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A8 COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Saturday, August 21, 2021 DEAR ABBY Former drug user looks for way out of toxic relationship happy for once? — Embarrassed in Arizona are fi nancially stable, consult a dentist or a Dear Embarrassed: You have successfully school of dentistry about what options you battled drug addiction, so you are might have besides dentures. The clearly not unused to “challenges.” only thing holding you back at this I applaud you for what you have point is yourself. Dear Abby: I am a 37-year-old accomplished, and others should respect you for it, too. mother of three, ages 13, 5 and 3. I’m Please do not allow your fear of married and own my home. I am a being alone to prevent you from new stay-at-home mom after having worked for 16 years at my last job. taking another important step in reclaiming your life. You and I both My kids are happy and healthy. JEANNE know your abuser is not healthy for Any time I go to my parents’ PHILLIPS you. You have already invested too house or they drop in on me for a ADVICE much time in him. If you rely on him quick visit, they have to “point out” for fi nancial support, fi nd a job. Make that it is a mess or that my oldest is arrangements with friends or family so you can wearing jeans with holes in them. There’s eventually save enough to live independently. always a negative comment, never a positive After you have left him, being alone does one. My oldest has started to notice. It makes not necessarily have to be a bad thing. In your it hard to spend time with my parents since the case it could be therapeutic. And once you visit is never a happy one without nitpicking. Dear Abby: I’m a 39-year-old woman in a toxic relationship with my boyfriend of almost seven years. We had a child together but lost custody due to drug use during my pregnancy. Even though we don’t have our son, and he treats me badly, I feel I have to stay with him because we have gone through so much together. A couple of years ago, I got dentures because I ruined my teeth when I was using, and now I’m afraid no one will want to be with me because of them. So I’m stuck in a relation- ship that isn’t good for me. It’s embarrassing to have dentures at such a young age, and I don’t know how I will be able to meet someone who can see past them and my drug history so I can be in a healthy relationship that I deserve. I feel like my only choices are to stay stuck in this toxic relationship forever or end up alone. How do I move past my insecurities so I can be I’m wondering what to say. I can’t even cut or color my hair without ridicule. My oldest got her nails done and there was a negative comment about that as well. A few years ago, there was a blowout between my mom and me over my son’s haircut. I’m at the point where I no longer want to go to their house, but I don’t want to keep my kids from them. — Annoyed in Idaho Dear Annoyed: Say something like this to your parents: “I have noticed, and the children have started noticing, that when you visit you usually have something negative to say about me, my home and even them. It is hurtful and I want it stopped, because if it persists you won’t be invited.” And if it does continue, please remember it is your right as your children’s mother to buff er them from comments from their grandparents that make them self-con- scious about their appearance. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago Aug. 21, 1921 Louis Ragains, about 36 years old, postmaster at McKay, was shot and killed Sunday morning at 12:20 by Jesse Brunn at Wright’s cabin, 40 miles southeast of Pendleton. A plea of self defense is put forward by Brunn who declares that his own life was threatened by Ragains just before the fatal shot was fi red. The shooting is said to have been witnessed by two other men who were in the cabin at the time. The accounts given by the three men to Deputy Coroner J.F. Brady and Deputy Sher- iff Wes Spears agree that Ragains was the aggressor in the action that immediately preceded the shooting and resulted in his death. 50 Years Ago Aug. 21, 1971 R.P. “Joe” Smith, Umatilla County district attorney, may be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for attorney general in the May primary, following a meeting of the Umatilla County Democratic Central Committee in Umatilla Friday night. Smith said in response to a query from an East Orego- nian reporter on the attorney general candidacy rumor that he is “testing the water.” The Umatilla County district attorney is a prominent fi gure in state Democratic circles and in recent weeks has been making speeches to political groups in Western Oregon. Sunday he will be speaking at a Democratic meeting in Sandy. Smith’s candidacy for a state post is expected to draw considerable interest in Umatilla County. 