COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2022
Dysfunctional relationships collide in workplace aff air
DEAR ABBY: I’m a super-
visor at my job and have feel-
ings for a married man who also
works here. He’s lonely and looks
to me for attention, companion-
ship, sex and to listen to his trou-
bles. We have only had sex once,
but I know I cannot continue this
“relationship.”
It breaks my heart because
I care for him deeply, and if he
was single, this is someone I
could actually have a relation-
ship with. I have already told
him I won’t accept any more of
his off ers to walk me home, and
to quit texting me. He’s open
with his wife regarding dating
other people. It seems she’s also
“talking” to another man outside
of their marriage.
Am I delusional to think he
will leave her for me? Would he
have the same problems with me
that he has with her? He has dif-
fi culty expressing his emotions,
but I think he still loves his wife.
I know their marriage is broken,
and it’s not my job to fi x it for
them or to push him to choose
me over her. It should not have to
be this way.
Please, I would appreciate any
advice you can off er. By the way,
I’m also married, but my husband
lives 7,000 miles away. After
seven years, his immigration
status still needs to be resolved.
I’ll probably ask him for a
divorce because, even though I
care about him, I’m no longer
in love with the man I married.
He knows I have been dating
someone because I told him. —
IN KNOTS IN NEW YORK
DEAR IN KNOTS: You
didn’t mention whether there are
policies in your business about
fraternizing, but if there are, then
what you have been doing could
get you fi red. You have already
started disengaging from this
offi ce romance, so please con-
tinue to do that.
Because of the unique cir-
cumstances of your marriage,
you have some serious deci-
sions to make. Do not drag your
co-worker into it. IF there is
the possibility of a future with
him, he also needs to decide if
he is satisfi ed with the status
quo before making any other
commitments. I know you are
lonely, but for your sake and his,
back off .
DEAR ABBY: My husband
of more than 20 years has taken
to hiding decorative accessories
that he doesn’t like. An example:
A designer bowl set packaged
in a box suddenly disappeared
from the cupboard. The plug-in
air freshener from my home
offi ce also went missing. A lamp
I moved from the living room to
the foyer appeared on my book-
case two hours later. My com-
plaints fall on deaf ears. His
favorite coff ee mug and iPad are
about to mysteriously vanish.
Can you talk some sense into
him? — HIDE AND SEEK IN
GEORGIA
DEAR HIDE: Is this recent
behavior, or has your husband
been hiding things all during
your marriage? If it’s recent,
your husband may need a med-
ical checkup, because what you
are describing can be a symptom
of dementia. If he’s mentally fi t,
you two need to work on sharp-
ening your communication skills
and, perhaps, agree that before
any more items are brought into
the home the two of you share,
they’re not something either of
you will hate.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
For whom the bell rolls: Paul Revere chime returns home
BOSTON — A bronze
bell cast in 1834 in Paul
Revere’s Massachusetts
foundry has come home —
capping a nearly two-cen-
tury, cross-country odyssey
that saw it hauled by oxcart
to churches in Ohio before
languishing for decades in a
California garage.
After a weeklong
journey across the U.S.,
the historic bell was
returned Friday, Feb. 25, to
the site where it was cre-
ated 188 years ago, said
Kiley Nichols, a spokes-
person for the Paul Revere
Heritage Site in Canton,
just south of Boston.
The museum said the
1,000-pound bell was made
by the Revolutionary War
patriot’s son, Joseph Warren
Revere, who took over his
father’s foundry in 1804.
In 1984, real estate agent
Jeannene Shanks became
the bell’s accidental owner.
She’d helped broker the sale
of what once was First Bap-
tist Church in Vermilion,
Ohio, to a fi tness center —
Amy Miller/Contributed Photo
In this handout photograph provided by Amy Miller, a bronze bell
forged in 1834 by Paul Revere’s son, Joseph Warren Revere, is readied
for shipping in Chino Hills, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2022, for transport to the
Paul Revere Heritage Site in Canton, Massachusetts. Amy Miller, the
daughter of the California couple who acquired the bell in 1984, says
she and her brother donated it to the museum so the public could
view and appreciate it.
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matur. But after he casu-
ally mentioned he’d melt it
down if he decided not to
keep it, the siblings spurned
the off er.
Miller did some online
sleuthing, fi gured out where
the bell was forged, and
decided to donate it to the
Massachusetts museum so
the public could view and
appreciate it.
“I don’t need a bell in my
garage, and this bell has a
story of its own,” she said.
“It represents what our his-
tory and our country are
all about. I wanted it to go
beyond us — to go back to
where it started. We’re the
keepers of our history.”
Local historian George
Comeau, a board member of
the Revere & Son Heritage
Trust Corp., which oper-
ates the museum, said few
of the hundreds of bells the
Reveres produced are in pri-
vate hands — and most are
hidden from public view.
“This bell went 3,000
miles from Canton to Cal-
ifornia,” he said. “It just
shows the long reach of his-
tory. We’re super excited
but the gym didn’t want
the heavy bell, and Shanks
didn’t feel good about it
being scrapped. She made
a $1,000 donation to the
church in exchange for
the bell, which earlier had
adorned the belfry of the
First Presbyterian Church
of Cleveland.
When Shanks and her
husband, Robert, retired
in Chino Hills, Cali-
fornia, they hauled the bell
with them.
“It became the joke of
the family,” said Shanks’
daughter, Amy Miller, 66, a
psychologist in Chino Hills.
“They’d open the doors to
the garage and ring the bell
every Fourth of July. People
would look at it and say,
‘What the heck is that?’”
