WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Colder with plenty
of sunshine
Mostly cloudy with
a bit of snow
28° 12°
24° 20°
TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a little snow
A bit of ice in the
morning
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
24° 20°
35° 31°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
25° 21°
32° 17°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
38°
32°
39°
25°
68° (1933) -15° (1983)
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
0.01"
0.21"
1.10"
15.47"
12.74"
12.57"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
32/17
Ontario
37/20
Bend
31/21
36°
31°
38°
27°
70° (1933) -13° (1983)
Trace
0.15"
1.07"
8.91"
9.01"
9.54"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Jan 1
7:34 a.m.
4:15 p.m.
10:55 a.m.
9:39 p.m.
Last
New
Jan 8
Jan 16
Caldwell
38/18
Burns
35/16
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
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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Tokyo
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Medford
46/31
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
Dec 26
Albany
44/31
Eugene
44/30
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
32° 28°
Spokane
Wenatchee
22/9
24/13
Tacoma
Moses
40/21
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 29/16
23/12
42/32
39/22
36/19
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
40/28
29/17 Lewiston
33/19
Astoria
30/14
44/32
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
41/31
Pendleton 25/8
The Dalles 32/17
28/12
37/22
La Grande
Salem
26/9
44/30
Corvallis
43/28
HIGH
26° 20°
Seattle
40/28
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
30° 16°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Low clouds may
break; very cold
28° 17°
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Klamath Falls
41/26
(in mph)
Today
Sunday
Boardman
Pendleton
NE 4-8
N 3-6
NE 4-8
N 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun
today; however, sunnier across the north.
Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A bit of snow in the south
and upper Treasure Valley today; a flurry in central parts
and near the Cascades. Sunny across the north.
Western Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today, but some clouds across the south.
Becoming cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; a morning
fl urry; however, dry in the south.
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Anthony Lakes Mountain
Resort, which opens Saturday
for the ski season, may soon
be a year-round operation.
According to a Dec. 15
press release from the Baker
County nonprofit, the resort
recently won a five-year
concessions permit from
the U.S. Forest Service to
operate the Anthony Lakes
and Union Creek recreation
complexes.
Chelsea Judy, the resort’s
marketing director, said
management was already
starting to think about how
to keep key personnel around
when the ski season ended
when the previous complex
management permit with a
private company from Utah
expired.
The resort is now in
EO Media Group file photo
In this Dec. 2016 file photo Bill Shank and Jenny Daffer
ski at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort.
charge of managing several
campgrounds, cabins and
boat launches. Judy said the
resort is in the process of
hiring 10 new staff members.
Ski resort management
of public recreation areas
isn’t unprecedented — Judy
said Hoodoo Ski Area in
Linn County oversees camp-
grounds in the surrounding
area.
Hermiston residents can
expect to see more Face-
book posts from their police
department.
Chief Jason Edmiston
said starting Jan. 2 the
Hermiston Police Depart-
ment’s
three
on-call
supervisors
— Captain
Scott Clark, Captain Travis
Eynon and Lieutenant
Randy Studebaker — will
be responsible for one
social media post per day
for the particular week they
are on call.
The posts might be about
an arrest, a crime prevention
tip, a weather advisory or
something else to further
Corrections
The East Oregonian reported in the Dec. 19 public
safety log the arrest of Anthony Michael Gallegos, 24, of
Hermiston. However, he does not have cases pending in
Umatilla County for domestic violence and hit and run. The
EO confused him with another defendant with the same
name who also is from Hermiston. The East Oregonian
works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any
errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call
541-966-0818.
Many police departments
have used social media in
recent years to put a friendly
face on the department or
provide warnings of crime
trends. Edmiston said a
concerned citizen contacted
him recently about the
comments made under
a Facebook post about a
Hermiston woman’s arrest,
but Edmiston said the law
limits government entities
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from “picking and choosing
who has the ability to
comment on their site and
how they comment.” He
said he hopes as the depart-
ment expands its social
media presence that the
majority of comments will
remain positive.
To see posts from the
department, visit www.
facebook.com/hermiston-
police.
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NATIONAL CITIES
The permit will allow the
resort to move forward with
plans to expand its youth
programming beyond skiing
to include hiking, mountain
bike courses and “potentially,
summer camps.”
The resort’s effort was
supported by several Baker
County officials and U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden.
“I’m
very
pleased
Anthony Lakes’ strong
track record has earned
the nonprofit its deserved
opportunity to manage the
campground business,” he
said in a statement. “This
decision will ripple into
the entire community by
providing opportunities for a
year-round recreation work-
force and services that add up
to an even better experience
for visitors to this special part
of Oregon.”
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 89° in McAllen, Texas
Low -23° in Clayton Lake, Maine
Police department to expand Facebook presence
public safety and awareness
related to the department’s
activities.
“We will respect constitu-
tional rights and try to ensure
we honor our criminal justice
system where a person is
innocent until proven guilty
by using words such as
‘alleged’ or ‘suspected’ but
our goal will be to remain
factual,” Edmiston wrote
in a news release. “We will
honor the First Amendment
which gives a citizen the
right to agree with some-
thing we have posted or
disagree. We will likely not
engage in discussions further
than the original post unless
the engagement is to clarify
or assist.”
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National Summary: Rain will fall from southern New England to the central Gulf coast
today. Ice will glaze part of New England as snow falls on parts of the Midwest and the cen-
tral Rockies. Most other areas will be dry.
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Video: Train crew not using
electronic devices before crash
SEATTLE (AP) —
Video from the cab of the
Amtrak train that hurtled
off the tracks in Washington
state, killing three people
and injuring dozens, shows
that the engineer did not
appear to be using a cell-
phone or any other personal
electronic device just before
the derailment, federal
investigators said Friday.
The video and audio
captured from a camera
facing inside the cab also
revealed that the engineer
was heard commenting
about the train’s speed just
before the train crashed
while traveling more than
double the posted 30 mph
speed limit. But authorities
did not provide a transcript
of what he said, saying only
in a summary that “about
six seconds prior to the
derailment, the engineer
made a comment regarding
an over speed condition.”
The video also showed
that the engineer did not
place the train’s brake
handle in the emergen-
cy-braking mode as the
locomotive was recorded
traveling 78 mph, according
to the preliminary details
of an investigation by the
National
Transportation
Safety Board.
The video recording
“ended as the locomotive
was tilting and the crew was
bracing for impact” south
of Seattle on Monday, the
safety board said.
The train was carrying
85 passengers and crew
members as it made its
inaugural run along a
fast, new 15-mile bypass
route. Officials have said
previously that another
person was inside the loco-
motive’s cab being trained
by the engineer.
Federal
investigators
trying to determine the
cause of the wreck have
gathered data from the
locomotive’s event data
recorder as well as inward-
and outward-facing train
cameras. They have said
their full investigation could
take more than a year.
NTSB board member
Bella Dinh-Zarr said earlier
this week that the loco-
motive’s emergency brake
went off automatically and
was not manually activated
by the engineer.
Rail-safety experts have
said the engineer should
have activated the brake
about a minute before the
train reached the curve
posted for 30 mph, and
that not doing do strongly
suggested that the engineer
may have been distracted
for an extended period. The
engineer, who was among
the injured, has not been
identified and investigators
have said they plan to speak
with him soon.