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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Deadly airstrikes hit hospitals, school in northern Syria BEI58T $P — $irstrikes blaPed on 5ussia hit at least two hosSitals and a school in northern Syria on 0onday, killing and wounding do]ens of civilians and further diPPing hoSes for a tePSorary truce, as governPent trooSs backed by 5ussian warSlanes Sressed a PaMor offensive north of $leSSo The raids caPe days after 5ussia and other world Sowers agreed to bring about a Sause in ¿ghting that would allow for the delivery of huPanitarian aid and the revival of Seace talks The SroMected truce agreed on Friday in 0unich was to begin in a week, but there was no sign that would haSSen On 0onday, Syrian state T9 reSorted that Sro-govern- Pent forces have entered the northern town of Tel 5ifaat, where they were ¿ghting “¿erce battles´ against insurgents Tel 5ifaat is a PaMor stronghold of Pilitants ¿ghting to overthrow Presi- dent Bashar $ssad CaSturing Tel 5ifaat would bring governPent forces closer to their target of $]a], near the Turkish border In Idlib Srovince, an airstrike destroyed a Pake- shift clinic suSSorted by 'octors Without Borders The international charity, also known by its French acronyP 0SF, said the hosSital in the town of 0aaret al-1uPan AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent Col- lege Law justice in Chicago. Maara Media Center,via AP Video This image taken from video provided by the Syrian activist-based media group Maara Media Center, which has-been verified and is consistent with other AP re- porting, shows Syrian Civil Defense rescuers running from the site of a second ex- plosion near a hospital run by an international medical charity, also known by its French acronym MSF in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib, Syria, Monday. Doctors Without Borders says an attack on a clinic in northern Syria supported by the group has killed several people and that more are presumed dead. was hit four tiPes in attacks that were Pinutes aSart It said seven SeoSle were killed and eight others were “Pissing, SresuPed dead´ “The destruction of the hosSital leaves the local SoSulation of around 40,000 SeoSle without access to Pedical services in an active ]one of conÀict,´ said 0SF Pission chief 0assiPiliano 5ebaudengo The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for +uPan 5ights said 5ussian warSlanes targeted the hosSital, destroying it and killing nine SeoSle The oSSosition grouS, which tracks both sides of the conÀict through sources on the ground, said do]ens were wounded in the attack “The entire building has collaSsed on the ground,´ said oSSosition activist <ahya al-Sobeih, sSeaking by Shone froP 0aaret al-1uPan +e said ¿ve SeoSle were killed near the 0SF clinic and “all PePbers of the Pedical teaP inside are believed to be dead´ The Observatory and other oSSosition activists said another hosSital in 0aaret al-1uPan was also hit 0onday, Post likely by a Syrian governPent airstrike In the neighboring $leSSo Srovince, a Pissile struck a children’s hosSital in the town of $]a], killing ¿ve SeoSle, including three chil- dren and a Sregnant woPan, according to the Observatory $ third air raid hit a school in a nearby village, killing seven and wounding others 81 Secretary-*eneral Ban .i-Poon said close to 0 civilians were killed and Pany Pore wounded in Pissile attacks on at least ¿ve Pedical facilities and two schools in northern Syria ENERGY: +alf Pust coPe froP renewable Sower by 2040 Continued from 1A Oregon ePits in one year, according to data froP the state 'eSartPent of Environ- Pental 4uality *ov .ate Brown, whose adPinistration instructed utility of¿cials not to go Sublic with concerns about the bill last Ponth, said last week the bill would have to Peet several criteria in order for her to suSSort it “What’s iPSortant is that we continue to Pove Oregon forward towards Peeting our greenhouse gas ePission reduction goals, that the bill does not styPie econoPic develoSPent in our coPPunities throughout the state, and that it does not cost taxSayers, rateSayers substantially,´ Brown said late last week +ouse Bill 406,w which was written by Paci¿CorS and Portland *eneral Electric and environPental grouSs, would require those utilities to use renewable Sower sources such as wind and solar to serve at least 0 Sercent of their custoPers’ energy dePand in Oregon by 2040 The current state Pandate is for 2 Sercent renewable energy by 202 The bill would also require the investor-owned utilities to stoS using coal to serve Oregon custoPers, but there are questions about whether the bill would actually do Puch to iPSact the Shase-out of coal Sower in Oregon Earlier this Ponth, a Port- land *eneral Electric reSre- sentative said the coPSany already has Slans to Shase out coal and the bill would actu- ally have a greater iPSact on the degree to which utilities reSlace coal with natural gas The utilities negotiated the legislation in an attePSt to avoid ballot Peasures Slanned by the Solitically active nonSro¿t 5enew Oregon, which reSresents a coalition of environPental grouSs, renewable energy coPSanies and other businesses The environPental grouSs agreed to droS their efforts to get voters to Sass several new renewable energy Pandates in 1ovePber, including an initiative that would eliPinate coal Sower, if lawPakers and the governor aSSrove +ouse Bill 406 Brown described those negotiations last week as “a good thing´ and said “that’s how we like to solve SroblePs in Oregon´ Critics of the deal have said the rateSayers who will Say for the new renewable energy SroMects were not at the table during negotiations But 5eS -essica 9ega Pederson, D-Portland, who carried the bill, Sointed out the grouS Citi]ens’ 8tility Board of Oregon did reSre- sent residential rateSayers during the negotiations “They were there reSre- senting rateSayer interests,´ Vega Pederson said ahead of the vote on 0onday $n ePSloyee of the Citi]ens 8tility Board who helSed to negotiate the deal has been lobbying lawPakers to Sass the bill, albeit in a new caSacity -eff Bissonnette, who was the utility board’s Solicy director during the negotiations, took a new Mob as executive director and a registered lobbyist for the Oregon Solar Energy Industries $ssociation in late -anuary, according to the state lobbying database Bob -enks, executive director of the Citi]ens 8tility Board, said he and Bisson- nette were both involved in the negotiations “I was sort of the lead for Citi]ens 8tility Board,´ -enks said in an interview last week -enks said the grouSs had Postly ¿nished negotiating the legis- lation by early DecePber, and “it was later in DecePber and -anuary where the offer froP the solar industries haSSened´ ROBOTS: Science club started about a year and a half ago Continued from 1A aOOianFebased Àoor gaPe TeaP 0$/E FoPSeted in tKe Oregon FT& 6uSer- 4uaOi¿ers in +iOOsboro tKis ZeeNend, and 0onday, tKe KigK sFKooOers Sassed tKat NnoZOedge on “We’re here to show kids that robotiFs is awesoPe, but aOso to get SeoSOe into it ² esSeFiaOOy girOs,´ soSh- oPore 0aken]ie 1oggOe said “Engineering is a PaOe-doPinated ¿eOd, and we want to Fhange that´ Science Club offered an oSSortunity to do Must that In addition to the seven high schoolers on TeaP 0$/E, half of the science club SarticiSants were girls, who built side-by-side with boys “/ittle kids this young can absorb a lot of inforPa- tion, so we could be teaching the next great engineering exSerts,´ senior EsPerelda 0orelos said “We want to show theP anything can haSSen with hard work and teaPwork´ 0atthew CaPSbell, STE0 teacher and robotics coordinator for 3+S, said the school now has four FTC teaPs and is looking at oSSortunities to bring robotics and other STE0-fo- cused activities to younger children CaPSbell is working with /i] Woodiwiss, SrograPPing coordinator for C0EO, on future oSSortunities for STE0 education Science Club, and other STE0 SrograP- Ping at C0EO, is funded through a grant froP the Oregon CoPPunity Foun- dation aiPed at increasing extracurricular activities in Eastern Oregon The science club started about a year and a half ago to helS Peet that need The Ponthly SrograP brings local scientists and teachers into the children’s PuseuP to teach the different asSects of science through fun and hands-on learning activities BUCKAROO BOOSTER CLUB FUNDRAISER LAND & SEA DINNER & AUCTION Over $40,000 in auction items up for bid! Wednesday, February 24 th • $ 25 per person Dinner 5:30-7:00 pm • Auction 6:30 pm Pendleton Convention Center Limited to first 500 tickets sold Tickets available at Big John’s Pizza, Pendleton Athletic, PHS Main Office, Dave’s Chevron and any Booster Board Member. PENDLETON ELECTRIC COMPANY D.A. DAVIDSON & CO. • GORDON’S ELECTRIC INC. McDONALDS of PENDLETON • PAPA MURPHY’S PIZZA McLAUGHLIN LANDSCAPING • THEWS SHEET METAL Past classes have covered toSics froP chePical reac- tions to color science “We started Science Club in 2014, and a lot of kids have really loved it,´ Wood- iwiss said “We get together once a Ponth, and I usually try to get a teacher froP around the coPPunity who has a sSecialty in soPe area of science and share their exSertise with the kids´ The next science club will focus on water quality and will feature a guest Sresenter froP the 8Patilla County Watershed Council For