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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — The Se-
nior Center was closed on
May 30 for Memorial Day.
On June 3, we had mush-
room chicken, mashed red
potatoes, chicken gravy,
peas, wheat rolls and birth-
day cake. The cake was pro-
vided by Driskill Memorial
Chapel. The meal was very
good, as usual. Shay and
Lisa are doing a great job,
and we are grateful to Dan
Priest for all his help in the
kitchen.
Ron Dowse and Margaret
Glass greeted us, and our
servers were from Church
of the Nazarene. Dale Sten-
nett and Gina Leigh deliv-
ered 24 meals. Dale led the
flag salute, and Bob Doug-
las asked the blessing.
Bob and his wife, Carol,
were here from Sarasota,
Florida. Bob is the current
pastor at the Church of the
Nazarene. Our hostess and
decorator, Linda Stoltz, is
sure being missed. She is in
Florida visiting family.
We had about 60 folks
in the center for lunch. Reg
Leguieu won the Chester’s
Thriftway certificate, and
Don Porter won the lunch
for two at Valley View. Reg
and his wife, Carol, are new
to the area, now living in
Mt. Vernon. We hope to see
more of them.
Next Thursday we will
have another pie social, so
bring your favorite dessert
to share. Shay and Lisa
will make stuffed pork loin
and one of Shay’s fabulous
homemade soups.
Veanne Weddle an-
nounced an Alzheimer’s As-
sociation presentation com-
ing up on Wednesday, June
8. Call her at 541-575-2949,
for more information.
The quilt raffle will be
going on through Thursday,
July 7. Stop by the senior
center to take a look at it.
Tickets are $5 each, and
the proceeds go to Curt and
Lisa Pereira.
“Do not take life too se-
riously, you will never get
out of it alive.” — Unknown
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — For our
last lunch of May, we had
a great meal of fried fish,
chicken tenders, french
fries, cole slaw and birthday
cake for dessert. Our chefs
were Carrie Jewell and Ter-
ry Hamilton. Our greeters
were Bob Blakeslee, Bo-
dean Andersen and Marva
Walker.
Bob led our flag salute,
and Bodean made the an-
nouncements and prayed
over our meal. Charlotte
Barker won the Len’s Drug
gift card, while Max Breed-
ing and Bruce Kramer both
won free meals. We had 47
guests and two take-outs.
Kathy Rabey and Becky
Maxwell visited us from
Kent, Washington. Barbara
and Garren McDonald came
back for a short visit from
California.
We welcome back Jack
Cavender after a month-
long absence from being
in the hospital. It’s good to
see you. Senior lunch just
wasn’t the same without
you there.
Judy Harris, our fund-
raising director, has started
a new idea, the 50/50 Raf-
fle. Tickets are $1 each, and
at the end of senior lunch, the
winner will be drawn. The
winner gets half of whatev-
er the amount collected was
for that day. The other half
portion will go to the Senior
Center general fund.
We have several raffles
going on right now. You
have a couple more weeks
for a chance to win a nice
gift basket for Father’s
Day. We have a beautiful
quilt and rifle raffle, and
those drawings will be on
Sept. 24 at the Buckaroo
Feast and Harvest Festival.
The winner of the rifle raf-
fle will get to choose from
six different calibers. All
raffle tickets are $1 each
or six tickets for $5. Good
luck!
My life here in Monu-
ment is getting extremely
busy. I’m actually wak-
ing up before the crack of
dawn most days and some-
times going to bed by 10
p.m. That’s early for me. I
know some of you all go to
bed by 8 p.m. Um, that’s a
bit too early for me. We have
been so busy that sometimes
we are having dinner at 7:30
p.m. I know, crazy?
I don’t know if I’m go-
ing to be able to plant all
my stuff this year because I
still need to move my pigs
to a different area, and I
don’t have that ready for
them yet. I wish I was a re-
ally strong girl so I could
do things myself, but I am
physically limited since I’m
a bit on the petite side. Sigh.
I hope I have enough time to
plant some corn and squash.
