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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, October 13, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Clerk gets lesson in privacy from owner of a service dog 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: Yesterday I was in a animal or ask what tasks the animal retail store with my service dog. The has been trained to perform, but clerk asked me what kind of service cannot require special ID cards for dog she was and I replied, “She’s the animal or ask about the person’s my service dog.” She kept pressing disability.” me as to exactly why I have one, so Dear Abby: I have been friends I asked her if she was inquiring about with a woman for the last 30 years. my disability. When she said, “Yes,” Our children are the same age. My I politely informed her that federal daughter, who is in her late 20s, has Jeanne HIPAA laws protect my right to Phillips a number of tattoos on her arm that privacy. She then said — loud enough she can cover with clothing if she Advice for everyone in the store to hear — “I chooses. However, she doesn’t cover don’t know what the big deal is. I just them often because she likes them want to know what the dog does for you.” and they mean something to her. Please let your readers know how to be Recently, I showed my friend a picture of around a person and their service animal: my daughter that showed one of the tattoos 1. You do NOT have the right to ask on her upper arm. My friend said, “Oh, I am about the person’s disability. To do so is so sorry about the tattoo,” and proceeded to rude. Most people prefer strangers not know cover the tattoo with her hand, implying that their medical condition. The dog may be for my daughter would be attractive if it weren’t PTSD, a hearing or seeing dog, or to alert the for the body art. I was shocked. person to a medical emergency. I have always been supportive of my 2. Children (and adults) need to understand friend’s children and have never criticized that when service animals’ jackets go on, the any of them, even though I haven’t agreed dogs know it’s time to go to “work,” and they with everything they have done. I was so take their job seriously. At that point, they are hurt by her comment that I was speechless. not pets and should not be treated as such. If I’m not sure I can continue the relationship a child rushes a service dog, the animal may feeling this way. But I’m hesitant to lose a react badly because it is there to protect its 30-year friendship over something I might be person. overblowing. Am I being too sensitive? How 3. You may ask to pet the dog, but don’t do I resolve this? — Completely Thrown By assume it will be allowed. If given permis- This sion, the dog should be scratched under the Dear Thrown: For a friendship of 30 chin ONLY. years to end over one thoughtless comment Service animals know their place. It’s a would be sad for both of you. Sometimes shame that most people are not as polite. — people say things without thinking, and this None Of Your Business is an example. Resolve your feelings by Dear N.O.Y.B.: Thank you for sharing talking to her in person and telling her how this information. According to the Americans deeply hurt you were by what she said. It will With Disabilities Act website (ada.gov): give her the chance to apologize and make “Businesses may ask if an animal is a service amends. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1917 The Company L boys stationed at Camp- bell are not shooting pheasants or chickens or calves, according to Lawrence Dineen, one of the members of the Campbell outpost, and he and the other boys stationed there resent the report brought in by a Campbell farmer to the effect they are law breakers. He stated that one member of a previous squad killed three chickens and had been severely reprimanded. However, the farmer, he states, brought in a bill for $23 and had been charging up against the soldiers all of the chickens killed by passing trains. The three were killed at a distance from their camp and not by any man wearing the olive drab. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1967 Halloween carnivals, bake sales, hobby show and watermelon sales … individual contributions and funds from defunct orga- nizations … services of machinery and men, begged, borrowed and hired … just a few of the ingredients mixed together by a group of Athenians determined to build a doubles tennis court for community use. The project was the brainchild of the Athena PTA which recognized the need of additional recreational facilities. The black top was hardly brushed with cement filler before youngsters showed up to use the base. And by the time the courts were striped and nets installed there was a waiting line. Leveling, blacktopping and fencing have been paid and funds are now being accumulated for lighting the courts. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 13, 1992 Seven people, mostly juveniles, were injured this morning when the stolen vehicle they were riding in rolled on Interstate 84 near the Tower Road interchange west of Boardman, police reported. The vehicle’s occupants ranged in age from 14 to 19. Four of the seven youths involved in the accident used the Greenhouse Youth Center in Port- land as addresses and the other passengers were also from Portland, police said. Scott Thrasher, 16, apparently fell asleep at the wheel about 3:45 a.m. with one passenger in the cab and five in the bed of the stolen pickup, according to Oregon State Police. The pickup was reported stolen from St. Paul, Ore. All seven people in the vehicle were transported to Good Shepherd Hospital in Hermiston, where all but two were treated and released. 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 286th day of 2017. There are 79 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Wash- ington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. On this date: In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina. In 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Knights Templar on charges of heresy. In 1775, the United States Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet. In 1843, the Jewish orga- nization B’nai B’rith was founded in New York City. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. In 1957, CBS-TV broad- cast “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the first special to use new video- tape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.) In 1962, Edward Albee’s four-character drama “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened on Broadway. In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later. Today’s Birthdays: Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 80. Actress Melinda Dillon is 78. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 76. Actress Pamela Tiffin is 75. Musician Robert Lamm (Chicago) is 73. Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 71. Actor Demond Wilson is 71. Singer-musi- cian Sammy Hagar is 70. Pop singer John Ford Coley is 69. Actor John Lone is 65. Model Beverly Johnson is 65. Singer Marie Osmond is 58. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is 55. Olympic silver medal figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is 48. Country singer Rhett Akins is 48. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is 46. Thought for Today: “Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.” — Anthony Trollope, English author (1815-1882). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
