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Blue Mountain Eagle
Community
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
mushroom/onion gravy. The
sides were baked potatoes,
green beans with bacon, din-
ner rolls and for dessert, choc-
Alma Joslin
olate cake with buttercream
icing. Alva and Marge Con-
lee furnished the entrée. The
JOHN DAY – First off, I cake was baked by Chester’s
want to thank Veanne Weddle Thriftway and furnished by
for taking notes for me on June Driskell Memorial Chapel.
Gloria Kulis and Margaret
1, as I had to be out of town.
That being said, we had Glass greeted us at the desk.
chef salad, bread sticks, salm- Buz and Margaret Glass,
on chowder, topped off with and Shay Lewis delivered
hazelnut cake – because it was 25 meals. Our servers didn’t
National Hazelnut Cake Day. show up, so we had some real-
Marianne Morris and Susan ly wonderful people who just
jumped up and volunteered.
Fowle greeted us at the desk.
Karen Bailey and Kris Jan Ellison and I served
Labhart, from Blue Mountain the milk and juice. Then up
Hospital Auxiliary, delivered stepped Kayln Burril, Sharon
18 meals and four frozen ones Smith, Jackie Osborne, Hel-
to shut-ins. They were also en Bogart and Jan Ellison to
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salute, and Ben Leuthe asked anyone. We had six tables,
and I think just about every-
the blessing.
Veanne announced that one helped with cleanup, with
Fred Stoltz died on June 28. our faithful Don Porter wash-
Our condolences to his wife, ing the silverware. The staff
Linda. May God bless and and I thank everyone for be-
keep her. She is in our prayers ing so great.
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and thoughts. There will be
a Celebration of Life from salute, and Dale Stennett
noon-2 p.m. Saturday, June asked the blessing. Don Cald-
13, at the John Day Senior well did the announcements,
Center. It will be a potluck, so as Veanne was out of town.
Marianne Morris’ daugh-
bring your favorite foods, and
ter, Pam Cherry, from South
share memories.
A reminder about the Carolina, joined her for lunch.
EMTs demonstration of an Wilma Bauer won the Ches-
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lator at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and Don Caldwell won the
June 18, at the Senior Center. lunch for two at Valley View.
Thursday, June 11, we’ll
Come early and get informa-
have teriyaki-glazed pork/
tion on the new CPR also.
Our dear friend Sylvia veggie kabobs, and on Mon-
Warrick was with us. She’ll day, June 15, it will be ham-
be here for about a month, so and-mushroom Alfredo with
people will have a chance to penne pasta. Come join us for
good food and fellowship.
visit with her.
Deuteronomy 65 “You
Jan Ellison won the Len’s
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with all your heart, with all
cy Swain won the free meal.
On June 4, we had Salis- your soul, and with all your
bury steak covered with strength.”
John Day
Seniors
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY – As I
was reading the Eagle last
week, I discovered that a
relative was going to be
interviewed for the Prairie
City Schools Superinten-
dent position. Well, well,
what do you know! The
things you find out …
The grapevine report:
height is approaching 32
inches. Hurray! Contem-
plated putting some fertil-
izer on it, but decided that
the cats were taking care of
that. Besides, it has been
growing under extremely
adverse conditions for the
years and managed just fine,
thank you.
We had 68 names on the
registration book last week.
Maxine Woodworth and
her sister, Colleen Lewis,
joined us for the first time.
Maxine hurried through her
dinner so she could spend
some quality time with her
newest
great-grandson.
He’s a cutie.
Renee Thiede escorted
Carl Sheppard. It was her
first time to come, too.
The Prairie Hardware
and Gifts $5 in trade certif-
icate went to Billy Drink-
water – a belated birthday
present for him, huh? Buzz
led the flag salute and Hel-
en Emmel asked the bless-
ing. Our volunteer servers
included Donna Adams,
JoAnn Phippen, Pam How-
ard, Gary Jacobson, and
Marlene Greear.
We enjoyed grape juice,
cottage cheese, potato sal-
ad, sloppy Joes and an ap-
plesauce/spice cake with
brown sugar frosting. That
doesn’t look like much but
it sure filled us up. Tasted
good, too.
The Blue Mountain Care
Center didn’t get to come.
Have you noticed the new
construction there in the
north patio area? Hmmm.
Maybe someone will en-
lighten us about it …
Be sure to come to the
Canyon City Cemetery
Re-enactment on May 13.
I’ll be there in costume, by
the grave of a Grant County
pioneer, to tell her story.
Heard the planning has
begun for the Fourth of July
celebration. It has been 239
years since the first celebra-
tion. I can remember that
because son No. 1 was born
on the bi-centennial year.
Have you ever read the en-
tire Declaration and Consti-
tution? Everybody should.
You know about “desig-
nated drivers’’ – now you
can have a “designated tex-
ter.” That should help the
distracted driving!
When we went into
Prineville the other day,
there was a new sign that
proclaimed that Prineville
was a Purple Heart City.
Now how did they get that
designation?
Here’s a presidential tid-
bit: When Herbert Hoover
and his wife didn’t want the
servants in the White House
to know what they were say-
ing, they spoke to each other
in Chinese. OK. My question
is, where, when and why did
they learn that language? I
see research in my future …
I I Timothy 2:15 Study to
show yourself approved unto
God, a workman who doesn’t
need to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT – Did you
all enjoy the rain we had a
couple of weeks ago? From
the looks of it, the ground,
the trees, the plants, and
definitely the weeds sure
did!
I wasn’t here, but I can
tell you the rain made me
overwhelmed with thank-
fulness and gratitude for
my God.
My hubby and I went
down to California to
haul the last of our stuff
out of storage and bring it
up.
The blessing of the rain
made life easier for our
oldest, who was in charge
of taking care of the ani-
mals and watering the gar-
den. Grandma and Grand-
pa came and helped watch
over the kiddos and feed
them.
We just finished tilling
up and planting our garden
the other day. While toiling
in the dirt, I was reflecting
on how blessed we are.
Friends and neighbors
have generously given us
so much – from houseplants
to our dogs, our chickens,
our cats, to lending us ma-
chines to till, and garden
plants.
Through these wonderful
people, the Lord has bless-
ed us more than I could ever
imagine or deserve. I hope
that we will be a blessing to
others when opportunities
arise.
I hope to be able to share
my veggies with friends
and neighbors who have so
graciously shared with us.
I will say it again, I love
my town and I love the peo-
ple here!
Sorry, I missed the last
two weeks. First I was in
California, and then last
week, in trying to catch up
on things, I completely for-
got to write my article. My
bad.
Last time, we had a great
meal of spaghetti, garlic
toast, fresh salad, and fruit
cocktail or chocolate chip
cookies for dessert. We
thank our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell for their
hard work.
Our greeters were Bob
Blakeslee, Bodean Ander-
son, and Marva Walker.
Bob led our flag salute and
Bodean prayed the blessing
over our meal.
Linda Abraham won
the Len’s gift card, Judy
Cavender and Darlene
Forrest both won a free
meal.
Thanks to our generous
contributors.
We had Gus and Ture
Peterson from Redmond
along with Lola Wilson vis-
it and join us for lunch. We
had a total of 51 attendees
and no takeouts.
I am pleased to an-
nounce that Betty Breed-
ing was able to join us for
lunch on Tuesday after suf-
fering a bleeding stroke a
few weeks ago.
We are all thankful
that she is present with us
and healing very nicely.
We can enjoy her warm
hugs again when being
greeted.
Psalm 57:5 Be thou
exalted, O God, above
the heavens; Let thy
glory be above all the
earth.
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