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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Plenty of sunshine Plenty of sun 88° 59° 94° 65° SUNDAY MONDAY Hot with plenty of sun Today TUESDAY Hot with sun and clouds Sunny and seasonably hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 99° 67° 96° 68° 94° 61° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 91° 62° 98° 66° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 83° 90° 110° (1931) 62° 60° 42° (1932) 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" Trace 0.20" 11.30" 7.27" 7.78" Corvallis 85/57 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 85° 90° 108° (1931) 65° 59° 46° (1933) 0.00" 0.00" 0.14" 6.59" 4.94" 5.84" SUN AND MOON July 23 July 30 Full Aug 7 5:26 a.m. 8:36 p.m. 3:40 a.m. 7:05 p.m. Last Aug 14 John Day 89/54 Ontario 95/62 Bend 86/52 Burns 87/46 Caldwell 93/58 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 70 84 86 66 87 83 85 85 91 89 86 86 82 94 63 67 95 89 88 83 87 85 81 82 82 90 89 Lo 57 46 52 54 46 52 53 59 62 54 49 55 51 60 52 54 62 60 59 61 47 59 58 48 60 66 60 W pc s s pc s s s s s s s s s s pc pc s s s s s s s s s s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 73 88 92 74 91 88 91 92 98 93 93 92 89 99 66 69 97 96 94 89 93 92 88 88 88 97 96 Lo 56 50 59 59 49 56 59 64 66 60 54 58 55 65 52 56 64 63 65 64 55 63 63 53 63 70 66 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 79 90 88 73 75 69 78 88 93 62 90 Lo 72 80 70 57 56 52 60 71 80 45 79 W r t s r pc r pc s pc s pc Sat. Hi 78 89 88 67 75 71 70 88 92 66 88 Lo 73 80 69 55 56 55 58 70 79 46 80 W c t s sh pc pc t s c s pc WINDS Medford 94/60 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 85/56 Eugene 85/53 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 97° 65° Spokane Wenatchee 81/58 85/65 Tacoma Moses 78/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 86/59 80/54 70/59 78/57 89/60 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 79/57 90/66 Lewiston 90/59 Astoria 89/60 70/57 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 83/61 Pendleton 83/52 The Dalles 91/62 88/59 89/65 La Grande Salem 86/55 85/59 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 100° 70° Seattle 77/61 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 103° 68° Friday, July 21, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 86/49 Today Saturday WSW 6-12 W 6-12 SW 4-8 W 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Clouds giving way to sun today. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun- shine today; pleasant. A starlit sky tonight. Cascades: Nice today with plenty of sun. Clear tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow. Western Washington: Times of clouds and sun today, except sunnier across the south. Mainly clear tonight. Northern California: Clouds giving way to some sun at the coast today; plenty of sunshine elsewhere. 2 5 7 211 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. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 5 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 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 Didn’t receive your paper? 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On the individual market, the changes announced Thursday range from an average 1.6 percent dip for BridgeSpan Health Company to an average 14.8 percent increase for the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest. For small businesses, the average changes range from increases of 3.3 to 10.1 percent. The state uses a variety of criteria to make rate deci- sions, and multiple factors, including “legal uncertainty” surrounding the fate of the federal Affordable Care Act and the escalating cost of providing insurance, have led to increases in costs. But the Department of Consumer and Business Services says that the rates would be, on average, 6 percent higher if not for the reinsurance program created by the Legislature this year, which it says “will add additional stability and predictability in the market.” Reinsurance is kind of like insurance for insurers — it’s intended to protect them from high claims. State Rep. Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, said last week that the reinsurance program provides rate relief while the state also tries to reduce the costs of medical care. “We put it in place for two years so that we could move forward,” Rayfield said. The legislation that created that program, though, which includes a 1.5 percent tax on insurance premiums, may be subject to voters’ opinion come January. Three Republican lawmakers filed a referral petition to get certain parts of the bill on the ballot. If they are successful, voters will weigh in during a special election Jan. 23. State Rep. Julie Parrish, R-Tualatin/West Linn, one of the legislators behind the referral effort, is critical of the state’s reinsurance program. She says moving public employees onto the exchange could have prevented instability in the market. “We need to put more lives on the exchange to make it work,” Parrish said, “We don’t have to raise people’s taxes to do it.” Parrish has also suggested moving public employees into coordi- nated care organizations, the regional networks of providers serving Orego- nians on Medicaid. Parrish, along with State Rep. Cedric Hayden, R-Roseburg, and Rep. Sal Esquivel, R-Medford, are angling to get portions of the legislation on the ballot, including a .7 percent “true tax” on hospitals. The state is in the process of applying for a “state innovation” waiver from the federal government, which would result in more federal funding, although that waiver is not required to run the program. Jesse O’Brien, policy director for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, called the announcement a “huge win for consumers” because, on average, the rate increases were less than insurers had asked for. However, O’Brien also made note of the uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act and argued that passage of repeal or replace- ment legislation could lead to higher rate increases. BRIEFLY Eastern Oregon University offering dorms to eclipse tourists LA GRANDE (AP) — People traveling to northeastern Oregon to see next month’s solar eclipse now have another lodging option. The Observer newspaper reports that Eastern Oregon University in La Grande is offering its residential dorms to tourists. The rooms are available for rental from Aug. 19 through Aug. 22 for $500 total, which must be paid in full at the time of reservation. The rooms hold up to five people and include kitchenettes, with a full refrigerator and microwave. The university will also provide brochures about what there is to see and do in La Grande. Teen who escaped Oregon youth prison caught stealing candy PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon teenager who escaped from a youth prison last month is back behind bars. State police say 18-year-old Micah West was arrested late Tuesday after he was caught shoplifting candy bars in Albany. He’s been lodged at a juvenile detention center. West and 18-year-old Brittain McAuliffe vanished from Camp Riverbend, a transitional living facility in La Grande. Authorities say they left through a gate June 20 after taking a slide card. Police believe they later stole a pickup from the Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area. McAuliffe is still free. He was spotted days after his disappearance at a pharmacy in Milton-Freewater. The escape was the first at Camp Riverbend since 2008. Contractor jailed on theft, racketeering charges BEND (AP) — A Central Oregon contractor has been indicted on racketeering and theft charges. Katie Thraen tells KTVZ that she hired John McClean to build her family’s new home in Tumalo, unaware his state contracting license had been suspended. Thraen eventually fired McClean, but not before her family was $80,000 in the hole. She says one of the walls McClean started was not up to code, and an inspector told her it could have fallen. Moreover, a building supply -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain company served a lien against the property. She owed more $30,000 — money she had already given to McClean with the belief he had given it to the company. Thraen pursued a criminal case after tracking down other clients who had similar complaints. McClean has not entered a plea. He was arraigned Tuesday and is being held on $250,000 bail. Oregon woman sues Safeway after son’s death in parking lot EUGENE (AP) — An Oregon woman whose 7-year-old son was struck and killed in a supermarket parking lot seeks $1.5 million in a federal lawsuit against Safeway. Jenna Wheeler of Junction City alleges negligence on the part of the supermarket chain, saying it should have known the configuration of its parking lot in Junction City was dangerous. The boy, Chance Clark, died July 18, 2015. The suit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in Eugene. Safeway spokeswoman Jill McGinnis declined comment. The Register-Guard reports the driver whose pickup hit the boy was not charged in the accident and is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: The risk of severe storms and flash flooding will extend from the north- ern Plains to the mid-Atlantic today. Heavy storms will dot the Deep South and the Four Corners states. Most other areas will be dry. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 107° in Salina, Kan. Low 30° in Truckee, Calif. 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 89 95 90 94 91 94 93 92 93 89 87 87 100 90 89 88 72 89 88 94 92 93 97 104 98 85 Lo 67 75 75 74 61 76 61 70 75 73 74 70 80 63 71 73 51 67 77 77 76 74 79 84 76 66 W s s pc pc s t s s pc pc t pc s t pc t pc c pc t t t s s s pc Sat. 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ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Danni Halladay 541-278-2683 • dhalladay@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau -10s Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 • fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Toxic algae blooms seem more intense this year Andrew THEEN The Oregonian/OregonLive Toxic algae blooms seem more intense this year, but state lacks money to study issue Oregon public health officials say years of drought followed by heavy rains this spring created a “perfect storm” for harmful algae blooms to pop up on rivers, lakes and reservoirs across the state this summer. In rural Lake County, those conditions led to what officials say is the deadliest algae bloom in nearly 20 years. Thirty-two cows died last month after drinking water from Junipers Reser- voir, a lake on a private ranch west of Lakeview. Three people also fell ill after ingesting the water- borne bacteria atLake Billy Chinook in Jefferson County this month. John O’Keeffe, president of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association and a Lake County resident, said ranchers knew it was possible to have livestock or pets die from algae-tainted water, but he couldn’t recall anything comparable to the die-off at KV Bar Ranch. “People are watching their ponds close now,” he said, citing the blue-green sheen of gunk that rests on top of the water. Though 2017 may appear to be a bad year for algae blooms, state officials say there’s not much they can do to confirm that or study the issue further. They do antic- ipate seeing more blooms in the future due to climate change. “Drought conditions and temperature can also contribute to more blooms,” said Julie Sifuentes, the environmental health assess- ment program manager at theOregon Health Authority. The information vacuum Corrections 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. is problematic because it’s not clear by looking at an algae bloom whether it’s harmful to humans or animals. Testing is the only way to know for sure, and Oregon only has the resources to react and issue public health advi- sories after tests confirm the presence of cyanobacteria, the harmful water-borne bloom known colloquially as blue green algae. “We don’t have the data to say, ‘Oh yes, these are how many blooms we’re seeing,” Sifuentes said. Rebecca Hillwig, a natural resource specialist with the Oregon Health Authority, said the naturally occurring blooms can pop up anywhere once fueled by nutrients from elevated levels of fertilizer, manure or other nutrients. “Any portion of Oregon could have a bloom, and people just may not know about it,” she said. Lori Grant, the water program director at the Oregon Environmental Council, said the Lake County cattle incident shows the importance of keeping manure away from water sources. “Ironically, they were fertilizing their own drinking water,” she said. The state does not proac- tively monitor any waterway for algae blooms, except under special circumstances. At popular recreation spots across the state, Oregon relies on partners like the U.S. Forest Service, Army Corps of Engineers or local counties to do the water sampling. M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. SHOWTIME AT DUSK Now Open Fri. thru Wed. July 21st - 26th DESPICABLE ME 3 (PG) VALERIA (PG 13) Always two movies for the price of one! 938-4327 www.m-fdriveintheatre.com Fri. • Sat. • Sun. Adults $7, Children 11 & Under $2
