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Friday, April 28, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Teen struggles after heroin addiction claims dad’s life FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m 15. I lost my dad father did NOT die because you took two months ago. I found him when I a shower. He died because he had a got out of the shower. He had over- heroin addiction he couldn’t conquer. dosed on heroin. It is very important that you talk Heroin controlled Dad’s life with a grief counselor and possibly ever since I was little, but that never join a grief support group. If your stopped me from being me. My family family can’t arrange counseling for has had it pretty rough, but that never you, please talk with a school coun- stopped me from being me, either. selor or your clergyperson. There is Jeanne I can’t process the thought of Phillips a light at the end of this dark tunnel, losing my dad completely. I’m and you’ll start seeing it once you get Advice scared without him. The mental some professional help. picture comes back to me randomly Dear Abby: I’ve been reading throughout the day. your column for years, but never thought I can’t take it anymore. I know he’s at I’d have to write to you. This year my aunt peace now, but I still feel like it’s my fault hosted a family dinner and did a wonderful that he’s dead because I took a shower and job — everything was delicious. There was wasn’t with him. I feel like it should have only one problem. She was upset (everyone been me, not him. He had just gotten out of at the table could see it and feel the tension) jail a month before he died. because I ate “too much” meat and she didn’t I can’t keep crying myself to sleep. I need have enough for leftovers. a way to cope and right now I feel like I’m at I did eat more than everyone else that night rock bottom and can’t return. I just want to be (doesn’t happen often), but I say if the food is normal like the kids I go to school with. Why on the table, it’s fair game. If you don’t want can’t I be a normal teen? — Rock Bottom people to eat it, don’t serve it. I’m asking Teen for an official ruling, please. — Overate In Dear Rock Bottom: I am so sorry for Buffalo what you have been going through. You ARE Dear Overate: A gracious host or hostess a normal teen, and in my opinion, you are should not become upset if a guest eats the much more resilient than you think you are. food that’s presented. If the host or hostess You have had a terrible shock, and in doesn’t want guests to polish off everything addition to the normal grieving process, you that has been prepared, the food should be may be suffering from survivor guilt. Your plated in advance. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 28, 1917 Wandering away from their home at Vansycle and becoming lost while hunting for pretty buttercups last evening Doris and Frances, seven and five year old daughters of Charles Lobaugh, Northern Pacific section foreman at Vansycle, remained out on the hills all last night while their parents and scores of people from Vansycle and Helix searched the country for them. Early this morning the two little ones, weary from their night’s experience but unharmed, arrived at the Alheit place at Vansycle and were taken in. They had been asleep in the sagebrush and the southbound Northern Pacific freight train awakened them. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 28, 1967 Residents of the McKay Creek area, worried about the prospect of commercial establishments moving into their peaceful valley, turned out Wednesday to object to a proposed animal hospital. “We fear it’s a foot in the door,” said Earl King, one of about 30 persons who attended a hearing conducted by the Umatilla County Planning Commission in the courthouse. The hearing, continued from last month, lasted about two hours. More than an hour later, with midnight approaching, the commission tabled the question. It will decide at its May meeting whether to grant the condi- tional use permit requested by veterinarian Stan McGough and landowner Patricia Kaser. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 28, 1992 The mood was described as stressful and disappointing, but employees at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution are trying to remain “upbeat” in the aftershock of the prison’s proposed closure. Meanwhile, community and business leaders still are reeling from the Corrections Department proposal, which has been described locally as ludicrous, ridiculous and utterly inappropriate. Pendleton Mayor Joe McLaughlin, who returned from a trip to Japan Monday night, said this morning he hoped it was a bad dream. “I leave town for a week and look what happens,” McLaughlin said. 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 118th day of 2017. There are 247 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 28, 1967, heavy- weight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces. U.S. Army Gen. William C. Westmoreland told Congress that “backed at home by resolve, confidence, patience, determination and continued support, we will prevail in Vietnam over communist aggression.” McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft merged to form McDonnell Douglas. On this date: In 1758, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was born in West- moreland County, Virginia. In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. In 1789, there was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship, led by Fletcher Christian, set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.) In 1925, the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, which gave rise to the term “Art Deco,” began a six-month run in Paris. In 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country. In 1947, a six-man expedition set out from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to the Polyne- sian Islands. In 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied commander in Europe; he was succeeded by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. In 1996, a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle went on a rampage on the Australian island of Tasmania, killing 35 people; the gunman was captured by police after a 12-hour standoff at a guest cottage, and is now serving a life prison sentence. Ten years ago: A suicide car bomber struck in Karbala, Iraq, killing at least 63 people. Five years ago: Syria derided United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased and called his comments “outrageous” after he blamed the regime for widespread cease-fire violations. One year ago: Vice Pres- ident Joe Biden pressed Iraq during an unannounced visit not to let its crippling polit- ical crisis upend hard-fought gains against the Islamic State group. Today’s Birthdays: Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III is 87. Actor Frank Vincent is 80. Actress-singer Ann-Margret is 76. Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno is 67. Rock singer-musician Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) is 64. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is 57. Bridget Moynahan is 46. Actress Penelope Cruz is 43. Actress Jessica Alba is 36. Thought for Today: “The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.” — Hannah More, English religious writer (1745-1833). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE