WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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85
77
64
85
84
73
81
86
87
77
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80
84
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90
87
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
66
78
71
61
80
77
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71
81
59
64
86
78
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
92
88
84
75
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71
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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
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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
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National Summary: Storms, winds and seas will diminish in North Carolina but ramp up
along the Florida west coast today. Storms will bring flooding from Texas and New Mexico
to Maine. Showers will dot the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 114° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 27° in Walden, Colo.
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
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Hi
Louisville
89
Memphis
94
Miami
88
Milwaukee
76
Minneapolis
77
Nashville
93
New Orleans
95
New York City
88
Oklahoma City
86
Omaha
81
Philadelphia
91
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
85
Providence
86
Raleigh
90
Rapid City
85
Reno
89
Sacramento
88
St. Louis
87
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
79
San Francisco
71
Seattle
68
Tucson
95
Washington, DC 92
Wichita
78
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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
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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.”