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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY Mostly sunny Mostly sunny 56° 36° 57° 35° MONDAY TUESDAY Plenty of sun Mostly cloudy with a little rain PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 64° 41° 54° 33° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 59° 35° 60° 34° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 56° 53° 77° (1916) 42° 34° 21° (1933) 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" 0.52" 0.33" 2.85" 4.61" 2.84" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 58° 56° 76° (2005) 0.00" 0.12" 0.29" 1.75" 3.74" 2.53" SUN AND MOON Mar 24 Bend 54/32 6:18 a.m. 5:54 p.m. 2:11 a.m. 11:34 a.m. Full Last Mar 31 Apr 8 Caldwell 57/35 Burns 52/30 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 Lo 40 31 32 43 30 33 36 34 35 34 28 35 32 35 41 42 34 33 36 42 29 38 29 30 39 39 34 W s s pc pc s s r s s s pc s s pc s pc s s s s s s s s s s s Hi 62 56 59 60 55 53 63 56 60 58 59 56 54 68 60 60 59 60 57 66 61 66 51 55 65 58 60 Lo 45 29 34 46 30 31 39 34 34 35 33 34 32 41 45 45 33 32 35 46 35 41 31 31 44 39 33 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s pc s s s pc s s pc pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 52/28 Hi 57 69 60 56 81 21 62 60 47 77 51 Lo 23 60 45 43 53 15 49 51 31 63 43 W s s pc c pc sn t pc s pc pc Sun. Hi 53 70 61 55 83 23 61 62 50 80 56 Lo 32 65 46 46 53 17 46 49 31 63 44 W s s s t pc sn t t pc s pc REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: A brief shower today; times of clouds and sun, except sunnier across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to partly cloudy today, except increasing cloudiness near the Cascades. Western Washington: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Mostly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 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 www.eastoregonian.com 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. 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. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. A passing shower across the south and toward the Cascades tonight. Cascades: A shower in the south today; turning cloudy in central parts. Mostly sunny across the north. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today. A bit of snow in the interior mountains tonight. Today Sunday NE 6-12 NNE 6-12 NE 4-8 N 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 58 54 54 57 52 50 56 53 59 55 52 53 50 61 57 57 59 59 56 60 57 59 48 51 60 59 56 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 61/35 PRECIPITATION Mar 17 John Day 55/34 Ontario 59/34 46° 33° 16° (1933) 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 New First Albany 59/37 Eugene 56/36 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 58° 32° Spokane Wenatchee 48/29 51/32 Tacoma Moses 56/35 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 56/34 50/33 58/41 56/35 56/34 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 60/38 59/39 Lewiston 59/36 Astoria 58/36 58/40 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 60/42 Pendleton 50/33 The Dalles 59/35 56/36 59/38 La Grande Salem 53/35 59/38 Corvallis 57/37 HIGH 65° 43° Seattle 57/41 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 62° 41° Today WEDNESDAY A few showers in the afternoon 63° 46° Saturday, March 10, 2018 1 3 4 3 1 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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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 89° in Thermal, Calif. Low -10° in Wright, Minn. 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 69 66 47 48 38 65 56 44 72 48 43 36 80 52 39 79 29 35 79 82 45 74 55 68 67 63 Lo 39 52 30 26 18 55 35 31 51 28 29 21 56 21 25 56 4 21 67 67 28 51 34 56 51 58 W pc pc s s pc t s pc pc pc pc pc t c s s pc c s t pc pc c pc r r Sun. 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During the Q & A portion of Bledsoe’s speech, Jerry Baker stood up toward the back of the audience at the Wildhorse Resort & Casino ballroom, and asked if he remembered a trip to the Bar M Ranch near Adams when the Walla Walla High School standout was still in eighth grade, where the pair met. Bledsoe said that he remembered his trip to Bar M, but hardly anyone would mistake him for a Pro Bowl quarterback at that time, saying he was all “knees and elbows” as a young teen. Bledsoe eventually grew into his body, which led to an exemplary career as the Washington State University quarterback, becoming the first overall draft pick in the 1993 draft, a 13-year playing career in the NFL, four trips to the Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl ring. He was invited to speak at the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce annual economic outlook event Friday night not only for his football accolades but for his success as the owner of Doubleback Winery in Walla Walla. He had more than a few fans in the crowd and on stage, including Umatilla County Commissioner George Murdock, a vocal Washington State alum who said he’s known the quarter- back since he was a kid and collected his memorabilia. Bledsoe based his speech around the similarities between business and foot- ball, which he said both involve work ethic, persever- ance and flexibility. He also stressed the importance of Pendleton’s current business community using some of their time to pass on their wisdom to the next generation. Pendleton Economic Development Director Steve Chrisman talked about confi- Staff photo by E.J. Harris Charles Denight, Pendleton Development Commission associate director, talks about the urban renewal plan for the city while sitting on a panel at the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce Economic Outlook Event on Friday at Wildhorse Resort & Casino in Mission. dence, a quality he wasn’t lacking during an earlier presentation. Chrisman talked about the five things Pendleton needs to succeed econom- ically, including tourism, housing, riverfront property development, a Pendleton sports complex and a hotel at the Pendleton Convention Center. For the latter two, Chrisman shared renderings that showed a sports complex with several baseball fields, soccer fields and a football field. The hotel concept had multiple stories added to the existing convention center and a skyway leading straight to the Round-Up arena. “These things are going to happen,” he said. “It’s not a matter of if, but when.” But the main attraction remained Bledsoe, who gave a shout out to Hamley SteakHouse and extolled the quality of the Milton-Free- water grapes he uses in most of his wines. “We’re a Walla Walla winery, but we use Oregon grapes,” he said, later adding that he thought it was a shame that Milton-Freewater didn’t get more credit for its contributions. “I think it’s really important to note and I really appreciate it. Joseph Hull, McCormack Construction’s director of business development and operations, met Bledsoe previously at a conference in Seattle and suggested bringing him in when the chamber considered revamping its economic outlook event. Before Bledsoe had to leave for another engage- ment, Hull joked that Pendleton was adopting Bledsoe as its own. A coach at Summit High School in Bend, Bledsoe said he couldn’t give himself fully to Pendleton, but he would root for the Buckaroos the other 364 days of the year. ——— Contact Antonio Sierra at 541-966-0836. Hermiston residents will be able to meet some of the finalists for the Desert View Elementary School principal job next week, when the district hosts a meet-and- greet at the school’s library. The event, from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, will allow the community to meet the candidates and provide feedback about them through anonymous comment cards. According to a press release from the district, finalists for the position are Mona Berry, Dan Gree- nough, Paul Grimaud and Bruce Neil. Greenough and Neil, who live in the region, will be at the event, while Berry and Grimaud, who live out of the area, will be absent. Berry is currently a director of curriculum and instruction in Michigan, and has worked as a principal. She is currently getting her doctorate in instructional leadership at Northcentral University, an online, for-profit program. Greenough is currently the principal of Pendleton High School, and in February announced his intent to resign that position at the end of this school year. He was a principal at Weston-McEwen High School and at Onalaska High School in Washington before coming to Pendleton. Grimaud is the vice principal of the American Creativity Academy in Kuwait. He has a master’s degree in elementary educa- tion from the University of Bridgeport. Neil has served as the interim principal of Ferndale Elementary School for the past year. Before that, he was the superintendent and elementary school principal in the Cove School District, and has served as the dean of students and assistant principal at Central Middle School in Milton-Freewater. Former Desert View principal Laura Jacobsma resigned in December, in the middle of her first year with the district. Assistant super- intendent Bryn Browning is serving as the interim principal for the remainder of the school year. Leaders say they’ll consider bills to protect gun retailers Capital Bureau PORTLAND — Oregon legislative leaders say they are willing to change Oregon law to protect retailers that voluntarily restrict gun and ammunition sales to customers 21 and older. Under state and federal law, Oregonians 18 and older can buy rifles and shotguns, and the ammunition for those firearms. You must be Corrections 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. at least 21 to buy a handgun and handgun ammunition. Oregon Labor Commis- sioner Brad Avakian has concluded gun retailers that have stopped selling to customers younger than 21 in the wake of recent mass shootings could be violating the state’s anti-discrimina- tion laws. The decision could be challenged at the Bureau of Labor and Industries or in a civil court complaint. Oregon law has made exemptions to the anti-dis- crimination law for the sales of alcohol and marijuana, in which case retailers are required to refuse to sell those products to people younger than 21. In order to raise the minimum age to buy firearms, state lawmakers would need to enact an exemption next legislative session. 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