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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021
‘New’ father insists baby girl be kept a secret
ning that Joey wasn’t Nathan’s, it
turned out so did his family and
all his friends. It took a while for
Nathan to overcome the shock.
Once he did, he decided he
wanted to start a family. He pro-
posed to me, and we welcomed
our baby girl. (I never cheated on
him, but to avoid any doubts he
might have, once she arrived, we
did a DNA test.) Nathan has her
spoiled rotten.
The problem is, he acts very
peculiar where she is con-
cerned. Before she was born, he
wanted few people to know we
were expecting. He said it was
because he didn’t want to get
everybody’s hopes up in case
anything went wrong, which was
understandable. Now our baby
is 3 months old, and he’s still
Dear Abby: My fi ance,
“Nathan,” and I met in college
12 years ago. At the time, he
was helping to raise a child he
thought was his. He was crazy
about his son, “Joey.” Everywhere
we went, he would show him off ,
post pictures of them together on
social media and talk about Joey
nonstop.
When Joey turned 9, Joey’s
mother fi nally told Nathan that
Joey was not his son. When a
DNA test proved it was true, the
stuff hit the fan. Not only had
the mom known from the begin-
keeping her a secret.
He doesn’t want to take family
pictures and doesn’t post her on
social media like he did with
Joey. He has asked his family and
friends and even me not to tell
anyone about the baby, and he
gets mad if we do. When I asked
why he’s acting this way, he said
it’s because our child is “nobody’s
business.”
I love Nathan, and I understand
that he was hurt once, but I’m
starting to wonder. Is my fi ance
ashamed of our child? — Can’t
Figure It Out
Dear Can’t: I don’t think
Nathan is ashamed of his
daughter. He may be being overly
careful about news of his baby
girl because he was so badly
burned. He went overboard
posting pictures and talking non-
stop about his “son”; this time he
has gone overboard in the oppo-
site direction. Could this have
anything to do with a fear that
Nathan’s ex will fi nd out he has
another child? You won’t know
unless you ask him. Between you
and me, unless you’re willing to
go along with this secrecy busi-
ness — which I don’t think is
healthy — your fi ance should be
urged to consult a licensed psy-
chotherapist who can help him
regain his balance.
Dear Abby: My husband and
I have been married for 13 years.
He is a kind of optimist. After a
night of arguing and distancing,
the next day he acts as though
nothing has happened. He texts
me from work, “Hey Babe! Good
morning. I love you.” Our argu-
ments are not screaming matches
but little spats that bother me a
lot. Am I just a nagging wife? —
Fighting Mad in New York
Dear Fighting Mad: Not nec-
essarily. Your husband may get
past these fi ghts faster and more
completely than you do. However,
if his way of dealing with unre-
solved issues is to pretend they
don’t exist, I can understand your
frustration. If this happens often,
a text the next morning isn’t going
to improve the situation. Your
communication problem won’t
improve until you both agree to
talk about this with a marriage
and family therapist. If he is not
willing to do that, you might
fi nd a few sessions for yourself
helpful.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
‘Modern Family’ star, sister help injured woman
MOAB, Utah — A
woman who fainted and
hit her head on a rock after
stopping to rest in Utah’s
Arches National Park woke
up to hear a familiar voice
and wondered if she might
be watching television.
Minnie John of Oradell,
New Jersey, then ques-
tioned whether she might
know the woman who was
with the doctor helping
her, or if she was famous,
according to a post on
Facebook.
“Her sister the doctor
asked me to guess and I
told her I just hit my head,
I can’t remember. She said
smiling ‘Modern Family’
and I said of course!,” John
recounted about how she
fi nally recognized Julie
Bowen from her role on
the long-running comedy
series.
In her Aug. 3 post, John
said she had been on a
“bucket list” trip to Arches
and hiking to see Delicate
Arch, a four-story sand-
stone arch perched on the
rim of a deep red rock
canyon, for an hour and a
Loud pickleball
games annoy some in
Michigan
IRON MOUNTAIN,
Mich. — Some residents in
a northern Michigan com-
munity are complaining
about noise during summer
nights.
