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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022
Parent of child isn’t ready to get married
act like it, I’m traditional in some
ways for a millennial. I believe
that when I give someone a ring,
it should be because I plan to
marry her. I don’t consider mar-
riage the way most do, and think
I can just get divorced and it’s no
big deal. I think Dyanne puts too
much emphasis on what others
think and that’s one of the reasons
she wants a ring.
Am I wrong to stall until I feel
ready to actually propose and not
just say, “Sure. One day we will,
and here’s a ring in the mean-
time”? — UNENGAGED IN
CALIFORNIA
DEAR UNENGAGED:
Nowhere in your letter did you
mention that you love Dyanne.
DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend,
“Dyanne,” and I recently had a
baby conceived not long after we
started dating. While I love my
child with all my heart, Dyanne
is constantly dropping hints that
she wants an engagement ring or
a “promise ring.” I understand
why because she has explained
her reasons. But she’s pres-
suring me to provide something I
believe should come when I feel
comfortable doing it.
While some would say I don’t
You should not give her a ring and
keep her in a holding pattern if
you aren’t sure you want to follow
through with the commitment. Be
honest. Tell her you care about her
and love your child and intend to
responsibly co-parent with her,
but you are not ready for marriage
and don’t know when you will be.
That’s the truth.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a volun-
teer tour guide for several his-
toric sites. One of them is a cem-
etery. My fellow guides and I
are concerned — not to men-
tion saddened — when we see
children running around unsu-
pervised, and standing on and
climbing on the gravestones.
Cemeteries are sacred places
in which the dead should be
remembered and honored.
When parents or caretakers
allow children to use the ceme-
tery as a play area, they fail to
teach them respect for the dead or
for the survivors who are visiting
the graves of their loved ones.
They also place their children
in danger. Gravestones can fall
or tip over. Children have been
killed or seriously injured by top-
pling stones. Flat grave markers
can be tripping hazards. When
we caution parents about these
dangers, we are often met with
indiff erence.
Please urge your readers to
take our concern for their chil-
dren’s safety seriously and control
their children’s activities in ceme-
teries. — CONCERNED TOUR
GUIDE
DEAR CONCERNED: I’m
pleased to pass along your mes-
sage because it is an important
one. Cemetery etiquette is simple:
Treat the graves as you would
the graves of your own cher-
ished loved ones, or as you would
like your own to be treated.
This includes no loud chatter,
and because there are people in
mourning there, not walking on
the graves, not leaving chewing
gum on the gravestones, keeping
pets leashed — if they are brought
there at all — and teaching chil-
dren the diff erence between a
cemetery and a playground.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Final valuation of Prince’s estate accepted at $156.4 million
Prince, who died of a fentanyl
overdose in 2016, did not leave a
will.
Since then, lawyers and con-
sultants have been paid tens of
millions of dollars to administer
his estate and come up with a
plan for its distribution. Two of
Prince’s six sibling heirs, Alfred
Jackson and John R. Nelson, have
since died. Two others are in their
80s.
“It has been a long six years,”
L. Londell McMillan, an attorney
for three of Prince’s siblings, said
at a hearing Friday in Carver
County District Court.
In the end, the estate will be
almost evenly divided between
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — The six-
year legal battle over pop super-
star Prince’s estate has ended,
meaning the process of distrib-
uting the artist’s wealth could
begin next month.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
reports that the Internal Revenue
Service and the estate’s adminis-
trator, Comerica Bank & Trust,
agreed to value Prince’s estate
$156.4 million, a fi gure that the
artist’s heirs have also accepted.
The valuation dwarfs an earlier
$82.3 million appraisal. The IRS
in 2020 had valued the estate at
$163.2 million.
a well-funded New York music
company — Primary Wave —
and the three oldest of the music
icon’s six heirs or their families.
The IRS and Comerica set-
tled last spring on the real-estate
portion of Prince’s estate. But the
trickier task of valuing intangible
assets such as rights to Prince’s
music was not completed until
October.
As part of the agreement, the
IRS dropped a $6.4 million “accu-
racy-related penalty” it had levied
on Prince’s estate. The Minnesota
Department of Revenue, which
agreed on the estate’s valuation,
also has dropped an accuracy
penalty, the fi ling said.
Chris O’Meara/The Associated Press, File
Prince performs in Miami on Feb. 4, 2007. The six-year legal battle over pop su-
perstar Prince’s estate has ended, meaning the process of distributing the artist’s
wealth could begin in February 2022.
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Astoria
Longview
43/50
Kennewick
41/49
St. Helens
TIllamook
34/44
41/49
TONIGHT
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Mostly cloudy
Rain and drizzle
Partial sunshine
Clouds and
sunshine
Baker City
23 36 27
Comfort Index™
La Grande
37/44
42/48
41/49
2
29 36 29
Comfort Index™
2
Eugene
0
3
2
42/50
41 33
44 26
43 27
0
5
5
43 29
2
6
6
3
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 80°
Low: -28°
Wettest: 2.64”
30°
27°
36°
25°
40°
31°
0.00
0.27
0.37
0.27
0.37
0.00
0.83
0.92
0.83
0.92
0.00
2.78
1.78
2.78
1.78
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
60%
S at 3 to 6 mph
0.7
0.02
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Coos Bay
Powers
44/56
1% of capacity
25% of capacity
19% of capacity
27% of capacity
19% of capacity
26% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1260 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
15 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
244 cfs
Minam River at Minam
129 cfs
Powder River near Richland
57 cfs
Key West, Fla.
Saranac Lake, N.Y.
Beaufort, N.C.
OREGON
High: 57°
Low: 16°
Wettest: Trace
Brookings
Lakeview
Hermiston
WEATHER HISTORY
On Jan. 18, 1978, the weight of snow and
ice caved in the roof of the Hartford Civic
Center. In winters with excessive snowfall,
loads on roofs increase dramatically.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
7:26 a.m.
4:40 p.m.
5:21 p.m.
8:22 a.m.
7:26 a.m.
4:41 p.m.
6:29 p.m.
8:53 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Jan 25
New
First
Jan 31
Feb 8
Full
Feb 16
43/53
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
27/38
Paisley
29/45
29/47
Frenchglen
Diamond
30/43
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
29/47
24/41
McDermitt
25/41
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
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
50/45/r
49/39/pc
39/24/c
55/45/pc
40/27/pc
52/43/r
49/44/r
34/25/c
39/33/pc
50/45/r
44/37/c
44/40/c
44/37/c
43/38/c
37/31/c
40/35/c
47/28/pc
41/24/pc
Hi/Lo/W
51/43/r
58/29/c
40/28/c
57/45/c
45/25/sh
54/43/sh
55/41/c
33/25/sn
41/34/r
56/42/c
54/38/sh
51/37/r
43/37/r
46/35/r
44/32/r
55/32/sh
51/26/pc
44/23/s
30/39
26/41
Fields
37/55
WED.
Grand View
Arock
31/41
28/43
Medford
Brookings
Boise
24/39
41/54
45/55
30/39
28/44
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
23/40
28/42
Beaver Marsh
Ontario
26/37
Burns
Brothers
28/45
Roseburg
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Huntington
28/40
34/49
Oakridge
22/34
30/38
Seneca
38/52
42/52
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.
35/43
Bend
Elkton
Council
23/36
32/49
43/53
43 27
26/35
29/37
John Day
33/50
Sisters
Florence
44/52
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
43/51
37 20
44 30
Monument
34/44
41/49
Newport
38 20
3
32/39
40/51
43/51
Corvallis
Enterprise
La Grande
34/42
35/44
Idanha
Salem
37 25
3
32 39 34
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
3
Elgin
32/39
29/36
Condon
Maupin
Rain and drizzle
early
34/42
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
36/44
Hood River
35/42
42/50
Lewiston
Walla Walla
31/40
Vancouver
41/47
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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
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
44/38/c
49/46/r
39/32/pc
55/37/c
51/46/r
48/43/sh
37/27/c
43/34/c
42/37/c
48/47/r
56/46/pc
50/38/pc
53/44/r
51/47/r
36/34/c
44/38/sh
42/34/c
42/36/c
Hi/Lo/W
46/37/r
52/45/r
41/34/r
58/35/pc
52/42/r
51/42/r
38/26/c
53/32/sh
52/37/sh
52/43/r
57/42/c
57/29/c
57/42/c
55/41/r
42/32/r
50/38/c
47/27/r
49/37/sh
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Low clouds
Partly sunny
28
27
39
34
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly cloudy
Mostly cloudy
32
30
40
34
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Low clouds
Mainly cloudy
32
24
38
32
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Low clouds
Partly sunny
37
31
44
39
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Partly sunny
Mostly cloudy
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
36
27
39
34
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