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East Oregonian
Saturday, April 17, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Distance tests strength of military couple’s engagement
Dear Abby: I’ve been in a long-dis-
tance relationship for 2½ years. We are
now engaged, but haven’t set a date for our
wedding.
We are both in the military, and we
have maintained this relationship well. But
there was a time before we dated that I was
dating someone else. I ended that relation-
ship, but haven’t healed from it because I
see him at work often, and I still have feel-
ings for him.
He lives in my neighborhood, and I
enjoy talking to him. I like the attention he
gives me, and I’m attracted to him. I blame
the geographical distance from my fi ance
for this. I want someone close, and I would
love for it to be the person I am engaged
to, but although I try to abstain from this
other person, I fi nd myself drawn to him.
— Caught Between Two
friend, “Rita,” from high school. Rita is
Dear Caught: You say you have been also a client, and we go back 20-plus years.
together with your absent fi ance
The client, who’s close friends
for 2½ years, but are still carry-
with Rita, is picky and a terrible
ing on an emotional aff air with
tipper.
the man you broke up with. When
She box colors her hair at home,
you say you are “trying to abstain”
but comes to me for her haircuts.
from this person, clearly you can’t.
I off er her 10% off of her haircut
What is going on isn’t fair to
for prebooking, so she gets a $35
the man you are engaged to. If he
service for $31.50. She usually tips
knew, I’m sure he would agree. Do
me $3.50. She keeps asking me to
JEANNE
not chalk this up to “when I’m not
sell her hair products at a whole-
PHILLIPS
with the man I love, I love the one
sale cost, which I do for my family
ADVICE
I’m with.” Be honest about what
and for Rita, but no one else.
you really want, follow through,
Cutting her hair is a chore,
and you won’t be writing me again years because she’s never completely happy with
from now asking what to do.
the service and has asked to come back for
Dear Abby: I am a hairstylist with a free retouching. If she were anyone else,
client who was referred to me by a mutual I’d part ways with her, but because of her
close relationship with Rita, she sometimes
comes to dinner with us on girls’ nights and
is involved in our group chats.
Is there a discreet way to end this busi-
ness/client relationship without screwing
up my friendship with my high school pal?
I’m tired of dealing with her, but I don’t
know how to get out. — Cutting Her Out
Dear Cutting: Handle this by telling
Rita what you have written to me and
explaining that the two of them may be
friends, but you no longer want the woman
as a client. Then sweetly tell the woman the
next time she calls that your professional
relationship doesn’t seem to be a good fi t
because she has voiced dissatisfaction with
your work. Then off er to refer her to some-
one else. Not every client is a good fi t and
vice versa. It’s a fact of business life.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
100 Years Ago
April 17, 1921
A twelve-year-old school girl was assaulted by an
unknown tramp Thursday evening while walking to her
home, which is about a mile and a half out of Echo. The girl
put up a desperate struggle and succeeded in escaping from
him. News of the attack was brought to the Echo fl our mills
and a searching party was formed immediately. The hills
were scoured by the party but no trace of the man could be
found.
50 Years Ago
April 17, 1971
Lamb-Weston, Portland-based fi rm which processes more
than two billion pounds of potato products a year, has agreed
to the principles of a proposed merger with Amfac, a Hawai-
ian conglomerate that owns Rhodes Department Stores in
Portland and 10,000 acres of farm land in the Horse Heaven
Hills of Washington. Amfac entered the Inland Empire by
acquisition of Prosser Packers last year. Lamb-Weston oper-
ates potato processing plants at American Falls, Idaho, and
Connell and Quincy, Wash., a vegetable processing plant at
Weston, and a freeze-dry coff ee plant at Bartow, Fla. The
merger announcement said the plan is to retain the present
Lamb-Weston top management team.
25 Years Ago
April 17, 1996
In some ways, repairing McKay Dam would be like buying
life insurance. You don’t expect to get run over by a truck, but
just in case it happens you’re prepared. The U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation says it wants to be prepared for the 1-in-10,000
chance that McKay Dam could “liquefy” under the right earth-
quake conditions. It plans to spend $4 million to reduce that
probability. The silt that sits below the 70-year-old dam could
change from solid to liquid given the right vibration, explained
Larry Wolf, the bureau’s safety of dams engineer in Boise.
During or just after a strong earthquake, the clay-like silt isn’t
able to dispel the water pressure buildup, and it breaks down,
Wolf explained.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On April 17, 1970,
Apollo 13 astronauts James
A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and
Jack Swigert splashed down
safely in the Pacifi c Ocean,
four days after a ruptured
oxygen tank crippled their
spacecraft while en route to
the moon.
In 1492, a contract was
signed by Christopher
Columbus and a representa-
tive of Spain’s King Ferdi-
nand and Queen Isabella,
giving Columbus a commis-
sion to seek a westward ocean
passage to Asia.
In 1895, the Treaty of
Shimonoseki ended the fi rst
Sino-Japanese War.
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Lochner v. New
York, struck down, 5-4, a
New York State law limit-
ing the number of hours that
bakers could be made to work.
