6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021
COFFEE BREAK
Overwhelmed new parents struggle to eat healthy food
DEAR ABBY: I have a
close friend who recently
had a baby
with serious
health prob-
lems. Unfor-
tunately, we
live on oppo-
site sides of
the country, and I can’t
afford to fl y out there. I
want to help, but short of
calls and texts to let her
know I’m thinking of her,
I’m out of ideas.
She’s mentioned several
times that with all the work
of being a new parent plus
the extra work involved
with a child with special
needs, she often doesn’t
have time to prepare
healthy meals and reverts
to junk food that she can
grab easily. Ordinarily, I’d
bring over a few meals to
help out, but that’s impos-
sible to do when she’s so far
away.
Restaurant gift cards
would be an option, but
unfortunately she and her
husband don’t have the time
to go to one.
I’m hoping
you might
DEAR
have other
ideas on how
ABBY
I can help out
from afar.
— PUZZLED
DEAR PUZZLED: Go
online and research food
delivery services in the city
or town where your friend
lives. Some businesses
deliver prepared meals on
a weekly basis. Other com-
panies ship boxes of won-
derful fruits every month.
But before doing anything,
ASK your overwhelmed
friend what she and her
husband think might be
helpful rather than try to
second-guess.
DEAR ABBY: I’d like
to know if there is a nice
way of asking my niece and
her boyfriend, who are in
their mid- to late-20s, not
to bring their phones to
the dinner table? I have
spent days preparing for
and cooking holiday meals.
The evening was less than
enjoyable for me because
they were only partly there,
and spent most of their time
texting and on Facebook.
It’s awkward to ask an
adult to practice good man-
ners. Any words of wisdom
will be much appreciated.
— WELL-MANNERED
LADY IN THE WEST
DEAR LADY: Explain
to your niece that you spend
a lot of time, money and
effort on presenting these
meals, and that you were
hurt and offended at their
apparent lack of apprecia-
tion. It’s the truth. Do not
preoccupy yourself with
trying to be nice or you will
weaken the message. Some
families solve this problem
by insisting their guests
place their cellphones in
a basket before dinner
and reclaim them as they
depart. (Just a thought!)
DEAR ABBY: My friend
from church casually men-
tioned that he and his wife
recently helped themselves
to several buckets of sand
from a national park. I’m
beside myself trying to
understand how they can
justify pillaging a natural
resource so they can pre-
tend they are at the beach.
It’s beyond selfi sh and just
what he and his wife did.
I ran your letter by my
former personal assis-
tant, Winni, who lives
in Hawaii. She informed
me that, according to
the Department of Land
and Natural Resources,
stealing sand from the
beaches is not only
against the law, but also
punishable with fines of
plain wrong. What can I
say to convince them to
return it? Can you help me
navigate this conversation
while still maintaining the
friendship?
— SHOCKED IN
HAWAII
DEAR SHOCKED:
Start by pointing out to
your friends that there are
serious penalties for doing
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Longview
43/49
Kennewick
46/52
St. Helens
47/52
39/49
Portland
Condon
39/48
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
A snow squall in
the a.m.
Cloudy
Rain in the
morning
Rather cloudy
42 36
44 28
40 23
Eugene
2
0
1
45/51
45 39
43 31
41 30
3
0
2
La Grande
39 41 40
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
2
2
1
37 44 38
Comfort Index™
3
36 31
2
0
2
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 78°
Low: -37°
Wettest: 3.66”
42°
35°
42°
38°
43°
31°
Thursday
Trace
Month to date
0.37
Normal month to date 0.73
Year to date
0.37
Normal year to date
0.73
Trace
1.04
1.50
1.04
1.50
Trace
4.27
2.91
4.27
2.91
PRECIPITATION (inches)
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
50%
SSE at 10 to 20 mph
0.9
0.08
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
9% of capacity
44% of capacity
48% of capacity
42% of capacity
34% of capacity
92% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1350 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
10 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
16 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
129 cfs
Minam River at Minam
N.A.
Powder River near Richland
22 cfs
Hollywood, Fla.
Cotton, Minn.
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
OREGON
High: 51°
Low: 18°
Wettest: 0.73”
Ontario
Crater Lake
Sexton Summit
WEATHER HISTORY
The temperature at La Junta, Colo., rose
from 5 degrees on the morning of Jan.
30, 1991, to a high of 50 degrees in the
afternoon. Pueblo, Colo., began the day at
2 degrees but rose to 58 degrees.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
7:15 a.m.
4:57 p.m.
7:20 p.m.
8:46 a.m.
SUN.
7:14 a.m.
4:58 p.m.
8:35 p.m.
9:12 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Feb 4
New
Feb 11
First
Feb 19
Full
Feb 27
37/45
37/49
Brothers
43/48
Coos Bay
32/41
Beaver Marsh
31/38
Roseburg
46/54
Burns
Jordan Valley
29/44
Paisley
32/44
Frenchglen
32/42
Klamath Falls
35/44
Hi/Lo/W
49/43/r
48/42/r
50/36/c
52/47/r
39/34/c
53/43/r
50/43/r
37/30/pc
42/41/sf
51/45/r
61/52/r
49/38/r
46/39/c
45/38/sn
41/37/sf
57/49/r
44/35/r
41/31/c
Hi/Lo/W
49/38/sh
46/31/sn
51/41/c
50/42/r
42/31/sn
50/39/r
49/37/r
39/35/c
45/38/r
49/39/r
57/41/c
50/36/sh
48/37/r
45/32/c
44/38/sn
58/38/c
42/30/sn
41/28/sn
Grand View
Arock
29/50
25/47
Lakeview
29/41
McDermitt
23/40
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
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
Diamond
30/44
27/39
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
MON.
Boise
33/50
Fields
42/50
SUN.
29/43
Silver Lake
35/43
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
28/39
46/51
49/52
Ontario
34/49
33/43
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
31/38
39/48
Oakridge
Council
24/37
33/45
Seneca
Bend
48/52
34/43
35/41
John Day
39/51
Sisters
Elkton
Powers
Halfway
Granite
33/37
Baker City
Florence
47/52
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Monument
37/49
Redmond
46/53
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.
39/41
40/46
45/51
46/52
41 28
3
Corvallis
Enterprise
37/44
44/50
Newport
45/50
46 39
39/42
La Grande
39/50
38/50
Idanha
Salem
A shower;
breezy late
3
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
46/52
47/52
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™
44/52
48/59
Newberg
Lewiston
38/49
Hood River
Maupin
35 41 37
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Walla Walla
42/57
Vancouver
46/50
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SUN.
MON.
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Hi/Lo/W
49/43/c
52/47/r
41/41/sf
50/42/r
50/43/r
48/42/r
49/37/pc
54/45/r
59/49/c
52/46/r
52/42/r
51/41/r
54/45/r
51/44/r
42/39/sn
48/41/r
44/41/sn
52/46/c
Hi/Lo/W
51/40/c
51/39/r
45/38/c
47/38/r
49/39/r
48/37/sh
49/41/c
55/37/c
54/41/c
51/42/r
48/38/r
47/29/sn
50/40/r
48/38/r
44/33/sn
49/36/sh
46/34/c
52/41/c
A.M. snow showers
A snow shower
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
26
26
40
34
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A.M. snow showers
Rather cloudy
35
35
42
32
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A.M. snow showers
A.M. snow showers
28
27
38
36
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A snow shower
Showers around
41
37
56
49
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A snow squall
A snow squall
41
37
41
40