Pore inforPation about Science Club, contact C0EO at 41-26-1066 ——— Jennifer Colton has returned to the EO Media Group this week as a reporter LQWKH+HUPLVWRQRI¿FH $QH[SHULHQFHGMRXUQDOLVW DQGIUHHODQFHZULWHU-HQQLIHU has been a staff reporter for the Argus Observer in 2QWDULR 2UH WKH ,QGH[ -RXUQDOLQ*UHHQZRRG6& DQG WKH +HUPLVWRQ +HUDOG )RUWKHSDVWWKUHH\HDUVVKH KDVZRUNHGDW&D\XVH7HFK nologies and has written for ORFDOUHJLRQDODQGQDWLRQDO SXEOLFDWLRQV 6KH ZLOO FRYHU HGXFDWLRQ DQGSXEOLFVDIHW\IRUWKH(DVW Oregonian and Hermiston +HUDOG RANCH COOKIN’ MOM’S MEAT LOAF H AMLEY S TEAK H OUSE & S aloon ObaPa’s Solitical Su]]le in naPing Scalia successor W$S+I1*TO1 $P — For Post Sresidents, choosing a SuSrePe Court noPinee is a Su]]le For President Barack ObaPa, the chance to Sick a successor to -ustice $ntonin Scalia is Pore like a *ordian .not $s the White +ouse carries out a rare elec- tion-year search for a noPinee, the Sresident’s lawyers and toS advisers are sorting through a tangled web of Solitical, legal and Sersonal factors $ sPart Sick and noPination strategy could deterPine whether ObaPa gets to reshaSe the highest court for the next genera- tion The wrong Sick could cede that oSSortunity to his successor 'ePocrats view this as a PoPent decades in the Paking 5ecent 5eSublican Sresidents have gotten Pore chances to ¿ll seats, tilting the court in to the right “The SuSrePe Court has not reÀected where the $Perican SeoSle have been on issues,´ said *regory Craig, who served as White +ouse counsel early in ObaPa’s ¿rst terP “This is the ¿rst oSSortunity in Pany, Pany years to bring the court Pore in line with the $Perican SeoSle´ For ObaPa, the clock is ticking The sooner he Sicks a naPe, the longer he has to try to force the 5eSublican-led Senate to hold a vote $t the heart of ObaPa’s dilePPa is how to Panage the ¿erce 5eSublican oSSosition to his decision to naPe a noPinee Within hours of Scalia’s death on Saturday, 5eSublicans began arguing ObaPa should let his successor ¿ll the oSen seat ObaPa brushed that arguPent aside, but it is undoubtedly weighing on his decision *iven the election-year tiPing, ObaPa would likely have been inclined to naPe the noPinee Post likely to aSSeal to 5eSublican senators But if 5eSublicans obMect to ObaPa even trying to ¿ll the Sost — and rePain united in that Sosition —the Sresident Pay see little Soint in bending too far to aSSease the other Sarty +e Pay feel the Sull to focus Pore on ginning uS his own Sarty’s base Then key question becoPes What are the chances of getting a vote? This wouldn’t be “the ¿rst tiPe 5eSublicans have coPe out with a lot of bluster only to have reality sink in,´ White +ouse sSokesPan Eric Schult] said 0onday 5efusing to allow a vote has consequences for the court, Shult] said, Sointing to the SrosSects for tie votes that would allow lower court decisions to stand Schult] said the Sresident will use the saPe criteria he used when he noPinated Sonia SotoPayor, who becaPe the ¿rst +isSanic on the court, and Elena .agan, then-solicitor general In those instances, and in his aSSointPents to lower courts, ObaPa has shown a desire to exSand ethnic and racial diversity and to elevate Pore woPen +is noPinee would alPost certainly suSSort abortion rights, consid- eration of race in college adPissions and other areas of Sublic life, liPits on caPSaign contributions and stronger rights of labor unions — all issues that have divided the court’s liberal and conservative Mustices on a -4 Pargin In all likelihood, those cases where the conserva- tives Srevailed, with Scalia in the PaMority, would coPe out the other way if ObaPa gets to Sick Scalia’s successor ObaPa also has Sriori- ti]ed young candidates — SeoSle likely to hold the seat for decades +e’s aiPed for relatively uncontroversial Sersonalities, SeoSle with views that fall into the cate- gory of PainstreaP liberal MurisSrudence ObaPa will also be Pindful of the clock +e has said there is “Slenty of tiPe´ for 5eSublicans to consider his choice The Pore tiPe he gives theP before theP — Sarticu- larly before the height of caPSaign season — the stronger his arguPent The tiPe crunch Pay lean in favor of candidates who’ve already been vetted for adPinistration Mobs or recent court aSSointPents Leadership Training at BMCC Business Technologies 541-278-5868 www.bluecc.edu COURT & MAIN, PENDLETON • 541.278.1100 37 TH ANNUAL HERMISTON SPORTS BOOSTERS STEAK FEED & AUCTION Saturday, March 5th 5:30pm Auction starts at 7:00pm Hermiston Community Center FOR TABLE RESERVATIONS, $ 40 on per pers call Paul 541-567-5215 or formore info., call Joe 541-571-4478 Everyone 21 years & over welcome. 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