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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022
Woman can’t stop thinking about her husband’s friend
talk to him, so I stayed sitting on
the bleachers. When my husband
returned, he said Shane asked him
where I was.
Abby, I have felt this way for
two years. My husband and I have
been married for seven. When
I’m driving home from work, I
fantasize about Shane riding in
the car with me. I hurry to get to
town hoping I’ll see him at the
gas station or passing by. I’m con-
sidering contacting him on Mes-
senger. I have never thought about
my husband this way. Please
give me some advice on what to
do. — OVER THE MOON IN
MISSOURI
DEAR OVER: Nowhere
in your letter did you mention
whether your feelings for Shane
are reciprocated. If you contact
him, what exactly do you plan
DEAR ABBY: I have a huge
crush on my husband’s friend,
“Shane.” I think about him daily
and fantasize about him every
night. He used to come into the
place where I work once a month.
I wanted to tell him back then
how I felt, but I chickened out.
I recently changed jobs, and
he came into where I work now.
I made a point of talking to him
but said nothing about how I
feel. I’m sure he could tell by the
way I was smiling. I went to the
races when Shane was racing and
wanted to tell him then. My hus-
band was there and went over to
on telling him — that you love
him? That you lust for him? Your
eff orts would be better spent
trying to fi gure out what hap-
pened to the excitement in your
marriage rather than starting a
romance with your husband’s
friend.
If you do what you have in
mind and Shane doesn’t feel the
same way, it will be enormously
embarrassing. If he does have
similar feelings, your husband
will be devastated. The next time
you have a fantasy about Shane,
I urge you to switch to another
channel.
DEAR ABBY: My grandson
is 24. He was diagnosed with
Asperger’s syndrome after he
graduated from high school. He
was fi rst diagnosed with ADHD
when he was young, then, years
later, as bipolar. Since high
school, he spends his time in his
bedroom playing video games.
He has no social interactions and
doesn’t engage much, if at all,
with his two younger brothers. He
also doesn’t get along well with
his stepfather.
My daughter, his mother, is
desperate for help but has been
unable to fi nd it. Most programs
are designed for children or are
too far away. Even trying to fi nd
a counselor locally who special-
izes in Asperger’s has led to blind
alleys.
Where do we go to fi nd help
for him? He’s very functional but
somewhat naive socially, and my
daughter is fearful of him falling
in with the wrong crowd. He has
become depressed, and after years
of turning his nose up at getting
help, he actually wants it now.
What do we do? — SEEKING
HELP IN TEXAS
DEAR SEEKING: Forcing
help on a person who isn’t ready
usually accomplishes little. That
your grandson is fi nally willing
to accept that he needs help
is hopeful. Suggest that your
daughter reach out to an organiza-
tion called AANE, the Asperger/
Autism Network, and ask for
guidance for her son. To have
questions and concerns addressed
and to receive information and
resources, she should visit aane.
org.
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Florida amusement park pauses new sniper-like laser game
urday, July 16, park officials
said that while the ride had been
“well-received” by customers,
some had questioned whether it
was appropriate following mass
shootings at a Fourth of July
parade in a Chicago suburb, an
elementary school in Uvalde,
Texas, and a grocery store in
Buffalo, New York.
“Some non-guests and com-
munity members expressed that
they considered the toy shooting
device used to be insensitive,”
the statement said.
“The attractions industry has
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — The
Orlando amusement park where
a teenager fell from a ride and
died earlier this year has paused
a new sniper-like laser shooting
game amid criticism following a
recent spate of mass shootings.
The Bullseye Blast game let
riders of the 400-foot Wheel at
ICON Park pay an extra $5.95 to
shoot laser blasters at 50 targets
strategically placed along roof-
tops throughout the park.
In a statement issued Sat-
many similar games which use
similar shooting devices, so that
is what we were limited to when
exploring the game. However,
we believe that a device can
and should be designed which
does not offend anyone in the
community.”
Park officials said they “look
forward to leading this new
innovation.”
While the park has removed
the game from its website, ear-
lier this week it offered the fol-
lowing description of Bullseye
Blaster: “To get the highest
score possible, players need to
hit as many of these as possible
with their laser blaster during
the 18-minute ride.”
The promos featured photos
of riders pointing laser guns
from the ride, FOX-35 reported.
Critics and supporters of the
ride weighed in on social media
over the past few days.
“This is in poor taste,”
Florida state Sen. Linda
Stewart, a Democrat from
Orlando, said in a tweet
responding to a news story
about the ride. Others on social
media scoffed at the park for
pausing the game.
Controversy has surrounded
the park, which is located along
Orlando’s International Drive,
since 14-year-old Tyre Sampson,
of Missouri, fell from the Free
Fall tower and died earlier this
year.
An investigation later found
the teen was nearly 100 pounds
over the ride’s weight limit. His
family has filed a lawsuit.
The park announced the
Bullseye Blast in a news release
on July 14.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/68
Kennewick
57/81
St. Helens
TIllamook
64/94
61/87
65/97
62/88
59/89
Condon
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Clear
Mostly sunny
and warm
Mostly sunny
Sunny and nice
Mostly sunny
49 94 50
91 53
85 47
89 49
Eugene
7
8
7
57/91
94 60
87 57
91 58
6
8
6
La Grande
6
5
4
57 93 58
Comfort Index™
5
84 56
88 57
5
9
5
5
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 120°
Low: 38°
Wettest: 3.87”
93°
49°
92°
60°
93°
50°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.01
0.34
4.47
5.78
0.00
0.22
0.39
8.98
10.45
0.00
0.32
0.45
17.76
14.97
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
15%
NW at 6 to 12 mph
14.2
0.34
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Death Valley, Calif.
Gothic, Colo.
Effi ngham, Ill.
OREGON
High: 103°
Low: 39°
Wettest: Trace
Rome
Lakeview
Sexton Summit
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
20% of capacity
79% of capacity
32% of capacity
94% of capacity
14% of capacity
79% of capacity
Haze replaced the normal blue sky over
Florida’s east coast on July 19, 1984.
Satellite imagery showed that the haze
was actually dust picked up by the wind
in Africa and carried across the Atlantic
Ocean.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
5:23 a.m. 5:24 a.m.
8:34 p.m. 8:33 p.m.
none 12:04 a.m.
12:30 p.m. 1:39 p.m.
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
2080 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 126 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
107 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
66 cfs
Minam River at Minam
507 cfs
Powder River near Richland
17 cfs
Last
Jul 20
New
First
Jul 28
Aug 5
Full
Aug 11
55/96
Powers
53/74
Brothers
Beaver Marsh
59/91
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
Frenchglen
Paisley
58/97
Klamath Falls
50/94
Hi/Lo/W
68/57/pc
97/59/s
99/68/s
65/53/c
97/53/s
66/53/c
88/55/s
98/59/s
95/57/s
91/54/s
102/65/s
94/66/s
97/63/s
96/54/s
92/61/s
101/64/s
94/51/s
94/45/s
Hi/Lo/W
67/56/pc
93/54/s
99/67/s
65/54/pc
96/52/s
67/54/pc
80/52/pc
97/56/s
92/58/s
83/52/pc
99/66/s
90/63/s
95/59/s
95/54/s
91/57/s
99/67/s
89/50/s
92/45/s
65/101
Lakeview
46/94
McDermitt
61/99
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
Grand View
Arock
61/99
Fields
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Diamond
56/98
63/99
65/101
WED.
Boise
63/95
50/94
54/93
Medford
Brookings
58/101
68/99
63/98
52/65
Juntura
52/97
46/95
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
66/102
Burns
54/97
49/91
Roseburg
Huntington
52/94
59/89
Coos Bay
59/98
68/101
Seneca
57/97
Oakridge
Council
49/94
John Day
53/99
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
53/88
55/97
54/66
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
57/81
89 57
57/99
Baker City
Redmond
53/63
Halfway
Granite
56/88
Newport
51/64
60 97 60
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
6
62/99
59/88
60/91
Corvallis
Enterprise
57/93
60/97
Monument
62/97
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™
Elgin
58/95
La Grande
62/92
Maupin
Baker City
68/96
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
62/97
Hood River
64/98
56/75
Lewiston
Walla Walla
66/101
Vancouver
59/87
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
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
97/63/s
81/55/s
93/56/s
101/64/s
64/53/pc
83/54/s
102/69/s
101/64/s
98/63/s
88/60/s
74/54/c
99/54/s
91/57/s
91/57/s
90/61/s
97/66/s
91/48/s
96/68/s
Hi/Lo/W
96/63/s
77/57/pc
91/55/s
94/60/s
63/52/c
79/52/pc
101/69/s
99/64/s
96/64/s
84/58/pc
73/53/pc
94/52/s
85/58/s
86/55/pc
91/62/pc
94/63/s
89/47/s
95/64/s
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
Mostly sunny
Hot with sunshine
72
48
91
53
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny; warm
82
59
99
58
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; warm
80
46
87
44
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Hot with sunshine
Sunny and hot
92
61
98
62
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny; warm
94
50
97
60
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