COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, MARCH 30, 2021
Best friend calls the police after man threatens suicide
DEAR ABBY: I am a woman
in my late 30s. “Tim” and I have
been best friends for more than
10 years. Over the last few years,
he has struggled with depression
and addiction, and
I have done my best
to help him.
A few weeks
back, Tim called me
crying and said he
was planning to end
his life. It wasn’t the first time he
has spoken this way, but it was
the first time he described a plan
of action. Because I was alarmed,
I called the police to do a wel-
fare check. They went to Tim’s
home, which is across the country
from mine, and took him to a psy-
chiatric facility for several days.
Now that he’s out, he’s furious
with me for notifying the police
and says I betrayed him. He said
he doesn’t know if we can con-
tinue to be friends.
I feel terrible,
like I perhaps made
a mistake by calling
DEAR
reinforcements, but
ABBY
I was more wor-
ried about the con-
sequences of not
calling. My family is telling me
I should step away from the
friendship altogether, but I can’t
imagine doing that. Please help.
— TAKES FRIENDSHIP
SERIOUSLY
DEAR TAKES: Your family’s
advice to step away seems sen-
sible. You did NOT make a mis-
take by calling to see that Tim
got help after he told you he had
a plan in place to take his own
life. You were trying to help him
and prevent a tragedy, and that’s a
good thing.
Tim is clearly very ill and,
unfortunately, there is little you
can do to fix what’s wrong with
him (which is plenty). If you
know his family, inform them
about what has been going on.
And because he doesn’t know
if he can continue being friends
with you, leave it up to him to
decide.
DEAR ABBY: My brother’s
wife is pregnant, and there is talk
about their moving to the state
where her family lives. There are
only three people in my sister-in-
DEAR NEAR: I’m sure you
mean well, but do not make the
mistake of trying to “sell” your
sister-in-law on staying. It appears
her mind is made up.
If she feels she would be more
comfortable with her own family
as she approaches this milestone,
not much you can say will dis-
suade her. Of course, nothing
prevents you from telling your
brother how you feel, if you hav-
en’t already.
You might also suggest they
consider renting for a year rather
than buying a home right away,
to see how they like it. That way,
once the baby arrives and reality
hits, she may realize she won’t
have the support she may need,
and they may decide to return.
law’s family (one is elderly and
two others work full time) who
may provide her with support
during her transition into moth-
erhood. On the other hand, there
are 10 of us who could help them
emotionally and physically if they
stay here.
My sister-in-law plans on
being a stay-at-home mom, which
I wholeheartedly support. My
brother would move to the state
where her family resides only in
order to appease her. Our family
is closer than her family. I feel we
can provide them with more love
and support than her family. What
can I say or do to show them that
living near our family is the best
decision?
— NEAR IS BETTER
News of the Weird
ifornia, Mexico. The total
wild population now num-
bers more than 300 birds.
A dozen adults and two
chicks died last summer
when a wildfire ravaged
their territory in Big Sur,
along California’s Central
Coast.
The new initiative calls
for releasing four or six
juvenile condors each year
for 20 years throughout
Redwood National Park,
which is about an hour’s
drive from the Oregon
border. Condors can live for
60 years and fly vast dis-
tances, which is why their
range could extend into sev-
eral states.
After 100 years,
California condor could
return to northwest
SAN FRANCISCO—
The endangered California
condor could return to the
Pacific Northwest for the
first time in 100 years.
The U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service plans to allow
the release of captive-bred
giant vultures into Red-
wood National Park as
early as this fall to create a
“nonessential experimental
population” for Califor-
nia’s far north, Oregon and
northwestern Nevada, the
San Francisco Chronicle
reported Wednesday.
The project will be
headed by the Yurok tribe,
which traditionally has
considered the California
condor a sacred animal and
has been working for years
to return the species to the
tribe’s ancestral territory.
“Certainly within a
year we hope to have birds
in the sky,” Tiana Wil-
liams-Claussen, director
of the wildlife department
of the Yurok tribe, told the
Chronicle.
