WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny;
warmer in the p.m.
Partly sunny and
very warm
76° 55°
86° 59°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Cooler; a heavy
p.m. t-storm
Mostly cloudy with
a little rain
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 44°
58° 42°
61° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
90° 60°
82° 54°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
62°
67°
91° (1900)
45°
43°
27° (2006)
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
Trace
Trace
0.06"
8.21"
4.35"
5.17"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
67°
69°
92° (1937)
Trace
Trace
0.08"
5.88"
2.98"
4.07"
SUN AND MOON
May 18
Bend
76/49
Burns
74/47
5:40 a.m.
8:05 p.m.
12:51 p.m.
2:26 a.m.
New
First
May 25
June 1
Caldwell
75/48
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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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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85
72
56
82
59
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68
82
67
70
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
88/58
PRECIPITATION
May 10
John Day
77/52
Ontario
77/49
40°
43°
25° (1954)
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
81/55
Eugene
81/55
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
67° 42°
Spokane
Wenatchee
68/50
74/56
Tacoma
Moses
74/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 79/53
69/52
68/52
74/51
81/52
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
79/57
79/58 Lewiston
82/53
Astoria
75/53
66/52
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
81/58
Pendleton 69/44
The Dalles 82/54
76/55
82/58
La Grande
Salem
74/51
81/56
Corvallis
83/56
HIGH
66° 44°
Seattle
73/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
75° 47°
Today
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy and
cooler
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Klamath Falls
79/46
(in mph)
Today
Thursday
Boardman
Pendleton
SW 4-8
NW 4-8
NE 4-8
ESE 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. Warmer
across the north; pleasant elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
and nice today. Clear tonight.
Eastern Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny to
partly cloudy tomorrow.
Cascades: Partly sunny and warmer today.
Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Clouds breaking for
some sun today, except times of clouds and
sun across the south.
Northern California: Areas of low clouds
early today; otherwise, sunny at the coast.
Sunny elsewhere.
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4
6
6
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Three new
nominees were confirmed
Tuesday to the state Environ-
mental Quality Commission,
but over opposition from
Sen. Bill Hansell.
Hansell, a Republican
from Athena, said he opposed
the new nominees because
Democratic
Gov.
Kate
Brown was unfair in firing
three incumbent members.
Two of those fired —
Melinda Eden of Milton-Free-
water and Colleen Johnson,
a professor of economics at
Eastern Oregon University
and a former mayor of La
Grande — are from north-
east Oregon. The third was
Morgan Rider from Portland.
“What happened to them
was wrong,” Hansell said
during Senate debate. “I do
not believe this is the Oregon
we want, an Environmental
Quality Commission which
will have zero representation
from outside the Interstate 5
corridor.”
All five commission
members voted in February
to appoint Richard Whitman
as permanent director of
the Department of Environ-
mental Quality. He had been
acting director.
When she fired three
commission members and
announced three replace-
ments March 29, Brown
said she disagreed with the
appointment process, though
not the result.
“The governor should not
fire commissioners because
they are doing their jobs,”
Hansell said. “Just because
the person was different than
who the governor wanted
does not mean she should
have the right to fire the
majority of the commission.”
The Senate confirmed the
new nominees anyway.
Molly Kile, a scientist
at Oregon State University,
was confirmed on a 16-13
vote along party lines. One
Democrat, Betsy Johnson of
Scappoose, was absent.
The others won some
Republican votes.
Robert Wade Mosby of
Lake Oswego, a retired forest
products executive, was
confirmed on a 19-10 vote.
Kathleen George, a council
member of the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde, was
confirmed on a 24-5 vote.
The EQC is one of the few
remaining state boards that
has authority to appoint the
agency director, and Hansell
said Brown should have
honored that.
“Let me be clear: By
unilaterally
firing
the
members of the commission
who were confirmed by
this Senate, the governor
is violating the spirit of
independent
oversight,”
Hansell said. “The board is
meant to be independent, not
political.”
Corrections
Stanfield Police Chief Byron Zumwalt clarified he referred to Hermiston police
contacting him in March 2016 regarding the child pornography investigation of Jarvis Buck,
38, of Echo. The East Oregonian’s Tuesday story, “Child porn investigation took years to
conclude,” reported Hermiston police informed Zumwalt in 2015 after receiving the first tip
about Buck. The EO regrets the error and updated the story online.
