COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JuLY 7, 2022
Woman overhears co-workers rude conversation about her
else? I always admired her and
felt she was a friend to me. Should
I bring it up next time she looks
at my stomach? I’m having a hard
time overcoming the hurt and
wonder if I’ve made a mistake by
considering her a friend. What
do you think? — SOFT IN THE
MIDDLE
DEAR SOFT: You caught
your co-worker in mid-gossip.
Shame on her. What I think is that
this woman isn’t as good a friend
to you as you have been to her.
If you wish to tell her you heard
what she said and are very hurt by
it, you are within your rights. Go
for it, because she owes you an
apology.
DEAR ABBY: I am a senior in
high school. A lot of my friends
are going to four-year colleges,
DEAR ABBY: More than a
year ago, I heard my co-worker,
whom I consider a friend, talking
to another co-worker (who is a
gossip) about my belly. I am 30
pounds overweight, and although
I work out regularly, I still have
this paunch from having had
three kids. I am hurt that she
would have said anything, but she
doesn’t know I heard her.
Occasionally, I see her glance
at my stomach and I’m reminded
of what happened. It is bizarre.
Why is she looking at my stomach
or discussing it with someone
hood. Some high school seniors
take a gap year off and get a job for
this very reason. Community col-
lege seems like a practical solu-
tion for you. Bear in mind that
your friends’ confidence in their
future plans doesn’t guarantee they
will end up in the careers they are
aiming for now. Many times “life”
intervenes and takes folks on a
very different path.
DEAR ABBY: My spouse
“cancels” me, and I am no longer
willing to accept feeling devalued.
There has been a serious com-
munication breakdown. Mid-sen-
tence of almost any topic of con-
versation I begin, he interrupts me
with, “I know already,” “You take
too long” or, “I’m busy.” Another
response is typically, “I’ve got
work to do,” when, in fact, he is
while I’m starting at a community
college. Many of them are going
far away. They know their majors,
and they’re all very confident in
their future plans. I can’t help
but feel left out, even though my
community college plan will save
money and allow me to experi-
ment before choosing my major.
I’m confident in my plan; I just
feel so out of the loop with my
friends’ college discussions. Is it
OK to feel awkward during this
transitional period? And is it OK
to be unsure of what I want to
do? — WONDERING ABOUT
THE FUTURE
DEAR WONDERING: Please
stop being so hard on yourself. You
are far from the only young adult
who is unsure of what steps they
should take as they approach adult-
Joseph clinic now open on Saturdays
“Farming with mules is not tidy,” he
said. “I wouldn’t farm if I couldn’t farm
with mules.”
He said the number of farmers who
farm using mules is not large. Many that
use mules or horses to farm are faith-
based, such as the Amish, and are often
located in other parts of the country.
There is a farm in Walla Walla, Wash-
ington, called the Hayshaker Farm,
which uses mules and is not Amish.
“They are young folks about our age
that learned how to drive a team from
the same mentor as us, John Erskine,
who lives in Sequim, Washington, on
the Olympic Peninsula,” Bass said. “We
have collaborated with Hayshaker Farm a
couple of times for plowing. We went to
their plowing bee last year and they came
and helped us plow this year. We plan to
continue to help each other out in order to
keep the tradition alive.” said Bass.
Another draft-powered, non-Amish
farm, the Hedgerose Farm, is located at
Halfway.
McGrath grew up on the front range
of Colorado and has been a skier all his
life. He moved to Western Oregon at 18.
From there he moved to the Olympic
Peninsula in his early 20s. He learned to
work with horses and drive a team more
than a decade ago and has been farming
with horses for about seven years. He
met Bass when they worked together
at the River Run Farm on the Olympic
Peninsula.
Bass, a born-and-raised, self-pro-
claimed city kid from Minneapolis,
learned to drive a team in her mid-20’s
when she worked at a dude ranch in Col-
orado. She continued to hone her skills,
and learned to farm, while working at
the River Run Farm after moving to the
Olympic Peninsula. McGrath and Bass
bought their first team, Charlie and Mae,
a pair of Belgian mules about three years
ago.
“We chose to start a farm because we
are passionate about the work. We both
love making ecological observations,
watching plants grow and caring for live-
stock,” she said.
Of farming with mules, McGrath
sums it up this way: “It’s just a choice we
made, and we really like it.”
Photos by Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Brooke Pace, communications and public relations director for Wallowa Memorial Hospital, straightens a
pillow in one of the examination rooms at the hospital’s Joseph clinic Thursday, June 30, 2022. The clinic
started having Saturday hours in June.
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The Wallowa Memorial Medical Clinic in
Joseph is now open Saturdays in response to
the desires expressed by local residents. The
Saturday hours began in June.
WALLOWA MEMORIAL MEDICAL
CLINIC — JOSEPH
What: Primary care clinic
Where: 800 N. Main St, Joseph
When: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Phone: 541-426-7900; hospital 541-426-3111
Online appointments: wallowamemorialmedical-
clinics.org.
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
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Low Tuesday
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Low: 29°
Wettest: 5.01”
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Tuesday
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AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
40%
NNW at 7 to 14 mph
10.3
0.25
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
24% of capacity
88% of capacity
38% of capacity
99% of capacity
27% of capacity
96% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5060 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 125 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
88 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
107 cfs
Minam River at Minam
1510 cfs
Powder River near Richland
30 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Luverne, Minn.
OREGON
High: 92°
Low: 39°
Wettest: 0.78”
Ontario
Crater Lake
Sexton Summit
Powers
56/71
Two tornadoes ripped through heavily
populated sections of northern New Jersey
on July 7, 1976. Across the harbor in New
York City, the storms narrowly missed the
Statue of Liberty and 11 tall ships nearby.
SUN & MOON
THU.
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8:42 p.m.
1:58 p.m.
12:43 a.m.
FRI.
5:13 a.m.
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3:13 p.m.
1:03 a.m.
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Paisley
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Frenchglen
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Astoria
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Boise
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Corvallis
Council
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Eugene
Hermiston
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Imnaha
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Kennewick
Klamath Falls
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Arock
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Diamond
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Fields
Medford
53/64
Boise
65/94
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
55/93
47/83
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RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
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Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
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49/82
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Roseburg
Ontario
67/96
Burns
Brothers
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Coos Bay
Huntington
49/84
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Oakridge
60/91
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Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
52/82
52/86
51/80
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TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
49/79
John Day
51/83
Sisters
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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.
58/90
Baker City
Redmond
54/63
54/67
Halfway
Granite
54/80
Newport
54/78
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56/86
55/78
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Corvallis
Enterprise
53/78
56/81
Monument
57/84
Idanha
Salem
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Elgin
54/82
La Grande
56/80
Maupin
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Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
63/86
Hood River
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TIllamook
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Walla Walla
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Vancouver
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Baker City
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
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founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
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Wallowa County Chieftain
available for annual examinations, gen-
eral surgery, obstetrics and gynecolog-
ical care, vaccines, health coaching and
group classes, programs for diabetes and
chronic pain, and services from visiting
nurses for the homebound.
In addition to the hospital in Enter-
prise, Wallowa Memorial Medical has
four clinics: one each in Joseph, Enter-
prise, downtown Enterprise and Wal-
lowa. They all are under the umbrella of
the Wallowa Health Care District, Pace
said.
She said the new Saturday hours will
not just be for the summer tourist season
and will continue all year long.
“It will continue past the summer
months,” she said.
The clinic has a history of serving the
county’s health care needs since 2015
when Wallowa Mountain Medical —
formed in 1991 by Dr. Devee Boyd —
joined the Wallowa County Health Care
District.
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MULES
By BILL BRADSHAW
JOSEPH — Responding to customer
surveys, the Wallowa Memorial Medical
Clinic in Joseph began in June to keep
office hours on Saturdays, according to
a hospital spokeswoman.
“We listened to the people and
wanted to give them what they asked
for,” said Brooke Pace, communications
and public relations director for Wal-
lowa Memorial Hospital.
The clinic now has Saturday hours —
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in addition to its
Monday through Friday schedule.
The clinic, which opened April 2,
2021 after five years of planning, began
as a basic primary care facility. Staff
surveyed local residents who came to
the new facility on tours to determine
what they desired in their new clinic.
“We started for a number of reasons,”
Pace said of the reasons for opening
on Saturdays. “Access is incredibly
important to us at Wallowa Memorial,”
she said. “When building the clinic, we
conducted tours of the facility and asked
the community about hours and what
they wanted to see. There was a strong
desire for Saturday hours, as many
people can’t get away from work or
other responsibilities during the week.
People can schedule a visit ahead of
time or make a same-day appointment
by calling. … We are also hoping that
by having hours on Saturday, both locals
and tourists won’t end up in the emer-
gency department for nonemergent med-
ical needs.”
Beginning Saturday hours in June
worked well with what goes on in
Joseph during the summer. As tourism
increases and more people are in town,
there’s an accompanying need for health
care — but not necessarily at a hospital.
Pace said the clinic is there for pri-
mary care, but “things they didn’t need
to actually go to an emergency room
for.”
The clinic is staffed with three phy-
sicians, five nurse practitioners, one
physician’s assistant, a general surgeon
Dr. Ken Rose, three behavioral health
providers and three staff nurses. It is
reading the newspaper or just get-
ting a cup of coffee. How do I
convince my spouse this is det-
rimental to our relationship, or is
getting through to him even pos-
sible? — WOMAN WHO DOES
NOT MATTER
DEAR WOMAN: What one
does in a situation like this is tell
the spouse the current situation is
not tolerable, and suggest coun-
seling to save your marriage. If
your spouse then refuses, you
must decide whether to move on,
because your assessment of your
relationship is correct.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
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sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A shower
Nice with sunshine
64
44
81
48
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Partly sunny; nice
Mostly sunny
70
50
91
58
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Partly sunny
71
42
75
45
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A stray t-storm
Partly sunny
80
52
84
57
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Breezy in the p.m.
Nice with sunshine
82
50
81
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