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BRIEFLY
Protesters line Capitol halls to jeer
lawmakers’ $8.2 million ed budget
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Members of the Joint
Committee on Ways and Means had
to walk through crowds of jeering
protesters Tuesday to vote on a state
education budget.
Ways and Means Committee voted
to approve the $8.2 billion, two-year
budget Tuesday. Educators say it won’t
be enough money.
Several hundred demonstrators gath-
ered at the Capitol to say the amount
was not enough. Before the meeting,
they formed a human tunnel leading
into the committee’s hearing room and
chanted, “$8.2 just won’t do.”
“Members of the Senate came down
here before members of the House,
and they walked through the entire
conflict, not just the short gauntlet, …
to get here,” said Sen. Richard Devlin,
D-Tualatin, co-chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee. “I respect the
people’s right to actually protest what
action we’re taking, but I was disheart-
ened by this, because I don’t think the
people out there understood all of the
difficult decisions each of you who
serves on one of our subcommittees has
made … to get to $8.2.”
Oregon students attend class an
average of three weeks per year less
than other public school students in
the nation, said Rep. David Gomberg,
D-Central Coast.
“After 12 years, our kids are suffering
a year less time in the classroom than
average kids. Certainly, that affects
their ability to go out in the world and
thrive and succeed,” Gomberg said.
Even though the amount is more
than 11 percent greater than the existing
education budget, some school officials
say increases in expenses mean they
will have make reductions in spending,
including potential cuts in staff, services
or hours.
“The budget … does not really
address the cost drivers, so it’s not
Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal via AP
In this June 2 photo, Gwen Jakubisin, the executive
director of Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, snuggles
with Oliver, a calf born in February, and Helen, a
blind bison, in a field on the farm near Scio.
Helen the blind bison becomes
nanny to 4-month-old cow
Paris Achen/Capital Bureau
Demonstrators form a tunnel to the Joint Ways and Means Committee
meeting Tuesday to protest an $8.2 billion two-year education budget.
going to help us to get more teachers
and reduce class sizes,” Rep. Gene
Whisnant, R-Sunriver, said, referring to
increasing costs in pension and health
insurance costs.
Whisnant and two other Republi-
cans, House Minority Leader Mike
McLane of Powell Butte and John
Huffman of The Dalles, voted against
the education budget.
‘Budget is sound’
Several demonstrators burst into the
meeting carrying a banner that said, “No
Toxic Budget! People Over Profit.” The
message was identified on the banner as
coming from the Democratic Socialists
of America.
Sen. Rod Monroe, D-Portland, later
chastised the demonstrators.
“This budget is sound. It is over a
$150 million more than current service
level. More than current service level,”
Monroe repeated with emphasis. “It
is certainly hundreds of millions of
dollars more than the governor recom-
mended.”
“We ought to be applauded, not
jeered,” he added.
After the vote, protestors marched
through the main floor of the Capitol
chanting slogans such as “Oregon can’t
wait.” Their voices boomed against
the interior of the Capitol dome and
could be heard in the state building’s
basement.
“I am going to add my voice to those
who are expressing the point that this
isn’t enough. This is the best we can do
as of this week, as of this day,” said Rep.
Nancy Nathanson, co-chairwoman of
the Ways and Means Committee.
“I remain committed to looking for
additional resources. It’s not over ‘til
it’s over.”
Less than five weeks remain of the
legislative session.
Portland approves permit for country’s first all-wood high-rise
PORTLAND (AP) —
Officials in Oregon have
approved
construction
permits for the first all-wood
high-rise building in the
nation.
Construction on the
12-story building, called
Framework, will break
ground this fall in Portland’s
trendy and rapidly growing
Pearl District and is expected
to be completed by the
following winter.
The decision by state and
local authorities to allow
construction comes after
months of painstaking testing
of the emerging technologies
that will be used to build it,
including a product called
cross-laminated timber, or
CLT.
To make CLT, lumber
manufacturers align 2-by-4
boards in perpendicular
layers and then glue them
together like a giant sandwich
before sliding the resulting
panels into a massive press
for drying. The resulting
panels are stronger than
traditional wood because
of the cross-hatched layers;
CLT can withstand horizontal
and vertical pressures similar
to those from a significant
earthquake with minimal
damage.
They are also lighter and
easier to work with than
regular timber, resulting in
lower cost and less waste.
