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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, March 24, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom’s adult children are slow to embrace her new husband 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 Dear Abby: I lost my husband a We employ our 16-year-old niece to few years ago and am now remarried. watch our boys, ages 8 and 10, during Some of my adult children, although the summer and school breaks. We they did not want me to be alone and pay her well to come to our home and they “say” they are happy for me, watch them eight hours a day. have been slow in welcoming my My problem is, her younger new husband. brother is my son’s best friend. He gets I in no way expect him to be a invited to their house for a sleepover replacement for their father. I only the day before we need a sitter, and Jeanne wish they would welcome him into Phillips both boys go. Then the next day their their lives as they would anyone else’s mom says our niece watched them, Advice spouse. They don’t have to love him. and therefore she should get paid for I ask only that they respect him and that day, too. Abby, the mom is there acknowledge that he’s part of my life now. all day. Wishing him a happy birthday and happy To me, a cousin sleepover isn’t something holidays directly would go a long way to that should be charged for. Their children have making him feel accepted, as would more come to our house for years for sleepovers, general communication. and I never charged them. He has tried on numerous occasions to Is this OK? And if not, how do we refuse? show an interest in their lives, but he receives We have already told her we prefer the boys little acknowledgment in return. His children to be watched at our home, so they receive have welcomed me into their lives. This has one-on-one time. What do you think about strained and changed my relationship with this? — Cousin Sleepover my children. Dear C.S.: What do I think? I think you I just want a family again. Is it asking too have been taken advantage of. A baby sitter much of them to accept my husband as part is hired when there is no adult in the home of the family and to treat him that way? — to supervise the children. If your nephew’s Missing My Family In Florida mother can’t be home when your boys have Dear Missing: Have you told your been invited for a sleepover, the person who children that the cool reception they have should pay for the baby sitter is her — not given your husband is harmful not only to you. If you want to put an end to this, tell the him but also to you? If you have and they are woman exactly what I have told you. still unable to warm up to him, it’s time to Dear Abby: I am a step-grandfather. Must concentrate your efforts on building closer I go to a grandchild’s church performances relationships with those relatives who are even though I’m an atheist? — Command willing to be more welcoming. Performance In Oregon Remember, we can’t change other people. Dear Command: If you want a close We can, however, change ourselves, and by and loving relationship with your grandchild doing so, change the way we REACT to (notice I didn’t say “step-”), you should abso- them. lutely be present to encourage and support Dear Abby: I have a family dilemma. that child! DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 24, 1917 A small boy in the city this morning found a satchel in which he discovered what he thought was a large dead lizard. He took it to the office of Major Lee Moorhouse and upon examination it was found to be a gila monster, the poisonous lizard of Arizona. It had prob- ably died on the hands of some showman who had thrown it away here. It is about a foot long and marked with orange spots. Major Moorhouse will have it mounted. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 24, 1967 Making the Umatilla Indian sub-agency a full agency will amount to little more than a name change at the present, but will give the local Indians a big morale boost. Harold Duck, assistant superintendent who will now be known as superintendent of the Umatilla Indian Agency, said this action means that the local Indian tribe will be recognized as a full-fledged agency of its own and not as a sub-agency of the Warm Springs Indians. Duck said one thing the new status will do for his office will give it a more direct and quicker access to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 24, 1992 The Umatilla County Veterans’ Service officer has been placed on administrative leave since the release of a report alleging that his office is in “logistical and administrative disarray.” Lorin O’Gara, the county’s veterans’ service officer since July 1990, will meet with the Umatilla County Commissioners on Wednesday to discuss his future with the county. At the request of the commissioners, the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs conducted a review of O’Gara’s office March 10, and found that as many as 75 veterans’ claims filed in the last six months had not been processed. Reached at his home Monday, O’Gara said he would not comment until after the Wednesday meeting with commissioners. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 83rd day of 2017. There are 282 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colo- nists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. On this date: In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. In 1913, New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill granting future indepen- dence to the Philippines. In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers. In 1958, rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1965, Ranger 9, a lunar probe launched three days earlier by NASA, crashed into the moon (as planned) after sending back more than 5,800 video images. In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. British war hero Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, died in Alton, Hampshire, England. In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil. In 1997, at the 69th Annual Academy Awards, “The English Patient” won best picture and director (Anthony Minghella); Frances McDor- mand won best actress for “Fargo” while Geoffrey Rush won best actor for “Shine.” In 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. Today’s Birthdays: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 98. Actor William Smith is 84. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 78. Actor R. Lee Ermey is 73. Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire is 70. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 69. Singer Nick Lowe is 68. Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is 66. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 66. Comedian Louie Anderson is 64. Actress Donna Pescow is 63. Actor Robert Carradine is 63. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is 61. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 57. Country-rock musician Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) is 53. NFL quarterback Peyton Manning is 41. Actress Lake Bell is 38. Thought for Today: “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsi- bility in the realm of faith and morals.” — Albert Schweitzer, German-born missionary and Nobel laureate (1875-1965). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