After their parents’
deaths, Miller and her
69-year-old brother, retired
Ford Motor Co. executive
Robert L. Shanks Jr. of
Miami, moved the bell to
Miller’s garage, where it’s
sat since 2009.
A collector in Texas
off ered $50,000 for the bell,
which bears Revere’s impri-
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
38/50
Kennewick
37/48
St. Helens
34/45
39/48
Condon
36/48
39/51
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
A little snow
late
Morning snow
showers
Partly sunny and
cold
Mostly sunny
and chilly
Clouds and sun
35 13
43 20
46 27
Eugene
0
1
1
40/53
37 13
46 26
52 36
1
2
4
La Grande
24 30
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
0
0
6
0
17 24
Comfort Index™
0
3
49 36
1
5
8
0
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 92°
Low: -8°
Wettest: 2.21”
42°
26°
46°
25°
46°
23°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.02
0.13
0.41
1.42
Trace
0.19
0.30
2.06
3.20
0.00
0.87
0.49
6.42
6.10
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
55%
NNW at 8 to 16 mph
0.0
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Laredo, Texas
Saco, Mont.
Lebanon, Ky.
OREGON
High: 63°
Low: 12°
Wettest: Trace
The Dalles
Klamath Falls
La Grande
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
4% of capacity
36% of capacity
25% of capacity
49% of capacity
28% of capacity
60% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
On March 8, 1995, the blue grass was
covered with 6 inches of snow at Jackson,
Ky. That same day felt like spring in Blue
Hill, Mass., with temperatures in the 60s.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
6:18 a.m. 6:16 a.m.
5:49 p.m. 5:50 p.m.
9:07 a.m. 9:38 a.m.
none 12:43 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Grande Ronde at Troy
3780 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
7 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
293 cfs
Minam River at Minam
277 cfs
Powder River near Richland
54 cfs
First
Mar 10
Full
Last
Mar 17
Mar 24
New
Mar 31
28/36
24/31
Powers
42/50
42/53
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
26/34
Frenchglen
Paisley
28/37
28/37
25/39
Klamath Falls
27/44
McDermitt
Hi/Lo/W
50/33/pc
34/14/sn
41/17/sf
54/38/pc
38/8/pc
49/28/pc
50/24/pc
32/7/pc
29/6/sn
53/26/pc
45/18/pc
45/24/r
32/10/c
31/11/pc
24/2/c
46/21/pc
44/11/sf
39/8/sn
Hi/Lo/W
51/37/pc
47/24/s
41/18/s
58/38/s
42/17/s
53/29/s
52/27/pc
30/7/pc
36/16/pc
51/30/s
48/23/pc
53/31/pc
36/16/c
40/22/s
28/14/pc
49/26/pc
47/16/s
44/15/s
28/37
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
29/44
Lakeview
26/39
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Grand View
Arock
30/37
Fields
35/55
WED.
Diamond
27/34
30/40
Medford
Brookings
Boise
29/41
38/53
42/54
28/40
26/37
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
26/38
30/32
Beaver Marsh
Ontario
32/46
Burns
Brothers
24/36
Roseburg
Huntington
22/29
36/45
Coos Bay
22/32
29/37
Seneca
31/34
Oakridge
Council
23/33
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
High Sunday
Low Sunday
17/23
30/35
41/49
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.
ALMANAC
Sisters
43/51
41 22
22/32
Baker City
Redmond
43/50
Halfway
Granite
37/50
Newport
40/47
31 10
25/34
36/41
40/51
Corvallis
Enterprise
17/24
24/30
Monument
34/39
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™
Elgin
22/29
La Grande
27/34
Maupin
6
28/39
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
40/48
Lewiston
26/38
Hood River
27/35
38/50
23 33
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Walla Walla
32/46
Vancouver
38/49
TIllamook
Baker City
it’s coming home.”
Police in Canton cere-
monially escorted the truck
carrying the bell to the
Paul Revere Heritage Site,
a sprawling 9-acre facility
that preserves Revere’s
legacy. Revere, an entre-
preneur and innovator, is
credited with launching the
U.S. copper industry after
the war.
Revere is best known
for his midnight ride from
Boston to Lexington on
April 18, 1775, warning the
Colonial militia that British
forces were coming.
His backup plan —
lighting either one or two
lanterns as signals from
the steeple of Boston’s Old
North Church — is immor-
talized in a line in “Paul
Revere’s Ride,” a Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
poem: “One if by land, and
two if by sea ...”
Nearly 2-1/2 centuries
later, Revere still fascinates.
In 2017, archaeologists
excavated what they believe
was the site of an outhouse
next door to his home in
Boston’s North End.
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
38/19/c
48/25/pc
29/6/sf
55/25/sh
47/31/pc
49/25/pc
46/19/pc
45/21/pc
35/15/sf
51/27/c
50/28/c
36/11/c
53/28/c
51/25/pc
33/20/pc
48/25/r
27/5/pc
39/21/c
Hi/Lo/W
42/26/pc
52/28/pc
34/13/pc
60/29/s
48/35/s
50/29/c
45/21/s
50/26/pc
38/24/pc
52/34/pc
55/31/s
48/20/s
55/31/s
51/32/pc
38/26/pc
54/34/pc
35/14/pc
41/29/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
Flurries; frigid
Very cold
7
-3
25
8
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A.M. snow showers
Colder
16
8
34
15
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A little snow
Very cold
12
-8
22
0
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Very cold
Cold
24
2
33
15
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Windy and colder
A.M. snow showers
33
6
30
6
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