Community
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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G RANT C OUNTY M EETINGS
ONGOING
Grant County Library
is open 1-5 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday; 10 a.m.-noon and 1-7
p.m. Tuesday; and 7-9 p.m.
Thursday,507 S. Canyon Blvd.,
John Day.
Grant County Genealog-
ical Society Research Center
– Open 1-4 p.m. Thursdays and
Fridays; and 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Saturdays. Parsonage build-
ing behind Historic Advent
Church, West Main Street in
John Day. 541-932-4718 or
541-575-2757.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
12 p.m. – Seniors Meal
Program at the Strawberry
Grange Hall, Prairie City.
12 p.m. – Women’s Sup-
port, by Heart of Grant Coun-
ty, for domestic violence
survivors. Free lunch. 541-575-
4335.
4 p.m. – Humbolt Ele-
mentary School Site Council,
school library. 541-575-0454.
5-7 p.m. – Shepherd’s
Closet, open with free cloth-
ing for all ages and community
dinner, Prairie City Assembly
of God. 541-820-3682.
6 p.m.– Grant County
Public Forest Commission,
Squeeze-In Restaurant. 541-
620-1949.
6 p.m. – Grant County
Chapter, Oregon Equestrian
Trails. Call for location, 541-
932-2723.
6:30-8:30 p.m. – Family
History Center open, Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, John Day. Also open by
appointment. 541-656-8069.
7 p.m. – Grant County
High School Rodeo Club,
U.S. Bank, John Day. 541-575-
1530.
7:30 p.m. – Let Go Group
of Alcoholics Anonymous, St.
Elizabeth Catholic Parish Hall,
John Day. 541-575-0114.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Family
History Center open, Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, John Day. Also open by
appointment. 541-656-8069.
Noon – Seniors Meal Pro-
gram and bingo, John Day Se-
nior Center, 142 N.E. Dayton St.
541-575-1825.
4 p.m. – Grant Soil and
Water Conservation, USDA
service center conference room,
721 S. Canyon Blvd., John Day.
541-575-0135, ext. 105.
4 p.m. – River Valley Writ-
er’s Group, Dayville Cafe. 541-
987-2462 or 541-987-2138.
5:30-7:15 p.m. – Youth
Connection, Living Word
Christian Center, Mt. Vernon.
Kid-friendly dinner and Bible
activities. Van rides available.
541-932-4910.
6 p.m. – “The Girlfriends”
Women’s 12-step Recovery,
John Day Church of the Naza-
rene. 541-620-0065.
6:30 p.m. – Seneca Par-
ent-Teacher Association, 7th
and 8th grade classroom. 541-
620-0979 or 541-575-2488.
6:30 p.m. – Red Cross,
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints. Potluck at 6. 541-
575-1248.
7 p.m. – Prairie City Vol-
unteer Fire Department, Fire
Hall. 541-820-4360.
7 p.m. – Prairie City Vol-
unteer Fire Department Aux-
iliary, Fire Hall.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
3-6 p.m. – United Method-
ist Church, weekly distribution
of boxes of food, 126 N.W. Can-
ton Street, John Day.
6 p.m. – Alcoholics Anony-
mous, open to nonmembers too,
Long Creek Community Center.
541-421-3888.
7 p.m. – Whiskey Gulch
Gang, Sels Brewery, Canyon
City. 541-575-0329.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8
Fun Jam, musicians and
listeners welcome for bluegrass,
gospel and traditional country
western music, Call for time and
location, 541-575-1927.
MONDAY, MARCH 9
Noon – Seniors Meal Pro-
gram, John Day Senior Center,
142 N.E. Dayton St. 541-575-
1825.
5 p.m. – Mid-county Cem-
etery Maintenance District,
conference room, Grant County
Courthouse. 541-575-1918.
5:30 p.m. – Grant County
Fair Board, Keerins Hall, fair-
grounds. 541-575-1900.
6 p.m. – Grant County
Kruzers, 7 p.m. Call for meet-
ing location, 541-820-3745 or
541-932-2723.
6 p.m. – Mt. Vernon Vol-
unteer Fire Department, 541-
932-4688.
7:30 p.m. – Outlaw Group
of Alcoholics Anonymous,
Presbyterian Church in Mt. Ver-
non. 541-932-4844.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
8 a.m. – Talents and Trea-
sures, public works building,
Prairie City. 541-820-3325 or
541-820-3675.
10 a.m. – Hospital Auxil-
iary, hospital conference room.
503-551-2454.
10-11 a.m. – Story Hour
and craft project, Grant Coun-
ty Library, for preschoolers 0-6
years old. 541-575-1992.
10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Loose
Threads donation quilting
group, Quilts and Beyond, Prai-
rie City. 541-792-0670.
12 p.m. – Seniors Meal
Program at the Monument Se-
nior Center.
1 p.m. – Long Creek Fam-
ily-Community Education,
Long Creek City Lodge Hall.
1 p.m. – Grant Coun-
ty Transportation District
Board, bus barn in John Day.
541-575-2370. Public invited.
1:30 p.m. – Lifespan Re-
spite Committee, 725 W. Main
St., John Day. 541-575-1466.
1:30 p.m. – Long Creek
Home Extension, Long Creek
Community Church annex.
6 p.m. – Grant County
Sheriff’s Search and Rescue,
Outpost Restaurant, John Day.
541-575-1131.
6 p.m. – John Day Golf
Club board, John Day Golf
course, 541-575-0170.
6 p.m. – Seneca City Coun-
cil, City Hall.
6 p.m. – Dayville School
District 16 Board, school of-
¿FH
6:15 p.m. – Canyon Creek
Bowhunters, Canyon City
Community Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Mt. Vernon
City Council, City Hall.
6:30 p.m. – New Begin-
nings Recovery Group, Living
Word Christian Center, Mt. Ver-
non. 541-932-4910.
7 p.m. – John Day City
Council, City Hall.
7:15 p.m. – Boy Scout
Troop 898, John Day Elks
Lodge, John Day. 541-575-
2531.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
9 a.m. – Grant County
Court, courthouse, Canyon
City.
9 a.m. – Shepherd’s Closet,
open, with free clothing for all
ages and coffee, at Prairie City
Assembly of God. 541-820-
3682.
9 a.m. – Grant County Art
Association, project at 9 a.m.
Meeting at noon, bring a sack
lunch. 541-575-0911.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. – TOPS
(Take Off Pounds Sensibly),
weigh-in, meeting. United
Methodist Church library, 126
N.W. Canton St., John Day. 541-
575-3812, 541-932-4592.
A MAN
WAKES
UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
He will bathe in an ADVERTISED TUB, shave with an ADVERTISED RAZOR,
have a breakfast of ADVERTISED JUICE, cereal and toast, toasted in an
ADVERTISED TOASTER, put on ADVERTISED CLOTHES and glance at his
ADVERTISED WATCH. He’ll ride to work in his ADVERTISED CAR, sit at an
ADVERTISED DESK and write with an ADVERTISED PEN. Yet this person
hesitates to advertise, saying that advertising doesn’t pay. Finally, when his
non-advertised business is going under, HE’LL ADVERTISE IT FOR SALE.
Then it’s too late.
AND THEY SAY ADVERTISING DOESN’T WORK?
DON’T MAKE THIS SAME MISTAKE
Advertising is an investment, not an expense. Think about it!
Blue Mountain Eagle
MyEagleNews.com
Don’t get left behind, call today! Kim Kell 541-575-0710
Quality Healthcare Close To Home
170 Ford Road, John Day • 541-575-1311 • www.bluemountainhospital.org
Blue Mountain
Hospital installs
top of the line Dxa
Bone Scanner
By Bobbi Jo Kirk
Thanks to the Blue Mountain
Healthcare Foundation, Blue
Mountain Hospital recently
installed a brand new state of
the art Hologic Dxa Bone
scanner. The new scanner
replaced an aging GE model
that had been in use for the last
15 years. The Hologic Dxa has
innovative software that can
determine both bone density
and body fat composition. The
cost of the new scanner was
$48,000.
Dxa or Duel Energy X-ray
Absorptiometry is one of the
most accurate ways of
diagnosing osteoporosis and
bone loss. Dxa sends two
extremely low dose X-ray beams
through the area being
examined. One beam is
absorbed by soft tissue and the
other by bone, software then
subtracts the soft tissue peak
from the bone peak, leaving the
density of just the bone. The
most common areas for
measuring bone density are the
lower back, hip and forearm.
Results are sent to the ordering
physician in the form of two
scores. The T score compares
the amount of bone the patient
has compared to a young adult
of the same gender, and is used
to estimate the risk of
developing a fracture. The Z
score is the amount
of bone the patient
has compared to
other people of the
same age group,
body size, and
gender.
