WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny
Partly sunny
77° 50°
78° 48°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Clouds limiting
sunshine
More clouds than
sunshine
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
75° 49°
66° 44°
64° 44°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 47°
82° 51°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
82°
73°
91° (1967)
55°
46°
27° (1911)
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"
0.68"
0.48"
8.07"
5.82"
8.90"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
84°
74°
89° (1952)
0.00"
0.45"
0.39"
5.44"
3.48"
6.54"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 8
Bend
78/42
Full
Oct 15
6:50 a.m.
6:40 p.m.
4:24 a.m.
5:49 p.m.
Last
Oct 22
Caldwell
87/55
Burns
86/40
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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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Boardman
Pendleton
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NW 4-8
SW 4-8
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UV INDEX TODAY
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds early
today; otherwise, mostly sunny.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Mostly clear tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear
tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today;
very warm. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly
sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Areas of low clouds early; otherwise, sunny
at the coast.
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June 30, 2015, the last day
of the budget biennium.
Riddell said Monday
that a key issue at the
department, which receives
a good amount of grant
money to carry out its
work, has been “cash low
maintenance.”
According to DOGAMI
spokeswoman Ali Ryan
Hansen, the secretary of
state is reviewing whether
the department adhered
to inancial best practices
when it came to federal
funds.
In the 2015-17 biennium,
the department received
$5,356,535 in federal funds,
according to the budget
request it has compiled for
the upcoming biennium. Its
total revenue in 2013-15
was just over $13 million.
DOGAMI asked the
secretary of state to audit
its inancial practices in
February.
Hansen wrote in an
email Monday that the
department had initially
asked the secretary of state
to review the department’s
past and present inancial
practices and to make
recommendations on any
changes that the agency
needed to make.
But that was a “big ask,”
Hansen said, so the depart-
ment narrowed the scope of
the audit.
The FEMA audit is
routine and is intended to
look speciically at grant
money that the agency has
awarded to DOGAMI,
which in the past has
received FEMA money to
do projects like improve its
mapping of lood hazards,
according to its website.
Hansen said DOGAMI’s
current
FEMA-funded
projects were reviewed this
summer, but the audit report
is yet to be completed and
published.
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
Northern California: Partly sunny at the
coast today; mostly sunny elsewhere.
Troubled by past
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CORVALLIS — Two
separate ongoing audits
of the state’s Department
of Geology and Mineral
Industries have not yielded
any signiicant concerns,
according to the depart-
ment’s chief inancial
oficer.
The department, which
has recently confronted
inancial challenges, is
being audited by two enti-
ties: the Oregon Secretary
of State and the Federal
Emergency Management
Administration (FEMA).
While both remain
incomplete, neither audit
has yet raised red lags,
CFO Kim Riddell said at a
meeting of the department’s
governing board Monday.
She also told the board that
the department is looking
“very strong” inancially.
The department is
responsible for mapping
and assessing geologic risks
and regulating mining and
other resource exploration.
Earlier this month, depart-
ment oficials published
an inventory of mineral
resources in Southern and
Eastern Oregon at the
behest of the Oregon Legis-
lature.
In 2015, the agency, often
referred to by its acronym,
DOGAMI, underwent a
inancial review with help
from accounting employees
at other state agencies.
