WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Periods of clouds
and sun
49° 32°
50° 30°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
A passing shower
in the morning
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 43°
49° 36°
52° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 28°
54° 31°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
50°
49°
70° (1896)
36°
33°
-1° (1909)
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
0.25"
0.82"
0.70"
14.52"
10.69"
10.69"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
54°
50°
66° (1965)
Full
Dec 3
6:57 a.m.
4:22 p.m.
5:54 a.m.
4:28 p.m.
Last
Dec 9
Caldwell
49/27
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
51
45
43
53
40
40
51
48
54
41
42
44
40
50
52
53
49
55
49
50
45
53
42
40
50
50
53
Lo
42
22
23
39
15
25
32
32
31
27
18
30
28
27
40
38
25
33
32
39
22
35
32
24
38
38
32
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
Hi
53
44
47
53
42
42
49
50
52
48
46
44
43
50
52
54
46
52
50
50
49
51
43
45
49
50
51
Lo
44
22
26
43
16
26
33
31
28
29
21
31
31
28
42
41
24
29
30
37
23
36
31
25
36
36
28
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
45
80
75
48
74
35
53
63
47
75
56
Lo
18
73
55
36
48
32
34
43
22
67
49
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pc
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c
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Sat.
Hi
41
80
74
48
76
36
49
60
34
72
57
Lo
21
66
53
39
44
33
42
42
21
65
45
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WINDS
Medford
50/27
0.27"
0.62"
0.60"
8.42"
7.62"
7.88"
SUN AND MOON
Nov 26
Bend
43/23
Burns
40/15
PRECIPITATION
Nov 18
John Day
41/27
Ontario
49/25
36°
33°
-7° (1955)
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
New
First
Albany
52/34
Eugene
51/32
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
47° 43°
Spokane
Wenatchee
42/32
48/33
Tacoma
Moses
50/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 50/32
42/33
50/43
49/38
53/32
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
50/40
50/38 Lewiston
54/33
Astoria
48/35
51/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
50/39
Pendleton 40/25
The Dalles 54/31
49/32
52/31
La Grande
Salem
44/30
53/35
Corvallis
51/33
HIGH
55° 37°
Seattle
50/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
53° 43°
Friday, November 17, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
42/18
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
shower; however, dry in the south.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a
fl urry in the mountains during the morning.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals
of clouds and sunshine today; a fl urry in
central parts.
Western Washington: Mainly cloudy today
with a shower. Occasional rain and drizzle at
the coast tonight.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with a little
snow; no additional accumulation.
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Saturday
WSW 3-6
WSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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Today
WSW 10-20
WSW 8-16
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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
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ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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Mainly clear tonight; cold. Partly sunny
tomorrow.
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-0s
0s
showers t-storms
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: Wet weather is forecast from part of the upper Mississippi Valley to the
southern Rockies today. Some rain and mountain snow will linger along the Pacific coast as
snow falls on the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Tucson, Ariz.
Low 9° in Logan, Mont.
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
72
66
51
52
40
67
46
45
64
54
44
47
82
64
44
82
14
38
82
84
51
74
64
76
73
73
Lo
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49
37
33
27
55
28
30
43
41
44
41
65
23
40
54
-12
17
69
67
47
53
39
45
64
55
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Sat.
Hi
55
70
60
56
42
70
48
50
73
65
46
57
68
46
53
69
-5
27
82
82
60
80
48
63
70
77
Lo
29
43
51
46
28
40
29
48
57
39
27
34
42
25
32
38
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14
67
48
29
60
29
41
39
53
Today
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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
57
71
82
45
44
62
77
49
78
62
50
84
42
47
58
46
49
61
56
49
72
62
50
85
53
72
Lo
52
63
70
39
28
55
64
37
51
37
37
57
20
27
37
25
21
36
55
27
58
47
43
53
40
43
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Sat.
