8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
COFFEE BREAK
Many reach out to off er help to grieving widower
DEAR ABBY: Your advice to
the grieving widower “In Need of
Someone” (June 22) was spot on.
I met my husband when I was 14.
We married at 18,
and he died when
he was 44. After
his death, I had no
idea how to be a
person because I
had always been a
partner.
In the early years, I cried every
day and was searching, like “In
Need,” to fi ll that empty spot in
my life. Then one day, I started
fi guring out what to do about the
other holes in my life.
I had not been the bread-
winner, so my income was poverty
level. I had no college and not a
lot of work experience. I knew
if I was going to be able to keep
my house and put my kids in col-
lege, I had to work on these other
holes. In the process of school,
working three jobs and keeping
up with life, I realized I had never
thought about what was important
to ME.
Over the years I have seen sev-
eral close friends
lose partners and
go through exactly
DEAR
what “In Need” and
I have experienced.
ABBY
Your advice is so
true. Volunteer. Get
a part-time job doing something
you like or a job that will just give
you someone to talk to.
Go to a support group, go to
a church, but do not get into a
serious relationship, because
if you do, you will go from one
dependent situation to another.
Every person I know who went
right into another relationship
later regretted it. The new person
is not your lost partner, never will
be and will never measure up. Go
into a relationship only if you are
willing to let the past go and are
willing to change YOU.
Be open to another opinion
and a new lifestyle. You might
like doing something you never
thought you would see yourself
doing before. You are not going to
know unless you try. Do not look
for a Band-Aid to fi x the empti-
ness. Look for a seed to plant and
nurture, and be prepared to be
amazed at the beauty that will be
opened up to you.
— SHELLY IN ILLINOIS
DEAR SHELLY: Thank
you for sharing the important
life lessons you have learned.
Other readers also responded to
encourage “In Need” as he moves
forward:
DEAR ABBY: I lost my hus-
band after 30 years together. I’m
still working on getting “ from
hollow to whole,” as “In Need”
wrote. Your advice that he should
“fi gure out the boundary between
where you left off and your wife
began” is an important insight.
I’ve never heard this from a grief
counselor, but it’s exactly what
I’ve been trying to do for the past
three months.
You can’t live with someone
else if you can’t live with yourself.
I’m working on becoming whole
again, and it’s happening slowly.
“In Need” should do the same.
It may take longer, but it works
better.
—TAMMY IN OREGON
DEAR ABBY: “In Need”
should get some hobbies. If I met
a nice person and was consid-
ering pursuing a relationship and
I found out he had no hobbies,
no outside interests or friends
beyond his late spouse, I would be
gone. Among my friends, I don’t
know a single one who would
want a relationship with someone
whose life was totally wrapped
up in his spouse and “needed” a
replacement.
— NANCY IN NEW MEXICO
DEAR ABBY: After my wife
died, I joined Widowed Informa-
tion and Consultation Services in
my home state. It was a wonderful
way to be with others who had
lost their mates, and it helped me
realize I wasn’t the only one going
through this.
Also, I decided to say “yes” to
any invitations from friends to join
them for dinner or a social gath-
ering. Being around others helped
to stave off the loneliness. In addi-
tion, I decided to travel by myself
to Europe for a month, joining a
group tour. I eventually found a
wonderful lady, a widow, and we
have been married 15 years.
— ROBERT IN WASHINGTON
DEAR ABBY: “In Need”
should consider adopting a pet,
a dog or cat, that will love him
unconditionally. Because of my
pets, I am never alone, always
loved and have creatures who
depend on me. It might make the
days ahead easier for that wid-
ower. I wish him the best.
— MICHAEL IN THE MIDWEST
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Oregon could see the
northern lights
resulted in the lights being visible
in Honolulu, just 21 degrees north
of the equator.
EO Media Group
SEATTLE — The National
Weather Service in Seattle issued
a Geomagnetic Storm Watch that
states it could be possible to see
the northern lights as far south as
Oregon.
Geomagnetic storm condi-
tions kicked up Friday, Sept. 25,
according to the NWS Space
Weather Prediction Center, and
activity is likely to continue to
intensify into Tuesday.
The northern lights, or Polar
lights or aurora borealis, result
when electrically charged parti-
cles from the sun collide with the
gases in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Those collisions produce visible
light in an array of colors.
While the northern lights usu-
ally are visible only above the
Arctic Circle, they have been
visible much further south,
including in Oregon. According
to sciencefocus.com, home of
the BBC’s Science Focus maga-
zine, researchers found evidence
suggesting a great solar storm
in August and September 1859
Go, go, go to see
Godzilla
EO Media Group
AWAJI ISLAND, Japan —
Japan’s amusement park dedi-
cated to animation is working
on opening a new attraction: a
394-foot-long statue of Godzilla
that lets you get right into the
mouth of the monster.
Nijigen no Mori — literally
2-D forest — is an amusement
park on Awaji Island, home to
a puppet theater dating back at
least 500 years. The amusement
park gives visitors a sense of step-
ping into their favorite animated
worlds complete with life-sized
statues and models of popular ani-
mated series, such as “Naruto.”
The park’s latest expansion
is all about Godzilla. Parts of
“Godzilla Interception Operation
Awaji” opened in August with a
with a museum featuring movie
props, massive dioramas and rep-
licas of some of Godzilla’s enemy
monsters. But the showcase of the
weather
nijigennomori.com
Nijigen no Mori — literally 2-D forest — is an amusement park in Hy-
ogo Prefectural Awajishima Park, on Awaji Island, Japan, is opening a
Godzilla expansion that showcases a biplane ride into the mouth of the
massive movie monster.
