COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, AuguST 18, 2022
Teenager’s behavior makes grandma want to stay home
Any suggestions? — BAD
GRANDMA IN COLORADO
DEAR GRANDMA: If you
visit, display your own good man-
ners when dealing with your
grandson and impart whatever
advice you can. His behavior may
improve by the time he is out of
his teens. However, if it doesn’t
by the time he’s 21, at least you’ll
know you tried.
DEAR ABBY: I need help
navigating a situation that comes
up periodically and usually leaves
my sister in tears. She has a very
small wardrobe because she
travels all the time, so when she’s
in town, she’ll often ask to borrow
my clothes. She’s similar in pro-
portions to me and in good shape,
but she’s 4 inches taller than I am.
DEAR ABBY: I must
be the worst grandma in the
world because I do not like my
grandson. He’s 16, rude, disre-
spectful, has no manners and his
hygiene is almost nonexistent.
When I mention my concerns to
my son, he says, “I’m working on
it.” My daughter-in-law refuses to
discuss it and just walks away.
We live in different states, so I
don’t have a lot of interaction with
the boy. But when I must, I don’t
enjoy it. In fact, I find spending
time with him very stressful.
That means a lot of my clothes are
too tight on her.
If I refuse when she asks to
borrow my things, she gets upset
and says I don’t trust her. If I say
yes and she tries something on
that’s a little small, she gets upset
about being “too fat.” I feel like
I can’t win. I do trust her, and I
don’t want her to have a negative
image of her body. What should
I do the next time she asks to
borrow something? — TRYING
TO BE A GOOD SISTER
DEAR TRYING: The next
time it happens, “remind” her
that although your proportions
are similar, they are not identical.
Then suggest she store some of
her own clothes at your place so
she’ll have more choices the next
says I should let it go and just
focus on the enjoyable evening.
I wish I could, but it bugs me.
Any advice on how to view this
without letting it annoy me? —
FRIENDS SHOULD SHARE
DEAR F.S.S.: Your friend
appears to be a bit selfish, and
I can’t blame you for feeling
annoyed. The way to deal with it
would be to ask for separate checks
when the server takes your order.
But be prepared for the conversa-
tion that is sure to ensue about why
you are breaking with “tradition.”
time she’s back in town.
DEAR ABBY: My wife and
I have wonderful friends and
neighbors. We go out to dinner
and concerts, and vacation
together. They are smart, funny,
charming folks. But there’s one
problem. When we go out to
dinner, we always agree to split
the check regardless of who had
what to eat. On more than one
occasion, I put in 50% of the bill
but they often bring a coupon or
discount card they apply only to
their half.
If I had a coupon, I would
share it with them so we would
all benefit, so I find it kind of irk-
some that they don’t. We are all
on fixed incomes but no one is
desperate for money. My wife
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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
Red panda found in fig tree after escaping Australian zoo
The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zea-
land — A red panda that spent
two days on the lam after escaping
from an Australian zoo was recap-
tured Sunday, Aug. 14, after he was
spotted hanging out in a fig tree in
a nearby park.
Named Ravi, the 7-year-old
panda had arrived at Adelaide Zoo
last week after he was brought in
from another zoo with hopes that
he would pair up with a female red
panda named Mishry. But by Aug.
12, Ravi was gone.
Adelaide Zoo Director Phil
Ainsley told the Australian Broad-
casting Corp. that zookeepers spent
Aug. 14 trying to entice Ravi down
from the fig tree with some of his
favorite foods, including bamboo
and sweet corn, to no avail.
In the end they fired a tranquil-
izer dart.
“We used a couple of different
dart devices, finally got a dart into
him and then just had to wait about
15 minutes just for the drug to take
some effect,” Ainsley said.
Ravi then fell into the blankets
of zookeepers who were waiting
beneath the tree.
“Ravi’s doing really well,”
Ainsley told the broadcaster. “Set-
tling down into animal health hos-
pital, where he’s just going to spend
the next two or three days after
being on the run. Just want to make
sure he’s all healthy and recovered
from his adventure.”
Ainsley said they discov-
ered Ravi had escaped his enclo-
sure Friday morning and initially
focused their attention within the
zoo, figuring he’d be up one of the
large trees there. It wasn’t until
Aug. 14 that a zookeeper spotted
him in the fig tree in the nearby
botanic park.
Ainsley told the broadcaster
they’d be reviewing the zoo’s
CCTV footage to figure out how
Ravi escaped.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Contributed Photo
Ravi, a 7 year old red panda, is caged after being found in a tree near the zoo he escaped from days earlier, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Adelaide, Australia. The panda escaped
from his enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo and was recaptured Sunday after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in the nearby park.
“Obviously he’d just arrived and
was testing his enclosure,” Ainsley
said. “We know that red pandas are
incredibly agile, and renowned for
being escapologists.”
Protection sought for rare
butterflies at Nevada site
RENO, Nev. — Conserva-
tionists who are already suing
to block a geothermal power
plant where an endangered toad
lives in western Nevada are now
seeking U.S. protection for a rare
butterfly at another geothermal
project the developer plans near
the Oregon line.
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wipe it off the face of the Earth,”
said Jess Tyler, a scientist at the
center who co-wrote the petition.
USFWS has 90 days to decide
whether there’s enough evidence
to conduct a yearlong review to
determine if protection is war-
ranted, so any formal listing is
likely years away.