Hi
63
69
83
42
36
69
80
54
58
46
56
80
44
54
65
44
53
61
60
43
71
62
51
79
59
56
Lo
35
38
69
27
18
35
51
51
32
26
50
54
42
50
46
21
25
36
31
26
54
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50
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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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Jim Crary sees opportunity to unseat Walden Irrigon man involved
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Unseating an incumbent like Greg
Walden from Congress is a steep uphill
battle, but challenger Jim Crary smells an
opportunity.
Crary, one of several Democrats vying
for their party’s nomination, was tapped
to run against Walden for the
District 2 seat in the 2016
general election. He lost with
only 28 percent of the vote,
but he said the difference in
dissatisfaction with Walden
and the Republican party this
time around seems like “night
and day.”
People are unhappy about
Walden’s prominent role in Crary
engineering a health care bill
that would have caused an estimated 10
percent of his constituents to lose their
health insurance, Crary said. He said
Republicans promised for seven years
that they had a much better plan than the
Affordable Care Act, then it turned out
they didn’t have any plan “on the shelf”
when they took charge.
“Obviously they’re great at criticizing
but not great at constructing,” he said.
Crary said there were about 140
people at a candidate forum in Bend on
Monday night. Last time around, he said,
it was hard to get 25 people to show up to
something this early in the race.
Crary’s motto, printed right on his
business cards, is “Don’t criticize unless
you have a better idea.” One of Crary’s
biggest ideas is for campaign finance
reform — the issue that first inspired
him to run in 2016.
The Ashland Democrat said he doesn’t
think it’s possible with today’s congres-
sional and Supreme Court makeup to pass
a constitutional amendment or overturn
the Citizens United decision that desig-
nated political donations as protected free
speech. But Crary said there are ways to
dilute the power of that money
and the wealthy donors who
spend it.
Crary envisions a public
financing system that would
give each registered voter $50
from the federal government
to donate to any candidate or
ballot measure that they would
be able to vote on in the coming
year. If the voters participated
in the primaries, they would get
another $10 to donate toward the general
election. Crary said if every Oregonian
who voted for him in 2016 gave him $10,
that would be more than $1.66 million.
“Let me tell you this, you can run a
really credible campaign on that amount
of money,” he said.
Besides health care, the other issue
that has become especially important to
Crary this time around is the environment.
Crary said he “absolutely” believes in
man-made climate change, and called the
Trump administration’s decision to pull
out of the Paris climate accord “going
backward.”
Crary acknowledged that he spent
about six years of his career working for
the oil company BP in their contracts and
procurement department, but said those
days are behind him. He said the country
doesn’t have time to “screw around” on
climate change, and needs to implement
a cap and trade carbon tax that would
charge polluters for excess carbon emis-
sions and then either return the money
directly to individual taxpayers or put it
toward things like renewable energy and
electric cars.
“If everyone was driving electric
vehicles charged with renewable energy,
that’s nirvana,” he said.
Crary said one thing he did agree
with President Donald Trump about
was that the country needed to invest in
updating and building new infrastructure.
It’s something that labor on the left and
businesses on the right both agree with,
he said, so it didn’t make sense that
Congress wasn’t pursuing it.
Crary has lived east of Ashland for
about 11 years and was born and raised
in Fargo, North Dakota. He served two
years in the Army before graduating
with a bachelor’s degree from Pacific
Lutheran University in Tacoma and a law
degree from University of San Diego.
He has held a variety of jobs over his
career, including 14 years working for the
municipality of Anchorage’s legal depart-
ment. He is married with four children.
Crary is on a three-day trip to Herm-
iston that has included several meet and
greets with constituents, but he also
encouraged people to email him at Jim@
Crary4Congress.com or give him a call
on his cell phone at 541-531-2912. He
said if elected to Congress he has pledged
to spend at least five hours a week person-
ally answering the phones in his office.
BRIEFLY
Barreto re-elected
to House GOP
leadership team
State Rep. Greg Barreto
(R-Cove) has been re-elected
to serve as deputy leader of
the Oregon House Republi-
cans heading into the 2018
short legislative session.
Rep. Mike McLane, of
Powell Butte, will once
again serve as House
Republican leader when the
session begins Feb. 5, the
caucus announced Thursday.
“We have an excellent
leadership team in place
headed into the February
legislative session,” McLane
wrote in a press release. “I
look forward to working
alongside them and the rest
of my colleagues in the
Republican caucus to restore
some common sense to our
state government.”
Rep. Duane Stark, of
Grants Pass, was chosen to
take over for Jodi Hack as
the Republican whip. Hack,
originally from Pendleton,
recently resigned from
the Legislature to become
CEO of the Oregon Home
Builders Association.
Three assistant leaders
were also appointed by
McLane, including Sherrie
Sprenger of Scio, Carl
Wilson of Grants Pass and
Cliff Bentz of Ontario.
Baker City tables
nuisance-property
ordinance
BAKER CITY (AP) —
The Baker City Council
took no action this week on
a proposed ordinance that
would allow the city to seek
court orders blocking access
to problem properties —
including by the owner.
The Baker City Herald
reports the proposal put
forth by the police chief has
generated controversy in the
eastern Oregon city.
The ordinance defines
a chronic disorderly
property as one that has
been the site of multiple
arrests, or violations of the
city’s animal and property
maintenance regulations. If
the court granted an order,
access to the properties
would be cut off from three
months to a year.
Police Chief Wyn Lohner
says the proposal is based
on a nearly identical one
in Springfield, and gives
property owners a chance to
fix problems before courts
are involved.
Opponents told
councilors the ordinance
would target elderly and
disabled residents who have
trouble maintaining their
property.
FR EE TH AN KSG IVIN G M EAL
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offering Thanksgiving m eals
for fam ilies in need.
Please contact the
Faith Center Church office at
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M eals w ill be distributed to
confirm ed recipients Tuesday,
Novem ber 21st from 6-7 pm in
the church foyer.
108 S. M ain St., Pendleton
in Malheur takeover
sentenced to prison
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — A
federal judge sentenced a
man Thursday to a year and
a day in federal
prison for digging
a trench during
last year’s armed
takeover of a
national wildlife
refuge in Oregon.
Duane Ehmer,
47, of Irrigon,
was
found
guilty in March
of
depredation Ehmer
of government
property.
The trial in which three
other men were convicted
came months after occupa-
tion leader Ammon Bundy
and six co-defendants were
found not guilty in a sepa-
rate trial.
Dozens of people occu-
pied the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge from
Jan. 2 to Feb. 11, 2016, in
a protest against federal
control of Western lands
and the imprisonment of
two ranchers.
They were allowed to
come and go for several
weeks as authorities tried
to avoid bloodshed seen
in past standoffs at Waco,
Texas, and Ruby Ridge,
Idaho.
Bundy and other key
figures were arrested in
a Jan. 26, 2016, traffic
stop away from the refuge
that ended with police
fatally shooting occupa-
tion spokesman Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum.
Anxiety gripped the
refuge the next morning,
with a dwindling
number of Bundy
followers fearing
the government
was about to
violently storm
the place. Ehmer,
a
military
veteran, said he
and another man
dug the trench as
a defense.
“I dug that
hole, there’s no doubt
about it; I never denied
that,” Ehmer told the judge
Thursday. “But it was only
to save human life, my
own and the lives of my
friends.”
U.S. District Judge
Anna Brown said Ehmer
was trespassing, so there
was no reasonable excuse
for damaging property that
also contained artifacts
important to the Burns
Paiute Tribe.
Ehmer, who often
dresses patriotically, wore
an American flag blazer to
his sentencing. He told the
judge he has the “utmost
respect” for Native Amer-
icans and would never
knowingly disturb cultur-
ally sensitive artifacts.
Brown later pointed out
that Ehmer never apolo-
gized to the tribe.