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Thursday, March 16, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Dad’s dumpster-diving habit causes his family concern FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE Dear Abby: I have an issue with past its nutritional peak, and they may my father and don’t know where to risk a food-borne illness if it wasn’t turn. Dad is in his early 80s and — stored properly. aside from poor eyesight — he’s in Dear Abby: My 9-year-old good health. I’m concerned because daughter has several friends whom he has developed an unusual habit. He we love and who are good buddies for likes to look through the dumpsters her. However, the rules in their homes behind the grocery store. are different from those at ours. One Initially he told me it was to get old friend in particular, “Sarah,” eats a lot Jeanne produce for compost in his garden. Phillips of junk food and watches more TV But I have learned that he eats some of than we allow. When my daughter Advice the things he finds. I have tried telling asks why she can’t have chips and ice him this is dangerous. He could cut cream after school, or why we watch himself digging through the trash or get food movies only on weekends, I remind her that poisoning. He refuses to listen and insists that good food and exercise make her healthy, and what he is doing is safe. (He is NOT forced with less TV she does better in school. to do this out of economic necessity. He has I’m not interested in critiquing Sarah or enough money to buy groceries.) her family, who are lovely people we really The situation has become critical because like. However, I do want to make the connec- he is now planning to cook something he tion between unhealthy lifestyle choices found in the dumpster for a family gathering. and possible consequences because this is a I told him not to do it. If he does prepare food subject we’ll keep revisiting as my daughter from the trash, I told him he must let people grows up. know where it came from, so they can make I have been trying to say things like, an informed decision about whether to eat it. “Everyone makes their own decisions. This is Abby, please help. — Grossed Out why we do it this way,” but at 9, my daughter Dear Grossed Out: If you can’t convince sees things as pretty black or white. If our your father to disclose to relatives that the way is right, then their way must be wrong. food he’s serving may have come from a I’m totally failing at subtlety. Is there a better dumpster, YOU should alert them to that approach that I could take to talking about this possibility. without invoking comparisons? — Lifestyle P.S. A worldwide trend I heard about Choices In South Dakota recently is something called “freeganism.” Dear Lifestyle Choices: Do not attempt (The term is derived from a cross between to debate this with your 9-year-old. If “free” and “vegan.”) Freegans “rescue” food your daughter argues with you about your from behind markets to share among them- parenting style, tell her that different fami- selves to combat food waste, and in Paris, lies have different standards and that you France, there’s even a restaurant that serves are doing what you think is right for yours. food procured this way for a reduced fee. Period. If she needs more of an explanation, Caveat emptor: People who consume this then fall back on the message you have been food should be aware that the food may be sending her, and in time she will understand. DAYS GONE BY BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 16, 1917 An attempt to grind up dynamite in a sausage grinder almost proved fatal to the fifteen year old son of G.S. Long, Birch creek farmer. Evidently there was a percussion cap connected with the dynamite which caused an explosion. The boy’s face was fearfully burned and it is considered miraculous that he escaped death. According to the story brought in to Pendleton, the boy had found a cache of several sticks of dynamite and, under the impression that if ground it could be used to charge an old gun, had proceeded to grind it in a sausage grinder. When the explosion happened there was only a small amount in the grinder but the remainder in a dish along- side also exploded. Only the fact that most of it was not confined probably saved the boy from more serious injury or death. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 16, 1967 A special woodworking machine, suggested and designed by Umatilla Army Depot personnel, has produced a first-year saving of $8,700 over the device it replaced, according to depot statistics. The electrically powered machine simultaneously cuts five recessed scallops into lengths of lumber which cushion artillery shell propellant charges while in transit. Five thousand board lengths generate from it in an eight-hour shift, compared with only 1,200 boards per shift produced by a spindle box column drill used previously to cut two scallops at a time. The $2,500 cost of fabricating the prototype mechanism by depot machine shop employes was quickly amortized, and drawings of the device have been sent to higher Army head- quarters for possible use at other ammunition depots. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 16, 1992 Pendleton High School cheerleaders travel in style. They cruised in a limousine to the state Class 4A boys basketball tournament in Portland. Woody Clark, owner of Woodpecker Truck in Pendleton, donated the limousine’s use. Cheerleader adviser Margaret Osborne served as chauffeur and chaperone. They cheered on the basketball team on Wednesday and Thursday, and then cheered for Pendleton High wrestlers at their state championship meet. Later that evening, the rally squad cruised Portland in the limousine. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 75th day of 2017. There are 290 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 16, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. On this date: In A.D. 37, Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula. In 1517, the 12th and final session of the Fifth Lateran Council of the Catholic Church took place in Rome, almost five years after the council began. In 1751, James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Virginia. In 1792, Sweden’s King Gustav III was shot and mortally wounded during a masquerade party by a former member of his regi- ment (he died 13 days later). In 1926, rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket at his Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. In 1935, Adolf Hitler decided to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany. In 1945, during World War II, American forces declared they had secured Iwo Jima, although pockets of Japanese resistance remained. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians was carried out by U.S. Army troops; estimates of the death toll vary between 347 and 504. In 1974, the Grand Ole Opry House opened in Nash- ville with a concert attended by President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 91. Country singer Ray Walker (The Jordanaires) is 83. Movie director Bernardo Berto- lucci is 76. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 76. Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 75. Country singer Robin Williams is 70. Actor Erik Estrada is 68. Actor Victor Garber is 68. Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) is 66. Blue- grass musician Tim O’Brien (Hot Rize; Earls of Leicester) is 63. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 63. Rapper-actor Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 58. Actor Judah Friedlander is 48. Rock musician Wolfgang Van Halen is 26. Thought for Today: “Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.” — Henry Miller, American author (1891- 1980). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE