COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, SEpTEmBER 28, 2021
Reader says Abby came down too hard on friend’s mistake
issues. Further, it was legal in that
state.
Pregnancy can cause hor-
mones to be out of whack, and the
pregnant friend might have been
more emotional and reactive than
usual. “Former Friend” stated she
did not have experience with chil-
dren. If her judgment was poor,
she apologized for it and didn’t
try to minimize it. I truly believe
she should be forgiven and that
one mistake should not end the
entire friendship.
This incident could have been
a teaching tool for the child, ref-
erencing bad judgment, forgive-
ness, value of friendship, etc.
Friendships are vitally important.
I could not have navigated what
life has thrown at me without the
Dear Abby: I took excep-
tion to your response to “Former
Friend in Oregon” (July 1), who
vaped marijuana while visiting
a friend in the presence of the
friend’s 12-year-old future step-
daughter. The friend made a mis-
take, for which she apologized
profusely. She had flown cross-
country to visit her pregnant best
friend, no small thing. Flying can
cause both anxiety and nausea,
and the woman said she uses
vaping to relieve both of those
support of close friends. A friend
who travels far to visit her bestie
should not be discarded over one
error in judgment, especially
when she so willingly apologized.
— Forgiving in North Carolina
Dear Forgiving: That letter
drew a huge response from
readers, many of whom expressed
similar feelings to yours. They
pointed out that marijuana is
becoming increasingly legal and
normal in our society, and it is a
topic that should be openly dis-
cussed with the 12-year-old. They
also felt the girl probably knows
more about drugs than the two
women do. (She asked her future
stepmom, “Was she smoking
weed?”) Consensus was universal
that “Former Friend” may have
we worked and talked through
them. I feel we deserve this cel-
ebration not only for us, but
also our kids and friends. Your
thoughts? — Silver Anniversary
in Arizona
Dear Silver: You are nei-
ther selfish nor insensitive. Cele-
brate your 25th anniversary (con-
gratulations, by the way) in any
fashion or at any time you and
your family choose. It is regret-
table that your self-centered
twin brother and overly indul-
gent mother adopted the attitude
they have and attempted to make
the occasion all about him, but
the choice was theirs. Graciously
accept their refusal to attend,
have the party and enjoy every
minute of it.
committed a faux pas, but not an
unforgivable one, and I should not
have been so hard-nosed.
Dear Abby: I was married in
a double wedding with my twin
brother. Fast-forward: My hus-
band and I will celebrate our 25th
anniversary in three months. My
brother and his wife divorced 10
years ago. Our three adult chil-
dren want us to have a big anni-
versary celebration, as do my hus-
band and I. My brother says that
since it would have been his anni-
versary too, I’m being selfish and
insensitive to his feelings. Our
mother agrees! Both said if we
have a party, they will not attend.
I think they are the ones being
selfish. My husband and I have
had our share of hardships, but
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city
and trash bins.
To combat their growing
numbers, Lazio launched a
program in 2019 to capture
the beasts in park cages for
slaughter, and last month
approved a new decree to
allow selective hunting of
boars in some parks, which
until now had been strictly
forbidden.
Maurizio Giubbiotti, in
charge of Lazio’s parks,
says the region needs to
increase the boar cull from
700 over two years to at
least 1,000 annually to get
the situation under control.
In Italy’s rural areas,
hunting wild boar is a pop-
ular sport and most Ital-
ians can offer a long list
of their favorite wild boar
dishes, including pappar-
delle pasta with boar sauce
and wild boar stew. But
animal rights groups have
been adamantly opposed
to mass culling.
Those beliefs are not
shared by some urban
residents.
“I am afraid of walking
on the sidewalk, because
on one side there are the
The Associated Press
ROME — Rome has
been invaded by Gauls,
Visigoths and vandals
over the centuries, but
the Eternal City is now
grappling with a ram-
paging force of an entirely
different sort — rub-
bish-seeking wild boars.
Entire families of wild
boars have become a daily
sight in Rome, as groups of
10-30 beasts young and old
emerge from the vast parks
surrounding the city to
trot down traffic-clogged
streets in search of food in
Rome’s notoriously over-
flowing rubbish bins.
Posting wild boar
videos on social media
has become something
of a sport as exasper-
ated Romans capture the
scavengers marching past
their stores, strollers or
playgrounds.
As Rome gears up
for a local election next
weekend, the wild boar
invasion has been used
as a political weapon to
attack Mayor Virginia
Gregorio Borgia/The Associated Press
Wild boars forage near trash bins in Rome, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. They have become a daily sight in Rome,
families of wild boars trotting down the city streets, sticking their snouts in the garbage looking for food.
Raggi over the city’s for-
midable garbage collec-
tion problems. But experts
say the issue is more com-
plicated and tied at least
in part to a booming boar
rounding Rome estimates
there are 5,000-6,000 of
them in city parks, a few
hundred of which regu-
larly abandon the trees and
green for urban asphalt
population.
Italy’s main agricul-
ture lobby, Coldiretti, esti-
mates there are over 2 mil-
lion wild boars in Italy.
