COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JuLY 1, 2021
Longtime friendship goes up in (marijuana) smoke
My best friend proceeded to get
extremely mad at me for doing
it in the presence of the girl, and
she no longer wants to be my
friend.
I have apologized profusely. I
have little experience with kids,
and now I’m scared that I have
lost my best friend, who refuses
to speak to me.
Abby, was what I did a friend-
ship-breaker? Was I so in the
wrong, or is my friend being
extreme and overreacting? —
Former Friend in Oregon
Dear Friend: Your friend
is not being extreme or over-
reacting. You vaped in front
of the child she is going to be
responsible for. Underage chil-
dren should not use marijuana
because it can negatively affect
Dear Abby: I recently took
a cross-country trip to visit my
pregnant best friend before she
gives birth. She has a new fiance
and soon-to-be stepdaughter I
hadn’t met before. She is 12, and
we enjoyed some outdoor activi-
ties together.
I have a marijuana vape pen
I smoke occasionally to relieve
nausea and anxiety. We both live
in states where it is legal. While
we were outside, I discreetly hit
my vape pen. The stepdaughter
noticed and later asked my
friend if I was smoking weed.
their still-developing brains.
Your friend may have ended the
friendship because she wants
to teach the girl by example to
avoid people who do this.
What you did showed
extremely poor judgment, and I
don’t blame her.
Dear Abby: I dated a man
for a year and eight months. It
seemed to be going great. The
relationship took a turn around
the eight-month mark. I real-
ized through thorough observa-
tion (we lived together) that he
was a textbook narcissist. He
responded just like my research
showed he would. He claims
he has no mental issues, but I
learned a lot from this relation-
ship about narcissism and how to
recognize abuse.
ping away at their self-es-
teem and making them doubt
themselves.
Keep your eyes open and
listen to your intuition, and you
won’t subject yourself to this
kind of relationship again.
Dear Abby: My wife and I
have been married for 35 years.
She’s the best. However, for the
last few years I feel like she fits
our relationship in between her
texting and emails, and not the
other way around. Should I feel
hurt or just roll with the times?
— Neglected in Florida
Dear Neglected: Neither
one. What you should do is tell
your wife of 35 years that she is
making you feel like No. 3 on
her list of priorities. The squeaky
wheel gets the grease.
Narcissism is real, but most
people don’t know much about
the signs and difficult behavior.
As a result of the relationship, I
am now in therapy. My question
is, how (when I’m ready) do I
approach the dating scene again
so I don’t encounter an expe-
rience like this? — Burned in
Pennsylvania
Dear Burned: Continue
working with your therapist. By
the time you are finished, you
will know what to look out for.
You may also realize that there
aren’t narcissists lurking behind
every bush. We form healthy
relationships by getting to know
people before jumping into a
live-in relationship. Abusers of
both sexes try to gain an advan-
tage over their victims by chip-
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Yabba dabba dispute resolved, Fred Flintstone can stay
HILLSBOROUGH, Cal-
ifornia — Fred Flintstone
fought the law — and he
won.
Technically, the owner
of the fanciful Flintstones
house in a posh San Fran-
cisco suburb settled a law-
suit with the town of Hills-
borough. But the agreement
will allow Fred and his
friends to remain.
In a yabba dabba dispute
that pitted property rights
against government rules
that played out in interna-
tional media, retired pub-
lishing mogul Florence
Fang defended her colorful,
bulbous-shaped house and
its elaborate homage to
“The Flintstones” family,
featuring Stone Age sculp-
tures inspired by the 1960s
cartoon, along with aliens
and other oddities.
The town, however,
called the towering dino-
saurs and life-size sculp-
tures “a highly visible
eyesore” and sued Fang,
alleging she violated local
codes when she put dino-
saur sculptures in the back-
yard and made other land-
scaping changes that caused
local officials to declare it a
public nuisance.
An attorney for the town
previously said residents
are required to get a permit
before installing such sculp-
tures, regardless of the
theme.
Hillsborough went to
court in 2019 after Fang
failed to comply with mul-
tiple stop-work orders, as
well as an order to remove
Error sends dumpling
machine to wrong
Portland
Eric Risberg/The Associated Press, File
PORTLAND, Maine —
Trying to fill this dump-
ling order left one business
in a pinch: A common but
costly shipping error sent a
custom dumpling-making
machine manufactured in
China to the wrong Port-
land in May.
