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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, December 24, 2015 BRIEFLY 3 people dead in 3 crashes PORTLAND (AP) — Just two days before Christmas, three people have died in three separate vehicle crashes in the state. Oregon State Police says a Warrenton man was killed Wednesday on Highway 30 near Clatskanie when a car crossed the center line and struck a semi-trailer. The car’s 55-year-old passenger Zai G. Yang died at the scene. In Benton County, a man driving a minivan crossed the center line and collided with an SUV. The SUV driver, 54-year-old Arthur Earl Fuller, Jr. of Eugene, died in the crash. The minivan driver was critically injured. And in Deschutes County, 74-year-old Karen I. Langeliers of Bend died after a head-on collision on Highway 20 just east of Sisters. Authorities say she lost control of her car on the icy road, veered into the eastbound lane and was struck by another car. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Lifting holiday spirit Klamath County creating non-lethal wolf deterrent boxes Skiers and snowboarders ride a lift up a mountain on Tuesday at Snoqualmie Pass, Wash. A weather pattern that could be associated with El Nino has turned winter upside-down across the U.S. during a week of heavy holiday travel, bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and so much snow in parts of the West that there are concerns about avalanches. KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — An Oregon county is looking for non-lethal ways to deter ZROYHVDIWHUH[SHULHQFLQJLWV¿UVWOLYHVWRFNNLOOVLQ October. The Herald and News reports that Klamath County will put together toolboxes of deterrents for landowners with a $6,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The county will also contribute $600 to the project. The county will work with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to create the boxes. 2I¿FLDOVEHOLHYHDZROIFDOOHG25NLOOHG on calf and injured two more in the Fort Klamath area in late October and early November. Klamath County commission chairman Tom Mallams says the $6,600 won’t be used to compensate the livestock owners. That money will come from the wolf depredation compensation fund. Study: Devastating Oso Oregon farmers say paid leave law is unclear landslide wasn’t an outlier SALEM (AP) — Many farmers in Oregon still have questions about new rules that will require them to provide employees with paid sick leave starting Jan. 1. Lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year requiring employers with 10 or more workers to offer the paid sick leave, reported The Capital Press. But farmers aren’t sure how that will work with piece-rate workers, like fruit pickers, who are compen- sated based on the amount they harvest, according to the Oregon Farm Bureau. The state’s Bureau of Labor and Industries said piece-rate workers should be compensated at “the regular rate of pay” or, if no such rate was set, at minimum wage. The problem is that the regulations don’t explain how to calculate the “regular rate of pay,” according to OFB public policy director Jenny Dresler. ³:H QHHGHG D FODUL¿FD- tion and we didn’t get it,” Dresler said. “We just don’t know.” Would the number be based on the weekly average of the employee’s piece-rate earnings? Or the rate earned by other workers who are harvesting crops while the SEATTLE (AP) — Last year’s devastating landslide in Oso was no outlier, according to a new study from the University of Washington. The landslide wiped out a neighborhood north of Seattle and left 43 people dead when it roared down a hillside above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River. It was the deadliest land- slide in U.S. history. In a novel method, university geologists used radiocarbon dating of trees and branches buried in earlier slides as well as a review of erosion characteristics to map the history of landslides in the area. They found that slopes in the area have collapsed every 500 years on average, and with even greater frequency in the past millennium: every 140 years or so. The authors say the study disproves the notion that the previous slides in the area all occurred thousands of years ago after the ice sheets retreated. “This was well known as an area of hillslope instability, but the question was: ‘Were the larger slides thousands of years old, or hundreds of years old?”’ co-author Alison Duvall, an assis- tant professor of earth and space sciences, said in a news release. “Now we can say that many of them are hundreds of years old.” Wading along the river’s employee is sick? The labor bureau says it won’t penalize employers while they are still learning the new rules, but Dresler pointed out that that doesn’t stop individual workers from suing the employers. Labor bureau spokesman Charlie Burr said the agency will offer a series of low-cost seminars about paid sick leave. Tim Bernasek, an attorney specializing in agricultural and labor issues, says he doesn’t “have a very good answer about how to practically implement this rule.” But Bernasek said he expects the labor bureau to KHOSIDUPHUV¿JXUHLWRXW He said legal aid orga- nizations with attorneys devoted to farmworker protection will probably also be able to help. “I would encourage ag employers to roll up their sleeves and make their best effort to make this work,” said Bernasek. There is also some confu- sion about the labor bureau’s decision to consider farmers and labor contractors “joint employers” under the law. Burr said the joint liability provisions are guided by federal labor law. banks, the team unearthed samples of wood buried in the Rowan landslide, just down- stream of the Oso site, and the Headache Creek landslide, just upriver from Oso. The Rowan VOLGH ZKLFK ZDV DERXW ¿YH times the size of the Oso slide, occurred 300 to 694 years ago, the researchers determined. The Headache Creek landslide was about 6,000 years ago. The study’s results, published Tuesday in the journal Geology, could have implications for future land-use decisions in the region, including for logging, which can increase slope instability. Duvall and another co-author, doctoral student Sean LaHusen, are reviewing the dangers of magnitude-9 earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone. They hope to learn whether land- slides across Washington state coincided with past quakes, and use simulations of future shaking to determine what parts of the state may be most vulnerable to quake-triggered slides. 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Hi 47 27 31 46 23 27 43 33 37 30 29 32 29 40 46 49 27 34 34 43 34 45 28 28 41 34 33 Lo 32 6 5 32 1 5 24 15 21 17 5 13 9 20 33 33 11 20 18 28 9 26 15 8 28 17 12 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc sn pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc sf pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 41 74 54 53 74 42 55 58 41 75 60 Lo 16 60 37 41 42 31 46 40 22 65 49 W s c s r pc c c s pc sh c Fri. Hi 41 64 55 56 73 36 55 59 36 77 58 Lo 23 60 39 52 46 33 46 38 29 65 42 W s c s sh pc c c pc s sh c WINDS Medford 40/28 (in mph) Klamath Falls 30/12 Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern Washington: Cloudy today; a couple of snow showers in the north and also in the mountains. Cascades: Chilly with a bit of snow with little or no accumulation today. Snow show- ers tonight. Northern California: A little rain today; snow, some heavy, 3-6 inches in the interior mountains. Friday W 3-6 WSW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with a couple of showers; chilly in the south. A shower tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today. A bit of snow, 1-3 inches south and up to an inch upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: A rain shower around today, perhaps a snow shower in some places early. Today SW 6-12 SW 6-12 0 0 1 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. 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