COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2022
Man insulted when his wife is asked to be godmother
DEAR ABBY: I have a girl-
friend, “Dawn,” who is one of
my oldest friends. She’s my only
friend who stuck with me through
the growing pains and diff erent
stages in my life. I married a man
who I think is the love of my life.
He’s very macho and proud. We
have built a life together, and
through stepchildren, exes and
family — through thick and thin
— our love has endured.
Well, my husband is also pos-
sessive. Dawn recently asked
PRICES
me to be the godmother of her
second child, her son. My hus-
band is off ended that I was asked
and he wasn’t. He has never made
an eff ort to have a friendship with
Dawn and her husband, or even
met her son since his birth many
months ago. He wants no part
in the process, which I am very
upset about.
What do I do? Should I ignore
my husband’s feelings, be a good
friend and godmother to Dawn’s
baby and deal with the aftermath
with my husband? — POTEN-
TIAL GODMOTHER IN
ARIZONA
DEAR POTENTIAL GOD-
MOTHER: Your husband
appears to be not only possessive,
Oregon State Police
but also somewhat self-centered
and controlling. It would be inter-
esting to know why he’s pouting,
since he’s not close to your friend
nor particularly interested in her
baby. Because one spouse is asked
to be a godparent does NOT auto-
matically mean the other must be.
Some children have only one god-
parent; others have them in multi-
ples. If you wish to be godmother
to Dawn’s baby boy, go ahead and
do it — and do not feel you have
to apologize for it.
DEAR ABBY: I’m worried my
23-year-old son may be in serious
fi nancial trouble. He has always
made clear that he wants to run a
business instead of working at a
9-to-5 job. He has been working
nications director at the
department, said it’s been
pushing for more than 20
years to come up with a plan.
“We’ve been talking to
every Legislature since 1999
in earnest about this, saying,
‘Hey, in the future there are
going to be a lot of elec-
tric vehicles on the roads
and vehicles that get high
mileage per gallon. Since we
get our money from a tax on
every gallon of gas sold, we
need to start thinking about
this,’” she said.
Currently, electric vehicle
owners can opt into a pro-
gram that taxes them by
their mileage, measured by
a plug-in they put in their
car, and money goes to the
Transportation Department.
Snow said it’s likely that will
have to be a requirement in
all electric cars in the future
in order to fi nance the Trans-
portation Department.
The Transportation
Department and Fish and
Wildlife are interested in
electrifying their fl eets as
quickly as possible, but
shortages of electric trucks
caused by supply chain
issues mean it could be years
before either agency gets
even a dozen or more of
these vehicles.
Fish and Wildlife cur-
State police employees
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drive more than a million
miles per month, according
“When people think of
to Mindy McCartt, com-
wildlife management, I
munications director for the
don’t know if they realize
Oregon State Police, but she
there really is a lot that
could provide no information
gets done. We do surveys,
on how the agency is coping
research, manage fi sh har-
with current fuel costs and
vests, but our work also
the increases likely to come.
focuses on picking up
McCartt said any adjust-
ill and injured animals,
ments to the department’s
helping private landowners. $4.9 million biennial fuel
You’ve got a cougar in
budget will be a “wait and
downtown Portland? We
see game.”
have to be available.”
The agency is halfway
Because Fish and Wild-
through its budget cycle
life doesn’t receive money
and has time to adjust
from the state’s general
according to how big a hit
fund, it doesn’t have many
it takes on gas prices. If
options for requesting emer- prices remain above $4 per
gency funding.
gallon for the next year,
“We don’t get to shift
McCartt said, the agency
around money. We don’t
will need to double its fuel
get to go to the Legislature
budget to at least $8 million
and ask for additional funds for the next biennium.
through the emergency
Because the agency gets
board,” Hurn said.
most of its funding from the
For now, it’s likely that
state’s general fund, McCartt
project by project, teams
said that it can request emer-
within the agency will have gency money through the
to fi nd a way to balance the state Emergency Board.
budgets they already have
Getting off gasoline
until 2023.
“If projects run out of
For the Transportation
money, then they won’t be
Department, planning for a
able to start again until 2023 future without gasoline has
when they have a newly
been a long time coming.
adopted budget,” Hurn said.
Shelley Snow, commu-
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hard trying to start a consultation
business for the last four or fi ve
years, which sometimes works and
sometimes does not.
He’s dependent on my credit
card, which he was only supposed
to use for emergencies, but he
sometimes uses it for more than
that. I pay off the credit card bills
and he owes me all the money he
has charged on it. He promises to
pay it back, and comes up with the
weirdest excuses when he can’t.
On a number of occasions I
have tried to sit him down and get
out of him if he’s in trouble, but he
keeps insisting that he’s “working
on things and everything will
be OK soon.” I want to be sup-
portive, but I see the debt rising
rently has about 1,300
employees and 650 vehi-
cles in its fl eet, and it typi-
cally borrows another 80 to
100 from the Administra-
tive Services Department to
use for surveying during the
summer, their busiest time
of year.
Hurn said the Adminis-
trative Services Department
has about fi ve electric trucks
to lend out, but they aren’t
well equipped to handle the
remote projects Fish and
Wildlife works on because
of the dearth of charging sta-
tions throughout the state.
The Transportation
Department is also hopeful
it can get electrifi ed fl eets in
the future, but the supply is
just not there.
“We have orders in for
electric pickups right now
that cannot be fulfi lled,”
said Lynde, the opera-
tions administrator at the
department.
“We’d like to advance
faster, but the reality is the
market right now is directed
at individual consumers and
less at full fl eets,” he said.
