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Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, middle, Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown and Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little exit an Idaho Na-
tional Guard Black Hawk helicopter Feb. 10 following a
tour of the damage in both states caused by an unusu-
ally large amount of snowfall this winter.
Brown, who earlier in the
day was provided a vehicle
tour of some of the dozens
of collapsed onion buildings,
was stunned by what she saw.
“It looks like a tornado
disaster. It’s just awful,”
she said during a town hall
meeting in Ontario. “Thank
you for sharing your stories.
I think it will help us craft a
solution for the community
BRIEFLY
and region.”
Brown pledged to do
“everything I can to help you
all get through this and move
into recovery mode.”
Both governors said
agencies from the two states
would work together to
try to expedite recovery as
quickly as possible and find
assistance for those affected
by the damage.
EUGENE (AP) — A
group of youths who
say the government has
endangered their future
with climate change has
added President Donald
Trump to the list of people
and corporations they
blame.
The Register-Guard
reports that Trump has
been added as a defendant
in the case, which seeks a
court order requiring the
government to quickly
reduce carbon dioxide
emissions, which many
scientists have linked to
global warming.
Lawyers for the
plaintiffs, a group of 21
people ages 9 and 20,
notified the court Thursday
that they would remove
President Barack Obama
as a named defendant and
replace him with Trump.
Obama was sued in his
official capacity as part of
the lawsuit filed in 2015.
Now that he no longer
holds office, Trump must
be substituted as a party to
the litigation.
Fish commission will revisit gillnet rules next month
A gillnet is a large, effi-
cient net that traps fish by
the gills. Sports fishermen by
and large oppose the use of
gillnets, as do environmental
groups, and there are a
complex set of rules in place
for when and how many
protected species, such as
Chinook, can be caught with
gillnets at certain locations
in the lower Columbia River.
Commercial
fishermen
contend that taking away
gillnetting would jeopardize
how they make a living.
The commission, by a 4-3
vote, adopted a plan Jan. 20
to maintain some gillnetting
along the main channel of
the river.
The move diverged from
the expectation that the state
would phase out the method
altogether, as part of an
agreement with Washington
initiated several years ago by
former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Oregon’s neighbor to
the north, through its fish
and wildlife commission,
decided last month to phase
out the use of gillnets along
the lower Columbia in two
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
TIGARD — The day after
Gov. Kate Brown released a
letter admonishing the state’s
fish and wildlife commission
for its decision to continue to
allow gillnetting in the main
stem of the lower Columbia
River, Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife Director
Curt Melcher said the
commission will address the
issue again in about a month.
Melcher acknowledged
the governor’s letter at the
conclusion of the commis-
sion’s meeting here Friday.
The gillnetting rules will
be taken up again at the
commission’s
scheduled
meeting March 17, or at
a special meeting of the
commission prior to the first
week in April, Melcher said.
The governor said she
expected the commission
to adopt permanent rules by
April 3 that will be in line
with her administration’s
policy and with Washington
state’s plan to phase out
gillnetting.
years.
In a letter to Commis-
sion Chair Michael Finley,
Brown said Thursday that
the Oregon commission’s
decision to diverge from the
bi-state agreement was “not
acceptable.”
“It will make enforcement
complicated, confusing and
untenable,” Brown wrote,
“and put at risk ongoing
funding and bi-state coop-
eration necessary for fishery
reforms.”
Tom Wolf, executive
director of the Oregon
Council of Trout Unlimited
— a coldwater conserva-
tion organization — told
commissioners Friday, as
an aside during a hearing
on sturgeon, that he lobbied
legislators after he heard a
rumor that certain commis-
sioners would be asked to
resign.
“I just want to commend
all the commissioners for,
frankly, for the way you’ve
taken the crap that has
been hurled on you lately
concerning the decision that
you reached on Jan. 20,”
Wolf said. “Even though the
members of my organization
opposed the decision that
you made, I have nothing but
respect for you.”
Brown’s office addressed
the
rumor
circulating
Thursday that two commis-
sioners would be removed.
A spokesman for Brown
wrote in an email Friday that
“membership changes are
not being considered at this
time.”
Jim Wells, of Salmon for
All, an association of gillnet-
ters and other fishing-related
businesses based in Astoria,
called the governor’s letter
“disturbing” and asserted
Brown had broken a promise
to “stay out of the process
and let the appointed
commissioners do their
work.”
However, commissions
such as the fish and wildlife
commission are generally
expected to comply with
gubernatorial policy, says
Jim Moore, director of the
Tom McCall Center for
Policy Innovation at Pacific
University.
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TODAY
MONDAY
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
chilly
Freezing fog in the
morning
42° 24°
37° 21°
TUESDAY
Cold with periods
of sun
Chilly with clouds
and sun
WEDNESDAY
Rain and drizzle in
the p.m.
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
34° 26°
41° 31°
41° 36°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
39° 26°
43° 22°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
49°
35°
45°
29°
69° (1918) -17° (1929)
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
0.01"
0.34"
0.45"
1.99"
1.73"
1.83"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
47°
28°
46°
29°
67° (1961) -23° (1929)
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
0.04"
0.22"
0.34"
1.91"
1.15"
1.62"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Feb 18
Feb 26
42° 31°
40° 36°
Seattle
48/34
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
35° 29°
First
7:03 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
6:24 p.m.