The owners of Little
Brother Chinese Food,
which sells frozen dump-
lings in Portland, Maine,
ordered a custom dumpling
machine in March to help
them meet demand, but an
emailed shipping receipt
delivered the bad news,
the Portland Press Herald
reported Monday, June 28.
A statue of Fred Flintstone stands near the front entryway of the Flintstone House in Hillsborough, Cal-
ifornia, on Thursday, April 11, 2019. The owner of the fanciful Flintstones house in a posh San Francisco
suburb settled a lawsuit with the town of Hillsborough, but the agreement will allow Fred and his friends
to remain.
the features around the mul-
timillion-dollar property
with its 2,730-square-foot
home. Fang counter-sued.
The Daily Post in Palo Alto
first reported news of the
settlement on Thursday,
June 24.
Mark Hudak, an attorney
for Hillsborough, previ-
ously said the town prides
itself on its rural, woodsy
feel, and rules are in place
“so neighbors don’t have to
look at your version of what
Wyoming man calls
to ask why he wasn’t
arrested, is arrested
you would like to have, and
you don’t have to look at
theirs.”
According to records,
the settlement stipulates
that the town will review
and approve a survey of the
landscaping improvements.
In turn, Fang will apply
for building permits. The
town will also pay Fang
$125,000, and she will drop
the lawsuit — which was
dismissed in state court on
April 27.
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GILLETTE, Wyoming
— A Wyoming man who
asked a sheriff’s dispatcher
why he hadn’t been arrested
soon found himself in
handcuffs.
The 62-year-old man
called the Campbell
County Sheriff’s Office on
Thursday, June 24, to ask
why he hadn’t been arrested
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
57/71
Kennewick
58/81
St. Helens
60/87
63/89
66/97
61/88
58/88
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Patchy clouds
and mild
Sunshine and
very hot
Mostly sunny
and very hot
Sunny and hot
Partly sunny and
hot
56 97 54
98 54
96 53
95 51
Eugene
3
3
3
57/91
97 61
93 59
95 58
3
4
3
La Grande
66 99 60
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
2
2
62 96 60
Comfort Index™
3
92 60
92 58
3
3
3
3
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 118°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 3.73”
103°
55°
107°
59°
113°
60°
0.00
0.02
1.50
5.92
9.30
0.00
0.77
1.71
14.98
13.63
PRECIPITATION (inches)
0.00
0.21
1.15
2.44
5.68
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
20%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
8.4
0.33
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
58/80
14% of capacity
69% of capacity
39% of capacity
77% of capacity
35% of capacity
65% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1700 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 140 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
101 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
50 cfs
Minam River at Minam
507 cfs
Powder River near Richland
17 cfs
Hermiston, Ore.
Berthoud Pass, Colo.
Tampa, Fla.
OREGON
Hermiston
Lakeview
Astoria
High: 118°
Low: 51°
Wettest: Trace
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
5:09 a.m.
8:44 p.m.
1:06 a.m.
1:56 p.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Jul 1
New
Jul 9
First
Jul 17
Beaver Marsh
52/93
60/95
Grants Pass
Full
Jul 23
Burns
Jordan Valley
60/95
Paisley
59/97
Frenchglen
60/98
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
61/97
68/106
63/99
64/99
Klamath Falls
55/95
Lakeview
54/95
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
71/57/pc 70/57/pc
Bend
99/61/s 97/58/s
Boise
101/70/pc 102/73/pc
Brookings
68/55/c 67/54/pc
Burns
98/59/pc 97/57/s
Coos Bay
69/56/s 69/56/s
Corvallis
89/56/s 89/55/s
Council
98/61/s 98/64/pc
Elgin
96/62/s 97/60/s
Eugene
91/57/s 95/55/s
Hermiston
100/70/s 101/71/s
Hood River
89/66/s 94/64/pc
Imnaha
100/60/s 100/60/pc
John Day
97/60/s 97/59/s
Joseph
95/60/s 95/62/pc
Kennewick
102/66/s 101/68/s
Klamath Falls 95/60/pc 97/59/s
Lakeview
95/59/pc 94/55/s
Boise
72/101
Fields
65/100
SAT.
62/101
Silver Lake
59/93
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
57/98
63/97
55/68
Ontario
69/104
55/97
Chiloquin
FRI.
Heavy rain that started July 1, 1975, in
eastern North Dakota and northwestern
Minnesota caused disastrous fl ooding
three days later on the Red River. Property
damage exceeded $1 billion.
5:08 a.m.
8:44 p.m.
12:47 a.m.
12:53 p.m.
55/94
61/97
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Brothers
58/87
Roseburg
Huntington
57/94
Bend
Coos Bay
63/98
72/102
Seneca
60/99
Oakridge
Council
56/97
62/97
58/97
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
59/89
John Day
56/101
Sisters
Florence
56/68
62/98
Baker City
Redmond
54/64
57/69
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.
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Newport
Halfway
Granite
56/89
57/86
96 62
62/101
56/88
59/89
Corvallis
Enterprise
62/96
66/99
Monument
62/98
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
3
Elgin
61/96
La Grande
62/92
Maupin
3
71/99
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
73/103
Hood River
66/99
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
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by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
69/102
Vancouver
60/85
56/69
Baker City
“We saw that it was
headed for Tacoma, Wash-
ington, and then Portland,
Oregon,” Richard Lee said.
“We called them and they
said, ‘It’s already in the
water. We can’t do anything
about it now.’”
Lee and co-owner Claire
Guyer hired customs broker
Oceanair, based in Boston,
to help redirect the machine
they hoped would fold some
3,000 dumplings a week for
them.
Kelly L’Heureux, vice
president of Oceanair, told
the newspaper the error
happens frequently — espe-
cially with smaller compa-
nies — and can be costly.
“They end up working
with someone who either
doesn’t ship a lot, or they
could ship a lot but just
don’t know their geog-
raphy,” she said.
L’Heureux was able to
file a required document,
the import security filing,
that directed the machine to
be put on a truck to Maine,
not Oregon, when it landed
in Tacoma, Washington.
Lee said the cross-
country shipping cost
almost as much as the
machine itself, though
he didn’t tell the news-
paper what the costs were.
Now that the machine has
arrived, Lee and Guyer are
learning to use it.
“If we’re being honest,
we thought the process
would be like turning on
a dishwasher,” they wrote
in an email newsletter to
customers, “but it’s actu-
ally more like playing an
accordion.”
after deputies raided his
house the previous day.
Asked why he should be
arrested, the man said meth
use, Undersheriff Quentin
Reynolds said. The man
also told a dispatcher 10
men were following him.
Nobody had raided the
man’s house or was plan-
ning to arrest him, Reyn-
olds said. After the call,
a deputy spotted the man
driving and followed when
he pulled off the road,
the Gillette News Record
reported.
The man allegedly told
the deputy he had used
methamphetamine a day
and a half before and was
still high. He did poorly
on sobriety tests and was
arrested for driving under
the influence of a controlled
substance.
The Associated Press
FRI.
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Lewiston
103/69/s 106/68/s
Longview
81/52/s 81/54/pc
Meacham
96/55/s 97/57/s
Medford
100/68/pc 101/65/s
Newport
64/55/pc 63/54/pc
Olympia
84/53/s 84/54/pc
Ontario
104/72/s 105/70/pc
Pasco
102/64/s 102/66/s
Pendleton
99/66/s 98/68/s
Portland
88/61/s 91/58/pc
Powers
80/56/pc 83/54/s
Redmond
101/54/s 99/53/s
Roseburg
95/62/s 95/59/s
Salem
89/60/s 92/57/pc
Spokane
95/69/s 96/68/s
The Dalles
97/66/s 99/67/pc
Ukiah
92/56/s 92/51/s
Walla Walla
99/72/s 98/71/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
Mostly sunny; warm
Very warm
70
54
90
55
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Warm with sunshine
Partly sunny; hot
81
61
99
66
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Sunny and warm
78
51
87
50
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and very hot
Sunny and very hot
95
60
99
65
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very hot
Sunny and very hot
97
54
99
60