COFFEE BREAK
6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, ApRIL 3, 2021
Man talks about his will but won’t put it in writing
DEAR ABBY: I have been
married to my husband for
seven years. We are in our 60s.
He refuses to make a will. He
tells me what he
“would” put in his
will and asks me if
I am OK with his
wishes.
He has an adult
child from his first
marriage and would like to
include her in the will. I’m fine
with what he wants. This con-
versation has been going on for
more than five years now, but he
never acts on it. I am very hurt
and frustrated.
The house is in his name,
and my name isn’t even on his
checking accounts. I resent him
for this. There are times when I
want to get a divorce because I
feel if something should happen
to him, I will have no security.
I also think he is
being selfish to me
and his adult child
DEAR
to leave us in a sit-
ABBY
uation where we
would have to go
through the probate
process. Please help me to get
through to him.
— RESENTFUL IN MAINE
DEAR RESENTFUL: Your
husband may be afraid to face
the idea of his own mortality. He
wouldn’t be the first. The two of
you need to make an appoint-
ment with an attorney who spe-
cializes in wills and estates. If he
doesn’t put his wishes in writing,
the assets he has worked so hard
for may be seriously diminished
when the state decides “for him”
and takes a sizable chunk out of
the estate.
While you are talking with
the lawyer, there should also be
a discussion of end-of-life plan-
ning. Does he want hospice?
Palliative care? Do you know
what his wishes are in the event
he is unable to speak for him-
self? Those wishes should be in
writing and so should YOURS.
(This subject should also be
raised with your doctor(s).)
Most people want to keep
what they have worked for and
decide for themselves what will
happen when they die. Death is
a fact of life, and hiding from it
won’t make it go away.
DEAR ABBY: I send out lots
of greeting cards every year
for birthdays, anniversaries
and Christmas. I keep a large
number of them on hand so I am
prepared.
I received a Christmas card
this year from an elderly family
member that said: “Thank you for
the insulting anniversary card.”
“Insulting” was underlined
twice. I was dismayed. Their
anniversary was last August. I
have no idea which card I sent
since I keep so many on hand. I
am guessing it may have been a
humorous card that they didn’t
find funny, but I’m not sure.
Both are very alert and ori-
ented. What is the proper thing
to do here? Do I call them and
apologize when I have no idea
what it said? Should I not send
an anniversary card next year or
send a very generic one? I have
been very upset that my good
wishes were so poorly received.
Any advice you can give would
be appreciated. Thank you.
— CONFUSED IN THE
MIDWEST
DEAR CONFUSED: Call
the couple and ASK what it was
about the card that upset them.
Explain that it wasn’t your inten-
tion to offend them, and apolo-
gize. DO send an anniversary
card when the time comes, but
when you do, make certain the
message inside is appropriate.
News of the Weird
Two space fans get
seats on billionaire’s
private flight
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — A billionaire’s pri-
vate SpaceX flight filled
its two remaining seats
Tuesday with a scien-
tist-teacher and a data engi-
neer whose college friend
actually won a spot but
gave him the prize.
The new passengers:
Sian Proctor, a community
college educator in Tempe,
Arizona, and Chris Sem-
broski, a former Air Force
missileman from Everett,
Washington. They will
join flight sponsor Jared
Isaacman and another pas-
senger for three days in
orbit this fall.
Isaacman also revealed
some details about his
Inspiration4 mission, as
the four gathered Tuesday
at NASA’s Kennedy Space
Center. He’s head of Shift4
Payments, a credit card-pro-
cessing company in Allen-
town, Pennsylvania, and is
paying for what would be
SpaceX’s first private flight
while raising money for St.
Jude Children’s Research
Hospital in Memphis,
Tennessee.
Their SpaceX Dragon
capsule — currently parked
at the International Space
Station for NASA — will
launch no earlier than
mid-September, aiming
for an altitude of 335 miles
(540 kilometers). That’s
75 miles (120 kilometers)
higher than the Interna-
tional Space Station and
on a level with the Hubble
Space Telescope.
The capsule will be out-
fitted with a domed window
in place of the usual space
station docking mechanism
for their trip.
Isaacman, 38, a pilot
Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP
Children from the YMCA Westside and Salvation Army high-five Looie the
Lookout on July 18, 2019, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Chattanooga
Lookouts announced Wednesday, March 31, 2021, on Twitter that the cos-
tume for Looie the Lookout has been returned home safe. The team told
authorities the mascot’s costume was stolen from an office at AT&T Field
on Tuesday, along with merchandise and equipment.
SpaceX via Ap
Jared Isaacman (from left), Hayley Arceneaux, Sian proctor and Chris Sembroski pose for a photo, Monday,
March 29, 2021, from the SpaceX launch tower at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
His friend declined to fly
for personal reasons and
offered the spot to Sem-
broski, who worked as a
Space Camp counselor in
college and volunteered for
space advocacy groups.
“Just finding out that
I’m going to space was an
incredible, strange, surreal
event,” he said.
He’s about to start a new
job at Lockheed Martin
and admits it will be a bal-
ancing act over the next six
months, as the crew trains.
Isaacman insists they
won’t cut any corners as
they prepare for launch.
“You don’t go up on
Everest, right, after just a
hike in the backyard. You
build your way to it,” he
told reporters.
Proctor, who studied
geology, applied three times
to NASA’s astronaut corps,
coming close in 2009, and
took part in simulated Mars
missions in Hawaii. She
was born in Guam, where
her late father worked at
NASA’s tracking station
for the Apollo moonshots,
including Neil Armstrong
who will serve as space-
craft commander, still won’t
say how much he’s paying.
He’s donating $100 million
to St. Jude, while donors
so far have contributed $13
million, primarily through
the lottery that offered a
chance to fly in space.
