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B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2022
Mom suspects daughter’s boyfriend of cheating
a text message (which is often), he
immediately says he has to go to the
bathroom. Then he stays in there
for about a half hour.
I’ve tried talking to her about
what I’m seeing, but she gets mad
at me. She says she trusts him and
insists he would never cheat on
her. It’s painful to watch this hap-
pening to her, and I don’t know
how to handle it. Should I continue
bringing it up or let her fi nd out on
her own? — KNOWS ALL TOO
WELL
DEAR KNOWS: You have
already brought it up. Your
daughter should not rush into
marriage just because she is
pregnant, if that’s her intention.
Because her boyfriend is living
with you, he’s likely not mature
or fi nancially stable enough to be
married to anyone. (What do his
DEAR ABBY: We recently
found out my 19-year-old daughter
is pregnant. This is her fi rst boy-
friend, and she is absolutely smitten
with him. He has asked her to
marry him, and we are excited and
happy for her, but there is one thing
we are having a hard time with: I
am almost certain he is cheating on
her.
They live with us, so I can see
the signs — he says he’s working
late, and several times even told
her he had to work all night. He’s
always on his phone, and he never
allows her to see it. He keeps it on
silent and facedown. When he gets
parents think about this?)
I was tempted to advise you
to hire a private investigator to
fi nd out if the young man is really
working late or all night, but I’m not
sure you need to go to that expense.
The truth will eventually reveal
itself. In the meantime, give your
daughter plenty of emotional sup-
port because she is going to need it,
and probably more.
DEAR ABBY: I married my
high school sweetheart in 1967. In
1979, after 12 years of marriage,
we refi nanced our mortgage so
we could add a room. During the
credit check, it was brought to my
attention that my wife had bor-
rowed $14,000 and opened a secret
mailbox in a diff erent town to hide
it from me.
The problem was, and still is,
that she has refused for 52 years to
tell me what it was for. Needless to
say, my trust in her was shaken. She
had no drinking, gambling or drug
problems. I must have asked her a
thousand times what she needed the
money for, and still no answer. Our
marriage went downhill, I had an
aff air, and we separated.
In 1990, we got back together,
but it wasn’t the same. The kids
were grown, so four years later we
divorced. I’m 75 now, remarried 20
years ago, and I still can’t fi gure out
why she couldn’t tell me the truth to
save our marriage. (Abortion keeps
popping into my mind.) A day does
not go by that it doesn’t enter my
mind even all these years later. My
kids are estranged because all they
know is that I had an aff air. I sup-
pose I will be wondering until my
dying day. Advice? — STILL IN
THE DARK
What aid is still available for renters?
DEAR STILL: What your
ex-wife needed that money for is
anybody’s guess. She may have
used it to bail out a friend who was
in trouble. She also could have
been paying off a blackmailer.
The possibilities are so varied that
guessing her motive could be a
parlor game.
Since you asked, my advice to
you is to fi nally let the past stay in
the past and quit upsetting your-
self over something you will never
get a straight answer about. There
are few more eff ective ways to
diminish the joys of the present
than to do what you are doing.
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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AGENT
same that Wylam oper-
ated out of. He said it is
an excellent location.
“It is visible and
everyone knows where it
is,” he said.
Coincidentally, one
of the fi rst fi rms to do
business at that Adams
Avenue address was Ser-
geant and Wright Insur-
ance, which records indi-
cate occupied the space
in 1905, according to
Bob Bull, a La Grande
author and historian. It
is not known when Ser-
geant and Wright Insur-
ance stopped operating
at 1110 Adams Ave. but
it is known that by 1912
into the 1920s Pattison
Grocery and Bakery was
there, and that by 1933
the site housed Barnhart
Grocery. Wright’s Drug
Store began operating at
that address around 1941,
Bull said, and served cus-
tomers at the site for at
least two decades.
Continued from Page B1
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
SALEM — Renter pro-
tections from Oregon’s
pandemic-era emergency
rent assistance program
expired Friday, Sept. 30,
eliminating the last renter
safety net policies tied to
the economic fallout from
COVID-19.
Among the expiring pro-
visions were protection
from eviction when a renter
had a pending application
for housing aid, as well as
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a provision that landlords
had to give tenants 10 days’ Renter protections from Oregon’s pandemic-era emergency rent assistance program expired Friday,
Sept. 30, 2022, eliminating the last renter safety net policies tied to the economic fallout from COVID-19.
notice of eviction. Land-
lords can now resume a
states who didn’t use up
three-day or six-day evic-
to 14.6% next year under
called for lawmakers to roll
their housing funds quickly the 2019 state rent control
tion notice. And they can
back the upcoming rent
enough. So far, the agency
now evict tenants for back
law that ties the maximum
increase and to track land-
has received $29.4 million
rent they didn’t pay during
increase to infl ation.
lords through a registration
in reallocated funds, and it
the pandemic.
The Community Alli-
program.
The state began distrib-
has requested an additional ance of Tenants called on
People facing eviction
uting funds through the
$17.6 million.
lawmakers to strengthen
can contact the Oregon
emergency rental assistance
But there are no plans
eviction laws during the
Law Center’s Eviction
last May and paid out $408 to accept new applications
next legislative session, to
Defense Project for legal
million in rent
for emergency
avoid unnecessary evic-
help or call 211 for other
and utility assis-
rent assistance,
tions. The group also
resources.
tance. According
Hernández said.
to a dashboard
Instead, the state
Are you running an
that tracks the
housing agency
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program, the state
will put the funds
The amount Oregon
approved close to
toward its evic-
Operating System?
paid out in rent and
65,000 applica-
tion prevention
We’ll help you
utility assistance
tions and declined
program. It will
through its emergency
avoid critical
at least 39,000.
also distribute
rent assistance
Although the
money
toward
issues by installing
program since
emergency rental
legal services
May 2022.
