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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
FOOD
Husband seeks right words for
wife who constantly ‘hates’ herself
may be able to refer you to
one.) If you do, it may not
only spice up but save your
marriage.
Dear Abby: I live on
the opposite coast from my
family. During the pan-
demic, my youngest brother
and his wife bought a new,
very large house. He told me
they had plenty of room and,
the next time we come for
a visit, they want us to stay
with them. Well, that visit
will be in November, but no
invitation to stay has been
extended. Should I remind
my brother about his invita-
tion, or should we just book
a hotel? My gut instinct is
to book the hotel, but my
brother is very sensitive to
how the family treats him,
and I don’t want to hurt his
feelings. What should I do?
— Big Sis in California
Dear Big Sis: Ask your
brother if his off er still
stands, since it has been
some time since he extended
his “generous invitation.”
Listen carefully to his reac-
tion. If you sense that he may
have forgotten or the situa-
tion has changed because of
COVID, tell him it would
not be a problem for you to
book accommodations at a
hotel if it’s more convenient.
Dear Abby: After 28
years of marriage, is it
strange that I would like
my wife to initiate sex? I
would like to know that she
is interested, not just me.
When I brought it up three
weeks ago, her response
again was, “We can when-
ever you want to,” which
wasn’t true because I have
been turned down before.
Any suggestions? She stays
home all day and wants
for nothing. Do you think
she’s getting it somewhere
else? — Frustrated in the
Bedroom
Dear Frustrated: I
hope your wife is intelli-
gent enough to recognize a
red fl ag when it’s waved in
front of her. I have a strong
hunch that she isn’t “getting
it somewhere else.” It’s more
likely she no longer has a
strong sex drive at this point
in her life, or she may never
have. Also, she may not
know HOW to initiate and
need coaching. If you can’t
teach her, enlist the aid of a
sex therapist. (Your doctor
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
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— a spending rate of
$232,305 per minute. Aid
programs, funded by relief
packages, included the
USDA Farmers to Families
Food Box Program.
The good news, how-
ever, is that food insecu-
rity has trended down-
ward since the peak of the
pandemic.
Food insecurity nation-
Doing this should not cause
hurt feelings.
Dear Abby: My wife
and I have been married 32
years. We are still in love
and consider each other our
best friend. We survived
some rough patches and
learned how to make things
right. I have one concern
at this point in our journey.
My wife constantly says, “I
hate myself.” The more she
says it out loud, the more I
see the impact on her emo-
tionally. What can a partner
do to help? I’m 100% sup-
portive of all she does and
totally attracted to her, yet I
can’t see this being healthy.
Please help and thanks.
— Dirty Words in
Connecticut
Dear Dirty Words:
The next time your wife
tells you she hates herself,
ask her why she is being so
hard on herself and ask her
to be specifi c about what
it is she hates. Explain that
you love her exactly as
she is and worry that what
she’s doing isn’t emotion-
ally healthy. (I agree, by the
way.) If she persists after
that, suggest she make an
appointment with a licensed
mental health professional
to discuss it.
wide fell nearly 30%
between spring 2020 and
spring 2021, according to
data from the Urban Insti-
tute, a think tank.
The institute, based
on its survey, attributed
the drop in food inse-
curity to an improved
employment rate, a tem-
porary 15% increase in
the maximum benefi t for
the Supplemental Nutri-
tion Assistance Program,
the introduction of new
food donation programs,
sleeve, known as a fi ber cable, to connect to
the internet.
Miller said Ziply, which has its head-
quarters in Kirkland, Washington,
is investing in fiber optic because it
may never be surpassed by another
technology.
“Fiber optic runs at the speed of
light. Nothing is faster,” he said. “It is
future-proof.”
Ziply Fiber is not alone on the fi ber
optic internet front in Union and Wallowa
counties. Eastern Oregon Net Inc. in La
Grande, according to its website, provides
fi ber optic internet service to portions of La
Grande, Elgin, Enterprise, Imbler, North
Powder, Summerville and Baker City.
