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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, November 15, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Friendship between moms ends over race for charity FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: The 14-year-old son cious winner, monitor his behavior of a friend of mine is having self-es- to make sure he doesn’t come across teem issues and apparently is going as a braggart. If you do, you’ll be doing him a favor. through a very rough patch. Our Dear Abby: When I was a teen- family likes to participate in charity ager, I met a guy I’ll call “Jordan” at races. My boy, 13, is a talented ath- lete who, according to my friend, is a college summer program and fell an “overachiever.” head over heels in love with him. Jeanne But the program lasted only five My friend signed her family up for the same race as our family, then Phillips weeks, and we lived hours apart. We Advice decided from the beginning that we called me afterward to tell me she wouldn’t attempt a long-distance was having anxiety issues about us being there and asked me to forgo the race. relationship and would simply enjoy the (We had already paid for four registrations.) time we had together. That fall, my senior year, I visited Bos- She said she could see my child taking off, winning the race and boasting to the point ton to look at colleges. I had made plans where her child would feel like a loser and to see him, but he blew me off. Because I never got closure, I was not able to let him have more self-esteem issues. Abby, although our children hung out go emotionally. During my sophomore year of college, together when they were toddlers, they hav- en’t in years. I tried to be sympathetic, but Jordan contacted me and asked if we could told her we had been planning to compete meet. I refused because I had just met some- in this race as a family for some time, and one else, and didn’t want to jeopardize my I didn’t think it would be right to pull my new relationship. I was with that guy for five child out of something he loves to do. She years and almost married him. (Our breakup got very upset, said some horrible things to had nothing to do with Jordan.) It is nearly a decade later, and I have me and ended our friendship. Was I wrong not to agree to do as she asked for the sake met someone I could fall in love with. But of her child? — Rough Patch In The West it seems that I’m still not completely over Dear Rough Patch: I don’t think you Jordan. Should I reach out to him and try to were wrong. While I sympathize with your get the closure I need? — Left Hanging On former friend, what she suggested was not The East Coast Dear Left Hanging: Yes. After all these helpful for her child, who might benefit more from some sessions with a therapist years, it’s time. And when you do, tell him than a helicopter mom trying to cushion life the greatest gift he could give you would be the gift of closure. If he’s a gentleman, he for him. However, if there’s any truth to your will agree. And when you get it, move for- friend’s inference that your son is not a gra- ward and don’t look back. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 15, 1918 With the influenza situation in Pendle- ton more serious today that it has been at any time, Mayor Vaughn this morning said he could not at this time offer any encour- agement as to when the ban can be lifted. With the news from other places of the lift- ing of the ban and opening of schools the mayor had hoped such action could be taken here, but after a talk with Dr. Kava- naugh, city health officer, and other physi- cians, decided that it would be inadvisable to make any attempt to open now. However, he says, with the first sign of improvement he will call a meeting of the doctors and the Red Cross committee with the council and see if some plan can be devised for the reg- ulation of quarantine and at the same time opening schools and other places. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 15, 1968 When Pendleton’s Intermountain Con- ference championship Buckaroos line up against the Crusaders of Jesuit on the Jesuit High School field near Beaverton at 8 o’clock tonight in an A-1 quarterfinal foot- ball game, they’ll have lots of support. Five or six student rooter buses and two Round Table sponsored adult buses will leave here shortly after luncheon for western Oregon, and no one knows how many private cars will make the trip, loaded with both students and adults. Bleachers have been assigned Pendleton on the opposite side of the grid- iron from the Jesuit stands so each school will have its supporters grouped together. Despite general favoring on the west side of the Cascades by sports writers and others of the Crusaders, the feeling here today was that Pendleton had a good chance of victory. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 15, 1993 A Stanfield man was cut on the left fore- arm Saturday night in a struggle with an unidentified intruder who forced his way into a home. The intruder fled from the home after the victim’s wife cracked the assailant over the head with a piece of firewood. The couple reported that an unknown male came to their home at about 10 p.m. asking for gas, but he was asked to leave. The assail- ant became confrontational and asked the victim to step outside. When he refused, the intruder forced his way inside. After being whacked in the head, the man fled to a white vehicle and drove away. 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 On Nov. 15, 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of Savannah on Dec. 21. In 1777, the Sec- ond Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. In 1959, four members of the Clutter family of Hol- comb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home. (Ex-convicts Richard Hick- ock and Perry Smith were later convicted of the kill- ings and hanged in a case made famous by the Tru- man Capote book “In Cold Blood.”) In 1966, the flight of Gemini 12, the final mis- sion of the Gemini program, ended successfully as astro- nauts James A. Lovell and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic after spending four days in orbit. In 1986, a government tribunal in Nicaragua con- victed American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. (Hasenfus was par- doned a month later.) In 1987, 28 of 82 peo- ple aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilots, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking off from Den- ver’s Stapleton Interna- tional Airport. In 2003, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Iraq; 17 U.S. troops were killed. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Ed Asner is 89. Singer Petula Clark is 86. Come- dian Jack Burns is 85. Pop singer Frida (ABBA) is 73. Actress Beverly D’Angelo is 67. News correspondent John Roberts is 62. Former “Jay Leno Show” band- leader Kevin Eubanks is 61. Comedian Judy Gold is 56. Country singer Jack Ingram is 48. Christian rock musi- cian David Carr (Third Day) is 44. Golfer Lorena Ochoa is 37. Hip-hop artist B.o.B is 30. Actress Shailene Wood- ley is 27. Actress-dancer Emma Dumont is 24. Thought for Today: “News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.” — Frie- drich Durrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (1921-1990). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
