THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021 A7
School board
DEAR ABBY
Write to Dear Abby online at dearabby.com
or by mail at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Dear Abby: I have this di-
lemma. I’m a woman in my
40s with a good job, and I’m
told I am a good catch. About
six months ago, I moved in
with a man I will call Peter. It
started as a roommate situa-
tion, but then became friends
with benefits. We have both
agreed we are not a couple.
The problem is Peter has
a friend, “Reggie.” I like Reg-
gie, and he likes me. We have
hung out as a group sev-
eral times. To the best of my
knowledge, Reggie has no
idea Peter and I are FWBs.
Reggie recently asked me
out to dinner as a date. I can
see myself having a real rela-
tionship with him, but don’t
know how Peter will react.
Should I accept the invita-
tion? I mean, it’s just one
date. Also, should I mention
it to Peter?
— F.W.B. in the South
Dear F.W.B.: You and Pe-
ter have agreed that you are
NOT a couple. Accept Reg-
gie’s offer and be upfront with
Peter about it. The only thing
that might change would be
that Peter will have to find
another friend with benefits
because the sexual aspect of
your relationship with him
may be over.
Dear Abby: I have a
22-year-old daughter from
my first marriage and a
9-year-old son with my hus-
band of 12 years. My hus-
band is 57, and I just turned
41. I would like to have an-
other baby, mainly because
I want my 9-year-old son to
have someone to grow up
with. We have no other fam-
ily. It’s just him and female
cousins, ages 9 and 5. Can
you please advise me if my
husband and I are OK or too
old to have one more child?
— Considering it in the West
Dear Considering: I’m glad
you wrote. This is something
that should be discussed fur-
ther with your husband to
make sure you are on the
same page, and also with
your OB-GYN.
If your intention is that
your children grow up to-
gether, this is something that
should have happened years
ago. As it stands, the 10-year
age difference will mean your
son will be grown and gone
while your younger child is
still at home.
A doctor with a specialty
in genetics could be helpful
as you gather information. It
is important that you under-
stand what precautions might
be wise to take before making
this decision.
Dear Abby: I care a lot
about what friends, family
— even the general public
— do with their money. Spe-
cifically, I promote the ben-
efits of owning a home, but
I suspect my efforts to edu-
cate them may need a more
loving approach. I just don’t
want people I care about to
throw their money away to
their landlords. Do I need to
be more loving and support-
ive vs. educating?
— Community Helper in Michigan
Dear Helper: People usu-
ally have good reasons for
renting instead of buying. If
you keep repeating your ad-
vice and it’s falling on deaf
ears, it’s fair to conclude your
message isn’t being appre-
ciated. A saying widely at-
tributed to Albert Einstein is,
“Insanity is continuing to re-
peat an action over and over
again but expecting different
results.” You can volunteer to
serve as an adviser, but only
if these individuals want to
make a change and ask for
your help.
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events. This year, you can meet people who advance your career and enrich
your personal experiences. Life will be exciting. Continue to watch your
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As of the 2019-20 school year, 12%
of Bend-La Pine students identified as
Latino/Hispanic and 1% identified as
Black, according to the Oregon Depart-
ment of Education.
Douglass — who was first appointed to
the board in February 2017 before win-
ning a four-year term in the May election
that year — is running for the Zone 1 seat,
representing northwest Bend. She cur-
rently holds the Zone 7 at-large seat, which
is also up for election this year.
Douglass did not respond when asked
for comment.
Her lone challenger is Maria Lo-
pez-Deuenhauer, a stay-at-home mother
and former salesperson. Lopez-Deuen-
hauer has not held elected office before,
according to Deschutes County docu-
ments.
Board member Caroline Skidmore, cur-
rently in the Zone 1 seat, declined to run
for re-election after a two-year term.
“My choice not to run for another term
on our Bend-La Pine School Board has
been a difficult decision made with care-
ful consideration,” she said in a written
statement. “I will not be seeking reelec-
tion in order to focus more on my fam-
ily, environmental advocacy, and role as a
speech-language pathologist working di-
rectly with children.”
The wide-open Zone 2 seat — repre-
senting northeast Bend — has two candi-
dates, both with careers in higher educa-
tion.
Wendy Imel is an ad-
junct faculty member at
Portland State University,
as well as a practice ad-
ministrator for the Bend
Hernia Center, according
to election documents.
Marcus LeGrand is a
Douglass
college and career suc-
cess coach at Central
Oregon Community
College, and currently
serves on Bend-La Pine
Schools’ budget commit-
tee, according to election
documents. LeGrand is
also an executive board
Haffner
member of The Father’s
Group, a local education
nonprofit comprising
mainly Black fathers.
Julie Craig, who’s held
the Zone 2 seat since
2012, told The Bulletin
she would not run for re-
election.
“It’s been 9 years, and
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I think it’s time for me to
move on,” she said.
Two Sunriver residents
are running for the Zone 4 seat, which rep-
resents south Deschutes County.
