A12
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, August 25, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Friend does not show up
to memorial services
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
absent. If you wish to keep her
Dear Abby: A childhood
as a friend, do so, but with the
friend, “Brenda,” moved away 20
understanding of her significant
years ago. We remained close.
limitations.
About 10 years ago, I lost my
Dear Abby: I am finalizing
9-month-old nephew to cancer.
the guest list for my wedding
His death occurred around the
and face a dilemma. A casual
time Brenda and her family were
but long-term friend of ours is
visiting her parents here in town,
J EANNE
the ex-boyfriend of my maid of
so I notified them about the
P HILLIPS
honor. The two are still friends
wake and funeral arrangements.
ADVICE
and see each other occasionally,
Abby, they never showed. I was
so there is no issue there. The is-
heartbroken and didn’t talk to
sue is whether or not to invite his
Brenda for a few months. After
she apologized many times, I started to live-in girlfriend. I know typical wedding
etiquette usually includes significant oth-
talk to her.
A few years later, Brenda’s mother ers, but in this case?
First off, we barely know her. Most of
passed away. I was there for her and her
family from start to finish, and when she the time when our friend comes to our
was sick, I would take her mom to doctor house, she doesn’t come along. When
appointments. Last year my mother died we visit his house, she’s gone or seems to
after a brief illness, and I again let my avoid us. We’re having a small backyard
friend know. Again, she was a no-show. wedding, and the ex-girlfriend and the
Money was not a problem for plane tick- new girlfriend have never met. Is it neces-
ets for other things, but too expensive for sary to invite her? I want to be respectful,
me to have the comfort of a supposed but it seems complicated for everyone
involved, and I’d rather not have it de-
“best” friend.
Should I ignore this again or let the tract from the day for my maid of honor.
relationship fizzle out? I’m hurt and have — Bride-To-Be In Oregon
Dear Bride-To-Be: Not knowing the
expressed this to her. She says she’s sor-
ry, but nothing changes. — Disappointed ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, I can’t offer
insight into why she seems standoffish. It
In New York
Dear Disappointed: Please accept my may be that she’s socially awkward and
sympathy for the loss of your mother. It’s not comfortable with people she doesn’t
time you reevaluated your relationship know. To exclude the live-in girlfriend
with Brenda. You may be her best friend, would be not only disrespectful to her,
but she is clearly not yours. A best friend but also to her boyfriend. I don’t advise
is someone you can depend on. When doing it because you could create long-
the chips are down, Brenda has been lasting hurt feelings and ill will.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
The body of Hood River boy John Young,
son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of
directors of the General Electric company, New
York, will be shipped east tonight, according to
an announcement by Guy Talbot, president of
the Pacific Light and Power company. Young,
whose father believed in boys learning their
business from the bottom up had been working
in a construction camp on Hood River where the
Pacific Light and Power company are building
a generating plant. Yesterday Young dashed in
front of a construction locomotive and rescued
a dog, the camp’s mascot, but in so slipped, and
was caught and mortally mangled by the engine.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Young people involved in the Pendleton
High School junior class recycling project
are in trouble.
They estimate they have a million cans or
at least thousands of cans to smash. The new
juniors have been collecting the cans since
June and have filled a classroom at Hawthorne
Court almost to the ceiling with them.
“We’ve got to smash all these cans before
we can take them to the recycling center,” said
Sandy Unternahrer. “We have trouble getting
kids to work.”
Cans, glass bottles and trash are left at the
recycling drops. The young people can only
use the tin cans.
“People don’t wash the cans, take off the
labels or smash them,” said Miss Unternahrer.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
While some folks struggled to beat the heat
Friday, local Cub Scouts cooled off with water
balloons and sprinklers on a make-believe
“Adventure Island.”
About 40 boys from Pendleton Cub Scout
packs 720, 740, 742, 745 and 746 spent the week
building teamwork and safety skills at the annual
Cub Scout Day Camp at the Little League Park
near Byers Avenue. Some of the activities were
quite serious, but it was all fun. In keeping with
the camp’s theme, “Adventure Island,” the first-
through fifth-graders were divided into three
dens: Hooks; Caribbeans and Scullywags.
The boys spent time sharpening their
archery and BB gun skills, playing games,
participating in water activities, building bird-
houses, and making crafts with foil and sand art.
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 Aug. 25, 2018, Sen.
John McCain of Arizona,
who had spent years as a
prisoner of war in Viet-
nam before a 35-year po-
litical career that took
him to the Republican
presidential nomination,
died at the age of 81 after
battling brain cancer for
more than a year.
In 1718, hundreds of
French colonists arrived
in Louisiana, with some
settling in present-day
New Orleans.
In 1928, an expedition
led by Richard E. Byrd set
sail from Hoboken, N.J.,
on its journey to Antarc-
tica.
In 1944, during World
War II, Paris was liberated
by Allied forces after four
years of Nazi occupation.
In 1958, the game show
“Concentration”
pre-
miered on NBC-TV.
In 1980, the Broad-
way
musical
“42nd
Street” opened. (Producer
David Merrick stunned
the cast and audience dur-
ing the curtain call by an-
nouncing that the show’s
director, Gower Cham-
pion, had died earlier that
day.)
In 1981, the U.S.
spacecraft Voyager 2
came within 63,000 miles
of Saturn’s cloud cover,
sending back pictures of
and data about the ringed
planet.
In 1985, Samantha
Smith, 13, the schoolgirl
whose letter to Yuri V.
Andropov resulted in her
famous peace tour of the
Soviet Union, died with
her father in an airliner
crash in Auburn, Maine,
that also killed four other
passengers and two crew
members.
In 2001, R&B singer
Aaliyah was killed with
eight others in a plane
crash in the Bahamas; she
was 22.
In 2009, Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, the liberal
lion of the U.S. Senate,
died at age 77 in Hyan-
nis Port, Massachusetts,
after a battle with a brain
tumor.
In 2014, a funeral
was held in St. Louis
for Michael Brown, the
Black 18-year-old who
was shot to death by a
police officer in suburban
Ferguson.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE