COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021
Friend invited on trip seizes control of agenda
Well, it happened again.
She’s a great travel companion,
so I asked if she’d like to go to
Nashville with me for a couple
of days. It instantly changed to
a week, and she invited other
people to join us without dis-
cussing it with me. Within 90
minutes of bringing up the trip
to her, it no longer includes
Nashville! It’s like she waited for
me to invite her to do something
just so she could change it to
something she wanted to do.
It really hurts that she over-
steps my invitations. If I con-
tinue to plan the trip, including
everything she wants to do, we
will be gone for weeks. What
can I say or do to make her see I
Dear Abby: A few years
ago, I asked a friend to accom-
pany me to a concert for which I
off ered her a free ticket. (I paid
$150 for each one.) The orig-
inal plan was to travel from New
York state to Ohio, which would
have been a three-day weekend.
She responded with a grateful
yes, then instantly changed the
location to head in the opposite
direction, planned out the entire
trip, including the driving, and
turned it into a fi ve-day trip.
also lives under the same roof.
She refuses to get a job or help
around the house, and often cre-
ates extreme drama. Benign
events seem to set her off .
I have told my parents on
numerous occasions that I can’t
deal with the madness, and
either she goes or we do. But I
end up feeling such immense
guilt at the thought of my par-
ents struggling with bills and
daily rituals that I end up
pushing those feelings of anger
and resentment aside.
I don’t know what I should
do. Should I free myself from
my sister’s unhinged behavior
and move out, or should I stick
it out and suck it up in order to
really wanted to go to Nashville?
— Derailed in New York
Dear Derailed: Here’s what
to say to this presumptuous
person:
“The itinerary you have
planned isn’t what I had in mind
at all, so carry on by your-
self. I am going to Nashville.”
And then follow through. Bon
voyage!
Dear Abby: I currently live
in my parents’ house with my
1-year-old son and husband. We
live here not because of unfor-
tunate circumstances or events,
but because we help my elderly
and disabled parents with things
such as bills, rent, groceries, etc.
Unfortunately, my lazy sister
be a good daughter and help my
parents? — Rock And A Hard
Place
Dear Rock: The problem
with issuing an ultimatum is that
for it to be eff ective, one has to
be prepared to follow through.
You haven’t done that, so your
protestations aren’t taken seri-
ously. You and your husband
need to have one more talk with
your parents and make clear that
the current living situation isn’t
working for you because it is too
stressful. Tell them if the situ-
ation isn’t changed — and your
sister at the very least fi nds a job
and contributes — you and your
husband will be moving. Then
follow through.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Eye-popping 6,000 false lashes seized at New Orleans airport
Times-Picayune/The New
Orleans Advocate.
“There’s no telling
what’s on these eyelashes,”
he said.
False eyelashes can be
made of synthetics and are
attached using adhesive,
and unregulated or dan-
gerous materials could lead
to allergic reactions, eye
irritation or worse, Dyman
said.
No business or indi-
vidual has been cited, the
newspaper reported.
Unlabeled, non-FDA-ap-
proved false lashes are often
seized in New Orleans but
offi cials said this shipment
was “particularly large,”
WVUE-TV reported.
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS —
Three thousand pairs of
false eyelashes have been
seized by U.S. Customs
and Border Protection
agents after offi cials deter-
mined they were illegally
imported from China to
New Orleans.
The four boxes of long
lashes seized Tuesday, July
6, at Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Air-
port were destined for a
local beauty supply store,
agency spokesperson Mat-
thew Dyman said in a
statement.
They hadn’t been
approved by the federal
Food and Drug Adminis-
tration and weren’t labeled
with the distributor’s name
or the manufacturer’s name,
he said.
That means there’s no
way to tell whether the eye-
lashes had been exposed to
disease during manufac-
turing or whether they were
stored properly and kept
away from insect-infested
areas, Dyman told The
lich. The man expelled a
bag of marijuana and apolo-
gized to the offi cer.
After the man recovered,
Hoskins asked, “Do you
want to die over a minor
misdemeanor?”
The man received cita-
tions for speeding and
failing to wear a seatbelt,
according to Santiago. The
man also received a sum-
mons for marijuana and
was released at the scene.
Gutter ball: Michigan
man fi nds 160 bowling
balls under home
U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Contrbuted Photo
This photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows
boxes of long lashes seized Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at Louis Armstrong
New Orleans International Airport. Three thousand pairs of false
eyelashes have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
agents after offi cials determined they were illegally imported from
China to New Orleans. Agency spokesperson Matthew Dyman tells
WVUE-TV that the four boxes of long lashes seized Tuesday were des-
tined for a local beauty supply store.
Trooper performs
Heimlich after motorist
chokes on marijuana
over for speeding. Ohio
State Police Sgt. Ray San-
tiago said the traffi c stop
occurred on July 3 in Por-
tage County.
Trooper Charles Hoskin
conducted a traffi c stop for
a vehicle that was allegedly
traveling at 94 mph in a
ROOTSTOWN, Ohio
— An Ohio State Highway
Patrol trooper success-
fully performed the Heim-
lich maneuver after a
man allegedly attempted
to swallow a bag of can-
nabis when he was pulled
weather
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NORTON SHORES,
Michigan — A Michigan
man made a striking dis-
covery under his house
when he went to demolish
his back stairs: about 160
bowling balls.
David Olson, 33, said he
found one ball buried in the
sand behind cinder blocks
this month and continued
fi nding more over the fol-
lowing days.
“I was actually a little
happy about that because
it’s a little easier to roll
70-mph zone, WEWS-TV
reported.
