COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JunE 30, 2022
Abusive husband manipulates wife, kids living in shelter
embarrassed that we are living
here. I want a divorce, but he
won’t talk about it, and threatens
not to send money to support
me and the children. He doesn’t
send much, but I have enough
gas to get everywhere during the
week.
He keeps telling me how much
money he makes now and that he
can get us a nice place where he
is, or he can come stay a whole
week with us when he’s off. I
don’t want him to come stay with
us. When I tell him this, he gets
angry and hangs up, but then calls
back the next day to say the same
thing. I can’t get him to under-
stand that I don’t want to be with
him anymore, and I’m tired of his
abuse. (The last time I lived with
him, he “accidentally” knocked
DEAR ABBY: I am the
mother of two small children. I
have separated from their ver-
bally abusive, alcoholic father.
I returned to my grandmother,
who raised me, and tried to get
a job. I couldn’t find one quickly
because we went into quarantine
and my uncles made me move
out.
I currently live in a women’s
shelter with my children, and I
finally got a job. My problem is
my husband still acts like we are
getting back together, and he’s
few years but under the six-
year average of 42%.
Pork producers received
26% of the retail price in
May, up from the six-year
average of 22%.
But the food dollar is an
imperfect indication of farm
profits, as it does not take
into account farmers’ input
costs.
“The farmers’ share
(data) is not necessarily
super helpful to tell you
whether farmers are making
money, because it’s more
important to them what the
actual price is relative to
their costs,” said William
Hahn, agricultural econo-
mist for USDA.
In 2022, farmers’ costs
are high.
According to USDA’s
National Agricultural Sta-
tistics Service, farmers in
April 2022 compared to
April 2021 paid 29% more
for livestock feed, 71% more
for fertilizer, 16% more
for chemicals, 62% more
for fuel and 21% more for
machinery.
“Bottom line, in many
cases, the higher prices
farmers are being paid
aren’t covering the increase
in their farm expenses,”
said Cryan, of the Farm
Bureau.
HOLIDAY
Continued from Page B1
Farm shares vary by
commodity and fluctuate
year-to-year. Some com-
modities saw the farmers’
share shrink in 2021,
according to USDA. The
agency has not yet released
complete 2022 data.
Chips or potato salad are
staples at many summer
cookouts. Farmers in 2021
got 16% of the retail price
of potatoes, down from the
longtime average of 18%.
Lemonade is another
popular picnic item. Of
every retail dollar spent on
fresh lemons, farmers in
2021 received 18%, down
from the 20% average.
The farm share of
each retail dollar spent on
cheddar cheese was 29%,
down from the 31% average.
The dairy farmers’ share
on a half-gallon of vanilla
ice cream was 16%, 1%
below average.
Other commodities have
seen the farmers’ share
spike.
In May of 2022,
according to USDA, farmers
received 41% of the price
consumers paid at the store
for beef, up from the last
our son into the couch and walked
out.) He won’t admit he has a
problem. Any advice? — DONE
FOR GOOD
DEAR DONE: Your hus-
band persists the way he has
been because he’s trying to wear
you down to the point that you
will reunite with him. Perhaps
you should accept fewer of those
phone calls. If there are social
workers connected to the shelter
you’re staying in, consult them
about your predicament.
Your husband cannot shirk
paying child support. If he doesn’t
do it voluntarily, his wages can
be garnished. While you’re at
it, reach out to the National
Domestic Violence Hotline (800-
799-7233) because they may have
useful suggestions about how to
rid yourself of your abusive, alco-
holic husband.
DEAR ABBY: Our only son
has moved 2,000 miles away and
has no contact with his sisters
or me. I know his street address
and still have his email address
and phone number. About 10
years ago, when I was separated
from his father, we were both
expressing our angst, and I more
than likely negated his feelings in
an email. I ran across it the other
day, and now realize that it may
have caused the rift.
Should I bring that up in an
apology now, hoping he will
accept my most sincere acknowl-
edgment that I ignored his pain?
