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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Mostly cloudy with a shower An afternoon shower 51° 36° 49° 35° SUNDAY MONDAY Cloudy to partly sunny Mostly cloudy with a shower PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 53° 32° 57° 36° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 55° 36° 56° 39° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 53° 55° 78° (1901) 35° 35° 1° (1906) 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" 0.75" 0.61" 3.08" 4.98" 3.12" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 59° 58° 77° (1940) 0.00" 0.24" 0.47" 1.87" 3.97" 2.71" SUN AND MOON Mar 24 Bend 43/27 Full 7:06 a.m. 7:02 p.m. 7:02 a.m. 6:20 p.m. Last Mar 31 Apr 8 Caldwell 52/34 Burns 42/22 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 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Boardman Pendleton Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy today. A shower; arriving in the afternoon near the Cascades. Western Washington: Clouds and sunshine today; an afternoon shower in spots across the south. Lo 30 64 44 33 53 0 41 49 31 70 40 Lo 38 28 23 37 21 30 34 33 36 30 21 31 30 35 39 39 35 33 35 40 23 38 33 28 40 38 31 W c c c sh c c sh c c c sh c c sh sh sh c c c c c sh c c c c c W c pc pc sh pc c sh c s c r Sat. Hi 38 73 64 37 81 17 44 57 53 86 50 Lo 30 68 50 31 54 0 32 47 39 73 44 W pc pc s c pc pc sh t pc s s Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today; a couple of showers of rain or snow toward the Cascades. Cascades: Cloudy today with snow showers; 1-3 inches will accumulate, leading to slick spots on roads. Northern California: Showers around today; snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the mountains. Today Saturday NW 4-8 WNW 4-8 W 7-14 WSW 7-14 0 1 1 1 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. ©2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com No poaching charge for trapper who shot, killed wolf Umatilla National Forest. The trooper observed and identified Sanders as the individual who set the traps. Eight days later, the trooper returned and found a dead wolf that appeared to have been shot not far from the traps. Sanders later admitted he shot the wolf after he found the animal in his trap, though he insisted he was only attempting to trap bobcats, not wolves. Wolves were removed from the state endangered species list in Eastern Oregon, though it is still illegal to shoot them except in specific cases, such as if a rancher finds a wolf attacking livestock or in defense of human life. Sanders was also using unbranded traps, for which he had a previous violation out of Baker County Justice Court in 2016. Union County District Attorney Kelsie McDaniel said the state did not view the case as an instance of poaching, but rather illegal trapping. Based on the investigation, she said it was clear that Sanders was not out to illegally hunt wolves, but made a bad choice regarding his trapping activ- ities. Sanders should have called ODFW right away, McDaniel said. The incident further demonstrates the fact that the problem with wolves is not going away, McDaniel added. In October 2017, 38-year-old Brian Scott, of Clackamas, shot and killed a wolf in Union County during an elk hunting trip, which he told authorities was charging at him. No charges were filed in that case. “We are seeing more and more incidents of wolf preda- tion and human interaction in Union County,” McDaniel said in a statement. “This issue has long been a challenge for local ranchers, and with the number of wolves in the area more visible, people are engaging in recreation and having dangerous and acci- dental encounters as well.” Rob Klavins, northeast Oregon field coordinator for Oregon Wild, said McDan- iel’s comments were trou- bling, and appeared to frame poaching as a wolf problem rather than a human problem. Klavins, who lives and works in neighboring Wallowa County, also questioned whether the punishment Sanders received was sufficient enough to act as a deterrent in future cases. He said the state needs to get more serious about tackling poaching, especially when it comes to wolves, which he said are often persecuted and misunderstood. MILTON-FREEWATER Cooperative opens BottleDrop Express drop doors and an in-store kiosk available between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day. Customers can sign up for an account, purchase green BottleDrop bags inside the store, then drop them off full of cans and bottles to be sorted by staff who will credit the 10 cent deposits to the customer’s account. Customers will then be able to redeem deposits in their account for cash at any time 0 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme 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 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. 