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COFFEE BREAK 6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD THuRSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 Changing a diaper causes family friction at baby’s baptism DEAR ABBY: My sister-in-law “Brenda” often takes it upon her- self to change a baby’s diaper during social gatherings with family. She never bothers to ask the baby’s par- ents if it’s OK to do this, and they never solicit her help. For years, I found it a bit strange, but never said anything to Brenda or another family member. Some time ago, my in-laws and immediate family were at my son’s baptismal party. Several babies from my wife’s side as well as my own were there. My wife’s rela- tives aren’t well-acquainted with mine. Before our wedding, nei- ther of our families had ever met the other. During the festivities, my wife’s niece — who was still in diapers — appeared to have a full load in her back side. Her parents were DEAR in another room. Without informing ABBY them of the issue or asking permis- sion, Brenda took it upon herself to change the diaper. The child’s mother walked into the room and began to loudly scold Brenda for doing it without her consent. You could see the mother was upset and scared, since she did not know Brenda at all. After the party ended, my didn’t have permission!) was inap- propriate. I don’t fault the mother for being upset. Rather than blame her for reacting the way she did, it’s time someone explains bound- aries to Miss Brenda. DEAR ABBY: Being bored due to the quarantine, I signed up to Classmates.com to look for old friends. Moments later I received a response from a male class- mate. We graduated the same year. I really don’t remember him, although he said he remembered me. Anyway, we started texting and exchanging graduation pic- tures. He still lives in our home- town; I don’t. We have started talking almost every day. My problem is, we have so many things in common, from family to same make of car and insurance company, I have started getting a creepy feeling. It freaked me out to the point that I blocked him. He was always respectful, but for us to have so much in common made my stomach lurch. Do you think this is possible? Or is there a chance he could be stalking me? — FREAKED OUT DEAR FREAKED: It could be coincidental that you have so much in common, but I would never advise anyone who had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right to ignore it. Listen to your intuition and you will never go wrong. ARCHERY FORESTS Continued from Page 1B Continued from Page 1B generator. He is hoping to install it soon. Even cell- phone and internet are new and only relatively reliable. “It’s all off-grid,” he said. “The closest power pole is 5 miles away.” And the COVID-19 pan- demic caused problems. “This whole thing with this virus, it put a damper on me big time. A lot of people who said, ‘Hey Ron, I lost my job, can you hold off on the bow build for a little bit?’ So, I had quite a dip when that happened,” he said. But now, business is coming back. He sends dis- assembled bows to Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The hardest part of his for- eign trade is translating the types of wood customers want in their bows. King makes six models of recurve bows, as well as longbows and hybrids. He does not do compound bows, most of which are machine-made, he said. As the only full-time bowyer in Wallowa County, King has built quite a following. “I’ve been doing it for 25 years,” he said, “so I have a lot of people who trust me and say, just go ahead and make it.” Fox Archery is 27 miles north of Enterprise on Highway 3, just after mile- post 16 on the right. There’s no sign yet, King said, but that also is coming soon. To learn more, visit his website at https:// www.foxarchery.com, email foxbows@eoni.com or call 541-263-5330 or 541-886-9110. The shop is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Included in the funding is money to pay for mon- itoring Forest Service timber harvest, thin- ning and prescribed burning projects. Baker and Wallowa counties are looking to employ youths and young adults to learn forest monitoring techniques. “We’re excited that partnerships continue to expand and deepen as we pursue all lands shared stewardship across North- east Oregon and South- east Washington,” Chris- toffersen said. “We look forward to the opportu- nity this will create for the next generation of land stewards to gain jobs and experience in caring for this special place.” Lindsay Warness, Woodgrain Millwork in La Grande’s forest policy and environmental man- ager, said she was looking forward to working with the Forest Service and using the funding to develop projects that are beneficial and meet the social, economic and eco- logical needs of both forest and communities that depend on them. “This is an exciting opportunity to increase the pace and scale of res- toration in our area, as well as provide economic benefits to our local com- munities,” Warness said. According to Mike Billman, Oregon Depart- ment of Forestry’s North- east Oregon Federal Forest Restoration program coor- dinator, the funding will be instrumental in fuel reduction and forest res- toration projects vetted through the environmental planning process, but still in need of funding. “The Wallowa Whitman and Umatilla national forests have huge backlogs of acres needing treatments and increased funding will certainly help in attaining some level of catching up,” Billman said. “It has been truly inspiring to watch the stakeholder partner- ships form and step up in the process of preparing the CFLRP proposal and now draw together to begin implementation.” family couldn’t understand why the child’s mother became so upset. They thought she was some kind of nut for reacting the way she did. I fully understand why the mother became upset. Given the fact that she doesn’t know Brenda, and that one must clean the baby’s private parts when changing a diaper, I don’t understand why Brenda would take this upon her- self. What’s your opinion, Abby? — STRANGE IN THE EAST DEAR STRANGE: What your sister-in-law did may have been fine with her own family, but for her to have changed the diaper of a child whose parents she didn’t know well (and from whom she Sierra Dawn McClain/Capital Press Mark Anderson, owner of Champoeg Farm in St. Paul, calls to a group of pasture-raised turkey toms. Large-scale producers have had a tough 2020 thanks to the coronavirus, but many smaller, direct-to-consumer producers such as Anderson have been thriv- ing. birds and hoping for the best. Experts say Thanks- giving likely will help an industry that’s been strug- gling since March. Mark Jordan, agricul- tural economist and exec- utive director of LEAP Market Analytics, said clo- sures of restaurants, cafe- terias and catering events this year have “crushed” segments of the industry. The foodservice market, Jordan said, made up about 55% of the turkey indus- try’s sales pre-pandemic. Scan data from super- markets show retail turkey sales have increased dra- matically, but industry leaders say those sales don’t offset foodservice losses. TURKEYS Continued from Page 1B Poundage, he said, is harder to predict. Some industry leaders expect many Americans will seek smaller birds. But the turkey industry can’t easily pivot. Con- tracts for baby turkeys, called poults, are written months in advance, and many of this Thanksgiv- ing’s turkeys already are in cold storage. Brandenberger said some smaller producers are aiming to grow lighter birds and offer more bone and breast options, but that’s not an industry-wide trend. The big companies appear to be growing large weather Despite industry dis- ruptions, some direct- to-consumer turkey pro- ducers have had more opportunity to strut their tail feathers. Although Anderson of Champoeg Farm lost nearly $155,000 in restau- rant sales this year, his direct-to-consumer, or DTC, market soared. Between March and Sep- tember 2019, the farm made only $800 in DTC sales. This year during that same timeframe, the farm made $50,000 in DTC. Even when the pan- demic ends, Anderson said he plans to expand selling direct. “Hey, 2020 hasn’t all been bad, right?” he said. “Some changes are good.” The most valuable and respected source of local news, advertising and information for our communities. • At freeway exit • Fuel • Restaurant • Clean bathrooms • Convenience Store • Interesting Gifts • Food to go • Bus Terminal • Barber Shop • Showers • Shorepower electric • LPG • Dump Station • 4 hotels adjacent • 1 mile from downtown