COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JAnuARY 13, 2022
Partner cast aside amid man’s personal stuggles
DEAR ABBY: For the past
three years I’ve been with a man
I believe is the love of my life.
Early on, he admitted to a porn
addiction that has plagued him
his entire life and sabotaged past
relationships. With my support,
he began his first real attempt at
recovery, which included a team
of mental health practitioners.
His progress over the past
three years, while not linear, has
been tremendous. He’s an entirely
different person. I would describe
our relationship as 90% joyful,
10% agony (he has had four brief
relapses, during which he has said
incredibly hurtful things to me).
I agree the cycle must be broken,
and only he can do it.
A week ago, he had a difficult
relapse and ended our relation-
ship. His therapist feels he needs
to be on his own to focus on
recovery. While I am devastated, I
agree. But I can’t understand why
he’s giving up on us forever and
making big decisions like getting
off the mortgage on the house we
bought less than two years ago.
He swears it has nothing to do
with me, and that if it weren’t for
this addiction, he would spend the
rest of his life with me.
wants off the mortgage. It is now
time for you to start looking after
your own needs and goals. If you
stay busy and don’t isolate your-
self, it will lessen the pain you are
feeling.
DEAR ABBY: My brother
divorced his first wife 10 years
ago. Since then, he has married
a wonderful woman my family
adores. The problem is, my ex-sis-
ter-in-law insists on showing up
for family events, which makes
these celebrations extremely awk-
ward. Even her children recog-
nize how uncomfortable her pres-
ence makes everyone.
I don’t mind being the “bad
guy” and telling her that she’s no
longer welcome at family events,
If his plan is to live alone, be
single or celibate, and focus on
recovery, why wouldn’t he also
pause on major financial deci-
sions? Why is he so completely
done when there is clearly hope
for recovery and reconciliation?
— BROKEN-HEARTED IN
OREGON
DEAR BRO-
KEN-HEARTED: You have
involved yourself with someone
who has a terrible track record
when it comes to relationships.
Whatever his plans for the future
may be, he does not want a com-
mitted relationship with you, nor
does he want the financial respon-
sibility and the tie to you that the
house represents, which is why he
but I don’t want to cause an ugly
scene. How can I diplomatically
(but firmly) tell her to stay away?
Any suggestions would be appre-
ciated. — FLUMMOXED IN
PHILADELPHIA
DEAR FLUMMOXED:
What a sad situation. Your
brother, not you, should deliver
the message to his ex, well before
she shows up at your next family
event. He should inform her that
when she shows up uninvited,
her presence makes everyone
uncomfortable, and it would be
best that she not impose again.
You could lessen the hurt by
occasionally seeing her sepa-
rately, depending upon the cir-
cumstances of the divorce.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Pilot rescued from wreckage in LA moments before train hits
Starbucks both challenged
the eligibility of some
voters.
Union spokesman
Richard Bensinger said that
the labor board had sided
with the union and rejected
the votes from six workers
who had only briefly
worked at the Cheektowaga
location. Bensinger said the
results from the Hamburg
store remain undecided.
The union victory last
month has set off a wave of
interest in unionization at
other Starbucks locations.
Individual stores in Massa-
chusetts, Arizona, Oregon,
Illinois, Colorado, Ten-
nessee and Starbucks’ home
city of Seattle have peti-
tioned the labor board for
union elections. Three addi-
tional stores in Buffalo are
also seeking union votes.
Starbucks owns more
than 8,000 stores in the U.S.
Starbucks says its stores
function better when
it works directly with
employees, not through a
third party. But the com-
pany has said it will begin
the bargaining process
with the downtown Buffalo
store.
“The vote outcomes will
not change our shared pur-
pose or how we will show
up for each other,” Star-
bucks Executive Vice Pres-
ident Rossann Williams
said in a recent letter to
employees.
Lexi Rizzo, an shift
supervisor at the Cheek-
towaga store, said it was an
emotional day for workers
who backed the union.
“Finally, the partners
feel we have a voice at our
workplace,” she said in a
statement distributed by
Workers United.