25 Years Ago Aug. 21, 1996 Russian-born Anatoly Shimansky is on a cross-country expe- dition of love and peace. An excursion he is not taking by plane, train, boat or even automobile, but by horse and buggy. And Tuesday, Pendleton became part of his journey. Shimansky, 54, of St. Petersburg, has spent the past eight months traveling across the country in his horse-drawn buggy on a voyage he calls “From Russia With Love and Peace.” The horse and buggy allow Shimansky to meet people, but he prefers this mode of transport because “nobody would give your car apples and carrots.” But, more importantly, his trek satisfi es a lifelong quest. “It is my childhood dream to travel around the world,” Shimansky said. THIS DAY IN HISTORY On August 21, 1991, the hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation Presi- dent Boris N. Yeltsin. In 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, result- ing in the deaths of at least 55 whites; scores of Blacks were killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion. (Turner was later captured and executed.) In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The paint- ing was recovered two years later in Italy.) In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order making Hawaii the 50th state. In 1986, more than 1,700 people died when toxic gas erupted from a volcanic lake in the West African nation of Cameroon. In 1987, Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB. (Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a mili- tary prison.) In 1992, an 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed- off shotguns; on the fi rst day of the siege, Weaver’s teen- age son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed. In 1993, in a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach the red planet on a $980 million mission. In 2000, rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announc- ing none of the 118 sailors had survived. In 2013, Army Pfc. Brad- ley Manning was sentenced at Fort Meade, Maryland, to up to 35 years in prison for spilling an unprecedented trove of government secrets. (The sentence for the former intelligence analyst, now known as Chelsea Manning, was commuted by President Barack Obama in his fi nal days in offi ce.) Today’s Bir thdays: Actor-director Melvin Van Peebles is 89. Rock-and-roll musician James Burton is 82. Singer Jackie DeShannon is 80. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Willie Lanier is 76. Actor Patty McCor- mack is 76. Pop singer-musi- cian Carl Giammarese is 74. Actor Loretta Devine is 72. NBC newsman Harry Smith is 70. Singer Glenn Hughes is 69. Actor Kim Cattrall is 65. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL quar- terback Jim McMahon is 62. Actor Cleo King is 59. Rock singer Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 54. Figure skater Josee Chouinard is 52. Actor Carrie-Anne Moss is 51. MLB player-turned-man- ager Craig Counsell is 51. Rock musician Liam Howl- ett (Prodigy) is 50. Actor Alicia Witt is 46. Singer Kelis is 42. TV personality Brody Jenner is 38. Singer Melissa Schuman is 37. Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt is 35. Actor Carlos Pratts is 35. Actor-comedian Brooks Wheelan is 35. Actor Cody Kasch is 34. Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 33. 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. St. Johns Episcopal Church N.E. Gladys Join Ave & Us 7th, Hermiston 541-567-6672 JOIN OUR INCLUSIVE CONGREGATION ON OUR JOURNEY WITH JESUS Services 9:00am Sundays In-person or streaming on Facebook or Zoom PENDLETON LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH Sunday Service: 9am & 6pm Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm We offer: Sunday School • Sign Language Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more! Pastor Dan Satterwhite 541.377.4252 417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801 www.facebook.com/ PendletonLighthouseChurch 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 Redeemer Episcopal Church 241 SE Second St. Pendleton (541)276-3809 www.pendletonepiscopal.org Sunday Holy Communion: 9am Wednesday Holy Communion: Noon M-F Morning Prayer 7am on Zoom All Are Welcome Sunday Mornings 1st Service: 8:30am 2nd Service: 10:30am Includes Children’s Services ONLINE and IN-PERSON SERVICES SUNDAYS | 8:00 AM & 10:00AM 541.276 .18 94 | 712 SW 27 TH ST. www.pendletoncog.com love God, love people, and make disciples who make disciples FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH in Mission for Christ LCMC Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM Bible Study......10:15 AM Red Lion Hotel ( Oregon Trail Room ) 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 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 Also Live Stream at PendletonFirst.com Community Presbyterian Church 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 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 SundayEvenings Celebrate Recovery: 6:00 201 SW Dorion Ave. PendletonPresbyterian.com Worship Services On Facebook 10:00am Sundays Facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian Wednesday Evenings Family Night: 6:00 pm Pendleton First Assembly of God 1911 SE Court Ave. PO Box 728 541.276.6417 pendletonfirst.com To advertise in the Church Directory, please contact Audra Workman 541-564-4538 or email aworkman@eastoregonian.com