“Not having him here
Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associates Press, File
In this June 21, 2017, photo, a California condor takes flight east of Big Sur,
California. The endangered California condor could return to the Pacif-
ic Northwest for the first time in 100 years. The San Francisco Chronicle
says the u.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to allow the release of cap-
tive-bred giant vultures into Redwood National Park as early as fall 2021.
for 100 years now, we as a
people are wounded without
having that spirit flying in
our skies,” she said.
The California condor
is the largest native North
American bird, with a
wingspan of nearly 10 feet
(3 meters). The scavenger
was once widespread but
had virtually disappeared
by the 1970s because of
poaching, lead poisoning
from eating animals killed
by hunters and destruc-
Part of Wright brothers’
1st airplane on NASA’s
Mars chopper
tion of its habitat.
In the early 1980s, all
22 condors remaining
in the wild were trapped
and brought into a cap-
tive-breeding program that
began releasing the giant
vultures into Southern Cali-
fornia’s Los Padres National
Forest in 1992. That flock
has been expanding its
range while other condors
now occupy parts of Cali-
fornia’s Central Coast, Ari-
zona, Utah and Baja Cal-
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ride to the red planet with
the Perseverance rover,
arriving last month.
Ingenuity will attempt
the first powered, controlled
flight on another planet no
sooner than April 8. It will
mark a “Wright brothers’
moment,” noted Bobby
Braun, director for plane-
tary science at NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.
The Carillon Histor-
ical Park in Dayton, Ohio,
the Wrights’ hometown,
donated the postage-size
piece of muslin from the
plane’s bottom left wing, at
NASA’s request.
The swatch made the
300 million-mile journey
to Mars with the blessing
of the Wright brothers’
great-grandniece and
great-grandnephew, said
park curator Steve Lucht.
“Wilbur and Orville
Wright would be pleased to
know that a little piece of
their 1903 Wright Flyer I,
the machine that launched
the Space Age by barely
one quarter of a mile, is
going to soar into history
again on Mars!” Amanda
Wright Lane and Stephen
Wright said in a statement
CAPE CANAVERAL
— A piece of the Wright
brothers’ first airplane is on
Mars.
NASA’s experimental
Martian helicopter holds
a small swatch of fabric
from the 1903 Wright Flyer,
the space agency revealed
Tuesday. The helicopter,
named Ingenuity, hitched a
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
35/61
Kennewick
31/70
St. Helens
33/68
34/71
33/68
36/68
34/68
Condon
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Clear and cold
Mostly sunny
and warmer
Partly sunny and
mild
Increasing
clouds
Turning cloudy
69 35
70 38
73 35
Eugene
10
10
10
32/65
67 34
67 39
66 38
10
10
10
La Grande
28 62 43
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
9
6
10
26 59 43
Comfort Index™
6
65 40
10
10
10
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 94°
Low: 1°
Wettest: 2.65”
75°
28°
70°
32°
69°
33°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Trace
Month to date
0.14
Normal month to date 0.74
Year to date
1.09
Normal year to date
2.12
0.08
0.54
1.31
5.57
4.08
0.00
1.01
2.00
12.94
7.50
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
25%
SSE at 8 to 16 mph
10.1
0.15
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
14% of capacity
66% of capacity
57% of capacity
78% of capacity
53% of capacity
101% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5440 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 110 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
39 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
650 cfs
Minam River at Minam
281 cfs
Powder River near Richland
262 cfs
Anaheim, Calif.
Gothic, Colo.
Nashville, Tenn.
OREGON
High: 82°
Low: 17°
Wettest: 0.53”
Ontario
Lakeview
Astoria
WEATHER HISTORY
Heavy, wet snow swirled through New
York City on March 30, 1805, as gusty
gales toppled trees. The wind was strong
enough to mobilize wet snow rollers that
grew as large as 2 feet in diameter.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
6:36 a.m. 6:34 a.m.
7:18 p.m. 7:19 p.m.
