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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Cold with increasing cloudiness Snow and rain 37° 30° 42° 33° SUNDAY MONDAY Cloudy, a shower in the p.m. Today TUESDAY Partly sunny and chilly Chilly with clouds and sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 43° 25° 40° 25° 42° 30° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 35° 39° 32° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 28° 49° 68° (2002) 21° 30° 5° (1894) 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 0.04" 0.66" 0.90" 2.25" 3.53" 2.28" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 35° 50° 71° (1988) Trace 0.51" 0.75" 1.61" 3.26" 2.03" SUN AND MOON Mar 9 Bend 35/26 Burns 28/20 6:45 a.m. 5:33 p.m. 11:08 a.m. 1:09 a.m. New First Mar 17 Caldwell 37/25 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 37 20 26 38 20 21 35 29 32 25 19 24 23 30 38 40 25 30 30 36 25 36 23 23 37 33 25 W sh pc pc pc pc pc pc sf pc sn pc pc sn pc sn s pc pc pc sn pc pc sn sn sn pc pc Hi 47 35 37 48 33 33 47 39 49 34 37 35 32 45 46 48 41 48 42 48 40 49 34 32 46 42 48 Lo 38 22 27 39 19 25 37 32 35 27 19 27 26 32 39 40 23 32 33 39 25 39 23 25 39 35 29 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c sn sn sh sn sn sn sn sn sf sf sn sn c r sh sn sn sn sn sn sn sn sn sn sn c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 35/19 Hi 54 67 58 42 74 13 39 53 48 82 48 Lo 22 63 45 30 53 -2 28 44 25 71 39 Sat. W pc c sh s pc s s r s pc pc Hi 39 71 59 42 77 11 41 54 43 89 56 Lo 19 65 44 30 53 -6 26 40 26 70 40 W s c s s pc pc s r c pc s REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: A few showers in the north today; sunshine in central parts. Clouds and sun in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: A fl urry across the north and in central parts today; not as cold near the Cascades. Western Washington: A little snow today; however, snow and rain at the coast. Mar 24 Today Saturday SW 7-14 SW 7-14 WNW 8-16 W 10-20 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today. A bit of snow in the north, near the Idaho border and in the mountains. Cascades: A fl urry today; periods of snow, accumulating 1-3 inches across the north. 1 2 3 211 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 postal holidays, 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. 2 1 0 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. Northern California: Mostly sunny today; frigid in the interior mountains. Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 45 32 35 48 28 29 43 35 39 31 35 32 29 43 43 47 38 39 37 40 36 43 28 28 39 38 40 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. WINDS Medford 43/30 PRECIPITATION Mar 1 John Day 31/25 Ontario 38/25 17° 30° 13° (1993) 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 43/37 Eugene 43/35 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 48° 32° Spokane Wenatchee 28/23 35/21 Tacoma Moses 38/32 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 35/26 27/22 43/38 38/33 40/25 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 38/36 38/33 Lewiston 39/33 Astoria 36/28 45/37 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 40/36 Pendleton 29/21 The Dalles 39/32 37/30 37/30 La Grande Salem 32/24 43/36 Corvallis 43/36 HIGH 46° 28° Seattle 38/34 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 49° 28° Friday, February 23, 2018 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Rain will soak areas from central Texas to southern Michigan and southwestern New England today. Snow will leave California and Oregon and move east- ward from Utah and northern Arizona to Colorado. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 88° in Venice, Fla. Low -33° in Malta, 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 53 79 47 49 20 80 33 42 81 76 47 58 55 34 51 68 21 23 82 80 57 80 41 52 60 61 Lo 26 62 44 45 8 64 23 38 60 59 30 37 50 14 35 42 1 0 72 67 43 62 30 33 56 42 W s c r r s c c r pc c r r r c r s sn pc sh sh r pc c pc r pc Sat. 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House Speaker Tina Kotek and Senate President Peter Courtney, both Democrats, on Thursday said they had made the request to the Oregon Law Commission. In a joint statement they said the review “will give us an By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau outside perspective on how we can do better.” Earlier this month state Sen. Jeff Kruse said he was resigning after an investigation determined he had harassed women in the Capitol building with prolonged hugging, groping and other unwelcome physical contact. The investigation was one of many in statehouses nationwide following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations against men in power since an October expose of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein by the New York Times. Corrections Pamplin Media Group Gov. Kate Brown wants the Legislature to authorize money to hire an additional 185 Child Welfare workers. to what auditors say is a dire shortage of workers. In order to adequately meet the needs of the thousands of kids in its care, DHS would need to hire about 769 more field staff, auditors said. Although DHS already has the money to hire 184 field positions — that’s the difference between the number of field positions DHS has budgeted for in the 2017-19 biennium and the actual staffing average as reported by state auditors — the governor’s plan would call for 185 separate positions, according to DHS. It’s not yet clear what exactly the agency will do differently to onboard employees expediently, though. A spokeswoman for the governor said that Brown has been working with DHS Director Fariborz Pakseresht and Child Welfare Director Marilyn Jones “to understand which changes would bring the most tangible impact most quickly.” The state allocates about $500 million to the Child Welfare program every year. Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, a Republican whose office oversaw the audit, said in a written statement Thursday that he was “delighted to see appropriate action taken to immediately address the staffing shortage in our foster care system.” The audit, released Jan. 31., was far from the first time that the Child Welfare program has been under scrutiny. Brown commissioned an outside review of child safety in the foster care program amid the fallout from a scandal at a Portland-area foster care provider, Give Us This Day. That review was published in 2016, but auditors found that the agency hadn’t corrected foundational problems identified in that review. Man who died in Iranian prison had strong Oregon ties EUGENE (AP) — Kavous Seyed-Emami, an environ- mentalist whose death this month in a notorious Iranian prison has drawn worldwide media attention, is being mourned by his friends in Eugene, where he earned a doctorate in 1991. Iranian authorities have said that Seyed-Emami committed suicide; critics and his family dismiss that as improbable and are calling for an investigation. Seyed-Emami decided to return to Iran more than 25 years ago. He did so because of how much he cared about 0s showers t-storms Brown wants to beef up DHS SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says she wants to hire 185 more Child Welfare workers at the Depart- ment of Human Services, to the tune of $14.5 million. That’s in addition to 184 budgeted field positions that remain unfilled. The governor announced her plan three weeks after state auditors found DHS’ Child Welfare program was chronically understaffed, among other persistent problems. On any given day, about 7,600 kids are in Oregon’s foster care system. The secretary of state’s audit found that caseloads are three to four times “higher than what is optimal, contrib- uting to staff burnout, increased turnover and difficulty recruiting new workers.” Due in part to high turnover, the state’s caseworkers are also fairly inexperienced. About one-third of case- workers have started within the past 18 months, according to the audit. Brown, a Democrat up for reelec- tion in November, wants to hire 75 social workers, 75 case workers, 25 office support staff and 10 managers. The move would require legislative approval. “I urge our elected representatives to take advantage of this session to make sure that more Oregonian children have access to a brighter future,” Brown said in a prepared statement Thursday. The boost would go part of the way -0s the country’s environment and wildlife, particularly the rare Asiatic cheetah, said longtime friend Mohammad Maleki, a computer engineer at the UO. “He basically gave his life for serving his country,” said Maleki, who became friends with Seyed-Emami in the late 1980s. “He loved Iran, he loved (Iranian) culture. He could have chosen to live outside of Iran and had a very comfortable life either in the U.S. or Canada, but he chose the hard path, to go back to Iran (and) make a difference.” Friends plan to hold a private memorial service for Seyed-Emami, a dual Iranian and Canadian citizen, this weekend on the UO campus. Seyed-Emami, 64, was the founder of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation and a sociology professor at Imam Sadiq University in Tehran, Iran’s capital. He was arrested late last month on suspicion of spying, with Iranian officials saying he used wildlife study as a cover to collect information about Iranian missile bases for the United States and Israel, according to media reports from the Middle East. Friends and family dispute the claims and question the circumstances of Seyed-Emami’s death. Iranian officials say he committed suicide by hanging himself, but his family is calling for more investigation. Kavous Seyed-Emami was born in Tehran on Dec. 24, 1953, and came to the United States for college. He earned a master’s in devel- opment studies from Ohio University. He then moved to Eugene and earned a master’s degree in sociology. 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. 2018 “Rebuilding A Culture of Life” FUNDRAISING BANQUET A special “Thank You” to all of our Event sponsors, including the following: ▪ Emmanuel Enterprises, Inc. (Chet & Amanda Dufault) ▪ Hermiston Veterinary Clinic ▪ Living Faith Church ▪ My Garden Overfloweth (Craig & Teresa Engbretson) ▪ Catholic Daughters ▪ Robert and Vicky Smith ▪ New Hope Community Church ▪ Jim and Susan Purswell ▪ Simmons Agency ▪ Ace Hardware (Randy & Tammy Smith) ▪ Smith Securities ▪ Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church ▪ Plateau Press, Tri-Cities, WA ▪ Dr. Robert & Marge Rolen ▪ Greg’s Sleep Center ▪ Cowboy Church ▪ Northwest Farm Supply ▪ Shelco Electric ▪ Hermiston Drug ▪ Craig & Tammy Kopta ▪ Community Bank/Hermiston ▪ Gordon’s Electric, Inc. ▪ Anonymous Donors Because of the generosity of these individuals and businesses, 100% of the funds raised during the event will be going directly toward TruCare’s services that provide life-affirming choices to our community. Much appreciation for the gracious services provided by Specks Printing, Safeway, The Gathering Place at Bellinger’s, Kim Ayers Catering, Living Faith Church, and the City of Hermiston. A sincere thank you to the volunteers from Oasis Vineyard Church, Faith, Hope and Love Church, New Hope Church, Hermiston High School, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters, Our Lady of Angels Youth Group and the volunteers from TruCare. Additional appreciation of the services provided by Barnett and Moro. To all who attended, we would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt appreciation for your support at the “Rebuilding A Culture of Life” banquet! Thank you for making the evening such a special community event. Each donation enables us to continue bringing hope to those facing pregnancy decisions. TruCare Pregnancy Resource Center 105 SW 2nd St Hermiston, OR 97838 541-567-2393
