COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022
Husband’s drinking puts family at risk, marriage in doubt
after he gets home from his
weekly outing. I have instructed
them not to let Dad take them
anywhere on Wednesdays (his
regular bar day). I have also
asked him not to drive them any-
where on Wednesdays. I make
sure I work from home on that
day, but all of this doesn’t seem
like enough, and I want him
to stop.
I have thought about divorce
for this and other reasons, but
I worry his drinking would get
worse. I’ve also considered doing
an intervention with family. I’m
at the end of my rope and ready
to do something, but what is the
next step? — REACHED MY
LIMIT IN ILLINOIS
DEAR REACHED: Step
DEAR ABBY: My husband
of 20 years has had DUIs in the
past. He has always been a binge
drinker when socializing. He
has been going out once a week
after work for three hours, during
which he drinks and then drives
home. He tells me he has a couple
beers, but his tab and his face tell
a diff erent story.
We have three teenagers who
see his behavior, and it sets a bad
example. My other worry is that
he may take the kids somewhere
one should be to attend some
Al-Anon meetings. This is an
organization founded to help the
friends and families of someone
with an alcohol problem, which
it appears your husband has.
Those meetings will give you
perspective. Your next step will
be to fi gure out what divorce
may mean for you and your chil-
dren fi nancially. Once you have
that information, tell your hus-
band — while he is sober and
you are calm — that you have
reached your limit and, unless he
is willing to quit drinking, you
are going to leave him. See how
he reacts and, if nothing changes,
follow through.
DEAR ABBY: Seven years
ago, my husband and I were
going through a rough patch.
Unfortunately, he shared all the
details with his parents. We are
still together going on 24 years.
I was so upset when I found out
he had told them our business
because I loved them and knew it
wouldn’t be the same.
My father-in-law acts like he
loves me, but my mother-in-law
doesn’t talk to me, and I haven’t
received a birthday card since.
On Christmas we receive a check
with only my husband’s name on
it. Only my daughter and my hus-
band are acknowledged on their
birthdays. I love my in-laws, and
with my own parents gone, I miss
just being loved. My husband
thinks it’s no big deal that they
ignore my birthday. Is it really no
big deal? — DREADING MY
BIRTHDAY NOW
DEAR DREADING: I dis-
agree with your husband. That
his parents continue to punish
you because he tattled about your
marital problems IS a big deal.
And now the tattler should tell
his folks it’s time to bury the
hatchet and welcome you back
into the fold. If he’s not man
enough to do that, then some
sessions for you with a licensed
marriage counselor might help
you to accept the status quo. You
said you want to be loved, and by
that I assume you mean uncon-
ditionally. In the case of your
in-laws, that may not be possible,
and you may need to learn to
accept it.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
German town forces cats to remain indoors to save rare birds
case or murder, Hable
turned the skull over to a
medical examiner and even-
tually to the FBI, where
a forensic anthropologist
used carbon dating to deter-
mine it was likely the skull
of a young man who lived
between 5500 and 6000
B.C., Hable said.
“It was a complete shock
to us that that bone was that
old,” Hable told Minnesota
Public Radio.
The anthropologist
determined the man had a
depression in his skull that
was “perhaps suggestive of
the cause of death.”
After the sheriff posted
about the discovery, his
offi ce was criticized by sev-
eral Native Americans,
who said publishing photos
of ancestral remains was
off ensive to their culture.
Hable said his offi ce
removed the post.
“We didn’t mean for it to
be off ensive whatsoever,”
Hable said.
Hable said the remains
will be turned over to
Upper Sioux Community
tribal offi cials.
the baskets,” it said.
The emerald ash borer
has destroyed tens of mil-
lions of trees in the U.S. and
Canada.
The company said
other extreme labor short-
ages, ongoing supply chain
issues, and owners who are
“ready to retire,” are among
the other considerations in
deciding to close.
The factory plans to pro-
duce its last basket this
summer or fall.
The Associated Press
BERLIN — What a
cat-astrophe!
The decree is designed
to help save the crested lark,
which makes its nest on the
ground and is therefore easy
prey for feline hunters. The
bird’s population in Western
Europe has declined sharply
in recent decades.
Authorities in Walldorf
wrote that “among other
things the survival of the
species depends on every
single chick.”
The decree, which
applies to all cats in the
southern part of the town
and will be repeated for the
coming three years, has
reportedly prompted meows
of anguish from pet owners.
Regional daily Rhe-
in-Neckar-Zeitung reported
that the head of the local
animal protection associa-
tion plans to take legal steps
to challenge the decree.
“Please remain calm,”
it quoted him as saying. “I
can assure you we’ll do our
best to stop this dispropor-
tionate measure.”
Nearly 8,000-year-old
skull found in river
Michael Probst/The Associated Press, File
A big cat sits in the deep grass in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday,
April 19, 2017. Authorities in Walldorf, Germany, have ordered some
cat owners to keep their pets indoors until the end of August, to
protect a rare bird during its breeding season.
REDWOOD FALLS,
Minn. — A partial skull
that was discovered last
summer by two kayakers in
Minnesota will be returned
to Native American offi cials
after investigations deter-
mined it was about 8,000
years old.
The kayakers found the
skull in the drought-depleted
Minnesota River about 110
miles west of Minneapolis,
Renville County Sheriff
Scott Hable said.
Thinking it might be
related to a missing person
168-year-old Peterboro Co. has been in business
Basket Co. closing,
since 1854.
cites forest pest
The company said in a
PETERBOROUGH,
N.H. — A 168-year-old
company in New Hampshire
known for its handwoven,
hardwood baskets is closing
its factory and stopping pro-
duction, partly because of
an insect pest that has been
destroying ash trees.
