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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY SATURDAY Mostly cloudy with a few showers Mostly cloudy with a shower 58° 45° 66° 51° SUNDAY Rather cloudy with showers Sun through high clouds PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 55° 38° 67° 52° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 69° 51° 60° 44° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE LOW 56° 59° 79° (1960) 41° 38° 24° (1896) 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 Trace Trace 0.18" 3.71" 6.27" 4.14" Corvallis 58/47 HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday Yesterday Normals Records LOW 57° 62° 81° (1944) 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 48 38 40 50 34 40 47 43 44 43 41 42 41 48 49 49 43 41 45 52 35 50 34 38 50 48 39 W r sh r r sh sh r sh sh sh sh sh sh r r r sh sh sh r r r sh sh r sh sh Hi 61 64 58 59 56 59 59 64 69 62 54 62 61 63 58 59 66 66 66 65 62 63 49 61 63 66 63 Lo 49 45 43 49 44 47 48 51 51 51 45 49 49 49 49 49 51 44 51 52 44 50 38 48 51 51 45 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W r c r r c r r c c c r c c r r r c c c r r r r c r c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 51 82 75 53 76 47 52 63 52 81 60 Lo 35 72 53 42 55 38 40 46 45 67 57 W c c pc pc t pc pc t r s c Fri. Hi 50 80 75 59 75 52 66 67 55 79 70 Lo 33 61 54 48 52 33 50 48 36 68 63 W pc c s c pc c s s c s pc (in mph) Today Friday Boardman Pendleton ENE 4-8 N 4-8 NNE 6-12 ENE 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Apr 29 Hi 54 57 56 56 55 53 56 57 60 56 53 55 53 61 53 57 61 57 58 57 58 58 49 52 56 56 58 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. WINDS Klamath Falls 53/41 6:28 a.m. 7:28 p.m. 12:06 a.m. 9:45 a.m. First Full Apr 22 Caldwell 62/45 Medford 61/48 Trace Trace 0.09" 2.38" 4.93" 3.20" SUN AND MOON Apr 15 Bend 56/40 Burns 55/34 PRECIPITATION Apr 8 John Day 56/43 Ontario 61/43 44° 38° 24° (2009) 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 Last New Albany 57/50 Eugene 56/47 TEMPERATURE HIGH 68° 46° Spokane Wenatchee 49/34 54/40 Tacoma Moses 54/47 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 55/41 51/42 53/49 54/46 58/39 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 53/49 56/48 Lewiston 58/44 Astoria 56/46 54/48 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 57/52 Pendleton 53/40 The Dalles 60/44 58/45 59/46 La Grande Salem 55/42 58/50 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH 61° 39° Seattle 55/49 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 64° 49° Today MONDAY Mostly cloudy, a shower; breezy 62° 45° Thursday, April 5, 2018 Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today; breezy. Occasional rain and drizzle tonight. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today with a couple of showers. Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower this morning, then afternoon rain. A shower tonight. A shower tomorrow. Western Washington: Periods of rain today; a passing morning shower, then periods of rain across the south. Cascades: A few showers this morning, then rain. Cloudy tonight with a little rain. www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 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 -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 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 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Snow is forecast to spread across the Upper Midwest today with rain and snow farther south over the mid-Mississippi Valley. As rain soaks the coastal Northwest, more snow will fall on the northern Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 91° in Thermal, Calif. Low -8° in Crane Lake, 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 73 66 49 52 27 69 62 46 67 54 41 41 73 67 45 86 37 29 81 75 48 71 61 87 66 71 Lo 50 48 39 39 14 49 46 29 48 38 30 34 62 37 33 62 16 7 70 68 36 53 36 66 49 55 W c s s pc sn pc sh s s pc sn pc pc pc pc s s sn sh pc pc s c pc pc pc Fri. Hi 77 73 57 64 21 72 63 46 76 61 38 47 84 42 46 87 39 21 80 83 48 80 39 87 67 71 Lo 48 58 42 42 12 55 51 37 63 32 20 27 40 23 24 59 14 7 72 60 25 62 12 66 34 59 Today W pc pc c c sn pc c sh s pc pc c t c c pc s pc c t pc s sn pc r pc 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 65 83 41 38 61 74 46 69 54 49 92 43 47 60 39 66 66 59 66 67 63 55 89 56 70 Lo 44 51 71 28 17 45 61 36 51 26 38 67 24 29 41 13 46 52 41 49 58 56 49 58 42 44 W pc pc pc sn sn pc s pc pc pc pc pc s pc s sf c c c pc pc c r pc pc pc Fri. Hi 62 65 83 36 25 65 79 56 63 29 61 92 40 51 72 21 61 65 47 61 67 66 64 90 67 48 Lo 31 35 73 20 12 35 68 36 22 14 41 70 33 39 56 12 50 57 21 51 60 58 50 60 46 18 W pc t pc pc pc t t c r sn c pc sn sn pc sn r r r sh pc r r pc c i Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Advertising Services: Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 0 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme Northern California: Considerable clouds today. Rain at the coast; a shower in central parts. 