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A16 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM 97 PERCENT Continued from Page A1 it would be. The moon moved more slowly than she expected across the sun, and it never got as dark outside as she had imagined. Not everyone at Butte Park was a local. While many out-of-state travel- ers headed farther south to the path of totality, Lisa Cochrane and San- dy De La Rosa were in Hermiston from Yakima. “We wanted to get as close to totality as we could without fi ghting all the traffi c,” Cochrane said. The women stayed at the new Holiday Inn Ex- press — a hotel they said Hermiston should be proud of — and then grabbed their lawn chairs and head- ed out. “We found this beauti- ful park and settled down,” De La Rosa said. She said the whole event was giving her fl ashbacks to watching Oregon’s last solar eclipse when she was in sixth grade. Some people who had to work on Monday in Main Street businesses paused during the eclipse so work- ers could go outside and see the celestial show. Those who had eclipse glasses offered to share with passersby that didn’t so everyone could see the FIRST DAY moon blocking out much of the sun. Viewers also remarked in the noticeable drop in air temperature and the way the eclipsing sun cast crescent-shaped shadows through the leaves on trees lining the street. Monday afternoon Umatilla County caught some of the post-eclipse traffi c jams that had been predicted. Traffi c backed up for several miles on Interstate 82 near Herm- iston and Umatilla, made worse by a bottleneck on the bridge over the Co- lumbia River, which is down to one lane of traf- fi c due to construction. Out of concern for safety as vehicles at- tempted to merge into that single, non-stop lane of traffi c moving onto the bridge, the Oregon De- partment of Transporta- tion closed the bridge’s westbound on-ramp at Umatilla off of Highway 730 into Monday evening and there was still con- gestion on that stretch on Tuesday. “It’s hazardous to get on and off there,” ODOT spokesman Tom Strand- berg said. He said people would have to fi nd alternate routes or be patient until the congestion cleared out. Contact Jade Mc- Dowell at jmcdowell@ eastoregonian.com or 541-564-4536. Continued from Page A1 sidewalk, marking where their feet were and the time they were measured. Later, students stood on the same spot and re-traced their shadows, showing how they had moved since they last stood there. On the track, social studies teacher Brad Rog- ers helped students with what might have been the STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN most delicious activity of the day: Solar s’mores. Teachers had put togeth- A class of Stanfi eld fi rst graders eagerly wait to watch the er homemade solar ovens, eclipse on Monday morning. using pizza boxes, black paper, plastic wrap and a couple of tinfoil. Students placed hours.” s’mores in the ovens and Inside, stu- closed the lid, watching dents had les- them cook. sons, but they A handful of freshmen were all eclipse- said they were enjoying the themed. They activities on their fi rst day heard from back at school, and were Good Shepherd excited to see the eclipse. health profes- “It’s a once-in-a-life- sionals about time opportunity,” said protecting skin Lyndzee Keltz. and eyes from “My dad hasn’t stopped the sun, and STAFF PHOTO BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN played talking about it,” said Kay- trivia la Perkins. games testing Logan Hendricks knew Carlos, Nelly and Jjay Chavez show off their knowl- how to harness the pow- their homemade eclipse viewers. edge. er of the sun to whip up a Math teach- snack, as he revealed while “I remember baking er Blaine Braithwaite read placing a s’more inside a cookies on the dashboard out questions to the stu- solar oven. of a car,” he said. “It took dents, who answered on Continued from Page A1 Wayland said. Wayland said the total cost of the upgrades would be less than $10,000 for both facilities, and that work would be complete before school begins. Work is being done by Knerr Construction. The district is also in the process of demolishing the old Umatilla County BTW • • • Cason’s Place: Grief Support for Children and Families of Eastern Oregon recently received a donation of 70 books from Altrusa Interna- tional of Pendleton. People from through- out Umatilla County have met regularly in Hermis- ton and Pendleton to cre- ate Cason’s Place. The nonprofi t organization is named in memory of Ca- son Terjeson, who died in an Eastern Oregon farm- Fairgrounds. Work on that property, at 515 West Or- chard Avenue, will include removing the fairgrounds and rodeo structures, and eventually creating a new parking lot behind Herm- iston High School. Two structures will be left at the grounds: Thompson and Hoeft halls. Completion of the park- ing lot is scheduled for Dec. 1. The entire project should be complete by April 2018. ALL NEW 2017 RAV4’S IN STOCK $ laptops, and had to answer quickly and correctly to win points. “Which civilization be- lieved that the earth had four previous suns, and we are currently on our fi fth?” he asked students, who had a few seconds to answer. The correct response? The Aztecs. In addition to questions about ancient cultures’ beliefs about the sun, Braithwaite also asked questions about the last solar eclipse, and the order of the moon, earth and sun during an eclipse. At the elementary school, students poured out onto the fi eld around 10 a.m., sitting on blan- kets with bags of popcorn, ready to enjoy the eclipse. Some had worksheets they’d brought, to track their observations as they watched. The students made note of the sky as it got darker, the air got a little cooler, and the moon edged over the sun, until it was time. The entire school put on their glasses, sat on their blankets, and looked sky- ward. –—— Contact Jayati Ra- makrishnan at 541-564- 4534 or jramakrishnan@ eastoregonian.com BY THE WAY Continued from Page A1 SECURITY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2017 FROM PAGE A1 4 , 000 OFF MSRP ing accident in 2007. Cason’s parents, Matt Terjeson and Jan Peter- son-Terjeson, and sis- ter, Lydia, gained help through the Dougy Center in Portland and wanted to create a similar facility in Umatilla County to help children and their fami- lies that are experiencing a loss. Altrusa’s literacy com- mittee members, Debbie McBee, who also serves on the Cason’s Place board, Beth Harrison and Marge Norrington-Jones, met with Cason’s Place board members Aug. 3 to present the donation. Some of the 196 0 DOWN OFF MSRP DOUBLE CAB 4X4 ONLY 299 NEW 2017 TACOMA SR5 $ MO $ day through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Her for- mer beauty shop location at 611 E. Highland Ave., Hermiston, is being reno- vated as Sassafras Flow- ers. 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