On the bright side, when
fuel prices are up, more
Astoria
Longview
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Kennewick
46/55
St. Helens
46/58
43/60
Portland
Condon
43/63
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Considerable
cloudiness
Cooler with a
little rain
Mostly cloudy
and chilly
Warmer with
high clouds
30 54 34
50 27
44 28
51 32
Eugene
0
0
5
42/60
49 32
45 30
51 39
0
0
4
34 55 39
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
4
6
30 53 37
Comfort Index™
6
40 28
48 38
0
1
4
9
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 92°
Low: -6°
Wettest: 2.55”
54°
35°
54°
39°
52°
38°
0.03
0.05
0.34
0.44
1.63
0.17
0.39
0.81
2.26
3.71
0.20
1.25
1.12
6.80
6.73
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
40%
SSE at 6 to 12 mph
4.6
0.07
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
5% of capacity
42% of capacity
27% of capacity
56% of capacity
31% of capacity
73% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5910 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
6 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
597 cfs
Minam River at Minam
327 cfs
Powder River near Richland
38 cfs
SUN & MOON
FRI.
7:00 a.m.
7:02 p.m.
7:46 p.m.
7:33 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Mar 17
Last
Mar 24
New
Mar 31
Beaver Marsh
39/63
Brookings
First
Apr 8
Burns
Juntura
31/65
Boise
36/61
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
33/57
Paisley
29/61
Frenchglen
32/61
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
31/59
34/64
29/61
Fields
37/65
31/60
Klamath Falls
24/61
Lakeview
26/59
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
30/57
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
54/43/r 51/39/r
Bend
60/42/c 51/30/r
Boise
61/42/c 62/33/c
Brookings
53/44/c 51/38/r
Burns
59/34/c 50/23/c
Coos Bay
55/42/c 50/38/r
Corvallis
58/44/c 52/34/r
Council
52/33/c 49/24/r
Elgin
55/35/c 50/29/r
Eugene
60/46/c 51/37/r
Hermiston
64/42/c 59/38/r
Hood River
60/47/c 53/40/r
Imnaha
56/43/c 54/31/r
John Day
59/39/c 49/26/r
Joseph
50/38/c 49/26/r
Kennewick
66/38/c 61/37/r
Klamath Falls 61/36/c 44/18/pc
Lakeview
59/35/c 45/20/r
Ontario
34/64
25/61
24/60
Medford
40/53
Huntington
33/56
27/59
40/66
FRI.
The St. Patrick’s Day snowstorm of 1956
occurred March 16-17 in New England,
New York and Pennsylvania. Blue Hill
Observatory, outside of Boston, reported
12.6 inches.
Full
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REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
THU.
Brothers
23/56
Roseburg
Grants Pass
The Dalles
Crater Lake
Meacham
7:01 a.m.
7:01 p.m.
6:33 p.m.
7:12 a.m.
37/60
Oakridge
Council
32/52
27/56
Chiloquin
OREGON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
31/59
Seneca
38/61
Coos Bay
Ocotillo Wells, Calif.
Champion, Mich.
Panama City, Fla.
High: 63°
Low: 28°
Wettest: 0.41”
31/60
Sisters
35/60
Elkton
41/59
31/53
30/54
John Day
Bend
Powers
Halfway
Granite
27/49
Baker City
Florence
46/53
TUESDAY EXTREMES
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
Monument
32/61
Redmond
44/51
42/55
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.
34/55
42/57
46/60
Corvallis
Enterprise
30/53
42/58
Newport
42/59
50 28
33/55
La Grande
38/59
39/61
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
La Grande
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
46/59
44/58
Rain and drizzle
early
4
43/59
38/61
Newberg
Lewiston
43/58
Hood River
Maupin
1
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
42/66
Vancouver
46/56
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
people tend to use public
transit. The Transporta-
tion Department expects
that, as in 2008, ridership
will increase on trains and
buses. But, as in the years
since 2008, Lynde expects
the impacts of high fuel
prices now will be felt
for many years ahead on
the road.
“We probably never
really catch back up,” he
said about projects that get
paused due to higher costs.
“We are always managing
a declining investment in
what’s needed.”
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
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Baker City
and number of lies piling higher. I
am worried sick about him. Please
help. — ANXIOUS MOM IN
PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR MOM: Turn off the
spigot. You have been your son’s
“angel” long enough. A busi-
ness that cannot support itself is a
failure. That your son would abuse
your generosity and compound it
by lying to you is very sad. The
way to stop this cycle is to remove
him from your credit card and
let the chips fall where they may.
If he needs a business partner, it
should not be you any longer.
TO MY READERS: Today’s
the day for the wearing of the
green! A very happy St. Patrick’s
Day to you all. — LOVE, ABBY
FRI.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
58/42/c 54/38/r
55/46/sh 50/40/r
55/36/c 48/29/r
65/43/c 50/33/r
51/41/sh 49/38/r
53/43/sh 50/33/r
64/42/c 61/35/c
64/41/c 60/36/r
61/42/c 53/32/r
59/46/c 53/38/r
59/42/c 47/38/r
60/36/c 49/27/r
63/46/c 50/37/r
60/46/c 53/37/r
51/38/c 50/33/r
63/44/c 56/39/r
54/35/c 46/26/r
59/44/c 54/37/r
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
Cloudy
Cloudy
32
25
50
33
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A p.m. shower
Cloudy
42
36
55
38
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A p.m. shower
Cloudy
37
27
51
34
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Cloudy
Rather cloudy
50
38
61
40
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Cloudy
Cloudy
54
34
55
39
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