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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Memories of the good times still
haunt woman after her divorce
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I was married
concentrate on your future. See
to my husband for 29 years. We
your ex as little as possible, and
were separated off and on more
allow yourself to grieve the lost
than 10 of those years. We were
relationship for a specific period
both in other relationships but
of time. When that time period is
would reconnect for months and
over, concentrate on meeting new
people and cultivating new inter-
sometimes years. Then, because
ests. If necessary, talking with
our lifestyles are so different, we
a therapist may be helpful, and I
would split up again.
J eanne
hope you will consider it. There is
I divorced him two years ago,
P hilliPs
life after this, but only if you will
but we see each other off and on
ADVICE
allow it.
as friends. I haven’t been in a rela-
tionship since our divorce because
Dear Abby: My best friend of
50 years was recently diagnosed
I still love him. He couldn’t stop
with early stages of Alzheimer’s. Because
the street life, and I got tired of living on
her memory was beginning to slip, my hus-
the edge with him.
band and I moved her in with us. She pays
He’s now in church, off drugs. He has
us rent and contributes to meals.
gained back some weight and looks like
The problem is, she has told friends
the man I first fell in love with. I tell him
that because she pays rent she shouldn’t
every time I see him that I still love him,
have to help around the house. My hus-
but he doesn’t believe me and acts like he
band and I both work. It would be nice if
hates me. We have a 27-year-old daughter
she would cook us dinner occasionally or
he loves and sees.
do the dishes. I have asked, but she always
I think of the good times we had together
has an excuse. I don’t know how to tell her
day and night. I can’t sleep sometimes and
we are not a bed and breakfast. She has the
feel so unhappy without him. Abby, what
ability to help. Advice? — Helper Needs
can I do to move on? — Lonely and Lost
Help, Too
in Maryland
Dear Helper: I hope you realize that
Dear Lonely and Lost: You may love
as your friend’s dementia progresses she
the person your ex-husband was in the
will no longer be able to help around the
beginning, but you divorced him for good
house, and it could actually be dangerous
reasons. Chief among them, he became
for her to cook. It would be better for all
someone else because of his addiction and
concerned if her family would start look-
his choices. He may blame you for divorc-
ing at dementia care facilities for her, the
ing him, but if you hadn’t done it, he proba-
bly would not have straightened out. Some-
earlier the better, so she will have time to
adjust. Some of them offer graduated lev-
times love is not enough, particularly when
els of care to meet the patient’s increasing
it’s a one-way street.
needs. Please consider it.
It is time to quit looking backward and
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 27-28, 1919
Writer’s cramp claimed one of the coun-
ty’s faithful servants today when County
Clerk R.T. Brown took up the task of sign-
ing the 735 Umatilla county road bonds.
Each bond requires the pen and ink signa-
ture of the clerk, following which County
Judge Charles H. Marsh and County Trea-
surer Grace A. Gilliam must affix their
signatures 735 times. In addition, Miss
Gilliam must register each bond. The 735
$1000 papers arrived early this morn-
ing and they will be rushed through the
official channels here as the bond houses
which purchased them are paying inter-
est totaling $113 daily. They are anxious
to receive them and place them on the
market.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 27-28, 1969
Assistant basketball coach Don Mad-
sen was named head coach by the Hermis-
ton School Board Monday night. Dwayne
Huddleston, Umatilla High School base-
ball coach, was offered the head base-
ball coaching job. Madsen, a social stud-
ies teacher in the high school, will replace
George DeLap, whose coaching contract
was not renewed. Huddleston would suc-
ceed Arnold Owens, whose contract also
was not renewed. Huddleston, whose team
was hosting Sacred Heart in a state B semi-
final playoff game today, said he hadn’t
thoroughly studied the Hermiston offer
and wouldn’t until after the playoffs. Hud-
dleston, a Hermiston High School gradu-
ate, has a 73-20 baseball record at Uma-
tilla, including a 15-3 mark this season.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 27-28, 1994
A farm truck carrying fuel smashed
through a Helix School wall Thursday
afternoon, just minutes after students had
gone home. The truck was parked next to
a wheat field up the hill from the school
when it slipped out of gear, rolling over
playground equipment and then crashing
through a second/third grade classroom
brick wall at around 3:35 p.m., according
to Superintendent Don Parkin. Class gets
out at 3:10 p.m. “We’re not holding class
in there for the rest of the school year for
safety precautions,” Parkin said, adding
that the district has filled in the gaping
hole with plywood for security. The last
day of school is next Thursday.
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 May 28, 1977, 165
people were killed when fire
raced through the Beverly
Hills Supper Club in South-
gate, Kentucky.
In 1863, the 54th Massa-
chusetts Volunteer Infantry
Regiment, made up of freed
blacks, left Boston to fight for
the Union in the Civil War.
In 1892, the Sierra
Club was organized in San
Francisco.
In 1929, the first all-color
talking picture, “On with the
Show!” produced by Warner
Bros., opened in New York.
In 1940, during World
War II, the Belgian army sur-
rendered to invading German
forces.
In 1957, National League
owners gave permission for
the Brooklyn Dodgers and
New York Giants to move
to Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
In 1964, the charter of the
Palestine Liberation Orga-
nization was issued at the
start of a meeting of the Pal-
estine National Congress in
Jerusalem.
In 1972, Edward, The
Duke of Windsor, who had
abdicated the English throne
to marry Wallis Warfield
Simpson, died in Paris at age
77.
In 1987, to the embar-
rassment of Soviet officials,
Mathias Rust, a young West
German pilot, landed a pri-
vate plane in Moscow’s Red
Square without authoriza-
tion. (Rust was freed by the
Soviets the following year.)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
John Karlen is 86. Basketball
Hall of Famer Jerry West is
81. Singer Gladys Knight is
75. Actor Louis Mustillo is
61. Singer Kylie Minogue is
51. Olympic gold medal fig-
ure skater Ekaterina Gorde-
eva is 48. Television person-
ality Elisabeth Hasselbeck
is 42. R&B singer Jaheim is
42. Actor Jake Johnson is 41.
Actor Jesse Bradford is 40.
Actress Monica Keena is 40.
Actress Megalyn Echikun-
woke is 37. Actress Carey
Mulligan is 34. Actor Joseph
Cross is 33.
Thought for Today:
“Courage is the most import-
ant of all the virtues, because
without courage you can’t
practice any other virtue
consistently. You can prac-
tice any virtue erratically, but
nothing consistently without
courage.” — Maya Angelou
(1928-2014).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE