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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2022
Woman chooses to air issues with family on Facebook
DEAR ABBY: I recently
posted on Facebook about how I
never get any recognition from
my only son on my birthday,
Mother’s Day or any holiday. My
daughter-in-law then responded
that I care more about my dogs
than my grandchildren. I live in
Florida; they live in Kansas. Last
year, I off ered to fl y the girls to
Florida for a visit but was told
no. I have asked that they come
for a visit, but no visits have
happened.
I live alone and have fi ve
rescue dogs, three rescue cats and
foster abandoned kittens. In order
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Here he married 18-year-old Hazel
Buck in March 1908 and the fol-
lowing year they had their fi rst
child. Sadly, their son lived for
only three months.
The 1910 Census shows that
Edward, age 25, lived on Adams
Avenue where he owned a stable
and was a drayman — one who
delivered goods using a cart called
a dray that was pulled by horses.
The stable business was beginning
to fall away during the next few
years and by 1920 Edward and
Hazel had moved back to Iowa
where Edward was a conductor on
the railroad and Hazel was caring
for me to visit them, I would have
to pay for airfare, parking and a
pet sitter, and would need a family
member to pick me up and usher
me around. I responded that if
they wanted to pick up the tab, I
would be happy to visit.
They claim I do “nothing” to
be a grandmother to their girls.
Abby, I started a 529 college
fund for them years ago. When I
asked what they want me to do,
I received no response. At this
point, I’m considering changing
my will and the benefi ciary of
my life insurance. When I asked
again about what they wanted,
she said she needed time. It’s
been weeks. What now? — NOT
MEASURING UP
DEAR NOT MEASURING
UP: Not knowing your son and
daughter-in-law’s fi nancial situ-
ation, I can only suspect that the
reason they haven’t taken you up
on your invitation to visit is that
they can’t aff ord airfare for four
and think you can better aff ord
to do the traveling. It is a shame
you had to publicize on Facebook
the fact that you have such a dis-
tant relationship with them, rather
than pick up a phone and discuss
it privately.
I’m not sure what you expect
your daughter-in-law to do at
this point. (Off er to pay for some
or all of your expenses?) Your
money is, of course, yours to do
with as you wish after your death.
But wouldn’t it be better spent
cementing a relationship with
your family while you’re alive
than using it to punish them after
you are gone? There are alterna-
tive ways to “visit” virtually, to
stay in touch and show an interest
in your grandkids. More and more
people do it these days, and it isn’t
diffi cult.
DEAR ABBY: I’ve been mar-
ried 30 years to a man who is a
good person in every way except
one. He lies to me. It’s mostly
about inconsequential things,
but over the past six months, his
lies or omissions have rocked
the foundations of our marriage.
He does it typically to cover up
behavior he’s ashamed of.
He has promised to be more
truthful and transparent, but
recently I caught him lying about
something I saw with my own
eyes. When I called him on it, he
admitted the truth. Each time, he
swears he will do better. Is he a
pathological liar? I feel like I’m
at the end of my rope, but I hate
to throw away 30 years of mar-
riage and maybe many more if it’s
something that can be addressed.
Please help. — SICK OF LIES
IN MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR SICK: It appears the
man you are married to is a com-
pulsive liar. By now it must be
clear to both of you that unless
he’s willing to work on his
inability to tell the truth and seek
help from a mental health pro-
fessional, nothing will change. If
you are serious about “throwing
away 30 years of marriage,” off er
him that option before consulting
a lawyer.
for their young son, Kenneth.
It is unknown how long the
barn remained, but in 1918 the
county agricultural agent, Paul
Spellman, announced that the
cavalry horses and wheel mules
would be inspected at Farmers
Feed Barn. Once the barn was
razed it is unknown if any other
building was constructed on this
site.
Moving to 1426 Adams we
learn from the Sanborn map there
was a dwelling located here prior
to the Farmers Feed Barn being
constructed next door in 1903.
This was the home and business
of Ferdinand Kraft, a painter.
On the other side, at 1428
Adams, was John Melville’s hard-
ware store with a dwelling in the
rear for John and his wife, Mary.
Later in the 1930s and ‘40s, Con-
sumer’s Baking Company, Square
Deal Furniture Store and La
Grande War Surplus occupied this
address.
By 1910 there was a large
building on the southwest corner
of Adams and Greenwood
denoted on the Sanborn map as
Lodgings. It is unknown if this
was then, or if it became, Patty
Hutchinson’s Rooming House,
which was located here during
1917-1929.
Small businesses came and
went in this area. Wooden build-
ings were constructed and
destroyed. Addresses seemed to
change as some buildings became
larger making it diffi cult to trace
just what was where and when.
In the late 1920s automobile sales
moved into this southeast corner
of the 1400 block of Adams. This
was followed by service stations
located here in the 1930s through
the 1960s such as Beckwith’s Ser-
vice General Petroleum Products,
General Petroleum Co. and Mac’s
Mobile Service.
Today this whole area is occu-
pied by MJ Goss Used Car Sales.
One might say the invention of the
automobile infl uenced this 1400
block more than any other block
in downtown La Grande.