Rowdy teens? No. Adults
playing pickleball.
Iron Mountain in the
Upper Peninsula won’t
restrict pickleball hours
at four courts. City Man-
ager Jordan Stanchina had
suggested ending games
at 6 p.m., but 20 players
attended a recent council
meeting to object, The
Daily News reported.
Roxanne Hudson, who
lives next to the courts, said
she and her husband “just
want to move.”
Shaji John via The Associated Press
Minnie John, center, poses with actress Julie Bowen, right, and Bow-
en’s sister, Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer, left, after the pair cared for her
after she fainted and hit her head on a rock while stopping to rest in
Arches National Park, Utah, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021.
half when she could not
go any farther. She told
her husband and son to go
ahead as she rested along
the trail, her head in her
hands.
Julie Bowen and her
sister, Annie, told her that
their guide had seen her
fall face forward on a rock,
with her glasses breaking
her fall, she said. They
cleaned her up and gave
her electrolytes as Julie
Bowen assured her she
was going to be OK, John
said. They used her phone
to call her son and some
people selfl essly ran ahead
to fi nd him, about 20 min-
utes ahead, to let them
know what had happened,
John said.
John said she fractured
her nose and received fi ve
stitches later at the hos-
pital. She expressed grat-
itude to God for sending
The zoo says Dolly is
being fed with a bottle
because her mother was
unable to produce her own
milk. She made her public
debut during Earth Aware-
ness Day festivities on
Saturday.
Noise from the paddles
and plastic balls goes on
“hour after hour” and “just
drives you nuts,” Hudson
told the council.
Pickleball is played on
courts that resemble tennis
courts but are much smaller.
That’s part of the appeal.
“We’ll try to mitigate
(the noise) somehow,”
Mayor Dale Alessandrini
said.
Scott McLure, speaking
on behalf of players, said
they might try quieter pad-
dles. A 6 p.m. curfew isn’t
favored because it wouldn’t
give people time to play
after work.
“Every recreational
activity has noise,” council
member Bill Revord said.
people to help her.
“Daredevil or dumb as
can be, I still consider this
trek up the mountain as one
of my proudest achieve-
ments in my life. Some-
times you need to take
those chances in life to live
to experience heights and
depths,” she wrote.
The Associated Press
Bear cub strolls aisles
at California market
LOS ANGELES —
Shoppers were startled last
weekend to see a bear cub
browsing the off erings at a
Los Angeles supermarket.
Video aired by CBS
2 shows the small bear
strolling the aisles on Sat-
urday, Aug. 7, at the Ralphs
store in the Porter Ranch
area of the San Fernando
Valley.
After sniffi ng around
inside, the bear eventually
walked out the front doors.
The California Depart-
ment of Fish and Wild-
life found the 120-pound
animal hiding under a
trailer at a construction site
behind a nearby Walmart.
The bear was tranquil-
ized and released into the
Angeles National Forest,
the department said.
Zoo’s newborn giraff e
stands 6 feet tall
MENDON, Mass. —
The Southwick Zoo’s
newest addition is a pretty
big baby.
Dolly the giraff e was
born two weeks ago, and at
6 feet tall and 150 pounds,
she’s the largest of her spe-
cies ever to be born in the
history of the Mendon zoo.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
59/71
Kennewick
66/98
St. Helens
71/103
Vancouver
TIllamook
74/102
73/109
72/102
67/103
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Clear and mild
Sunshine and
very hot
Mostly sunny
and very hot
Partly sunny and
warm
Mostly sunny;
not as hot
56 97 57
97 58
92 53
82 46
3
6
9
99 67
92 63
82 55
4
6
8
Baker City
Comfort Index™
La Grande
4
61 98 65
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
3
4
4
57 95 63
Comfort Index™
3
83 55
3
5
9
ALMANAC
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 120°
Low: 26°
Wettest: 2.55”
88°
39°
92°
45°
94°
44°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.47
0.14
2.93
6.13
0.00
0.21
0.20
6.33
10.86
0.00
0.30
0.20
15.67
15.43
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
20%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
10.3
0.29
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
2% of capacity
36% of capacity
23% of capacity
53% of capacity
6% of capacity
2% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
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: 101°
Low: 37°
Wettest: none
The Dalles
Meacham
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
5:50 a.m. 5:51 a.m.
