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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Contact Jayati Ra-
makrishnan at 541-564-
4534 or jramakrishnan@
eastoregonian.com
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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
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they are shooting for a
September opening date.
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to take with them, while
others will be utilized in
the “talking rooms” at Ca-
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The facility is located
at 1416 S.E. Court Ave.,
Pendleton. It’s targeted to
open in the fall. For more
information, to volunteer
or to make donations, con-
tact 541-612-0828, janpt.
loss@gmail.com or visit
www.casonsplace.org.
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to 29278 Bloom Road,
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