COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
‘Family failure’ refuses to enable sibling’s behavior
house soon, which I cannot
allow because of the drinking
and drug use. I know they will
be upset that they can’t stay with
me. How do I protect my peace
without feeling like I’m making
my sibling homeless? — BAD
SISTER IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR BAD SISTER: Your
reason for not wanting to host
your substance-using sibling
is sensible. State it kindly and
clearly and do NOT feel guilty
about it. You won’t be making
your sibling homeless. Unless
your sibling is friendless, which
I doubt, they will fi nd another
place to crash, I assure you.
DEAR ABBY: My father
recently passed from cancer. He
was divorced from Mom, but
she helped take care of him and
made him happy in his last year
DEAR ABBY: I am the oldest
of three. We grew up in an abu-
sive alcoholic family. I’m consid-
ered the “failure” of the family
because I don’t drink. I grad-
uated from college, work full
time, got married and have a
pretty stable life.
Both of my younger siblings
drink and use drugs, and their
lives are in constant turmoil.
The youngest sibling has men-
tioned they will need to move
by the end of this month and
their current job has not paid
them for several weeks. I dread
that they will ask to stay at my
of life. I’m having the baby blues
(a 2- month-old) and grieving at
the same time.
My mother has now
announced that she plans to take
a vacation with her best friend. I
think it’s too soon and I told her
that. Am I wrong for feeling this
way and trying to stop her from
going? But at the same time, I
know she deserves this vacation.
I’m so confused. Please help.
— RIGHT OR WRONG IN
ARIZONA
DEAR RIGHT OR
WRONG: Allow me to off er my
sympathy for the loss of your
dad. Considering the recent
changes in your life, that you
“need” your mother is under-
standable. However, your mother
needing a break at this point is
also understandable, so please let
her go.
As you should know, your
baby blues may be happening
because of the abrupt hormonal
changes your body is experi-
encing after the birth of your
child. Discuss your emotions
with your doctor, because there
may be a medical solution for
your situation. Please don’t wait.
DEAR ABBY: Please don’t
think I’m misogynistic, but
whenever I see females, they’re
constantly talking or scrolling on
their cellphones. It seems like it
is all they do. They don’t seem to
be interested in anything except
their damned phones. They have
no personalities. They have no
sex drive. They’re not even inter-
ested in men. Some even seem
to lose their interest in shop-
ping, which we know is a female
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also begun experimenting
with herbs like basil and
italian parsley, and is even
foraging on their prop-
erty, for stinging nettle and
mushrooms.
Under their offi cial mon-
iker of Happy Walrus Farms,
the group began selling pro-
duce in La Grande at the
Saturday Market. It was
Koehn’s father Toby who
broached the idea for a farm
stand in Imbler. According
to Koehn, he wanted to pro-
vide a beacon for the com-
munity, and a space to get
fresh food without having to
drive into La Grande.
Koehn said she and her
mother Susan collaborated
to decide the color of the
stand’s eye-catching olive
green facade — complete
with a terracotta roof, citrine
trim and bright white doors.
“As we moved and lived
in diff erent houses when I
was a kid, my mom liked all
colors,” Koehn said of her
mother’s creative paint pref-
erences. “She’d paint every
room a diff erent color.”
One of the farm stand’s
unique features is its “self-
serve” purchasing system.
The stand is not staff ed, so
when visitors arrive, they
choose what they want to
take home, log it and pay
for it with cash, a check or
through the Venmo app.
Although they can’t always
be there, Koehn noted that
she, Howell and her parents
will check on the stand and
restock wherever they can.
“The four of us are quite
busy, so it would be a little
bit challenging to keep the
stand staff ed at all times,”
Koehn noted. “It’s just a little
bit more sustainable for our
business.”
Cascade shares are up
more than 40% over the
past two years, climbing
twice as fast as the broader
stock market.
And higher prices have
been good for the Oregon
Department of Forestry
and the counties that
receive state timber rev-
enue, according to Jason
Cox, a spokesperson for
the state agency. He said
stumpage prices — the
price timber companies pay
for the right to harvest trees
— remain up about 25%
from last year.
specifi c location in Imbler,”
she said.
Merrigan aims to check
on her fl ower corner of the
farm stand approximately
twice a week, putting in
fresh bouquets as needed.
She also wants to hold
monthly in-person events at
the farm stand for her fl ower
business.
“I think it’s a great
off ering for Imbler,” Mer-
rigan said. “I think they have
great plans to grow that site
in the future so it’s a great
starting point.”
Koehn noted that they
will continue adding to the
space’s welcoming facade
and hope to build a court-
yard next spring where
patrons can sit and enjoy a
cup of coff ee. Koehn empha-
sized that — more than more
important than the business
prospects of the space —
she, Howell, Susan and Toby
want the farm stand to make
buying local produce easier
for those in Union County.
“The goal for us, for
growing food, is not to make
a million dollars,” Koehn
said. “It’s to make sure folks
have local food to eat.”
The farm stand was also
recently certifi ed to accept
Oregon Farm Direct Nutri-
tion Program checks —
$4 vouchers that Oregon
WIC program participants
can spend on fresh, local-
ly-grown fruits, vegetables
and cut edible herbs. Koehn
noted that
“We trust the community
to treat us with respect and
we hope to treat the commu-
nity with respect as well.”
The farm stand’s next-
door neighbor, Jerry Weis-
sert at Valley Fabrication
& Machine helps keep the
bright green shed cool —
and provides the electricity
for the produce fridge.
Stacey Merrigan, owner
of Merrigan’s Fresh Cut
Flowers, also sells her
locally grown blooms in the
farm stand. She fi rst met
Toby Koehn at an Imbler
city council meeting, where
the two discussed the farm
stand — and the possibility
of Merrigan pitching in. She
said it’s been a great way to
off er her fl owers in a more
permanent way.
“That gives me a way to
showcase the fl owers at the
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Longview
56/69
Kennewick
57/78
St. Helens
59/85
64/93
Condon
62/98
62/86
57/84
Mostly sunny;
very warm
42 99 52
90 49
98 51
90 47
Eugene
6
3
8
54/85
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95 56
86 52
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4
8
Enterprise
3
50 97 54
Comfort Index™
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MON
94 55
87 50
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 121°
Low: 31°
Wettest: 3.75”
98°
45°
98°
48°
106°
47°
0.00
0.26
0.42
4.73
6.41
0.00
0.24
0.65
9.22
11.31
0.00
0.45
0.65
18.21
15.88
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
10%
SSE at 7 to 14 mph
12.3
0.29
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
4% of capacity
38% of capacity
16% of capacity
68% of capacity
3% of capacity
12% of capacity
The Dalles
Crescent
Brookings
On Sept. 1, 1950, Yuma, Ariz., had its hot-
test day ever, with a high of 123 degrees.
On the same day, the mercury in Mecca,
Calif., soared to 126 degrees -- the highest
U.S. reading ever in September.
SUN & MOON
THU.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
561 cfs
72 cfs
94 cfs
45 cfs
95 cfs
17 cfs
First
FRI.
6:14 a.m. 6:15 a.m.
7:30 p.m. 7:28 p.m.
12:04 p.m. 1:21 p.m.
9:58 p.m. 10:29 p.m.
Sep 3
Full
Sep 10
Last
Sep 17
Brothers
54/85
Coos Bay
54/98
Beaver Marsh
46/92
Roseburg
57/86
New
Sep 25
Jordan Valley
57/99
Paisley
51/98
Frenchglen
59/102
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Hi/Lo/W
69/58/c
99/52/s
102/68/s
62/54/c
102/55/s
68/55/c
82/55/s
100/58/s
99/55/s
85/57/s
103/63/s
93/63/s
103/68/s
101/55/s
96/52/s
102/63/s
95/47/s
97/46/s
Hi/Lo/W
74/57/pc
88/56/s
99/69/pc
69/53/s
96/53/s
73/57/s
85/55/s
97/58/pc
89/53/pc
85/56/s
89/55/s
89/61/s
92/62/pc
92/55/s
87/55/pc
90/57/pc
92/49/s
96/50/s
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
58/102
53/102
55/102
55/101
Klamath Falls
49/95
Lakeview
47/97
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
SAT.
Boise
63/102
Fields
63/97
FRI.
57/102
Silver Lake
49/94
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
52/102
60/94
51/62
Ontario
57/102
Burns
45/98
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
55/99
56/99
Oakridge
54/100
61/101
Seneca
54/102
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.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Del Rio, Texas
High: 104°
Low: 40°
Wettest: Trace
56/100
Council
42/99
56/101
Bend
56/74
52/100
49/94
John Day
51/101
Sisters
Elkton
Powers
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Florence
55/64
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
58/104
Redmond
54/63
56/68
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.
Monument
52/82
Newport
Enterprise
50/97
49/101
58/88
56/86
Corvallis
56/77
86 52
Elgin
50/99
La Grande
61/94
61/97
Idanha
Salem
Sunshine and
very hot
5
64/103
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
62/102
Hood River
60/105
Clear
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Walla Walla
56/102
Vancouver
58/84
SAT
49 101 54
OREGON
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
TIllamook
La Grande
“There’s a real public
benefi t there when those
timber prices are higher.
Because that translates to
higher revenue to counties
on the same (amount) of
timber,” Cox said. “We’re
in a better position to take
on proactive projects on
things like forest health,
conservation.”
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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.
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Baker City
addiction. It’s not cute. It’s not
normal, and it’s not sociable.
In fact, it’s bizarre and weird.
Is there one “halfway” normal
female left on this earth, or
should I move to another planet?
— READY TO BAIL IN NEW
JERSEY
DEAR READY: Have you
heard that men are from Mars?
Your space shuttle departs in 20
minutes. It’s a one-way trip. Safe
travels ...
P.S. I am not calling you
misogynistic, but it will be inter-
esting to see what my readers
call you. Stay tuned.
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
102/65/s
78/59/s
99/50/s
97/59/s
63/55/c
80/56/s
102/66/s
102/65/s
105/63/s
86/63/s
74/55/pc
101/51/s
86/59/s
86/56/s
96/62/s
98/65/s
100/50/s
103/67/s
Hi/Lo/W
91/63/pc
81/58/pc
85/49/pc
96/60/s
68/54/pc
81/54/pc
99/61/pc
93/56/pc
87/60/s
83/61/pc
79/58/s
90/53/s
89/58/s
83/56/pc
86/58/pc
93/62/s
85/50/s
88/61/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
Sunny and warm
Sunny and hot
79
49
93
52
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny; very warm
Sunshine; very hot
90
52
102
60
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunny and warm
Hot with sunshine
84
46
96
47
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Hot with sunshine
Sunshine; very hot
96
52
104
61
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very hot
Sunshine; very hot
99
52
101
54