COFFEE BREAK
Saturday, July 9, 2022
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
High school friend oversteps bounds digging into the past
Dear Abby: Even though I have
lived in a diff erent state for many
years, I’ve remained in touch with
a female friend I’ll call “Tina”
from high school, mostly via text
messaging. For the last 12 years,
I have been in a relationship with
a man who has been very good to
me. We are not married and we
don’t live together.
When I fi rst met him, he told me
that many years ago, when he was
very young, he had been involved
in several barroom brawls and had
been arrested more than once. He
recognized that his abuse of alco-
hol was at the root of his problem
and decided to quit drinking. Over
the years he has worked hard to search on my boyfriend. One
turn his life around, and he hasn’t day, out of the blue, she sent me
been in any sort of trou-
his “mugshot” and other
ble since.
details from 40 years
I believe everyone
ago, asking me if that
deserves a second chance.
was him. I can’t believe
However, I told him that
she did that, and I feel like
if he decided to resume
it was crossing the line. I
can’t comprehend what
d r in king and /or got
she hoped to accomplish.
arrested for any reason,
How would you advise
I would have nothing
JEANNE
further to do with him. He
me to handle this situa-
PHILLIPS
hasn’t. I didn’t share that
tion? — Simply Stunned
ADVICE
information with Tina
In Florida
because it really isn’t any
Dear Stunned: I
would advise you to lose your
of her business.
Unbeknownst to me, Tina “friend” and keep the man with
decided to conduct a background whom you have the relationship.
Tina was a furlong out of bounds
to send you the information with-
out fi rst discussing it with you. She
may have done it in an attempt to
“warn” you, or perhaps because
she’s jealous. Whatever the reason,
she owes you an apology — if you
are still speaking to her, that is.
Dear Abby: My best friend
often asks me to do errands for her,
such as stop someplace and pick
something up for her. It is usually
close to where I live or work or on
my way home. I don’t always like
doing it. In fact, I resent it.
An occasional favor is fi ne, but
this happens way too often. How do
I tell her “no” when it is somewhere
I have to drive right by? Once I told
her I didn’t think I’d have time (the
truth at that moment), and she said
I could do it later, when I had the
time! She walks with a cane, but
this started before she had mobil-
ity issues. How can I say no? —
Imposed Upon In Texas
Dear Imposed Upon: Because
you now resent your “best friend’s”
requests to run her errands, you
will have to be honest with her.
Explain that you didn’t mind doing
it once in a while in the beginning,
but this is happening so often it is
getting to you. Then “suggest” that
many markets and cleaners deliver
or that she use a delivery service.
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago in the East Oregonian
At a meeting of the city council Wednesday evening, it
was decided to rigidly enforce the laws relating to speeding,
turning in the middle of a block, etc. Pool halls will be allowed
open until 12 o’clock on Saturday nights, but must close at
11 p.m. other nights. Eraden Gerking, one of the best cowboys
in the West, will make riders at the Pendleton Round-Up
ride hard to take away honors from him when he comes to
compete in the fall, according to Albert Peterson, president
of the Camas Cowboy’s Association. He is expected to win
the all-around award as he did at an Idaho rodeo last month.
50 years ago in the East Oregonian
A facility that will annually convert 10,000 acres of raw
potatoes into tasty French fries requires a lot of building,
money and construction know-how. To handle the construc-
tion and equipment installation job in eight months also says a
lot for the capability of the construction contractor and its key
personnel. That’s the job of Hoff man Construction Co., Port-
land, is doing on a Hermiston contract. Ground was broken in
April on the huge $10 million Lamb-Weston plant in the south-
west of Hermiston, and around the Fourth of July, Harvey
Pruitt, general superintendent on the project for Hoff man,
was predicting the plant will be completed “in the winter.”
25 years ago in the East Oregonian
Ten teams will join the host team, Pendleton Swim Asso-
ciation, at their yearly invitational meet at the Pendleton High
School pool. The meet kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday. Joining PSA
in the meet is the Hermiston Swim Club, Hi-Desert Swim
Club from Bend, Hood River Valley Swim Club, Milton-Free-
water Valley, Mount Hood Swim Team, Oregon City Swim
Team, Parkrose Swim Team, and The Dalles Swim Team.
Between 350 and 425 swimmers are expected for the meet.
PSA is coming off a strong performance at last weekend’s Ted
Walker Invitational in The Dalles where PSA’s Jen Thomas
earned a state-qualifying time in the 11-12-year-old 400 free-
style and swam on two relay teams that also earned state-qual-
ifying times. Hood River easily won last week’s team title
and will be a strong favorite again this week. Other top teams
should be The Dalles and La Grande.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
In 1776, the Declaration
of Independence was read
aloud to Gen. George Wash-
ington’s troops in New York.
In 1918, 101 people were
killed in a train collision in
Nashville, Tennessee. The
Distinguished Service Cross
was established by an Act of
Congress.
In 1937, a fire at 20th
Century Fox’s fi lm storage
facility in Little Ferry, New
Jersey, destroyed most of the
studio’s silent fi lms.
In 1943, during World
War II, the Allies launched
Operation Husky, the inva-
sion of Sicily.
In 1944, during World
War II, American forces
secured Saipan as the last
Japanese defenses fell.
In 1947, the engagement
of Britain’s Princess Eliza-
beth to Lt. Philip Mountbat-
ten was announced.
