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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Partly sunny and nice Times of clouds and sun 82° 53° 74° 52° FRIDAY SATURDAY Clouds and sun with a shower Sunny and beautiful PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 70° 49° 71° 46° 67° 48° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 86° 57° 77° 55° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 78° 84° 103° (1967) 60° 54° 37° (1924) 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" 0.07" 0.41" 7.39" 5.01" 8.40" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 79° 84° 102° (2007) 60° 54° 39° (1965) 0.00" 0.05" 0.19" 4.99" 3.26" 6.14" SUN AND MOON Sep 1 Sep 9 Full Sep 16 John Day 87/52 Ontario 90/57 Bend 77/43 Burns 85/39 Caldwell 89/55 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 85 77 64 85 84 73 81 86 87 77 83 80 84 60 64 90 87 82 71 80 72 81 79 70 84 85 Lo 56 42 43 51 39 44 51 50 57 52 40 49 45 56 52 54 57 56 53 57 43 55 55 44 56 58 50 W c pc pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc c c pc pc pc c pc c pc pc c pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 66 78 71 61 80 77 71 74 77 79 74 76 71 81 59 64 86 78 74 67 74 69 73 72 66 75 74 Lo 54 42 41 50 43 46 49 50 55 48 40 47 45 53 50 52 58 52 52 55 42 52 49 46 56 54 46 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh pc sh pc s pc sh pc pc pc s pc pc s sh sh s c pc sh sh sh c pc sh pc sh WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 92 88 84 75 76 64 82 83 70 72 88 Lo 66 82 67 56 55 48 57 67 67 53 77 W pc pc s pc t c s t r r s Thu. Hi 80 90 83 75 74 65 81 84 85 71 88 Lo 65 82 65 55 57 50 56 67 69 58 75 W c t s pc t s s s r s s WINDS Medford 84/56 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 70/52 Eugene 73/51 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 73° 46° Spokane Wenatchee 81/55 81/57 Tacoma Moses 68/54 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 84/52 79/49 64/56 68/53 85/50 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 68/55 84/58 Lewiston 87/59 Astoria 87/56 67/56 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 71/57 Pendleton 84/44 The Dalles 86/57 82/53 81/56 La Grande Salem 83/49 72/55 Corvallis 72/53 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 75° 46° Seattle 68/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 74° 51° Today SUNDAY Nice with clouds and sun Wednesday, August 31, 2016 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 77/40 REGIONAL FORECAST 6:15 a.m. 7:34 p.m. 5:30 a.m. 7:17 p.m. Last Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine today. Sep 23 Western Washington: Considerable cloudi- ness today and tonight with spotty showers. Showers tomorrow. Northern California: Low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast today; mostly sunny elsewhere. Thursday WSW 7-14 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A shower across the north today; cloudy in central parts. Clouds, then sun in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny and pleasant today. Mainly clear tonight. Today WSW 8-16 W 7-14 1 3 5 5 Cascades: Partly sunny today; gusty winds and dry weather bring a high fi re threat. 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. ©2016 Didn’t receive your paper? 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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 77 92 83 90 96 95 91 86 87 90 78 81 94 82 80 80 66 80 87 93 82 89 81 105 94 86 Lo 59 74 73 70 64 75 58 69 73 67 61 65 76 56 60 67 45 58 78 76 62 74 57 82 76 63 W t s pc pc pc s pc pc t pc pc c pc pc pc t s pc pc s t t pc s pc s Thur. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Ryan Bundy can continue as own Oregon county rejects bid for more local control of U.S. lands lawyer in refuge standoff case PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge agreed Tuesday to let Oregon standoff defendants Ryan Bundy and Kenneth Medenbach represent themselves at their upcoming trial, despite concerns they won’t follow court rulings in the presence of the jury. The men, along with co-defendant Shawna Cox, have been acting as their own lawyers in the run-up to the trial, with varying degrees of help from appointed standby attorneys. U.S. District Judge Court Anna Brown threatened to take away their right to self-representation because they have repeatedly chal- lenged the court’s jurisdiction. At a hearing Tuesday, she said the right to serve as your own lawyer is not a license to do whatever you want in a courtroom. She wanted them to promise to follow her rulings and not raise issues in front of the jury that have already been resolved. “I will follow all the rules,” Medenbach said. Bundy was much more hesitant. The judge wanted a yes or no answer, but Bundy wouldn’t supply one, despite the urging of a female supporter in the gallery: “Say yes, Ryan.” “I still have questions on some of those rulings,” Bundy said. He eventually agreed to only raise concerns when the jury is out of the room. The men are among eight defendants preparing to stand trial on a charge of conspiring to impede federal employees from doing their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The armed takeover of the refuge started Jan. 2 as a protest against the imprison- ment of two local ranchers. It lasted 41 days. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Sept. 7 and opening statements are tentatively slated for Sept. 13. Tuesday’s hearing got off to tough start for Bundy when the judge wouldn’t let a new volunteer paralegal sit at the defense table. The paralegal, identiied as Jeremy Baker, arrived from Texas on Monday night. Courtroom security ejected the paralegal when he left his seat, moved to the front bench of the gallery and tried to loudly whisper legal advice to Bundy while the judge was speaking. Brown scheduled the hearing because she doesn’t want the trial to become a circus, and Bundy has repeat- edly challenged the court’s jurisdiction while iling motions the judge considers frivolous. Medenbach, mean- while, has questioned whether the government owns the refuge and if the judge took the proper oath of ofice after her 1999 appointment. The judge said those matters are resolved and can’t be mentioned in front of a jury. Matthew Schindler, Medenbach’s standby counsel, said his client only made those arguments to preserve the record for a potential appeal. Schindler is expected to take a more active role during trial than Bundy’s standby counsel, but said Medenbach is still the one calling the shots. One of those orders apparently is to not pin the blame on the Bundys. Solar project consultant charged with fraud PORTLAND (AP) — An energy consultant involved with an Oregon solar power project has been indicted on forgery charges. Martin Shain, the lead consultant on the state’s $24 million “Solar by Degree” project, was indicted on two forgery counts on Thursday, reported The Oregonian/ OregonLive. Prosecutors say he created a fake invoice from a ictional subcontractor to help secure nearly $12 million in tax credits from the Oregon Department of Energy. The Oregon Department of Justice investigated Shain after The Oregonian/Oregon- Live raised questions about the project’s management and funding. Gov. Kate Brown and Energy Department head Michael Kaplan requested the investigation. The state says Shain, an energy consultant with Seat- tle-based BacGen Technolo- gies, forged two documents. One was a bill dated Feb. 25, 2011, supposedly submitted by Solar Foun- dation Systems. It detailed construction expenditures on each of the solar arrays and was supposed to prove that work on the project was underway. Solar Foundation Systems, however, didn’t exist. Jim McDermott, Shain’s lawyer, agrees that the invoice was made up but says someone else on the project gave the document to his client and Shain assumed it was genuine. The state also argues that Shain forged a December 2011 letter signed by Ryan Davies, the former head of Utah developer RedCo. The document was submitted by the project team to prove it was meeting the benchmarks required to qualify for tax credits. The letter said construction was progressing and reported that $210,000 had been spent on the project. Davies told The Orego- nian/Oregon Live in 2015 that he had never seen the letter before. McDermott said Shain will be found innocent. “We believe that Martin Shain is innocent of the Oregon AG’s unfounded charges,” the attorney said. “We fully expect he’ll be acquitted by a jury.” Corrections 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. By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press PRINEVILLE — Elected oficials in an Oregon county rejected a proposed plan on Tuesday from a group of residents that sought greater local control over the manage- ment of federal lands. The development came as local oficials in the West are wrestling with ways to have greater say in how the vast swaths of federal land are managed. The issue came to a head in adjacent Harney County, where an armed group from out of state seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and held it for 41 days. About half of Crook County in Central Oregon is public land, most of it managed by the U.S. Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. Passing the proposed Crook County Natural Resources Plan would create an “adversarial relationship” with federal agencies, BLM District Manager Carol Benkosky warned the three-member Crook County Court. About 100 spectators packed the meeting room in Prineville, the county seat. The plan, drafted by a political action committee, would have ostensibly required the county court to be involved in “coordina- tion” with federal agencies in managing hundreds of thousands of acres of forests and watersheds, prohibited retirement of grazing allotments and called for “the forest industry and the forest products commerce within the county” to be strengthened. Opponents of the plan said it had no legal basis. Tyson Bertone-Riggs, federal forest health coordinator of the Oregon Department of Forestry, also said it would result in more litigation and “blocking actions” instead of moving things forward. He and other oficials instead trumpeted consul- tations early and often between agencies and local stakeholders. Resident Darlene Harpster got up and spoke on behalf of the plan, and denounced what she said was over-regulation by the U.S. government. “The only thing I want to say is I want my freedom,” she said. “Government agencies want more regu- lation ... I don’t.” No morning dawns, no night returns But that we think of you. hose let behind are very good But none replaces you. Many a silent tear is shed When we are all alone. he one we love so very much he one we call our own. Mother Dorothy Vaughn Wallulis 3/17/30 - 8/30/15 With Love, Steve, Kim, Kristi & Dawn At stake is the economic well-being of Crook County, which is 2½ times the size of Rhode Island, and other parts of the West that have been hit by restrictions on timber harvesting on federal lands and other regulations. One woman who went to the microphones to speak about the plan indi- cated emotions have been running high. The court voted 2-1 to reject the plan, with those opposed saying it could conlict at times with an existing county plan. The court suggested supporters reine it and submit it to the planning commission as a possible addition to the existing plan. “This is an opportunity for the citizens of Crook County to have their voices heard,” county commis- sioner Seth Crawford, who voted for the plan, told The Associated Press. “So what I think we need to do as a county is listen, and try to use our natural resources more effectively.” Tom Case, a backer of the plan, said the issue is not over. “This has been an ongoing battle,” he said. “I didn’t expect it to end today.”