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    WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy
Partial sunshine
55° 38°
61° 39°
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny and
nice
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
67° 43°
72° 47°
77° 52°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
63° 41°
68° 40°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
64°
68°
96° (1966)
57°
44°
29° (1904)
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
0.17"
8.21"
4.52"
5.28"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
70°
70°
95° (1966)
0.06"
0.06"
0.20"
5.94"
3.57"
4.19"
SUN AND MOON
May 18
Bend
51/27
New
5:35 a.m.
8:09 p.m.
4:03 p.m.
4:01 a.m.
First
May 25
June 1
Caldwell
59/44
Burns
52/33
Hi
56
48
51
59
52
47
60
55
63
50
52
49
47
61
53
56
60
66
55
61
54
60
57
49
59
59
66
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
Lo
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36
27
44
33
35
37
35
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34
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
58
56
57
63
61
52
65
60
68
58
60
57
55
67
55
58
67
69
61
66
60
66
62
55
64
65
70
Lo
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30
47
29
30
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41
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
84
84
74
62
79
61
58
72
69
77
79
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
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Hi
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Lo
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WINDS
Medford
61/38
PRECIPITATION
May 10
John Day
50/34
Ontario
60/45
58°
44°
29° (1982)
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
59/36
Eugene
60/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
81° 55°
Spokane
Wenatchee
57/41
63/40
Tacoma
Moses
59/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 65/43
51/41
56/39
59/35
66/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
58/37
59/43 Lewiston
66/41
Astoria
56/46
56/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
61/41
Pendleton 47/35
The Dalles 63/41
55/38
65/42
La Grande
Salem
49/36
60/39
Corvallis
61/39
HIGH
77° 47°
Seattle
58/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
73° 46°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Saturday, May 6, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
52/29
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Cloudy near the Idaho
border, in the mountains and Cascades to-
day; some sun in the north. Turning cloudy
across south and central parts.
Cascades: Cloudy most of the time today; a
rain or snow shower in spots in the south.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy and
cooler today; a snow shower in the interior
mountains.
Sunday
W 6-12
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A stray shower during the
morning; otherwise, clouds and sun today.
Breezy.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today; a thunderstorm in spots in the south
and upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today with a shower in spots. Mainly
clear tonight.
Today
WSW 6-12
W 7-14
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and Benton counties have
ordered at least four other
men to pay $7,500 to $15,000
in restitution for killing elk,
deer and at least one wild
turkey.
But in written rulings on
Samora’s and Plagmann’s
cases, Gilliam County
Circuit Judge John Olson
wrote that the law explicitly
allows the State Fish and
Wildlife Commission to file
a lawsuit for $25,000 per
sheep from the men, but it
doesn’t say that the judge
can order the defendants to
pay.
Olson wrote that the
commission is free to file a
lawsuit if it so chooses.
In Begay’s case, Wasco
County Circuit Judge Janet
Stauffer wrote that the
prosecution hadn’t proven
that Begay’s crime directly
resulted in the loss of $25,000
in
tangible
“economic
damages” to the state.
Mike Arnold, Plagmann’s
defense attorney, described
the arrest and prosecution of
his client “a disappointing
waste of resources.”
“All Cody (Plagmann) and
the co-defendant (Samora)
did was cut off the heads
of two already dead rams,”
Arnold wrote in an email to
The Oregonian/OregonLive.
“There is no economic loss
to the state for a dead ram in
two pieces versus one.”
Although the three men
have so far avoided the huge
penalties, they still will have
misdemeanor convictions on
their records.
Begay is scheduled to be
sentenced in June.
Plagmann and Samora,
who already have been
sentenced, were ordered to
one year of probation, 40
to 80 hours of community
service, a three-year ban from
hunting and fines ranging
from $1,500 to $2,000. Plag-
mann also received a 40-day
jail sentence.
BRIEFLY
Immigrants being
held in jail stage
hunger strike
Mudslides halt rail
traffic between
Seattle, Portland
SALEM (AP) — Immi-
grants in a jail serving four
counties in Oregon recently
held a hunger strike over
“horrible” conditions, say
activists who allege officials
are breaking state law by
holding people for federal
immigration authorities.
The U.S. Customs
and Enforcement Agency
pays the Northern Oregon
Regional Corrections
Facility, or NORCOR, to
hold detainees, according
to a NORCOR budget
document.
A 1987 Oregon law
prohibits law enforcement
officers from detaining
people who are in the
U.S. illegally but have not
broken other laws. Gov.