Rat wins hero award for
sniffi ng out landmines
almost 54,000 square foot Godzilla
zone’s provides an immersive expe-
rience — a zipline ride into the
mouth of the King of the Mon-
sters, complete with fi ring missiles.
According to the park’s website, the
zipline ride opens Oct. 20.
By Danica Kirka/Associated Press
LONDON — A rat has for
the fi rst time won a British chari-
ty’s top civilian award for animal
bravery, receiving the honor for
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/73
Kennewick
53/82
St. Helens
52/82
53/83
Condon
49/84
56/83
WED
THU
Clear and
moonlit
Mostly sunny
and warm
Sunshine and
warm
36 81 35
82 41
83 43
82 42
Eugene
8
8
8
52/87
80 46
82 45
83 44
8
8
8
La Grande
40 79 41
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
8
8
43 77 43
Comfort Index™
8
SAT
79 46
80 49
9
9
8
10
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 107°
Low: 25°
Wettest: 10.15”
68°
39°
65°
46°
71°
45°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Trace
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.50
Year to date
2.99
Normal year to date
7.59
0.03
0.33
0.59
13.39
11.50
0.10
0.73
0.73
26.04
15.84
62/88
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
25%
NNW at 4 to 8 mph
10.8
0.16
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
9% of capacity
22% of capacity
43% of capacity
47% of capacity
13% of capacity
6% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
Algeria and Tunisia are typically dry, but
on Sept. 29, 1969, severe fl ooding killed
600 people and left a quarter of a million
homeless. Biskra, Algeria, had 11.78
inches of rain.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
6:48 a.m.
6:36 p.m.
6:16 p.m.
4:20 a.m.
6:50 a.m.
6:34 p.m.
6:37 p.m.
5:23 a.m.
MOON PHASES
785 cfs
26 cfs
48 cfs
46 cfs
93 cfs
33 cfs
Full
Oct 1
Last
Oct 9
New
Oct 16
First
Oct 23
Brothers
42/83
Beaver Marsh
42/85
Burns
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
46/85
Grand View
Arock
43/85
41/85
Fields
Klamath Falls
55/93
40/86
Lakeview
39/86
McDermitt
42/87
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
THU.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
73/55/pc 69/56/s
84/49/s 83/49/s
82/52/s 82/53/s
72/58/pc 76/57/pc
86/35/s 85/37/s
72/54/pc 69/55/s
83/50/s 81/53/s
83/44/s 83/45/s
80/44/s 82/49/s
87/53/s 81/53/s
83/46/s 84/47/s
82/52/s 83/50/s
83/46/s 83/49/s
85/48/s 86/48/s
79/43/s 77/45/s
82/49/s 84/52/s
86/43/s 87/43/s
86/42/s 87/42/s
Diamond
46/83
44/86
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Boise
50/82
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
WED.
42/88
44/82
44/85
43/85
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
34/86
56/94
58/72
Ontario
42/83
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
47/84
41/85
55/91
43/83
45/83
47/84
Oakridge
Roseburg
Powers
Brookings
Burns
La Grande
WEATHER HISTORY
49/85
Seneca
58/91
54/72
OREGON
High: 89°
Low: 29°
Wettest: 0.03”
43/86
Council
36/81
John Day
Bend
Coos Bay
Death Valley, Calif.
Stanley, Idaho
Apalachicola, Fla.
42/79
46/84
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
43/82
Baker City
Redmond
56/65
57/69
Halfway
Granite
50/83
Newport
56/85
78 44
45/87
56/88
52/85
Corvallis
Enterprise
43/77
40/79
Monument
47/85
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™ 10
Elgin
39/80
La Grande
49/79
Maupin
Partly sunny and Sunny and very
warm
warm
52/78
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
52/84
Lewiston
50/81
Hood River
50/81
54/76
FRI
Forecasts and graphics provided
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Walla Walla
44/82
Vancouver
52/82
TIllamook
Baker City
searching out unexploded land-
mines in Cambodia.
Magawa, a giant African
pouched rat, was awarded the
PDSA’s Gold Medal for his “life-
saving bravery and devotion”
after discovering 39 landmines
and 28 items of unexploded ordi-
nance in the past seven years,
according to the charity.
First known as the People’s
Dispensary for Sick Animals,
PDSA started as a free veterinary
clinic in 1917 and has honored
heroic animals since 1943.
Magawa was trained by a Bel-
gian organization that has taught
rats to fi nd landmines for more
than 20 years. The group works
with programs in Cambodia,
Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozam-
bique to clear mines left behind
from wars and confl icts.
Magawa is the group’s most
successful rat, having cleared the
equivalent of 20 soccer fi elds.
More than 60 million people in
59 countries continue to be threat-
ened by landmines and unex-
ploded ordnance. In 2018, land-
mines and other remnants of war
killed or injured 6,897 people.
WED.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
THU.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
81/51/s 80/53/s
82/55/s 81/56/s
78/40/s 80/41/s
93/55/s 95/57/s
65/53/s 66/54/s
80/52/s 76/53/pc
83/44/s 82/47/s
81/47/s 83/49/s
81/49/s 82/50/s
83/57/s 84/57/s
88/58/s 88/59/s
86/42/s 86/45/s
91/56/s 88/57/s
85/53/s 81/54/s
75/47/s 76/51/s
84/52/s 85/52/s
80/39/s 81/43/s
78/52/s 78/54/s
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Mostly sunny; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
63
39
80
42
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny; nice
Mostly sunny
69
43
83
45
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
67
35
76
38
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; nice
79
43
80
51
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; warm
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
81
35
79
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