If so, what do I say? I am heart-
broken and cannot sleep well with
this hanging over my head.
to the inn, his wife’s boutique and
the business lease in downtown Ash-
land. “We only opened our business
in Ashland because we thought we
sold this place.”
But selling has been difficult.
“It’s hard to sell because it’s
zoned timber and grazing — mixed
RIMROCK
Continued from Page B1
Now, he and his wife, Kim, have
decided to sell.
“I can’t afford two mortgages and
a business lease,” he said, referring
— HEARTBROKEN MOM IN
TEXAS
DEAR MOM: Write your
son and tell him you are trying
to understand what has caused
the rift between you. Explain that
you have been going over things
in your mind and found the email
from so long ago. Tell him that
if this is what caused it, you sin-
cerely apologize, but that you
were both going through a dif-
ficult time when the email was
written, that you love him and
hope he will forgive you if it
caused him pain.
█
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
use — but it has a kitchen, so any
bank or lender says, ‘restaurant’ and
they’re not lending to restaurants
because they’ve had bad experiences
with restaurants because of COVID,”
he said. “So we’re trying to find
somebody who has cash so we don’t
have to deal with bankers.”
“Once you get
to the edge,
you can see
the river more
clearly and
the cool thing
is you can
see Zumwalt
Prairie and the
snowcapped
Wallowa
Mountains.
It’s the best
view of the
canyonlands I
know of.”
— Cabot Carlston,
RimRock co-owner,
speaking of a nearby hike
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Cabot Carlston, co-owner of the RimRock Inn near Flora, opens the smoke flap on one of three tepees at
the inn Thursday, June 16, 2022.
Planned Parenthood sues Idaho over ‘trigger’ abortion ban
tion provider, joined with Planned
Parenthood Great Northwest,
Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Ken-
tucky in the lawsuit filed in the
Idaho Supreme Court on Monday,
June 27. The Planned Parent-
hood organization operates two
reproductive health care clinics
in Idaho and is in the process of
opening another just over the state
line in Ontario, Oregon.
“It is abhorrent that we have
now entered an era where the
delivery of safe essential health
care will be criminalized,” Gus-
By REBECCA BOONE
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho — A regional
Planned Parenthood organization
is suing Idaho over its “trigger
law” abortion ban, contending
the ban violates Idaho residents’
rights under the state Constitution
and that it is so vague that phy-
sicians will not know when they
can legally help patients who are
miscarrying or facing medical
emergencies.
Dr. Caitlin Gustafson, an abor-
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abortion was necessary to prevent
the death of the pregnant person,
or that the pregnant person
showed them a police report
alleging rape or incest. The law
also requires physicians to use the
medical method that provides the
“best opportunity for the unborn
child to survive.”
Specifically, Idaho’s trigger
law requires a judgement from the
U.S. Supreme Court, which fol-
lows the court’s Friday opinion
and allows time to allow requests
for a potential rehearing. It’s not
tafson said in a press release.
“Physicians take an oath to pro-
vide the care patients need to keep
them safe, so we cannot stand by
while the government intrudes on
this deeply personal and complex
medical decision.”
The Idaho law, passed in 2020,
makes it a felony punishable by up
to five years in prison for anyone
to perform or attempt to perform
an abortion. The law says health
care providers can attempt to
defend themselves against crim-
inal charges by saying that the
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
55/66
Kennewick
53/74
St. Helens
56/79
59/81
62/88
58/80
54/78
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Clear
Mostly sunny
and pleasant
A thunderstorm
around
A thunderstorm
around
A stray p.m.
t-shower
84 50
79 49
72 47
Eugene
7
10
10
52/81
85 54
77 55
72 50
7
10
10
La Grande
55 85 52
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
8
9
7
51 81 52
Comfort Index™
9
79 52
69 49
5
9
10
9
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 122°
Low: 29°
Wettest: 2.80”
88°
51°
86°
55°
88°
56°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.48
1.05
4.46
5.39
0.00
2.40
1.31
8.76
10.00
0.00
3.27
1.75
17.44
14.43
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
30%
NNW at 7 to 14 mph
13.3
0.29
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
25% of capacity
91% of capacity
40% of capacity
100% of capacity
32% of capacity
100% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
6750 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 123 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
89 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
130 cfs
Minam River at Minam
2320 cfs
Powder River near Richland
46 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Beaufort, S.C.
