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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, June 16, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Teen tells mom to stay away during his band performances FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My 15-year-old son have accomplished more than I ever will be entering 10th grade. He has thought I could (considering my been a member of the school band upbringing), traveled as much as I since sixth grade. After performing in wanted, always strived to be a good last year’s Christmas parade, a group husband and father, a good employer, of the students went to a nursing home a loyal volunteer, a supportive friend to perform for the residents. When we and good neighbor. I have done so arrived, I started to get out of the car many different things during my life with my son so I could listen, as other that at this point, the thrill is gone. Jeanne parents were doing. My son seemed Phillips At 56, I am tired of working, tired surprised that I was going to stay and of travel, bored with my hobbies and Advice said he would rather I didn’t because sick of dealing with most people in I make him nervous. Needless to say, general. I’m relaxed and laugh easily I was devastated. and have good relationships, but nothing Now, whenever there’s a concert, festival, excites me anymore. Honestly, if the Grim parade or football game, I stay away, Reaper tapped me on the shoulder and said, although I love to listen and watch the band “Pack your bags; tomorrow’s the day,” I’d play. When I don’t attend, I feel hurt all over just shrug and ask, “What time?” again. I’m his mother. I’m at a loss as to why I have been to the doctor. He said I’m I make him nervous, because I have always depressed, but I don’t FEEL depressed. I think given him positive feedback regarding any the meds he put me on made me depressed! I performance. Should I respect his wishes and went to a couple of therapists who told me I stay away, or go because it is what makes me don’t need therapy; I just need to find a new happy? — Missing The Show In Michigan “spark.” So what’s a person to do? Must I Dear Missing The Show: Have you keep wallowing through the days waiting for ASKED your son why your presence makes the end? Am I the only person who feels this him nervous when he performs? His answer way? — Wallowing In The North might be enlightening. It could be something Dear Wallowing: You are not the only as simple as the fact that you are his mother. person who feels this way, and NO, you don’t Sometimes teens become self-conscious have to keep “wallowing.” It appears you are simply because a parent is present, which experiencing a plain old-fashioned midlife may be the case with your son. That said, if crisis. Contact the psychologist with whom you wish to attend his performances, I think you felt the most connection — or search for you should, IF you can do it unobtrusively, another one until you do — and discuss what preferably out of his line of sight, and refrain you are experiencing in those terms, because from giving him feedback. you need more help than I — or anyone — Dear Abby: Life has me worn out. I can give you in a letter. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 16, 1917 R.E. Paddock, well known Walla Walla traveling hardware salesman, is slightly crippled, his Mitchell Six runabout is a wreck and one of the recently erected Court street flagpoles is badly bent as a result of a head-on charge made by the car and which the pole abruptly ended. The collision happened sometime after midnight when Paddock was starting for his home. The car struck the flagpole squarely and with such force that the concrete abutment, which was hardly dry, was broken and scattered for a distance of ten feet while the pole was split and broken at the base. The pole is in the center of the intersection of Court and College streets and the tracks of the car show that the auto was swerved sharply to the center of the street about 40 feet west of the pole and then headed straight at the pole as if the driver could not see it. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 16, 1967 Now in temporary foster home care at the home Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carter, Milton-Free- water, is a three or four day old fawn. The BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE fawn, product of a weevil crew expedition into the foothills near Weston for Lamb- Weston by Allan Carter, the Carters’ son, was discovered by John Lee, another member of the crew, when Lee stepped on the fawn and he squeaked. The fawn is being fed by bottle, after which he promptly curls up and goes back to sleep, according to Mrs. Carter. Oregon State Game Commission officials are to pick him up for transport to the children’s section of the Portland Zoo. Apparently, the doe had been frightened away by the crew or had abandoned the fawn. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 16, 1992 A new manufacturing plant that makes conveyance system parts used in food processing and agriculture has opened at Hermiston. Noffsinger West Manufacturing Inc. is a joint venture between Noffsinger Manufacturing of Greeley, Colo., and A&M Supply of Hermiston. A 7,000-square-foot addition has been built onto A&M Supply’s building on North Highway 395 to accommo- date the plant, which may employ up to 15 to 20 people in the first year. Mike and Phil Arterburn operate A&M Supply, which has been selling related parts for the past 10 years. 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 167th day of 2017. There are 198 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 16, 1967, the three-day Monterey Interna- tional Pop Music Festival, a major event of the “Summer of Love,” opened in northern California; among the featured acts were Jefferson Airplane, The Who, the Grateful Dead, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and Ravi Shankar. On this date: In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but ended up imprisoned again.) In 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” In 1903, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated. In 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act became law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.) In 1942, a second four-man team of Nazi saboteurs landed in Florida, three days after another group arrived on Long Island, New York. (The plot was foiled when two members of the first team agreed to betray their comrades.) In 1956, poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were married in London. In 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 times before returning safely. In 2015, real estate mogul Donald Trump launched his successful campaign to become President of the United States with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Eileen Atkins (TV: “The Crown”; “Doc Martin”) is 83. Actor Bill Cobbs is 83. Author Joyce Carol Oates is 79. Country singer Billy “Crash” Craddock is 79. Songwriter Lamont Dozier is 76. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Levert is 75. Actress Joan Van Ark is 74. Actor Geoff Pierson is 68. Rhythm-and-blues singer James Smith (The Stylistics) is 67. Boxing Hall of Famer Roberto Duran is 66. Pop singer Gino Vannelli is 65. Actress Laurie Metcalf is 62. Actor Arnold Vosloo is 55. Actor Danny Burstein is 53. Model-actress Jenny Shimizu is 50. Actor James Patrick Stuart is 49. Rapper MC Ren is 48. Actor Clifton Collins Jr. is 47. Golfer Phil Mickelson is 47. Actor John Cho is 45. Actor Eddie Cibrian is 44. Thought for Today: “Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worse. Not to hope is unthinkable. Not to care is unforgivable.” — Nigerian saying. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
