WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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Lo
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36
30
21
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34
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33
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30
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
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30
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23
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36
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29
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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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
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Sun.
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54
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82
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Lo
35
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43
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51
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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.
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Cascades: Mostly cloudy today with a
mixture of rain and snow showers.
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Northern California: A shower today; snow
showers, accumulating 1-2 inches in the
interior mountains.
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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
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41
84
64
47
73
34
40
86
85
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82
52
60
79
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30
27
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16
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66
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52
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67
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49
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76
56
55
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83
54
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35
42
82
83
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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
58
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Pot regulators will soon begin spot inspections Perjury defendants
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State regu-
lators will soon start doing
random
inspections
of
cannabis businesses, starting
with retailers, according to
the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission.
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
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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.
Records show the court
also issued a warrant for her
arrest.
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