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East Oregonian
Saturday, January 29, 2022
DEAR ABBY
Niece still hasn’t paid back loan for legal bill
DEAR ABBY: Several years ago, my
adult niece, with whom I am very close,
found herself in some legal diffi culties and
needed an attorney. At the time, due to some
medical issues, she wasn’t working and could
not aff ord the attorney’s retainer, so I off ered
to lend her the money. I told her she could
repay me once she began working again.
Nine months later she sent me a check for
$500 and, two months after that, another one
for $500. The retainer was $2,600. My niece
has been steadily employed for the last two
years, yet I have received no further payment.
I regret that I didn’t set up a formal repay-
ment plan, but I never dreamed she’d default
on the loan.
Her mother told me she is saving up to buy
a house and, apparently, she has money to
spend on friends and others. I never told her she still owes you and, when you do, explain
parents that I loaned her the money,
that your husband hasn’t worked
and I have no idea if she ever did,
in many months and you need it.
although I assume she hasn’t. I’m
Agree upon a repayment plan.
torn between approaching my niece
However, if she reneges again, DO
to remind her that the loan has not
discuss it with her parents. Perhaps
they can “encourage” their daugh-
yet been repaid and risk damaging
ter to do the right thing. There must
the relationship we have, or suck it
be a reason they didn’t front her the
up and accept that I’ll never see the
money for her legal problem. Let’s
money.
JEANNE
Because of the pandemic, my
hope it wasn’t because she stiff ed
PHILLIPS
husband has been out of work for
them, too.
ADVICE
many months. While we are not
DEAR ABBY: A female rela-
desperate, the money she owes me
tive wants to have a child. She is 30.
could be put to good use. Please advise. — However, her signifi cant other of six years
GOOD DEED IN THE MIDWEST
hasn’t proposed. She feels her biological
DEAR GOOD DEED: Meet with or clock is ticking — loudly. What would you
contact your niece to ask her for the money suggest family advise her to do?
I feel that a woman who wants a child
should have one if she can aff ord to, regard-
less of whether or not she’s married. But I
understand her preferring to be married fi rst.
Time is running out on the likelihood of
developing a new relationship this late in the
process. What’s a girl to do? — WONDER-
ING IN OHIO
DEAR WONDERING: The “girl” should
ask her boyfriend of six years if he wants to
be married to her. If the answer is yes, and
he wants to be a father, her problem will be
solved. However, if the answer is no — and
she can aff ord it — she should proceed on her
path to motherhood without him. Someone
may come into her life later who would love
to be a husband and a dad. And, if not, she
will have fulfi lled her biological imperative.
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
That lovers of the heather and Scotch abound in Umatilla
county was made plainly evident Saturday night when indi-
viduals of Scotch extraction to the number of about 200 gath-
ered at the Eagle-Woodman hall for a banquet, a program of
songs and readings, and a dance, in the honor of the Burns
anniversary. The crowd that attended was gathered from
practically every selection of the county, Helix and Adams
being particularly well represented. At the banquet, which
was preceded by the rendition of Burns’ “Address to Haggis,”
given by Mr. Southland, the dishes were those that have made
Scotch cooks famous. Will M. Peterson read an essay on “Our
National Bard.” In the course of his remarks he suggested that
the Caledonian picnics which before the war were held annu-
ally at Athena be revived. “I never knew what Scotch whiskey
was like until I attended the fi rst Caledonian picnic,” Peterson
said in his address. The suggestion was warmly received by
the banqueters.
50 years ago — 1972
Look in your garbage can. Is it fi lled with glass bottles, tin
cans, newspapers and envelopes with stamps? Then your trash
can be recycled. Young women in Elnor Alkio’s last period
Home Economics class at Pendleton High School are learn-
ing how to recycle trash this week. Helping Mrs. Alkio are
women from the Youngs’ Study Group, part of the Umatilla
County Home Extension unit. “During January the Youngs’
Study Group had ecology for a topic. It was on what a home-
maker can do for ecology,” said Mrs. Alkio. “The women
wanted to do something to make other people more aware, so
I suggested they work with one of my home ec classes.” The
students learned to wrap used newspapers together to form
fi replace logs, and stamps to be recycled were given to the
county extension offi ce to be sent to a factory which removes
the dye. The dye is used again.
