COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021
Widower fears impotence will kill new relationship
DEAR ABBY: I am a faithful
male reader of your column. I lost
my beautiful wife of 40 years last
year.
During our marriage, I had
prostate cancer and decided to
have the surgery to
remove it. I was told
by my doctor that
there was a chance
I would never again
be intimate with my
wife, and she was
OK with it. Now that she’s gone,
I have grown close to her child-
hood best friend. I don’t know
whether a relationship is in the
making, but I’m afraid once she
finds out I’m unable to perform,
the relationship will die.
I have tried every pill on the
market, pump, etc. Is it possible
to have a good relationship with
someone without intercourse? Or
do you think I’m doomed?
— GOING FORWARD
DEAR GOING: I do NOT
think you are
“doomed.” If you
are under the
DEAR
impression that all
women your age
ABBY
(and younger) would
reject you because
you can no longer have sexual
intercourse, allow me to reassure
you.
Many women would value
warmth, affection, compatible
ethics and morals and an intellec-
tual equal to share their life with.
So be honest, and you may be
pleasantly surprised to discover
that not only are you eligible, but
that you are also in demand.
DEAR ABBY: I have a friend
who is really popular. We have
been best friends since third
grade, but when we started ninth
grade, she really changed. She
started hanging out with the
“cool” kids and acting weird. She
told me that because I was her
friend, I had the automatic right
to hang out with them.
I don’t like to hang out with
large groups of people because
I’m afraid of big groups, but I
still want to be friends with her.
When I told her I’d think about
it, she suddenly turned cold. I’m
confused. I don’t know what I
should do. She was there for me
you will then have to decide
which is more important.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
co-worker who just built a house.
When I asked her what she would
like for a housewarming gift, she
told me a nice wine carafe with a
stopper. So that’s exactly what I
got her.
I recently found out she had a
housewarming party, and I wasn’t
invited. I had asked her when it
was going to be, and she didn’t
mention a word about it. Am I still
obligated to give her the gift I got
for her? Or should I write her off
and give it to someone else?
— EXCLUDED IN CORPUS
CHRISTI
DEAR EXCLUDED: Ouch!
Write her off and regift it.
since third grade, and I was there
for her, and now she seems to be
fading really fast — six years of
friendship just forgotten. Please
give me some advice.
— FRIEND DRAMA
DEAR FRIEND DRAMA:
Sometimes when a person says
“I’ll think about it,” it comes
across as a negative reply. Your
friend’s feelings may have been
hurt because she interpreted it as
a rejection. It would have been
better if you had explained that
you are uncomfortable in large
groups and would prefer to see
her one-on-one if she was willing.
It may not be too late to get that
message across to her. If the price
of her company is that you will
have to learn to be more social,
News of the Weird
Eruption of Iceland
volcano easing, not
affecting flights
REYKJAVIK, Ice-
land — The eruption of a
long-dormant volcano that
sent streams of lava flowing
across a small valley in
southwestern Iceland is
easing and shouldn’t inter-
fere with air travel, the Ice-
landic Meteorological Office
said Saturday.
The fissure eruption
began at around 8:45 p.m.
Friday, March 19, in the
Geldinga Valley, about 20
miles southwest of the cap-
ital, Reykjavik, the Met
Office said. The eruption
is “minor” and there were
no signs of ash or dust that
could disrupt aviation, the
agency said.
“The more we see, the
smaller this eruption gets,”
geophysicist Pall Ein-
arsson told The Associ-
ated Press on Saturday after
monitoring the volcano
throughout the night.
This southwestern
corner of Iceland is the most
heavily populated part of the
country. The Department
of Emergency Manage-
ment said it doesn’t antic-
ipate evacuations, unless
levels of volcanic gases rise
significantly.
Keflavik Airport, Ice-
land’s international air
traffic hub, said flights have
remained on schedule since
the eruption began.
“There is no indica-
tion of production of ash
and tephra, and there is no
imminent hazard for avia-
tion,” the Met Office said on
its website.
In 2010, an eruption of
the Eyjafjallajokull volcano
in Iceland sent clouds of
ash and dust into the atmo-
sphere, interrupting air
Daniel Niemann/Associates Press
A bread loaf that was baked with beer is displayed in the Coelven bakery
in Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. About 1,585 gallons of
the renowned copper-colored “Altbier” of the historic Fuechschen brew-
ery remain unsold and nearing its expiry date. The brewery now works
with craft bakers who use the beer to make bread.