OREGON
High: 100°
Low: 37°
Wettest: 0.05”
Ontario
Lakeview
Astoria
Juneau, Alaska, received more than 53
inches of rain for the year by June 30,
1985. Olympia, Wash., south of the jet
stream, had its driest six months in a
century with only 14 inches of rain.
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
5:08 a.m. 5:08 a.m.
8:44 p.m. 8:44 p.m.
6:10 a.m. 7:13 a.m.
10:27 p.m. 10:58 p.m.
MOON PHASES
First
Jul 6
Full
Jul 13
Last
Jul 20
Beaver Marsh
Powers
53/69
54/80
Silver Lake
New
Jul 28
Jordan Valley
51/87
Paisley
50/86
48/82
Frenchglen
52/87
56/88
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
66/56/pc
85/52/pc
93/61/s
66/52/pc
87/50/s
64/53/c
78/51/s
90/56/s
86/52/s
81/52/s
91/62/s
81/58/s
86/60/s
86/52/s
80/52/s
94/60/s
84/47/s
85/44/s
Hi/Lo/W
64/55/pc
81/53/c
96/61/s
62/53/pc
89/49/s
63/52/pc
74/54/pc
93/58/s
86/53/t
74/53/pc
90/61/t
81/60/t
89/59/pc
87/55/pc
84/50/t
95/62/pc
82/48/pc
83/43/s
Grand View
Arock
55/97
51/94
54/91
Klamath Falls
46/84
Lakeview
45/85
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Diamond
50/88
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
59/93
53/85
51/66
54/93
45/86
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
50/87
49/83
43/84
Roseburg
Ontario
60/95
Burns
Brothers
53/76
Coos Bay
Huntington
49/85
52/85
Oakridge
55/90
63/94
Seneca
51/91
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
52/86
Bend
Elkton
Council
49/85
John Day
49/85
Sisters
Florence
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
50/80
51/86
53/64
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.
52/91
Baker City
Redmond
51/61
53/63
Halfway
Granite
51/78
Newport
53/75
83 50
56/86
55/78
55/81
Corvallis
Enterprise
51/81
55/85
Monument
57/87
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
8
Elgin
51/86
La Grande
56/83
Maupin
49 85 51
60/87
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
60/89
Hood River
59/90
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
61/94
Vancouver
54/78
51/65
Baker City
clear when the court will issue its
judgement, but it’s expected fairly
soon, starting the clock on Idaho’s
trigger law.
Planned Parenthood is asking
the state’s highest court to put the
case on a fast track so that it can
hear arguments and issue a deci-
sion before mid-August.
The Idaho Attorney Gener-
al’s Office did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence
Wasden generally declines to
comment on pending litigation.
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
89/62/s
74/52/c
78/47/s
88/57/s
61/53/c
76/51/pc
95/62/s
93/60/s
90/59/s
80/56/pc
69/54/c
85/50/pc
80/55/pc
81/55/s
83/58/s
88/61/s
79/47/s
87/62/s
Hi/Lo/W
90/63/pc
73/53/pc
76/48/t
82/56/t
58/52/pc
70/53/pc
97/63/s
95/63/pc
88/62/t
75/59/pc
66/53/pc
81/52/c
76/56/pc
78/57/pc
87/61/pc
84/61/t
78/51/t
87/61/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
Mostly sunny
58
45
81
52
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny
Sunshine and nice
69
50
90
60
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A few showers
Sunny and nice
67
44
76
44
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny
Sunny and pleasant
80
52
86
57
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; nice
Mostly sunny; nice
85
51
85
52
