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East Oregonian
Saturday, December 11, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Neighbor wants to express thanks for help provided
DEAR ABBY: I went for a jog the other
morning, and when I returned home I discov-
ered I was locked out of my house because the
garage door keypad wasn’t working. I had left
without my cellphone or a key, so I tried to
contact my wife through our Ring doorbell.
My wife told me she’d phone a friend and
my mother to see if they could deliver a key.
In the interim, I fi dgeted with the garage
door keypad and discovered I could remove
the battery. I knocked on the door of a neigh-
bor who’d previously popped their head out
and asked to use their cellphone and also
asked if there was any chance they had a
replacement battery, which they did. My
neighbor invited me inside to call my wife
and wave off a key delivery.
I later stopped and bought a thank-you
card, a replacement battery and $20 in
Amazon gift cards with the intention of gift- should have stayed out of it.
ing all three to my neighbor. My wife thinks
DEAR ABBY: Forty years ago, I had an
the gift cards were unnecessary and
aff air with a married man. When
a “weird” thing to give my neighbor.
he broke up with me, I didn’t think
The neighbor and their partner
I could live through it, but I had a
are in their late 30s or early 40s,
2-year-old daughter from another
seemingly fi nancially well enough
relationship and I had to hold it
off , and I thought a gift card was a
together. A few years later, I met
universally accepted gift. I thought
and married my husband of 35
it would be a nice gesture without
years.
being too over-the-top. Was I too
Three months ago, I received a
JEANNE
generous? Or is it too forward of
message
on Facebook saying, “If
PHILLIPS
an off ering? — SAVED IN THE
this
is
who
I think it is, how are
ADVICE
MIDWEST
things?” I know I never should
DEAR SAVED: Your offering
have, but I answered. My former
wasn’t weird, too generous or over-the-top. lover lives hundreds of miles from me, but
The gratitude you were expressing was we text almost every day. I am just real-
from your heart and a ref lection of how izing how narcissistic he is, and I need to
desperate you felt at the time. Your wife end this.
My husband and I have had problems
over the years, but we have raised three very
successful children and have three beauti-
ful grandkids. It was nice to hear how my
ex always loved me and how we are soul
mates — saying everything I wanted to hear.
But now that I’ve been dragged down that
rabbit hole, I need to get out and quit falling
for his lies. Please help. — MUDDLED IN
MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR MUDDLED: If this emotional
fl ing continues, it will destroy the life you
have created with your husband of 35 years.
If there are issues in your marriage that made
you vulnerable to your old lover, I urge you to
deal with them. Please reread the fi rst para-
graph of your letter, then ghost and block this
person. You owe him nothing — not even a
goodbye.
DAYS GONE BY
leton, as the OCA executive commit-
tee met here for the fi rst time in many
years. The goal is to sit down with
conservation groups and government
agencies “and explain the cattlemen’s
situation to them,” Otley said. To do
the job, the OCA is seeking the forma-
tion of a Natural Resources Council of
Oregon. One of the major problems
facing livestock growers, he said, is an
increase of predators such as coyotes
and cougars. Government control
programs on coyotes have been cut
back sharply and the cougar is now a
protected big game animal in Oregon.
Otley said cattlemen and sheepmen
don’t want to cause the extinction of
any species of wildlife. “But we do
need control in problem areas.”
25 years ago — 1996
The community of Adams is not
in danger of having its history lost.
The Adams Ladies Club has made
sure of that. The group has just issued
its fourth volume of the “History of
Adams.” Covering the years 1914-
1923, Volume IV, like the previous
100 years ago — 1921
Residents of the north side of the
city were rudely disturbed shortly
before midnight when eight shots
brought many a head from its pillow. A
“peeper” was reported at the residence
of R. M. Commelin, Jackson and
Lincoln streets. One report has it that
there were two men outside the house.
Whether the intruders were merely
spying, or whether they were awaiting
an opportunity to enter the house was
not discovered by those who turned in
the alarm, but the police are inclined to
believe that the men were “peeping.”
Pete Inman and Traffi c Offi cer Turner
answered the call. They emptied their
guns in the air when the man ran. No
arrests were eff ected.
50 years ago — 1971
The Oregon Cattlemen’s Associa-
tion is working to establish a common
ground between ranchers and envi-
ronmentalists. “We want to work
with them instead of butting heads,”
Charles Otley, OCA president and
Klamath rancher, said Friday in Pend-
volumes, is “kind of like a diary of
the community,” says researcher
Gilberta Lieuallen. The original town
of Adams was platted and recorded in
May 1883. According to the Ladies
Club, from 1893 to 1903, the City
Council in Adams passed 62 ordi-
nances to govern the city. Ordinance
No. 1 regulated the speed of riding
or driving horses or mules through
the streets of Adams. That ordinance
is still in eff ect today. The volumes
include reports of who bought a new
car, how the Adams sports teams
fared, who broke what bone, who
was born and died, and a host of inci-
dents in between. What of Volume V?
