WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Windy; a p.m. shower or two Partly sunny and remaining cool 55° 38° 58° 36° SUNDAY Sunshine mixing with some clouds Mostly cloudy, a shower; cool PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 47° 61° 40° 59° 42° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 64° 38° 62° 40° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 52° 65° 86° (1904) 46° 41° 25° (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 0.32" 1.91" 1.00" 8.18" 4.31" 4.96" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 59° 68° 84° (2013) 0.17" 0.91" 0.74" 5.84" 2.98" 3.85" SUN AND MOON May 10 Bend 49/25 Burns 46/26 Last May 18 5:49 a.m. 7:57 p.m. 7:03 a.m. 9:41 p.m. New Caldwell 52/35 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 54 49 49 56 46 45 56 52 62 47 51 50 47 61 53 55 56 64 55 55 50 56 51 46 56 58 63 Lo 42 30 25 43 26 30 38 34 40 32 27 35 33 40 41 43 36 39 38 42 24 39 36 30 42 41 36 W sh pc sn c pc pc sh pc pc pc pc sh sh pc sh c pc pc sh sh pc sh pc sh sh sh pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. Hi 55 52 50 60 52 47 59 55 64 51 55 53 51 63 54 58 60 67 58 58 54 59 55 50 58 60 65 Lo 40 25 24 44 25 27 33 32 38 29 27 30 28 38 40 42 36 38 36 39 23 37 37 26 38 41 34 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc c pc pc sh pc c pc s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 84 76 75 53 82 44 54 66 67 65 62 Lo 54 65 53 41 55 38 38 54 47 53 52 W s t s sh pc sh sh t s pc r Fri. Hi 89 76 74 56 85 47 57 62 70 69 65 Lo 56 72 50 42 57 43 39 44 48 54 54 W pc pc s pc pc r pc pc pc pc pc WINDS Medford 61/40 PRECIPITATION May 2 John Day 47/32 Ontario 56/36 45° 41° 25° (2008) 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 First Full Albany 56/38 Eugene 56/38 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 65° 45° Spokane Wenatchee 51/36 60/41 Tacoma Moses 57/36 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 61/40 50/36 55/42 57/36 63/36 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 56/43 58/41 Lewiston 64/40 Astoria 56/40 54/42 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 55/42 Pendleton 45/30 The Dalles 62/40 55/38 59/43 La Grande Salem 50/35 56/39 Corvallis 56/39 HIGH 67° 43° Seattle 56/42 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 66° 49° Today MONDAY Mostly cloudy, a shower; breezy Thursday, April 27, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 51/27 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower today, except a couple of rain or snow show- ers near the Cascades. Western Washington: Periods of sun today with a brief shower or two. Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today with a shower in places, except a snow shower in the mountains. Cascades: Rain and snow showers today; however, snow showers in the south. Northern California: Partly sunny today; unseasonably cold in the interior mountains. May 25 Friday WSW 7-14 WSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Variable clouds today with a shower in places. Today W 10-20 W 10-20 1 3 5 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office 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. 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A medical marijuana grower would be able to sell up to 25 pounds per year to an OLCC-licensed marijuana wholesaler — an effort to prevent medical marijuana surpluses from being sold illegally. “Diversion is gonna happen,” said Sen. Jeff Kruse, R-Roseburg. “...What we’re attempting to do here is make it easy and afford- able for people to do the right thing.” A leaked Oregon State Police draft report, obtained and reported by The Orego- nian in March, found a sizable quantity of pot grown in Oregon left the state ille- gally. misguided teenager without any motivation at the time of the crash. He was addicted to popping pills and had no interests outside of drugs. “This wreck was the culmination of my journey down a long, dark, emotional path laden with prescription pills,” he wrote. “On Inde- pendence Day I hit rock bottom.” When he awoke in the hospital, he realized his life must change: “I truly believe that if I hadn’t crashed, I would have overdosed.” State Police said Kitzhaber was driving to Lincoln City in a Toyota Prius registered to his father. The car crossed the centerline and then sideswiped the motorhome. Kitzhaber apologized to the Lyckmans, saying his poor choice has forever changed their lives. He promised to avoid intoxicants, pursue his education and never again recklessly endanger innocent people. “Nobody deserves what I put you through,” he wrote. Kitzhaber pleaded guilty and was sentenced March 27 to a week in jail and five years on probation. 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But, in particular, he worried that the existing medical marijuana advisory committee was “little more than a toothless tiger,” and wasn’t sure how the new commission proposed by the amended bill would differ. He also voiced trepidation about businesses fielding different sets of rules from two agencies. “If they’re going to be selling into the recreational system, business needs just one set of rules to follow, which is why we came to you with the unified system,” Morse said. “It’s very cumbersome for businesses, even with the good actors trying to do the best work possible, to keep track of who’s doing what and what we’re supposed to do under each agency.” Another bill — which has been amended multiple times — also seeks to tighten regu- lation of the drug and prevent it from being diverted to the black market. That bill, SB 1057, would provide OLCC expanded authority to prevent diversion of marijuana from licensees to the illicit market. Although lawmakers heard details of proposed amendments to the bill Tuesday evening, they did not take action on it. A public hearing on a third bill before the committee that would require cannabis businesses to report illegal activity was postponed. Logan Kitzhaber says 4th of July wreck was wake-up call PORTLAND (AP) — The son of former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber says his crash into a motor home last 4th of July was a desperately needed wake-up call. Logan Kitzhaber, 19, of Portland pleaded guilty last month to assault and driving under the influence of intox- icants for causing the wreck on U.S. Highway 101 near the Oregon coast. As part of his plea agreement, he had to write a letter to the injured occupants of the motor home — Stan and Martha Lyckman of Port Angeles, Washington. Kitzhaber, in a letter dated April 11, said he was a rain 20s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 105° in McAllen, Texas Low 16° in Hill City, S.D. Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday proposed commission struc- ture was a result of “frustra- tion” around the fact that the findings of OHA’s advisory boards did not seem to be implemented. The OHA has an 11-member medical mari- juana advisory committee. “Advice is given, but it’s never followed,” Prozanski said. The state’s medical mari- juana program was approved by voters in 1998. Some advocates of using pot for medical purposes turned out Tuesday evening to testify before the committee, saying they generally approved of keeping medical marijuana within the Oregon Health Authority, as it has been for nearly 20 years. But Kristine Evertz, who testified on behalf of the Oregon SunGrowers Guild, a trade association, worried that without “strong coopera- tion” between OLCC and the proposed cannabis commis- sion, the supply of medical marijuana could be disrupted and businesses could face a financial burden. “We would have preferred to see more resources and energy dedicated to fully implementing and strength- ening the existing OHA tracking system which has only been in existence for less than a year,” Evertz said in additional, written comments. Donald Morse, director of the Oregon Cannabis Business Council, said he agreed with most of the provisions of the amended 10s National Summary: As warmth builds in the East, showers and gusty storms will extend from the Great Lakes to the central Gulf Coast today. Rain and heavy mountain snow will fall from the Northwest to the central Rockies. New bill keeps medical, recreational pot separate Concern about the phenomenon of “leaking” appeared to amplify the Legislature’s efforts to firm up how the state tracks the drug’s whereabouts, especially in the medical marijuana program. Jeff Roades, marijuana policy adviser to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, told lawmakers earlier this month that less than half of medical marijuana producers are complying with a self-re- porting requirement to report the amount of marijuana products they have on hand and have sold, given away or received. Andre Ourso, manager of the medical marijuana program, said he was concerned about how the commission, which would have rulemaking authority, would resolve any differ- ences with the Oregon Health Authority. “I’m not sure how, I guess, for lack of a better term, a power play between a commission with rulemaking authority and an agency with all of its internal processes and procedures, and its own employees, how that would match and how conflicts would be resolved,” Ourso said. Ourso also said he thought the agreement between the OLCC and the proposed commission could use more specificity. “The devil’s in the details on these agreements,” he said. Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, said that the 0s showers t-storms Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau -0s five years. The Lyckmans submitted a victim-impact statement to Lincoln County Circuit Court, letting Kitzhaber know how the crash upended their lives — emotionally, physically and financially. “In the course of a few seconds, we went from being happy campers to being crippled,” Martha Lyckman wrote. “With no time to pray, we experienced horror.” The letter says Stan Lyckman has endured six surgeries and nearly lost his leg. Moreover, he developed a severe blood clot that caused concern for his life. 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BRIEFLY Boy who shot Trump protester ordered to youth prison Panel formed to come up with new Oregon business taxes PORTLAND (AP) — A 14-year-old boy who shot a man participating in a November President Donald Trump protest in Portland has been ordered to youth prison, possibly for over a decade. The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports the boy could be released at any time officials at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn determine he’s rehabilitated. He’ll be released no later than his 25th birthday. The teen shot 21-year-old Louis Carlos Paredes-Luis in the leg and grazed another person in the head about 1:20 a.m. on Nov. 12 on the Morrison Bridge. It’s unclear why the boy opened fire on protesters who were upset about the Nov. 8 presidential election. The teen previously pleaded no contest to two counts of assault with a firearm and guilty to one count of unlawful use of a weapon. SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Leaders in the Oregon Legislature are forming a temporary, bipartisan committee that’ll spend the next several weeks hashing out a business tax-overhaul plan that may go to voters for final approval in a special election. In a memo Wednesday, House Speaker Tina Kotek and Senate President Peter Courtney, both Democrats, said they are creating the Joint Tax Reform Committee with the 14 lawmakers who handle the state’s money-making policies in the House and Senate revenue panels. The new Tax Reform Committee will hold public hearings to flesh out final details of a proposal to overhaul Oregon’s current system of taxing corporate income. That revenue- boosting proposal will serve as the second major component to a broader plan to address the 1.6 billion-deficit that looms over Oregon’s 2017-19 budget. In memory of my loving wife Mary Pimentel You are surely missed by all of us. Love, your husband and friends