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Page 2A WEATHER East Oregonian SUNDAY MONDAY Mostly sunny and mild Mostly sunny and comfortable Mostly sunny and mild 63° 33° 64° 36° TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Mild with some sun, then clouds Partly sunny, a shower; mild PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 67° 38° 68° 46° 65° 45° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 65° 29° 67° 36° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 62° 53° 68° (1979) 33° 33° 19° (1943) 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 0.00" 0.00" 0.21" 1.55" 2.77" 2.72" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 64° 55° 70° (1972) 70° 34° 26° 32° 11° (1943) 0.00" 0.00" 0.20" 1.06" 2.02" 2.44" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Mar 13 Mar 20 68° 42° Spokane Wenatchee 58/32 64/40 Tacoma Moses 60/36 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 63/31 58/34 61/38 62/34 68/31 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 63/37 64/39 Lewiston 65/29 Astoria 61/35 61/38 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 67/39 Pendleton 61/30 The Dalles 65/29 63/33 70/35 La Grande Salem 64/32 67/37 Albany Corvallis 65/37 66/38 John Day 63/26 Ontario Eugene Bend 64/32 65/36 64/24 Caldwell Burns 62/31 63/25 Medford 72/36 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 68° 43° Seattle 59/40 ALMANAC First 6:24 a.m. 5:50 p.m. 8:05 p.m. 7:08 a.m. Full Mar 26 Apr 4 REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY Today 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 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny and mild today. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Cascades: Mostly sunny and warm today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Northern California: Mostly sunny today. Hi 57 72 72 58 72 37 58 56 49 79 45 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Hi 61 63 64 63 63 61 65 63 65 63 65 64 58 72 58 61 64 65 63 67 66 67 58 59 66 64 68 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WORLD CITIES (in mph) Klamath Falls 65/25 Saturday, March 7, 2015 Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Snow showers will affect the Great Lakes with rain showers in store for South Florida today. Most other areas will be sunny. Warmth will continue in the West as temperatures rebound elsewhere. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 89° in Santa Ana, Calif. Low -29° in Saranac Lake, N.Y. 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 61 60 38 40 55 59 63 33 60 47 42 40 56 49 41 66 35 37 77 61 42 63 58 72 54 85 Lo 33 36 31 28 28 32 35 27 38 35 23 28 41 24 28 44 14 24 65 44 26 39 34 49 34 53 W s s pc pc c s s pc s pc pc c pc s sf s sn c c pc c pc s s s s Hi 62 66 45 46 54 66 63 40 70 49 37 39 48 43 40 69 18 41 76 57 44 71 58 74 49 80 Sun. 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Kate Brown’s appointee to succeed her as Oregon secretary of state. Atkins will be sworn in at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the JRYHUQRU¶VFHUHPRQLDORI¿FH at the Capitol. Atkins will serve the slightly less than two years remaining in the second term of Brown, who succeeded John Kitzhaber as governor upon Kitzhaber’s resignation Feb. 18. “I am pleased to be able to appoint a successor with such impeccable profession- al credentials,” Brown said in a statement. Atkins had stepped down recently as state director for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who won a second term Nov. 4. The state direc- tor oversees Merkley’s six KRPHVWDWHRI¿FHV Atkins had held that job since mid-2009, after Merk- ley became a senator. She also was Merkley’s chief of staff when Merkley was speaker of the Oregon House in 2007 and 2008, just before Merkley was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008. She had been with Merk- ley since Merkley became House Democratic leader in 2003, three years be- fore Democrats became the House’s majority party and he became speaker. “Governor Brown couldn’t have picked a more dedicated and experienced public servant to become our next secretary of state. Jeanne Atkins is a true Or- egon gem and supremely TXDOL¿HG´0HUNOH\VDLGLQD statement. In a retirement tribute Jan. 8, Merkley had