25 years ago — 1997
Imagine the city ran out of cash. No more Abes. No more
Georges. How would employees be paid? And how would
they, in turn, pay the local grocer, gas station attendant or
plumber? That was the scenario in Pendleton in 1933, when
the city was reeling from the Great Depression. The problem
of paying employees became so desperate that the City Coun-
cil voted to print its own money — scrip — to remedy the
situation. Today some of that scrip belongs to local collector
Gene Walts, who has 25-cent and 50-cent pieces and $1 bills.
He still needs the fi nal $5 denomination to complete his set.
The city of Pendleton began issuing its scrip notes sometime
after March 1933. The scrip was used around town for goods
and services, and later in the year the merchants could bring
the scrip to the city treasurer’s offi ce to redeem the notes for
regular U.S. currency. A total of 10,230 pieces of scrip were
issued at a value of $13,450. If the same amount was issued
today, it would be worth $163,030.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
In 1919, the ratifi cation of
the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution, which launched
Prohibition, was certified
by Acting Secretary of State
Frank L. Polk.
In 1929, The Seeing Eye,
a New Jersey-based school
which trains guide dogs to
assist the blind, was incorpo-
rated by Dorothy Harrison
Eustis and Morris Frank.
In 1936, the fi rst induct-
ees of baseball’s Hall of Fame,
including Ty Cobb and Babe
Ruth, were named in Cooper-
stown, New York.
In 1963, the fi rst charter
members of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame were named
in Canton, Ohio (they were
enshrined when the Hall
opened in September 1963).
Poet Robert Frost died in
Boston at age 88.
In 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s
nuclear war satire “Dr. Stran-
gelove Or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb” premiered in New
York, Toronto and London.
In 1979, President Jimmy
Carter formally welcomed
Chinese Vice Premier Deng
Xiaoping to the White House,
following the establishment of
diplomatic relations.
In 1984, President Ronald
Reagan announced in a nation-
ally broadcast message that he
and Vice President George
H.W. Bush would seek reelec-
tion in the fall.
In 1995, the San Francisco
49ers became the fi rst team
in NFL history to win five
Super Bowl titles, beating the
San Diego Chargers, 49-26, in
Super Bowl XXIX.
In 1998, a bomb rocked
an abortion clinic in Birming-
ham, Alabama, killing secu-
rity guard Robert Sanderson
and critically injuring nurse
Emily Lyons. (The bomber,
Eric Rudolph, was captured in
May 2003 and is serving a life
sentence.)
In 2002, in his fi rst State of
the Union address, President
George W. Bush said terrorists
were still threatening America
— and he warned of “an axis
of evil” consisting of North
Korea, Iran and Iraq.
In 2007, Kentucky Derby
winner Barbaro was euth-
anized because of medical
complications eight months
after his gruesome breakdown
at the Preakness.
In 2020, a charter flight
evacuating 195 Americans,
including diplomats and their
families, left the Chinese city
of Wuhan, the epicenter of the
new viral outbreak; they would
undergo three days of testing
and monitoring at a California
military base. World health
officials expressed concern
that the virus was starting to
spread between people outside
China.
Today’s Birthdays: Femi-
nist author Germaine Greer
is 83. Actor Katharine Ross
is 82. Feminist author Robin
Morgan is 81. Actor Tom
Selleck is 77. R&B singer
Bettye LaVette is 76. Actor
Marc Singer is 74. Actor Ann
Jillian is 72. Rock musician
Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 69.
R&B singer Charlie Wilson
is 69. Talk show host Oprah
Winfrey is 68. Actor Terry
Kinney is 68. Country singer
Irlene Mandrell is 66. Actor
Diane Delano is 65. Actor Judy
Norton (TV: “The Waltons”)
is 64. Rock musician Johnny
Spampinato is 63. Olym-
pic gold-medal diver Greg
Louganis is 62. Rock musician
David Baynton-Power (James)
is 61. Rock musician Eddie
Jackson (Queensryche) is 61.
Actor Nicholas Turturro is 60.
Rock singer-musician Roddy
Frame (Aztec Camera) is 58.
Actor-director Edward Burns
is 54. Actor Sam Trammell
is 53. Actor Heather Graham
is 52. Former House Speaker
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is 52. Actor
Sharif Atkins is 47. Actor Sara
Gilbert is 47. Actor Kelly Pack-
ard is 47. Actor Justin Hart-
ley is 45. Actor Sam Jaeger is
45. Writer and TV personal-
ity Jedediah Bila is 43. Actor
Andrew Keegan is 43. Actor
Jason James Richter is 42.
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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
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150 SE Emigrant
(541) 276-3369
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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
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Episcopal Church
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541-567-6672
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