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COFFEE BREAK B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD SATuRDAY, SEpTEmBER 25, 2021 Engaged couple eager to live on their own time for us to move out, and we also crave our freedom. We are tired of my parents not regarding me as an adult capable of making her own decisions. What should I do? I don’t want them getting in the way on move-in day. — Grown Woman in Mississippi Dear Woman: It’s time for you and your fiance to sit down together with your parents. Tell them you love them, but you are no longer minors. You are both well into adulthood, and it is time for you to live inde- pendently. Then give them the date you plan to move your belongings and stick to it. A way to ensure that they won’t get in your way on moving day would Dear Abby: I am a 25-year-old woman. My fiance is 26. Both of us live at home with our parents but have decided to move out in a few months to an apartment. Although his parents have given their blessing, my parents are against it and keep trying to change my mind. Abby, I have been wanting to leave for years. Both of us are experiencing tension living at home with our parents and trying to get along as adults. We feel it’s be to enlist the assistance of some friends to help you make the move. Dear Abby: Recently, I took my two sons to a cooking class. The instructor, a married woman and mother, was very friendly and nice. She kept telling me I was “beautiful” and how lucky my boys are to have such a beau- tiful mom. She also kept calling me “my love.” I found it pecu- liar, but didn’t give it a lot of thought because I presumed she was being friendly and I know some people speak that way. I am more reserved. I save words like “love” for people I truly love (my kids and husband). However, my husband was upset that I didn’t ask her to stop. He said he felt I disrespected him because I allowed someone else to call me “my love.” Had she been a man, I’d understand his feelings, but I saw no harm in it. Am I wrong for not having spoken up? — War of Words in New Jersey DEAR W.O.W.: Your hus- band is overreacting. The woman was not being disrespectful. She went overboard trying to pay you a compliment. All you had to do was smile and say, “Thank you very much, but you are making me uncomfortable. Please. No more.” Dear Abby: We gave our daughter-in-law a $100 check for her birthday, as she is hard to shop for. That was 11 1/2 months ago. When we went over there the other day, we saw our check stuck to the fridge door. Of course, it is now stale. Her birthday is coming up in two weeks. Any suggestions of what we should do this time? — Means Well in Arizona Dear Means Well: Point out to your daughter-in-law that you noticed the check you gave her for her last birthday hadn’t been cashed, and ask why. Take your cues from her answer. If she doesn’t need the money, send her a nice card she can plaster onto her refrigerator next to the out- dated check. ENVIRONMENT Senators demand climate action in federal budget plan Wyden said Senate Democrats will include in the $3.5 trillion budget resolution is funding for a Civilian Climate Corps, mod- eled on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conserva- tion Corps, which between 1933 and 1942 put thousands of young men to work in the nation’s for- ests. Silver Falls State Park, east of Salem, is one of its legacies. “What we ought to be doing is putting thousands of young people to work in the forests,” Wyden said, particularly in helping with prescribed burning to reduce the potential fuels for wildfires. An area that underwent this treatment is credited with less- ening the impact of the 2017 Mill fire, which still consumed 24,000 acres near Sisters. In addition to more federal aid for prescribed burning, Wyden said the tax-writing Finance Committee — which he leads for a second time — has proposed to scrap 44 current tax breaks for fossil fuels into just three for renewable energy, transportation fuels and energy efficiency. “It is the linchpin of what we are going to be doing to grow clean energy that can support thousands of good-paying jobs,” he said. “We have a simple mes- sage: The more you reduce carbon emissions, the bigger your tax savings.” Merkley said an urgent task is for the nation to make a quicker transition from fossil fuels and their greenhouse gases, in line with Biden’s pledge to generate 80% of the nation’s power from alternative sources and cut emis- sions in half by 2030. By PETER WONG Oregon Capital Bureau WASHINGTON — Ore- gon’s senators are among seven Western Democrats who say they are including steps to counter climate change in the federal budget resolution and other measures pending before Congress. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley spoke Wednesday, Sept. 22, during a conference call orga- nized by Washington Sen. Patty Murray. “Climate change is here and now, not some distant worry for another day. None of us here wants our kids to have to live through droughts that get worse every year, or to only know smoke-filled skies in the summer,” she said. “We need to meet this moment with the urgency that it demands. We know what we have got to do.” Murray conceded there’s a lot of work to be done in the next few weeks by the thin Dem- ocratic congressional majori- ties — no Republican support is likely — to include what Pres- ident Joe Biden wants in the budget. “We are working as quickly as possible,” she said. “But we want it done right.” Wildfire wakeup call Wyden and Merkley said the wildfires that swept western Oregon after Labor Day 2020 and the Bootleg fire east of Klamath Falls — which con- sumed an area larger than Los Angeles this past summer, and one of Oregon’s largest fires — demonstrated how things have changed. Among the measures that Political roadblocks Merkley also raised possi- weather | Go to AccuWeather.com Gary A. Warner/Oregon Capital Bureau, File Sen. Jeff Merkley, left, and Sen. Ron Wyden speak at the 2017 Oregon Leadership Summit in Portland. Both senators are among seven Western Democrats who say they are including steps to counter climate change in the federal budget resolution and other measures pending before Congress. bilities of a tax on carbon emis- sions, a fee on methane — a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — and a bor- der-adjustment tax (tariff) on imported goods from nations with less-strict emissions standards. “Will any of these be in it? We will see,” Merkley said. “But I wanted to mention they are part of the conversation at this point.” Because the Senate is split 50-50 — Democrats hold a majority only with the tie- breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris — Democrats AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 51/62 Kennewick 52/63 St. Helens 54/66 Hood River 56/72 56/80 57/69 51/67 Condon SUN Baker City 39 82 40 Comfort Index™ La Grande 9 8 9 8 56 32 Eugene 73 47 57 36 58 40 8 3 4 52 35 57 40 10 2 5 ALMANAC NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Thursday Low Thursday High: 108° Low: 20° Wettest: 3.99” 74° 34° 77° 40° 83° 40° PRECIPITATION (inches) Thursday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 0.43 0.34 3.54 6.76 0.00 0.43 0.49 6.97 11.82 0.00 0.49 0.73 16.28 16.64 HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY 25% W at 6 to 12 mph 9.8 0.17 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir N.A. 11% of capacity 11% of capacity 30% of capacity 0% of capacity 0% of capacity OREGON High: 93° Low: 30° Wettest: Trace Brookings Sunriver Astoria On Sept. 25, 1994, violent thunderstorms in western Pennsylvania produced damag- ing hail. Golf ball-sized hail accumulated 8 inches at Arthurdale, Pa. SUN & MOON SAT. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset SUN. 6:43 a.m. 6:44 a.m. 6:44 p.m. 6:42 p.m. 9:02 p.m. 9:33 p.m. 11:33 a.m. 12:37 p.m. MOON PHASES 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 Death Valley, Calif. Wolcott, Colo. Sebring, Fla. WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Powers 50/76 THURSDAY EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin 476 cfs 0 cfs 41 cfs 44 cfs 59 cfs 2 cfs Last Sep 28 New Oct 6 First Oct 12 Full Oct 20 36/73 Roseburg 52/81 Silver Lake Jordan Valley 49/79 Paisley 44/77 40/75 Frenchglen 50/80 52/82 Klamath Falls 40/77 City Astoria Bend Boise Brookings Burns Coos Bay Corvallis Council Elgin Eugene Hermiston Hood River Imnaha John Day Joseph Kennewick Klamath Falls Lakeview Hi/Lo/W 62/55/r 77/56/pc 85/55/s 61/55/pc 80/37/s 67/59/sh 69/58/sh 81/44/s 80/42/pc 73/58/r 82/55/pc 72/60/pc 84/52/pc 79/52/pc 78/51/pc 84/58/pc 77/41/s 77/38/s Hi/Lo/W 63/50/r 72/41/c 82/52/s 59/50/r 76/38/s 67/49/sh 65/50/r 77/41/s 74/43/pc 65/51/r 80/52/sh 66/51/r 76/48/s 75/43/sh 71/41/s 80/53/r 67/39/pc 71/36/s 48/87 Lakeview 37/77 McDermitt 42/81 RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY REGIONAL CITIES MON. Grand View Arock 45/84 44/82 Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs. SUN. Diamond 51/80 Fields Medford Brookings Boise 58/85 51/83 50/61 48/83 40/77 Chiloquin Grants Pass Juntura 38/80 47/75 Beaver Marsh 50/67 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. Ontario 49/87 Burns Brothers 52/77 Coos Bay Huntington 45/75 51/77 Oakridge 50/81 51/84 Seneca Bend Elkton 50/76 72 42 50/79 48/76 Council 39/82 John Day 46/81 Sisters Florence 50/60 45/84 Baker City Redmond 51/73 4 Halfway Granite 44/73 53/67 54/68 49/62 62 31 1 8 Corvallis 49/79 48/69 Newport Enterprise 49/80 47/81 Monument 52/78 Idanha Salem WED Cool with clouds and sun 10 9 49 80 49 Comfort Index™ TUE 75 41 47 81 46 Comfort Index™ Enterprise MON Sunshine with a Showers around shower 45/80 La Grande 54/77 Maupin Partly sunny Elgin Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg Lewiston 58/83 62/81 56/80 50/62 Partly cloudy Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 Walla Walla 59/84 Vancouver 52/64 TIllamook TONIGHT The Senate version of the budget resolution will have to mesh with the plan being devel- oped by the House, which also has a slim Democratic majority. Wyden said the Congressional Budget Office is scoring the tax proposals put forth by the House Ways and Means Committee, the counterpart to Wyden’s com- mittee, but that Democratic members and Biden administra- tion officials have spent much of the summer discussing pro- visions for climate change and other goals in Biden’s Build Back Better plan. will have to be united to pass any budget resolution. But some of the tax proposals may run into opposition from Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia whose state is a major coal pro- ducer. Manchin also leads the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Wyden him- self led in 2013 and still sits on. “I think Sen. Manchin under- stands we are undergoing dra- matic change in our country,” Wyden said. “There are areas we can help through the tax code and elsewhere. But I call tell you that failure is not an option.” City Lewiston Longview Meacham Medford Newport Olympia Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Powers Redmond Roseburg Salem Spokane The Dalles Ukiah Walla Walla SUN. MON. Hi/Lo/W 83/57/pc 63/59/r 80/42/pc 82/56/s 62/53/sh 64/53/r 87/48/s 84/58/pc 80/52/pc 69/61/sh 76/60/r 81/51/pc 81/60/pc 68/60/pc 77/55/pc 80/58/pc 77/47/pc 81/58/pc Hi/Lo/W 77/55/s 64/51/r 73/45/pc 71/50/r 59/49/sh 63/49/sh 83/51/s 78/53/r 78/50/r 66/53/r 66/50/sh 72/41/r 66/52/r 65/54/r 70/49/r 69/52/sh 72/42/r 76/54/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 Cooler Sun and clouds 53 39 76 42 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Partly sunny Partly sunny 65 42 82 46 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Partly sunny Clouds and sun 64 38 72 41 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Warm with some sun Sunny intervals 78 51 79 54 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Partly sunny; nice Partly sunny 82 40 81 46