The review found that
the department faced a
budget shortfall, and in May
of that year the Legislature
approved moving $800,000
from the state’s general
fund to maintain the depart-
ment’s operations through
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By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
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WORLD CITIES
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Ongoing audits
haven’t raised lags
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WINDS
Medford
88/51
PRECIPITATION
Sep 30
John Day
89/55
Ontario
88/52
52°
44°
30° (1945)
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
New
First
Albany
75/44
Eugene
76/45
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
69° 44°
Spokane
Wenatchee
79/53
80/54
Tacoma
Moses
69/43
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 81/47
81/50
66/46
70/41
82/48
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
71/46
79/55 Lewiston
83/46
Astoria
86/57
69/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
74/50
Pendleton 84/50
The Dalles 82/47
77/50
83/53
La Grande
Salem
84/46
76/46
Corvallis
77/45
HIGH
70° 43°
Seattle
68/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
78° 50°
Today
SUNDAY
Partly sunny
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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snow
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90s
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warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Rain will gather over the mid-Atlantic with spotty showers over the
Midwest and in southeastern New England today. Locally gusty storms will affect the
southern Atlantic Seaboard and perhaps the Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Low 21° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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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Louisville
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
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Shooting suspect
ordered into mental
health treatment
MOUNT VERNON,
Wash. (AP) — Assaults on
his parents and inappropriate
sexual behavior at school led
judges to order mental health
treatment for the young man
charged with killing ive
people at a Washington state
department store.
Court records detail a
series of criminal charges
and attempts to rehabilitate
20-year-old Arcan Cetin,
who was diagnosed with
post-traumatic stress disorder,
attention deicit hyperactivity
disorder, anxiety disorder and
depression.
A court irst ordered
Cetin into treatment after
he attacked his mother two
years ago. The documents
say he was following a
program designed to erase
that assault charge when he
made unwelcome sexual
advances toward two girls in
his math class in 2015 and
then punched his stepfather
soon afterward.
As recently as Sept. 6, he
attended a counseling session.
Oregon SAT scores
drop in math
sections, writing
PORTLAND (AP) —
SAT scores from across
the state suggest Oregon
students are leaving high
school less prepared in math
and writing.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports that
College Board oficials said
Oregon students scored
lower on average in both
math and reading sections,
with average scores of 515
and 495, respectively. Those
scores relect and three and
four point drop on average
compared to 2015.
The average reading
score did not change in
2016.
Results of the new SAT
have not yet been made
public. The average scores
for the class of 2016, and
the scores for the class of
2015 to which they were
compared, only include
scores for students who took
the SAT by January of their
senior year.
State’s top cops call
for new approach
to drug policy
SALEM (AP) — Two
associations of law
enforcement leaders in
Oregon are recommending
that possession of
small amounts of drugs
be downgraded to
misdemeanors, saying that
locking up users ruins lives.
The Oregon State Sheriffs’
Association and Oregon
Association Chiefs of Police
said they are committed to
work with Gov. Kate Brown,
lawmakers and prosecutors
“to craft a more thoughtful
approach to drug possession
when it is the only crime
committed.”
The American Civil
Liberties Union of Oregon
said it applauds the stance
supporting a new approach to
drug policy.
The law enforcement
associations said most drug
possession cases result in
felony convictions and
that instead, convicted
users should be given
individualized, mandated
treatment.
The sheriffs’ and police
chiefs’ associations said
limited criminal justice
resources should be focused
on addressing violent crime
and property crime.
Cannabis businesses
push back against
Oct. 1 changes
PORTLAND (AP) — A
marijuana industry group is
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asking Oregon lawmakers
to delay Oct. 1 deadlines for
the state’s new marijuana
regulations by at least 30
days.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports that
the Oregon Cannabis
Association last week
asked the joint committee
that oversees marijuana
rules for extra time to
meet regulations about
how cannabis is tested,
packaged and labeled.
Oregon Cannabis
Association attorney
Amy Margolis says many
businesses aren’t ready to
comply and can’t afford to
shut down while they get
everything in order.
Lawmakers on the
committee seemed
receptive to the extension,
with Sen. Floyd Prozanski,
D-Eugene, suggesting a
90-day extension.
Lab owners who have
spent thousands of dollars
in preparation are pushing
back against the delay.
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as being involved in Varsity Club, National
Honor Society.
Sydney is a three sport Athlete playing Soccer,
Basketball and Softball. She is a four year
Honor Roll student as well as Greater Oregon
League Scholar Athlete. As well as being a
outstanding leadership student and volunteer
at the high school Sydney is involved in her
youth group.
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