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Page 8C East Oregonian COFFEE BREAK Saturday, May 28, 2016 DEAR ABBY Teen’s friendship with older man draws ire from parents Dear Abby: My 18-year-old Dear Bullied: Yes, I do. This may daughter, a junior in high school, is not be bullying in the physical sense, but losing a friend can be painful. still living at home. She has befriended It is important that you realize that a 51-year-old man at her irst job (a people aren’t inanimate objects that burger place). We have told her that can be “owned” or “stolen.” Much as although she is kind to be friendly with we might wish it, relationships do not him at work, we feel it’s inappropriate always stay the same. Friendships to do things with him outside of work. can be stronger at times and weaker She’s now upset with us and claims Jeanne we “don’t understand,” “nothing Phillips at others, and people sometimes drift from one close friendship to another. romantic is going on” and she thinks Advice When this happens, regard it of him like a “second father.” as an OPPORTUNITY, because Although they have not gotten together yet outside of work, she announced that’s what it is. It’s a chance for you to get last weekend that she was going to meet him involved in activities that will expose you for lunch. We put our foot down and told her to new people and offer you a way to make no way, and she was forbidden to borrow NEW friends. Dear Abby: A friend of mine and his wife either of our vehicles to go. (She doesn’t have her own car yet.) She relented, but how can invited me out to dinner and I graciously we convince her that this is a bad idea with the thanked them. They are both employed. I live strictly on Social Security and pay world the way it is nowadays? I have suggested to her father (with whom 30 percent of my income for rent, barely my daughter has a close relationship) that he making ends meet. I wanted to reciprocate, so I invited them speak to this man one on one. My husband feels this is something she has to learn for over for a home-cooked meal. My friend herself. She’s very naive. What do you think? came, but his wife is shy and didn’t come. (I had a couple of other friends over.) — Mom Of A Teen If someone wants to reciprocate being Dear Mom: Frankly, I think your husband is right. While you may wish to protect your taken out for dinner, isn’t it acceptable to daughter, she’s an adult now. People learn invite them over for a home-cooked meal or more life lessons from experience than they must they be taken out? — Tentative Host In Massachusetts do from lectures. Dear Tentative: No rule of etiquette Dear Abby: I am 11 years old and having some big bully blues. There is one girl in my dictates that you must take your guests out class who steals friends. She’s been taking to dinner. Inviting them for a home-cooked meal was both gracious and appropriate. mine. Any advice? — Bullied In Georgia DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1916 A lively runaway occurred Friday in Ukiah when Hugh Lenz’s big team became frightened while he was ixing fence on his farm and bolted straight for town, coming in on a back street. In making the turn around I.R. Lawrence’s store the wagon struck the porch, leaving the hind wheels of the wagon, and when the team reached Main Street it ran into the Fred Peterson yard where it collided with the fence posts, tearing them down and striking the porch, tearing out the cornerpost and mashing a wheel of the wagon. There a horse fell and they were caught without further damage. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1966 Pendleton High’s track and ield entries in the state A-1 meet at Corvallis had mixed success Friday in the preliminaries but one of the successes was outstanding. According to a telephone call from Coach Grant Schiewe last evening, Jim Gorman, second in the state 880 last year, won the fastest heat Friday in 1:55.4, a school record for Pendleton. It was seven-tenths of a second faster than the 1:56.1 set by Dick Hall of Pendleton at Corvallis in 1964. Gorman also is qualiied for the mile, which will be run in its entirety today with no preliminaries. Schiewe said he was leaving it up to Gorman whether he would skip the mile and concentrate on winning the 880, or attempt them both. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 28-29, 1991 The new Umatilla Welcome Center and the remodeled James H. Sturgis Bridge will be dedicated together in a public ceremony Saturday, June 1. At 1 p.m. the Welcome Center will be dedicated by Julie Curtis of Salem, acting director of the state Tourism Division; Mike Thorne, the former state senator from Pendleton who now directs the Port of Portland; Chuck Norris, state represen- tative from Hermiston; Gordon Bell, interim director of the Washington Tourism Division, and Karen Miller, president of the Tri-Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau. At 1:30 p.m. the Sturgis Bridge will be dedicated by J.X. Wilson of La Grande, the top-ranking super- visor in the state Highway Division’s Region 5. The Sturgis family will be represented by granddaughter Melinda Matlock Tetherow of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 149th day of 2016. There are 217 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. On this date: In 1533, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Fran- cisco. In 1912, the Senate Commerce Committee issued its report on the Titanic disaster that cited a “state of absolute unpre- paredness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.” In 1929, the irst all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!” produced by Warner Bros., opened in New York. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular trafic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain. In 1940, during World War II, the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces. In 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital light that both primates survived. In 1998, comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio” fame was shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself. Today’s Birthdays: Rockabilly singer-musi- cian Sonny Burgess is 87. Actress Carroll Baker is 85. Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 85. Actor John Karlen is 83. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Jerry West is 78. Actress Beth Howland is 75. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is 72. Singer Gladys Knight is 72. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 72. Singer Billy Vera is 72. Actor Jean-Pierre Leaud is 72. Singer John Fogerty is 71. Country musi- cian Jerry Douglas (Alison Krauss and Union Station) is 60. Actor Louis Mustillo is 58. U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C.., is 56. Actor Brandon Cruz (TV: “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”) is 54. Country singer Phil Vassar is 52. Actress Christa Miller is 52. Singer-musician Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA) is 51. Rapper Chubb Rock is 48. Singer Kylie Minogue is 48. Actor Justin Kirk is 47. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is 45. Olympic gold medal igure skater Ekaterina Gordeeva is 45. Television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is 39. Actor Jake Johnson is 38. Actor Jesse Bradford is 37. Actress Monica Keena is 37. Actress Alexa Davalos is 34. Actress Megalyn Echikun- woke is 34. Thought for Today: “The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.” — Corra May Harris, American writer (1869-1935).
