WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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83
77
68
75
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80
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
82
86
75
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Louisville
87
Memphis
87
Miami
85
Milwaukee
78
Minneapolis
80
Nashville
88
New Orleans
90
New York City
79
Oklahoma City
88
Omaha
84
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
110
Portland, ME
75
Providence
73
Raleigh
88
Rapid City
86
Reno
95
Sacramento
98
St. Louis
86
Salt Lake City
97
San Diego
77
San Francisco
74
Seattle
66
Tucson
106
Washington, DC 87
Wichita
85
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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
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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-
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By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
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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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BRIEFLY
Final defendant
sentenced for
refuge takeover
PORTLAND
(AP)
— An Arizona man has
become the final person
sentenced for participating
in the armed takeover of
a wildlife refuge in south-
eastern Oregon.
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.
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