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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Partly sunny and hot Hot with sunshine 102° 68° 96° 64° THURSDAY FRIDAY Sunny, breezy and pleasant Sunny and beautiful PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 84° 56° 84° 57° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 100° 64° 105° 69° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 103° 90° 107° (1929) 63° 60° 40° (1933) 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" 0.35" 6.49" 11.30" 7.93" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 102° 90° 106° (2003) 59° 60° 46° (1953) 0.00" 0.00" 0.21" 5.10" 6.59" 5.91" SUN AND MOON Aug 4 Aug 11 5:37 a.m. 8:25 p.m. 10:33 p.m. 9:19 a.m. First Full Aug 18 Aug 26 John Day 99/62 Ontario 100/71 Bend 95/56 Caldwell 101/68 Burns 96/54 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 67 100 95 62 96 97 89 99 105 99 93 99 97 99 61 67 100 103 102 90 98 91 98 96 89 102 104 Lo 56 57 56 51 54 58 50 67 69 62 51 61 57 62 54 55 71 65 68 61 53 56 67 54 57 73 63 W c pc s pc pc pc s s s pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc s s s pc pc s pc s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 65 97 91 61 95 92 85 94 100 95 89 94 91 95 60 64 102 99 96 86 93 87 93 91 85 97 97 Lo 57 52 49 51 47 54 51 61 64 58 45 56 53 57 54 56 69 59 64 60 46 55 62 51 57 67 56 W pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s pc pc pc 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 Hi 96 91 84 77 76 76 83 90 98 71 90 Lo 80 82 66 55 56 57 64 72 80 50 80 W s sh s pc t s pc s s s pc Wed. Hi 95 90 84 78 76 80 87 91 99 68 93 Lo 78 81 68 57 53 60 65 72 82 46 82 W s c s pc t s pc s s s s WINDS Medford 99/62 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 89/54 Eugene 89/50 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 88° 53° Spokane Wenatchee 98/67 103/70 Tacoma Moses 83/53 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 104/65 95/60 67/54 82/52 104/63 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 83/55 102/73 Lewiston 104/69 Astoria 102/70 67/56 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 90/61 Pendleton 97/58 The Dalles 105/69 102/68 99/68 La Grande Salem 99/61 91/56 Corvallis 87/53 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 87° 55° Seattle 84/57 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 91° 60° Today SATURDAY Mostly sunny and nice 88° 58° Tuesday, July 31, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 93/51 REGIONAL FORECAST www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ WSW 8-16 W 8-16 1 4 8 8 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 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Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today, except sunnier toward the Cascades. Mainly clear tonight. Cascades: Abundant sunshine today. Mainly clear tonight. Pleasant tomorrow with sunshine. Northern California: Sunny at the coast today. Hot in central areas with a high fi re threat and area of smoke. Wednesday UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today, except sun and areas of low clouds across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Hazy sunshine and hot today; however, sunnier near the Cascades. Western Washington: Sunny to partly cloudy today; however, low clouds at the coast. Today WSW 4-8 W 6-12 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Areas of torrential rain, locally gusty thunderstorms and isolated flood- ing are in store for the eastern third of the nation today. Most areas from the Plains to the Pacific coast will be dry and sunny. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 115° in Needles, Calif. Low 30° in West Yellowstone, Mont. 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 88 85 79 83 91 83 102 81 86 81 80 79 90 85 78 93 82 89 88 92 76 87 81 104 83 87 Lo 67 70 75 73 60 70 71 71 76 68 63 67 70 56 65 74 60 59 76 74 64 75 62 87 65 70 W t t c c pc t pc pc pc t pc r pc s sh t pc pc pc t r pc pc pc t pc Wed. 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Debora Nearman, an employee of Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in her lawsuit filed in April in federal court that the state’s practice of forcing her to pay fees to fund union activity violated her First Amend- ment freedoms on religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. She also said the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, opposes her political and religious views; and even led a campaign against her husband when he ran as a Republican can- didate for the state Legisla- ture. Nearman is a member of a state-wide bargaining unit represented by SEIU but doesn’t belong to the union. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foun- dation, which was involved in both the Supreme Court case and Nearman’s, is han- dling some 200 other cases across the country, includ- ing a class-action lawsuit in California by 30,000 state employees, said Patrick Semmens, the group’s vice president. If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the California case, they stand to be refunded more than $100 million, Semmens estimated. Melissa Unger, execu- tive director of SEIU Local 503 in Oregon, said the union chose to settle Near- man’s lawsuit rather than go through a costly and time-consuming legal battle. “The settlement we entered into last week was about being the best stew- ards of our members’ dues money as possible, period,” Unger said in a statement. The Oregon branch of the nationwide SEIU claims 72,000 members who work in state, local government, nonprofit agencies and higher education. Its spokes- woman, Jill Bakken, said the Supreme Court’s ruling that eliminated obligatory fees has led to a drop in mem- bership “well within our expectations.” “While we’re not sure what the long-term impacts will be yet — the case is still relatively new — we’re very encouraged,” Bakken said. Nearman, whose husband Mike Nearman is a mem- ber of the Oregon House of Representatives, will be refunded $3,000 she paid over two years. A statute of limitations prevented her from recovering earlier pay- ments, Semmens said. The Supreme Court ruling on June 27 involved Illinois state government worker Mark Janus, who argued that everything unions do, including bargaining with the state, is political and employees should not be forced to pay for it. “The Janus case said it violates public employees’ First Amendment rights to be forced to fund a labor union,” Semmens said. “This (Oregon) case takes the precedent and follows it to its logical conclusion.” The fact that SEIU spent $53,260 to oppose Mike Nearman’s candidacy by campaigning against him and distributing fliers that disparaged him “it’s a vivid example of why people fre- quently don’t want to fund a labor union,” Semmens said. Michael Weiss/Center for Whale Research via AP In this photo taken July 24, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia. Orca carries dead calf for week during ‘deep grieving’ SEATTLE (AP) — An endangered orca that spends time in the waters of the Pacific Northwest is still carrying her dead calf one week after it died. Experts with the Whale Museum on San Juan Island have been monitor- ing the 20-year-old whale, known as J35, since her calf died shortly after birth Tuesday. For days now, the whale has been balancing the dead calf on her fore- hand or pushing it the sur- face of the water. Jenny Atkinson, the museum’s executive direc- tor, says the orca was still carrying her dead calf on Monday afternoon. Atkinson says the orca and her pod are going through “a deep grieving process.” The calf was the first in three years to be born to the dwindling popula- tion of endangered south- ern resident killer whales. There are only 75. Portland homeless shelter project already over budget PORTLAND (AP) — A push to open a homeless shelter in downtown Port- land, Oregon, has run into budget issues over the cost of cleaning up the site where it’s planned. Soil at the location beneath the Broadway Bridge is contaminated from nearby railroad tracks and must be covered with a pro- tective cap estimated to cost $170,000, according to city documents. Lisa Marandas, deputy director of Oregon Harbor of Hope, said the develop- er-run nonprofit overseeing the project has blown past its $100,000 budget for site cleanup and spent “in the $600,000 range. “The costs are starting to rise and we’re looking at every avenue we can,” she told Portland’s develop- ment commission at its July Fresh Flowers for all Occasions Gift Items and Home Decor Put a smile on the heart with the power of flowers. HWY 395, HERMISTON 541-567-4305 meeting. Mayor Ted Wheeler said he is aware of the issue. Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle announced in April that he had donated $1.5 million for the proj- ect. A spokesman for Boyle declined to comment Friday, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. Project backers set an aggressive timeline, say- ing the shelter would open this fall. Marandas said they are still hoping to make that 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. Sun/Solar Patio Shades Pergolas · Patio Covers Awnings · Sunrooms Screens & More! Proudly Serving Eastern Oregon With Quality Outdoor Living Products Since 2009 ! Turn Your Outdoor Space into an Oasis! 541-720-0772 FREE No Obligation Estimates! www. mybackyardbydesignor.co Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun 12pm-5am www.cottagefl owersonline.com License #188965 deadline. So far, no work has started to erect structures. 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