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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2,000-pound Oregon pumpkin Deer decoy sting nets wins California weigh-off multiple citations HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A com- mercial pilot from Ore- gon raised a giant pump- kin weighing 2,170 pounds to win a pumpkin-weigh- ing contest in Northern California. Steve Daletas, of Pleas- ant Hill, Oregon, on Mon- day credited a good seed and lots of sunny days since he planted it April 15 hop- ing to win the 45th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California. It is the fourth time Daleta takes top hon- ors at the annual pump- kin-weighing contest. He won $15,190 for the lumpy pumpkin that will be show- cased at Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival this weekend. East Oregonian Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group via AP Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill celebrates his first place win in the 45th annual Safeway World Champi- onship Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Monday in Half Moon Bay, Calif. He says he used a back- hoe to place it on a pickup truck and drove it for 12 hours to California. The world record for largest pumpkin was set in a 2014 weigh-off in Ger- many by Swiss farmer Beni Meier, who grew a 2,323-pound pumpkin. Transportation officials are meeting Tuesday, for the second time this year, about what the ultra-high-speed rail line would look like. No such trains operate in the U.S. The fastest train, Amtrak’s Acela Express, hits maximum speeds of 154 miles per hour but averages of planning a bullet train that could travel between Portland, Oregon, and Van- couver, British Columbia, in about two hours. The Oregonian/Oregon- Live reports that the rail dis- cussion is in its infancy, but the governments hope to make it a reality by 2035. PORTLAND (AP) — Officials in Oregon, Wash- ington and British Columbia are in the very early stages Forecast for Pendleton Area WEDNESDAY Variable clouds, showers; cool Mostly cloudy and remaining cool 54° 40° 56° 35° THURSDAY FRIDAY Plenty of sunshine SATURDAY Abundant sunshine Plenty of sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 60° 38° 66° 37° 59° 32° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 33° 61° 40° 64° 37° 70° 37° OREGON FORECAST 64° 32° ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Seattle 61/47 54/34 62/39 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 56/41 Lewiston 62/40 62/47 Astoria 61/45 Pullman Yakima 61/39 61/43 57/39 Portland Hermiston 64/48 The Dalles 61/40 Salem Corvallis 65/44 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 50/39 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 65/44 54/35 51/39 Ontario 56/42 Caldwell Burns 58° 45° 69° 40° 86° (1980) 26° (1931) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 64/45 Today Wed. N 6-12 NW 7-14 N 4-8 WNW 6-12 Medford Boardman Pendleton 67/43 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 59/31 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 0.07" 0.48" 0.14" 5.63" 7.04" 6.70" about half that speed on its route between Washington D.C. and Boston. According to a report the Washington Department of Transportation released in February, the line could cost $25 billion to more than $40 billion to build. Non-native venomous spider found living in Oregon OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — The types of ven- omous spiders residing in Oregon have doubled. State officials confirm that a brown widow spider — usually found in South Africa, Florida and Southern California — has recently been found living in Ore- gon City, in the northwest- ern part of the state. It’s not clear how it arrived or if there are more. Tom Valente of the Ore- gon Department of Agricul- ture tells The Oregonian/ OregonLive there’s no rea- son to panic, but residents should be cautious. State officials want resi- dents to search their homes and other areas for brown widows. The spiders are brown and have a distinc- tive orange hourglass on the underside of their abdomen. WINDS (in mph) 55/41 53/26 Trace 0.59" 0.25" 7.11" 12.36" 9.19" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 48/38 66/48 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 54/40 65/44 58° 40° 67° 42° 93° (1911) 21° (1916) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 60/42 Olympia 55/36 58/42 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 60/48 Aberdeen State police cited the elder Watts for hunting out- side the tag’s boundaries and hunting from a vehicle and gave the younger Watts a citation for aiding in a wild- life offense. Again, police seized the gun. The offenses in both cases are misdemeanors. State police also reported troopers ran a deer decoy sting Friday in the Ukiah unit. As many as 11 hunters saw that decoy while driv- ing, and multiple hunters got out to shoot but held off. One, however, pulled the trigger from inside a vehi- cle. Oregon State Police did not identify the shooter, but reported troopers cited him for hunting from a vehi- cle and hunting across a highway. BRIEFLY Officials mulling bullet train between Portland, Vancouver TODAY Oregon State Police con- ducting deer poaching stings during the weekend, and cited three Milton-Freewater men and seized two rifles. State police reported troopers set up a decoy deer Saturday off the U.S. Forest Service Road 64 in the Walla Walla hunting unit. Guadalupe Flores Guti- errez, 40, came by at about 5 p.m. while driving a Ford F150 pickup towing a camp trailer, spotted the deer and stopped in the road. He grabbed a rifle and aimed for the target out the pas- senger window, state police reported, and the passenger leaned forward and plugged his ears. Gutierrez leaned over the passenger and fired three rounds. That led police to cite Gutierrez for hunting wild- life from a vehicle, and tak- ing the rifle. The next two citations came at about 6:45 p.m., when a Chevrolet Silverado stopped in the road, and the passenger shot at the fake deer from inside the vehi- cle. State police reported the driver hit the gas after realiz- ing it was a decoy, but troop- ers stopped the pickup a short distance down the road. Michael E. Watts, 68, was the passenger and had a buck tag for the adjacent Wenaha unit, according to state police, and he and the driver, Michael Anthony Watts, admitted they knew they were in the Walla Walla unit. Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last New Oct 16 Oct 24 Oct 31 Nov 7 Oregon already has black widow spiders. Bites from either spider can cause fever and muscle spasms. Valente says brown wid- ows are subtropical and that Oregon’s cold weather will likely kill them. GOP students threatened to sue bar over Kavanaugh event SEATTLE (AP) — A group of Republican college students in Seattle threat- ened to sue a local bar in Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accu- rate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966- 0818. Thank you to the following businesses for supporting Newspapers in Education 7:03 a.m. 6:21 p.m. 7:27 a.m. 7:07 p.m. First AP Photo/Phil Sandlin, File A Brown Widow spider, displaying the famous red hourglass marking under her abdomen. order to host an event cele- brating the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday after a conten- tious nomination battle that culminated with a Capitol Hill hearing where the judge emphatically denied allega- tions of sexual misconduct and acknowledged drinking alcohol while underage. KIRO-TV reports the University of Washington College Republicans threat- ened legal action after the sports-themed Shultzy’s Bar and Grill asked the group to go elsewhere because of the “political nature” of their “Beers 4 Brett” event. Lawyers with the group Freedom X said it would sue if the Republicans were denied service. The bar declined to comment. 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