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
The pilot of a small plane
averted death twice in a
span of minutes on Sunday,
Jan. 9, first when he crash-
landed onto railroad tracks,
then when Los Angeles
police rescued him just
before a commuter train
smashed into the aircraft.
Bodycam video showed
the officers working furi-
ously to disentangle the
bloodied pilot from the
cockpit of the crumpled
Cessna 172.
“Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!”
someone yelled as the offi-
cers dragged the man
away seconds before the
Metrolink train, its horn
blaring, barreled through
the plane.
The single-engine plane
had engine failure during
takeoff from Whiteman
Airport in the San Fer-
nando Valley commu-
nity of Pacoima and went
down moments later, police
Capt. Christopher Zine told
reporters.
The plane ended up on a
rail crossing in an intersec-
tion adjacent to the airport
and just blocks from the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment’s Foothill Division
station. Officers arrived
at the crash scene almost
immediately.
“I had requested
Metrolink to cease all train
activity, but apparently that
didn’t happen,” Sgt. Joseph
Cavestany told CBSN Los
Angeles.
Officer Christopher
Aboyte told KABC-TV
that he initially stood by
the plane trying to keep the
pilot, who was seated, con-
scious and alert.
Los Angeles Police Department/Contributed Photo
In this screen grab from a body cam video provided by the Los Angeles Police Department, a commuter train crashes with a plane which had
just taken off from nearby Whiteman Airport Sunday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Pacoima, Calif. Los Angeles police officers pulled an injured pilot from
the wreckage of a small plane that crash landed on railroad tracks just moments before a commuter train smashed into the aircraft over the
weekend.
Then, bells and flashing
lights signaled an oncoming
train, Officer Robert
Sherock told the station.
“We looked and sure
enough there was a train
headed right for us at full
speed,” he said.
Officer Damien Castro
told KNBC-TV that
training and experience
kicked in, and adrenaline
helped.
“When things like that
happen you kind of just
go and do it,” Castro said.
“You don’t really have
much time to think.”
The bodycam captured
the sight and sound of
the train blasting through
where the pilot had been
seconds earlier.
“I think this guy needs
to buy a lottery ticket ‘cause
he pretty much cheated
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Service Employees Interna-
tional Union. The National
Labor Relations Board con-
firmed the vote Monday,
Jan. 10.
Starbucks is evaluating
its options and may appeal,
a spokesperson for the
company said. The com-
pany has 10 business days
to file an appeal to the full
labor board. If the appeal is
denied, it must bargain with
the union.
Last month, Starbucks
workers voted to unionize
workers at a store in down-
town Buffalo, making
that store one of the first
to unionize in Starbucks’
50-year history. But at the
time, the outcome of union
elections at two other area
stores — in Cheektowaga
and Hamburg — were
unclear. The union and
mph,” Mortensen said.
Metrolink service was
halted and road traffic
was detoured in the area
about 20 miles northwest
of downtown Los Angeles.
The FAA and the National
Transportation Safety
Board will investigate.
death twice within 10 min-
utes,” Sherock told KNBC.
The pilot was the only
person on board. He was
taken to a hospital.
He was identified as
70-year-old Mark Jen-
kins by a relative, Dan
Mortensen, who told
KNBC-TV that the pilot
suffered “pretty signifi-
cant” damage to his face
including broken bones and
also had broken ribs.
Jenkins is a “very expe-
rienced” former U.S. Air
Force fighter pilot, said
Mortensen, who co-owns
the plane.
Mortensen said Jenkins
probably intended to land
on the tracks to avoid pos-
sibly hitting people on the
ground.
“He didn’t anticipate a
train coming through at 80
Second Starbucks
store near Buffalo
votes to unionize
BUFFALO — A second
Starbucks store near Buf-
falo, New York, has voted
to unionize, one of a
growing number of the
coffee chain’s stores seeking
to organize workers.
