COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, JuLY 24, 2021
Couple’s roommates get snippy over canine care
erosity in occasionally taking
the dogs out and walking them.
They now expect us to do it
every day, and get angry and
nasty if we don’t. Please help. —
In The Doghouse in Georgia
Dear In The Doghouse: You
and your roommates appear to
have a communication problem.
Speak up. Tell them you dislike
their palming off the respon-
sibility for walking their ani-
mals and you won’t be doing
it anymore. Then remind them
that while you were willing to
do an occasional favor, you do
not appreciate their attitude of
entitlement. You are not their
built-in dog walkers. You only
Dear Abby: My husband and
I are newlyweds and share an
apartment with another couple
because we ran into financial dif-
ficulties, and this was our only
option. The problem is the other
couple has two dogs they expect
us to take care of while they’re
at work.
My husband and I get home
two hours earlier than they do
in the evening, and they have
become accustomed to our gen-
have to occupy the “doghouse”
if you allow yourself to be put
in one.
Dear Abby: I have never
told anyone about this. I was
molested by my pastor when I
was 8, and again when I was
14. I see a doctor because of
depression and PTSD. My doctor
doesn’t know, and I don’t want
my family to know. I don’t even
know if the pastor is still alive.
Should I tell my doctor or
just let it go? I have heard about
priests doing this, but I was
going to a Pentecostal church. —
Male Reader in Kentucky
Dear Male Reader: It is very
important for your mental health
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
SHARK
Man with coronavirus
disguises as wife on flight
Continued from Page B1
blistering run at any moment. But
it didn’t. I got it in more quickly
than the first one, but as we got it
boatside, the scale of the nearly
10-footer was staggering. It was
also much, much thicker.
“This fish is pretty green, so be
careful,” Dom said as we staged
for pictures. I snapped a few mid-
dling ones before the fish got irri-
tated and swept its massive tail
out of my hand and dove. With a
powerful stroke, its tail slapped
into Dom’s shoulder with a wet
smack that would’ve broken his
nose if delivered just a bit higher.
We wrestled the beast back
in, unhooked it and caught our
breaths.
My largest fish was now a
(very conservatively) 9-foot lemon
shark that weighed 328 pounds,
according to NOAA. Probably
more like 350 or 375 given how
thick the pregnant female was.
My spirit was willing, but my
body was only marginally able. I’d
pulled my left forearm, my right
hand was swollen and aching, my
back screamed in pain and I felt
as though I’d just sprinted several
miles in double gravity.
So naturally, this is when we
hooked up again.
The third and final shark of the
day was a reef shark, the same
species that had sampled Dom’s
foot years before. But it was just
a 6-footer, and we got it boatside
relatively quickly on the heavy
gear.
At Dom’s instruction, I loos-
ened the drag and placed the rod
in the holder so we could handle
and release the fish. I only loos-
ened the drag three or four clicks,
though. Something told me to
loosen it more, but I didn’t. With
the lemon, the rod was facing
the same way as the fish when in
the holder. This reef was facing
the opposite way. I brushed the
thought away.
We got some fantastic pictures
and tried to unhook it. At this,
the reef shark dove with shocking
TERNATE, Indonesia — An
Indonesian man with the coro-
navirus has boarded a domestic
flight disguised as his wife,
wearing a niqab covering his
face and carrying fake IDs and a
negative PCR test result.
But the cover didn’t last long.
Police say a flight attendant
aboard a Citilink plane traveling
from Jakarta to Ternate in North
Maluku province on Sunday,
July 18, noticed the man change
clothes in the lavatory.
“He bought the plane ticket
with his wife’s name and
brought the identity card, the
PCR test result and the vaccina-
tion card with his wife’s name.
All documents are under his
wife’s name,” Ternate police said
after arresting the man upon
landing. He was only identified
by his initials.
Police took him for a
COVID-19 test, which came
back positive.
The man is currently self-iso-
lating at home and police said
the investigation will continue.
Indonesia is in the grip of
the worse coronavirus surge in
Asia with 33,772 new confirmed
cases and 1,383 deaths in the
last 24 hours. The total number
of reported cases is 2.9 million
with 77,583 fatalities.