Astoria Longview 41/56 Vancouver 36/48 37/51 30/50 Condon 31/50 FRI SAT SUN MON Rain and drizzle Mostly sunny and colder Sunny, but cold Cold with clouds and sun 40 14 38 12 43 17 Eugene 0 0 1 35/57 La Grande 21 50 29 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 2 33 15 0 0 21 45 25 Comfort Index™ 3 33 31 0 9 40 14 0 9 26 0 1 6 0 1 TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Tuesday Low Tuesday High: 102° Low: 9° Wettest: 2.99” 63° 47° 58° 46° 58° 46° Tuesday Trace Month to date 0.01 Normal month to date 0.37 Year to date 3.00 Normal year to date 8.01 0.00 0.01 0.72 13.40 12.30 0.00 2.05 0.90 28.09 16.83 PRECIPITATION (inches) HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY 30% S at 8 to 16 mph 7.5 0.06 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir 8% of capacity 22% of capacity 41% of capacity 34% of capacity 15% of capacity 7% of capacity High: 80° Low: 23° Wettest: 0.01” Medford Lakeview Astoria SUN & MOON THU. 965 cfs 0 cfs 18 cfs 48 cfs 91 cfs 18 cfs First FRI. 7:18 a.m. 7:20 a.m. 5:55 p.m. 5:53 p.m. 2:10 p.m. 2:54 p.m. 10:53 p.m. 11:59 p.m. Oct 23 Full Oct 31 Last Nov 8 25/57 Beaver Marsh 15/56 Roseburg 36/63 Grants Pass New Nov 14 Burns Jordan Valley 23/53 Paisley 19/61 Frenchglen 23/60 Diamond Grand View Arock 23/58 26/55 21/58 Fields 34/69 22/63 Klamath Falls 21/61 Lakeview 15/60 McDermitt 21/56 RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY SAT. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 56/39/sh 53/33/s 59/32/pc 39/15/s 53/40/pc 48/22/s 69/51/s 61/48/s 57/31/s 46/10/s 58/48/s 57/34/s 55/40/r 52/27/s 46/32/c 40/15/s 47/27/r 33/14/s 57/42/pc 55/27/s 49/35/pc 43/21/s 50/38/sh 45/25/s 47/30/sh 36/13/sf 57/33/pc 40/17/s 45/25/r 30/7/pc 45/31/pc 42/23/s 61/36/s 57/15/s 60/31/s 52/8/s Boise 30/53 Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs. City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview 22/59 Silver Lake 21/59 Medford Brookings Juntura 14/57 35/71 53/69 Ontario 25/55 16/60 Chiloquin FRI. On Oct. 22, 1982, Chicago’s temperature dropped to 22 degrees, making the week before Halloween feel more like Christmas. However, when Christmas arrived, the temperature hit a record-setting 64 degrees. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Brothers 34/57 Coos Bay Huntington 23/53 27/59 Oakridge Council 22/46 26/52 Seneca REGIONAL CITIES MOON PHASES STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday) 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 OREGON WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Palm Springs, Calif. Orr, Minn. Marathon, Fla. 29/57 25/59 Bend 37/64 23/51 21/53 John Day 24/62 Sisters Elkton Powers Halfway Granite 20/47 Baker City Florence 40/56 TUESDAY EXTREMES ALMANAC Monument 24/58 Redmond 40/54 38/58 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. 21/50 32/52 35/55 Corvallis Enterprise 21/45 35/55 Newport 35/61 35 21 Elgin 22/47 La Grande 27/53 28/55 Idanha Salem 30/41 31/44 Pendleton The Dalles 40/52 35/51 Lewiston Walla Walla Hood River Portland Newberg Mainly clear and cold 3 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2020 29/49 TONIGHT 3 515 Campbell Street Baker City 541-523-4318 28/45 Maupin Comfort Index™ Take out and Catering is Available. Kennewick 37/49 St. Helens TIllamook 21 53 31 6 am to 12 am Daily AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION 36/57 Baker City Old Fashioned Hospitality City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla FRI. SAT. Hi/Lo/W 41/33/sh 49/38/sh 47/25/sh 69/46/s 54/42/r 47/37/sh 55/39/pc 45/33/sh 49/31/r 52/42/sh 64/45/s 62/33/pc 63/48/pc 55/40/r 37/21/sn 50/38/pc 50/25/sh 44/29/sh Hi/Lo/W 34/13/s 50/25/s 31/13/s 65/31/s 53/34/s 49/29/s 51/24/s 43/23/s 36/17/s 51/34/s 59/32/pc 43/14/s 58/32/pc 55/30/s 31/12/s 46/24/s 27/11/pc 37/20/s Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice ANTHONY LAKES PHILLIPS LAKE Snow showers A little p.m. rain 36 17 49 27 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Snow and rain Rain and drizzle 41 21 49 34 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK A bit of p.m. snow Rain and drizzle 35 15 46 23 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Rain and drizzle A shower 45 25 51 31 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK A little p.m. rain Rain and drizzle 53 31 50 29