COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, DECEmBER 30, 2021
Young woman’s temper has siblings on edge
ronment, handle this? We don’t
think our childhoods so terrible,
although we did have some chal-
lenges, and our daddy does have
narcissistic tendencies. He actu-
ally recognizes that and is trying
to improve himself. Sometimes
we feel she makes mountains out
of molehills, but we want to be
sensitive to her pain. I’m con-
cerned she’ll end up controlling
our family gatherings in a nega-
tive way if these flare-ups don’t
stop. What do you think could
be done? — BEFUDDLED BIG
SIS
DEAR BIG SIS: What could
(and should) be done is an inter-
vention by you and your siblings
in which Elise is advised to seek
professional help for her explo-
sive anger issues. If she refuses
DEAR ABBY: I have a
younger sister I love dearly. I
respect and admire her. “Elise”
is intelligent and talented. She is
a minister’s wife and a mother
to small children. Due to some
unfortunate family circum-
stances when she was young,
she has some emotional scars
she’s trying to overcome. Some-
times at family gatherings she’ll
“explode” and lash out at who-
ever triggered her. Her outbursts
usually take us all by surprise.
How do we, as siblings who
have grown up in the same envi-
and her behavior continues, let
her know you support her but
can no longer include her.
DEAR ABBY: My husband’s
personality changes completely
when he drinks, and not for the
better. He brags, repeats him-
self and presents in a way that’s
annoying and embarrassing. His
alcohol personality will never
change — it is who he is. He’s
been like this for the entire 13
years I’ve been with him.
He drinks two to three times
a week, at most, and says I
“overreact” to his personality
change. He tells me I shouldn’t
get so frustrated, but I don’t
want to be around my hus-
band when he drinks. Can you
advise me how to live with him
when he’s drunk? By the way, it
doesn’t take much for him to get
this way — three beers. Could
he be having a reaction to the
alcohol? — FED UP IN SAN
DIEGO
DEAR FED UP: That’s pos-
sible. Some individuals are
more sensitive to alcohol than
others. Whether it takes three
beers or simply sniffing a cork
to get your husband loaded, his
drinking is causing a problem in
your marriage.
It’s time for you to locate a
chapter of Al-Anon (al-anon.org)
and attend some of the meetings.
This organization was created
decades ago to help the friends
and family members of people
who have an alcohol problem —
which your husband definitely
has. You are far from alone in
having this problem, which you
will realize once you get there.
Please don’t wait. Your reac-
tion to his personality change is
understandable.
DEAR ABBY: I have been
having some hard times in
school. I love my teacher, but
I have been getting in trouble
lately. She is also my coach.
What should I do? Should I
take her criticism or drop out of
the sport and band? — HARD
TIMES IN IDAHO
DEAR HARD TIMES: I’m
glad you asked. The mature
thing to do would be to talk to
your teacher and see if you can
mend fences. If you enjoy the
sport and playing with the band,
to do otherwise would only be
further punishing yourself.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Experts pull documents, money from Lee statue time capsule
fully separated, and two
carved artifacts — a
Masonic symbol and a Con-
federate flag said to have
be made from the tree that
grew over Gen. Stonewall
Jackson’s original grave.
Conservators also pulled
coins and Miniè balls, a
type of bullet used in the
Civil War, from the box. A
bomb squad had checked
the capsule Monday, partly
to make sure there was no
live ammunition.
Virginia Gov. Ralph
Northam ordered the enor-
mous equestrian statue of
Lee removed in 2020, amid
the global protest movement
sparked by the police killing
of George Floyd. Litigation
pushed back his plans, and
the statue was not removed
until September, after a
court cleared the way.
Contemporaneous news
accounts from the late 1800s
detailed the placement of
the time capsule in the foun-
dation of the pedestal, and
imaging tests conducted
earlier this year appeared to
confirm its existence. But
a lengthy search during the
September statue removal
came up empty.
Earlier this month,
Northam ordered the ped-
estal removed as well,
and crews working on the
project again started to
search for the artifact. A
time capsule was discovered
two weeks ago, generating
excitement, but hours of
painstaking and ultimately
anti-climactic examination
suggested that artifact was
placed by someone else, per-
haps someone involved with
the construction.
By SARAH RANKIN
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. —
Conservation experts in Vir-
ginia’s capital Tuesday, Dec.
28, pulled books, money,
ammunition, documents and
other artifacts from a time
capsule found in the rem-
nants of a pedestal that once
held a statue of Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The lead conservator for
the Virginia Department of
Historic Resources, Kate
Ridgway, said the measure-
ments and material of the
box, copper, match histor-
ical accounts. As the con-
tents inside were unpacked,
they appeared to match
the description of the 1887
time capsule they had been
looking for.
“It does appear that this
is the box we expected,” she
told reporters.
Records maintained by
the Library of Virginia sug-
gest that dozens of Rich-
mond residents, organi-
zations and businesses
contributed about 60 objects
to the capsule, including
Confederate memorabilia.
The box was discov-
ered and carefully extracted
from the monument site a
day earlier, marking the end
of a long search for the elu-
sive capsule. Ridgway said
the box, which weighed 36
pounds, was found in water
in a little alcove of the ped-
estal. The contents were
damp, but “it’s not soup,”
Ridgway said.
“I think it’s in better
shape than we expected,”
she said.
Historical records had led
Sarah Rankin/The Associated Press
Virginia state conservators work on a box believed to be a time capsule left in the pedestal at the former site of a statue of Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled buttons, coins, documents and
other artifacts from the time capsule found in the remnants of the pedestal.
to some speculation that the
capsule might contain a rare
and historically significant
photo of deceased President
Abraham Lincoln. One line
from a newspaper article
listed among the contents a
“picture of Lincoln lying in
his coffin.”
