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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY Mostly sunny and pleasant Partly sunny and pleasant 83° 53° 87° 59° TUESDAY Mostly sunny and comfortable Partly sunny and nice PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 86° 58° 84° 57° 84° 56° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 87° 55° 91° 62° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 80° 55° 89° 59° 112° (1911) 44° (1905) 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" 0.80" 0.15" 7.32" 5.00" 7.76" through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 82/48 Ontario 86/56 Bend 78/46 83° 61° 89° 59° 107° (1938) 43° (2000) Burns 81/44 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" 0.29" 0.11" 4.93" 3.25" 5.84" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last July 26 New 5:22 a.m. 8:40 p.m. 5:51 p.m. 2:49 a.m. First Aug 2 Aug 10 Caldwell 85/52 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 67 79 78 69 81 76 79 80 87 82 82 79 76 86 64 68 86 87 83 75 82 75 75 76 73 83 87 Lo 58 43 46 54 44 48 54 50 55 48 45 48 46 57 54 58 56 57 53 60 46 57 57 45 58 58 59 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 82/45 REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Low clouds and fog break- ing for some sun today; morning sprinkles across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Pleasant today with plenty of sunshine. Mainly clear tonight. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today; sprinkles at the coast during the morning. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Eastern Washington: Periods of sun today; a thunderstorm in the north, near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: Pleasant today; sunny, except some clouds across the north. Mainly clear tonight. Northern California: Low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of sunshine elsewhere. 2 Hi 87 91 88 77 72 80 78 81 77 65 82 Lo 70 85 68 61 53 57 60 62 72 52 74 W c t s c t s pc c r pc pc Sun. Hi 89 91 86 78 72 81 83 84 81 68 85 Lo 71 82 68 60 54 62 61 65 69 52 77 W pc r s pc t s s s pc pc pc Today Sunday SW 6-12 W 6-12 S 3-6 NNW 4-8 5 7 2 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday years, one of the lowest rates in the nation. And 75 percent of Oregon high school students who go straight to community college have to take remedial classes, according to the national Institute of Education Sciences. The Coalition of Commu- nities of Color and the Oregon School Boards Association have endorsed the measure. There is no organized opposition to the measure, but the Oregon Education Association has declined to support the measure. Instead, OEA is campaigning for passage of the corporate sales tax measure, Initiative Petition 28. The tax measure would yield about $3 billion in additional revenue each year for education and other state services. The political action committee, Oregonians for High School Success, has already has raised $4.2 million to campaign in support of IP 65. Voter privacy, emergency clause fail to make ballot passes a bill. Lawmakers have increas- ingly used emergency clauses in bills in order to achieve a quicker effective date. Adding the clause removes voters’ constitutional right to contest the legislation via a referendum on the ballot. The campaign needed 28,171 additional valid signatures to secure a posi- tion on the ballot, but turned in only 26,000, according to the Secretary of State’s Ofice. Chief petitioners Eric Winters of Wilsonville and Jason Williams of Beaverton proposed the measure. Initiative Petition 50, the Voter Privacy Act, would 5 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery Zuckerman, a spokesperson for the IP 65 campaign. “This measure will do these things.” The measure would infuse high schools with about $147 million a year. That amount would be signiicantly greater if voters also approve a controversial corporate sale tax measure in November, which levies a 2.5 percent tax on the Oregon sales exceeding $25 million of certain corporations. The deadline to turn in signatures was July 8, but the Secretary of State’s Ofice has until the irst week of August to verify all of the signatures. Former Gov. Ted Kulon- goski, LaToya Fick, exec- utive director of Stand for Children, and Carmen Rubio, executive director of the Latino Network, spearheaded the campaign for IP 65 in hopes of boosting the state’s lackluster graduation rate. Only about 74 percent of students in Oregon graduate from high school in four 7 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme High school funding initiative qualiies for ballot SALEM — Two initiative petitions — one requiring written consent to release voter information and another to restrict the use of emergency clauses in legisla- tion — have failed to qualify for the November general election ballot. The campaign for Initia- tive Petition 49, No More Fake Emergencies Act, failed to submit enough signatures to reach the 117,578 threshold for a constitutional change to the law. The act would have required a two-thirds majority vote in the Legislature to declare an emergency when it W c pc sh c s pc c pc pc s s s s pc c c s pc pc c sh c pc s c pc pc 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Lo 59 47 50 54 47 52 56 55 62 52 47 52 50 58 55 56 58 64 59 62 50 58 61 47 61 64 66 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — SALEM — An initiative to dedicate more state funding to high school dropout prevention and career and technical education has qual- iied for the November ballot, according to the Secretary of State’s Ofice. The campaign for Initia- tive Petition 65, Oregonians for High School Success Initiative, gathered 101,302 valid signatures, 13,118 more than the 88,184-signature threshold. The ballot measure allocates one-sixth of new state revenue to high school dropout prevention, college readiness and career tech- nical education programs. “Every Oregon high school should provide students with real world skills and hands-on profes- sional training that connects to local good paying jobs, and students should have better access to college level classes,” said Peter Hi 69 83 79 65 85 80 78 85 91 87 81 83 80 85 65 68 92 91 87 79 83 80 81 80 77 89 89 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. WORLD CITIES Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau W sh s s pc s s pc s s s s s s pc sh pc s pc s c s pc pc s c s pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 86/57 PRECIPITATION July 19 Albany 77/56 Eugene 79/54 TEMPERATURE HIGH 88° 58° Spokane Wenatchee 75/57 83/62 Tacoma Moses 73/56 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 84/59 76/49 65/56 72/54 87/59 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 69/56 83/58 Lewiston 88/56 Astoria 83/58 67/58 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 75/60 Pendleton 76/48 The Dalles 87/55 83/53 83/59 La Grande Salem 79/48 75/57 Corvallis 77/56 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 87° 61° Seattle 74/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 90° 64° Today WEDNESDAY Mostly sunny and beautiful Saturday, July 16, 2016 have prohibited release of speciic voter information without voters’ express consent. Public oficials who violated the law would have faced a Class A misdemeanor, according to the initiative proposed by Richard Taylor Whitehead of Aloha. Next week, the Secretary of State’s Ofice plans to verify signatures for IP 67, which allows lottery funds to be used for Outdoor School programs. IP 68, which would prohibit the sale of products made from 12 endangered species, also is on schedule for signature veriication next week, said Molly Woon, a spokeswoman for the secre- tary of state. Corrections A headline in Friday’s East Oregonian provided incorrect information about the Dillon Dam removal project. The dam is expected to be removed by next summer. The city of Hermiston is proposing a one-year $100,000 rent payment for the Umatilla County Fire District 1, with decreasing payments in subsequent years. Incorrect informa- tion appeared on Page 1A of Friday’s edition. 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. -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: Drenching storms will dot the Southeast and central Plains today. Locally severe storms will affect the northern Plains. Showers will dot northern New England with spotty storms for the northern Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 113° in Needles, Calif. Low 32° in Bodie State Park, Calif. 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 99 88 87 91 79 92 85 92 91 85 79 77 98 95 80 104 75 78 88 96 80 92 84 106 92 80 Lo 71 71 73 70 55 73 57 70 76 63 65 59 78 60 60 78 62 62 76 78 62 73 72 83 74 62 W s t s pc t t s s t t s pc s pc pc s sh t pc pc pc t pc s t pc Sun. 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