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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 9, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Divorced father carries
the torch 10 years later
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
opened the door to you doing
Dear Abby: I am a 45-year-
what you are contemplating. If
old divorced father of three.
they are not married, you have
Two of them I share with my
every right to tell her you have
ex-wife. We were married for 14
never stopped loving her and
years and have been divorced
ask if she might have similar
for 10 years now. Our marriage
feelings. If she doesn’t, it would
started falling apart when I be-
be better for you to know that.
came addicted to prescription
J EANNE
But if her answer is yes, it would
pain medication. I was using for
P HILLIPS
be worth a try.
ADVICE
a couple of years, but I’m sober
Dear Abby: My husband and
now.
I always planned on retiring to
Our divorce was amicable,
Florida. Our son, who is married
and I think we still maintain a
great friendship. We call each other oc- with children, has been diagnosed with a
casionally and talk about things other slow-progressing but deadly disease. My
than the kids. After our divorce we both husband still wants to move, but now I
dated and moved in with other people. I am not sure. Our son said we should live
am currently single; she’s still in a rela- our life because we worked hard to retire
tionship. She recently called and asked and should go. I don’t know if I could
me for advice because she’s not happy in be happy that far away from him and his
family now. Please advise. — Hesitant
her current relationship.
I have never stopped loving her, but Grandma In Ohio
Dear Hesitant Grandma: I am sorry
I don’t want to take advantage of her
present situation. My kids know how I for the pain you are experiencing regard-
feel and so do my friends, so she prob- ing your son’s diagnosis. Your husband
ably does, too. Would it be wrong of me wants to make the move, and your son
to try to rekindle what we once had, even has told you he does not want you to
if there’s the slightest chance of she and change your plans. If it’s financially fea-
her current partner working through sible, it might make sense for you and
their issues? I’m not sure she feels the your husband to rent a place in Florida
same way about me as I do her. — Torn for a year and, depending upon how well
your son is doing, decide later if you want
In Wisconsin
Dear Torn: When your ex-wife called to make it permanent. Perhaps your hus-
to tell you things aren’t going well be- band could go ahead without you if you
tween her and her current partner, she choose to stay behind.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
Pendleton marveled, laughed, applauded
and was pleased last night when an opportu-
nity to see Tony Sargs marionettes perform in
“Rip Van Winkle” was afforded. The audito-
rium at the high school was comfortably filled
for the evening performance, and the temper of
the crowd indicated that the novel show struck
just the right chord in the heart of the audience.
With true American inquisitiveness, the quests
on every lip was, “how do they manipulate those
puppets?” and to satisfy the curiosity aroused by
the performance, many people made a “close
up” study of the mechanisms whereby the
miniature men and women were made to act
their parts in the drama. The show was put on
under the auspices of the school of the city, and
tickets were sold by the grade children.
50 years ago — 1971
About six families were reported snow-
bound at Meacham Lake in the Blue Mountains
30 miles east of Pendleton Thursday. The road
into the lake from nearby Meacham is narrow
and winding and lined with trees. Drifts five
to six feet deep filled in the road overnight.
County Roadmaster Gene Palmer said he
planned to send in a crew to open the road. The
state highway department has a snow removal
headquarters at Meacham but the equipment is
too big to get over the narrow Meacham Lake
road. There are several year-around homes
at Meacham Lake, and 30 or more weekend
cabins. Snow depth at Meacham was said to
be about four-feet on the level at the time the
Meacham Lake families called for help.
25 years ago — 1996
The Clackamas Cavaliers said they got
robbed. The Pendleton Bucks don’t care. Pend-
leton’s Kyle Rosselle sank a free throw with 1.9
seconds remaining to beat Clackamas 74-73 in
a non-conference boys basketball game at Pend-
leton’s new gymnasium. Tied at 73, the Cava-
liers stalled for more than 50 seconds to set up a
final shot. Rosselle grabbed his ninth rebound
and was fouled. Pendleton coach Jeff Quinn said
he thought it was a good call. Clackamas coach
Steve Gustovich had a different angle. “It was
terrible. I’m never coming back here again,” he
said. Rosselle made his first shot, then missed
his second attempt. “Of course I was nervous,”
Rosselle said of his moment on the line at the
end of an “important” game. It seems strange to
call a non-conference game “important,” espe-
cially the first game of the season. However, the
Bucks had a huge crowd at their new home and
fans from both teams were vocal. It wasn’t the
prettiest of games, but Quinn will take his first
victory as the Bucks’ head man.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Dec. 9, 2014, U.S.
Senate investigators con-
cluded the United States
had brutalized scores of
terror suspects with in-
terrogation tactics that
turned secret CIA prisons
into chambers of suffering
and did nothing to make
Americans safer after the
Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
In 1911, an explosion
inside the Cross Mountain
coal mine near Briceville,
Tennessee, killed 84 work-
ers. (Five were rescued.)
In 1917, British forces
captured Jerusalem from
the Ottoman Turks.
In 1962, the Petrified
Forest in Arizona was des-
ignated a national park.
In 1965, “A Charlie
Brown Christmas,” the
first animated TV special
featuring characters from
the “Peanuts” comic strip
by Charles M. Schulz,
premiered on CBS.
In 1987, the first
Palestinian intefadeh, or
uprising, began as riots
broke out in Gaza and
spread to the West Bank,
triggering a strong Israeli
response.
In 1990, Solidarity
founder Lech Walesa won
Poland’s presidential run-
off by a landslide.
In
1992,
Britain’s
Prince Charles and Prin-
cess Diana announced
their separation. (The
couple’s divorce became
final in August 1996.)
In 2000, the US Su-
preme Court ordered a
temporary halt in the
Florida vote count on
which Al Gore pinned his
best hopes of winning the
White House.
In 2001, the United
States disclosed the ex-
istence of a videotape in
which Osama bin Laden
said he was pleasantly
surprised by the extent of
damage from the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
In 2006, a fire broke
out at a Moscow drug
treatment hospital, kill-
ing 46 women trapped
by barred windows and a
locked gate.
In 2013, scientists re-
vealed that NASA’s Curi-
osity rover had uncovered
signs of an ancient fresh-
water lake on Mars.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE