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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, November 7, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man who lost his ‘spark’ gets inspiration from readers 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: I’m responding to for a foreign language, culinary or film “Wallowing in the North” (June 16), appreciation course. who has had a wonderful life and has I’m just scratching the surface accomplished all the goals he set out because community colleges have for himself at age 56, but now feels something for everyone. I have taught no “spark” to carry on. Abby, he’s in in one and been an administrator. It’s a unique position to help someone else a wonderful place to “find” yourself, who hasn’t had all those advantages in whether you’re 18, 88 — or 56. — life. Diana In California Jeanne He could foster a child and enlighten Phillips Dear Abby: If “Wallowing” is that child about a world he/she might truly tired of dealing with most people, Advice never know without his help. Wouldn’t he may want to begin connecting with it spark something inside him to see a nature. He could plant or nurture a child’s reactions to things the writer may have garden, or install a few birdhouses and let the experienced a hundred times and took for birds happily serenade him each day. Engaging granted? There’s so much ugliness and anger with nature can change a person for the better in this world. He could play a small part in and can also change the lives of those around turning that around. you. — Nature Lover In Pennsylvania Or, if helping a child isn’t for him, there are Dear Abby: I would like to suggest many other wonderful causes to get involved “Wallowing” talk to his doctor about his in — aiding a cancer patient in hospice, testosterone level. I did it, and it boosted my being involved in protecting the environ- self-esteem, drive and energy. — Roger In ment, helping a small business — the list is Oklahoma endless and the need is so great. Any of these Dear Abby: May I suggest he have his endeavors could help him relight his spark. vitamin D levels checked? I, too, experienced Finding meaning in life can be as simple as a loss of desire/passion for life when I was extending a hand to someone who can really close to his age. Turned out, my vitamin D use it. — Found My Spark levels were extremely low. Once I started Dear Found: You and many other readers taking a supplement, my interest and excite- offered wonderful suggestions. I appreciate ment in life returned. — Been Through It In the spirit of helpfulness in which readers Kansas City responded, hoping to inspire the writer of that Dear Abby: Your advice should have letter. Read on for a sample: included becoming active in a church, syna- Dear Abby: Tell “Wallowing” to pick up gogue or charitable organization. Helping a course catalog from his local community others, whether locally or on a mission trip, college and enroll in some classes. He can take yields three results: It has a positive impact art and learn to paint, sculpt or make ceramics; on those being helped, it increases the giver’s study photography and learn to shoot better sense of self-worth, and it reminds us how pictures; take woodworking and build furni- blessed we truly are. — Lover Of Life In ture; take an American Sign Language class Texas and volunteer to work with the deaf; or sign up Dear Lover And Dear Readers: Amen! DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 6-7, 1917 Few indeed have been the housewives of Umatilla county who have refused to sign the food pledge cards. As reports come in from the various school districts it is clearly indi- cated that the great majority of the women are ready and eager to aid in the conservation of food. There have been some refusals to sign but most of these refusals come from igno- rance or misconception rather than through disloyalty or selfishness. The follow-up campaign this week will doubtless remove the objections of most of these. Freewater reports but four refusing to sign, one of these giving as her reason that she could not consci- entiously do anything to aid the war program. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 6-7, 1967 Those were not sonic booms heard in Condon shortly after noon on Monday and Tuesday of last week, but was the noise of dynamite being set off at the southwest end of Condon High School’s football field. School District No. 25 has an agreement with Schnall and Kalal Construction Co. to move earth surrounding the area of the football field. This earth moving is preparatory to installation of a track and other athletic facilities at the high school. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 6-7, 1992 Freedom of expression was called into question this week at Pendleton Junior High School when a group of students was disci- plined during a rally in support of Measure 9. But principal Michael Moore said admin- istrators warded off a potentially disruptive situation by asking students to return to class. With only minutes until the end of their lunch period, about 100 ninth graders gathered on a nearby stage to express their support for the measure — and to criticize school adminis- trators for removing political posters students had tacked to their lockers, Moore said. Students were asked to disperse and head for class before the lunch period ended. About half of the assembled group complied at once, and about half of those remaining returned to class after the 1 p.m. bell rang. Some 20 to 25 students stayed behind, however. The possibility that a student stand-off in the lunchroom could escalate prompted school officials to phone police, Moore noted. 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 311th day of 2017. There are 54 days left in the year. This is Election Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vlad- imir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. On this date: In 1861, former U.S. President John Tyler was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives (however, Tyler died before he could take his seat). In 1867, Nobel Prize-win- ning scientist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. In 1916, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress, winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1940, Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nick- named “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Repub- lican Thomas E. Dewey. In 1954, the CBS News program “Face the Nation” premiered with Ted Koop as host; the guest was Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis. In 1962, Republican Richard Nixon, having lost California’s gubernatorial race, held what he called his “last press conference,” telling reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.” Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, died in New York City. In 1972, President Richard Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern. Today’s Birthdays: Evangelist Billy Graham is 99. Former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., is 87. Actor Barry Newman is 79. Singer Johnny Rivers is 75. Former supermodel Jean Shrimpton is 75. Singer-song- writer Joni Mitchell is 74. Former CIA Director David Petraeus is 65. Jazz singer Rene Marie is 62. Actor Christopher Knight (TV: “The Brady Bunch”) is 60. Rock musician Tommy Thayer (KISS) is 57. Rock musician Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne) is 49. Actress Michelle Clunie is 48. Actor Christopher Daniel Barnes is 45. Actors Jeremy and Jason London are 45. Actor Adam DeVine is 34. Rock singer Lorde is 21. Thought for Today: “History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it.” — Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (1815-1898). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
