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B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
College classmate won’t take no for an answer
we want to entertain them late
into the night. We had to imple-
ment a “no classmates at the
house” rule, and most people
understand we’d prefer to visit
them on campus.
However, one former class-
mate is oddly persistent and asked
if she can come “see” our house.
When I said I’m not entertaining
guests, she asked if she could
come and look around without
me. (Clearly no.) Then she asked
if she could just walk by my house
and see what it looks like from
the outside, which I can’t control,
but is pretty weird since I made it
clear I was looking for privacy.
How do I set boundaries with
someone who wants to stand on
DEAR ABBY: My spouse and
I work at the college where we
were undergraduates. The school
has a strong reunion tradition,
and thousands of alumni come
with their families to relive their
college days. We live here year-
round and are sort of done with
reminiscing.
In years past, I’ve had
boundary issues with former
classmates who come to town
assuming they can stay at our
house (without asking) and think
the sidewalk and stare in my win-
dows? We were friends 15 years
ago, but are not close now. They
are coming again in the near
future and it’s already stressing
me out. — CAREER COLLE-
GIAN IN THE MIDWEST
DEAR COLLEGIAN: While
you can’t prevent a pushy person
from looking at your house from
the sidewalk, you can tell her that
her persistence is making you
uncomfortable and to please stop.
You might also point out that if
you feel like having a visitor, the
invitation will come from you and
not vice versa.
DEAR ABBY: I moved to a
conservative state to be close to my
aging parents and become closer
long as they keep discussing poli-
tics. Please advise. — LEFT VS.
RIGHT IN UTAH
DEAR LEFT VS. RIGHT:
From what you have written, it
seems your husband has been
equally guilty of initiating those
political rants. It may be too late
to repair the damage that he has
helped to create. Because you are
now estranged from those rela-
tives, I see no harm in exploring
options for relocating. Safe
travels.
with my siblings and extended
family. After six years, my parents
and a sister have passed on, and I’m
wondering what I’m even doing
here. My political views are at the
opposite spectrum from my sib-
lings and extended family, which
I can deal with as long as we don’t
talk politics. My husband argues
politics with them and doesn’t
understand that no one is changing
their minds.
We’re no longer invited to
family get-togethers, and they
don’t initiate conversations or
dinners. Neither do we. They are
very vocal about their politics,
and relations are frosty with some
of them. I don’t know how to
repair relationships with them as
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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.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
In Brazilian Amazon, a 1,000-mile voyage so people can vote
“No candidate made an
appearance here during this
campaign,” João Moraes
de Souza, a local fisherman
and small farmer, told
The Associated Press. “If
nobody comes during the
campaign, you can imagine
afterward.”
One of the election
workers was Ana Lúcia
Salazar de Souza. Due to the
distance, her team, including
police officers, would
spend the night in make-
shift lodging and return
to Manaus on Oct. 2 after
voting ends in the afternoon.
“There are many diffi-
culties,” she said. “But par-
ticipating in this process of
citizenship makes all sacri-
fices worth it.”
Collecting votes in Ama-
zonas’ remote Javari Valley
region is even more fraught
— but less so in recent
years thanks to the efforts
of Bruno Pereira, the Indig-
enous expert slain this year
alongside British journalist
Dom Phillips.
Until 2012, the region’s
only voting centers were in
The Associated Press
MANAUS, Brazil —
In most democracies, citi-
zens go to the polls. But in
Brazil’s sparsely populated
Amazon region, the polls
often go to the voters.
Most people in the vast
rainforest live in urban
areas, but thousands reside
in tiny villages several days
from the nearest city by
boat. Amazonas, Brazil’s
biggest state, is triple the
size of California yet has
only about one-third the
population of greater Los
Angeles. More than half its
cities can’t be reached at all
by road, and some are hun-
dreds of kilometers from
the state capital, Manaus.
Logistics pose a chal-
lenge even in Manaus, a
sprawling municipality of
2.2 million people. On Sat-
urday, Oct. 1, The Asso-
ciated Press accompanied
election workers setting up
a voting place in the Bela
Vista do Jaraqui commu-
nity, a three-hour boat trip
from the city.