Icelandic Coast Guard via AP
travel between Europe and
North America because of
concerns the material could
damage jet engines. More
than 100,000 flights were
grounded, stranding mil-
lions of passengers.
The Geldinga Valley
eruption is the first on the
Reykjanes Peninsula in
almost 800 years.
The area began rum-
bling with increased seismic
activity 15 months ago, and
the tremors increased dra-
matically last month.
Over the past three
weeks, the area has been
rattled by about 50,000
small earthquakes, dozens
of them magnitude 4 or
stronger, the Met Office
said.
Iceland, located above
a volcanic hotspot in the
North Atlantic, averages one
eruption every four to five
years. The last one was at
Holuhraun in 2014, when a
fissure eruption spread lava
the size of Manhattan over
“It would have been such
a shame to just toss out such
a tasty beer,” said Peter
Koenig, whose family has
run the brewery since 1908.
“Then we came up with
this idea to bake the bread
with the beer, to leave out
the water,” he said Tuesday.
“I think it’s great that these
two craft industries have
come together like this.”
About a dozen bakeries
have been producing the
Treberbrot since the start of
the week, giving the added
bonus of a bottle of Fuech-
schen’s Altbier, a regional
specialty, for free with each
loaf.
“It’s a very hearty, tasty
bread with a crispy baked
crust and a soft middle,”
said baker Janika Derksen,
whose family runs Coelven
bakery.She said that word of
the bread, which her bakery
sells for 3.95 euros ($4.65) a
loaf including the bottle of
Altbier, has spread rapidly.
“We’ve had queries from
the interior highland region.
Scientists flew over the
Geldinga Valley eruption on
Saturday morning and esti-
mated the eruptive fissure
was about 1,640 feet. The
two streams of lava were
about 2.5 kilometers from
the nearest road.
German brewery pairs
with bakers to use
surplus beer
DUESSELDORF, Ger-
many — With restaurants
and bars all closed due to
pandemic restrictions, a
Duesseldorf brewery found
itself with 1,585 gallons
of its copper-colored “Alt-
bier” unsold and nearing its
expiry date. But with trying
times come novel solu-
tions. Fuechschen Brewery
brewery paired up with
craft bakers already using
leftover grains from the
brewing process to produce
loaves of “Treberbrot,” or
“Spent Grain Bread.”
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BYU players get assist
for freeing Wade from
elevator
INDIANAPOLIS —
The BYU Cougars already
have the biggest assist in
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
37/51
Kennewick
36/56
St. Helens
38/58
38/54
38/61
39/57
34/58
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Partly cloudy
and cold
Mostly sunny
Partly sunny and
warmer
Increasing
cloudiness
Snow possible
in the a.m.
64 33
68 32
46 26
Eugene
10
10
0
34/59
63 37
65 30
42 27
10
10
0
La Grande
30 53 26
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
9
0
6
28 49 26
Comfort Index™
0
60 25
36 27
10
10
0
6
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 94°
Low: -3°
Wettest: 5.52”
49°
26°
47°
27°
51°
28°
0.00
0.14
0.60
1.09
1.98
Trace
0.13
1.08
5.16
3.85
0.17
0.65
1.66
12.58
7.16
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
35%
WNW at 6 to 12 mph
1.8
0.10
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
13% of capacity
61% of capacity
56% of capacity
72% of capacity
50% of capacity
101% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
4740 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 129 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
39 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
367 cfs
Minam River at Minam
273 cfs
Powder River near Richland
326 cfs
Kingsville, Texas
Antero Reservoir, Colo.
New Orleans, La.
OREGON
High: 59°
Low: 14°
Wettest: 0.01”
The Dalles
Crater Lake
Sexton Summit
Powers
35/59
Amarillo, Texas, received nearly 21 inches
of snow on March 25, 1934. Most of it
melted shortly after reaching the ground.
Actual snow depth never exceeded 5
inches.
SUN & MOON
THU.
6:46 a.m.
7:11 p.m.
3:32 p.m.
5:42 a.m.
FRI.
6:44 a.m.
7:13 p.m.
4:50 p.m.