Oh, almost forgot to
mention that Thomas Or-
chards is going to be open-
ing soon. I’m so excited
because they will have
cherries this year. Yippee! I
am hoping to make some
cherry jam this year and can
some for cherry pie filling,
too. Of course they are de-
licious fresh. You may call
them for more info.
Proverbs 3:7-10 “Be not
wise in thine own eyes: Fear
the LORD, and depart from
evil. It shall be health to thy
navel, and marrow to thy
bones. Honour the LORD
with thy substance, and with
the first fruits of all thine
increase: So shall thy barns
be filled with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst out with
new wine.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — We
were all saddened to learn
of the death of our dear
friend, Larry Blasing. Our
condolences to his mother,
Dorothy, wife, Vonnie, and
son, Loy. He will be greatly
missed.
We got our air condition-
ers put in so we’re ready
for the hot weather. Also
got my little garden bed
planted. Now we will see
if seeds that were supposed
to be used last summer
will germinate this year. I
see buds on the hollyhocks
that didn’t get to bloom last
year. Hooray!
Our set-up and delivery
crews did their job in fine
fashion. Everyone took a
turn at serving the drinks
and food, so I’m not going
to list all their names. Many
hands make the load light,
right? The cooks were es-
pecially thankful for Tom
Roark in the kitchen doing
the heavy dishes. God bless
you for your service.
Buzz led the flag salute
and Jack Retherford asked
the blessing. The winner of
the $5 in trade donated by
Prairie Hardware & Gifts
was Vivian Rookstool. We
had some lovely music be-
fore our meal performed by
Mr. Secord. Thanks.
A couple of our “snow-
birds” came home. Jerry and
Evelyn Sheets said that they
had to get back in time for
Billy Drinkwater’s birthday
party on May 28, which was
well attended. And the cake
was delicious.
There were 75 names on
the registration book, and
we had orange juice, cot-
tage cheese, a relish tray
with tomato wedges, olives
and pickles, creamed veg-
gies, spaghetti with meat
sauce and peach cobbler
with whipped cream for
dessert. Everyone could be
heard saying as they left the
building, “I ate too much,
but it was so good.”
The ladies from Blue
Mountain Care Center
brought Dorothy Blasing,
Lois Hill, Marilyn Randall
and Otho Laurance.
The dishwasher project
is getting closer. At least
it’s moving. We don’t think
it is made in China, so that
might help. We certainly
didn’t think that it would
take this long.
We’ve had Memorial Day
with our famous “Avenue of
Flags” at the Prairie City
Cemetery. Come to find
out this is kind of unique to
Prairie City. Nancy put the
photo on Facebook and has
gotten lots of “likes.” When
the sky is clear with a nice
breeze to make the flags
wave, and you see Straw-
berry Mountain in the back-
ground and hear Taps being
played — oh, my goodness.
If you don’t get a lump in
your throat or a tear in
your eye, there’s something
wrong with your heart.
So next on the agenda is
’62 Days. Wonder how long
it would have taken non-na-
tive people to discover this
area if there hadn’t been
gold to mine?
I am reading a book
about a man named Casi-
mir Pulaski — a hero of
the American Revolution.
I didn’t know that when I
bought it. I thought it was
about the person who in-
vented the firefighting tool
called the pulaski. Yes, Mr.
Pulaski was from Poland, so
that makes it doubly inter-
esting to me since I have a
Polish daughter-in-love.
I Corinthians 14:10 “…
there are all sorts of lan-
guages in the world, yet
none of them is without
meaning.”
Editor’s note: The pu-
laski tool — with a sharp
ax blade on one side and a
mattock or grubbing blade
on the other — was named
after Forest Service Ranger
Edward Pulaski, “a descen-
dant of American Revolu-
tion hero Casimir Pulaski,”
according to a 1986 Forest
Service publication. Pulas-
ki experimented to create
the tool that now bears his
name by 1913, the publi-
cation states, but a simi-
lar tool was actually made
by Collins Tool Co. in
1876.
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