In 1965, the Sonny &
Cher single “I Got You
Babe” was released by
ATCO Records.
In 1982, Pan Am Flight
759, a Boeing 727, crashed in
Kenner, Louisiana, shortly
after takeoff from New Orle-
ans International Airport,
killing all 145 people aboard
and eight people on the
ground.
In 2004, a Senate Intel-
ligence Committee report
concluded the CIA had
provided unfounded assess-
ments of the threat posed by
Iraq that the Bush admin-
istration had relied on to
justify going to war.
In 2010, the largest
U.S.-Russia spy swap since
the Cold War was completed
on a remote stretch of Vienna
airport tarmac as planes
from New York and Moscow
arrived within minutes of
each other with 10 Russian
sleeper agents and four pris-
oners accused by Russia of
spying for the West.
In 2015, South Carolina
Gov. Nikki Haley relegated
the Confederate fl ag to the
state’s “relic room” after the
legislature passed a measure
removing the fl ag from the
grounds of the Statehouse in
the wake of the slaughter of
nine African-Americans at a
church Bible study.
In 2018, President Donald
Trump chose Brett Kavana-
ugh, a solidly conservative,
politically connected federal
appeals court judge, for the
Supreme Court to fi ll the seat
left vacant by the retirement
of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
(Kavanaugh would be
confi rmed in October after
a contentious nomination
fi ght.)
In 2020, New York
Mayor Bill de Blasio used
a roller to help paint “Black
Lives Matter” in front of
President Donald Trump’s
namesake Manhattan tower.
The Supreme Court ruled in
favor of a New York prose-
cutor’s demands for Trump’s
tax records.
Ten years ago: Facing
sagging jobs numbers,
President Barack Obama
sought to recast the Novem-
ber election as a fi ght over
tax fairness, urging tax cut
extensions for all families
earning less than $250,000
but denying them to house-
holds making more than
that. The remains of six
U.S. airmen lost over Laos
in 1965 were laid to rest in
a single casket at Arlington
National Cemetery. Detroit’s
Prince Fielder became only
the second player, after Ken
Griff ey Jr., to win multiple
titles in the All-Star Home
Run Derby, thrilling the
crowd at Kauff man Stadium
with eight splash shots into
the right-field fountain
and beating Toronto’s Jose
Bautista 12-7 in the fi nal.
Five years ago: A cease-
fi re arranged by the United
States, Russia and Jordan
took eff ect in three war-torn
provinces of southern Syria.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi celebrated with
Iraqi troops in Mosul after
they drove Islamic State
militants from some of their
last strongholds.
One year ago: Relaxing
its COVID-19 guidelines, the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said vacci-
nated teachers and students
did not need to wear masks
Church
Solid Rock
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inside school buildings. The
White House said President
Joe Biden told Russian Pres-
ident Vladimir Putin in a
phone call that Putin must
“take action” against cyber-
criminals in his country, and
that the U.S. reserved the
right to “defend its people
and its critical infrastruc-
ture” from future attacks.
Today’s bi r thdays:
Actor-singer Ed Ames is 95.
Actor Richard Roundtree is
80. Author Dean Koontz is
77. Actor Chris Cooper is 71.
TV personality John Tesh is
70. Country singer David
Ball is 69. Business execu-
tive/TV personality Kevin
O’Leary (TV: “Shark Tank”)
is 68. R&B singer Debbie
Sledge (Sister Sledge) is
68. Actor Jimmy Smits is
67. Actor Tom Hanks is
66. Singer Marc Almond
is 65. Actor Kelly McGillis
is 65. Rock singer Jim Kerr
(Simple Minds) is 63. Actor-
rock singer Courtney Love
is 58. Actor Pamela Adlon
is 56. Actor Scott Grimes is
51. Actor Enrique Murciano
is 49. Rock singer-musi-
cian Isaac Brock (Modest
Mouse) is 47. Musician/
producer Jack White is 47.
Actor-director Fred Savage
is 46. Actor Linda Park is 44.
Actor Megan Parlen is 42.
R&B singer Kiely Williams
(3lw) is 36. Actor Mitchel
Musso is 31. Actor Georgie
Henley is 27.
DIRECTORY
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
541-567-6937
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
Worship Service: 11:00AM
Sunday School: 9:45
Pastor Wilbur Clark
Sunday Holy Communion: 9am
Wednesday Holy Communion: Noon
M-F Morning Prayer 7am on Zoom
All Are Welcome
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
Sunday Worship Service
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship Service
Wednesday Bible Study
5:30 Family Fellowship Meal • 6:00 Bible Study
150 SE Emigrant
(541) 276-3369
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
Iglesia Católica Nuestra
Señora de los Ángeles
565 W. HERMISTON AVE.
32742 Diagonal Rd.
Hermiston, OR
Community
Presbyterian
Church
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Center for Worship & Service
Our Lady of Angels
Catholic Church
Sundays at 11:00am
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
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COUNTRY
CHURCH
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
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
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
First Christian
Church
(DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Sunday Worship.........9:00 AM
Bible Study......10:15 AM
215 N. Main • Pendleton
In Person worship Sundays
at 10:00 am
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
Office Phone: 541-276-5358
Hours: M-F 9:00am-1:00pm
201 SW Dorion Ave.
PendletonPresbyterian.com
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