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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY FRIDAY Partly sunny and mild Clouds giving way to some sun 60° 48° 61° 37° SATURDAY Mostly cloudy and cooler Mostly sunny and seasonably cool PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 43° 25° 48° 35° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 64° 38° 62° 48° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 53° 44° 67° (1996) 42° 28° -6° (1899) 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" 0.26" 0.28" 1.85" 1.75" 1.66" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW John Day 58/42 Ontario 56/34 Bend 63/42 58° 42° 45° 29° 65° (1965) -13° (1929) Burns 57/29 0.00" 0.14" 0.20" 1.24" 1.71" 1.48" SUN AND MOON Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Feb 15 7:09 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 12:30 a.m. 11:08 a.m. First Full Feb 22 Caldwell 58/35 Hi 53 55 63 69 57 53 57 61 62 58 61 57 55 63 55 60 56 59 60 58 66 58 48 55 56 62 64 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 44 34 42 48 29 41 40 48 48 42 30 42 42 38 43 44 34 49 48 41 38 39 44 40 41 53 41 W pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc c pc pc pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 52 59 64 62 60 57 58 62 64 61 64 60 57 66 52 55 57 64 61 55 66 58 53 57 54 63 63 Lo 41 30 32 44 29 31 39 35 38 35 29 33 31 39 41 42 32 35 37 41 32 39 30 29 39 41 32 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c c pc s pc c pc pc pc pc pc c c pc c pc c pc pc c c c sh pc c pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Hi 35 62 69 40 72 18 32 55 26 80 47 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Lo 11 54 51 27 49 3 19 41 12 67 34 W s s c pc pc c sn t c s s Thu. Hi 39 63 68 45 68 17 32 56 34 83 45 Lo 17 58 51 39 46 12 21 40 18 70 35 W pc pc pc c pc sn pc pc s s c WINDS Medford 63/38 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 Feb 7 Albany 57/39 Eugene 57/40 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 50° 37° Spokane Wenatchee 48/44 53/37 Tacoma Moses 53/45 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 55/42 54/48 51/46 53/44 64/41 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 56/44 62/53 Lewiston 61/49 Astoria 62/50 53/44 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 58/41 Pendleton 53/41 The Dalles 62/48 60/48 62/44 La Grande Salem 57/42 58/39 Corvallis 57/38 HIGH 48° 24° Seattle 52/46 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 53° 32° Today SUNDAY Mostly sunny and chilly 49° 28° Wednesday, February 7, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 61/30 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Mild today with times of clouds and sun. Eastern Washington: Mainly cloudy today. Mostly cloudy tonight; a passing shower in the north. Cascades: Mild today with intervals of clouds and sunshine. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today and tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow. Northern California: Plenty of sunshine to- day. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. 1 www.eastoregonian.com 2 0 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. SUBSCRIPTION RATES East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. 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Today WSW 7-14 WSW 6-12 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s 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: A storm will bring heavy snow and ice to the Northeast states and rain and thunder to the South today. More snow will take shape over the northern Rockies, while much of the West will stay dry and warm. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 90° in Thermal, Calif. Low -37° in Embarrass, Minn. 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 56 62 51 47 38 63 57 38 74 44 20 28 47 51 26 65 -10 10 80 51 28 81 29 70 45 81 Lo 30 36 29 22 27 30 38 23 54 22 2 16 29 34 4 35 -24 -11 67 39 10 60 19 49 22 56 W s r r i c r pc sn c r pc sn pc s sn s pc pc sh r pc c s s c s Thur. 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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: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@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 • Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com 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 or 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 sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com Business Office Manager: Janna Heimgartner 541-966-0822 • jheimgartner@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Lawmakers wrangle DHS Trump administration’s oil drilling plan prompts protests at capitol changes, improvements By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — While many lawmakers say they’re heart- ened by recent leadership changes at the Department of Human Services, there are some differing opinions about how the Legislature can remedy the myriad problems in the state foster care system. State auditors said Jan. 31 that DHS has failed to make progress on chronic prob- lems in the Child Welfare program, including lack of available foster homes and high caseworker turnover. The issues in the foster care program were raised on Monday, the first day of the short legislative session, after state Rep. Knute Buehler, a Bend Republican who is also a candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, called for $50 million in additional funding to implement the audit’s two-dozen recom- mendations. “As leaders and citizens we owe these kids, families and caseworkers so much more than what they’re getting right now,” Buehler told reporters Monday, Feb. 5. However, other lawmakers say that the foster care audit identified longstanding problems at DHS, and that while more money could help, solving those problems also requires systemic changes at DHS that will take time as well as oversight from the Legisla- ture. For example, the audit found that the agency employs 769 fewer case- workers than are needed to meet demand. But state Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, said Feb. 5 that making an effective change means hiring the right people and training them well, both steps that take time. And while lawmakers could move money around in the budget, Gelser said that putting more money into Child Welfare could mean cuts for other important programs. Further, she says that reforming the state’s tax system could, as other tax reform advocates have argued, help pay for the wide variety of state government services that Oregonians want, from public safety, to child welfare, to schools, to roads. “It all comes back to how much money’s in the bank to pay for these things,” Gelser said, noting that recent legislative efforts to reform the state’s tax system to stabilize revenue moved forward in the last session, but still disintegrated. “. . . So now, I look to the people that will want to capitalize on some of these audits to come forward with us, and hold hands with us, to get the tax reform that we need to be able to pay for the services that Oregonians expect and need.” Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton, was skeptical of Buehler’s idea to infuse DHS with $50 million in funding from an increased cigarette tax. Increasing the cigarette tax was unlikely to get political support, she said, and added that the problems at the agency required higher-level changes to the system or agency “infrastructure.” “We could throw, you know, another $100 million at it tomorrow, and it wouldn’t fix the problem overnight, by any means,” Steiner Hayward said. “So it’s a multifaceted problem . . . that’s been a long time in the making, but I think the path toward solving it, at least with the resources we currently have available, is much clearer than it’s ever been.” In the 2017 session, when lawmakers hammered 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. out the two-year budget for the fiscal biennium that ends in June 2019, the budget included $30 million more for the Child Welfare program than initially planned, Steiner Hayward said. Lawmakers used that money to bring back a senior staff position to support caseworkers and upped payments to foster parents, among other things. Senate Republican Leader Jackie Winters, R-Salem, said in an inter- view last week that the Legislature should also look at how to prevent kids from going into foster care where possible. Winters pointed to the state’s relief nursery program as an example — more than 30 community-based relief nurseries in Oregon provide therapy and other supports to parents in need. About 11,000 Oregon kids enter foster care annually. Many lawmakers have said they are confident in new leadership at the agency. Fariborz Pakseresht, the former Oregon Youth Authority director, has led the agency since September, and Marilyn Jones has been at the helm of the Child Welfare program since October. “I think we need to give (Pakseresht) time to right- side the agency,” Winters told the EO/Pamplin Capital Bureau last week. By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — The Trump administration’s plan to drill for oil and gas off the coast of the United States drew protests Tuesday in Congress and on the streets. In Oregon, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the state capitol in Salem and planned to go to a hotel where the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Manage- ment was holding a public meeting, one of a series in coastal states. The protesters heard speakers on the steps of the Capitol denouncing the intent to allow companies to drill off the coast, including Elke Littleleaf, a member of the Warm Springs Indian tribe. “We have to step up and let these people know we want to keep our coastline clean and pure as it should be,” Littleleaf said. A demonstration sched- uled for Monday in Tacoma, Washington was postponed after the venue operator pulled out amid planned protests. Some of the protesters in Salem wore black T-shirts that said “drilling is killing.” In the nation’s capital, senators from coastal states on Tuesday strongly object to the plan, saying it endan- gers the environment and threatens jobs dependent on tourism, recreation and fishing. “Oil and gas development The Place for Lovebirds W ednesday , F ebruary 14 Valentine Dinner Specials Special entine Val Bleu Cheese Topped Sirloin etiz App ers & Fire Roasted Salmon Desserts with Mango Salsa CALL FOR RESERVATIONS 541.278.1100 AP Photo/Andrew Selsky People gather with signs on the Capitol steps in Salem on Tuesday, protesting against a federal proposal that would open up the nation’s coastline, including all of Oregon’s shores, to oil and gas drilling. off the coast of the Northwest does not make sense for our communities,” Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state, said on the Senate floor. She noted that the Pacific Northwest is due for a big earthquake at any time, and urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to drop “this foolish idea.” A parade of other sena- tors then took to the podium in the Senate to denounce the plan. Sen. Sheldon White- house, D-Rhode Island, said he was working to ban drilling off his state’s coast. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., cited the launch on Tuesday of SpaceX’s big new rocket from Cape Canaveral, saying it underscores the danger of having drilling off a coast where rockets are launched. STUDENT OF THE WEEK Seth Wood Senior - Pendleton High School Seth Wood is a Senior at Pendleton High School. Is active in Leadership Class. Was a recipient of the PHS Citizenship Cup as a Freshmen. ASTRA President this year. National Honor Society Club President this year. Is part of the Golf team for 4 years. Is active in many community service projects. Will be serving a two- year mission with his church next fall. Area of future study is medicine. 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