“We’ve run out of money,” Lieual-
len says of the project. “I can’t do
any more research until we get some
funds.” The club is considering seek-
ing nonprofi t status so it can apply
for grants to fund the fi nal volume of
this massive undertaking. “If we can
bring it up to 1943, then we’ll cover
60 years,” she said. “That will bring
us fairly current.”
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17’s
lunar module landed on the moon
with astronauts Eugene Cernan
and Harrison Schmitt aboard; they
became the last two men to date to
step onto the lunar surface.
In 1816, Indiana became the 19th
state.
In 1910, French inventor Georges
Claude publicly displayed his fi rst
neon lamp, consisting of two 38-foot-
long tubes, at the Paris Expo.
In 1936, Britain’s King Edward
VIII abdicated the throne so he could
marry American divorcee Wallis
Warfield Simpson; his brother,
Prince Albert, became King George
VI.
In 1941, Germany and Italy
declared war on the United States;
the U.S. responded in kind.
In 1946, the United Nations Inter-
national Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) was established.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter
signed legislation creating a $1.6
billion environmental “superfund”
to pay for cleaning up chemical spills
and toxic waste dumps.
In 1997, more than 150 countries
agreed at a global warming confer-
ence in Kyoto, Japan, to control the
Earth’s greenhouse gases.
In 1998, majority Republicans
on the House Judiciary Commit-
tee pushed through three articles of
impeachment against President Bill
Clinton, over Democratic objections.
In 2002, a congressional report
found that intelligence agencies that
were supposed to protect Americans
from the Sept. 11 hijackers failed
to do so because they were poorly
organized, poorly equipped and
slow to pursue clues that might have
prevented the attacks.
In 2008, former Nasdaq chairman
Bernie Madoff was arrested, accused
of running a multibillion-dollar
Ponzi scheme that wiped out the life
savings of thousands of people and
wrecked charities. (Madoff died in
April 2021 while serving a 150-year
federal prison sentence.)
In 2018, a Virginia jury called
for a sentence of life in prison plus
419 years for the man who killed a
woman when he rammed his car into
counterprotesters at a white national-
ist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
(James Alex Fields Jr. received that
sentence in July, 2019.)
Ten years ago: Former military
strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega
was fl own from France to Panama
to face additional punishment in his
home country after spending more
than 20 years in U.S. and French pris-
ons for drug traffi cking and money
laundering. A U.N. climate confer-
ence in Johannesburg, South Africa,
reached a hard-fought agreement
on a far-reaching program meant to
set a new course for the global fi ght
against climate change.
Five years ago: President-elect
Donald Trump called a recent CIA
assessment of Russian hacking in
the U.S. election “ridiculous” and
said he wasn’t interested in getting
daily intelligence briefi ngs, telling
“Fox News Sunday,” “I get it when
I need it.”
One year ago: The Supreme
Court rejected a lawsuit backed by
President Donald Trump to overturn
Joe Biden’s election victory, ending
a desperate attempt to get legal issues
that were rejected by state and federal
judges before the nation’s highest
court.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Rita
Moreno is 90. Actor Donna Mills
is 81. Former Sen. Max Baucus,
D-Mont., is 80. Former U.S. Secre-
tary of State John Kerry is 78. Singer
Brenda Lee is 77. Actor Lynda Day
George is 77. Rock musician Mike
Mesaros (The Smithereens) is 64.
Singer-musician Justin Currie (Del
Amitri) is 57. Actor Gary Dourdan
is 55. Actor-comedian Mo’Nique
is 54. Actor Max Martini is 52.
Rapper-actor Mos Def is 48. Actor
Rider Strong is 42.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
First Christian
Church
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COUNTRY
CHURCH
215 N. Main • Pendleton
10:30 - Worship Service
Sundays at 11:00am
In Person worship Sundays
at 11:00am
5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
32742 Diagonal Rd.
Hermiston, OR
Office Phone: 541-276-5358
Hours: M-F 9:00am-1:00pm
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
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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
(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)
Center for Worship & Service
Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
Wednesday Bible Study
COME AS YOU ARE
150 SE Emigrant
(541) 276-3369
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Iglesia Católica Nuestra
Señora de los Ángeles
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM
Bible Study......10:15 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
PendletonPresbyterian.com
Sunday Holy Communion: 9am
Wednesday Holy Communion: Noon
M-F Morning Prayer 7am on Zoom
Worship Services On Facebook
10:00am Sundays
All Are Welcome
Community
Presbyterian
Church
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
201 SW Dorion Ave.
Facebook.com/PendletonPresbyterian
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
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
N.E. Gladys Join
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7th, Hermiston
541-567-6672
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