COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JAnuARY 20, 2022
When going gets tough, husband locks his door
DEAR ABBY: When my
husband and I fight, which isn’t
really that often, he shuts him-
self away for several days. He
locks the door to his office or the
guest room and won’t come out.
I try to give him time to cool off,
but sometimes it’s awkward. He
wouldn’t talk to me at all for sev-
eral days while his whole family
was here celebrating his grand-
ma’s 90th birthday.
He’s mad again. I apologized
by text since he wouldn’t talk to
me, but our kids — ages 6 and
8 — are going to wonder why
Daddy isn’t with us. Should I
skip a planned event and give
him more time to cool off or try
to approach him? — WAITING
FOR HIM IN GEORGIA
DEAR WAITING: Skip the
planned event, and when your
passive-aggressive husband
comes out of hiding, insist the
two of you get marriage coun-
seling to resolve your differ-
ences. What he has been doing
isn’t healthy for your marriage.
Dealing with conflict by hiding
and using the silent treatment to
punish one’s spouse sets a poor
example for your children, who
are old enough to recognize that
something is wrong between
Daddy and Mommy. If he won’t
do it for the sake of your mar-
riage, he should do it for the emo-
tional health of those kids.
DEAR ABBY: I will be
meeting an old high school friend
for lunch. We are now in our
50s. I heard through the grape-
vine that she never had children.
I am unsure what to say when
the subject of children comes up,
as it invariably will. “I’m sorry”
may not be appropriate because
perhaps she never wanted any.
“Wow” or “interesting” may
sound a bit odd.
In a similar vein, what does
one say to someone when they
share that they are divorced? I
divorce, sometimes dissolution
of a marriage is therapeutic. Do
not ask for — or expect — more
details. Show an interest in what
your old friend is doing NOW and
move on from there.
DEAR ABBY: My late hus-
band was a dentist. Should I
include his DDS degree on his
headstone? — NOT SURE IN
THE SOUTH
DEAR NOT SURE: Although
your husband may be deceased
and no longer practicing den-
tistry, it doesn’t make him any
less a dentist. He earned his
degree. If you would like it
carved in granite, I don’t see why
it shouldn’t be. Inquire at the
cemetery about its protocol.
recall a woman I met telling me
she was divorced. I said, “I’m
sorry,” and she replied, “I’m not!”
What’s an appropriate response
for when these situations happen?
I don’t want to appear unsym-
pathetic, but perhaps they don’t
want sympathy. — SYMPA-
THETIC IN FLORIDA
DEAR SYMPATHETIC:
You may have hit on something.
The birthrate in the United States
is at an all-time low because
many women have chosen to
forgo motherhood. If someone
tells you she doesn’t have chil-
dren, all you have to say is “Oh,”
and change the subject. You
should not interrogate the person
further. As for the subject of
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Pandemic hasn’t slowed China’s love for U.S. lobster
co-producer, and the search
warrant for his phone sought
text messages, images,
videos, calls or any other
information related to the
movie.
Authorities have said
Baldwin’s prop revolver dis-
charged a live round during
a rehearsal, killing cinema-
tographer Halyna Hutchins
and wounding director Joel
Souza.
Baldwin’s lawyer, Aaron
Dyer, said his client had
been cooperating with
authorities throughout the
course of the investigation,
and the delay in providing
information from the phone
was no indication otherwise.
“Alec voluntarily pro-
vided his phone to the
authorities this morning so
they can finish their inves-
tigation,” Dyer said in a
statement. “But this matter
isn’t about his phone, and
there are no answers on his
phone.”
Baldwin, who has denied
any wrongdoing in the
shooting, and said in an Ins-
tagram message on Jan. 8
that New Mexico needed
to go through New York
law enforcement and that
the process of specifying
exactly what is needed took
time.
“They can’t just go
through your phone and take
your photos, or your love
letters to your wife, or what
have you,” he said.
Baldwin has said he
didn’t know the gun he
was holding contained a
live round when it went off.
Investigators are trying to
find the source of the live
round.
No charges have been
filed in the shooting.
