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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Mostly sunny Sunshine and hot 94° 62° 98° 66° TUESDAY Sunny and very hot Hot with plenty of sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 101° 66° 98° 64° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 98° 59° 102° 64° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 100° 88° 109° (1930) 63° 58° 40° (1917) 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" 0.00" 0.13" 6.49" 11.30" 7.70" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 104° 89° 108° (2002) 60° 58° 44° (1950) 0.00" 0.00" 0.09" 5.10" 6.59" 5.79" SUN AND MOON July 19 July 27 5:19 a.m. 8:42 p.m. 7:14 a.m. 10:09 p.m. Last New Aug 4 John Day 93/59 Ontario 99/68 Bend 92/58 Burns 92/54 Caldwell 99/65 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 57 52 58 54 54 52 57 61 59 59 57 54 51 68 51 53 68 56 62 66 56 63 59 49 62 66 62 W s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s Hi 75 93 95 67 93 90 96 95 102 96 92 94 92 103 67 68 101 101 98 98 99 99 91 91 96 99 98 Lo 57 56 60 54 55 54 57 64 64 63 56 57 54 68 52 54 70 58 66 65 60 63 62 54 62 68 65 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s s pc s s s s s s t s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 92/57 Hi 87 88 84 82 73 79 84 90 87 62 92 Lo 76 80 68 58 53 63 64 67 74 42 80 W t t s pc t t t s s s pc Sun. Hi 89 88 86 84 76 79 86 88 87 62 91 Lo 77 80 67 61 53 64 64 69 72 40 81 W t t s pc t t t s pc s s REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today; pleas- ant across the north. Partly cloudy tonight. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny today; hot. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny and hot tomorrow. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Mostly sunny and very warm today. Clear tonight. Sunny and very warm tomorrow. Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny elsewhere. Aug 11 — 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’ 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. Today Sunday N 4-8 WNW 6-12 NE 4-8 NNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group Hi 73 90 92 68 92 87 91 91 98 93 92 90 87 102 64 67 99 97 94 92 95 93 88 86 90 96 94 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 102/68 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 91/58 Eugene 91/57 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 103° 63° Spokane Wenatchee 88/59 93/64 Tacoma Moses 85/57 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 95/60 86/53 78/58 87/56 94/62 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 88/60 96/66 Lewiston 97/58 Astoria 95/63 73/57 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 92/66 Pendleton 87/52 The Dalles 98/59 94/62 98/64 La Grande Salem 90/54 93/63 Corvallis 91/57 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 105° 67° Seattle 85/63 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 106° 68° Today WEDNESDAY Sunny and hot 101° 67° Saturday, July 14, 2018 2 5 8 8 5 2 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 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 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 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 -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Storms will affect the interior Southwest and extend from the central Plains to the Great Lakes today. Storms are forecast to dot the Southeast and slice into parts of the northern Plains. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 110° in Thermal, Calif. Low 37° in Leadville, Colo. 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 85 87 83 91 90 90 98 78 88 91 84 90 97 95 89 90 66 90 87 93 92 90 87 101 97 88 Lo 67 73 72 70 60 75 66 67 72 70 71 72 79 63 71 72 52 66 75 77 75 75 72 85 77 69 Sun. W t t s s pc t s pc t pc pc pc s s t t s s c t s t t pc pc pc Hi 88 87 85 92 81 89 99 80 90 89 87 88 99 85 90 90 62 79 88 94 87 89 91 105 97 85 Lo 68 73 74 73 59 73 68 69 73 71 73 73 79 59 72 72 51 55 77 77 74 74 73 87 77 69 Today W t t pc pc pc t s pc s t pc pc s t pc t sh t pc t pc t t pc s pc Hi Louisville 95 Memphis 96 Miami 90 Milwaukee 82 Minneapolis 88 Nashville 95 New Orleans 92 New York City 90 Oklahoma City 93 Omaha 86 Philadelphia 91 Phoenix 106 Portland, ME 72 Providence 81 Raleigh 89 Rapid City 92 Reno 97 Sacramento 96 St. Louis 96 Salt Lake City 89 San Diego 79 San Francisco 74 Seattle 85 Tucson 97 Washington, DC 91 Wichita 92 Lo 77 77 77 69 68 76 76 74 73 72 72 84 62 66 68 60 68 60 77 70 70 60 63 76 74 74 W s t sh t pc s t pc pc pc pc pc c pc s s s s pc s pc pc s pc s s Sun. Hi 91 94 91 84 88 91 93 86 95 90 90 99 75 84 91 68 97 94 91 95 77 75 90 93 92 96 Lo 76 77 76 71 64 76 76 74 74 71 75 83 63 68 72 58 66 60 76 73 70 60 62 76 77 76 W t t pc pc t c pc pc s t pc pc pc pc pc t s s t s pc pc s pc pc s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. 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Brown’s first term By HILLARY BORRUD The Oregonian/OregonLive PORTLAND — The Sat- urday before Thanksgiving 2015, two men showed up unannounced at Gov. Kate Brown’s bungalow in south- east Portland. Nolan Scott Ashby, a rug cleaner from Milwaukie, and Darrell Lynn Snook Sr., a homeless man, had wanted to talk to the gover- nor about homeless veter- ans’ issues. They were dis- appointed but cooperative when a member of Brown’s security detail told them she was unavailable. “I saw her go in the house,” Nolan told The Ore- gonian/OregonLive this week . “We saw her pull up right before we got there.” Though the impromptu visit to Brown’s private res- idence ended without inci- dent, Oregon State Police would open an investiga- tion three weeks later. That’s when troopers were notified that Ashby had “intended to blow up the home,” docu- ments show. The encounter was one of six perceived threat investi- gations opened since Brown took office in February 2015. By comparison, there were eight in the preceding 12 years of her two predeces- sors, Gov. Ted Kulongoski and Gov. John Kitzhaber. In evaluating hostil- ity toward a governor, state police have to differentiate between protected political speech and potentially crim- inal behavior. Troopers also have to contend with individ- uals struggling with mental illness. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live requested information about threat investigations tied to the last three gover- nors in an effort to learn more about the frequency and seri- ousness of such incidents. In May, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that Tyrone Waters should not have been committed to psychi- atric care for six months for the June 2015 death threat he made against Brown. Waters has schizophrenia and his mother — former state Sen. Avel Gordly — has spoken Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian via AP In this 2015 photo, a special unit of the Oregon State Police guards Gov. Kate Brown on a trip to meet with homeowners in Canyon City who lost their homes to the Canyon Creek Complex fire. publicly of his struggles. Records and other infor- mation released by state police showed more anec- dotal accounts of threat assessments than actual files opened. In half the recorded cases involving Brown, the individuals exhibiting hos- tility toward the governor had documented histories of mental illness. One man was in the custody of Ore- gon State Hospital; two oth- ers were inmates at an East- ern Oregon prison. A special unit of the Ore- gon State Police protects the governor. According to spokesman Capt. Timothy R. Fox, the troopers protect- ing Brown believe the rise of social media has fueled an increase in threating speech toward her. However, they’re unable to quantify it because state law prohibits law enforcement from keep- ing records of anyone’s polit- ical views unless it is directly relates to a criminal investi- gation and there is reason to believe the person may be breaking the law. The most disturbing inci- dent report involved Kulon- gowski, who in 2007 had a .50-caliber machine gun pointed at him during a Vet- erans Day parade in Ontario. It was the only threat investi- gation tied to Kulongoski or Kitzhaber involving some- one in close proximity, state police said. The machine gun owner, Tony William Kleve, had mounted the weapon on a pivoting stand in his Jeep Wrangler — custom painted with “Rat Patrol” on the hood and bearing Idaho license plates. After the parade, records show, Kleve parked directly across from a group that included Kulongoski, first lady Mary Oberst and other officials. “The barrel of the gun was pointed directly at the dignitaries,” police wrote. “The gun had an ammo box attached to it which con- tained what appeared to be a linked belt of 50 caliber ammunition loaded into the chamber of the gun.” When a plainclothes trooper approached Kleve and struck up a conversa- tion, Kleve said he was not a veteran, just “interested in guns,” according to the police report. Kleve “used the term ‘hot’” in describing how he pieced together the fully automatic machine gun over the years. The trooper, who had not identified himself to Kleve as law enforcement, called for uniformed officers to ask Kleve to move the Jeep. Although police said Kleve became argumentative, he drove away within 10 minutes. Oregon court records show no charges were filed in incident. It is illegal in Ore- gon for anyone older than 12 to purposefully point a loaded firearm at another per- son, except in self-defense. Troopers in Oregon’s Dig- nitary Protection Unit esti- mated they looked into more than 100 possible threats against Brown without doc- umenting the investigations; they provided no equivalent estimate for Kulongoski and Kitzhaber. Troopers even checked on a journalist who worked for The Oregonian/ OregonLive, after someone else emailed Brown’s office impersonating the reporter. Brown’s state lawyers have cited safety concerns as justification for not releas- ing an advance copy of her calendar to news organiza- tions, though her commu- nications team occasionally shares details about upcom- ing public appearances in press releases. “Releasing the Gover- nor’s future calendar would expose sensitive and per- sonal information such as which residence the Gov- ernor would be staying in overnight” and it would compromise state troopers’ ability to keep the gover- nor safe, Brown’s Govern- ment Accountability Attor- ney Emily Matasar wrote in an email. “A bold statement” In December 2015, state police records show, Snook told his parole officer that Ashby had been planning to blow up the governor’s home. Snook claimed he talked Ashby out of it. The Portland Police Bureau’s bomb squad imme- diately checked the property and found no explosives. Snook later told state police the two had met when Ashby was talking to people and filming with his phone in the area of southeast Port- land where Snook’s van was parked, according to police notes. Ashby asked Snook if he wanted to go to the gov- ernors’ home to talk to her about homeless veter- ans’ issues, to which Snook agreed. Ashby had served in the Oregon Army National Guard. When interviewed by state police, Ashby said he went to Brown’s home primar- ily because he had concerns about her decision to accept Syrian refugees into the state and “wanted to make a bold statement.” When reached by The Oregonian/OregonLive on Wednesday, Ashby said it didn’t seem right for the government to help refugees get housing when there are homeless veterans in Oregon. “My point was, take care of our own,” Ashby said. Ashby told police he never talked to Snook about blowing up Brown’s house or discussed explosives. Snook also told police he did not recall such a conversation, nor did he remember telling his parole officer about it. Snook, meanwhile, claimed he went to Brown’s house about his 1995 rape convic- tion, which he claimed was based on a false accusation. State police closed the case without taking further action. Corrections The July 14 article “Deluxe packages could help cem- etery cover costs” misrepresented the number of hours parks staff spend mowing and weeding Olney Cemetery. Staff spends 40 to 48 hours mowing the lawn and an addi- tional 80 hours per week seasonally weeding the cemetery. WE HEAR YOU! Renata Anderson, MA Pam Wagenaar, Administrative Assistant LOCAL, INDEPENDENT AUDIOLOGIST Working within the community of Pendleton, our clinic provides a variety of hearing healthcare services including hearing assessments and rehabilitation, education, and counseling. 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