this to say about Atkins: “Jeanne is not someone who got into politics to be important or powerful. She got into policy and politics because she believed in pub- lic service and she believed Atkins that each person has the pow- er to make a difference. It is one of the attributes I most value about having her on my team.” She also was staff director for the Oregon Senate Ma- MRULW\ 2I¿FH PRUH WKDQ years ago. “I worked closely with Jeanne Atkins when she worked in the Legislature,” Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said in a statement. “She’s intelligent. She’s professional. She’s a veteran administrator who knows state government. Jeanne will serve Oregon and her people well. Gover- nor Brown has made an ex- cellent choice.” But House Republicans, while acknowledging that Brown was compelled to choose a Democrat as her in- terim successor, complained about Atkins’ previous career working for Democrats. “The law calls for a Dem- ocratic placeholder in the VHFUHWDU\RIVWDWH¶VRI¿FHEXW I don’t know that Governor Brown could’ve picked an individual with more partisan credentials than Ms. Atkins,” Kara Walker, the House GOP spokeswoman, said “This appointment comes a day after the governor named the former Oregon teachers’ union leader as her new education policy advis- er. OEA yesterday, Planned Parenthood today — what’s tomorrow, Sierra Club? It’s clear that the same old re- 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. volving door of partisan ideologues is alive and well in Salem.” Atkins also was a manag- er in the Oregon Department of Human Services, leading the women’s and reproduc- tive health section of the Of- ¿FHRI)DPLO\+HDOWK She has worked for sever- DOQRQSUR¿WDJHQFLHVDPRQJ them the United Way of the Columbia/Willamette, Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette, and the Women’s Equity Action League in Washington, D.C. “Jeanne Atkins is great- ly respected for her years of hard work and dedication to Oregon, and I trust that she will serve ably as our secre- tary of state,” House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said. As secretary of state, At- kins will oversee elections — ZKLFKDUHFRQGXFWHGE\RI¿- cials in Oregon’s 36 counties — and audits, state archives and business functions. Although she will be sec- retary of state, Atkins as an appointee would not become governor if something hap- pened to Brown. The Ore- JRQ &RQVWLWXWLRQ VSHFL¿HV that succession falls to an RI¿FLDODOUHDG\HOHFWHG²LQ this case, state Treasurer Ted Wheeler. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in 1971 and a law degree from the Univer- sity of Oregon in 1978. Senate Majority Leader Your Community College, Our Community’s Future Join us for the Pendleton Chamber Luncheon at Blue Mountain Community College! March 18, 12 pm BMCC Student Union, Pioneer Hall • Learn about BMCC’s successful agriculture program • Panel of Industry Experts • Tour our agriculture facility and farm on campus $13 for Chamber Members if paid by March 13, $16 after March 13 $16 for non-Chamber Members. Call the Chamber at 541-276-7411 to purchase tickets. Diane Rosenbaum, D-Port- land, said she has known Atkins well for more than 15 years. “Jeanne is an experienced, fair, and effective leader who will take great care of the duties of the Secretary of 6WDWH¶V2I¿FH´VKHVDLGLQD statement. “She is eminently TXDOL¿HGDQG,ORRNIRUZDUG to working with her as Sen- ate majority leader and chair of the Senate Rules Commit- tee.” Although she has run twice for the Oregon House — she made losing bids in 1992 and 1994 — Atkins might not be a candidate for a term of her own as secre- tary of state next year, leav- LQJ WKH ¿HOG RI VXFFHVVRUV wide open. She would be eligible for two full terms if she did run. The release by the gover- QRU¶V RI¿FH LV VLOHQW RQ WKDW point, and Atkins did not make herself available for questions prior to her swear- ing-in. She is married to John At- kins; they live in Portland. “I share the values and enthusiasm for this position that Governor Kate Brown demonstrated during her ten- ure,” Atkins said. “I will be diligent in carrying out the UHVSRQVLELOLWLHV RI WKH RI¿FH of Oregon secretary of state.” — The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group.