B6 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD • SATuRDAY, NOVEmBER 12, 2022
COFFEE BREAK
Old romance rekindled amid current marriage
Three years ago, my ex lost his
mother. I contacted his brother to offer
sympathy, and then my ex contacted
me. We have talked and cried together.
He has apologized and asked for for-
giveness. He then told me he has never
stopped loving me. We have met a cou-
ple of times since, and I’m having a hard
time deciding what to do.
My home is more like a small of-
fice than a home. We have a business,
a ministry, and I have a full-time job. I
can’t just pack up and leave, but in my
heart I want to go back to my ex. He has
been clean for three years, free from the
drug-related health problems and is not
going to return to that life. What do I
DEAR ABBY: I have been in love with
a man for 34 years. I was married to
him once, then divorced him because of
drugs. I have been remarried for eight
years now, to a wonderful man who is
good to me, but aloof to my needs or de-
sires. I am not in love with him. When
we talked early in the marriage about my
needs, he got sullen and said he would
“try.” That lasted a very short time. He is
focused only on his wants and needs.
do? — TORN IN LOVE IN THE SOUTH
DEAR TORN: The relationship you
have described with your self-centered
husband seems more like a business
partnership than anything else. From
what you describe, he’s either unwilling
or unable to give you what you need. Un-
less you like living in an emotional des-
ert, you will have to take charge of your
life. IF you decide to divorce your hus-
band, I urge you to take a long pause and
not rush back to the altar. Get to know
your ex again. Learn what pressures
drove him to substance abuse. Although
you care for him, the last thing you need
is to wind up back at square one.
DEAR ABBY: My pregnant oldest
shower? — HURT AUNT IN INDIANA
DEAR HURT AUNT: If you want a
relationship with your pregnant old-
est niece, attend the shower and be
friendly. If you decline the invitation,
you will further the estrangement from
your brother’s family. I don’t know what
caused it and neither do you, but you
should definitely ask if you did some-
thing that offended them because it has
been hurtful. (Just don’t ask that ques-
tion at the shower.)
niece just had a gender reveal party
to which I was not invited. She called
me instead to tell me the gender of the
baby. My brother (her father) and his
wife were invited. My sister-in-law is
now having a baby shower for my niece.
I don’t feel like I’m being treated like
family anymore. My brother and his
family never invite me to any family
get-togethers.
I’m wondering why I was not invited
to the gender reveal party, yet she’s in-
viting me to her baby shower. My feel-
ings are if I wasn’t good enough to be
invited to the gender reveal along with
her friends and the rest of our fam-
ily, then why should I go to her baby
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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
US providing abortion access for detained migrant youths
The Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. — The U.S.
government took steps Thursday,
Nov. 10, to ensure that pregnant mi-
grant youths who are in its custody
but not accompanied by parents can
access abortion services by assign-
ing them to shelters in states that
still allow the procedure.
Pregnant migrants under 18 who
want an abortion should also be
provided transportation, if nec-
essary, from states such as Texas,
where abortion is largely banned, to
a state where it is legal, according to
the written guidance from the Of-
fice of Refugee Resettlement.
The policy changes from the
Biden administration arrive after
the Supreme Court in June over-
turned the nationwide right to abor-
tion access. Advocates for abortion
rights say the new policy guidance
complies with court orders that
reined in efforts to deny the proce-
dure to migrant children during the
administration of former President
Donald Trump.
Government officials and con-
tractors who have religious objec-
tions to abortion aren’t required to
assist in providing access under the
updated policy, but they must notify
authorities of any pregnant migrant
youths.
The directive should provide crit-
ical access to health care for young,
unaccompanied migrants who in
many cases are fleeing violence, in-
cluding sexual assault, the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union said. Mi-
grants traversing Central American
and Mexico are often subject to ex-
tortion and rape.
“We applaud Office of Refugee
Resettlement’s decision to place
pregnant unaccompanied immi-
grant youth in states where they can
access the full range of health care
they may need, including abortion,”
said Brigitte Amiri, deputy director
of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom
Project, in a statement Thursday.
The refugee office is part of the
Health and Human Services De-
partment and is responsible for
oversight of migrant children who
are found traveling alone.
The Associated Press, File
In this July 9, 2019, photo, immigrants play soccer at the U.S. government’s newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. The U.S. government is taking
new steps to ensure access to abortion services for pregnant migrant youths who are not accompanied by parents by assigning them to shelters in states that still allow abortion.
Charges: Wisconsin nurse
amputated man’s foot without
orders
SPRING VALLEY, Wis. — A nurse
in Wisconsin has been charged with
elder abuse, accused of amputating a
hospice patient’s frostbitten foot with-
out his consent and without doctor’s
orders.
After she cut off the man’s right
foot last spring, Mary K. Brown, 38,
of Durand, told her colleagues that
she wanted to display it at her fami-
ly’s taxidermy shop with a sign that
said: “Wear your boots kids,” accord-
ing to charges filed last week in Pierce
County.
The amputation happened May 27,
and within about a week the 62-year-
old man was dead. The complaint gives
no indication the amputation hastened
his death, the Milwaukee Journal Senti-
weather
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nel reported.
The Associated Press was unable to
reach Brown for comment Thursday,
Nov. 10. Online court records do not
list an attorney for her, and a phone call
to her home rang several times and was
not answered.
According to the complaint, the man
was admitted to Spring Valley Health
and Rehab Center after he fell at his
home in March. The heat in his home
was not turned on, and he suffered
frostbite to both feet, leaving the tis-
sue necrotic. His right foot remained
attached to his leg by a tendon and
roughly 2 inches of skin.
