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Parents of NAACP leader
say she lied about her race
Federal agencies pledge
$110M in drought aid
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rachel
Dolezal leads the Spokane chapter of
the NAACP, teaches African studies
to college students and sits on a police
oversight commission.
But the 37-year-old artist and activist
with dark curly hair and light-brown skin
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over racial identity after family members
said she has falsely portrayed herself
as black for years when she is actually
white. As proof, they produced pictures
of her as a blonde, blue-eyed child.
The city is also investigating whether
she lied about her ethnicity when she
applied to be on the police board.
And police on Friday said they were
suspending investigations into racial
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which she said she received hate mail at
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The NAACP issued a statement
Friday supporting Dolezal, who has been
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rights community.
“One’s racial identity is not a
qualifying criteria or disqualifying stan-
dard for NAACP leadership,” the group
said. “In every corner of this country, the
NAACP remains committed to securing
political, educational and economic
justice for all people.”
Dolezal did not return several
telephone messages left Friday by The
Associated Press.
On Thursday, she avoided answering
questions directly about her race and
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. — Federal agencies
pledged another $110
million in aid Friday to
help states struggling with
the crippling drought after
President Barack Obama
talked to leaders from seven
western states.
The president met by
phone and video link for
about an hour with the
governors of Arizona, Cali-
fornia, Colorado, Montana,
Oregon and Wyoming and
with the lieutenant governor
of Utah, according to the
White House.
The funding announced
Friday includes:
— $18 million for a jobs
program to help as many
as 1,000 Californians who
are unemployed because of
the drought get temporary
jobs doing drought-related
work or as part of programs
to help make communities
By JULIET WILLIAMS
Associated Press
racial-identity issues, said people can
identify with people of other races
without doing what Dolezal did.
“For the most part, being a part of that
community doesn’t require someone to
claim that identity,” she said. “It might
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local NAACP chapter, but achieving
the goals? That in itself doesn’t require
passing as a member of that group.”
Maybe she “saw her whiteness as a
barrier to doing the advocacy work in
the social justice world,” said Charles,
who is black.
Ruthanne Dolezal of Troy, Montana,
told reporters this week that she has had
no contact with her daughter in years.
She said Rachel began to “disguise
herself” after the family adopted four
African-American children more than
a decade ago. Rachel later married and
AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File divorced a black man and graduated
In this 2009 file photo, Rachel from historically black Howard
Dolezal, a leader of the Human Rights University.
Education Institute, stands in front of
Ruthanne Dolezal also showed
a mural she painted at the institute’s
reporters pictures of her daughter as a
offices in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
child, with blonde hair, blue eyes and
ethnicity in an interview with The
straight hair.
Spokesman-Review newspaper.
Her daughter dismissed the contro-
“That question is not as easy as versy, saying it arose from litigation
it seems,” she said. “There’s a lot of between other relatives who have divided
complexities ... and I don’t know that the family.
everyone would understand that.”
Ruthanne Dolezal said the family’s
“We’re all from the African conti- ancestry is Czech, Swedish and German,
nent,” she added.
with a trace of Native American heritage.
Dr. Camille Zubrinsky Charles, a She produced a copy of her daughter’s
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sity of Pennsylvania and an expert in and Larry Dolezal as Rachel’s parents.
Paid sick leave bill
heads to the governor
SALEM (AP) — Repub-
licans tried without success
Friday to derail an Oregon
bill that would require busi-
nesses to offer sick leave to
their employees, arguing the
measure would be bad for
business and devastating for
the agriculture industry.
Democrats
were
unswayed, sending the bill
to Democratic Gov. Kate
Brown in a 33-24 vote that
mostly followed party lines.
The bill is a top priority
for Democrats and the
interest groups that support
them, who say it will ensure
people don’t have to work
while they or a child are sick.
Republicans raised a
number of objections, but
they homed in particularly
on the effects the bill would
have on agriculture. Farmers
growing perishable crops
Northwest tribes start yearly lamprey harvest
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA
Associated Press
OREGON CITY — They dove into the cold
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and thrusting them into nets.
Northwest Native American tribes thus began
harvesting lampreys this week at a 40-foot waterfall
south of Portland, Oregon.
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source for tribal members in the Columbia River
Basin. They’re prized for their rich, fatty meat.
Lampreys also offer an alternate food source for
sea lions and other predators that otherwise would be
munching on threatened salmon.
But lamprey numbers have declined dramatically
over the past 30 years because of hydroelectric dams
and pesticides and other toxins. Willamette Falls
is the last place where they can be caught by the
hundreds.
Tribes have been working to spur lampreys’
restoration. They run research and recovery projects,
and truck lampreys past dams.
AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka
A Native American man catches lampreys, eel-like fish, at
Willamette Falls, a 40-foot waterfall south of Portland on
Friday. An ancient fish that’s a source of food for tribes in the
Pacific Northwest, lampreys have been in drastic decline in recent
decades.
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MONDAY
Plenty of sunshine
Pleasant with
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Mostly sunny
79° 47°
84° 50°
WEDNESDAY
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very warm
Sunny to partly
cloudy
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87° 56°
88° 54°
86° 55°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 47°
87° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
82°
77°
99° (1940)
58°
52°
32° (1893)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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0.05"
0.63"
4.99"
6.47"
7.14"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
83°
78°
104° (1940)
60°
53°
41° (1956)
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Normal month to date
Year to date
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Trace
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3.77"
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
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87° 54°
Seattle
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5:05 a.m.
8:45 p.m.
3:18 a.m.
5:42 p.m.
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Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
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Yakima 79/49
71/39
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75/43
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Longview
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82/45
Astoria
79/49
64/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 72/38
The Dalles 82/47
79/47
82/52
La Grande
Salem
73/39
78/48
Albany
Corvallis 78/45
80/46
John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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79/43
76/39
Caldwell
Burns
82/49
79/38
Medford
87/52
Klamath Falls
82/43
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however, sunnier across the south and
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have a limited window to
pick them and could be
ruined if workers call in sick
unexpectedly, several GOP
lawmakers said.
Rep. Paul Holvey, a
Eugene Democrat, said
farm workers often do
backbreaking work for long
hours outdoors and low
wages. They need paid sick
leave as much or more than
anyone else, he said.
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bill
requires
employers with at least 10
workers to offer up to 40
hours of paid leave per year,
staring in January. Smaller
employers would be required
to provide unpaid leave.
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more drought-resistant. The
administration cited a recent
University of California
study estimating 18,000
lost jobs in California.
“It also provides a
much needed infusion of
economic support right
back into these communi-
ties that need it,” said Assis-
tant Secretary of Labor for
Employment and Training
Portia Wu on a conference
call with reporters.
— $30 million to extend
a program so farmers who
suffer one or two years of
exceptionally low produc-
tion because of the drought
do not lose crop insurance.
— $10 million to reduce
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for water management
improvement projects.
— $7 million to address
the drought-related needs
of water utilities and house-
holds.
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National Summary: Warm and humid air will fuel drenching showers and thunderstorms
from the mid-Atlantic through the Ohio Valley today. Severe storms will erupt across the
panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in Red Bluff , Calif.
Low 35° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
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El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
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Indianapolis
Jacksonville
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