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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, August 11, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Woman’s relationship is
undermined by jealousy
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
running it into the ground, plus
Dear Abby: I’ve been in a
stealing as much as he could.
“friend with benefits” relation-
We have not spoken since. Our
ship for more than a year now.
grandson is now being married,
I’m 57 and he’s 79. I was raised
and he wants us to attend. We
a Christian and wanted to save
haven’t spoken to our grandson
myself for marriage. I’m jealous
or his father since all this hap-
of his last girlfriend and what
pened. Must we attend this wed-
they had together. She wanted
J EANNE
ding? — Bad Blood In Florida
to get married, and he didn’t.
P HILLIPS
Dear Bad Blood: It would be
A woman at my church says I
ADVICE
unfair to shun your grandson
ought to just remain friends with
for the sins of his father. MUST
him and pray God will send me
you attend the wedding? No.
a man who will love and marry
me. There aren’t many available men my SHOULD you go? I think so. When you
age. I feel guilty because I went against do, be cordial to your son. You do not
my Christian faith. I’d appreciate your have to see him often or at all after that,
but keep in mind there may be other fam-
advice. — In Limbo In Arizona
Dear In Limbo: Why are you wast- ily celebrations in the future.
Dear Abby: I have a best friend of 15
ing your time being jealous of his ex-
girlfriend? They are history. The odds years. (We even got matching tattoos.)
of you changing this man’s mind on the However, I feel like I’m always put on the
subject of marriage are not good, but you back burner. I’m easygoing, so maybe she
knew that from the beginning. The guilt feels she doesn’t need to be a good friend
you’re carrying may be the price you pay in return? I understand we all have busy
for whatever pleasure this relationship lives, but there are 24 hours in a day and
seven days in a week. It doesn’t take but a
brings you.
Since pickings are so slim in your com- minute to send a text to ask how I’m do-
munity, please note that I’m not telling ing. Am I being unrealistic for wanting a
you to end it. However, if the situation friendship that goes both ways? — Lost
becomes increasingly painful, that’s what In A Friendship
Dear Lost: It is only unrealistic if
you should do. Because you are deeply
religious, this may be a subject to discuss you have spoken to your longtime friend
about how you feel (15 years late) and
with your religious adviser.
Dear Abby: Five years ago, our son she’s unwilling to expend a little more
was arrested for child porn. At the time, effort in your direction. I recommend
he was responsible for running our fam- you have that long-overdue conversa-
ily business. When he was sent to prison tion with her and let her know what your
for two years, we realized he had been needs are.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
When giving the writer of the item of news
for the Assembly of the Primitive Baptists of
the Northwest at Touchet, Wash., Mrs. E.W.
Allen showed an old manuscript of the first
records of that church in the Oregon County.
The records were kept by Mrs. Allen’s father,
Benjamin Walden, who was clerk, and they
began in February 1847 when a church was
organized on the bank of the Yamhill river in
a school house near Salem. They are brown
with age and were written with a quill pen
that was dipped in homemade ink. The manu-
script is bound with pasteboard made by Mrs.
Allen’s mother who pasted pieces of wrap-
ping paper together with flour paste until they
became the thickness of our paste board of
today. The Assembly which meets at Touchet
next Sunday will be the Seventy-third annual
meeting of the association.
Mrs. Knopp met Tetsuhiko and his parents
during their tour of Japan. Marilyn Miller, a
missionary friend of the couple arranged the
introduction.
“I took lessons in conversational English
for several months,” said Tetsuhiko, a slim
youth who does very well with an alien tongue.
He has a variety of interests at home. He is a
sub-leader in the Boy Scouts; a ham radio oper-
ator with the call letters JH3BKJ; plays base-
ball and soccer, and travels around 200 miles to
go skiing in the mountains north of his home.
He’ll leave Aug. 20 for home, stopping in
California to visit Disneyland, and in Hawaii
for a tour of that state.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Hermiston Mayor Frank Harkenrider came
back from Seaside with a couple pieces of
good news: tax bills should be out before the
end of the year and Oregon mayors agreed on
50 years ago
a transportation resolution.
in the East Oregonian
Harkenrider, who attended the Oregon
A 16-year-old visitor in Pendleton from Mayors Association 1997 summer conference,
Japan will surely consider a bottle of gold said that Oregon mayors are in agreement that
dust one of his most treasured souvenirs of an transportation funding is imperative.
exciting month here. Tetsuhiko Kobayashi,
The 64 mayors who attended resolved to
of Takaishi City, near Osaka, is the guest of call upon the governor, the president of the
Mayor and Mrs. Eddie Knopp this month. He Senate, the speaker of the House and the Legis-
flew to San Francisco, then to Portland. The lature to convene a special session to pass a
Knopps met him there. Two years ago Mr. and transportation funding package into law.
On Aug. 11, 1997, Pres-
In
1965,
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