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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
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Klamath Falls
79/38
Hi
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81
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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Tokyo
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WSW 8-16
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UV INDEX TODAY
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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.
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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.
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— 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
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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. Expect locally heavy rain and severe storms from southeastern New Mexico and
northwestern Texas to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 102° in Jasper, Ala.
Low 23° 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
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
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96
90
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86
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79
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81
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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.
The
commission
is
charged with advising the
governor and DHS director
on policy and improving
the overall performance and
services of the agency.
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