Dash camera video
posted to the Ohio State
Police Twitter account
shows Hoskin asking if the
driver could breathe before
helping him out of the car
and performing the Heim-
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/64
Kennewick
56/72
St. Helens
63/80
58/75
Condon
67/89
59/78
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Clear
Very hot with
sunshine
Sunny and
pleasant
Nice with plenty
of sun
Sunny and
pleasant
93 50
91 50
90 49
Eugene
6
6
6
54/86
88 51
85 52
87 54
6
8
8
La Grande
61 97 56
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
2
4
2
57 96 54
Comfort Index™
3
86 48
88 53
5
6
7
3
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 128°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 2.67”
93°
53°
96°
51°
98°
48°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
0.00
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.27
Year to date
2.44
Normal year to date
5.98
0.00
0.00
0.31
5.93
9.65
0.00
0.29
0.32
15.27
13.99
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
15%
NW at 6 to 12 mph
11.2
0.35
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
10% of capacity
60% of capacity
34% of capacity
69% of capacity
26% of capacity
45% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
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
High: 102°
Low: 41°
Wettest: Trace
Ontario
Sunriver
Brookings
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Walden, Colo.
Milton, Fla.
A tornado cut a path of destruction from
northern New Jersey into New York City
on July 13, 1895. The twister fi rst hit
the small community of Cherry Hill, N.J.,
before moving through Harlem.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
5:17 a.m. 5:18 a.m.
8:39 p.m. 8:38 p.m.
8:56 a.m. 10:07 a.m.
11:13 p.m. 11:36 p.m.
MOON PHASES
645 cfs
133 cfs
79 cfs
43 cfs
200 cfs
32 cfs
First
Jul 17
Full
Jul 23
Last
Jul 31
New
Aug 8
53/91
Beaver Marsh
50/91
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
55/82
Coos Bay
Burns
Jordan Valley
Frenchglen
Paisley
59/97
Diamond
61/104
Fields
Klamath Falls
63/94
Lakeview
52/93
53/96
McDermitt
60/98
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
64/55/c
87/48/s
101/66/s
65/51/pc
93/53/s
62/53/c
77/52/pc
98/59/s
87/51/s
81/53/pc
91/64/s
80/61/s
96/56/s
92/55/s
90/51/s
93/63/s
89/46/s
91/47/s
59/100
63/101
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
64/55/pc
Bend
94/53/s
Boise
102/68/pc
Brookings
66/52/pc
Burns
98/56/s
Coos Bay
63/52/pc
Corvallis
81/53/pc
Council
96/62/pc
Elgin
97/55/s
Eugene
86/53/pc
Hermiston
100/67/s
Hood River
80/61/s
Imnaha
100/60/pc
John Day
96/60/s
Joseph
94/56/s
Kennewick
101/65/s
Klamath Falls 93/48/s
Lakeview
96/50/s
Grand View
Arock
59/96
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
WED.
Boise
59/96
55/97
53/89
Medford
Brookings
60/102
68/102
57/92
54/66
Juntura
55/98
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
67/104
52/96
58/86
54/73
Huntington
56/93
59/94
Oakridge
63/96
73/102
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
50/97
60/96
57/93
Florence
SUNDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
55/88
John Day
54/95
Sisters
54/63
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.
57/97
Baker City
Redmond
53/60
53/63
Halfway
Granite
54/81
Newport
55/79
89 49
62/98
57/83
56/84
Corvallis
Enterprise
57/96
61/97
Monument
64/91
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
5
Elgin
56/97
La Grande
62/90
Maupin
Comfort Index™
70/98
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
55/83
Lewiston
70/103
Hood River
64/98
55/65
50 97 53
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
69/101
Vancouver
58/73
TIllamook
Baker City
bowling balls out of the
way than to move the sand
and fi gure out where to put
all that,” he told the Detroit
Free Press.
Olson believes there are
even more buried under his
Norton Shores home.
He contacted the maker
of the balls, Brunswick
Bowling Products, which
had a plant in the area and
said they were made in
the 1950s. He said former
employees contacted him
and told him the workers
used to take scrapped
bowling balls to use as
an alternative to gravel or
sand.
Brunswick shut down
the Muskegon plant in
2006. Olson said many
of the balls aren’t in good
shape; they don’t have
fi nger holes and aren’t pol-
ished, according to MLive.
com.
He has donated some
and plans to give some to
the Muskegon Heritage
Museum. He’ll use the rest
for landscaping or to make
sculptures, according to
WZZM-TV.
WED.
THU.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Lewiston
103/68/s 95/62/s
Longview
72/53/pc 69/54/pc
Meacham
97/52/s 88/50/s
Medford
94/58/s 89/56/s
Newport
60/51/pc 59/51/c
Olympia
75/53/pc 71/51/pc
Ontario
104/69/pc 103/68/s
Pasco
102/64/s 95/62/s
Pendleton
98/64/s 88/59/s
Portland
78/56/pc 77/57/pc
Powers
73/54/pc 72/54/pc
Redmond
95/50/s 89/46/s
Roseburg
86/56/s 82/56/pc
Salem
84/54/pc 79/54/pc
Spokane
96/62/s 88/59/s
The Dalles
89/64/s 83/63/s
Ukiah
92/43/s 85/40/s
Walla Walla
98/67/s 91/63/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
Sunny and nice
Sunny; very warm
67
51
91
53
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and pleasant
Hazy and hot
82
56
100
67
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunny and warm
Plenty of sunshine
76
45
87
35
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and hot
Sunny and hot
94
56
98
62
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very hot
Sunshine; very hot
97
53
97
56
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