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In the past 17-1/2 months, the com-
pany has provided or announced its inten-
tion to add fi ber optic internet service to 52
towns in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
The fi ber optic cable Ziply is installing
provides lightning-fast internet service,
Miller said. He said it is generally at least
10 times faster than a DSL connection. The
fi ber optic cable also can provide phone and
television streaming services.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
50/64
Kennewick
53/69
St. Helens
54/72
52/72
Condon
50/77
55/74
FRI
SAT
A little rain
Baker City
31 79 46
Comfort Index™
La Grande
8
Comfort Index™
9
57 33
Eugene
5
0
1
46/79
57 48
55 42
57 39
0
0
3
54 39
54 38
2
0
4
10
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 112°
Low: 22°
Wettest: 5.94”
79°
30°
80°
33°
84°
33°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
0.00
0.24
0.21
3.35
6.63
0.00
0.17
0.28
6.71
11.61
0.00
0.04
0.43
15.83
16.34
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
20%
SW at 6 to 12 mph
11.2
0.14
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
N.A.
14% of capacity
12% of capacity
34% of capacity
0% of capacity
0% of capacity
Medford
Meacham
Powers
46/74
A low temperature of 27 degrees on Sept.
16, 1964, at Concord, N.H., ended the
shortest growing season of any summer
last century. Temperatures had stayed
above freezing for only 100 days.
SUN & MOON
THU.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
6:32 a.m.
7:01 p.m.
5:26 p.m.
1:11 a.m.
449 cfs
0 cfs
62 cfs
43 cfs
52 cfs
2 cfs
Full
Sep 20
Last
Sep 28
New
Oct 6
47/80
FRI.
6:33 a.m.
6:59 p.m.
6:01 p.m.
2:24 a.m.
First
Oct 12
Jordan Valley
42/81
Paisley
41/81
37/76
Frenchglen
47/83
47/89
49/84
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
64/53/r
77/52/pc
83/58/s
66/53/pc
82/44/pc
70/56/c
74/57/r
78/49/pc
77/50/c
79/58/c
74/56/pc
72/58/sh
78/60/c
81/58/pc
76/53/pc
75/56/pc
79/45/pc
78/42/s
Hi/Lo/W
62/51/r
55/46/sh
83/52/c
59/51/r
68/42/c
66/53/sh
67/52/sh
81/49/c
57/47/r
68/53/sh
64/50/sh
63/54/sh
64/49/c
64/46/c
61/45/r
63/52/sh
67/48/sh
70/43/c
Grand View
Arock
39/84
41/86
46/86
Klamath Falls
38/79
Lakeview
36/78
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
44/81
Fields
Medford
Brookings
47/66
Boise
49/83
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
39/85
39/78
41/81
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
MOON PHASES
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
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Stanley, Idaho
Oakdale, La.
High: 92°
Low: 28°
Wettest: none
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
35/82
39/77
35/74
Roseburg
Ontario
41/81
Burns
Brothers
45/78
Coos Bay
Huntington
37/77
43/77
Oakridge
40/78
46/78
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
46/70
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.
44/81
40/77
Council
31/79
John Day
38/80
Sisters
48/75
59 46
37/79
Baker City
Redmond
46/61
47/64
Halfway
Granite
37/73
46/71
52/77
Corvallis
42/82
46/74
Newport
56 37
10
41 77 51
MON
Enterprise
41/77
41/76
Monument
49/79
Idanha
Salem
66 41
10
41 76 51
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
8
SUN
Cloudy, showers A shower in the
around
morning
Elgin
38/77
La Grande
44/75
Maupin
Mostly cloudy
49/71
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
50/72
Lewiston
46/73
Hood River
47/73
48/68
TONIGHT
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Walla Walla
48/75
Vancouver
53/69
TIllamook
Becoming partly
cloudy
larger unemployment ben-
efi ts and government relief
payouts.
But food insecu-
rity levels are still
higher than pre-pan-
demic levels, studies
show. A recent survey by
Feeding America, a non-
profi t, found that while
2021 hunger levels are
lower than 2020’s levels,
more than half of food
banks reported increasing
or steady demand this
summer.
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
73/58/c
69/55/r
77/51/c
84/56/s
61/52/r
63/51/r
81/51/pc
74/59/pc
73/55/c
74/58/r
74/60/pc
80/54/pc
80/59/c
77/58/r
63/52/r
77/59/c
72/46/c
71/56/pc
Hi/Lo/W
62/52/sh
65/53/sh
56/47/r
71/56/sh
60/50/sh
62/49/r
82/51/pc
68/53/sh
62/51/sh
67/57/sh
66/54/r
62/45/sh
69/56/r
68/55/sh
57/48/sh
69/55/sh
56/39/r
61/53/sh
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 cloudy
Clouds and sun
54
34
75
44
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Warmer
Some sun; pleasant
63
41
79
56
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Partly sunny
Warmer
59
41
71
41
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Warmer
Mostly cloudy
76
53
76
52
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Warmer
Mostly cloudy
79
46
76
51