COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
Boyfriend’s plans for future are subject to mom’s approval
situation if he won’t propose until
she’s met his parents, but he lacks
the courage to introduce her to
them. What is my granddaughter
to do? She’s so unhappy and dis-
appointed. — IMPOSSIBLE IN
TEXAS
DEAR IMPOSSIBLE: Your
granddaughter’s boyfriend is
a mama’s boy. The decision of
whom to marry should be his, not
his mother’s. If, after two years,
he cannot summon up the courage
to introduce her proudly to his
parents, she should quit wasting
her time with him because this
romance will go no further than it
already has.
DEAR ABBY: I cannot seem
to get over the loss of my fi rst hus-
band decades ago. I still think of
him often. I am still grieving our
DEAR ABBY: My adult
granddaughter, “Lola,” is in a
two-year relationship with a won-
derful young man and has been
anticipating a proposal. During
a conversation, he mentioned he
would not propose to her until he
has introduced her to his parents,
who live in another state.
He says his mother wants him
to marry a woman who has never
been married or divorced and
who has not had a child. Lola is
divorced (due to her ex-husband’s
infi delity) and has a young son.
This seems to her to be a no-win
PRICES
the fi nal product,” he said.
“There’s only so much we
can do. Customers every-
where are feeling the same
pain. If they’re buying prod-
ucts, they’re tending toward
the cheaper products.”
As farms Kind Leaf
has done business with go
under, it means Kind Leaf
is unable to purchase a large
variety of edibles or vape
pen products.
Jacki Zeckman is the
store manager of Thur’s
Smoke Shop, also in Pend-
leton. He said the cannabis
business is like a wave,
“always up and down,” and
it takes fi nding the right
partners to stay afl oat. For
the cannabis customer now,
he said, prices are better.
Thur’s top-shelf cannabis
is going for $10 a gram,
lower than some other com-
peting stores, he said, but
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Other downtown busi-
nesses that recently received
funding from the program
include the Country Finan-
cial building just one door
down from Klebaum’s reno-
vated space.
“It has been a fairly suc-
cessful and popular pro-
gram,” Scroggins said.
Klebaum expects to fully
utilize the new space in the
coming years and has begun
working on classes for new
homeowners and community
members looking to increase
their fi nancial literacy.
With an almost 30-year
background in banking and
fi nance, Klebaum has seen
fi rsthand what happens when
Dan Zieman, co-owner of Z’s BBQ, at the Lostine Tavern on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, checks a brisket
that has been cooking since 4 a.m. It’ll be ready about 4 p.m.
The Ziemans only
moved to Wallowa County
this spring, although they’ve
visited regularly. Dan spent
10 years working as a food
and beverage manager for
a hotel that oversaw three
restaurants in Skagway,
Alaska, the gateway to the
historic Yukon gold rush
country.
They decided on the
move last fall and then Dan
spent the winter training his
replacement.
Dan said the climate in
Skagway, in the southeast
coastal part of Alaska, can
be milder than Wallowa
is liquor, beer and wine
service as soon as they
obtain a liquor license.
Zieman said he expects
that to come through in
September.
That will likely lead to
other features.
“Once the liquor license
comes through, we’re
going to add some fun
night events to make it a
fun place to be” such as
live entertainment, he said.
“We’ll bring back some
of that good energy in the
building.”
County and not as harsh as
the inland reaches of the
49th state.
“Being right on the water,
it stays around 30 degrees,”
he said.
Larson and his girlfriend,
Rebekah Israel, came with
them. Larson regularly helps
out at Z’s, and Israel helps
with major events when
she’s not working at the Wild
Carrot in Enterprise.
The future
One of the fi rst addi-
tions Z’s hopes to make
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TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 116°
Low: 35°
Wettest: 8.64”
95°
48°
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HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
15%
NW at 6 to 12 mph
12.7
0.34
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
16% of capacity
71% of capacity
29% of capacity
89% of capacity
5% of capacity
66% 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
OREGON
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MOON PHASES
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Come winter, Z’s
may also off er break-
fast. Although one doesn’t
often think of barbecue as
a breakfast food, Zieman
intends to change that.
