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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