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
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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