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine —
China is showing no signs
of slowing its demand for
American lobster this year
despite disruption to the
supply chain and interna-
tional trade caused by the
coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese demand for the
crustaceans grew dramat-
ically during the 2010s in
part because of the expan-
sion of the country’s middle
class. The lobsters are espe-
cially sought after in winter
because they are a popular
delicacy on Chinese New
Year, which is Feb. 1 this
year.
American exporters
sent more than 13.2 million
pounds of lobster to China
during the first 11 months
of 2021. That was about 6%
more than the same time
period the previous year.
The pandemic has made
the already difficult task of
sending live seafood across
the globe more challenging,
but Maine lobster exporters
are gearing up for a decent
Chinese New Year, said Bill
Bruns. The operations man-
ager at The Lobster Co. in
Arundel said shipments are
complicated by the fact the
company can’t send lob-
sters to Beijing because of
COVID-19 restrictions —
but they are able to send
to other airports, such as
Shenzhen.
“Chinese New Year is
always a crapshoot the last
couple years,” Bruns said.
“But I’m prepared for it. I
have the staff. Because oth-
erwise it’s going to be a long
spring.”
China buys lobsters
from the U.S. — where the
Robert F. Bukaty, The Associated Press, File
A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, Aug. 31, 2021. China is showing no signs of slowing its demand for Ameri-
can lobster this year despite disruption to the supply chain and international trade caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The lobsters are espe-
cially sought after in winter because they are a popular delicacy on Chinese New Year, which is Feb. 1 this year.
industry is based mostly
in Maine — and Canada,
where the industry is situ-
ated in the Atlantic prov-
inces. Exports from Canada
were up even more than the
U.S. the first 11 months of
2021 compared to 2020, said
John Sackton, an industry
analyst and founder of Sea-
foodNews.com.
Signs point to a strong
season for the industry,
Sackton said. Consump-
tion of seafood could also
get a boost from the Beijing
Winter Olympics, which are
set to start a few days after
Chinese New Year, he said.
“I’ve seen nothing that
consumption of lobsters at
Chinese New Year this year
won’t exceed last year’s,”
Sackton said.
them in the cold waters of
the Atlantic Ocean. Bad
weather has made that dif-
ficult for Maine fishermen
this year, but harvesters
are still having a decent
winter on the water, said
Kristan Porter, president
of the Maine Lobstermen’s
Association.
“When guys get out
there, they are doing
OK,” Porter said. “It takes
someone hardier than me to
fish the wintertime.”
The U.S. lobster industry
weathered similar chal-
lenges during the first year
of the pandemic in 2020
and ultimately had a strong
export season. The value of
exports was down from the
record year of 2018, but still
well over $100 million.
High prices for lob-
sters have played a role
in the value of this year’s
exports. The price of a live
1.25-pound hard shell lob-
ster was $11.25 per pound
in New England this month,
according to business pub-
lishing company Urner
Barry. That was more than
a third higher than January
2021.
To send lobsters to
China, American and Cana-
dian fishermen have to trap
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shooting on a New Mexico
film set last fall, a law
enforcement official said.
Santa Fe County Sheriff’s
Office spokesman Juan Rios
said Baldwin’s phone was
turned over Friday, Jan. 14,
to law enforcement officials
in Suffolk County, New
York, who will gather the
information from the phone
and provide it to Santa Fe
County investigators, the
Santa Fe New Mexican
reported.
Sheriff’s office investiga-
tors in December obtained
a search warrant for the
phone’s contents in their
investigation into the Oct. 21
shooting on the “Rust” film
set at Bonanza Creek Ranch
near Santa Fe.
Baldwin was an actor and
Official: Alec Baldwin
surrenders phone for
shooting probe
SANTA FE, N.M. —
Alec Baldwin has sur-
rendered his cellphone to
authorities as part of the
investigation into a fatal
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
42/49
Kennewick
44/47
St. Helens
42/51
TIllamook
Hood River
39/46
40/50
Condon
39/47
41/49
TONIGHT
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
Times of clouds
and sun
Baker City
26 38 20
Comfort Index™
La Grande
1
30 38 25
Comfort Index™
1
34 20
Eugene
3
2
2
38/51
40 22
38 24
41 23
5
3
5
44 29
38 25
6
6
4
4
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 82°
Zapata, Texas
Low: -13°
Williams Fork Dam, Colo.
