COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, July 3, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Woman can’t accept ex’s new girlfriend
Dear Abby: I’ve been divorced from my husband
daughter. I know it likely won’t go anywhere, but what
of 18 years for two years, separated for three. I have
the heck?
encouraged my ex to get out and meet new people. (He
I’m in a happy relationship. Granted, I’m enjoying
stayed home and alone for about two years.) It must
life and not planning my future or anything like that.
have been a New Year’s resolution of his because I no
My mind says one thing; my heart says another. Do I
longer receive random texts to ask how I’m doing or to
need therapy? Are these normal feelings? — Thrown
make casual conversation.
in Montana
When I asked him who she was, he replied,
Dear Thrown: It would be abnormal not to have
“Nobody.” Of course, I know him well, and I knew he
“some” reaction to the new woman in your ex’s life.
JEANNE
wasn’t being truthful. He’s 50; she’s 25. I’m grossed out,
That he’s obscuring the truth from you tells me he may
PHILLIPS
mostly because our older daughter is 27. The younger
feel guilty about the age diff erence or worried you will
ADVICE
one is 22. I know I should be happy for him, but I’m not.
be judgmental. Therapy may help you accept that he’s
We still celebrate holidays as a big, old, happy
now the captain of his fate, so it’s no longer necessary
family, which I don’t mind. We have grandchildren,
for you to help him navigate the seas of life. It would
and I want the holidays to be special. But I have no desire to cele- be cheaper to simply let go, allow him to make some mistakes
brate them with someone who is barely older than my younger along the way and focus instead on your own present and future.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
100 Years Ago
July 3, 1921
The Pendleton Round-Up came in for some of the most
excellent publicity in its eleven years’ history on June 26,
when the New York Times Book Review and Magazine gave
to its 350,000 readers a review of “Let ‘er Buck,” by Colo-
nel Charles Wellington Furlong. The review is titled “The
Lamented Passing of the Old West,” and is by T.R. Ybarra,
one of the foremost book reviewers of the day. Mr. Ybarra has
chosen to illustrate the article with six pictures from the book
which are in themselves a history of the great show. They are
from photographs by Major Lee Moorhouse, W. S. Bowman
Doubleday and Gustin and Marcell, and vividly portray the
sports of arena and track.
50 Years Ago
July 3, 1971
Oregon’s budget law may block a last-ditch attempt to fund
Hermiston’s justice of the peace court. And because of an
amendment to the state appropriation bill, Umatilla County
District Court can’t sit in Hermiston, either. There is money in
the county budget for the operation of the district court offi ce
in Hermiston, but District Judge Richard Courson won’t be
allowed to sit in Hermiston under terms of the state appropri-
ation bill amendment. However, a simple title change in the
county budget may be enough to earmark the offi ce opera-
tion funds — $8,925 — for the justice of the peace court. But
there is no money budgeted to pay Justice of the Peace John
Smallmon’s $6,600 salary. Deputy Dist. Atty. Jack Olson
and Assessor Rod Esselstyn outlined to the budget commit-
tee Friday the shape of the barriers in the path of funding the
JP court.
25 Years Ago
July 3, 1996
An early morning fi re destroyed a newly opened potato
chip factory south of Hermiston today. The blaze at one point
sent a fi reball into the air. No one was injured in the 5 a.m. fi re,
which consumed the processing portion of the 44,300-square-
foot building housing the Nalley’s Potato Chip Plant on
Highway 207, which employs about 45 people. The fi reball
happened when one of the large vats of cooking oil caught
fi re, said Hermiston Fire Chief Jim Stearns. Stearns said the
fi re could have spread to the Bud Rich potato processing plant
connected to the Nalley’s plant if new hydrants had not been
installed on Highway 207 as part of the regional water system.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On July 3, 1775, Gen.
George Washington took
command of the Continental
Army at Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts.
In 1971, singer Jim Morri-
son of The Doors died in
Paris at age 27.
In 1979, Dan White,
convicted of voluntary
manslaughter in the shoot-
ing deaths of San Francisco
Mayor George Moscone and
Supervisor Harvey Milk, was
sentenced to seven years and
eight months in prison. (He
ended up serving fi ve years.)
In 1986, President Ronald
Reagan presided over a gala
ceremony in New York
Harbor that saw the relight-
ing of the renovated Statue of
Liberty.
In 2003, the U.S. put a $25
million bounty on Saddam
Hussein, and $15 million
apiece for his two sons. (The
$30 million reward for Odai
and Qusai Hussein went to
a tipster whose information
led U.S. troops to their hide-
out, where the brothers were
killed in a gunbattle.)
In 2013, Egypt’s first
democratically elected pres-
ident, Mohammed Morsi,
was overthrown by the mili-
tary after just one year by the
same kind of Arab Spring
uprising that had brought the
Islamist leader to power.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Attorney Gloria Allred is
80. Talk show host Montel
Williams is 65. Rock musi-
cian Vince Clarke (Erasure)
is 61. WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange is 50.
East Oregonian
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