8:04 p.m. 8:03 p.m.
10:23 a.m. 11:37 a.m.
10:24 p.m. 10:47 p.m.
MOON PHASES
462 cfs
78 cfs
99 cfs
40 cfs
85 cfs
35 cfs
First
Aug 15
Full
Aug 22
Last
Aug 29
Elkton
64/87
Brothers
59/94
Beaver Marsh
59/93
Roseburg
67/102
New
Sep 6
Burns
Boise
70/102
Jordan Valley
61/95
Paisley
62/92
Frenchglen
64/97
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
63/97
61/102
59/98
Fields
Medford
65/100
Klamath Falls
60/95
Lakeview
57/95
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
61/98
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
71/57/c 69/59/c
Bend
94/65/s 96/66/pc
Boise
102/71/s 102/71/s
Brookings
65/54/pc 66/54/pc
Burns
97/59/t 98/61/s
Coos Bay
70/56/pc 73/59/pc
Corvallis
97/60/pc 89/61/pc
Council
102/64/s 103/65/s
Elgin
98/60/s 98/68/s
Eugene
101/63/pc 92/61/pc
Hermiston
105/68/s 108/81/pc
Hood River 102/74/pc 100/72/pc
Imnaha
101/65/s 98/64/s
John Day
99/64/s 94/63/s
Joseph
93/64/t 94/65/s
Kennewick
103/69/s 107/80/s
Klamath Falls 95/58/t 90/56/pc
Lakeview
95/53/t 92/54/pc
65/103
Silver Lake
57/92
72/102
54/65
Juntura
59/97
72/106
Brookings
Ontario
70/105
60/95
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
60/94
67/97
Coos Bay
67/102
76/103
Seneca
66/94
Oakridge
Council
56/97
65/99
64/96
Bend
Powers
61/99
59/90
John Day
62/99
Sisters
Florence
FRI.
The temperature reached 90 degrees for
the 19th consecutive day in Washington,
D.C., on Aug. 12, 1980. This broke the
record of 18 straight days of 90 or higher,
set in 1872.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Eugene
55/66
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
South Bend, Ind.
68/99
51/64
53/70
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.
68/102
61/97
Newport
61/92
90 60
3
68/100
Corvallis
Enterprise
57/95
61/98
Monument
71/103
Idanha
Salem
63/101
96 65
Elgin
57/98
La Grande
70/98
Maupin
TONIGHT
72/103
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
71/105
Hood River
67/102
57/78
Lewiston
Walla Walla
67/103
73/103
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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
105/73/s
98/63/pc
98/61/s
102/72/pc
64/52/c
97/59/s
105/68/s
105/67/s
102/73/s
102/68/pc
87/65/pc
99/61/s
102/67/pc
100/65/pc
97/70/s
109/76/s
94/58/s
103/77/s
Hi/Lo/W
104/74/s
89/62/pc
99/66/s
98/69/s
64/54/c
88/60/pc
105/71/s
104/76/s
104/78/s
93/67/s
83/60/c
96/62/pc
96/63/s
93/64/pc
99/72/pc
103/73/s
96/62/s
104/77/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
A t-storm around
A t-storm around
70
53
90
58
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A t-storm around
Sunny and hot
84
63
101
66
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A t-storm around
A t-storm around
79
55
91
52
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A t-storm around
Sunshine; very hot
93
64
101
72
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Very hot
Sunshine; very hot
97
57
98
65