Workers at the store, in
the suburb of Cheektowaga,
voted 15-9 in favor of rep-
resentation by Workers
United, an affiliate of the
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
44/51
Kennewick
44/52
St. Helens
43/52
42/52
36/42
35/44
44/51
43/54
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
Sun through
high clouds
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
35 18
33 23
35 22
Eugene
1
1
0
40/49
39 22
36 27
39 27
3
3
2
Comfort Index™
La Grande
3
34 39 30
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
2
2
3
30 40 27
Comfort Index™
4
39 29
4
4
4
4
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 85°
Low: -27°
Wettest: 4.17”
33°
11°
38°
30°
39°
29°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Trace
Month to date
0.27
Normal month to date 0.26
Year to date
0.27
Normal year to date
0.26
0.00
0.82
0.65
0.82
0.65
0.00
2.77
1.24
2.77
1.24
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
50%
SSE at 6 to 12 mph
0.3
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
41/59
1% of capacity
24% of capacity
18% of capacity
24% of capacity
18% of capacity
23% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1530 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
15 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
264 cfs
Minam River at Minam
239 cfs
Powder River near Richland
49 cfs
Santa Ana, Calif.
Clayton Lake, Maine
Quillayute, Wash.
OREGON
High: 59°
Low: 14°
Wettest: 0.56”
North Bend
Baker City
Astoria
Temperatures soared to 70 degrees in
central Pennsylvania on Jan. 13, 1932.
In colder regions, the greatest likelihood
of unseasonably high temperatures, a
January thaw, is from Jan. 7-10 and from
Jan. 20-26.
SUN & MOON
THU.
7:29 a.m.
4:33 p.m.
1:09 p.m.
4:03 a.m.
FRI.
7:29 a.m.
4:35 p.m.
1:43 p.m.
5:05 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Jan 17
Last
Jan 25
New
Jan 31
Beaver Marsh
39/53
First
Feb 8
Burns
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
32/44
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
51/41/pc
50/31/pc
39/25/s
57/41/c
39/21/c
57/38/pc
49/37/pc
35/24/pc
39/26/c
49/36/pc
43/32/c
42/36/pc
46/33/c
44/31/pc
41/30/c
40/34/c
47/21/pc
41/18/pc
Hi/Lo/W
50/38/c
54/28/pc
40/26/pc
59/43/s
37/17/c
57/38/pc
48/34/pc
31/20/c
38/23/pc
49/36/c
43/29/c
43/29/c
45/30/pc
42/30/c
42/27/pc
43/30/c
45/23/s
41/17/s
Grand View
Arock
30/39
29/42
31/43
Klamath Falls
25/47
Lakeview
22/41
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
SAT.
Diamond
31/43
Fields
35/53
FRI.
Boise
30/41
27/42
27/45
Medford
Brookings
28/41
26/39
35/56
42/57
Juntura
22/39
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
27/39
26/38
30/42
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
28/40
29/44
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
38/57
Coos Bay
Huntington
28/40
30/50
Oakridge
22/35
31/38
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
Council
24/34
35/44
28/49
41/57
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.
29/42
John Day
31/49
Sisters
40/54
39 27
25/35
Baker City
Redmond
44/56
Halfway
Granite
40/49
Newport
44/53
40 24
33/43
36/54
42/52
Corvallis
Enterprise
30/40
34/39
Monument
31/45
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
24 34 22
Elgin
35/39
La Grande
31/43
Maupin
Baker City
34/40
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
44/57
34/40
Hood River
35/43
TIllamook
Lewiston
Walla Walla
31/40
Vancouver
Forecasts and graphics provided
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City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
40/31/c
52/36/pc
39/28/c
53/32/pc
53/40/pc
50/39/pc
39/29/c
39/33/c
43/30/c
51/36/pc
59/38/s
49/26/pc
53/37/pc
52/36/pc
38/31/c
44/35/pc
42/26/c
40/31/c
Hi/Lo/W
38/30/pc
48/37/c
38/23/pc
53/34/pc
52/40/pc
49/39/c
39/28/pc
41/30/c
40/26/c
50/37/c
59/38/pc
51/24/pc
52/36/c
49/37/pc
37/33/c
41/32/c
41/23/pc
39/30/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
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
36
28
41
24
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
36
33
43
29
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
37
20
39
28
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mainly cloudy
Cloudy
41
30
47
28
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
34
22
39
30