Gregg Henton is a retired employee of
General Motors and Digital Motorworks
with no elected experience, according to
election documents. Shirley Olson is a re-
tired educator who has held numerous
high-level positions in schools and educa-
tional companies for decades — from an
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Tonight: Romantic evening.
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In Bend, members of the
climate congress had specific
demands for Oregon’s law-
makers, including a call to
end legislative walkouts over
climate regulations and to
pass environmentally-focused
bills.
Overall, the protest Friday
was meant to raise aware-
ness about the threat of cli-
mate change, said event orga-
nizer Freddy Finney-Jordet, a
19-year-old Central Oregon
Community College stu-
dent who hosted previous
climate-focused protests in
Bend.
“It’s impossible to pass a
protest without noticing it,”
Finney-Jordet said. “That’s the
point of a protest, to make it
impossible to ignore. It’s also
showing that it is important
enough and people are pas-
sionate enough about it that
they are willing to hit the
streets.”
The teen activists were
joined Friday by members of
the Oregon League of Conser-
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Nicki Pistacchio, of Bend, participates in a climate protest Friday at Wall
Street and Newport Avenue in downtown Bend.
vation Voters, Indivisible Bend,
Vocal Seniority, 350Deschutes,
Sierra Club Juniper Group, and
Let’s Act Bend.
Finney-Jordet said each
group has supported the De-
schutes Youth Climate Con-
gress and helped make the pro-
test possible.
“It’s been great to work with
all these communities,” Fin-
ney-Jordet said. “Each one has
their separate set of things they
are really good at.”
Friday was the group’s first
Biden, Harris offer
solace, denounce
racism in Atlanta visit
BY JONATHAN LEMIRE, JEFF
AMY AND ZEKE MILLER
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — President
Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris offered solace
to Asian Americans and de-
nounced the scourge of rac-
ism at times hidden “in plain
sight” as they visited Atlanta on
Friday, just days after a white
gunman killed eight people,
most of them Asian American
women.
Addressing the na-
tion , Biden said it was
“heart-wrenching” to listen to
their stories of the fear among
Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders amid what he called
a “skyrocketing spike” of ha-
rassment and violence against
them.
“We have to change our
hearts,” he said. “Hate can have
no safe harbor in America.”
Biden called on all Amer-
icans to stand up to bigotry
when they see it, adding: “Our
silence is complicity. We can-
not be complicit.”
“They’ve been attacked,
blamed, scapegoated and ha-
rassed; they’ve been verbally
assaulted, physically assaulted,
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
e e
Climate
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Tell everyone about your day.
elementary principal in
the Salem-Keizer School
District to an educational
consultant for Pearson,
a company that makes
textbooks and other
school materials.
Imel
The current Zone 4
board member, Stuart
Young, told The Bulle-
tin he would be stepping
down after seven years.
“The district’s headed
in a great direction,” he
said. “I think it’s time for
somebody else.”
The at-large Zone 7
LeGrand
seat, which Douglass is
vacating, has the most
competition, with three
candidates on the the
ballot, but one said Fri-
day he was dropping out
of the race. Cab Burge
will appear on ballots but
decided after he filed for
election not to run.
Sarai Llerandi
Jon Haffner is a fi-
nancial analyst for St.
Charles medical center.
And Janet Sarai Llerandi is the finance and
administrative coordinator for local edu-
cational nonprofit Better Together. She is
also the executive director of Mecca Bend,
a local Latino advocacy group.
None of the three candidates have held
elected office, according to county docu-
ments.
killed,” Biden said of Asian
Americans during the corona-
virus pandemic.
The president also called
the shootings an example of a
“public health crisis of gun vio-
lence in this country,” as his ad-
ministration has come under
scrutiny from some in his own
party for not moving as swiftly
as promised on reforming the
nation’s gun laws.
in-person event since the
COVID-19 pandemic began
last year.
In April, the Youth Climate
Congress canceled an in-per-
son protest and hosted a virtual
climate strike. The members
recorded speeches and shared
artwork over social media
during the virtual event.
Due to the pandemic, the
group also had to cancel a
planned youth climate sum-
mit last year at the High Desert
Museum.
Galen Genevieve “GG”
Johnson, an 18-year-old se-
nior at Bend High School and
member of the climate con-
gress, said the group is working
to reschedule the youth climate
summit this spring.
“We are circling back to that
now, to do it virtually,” Johnson
said. “That is one of the main
projects we have been work-
ing on.”
Overall, it had been diffi-
cult for the group to rally peo-
ple during the pandemic, so
members were happy to see the
crowd Friday gathering safely
and sharing enthusiasm for
addressing climate change.
Johnson said climate ac-
tivism is not something the
teenagers will grow out of, but
rather something they will re-
main dedicated to throughout
their lives.
As they showed Friday,
they will not stop until there is
change, she said.
“I think it will be a lifelong
pursuit for all of us because we
are deeply passionate about
this cause,” Johnson said.
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Reporter: 541-617-7820,
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