Wettest: 0.50”
Grand Marais, Minn.
29°
22°
35°
26°
35°
30°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
0.00
0.27
0.42
0.27
0.42
Trace
0.83
1.03
0.83
1.03
0.00
2.78
2.00
2.78
2.00
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
VAR at 2 to 4 mph
0.1
0.03
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
2% of capacity
25% of capacity
19% of capacity
28% of capacity
19% of capacity
28% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1250 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
15 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
213 cfs
Minam River at Minam
129 cfs
Powder River near Richland
54 cfs
OREGON
High: 56°
Low: 17°
Wettest: 0.23”
Brookings
Burns
Meacham
Powers
39/55
Extreme cold froze the Midwest and
the East in January 1994. In Detroit, the
temperature stayed below zero for 57
straight hours, the second longest period
on record.
SUN & MOON
THU.
7:25 a.m.
4:42 p.m.
7:38 p.m.
9:19 a.m.
FRI.
7:24 a.m.
4:44 p.m.
8:47 p.m.
9:42 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Jan 25
New
Jan 31
First
Feb 8
40/51
Full
Feb 16
Jordan Valley
28/37
Paisley
25/40
22/44
Frenchglen
31/39
37/53
Brookings
37/54
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
49/36/c
48/31/pc
39/24/pc
60/47/s
40/20/s
52/37/pc
48/33/c
40/18/pc
41/23/pc
51/35/pc
48/30/s
46/32/pc
44/28/c
39/33/pc
37/27/pc
47/28/pc
47/19/s
43/19/pc
Hi/Lo/W
52/38/pc
56/30/s
37/24/s
65/43/s
40/18/s
61/39/pc
46/32/pc
34/16/s
40/22/pc
49/32/pc
44/27/s
45/28/pc
46/26/s
45/34/s
43/31/s
40/27/pc
49/20/s
45/16/s
Grand View
Arock
31/40
28/42
30/44
Klamath Falls
24/47
Lakeview
22/43
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
31/39
Fields
Medford
43/60
Boise
29/39
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
29/43
23/39
28/39
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
26/40
27/41
21/44
Roseburg
Ontario
27/42
Burns
Brothers
36/54
Coos Bay
Huntington
29/36
29/48
Oakridge
23/40
31/44
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
Florence
Council
26/38
36/39
27/50
38/52
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.
29/39
John Day
29/49
Sisters
39/50
43 29
28/37
Baker City
Redmond
40/51
40/53
Halfway
Granite
37/48
Newport
35 20
5
33/41
36/52
40/51
Corvallis
Enterprise
30/38
34/41
Monument
34/49
Idanha
Salem
34 16
3
34 41 23
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
33/41
La Grande
33/46
Maupin
Rain and drizzle
late
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
37/43
36/44
36/45
43/51
Lewiston
Walla Walla
37/47
Vancouver
42/49
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
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
43/31/pc
47/36/c
39/23/pc
54/31/pc
51/39/pc
50/36/c
42/24/s
47/29/pc
45/31/pc
49/35/c
55/39/s
49/24/pc
51/35/pc
51/35/c
38/29/c
47/30/pc
40/25/pc
44/30/pc
Hi/Lo/W
41/29/s
49/31/pc
39/22/pc
58/30/s
55/40/pc
48/34/pc
36/26/s
43/28/pc
43/27/s
49/35/pc
65/39/s
55/22/s
54/35/pc
50/32/pc
37/26/pc
45/32/pc
46/25/s
41/28/s
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
Partly sunny
Decreasing clouds
31
21
40
23
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Partly sunny
Decreasing clouds
35
27
44
24
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
29
16
39
21
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny
Partly sunny
37
27
45
31
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Decreasing clouds
Partly sunny
38
20
41
23