COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JunE 9, 2022
Daughter tires of mother’s commentary on relationship
DEAR ABBY: I am a
29-year-old woman in a healthy,
loving relationship with my boy-
friend of 2-1/2 years. We talk
about marriage and kids and are
committed to each other. We
know we are each other’s special
one. He recently bought a home,
and we live together. My issue is
with my mother. I feel she won’t
be happy with me until I’m mar-
ried and have children.
She and Dad met and were
married within six months, so
to her, any relationship that lasts
longer than that without marriage
or an engagement must not be the
real deal. It has been extremely
frustrating over the past couple
of years. She slips in judgmental
comments all the time and clearly
doesn’t respect my relationship
with the man I have chosen.
If I try to defend my life and
our relationship, she says I’m too
defensive and must be unhappy. If
I say nothing, which has been my
approach for the past six months
or so, her snide comments con-
tinue. I want a good relationship
with her, but I am not sure where
to go from here. Marriage and
kids are in our future but not for
elbow. Both times I was hospi-
talized. Not once did she come
to see me or send a card, even
though she is a card lover. I over-
looked it until my son’s death
made me rethink our friend-
ship. She sent me some fruit but
didn’t make one call to see how
we were doing, no visitation,
nothing. She didn’t send a sym-
pathy card either.
I now regard her as selfish,
and I can no longer bring myself
to be friends with her. We all
make mistakes, that’s true, but
three times with no support from
her is more than I can accept.
I now feel we weren’t friends
at all. Am I wrong? We have
many dear friends who were
some time. We are enjoying our
own timeline. — IT’S MY LIFE
IN COLORADO
DEAR I.M.L.: At 29, you are
well into adulthood, so perhaps
it’s time to draw the line. Tell your
mother you know she loves you
and is concerned for your wel-
fare, but you do not plan to marry
anyone on her timeline. Then say,
calmly, that her comments are
hurtful, and you need her to quit
the needling, or she will be seeing
a lot less of you. Be prepared to
follow through.
DEAR ABBY: I have wres-
tled with this for a year. I
thought I had a good friend. I
had a pacemaker implanted, and
eight months later I broke my
there when we needed them.
They cried with us, consoled
us, brought food, stayed with
us. Are my feelings valid? —
ABANDONED IN FLORIDA
DEAR ABANDONED:
Where feelings are concerned,
there is no “right” or “wrong.”
Sometimes people feel extremely
uncomfortable about what they
should say or do when a difficult
situation arises such as an illness,
an accident or a death. That your
friend made herself absent when
you needed her support is unfor-
tunate. Not knowing her, I can’t
guess her reason, and neither can
you. So before YOU abandon
HER, you should ask her that
question.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Goodyear to recall RV tires 19 years after last one was made
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Nineteen years
after the last one was made,
Goodyear has agreed to recall
more than 173,000 recreational
vehicle tires that the U.S. govern-
ment says can fail and have killed
or injured 95 people since 1998.
Goodyear’s G159 tires have
been under investigation by the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration since December
of 2017. On Tuesday, June 7, the
agency posted documents on its
website saying that it had pres-
sured the company into a recall.
Documents say the tire tread
can separate from the body,
causing drivers to lose control and
increasing the risk of a crash.
The agency began investi-
gating the tires nearly five years
ago after a judge ordered the
release of Goodyear data that had
been sealed under court orders
and settlement agreements.
Lawsuits and safety advocates
allege that the tires were designed
for delivery trucks and not for
recreational vehicles that travel
at highway speeds. They allege
that Goodyear kept the problems
secret for years by settling cases
and getting judges to seal records.
The tires were made from 1996
to 2003. The death and injury
numbers were revealed in a 2018
information request letter to
the Akron, Ohio, company. The
agency did not specify how many
people were killed in crashes
involving the tires.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
denied that the tires have a safety
defect and said June 7 that few,
if any, are still on the road. The
company said it’s doing the recall
to address risks that happen when
the tires are underinflated or over-
loaded on motor homes.
“This tire hasn’t been made
since 2003, it consistently met
Goodyear’s demanding safety
standards, and we have not
received an injury claim related to
the tire’s use on a Class A motor
Gene J. Puskar/The Associated Press, File
This is a Goodyear tire garage in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Nine years after the last one was made, Goodyear has agreed to recall more than
173,000 recreational vehicle tires that the government says can fail and have killed or injured 95 people since 1998.
home in more than 14 years,”
Goodyear said in a prepared
statement.
Documents show that the gov-
ernment safety agency sent Good-
year a letter requesting a recall
of the 22.5-inch diameter tires
on Feb. 22 of this year, and the
company declined the request
on March 8. But Goodyear later
agreed to the recall “to address
concerns that some of these tires
may still be in the marketplace or
in use.”
NHTSA must hold a public
hearing and then go to court to
force a company to do a recall.
Goodyear will replace the tires
with a newer model at no cost to
RV owners. Owners of tires used
on other vehicles can exchange
them for $500.
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every flaw in the system designed
to keep unsafe tires and vehicles
off the roads.
“Sealing off the documentation
that there is a distinct threat to
public safety should be against the
law,” said Brooks, who added that
several states have such laws.
Goodyear said in government
documents that the RV makers
who used the tires are no longer
in business, so it does not have
access to registration data for the
RVs with the faulty tires.
NHTSA issued a statement
urging anyone who owns, rents or
uses and RV or truck with 22.5-
inch rims to make sure that G159
tires are not on the vehicles. “If
their vehicle has these tires, they
should have this recall completed
as soon as possible,” the statement
said. The agency said it found
that the tires experienced a high
failure rate when compared to
similar tires.
Michael Brooks, acting exec-
utive director of the nonprofit
Center for Auto Safety, said the
Goodyear case is one that exposes
Joshua Tree park closes
trail so bighorn sheep can
get water
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL
PARK, Calif. — A popular
hiking trail to an oasis in Joshua
Tree National Park has been tem-
porarily closed so bighorn sheep
can get undisturbed access to
water.
“The park is under extreme
drought conditions and herds in
the area are increasingly reliant on
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/64
Kennewick
59/67
St. Helens
61/70
Hood River
61/71
64/76
62/70
60/68
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Considerable
cloudiness
Brief afternoon
showers
Periods of rain
Morning
showers; cloudy
Mostly cloudy
and cool
60 39
57 37
Eugene
62/71
La Grande
10
59 74 55
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
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69 50
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59 42
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Comfort Index™ 10
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 114°
Low: 28°
Wettest: 4.58”
72°
36°
75°
38°
81°
39°
0.00
0.43
0.31
4.41
4.65
0.00
1.09
0.38
7.45
9.07
0.12
1.99
0.51
16.16
13.19
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
50%
WSW at 6 to 12 mph
1.7
0.13
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
62/70
17% of capacity
98% of capacity
43% of capacity
99% of capacity
42% of capacity
105% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
12900 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 691 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
82 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
535 cfs
Minam River at Minam
2980 cfs
Powder River near Richland
511 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Boca Reservoir, Calif.
Fort Smith, Ark.
OREGON
High: 83°
Low: 33°
Wettest: 0.05”
The Dalles
Meacham
Prineville
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
5:04 a.m.
8:40 p.m.
4:18 p.m.
2:40 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Jun 14
Last
Jun 20
New
Jun 28
Beaver Marsh
47/73
64/78
Grants Pass
First
Jul 6
Jordan Valley
55/85
Paisley
51/83
Frenchglen
55/86
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
54/86
61/91
55/91
Fields
62/84
55/93
Klamath Falls
48/82
Lakeview
46/82
McDermitt
53/91
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
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Boise
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Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
57/89
Silver Lake
48/76
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
51/82
61/81
57/67
Ontario
63/91
Burns
49/82
Chiloquin
FRI.
The storm that spawned one of Cleve-
land’s rare killer tornadoes on June 8,
1953, moved on to cause New England’s
worst tornado disaster ever on June 9. The
storm struck Worcester, Mass., and took
90 lives.
5:05 a.m.
8:39 p.m.
3:03 p.m.
2:20 a.m.
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REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Brothers
62/71
Roseburg
Huntington
52/74
Bend
Coos Bay
59/82
63/88
Seneca
59/76
Oakridge
Council
55/75
55/76
57/72
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
53/70
John Day
58/78
Sisters
Florence
57/60
58/81
Baker City
Redmond
56/60
58/63
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.
ALMANAC
Newport
Halfway
Granite
59/68
61/70
67 45
61/76
60/66
62/68
Corvallis
Enterprise
53/73
59/74
Monument
63/78
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
67 50
58/72
La Grande
62/74
Maupin
55 75 54
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
65/75
64/72
66/74
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
71/80
Vancouver
60/69
58/66
Baker City
the oasis spring to survive the hot
summer months,” a park statement
said.
The Fortynine Palms Oasis
spring is surrounded by palms in
mountains on the northern side of
the park.
The closure started June 1 and
will remain in effect until summer
monsoon rains provide enough
water for the bighorns.
An estimated 100 to 200
desert bighorn live in the park.
They are among a population
of about 13,000 in parts of Cal-
ifornia, Nevada, Arizona and
Utah, according to the Joshua Tree
website.
The current population is about
10% of what it was before the set-
tlement of the western U.S., the
website said.
FRI.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SAT.
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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
Showers around
A few showers
51
43
72
53
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Showers around
High clouds
61
51
84
62
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Rain and drizzle
Showers around
62
44
67
52
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A shower
Showers around
72
53
74
57
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Sun, then clouds
Brief p.m. showers
75
54
74
55