Restrictions on public gather-
ings and on nonessential travel,
including a mandatory negative
coronavirus test, been toughened
this week.
Luke Ovgard/Contributed Photo
My 7-foot sandbar shark. A new species and (briefly) my largest fish ever at 7 feet
long and about 150 pounds.
speed. Dom had been holding the
steel leader in his gloves and let
go. I was holding the one-pound
sliding sinker in one hand to pro-
tect our teeth and the 250-pound
mono leader in the other. I was
not wearing gloves. And like an
idiot, I didn’t let go immediately.
I moved to grab the rod but
before I could react, the mono dug
into my palm and left me with a
friction burn. I flinched instead
of going for the rod, which was
being pulled backwards. In a hor-
rifying moment, it snapped.
It was my fault.
We both cursed but Dom
was much more gracious than I
would’ve been. I felt sick, but we
were able to re-land and release
the fish, though our shark fishing
was over.
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This one was almost exactly
6-foot and weighed 80 pounds via
NOAA.
We finished up the day chasing
a smaller quarry before limping
back to the dock. Even with the
broken rod, bruised shoulder and
aching muscles, it was a great
day. Those are the risks of shark
fishing, and better a broken rod
than a bitten foot, right?
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Astoria
NEW YORK — A New York
man and a Maine woman are
facing charges over cocaine dis-
guised as a cake that was seized
from their vehicle, the Maine
Drug Enforcement Agency said
Kennewick
58/84
St. Helens
Vancouver
60/89
62/88
65/91
Condon
68/99
63/90
MON
TUE
WED
Clear
Sunshine and
very warm
Clouds and
sunshine
Clouds and sun;
pleasant
Mostly sunny
96 60
91 57
91 55
Eugene
4
9
7
58/95
91 67
87 64
91 62
6
7
6
61 95 62
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
6
4
57 94 61
Comfort Index™
5
91 61
4
8
6
ALMANAC
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 111°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 2.19”
85°
49°
87°
51°
87°
42°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
0.00
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.42
Year to date
2.44
Normal year to date
5.86
0.00
Trace
0.46
5.93
10.52
0.00
0.37
0.55
15.35
15.07
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
15%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
14.0
0.33
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
7% of capacity
52% of capacity
30% of capacity
62% of capacity
18% of capacity
27% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
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
Ocotillo Wells, Calif.
Sunriver, Ore.
Jacksonville, Fla.
OREGON
High: 96°
Low: 32°
Wettest: none
Ontario
Sunriver
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
56/81
Between July 22 and 24, 1788, a hurricane
struck North Carolina and moved inland
through Virginia. The storm was still
potent when later observed by George
Washington.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
SUN.
5:28 a.m. 5:29 a.m.
8:29 p.m. 8:28 p.m.
9:31 p.m. 10:02 p.m.
5:45 a.m. 7:02 a.m.
MOON PHASES
546 cfs
120 cfs
123 cfs
39 cfs
129 cfs
26 cfs
Last
Jul 31
New
Aug 8
First
Aug 15
Full
Aug 22
Brothers
60/90
54/91
Beaver Marsh
52/93
Roseburg
62/96
Burns
Jordan Valley
59/98
Paisley
55/98
Frenchglen
60/100
Grand View
Arock
59/102
61/105
Fields
68/101
Klamath Falls
53/96
Lakeview
54/98
McDermitt
60/100
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
68/55/s 70/55/pc
96/57/s 90/58/pc
103/71/s 104/76/pc
70/56/pc 65/53/pc
100/58/s 99/64/pc
66/52/s 66/54/pc
92/57/s 90/58/pc
100/65/s 100/66/pc
95/58/s 91/64/pc
95/58/s 93/59/pc
101/65/s 97/70/pc
91/66/s 92/66/pc
100/63/s 100/66/pc
99/62/s 96/64/pc
93/62/s 93/66/pc
101/67/s 98/69/pc
96/55/s 94/58/pc
98/57/s 95/60/pc
Diamond
60/99
62/104
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
Boise
67/103
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
62/104
Silver Lake
53/93
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
55/100
63/98
55/70
Ontario
67/104
53/97
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
56/96
Bend
Coos Bay
61/100
72/102
Seneca
58/96
Oakridge
Council
49/95
60/99
57/97
Elkton
Powers
54/97
53/88
John Day
54/98
Sisters
Florence
54/66
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
54/66
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.
