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A6 Blue Mountain Eagle Community Wednesday, March 16, 2016 G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS to everyone who participated; it was great. Blue Mountain Hospital Auxiliary furnished the entrée. Alma Joslin Margaret Glass and David Pasko greeted us while Ron 'RZVHVROGUDIÀHWLFNHWV2XU JOHN DAY — On March servers were from Cornerstone 7, we served approximate- Christian Fellowship. Andy ly 28 diners at the hall, plus $QGHUVRQOHGWKHÀDJVDOXWHDQG 15 meals were delivered by also asked the blessing. Serv- Veanne. She also delivered ing and cleaning up were Zola 20 frozen meals to shut-ins. Pike, Donna Johnson, Carla Ron Dowse and Bonnie Ko- Anderson, Linda Sprouffske cis greeted us, and our serv- and Andy Anderson. ers were from Blue Mountain Veanne had a big thank Hospital Auxiliary. you to Joe Tirico and Danny We had hashbrown bake Depriest for offering to help and sausage links. We also out in the kitchen as we are had baked cinnamon oatmeal short one cook. and topped it off with fresh On May 19, we will have a tangerines. All good stuff, speaker here from the Oregon and I don’t even like oatmeal. Department of Transportation Good job, Lisa. She is our and the Department of Motor head cook while Shay is recu- Vehicles talking about the “At perating from his surgery. Risk Driver Program.” This &KULV /DEKDUW OHG WKH ÀDJ will be a very worthwhile pro- salute and also asked the gram for elderly drivers. blessing. He then helped his Joanne Wilson and Janeese wife, Kris, with the serving. White from Prairie City Karen Barrietua helped with joined us for lunch as well as the cleanup as usual. Veanne the faithful card players. and Bonnie wrapped silver- Angela Binchus won the ware. Danny Depriest helped Chester’s Thriftway gift cer- Veanne with the cleanup of WL¿FDWHDQG%DOELQD(VFXGHUR the kitchen. won the Valley View lunch for Margie Parker won the two. /HQ¶V 'UXJ JLIW FHUWL¿FDWH On Thursday, March 17, and Bill Toop won the free it will be St. Patrick’s Day, meal. and we’ll have corned beef On March 10, we served and cabbage for lunch. There approximately 56 diners in will be no bingo that day, and the hall, plus 24 lunches were we will be closed on Monday, delivered by Buzz and Marga- March 21. Join us on Thurs- ret Glass. Our lunch consist- day, March 24, for our Easter ed of honey mustard chicken, dinner — we are asking for baked potatoes, broccoli and reservations. That day, you dinner rolls. It was topped off can also check out our new with our pie social. We had ÀRRU LQ WKH NLWFKHQ ,W ZLOO lots of pies: peanut butter, also be the day of the quilt apple, boysenberry, coconut UDIÀHGUDZLQJ creme and chocolate fudge. Luke 23:38 “A signboard I’m sure I missed some. There was nailed to the cross above was also a cheesecake and Him with these words: ‘This is some fudge cake. Thank you the King of the Jews.’” John Day Seniors WR DOO ZKR VXSSRUWHG RXU ¿UH department! Your participa- tion builds up our community and its ability to support and Soo Yukawa maintain our city’s services to the people. Don’t forget, ladies: There MONUMENT — For our is going to be an awesome meal on March 8, we had piz- time of bonding for women za — all kinds of pizza: pep- at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March peroni and sausage, cheese, 16, at the Bible Fellowship buffalo chicken and pineap- of Monument Church. There ple, just to name a few. We ZLOOEH¿QJHUIRRGVDVSHDNHU also had a wonderful fresh and a nice craft to do. I know salad and cookies for dessert. what the craft is, but sorry, I Our cooks were Terry Cade am not going to reveal it. You and Christy Howell. Our will just have to come and greeters were Bob Blakeslee, ¿QGRXWIRU\RXUVHOIDQGPDNH Bodean Andersen and Marva one; you will not be disap- :DONHU %RE OHG RXU ÀDJ VD- pointed. Hope all you ladies lute, and Bodean made the an- can come, because it will be a nouncements and prayed the time to refresh, fellowship, be blessing over our meal. encouraged and have fun. Chris Labhart, Christine A couple of weeks ago, I Richards and Ron and Ro- got three different rose bushes berta Dowse all visited from from Bi-Mart to plant. They John Day. We had 46 guests were having a great sale on on our books and four take- them, and I just couldn’t pass outs. Jimmy Cole won a free them up. I love smelling yel- meal, Sue Cavendar won a $5 low roses the best, because I gift card from Len’s Drug and believe they have the most fra- 'DYLG 6WXEEOH¿HOG ZRQ WKH grance. I am hoping to