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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY – Monday, Oct.
26, we had approximately 55
diners in attendance for a free
meal. The meal was furnished
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Company. Following lunch they
gave a presentation on insur-
ance, Medicare and supplement
insurance.
The lunch consisted of bar-
becued chicken, macaroni salad,
coleslaw and southwest corn-
bread followed by Lisa’s yum-
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pumpkin, but Lisa is making me
change my mind. Besides the
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and Darlene Nodine delivered
19 lunches plus 12 frozen ones
to shut-ins. They represented
The Church of Jesus Christ of
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our servers.
Because of the larger than
usual Monday crowd, Veanne
called in some reserve troops.
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Grant were gracious enough to
come in and help serve. You gals
are really appreciated.
Ron Dowse and Margaret
Glass greeted us. Darlene No-
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Carpenter asked the blessing.
Veanne announced that it
was National Pumpkin Day,
hence the pumpkin bars. The
Mt. Vernon Christmas bazaar
will be held at the Mt. Vernon
Grange Hall on Nov. 19. Also,
Bingo is having trouble staying
above board. They need more
players so if you would like to
see the games continue, round
up your friends and get the ball
rolling. Remember, the more
players, the bigger the pots.
We were once more honored
to have the gals and residents
from the Blue Mountain Care
Center with us.
Traci Andrew won lunch for
two at Valley View, and Corinne
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were four other random prizes
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Thursday, Oct. 29, there
were approximately 56 in-house
diners plus Buzz and Margaret
Glass delivered 28 meals for
those who couldn’t make it in.
The meal consisted of Witches
Brew soup, Monster Meatballs
in Zombie Blood and baked
ghosts, which translated, is
pumpkin soup, meatballs in gra-
vy, baked potatoes, green beans
with mushrooms, dinner rolls
and then topped off with black
forest cake looking like a grave-
yard. Great Halloween show.
The meal was furnished by Don
& Carolyn Caldwell.
Marianne Morris and Marga-
ret Glass greeted us. Veanne led
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asked the blessing. The usu-
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unavailable so the following
helped out by doing the work
of serving. They were Ron and
Roberta Dowse, Donna John-
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Roni Hickerson and Jeanne.
Thanks so much to all you
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were on their lunch hour and had
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Lisa did most of the cleanup.
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Valley View lunch for two, so
sorry to whoever. Extra door
prizes were won by Donna
Johnson and Judy Nelson.
Thursday, Nov. 5, we will be
having chicken pesto with garlic
and mashed potatoes. Then on
the following Monday we will
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ward to the pizza. My church
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pizza and they were both fantas-
tic.
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for taking notes for me on the
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for medical reasons.
Proverbs 13:10 “Pride leads
to arguments; those who take
advice are wise.” New Living
Translation.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT – We had
some very sad news in Mon-
ument. With a very heavy and
broken heart, Rose Howe, our
very competent, devoted and ex-
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Lunch and read to us her resig-
nation letter to the Blue Moun-
tain Hospital in John Day. We
as a community have lost a tre-
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for us to have such caring and
dedicated medical personnel out
here because we are so far out
from any immediate medical
facilities.
Those few minutes or pre-
cious seconds could mean life
or death to someone in an emer-
gency situation. We are so grate-
ful for the many years that she
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ty, and for the genuine love that
she had, and still has, for this
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the best EMT she could be to her
ability and her knowledge was
invaluable to the people of Mon-
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train CPR classes. We still have
many other volunteer EMTs that
have trained and been trained
alongside Rose Howe and we
are very thankful for them. We
thank you, Rose Howe, for your
dedicated service to your com-
munity of Monument.
For our lunch on Oct. 27, we
had chicken fried steak, mashed
potatoes and gravy, peas and
carrots and chocolate pudding.
Our cooks Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell did a fabulous job of
cooking for us. Bob Blakeslee,
Bodean Anderson and Marva
Walker greeted us. Bob led the
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the blessing over our meal. Dar-
lene Forrest won the Len’s Drug
gift card, Ted Phelps and Cindy
Helsley won free meals. We
want to welcome Dallas and
Cindy Helsley who have just
recently moved to Monument
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ees and thirteen takeouts.
There will be a free concert
given at the Monument school at
4 p.m. on Nov. 21.Bible Fellow-
ship of Monument is still collect-
ing items to be donated for Op-
eration Christmas Child. These
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gifts such as soap, toothpaste,
toothbrushes, toys, shoes, pen-
cils and other such items that
would bring joy to many chil-
dren all over the world. There
are only two weeks left.
Mark your calendars; Bible
Fellowship of Monument is also
sending high school kids to a
winter camp from Dec. 29 to Jan.
1. The church will be covering
the cost for the kids to go so it is
FREE. You can send your kids
and won’t see them until next
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can’t believe that Thanksgiv-
ing is going to be soon upon us
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Proverbs 4:18 “But the path
of the just is as the shining light,
That shineth more and more
unto the perfect day.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
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tell it was a celebration when
you came into the hall today.
There were new table covers
and napkins for the Halloween
season, caramel popcorn balls at
each plate, and dishes of candy
corn on each table. Our cooks do
have fun.
This was also October birth-
day recognition day, and only
two were found: Vera Clark and
Carla Wright. Carla won the $10
in trade donated by Huffman’s
Market. The $5 in trade went
to Bob McCauley, donated by
Prairie Hardware & Gifts. And
by the way, if you won the certif-
icate towards a meal at Chuck’s
Little Diner recently, you should
use it.
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Committee approved our offer
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property. Now their lawyer has
to make sure that we crossed all
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all the paperwork. Our servers
today included JoAnne Phip-
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and kitchen helpers Donna Ad-
ams and Pam Howard. Joe led
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the blessing.
The meal consisted of apple
juice, green salad, mashed po-
tatoes and pan gravy, chicken
fried steak, rolls, and pumpkin
cheesecake for dessert. Good
ole country cookin’. Yum, yum.
There were 80 names on the
registration book. The ladies
from the Blue Mountain Care
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brought Dorothy Blasing, Lois
Hill, Dollina Humphreys and
Marilyn Randall.
We made a trip to Bend so
we had a couple of take-outs
stashed in the refrigerator for
our use later in the week. Went
to see about Derrol’s left thumb.
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ciatingly painful 24/7, then no
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she examined his poor bashed
elbow and proceeded to tend to
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a half cast and wrapped all that
in an Ace bandage. Didn’t know
that there was such a thing as a
half cast. You learn something
new every day, right? Just leave
it on for a week to help the tis-
sues normalize. The beauty of a
half cast is that you can remove
it to take a shower. On to the
next ailment next week.
Found out that a certain
Portland mortgage company
has their own traveling notary.
“Have seal, will travel.” Ha, ha.
We did take the A/C ‘s out
and put the fans away just be-
fore it started raining. Good
timing, huh? The child’s “kitch-
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down to the heavy use varnish
now. Looks like we’ll be able to
take it up on Thanksgiving.
The word “pumpkin” orig-
inally started out as “pepon”,
which is Greek for “large
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it to “pompon” and the Brit-
ish changed it to “pumpion.”
American colonists adjusted it
to “pumpkin”. The pumpkin
originated in Mexico, and Ant-
arctica is the only continent that
does not grow them. Now you
know.
2 Peter 1 : 5, 6, 7 “... giving
all diligence, add to your faith
virtue, to virtue knowledge, to
knowledge self-control ... per-
severance... godliness ... broth-
erly kindness ... and to brotherly
kindness, love.”
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