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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 14, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wedding guests are perplexed by toasts that turn to roasts FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: We have been ever he is doing to be there for me attending the weddings of our friends’ emotionally, and everyone who meets children and work colleagues. We him tells me how lucky I am to have enjoy them, but we have noticed a found such a great guy. change in some of the traditions. My question is, should I stay with The best man’s and maid of my loving, caring boyfriend or is it honor’s toasts to the bride and groom WLPH WR ¿QG VRPHRQH ZLWK WKH VDPH seem to have devolved into telling goals I have? — Confused In Florida stories about their past escapades. Dear Confused: Ask yourself Jeanne This includes tales of all-night Phillips which is more important to you — a partying, how drunk they were, other loving and emotionally supportive Advice embarrassing incidents and “digs” at spouse or a hard worker who may the bride and groom. Some of these be less so. Only you can decide the speeches can go on for more than 10 minutes! answer to that question. Abby, many guests attending these cele- Dear Abby: I am the mom of three brations really don’t care to hear these kinds wonderful little girls, but as of late not so of things. I’m sure the couple’s new boss or wonderful. My husband and I work hard to their grandparents are quite shocked at some teach them manners and respect, but we can’t of the revelations they hear. Has this occasion seem to get across to them to be grateful for turned into a roast? — Don’t Know What To what they have. Make Of It We don’t have a lot of money because we Dear Don’t Know: It appears that some of live on one income, and we don’t spoil them the weddings you have attended have. There often because we can’t afford to. Twice now, are occasions when sometimes the less said one of my girls has been unhappy with a gift the better, if only to protect the guilty, and this VKH UHFHLYHG7KH ¿UVW RQH VKH WKUHZ DZD\ is one of them. the second she refused to even accept! This Dear Abby: I am a 22-year-old woman isn’t how we raised her. who enjoys achieving things in life. For I thought about doing some volunteer example, I recently bought a house and paid work with them, but I fear they are too young for all the remodeling with my own money. for it (4, 7 and 9). I want to raise kind, caring I have been with my boyfriend for seven and giving girls. Your thoughts on this matter \HDUVRQDQGRII+HZDVP\¿UVWER\IULHQG would be great. — Grateful Mom In Colo- ¿UVW NLVV HWF DQG EHFDXVH RI WKDW , KDYH rado always felt a deep connection with him. My Dear Grateful Mom: Your 7- and problem is he doesn’t have goals for the 9-year-olds are NOT too young to learn that future and just lives his life a day at a time. many children have far less than they do. He’s comfortable with his low-income job Sometimes people need to see with their own and doesn’t plan on going to school. eyes the challenges that others have to cope He moved into my house six months ago, with in order to appreciate how fortunate they which makes our relationship that much more are. I think your idea of having them do some serious. Something I absolutely adore about volunteer work with you is an excellent one, him is his loving nature. He drops what- and it is not too early to start. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 14, 1916 To form a port district comprising the terri- tory between German Hall and Umatilla and to bond the same for the purpose of constructing at an approximate cost of $420,000 a double track Pitman concrete roadway from German Hall to the Columbia river at Umatilla is the purpose of a move now underway here. To this end a petition calling for an election to form WKHSRUWGLVWULFWKDVDOUHDG\EHHQ¿OHGZLWKWKH county court. The petition is signed by 60 resi- dents of the proposed port which will be known as the port of Umatilla. Under the law of 1909 it is obligatory on the court to call the election as requested and it is presumed action will be taken at a court session in the near future. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 14, 1966 A $5,000 house sold for $5 and a $15,000 house sold for $2,750 as the State Highway Department auctioned off 27 houses that are in the path of the Interstate 80-N bypass of Pendleton. The state paid the original owners $5,000 for the one house and $14,900 for the other. Tuesday’s sale produced considerably PRUH ELGGLQJ WKDQ GLG WKH ¿UVW RIIHULQJ RI IUHHZD\KRXVHV7KH¿UVWVDOHLQ-XQHVROGRQO\ one house. Tuesday’s sale saw buyers grab 19 of the 27 houses. One Hermiston bidder managed to buy three for a total of $50. Vern 2OVHQEHFDPHWKH¿UVWSHUVRQGLVSODFHGE\WKH freeway to buy back his own house. He bid $200 for his former home which he plans to move to a new lot. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 14, 1991 We rarely get an opportunity to focus a lifetime of experience in one experience of a lifetime, but climber Carl Garczynski will get that chance on Everest, the mountain Tibetans call Chomolungma, “Goddess Mother of the World,” Part-time Pendleto- nian Garczynski, 55, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, has earned his way onto the Everest 1992, Tibet/The North Ridge expedition that will assault the world’s tallest mountain next spring. Garczynski and his family have been making an annual summer migration to Pendleton, where he is D¿UHVHDVRQZHDWKHUIRUHFDVWHUIRU\HDUV He’s an agricultural weather forecaster in Indio, Calif., the rest of the time. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 196th day of 2016. There are 170 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 14, 1966, the city of Chicago awoke to the shocking news that eight student nurses had been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormi- tory. The victims, ranging in age from 20 to 24, were 3DPHOD :LONHQLQJ 6X]DQQH )DUULV 0DU\ $QQ -RUGDQ 1LQD -R 6FKPDOH 9DOHQWLQD 3DVLRQ 0HUOLWD *DUJXOOR 3DWULFLD0DWXVHNDQG*ORULD Jean Davy. (One woman, Corazon Amurao, survived by hiding under a bed.) Drifter Richard Speck was convicted of the mass killing and condemned to death, but had his sentence reduced to life in prison, where he died in 1991. On this date: In 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside. In 1865, the Matterhorn, straddling Italy and Swit- zerland, was summited as a seven-member rope party led by British climber Edward Whymper reached the peak. (Four members of the party fell to their deaths during WKHLUGHVFHQW:K\PSHUDQG two guides survived.) In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner in present-day New Mexico. In 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed. In 1945, Italy formally declared war on Japan, its former Axis partner during World War II. In 1999, race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Harry Dean Stanton is 90. Actress Nancy Olson is 88. Former football player and actor Rosey Grier is 84. Actor Vincent Pastore is 70. Music company executive Tommy Mottola is 68. Rock musician Chris Cross (Ultravox) is 64. Actor Jerry Houser is 64. Actor-director Eric Laneu- ville is 64. Actor Stan Shaw is 64. Movie producer Scott Rudin is 58. Singer-guitarist Kyle Gass is 56. Country musician Ray Herndon (McBride and the Ride) is 56. Actress Jane Lynch is 56. Thought for Today: “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like \RX¿QGLW<RXJRWWRFKDQJH with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” — Woody Guthrie, American folk sing- er-songwriter (born this date in 1912, died in 1967). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
