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Newspaper Page TextNORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, December 17, 2015 OUegRQ RI¿FLaOV SOaQ WR VSUa\ aFUeV LQ PRUWOaQG WR VWRS AVLaQ g\SV\ PRWKV imports at the nearby Port of Vancouver, he said. The Asian gypsy moth is more of a danger to agri- culture and the environment than the European gypsy moth, whose females are LQFDSDEOH RI ÀLJKW %XU¿WW said. Asian gypsy moth IHPDOHVFDQÀ\DQGSURGXFH up to 1,000 eggs each, so the species can become estab- lished more rapidly, he said. With about 600 host plants, the Asian gypsy moth also has more habitat avail- able, he said. The pest can greatly defo- liate wild-growing plants, negatively affecting stream WHPSHUDWXUHV%XU¿WWVDLG For agricultural products, such as nursery stock, the pest’s establishment would cause increased pesticide use and may impede shipments to other states and countries, he said. In 2000, the Washington State Department of Agricul- ture sprayed for the insects on 725 acres in the Ballard and Magnolia neighborhoods of Seattle. In 1992, WSDA sprayed 116,457 acres for the Asian gypsy moths in Pierce and King counties. Spraying will take place next spring tunity to mitigate the AGM threat before it spreads,” he said. The cost of spraying will likely involve several aircraft and the Oregon portion of the project is expected to cost PLOOLRQ%XU¿WWVDLG Spraying will also occur in southwest Washington at a cost of $3 million, he said. This year the moths were found on the Washington and Oregon sides of the Columbia River. In Oregon, eradication will likely begin in mid-April and involve three treatments one week apart, pending an environmental assessment DQG SXEOLF RXWUHDFK %XU¿WW said. Oregon has asked the federal government to fully pay for the spraying, but ODA will also request funding from the state legislature early next year in case the federal funds don’t cover the entire expense, said Coba. The eradication project is the third largest in Oregon’s history, said Helmuth Rogg, director of Oregon’s plant program area. By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau PORTLAND — Oregon farm regulators plan to spray more than 8,000 acres in Portland next spring to prevent the establishment of the Asian gypsy moth, a destructive pest found in the area this year. The Oregon Department RI $JULFXOWXUH SODQV WR ¿UVW conduct extensive outreach before applying Bacillus thuringiensis, a biological pesticide that destroys the insect’s ability to digest. ³7KLVLVDSUHWW\VLJQL¿FDQW deal for us, especially since we will have to apply the Bt aerially around Portland,” said Katy Coba, ODA’s director, during a Dec. 16 meeting of the Oregon Board of Agriculture in Portland. The treatment is sensi- tive as it could provoke a negative public reaction in the populated urban area that would interfere with the DELOLW\WR¿JKWWKHSHVWVDLG &OLQW %XU¿WW PDQDJHU RI OFA’s insect pest prevention program. “There’s a short oppor- Asian gypsy moths have previously been intercepted in Oregon in 1992, 2000 and 2006 along the Columbia River, likely due to Asian BRIEFLY OUegRQLaQV eQUROO SeaTaF ePSOR\eUV VeeN UeeQUROO YLa HeaOWK&aUegRY KeaULQg RQ PLQLPXP Zage &LW\ aSRORgL]eV IRU OeWWeUV VeQW WR UeVLGeQWV aIWeU VWRUP PORTLAND (AP) — Federal statistics show 74,500 Oregonians have signed up for private health insurance plans via the federal exchange portal. The data released Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid include newly insured Oregonians, as well as those who already had insurance but shopped around and actively re-enrolled via HealthCare.Gov. 7KH¿JXUHGRHVQRWLQFOXGH Oregonians who are insured but decided not to shop for a different plan and will be automatically re-enrolled in their current plan. Citing heavy last-minute demand, 86KHDOWKRI¿FLDOVH[WHQGHGWKH deadline to sign up for health insurance coverage that would take effect Jan. 1. The new deadline is Thursday at midnight. 7KH¿QDOVLJQXSGHDGOLQHLV-DQ 31, but for those who sign up after the deadline coverage will start in February. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — 6SRNDQHRI¿FLDOVDUHLVVXLQJDSRORJLHV to homeowners who received letters after the Nov. 17 windstorm telling them to clean up the mess or face ¿QHV KREM-TV reports that the apology letters say that the notices didn’t “effectively convey” the city’s intent. 2I¿FLDOVVD\WKHOHWWHUVZHUHPHDQW to inform homeowners of resources available to them to help in storm recovery. A homeowner said she received a QRWL¿FDWLRQWKUHHGD\VDIWHUWKHVWRUP that told her to clean up the damage. The letter stated if she did not comply, the house may be deemed unsafe and she would have to pay $1,500. 2I¿FLDOVVD\GR]HQVRI homeowners had received the letters based on what emergency crews saw as they assessed the damage from the storm. SEATTLE (AP) — While most minimum-wage employees at Seattle- Tacoma International Airport are being paid $15.24 an hour, employers are looking to contest the raise. The Seattle Times reports that Alaska Airlines and three other plaintiffs on Tuesday asked King County Superior Court to hear new evidence on whether the city of SeaTac’s minimum-wage law interferes with airport operations. The city raised minimum wage for hospitality and transportation workers to $15 an hour in January 2014. After the proposition was passed, Alaska Airlines, the Washington Restaurant Association, )LOR)RRGVDQG%))RRGV¿OHGDODZVXLW challenging the city’s power to dictate pay at Sea-Tac Airport, which is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle. In August, the Washington Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision and ruled that wages should go up at the airport. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper?&DOO EHIRUHSP7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\ RUEHIRUHDP6DWXUGD\ for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 2I¿FHKRXUV0RQGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\DPWRSP &ORVHGPDMRUKROLGD\V SUBSCRIPTION RATES /RFDOKRPHGHOLYHU\ 6DYLQJVRIIFRYHUSULFH (=3D\ SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW ZHHNV SHUFHQW (=3D\ RQH\HDUUDWHZLWKDPRQWKO\FUHGLWRUGHELWFDUGFKHFNFKDUJH www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ (DVW2UHJRQLDQ(USPS 164-980)LVSXEOLVKHGGDLO\H[FHSW6XQGD\0RQGD\ DQG'HFE\WKH(20HGLD*URXS6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 3HULRGLFDOVSRVWDJHSDLGDW3HQGOHWRQ25Postmaster:VHQGDGGUHVVFKDQJHVWR (DVW2UHJRQLDQ6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25 Snow, 1-3", some ice late Milder with a shower or two 35° 32° 46° 29° SUNDAY Cloudy with a bit of rain Cloudy with a little rain 41° 27° 41° 35° 43° 36° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 46° 29° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 41° 32° 39° 26° 62° (1942) -12° (1964) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.04" 1.62" 0.75" 9.43" 11.72" 12.22" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH Yesterday Normals Records LOW 44° 36° 39° 27° 66° (1959) -16° (2008) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Trace 1.11" 0.80" 6.50" 6.74" 9.27" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Dec 18 Dec 25 7:30 a.m. 4:12 p.m. 11:35 a.m. 11:25 p.m. Last New Jan 1 42° 28° 42° 35° 45° 35° Seattle 45/41 ALMANAC Jan 9 NEWS To submit news tips and press releases:FDOO ID[HPDLOQHZV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Multimedia consultants 7HUUL%ULJJV WEULJJV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP -HDQQH-HZHWW MMHZHWW#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP .LP/D3ODQW NODSODQW#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP 'D\OH6WLQVRQ GVWLQVRQ#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: HPDLOFRPPXQLW\#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRPRUFDOO7DPP\0DOJHVLQL