COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2021
Family meals repeatedly cause digestion issues
heavily used ingredient in these
dishes, and it is often hidden or
disguised by a diff erent name
depending on its preparation.
She seems to think that
because my husband isn’t
“allergic” to dairy, it’s OK for
him to consume it. However,
because we’ve both changed
our diets to exclude dairy, these
visits often end in stomach pains
and, for him, other discom-
forts that may last for days. We
enjoy the game nights, but fear
a more direct approach will hurt
our newfound relationship with
his father’s soon-to-be bride.
What would you suggest? —
Restricted In Arizona
Dear Restricted: I sug-
Dear Abby: My husband
was instructed by his doctor to
avoid dairy due to a chronic con-
dition that negatively impacts
his daily life. Around the same
time, his father and his girl-
friend began implementing the
keto diet into their lifestyle. We
are often invited to their home
for game night. She takes pride
in preparing a home-cooked
meal for everyone. We’ve been
open about my husband’s dietary
restrictions, but dairy remains a
gest you be VERY direct (and
descriptive) with your father-
in-law and his soon-to-be fi ancee
about the eff ect that dairy prod-
ucts have on your husband! Pain
for days? That’s terrible. And if
your husband’s dietary restric-
tions can’t be accommodated,
either eat beforehand or bring
your own food to the gathering.
Dear Abby: I am 55 and have
waited for the right man. The
only regret I have is that I didn’t
fi nd him earlier because I went
into early menopause at 33. I
wish my values weren’t so strict,
but I have met someone who
seems to respect my desire to
wait until marriage.
The problem is our relation-
choose to be with me rather than
with his friends and family. Am
I wanting too much? I’m afraid
what he is after is security, not
a loving relationship where you
become one in life. — Waiting
For Mr. Right
Dear Waiting: I don’t think
you want too much. What you
are searching for is what most
people want — a life partner
who is considerate, loving and
whose values are close to their
own. Because you suspect this
person is after fi nancial secu-
rity, please listen to your gut. If
you really believe you are four
notches down on his list of pri-
orities, do not settle. End this
“romance” now.
ship has many negatives. We
live two hours apart. He loves to
gamble. I am educated, and he
has a learning disability. Most
of the time, I feel like I am in
fourth place in his life behind
his family, his friends and his
gambling. I don’t feel he really
wants to be with me. I some-
times wonder if it’s because of
the sex thing. However, I don’t
want a relationship based on sex.
I want him to want to spend his
time with me, and I want us to
become one and I don’t see it
happening. I also don’t believe
he can budget for anything more
than paying his bills and gam-
bling the rest of his money.
It doesn’t seem like he would
Major oil spill off Southern California fouls beaches
The Associated Press
HUNTINGTON BEACH,
Calif. — One of the largest oil
spills in recent Southern Cal-
ifornia history fouled popular
beaches and killed wildlife while
crews scrambled Sunday, Oct.
3, to contain the crude before
it spread further into protected
wetlands.
At least 126,000 gallons of oil
spilled into the waters off Orange
County, according to a state-
ment from the city of Huntington
Beach.
“The spill has signifi cantly
aff ected Huntington Beach, with
substantial ecological impacts
occurring at the beach and at the
Huntington Beach Wetlands,”
the statement said.
The oil created a miles-wide
sheen in the ocean and washed
ashore in sticky, black glob-
ules along with dead birds and
fi sh. Crews led by the U.S.
Coast Guard deployed skim-
mers and fl oating barriers known
as booms to try to stop fur-
ther incursion into the wetlands
and the Bolsa Chica Ecological
Reserve.
The closure stretched from the
Huntington Beach Pier nearly
Ringo H.W. Chiu/The Associated Press
A woman takes a picture of oil washed up on Huntington Beach, California, on Sun-
day, Oct. 3, 2021. A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled popu-
lar beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled to contain the crude before it
spread further into protected wetlands.
4 miles south to the Santa Ana
River jetty amid summerlike
weather that would have brought
beachgoers to the wide strand
for volleyball, swimming and
surfi ng.
Offi cials canceled the fi nal
weather
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day of the annual Pacifi c Air
Show that typically draws thou-
sands of spectators to Hun-
tington Beach, a city of about
199,000 residents about 30 miles
south of downtown Los Angeles.
The show featured fl yovers by
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
47/58
Kennewick
48/57
St. Helens
48/60
44/61
Condon
49/66
49/62
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Considerable
cloudiness
Partly sunny
Times of sun
and clouds
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
59 31
63 28
62 31
Eugene
5
8
5
44/62
57 30
61 31
61 36
5
8
8
La Grande
39 51 26
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
1
37 56 28
Comfort Index™ 10
58 36
5
7
7
3
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 103°
Low: 17°
Wettest: 2.89”
80°
30°
81°
35°
82°
35°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.00
0.05
3.58
6.91
0.00
Trace
0.09
7.38
12.09
0.00
0.00
0.13
16.41
17.00
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
60%
NW at 4 to 8 mph
6.8
0.06
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
43/62
N.A.
9% of capacity
10% of capacity
26% of capacity
1% of capacity
0% of capacity
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
6:56 a.m.
6:25 p.m.
5:44 a.m.
6:29 p.m.
6:57 a.m.
6:23 p.m.