use the Chester’s Thriftway gift card. hips to dry and make rose tea. Thank you to our donors! I learned that from the Inter- A ton of seeds were do- net. Also, I went to a high tea nated by the food bank for once where they used the rose anyone who wants to plant a petals to make a scrumptious garden this summer. They are rose butter. I will have to do all located at the back tables some research on the “how to” — all kinds of seeds! Do us to make it. Doesn’t that sound a favor and take some off our GHOLVK" :KHQ , ¿QG LW , ZLOO hands. GH¿QLWHO\VKDUHLW+RSH\RXDOO Boyer’s Cash Store donat- have a great rest of the week! ed cases of hot sauce to the Luke 23:44-46 “And it 6HQLRU&HQWHUWRÀDYRUXSRXU was about the sixth hour, and meals. Thanks, Jerry and Jer- there was a darkness over all emy. the earth until the ninth hour. 7KH ¿UH GHSDUWPHQW IXQG- And the sun was darkened, raiser went well. A lot of peo- and the veil of the temple was ple showed up and gave gen- rent in the midst. And when erous donations by purchasing Jesus had cried with a loud desserts and items from a voice, he said, Father, into thy silent auction as well. They hands I commend my spirit: were able to reach their goal and having said thus, he gave and then a bit more. Thanks up his ghost.” Monument Seniors Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs PRAIRIE CITY — Hap- py belated pi day (3.14); and Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Then comes all the Easter re- membrances and don’t forget spring. Gen. 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” I was able to go out and work in my ÀRZHU EHG DQG HQMR\ VHHLQJ the plants and bulbs “spring” to life. Truly amazing. As we all know, Grant County, with all its little micro-climates this time of \HDUFDQEHGLI¿FXOWWRGUHVV for. The morning requires winter-type apparel, noon may be warm enough for springy clothes, but when the sun goes down, better grab a jacket. I remember wearing my winter coat to John Day RQH VSULQJ GD\ RQO\ WR ¿QG that it was way too much, ZKLOH LW IHOW ¿QH LQ 3UDLULH City. We had 75 names on the book on March 9. Two of those belonged to an incum- bent county commissioner and our mayor who were out and about visiting their con- stituents. %X]] OHG WKH ÀDJ VDOXWH and Jack Retherford asked the blessing. Our volunteer servers were Fran Bunch, Ginger Kendall and Marjean Koser. The $5 in trade gift FHUWL¿FDWHZHQWWRWKHODVWRQH in the door — Nancy Viggers. Thanks to those who have made some necessary repairs to various corners of the cen- ter recently. The site commit- tee had its monthly meeting and will draw up a wish list of what needs to be attended to. If you have a suggestion, let them know. We’ve had to put a lock on the “cool room” door due to unauthorized removal of items. It will be unlocked during our regular PHDOV SHU ¿UH GHSDUWPHQW regulations. Thanks for your understanding. At our meal we had or- ange juice, pickled beets, spinach leaf and tomato sal- ad, buttered baked potato wedges, pork loin, sweet po- tato rolls and a double dessert of chocolate chip cookies and rice pudding. Iva and Helen put coconut milk in the rice pudding, and oh, was it good! Lorna and Kendra brought Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill, Marilyn Randall and Ralph Wilson from Blue Mountain Care Center. Remember to come to the Prairie City School old gym on Easter Sunday for the combined community celebration service. It starts at 10:30 a.m. Grace Chapel Pastor Michael Harvey will be the speaker this year. Then the Ensemble can start practicing in earnest for the Evening of Entertainment show on Saturday, April 23. You do have that marked on your calendar, don’t you? Items invented by wom- en: car heater by Margaret Wilcox, 1893; Monopoly by (OL]DEHWK 0DJLH ¿UH escape by Anna Connelly in 1887; life raft by Maria Beasely, 1882; and the med- ical syringe by Letitia Geer, 1899. Genesis 2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Church Services In Grant County Cornerstone Christian Fellowship 139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY 541-575-2180 Sunday Worship Service 10 am Pastor Levi Manitsas cornerstonejohnday@gmail.com CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Sunday School..............................9:30 am Sunday Worship Service .............. 10:45 am Sunday Evening Service................6:00 pm Children & Teen Activities SMALL GROUPS CALL FOR MORE INFO Weekdays: Sonshine Christian School 521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895 wwww.johndaynazarene.com