(This ruling was eff ectively
overturned in 1937 by the
high court’s West Coast Hotel
Co. v. Parrish decision.)
In 1961, some 1,500
CIA-trained Cuban exiles
launched the disastrous Bay
of Pigs invasion of Cuba in
an attempt to topple Fidel
Castro, whose forces crushed
the incursion by the third day.
In 1969, a jury in Los
Angeles convicted Sirhan
Sirhan of assassinating Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1972, the Boston
Marathon allowed women
to compete for the fi rst time;
Nina Kuscsik was the first
offi cially recognized women’s
champion, with a time of
3:10:26.
In 1973, Federal Express
(later FedEx) began oper-
ations as 14 planes carry-
ing 186 packages took off
from Memphis International
Airport, bound for 25 U.S.
cities.
In 1975, Cambodia’s fi ve-
year war ended as the capi-
tal Phnom Penh fell to the
Khmer Rouge, which insti-
tuted brutal, radical policies
that claimed an estimated 1.7
million lives until the regime
was overthrown in 1979.
In 1986, at London’s
Heathrow Airport, a bomb
was discovered in the bag
of Anne-Marie Murphy, a
pregnant Irishwoman about
to board an El Al jetliner to
Israel; she’d been tricked
into carrying the bomb by
her Jordanian fi ance, Nezar
Hindawi. The bodies of
kidnapped American Peter
Kilburn and Britons Philip
Padfi eld and Leigh Douglas
were found near Beirut; they
had been slain in apparent
retaliation for the U.S. raid on
Libya.
In 1991, the Dow Jones
industrial average closed
above 3,000 for the fi rst time,
ending the day at 3,004.46,
up 17.58.
In 1993, a federal jury
in Los Angeles convicted
two former police offi cers of
violating the civil rights of
beaten motorist Rodney King;
two other offi cers were acquit-
ted. Turkish President Turgut
Ozal died at age 66.
In 2013, 15 people were
killed when a fertilizer plant
exploded in West, Texas.
Sports returned to Boston two
days after the deadly Mara-
thon bombing as the Buff alo
Sabres defeated the Bruins in
a 3-2 shootout (players on both
teams wore “Boston Strong”
decals on their helmets).
Today’s Bir thdays:
Composer-musician Jan
Hammer is 73. Actor Olivia
Hussey is 70. Rapper Afrika
Bambaataa is 64. Actor Joel
Murray is 59. Rock singer
Maynard James Keenan is 57.
Singer Liz Phair is 54. Actor
Rooney Mara is 36.
CHURCH
Featured this Week:
DIRECTORY
Community Worship
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Iglesia Católica Nuestra
Señora de los Ángeles
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
First United
Methodist
Church
Pendleton
210 NW 9th St. Pendleton Oregon
(Peace Lutheran Church)
Sunday worship 8:30pm
541-276-2616
Open Hearts,
Open Minds, Open Doors
Patty Nance, pastor
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
The Salvation Army
Center for Worship & Service
Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship Service
Wednesday Bible Study
5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
COME AS YOU ARE
150 SE Emigrant • (541) 276-3369
The Salvation Army
Center for Worship & Service
Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship Service
Wednesday Bible Study
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Sunday Holy
Communion
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Wednesday
Holy
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5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
Sunday Mornings
COME AS YOU ARE
1st Service: 8:30am
2nd Service: 10:30am
Community
Presbyterian
Church
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
cebo
M-F Morning Prayer at . 7:00
on Fa a.m. ton
All Are Welcome
150 SE Emigrant
(541) 276-3369
Includes Children’s Services
201 SW Dorion Ave.
PendletonPresbyterian.com
Worship Services On Facebook
10:00am Sundays
Facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian
108 S. Main St.
Pendleton
Sunday at 10:30am
541-289-4535
Pastor Weston Walker
Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
(First United Methodist Church)
191 E. Gladys Ave. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
PendletonFaithCenter.com
“A Come as
You are Church”
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
www.graceandmercylutheran.org
Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided)
Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School
Check Out our Facebook Page or
Website for More Information
ONLINE and IN-PERSON SERVICES
S U N D AYS
541.276.1894
| 10:00AM
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712 SW 27TH ST.
www.pendletoncog.com
love God, love people, and make disciples who make disciples
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM
Bible Study......10:15 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
Solid Rock
Community Church
140 SW 2nd St Hermiston, OR 97838
541-567-6937
Worship Service: 11:00AM
Sunday School: 9:45
Pastor Wilbur Clark
Sunday Service: 9am & 6pm
Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm
Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm
Also Live Stream at PendletonFirst.com
SundayEvenings
Celebrate Recovery: 6:00
We offer: Sunday School • Sign Language
Wednesday Evenings
Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more!
Family Night: 6:00 pm
Pastor Dan Satterwhite
541.377.4252
417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801
www.facebook.com/
PendletonLighthouseChurch
Pendleton First Assembly of God
1911 SE Court Ave. PO Box 728
541.276.6417 pendletonfirst.com
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Church Directory, please contact
Audra Workman 541-564-4538
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