COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022
Diff erence of opinion ends longtime friendships
I are contending with concerns
our 8-year-old daughter. She has
been best friends with my (former)
best friend’s daughter since birth.
There have been eight years of
sleepovers, birthdays, park visits,
get-togethers and everything in
between. We haven’t seen them in
six months. We can’t keep telling
our daughter the pandemic is
the reason she can’t see her best
friend. This situation is so simple
and so complicated. What do I tell
my daughter about her best friend?
— VICTIM OF THE TIMES
DEAR VICTIM: Tell your
daughter the truth — that her
friend’s parents will no longer
allow it. Then explain why. That
way she won’t think that this is in
any way her fault.
DEAR ABBY: The pandemic
has put a strain on relationships.
Last year, I lost my best friend
of 40 years over the COVID vac-
cines. I believe the vaccine helps
to keep me safe, as well as helps
my family and friends. This
friend decided he and his family
would not take the jab. He quit
his job rather than get vaccinated.
This caused a rift so wide that, in
his eyes, he and his family could
not continue being friends with
our family. I’m sad about it.
The big problem my wife and
DEAR ABBY: I was recently
contacted by my graduating class
to help organize a reunion. Since
then, one of the organizers has
decided that our committee is
an inseparable trio who must get
together regularly by Zoom and
occasionally in person.
We were not in touch before
the reunion and we have little
in common, but I can tell she’s
lonely, so I’ve indulged her so far.
However, she now wants to con-
vene periodically for long week-
ends at a nearby inn. I do not
want to leave my spouse for long
weekends or spend money and
time on a person whom I don’t
care to befriend.
When I’ve tried to demur with
“unavailability” excuses, she
insists we are a trio and we simply
will wait a few weeks until I can
fi nd an open date. I don’t want
to be rude, but I can’t fi gure out
how to politely tell her that I have
no interest in accepting her sug-
gestions for an extended slumber
party. How should I handle this?
— RELUCTANT ALUMNA IN
THE WEST
DEAR ALUMNA: Handle
it by being frank with this needy
individual. Tell her, “This isn’t
going to happen. I do not wish to
leave my husband for a weekend.
I don’t mind helping with the
reunion, but your demands on my
time have increased to the point
where they are too much for me.”
DEAR ABBY: The season of
pleasant weather and outdoor con-
certs is approaching. Invariably,
we end up sitting by the chatter-
boxes. These folks seem obliv-
ious to anyone else, including the
performers and the rest of us who
want to enjoy the performance.
I realize these are free concerts,
but I don’t want to have to listen
to these rude people. Any sug-
gestions for silencing them so we
can hear what the rest of us came
for? — DISGUSTED IN SOUTH
CAROLINA
DEAR DISGUSTED: Keep
your tone civil. You might ask,
“Would you please talk more qui-
etly? We are trying to enjoy the
performance.” However, if they
aren’t receptive to your sugges-
tion, consider moving as far away
from them as possible.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Spain probes private taxidermy museum with 1,000 animals
10, in a statement, adding
that its owner could be
charged with traffi cking
and other crimes against the
environment.
It said the fi nding was
the largest of protected
stuff ed specimens in Spain.
Investigating agents
found the stuff ed ani-
mals in two warehouses
extending over 50,000
square meters on the out-
skirts of Bétera, a small
town north of the eastern
coastal city of Valencia.
Of the 1,090 stuff ed ani-
mals found, 405 belonged
The Associated Press
MADRID — Spain’s
Civil Guard says it is inves-
tigating a businessman in
the eastern Valencia region
who owned a private taxi-
dermy collection with more
than 1,000 stuff ed ani-
mals, including just over
400 from protected species
and at least one specimen
of a North African oryx,
already extinct.
The collection would
fetch $31.5 million on the
black market, the Civil
Guard said Sunday, April
to specimens protected by
the CITES convention on
wildlife protection.
They included the scim-
itar oryx, also known as
the Sahara oryx, which the
International Union for the
Conservation of Nature,
or IUCN, declared extinct
in the wild in 2000, and
at least two more species
nearly extinct: the addax, or
white antelope, originally
from the Sahara desert and
the Bengal tiger.
The agents also recorded
stuff ed specimens of
cheetah, leopard, lion, lynx,
French bulldogs was mis-
takenly released from jail
and is being sought, author-
ities said Friday, April 8.
James Howard Jackson,
19, was facing an attempted
murder charge when he was
released from Los Angeles
County’s jail on April 6
“due to a clerical error,” the
county Sheriff ’s Depart-
ment said in a statement.
The sheriff ’s Major
Crimes Bureau is Major
Crimes Bureau is working
on fi nding him, the state-
ment said.
Jackson is one of fi ve
polar bear, snow panther and
white rhinoceros, among
others, as well as 198 large
ivory tusks from elephants.
The Civil Guard said it
would investigate whether
any documents exist justi-
fying the ownership of the
collection.
Accused shooter in
Lady Gaga dog theft
mistakenly freed
LOS ANGELES —
A gunman accused of
shooting and seriously
wounding Lady Gaga’s dog
walker and stealing her two
people arrested in connec-
tion with the Feb. 24, 2021,
attack in Hollywood. Prose-
cutors said Jackson and two
other alleged gang mem-
bers had driven around
looking for expensive
French bulldogs to steal,
then spotted, tailed and
robbed Ryan Fischer as he
walked Lady Gaga’s dogs
near Sunset Boulevard.
During a violent
struggle, Fischer was hit,
choked and then shot in
an attack captured by
the doorbell camera of a
nearby home.
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Kennewick
35/48
St. Helens
TIllamook
32/47
36/48
33/49
36/49
35/48
Condon
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Mostly cloudy
and cold
Cold with snow
showers
Cold; a morning
shower
An afternoon
shower
A.M. rain, then
a shower
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45 27
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TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 103°
Low: 4°
Wettest: 1.26”
41°
20°
42°
28°
39°
30°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.01
0.05
0.26
0.72
2.32
Trace
0.08
0.57
2.46
5.19
0.16
0.97
0.81
8.16
8.67
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
38/49
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
W at 6 to 12 mph
0.5
0.05
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
10% of capacity
70% of capacity
43% of capacity
74% of capacity
40% of capacity
96% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
3060 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
5 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
237 cfs
Minam River at Minam
372 cfs
Powder River near Richland
22 cfs
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
6:13 a.m.
7:34 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:52 a.m.
6:11 a.m.
7:36 p.m.
4:11 p.m.
5:14 a.m.
MOON PHASES
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Apr 23
Apr 30
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First
May 8
35/50
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Juntura
15/40
19/43
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19/35
Paisley
22/39
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Diamond
18/38
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23/39
Lakeview
17/37
McDermitt
Hi/Lo/W
47/36/pc
43/29/sn
44/27/sf
48/42/r
40/17/sf
50/39/r
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40/19/sf
41/16/sf
49/36/r
51/28/sn
47/31/c
43/20/sf
38/19/c
37/17/sf
52/29/c
39/27/c
37/24/sf
Hi/Lo/W
49/36/c
47/27/r
47/33/c
51/37/r
43/24/sn
50/37/sh
48/31/pc
42/27/pc
43/27/pc
50/37/c
50/30/c
48/35/sh
45/23/c
43/26/sf
41/21/c
53/34/pc
45/28/c
42/30/c
16/36
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Bend
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Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
21/46
20/40
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Grand View
Arock
17/36
22/39
35/50
WED.
Boise
24/44
Silver Lake
24/38
Medford
Brookings
Ontario
24/50
Burns
36/49
38/48
Huntington
22/43
20/39
Chiloquin
Medford
Burns
Meacham
SUN & MOON
Brothers
24/39
21/37
21/40
11/37
26/43
Oakridge
Roseburg
Powers
OREGON
The all-time measured wind speed record
was set at Mt. Washington, N.H., on April
12, 1934. The wind averaged 186 mph for
fi ve minutes and gusted briefl y to a record
231 mph.
17/38
Seneca
30/46
38/50
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23/42
Council
17/39
John Day
Bend
Coos Bay
Zapata, Texas
Dixie, Idaho
Florence, Ore.
High: 54°
Low: 17°
Wettest: 0.38”
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19/42
Baker City
Redmond
36/48
39/51
Halfway
Granite
33/47
Newport
36/50
41 21
21/41
30/44
35/47
Corvallis
Enterprise
14/34
18/42
Monument
31/45
Idanha
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27/39
Maupin
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25/46
Pendleton
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28/48
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23/43
33/48
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Walla Walla
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48/35/c
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49/38/sh
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47/35/r
44/26/c
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35/18/sn
46/27/sh
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48/37/sh
43/27/sn
53/36/r
48/35/pc
48/32/c
51/30/c
52/34/pc
47/31/c
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52/37/sh
44/23/sn
51/35/sh
51/38/pc
45/29/c
49/34/pc
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