
53
63
57
Today
W
s
pc
sh
sh
pc
pc
c
r
pc
pc
t
r
pc
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t
s
pc
sf
sh
pc
c
pc
pc
pc
c
sh
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
72
80
85
49
43
79
81
57
81
57
59
86
52
57
63
44
55
61
70
58
71
61
44
86
59
67
Lo
64
67
71
46
37
63
64
53
60
40
52
61
37
41
52
19
34
42
61
42
62
48
37
56
54
53
W
c
c
s
r
c
c
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
r
r
c
r
sh
r
r
pc
sh
pc
Sun.
Hi
77
79
86
53
39
81
82
63
81
49
67
80
53
63
74
34
53
60
77
54
70
61
44
80
68
61
Lo
63
67
71
34
23
65
64
61
46
30
61
59
51
56
56
19
30
42
46
40
61
49
32
54
60
40
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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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.
———
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at jmcdowell@eastorego-
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