But the petition signals the
potential for another legal fight
all too familiar to Ormat Nevada,
which wants to tap hot water
beneath the earth to generate car-
bon-free energy the Biden admin-
istration has made a key part of its
effort to combat climate change
The Center for Biological
Diversity is now petitioning
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice to list the bleached sandhill
skipper under the Endangered
Species Act at the only place it’s
known to exist.
It says the project the Bureau
of Land Management approved
last year 250 miles north of Reno
could ultimately lead to the extinc-
tion of the 2-inch-long butterfly
with golden-orange wings.
“This beautiful little butterfly
has evolved over millennia to
thrive in this one specific spot, and
no one should have the right to just
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
61/70
Kennewick
64/79
St. Helens
67/83
75/86
64/84
Condon
76/93
68/82
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Partly cloudy
and mild
Mostly sunny
and warm
Partly sunny and
hot
Mostly sunny
and hot
Not as hot
91 53
94 54
88 49
Eugene
5
5
8
62/85
95 60
93 60
87 57
6
4
9
La Grande
63 93 58
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
6
4
5
58 89 57
Comfort Index™
3
84 55
4
5
9
5
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 119°
Low: 30°
Wettest: 3.61”
95°
45°
98°
48°
104°
48°
0.00
0.12
0.22
4.59
6.21
0.00
0.16
0.35
9.14
11.01
0.00
0.08
0.33
17.84
15.56
PRECIPITATION (inches)
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
20%
N at 6 to 12 mph
4.2
0.27
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
7% of capacity
49% of capacity
21% of capacity
76% of capacity
3% of capacity
33% of capacity
Ontario
Meacham
Astoria
Powers
61/75
Hurricane Bob was 45 miles south of Cape
Hatteras, N.C., at 9 a.m. EDT on Aug. 18,
1991. It had sustained winds of 115 mph
and gusts to 130 mph. Hurricane warnings
were issued from the Carolinas to New
England.
SUN & MOON
THU.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
629 cfs
87 cfs
132 cfs
48 cfs
126 cfs
26 cfs
Last
FRI.
5:57 a.m. 5:58 a.m.
7:55 p.m. 7:53 p.m.
11:12 p.m. 11:42 p.m.
1:42 p.m. 2:49 p.m.
Aug 18
New
Aug 27
First
Sep 3
64/86
Full
Sep 10
Jordan Valley
60/86
Paisley
54/91
54/88
Frenchglen
62/92
66/93
Brookings
67/93
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
70/58/c
93/56/s
94/68/pc
73/56/s
93/56/s
71/57/pc
80/54/pc
93/61/c
92/59/s
85/55/pc
100/67/s
86/64/s
97/66/pc
91/58/s
87/57/pc
102/66/s
90/50/s
89/50/s
Hi/Lo/W
72/57/pc
94/59/s
96/70/pc
70/54/s
92/55/pc
71/56/s
86/54/s
94/60/pc
93/61/pc
90/57/s
100/65/s
93/65/s
98/65/pc
94/63/pc
89/61/pc
100/63/s
91/53/s
92/50/s
Grand View
Arock
67/93
60/91
58/88
Klamath Falls
52/90
Lakeview
49/89
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
62/91
Fields
Medford
56/73
Boise
71/94
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
65/94
55/90
57/88
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
MOON PHASES
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
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Afton, Wyo.
Sedalia, Mo.
High: 103°
Low: 42°
Wettest: Trace
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
57/93
58/89
50/87
Roseburg
Ontario
70/96
Burns
Brothers
60/86
Coos Bay
Huntington
59/88
60/93
Oakridge
66/93
72/94
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
Council
57/92
62/91
60/91
61/71
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.
56/86
John Day
59/93
Sisters
62/81
91 58
61/94
Baker City
Redmond
60/68
Halfway
Granite
61/80
Newport
59/64
92 58
66/96
60/83
62/83
Corvallis
Enterprise
58/89
63/93
Monument
73/92
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
6
Elgin
62/92
La Grande
72/90
Maupin
Comfort Index™
75/98
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
72/97
Hood River
72/99
TIllamook
57 92 54
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
70/102
Vancouver
63/81
60/73
Baker City
with a shift from fossil fuels to
renewable sources. Opposition to
those efforts in Nevada has come
from conservationists, tribes and
others who otherwise generally
support greener energy supply.
“At a time when climate change
is undisputedly one of the greatest
threats to the planet, it is disap-
pointing that the Center for Bio-
logical Diversity, a group with a
mission to protect the environ-
ment, is attempting to stop the
development of clean, renewable
energy sources,” Ormat Vice Pres-
ident Paul Thomsen said in an
email to The Associated Press.
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
97/70/pc
79/58/pc
91/55/s
93/62/s
64/52/pc
76/55/pc
96/67/pc
103/67/s
99/65/s
82/63/pc
75/57/pc
93/52/s
86/60/s
83/56/pc
96/65/pc
93/66/s
91/47/s
98/70/s
Hi/Lo/W
98/68/c
82/58/s
90/56/pc
96/64/s
65/53/s
78/54/pc
98/68/pc
99/62/s
96/65/s
85/63/pc
77/57/s
94/54/s
90/61/s
87/60/s
93/63/s
94/65/s
89/51/pc
95/69/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
Some sunshine
Warm with some sun
70
47
88
50
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny; warm
Very warm
81
56
99
65
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Partly sunny
Sunshine and warm
76
48
88
46
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Warm with some sun
Hot with sunshine
87
57
98
63
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; warm
92
54
93
58