The Peterboro Basket
recent announcement that
the baskets “are principally
made of U.S.-grown Appa-
lachian White Ash, the
same wood used in ax han-
dles and baseball bats.
“For some years the
Emerald Ash Borer beetle
has reduced the availability
of the wood used to make
weather
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
51/60
Kennewick
53/70
St. Helens
56/73
53/74
54/79
57/73
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Cloudy
Sun, some
clouds
A shower in the
afternoon
Cloudy and
cooler
Mostly cloudy
and cool
77 50
66 40
60 37
Eugene
10
8
4
51/77
75 50
62 44
59 39
10
5
4
La Grande
53 76 49
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
10
49 74 47
Comfort Index™ 10
61 38
52 38
10
8
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 103°
Low: 15°
Wettest: 4.07”
64°
31°
65°
34°
71°
32°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
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0.00
0.64
0.99
2.57
3.87
0.00
1.44
1.56
5.22
8.01
0.07
3.19
1.70
13.06
11.99
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
30%
WNW at 7 to 14 mph
7.3
0.22
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
OREGON
High: 78°
Low: 28°
Wettest: none
The Dalles
Meacham
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AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Climax, Colo.
Jennings, La.
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99% of capacity
45% of capacity
100% of capacity
48% of capacity
101% of capacity
A 91-degree high on May 24, 1982, turned
the previous record high of 79 to ashes
in San Francisco. If high pressure north
of San Francisco forces the wind to come
from the east, temperatures can bake the
city.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
5:13 a.m.
8:25 p.m.
2:56 a.m.
2:33 p.m.
5:13 a.m.
8:26 p.m.
3:15 a.m.
3:42 p.m.
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5790 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
67 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
101 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
340 cfs
Minam River at Minam
1010 cfs
Powder River near Richland
50 cfs
New
May 30
First
Jun 7
Full
Jun 14
Last
Jun 20
42/82
47/78
Huntington
52/77
52/83
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
45/79
Frenchglen
Paisley
46/82
46/84
44/78
53/89
Klamath Falls
41/82
McDermitt
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
77/53/pc
70/50/pc
73/50/s
89/55/pc
58/47/pc
66/47/pc
87/56/s
83/56/s
78/56/s
73/55/pc
77/56/c
82/47/c
83/54/pc
75/52/c
68/48/c
79/57/pc
73/47/pc
75/56/pc
Hi/Lo/W
76/57/pc
71/53/c
76/50/c
78/54/c
59/48/r
65/48/c
89/60/c
82/61/c
78/58/pc
73/57/r
71/49/r
78/46/c
76/55/c
74/54/sh
70/51/c
79/56/c
74/47/c
76/57/pc
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Some sun
Partial sunshine
52
43
73
BROWNLEE RES.
Sun, some clouds
Warmer
60
49
81
54
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Nice with some sun
Partly sunny
60
37
67
45
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Warmer
Partly sunny
74
48
75
54
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Partly sunny
Sun, some clouds
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
76
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76
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76/49/c
89/59/pc
60/48/c
79/47/c
63/50/c
72/52/r
81/54/c
77/50/pc
74/54/sh
83/58/pc
77/56/c
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74/44/c
76/47/c
45/86
Lakeview
42/81
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84/58/pc
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68/51/pc
Burns
83/46/pc
Coos Bay
64/48/c
Corvallis
74/51/pc
Council
76/50/pc
Elgin
76/48/s
Eugene
77/53/pc
Hermiston
82/57/s
Hood River
74/55/pc
Imnaha
78/51/s
John Day
78/50/pc
Joseph
74/48/s
Kennewick
85/60/s
Klamath Falls 82/45/pc
Lakeview
81/45/pc
Grand View
Arock
44/84
46/87
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Diamond
46/81
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
51/84
50/90
51/68
48/85
42/83
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
41/83
42/78
Beaver Marsh
48/87
Burns
Brothers
40/77
Roseburg
Ontario
43/76
51/78
Coos Bay
50/76
51/83
Seneca
47/81
Oakridge
Council
43/76
John Day
Bend
Powers
48/81
46/72
45/80
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
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Sisters
Florence
49/62
Halfway
Granite
Baker City
Redmond
49/58
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Monument
51/81
52/74
Newport
48/77
76 46
53/76
53/72
56/75
Corvallis
Enterprise
La Grande
50/73
52/80
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
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Elgin
52/76
49/74
Condon
Maupin
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56/75
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
55/74
Lewiston
55/77
Hood River
56/78
51/62
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Walla Walla
60/85
Vancouver
55/73
TIllamook
Baker City
Minnesota Indian
Aff airs Council Cultural
Resources Specialist Dylan
Goetsch said in a statement
that neither the council nor
the state archaeologist were
notifi ed about the discovery,
which is required by state
laws that govern the care
and repatriation of Native
American remains.
Goetsch said the Face-
book post “showed a com-
plete lack of cultural sensi-
tivity” by failing to call the
individual a Native Amer-
ican and referring to the
remains as “a little piece of
history.”
Kathleen Blue, a pro-
fessor of anthropology at
Minnesota State University,
said that the skull was defi -
nitely from an ancestor of
one of the tribes still living
in the area, The New York
Times reported.
She said the young man
would have likely eaten a
diet of plants, deer, fi sh, tur-
tles and freshwater mus-
sels in a small region,
rather than following mam-
mals and bison on their
migrations.
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