LQ+HUPLVWRQDWRU5HQHH6WUXWKHUVLQ3HQGOHWRQDW To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: HPDLOUVWUXWKHUV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRPRUYLVLWZZZHDVWRUHJRQLDQ FRPFRPPXQLW\DQQRXQFHPHQWV To submit a Letter to the Editor:PDLOWR0DQDJLQJ(GLWRU'DQLHO :DWWHQEXUJHU6(%\HUV$YH3HQGOHWRQ25RUHPDLO HGLWRU#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: VSRUWV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: 6WHYH.QREEH VNQREEH#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP REGIONAL CITIES Today MONDAY PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 34° 30° ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Jennine Perkinson MSHUNLQVRQ#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Real Estate Advertising: Jodi Snook MVQRRN#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP SATURDAY A thick cloud cover Corrections Residents in the Hermiston Fire District pay tax of $1.20 SHURIDVVHVVHGYDOXHDQGUHVLGHQWVLQWKH6WDQ¿HOG Fire District pay $2.06 per $1,000. The East Oregonian SXEOLVKHGLQDFFXUDWH¿JXUHVIRUWKRVHUDWHVLQDVWRU\ Wednesday. The East Oregonian works hard to be ac- curate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Legal Advertising:$PDQGD-DFREV DMDFREV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Single copy price: 7XHVGD\WKURXJK)ULGD\6DWXUGD\ Forecast FRIDAY schools, municipalities and government agencies will be dedicating almost PORTLAND — one-third of their payroll Reforms to Oregon’s public dollars to the retirement pension system took a system. John Tapogna, an econ- prominent position in the playbook business leaders omist with ECONorthwest, unveiled at their annual said legislators had designed economic confab with an “unusually exotic” and expensive pension system. legislators. Organizers of the He called it a generational Oregon Leadership Summit mistake, and said the state LGHQWL¿HG VRDULQJ SHQVLRQ continues to deal with its costs as one of the main aftermath. In May, the Oregon headwinds that could stall or GHUDLO ¿VFDO DQG HFRQRPLF Supreme Court threw out most of the pension reforms progress. But Democratic leaders enacted by the Legislature who spoke at Monday’s in 2013. In the process, it summit gave the issue put any reduction in current a wide berth. Gov. Kate UHWLUHH EHQH¿WV RII OLPLWV Brown didn’t mention it. That eliminated the reforms Nor did House Speaker lawmakers felt were most Tina Kotek. And Sen. Pres- equitable, because retiree ident Peter Courtney gave EHQH¿WV FRPSULVH WKH EXON it an oblique reference as a of the system’s unfunded contributor to the budgetary liability. Yet panelists on Monday Civil War that he says could discussed several ways in unfold in 2017. Away from the main which the cost increases convention ballroom, expected in coming years however, the state’s looming could be more equitably pension problems took absorbed or minimized. Chief among them: center stage at a sparsely attended breakout session requiring public employees late in the day. A panel to contribute to the pension of experts dissected their fund, absorbing some of history and their looming the expense currently being impact on government borne by public employers and taxpayers. budgets. Panelists said Oregon is They urged lawmakers not to ignore the problem: the only state in the nation an $18 billion-and-growing that requires no contribution IXQGLQJGH¿FLWLQWKH3XEOLF to its public pension system Employees Retirement from employees. That has System. In order to bail it been the case since 2004, out, required payments from when previous pension government employers reforms redirected public will go up by 20 percent employees’ 6 percent contributions in each of the next three retirement budget cycles, said Steve out of the pension system Rodeman, PERS executive and into a supplementary retirement account owned director. By 2021, that means by employees. By TED SICKINGER The Oregonian ClassiÀed Advertising: FODVVL¿HGV#HDVWRUHJRQLDQFRP Copyright © 2015, EO Media Group TODAY PERS reform a priority for business leaders Spokane Wenatchee 32/29 32/28 Tacoma Moses 46/39 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 33/30 32/31 46/43 46/40 35/29 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 48/45 36/33 Lewiston 34/30 Astoria 37/33 54/45 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/44 Pendleton 32/30 The Dalles 34/30 35/32 39/34 La Grande Salem 35/32 55/45 Albany Corvallis 54/45 55/45 John Day 42/39 Ontario Eugene Bend 35/33 54/46 46/39 Caldwell Burns 34/32 36/31 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 Hi 54 31 46 54 36 32 54 37 34 42 40 35 34 52 54 58 35 34 35 50 48 55 32 39 50 36 35 Lo 45 31 39 47 31 30 46 33 30 39 33 32 31 43 45 48 33 30 32 44 41 45 29 36 44 33 29 W r sn r r sf i r i i sn r sn sn r r r sn i sn r r r sn i r i sn NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. Hi 50 41 42 50 39 41 50 46 46 45 41 44 40 48 50 52 43 44 46 49 45 50 40 43 48 46 42 Lo 40 29 22 38 24 27 36 29 29 31 26 28 26 34 40 40 36 28 29 38 27 37 25 27 37 33 22 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh c r r r c sh r sh c r r r r sh r r sh sh sh r sh i r sh sh sn WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 38 60 52 59 77 24 58 59 31 79 52 Lo 16 51 43 52 45 17 48 38 21 68 42 W s s pc pc pc pc pc s s pc c Fri. Hi 42 62 53 57 67 28 54 59 39 83 50 Lo 16 55 40 54 41 26 47 40 24 69 39 W s s s pc pc c pc pc pc s pc WINDS Medford 52/43 Klamath Falls 40/33 (in mph) Today Friday Boardman Pendleton NNE 4-8 SSE 4-8 WSW 4-8 WSW 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Rain today; windy. Periods of rain, some heavy tonight. Occasional rain tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: A wintry mix today, accumulating 1-2 inches across the north and in central parts. Rain south. Western Washington: Rain today. Rain, heavy at times tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow. Eastern Washington: Snow, accumulating 3-6 inches toward the Cascades, 1-2 inches in the north and an icy mix south. Cascades: Cloudy with snow today, accumu- lating 3-6 inches. Cloudy with snow then rain tonight. Northern California: Cloudy today with a shower. Periods of rain tonight. Additional rain Friday. 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015 -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s ﬂurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain will drench much of the East today as colder air expands over the Midwest. Snow showers will develop over the western Great Lakes and the central Plains. Snow, ice and rain will expand in the Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 86° in Plant City, Fla. Low -14° in Grand Canyon, Ariz. 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 36 65 60 55 23 61 36 51 78 53 36 44 60 22 40 52 2 21 83 62 37 83 37 51 54 68 Lo 18 38 49 41 15 35 33 44 61 31 23 28 33 9 28 25 -11 4 71 38 26 64 23 36 32 47 W s t r r pc s sn r t r pc r s sf c s sn sf pc s pc t pc s s s Fri. Hi 45 52 51 49 38 53 42 53 65 40 31 36 56 50 36 56 -1 13 83 59 34 65 41 55 51 73 Lo 23 33 34 29 33 30 37 34 35 27 19 24 38 31 25 30 -3 3 72 35 22 36 24 37 32 50 Today W s s r pc c s r r pc sf pc sf s pc sf s pc pc sh s pc pc s s s s Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tucson Washington, DC Wichita Hi 46 53 84 37 27 50 65 58 47 33 60 58 47 54 68 27 46 55 43 32 66 57 45 57 55 40 Lo 31 34 73 23 15 30 45 49 23 21 48 39 39 48 54 6 29 37 28 26 46 44 41 34 41 21 W pc s t c c s s r pc pc r s r r t pc c c s c s pc r s r sf Fri. Hi 40 49 85 31 23 46 61 51 51 35 51 70 50 54 57 31 50 59 44 42 70 58 47 70 49 48 Lo 27 34 63 19 11 29 41 35 32 19 32 44 26 32 30 17 33 43 26 28 52 47 36 40 31 28 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. W pc s t c c pc s c s s pc s r r pc pc c c s c s sh sh s pc s