Osteoporosis is a
disease where the
creation of new bone
doesn’t keep up with
the removal of old
bone, causing bones
to become weak and
brittle. Both men
and women are at
risk for osteoporosis,
and many other
factors such as age,
race, weight,
hormone levels,
medications, tobacco
abuse, alcohol use,
sedentary lifestyle,
Blue Mountain Healthcare Foundation President
and dietary habits
Jack Southwell and Radiology Manager Dan
play a role in
Goldblatt with the new Dxa Scanner purchased
developing
by the Foundation for Blue Mountain Hospital.
osteoporosis.
Reports for whole body Dxa
While there are medications to
help slow the loss of bone, there include a total lean weight
(muscle and bone), total body
are many inexpensive and
simple lifestyle changes that can fat mass, and an ideal weight
based on your body
also improve bone health.
composition. This is not the
Walking three to five miles per
same as BMI based on height
week, weight bearing exercise,
and weight alone. The total
climbing stairs, and resistance
body fat mass includes
exercise are all easy, at home
measurements of essential fat
ways to boost bone strength.
Eating calcium rich foods such as and stored fat. These
measurements are broken
milk, yogurt, cheese, tofu,
down by body region i.e. each
beans, potatoes, fruits and
extremity, trunk, waist, hips,
vegetables, and supplementing
etc. The report includes this
with calcium and vitamin D are
breakdown of body fat
vital to strong bones.
The Hologic scanner also has the distribution to aid in the
education of health risks
ability to measure body fat
associated with fat distribution
composition . Body composition
scans include a whole body map and storage patterns.
For more information talk to
picturing bone, muscle, and fat.
your doctor about Dxa bone
and body fat composition scans,
or call BMH imaging at
541-575-4154.
Blue Mountain Hospital District
would like to thank all of our donors.
You make new technology at BMH
like the Dxa Scanner a reality.
The following donors are new or renewed members and/
or made a donation to the Blue Mountain Healthcare
Foundation in January and February 2015:
BLUE MOUNTAIN
CARE CENTER
Resident of the Month
Idamae Tussing
Tom Berry, Marjorie Pierce, Dean and Joyce Nodine, Frank
and Mary Silva, Clayton and Beverly Curtis, Bill and Carol
Coombs, Nancy Crisler, Leslie Ricker, Mytchell and Jan
Mead, Margie Molitor, Phil and Peggy Gray, Columbia Power
Cooperative Association, Old West Credit Union.
The following Blue Mountain Hospital District
Employees generously donate with each paycheck
through payroll deductions:
Tom Bridges, Deanna Fox, Verlene Davis, Carmen Gardner,
Dan and Jen Goldblatt, Kara Kohfield, Judy Krutsinger, Tami
Manderscheid, Barb Oliver, Leslie Ricker, Sarah Russ, Piper
Stout, Keith Thomas and Cyndy Fox and Julie Witty.
A special thanks to Lila and Brian Luglan for their
lifetime membership.
Blue Mountain
Hospital District
Presents
March
Visiting Specialists
4th -
5th -
6th -
11th -
12th -
17th -
17th -
20th -
20th -
25th -
31st -
Dr. O’Hollaren - Bend Urology
Dr. Noble - Bend Cardio
Dr. Sandefur - Baker Ortho
Dr. McLellan - Bend Cardio
Deniss Sell - Hearing Specialist
Dr. Rushton - Baker Podiatrist
Dr. Barstow - OBGYN
Dr. Sandefur - Baker Ortho
Korena Farris - Bend Neuro
Dr. McLellan - Bend Cardio
Dr. Rushton - Baker Podiatrist
Idamae Tussing was born on
August 19, 1920 in the village of
Waimea, Hawaii to George and
Annie Lindsey. She attended
Kamehameha boarding school
for girls and graduated in 1938.
Idamae went to the University
of Hawaii. She had two
children, Ginger and Richard
(Kuakaini).
She worked as an accountant
clerk at the Hawaii Employers
Council in Pearl Harbor. During
this time, she traveled to Japan.
She traveled to New York,
Florida and all over the US by
Amtrak. She later married
Edward Tussing a Pharmacist
and moved with him to John
Day.
Idamae’s Hawaiian name is
Keoholani. She loves to read,
visit and play bingo and bunco.
She came to the Blue Mountain
Care Center on August 15, 2008.
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