Monument
61/99
58/92
Newport
Enterprise
57/94
61/95
56/89
60/94
59/88
87 62
3
Corvallis
52/63
94 65
Elgin
54/95
La Grande
62/92
65/97
Idanha
Salem
SUN
La Grande
68/98
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
58/91
Lewiston
65/100
Hood River
64/98
TONIGHT
4
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
67/101
Maupin
6
DAYTONA BEACH
SHORES, Florida — A Florida
man told police officers he was
“teaching it a lesson” when he
tried to throw a live alligator
he had stolen from a minia-
ture golf course onto the roof
of a beachside cocktail lounge,
authorities said.
The 32-year-old man was
arrested early Thursday, July
15, when Daytona Beach
Shores police officers spotted
him attempting to throw the
gator onto the roof of a cocktail
lounge just off Highway A1A,
according to a police report.
The officers then saw the
man take the alligator by its tail,
hit it against the awning of the
building, throw it to the ground
and stomp on it twice, the report
said. The man from Homestead,
Florida was taken into cus-
tody and charged with posses-
sion and injury of an alligator,
unarmed burglary of an occu-
pied dwelling, theft and criminal
mischief.
The man told officers that
he had stolen the gator from an
enclosure at a nearby miniature
golf course.
Cocaine disguised as cake
seized from vehicle
Longview
56/68
55/73
Comfort Index™
Florida man tries to
throw live gator onto roof
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
TIllamook
49 95 54
Wednesday, July 21.
Acting on a tip, police
stopped the car on Interstate
295 in Gardiner on Tuesday,
and a drug-sniffing dog found
4 pounds of cocaine worth
$200,000 on the street, the
MDEA said. Also seized was
$1,900 in cash.
About 2 pounds of the
cocaine was disguised as a
marble cake with coffee grounds
used to cover up the scent, offi-
cials said.
The two were released on bail
and were expected in court on
July 21..
The Associated Press
Reef madness
Baker City
When I ask her to stop, she
says she can’t stand having food
in her teeth. I tell her to go into
the restroom or do it outside, but
she does neither and continues
to floss. I’m hoping she’ll listen
to you and that you will back me
up. — Ellen in the USA
Dear Ellen: I agree that
flossing one’s teeth in public is
unsightly and something that
should be done in private. If it
becomes necessary, it should
be done in the restroom. (Need
I add that if there is mouth-
rinsing, the sink should be
cleaned afterward and any
detritus stuck to the mirror
removed?)
that you tell your doctor every-
thing you have disclosed to me,
because what happened to you is
likely the cause of your depres-
sion and PTSD.
Do this, not only for your-
self, but also because it may help
other young people who belong
to that church and who also
may have been molested by that
predator.
Dear Abby: Is it appropriate
to use dental floss in public?
When my mom eats out, she uses
dental floss while she is still at
the table or while walking out of
the restaurant. She thinks she’s
being discreet, but what she’s
doing is obvious.
SUN.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
100/68/s 98/71/pc
84/55/s 84/57/pc
95/58/s 91/65/pc
101/67/s 98/70/pc
63/51/s 63/51/pc
85/52/s 83/53/s
104/73/s 106/76/pc
102/63/s 101/66/pc
98/64/s 93/67/pc
90/59/s 88/61/s
81/55/s 82/57/pc
98/54/s 95/59/pc
96/62/s 93/62/pc
94/60/s 92/60/pc
94/63/s 93/66/pc
99/67/s 98/68/pc
91/51/s 88/50/pc
98/69/s 96/71/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
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
67
52
91
55
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Sunny and nice
Sunny and warm
81
61
99
69
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunny and pleasant
Sunny and pleasant
76
52
87
42
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and hot
Plenty of sunshine
93
62
97
62
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Sunny and warm
Sunny and warm
95
54
95
62