Keep looking up! Enjoy!
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.
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more than 50 years and enjoys sharing her
interest in the history of people, places and
buildings.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/67
Kennewick
56/76
St. Helens
TIllamook
62/84
58/80
68/88
60/80
56/82
Condon
TONIGHT
WED
THU
A thunderstorm
around
Pleasant with
sunshine
Baker City
57 87 53
Comfort Index™
La Grande
2
Comfort Index™
3
92 54
Eugene
8
5
7
57/81
89 55
96 61
90 58
6
4
6
85 57
91 60
89 56
7
3
5
4
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 119°
Low: 32°
Wettest: 4.88”
84°
53°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.01
0.21
4.47
5.65
0.00
0.16
0.26
8.92
10.32
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
35%
NW at 7 to 14 mph
12.6
0.28
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Ontario
Crater Lake
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Grande Ronde at Troy
3280 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
66 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
70 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
77 cfs
Minam River at Minam
883 cfs
Powder River near Richland
19 cfs
Full
TUE.
WED.
5:16 a.m.
8:40 p.m.
8:24 p.m.
3:31 a.m.
5:17 a.m.
8:39 p.m.
9:21 p.m.
4:40 a.m.
Last
Jul 13
Jul 20
New
Jul 28
Coos Bay
Brothers
60/89
Beaver Marsh
51/87
Roseburg
59/84
First
Aug 5
Burns
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
67/96
Paisley
55/95
Frenchglen
65/96
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
67/53/pc 69/55/pc
Bend
90/51/s 90/56/s
Boise
99/67/s 97/66/s
Brookings
68/53/s 66/53/pc
Burns
95/54/s 91/53/s
Coos Bay
66/54/pc 65/53/pc
Corvallis
83/53/s 84/54/s
Council
96/61/s 96/59/s
Elgin
89/57/t 88/56/s
Eugene
81/53/s 84/55/s
Hermiston
96/63/s 95/62/s
Hood River
84/59/s 88/62/s
Imnaha
93/65/t 91/65/s
John Day
91/56/s 91/56/s
Joseph
88/57/t 87/57/t
Kennewick
97/62/s 97/61/s
Klamath Falls 89/49/s 89/49/s
Lakeview
91/46/s 89/48/s
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
65/95
69/102
66/99
67/98
Klamath Falls
54/89
Lakeview
51/91
McDermitt
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Boise
73/99
Fields
65/94
56/68
Juntura
66/99
53/91
55/88
Medford
Brookings
Ontario
70/103
57/95
60/90
WED.
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
61/90
Oakridge
65/97
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
SUN & MOON
23% of capacity
84% of capacity
35% of capacity
97% of capacity
21% of capacity
88% of capacity
Huntington
60/90
58/81
Grants Pass
Lightning sparked 335 separate forest fi res
in the northern Rockies on July 12, 1940.
Too often, western thunderstorms contain
little or no rain, and the fi res quickly
spread.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Elkton
66/96
71/98
Seneca
Chiloquin
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
61/91
Bend
57/74
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Mobile, Ala.
High: 93°
Low: 41°
Wettest: none
Florence
Powers
OREGON
0.00
0.32
0.29
17.76
14.81
60/91
Council
57/87
John Day
61/89
55/66
ALMANAC
82°
52°
Sisters
57/80
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.
80°
47°
Baker City
Redmond
53/63
55/66
65/95
58/84
55/83
Newport
Halfway
Granite
66/93
57/82
58/84
Corvallis
95 54
6
62 87 55
SAT
86 50
9
66 88 57
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
4
FRI
Enterprise
62/87
66/88
Monument
65/90
Idanha
Salem
Sunny and very Partly sunny and
warm
pleasant
Elgin
64/89
La Grande
65/83
Maupin
Cloudy most of
the time
71/92
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
72/95
Hood River
70/93
56/71
Lewiston
Walla Walla
72/97
Vancouver
57/79
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
WED.
THU.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Lewiston
95/66/s 90/65/s
Longview
76/52/pc 80/54/s
Meacham
87/53/t 86/53/s
Medford
94/61/s 93/62/s
Newport
63/52/s 64/51/pc
Olympia
76/49/pc 78/51/s
Ontario
103/70/pc 99/66/s
Pasco
98/62/s 97/63/s
Pendleton
93/62/s 93/65/s
Portland
80/58/pc 84/60/s
Powers
74/53/pc 75/53/pc
Redmond
91/54/s 92/54/s
Roseburg
84/56/s 85/58/s
Salem
84/56/s 85/57/s
Spokane
88/62/s 84/61/s
The Dalles
88/62/s 92/62/s
Ukiah
87/51/s 86/51/s
Walla Walla
92/64/s 89/64/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
A t-storm around
Mostly sunny
71 H 49
H
MT. EMILY REC.
85
H H H
H 54
BROWNLEE RES.
A t-storm around
79
54
Partly sunny
95
60
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A stray t-storm
A t-storm around
75
49
82
47
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A t-storm around
Sunshine; pleasant
88
57
92
62
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A t-storm around
A t-storm around
87
53
88
57
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