COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, SEpTEmBER 29, 2022
Single, professional woman rebuked for personal choice
kids? Everyone says I’ll change
my mind once I meet the right guy,
but this isn’t a negotiable issue. If
we want to adopt or consider other
options for kids, I am more than
willing. There are children who
need a home more than I need to
bring one into this world just to
pass on my DNA. Please help me
understand what I am missing. —
UNWAVERING IN IDAHO
DEAR UNWAVERING: Not
every woman wants to bear chil-
dren. That is a fact. For someone to
call you “dirty names” because of
how you feel is judgmental and pre-
sumptuous. Motherhood should be
— and is — a personal choice, and
birth control allows us the freedom
to exercise that choice as we see fit.
It’s possible you may be dating
in the wrong age group. If you con-
centrate on older men who most
likely already have children, I’m
DEAR ABBY: I am almost 30,
not married, no kids. I am a worka-
holic. I love my nieces and nephews
to death, and being an aunt is one
of my favorite things ever. My issue
is: I don’t want to have kids.
I started dating again a few
months back, and it seems like any
man I go on a date with thinks he
can change my mind about kids.
I have personal medical reasons
for not wanting to give birth. Of
course, if I do meet a man who has
kids, that would be perfect! I’d be a
great mom.
So why is it I get called dirty
names because I choose not to have
betting you will receive less flak
and have a better outcome. There
are also dating apps for couples
who want to remain child-free or
for those who are already parents.
Check them out.
DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend
has a penchant for long stories,
many times on the phone, which
are trivial. This morning, she
called and proceeded to describe,
at length, a nightmare she’d had
last night. I try — I really do —
to listen, but I usually wind up
thinking, what’s the point of having
a looong conversation about a
nightmare? Because I got bored,
I started using the computer to
search for some meal coupons.
When I found them, I interrupted
her monologue, which led to a
back-and-forth accusatory inter-
change, “I interrupt you, you inter-
rupt me,” etc., etc., etc.
I have always been easily bored
with long-winded conversations
about minor issues or non-is-
sues. People sometimes criticize
me because it’s obvious I’m not
paying attention. How do I fix this
so people don’t get offended when
they persist with these pointless
stories? Today I had to hang up as
our “discussion” was escalating.
— EASILY BORED IN LAS
VEGAS
DEAR EASILY BORED: If
this happens regularly, the problem
may be that you have a short atten-
tion span. However, if that’s not
the case, it’s time you realized that
relationships are based on people
taking the time to communicate
with each other. This includes
hearing and listening as well as
talking. If you value your relation-
ship with your girlfriend, try to
make more of an effort. And help
her to compromise by pointing out
how she can edit some of her longer
monologues.
DEAR ABBY: This may seem
kind of morbid, but I want to know
if I should write a letter to my
daughter and son to be read after
my death to let them know how
very proud I am to have been their
mother. Is this an OK thing to do?
— GRATEFUL MOM IN THE
MIDWEST
DEAR GRATEFUL MOM:
I see nothing wrong with it. How-
ever, an even better thing to do
would be to convey that message to
your son and daughter often while
you are still among the living.
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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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
US spy satellite launched into orbit from California
The Associated Press
VANDENBERG SPACE
FORCE BASE, Calif. —
A classified satellite for
the U.S. National Recon-
naissance Office launched
into orbit aboard a United
Launch Alliance Delta 4
Heavy rocket on Saturday,
Sept. 24.
The NROL-91 spy sat-
ellite lifted off at 3:25 p.m.
from Vandenberg Space
Force Base in California’s
Santa Barbara County.
It was the last launch
of a Delta 4 from the
West Coast. Additional
launches are planned from
Florida before the Deltas
are replaced by ULA’s
next-generation Vulcan
Centaur rockets.
The Delta IV Heavy
configuration first launched
in December 2004. This
was the 387th flight of a
Delta rocket since 1960 and
the 95th and final launch
from Vandenberg.
The National Recon-
naissance Office is the gov-
ernment agency in charge
of developing, building,
launching and maintaining
U.S. spy satellites that pro-
vide intelligence data to
policymakers, the intel-
ligence community and
Defense Department.
united Launch Alliance/Contributed Photo
A classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is launched into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, at
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County. It was the last launch of a Delta 4 from the West Coast.
been accounted for using
modern scientific techniques,
military officials said.
Army Cpl. Joseph J. Puo-
polo, 19, of East Boston, was
accounted for in August,
according to a statement
Friday, Sept. 22, from
the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting Agency.
It was the news his
family — including his
now 99-year-old sister, Eliz-
abeth Fiorentini — has
been awaiting for decades,
Soldier who went
missing during Korean
War accounted for
BOSTON — A soldier
from Massachusetts who
went missing during the
Korean War and was later
reported to have died in a
prisoner of war camp has
weather
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camp in February 1951.
After the war, the sides
exchanged remains, but not
all could be identified and
those were buried at the
National Memorial Ceme-
tery of the Pacific in Hono-
lulu, the agency said.
A set of previously
unidentified remains were
disinterred in December
2019 and identified as being
those of Puopolo through
dental and anthropological
analysis, mitochondrial DNA
that his remains had been
identified.
“In her mind it was like
he died again,” Graham said.
Puopolo, an artilleryman
with the 8th Army, was
reported missing in action
on Dec. 2, 1950, after his
unit attempted to with-
draw from Kunu-ri, North
Korea, following the Battle
of Ch’ongch’on, according
to the military. Four former
POWs reported in 1953 that
Puopolo had died at a POW
Fiorentini’s grandson and
Puopolo’s grandnephew,
Richard Graham, said in a
telephone interview Sept. 24.
“We have all heard about
him, and we all knew of
him, and we all knew he was
a war hero. We always hoped
we’d find him,” he said. “But
I never thought my grand-
mother would be here for it.”
Fiorentini had not seen
her brother since she was in
her 20s and had mixed reac-
tions on hearing the news
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
51/69
Kennewick
51/76
St. Helens
51/77
50/79
50/79
Condon
51/81
53/75
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Mostly cloudy
Mostly sunny
and pleasant
Mostly sunny
and pleasant
Pleasant with
sunshine
Sunny and very
warm
42 71 38
71 39
76 39
78 37
Eugene
10
10
10
51/78
73 41
77 44
81 43
10
10
8
La Grande
47 70 42
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
3
9
45 66 41
Comfort Index™
4
75 43
79 42
10
10
10
9
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 112°
Low: 23°
Wettest: 4.07”
90°
36°
93°
44°
93°
40°
0.00
0.65
0.40
5.38
6.82
0.00
0.16
0.59
9.38
11.92
0.00
0.10
0.86
18.31
16.77
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
45%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
4.9
0.13
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
N.A.
23% of capacity
9% of capacity
54% of capacity
3% of capacity
0% of capacity
Rome
Baker City
Brookings
Powers
53/74
SUN & MOON
THU.
606 cfs
0 cfs
61 cfs
44 cfs
57 cfs
9 cfs
First
FRI.
6:48 a.m. 6:49 a.m.
6:37 p.m. 6:35 p.m.
11:11 a.m. 12:29 p.m.
8:31 p.m. 9:07 p.m.
Oct 2
Full
Oct 9
Last
Oct 17
Grants Pass
New
Oct 25
Jordan Valley
41/68
Paisley
37/72
38/76
Frenchglen
39/71
51/85
Brookings
51/86
Grand View
Arock
47/74
41/73
39/73
Klamath Falls
37/77
Lakeview
36/71
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
37/71
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
69/55/s 74/53/s
Bend
73/40/s 73/42/s
Boise
73/47/s 74/51/s
Brookings
77/52/s 69/52/pc
Burns
71/38/s 74/39/s
Coos Bay
69/51/s 74/53/s
Corvallis
77/49/s 86/51/s
Council
66/41/pc 73/41/s
Elgin
69/43/s 74/44/s
Eugene
78/49/s 86/50/s
Hermiston
78/48/s 82/49/s
Hood River
79/53/s 83/54/s
Imnaha
66/50/r 75/50/s
John Day
71/39/s 75/41/s
Joseph
62/41/r 69/41/s
Kennewick
77/50/s 82/51/s
Klamath Falls 77/40/s 79/42/s
Lakeview
71/39/s 75/41/s
Diamond
38/70
Fields
Medford
54/77
Boise
48/73
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
FRI.
Algeria and Tunisia are typically dry, but
on Sept. 29, 1969, severe fl ooding killed
600 people and left a quarter of a million
homeless. Biskra, Algeria, had 11.78
inches of rain.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
53/81
41/73
36/71
REGIONAL CITIES
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
OREGON
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Key West, Fla.
High: 93°
Low: 36°
Wettest: 0.02”
Beaver Marsh
Juntura
35/71
35/70
36/73
Roseburg
Ontario
49/76
Burns
Brothers
47/82
Coos Bay
Huntington
37/69
36/73
Oakridge
44/66
48/73
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
42/71
41/71
37/74
Florence
TUESDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
40/65
John Day
36/73
Sisters
53/69
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.
45/69
Baker City
Redmond
50/63
52/66
Halfway
Granite
50/77
Newport
53/76
70 41
48/74
48/77
53/78
Corvallis
Enterprise
45/66
47/70
Monument
45/76
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
9
Elgin
47/69
La Grande
47/73
Maupin
4
55/72
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
54/67
Hood River
51/74
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
53/77
Vancouver
51/77
49/74
Baker City
analysis and circumstantial
evidence, the agency said.
The family hopes to hold
a burial service for Puopolo
in another month or so either
in a family plot in Malden
or the veterans’ cemetery in
Bourne, Graham said. Puo-
polo was one of six children,
all of whom had large fam-
ilies of their own, and as
many as 60 or 70 relatives
might show.
“He has not been for-
gotten,” Graham said.
FRI.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
67/50/pc 76/53/s
76/50/pc 83/51/s
66/39/s 71/40/s
86/51/s 91/54/s
63/51/s 71/50/s
71/48/pc 78/47/s
76/49/s 76/44/s
77/49/s 80/49/s
74/48/s 78/49/s
75/57/s 82/55/s
74/54/s 78/54/s
73/40/s 77/41/s
81/53/s 88/55/s
78/53/s 87/52/s
69/49/s 74/49/s
81/53/s 83/54/s
66/39/s 71/40/s
72/53/s 76/54/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
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
51
33
66
37
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny; nice
59
40
70
42
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Some sun, a shower
Mostly sunny
53
31
64
36
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Rain and drizzle
Mostly sunny
62
41
73
48
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Sunshine; pleasant
Sunshine and nice
71
38
70
42