Edmar Barros/The Associated Press
An electoral worker and military police officers unload electronic
voting machines to be taken to a polling station a day ahead of the
country’s general elections, at the Bela Vista do Jaraqui community
in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.
people were hospitalized.
At the time, Pereira led
the local bureau of Bra-
zil’s agency for Indigenous
affairs. He provided them
with food and water, and
coordinated a quarantine
to prevent the virus from
reaching Indigenous vil-
lages. Later, he and local
Indigenous leaders devel-
oped a plan for transporting
electronic voting machines
to remote villages.
“Bruno wrote all the
technical parts,” Jader
Marubo, then-president of
the city of Atalaia do Norte.
That year, a mayoral can-
didate distributed gaso-
line to about 1,200 Indige-
nous people from the Javari
Valley Indigenous Territory
so they could make the mul-
tiday trip downriver to vote.
The candidate hadn’t
provided enough fuel for
their return trip, however.
They were stranded on
the riverbanks for weeks
without proper sanita-
tion, prompting a rotavirus
outbreak. Five Kanamari
babies died and some 100
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Vancouver
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Condon
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Low: 21°
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ESE at 6 to 12 mph
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RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
N.A.
22% of capacity
8% of capacity
51% of capacity
3% of capacity
0% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
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
Medford
Lakeview
Brookings
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Mount Holly, N.J.
High: 90°
Low: 32°
Wettest: Trace
On Oct. 4, 1954, the temperature soared
to a record 95 in Norfolk, Va. In Phila-
delphia, Pa., the day’s minimum of 74
degrees was the highest ever for October.
SUN & MOON
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12:09 a.m.
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MOON PHASES
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Sisters
First
Oct 31
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Brothers
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Coos Bay
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Beaver Marsh
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Roseburg
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Paisley
39/83
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Diamond
42/83
Klamath Falls
39/81
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REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
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Arock
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Fields
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51/82
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41/81
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
36/83
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53/72
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Burns
38/82
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Grants Pass
Huntington
39/80
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Oakridge
Council
43/79
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Seneca
Bend
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John Day
43/83
46/81
Elkton
Powers
Halfway
Granite
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Baker City
Florence
53/66
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Monument
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Enterprise
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Newport
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79 41
Elgin
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Idanha
Salem
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The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
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some sun
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Enterprise
THU
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BERLIN — A cow herd
in Germany has gained an
unlikely following, after
adopting a lone wild boar
piglet.
Farmer Friedrich Stapel
told the dpa news agency
that he spotted the piglet
among the herd in the cen-
tral German community
of Brevoerde about three
weeks ago. It had likely lost
its group when they crossed
a nearby river.
Stapel said while he
knows what extensive
damage wild boars can
cause, he can’t bring him-
self to chase the animal
away, dpa reported
Thursday, Sept. 29.
The local hunter has
been told not to shoot the
piglet — nicknamed Frieda
— and in winter Stapel
plans to put it in the shed
with the mother cows.
“To leave it alone now
would be unfair,” he told dpa.
Kennewick
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TIllamook
Clear to partly
cloudy
Herd the news?
Wild boar piglet was
adopted by cows
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
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TONIGHT
renamed for Bruno Pereira.
the local Indigenous associ-
ation, told the AP.
Villages in the Javari
Valley territory received
their first voting centers in
2014. To deliver a voting
machine to the most distant
village, Vida Nova, elec-
tion officials usually fly in
a small plane from Manaus
to Cruzeiro do Sul, a city in
Acre state. There, they board
a helicopter for the final leg.
It is a 1,000-mile round-trip
voyage to reach a place with
327 voters, in a nation with
an electorate of more than
150 million people.
But in a democracy,
every vote counts — under-
scored by latest opinion
polls indicating former Pres-
ident Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva just might squeak out
a first-round victory, without
an Oct. 30 runoff against
incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
This year, the Javari
Valley territory has seven
voting centers, for 1,655
Indigenous voters. In
August, the regional elec-
tion authority building
in Atalaia do Norte was
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