The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If
you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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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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Today
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
Hi
62
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Tribe bets on casino plan in Oregon
SALEM (AP) — A
confederation of tribes in
Oregon announced plans
Tuesday to build a casino in
the state capital, and draw
in crowds of gamblers from
Portland.
The Confederated Tribes
of Siletz Indians of Oregon
said they hope to open
the 140,000 square foot
entertainment, gaming and
hotel facility in 2021 on
reservation property on the
northern end of Salem, and
that they want to partner with
other tribes.
The Siletz would need
approval from the governor
for a casino. The initial
reaction from Gov. Kate
Brown’s office indicated the
Siletz will have to hedge its
bet by getting the other eight
federally recognized tribes
in Oregon on board — and
some already have casinos or
have their own plans.
“To date, Gov. Brown has
not received any proposal
that enjoys comprehensive
tribal
support,”
Bryan
Hockaday, Brown’s press
secretary, said in an email.
“Should Gov. Brown receive
such a proposal, the discus-
sion would focus on whether
the proposed casino would
be in the best interest of the
tribes, and of the people of
Oregon.”
The Siletz said they expect
to create 1,500 full-time jobs
the first year of operation of
the casino, which the tribe
wants to build near Interstate
5 on the north side of Salem.
They project $185.4 million
in gross revenue in the first
year of operation.
The tribe said it is working
to expand tribal participation
in the project.
“We know that when
Tribes come together with a
shared mission, we achieve
more for our community,”
said Dee Pigsley, tribal
council chairman of the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians, in a statement.
On April 24, another
tribe opened a casino near
La Center, Washington, 25
miles north of Portland,
causing traffic jams on I-5 as
the parking lot quickly filled
up. It is now the closest major
gambling venue for residents
of Oregon’s largest city.
Oregon has a one casino
per tribe policy. The Siletz
has a casino in Lincoln City,
on the coast, so it is doubly
important it recruit other
tribes as partners.
Participating tribes would
share 25 percent of the net
revenues of the entertain-
ment facility, according to a
press release. And 25 percent
of gaming revenues would
be shared with state and local
governments
The
Confederated
Tribes of Siletz Indians is a
confederation of all the tribes
of western Oregon. In the
1800s Siletz ancestors were
removed from their valley
homelands and moved to
the Siletz Reservation on the
coast.
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ENROLLING NOW
FOR SPRING 2017
Woman who ran fake day care $250 fines for backyard
receives eight more felonies
pot growing in Medford
MEDFORD (AP) — People in the
southern Oregon city of Medford who
violate a ban on growing marijuana in their
backyards could face fines of $250 per day
if they are caught, officials have said.
The Mail Tribune reported Monday that
Medford residents can still grow marijuana
indoors or in greenhouses as long as the
smell does not bother neighbors.
Medford voters in November approved
the ban after some residents complained
about the smell of marijuana grown by their
neighbors.
Police will not search backyards for pot
gardens but will respond to complaints
about the gardens, city attorney Kevin
McConnell said.
Police plan to issue warnings before
citing residents and officers will be able to
get warrant to enter backyards to rip out the
plants, McConnell said.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 104° in Palm Springs, Calif.
Low 23° in Buena Vista, Colo.
BRIEFLY
BEND (AP) — An Oregon woman
accused of running an illegal day care where
she would leave the children unattended so
she could go tanning has been indicted on
eight new felony charges.
The Bend Bulletin reports 31-year-old
January Irene Neatherlin’s new charges top
her previous 114 charges.
Neatherlin received an additional bail,
bringing her total to $750,000.
The new charges allege Neatherlin’s
conduct went on for years.
Neatherlin’s attorney Matthew Baughman
declined to protest the prosecution’s
suggested bail amount.
She had been arrested in March after
police followed a tip that she was leaving
young children in her home. Police then
found Neatherlin at a tanning salon while
seven children were left unattended at her
home.
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National Summary: Severe storms will ramp up over Texas and the lower Mississippi Valley,
while flooding continues farther north with a new burst of rain today. The Northeast will
stay cool, while the West warms up.
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