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assistance pro-
and case manage-
gram closed its
ment for renters,
application portal
Hernández said.
in March, the state housing
The pandemic pro-
agency has continued to
grams are winding down
work through pending
as renters rights groups are
applications.
anticipating steep increases
State housing spokes-
in rents next year that could
person Delia Hernández
lead to a wave of evic-
said the agency is also
tions. State economists
receiving funds that have
announced last month that
been reallocated from other landlords can raise rents up
and making sure they
come fi rst,” Young said.
The Allstate agent said
the transition after taking
over for Wylam has gone
smoothly over the past
year.
“Usually business
drops off the fi rst year
when a new guy comes
in, but that hasn’t hap-
pened because of the
continuity we have had.
I have a lot of ties to our
customers. Everything
has been good,” Young
said.
The insurance agent
said he likes his job
because of the opportu-
nity it provides him to
make connections with
the public.
“I really like working
with people,” he said.
Young’s offi ce is at
1110 Adams Ave., the
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
50/68
Kennewick
48/75
St. Helens
48/80
TIllamook
49/80
46/81
52/77
48/80
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Clear
Mostly sunny
and warm
Warm with
plenty of sun
Sunny, nice
and warm
Sunny,
pleasant
32 75 35
73 34
72 34
73 28
Eugene
10
10
10
44/78
74 39
75 36
74 36
10
10
10
La Grande
39 75 38
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
10
10
39 72 39
Comfort Index™
9
73 37
72 36
10
10
10
10
ALMANAC
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 103°
Low: 18°
Wettest: 1.44”
71°
37°
74°
43°
77°
45°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.00
0.18
5.38
7.04
0.00
0.00
0.38
9.63
12.38
0.00
Trace
0.51
18.51
17.38
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
25%
NNW at 4 to 8 mph
9.2
0.13
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
2% of capacity
22% of capacity
7% of capacity
44% of capacity
3% of capacity
0% of capacity
High: 84°
Low: 28°
Wettest: none
Grants Pass
Lakeview
SUN & MOON
THU.
621 cfs
3 cfs
18 cfs
45 cfs
56 cfs
9 cfs
Last
FRI.
7:06 a.m. 7:07 a.m.
6:11 p.m. 6:09 p.m.
8:09 p.m. 8:48 p.m.
11:25 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Oct 17
New
Oct 25
First
Oct 31
Elkton
51/78
35/78
Beaver Marsh
35/80
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
48/84
Coos Bay
48/83
Full
Nov 8
Burns
Boise
45/79
Jordan Valley
38/76
Paisley
36/79
Frenchglen
38/78
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
37/77
38/78
36/79
Fields
Medford
37/80
Klamath Falls
35/81
Lakeview
34/80
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
34/82
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
68/51/s 76/54/s
Bend
80/40/s 75/38/s
Boise
79/45/s 77/49/s
Brookings
77/55/s 66/53/pc
Burns
78/33/s 77/37/s
Coos Bay
69/49/s 71/51/s
Corvallis
81/45/s 82/44/s
Council
77/40/s 77/41/s
Elgin
75/42/s 76/42/s
Eugene
78/46/s 80/45/s
Hermiston
76/43/pc 77/43/s
Hood River
80/50/s 78/50/s
Imnaha
75/48/s 75/48/s
John Day
78/38/s 77/37/s
Joseph
71/38/s 71/40/s
Kennewick
77/43/pc 76/44/s
Klamath Falls 81/37/s 80/35/s
Lakeview
80/34/s 79/36/s
37/81
Silver Lake
38/81
51/89
53/77
Juntura
32/78
51/89
Brookings
Ontario
41/79
34/80
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
34/76
40/80
Oakridge
38/77
43/79
Seneca
Bend
FRI.
On Oct. 13, the Great Hurricane of 1846
moved from Cuba northward through
Georgia and the Carolinas to Pennsylvania
and caused great damage all along its
path.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Florence
Council
32/75
38/78
39/82
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.
Randolph, Utah
Okeechobee, Fla.
34/73
John Day
37/82
Sisters
49/69
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.
36/77
Baker City
Redmond
48/64
50/68
Halfway
Granite
44/81
Newport
49/80
73 38
43/79
48/81
47/78
Corvallis
Enterprise
39/72
39/75
Monument
44/79
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™ 10
Elgin
40/75
La Grande
44/75
Maupin
Baker City
49/73
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
47/74
Hood River
46/76
47/73
Lewiston
Walla Walla
42/77
Vancouver
47/78
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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
74/47/pc 74/49/s
75/48/s 79/49/s
75/39/s 73/39/s
89/50/s 89/52/s
64/50/s 68/53/s
72/44/pc 77/43/s
79/41/s 78/43/s
77/43/pc 78/43/s
76/45/s 75/46/s
77/52/s 81/56/s
78/49/s 78/54/s
82/38/s 77/36/s
83/48/s 86/48/s
78/46/s 82/48/s
71/46/pc 73/47/s
81/47/s 79/48/s
76/37/s 73/40/s
73/49/pc 73/50/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; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
61
34
72
36
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mostly sunny; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
67
41
79
41
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; mild
Mostly sunny; warm
64
30
73
35
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny
71
38
75
47
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; warm
75
35
75
38