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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, March 21, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Friend sees too much risk in monitoring home remodel FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: For several years, friends accept a refusal with good grace. my husband and I were good Dear Abby: Is it possible to friends with “Pam” and “David.” “choose” to forgive someone? About a year ago, we moved to a My 20-year-old nephew recently new house just a few blocks from turned his life around. He has a theirs. They decided they liked good job, a nice girlfriend and a some of the features of our new baby on the way. But when he and home and immediately started J eanne my sister were living with my late remodeling theirs to resemble ours. P hilliPs mother a few years ago, he trashed Pam and David both work and ADVICE Mom’s basement (where he was I am retired, so Dave asked if I living), and it cost her hundreds of would go to their home throughout dollars to repair the damage. He the day, while several workmen did also stole money from her and once threat- this extensive remodel. I refused, saying I ened my life. He smoked and drank as a wasn’t comfortable alone in someone else’s teen, quit school, and did nothing more house with a bunch of strangers milling than play video games. about, not to mention the responsibility if I’m glad he has changed his ways, but he something was broken or stolen. (The com- pany wasn’t bonded. They are just random has never apologized for the way he treated guys doing side jobs.) us. It seems I’m expected by everyone to Long story short, David was extremely forgive and forget, but I can’t. Please don’t suggest counseling. He wouldn’t go. offended that I declined and no lon- I don’t want to be estranged from his ger speaks to us. He has shunned other girlfriend and my great-nephew, but I have friends for lesser things since then. I’m still no interest in engaging with him unless he friendly with Pam, but I can’t help feeling makes amends for his past behavior. My that deep down she resents me, too, and sister always seemed oblivious to his bad thinks I should have done it because we are behavior. In her eyes, her son can do no good friends. wrong. Is there any way to reconcile his Was I wrong to refuse, Abby? Should particular past with the present? — Still I have done it to keep the friendship, even Angry in Minnesota though I wasn’t comfortable? — Resentful Dear Still Angry: Yes, it is possible to in the Midwest choose to forgive. But it doesn’t appear that Dear Resentful: I not only don’t think your nephew has completely turned his life you were wrong, I think you made a wise around. Part of growing up is becoming a decision, and for the right reason. If any- thing had gone wrong with the remodel or responsible individual. Making amends for one of the laborers was less than honest, the past misdeeds is a part of that process your nephew seems to have skipped. blame would have fallen squarely on you. If you would like to have a relationship Add to that the fact that Dave drops people with his girlfriend and their child, nothing he feels let him down for any reason, and prevents it. But it doesn’t mean you must you have a recipe for disaster. have amnesia about the way you and your If Pam resents you for protecting your- self, she may not be as good a friend as mother were treated by your nephew. Talk you assume she is. True friends should be to him about this so you can get the closure you are seeking. able to say no when it’s warranted, and true DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 21, 1919 A new addition to the town of Pilot Rock is to be platted and put on the market by John W. Etter, a prominent resident of that place. The land lies northeast of Pilot Rock on the Pendleton road. The effort will be made to locate the new high school planned for Pilot Rock on the new addition. Saturday, the people of Pilot Rock vote on the proposition of issu- ing $35,000 school bonds for building a new union high school building. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 21, 1969 Nolan R. Ferguson, social science teacher at McEwen High School, was pre- sented a certificate at a student body meet- ing by Commander Roy Moore, Post 130 American Legion, in recognition and honor as an outstanding educator in promoting Americanism to the local school. The award given Ferguson is the first given in this area following adoption of a resolution by the 1968 American Legion Convention Department of Oregon which decreed that Legion posts recognize and honor outstanding educators promoting Americanism in schools. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 21, 1994 Sixteen-year-old Tiffany Lloyd of Board- man took home the $500 grand prize from the Kiwanis Kapers talent show. She tri- umphed over 21 other acts Saturday in Pendleton’s Vert Auditorium. Lloyd put on her best Cockney accent for “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” from her favorite musical, “My Fair Lady.” She also danced a few steps. TODAY 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 March 21, 2006, the social media website Twitter was established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.” In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy. In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. In 1788, fire broke out in New Orle- ans on Good Friday, destroying 856 out of more than 1,100 structures; one death was reported. In 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in pub- lic schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.) In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran. In 1945, during World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany. In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1981, Michael Donald, a black teen- ager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2007, former Vice President Al Gore made an emotional return to Congress as he pleaded with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republi- cans questioned the science behind his cli- mate-change documentary, “An Inconve- nient Truth.” Today’s Birthdays: Actress Kathleen Widdoes is 80. Singer-musician Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 74. Actor Tim- othy Dalton is 73. Comedy writer-performer Brad Hall is 61. Actress Sabrina LeBeauf is 61. Actor Gary Oldman is 61. Actress Kassie Depaiva is 58. Actor Matthew Broderick is 57. Comedian-actress Rosie O’Donnell is 57. Rapper-TV personality Kevin Federline is 41. Actress Sonequa Martin-Green (TV: “The Walking Dead”) is 34. Actress Jasmin Savoy Brown is 25. Thought for Today: “Never lose your temper with the press or the public is a major rule of political life.” — Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (1880-1958). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
