A10 East Oregonian THE BACK PAGE Saturday, January 9, 2021 Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian The rising sun casts a glow across fields near Highway 11 outside of Adams on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian People watch the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center fireworks dis- play to ring in the new year on Jan. 1, 2021. Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian Fireworks explode over the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center in the early minutes of the new year on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian A utility pole is silhouetted against the sunset sky on North Hill in Pendle- ton on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian, File Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian Hermiston School District Superintendent Tricia Mooney, right, speaks to protesters outside the school district offices in Hermiston on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Workers, contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, work to seal off an abandoned mill race in the Pendleton levee near Southeast Third Street on Dec. 29, 2020.