10:10 p.m. 11:32 p.m.
7:54 a.m. 8:24 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Apr 4
New
Apr 11
First
Apr 19
Full
Apr 26
22/74
27/64
Powers
38/75
Brothers
26/65
Beaver Marsh
22/66
Roseburg
35/75
Burns
24/66
Jordan Valley
24/60
Frenchglen
Paisley
28/68
Diamond
25/63
25/64
25/64
Fields
25/62
Klamath Falls
36/79
22/71
Lakeview
21/65
McDermitt
21/61
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
THU.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
61/42/c 51/37/r
Bend
76/39/s 64/34/s
Boise
64/38/s 73/45/pc
Brookings
63/45/s 57/41/c
Burns
64/29/s 70/34/pc
Coos Bay
66/41/s 52/36/pc
Corvallis
65/40/pc 61/37/pc
Council
55/26/s 63/34/pc
Elgin
61/41/s 65/35/pc
Eugene
65/40/s 63/36/pc
Hermiston
73/39/s 74/41/pc
Hood River
68/39/s 61/40/pc
Imnaha
61/42/s 66/35/pc
John Day
64/36/s 68/39/pc
Joseph
57/42/s 61/34/pc
Kennewick
71/35/s 77/41/pc
Klamath Falls 71/29/s 68/31/pc
Lakeview
65/30/s 65/31/pc
Grand View
Arock
25/62
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
WED.
Boise
31/64
Silver Lake
24/67
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
21/64
34/80
46/63
Ontario
27/66
22/67
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
22/57
34/74
Coos Bay
23/55
31/64
Seneca
30/76
Oakridge
Council
23/62
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
24/57
28/76
39/66
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.
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
40/61
25/61
Baker City
Redmond
33/72
61 45
10
Newport
Halfway
Granite
33/65
36/58
64 34
28/69
35/69
33/67
Corvallis
Enterprise
26/59
28/62
Monument
30/70
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
6
Elgin
23/61
La Grande
31/64
Maupin
Comfort Index™
36/67
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
33/67
Hood River
32/71
TIllamook
23 62 32
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
30/71
Vancouver
33/71
35/64
Baker City
provided by the park.
Orville Wright was on
board for the world’s first
powered, controlled flight
on Dec. 17, 1903, at Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina. The
brothers took turns, making
four flights that day.
A fragment of Wright
Flyer wood and fabric flew
to the moon with Apollo
11’s Neil Armstrong in
1969. A swatch also accom-
panied John Glenn into
orbit aboard space shuttle
Discovery in 1998. Both
astronauts were from Ohio.
NASA’s 4-pound heli-
copter will attempt to rise
10 feet into the extremely
thin Martian air on its first
hop. Up to five increasingly
higher and longer flights are
planned over the course of
a month.
The material is taped to
a cable beneath the helicop-
ter’s solar panel, which is
perched on top like a gradu-
ate’s mortarboard.
For now, Ingenuity
remains attached to the
rover’s belly. A protective
shield dropped away over
the weekend, exposing the
spindly chopper.
— Associated Press
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
67/39/pc
70/36/c
60/43/s
79/42/s
58/42/s
60/36/c
66/37/s
68/36/s
71/47/s
68/41/pc
75/44/s
74/34/s
75/41/s
67/41/pc
60/39/pc
68/40/s
66/39/s
67/50/s
Hi/Lo/W
71/41/pc
58/38/pc
65/33/pc
74/41/pc
50/37/pc
54/34/pc
73/43/pc
75/39/pc
72/40/pc
61/41/pc
63/38/pc
68/31/pc
67/38/pc
61/37/pc
63/36/pc
66/42/pc
67/33/pc
71/42/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Sunny and milder
Sunny and mild
43
33
60
30
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Milder
Plenty of sunshine
50
42
59
33
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Plenty of sunshine
Mostly sunny
42
26
59
36
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and milder
Warmer
57
42
71
48
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Breezy in the p.m.
Warmer
62
32
62
43
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