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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Mostly sunny; breezy in the p.m. Partly sunny and pleasant 78° 50° 74° 47° FRIDAY SATURDAY Pleasant with clouds and sun Mostly cloudy with a few showers PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 77° 55° 68° 56° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 80° 52° 82° 52° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 80° 77° 99° (1940) 39° 52° 32° (1893) 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" 0.26" 0.63" 6.33" 10.10" 7.14" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 83° 78° 104° (1940) 47° 53° 41° (1956) 0.00" 0.04" 0.29" 5.00" 6.55" 5.40" SUN AND MOON Full June 13 June 20 June 27 5:05 a.m. 8:45 p.m. 5:17 a.m. 8:44 p.m. Last July 6 John Day 80/44 Ontario 94/57 Bend 74/40 Burns 83/41 Caldwell 92/56 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 64 82 74 64 83 77 68 75 82 80 80 78 73 80 61 65 94 83 78 67 76 69 72 73 66 79 74 Lo 51 43 40 50 41 42 45 47 52 44 41 45 41 51 49 51 57 50 50 52 39 49 45 39 50 53 44 W c pc s pc pc pc r s s pc s pc pc s c c pc s s sh s r sh s r s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. Hi 63 71 71 69 72 66 71 71 80 69 78 69 66 79 61 65 79 78 74 69 74 70 68 65 67 75 75 Lo 50 41 40 52 43 40 47 44 52 41 42 41 37 52 49 52 54 47 47 52 40 50 46 35 50 51 44 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc pc pc s pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc s pc s s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 82 86 75 71 69 67 64 76 82 66 76 Lo 62 78 63 55 58 46 51 61 67 51 66 W t r t pc t pc pc t pc c c Thu. Hi 90 86 82 71 71 64 70 76 83 67 74 Lo 67 79 62 52 59 44 55 61 62 53 67 W s sh s sh t pc pc t pc s pc WINDS Medford 80/51 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today New First Albany 69/47 Eugene 68/45 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 75° 59° Spokane Wenatchee 72/45 72/51 Tacoma Moses 65/49 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 78/49 73/45 61/52 64/47 74/44 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 65/50 79/53 Lewiston 84/51 Astoria 81/53 64/51 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 67/52 Pendleton 77/42 The Dalles 82/52 78/50 73/53 La Grande Salem 78/45 69/49 Corvallis 68/47 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 81° 60° Seattle 66/52 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 83° 56° Today SUNDAY Mostly cloudy with a few showers 78° 51° Wednesday, June 13, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 80/41 REGIONAL FORECAST — 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 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Eastern Washington: Showers near the Idaho border today; clouds and sun in north, central sections and mountains. Cascades: Clouds breaking in central parts today; mostly cloudy across the north. Sunshine in the south. Northern California: Partly sunny at the coast today; sunny elsewhere. Thursday SW 6-12 W 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: A shower today. Areas of low clouds early; otherwise, mostly sunny in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to partly cloudy today; however, some clouds in central parts; hot in the south. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today. A little rain; only in the morning across the south. Today WSW 10-20 W 8-16 2 5 9 2 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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 Circulation Manager: 541-966-082 Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 5 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 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. 9 -10s SALEM — The state’s Department of Human Ser- vices has made little progress on filling nearly 300 vacant positions in its child welfare division. In the wake of a criti- cal audit, Gov. Kate Brown asked lawmakers in Febru- ary to fund 186 new jobs in the division in an ostensi- ble effort to reduce employee workloads and burnout. The agency has filled just 18 of those new positions. Seven positions are in the interview process. But as of June 1, DHS also had an additional 131 vacan- cies in the division from nor- mal attrition. The agency was unable to provide a break- down of that number by types of position on Tuesday, so it’s unclear how many of those positions are caseworkers or other types of workers in the child welfare division. DHS says the child welfare division has authorization for 2,922 positions. The num- ber of vacancies “changes daily based on hiring and sep- arations from the agency,” spokeswoman Christy Sina- tra wrote in an email to the EO/Pamplin Capital Bureau. Agency officials say they plan to hire the new employ- ees requested by the governor in stages through January of 2019. Brown requested $14.5 million in state funding after a secretary of state audit, released Jan. 31, found the child welfare division suffers from a severe staff shortage and high burnout and turn- over among its workers. The Legislature approved $13.3 million from the state’s general fund, and increased the amount of federal funds the state is allowed to spend for the purpose by $4.5 mil- lion in order to fund the positions. Brown, who is up for reelection in November, asked for the new positions Feb. 22, about two weeks after her GOP opponent, Rep. Knute Buehler of Bend, pro- posed $50 million in new funding to “stabilize” the fos- ter care system on the open- ing day of the short legis- lative session. That did not materialize. The new positions cre- ated by the Legislature not only include caseworkers and aides, but also supervi- sors and human resources workers to speed up the hir- ing process. Agency officials say it will take some time before new hires can relieve current workers’ workload. Andy Cripe /The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP A Corvallis Police Department vehicle at the Corvallis Cannabis Club on Tuesday in Corvallis. flowing across state lines. Williams was the first U.S. attorney to publicly outline his strategy for federal marijuana enforcement after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back Obama-era protections for states with legal pot. Ore- gon is one of about 30 states that have legalized marijuana in some form, creating a two- tier enforcement system at the state and federal levels. The current case began as flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low 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 96 86 77 85 85 84 91 76 86 85 81 82 95 92 83 102 64 79 87 94 86 90 82 107 90 85 Lo 72 69 67 65 57 68 55 66 75 64 60 61 77 60 60 77 48 59 75 76 58 71 64 82 70 64 W pc t pc pc pc t s sh t t s pc pc pc pc s pc s pc s pc sh pc s t s Thur. 