7:24 a.m.
Full
Mar 5
Mar 12
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
37/21
38/22
Tacoma
Moses
48/31
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 37/20
38/22
49/34
48/31
41/23
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
49/33
41/27 Lewiston
44/24
Astoria
44/27
49/34
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
47/31
Pendleton 39/8
The Dalles 43/22
42/24
44/28
La Grande
Salem
41/14
50/32
Albany
Corvallis 50/33
50/34
John Day
38/16
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
41/19
50/32
38/19
Caldwell
Burns
45/20
33/9
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
49
37
38
54
33
39
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42
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
47
63
57
39
78
30
36
60
32
101
47
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Klamath Falls
41/19
Boardman
Pendleton
Lo
22
54
42
34
47
19
29
47
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73
36
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50
64
50
42
77
23
49
60
35
85
49
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26
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today; a
shower across the north. Sunshine in the
south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; cold across the north and in central
parts.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with a
shower in places.
Eastern Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today, except sunnier across the south
and in central sections.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today; a couple
of fl urries across the north. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Very cold in the interior mountains tonight.
Today
Sunday
WSW 4-8
WSW 6-12
VAR 2-4
NNE 3-6
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SALEM (AP) — A
Woodburn man who
confessed to stabbing his
mother’s boyfriend has
been sentenced to nearly
six years in prison.
The Statesman Journal
reports 28-year-old
Roberto Chacon accepted
a deal from prosecutors
Thursday in which he
pleaded guilty to assault
and burglary in exchange
for other charges being
dismissed.
Chacon told
investigators said he
committed the crime out
of jealousy. The boyfriend
was hugging Chacon’s
mother, and not allowing
him to do so.
The boyfriend was
stabbed in the chest
and hand. Hospital staff
told deputies the man’s
sternum stopped the knife
from reaching his internal
organs. The cut on his
hand required surgery.
Chacon was arrested on
assault and drug charges in
2013 and was sentenced to
two years in prison.
ONTARIO (AP) —
Gov. Kate Brown has
extended a statewide state
of emergency to provide
assistance for storm
recovery efforts while
touring Ontario where she
saw buildings collapsed
from accumulated ice and
snow.
The extension comes
after severe, record-
breaking winter storms
continually swept across
Eastern Oregon in January.
“It’s clear communities
like Malheur County and
businesses in Ontario face
ongoing challenges,” the
governor said.
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
Man sentenced for
stabbing mother’s
boyfriend
Governor Brown
extends storm-
related state of
emergency
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Heavy snowfall
collapsed several roofs
in the region, resulting in
millions of dollars in lost
inventory at onion storage
facilities. One onion
industry official estimated
the loss as high as $100
million.
Brown initially made the
emergency declaration on
Jan. 11. The extension adds
30 more days, and came at
the request of local officials
On Jan. 31, Brown also
issued an order to ease
and expedite recovery
coordination in Malheur
County.
That allows the
Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality
to temporarily suspend
certain rules to accelerate
demolition and removal
of collapsed buildings in
Malheur County.
Trump named
as defendant in
youths’ climate
lawsuit
They brought with them
cabinet members as well
as the directors of their
respective state agriculture
departments,
emergency
management officials and
National Guard leaders.
During the Ontario town
hall event, farmers and
other local business owners
stressed how important it was
to help the local agricultural
economy recover.
“Without the farmers,
ranchers and processors, this
community goes fallow,”
said John Kerby, who owns
a retail business in Ontario.
“To say we are in crisis, in
peril, is understating what is
happening here.”
The immediacy of the
need for assistance was also
stressed.
“We have unfolding a
disaster of epic proportions
and we need to have a
response that matches the
challenges we face,” said
Oregon Sen. Ted Ferrioli,
R-John Day.
The governors said both
states are actively working to
obtain federal assistance for
the area.
By SEAN ELLIS
EO Media Group
PAYETTE, Idaho —
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown
flew in a Black Hawk
helicopter together Feb. 10
to get a close-up view of
the damage caused by this
winter’s heavy snowfall.
The governors earlier
attended town hall meetings
in their respective states
where they heard from people
affected by this winter’s
heavy snowfall, which has
resulted in the collapse of at
least 50 onion storage build-
ings and packing sheds, in
addition to several hundred
other structures in the region.
The governors were
shocked by the extent of the
damage, which is estimated
at about $100 million to
the region’s onion industry
alone.
“We saw a lot of devas-
tation and we heard about a
lot of devastation (today),”
Otter said during a joint press
conference. “We’re going to
work to recover just as fast as
we can.”
Saturday, February 11, 2017
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0-2, Low
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8-10, Very High;
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The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
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National Summary: Warmth will expand from the South to the mid-Atlantic as snow
streaks across New England today. Rain will dampen parts of the Southwest and the north-
ern Plains as some snow falls over the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in Canadian, Texas
Low -14° in Orange, Mass.
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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73
56
59
38
72
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76
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56
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Sun.
Hi
51
71
58
60
39
73
42
38
78
65
43
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64
46
42
64
-15
37
81
83
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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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