WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
not as warm
Times of clouds
and sun
73° 44°
70° 48°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Cloudy with a
couple of showers
Nice with clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 49°
78° 48°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 50°
78° 46°
PENDLETON
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TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
86°
73°
100° (1934)
51°
49°
31° (1918)
PRECIPITATION
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Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.65"
1.23"
6.07"
9.14"
6.34"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
89°
75°
102° (1934)
55°
50°
37° (1954)
0.00"
0.91"
1.01"
4.96"
6.31"
5.00"
SUN AND MOON
May 29
June 6
John Day
74/43
Ontario
85/54
Bend
69/35
Burns
77/42
Caldwell
83/53
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
76/44
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REGIONAL FORECAST
5:11 a.m.
8:34 p.m.
8:43 p.m.
5:38 a.m.
First
Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly
cloudy today.
June 13 June 20
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
A passing shower in central parts tonight.
Mostly cloudy tomorrow.
Northern California: Partial sunshine today;
a thunderstorm in spots in the interior
mountains.
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Today
Wednesday
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WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Coastal Oregon: Windy today; clouds and
sun, except sunnier in the south. Partly
cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant.
New
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
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
WINDS
Medford
74/45
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
67/41
Eugene
66/40
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
84° 51°
Spokane
Wenatchee
70/43
72/46
Tacoma
Moses
65/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 75/43
68/40
61/46
65/39
75/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
65/44
75/48 Lewiston
78/46
Astoria
75/48
61/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
68/46
Pendleton 71/40
The Dalles 78/46
73/44
72/46
La Grande
Salem
72/42
68/43
Corvallis
68/42
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
80° 53°
Seattle
64/47
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
76° 51°
Today
SATURDAY
Pleasant with
sunshine
70° 47°
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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be released to boost U.S.
hydropower generation.
The cost is higher than
anticipated by the United
States when the treaty was
signed.
“It is estimated that our
constituents overpay this enti-
tlement by 10 times the recip-
rocal benefit,” Republican
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodg-
ers of Washington has said.
Those payments affect
the monthly bills of 6.4 mil-
lion U.S. electric customers
from 80 utilities in the Pacific
Northwest.
British Columbia officials
have said they need a bet-
ter accounting of the benefits
Americans get from the vast
amounts of water stored north
of the border.
“It is imperative that we
ensure that any updated treaty
is beneficial for both the
United States and Canada,”
said Democratic Rep. Peter
DeFazio of Oregon. “I’m
hopeful the negotiations are
completed quickly.”
Environmental
groups
want to ensure conservation
measures are given greater
weight in these talks.
John Osborn, a Spokane
physician who is a member of
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File
This June 3, 2011, file photo shows the Bonneville Dam
on the Columbia River near Cascade Locks, Ore. Talks
are scheduled to begin Tuesday, May 29, 2018, in Wash-
ington, D.C., to modernize the document that coordi-
nates flood control and hydropower generation in the
U.S. and Canada along the Columbia River.
the Columbia River Round-
table group, pointed out
that Memorial Day marked
the Vanport flood’s 70th
anniversary.
The flood wiped out the
city of Vanport, just outside
Portland, killing 15 people
and leaving 18,000 home-
less. It occurred when a com-
bination of heavy winter
snow, warm temperatures,
and spring rainfall sent tor-
rents down the river, breaking
through a railroad embank-
ment serving as a levee.
Osborn said preventing
tragedies like the Vanport
flood was a major impetus for
the original Columbia River
Treaty
The governments of the
United States and Canada
used the flood to authorize
construction of three large
storage reservoirs in British
Columbia: Duncan, Mica and
Keenleyside. The treaty also
spurred the construction of
Montana’s Libby Dam. The
new dams forced thousands
of residents from their homes,
and permanently flooded
valleys.
All told, these new dams
doubled the storage capacity
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National Summary: Tropical downpours from Alberto will bring the risk for flash flooding
from Alabama to Tennessee and the southern Appalachians today. Severe weather will
threaten the northern and central Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Thermal, Calif.