The region of Lazio sur-
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
49/63
Kennewick
48/61
St. Helens
44/65
47/66
Condon
45/68
49/67
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Partly cloudy
and chilly
Sunny and
warmer
Sun yielding to
clouds
A shower in the
morning
Plenty of
sunshine
70 33
66 29
71 28
Eugene
9
8
10
45/69
69 40
63 31
67 35
9
8
10
La Grande
33 63 34
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
5
0
9
28 59 36
Comfort Index™
0
64 36
69 34
10
10
10
9
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 107°
Low: 24°
Wettest: 2.66”
85°
34°
84°
42°
87°
40°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.43
0.38
3.54
6.80
0.00
0.43
0.56
6.97
11.89
0.00
0.49
0.83
16.28
16.74
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
35%
SE at 4 to 8 mph
1.2
0.11
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
47/73
N.A.
10% of capacity
10% of capacity
29% of capacity
0% of capacity
0% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
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
On Sept. 28, 1989, heavy rain fell in the
Jacksonville, Fla., area for the second
time in four days and caused widespread
fl ooding. Rainfall totaled 3-5 inches during
the morning.
SUN & MOON
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
6:47 a.m. 6:48 a.m.
6:38 p.m. 6:36 p.m.
10:57 p.m. 11:51 p.m.
2:35 p.m. 3:26 p.m.
MOON PHASES
476 cfs
0 cfs
38 cfs
44 cfs
52 cfs
3 cfs
Last
Sep 28
New
First
Oct 6
Full
Oct 12
Oct 20
46/71
Burns
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
30/59
Frenchglen
Paisley
26/67
29/65
31/61
Diamond
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
28/66
23/64
McDermitt
28/63
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
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
Hi/Lo/W
63/55/sh
70/37/s
65/41/s
66/52/pc
62/28/s
68/51/pc
66/48/pc
61/33/s
63/31/s
69/49/pc
68/39/pc
65/50/pc
64/41/s
62/39/s
60/36/s
70/44/pc
66/32/pc
64/28/s
Hi/Lo/W
63/48/sh
77/47/pc
71/47/s
69/53/pc
71/33/pc
72/50/c
70/49/sh
68/37/s
71/37/pc
73/51/c
77/47/pc
72/53/c
73/54/pc
71/42/pc
67/42/pc
78/50/pc
74/36/s
72/35/s
36/66
30/64
Fields
42/74
THU.
Grand View
Arock
29/61
30/63
Medford
WED.
Boise
40/65
45/78
Brookings
Juntura
31/64
24/67
Chiloquin
48/66
Ontario
37/66
24/62
29/64
Beaver Marsh
Grants Pass
Huntington
27/60
Brothers
24/64
32/61
37/66
Seneca
34/70
Oakridge
Roseburg
Powers
Ontario
Lakeview
Astoria
WEATHER HISTORY
33/62
41/72
45/68
OREGON
High: 88°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 0.01”
32/68
Council
25/62
John Day
Bend
Coos Bay
Death Valley, Calif.
Fraser, Colo.
Frenchville, Maine
27/57
32/69
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Sisters
Florence
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.
31/64
Baker City
Redmond
47/61
47/63
Halfway
Granite
42/66
Newport
44/71
68 42
35/66
40/67
47/68
Corvallis
Enterprise
28/59
33/63
Monument
41/69
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
0
Elgin
33/63
La Grande
40/64
Maupin
Comfort Index™
45/64
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
44/67
Lewiston
44/67
Hood River
40/67
48/65
25 62 29
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by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
47/70
Vancouver
45/65
TIllamook
Baker City
dumpsters for the rub-
bish and they (the boars)
jump on me,” said Grazia,
a 79-year-old grandmother
waiting outside an elemen-
tary school to pick up her
grandchildren. She did not
give her last name.
Just down the street, a
family of wild boars was
snorting through the trash.
Her concerns are not
misplaced: Wild boars can
weigh up to 220 pounds,
reach 2.6 feet in height
and measure 5 feet long,
a not-insignificant threat
especially to the elderly
and young children.
“We have been invaded
here,” lamented Pino Con-
solati, who runs a restau-
rant on a busy street corner
in Rome’s Monte Mario
neighborhood. He said
families of wild boars rou-
tinely wander through
his outdoor eating area
looking for food. One day
this week, he said, his
sister found 30 boars out-
side her shoe store when
she left at 8 p.m.
“It is not a pleasant situa-
tion,” he said.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
67/44/s
61/54/sh
62/34/s
74/44/pc
61/51/c
60/52/r
66/36/s
69/45/pc
67/41/s
67/58/c
73/49/pc
68/37/s
71/48/pc
68/54/c
58/45/pc
68/48/pc
61/34/s
64/49/s
Hi/Lo/W
76/51/pc
68/52/sh
70/40/pc
82/53/pc
64/48/c
64/46/sh
73/42/s
75/48/pc
77/46/pc
68/54/sh
76/52/c
76/42/pc
75/54/pc
72/51/sh
67/47/pc
76/55/pc
72/37/pc
75/52/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
Sunshine, but cold
Sunny and warmer
41
29
58
30
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cold with sunshine
Sunny, but cool
48
32
63
37
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunny, but chilly
Sunny and warmer
45
26
57
29
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and warmer
Mostly sunny
60
36
67
43
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Sunny and cool
Sunny and warmer
62
29
63
34
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