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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY SUNDAY Sunny to partly cloudy Not as warm; a few p.m. showers 85° 58° 76° 60° MONDAY Some sun with a few showers Some sun; breezy in the p.m. PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 73° 46° 72° 49° 67° 38° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 88° 58° 77° 60° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 79° 78° 99° (2013) 49° 50° 32° (1921) 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" 0.35" 0.23" 7.74" 5.66" 8.65" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 82° 79° 97° (2013) 0.00" 0.41" 0.18" 5.40" 3.43" 6.33" SUN AND MOON Sep 23 Bend 81/49 New Sep 30 6:35 a.m. 7:04 p.m. 7:15 p.m. 6:19 a.m. First Oct 8 Caldwell 77/44 Burns 77/35 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 69 79 81 66 77 78 87 83 88 81 79 82 80 92 63 64 79 88 85 83 85 86 80 80 82 85 88 Lo 57 35 49 50 35 45 51 48 58 54 38 45 44 53 51 51 43 56 58 56 45 54 56 41 54 61 56 Klamath Falls 79/38 Hi 67 79 77 66 81 75 77 77 77 81 81 79 75 89 62 68 85 76 76 69 80 74 64 74 68 76 74 Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 56 47 52 55 45 49 59 56 60 56 44 56 54 57 53 56 59 56 60 58 50 59 49 52 59 59 50 W c pc pc pc pc sh c sh sh pc s sh sh pc sh pc pc sh sh sh pc sh sh sh sh sh c Hi 90 91 79 66 74 57 72 79 82 71 78 Lo 65 82 63 54 57 42 53 64 67 53 72 Sat. W t s s t t c r t pc pc sh Hi 81 90 80 65 74 53 63 77 77 71 83 Lo 64 79 64 54 55 43 55 62 64 55 74 W c s s pc t pc c pc r pc c (in mph) Today Saturday Boardman Pendleton SW 3-6 W 4-8 WSW 8-16 W 8-16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds and fog, then sunshine today. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; pleasant in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Sun, some clouds today; however, areas of low clouds and fog at the coast. Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Partly cloudy tonight; a shower in spots in the north. Cascades: Sunny today; pleasant. Partly cloudy tonight. A passing shower tomorrow. Northern California: Partly sunny at the coast today; sunny elsewhere. 0 2 4 211 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. 0 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 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group courtroom wearing his jail scrubs. The judge overseeing the trial asked Bundy twice why he chose to wear that garb, and twice he declined to answer. Instead, his attorney Morgan Philpot read a prepared statement aloud to the court. Philpot said that “Mr. Bundy decides to appear as he is—a political prisoner.” Reading from the state- ment, he said Bundy has been “shufled around in chains” and “molested like an animal.” The statement went on to say Bundy would “prefer to drop the facade and appear as the political prisoner he is.” Bundy has been wearing a brown suit with a white shirt for the last several days of the trial. “You may notice that Mr. Bundy is dressed differently today,” Judge Anna Brown said to the jury. “You are not to draw any inferences of any kind from his attire today, or any day.” Thursday morning also brought the emotional cross-examination of Harney County resident Walter “Butch” Eaton, whose testimony began Wednesday afternoon. It was clear during the line of questioning Thursday that Eaton, despite the fact that the prosecution called him as a witness, is sympathetic to the defendants. 2 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme 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 Malheur Refuge manager testiies 4 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 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 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — Chad Karges, manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, took the stand Thursday as a witness for the government. The testimony lasted between 4 and 5 hours, with Karges providing a sense of what the refuge looked like before the occupiers arrived and how it looked after the occupation ended. Karges said he locked the main ofice, a room the occupiers used throughout the occupation. He also conirmed through photographs that the men holding guns on the refuge were not govern- ment employees, leading to the larger point prosecutors are trying to prove: that the occupiers impeded federal employees while occupying the refuge. There were dozens of photos that Karges conirmed as people who were not government employees holding large weapons. The defense tried to argue that hunting riles are permitted on the refuge. However, Karges said shotguns are permitted in certain parts of the refuge if they have three rounds or less. He said it was clear many of the weapons in the photographs were able to have more than three. Karges said occupiers also used government equipment, like vehicles. He said he did not autho- rize the non-government employees to use the equipment. At one point during a redirect, Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel asked Karges why he didn’t ask the occupiers to leave. Karges said that “it was not a safe environment to do that.” Gabriel also asked if employees stated why they did not want to go to work. Karges said the employees were “fearful of what might happen.” One notable aspect earlier Thursday, was that occupation leader Ammon Bundy entered the W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s 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 OPB NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. WINDS Medford 92/53 PRECIPITATION Sep 16 John Day 81/54 Ontario 79/43 44° 48° 32° (1934) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 85/51 Eugene 87/51 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 72° 38° Spokane Wenatchee 80/56 84/60 Tacoma Moses 77/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 84/57 79/51 69/56 77/56 88/56 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 78/55 85/61 Lewiston 87/58 Astoria 85/56 69/57 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 83/56 Pendleton 78/45 The Dalles 88/58 85/58 89/59 La Grande Salem 82/45 86/54 Corvallis 88/51 HIGH 76° 49° Seattle 75/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 76° 48° Today TUESDAY Partly sunny and beautiful Friday, September 16, 2016 -10s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rough surf, showers and gusty winds will brush the Carolina coast today. 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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 DHS told ‘culture change’ needed at agency By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — Saying the state has a “deep and abiding moral obligation” to keep children in its care safe, a committee assembled by the governor to assess the safety of children in substitute care agreed Wednesday that the Department of Human Services and state leaders need to follow through on ongoing reform efforts. The agency faces a somber diagnosis: Oregon has a high rate of harm of kids in foster and residential care compared to other states, and the committee was created after revelations of abuse that went unaddressed by agency leaders. The external advisory committee on child safety includes lawmakers, child welfare professionals and advocates. Its meeting Wednesday focused on the recommen- dations of a consulting irm hired to assess the agency’s most pressing problems. The irm, Public Knowl- edge, presented four “foun- dational recommendations,” or things that had to be changed before its detailed recommendations could get traction. Consultants said DHS needs to change its culture; focus on child safety; use data to inform decisions; and increase stafing resources for entities within DHS, including Child Protective Services. Implementing the recom- mendations, though, is going to require adequate staff and external experts in areas such as policy and data use, consultants said. It’s not immediately clear how much making and maintaining the recom- mended changes may cost, though consultants noted that increasing stafing may be cost-intensive, compared to the three other foundational measures that consultants rated either low-cost or cost-neutral. The committee agreed that funding for the agency should be a priority in the upcoming legislative session. The cost of failing to protect foster children from harm is high — the committee estimated that in the last ive years, the state has paid between $30 million and $35 million to settle claims brought by children who were abused in foster care or residential facilities. In a letter to the governor, a draft of which was read at the meeting Wednesday, the committee said that “the need for a cultural shift in the development, implemen- tation and monitoring of policies is paramount.” The committee also noted that the recommendations presented by the consulting irm were “not altogether different from past proposals developed by and for DHS.” DHS Director Clyde Saiki has acknowledged the prior failures of the agency to make changes after problems were brought to light. A draft of the consultants’ report released late last month identiied two main deiciencies that, if tackled, consultants said, could prevent child abuse: How the agency chooses where to place kids in care and how it receives and addresses reports of abuse. Placements could be better matched to children’s needs, consultants said, and the system for reporting and monitoring abuse is decen- tralized and disjointed. But the agency also has limited capacity, making headlines for putting children up in hotels. In the past two years, the state has “lost nearly 400 foster homes and 100 residential beds statewide,” the agency’s child welfare spokeswoman, Andrea Cantu-Schomus, wrote in an email last week. Consultant Stacey Obrecht noted Wednesday that the number of children in residential facilities outside Oregon is more than 20, compared to none several years ago. As of Sept. 6, 23 children in state custody were in residential facilities in states ranging from Idaho to Iowa, according to the Department of Human Services. The average length of stay for a child in an out-of-state facility is 200 days, according to Cantu-Schomus. In a Sept. 14 letter acknowledging receipt of the consultants’ report, Gov. Kate Brown gave the depart- ment until Oct. 3 to provide her with an update on “prog- ress and improvements” the department has made since November 2015, when she called for the child safety review. Brown also asked for a “timeline of the development of a program improvement plan” and how the depart- ment intends to keep her, legislators and the general public apprised of what the agency is doing to improve services. Saiki said the state’s newly minted foster care advisory committee, established by legislation earlier this year, will be positioned to keep an eye on the progress of reform. 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