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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY Mostly cloudy Rather cloudy 49° 35° 53° 31° MONDAY TUESDAY Intervals of clouds and sunshine Partly sunny with a few showers PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 59° 42° 63° 42° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 36° 57° 32° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 50° 55° 72° (2010) 34° 35° 3° (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 0.14" 0.89" 0.66" 3.22" 4.98" 3.17" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 54° 58° 73° (1941) 0.05" 0.29" 0.50" 1.92" 3.97" 2.74" SUN AND MOON Mar 24 Bend 43/23 Full Mar 31 7:04 a.m. 7:03 p.m. 7:30 a.m. 7:26 p.m. Last Apr 8 Caldwell 50/33 Burns 43/22 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 Hi 51 46 43 49 43 41 49 48 56 44 41 44 42 51 49 50 51 58 49 54 47 53 49 40 52 50 59 Lo 39 28 23 37 22 30 34 33 36 30 21 31 31 34 40 38 34 34 35 40 23 38 33 27 39 38 30 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. W c c sf sh c sh sh c c c sh c c sh sh sh r c c c sn sh c c c c c Hi 51 49 46 52 45 42 53 50 57 46 46 47 44 56 50 52 55 59 53 54 50 54 49 42 53 54 60 Lo 35 24 25 38 22 24 31 30 32 28 25 27 26 35 38 38 32 30 31 37 23 35 32 23 36 36 29 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W sh pc c pc c c c c pc pc pc pc c c sh sh c pc c c c pc c c c pc sh WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 40 75 65 39 81 16 48 57 54 86 51 Lo 32 68 50 31 54 1 32 46 38 71 46 Sun. W c pc s sn pc pc sh t pc s s Hi 54 76 75 35 82 23 39 56 52 97 60 Lo 35 68 54 29 54 14 29 43 41 71 51 W pc pc pc sf pc pc sf sh c s c WINDS Medford 51/34 PRECIPITATION Mar 17 John Day 44/30 Ontario 51/34 35° 34° 20° (1930) 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 52/37 Eugene 49/34 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 62° 45° Spokane Wenatchee 49/33 54/35 Tacoma Moses 54/35 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 58/33 44/34 52/40 53/34 59/30 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 52/39 50/38 Lewiston 57/37 Astoria 50/39 51/39 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 54/40 Pendleton 41/30 The Dalles 56/36 49/35 55/36 La Grande Salem 44/31 53/38 Corvallis 52/36 HIGH 62° 41° Seattle 54/41 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 58° 32° Today WEDNESDAY Sunshine and patchy clouds 55° 32° Saturday, March 17, 2018 Klamath Falls 41/21 (in mph) Today Sunday Boardman Pendleton W 7-14 W 7-14 WSW 7-14 WSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a brief shower or two, but dry across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower today; however, rain and drizzle in the upper Treasure Valley and a snow shower near the Cascades. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a shower in spots across the south in the afternoon. www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with a mixture of rain and snow showers. 0 1 1 0 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Northern California: A shower today; snow showers, accumulating 1-2 inches in the interior mountains. 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 1 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme 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. 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. Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 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 Eastern Washington: Cloudy to partly sun- ny today. Partly to mostly cloudy tonight. Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday -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: Rain and thunderstorms today will extend from the Ohio Valley to the Carolina coast and northeastern Texas with a wintry mix over the central Appalachians. Areas of rain and snow will affect the West. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 93° in Zapata, Texas Low -13° in Ely, 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 65 74 46 46 37 78 47 36 75 45 46 41 84 64 47 73 34 40 86 85 45 82 52 60 79 62 Lo 37 55 30 27 25 56 33 16 58 29 27 27 66 35 29 52 21 22 73 67 26 56 35 44 49 46 Sun. 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More details are forthcoming, said OLCC spokesman Mark Pettinger. Until now, inspections of legal cannabis businesses have largely been complaint- driven, Pettinger said. In December, the agency started checking whether businesses were selling marijuana to minors through “minor decoy” stings. Although marijuana became legal under Oregon law in July 2015, OLCC did not start issuing retail licenses for recreational marijuana until October 2016. The OLCC now has a baseline of information in its seed-to-sale Cannabis Tracking System to analyze deviations from the norm and ensure compliance. Random inspections of businesses could be described as audits, Pettinger said — in the sense inspectors will compare what’s in the state’s tracking system to what’s on the shelves. The OLCC says it is working to improve upon problems identified in a recent Oregon Secretary of State audit of the system. In a response to the audit, OLCC officials said the CTS “has identified thousands of discrepancies, small and large, that have led to investigations, administrative charges, and warnings or sanctions.” OLCC Executive Director Steve Marks in November notified licensees of several other upcoming changes in enforcement. Among them: OLCC will do spot checks on businesses to make sure their video security systems were up to snuff and check that businesses weren’t selling amounts over the legal limit to individual customers. “With each passing day OLCC licensees are seeing and hearing about increased OLCC enforcement activity,” Marks wrote in a Nov. 29 bulletin posted on the state’s website. “...Compliance is critically important in building this industry so you need to take action to prepare 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. Accepting New Patients for the increasing likelihood you may be inspected in the field and that your (Cannabis Tracking System) data will be scrutinized.” Additional positions were approved in 2017, so that there are now 23 inspector positions and 21 investigator positions, compared to 11 of each in 2016. Inspectors typically work in the field, whereas investigators typi- cally work on licensing from an office setting. State budget analysts have said it can be difficult to ascertain just how much money is needed to regulate the state’s legal marijuana market — in part because the growth of the industry has been rapid. “The budget environment related to regulation of marijuana continues to be in near constant motion,” wrote budget analysts in the annotated current two-year budget for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s mari- juana program. “Budgeted resources are predicated on an estimated number of licensees, which have so far exceeded expectations at every turn.” The changes on the state level as the marijuana industry matures come amid additional layer of uncer- tainty — as to what extent the federal government will scrutinize states where recre- ational marijuana is legal. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said at an event at Georgetown University earlier this month that federal prosecutors wouldn’t pursue “small” marijuana cases. But Sessions has rescinded more liberal Obama-era guidelines on states where marijuana is legal, and has given federal prosecutors wide latitude on the issue. It’s not yet clear how the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Billy Williams, will proceed. However, Williams has claimed that a significant amount of marijuana leaks out of Oregon across state lines. He convened a group of law enforcement, lawmakers, public health and cannabis business groups to discuss the issue last month. David Bordelon, a manager of Ancient Remedies, a cannabis dispensary in Salem, says the store hasn’t been subject to a random inspection by the OLCC, other than a “minor decoy” operation. skip court hearings East Oregonian PENDLETON — Two locals facing perjury charges in unrelated cases skipped their March court hearings. James Brown Walker of Stanfield failed to show up Friday for a hearing at the Umatilla County Courthouse, Pendleton. The district attorney’s office accused the 73-year-old Walker of committing perjury on April 4, 2017, when he claimed he never owned property or lived in Washington state. Walker made the statement while facing four violations of false application for Oregon fishing permits, according to court documents. The defense later that month argued the court should dismiss the fishing permit case for violating Walker’s right to a speedy trial, court documents show, and Circuit Court Judge Dan Hill agreed. The district attorney’s EOU WE HEAR YOU! LOCAL, INDEPENDENT AUDIOLOGIST Working within the community of Pendleton, our clinic provides a variety of hearing healthcare services including hearing assessments and rehabilitation, education, and counseling. FULL SERVICE CLINIC Our clinic also fi ts and dispenses sophisticated hearing aids and related devices to suit all types of hearing loss and life styles. Renata Anderson is a certifi ed licensed audiologist with over twenty years experience. SERVICE YOU CAN RELY ON! You can trust Renata to provide a complete hearing evaluation and a professional diagnosis of your specifi c hearing loss. Call for an appointment with Renata today and start hearing what you’ve been missing. office asked Hill to vacate the dismissal, but Hill denied that request on April 28. The perjury charge, a class C felony in Oregon, came in June from a grand jury indictment, and Walker pleaded not guilty to the lone count on Aug. 3. Hill recused himself from the case. Walker has been out of jail on a conditional release, and on Feb. 26 he notified the court he wants to represent himself. Circuit Judge Jon Lieuallen was to consider that request Friday morning, but Walker was not in court. The absence resulted in a warrant for his arrest. Likewise, Shawnessy Kay Francis Sullivan, 23, of Milton-Freewater, skipped her March 5 arraignment on one count of perjury. The district attorney’s office accused her of lying under oath on May 22, 2017, in another case. 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