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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, SEpTEmBER 30, 2021
Spiteful ex-boyfriend causes legal nightmares
Dear Abby: My boyfriend
and I have been together for
five years, and friends for eight.
We share a daughter, who is a
toddler. I have a son with my
abusive ex as well. Although
we are financially stable, we
qualify as low-income. (I am the
breadwinner.)
My boyfriend had a hard home
life and was a troubled youth
growing up. He has a criminal
history, which is why my family
opposed our relationship. He’s a
wonderful father and has changed
his life, but we have experienced
many hardships because of his
past. Because of a phone call
from my ex, the state picked up
his most recent charge from four
years ago, and he is now facing
prison time for a crime he did not
commit.
We are both devastated. He
has become withdrawn and is
now at a paranoid level of dis-
trusting. I know he has every
right to be upset. But after six
months of urging him to seek
professional help and fearing he
regrets being with me, I’m won-
dering if I’m doing myself a dis-
service by not seeking happiness
elsewhere. I know I should be
there for him because he needs
me. But he won’t make future
plans or seek better job oppor-
tunities because of his fear of
prison time. What should I do? —
In a Corner in Wisconsin
Dear in a Corner: You are in
a difficult situation, but don’t cut
and run just yet. Advise your boy-
friend that reclaiming his future
may require the help of a criminal
defense attorney. Then help him
find one who will take his case
and defend him if the need arises.
And while you are at it, maintain
as much distance as you can from
your vindictive ex.
Dear Abby: I’ve had a male
friend, “Herb,” for more than
35 years. He has helped me a lot
with things such as repairs at my
home. Many years ago, I became
pregnant, but the baby’s father
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
BRICK
Court battle ends tree dispute
in pricey San Francisco area
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their niche. With others
offering breakfast and
lunch, they decided to focus
on dinner and staying open
later. That’s evident in both
their hours and their menu.
“Our option was to
pick a lane,” Tish said,
since nearby restaurants
offer earlier meals, so they
planned to concentrate on
fare for later in the day and
evening.
“Our intent was to not
do what everyone else was
doing, not to offer the same
kind of thing,” she said.
“Originally, we wanted
to be the place that stayed
open later.”
The intent is not to
compete with nearby
restaurants.
“There’s no need for that
much competition in a tiny
community like this,” she
said. “Rather than making
it about competition, it’s
more about giving more
opportunities to the folks
who are here. That’s the
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
Tall trees are venerated
across California, but one
towering Monterey Pine at
the center of a heated dis-
pute in San Francisco’s
wealthiest neighborhood
has to go, according to an
appeals court ruling last
week.
A state appeals court
on Wednesday, Sept. 22,
ordered a couple in the
Pacific Heights neighbor-
hood to remove the tree,
which is at least 32 feet
tall. A neighbor argued the
tree was blocking her view
of the San Francisco Bay
and other city landmarks,
the San Francisco Chron-
icle reported.
The neighbor moved
into the San Francisco
home with her now-de-
ceased husband in 1976.
When the couple “saw the
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Tish Green, co-owner of The Brick Restaurant in Wallowa, gets the
kitchen ready to open on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. She and hus-
band, Cody, operate their new venture together.
ELGIN
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according to the press
release.
Elgin’s Dollar General
is among 65 in Oregon and
upward of 17,000 across the
United States, according to
the chain’s website.
Suzannah Moore-
Hemann, director of the
Union County Chamber of
Commerce, hopes that the
Dollar General will give the
local economy a boost.
“We are hoping it will
bring good living wage jobs
to the county,” she said. “It
is always exciting when a
route we wanted to go and
we’ll stick with for awhile.
We like change.”
That’ll be evident as the
seasons change. Right now,
the menu is “focused more
on dinners: steak dinners,
pork chops, chicken, pastas,
and we have a few options
for burgers, chilis, a sir-
loin dip like a French dip
but with sirloin meat so it’s
better,” Tish said. “When I
switch to the winter menu
in a couple of weeks, we’ll
be gearing toward the
warm, comfort foods, so a
lot of hot sandwiches, hot
rolls and soups.”
They’ll also have a
unique, namesake offering.
“We are going to serve a
‘brick of fries,’ because we
are The Brick,” she said.
“You typically see some-
thing like that at a fair. It’s
this compressed ‘brick’ of
potatoes and you fry it. …
Usually they’re topped with
cheese, chili and you can
even do a lot of different
things.”
new business comes to our
area.”
Dan Nieser, Dollar Gen-
eral’s senior vice presi-
dent of real estate and store
development, said the new
store in Elgin will have a
positive financial impact on
the local economy.
“At Dollar General, we
believe the addition of each
new store provides positive
economic growth for the
communities we proudly
serve, and the addition of
our new Elgin store high-
lights our commitment to
deliver a pleasant shopping
experience that includes
great prices on quality
products in a convenient
location,” Nieser said. “We
look forward to welcoming
customers to our new
store and hope they will
enjoy shopping at our new
location.”
To commemorate the
opening of the new Elgin
store, Dollar General plans
to donate 100 new books to
a nearby elementary school
to benefit students ranging
from kindergarten to fifth
grade. Through a partner-
ship with the Kellogg Com-
pany, the contribution will
be part of a planned dona-
tion of more than 100,000
books across the country to
celebrate new Dollar Gen-
eral store openings.
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said. “Unfortunately, they
were always adamant that
they would never agree to
restore her views unless
they were ordered to.”
Superior Court Judge
Jeffrey Ross visited the site
before issuing a December
2019 ruling to remove the
pine, citing a San Fran-
cisco ordinance that seeks
to resolve treetop feuds. He
ruled that “the tree’s rapid
growth in both height and
breadth obstructs the views
of landmarks and vistas
that could once be seen.”
The First District Court
of Appeal ruled Sept. 22
that the only workable
solution in this case was to
remove the tree.
Pruning might have
worked when the pine
was smaller, but it has
grown too much now to be
thinned or topped in a way
that would restore the view,
the court ruling said.
magnificent views, they
were sold,” said Barri
Bonapart, the woman’s
lawyer.
“You could see all the
way from Marin Head-
lands, out to the Pacific
Ocean, and then the
Golden Gate Bridge,
Palace of Fine Arts, Sau-
salito, Belvedere, Tiburon
and Angel Island,” Bona-
parte said. She said her
client asked to withhold
her name because she was
afraid of being harassed.
The pine was planted in
1999 and, by the time the
case went to trial in 2019,
had grown dozens of feet
tall with widening, thickly
growing branches. The
lawsuit was filed in 2018
after mediation failed.
The woman “tried
everything she could
to work with her neigh-
bors to find a collabora-
tive solution,” Bonapart
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What can I do? He’s been a
good friend, and I hate to lose
his friendship, but I really don’t
know what else I can say to him
to make him understand how he
makes me feel. — Too Friendly
in Ohio
Dear Too Friendly: Try
this: When Herb gives you an
unwanted kiss or hug, tell him
you do not enjoy it when he
invades your personal space and
you don’t want it to happen again.
If he brings up the subject of your
bedroom or alludes to pillow talk
during a phone call, get off the
phone immediately. (“Gotta go
now!”) Frankly, what he has been
doing is creepy. If it continues,
you will have to end the relation-
ship and hire a handyman.
and I didn’t end up together.
When Herb offered to marry me
and raise my child as his own,
that’s when I realized he had feel-
ings for me. I explained that this
was a kind offer, but I could not
reciprocate his feelings.
Over the past 10 years, Herb
has become touchy-feely, and it
makes me very uncomfortable.
He will kiss me on my forehead
or come from behind me and
hold me or hug me while rubbing
my back. I have told him how it
makes me feel and he laughs it
off.
He also makes remarks like,
“Oh, I’ve never been in your bed-
room,” or while we’re on the
phone he tells me he is in bed and
we are having pillow talk.
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