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Blue Mountain Eagle
Community
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
nerstone Christian Fellow-
ship, joined by two new help-
ers, Andy and Dawn Salanti.
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Alma Joslin
salute, and Pastor Levi Manit-
sas asked the blessing after
telling a few Mother’s Day
JOHN DAY – On April stories.
27, we had breakfast for lunch
We had a large crowd and
– link sausage, pancakes with several guests – Jan and Lar-
honey butter, scrambled eggs ry Sanderson of Bend, who
and tropical fruit. Billie Bul- are maintaining the grounds
lard and Marianne Morris at Clyde Holliday State Park,
greeted us at the desk.
and Joan and Bill Quant, hosts
Ineta Carpenter and Gloria at Kam Wah Chung. They’ll
Stratford delivered 19 meals, all be here for the summer, so
with Veanne doing the Mt. I hope they will eat with us
Vernon run. Ron Dowse de- again.
livered eight frozen meals to
The bridge players also
shut-ins. Our servers were joined us. Amber Wright and
from the Church of Jesus Tracy Raymond from Step
Christ of Latter-day Saints. Forward brought Ron Jerome,
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Ineta asked the blessing.
Veanne announced it was
Small turnout – must not National Blueberry Pie Day,
be many people who like which accounted for our des-
breakfast for lunch, but those sert. She and the cooks are
of us there really enjoyed it. having fun with the national
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lin from Blue Mountain Care on the computer.
Center brought Idamae Tuss-
Margie Parker’s birthday
ing, Dave Herberger, Donna is May 2, but she didn’t tell us
Cox and Robert Riddell.
how many. Jim Lound, who
Veanne announced the was a regular here, has moved
AARP drivers course on Sat- to an assisted living facility
urday, May 9, here at the Cen- in The Dalles. Veanne has his
ter. Bring a lunch.
phone number and address.
Janet Lee won the Len’s I’m sure he would love to hear
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Porter won the free meal.
Helen Bogart loaned us the
On April 30, we celebrat- Mexican dress on the back
ed Cinco de Mayo. We had wall to help with our Mexi-
southwestern soup, enchila- can decor. Note the new water
das, Spanish rice and refried dispenser, too, which has both
beans, topped off with a dish hot and cold water. The old
of ice cream with blueberry one was quite a challenge to
crumble topping. One of my hit your glass.
favorite meals of all time.
Nadine Smith won the
Best Western in John Day/Pa- Chester’s Thriftway gift cer-
tel Inc. furnished the entrée.
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Margaret Glass and Billie the lunch for two at Valley
Bullard greeted us. Buz and View. Everett Swayne won
Margaret Glass delivered 25 WKH GUDZLQJ IRU D ÀRZHU DU-
meals to homebound people. rangement.
Our servers were from Cor-
Thursday, May 7, we’ll
John Day
Seniors
have our Mothers Day lunch
– turkey dinner with rice pilaf.
Monday, May 11, we’ll have
French bread pizza with broc-
coli cheese soup. Join us!
Five paintings by former
Grant County resident, the
late Ila North, will be on dis-
play at the Center during the
May 7 meal.
James 1:2,3 “My brethren,
count it all joy when you fall
into various trials, knowing
that the testing of your faith
produces patience.”
she has a chance, too.
Our volunteer servers were
JoAnn Phippen, Ginger Kend-
all and Julia Davis. Pam took
Helen’s place in the kitchen,
so I took Pam’s place at the
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and Darrell Johnson asked the
blessing. Was glad to see Ivan
Nance and Lauren Hulse, ac-
companied by Michael Shock-
ley. Ivan got to visit with lots
of old friends. And doesn’t his
yard look nice? He sent some
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tain Care Center a few weeks
ago; I have never seen such
huge tulips!
