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COFFEE BREAK 10B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2019 Dinner out is unwelcome gift for couple of restricted diets DEAR ABBY: My companion of many years and I are retired and live a few hours away from some of his family. When one of them plans a visit, she always insists on tak- ing us out for a meal. She doesn’t ask if we would like to eat out but rather “commands” it. Then she insists on paying for the meal. I enjoy cooking and visiting with family during and after meals. I know what our dietary restrictions are, and most restaurant meals do not meet those requirements, which include low sodium, fat and sugar and no gluten. According to my companion, I’m a good cook, and he enjoys everything I make. I know I should say something, but what? I need a suggestion on how to deal with the situation without hurting anyone’s feelings. — THANKS, BUT NO THANKS DEAR T.B.N.T.: This relative may not mean to seem overbearing and may only be trying to be nice. Thank her warmly for wanting to take you to dinner, but tell her no. Explain that because of medical reasons, both of you must strictly limit the sodium, fat, sugar and gluten in your diet, which is why the two of you have decided it is “safer” to eat at home, where you can control what goes into your food. Then invite her to join you because you would love to see her and spend time with her while she’s in town. to cause them a problem, but your circum- stances changed. And if they continue to take out their disappointment by punishing you at work, look for another job. DEAR ABBY: I agreed to pay for a cell- phone for a friend’s daughter while she went to school in the U.S. She was supposed to be here for three years. Well, it is now year four, and she’s planning to stay here after graduation. DEAR How do I tell her that I am ABBY not willing to continue paying for her phone after gradua- tion? — TRIED TO HELP IN TEXAS DEAR TRIED TO HELP: You have sev- eral choices. You can tell her parents, write to her or call her on the cellphone you have so generously underwritten. And after you deliver the message, you should be thanked for your generosity not only by her but also her parents. Cheyenne Thorpe/Oregon Public Broadcasting Thousands of children, students, and citizens from around Portland rallied as a part of the Portland climate strike in effort to fi ght climate change. Scientists: Climate change threatens ‘fate of humanity’ Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — The state- ment, spearheaded by Oregon State University scientists William J Ripple and Christopher Wolf, was published earlier this week in the journal BioScience, 40 years to the day after the fi rst World Climate Confer- ence in Geneva in 1979. They argue that scientists have been warning about climate change ever since, but greenhouse gas emis- sions are still rising. “Climate change has arrived and is accelerating faster than many scientists expected,” Ripple said in a press release. To make the threat of climate change clear, Ripple and Wolf looked at more than just global surface temperature. They mapped tree loss over the globe and in the Amazon. They looked at population growth, fertil- ity rates, and an increase in greenhouse-gas producing DEAR ABBY: My friend of 30 years had knee replacement surgery 15 years ago. She is fully recovered, goes to the gym three days each week and walks three miles on the treadmill. She still has (and gets renewed each doctor visit) her handicap parking card. Whenever we go anywhere and park, she always whips out her card and uses the handicap parking spots, even when there are multiple other spots available. She’s extremely religious, and I cannot understand how she doesn’t realize this is morally wrong. I have spoken to her about it, but she still does it. I am not a perfect person either, but this really bothers me. What do you think? — STYMIED IN THE SOUTH DEAR STYMIED: I think your friend should be ashamed of herself for abusing the privilege. And I also think the doctor who is aiding and abetting her in this fraud is equally at fault. DEAR ABBY: I am in a diffi cult situation. My dear friends and bosses, “Rebecca” and “Caesar,” are selling their home. They had offered to sell it to me and, at the time, I was interested in buying it. Then I did the one thing I never thought I would do. I found love. Because it’s no longer just me, their house won’t work for us. I was honest with my friends. They have been giving me the silent treatment ever since, and it’s causing prob- lems at work. What is a girl to do? — IN LOVE IN THE MIDWEST DEAR IN LOVE: Recognize that Rebecca and Caesar are understandably upset that what they thought would be a quick and easy sale has now become more complicated. Explain to them again that you didn’t mean 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. weather agriculture. Climate change, the authors say in the paper, is “more severe than antici- pated, threatening natural ecosystems and the fate of hu- manity.” But there are steps we can take to mitigate it. The paper outlines a series of policy moves that the people of the world will need to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change: • Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and making a transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon renewable energy. • Reducing the use of short-term pollutants like methane immediately. Those pollutants often warm the planet even more than car- bon dioxide (CO2), but they also leave the atmosphere more quickly than CO2. Cutting them out can help curb warming rapidly. • Protecting and restor- ing the Earth’s ecosystems, which can help curb emis- sions and store carbon. • Switching to a more By Erin Ross AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 45/56 Kennewick 42/56 St. Helens 40/57 40/61 36/59 41/59 38/57 Condon SAT SUN MON TUE Partly cloudy Partly sunny Mostly cloudy and mild Partly sunny Mostly cloudy 60 27 54 26 53 23 Eugene 10 8 7 37/57 59 31 52 33 53 37 9 5 5 La Grande 33 62 41 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 8 10 34 60 38 Comfort Index™ 10 51 33 5 7 7 10 ALMANAC WED. EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Wednesday Low Wednesday High: 95° Low: -9° Wettest: 2.40” 61° 16° 58° 18° 61° 21° PRECIPITATION (inches) Wednesday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 0.00 0.17 7.14 8.42 0.00 0.00 0.39 13.10 13.22 0.00 0.00 0.53 25.85 18.08 HAY INFORMATION SATURDAY Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration 30% WSW at 4 to 8 mph 7.9 0.08 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Thursday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 22% of capacity 31% of capacity 63% of capacity 25% of capacity 27% of capacity 34% of capacity STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Wednesday) 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 OREGON Medford Baker City Newport 753 cfs 1 cfs 12 cfs 53 cfs 78 cfs 28 cfs SUN & MOON FRI. 6:41 a.m. 4:31 p.m. 3:20 p.m. 2:28 a.m. SAT. 6:42 a.m. 4:30 p.m. 3:41 p.m. 3:29 a.m. MOON PHASES Full Nov 12 Last Nov 19 New Nov 26 Silver Lake First Dec 3 nee R d E O M u, k o d u S , s g n Show Listi , Crosswords rts o p S , h c r a e Word S re...? o M & s e z z i Qu Jordan Valley 30/64 Paisley 30/66 29/63 Frenchglen 34/65 Medford City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview SUN. Hi/Lo/W 56/47/r 65/38/pc 60/39/pc 61/49/pc 65/28/pc 55/44/c 58/41/c 58/36/pc 61/39/pc 57/40/c 58/39/pc 61/43/c 64/41/pc 64/37/pc 59/38/pc 57/38/pc 64/31/pc 66/31/pc Hi/Lo/W 58/44/r 63/35/pc 61/34/pc 71/52/pc 64/23/pc 62/45/pc 63/42/pc 59/32/pc 57/31/c 63/41/pc 60/33/c 62/42/pc 59/34/r 60/35/pc 56/29/r 58/32/c 66/28/pc 64/26/s Grand View Arock 27/61 25/63 31/68 Klamath Falls 25/64 Lakeview 22/66 McDermitt Shown is Saturday’s weather. Temperatures are Friday night’s lows and Saturday’s highs. SAT. Diamond 33/63 Fields 37/67 46/61 Boise 34/60 46/72 Brookings 28/62 31/65 29/64 RECREATION FORECAST SATURDAY REGIONAL CITIES On Nov. 8, 1972, a powerful storm hit the Northeast with heavy rain, fl ooding and high winds. In New York City, the fi erce coastal gale drenched the city with a record 5.1 inches of rain. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 45/66 41/62 Grants Pass WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Beaver Marsh Juntura 21/65 32/64 28/61 Roseburg Ontario 25/58 Burns Brothers 45/65 Coos Bay Powers 38/65 Oakridge Huntington 34/62 Bend Elkton 29/58 28/59 Seneca Chiloquin Palm Springs, Calif. Cut Bank, Mont. Mountain Home, Ark. High: 70° Low: 16° Wettest: Trace Florence Council 23/61 38/64 36/65 42/55 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. 30/59 John Day 34/66 Sisters 42/60 50 28 28/59 Baker City Redmond 44/54 Halfway Granite 36/58 Newport 42/55 56 29 32/63 42/66 38/58 Corvallis Enterprise 34/60 33/62 Monument 35/61 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 10 Elgin 32/61 La Grande 40/60 Maupin Comfort Index™ 10 38/56 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 38/56 Hood River 35/59 TIllamook 23 61 32 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Walla Walla 33/57 Vancouver 40/57 42/55 Baker City plant-based diet. More CO2 is emitted in the produc- tion of meat than it is in the production of CO2. It also takes more farmland to grow a hundred calories of meat than it does to grow a hundred calories of plants. Livestock like cows, goats, and sheep also emit meth- ane, a serious greenhouse gas. • Creating a carbon-free economy. • Curbing population growth by making family- planning readily available, and by educating women and advocating for gender equality. Research shows educating women and giv- ing them control over their reproduction is one of the most successful ways to slow population growth. These changes won’t be easy, the warning’s writ- ers acknowledge. But they argue that those changes would improve the quality of life for people around the world. City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla SAT. SUN. Hi/Lo/W 56/41/pc 56/46/r 59/37/pc 67/39/pc 55/44/c 57/43/r 58/33/pc 57/38/pc 59/43/pc 59/47/c 66/47/c 66/39/pc 62/43/c 58/44/c 50/36/pc 59/40/c 61/37/pc 56/45/pc Hi/Lo/W 58/34/sh 57/42/c 57/29/c 69/40/pc 59/46/pc 58/39/r 63/31/pc 61/31/c 60/34/c 61/46/r 69/47/pc 66/34/pc 68/43/pc 62/43/pc 50/27/c 63/41/c 56/30/c 58/35/c Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice Check out our new TV Magazine ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE Cooler Partly sunny 42 28 60 34 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Partly sunny Partly sunny 53 38 62 38 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Partly sunny Some sun 46 29 58 38 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Partly sunny Some sun; pleasant 59 38 63 42 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Partly sunny; mild Partly sunny 61 32 62 41 Y R E EV Y A D I FR BL E LOGO REVERS R - COLO B
