WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Pleasant with
plenty of sunshine
Mostly sunny
84° 53°
92° 57°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Sunny
Nice with sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
92° 63°
85° 57°
83° 57°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
95° 54°
88° 51°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
78°
90°
107° (1898)
64°
60°
40° (1897)
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"
0.00"
0.02"
7.32"
5.00"
8.01"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
80°
90°
104° (1965)
67°
59°
44° (1987)
0.00"
0.00"
0.01"
4.94"
3.25"
5.96"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 10
Aug 18
Last
Aug 24
5:41 a.m.
8:21 p.m.
6:39 a.m.
8:46 p.m.
New
Sep 1
John Day
85/48
Ontario
87/55
Bend
82/46
Burns
84/41
Caldwell
85/52
Hi
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79
82
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84
78
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83
88
85
86
81
78
95
64
67
87
87
84
80
86
83
79
78
80
84
89
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
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46
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
70
88
88
68
90
86
92
90
95
93
91
89
86
98
64
66
93
94
92
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92
91
87
86
86
93
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
93
88
88
73
75
73
80
88
90
60
84
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
95/58
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
84/55
Eugene
84/53
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
87° 59°
Spokane
Wenatchee
79/56
86/60
Tacoma
Moses
77/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 86/56
77/47
68/52
78/49
89/56
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
77/55
84/59 Lewiston
88/53
Astoria
86/57
69/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
80/59
Pendleton 78/46
The Dalles 88/51
84/53
88/57
La Grande
Salem
81/46
83/56
Corvallis
84/54
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
89° 60°
Seattle
75/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
97° 63°
Today
SUNDAY
Pleasant with
brilliant sunshine
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
86/47
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Pleasant
today with plenty of sun; cooler in the south
and upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Clouds giving way
to sun today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Cascades: Pleasant and warmer today with
plenty of sunshine. Clear tonight.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by some sun at the coast today; plenty of
sunshine elsewhere.
Thursday
NE 3-6
N 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today; pleas-
ant across the north. Partly cloudy tonight.
Today
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National Summary: Storms in the Southeast and Southwest will bring the risk of flash
flooding today. Storms over the northern Plains and Rockies can bring damaging winds.
Storms will dot the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Imperial, Calif.
Low 32° in Stanley, Idaho
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
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Louisville
90
Memphis
96
Miami
88
Milwaukee
85
Minneapolis
90
Nashville
91
New Orleans
93
New York City
80
Oklahoma City
99
Omaha
91
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
97
Portland, ME
80
Providence
82
Raleigh
84
Rapid City
93
Reno
95
Sacramento
97
St. Louis
90
Salt Lake City
94
San Diego
76
San Francisco
70
Seattle
75
Tucson
91
Washington, DC 84
Wichita
100
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Pastor who won AR-15 Waitsburg mayor resigns amid Nestlé controversy
knowledge.
Hinchliffe were based on 1886 charter and holds
They
were
further what was best for Waits- elections each May for
rafÀe may have violated
mayor and all ¿ve city
shocked to learn that burg.
“We both always kept an council seats.
WAITSBURG – Mayor Nestlé’s contractors had
Oregon gun law
As a ¿nal caveat to his
Walt Gobel has resigned already been in the city’s open mind, we were willing
from his position with the watershed scoping out the to listen to others, and we constituency, Gobel wrote:
By DIAN VER VALEN
Walla Walla Union Bulletin
LAKE OSWEGO (AP)
² A pastor in an afÀuent
suburb of Portland may have
run afoul of Oregon law when
he transferred an AR-15
assault riÀe that he won in
a softball league rafÀe to a
gun-owning friend for safe-
keeping without performing
a background check.
The Oregon State Police
will open an investigation
into whether the Rev. Jeremy
Lucas violated any law,
spokesman Capt. Bill Fugate
told The Associated Press on
Tuesday, although the deci-
sion on charges would fall to
the district attorney.
Lucas, of Christ Church
Episcopal Parish in Lake
Oswego, a suburban town
about 10 miles south of Port-
land, drew national attention
recently when he used $3,000
in discretionary church funds
to buy as many of the rafÀe
tickets as he could for a
softball league fundraiser to
send high school students
to a regional tournament in
California.
Lucas, 41, wanted to
win so he could destroy
the gun. He told the AP on
Tuesday that he has received
overwhelming support from
parishioners.
“The money that was used
to buy the rafÀe tickets has
been more than replaced,” he
said. “We’ve gotten support
from all over the country,
with people sending checks
and money. It’s struck a
chord.”
Last year, state lawmakers
passed a new law that made
transferring a gun without
a background check illegal,
even if the arrangement is
between two private parties
and no money changes
hands. If Lucas were to be
convicted of a misdemeanor
charge of unlawful transfer
of a weapon, he could face a
ma[imum ¿ne of $6,250 and
up to a year in jail.
Lucas told the AP he has
not heard from authorities
and is not worried about the
investigation. “If they get in
touch with me, I’ll be happy
to talk to them and tell them
everything they want to
know,” he said.
Lucas ¿rst read about
“We thought
it should be
looked into. And
now he can’t get
the gun back
without violating
(the law) again.”
— Kevin Starrett,
Oregon Firearms Federa-
tion executive director
the rafÀe of the AR-15 in
Portland’s alternative weekly
newspaper, Willamette Week.
He decided to try to win the
gun to get it out of circula-
tion, while at the same time
sending the players from the
Big League Girls’ All Star
Softball Team to the tourna-
ment. They were selling $20
tickets to raise $6,000 for the
trip.
When he won, Lucas
passed a background check
and took possession of the
weapon.
But when he told The
Washington Post in an inter-
view last week that he had
given the riÀe to someone
else for safekeeping, the
Oregon Firearms Federation
took note. The group strongly
opposed last year’s Senate
Bill 941 because its members
feared the law would wind
up criminalizing gun owners,
said Kevin Starrett, the
group’s executive director.
Starrett last week wrote
a letter pointing out Lucas’s
potential law violation and
mailed it to the Oregon State
Police, the Lake Oswego
Police Department and 30
state lawmakers, he told the
AP on Tuesday. He called
Lucas “vocally anti-gun”
and accused him of trying
to make a political statement
with his parishioners’ money.
“We thought it should be
looked into,” he said. “And
now he can’t get the gun back
without violating (the law)
again.”
It’s unclear when the
Oregon State Police will
complete its investigation.
Fugate, the spokesman, had
no other details.
city of Waitsburg effective
immediately, according to a
news release he issued via
email Tuesday.
Gobel, who has been
mayor in Waitsburg since
2010, became the center
of controversy following
an announcement in July
that Nestlé Waters North
America is interested in
building a water-bottling
plant inside the city.
Council members during
that meeting expressed
their shock and disap-
pointment that Gobel and
City Administrator Randy
Hinchliffe had already met
with a Nestlé representa-
tive several times since
February without their
city’s springs to determine
whether such a project in
Waitsburg had merit.
“I’m a little bit dumb-
founded
sitting
here
tonight,” council member
KC Kuykendall said during
the July 20 meeting.
Nestlé was ordered to
stop all exploratory work in
the watershed immediately
while city council consid-
ered the corporation’s
interest.
Demonstrators
protesting at the city park
the following Monday held
signs suggesting that Gobel
be recalled.
In his press release,
Gobel said the actions
taken by himself and
worked toward what was
best for the community,” he
stated.
“In this situation, Randy
and I were not given an
opportunity to explain the
how or why of the sequence
of events,” he wrote.
“Councilman Kuykendall
and most of the public
present at the meeting
were quick to jump to their
own conclusions without
knowing the actual facts.”
City council member
Marty Dunn is currently
mayor pro tem.
Hinchliffe was not
immediately available to
explain how the city will
handle the resignation.
Waitsburg operates on an
“To those who have pushed
for my recall, I say you
won! You have won the
battle, but if you continue
to reject all possibilities of
growth for this community,
you will not win the war.”
“Our community will
continue to regress as
long as you maintain
your ‘mob’ attitude when
possible community devel-
opment presents itself,” he
continued. “After all, this
situation is not the ¿rst
time this has happened. I
am embarrassed that our
community has treated
some of the presenters on
possible community or
economic
development
very rudely.”
Too much lead: Water shut off at two Medford schools
MEDFORD (AP) —
Drinking water has been
shut off at two Medford
schools after of¿cials said
tests revealed it contained
too much lead.
The results received late
last week showed water
from 3 percent of ¿xtures
at Jackson Elementary
and 80 percent of ¿xtures
at Roosevelt Elementary
exceeded the 20 parts
per billion level at which
the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency calls for
cleanup measures.
The ¿ndings came after
the district completely
replaced plumbing at both
schools in 2009. Of¿cials
said tests taken between
2011 and 2015 showed no
indication of elevated lead
levels.
“These are the last
(schools) that we expected
there to be any problems;
it just doesn’t make any
sense to see those elevated
levels,” said Ron Havniear,
the district’s facilities and
support services manager.
The
Mail
Tribune
reports school of¿cials
sent parents a letter, took
additional samples for a
retest and distributed water
Corrections
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5-6
$7
bottles for students and
staff to use during the Kids
Unlimited summer camp
program at Roosevelt and
Jackson.
The Medford Water
Commission will take
samples Wednesday or
Thursday to see if the lead
is coming from the munic-
ipal water supply. If that’s
eliminated as a source,
the district will look at its
plumbing to ¿nd the source
of the lead, Havniear said.
“We’re in a holding
pattern until we get the
next round of samples
back,” he said.
In the meantime, the
district is referring parents
with concerns to medical
professionals who can
determine whether blood
tests are warranted.
Without
federal
mandates for testing water
systems in school build-
ings and with the Flint,
Michigan, water crisis at
center stage of the debate,
Gov. Kate Brown has
called on Oregon’s 197
school districts to craft
procedures for testing lead,
radon and other chemicals
at their campuses by this
fall.