For this project, scientists
at Portland State University
and Oregon State University
subjected large panels of CLT
to hundreds of thousands
of pounds of pressure and
experimented with different
methods for joining them
together.
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Couple who believe in prayer healing
charged in baby’s death
PORTLAND (AP) — Two members of an Oregon
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SCIO (AP) — The staff at an animal sanctuary in
Oregon had tried all they could to find their blind bison
named Helen a pasture pal.
They tried sheep, goats and a blind pig named Luke,
but Helen was skittish around them all — until Oliver
came around.
The Statesman Journal reports Helen has found a new
friend in a 4-month-old calf, Oliver the cow. The two
animals live at the Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary in Scio.
Oliver runs from the barn to join Helen in the pasture
every morning, where they share meals, graze together
and nap together in the sun.
Sanctuary executive director Gwen Jakubisin says
she catches the two animals grooming each other, which
is Helen’s first experience expressing natural motherly
instinct.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
Very warm with
sunshine
Cooler with a
couple of showers
89° 62°
68° 50°
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cool
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
SUNDAY
Cloudy, breezy and
cool
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 47°
62° 47°
62° 44°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 53°
95° 65°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
84°
75°
103° (1931)
50°
51°
35° (1901)
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
0.00"
0.11"
0.35"
9.26"
5.55"
6.86"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
85°
77°
102° (2016)
48°
52°
41° (1988)
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
0.00"
0.11"
0.16"
6.42"
4.25"
5.27"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
June 9
New
69° 50°
69° 48°
Seattle
80/57
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
72° 49°
5:06 a.m.
8:42 p.m.
6:57 p.m.
4:24 a.m.
First
June 17 June 23 June 30
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
90/64
91/65
Tacoma
Moses
81/57
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 95/61
90/59
68/55
80/55
92/61
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
78/59
92/65 Lewiston
95/63
Astoria
95/64
67/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
81/59
Pendleton 89/53
The Dalles 95/65
89/62
91/63
La Grande
Salem
90/58
78/57
Albany
Corvallis 78/56
79/56
John Day
91/59
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
94/62
75/56
85/54
Caldwell
Burns
94/60
88/50
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
67
90
85
61
88
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75
89
95
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87
84
63
66
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
60
72
65
58
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63
69
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81
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68
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
88
90
87
67
80
68
69
80
73
62
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Lo
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Thu.
Hi
95
90
90
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79
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Lo
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WINDS
Medford
84/59
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
79/50
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight, except cloudy toward
the Cascades.
Cascades: Warm today with clouds limiting
sunshine. Periods of rain tonight.
Northern California: A little rain at the coast
this afternoon; sunshine mixing with clouds
elsewhere.
Thursday
SW 7-14
WSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. Rain
and drizzle in the south; a shower in central
parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today
with intervals of clouds and sun. A little rain
near the Cascades tonight.
Western Washington: Some sunshine
giving way to clouds today. Rain at times
tonight.
Today
NNW 4-8
NNW 3-6
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5
7
7
4
2
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
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.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
-10s
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showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Torrential downpours will affect the southeastern corner of the nation
today. Showers will dot the mid-Atlantic states, while thunderstorms erupt from Minnesota
to New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 109° in Needles, Calif.
Low 24° in Chemult, Ore.
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
90
80
63
68
86
81
97
65
72
69
75
67
88
79
73
95
76
81
87
91
70
84
80
104
81
75
Lo
65
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55
52
60
59
65
54
62
55
54
53
68
54
53
70
58
54
73
66
51
69
56
77
58
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Thur.
Hi
92
77
66
70
93
79
83
69
76
71
81
73
85
87
76
94
81
83
87
89
75
78
81
102
80
75
Lo
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Today
Hi
Louisville
73
Memphis
82
Miami
86
Milwaukee
74
Minneapolis
85
Nashville
78
New Orleans
87
New York City
68
Oklahoma City
80
Omaha
86
Philadelphia
67
Phoenix
108
Portland, ME
69
Providence
69
Raleigh
77
Rapid City
85
Reno
87
Sacramento
84
St. Louis
81
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
68
San Francisco
69
Seattle
80
Tucson
103
Washington, DC 70
Wichita
79
Lo
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80
50
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70
62
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Thur.
Hi
77
80
88
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83
76
84
70
83
88
72
107
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70
72
86
76
72
82
96
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103
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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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