7:02 a.m.
6:52 p.m.
MOON PHASES
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
Medford
Lakeview
Astoria
SUN & MOON
524 cfs
0 cfs
16 cfs
44 cfs
54 cfs
N.A.
New
Oct 6
First
Oct 12
Full
Oct 20
Last
Oct 28
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
44/61
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
44/59
48/75
45/67
Fields
46/66
42/65
Klamath Falls
37/55
Lakeview
36/58
McDermitt
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
40/67
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
Boise
46/65
34/53
34/54
Medford
Brookings
46/65
55/72
44/64
46/62
Juntura
35/57
Chiloquin
OREGON
Philadelphia experienced the last of a
series of 25 consecutive dry days on Oct.
5, 1968. Chronic drought also plagued the
mid-Atlantic states from 1961 to 1965.
44/63
Ontario
48/73
39/60
34/55
Beaver Marsh
Grants Pass
Huntington
49/67
Burns
Brothers
29/52
Roseburg
47/65
38/47
35/59
Oakridge
44/61
WEATHER HISTORY
43/51
Seneca
41/59
Coos Bay
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Morehead, Ky.
High: 83°
Low: 27°
Wettest: 0.11”
37/59
Council
39/59
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
36/49
33/57
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.
ALMANAC
Sisters
42/63
59 32
43/64
Baker City
Redmond
46/60
Halfway
Granite
41/58
42/62
Newport
46/59
55 31
39/51
40/55
47/63
Corvallis
Enterprise
37/56
Monument
44/61
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
4
Elgin
39/51
La Grande
43/55
Maupin
Comfort Index™ 10
50/61
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
45/60
Lewiston
54/60
Hood River
45/60
47/58
39 59 28
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
50/67
Vancouver
46/59
TIllamook
Baker City
At a news conference Oct.
2, Orange County offi cials
expressed concern about the
environmental impacts of the
spill and hoped crews could stop
the oil before it fl owed into sensi-
tive wetlands.
“We’ve been working with
our federal, state and county
partners to mitigate the impact
that could be a potential ecolog-
ical disaster,” Huntington Beach
Mayor Kim Carr said.
Huntington State Beach is
home to a number of species of
birds, including gulls, willet,
long-billed fl etcher, elegant
teens and reddish egret, which
area rarity on the west coast,
according to Ben Smith, a biol-
ogist and environmental consul-
tant for Orange County.
Smith drove to the beach Oct.
3 to observe wildlife ahead of
a construction project planned
at the mouth of the Santa Ana
River, which fl ows into the ocean
at the border of Huntington State
Beach and Newport Beach.
“There’s tar everywhere,”
he told the Los Angeles Times.
“You think by now we would
have fi gured out how to keep this
kind of thing from happening,
but I guess not.”
the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and
the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
The oil slick originated from a
broken pipeline connected to an
off shore oil platform known as
Elly, Orange County Supervisor
Katrina Foley said on Twitter.
Foley said Newport Beach
Mayor Brad Avery told her that
he encountered the oil slick
while in a boat traveling back to
the mainland from Santa Cata-
lina Island.
“He saw dolphins swimming
thru the oil,” Foley tweeted.
The Huntington Beach state-
ment early Sunday said “while
the leak has not been completely
stopped, preliminary patching
has been completed to repair the
oil spill site,” with additional
repairs planned.
The spill comes three decades
after a massive oil leak hit the
same stretch of Orange County
coast. On Feb. 7, 1990, the oil
tanker American Trader ran over
its anchor off Huntington Beach,
spilling nearly 417,000 gallons
of crude. Fish and about 3,400
birds were killed. In 2015, a rup-
tured pipeline north of Santa Bar-
bara sent 143,000 gallons of crude
oil gushing onto Refugio State
Beach.
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
58/43/sh
59/31/c
72/47/c
62/46/c
60/33/pc
61/43/pc
62/39/pc
65/43/pc
51/28/pc
62/41/c
64/36/c
61/43/pc
60/41/pc
51/34/pc
55/29/pc
67/37/c
55/32/c
58/33/c
Hi/Lo/W
60/42/s
60/36/pc
62/48/c
64/45/s
61/28/c
62/42/s
63/37/s
60/41/c
59/32/pc
63/40/pc
65/38/pc
62/41/s
57/37/c
60/36/pc
52/33/c
64/36/pc
61/30/pc
59/26/c
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
60/42/pc
57/39/sh
50/26/pc
66/40/c
59/43/sh
57/41/sh
73/47/pc
68/37/c
60/33/pc
62/43/sh
62/45/c
59/27/c
63/40/c
63/42/sh
56/37/pc
66/39/pc
51/25/pc
61/42/pc
Hi/Lo/W
64/41/pc
59/40/pc
58/31/pc
67/40/pc
57/42/s
58/38/pc
66/42/c
64/36/pc
59/35/pc
63/43/pc
64/40/s
59/31/pc
65/39/pc
64/40/s
57/35/c
67/40/s
56/32/pc
60/41/c
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
Clouds and sun
Cooler
36
19
53
26
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Much colder
Cooler
41
24
64
40
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Cooler
Clouds and sun
46
25
47
21
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Cooler
Some sun; cooler
55
29
57
32
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Some sun; cooler
Partly sunny
59
28
51
26
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