“Pork belly, it’s just
bacon in a diff erent form,”
he said. “Or a brisket eggs
Benedict or a pork belly
burrito or something.”
The addition of other
menu items will help attain
one of his goals.
“Our goal is to run out
because we want to make it
fresh every day,” he said.
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serve, we make ourselves,”
he said, which includes
beans, sauces, pickles and
numerous other items.
They do serve bread that
they purchase.
Zieman does his cooking
in a smoker out back of the
tavern. There, he and friend
Jon Larson keep the cooker
going with a mix of oak and
cherry wood.
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Baker City
hand them the card, they’ll thank
me for the card, but I never hear
another word. How do I know
they just didn’t throw away an
unopened card? Maybe I’ve
insulted them with the cash? Or
someone pilfered it? Or is this a
sign of the times? — BITTER IN
THE WEST
DEAR BITTER: The next
time you hand them their cards,
say, “I hope you can use what’s
inside to get yourself something
nice or have some fun.” (If you
still want to continue giving them
money, that is.)
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customers don’t meet their
fi nancial obligations. She
said this allows her to better
serve a wide array of cus-
tomers with options that
accommodate for credit and
savings barriers.
“My philosophy has
always been to leave no
stone unturned,” Klebaum
said. “If it can be done, I’m
the girl to do it.”
The branch held a ribbon
cutting ceremony and open
house last month to celebrate
the completed renovations
and their new location. Now,
it’s back to business.
“Now that my agenda
is pretty much clear of big
events and projects,” Kle-
baum said. “It’s kind of
time for us to really get
back to work and do what
we do best.”
REVAMP
DEAR MISSING: You
are stuck in a rut of your own
making, grieving the loss of your
fi rst marriage because there’s
nothing else going on in your
life to distract you. If you want
to get beyond this, start fi nding
other things to occupy your time
and your thoughts. Explore spe-
cial interest groups you can join
and activities that will take you
out into the community so you
have less time alone to brood.
And if that isn’t enough, con-
sider asking your doctor to refer
you to a licensed mental health
professional.
DEAR ABBY: The past couple
of years I’ve given $300 to $400
in cash to my personal trainer
and his therapist wife for their
birthdays and Christmas. When I
LOSTINE
the business always makes
its margins.
Thur’s customers have
shifted in what they buy,
he said, engaging in more
budget conscientious shop-
ping. While the mone-
tary volume in the store
has dropped, foot traffi c
remains high.
“I still see quite a few
people every day,” Zeckman
said. “I may not move as
much, but I move more cus-
tomer-friendly items.”
Likewise, Kind Leaf has
not experienced a slowdown
in the number of sales,
Krenzler said, but also is
seeing customers spend
their money diff erently.
They stock up on cheaper
products, for example,
rather than premium goods.
Like any business,
Zeckman said, surviving
takes building partner-
ships. And in cannabis, that
means working out mutu-
ally benefi cial deals with
suppliers all year long.
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divorce and his subsequent mar-
riage to someone I’d known for
many years. They have happily
gone on with their lives.
I am a widow now. My second
husband was like me, dumped
by his fi rst wife, and we cobbled
a life together as best we could.
My problem is that I can’t stop
longing for my fi rst husband.
Logically, I know we’ll never
be together, even if he were free
from his marriage to the “other
woman.”
How does one ever get beyond
the grief from a marriage that
made me feel happy, safe and
loved? Do others suff er for
decades? I can’t seem to move past
the sadness, but would like to be
free of these feelings before I pass
away. — MISSING THAT LIFE
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PHILLIPS LAKE
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Mostly sunny; hot
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MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and hot
Very hot
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EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Sunshine and hot
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunshine; very hot
Sunshine; very hot
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THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Hot
Sunshine; very hot
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