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COFFEE BREAK 8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 Mom in dating game ponders trading attraction for security DEAR ABBY: I’m a 40-year-old mom of two girls who has been single for fi ve years. In that time, I’ve dated a few men, but haven’t found one who fulfi lls my “wish list.” The last man I was interested in seemed like he had possibilities. There was a strong mutual attraction. We spent a lot of time together, went on dates and were physically intimate. However, because of his recent divorce and subsequent emo- tional struggles, it became apparent that we wouldn’t work out in the long term. It was disappointing, but we are still good friends and talk daily. In the meantime, I have begun dating a very nice 48-year-old man with whom I have a lot in common. He’s very successful profes- sionally, and we get along well. He is also very attracted to me. If things continue to go well and it develops into a long-term rela- tionship, I have no doubt he would provide a very comfortable life for my children and me. The problem is, I’m not very attracted to him. He’s a nice, normal-looking man, but if I passed him on the street, I wouldn’t give him a second glance. I continue to see him because it seems we may be compatible, and I enjoy spending time with him, but is it wrong to be disappointed that I don’t feel “fi reworks”? This may seem shallow, but after feeling so much chemistry with a man I was madly attracted to, it’s diffi cult to be in this posi- tion. It’s next to impossible to fi nd someone who possesses every single quality I want, especially because I live in a small town, and I am likely not going to match everything on his list either. How do I break down these barriers that I’m putting in front of him? — NO SPARKS IN OREGON DEAR NO SPARKS: I can’t guarantee this will work, but a giant step in the right direction might be to stop talking every day with the man you are so attracted to. Although he appears to be over you, you do not appear to have him completely out of your system. Until that happens, no one is going to measure up. obsessed with the beach since I was a toddler. I am an empty nester and retired. Soon my husband and I would like to move to Florida for the warmer climate and to ease our ocean-obsessed souls. The problem is, I am heartbroken to leave my mother. She’s getting older, and we are very close. She has given me her blessing, as she knows the winters here make me miserable physically and mentally. The thing is, I will miss her ter- DEAR ribly. We can video chat and ABBY visit often, but I can’t shake my guilt over leaving her. My brother lives close by and will take care of her if she needs anything (she lives independently) and keep her company, and she does have a friend she spends time with also. Am I being unreason- able? Or am I being completely selfi sh? It just feels wrong to leave her. — TORTURED DAUGHTER IN THE SOUTH DEAR TORTURED: Your mother has given you her blessing to move. Take her up on it with a light heart. And during the winter months, invite her to come and stay with you if she wishes. That way you won’t have to feel guilty, and she might enjoy the warmer weather. EO Media Group fi le photo Flint Scott, a Warm Springs tribal member, moves a rack of 5-gallon containers of water earlier this year while working at the distribution center. The water was col- lected during the longest period this year when residents were asked to boil their water before they used it. Warm Springs residents told to boil drinking water ■ For a fifth time this year, Warm Springs Indian Reservation is experiencing water supply problems on the reservation, which is suffering from high levels of poverty and unemployment. In the summer, residents were told to boil their water for two months, forcing people to bath in portable showers and queue to obtain safe drinking water. Warm Springs residents are advised to use boiled or bottled water for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth and prepar- ing food until further notice, according to the latest state- ment. The notice forced the local preschool to send home chil- dren two and under, as well as those not potty-trained. “Due to the boil water notice we cannot safely care for children younger than By Michael Kohn EO Media Group DEAR ABBY: I gave my mom a surprise 90th birthday party. My cousin and his wife and their two adult children and three grandchildren came. I paid $23 a head for a sit-down dinner. Mom was given a scented candle from all of them, but the kicker is my cousin sells them, so it cost them nothing. Is there any way I can tell them how cheap they are without causing a war? — UNFAIR IN THE EAST DEAR UNFAIR: I don’t recommend you broach that subject the way you presented it to me. It would have been better if more thought had been devoted to selecting a gift, but what you paid for the dinner should have no bearing. BEND — Residents of Warm Springs Indian Reser- vation have again been told they must boil water before using it due to loss of pres- sure in the agency water system, the fi fth time this year they have endured a cut in safe drinking water. A loss of water pressure occurred in two places dur- ing repair work on the water system, according to a boil water notice obtained by The Bulletin. The loss of pressure increases the chance that harmful microbes can enter the water, resulting in the public warning. The recurring problem this year highlights serious infrastructure defi ciencies Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DEAR ABBY: I was born in the mountains of western North Carolina, but I have been weather AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 33/49 Kennewick 24/47 St. Helens 27/42 27/44 30/44 31/47 29/46 TUE WED THU FRI Mainly clear and windy Mostly sunny and colder Sunny, but cold Turning sunny and chilly Mostly sunny and chilly 43 12 45 15 50 17 Eugene 1 2 5 28/51 40 21 46 20 49 23 0 3 5 La Grande 15 32 11 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 0 4 1 9 Comfort Index™ 0 28 0 8 41 17 46 25 2 2 4 0 TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Saturday Low Saturday High: 95° Low: -1° Wettest: 3.87” 47° 31° 46° 33° 44° 34° PRECIPITATION (inches) 0.00 0.11 0.51 7.14 8.13 Trace 0.59 1.01 13.10 12.55 0.00 3.17 1.31 25.85 17.16 AGRICULTURAL INFO. HAY INFORMATION TUESDAY Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration 25% NNE at 4 to 8 mph 4.4 0.06 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Sunday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 22% of capacity 29% of capacity 62% of capacity 29% of capacity 25% of capacity 25% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Saturday) Grande Ronde at Troy Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder Burnt River near Unity Umatilla River near Gibbon Minam River at Minam Powder River near Richland On October 28, 1983, a strong earthquake occurred at 10:06 a.m. EDT centered 110 miles northwest of Pocatello, Idaho. It registered 6.9 on the Richter Scale and caused two deaths and extensive damage. SUN & MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset First Nov 4 Full MON. TUE. 7:25 a.m. 5:46 p.m. 7:51 a.m. 6:33 p.m. 7:27 a.m. 5:45 p.m. 9:08 a.m. 7:07 p.m. Nov 12 Last Nov 19 Klamath Falls 26/56 15/41 New Nov 26 McDermitt 16/29 RECREATION FORECAST TUESDAY WED. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 49/29/s 53/32/s Bend 30/8/s 47/21/s Boise 38/15/s 40/21/s Brookings 67/44/s 63/42/s Burns 37/-2/s 42/5/s Coos Bay 55/33/s 59/34/s Corvallis 51/22/s 52/27/s Council 33/9/s 37/15/s Elgin 32/11/s 40/20/s Eugene 51/22/s 53/26/s Hermiston 42/13/s 44/19/s Hood River 42/22/s 47/23/s Imnaha 33/15/s 45/23/s John Day 32/15/s 45/22/s Joseph 27/6/s 37/16/s Kennewick 43/14/s 44/20/s Klamath Falls 41/10/s 48/13/s Lakeview 35/3/s 45/10/s TUE. City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla WED. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 38/21/s 42/26/s 47/21/s 51/25/s 29/9/s 39/18/s 56/23/s 60/26/s 49/31/s 53/35/s 47/21/s 50/26/s 43/11/s 42/15/s 44/13/s 45/20/s 36/14/s 42/20/s 47/30/s 52/30/s 59/33/s 64/35/s 36/6/s 49/16/s 55/23/s 57/29/s 49/22/s 53/26/s 34/17/s 38/22/s 44/17/s 46/22/s 28/9/s 40/17/s 40/19/s 43/26/s Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice VAIL only GIBSON only $ $ Fabulous Fall Sale! 399 S A V E O N G E N U I N E L A - Z - B O Y R E C L I N E R S 22/37 18/31 Lakeview 13/35 Shown is Tuesday’s weather. Temperatures are Monday night’s lows and Tuesday’s highs. TUE. Grand View Arock 15/30 Fields REGIONAL CITIES MOON PHASES 917 cfs 0 cfs 13 cfs 74 cfs 121 cfs 31 cfs Brookings Diamond 16/31 18/32 Medford 46/67 Brookings Burns The Dalles WEATHER HISTORY Frenchglen Paisley 30/61 OREGON High: 64° Low: 21° Wettest: 0.09” Jordan Valley 13/26 14/33 17/38 Boise 21/38 Silver Lake Chiloquin Grants Pass 18/34 13/33 28/55 33/59 Juntura 9/37 11/30 13/33 Roseburg Ontario 24/43 Burns Brothers Beaver Marsh 34/55 Escondido, Calif. Antero Reservoir, Colo. Cape Girardeau, Mo. Huntington 9/29 12/30 Oakridge 13/33 21/38 Seneca 26/47 Coos Bay SATURDAY EXTREMES ALMANAC Saturday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Elkton Council 16/36 14/32 11/32 Bend Powers 15/36 9/29 John Day 16/36 Sisters Florence 36/51 Halfway Granite Baker City Redmond 36/49 Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable. Monument 14/34 24/51 Newport 29/53 37 15 15/32 21/40 29/49 Corvallis Enterprise La Grande 16/28 22/35 Idanha Salem TONIGHT Comfort Index™ Elgin 14/32 9/28 Condon Maupin 6 23/40 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 23/38 Hood River 16/36 TIllamook 16 36 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Walla Walla 24/43 Vancouver 25/44 30/47 Baker City three years old,” according to a letter sent to families by Casandra Moses, manager of the Early Childhood Edu- cation Center. Work over the summer included repair of a broken main line that runs through Shitike Creek, as well as replacement of pressure re- ducing valves throughout the system. While the emergency repair measures restarted the fl ow of clean drinking wa- ter, more work is needed on the reservation water pipes for a long-term solution. The notice is expected to remain in place through Wednesday, according to the statement. Similar to earlier boil water notices, tribal residents are being offered free bottled water from a distribution center on the Warm Springs campus. Water distribution will be available until the boil water notice is lifted. ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE Sunny and frigid Sunny, but colder 14 3 30 6 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Quite cold Sunny and colder 23 10 38 8 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Frigid Very cold 18 2 26 6 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Very cold Mostly sunny 27 6 34 14 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Sunny and colder Mostly sunny 36 599 6 32 11 JOSHUA 2 Motor Power Recliner only $ 799 Hurry in while selection is best! PINNACLE CHAISE ROCKER RECLINER only $ 499 FREE DELIVERY • Free Delivery • In-Store Credit • 70 Store Buying Power • Decorating Assistance FREE SET-UP FREE REMOVAL 1520 ADAMS AVENUE La GRANDE, OREGON 97850 HOURS: Mon. - Fri. 9:30 am-6:30 pm Saturday 9:30 am-5:30 pm Sun. 12 noon-4 pm (541) 963-4144 888-449-2704