While at the Spring Valley center, the
man was getting separate care through
St. Croix County hospice health work-
ers. Brown worked at the center but
was not a hospice nurse.
One nurse who had changed the
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
38/49
Kennewick
35/46
St. Helens
34/47
32/46
30/46
37/47
33/46
Condon
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Mainly clear
and cold
Some bright-
ening, cold
Partly sunny and
cold
Mostly sunny
and chilly
Mostly cloudy
37 15
38 13
43 24
Eugene
1
2
2
34/49
38 19
39 18
43 30
2
2
2
La Grande
21 39 24
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
1
1
20 35 22
Comfort Index™
2
40 19
2
3
3
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 91°
Low: -18°
Wettest: 3.91”
41°
12°
42°
22°
42°
20°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.55
0.23
6.26
7.71
0.00
2.74
0.62
13.67
14.20
0.00
5.13
0.85
25.52
19.88
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
40%
N at 6 to 12 mph
0.9
0.04
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
1% of capacity
26% of capacity
9% of capacity
29% of capacity
8% of capacity
5% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1160 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
4 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
14 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
103 cfs
Minam River at Minam
102 cfs
Powder River near Richland
13 cfs
McAllen, Texas
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
OREGON
High: 55°
Low: 0°
Wettest: 0.02”
The Dalles
Alkali Lake
Astoria
WEATHER HISTORY
On Nov. 12, 1906, the temperature
reached 105 degrees at Craftonville, Calif.
-- the hottest reading ever recorded for
the United States in November.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
SUN.
6:47 a.m. 6:48 a.m.
4:26 p.m. 4:25 p.m.
7:18 p.m. 8:17 p.m.
11:13 a.m. 11:58 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Nov 16
New
Nov 23
First
Nov 30
Full
Dec 7
17/40
38/54
14/34
Beaver Marsh
14/39
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
33/49
Coos Bay
36/50
Burns
Jordan Valley
17/36
Paisley
16/36
Frenchglen
19/36
Klamath Falls
16/38
Hi/Lo/W
49/37/c
39/21/pc
41/23/s
56/40/pc
36/13/pc
52/38/pc
50/33/pc
40/16/pc
38/22/c
49/31/c
42/24/c
46/30/c
38/24/pc
40/15/pc
34/19/pc
41/24/pc
38/19/pc
37/15/pc
Hi/Lo/W
52/37/s
35/18/s
39/22/pc
55/43/pc
38/11/s
54/37/pc
49/27/s
37/16/pc
39/20/pc
48/28/pc
43/22/pc
46/31/pc
42/24/pc
38/14/pc
35/17/pc
41/23/pc
40/15/c
37/15/pc
Grand View
Arock
22/41
19/39
Lakeview
12/37
McDermitt
17/38
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
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
Diamond
18/35
20/37
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
MON.
Boise
21/41
Fields
33/51
SUN.
18/40
Silver Lake
15/40
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
11/36
34/55
39/56
Ontario
22/43
15/37
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
13/37
17/39
Oakridge
18/40
22/42
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
14/37
John Day
16/40
Sisters
Florence
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
14/35
18/40
37/52
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.
16/39
Baker City
Redmond
39/52
Halfway
Granite
33/50
Newport
37/51
38 19
23/40
33/46
35/47
38/48
36 18
1
Corvallis
Enterprise
20/35
21/39
Monument
25/42
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
0
Elgin
22/38
La Grande
25/39
Maupin
14 37 15
27/39
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
28/37
Hood River
25/39
TIllamook
Comfort Index™
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
25/41
Vancouver
34/46
37/49
Baker City
Brown told an investigator that the
man did not ask her to remove his
foot, which she described as “mummy
feet,” but that there was no life in the
foot and she did it to make his quality
of life better, the complaint said. She
acknowledged that it was outside her
scope of practice and that she did not
have authorization.
Brown has been licensed as a reg-
istered nurse in Wisconsin since July
14, 2020, according to the Wisconsin
Department of Safety and Professional
Services. Her license is still listed as ac-
tive. The agency said it has processed a
complaint against Brown, and that the
Wisconsin Board of Nursing is inves-
tigating.
Kevin Larson, the administrator and
CEO of Spring Valley Senior Living
and Health Care Campus, said Brown
does not currently work at the center.
man’s bandages on the morning of May
27 said he could wiggle his toes, the
complaint said. Brown told two other
nurses at shift change that she was “go-
ing to cut off the victim’s foot for com-
fort,” but they told her not to. Brown
and two certified nursing assistants
went into the man’s room to change his
bandages, but Brown cut his foot off in-
stead, one of the nursing assistants told
an investigator.
Tracy Reitz, the center’s director of
nursing, learned of the amputation two
days later from a distraught nursing
assistant, according to the complaint.
Reitz said the nursing assistant told
her the man didn’t appear to be in pain
during the amputation, but another
nurse told an investigator the man said
afterward that “he felt everything and
it hurt very bad,” according to the com-
plaint.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SUN.
MON.
Hi/Lo/W
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38/18/c
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38/18/c
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Hi/Lo/W
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35/17/pc
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51/37/s
48/28/pc
42/21/s
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37/17/s
51/32/pc
50/28/s
34/20/pc
47/28/pc
36/18/pc
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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
Becoming cloudy
Partly sunny
26
9
36
11
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cold
Partly sunny
30
22
42
18
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Cold
Cloudy and chilly
27
7
34
17
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Cold
Cold
34
19
39
26
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Cold
Cold
37
15
39
24