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
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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
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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
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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.”
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SUN
MON
Rain and drizzle
Mostly sunny
and colder
Sunny, but cold
Cold with
clouds and sun
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Eugene
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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
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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
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Coos Bay
Huntington
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Oakridge
Council
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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.
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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
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and cold
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Kennewick
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St. Helens
TIllamook
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
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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
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SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
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49/38/sh
47/25/sh
69/46/s
54/42/r
47/37/sh
55/39/pc
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49/31/r
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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
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58/32/pc
55/30/s
31/12/s
46/24/s
27/11/pc
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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
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MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Snow and rain
Rain and drizzle
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EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A bit of p.m. snow
Rain and drizzle
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Rain and drizzle
A shower
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THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A little p.m. rain
Rain and drizzle
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