COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, March 21, 2020
East Oregonian
B5
DEAR ABBY
Joy over finding love can’t diminish pain of twin’s loss
Dear Abby: I have had a serious
ways. Although I love my boyfriend,
I almost feel like breaking up just so
boyfriend for six months. He’s won-
everyone won’t expect me to
derful, a dream come true. But
be Pollyanna anymore. The
I find myself more depressed
third anniversary of my twin’s
and suicidal than ever. Mom
suicide is coming, which is
tells me I don’t have any rea-
making everything more
son to be depressed since I
unbearable. I just don’t know
have a boyfriend. It’s like she
what to do. I just want to dis-
thinks I have no right to still
appear. — Things Aren’t OK
be despondent over my twin’s
J eanne
Dear Things: If your
death because I now have a
P hilliPs
mother truly believes a death
significant other.
ADVICE
in the family (particularly a
My eating disorder and self-
twin!) is something that can
harm have gotten worse, too. I
be “fixed” by having a boyfriend, she
feel like I’m holding in so much sad-
is deluding herself. You need profes-
ness I’m not allowed to show that I’m
sional help and right away. There are
turning it all inward in self-destructive
support groups for survivors of a fam-
ily member’s suicide, and you are
three years overdue for finding one.
I urge you to contact the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Someone there can help you to locate
a support group for the survivors of a
loved one’s suicide. To find them, go
online to afsp.org.
If you are feeling suicidal, call the
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
and tell a counselor about what’s going
on. If you do, you can be directed to a
licensed therapist in your community
who can help. The toll-free number to
call is 800-273-8255. Please do not put
it off.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 21, 1920
Through action taken yesterday the Christian church
organization of Pendleton plans to buy the T. B. Simonton
property at 104 Jackson Street, and use it for a parsonage,
while the lot owned by the church on Riverside Drive will
be utilized as a site for a gymnasium and club room. It is
the purpose to use the entire lot for the building which will
be a two story structure. Plans for baseball teams were also
formulated yesterday. There will be both a boys’ team and
a men’s team to compete in a twilight league or a county
church league. Pastor R. L. Bussabarger, himself a baseball
player and fan, will be active in this work.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 21, 1970
A western theme has been chosen by the Pencor commit-
tee for downtown Pendleton, the Pencor executive director,
Bob Russell, told a Pendleton Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing Friday. Pencor is a plan to renovate Pendleton’s business
core area by improving the exteriors of the buildings in the
eight blocks of the city center. Russell also said the commit-
tee had voted for covered sidewalks. He said the next step
would be to pick a project director to help with engineer-
ing and color schemes. Russell said the committee hoped to
have Pencor in operation by September.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 21, 1995
After an extensive search, Hermiston has named
Mardra police Chief Alan “Andy” Anderson to the same
position in Umatilla County’s second largest city. Ander-
son, 55, was chosen from an initial field of 88 candidates,
which was narrowed to seven finalists. Hermiston City
Manager Ed Brookshier praised Anderson’s credentials,
which include more than 24 years in the Navy, 15 in mil-
itary police and anti-terrorist operations. He also served
for 22 months in Vietnam. “I am looking forward to work-
ing with the community here,” Anderson said. “Illegal
activities, regardless of who is perpetrating them, is my
first priority.”
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On March 21, 1685,
composer Johann Sebastian
Bach was born in Eisenach,
Germany.
In 1871, journalist
Henry M. Stanley began
his famous expedition in
Africa to locate the missing
Scottish missionary David
Livingstone.
In 1918, during World
War I, Germany launched
its Spring Offensive on the
Western Front, hoping to
break through the Allied
lines before American rein-
forcements could arrive.
(Although successful at
first, the Spring Offensive
ultimately failed.)
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 Don-
ald, a black teenager in
Mobile, Alabama, was
abducted, tortured and
killed by members of the
Ku Klux Klan. (A law-
suit brought by Donald’s
mother, Beulah Mae Don-
ald, later resulted in a
landmark judgment that
bankrupted
one
Klan
organization.)
In
1990,
Namibia
became an independent
nation as the former colony
marked the end of 75 years
of South African rule.
In 2006, the social
media website Twitter was
established with the send-
ing of the first “tweet” by
co-founder Jack Dorsey,
who wrote: “just setting up
my twttr.”
Thought for Today:
“Is it worse to be scared
than to be bored, that is
the question.” — Gertrude
Stein, American writer
(1874-1946).
Universal Crossword
Edited by David Steinberg March 21, 2020
ACROSS
1 Roofing goo
4 Teenage feeling
9 Grime
14 “We ___ the World”
15 2012-18 Mexican president
16 Off-white shade
17 Got off the ground?
19 Not handwritten
20 *Harsh critics (hint: each
starred answer continues
through a black square!)
21 Predators with many teeth,
informally
23 Metaphorical thing to lend
24 “By Jove!”
26 Has a goal of
28 Hubbub
31 Set of fine dishes
33 *Plastic-coating process
34 South Korea or South
Sudan
36 Baba au ___
40 Astound
42 Mesozoic, for one
43
44
45
47
48
50
Filched
Abominable Snowman
*Tears and others
Switch positions
Meaningless sound
Rays that travel through
water
52 Insult
55 Jeer
56 Male turkey
57 *People in power
60 Often-patterned garments
64 Fossilized resin
66 Kansas City baseball
enthusiast
68 First lady before Michelle
69 Make ecstatic
70 Indian title of respect
71 “Head, shoulders, ___ and
toes”
72 Affirmative responses
73 Province abbr. within
“Toronto”
DOWN
1 World’s softest mineral
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
18
22
25
27
28
29
30
31
32
35
37
Region
Guns, like an engine
*Daughter of Oedipus
Great falls?
Barely pass, academically
Editor’s “let it stand”
“It’s on my ___ list”
Meshes with a group
It clings to a wall
Runs at an easy gait
Halloween hope
Prefix for “electric”
*Listing individually
What may be mixed with
snow
All used up
*Strict disciplinarians
Modeling material
Shiny fabric
Amo, amas, ___
She turned Odysseus’
crew into pigs
Frost
Pegs for LPGA players
Owl call
Black Eye by Cheryl Phair
sudoku answers
38 It’s about the length of a
radius
39 Big job for an organizer
41 Pizzazz
43 *Motionless sculptures
45 In ___ (as found)
46 Abu Dhabi, for one
49 “Gone With the Wind”
family
51 Butterfly catchers
52 Broccoli stem
53 “Death of a Salesman”
surname
54 Permeate
55 Paintings such as “The
Clothed Maja”
58 “South Park” co-creator
Parker
59 A groundhog may peek out
of one
61 In that case
62 Deserve
63 Agitated state
65 Before, to a poet
67 ___ Schwab