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Hi 85 90 86 77 82 90 88 82 92 93 83 107 75 79 90 94 92 92 88 94 74 70 67 102 84 96 Lo 66 74 76 61 67 70 75 61 70 74 62 83 52 57 65 59 59 54 71 64 66 55 52 77 64 74 W c pc t pc pc c pc s s t s s pc s pc s s s pc s pc pc pc s s s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Regional Publisher and Revenue Director: Christopher Rush 541-278-2669 • crush@eomediagroup.com 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 moted to other positions — leaving an average net gain of two workers in that position every month. State Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, a vocal advo- cate for improving the state’s child welfare system, says it’s important for the agency to develop a culture of account- ability as well as employee support. “It’s really hard work, and people burn out so quickly,” Gelser said Monday, “And part of that culture change is really taking care of these people so they can do their job well.” Nine charged for marijuana fraud scheme PORTLAND — Ore- gon’s top federal prosecutor has charged nine people with financial and drug crimes in a scheme that involved defrauding banks and using the money to start illegal mar- ijuana grow houses and fund an interstate pot distribution ring, according to court doc- uments filed Tuesday. The case is the first involv- ing marijuana-related charges prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Billy Williams since he issued a memo criticizing Oregon’s pot surplus and called on state regulators to get a better han- dle on the amount of the drug rain 20s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 111° in Needles, Calif. Low 21° in West Yellowstone, Mont. Capital Bureau GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press 10s National Summary: Showers, thunderstorms and locally severe weather will extend from the interior Northeast to the lower Mississippi Valley today. Showers and cool air will invade the Northwest, while storms dot the Southeast. As it works to fill 186 new jobs created by the Legisla- ture, the Department of Human Service’s child welfare division has more than 100 vacancies due to normal attrition. Even if all those vacant positions were filled tomor- row, it’s possible that would not even be enough to meet the agency’s needs. The audit found that as of November 2017, the state would need to hire 769 more field workers to handle the workload. The turnover rate has been high in the past 12 months for mid-level caseworkers, DHS records show. Over the past year, an average of 26 mid-level case- workers were hired every month, while 18 left the agency and six were pro- 0s showers t-storms DHS struggles to fill child welfare jobs By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau -0s a major fraud investigation and grew into a drug probe that stretched into Califor- nia and Illinois, federal pros- ecutors said in a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene. Three of the defen- dants have been arrested and the rest are at large. The money also funded a state-licensed marijuana store in Corvallis, where excess pot was surreptitiously packed, vacuum-sealed and shipped out of state in suitcases and by mail, prosecutors alleged. That store, Corvallis Can- nabis Club, was raided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on Tuesday. No one answered the phone at the store on Tuesday. 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Blaine Cooper of Hum- boldt was sentenced Tues- day to time already served in prison. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy nearly two years ago. He was one of 26 peo- ple initially charged with conspiring to prevent fed- eral employees from doing their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The group seized the bird sanctuary Jan. 2, 2016, and held it for 41 days in a pro- test against the imprison- ment of two ranchers. Fourteen defendants ultimately pleaded guilty to either conspiracy or tres- passing, and another four were convicted by a jury. Sentences ranged from probation to three years in prison. Seven defendants, including occupation lead- ers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, were acquitted in a trial ending in Octo- ber 2016. Charges were dropped against another defendant. Oregon adds nearly 5,000 jobs in May PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s unemployment rate held steady in May as employers added nearly 5,000 jobs. The state Employment Department said Tuesday the jobless rate was 4.1 percent — a level it’s been at or near for well over a year. Strong jobs gains in construction, health care and other industries were partially offset by a weak month for wholesale trade and retail trade. The May gains fol- lowed a month in which Oregon lost jobs. But state economists said Oregon only lost 700 jobs in April, well below the initial esti- mate of nearly 3,000 jobs. Bolstered by con- struction and the lei- sure-and-hospitality indus- try, Oregon’s nonfarm employment has increased by 34,600 jobs, or 1.9 per- cent, over the past year. That’s faster than the national growth rate of 1.6 percent. 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. Train rides, June 16 & 17! What are you doing for Father’s Day? 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