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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
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
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Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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PRECIPITATION
May 2
John Day
47/32
Ontario
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Normal month to date
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Last year to date
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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
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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
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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.
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SALEM — Lawmakers
are considering a proposal
to keep medical marijuana
regulation under the Oregon
Health Authority through a
new cannabis commission.
Legislators on the Joint
Committee on Marijuana
Regulation took testimony
Tuesday evening on a
recently amended version of
a bill that initially proposed
to merge the state’s medical
and recreational marijuana
programs under the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission.
Under the amended bill,
the cannabis commission,
under the umbrella of OHA,
would instead enter into an
agreement with the OLCC
to track medical marijuana
produced on grow sites with
12 or more plants.
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. He was
also ordered to undergo drug
and alcohol treatment and his
license was suspended for
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bill, in particular the move
toward a “unified market” for
all cannabis products.
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
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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
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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
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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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Corrections
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meeting Friday with Pendleton School District Superin-
tendent Andy Kovach and Pendleton School Board chair
Debbie McBee. Also, superintendent candidate James
M. Wagner is from Minnesota. Inaccurate information
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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
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