On Tuesday, conservators
found a printed image from
an 1865 issue of Harper’s
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unpacking difficult, so con-
servators decided to relieve
pressure by cutting down
one side.
“Not ideal, but it’s the
way it is,” Ridgway said.
Along with several
waterlogged books, pam-
phlets and newspapers,
the box contained an enve-
lope of Confederate money,
which conservators care-
tained an actual photograph
of Lincoln in his coffin
because the only known
photo of Lincoln in death
was taken by photographer
Jeremiah Gurney in City
Hall in New York on April
24, 1865.
The contents of the
tightly packed box had
expanded from the damp
and stuck together, making
Weekly in the time capsule
that Ridgway said seemed
to show a figure grieving
over Lincoln’s grave — but
did not appear to be the
much-anticipated photo.
Harold Holzer, a histo-
rian and Lincoln scholar,
had previously told The
Associated Press he
believed it highly unlikely
that the time capsule con-
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
31/40
Kennewick
26/38
St. Helens
30/35
TIllamook
Hood River
24/33
24/32
30/37
29/38
Condon
TONIGHT
FRI
SAT
SUN
Baker City
14 20
Comfort Index™
La Grande
16
0
0
19 27 -3
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
0
Comfort Index™
0
0
19
9
Eugene
32/41
0
23 13
23 18
32 28
0
0
0
31 15
38 28
0
3
0
0
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 88°
Low: -38°
Wettest: 1.95”
22°
2°
23°
16°
25°
18°
Trace
0.36
0.77
5.37
8.98
0.01
0.80
1.71
10.78
17.23
0.05
4.67
3.41
26.71
25.59
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
40%
WNW at 4 to 8 mph
0.1
0.02
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
1% of capacity
21% of capacity
16% of capacity
17% of capacity
15% of capacity
17% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
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
Robstown, Texas
Chinook, Mont.
Jefferson City, Mo.
OREGON
High: 45°
Low: 2°
Wettest: 0.24”
North Bend
Baker City
Sexton Summit
Powers
38/43
SUN & MOON
THU.
7:32 a.m.
4:18 p.m.
3:56 a.m.
1:35 p.m.
FRI.
7:32 a.m.
4:19 p.m.
5:19 a.m.
2:15 p.m.
MOON PHASES
898 cfs
0 cfs
15 cfs
139 cfs
161 cfs
24 cfs
New
Jan 2
First
Jan 9
Full
Jan 17
36/42
Grants Pass
Silver Lake
Last
Jan 25
Jordan Valley
21/24
Frenchglen
Paisley
19/30
24/33
21/29
33/40
24/27
Klamath Falls
22/31
Lakeview
19/28
McDermitt
17/27
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
40/31/pc 45/40/r
35/15/pc 34/22/c
25/0/sn 18/5/pc
47/34/s 48/38/c
29/-3/pc 25/1/pc
47/33/pc 51/35/c
41/28/sh 40/27/c
24/-3/sn
17/8/c
26/0/pc
23/9/c
41/31/pc 42/30/c
26/4/pc 21/15/c
33/13/sn 28/18/sn
28/4/sn 29/24/c
28/8/sn 32/17/c
23/6/sn 24/17/c
27/9/pc 20/15/c
31/12/c 28/7/pc
28/8/sn 24/4/pc
Grand View
Arock
19/28
21/27
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Diamond
22/26
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
20/25
35/42
36/47
18/31
21/30
Chiloquin
FRI.
A storm ushered record-breaking cold into
the East by Dec. 30, 1880. The low was 7
degrees below zero in Washington, D.C.,
which was the coldest ever so early in the
winter.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
16/29
22/30
22/30
Roseburg
Ontario
17/27
Burns
Brothers
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Coos Bay
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Oakridge
Huntington
20/23
26/35
30/37
40/47
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
Elkton
15/24
19/30
Seneca
Bend
35/44
23 14
26/28
28/36
Council
14/20
John Day
23/31
Sisters
Florence
40/45
14/25
Baker City
Redmond
38/44
25 23
0
Halfway
Granite
19/22
30/35
32/40
Corvallis
19/30
30/41
Newport
Enterprise
16/23
19/27
Monument
24/34
Idanha
Salem
MON
0
0
16 23
7
18/26
La Grande
20/27
Maupin
Cold with snow, Partly sunny and Cloudy and cold High clouds and Cloudy; snow at
2-4”
cold
very cold
night
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
18/23
14/19
16/23
34/43
Lewiston
Walla Walla
19/27
Vancouver
28/37
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City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
23/4/pc
38/21/c
25/-4/pc
40/29/sf
44/35/pc
34/25/pc
27/1/pc
24/11/pc
23/-2/sn
37/26/c
43/31/pc
31/14/sn
42/33/sh
40/29/pc
11/-4/pc
32/16/pc
24/1/c
19/3/sn
Hi/Lo/W
20/17/c
36/33/sn
23/10/c
37/23/c
45/40/c
38/36/sn
16/4/pc
24/16/c
20/11/c
39/32/c
50/33/c
34/18/c
43/29/c
42/32/c
16/13/c
28/20/sn
31/15/c
19/15/c
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
A little snow
A little a.m. snow
8
4
25
7
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Very cold
Cold
17
2
29
5
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Snow
Very cold
14
-2
21
-2
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A little snow
Snow
23
6
25
3
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very cold
Cold
20
0
27
-3