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 0 -10s 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 Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com Oregon starts prepping for 2020 Census By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — With the start of the 2020 Census less than two years away, preparations for the decennial count of the nation’s residents have already begun in Oregon. The stakes are high for the Beaver State: Oregon stands to gain a seat in Congress if current population estimates hold. The government uses the census to draw and apportion voting districts, assign Electoral College votes and distribute federal funding. Two key parts of the prep are now underway. First, the state, cities and counties are working on an address-verification process called the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Operation. Local govern- ments and the state are comparing the address infor- mation they have in disparate databases against what the census has, to ensure the Census Bureau’s addresses are as complete as possible. “It’s all a matter of just trying to get the best census count, ultimately,” said Cy Smith, the state’s Geospatial Enterprise Officer, who is leading the address validation efforts for state government. The state has a little more than three months left to finish that part of the census preparations, Smith said. All 36 of Oregon’s coun- ties are participating in the address validation process, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, as are more than 200 Oregon cities. All entities participating, including the state, have to sign a confidentiality agree- ment, according to Smith, because census addresses are protected by Title XIII of the U.S. Code. Second, the Oregon Legislature this year approved funding for a census coordinator located in the Governor’s Office. The temporary employee will coordinate the state’s efforts “to ensure an accu- rate census count” in 2020, according to a legislative budget report. Lawmakers appropriated $230,772 through mid-2019, when the state’s current two-year budget ends, for the position. The position is expected to be renewed for 18 months into the 2019-21 biennium. Typically, the federal government pays for that coordinator, but isn’t for this census, prompting the request in the recently concluded legislative session, according to the Governor’s Office. Oregon is expected to gain a sixth seat in the House of Representatives if estimates hold, according to Election Data Services, a Virginia political consulting firm that analyzes census and political data. Oregon’s population has grown by 8.1 percent since 2010, according to the Census Bureau. Marijuana dispute pits county against state of Oregon By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — Officials in an Oregon county who have tried to restrict commercial marijuana production sued the state in federal court, asserting state laws that made pot legal are pre-empted by federal law that criminalize it. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court esca- lated a long-running battle between the state and the Josephine County Board of Commissioners. The panel says pot farms are a nuisance. The county is in a prime marijuana-pro- ducing region of southern Oregon. Voters in the state legal- ized marijuana with a 2014 ballot measure, prompting a “green rush” as pot entre- preneurs set up shop in the fertile, rainy mountainous area. Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File Plants at Michael Monarch’s marijuana grow, about 100 plants in all, flourish under breathtaking vistas of the Cas- cade and Siskiyou mountains near Ashland in October 2015. Officials in Josephine County who have tried to restrict commercial marijuana growing, are suing the state in federal court, asserting that while pot is legal in Oregon it remains illegal under federal law, which has supremacy. County Commissioner Dan DeYoung has said rural residents, many of them retirees, are fed up with the proliferating farms in areas zoned as rural residential. “The good people are leaving and the marijuana people are staying,” DeYoung said, according to the Daily Courier newspaper. The commission in December tried to ban commercial pot farming on rural residential lots of five acres or less and to drasti- cally reduce the size of some larger grow sites. But the state Land Use Board of Appeals later put the restrictions on hold, saying the county failed to properly notify land owners. Pete Gendron, a mari- juana grower in the county and president of the Oregon SunGrowers’ Guild advo- cacy group, said the growers have invested large sums to start operations and were shocked when the county tried to restrict them. One grower had a letter from the county dating back a year or more stating that cannabis cultivation was farm use and was allowed, Gendron said. “He invested a half-mil- lion dollars in the county,” Gendron said. “He would not have made those investments BEST • Speeds up to 60Mbps • Unlimited data – no data caps SPECTFUM INTEFNET™ Technology... Value... 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