Kate Brown in February
ordered all state agencies to
follow the policy. Her office
declined to comment on
whether NORCOR might
be violating the law.
TACOMA, Wash. (AP)
— Officials with BNSF
Railway say mudslides
have forced the suspension
of train traffic on a
heavily traveled section
of rails between Seattle,
Washington, and Portland,
Oregon.
Gus Melonas,
spokesman for the
Burlington Northern and
Santa Fe Railway, says
early Friday that 10 slides
just north of the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge have halted
rail traffic. The multiple
slides came hours after a
series of thunderstorms
rolled through western
Washington.
He says a 48-hour hold
has been put on Amtrak
trains between Seattle and
Portland, and that hold
is scheduled to last until
11:30 p.m. Saturday. On
its website, Amtrak says
it is seeking alternate
30s
40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Another cool, wet and windy day is in store for the Midwest and
Northeast today. Calm, sunny conditions are expected across the Southern and Central
states. Wet weather will seep into the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Needles, Calif.
Low 21° in Lake George, Colo.
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
86
70
65
62
86
75
60
63
74
58
56
51
85
84
58
91
68
75
85
84
57
77
76
87
78
65
Lo
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50
51
45
56
51
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56
43
37
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61
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63
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78
70
62
63
72
74
64
61
76
60
57
54
87
81
56
87
69
75
86
85
59
85
77
66
79
63
Lo
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49
44
41
48
49
42
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35
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62
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63
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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
58
76
83
55
64
69
77
66
81
77
65
96
57
64
68
85
62
71
71
83
66
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58
92
63
82
Lo
41
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78
61
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62
68
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60
78
71
77
62
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61
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Lo
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Department of Human Services to get new director
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Clyde Saiki
is retiring after two tumul-
tuous years as director of
the Department of Human
Services, the state’s largest
agency.
In an email to staff
Friday, Saiki said he will
be succeeded by Fariborz
Pakseresht, director of the
Oregon Youth Authority
since 2012.
The changeover takes
effect Sept. 1, although
Senate confirmation of
Pakseresht’s appointment
is required. Saiki will stay
on in a limited role during
the transition.
Saiki, 60, had previ-
ously worked at DHS for
23 years, rising to become
its chief administrative
officer and deputy director
of operations before he
took a similar position at
the Department of Trans-
portation in 2010.
He was Gov. Kate
Brown’s choice in 2015
for director of the Depart-
ment of Administrative
Services — the budget and
management agency for
state government — after
Michael Jordan resigned.
Brown then sent Saiki implementing the 2017-19
back to DHS in November legislatively
approved
2015
following
budget — with
news reports about
investments and
serious problems
reductions still to
with the foster care
be determined,”
system. He became
Saiki said in the
permanent director
email. “There is
in March 2016, and
much work to
shortly afterward
do between now
he fired two child
and September,
welfare officials.
and while I know
“In his three
an adjustment to
decades of service Saiki
a new director
to the State of
will take time
Oregon,
Clyde
I hope that we
has demonstrated
can continue to
exemplary
lead-
work full steam
ership at every
ahead.”
agency,”
Brown
Even after the
said in a statement.
Oregon Health
“I would like to
Authority split
thank him for his
off in 2011,
contributions
to
DHS still has the
DHS and for his Fariborz
most employees
continued leader-
of any state
ship through the summer to agency — 7,900 full-time
ensure a smooth transition equivalent positions.
when Fariborz takes the
The agency, created
helm on Sept. 1.”
in 1971, has continued to
Deputy Director Joe struggle to resolve the child
O’Leary will lead the youth
authority on an interim
basis.
“Before
the
new
director arrives, we need
to finish the legislative
session and begin the
important
work
of
welfare problems.
In addition to child
welfare, the agency over-
sees services for older
people and people with
disabilities, and programs
to make people more
self-sufficient. Its current
two-year, $10.2 billion
budget — $2.7 billion of
it from the tax-supported
general fund — is second
only to that of the state
health agency.
But
the
agency’s
budget
faces
paring
with a projected revenue
shortfall of $1.6 billion in
the 2017-19 budget cycle
— and there is uncertainty
about how much federal aid
it will receive.
“I know Fariborz very
well, and I believe he is
a great choice to lead the
important work you all do
every day,” Saiki said. “He
has history working at DHS
and understands the impor-
tance of our programs in so
many Oregonians’ lives.”
Corrections
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