Low 23° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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
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Louisville
86
Memphis
82
Miami
83
Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
93
Nashville
79
New Orleans
91
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
90
Omaha
90
Philadelphia
86
Phoenix
103
Portland, ME
83
Providence
85
Raleigh
82
Rapid City
66
Reno
86
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
85
Salt Lake City
77
San Diego
69
San Francisco
73
Seattle
64
Tucson
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Washington, DC 83
Wichita
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of the river basin — and dra-
matically reduced the river’s
natural spring flows.
Meanwhile, Native Amer-
ican tribes in both coun-
tries would like the heavily
dammed Columbia to flow
more like a natural river, with
additional water releases in
dry years to aid struggling
salmon and steelhead runs.
Tribes have also said new
negotiations might produce
agreement on reintroducing
extinct salmon runs above
Grand Coulee Dam in Wash-
ington state.
“The U.S. government
has routinely adopted pol-
icies and made decisions
which were destructive to the
health of the Columbia,” said
Michael Marchand, chairman
of the Confederated Tribes
of the Colville Reservation.
He expressed disappointment
that Native American tribes
are excluded from the actual
negotiations.
In British Columbia, res-
idents living along the river
likely will seek more stability
in reservoir levels.
“We need to rethink dam
management to improve river
health and restore salmon
runs while protecting com-
munities,” Osborn said.
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back to match demand
BEND (AP) — Oregon
produced enough recre-
ational cannabis last year to
supply every adult resident
with more than 5 ounces of
legal marijuana.
The Bend Bulletin
reports there were more
than 1 million pounds in
the state’s supply chain.
Data provided by the
Oregon Liquor Control
Commission says only
108,330 pounds of usable
recreational
marijuana
were sold last year at the
retail level, leaving 891,670
pounds in the pipeline to
be stored for later sales or
used in the manufacture of
concentrates and edibles.
With more cannabis
being grown than con-
sumed, growers have
dropped wholesale prices
and some are scaling back
production or getting out of
the market.
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June 2018 in a report for
state lawmakers.
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SUPERFAN: Players like his encouragement
Continued from 1A
he got on clearance about 10
years ago. Next to the chair,
he places a cooler containing
Gatorade and black licorice.
His uniform is a Pendleton
softball shirt, cargo shorts,
sandals and a PHS hat.
When the game gets
going, so does Rohde. Hap-
pily for the other fans,
Rohde’s voice doesn’t rip
into the ballpark like a
chainsaw biting into wood.
It’s more of a soothing, sup-
portive refrain.
The players hear him
from the field and say they
like Rohde’s relentless
encouragement.
“I love it,” said Aspen
Garton, who plays second
base. “He makes me laugh
out there. He’s got a good
attitude.”
Rohde said he takes pains
not to say anything negative.
“I will absolutely not crit-
icize the umpires,” Rohde
said.
Richards loves having
Rohde on their side.
“I enjoy having him in the
stands,” she said. “He moti-
vates me. He’s definitely a
positive. I work to block out
just about everything else,
but I don’t block him out.”
Oddly, Rohde, who
played baseball at Pend-
leton High School, hasn’t
always liked softball. When
granddaughters
Reeghan
and Raylee Lehnert started
playing Little League soft-
ball, however, he went to the
games to fulfill his grandfa-
therly duty. Slowly the game
took hold.
“I ended up getting
hooked on softball,” he said.
“It’s much faster than base-
ball. You don’t have time to
get up and go to the bath-
room. I can’t believe what
good athletes these girls
are.”
Rohde doesn’t have work
to prevent him from attend-
ing games. The farmer-
turned-nurse is retired now
and finds time to attend not
only PHS games, but some-
times college games played
by softball teams with for-
mer Pendleton players on
the roster.
If Pendleton wins Tues-
day’s playoff game at Steve
Cary Field, Rohde will head
for the state championship
game in Corvallis. If that
happens, he’ll have to leave
his chair in the trunk of his
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TREATY: Dams doubled storage capacity
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orange Volkswagen bug.
“They don’t allow lawn
chairs,” Rohde said.
The superfan said he
believes the Lady Bucks
could pull off another cham-
pionship victory. The key is
whether they can turn on the
tap and let the hits flow. The
last several games, they hav-
en’t hit to their capability,
he said. If they start hitting,
though, watch out.
“Hitting is their strength,”
he said. “They’re the best
hitting team. They have
power galore.”
Whatever
happens,
Rohde will be there in the
stands cheering his team.
Play ball.
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