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Tuesday, February 28, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Adoptive families celebrate with special day each year FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: As parents of an and she’ll do what she wants. This adopted child, we were concerned has driven a wedge between us, and about when we would have “the I’m not sure if we can move forward. conversation.” Then a neighbor told What is your advice? — Unmarked us about how they would celebrate In Nevada “Gotcha Day” with their adopted Dear Unmarked: To me, what’s daughter each year. important is not that your wife got the Gotcha Day is a day to celebrate tattoo without discussing it with you, because it’s the day we became a but her motive for doing it in secret. Jeanne family. We “adopted” their idea and Phillips My advice is to do nothing in haste or have been doing something special on in anger. Try to get her to explain to Advice this day since before our child could you what the tattoo symbolizes to her, even say the word “gotcha.” because it may be important. After Early on, she had no idea what we were that, whether you decide to move forward celebrating; she just knew it was a special — or move out — is something only you can day for us. Through the years, she was able decide. to process exactly what it meant at her own Dear Abby: My co-worker tried to commit pace, which relieved the need to ever have suicide last year. She took eight months that dreaded conversation. Recently our off after that. Now we are approaching the daughter told us she loves this day more than one-year anniversary. her actual birthday! We work for a small, family-owned busi- I thought I’d share this with other adoptive ness. Everyone knows she tried to kill herself, parents who worry about when the right time but no one knows why. She has reduced her might be to explain to their child that they hours and her stress level, at least at work. I were prayed for, wanted, loved and adopted. have picked up most of her duties, and I’m — Blessed Parents In Pennsylvania quick to lend a hand. She’s a lot older than I Dear Blessed Parents: I had never heard am, and I’m not comfortable lending an ear. of anything like this, but I think it’s a great How do we handle this situation? Do we concept and certainly worth sharing with my act like it’s just like any other normal day? — readers. Thank you! Uncomfortable At Work Dear Abby: After 32 years of marriage, Dear Uncomfortable: If your co-worker my wife went out and got a tattoo on her wanted to disclose her reason(s) for trying shoulder. It’s about 8 inches by 6 inches (quite to kill herself, you would already know large), and she did it without any advance what drove her. Because a suicide attempt is discussion with me, which has left me sort nothing to celebrate, be sensitive and don’t of shocked. Her position is that it’s her body draw attention to it unless she brings it up. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 27-28, 1917 A story of an attack made by a bald eagle upon a band seven deer was brought down this morning from Bingham Springs by Albert Baker, forest ranger at that station. He personally witnessed the attack several days ago. The eagle would swoop down upon the deer from a height and strike one of the animals with such force that it would be prostrated. This the eagle repeated several times. He was unable to see the finish of the eagle’s attack as the deer disappeared over a ridge. However, he thinks the animals escaped their winged assailant by taking to the brush. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 27-28, 1967 The Oregon State Police, alarmed by the high percentage of single car accidents in this area, are planning stepped up enforcement to stem this rise. Sgt. Tom Taylor, of the Pend- leton detachment, said the state police are launching a campaign to tell the public about the high frequency of singe car accidents and urge that something be done about them. “There is no reason for a one-car accident. They are stupid and unwarranted,” he said. During the past year of the 755 accidents investigated in Eastern Oregon by the state police, 385, or over 50 per cent, were one-car accidents. In Umatilla County there was a total of 263 accidents for the same period and 137, or 52 per cent, were one-car accidents. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 27-28, 1992 A new computerized fingerprint checking system led to the arrest in Milton-Freewater of a burglary suspect who had been recently paroled from the medium-security prison in Pendleton. The Automated Fingerprint Identification System helped identify a man who entered a residence through a broken window Jan. 20. The suspect left his finger- print on a piece of the glass when he moved it to gain access, said Oregon State Trooper John Gaukroger. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 59th day of 2017. There are 306 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 28, 1917, The Associated Press reported that the United States had obtained a diplomatic communication sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to a German official in Mexico; the “Zimmermann Note,” which had been intercepted and decoded by Britain, proposed a German alliance with Mexico and Japan should the U.S. enter World War I. (Outrage over the tele- gram helped propel America into the conflict.) On this date: In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded as the ship was sailing on the Potomac River, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secre- tary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others. In 1861, the Territory of Colorado was organized. In 1942, the heavy cruiser USS Houston and the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth were attacked by Japanese forces during the World War II Battle of Sunda Strait; both were sunk shortly after midnight on March 1 with a total loss of more than 1,000 men. In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. In 1960, a day after defeating the Soviets at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, the United States won its first Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia, 9-4. In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm. (The killing remains unsolved.) In 1993, a gun battle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on weapons charges; four agents and six David- ians were killed as a 51-day standoff began. In 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in 600 years to resign, ending an eight-year pontificate. Today’s Birthdays: Architect Frank Gehry is 88. Actor Gavin MacLeod is 86. Singer Sam the Sham is 80. Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 78. Hall of Fame auto racer Mario Andretti is 77. Actor Frank Bonner is 75. Actress Kelly Bishop is 73. Actress Steph- anie Beacham is 70. Writ- er-director Mike Figgis is 69. Actress Mercedes Ruehl is 69. Actress Bernadette Peters is 69. Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu is 69. Actress Ilene Graff is 68. Nobel Prize-winning econ- omist Paul Krugman is 64. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is 62. Basketball Hall of Famer Adrian Dantley is 62. Actor John Turturro is 60. Rock singer Cindy Wilson is 60. Actress Rae Dawn Chong is 56. Actress Maxine Bahns is 48. Actor Robert Sean Leonard is 48. Rock singer Pat Monahan is 48. Author Daniel Handler (aka “Lemony Snicket”) is 47. Thought for Today: “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, American histo- rian, educator and Librarian of Congress (1914-2004). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE