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G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY – Monday,
Nov. 23, we had our usual Mon-
day group of approximately 32
in-house diners. Darlene No-
dine and Ineta Carpenter also
delivered 19 regular lunches,
plus 24 frozen ones to shut-ins.
Our meal consisted of chicken
lo mein with pan-fried noodles
and chow mein noodles on
the side. We also had Chinese
coleslaw and fruit cocktail, and
cranberry cookies for dessert.
The cookies were in honor of
National Eat a Cranberry Day.
Ron Dowse and Margaret
Glass greeted us. Our servers
were from the Church of Je-
sus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Darlene led the lag salute and
Ineta asked the blessing.
Veanne Weddle announced
the AARP Drivers Safety class
will be held here at the Center
from 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday,
Dec. 12. Please bring a lunch as
there will be a short break for
lunch. We are expecting a large
crowd for the Christmas din-
ner on Thursday, Dec. 17, and
again for New Years Eve on
Thursday, Dec. 31. If you want
to make sure of a seat please
call ahead to let us know how
many, and we will try to set
your group up together. Sorry
we had to turn some away for
the Thanksgiving dinner and
some of you didn’t get to sit
with your friends. We really
apologize but there are only so
many seats.
We had two irst timers; my
oldest son and his wife, Glen
and Kelly Joslin from Hilmar,
Calif. On Thursday, Dec. 3, we
will have southern fried pork
steak with potatoes and gravy.
That will also be our pie social,
so be sure and bring your fa-
vorite pie to share. Maybe we
can get Veanne and the cooks
to taste them all and judge!
My idea, I’ll probably catch it
for this one. On Monday, Dec.
7, we will have sausage fettuc-
cine.
Ron Dowse won the Len’s
Drug gift certiicate and David
Pasko won the free meal.
Psalm 119:105 NLT “Your
word is a lamp unto my feet and
a light for my path.”
Merry
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Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT – Wow, is it
ever cold out! It’s been con-
sistently in the single digits
for I think ive days now in
the early morning. During the
day, the temperature hasn’t
gone above 28 degrees F.
This is our third winter here
in Monument and all three
winters have been very dif-
ferent so I can’t really com-
pare one to the other. I hope
you all are keeping warm and
toasty.
Thanksgiving was a great
day. We had lots of friends
over to help celebrate and I
think I shall remember this
Thanksgiving as one of my
best. We went around the ta-
ble and everyone told of what
they were thankful for. This
Thanksgiving was indeed a
very blessed day.
Our Nov. 24 lunch was
delicious. Our wonderful
cooks, Terry and Mary Cade,
made us some awesome slop-
py Joes, french fries, a beau-
tiful fresh salad and maple
bars. We hope that they will
be on the menu again in the
future. Bob Blakeslee, Bo-
dean Andersen and Marva
Walker greeted us. Bob led
the lag salute and Bodean
made the announcements and
prayed the blessing over our
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meal. W. Toop won the Len’s
Drug gift card; Bob Yukawa
and John Yeager won free
meals. We had 51 guests and
one take-out. We had three
visitors, Kara Hilton from
John Day, and Amy Kreger
and her friend Marilyn from
Long Creek.
There was an unoficial
meeting during lunch where
Kara and Amy came to ad-
dress some of Monument’s
concerns regarding our EMT
situation. Some issues were
straightened out, like Rose
Howe being able to continue
to train our EMTs, rather than
having them drive all the way
to John Day twice a month.
Other issues were not so sim-
ple. For the sake of the folks
here in Monument, we pray
that whatever the matter is,
they would be resolved soon
between the parties involved.
The drawing for the 30
Christmas wreaths will be
held Tuesday, Dec. 8. You
do not have to be present in
order to win. Proceeds will
beneit the Senior Center and
EMT funds.
On Dec. 15, we will be
having the Cookie Caper
event. Sylvia Cockrell will
be collecting cookies for dis-
tribution. Donations of two
dozen cookies dropped off at
the Senior Center by 12:45
p.m. would be much appre-
ciated. These cookies will be
given to residents of Monu-
ment who live by themselves
or have no means to get out.
They will be such a blessing
to those, and let them know
that we care. Everyone in
Monument is an important
and vital part of our commu-
nity.
Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are
they which do hunger and
thirst after righteousness: for
they shall be illed.”
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Retired surgical
tech recognized
Wilma Boyer
reaches
milestone
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY – Wilma
Boyer says she was hon-
ored, and slightly shocked,
to receive a letter of recog-
nition for her achievements
as a certiied surgical tech-
nologist over the past 40
years.
The National Board of
Surgical Technology & Sur-
gical Assisting sent a certif-
icate and lapel pin to mark
Boyer’s milestone.
She began working for
Blue Mountain Hospital as
a nurse’s aide in May 1959,
when the hospital was in
Prairie City, and continued
that work when BMH relo-
cated to John Day in 1964.
In 1967, she asked for a
transfer to the surgery de-
partment as a nurse’s aide,
and in 1974 she received
on-the-job training, then
certiication, as a surgical
technologist.
She worked in that po-
sition until 1994, when she
transferred to the purchas-
ing department. She retired
in 2003.
“It was interesting, and
all my years there were
a learning experience for
me,” she said. “I enjoyed
working with the doctors
and all the nurses and sur-
gery crew.”
She now lives in John
Day, but at one time she
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
John Day resident
Wilma Boyer shows
the 40-year anniversary
certificate she received
recognizing her career
as a certified surgical
technologist.
commuted to the hospital in
John Day from her home in
Prairie City.
Boyer recalled the nights
when she’d travel the 13
miles home, only to be
called back to work, adding
she raised four children.
She noted that when she
became a surgical tech, the
motto was “once certiied,
always certiied.”
“I was totally surprised
to receive such an honor,”
she said.
She still works at the
hospital, managing the aux-
iliary gift shop since 2007.
“It’s kind of home,” she
said.
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