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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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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
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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
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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-
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the kitchen.
won the Valley View lunch for
Margie Parker won the two.
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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
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lots of pies: peanut butter, also be the day of the quilt
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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
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department! Your participa-
tion builds up our community
and its ability to support and
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maintain our city’s services to
the people.
Don’t forget, ladies: There
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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hands.
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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
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meals. Thanks, Jerry and Jer- there was a darkness over all
emy.
the earth until the ninth hour.
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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
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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
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the plants and bulbs “spring”
to life. Truly amazing.
As we all know, Grant
County, with all its little
micro-climates this time of
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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
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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.
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and Jack Retherford asked
the blessing. Our volunteer
servers were Fran Bunch,
Ginger Kendall and Marjean
Koser. The $5 in trade gift
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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
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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
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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