6:12 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Mar 28
Last
Apr 4
New
Apr 11
36/60
First
Apr 19
Jordan Valley
25/49
Paisley
27/56
22/57
Frenchglen
25/52
36/67
Brookings
35/63
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
51/41/pc
59/29/s
57/34/s
60/43/s
55/26/s
53/38/s
58/35/pc
53/21/s
52/26/s
59/34/pc
65/38/s
54/38/pc
54/30/pc
53/28/s
47/26/s
66/37/s
57/24/s
54/25/s
Hi/Lo/W
55/39/s
70/36/s
63/39/s
62/44/s
64/31/s
60/40/s
63/38/s
58/29/s
62/34/pc
63/38/s
71/42/pc
65/38/pc
62/39/pc
65/34/s
56/35/pc
70/43/pc
66/29/s
64/30/s
Grand View
Arock
35/62
28/55
27/52
Klamath Falls
21/57
Lakeview
23/54
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
25/50
Fields
Medford
39/60
Boise
32/57
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
28/57
21/57
25/50
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
24/55
22/53
19/54
Ontario
34/63
Burns
Brothers
32/52
Roseburg
Huntington
24/50
Bend
Coos Bay
27/53
37/59
Seneca
25/59
Oakridge
Council
28/56
28/53
25/60
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
28/50
John Day
21/59
Sisters
Florence
38/53
29/56
Baker City
Redmond
36/50
36/53
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.
ALMANAC
Newport
Halfway
Granite
33/58
36/61
59 35
29/55
33/50
35/56
Corvallis
Enterprise
28/49
30/53
Monument
30/59
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
1
Elgin
28/52
La Grande
30/53
Maupin
Comfort Index™
38/58
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
37/58
Hood River
36/61
TIllamook
28 56 26
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
36/66
Vancouver
36/56
37/51
Baker City
the NCAA Tournament and
they had yet to play their
first game.
Jesse Wade was stuck in
an elevator for 40 minutes
at the team’s Indianapolis
hotel before his teammates
forced open the doors and
freed the junior guard.
The whole affair played
out on Twitter Thursday
night, March 18, including
a video showing several
teammates prying open
the elevator doors and an
ecstatic Wade popping out
into the hallway to cheers.
“Scariest moment of my
life but I knew the boys had
my back,” Wade tweeted.
Coach Mark Pope had
some fun with the situation.
He was on a video hookup
on his phone with Wade.
“We came down to
dinner and right now we’ve
got a fallen soldier. Jesse
Wade is stuck in the ele-
vator,” Pope said to the
sound of laughter in the
background.
“It’s been about 15 min-
utes. It’s brutal,” Wade said.
“I’m starved.”
— Associated Press
all across Germany if we
can send it by mail, which
we gladly do,” she said.
Customer Michael
Maassen dropped by on
Tuesday to pick up a loaf for
himself — and the bottle
of Altbier — after hearing
about the promotion from
social media.
“It’s a great campaign,
solidarity with one another
is more important now than
it ever has been,” said the
48-year-old soldier.
Beer sales in Germany
have been hurt by lock-
down measures that have
kept restaurants and bars
shut since the beginning of
November, except for take-
outs. That’s a problem par-
ticularly for Germany’s
many small brewers, which
often rely heavily on selling
draft beer that they can’t
shift at the moment.
A volcano continues to erupt Saturday, March 20, 2021, on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland. A
long dormant volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula flared to life Friday night, spilling lava down two sides in that
area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years.
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
58/36/pc
56/37/pc
53/25/s
63/36/s
50/35/s
55/35/pc
63/33/s
65/36/s
61/35/s
57/40/pc
59/37/s
59/26/s
60/35/s
56/34/pc
53/33/pc
61/36/s
52/24/s
58/39/s
Hi/Lo/W
64/41/pc
63/36/pc
63/35/pc
73/41/s
55/39/s
57/36/pc
67/36/pc
69/43/pc
67/42/pc
62/41/pc
70/41/s
68/32/s
69/41/s
61/39/pc
58/40/pc
66/40/pc
60/33/s
64/45/pc
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
Not as cold
Not as cool
33
23
54
28
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Not as cold
Mostly sunny
41
28
56
24
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
36
15
48
21
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
47
26
60
34
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
56
26
53
26