Prairie City
For our special meal, we had
Seniors
grape juice, apple salad, baked
Rose Coombs
potatoes, cream gravy, baked
chicken, rolls, and the dessert
was a ‘Magic cookie bar’ and
PRAIRIE CITY – First, I ice cream. It was all delicious.
want to report that I got Derrol
The Blue Mountain Care
a box of candy with his $5 gift Center ladies, Lorna and Joni,
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ware. Second, I am pleased to Thompson, Lois Hill, Donna
let you know the Grant County Cox and Dollina Humphreys.
sign has been restored on High- Some friends of Dollina’s came
way 26 west of Picture Gorge. in late to visit her, and we had
Thank you to whoever got it enough food to feed them, too!
done.
So, Derrol got his
Third, I am more than long-awaited injection for
pleased to report we had 80 his cervical arthritis pain and
names on the book on April 29. movement. So far, so good.
And there is still room for you. The journey down past the Old
It was April birthday recog- Mill District in Bend went very
nition day. In the running for the smoothly. He couldn’t drive
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man’s Market were Ila New- ing sedated, so I managed to
man, Bonnie Lake, Kimberly get back through all the round-
Teague and one other I can’t abouts without missing any
remember – sorry. Anyhow, turns. Another 12-hour day.
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Shockley to draw the winning with for living in God’s coun-
number, which went to Kim- try, huh?
berly Teague. Joni Jones won
Here comes Mother’s Day,
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Prairie Hardware winner was – Hope each celebration is joyous
drum roll, please – Nancy Vig- and meaningful.
gers. If you want to know why
Ps. 145:7 “They will cele-
we wait so long before doing brate Your abundant goodness
the drawings, it’s because we and joyfully sing of Your righ-
wait until Nancy gets there so teousness.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT – I dared
to pull out some of my sum-
mer clothes. It has been
pretty warm and delight-
fully beautiful. The flow-
ers and other living things
are blooming and active.
A hummingbird whizzed
by my head the other day.
I guess they are back from
their migration. So much to
do around here! Love the
sun still being out at 7 p.m.
My boy complained to
me, though, that it wasn’t
right for him to go to sleep
at 8:30 p.m. because the
sun was still out and bright.
I might have to put up my
blackout curtains, another
task to add to a never end-
ing and seemingly long list
of things to do.
Where does the time go?
I remember as a kid, think-
ing “It’s going to take for-
ever for me to grow up! Time
sure goes very slow!” Now
my life just seems like it’s on
full speed ahead and not slow-
ing down anytime soon.
We had quite a few vis-
itors join us on April 28 –
Dick and Pam Wanous, and
Frank and Melba Cecil, all
from Spray, and Bodean An-
derson’s grandkids and great
grandkids, Shannon Ander-
son, Cole, Garret and Jayden,
from Alaska.
Our greeters were Bob
Blakeslee, Bodean Anderson
and Marva Walker. Bob led
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an prayed the blessing over
our meal. Frances Arneson
won the Chester’s Thriftway
gift card, Gary Doland won
the Len’s Drug gift card and
Melba Cecil won a free meal.
Our hardworking cooks made
some fabulous baked chick-
en, mashed potatoes and gra-
vy, green beans, bread rolls,
and some moist cake. If you
weren’t there, you missed out.
We had 60 attendees and sev-
en take-outs.
I wish I was a better orga-
nized and disciplined person.
I guess most free-spirited peo-
ple are that way. An example:
I was doing well balancing
my checkbook until I got be-
hind. I got so frustrated I went
to the bank and told them they
needed to close my account so
I could open a new one and
start fresh! They wanted me
to bring in all my statements
so they could help me. I insist-
ed they couldn’t and frankly, I
didn’t have all my statements
anyway or know where they
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request, closed the account
and gave me a new one. I’m
sure they must have thought I
was crazy.
I really think it’s because
we aren’t taught to balance
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at our national debt. Our
country is in dire straits be-
cause we don’t know how to
balance our budget. Too bad
we, as a nation, can’t say to
close the account and start
fresh!
Proverbs 22:7 “The rich
ruleth over the poor, And
the borrower is servant to
the lender.”
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