Hayley Arceneaux, 29,
was named to the crew a
month ago. The St. Jude
physician assistant was
treated there as a child for
bone cancer.
That left two capsule
seats open. Proctor, 51,
beat out 200 businesses and
nabbed the seat reserved for
a customer of Isaacman’s
company. An independent
panel of judges chose her
space art website dubbed
Space2inspire.
“It was like when Harry
Potter found out he was a
wizard, a little bit of shock
and awe,” Proctor told The
Associated Press last week.
“It’s like, ‘I’m the winner?’”
Sembroski, 41, donated
and entered the lottery
but wasn’t picked in the
random drawing earlier this
month — his friend was.
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looks like a big red baseball
cap, with a black brim for
a nose.
The Lookouts said hun-
dreds of dollars in mer-
chandise and equipment
also were stolen. Myzal
said none of that prop-
erty has been returned or
located. She said police are
reviewing security cameras
in the area.
The Lookouts kick off
their season at home on
May 4.
and Buzz Aldrin’s.
She plans to teach from
space and create art up
there, too.
Looie the Lookout
costume back with
Tennessee baseball team
CHATTANOOGA,
Tenn. — A minor league
baseball team in Tennessee
has its mascot back a day
after it was reported stolen
from a ballpark.
The Chattanooga
Lookouts announced
Wednesday, March 31, on
Twitter that the costume
for Looie the Lookout “has
been returned home safe.”
Chattanooga Police
spokeswoman Elisa Myzal
said in an email that an
employee of a nearby
aquarium found the cos-
tume near the team’s
stadium.
The Lookouts told
authorities the mascot’s
costume was stolen from
an office at AT&T Field on
Tuesday, according to a
Facebook post from Chatta-
nooga police. Looie’s head
‘Major’ pain: Biden’s
dog involved in second
biting incident
WASHINGTON —
President Joe Biden’s
younger dog Major this
week was involved in his
second biting incident of
the month, the White House
said Tuesday, March 27.
The dog “nipped
someone while on a walk”
on Monday, said Michael
LaRosa, press secretary to
first lady Jill Biden, adding
the dog “is still adjusting
to his new surroundings.”
The individual was seen by
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
41/50
Kennewick
41/55
St. Helens
45/55
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Condon
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WED
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cooler
Morning snow
showers
Sun and clouds;
warmer
Nice with
periods of sun
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68 35
Eugene
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La Grande
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Enterprise
8
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Comfort Index™ 10
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ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 96°
Low: -3°
Wettest: 1.46”
71°
33°
69°
45°
72°
41°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
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0.00
0.02
1.09
2.22
0.00
0.00
0.05
5.69
4.28
0.00
0.00
0.07
13.17
7.77
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
NW at 7 to 14 mph
0.7
0.11
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Elkton
40/58
16% of capacity
73% of capacity
58% of capacity
82% of capacity
56% of capacity
101% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
6070 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 102 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
40 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
644 cfs
Minam River at Minam
336 cfs
Powder River near Richland
279 cfs
Anaheim, Calif.
Climax, Colo.
Rockland, Maine
OREGON
High: 78°
Low: 16°
Wettest: none
Medford
Lakeview
WEATHER HISTORY
A heavy storm struck the mid-Atlantic
on April 3, 1915. It dropped 10 inches of
snow in New York City, 15 inches in Dover,
Del., and nearly 20 inches in Philadelphia.
SUN & MOON
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Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
SUN.
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7:23 p.m. 7:24 p.m.
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MOON PHASES
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33/58
Beaver Marsh
30/57
Roseburg
42/62
Burns
Jordan Valley
40/66
Paisley
39/67
Frenchglen
40/69
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Hi/Lo/W
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Arock
44/78
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Lakeview
33/67
McDermitt
39/69
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
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Astoria
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Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Diamond
39/65
42/70
Klamath Falls
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
MON.
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50/72
Fields
Medford
SUN.
39/69
Silver Lake
37/63
44/68
42/57
Juntura
35/68
42/69
Brookings
Ontario
46/78
33/63
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
34/58
40/55
Coos Bay
41/62
48/72
Seneca
36/59
Oakridge
Council
38/68
40/62
35/57
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
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John Day
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Sisters
Florence
Powers
40/66
Baker City
Redmond
42/49
44/50
Halfway
Granite
41/53
Newport
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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.
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Corvallis
Enterprise
39/57
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Monument
41/57
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
10
Elgin
41/56
La Grande
39/56
Maupin
Comfort Index™ 10
48/61
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
46/64
Hood River
47/58
TIllamook
38 68 31
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Walla Walla
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Vancouver
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42/49
Baker City
the White House Medical
Unit “out of an abundance
of caution” and returned
to work without injury,
LaRosa added.
The dog had been seen
by reporters on a walk
around the White House
South Lawn before the pres-
ident and first lady traveled
to the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial early Monday
evening.
The German shep-
herd only just returned
to the White House last
week, along with his sib-
ling Champ, after causing
a minor injury to an
employee of the U.S. Secret
Service on March 8.
After that incident, the
president said Major was
“a sweet dog.” In an inter-
view with ABC News,
Biden explained the biting
by saying that the dog had
“turned a corner, there’s
two people he doesn’t
know at all, you know, and
they move and moves to
protect.”
This week’s biting inci-
dent was reported by CNN.
— Associated Press
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Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
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55/31/pc
55/30/r
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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
Colder
Cooler
37
14
58
26
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cooler
Cooler
44
23
65
30
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Clouds and sun
Cooler
45
21
49
22
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Some sun; cooler
Cooler
56
28
57
31
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Breezy in the p.m.
Cooler
68
31
58
31