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. SUBSCRIPTION RATES www.eastoregonian.com Milton-Freewater resi- dents may have an easier time redeeming deposits for bottles and cans now that the BottleDrop Express has come to town. Unlike the BottleDrop Redemption Center in Herm- iston, which functions in its own building, the BottleDrop Express will be located inside the Milton-Freewater Safeway, 455 N Columbia St., according to a news release from the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative. The new Milton-Freewater location includes two secure Hi 50 76 61 54 80 18 55 61 52 77 64 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian Hi 50 47 44 49 41 42 50 47 55 44 40 46 43 51 50 50 53 57 49 53 48 52 49 41 52 50 60 UV INDEX TODAY REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today and tonight with a shower in spots. 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 The Union County District Attorney’s Office in northeast Oregon has dismissed poaching charges against a 58-year-old wildlife trapper who shot and killed a juvenile female wolf caught in one of his traps last December. David Sanders Jr., of Elgin, appeared Feb. 26 in Union County Circuit Court where the state agreed to dismiss one count of unlawfully killing a “special game status mammal” stemming from the incident. Sanders did plead guilty to one additional count of using unbranded traps, and was sentenced to 24 months bench probation, 100 hours of community service and a $7,500 fine. Sanders will also have his hunting and trapping license suspended for 36 months, forfeit his firearm and all trapping-related items seized during the investigation, and pay $1,000 to the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife. Sanders declined to comment when contacted by the Capital Press. According to Oregon State Police, a trooper first discovered the trapping site off of Highway 204 west of Elgin on Dec. 10 in the W c c sf sh c c c c c c sh c c sh c c c pc c c sf c pc c c c sh Today Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — By GEORGE PLAVEN EO Media Group Lo 38 28 27 38 22 28 36 35 39 31 23 31 29 35 40 40 32 35 36 40 27 39 33 30 39 37 34 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. WORLD CITIES (in mph) Klamath Falls 40/23 Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 53 47 43 48 42 45 51 48 56 46 40 48 45 51 50 51 52 58 51 53 48 52 51 43 52 52 59 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. 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If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. -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: Snow will fall on the northern Rockies and Plains with rain and storms stretching to the Gulf coast today. Rain and mountain snow will reach from California to Idaho. Snow showers will occur in the Northeast. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 85° in McAllen, Texas Low 0° in Ely, Minn. 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Marion County Circuit Court Judge Vance Day had come to the attention of authorities after allegations he had refused to marry gay couples and had broken gun laws. In 2016, an ethics commission recommended that Day be removed from office. Instead, the court ordered Day suspended for three years. Despite public attention garnered by Day’s actions toward gay people following same-sex marriage legaliza- tion in 2014, the court said his actions weren’t a factor in giving him such a long suspension. Instead, in a unanimous opinion, judges wrote that other charges against him were serious enough to eclipse the issue. AP file photo In this 2015, file photo, Judge Vance Day testi- fies during his judicial misconduct hearing at the Capitol in Salem. “(Day) acted dishonestly and for his own self-ben- efit,” the court wrote in a unanimously-endorsed opinion. The opinion added that Day had knowingly lied, and that his miscon- duct “suggested a character that reflected poorly on his fitness to serve as a judge.” Phil Lemman, a spokesman for the Oregon Judicial Department, said the suspension was the longest in the court’s history. Phone calls and emails to Day’s attorney seeking comment were not immedi- ately returned Thursday. In its ruling, the court only dealt with ethics charges against Day, who also faces related criminal charges. The most serious ethics charges stemmed from alle- gations that Day twice gave a gun to a felon who was in probation through a special court for veterans where Day was a judge. In those incidents, the Oregon Commission on Judi- cial Fitness and Disability said Day had inappropriately singled out a veteran who was on probation through his court, including texting him, then twice allowed him to handle a gun, then lied to the commission during an investigation into the gun handling. Another of the charges stemmed from an incident between Day and a referee at a soccer game in 2012. The commission said Day made a false statement in a letter he submitted as part of an investigation into the incident. GROCERY STORE TOUR! Join Registered Dietitians, Christine Guenther and Melissa Naff, for this interactive tour! We will help you: • Understand food labels • Eat healthy on a budget • Make better choices from aisle to aisle Thursday, March 22nd, 10:00 - 11:30 AM Safeway - Pendleton (Meet at the store in the Produce Section.) 203 SW 20th Ave., Pendleton Space is Limited - Call (541) 278-3235 to register.