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COFFEE BREAK 8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 Talk of previous relationship Police: All 7 killed in Hawaii throws water on current flame tour helicopter crash DEAR ABBY: I’m a widower who was very lot more a month on pet food than the cost of my meal. I don’t think my sister should have happily married. I have decided to re-enter made an issue of it. What do you think? the dating game. I met a very nice widow, — IRRITATED IN NORTH CAROLINA and we connected. As I was lonely, it made a DEAR IRRITATED: I agree with you. You big change for the better in my life. The lady were an invited guest and, as well-meaning I matched up with is a wonderful, caring as your sister may have been, she should person, and we enjoy being together doing have stayed out of it. I hope you will overlook what dating folks do. We’re thankful to have her poor manners. found each other. She had met a man she DEAR ABBY: This past enjoyed being with some DEAR weekend I was walking at the years ago, but it was of short ABBY mall and encountered a gentle- duration because he died. man in a wheelchair. I was She told me they had a nice, walking down a long, gradu- but platonic relationship. ated slope as he was coming up. I offered to My problem is how often she speaks about him. Something reminds her of him, and she assist him, and he politely declined. My question is, what is the proper thing wants to talk about it. I can understand that to do when offering to assist? Is it rude, and he might come up once in a while, but last is someone offended when offered a helping month she mentioned him a dozen times. I don’t think she does it to make me jealous, but hand? — JUST TRYING TO HELP I fi nd it annoying. DEAR JUST TRYING: I don’t think it is I tried a few times subtly suggesting it would be better if she didn’t mention him. I’m ever offensive to OFFER a helping hand. not sure she understands it could undermine What can be counterproductive is when a good Samaritan does something without fi rst our relationship. What to do? — WORRIED WIDOWER ASKING — such as grabbing the arm of a IN NEW ENGLAND sightless person and attempting to help the DEAR WIDOWER: Address this with your individual across a street — which can be not only frightening but possibly unnecessary. lady friend as frankly as you have to me. If she values the relationship she has with DEAR ABBY: When a person is thoughtful you, she will stop “raising the dead” in enough to take a dish of food — a lunch-type conversation. dish or dessert — to the offi ce, and brings DEAR ABBY: My sister did something that metal forks to eat the food with, shouldn’t the people partaking of the “gift” return the uten- really bothered me. My niece (her daughter) sils so the person who brought them can take took us to a restaurant she had heard was really good. In this restaurant, you order and them home? Must I put up a sign at the table asking that all utensils be returned to me? pay for your meal fi rst. My niece paid for all What’s the best way to handle this? It’s really the meals, and we sat down at our table to a problem in some offi ce situations. await our food. — WONDERING My niece had to leave the table momen- IN THE SOUTH tarily before our order was ready. While she DEAR WONDERING: One would think was gone, my sister said I should reimburse that if someone brings metal utensils to a her daughter because she couldn’t afford to gathering that the recipients would have pay for all the meals. enough common sense to ask if the giver I have never mooched off anyone in my wanted them returned. Because your co- life. The $10 my niece spent is the only time I workers don’t seem to have common sense, can remember anyone buying me dinner in the next time you bring food to the offi ce to my adult life other than on my birthday. My be shared, make the announcement or bring niece has a job that I know for a fact pays at plastic utensils with you. That should solve least three times as much as mine does. She your dilemma. has several pets, and I’m sure she spends a weather The Associated Press HONOLULU — Tour he- licopter operations in Hawaii have come under increased scrutiny after a deadly crash late lastww week, one of sev- eral recent accidents in the state, with a congressman calling the trips unsafe and lacking proper oversight. There were no survivors of a Thursday tour helicop- ter crash that killed three minors and four adults, of- fi cials confi rmed Saturday. The helicopter that was set to tour the rugged Na Pali Coast, the picturesque and remote northern shoreline of Kauai that was featured in the fi lm “Ju- rassic Park,” crashed on a mountaintop Thursday. The remains of six people were recovered Friday and the seventh is still miss- ing. Kauai police confi rmed there were no survivors based in part on the nature of the crash and impact damage, offi cials said in a statement. Recovery efforts were suspended Saturday afternoon. There were six people from two different families and a pilot on the fl ight. U.S. Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii cited fatal accidents over the years, blaming the Federal Aviation Admin- istration for not taking National Transportation Safety Board safety im- provement efforts seriously and the industry for not regulating itself. “Tour helicopter and small aircraft operations are not safe, and innocent lives are paying the price,” said Case, a Democrat. 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AJ Carr has appeared in “Chicago P.D.,” “This Is Us,” and “All American.” “She did so much. She paid for us to leave Madison because she believed in him,” Dorecia Carr said. “So much happened because of her. This is a huge loss.” Madison Metropolitan School District spokesman Tim LeMonds confi rmed that Jocelyn Gannon was an eighth grader attending Hamilton Middle School. “Our community has lost a wonderful young person,” the district said in a letter sent Saturday to students. Dorecia Carr said Gan- non’s husband and son were not on Thursday’s fl ight and are still in Hawaii. The four other passen- gers, including two girls who were 10 and 13 years old, are believed to be from Switzerland, police said, but their identities have not yet been released. Autopsies are still pending. The helicopter com- pany, identifi ed as Safari Helicopters, contacted the Coast Guard on Thursday evening after the tour did not return to the airport as scheduled. A search began but steep terrain, low vis- ibility, choppy seas and rain complicated the search. “In our Hawaii alone, the industry, while stridently arguing that it is safe and sensitive to neighborhoods, has in fact ignored any sensible safety improve- ments, instead dramatically increasing in recent years its volume of fl ights, at all times of day and night, in seemingly all weather over more residential neighbor- hoods and to more risky and remote locations, at lower altitudes, while completely failing to address ground safety and community disruption concerns.” The FAA, however, said it conducts regular surveil- lance on all Hawaii air tour operators and ensures companies address any is- sues, agency spokesman Ian Gregor said in an email. He said the FAA does not have concerns about the industry statewide. Police on Kauai have preliminary identifi cations for three of the seven people aboard Thursday’s helicop- ter tour that crashed in a remote part of Hawaii. In a statement Saturday, police said the fl ight mani- fest listed the pilot as Paul Matero, 69, of Wailua, Ha- waii. Two passengers were named as 47-year-old Amy Gannon and 13-year-old Jocelyn Gannon of Wiscon- sin. Amy Gannon’s friend Dorecia Carr said Gannon’s death would rattle the city of Madison. “She is very important, I mean she owns a huge business in Madison that helps so many people,” Carr said. “The city is going to be really shaken.” Amy Gannon co-founded By Caleb Jones • Free Delivery • In-Store Credit • 70 Store Buying Power • Decorating Assistance 1520 ADAMS AVENUE La GRANDE, OREGON 97850 29 34 29 BROWNLEE RES. Showers around Cloudy 34 32 37 30 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Snow, 1-2” Showers around 28 24 36 32 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR A shower Cloudy 37 34 49 45 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Cloudy Showers around 36 Power Recliner $ 20 MT. 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