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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — First, I would
like to thank Veanne Weddle for
doing the senior news last week
so I could go visit a couple of
my kids.
On June 6, we had egg-and-
cheese stuffed potato skins,
twice-baked cheesy potato muf-
ins, sausage patties and apple
cinnamon bread pudding. It was
very different but I thought it
was really good.
We had approximately 24
diners with another 25 meals
delivered by Mary Miles and
Joyce Nodine, with Veanne’s
help, along with 20 frozen meals
to shut-ins.
Mary and Joyce represented
Blue Mountain Hospital Aux-
iliary. They also served and did
the cleanup. Mary led the lag
salute and I asked the blessing.
Marianne Morris and Billie Bul-
lard greeted us.
Veanne announced she needs
shower chairs for her Senior
Assistance program. She also
needs ideas for a fundraiser to
purchase a new big screen TV
for the center.
The drawing for the quilt for
the Pereira medical fund will be
on Thursday, July 7. The health
fair will be Friday, June 17.
Veanne has scholarships if you
would like to sign up for one.
Helen Bogart had her daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Susan and
Jim Kirkwood, from Spokane,
Wash., with her for lunch. Deda
Porter also brought her friend,
Sylvia Warrick, from Portland.
David Pasko won the Len’s
Drug gift certiicate and Mary
Miles won the free meal.
On June 9, we fed approxi-
mately 50 diners in house. There
were also 31 meals delivered by
Buzz and Margaret Glass, who
represented Cornerstone Chris-
tian Fellowship.
Shay and Lisa ixed stuffed
pork loin, marinara pasta, Cata-
lina veggies, homemade rolls
and for dessert, we had our pie
social. Very few people brought
pies so the cooks had to quickly
cook up a couple more. Thanks,
guys, and thank you to those
who did bring pies. It can really
be a fun thing when everyone
participates.
The entrée was furnished by
Don and Deda Porter in memo-
ry of Thelma Temple.
Marianne Morris and Mar-
garet Glass greeted us. Our
servers were Donna Johnson,
Donna Mulder and Carla Ander-
son from Cornerstone Christian
Fellowship. Donna Johnson led
the lag salute and Carla asked
the blessing.
Veanne announced Kay
Berchtold passed away. Kay
was a lady who attended senior
lunches often and whom ev-
eryone enjoyed seeing. There
will be no services. She also ex-
plained the health fair will only
be doing a small blood draw.
They will only be doing the fast-
ing blood sugar and cholesterol.
There also will be a lot of other
booths as well.
Carla Anderson won the
Chester’s Thriftway gift card
and Buzz Glass won the Valley
View lunch for two.
Thursday, June 16, will be
our Father’s Day lunch which
will be lasagna with confetti cot-
tage cheese salad. There will be
lots of door prizes that day.
On Monday, June 20, we
will have almond chicken, fried
rice and egg rolls.
Romans 8:28 “And we know
that in all things God works for
the good of those who love Him,
who have been called according
to His purpose.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — We had
some wild and crazy weather
here in Monument this past
week. People in town had a
huge hailstorm go through.
The hailstones were the size
of golf balls. It made home-
owners’ plastic rain gutters
look like Swiss cheese, dented
cars all up, busted windows
and sky lights, stripped juni-
per trees bare, killed wild birds
and chickens and a whole lot
of other damage. I was taking
a little cat nap when I jumped
up to the sound of torren-
tial rain. I yelled, “My little
chicks are uncovered.” and
quickly changed and ran out
to take care of them. We had
hail but they were the size of
little marbles and I think for
maybe a minute or so, unlike
back in town where I believe
people reported it was for
about 15 minutes or longer. I
don’t know how the insurance
claims are going to go for the
folks but I hope it all works out
for everyone.
We had something new
for lunch that our wonderful
cooks, Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell, made for us. We
had Tater Tot casserole, green
beans, bread sticks and cherry
cobbler for dessert. It was pret-
ty tasty. Our greeters were Bob
Blakeslee, Bodean Andersen
and Marva Walker. Bob led our
lag salute while Bodean made
the announcements and prayed
the blessing over our meal.
W. Toop won the Len’s Drug
gift card. Ed Bustardo and
Bob Blakeslee both won free
meals. Bo and Loni Lawrence
brought their great-nephews,
granddaughter, McKinsey, and
great-granddaughter, McKen-
na, for lunch. Wally and Mar-
va Walker’s grandson, Wally,
his wife, Emma, and their son,
Asher, visited for lunch from
California. Lonnie and Lis Da-
vis from Mt. Vernon graced us
with their visit. Among other
visitors, we had Veanne Wed-
dle and Krista Qual from John
Day, too. Lis Davis won $13
from the 50/50 rafle. We had
54 guests in attendance and
two take-outs.
There are two rafles going
on right now until Sept. 24
— one for a rile and one for
a quilt. Tickets are $1 each or
six tickets for $5. There will be
a third rafle going on and that
will be a bucket of .22LR. You
know how hard it is to get your
hands on one of those. All the
proceeds of the rafles will go
to the Monument Senior Cen-
ter general fund. We are just so
thankful for Judy Harris who is
absolutely devoted to serving
our community.
We are praying for the heal-
ing of Mary Ella Neal and Syl-
via Cockrell — Mary Ella from
having stints put in her heart
and for Sylvia’s foot surgery.
I went to my friend Jim-
my’s house to pick gooseber-
ries with my kids. I got a few
mosquito bites for my trouble.
It took us about an hour and
half to get almost four quarts.
We came home and washed
them and had the whole fami-
ly take the petals and stem off.
By the time it was all said and
done, I had invested six hours.
Jimmy, enjoy your pie because
that will be the irst and last
time I will ever make a goose-
berry pie. Sheesh, no wonder
nobody makes gooseberry pie,
way too much work.
Psalm 63:8 “My soul fol-
loweth hard after thee: Thy
right hand upholdeth me.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — Wel-
come to Grant County, where
the houses have air condition-
ing and central heating and
both are used on the same day.
I even had to wear my winter
coat on June 10 to go to the post
ofice. But I expect that because
when my folks moved back to
Prairie City in 1959, we drove
through a snow storm coming
down Dixie Mountain on June
10. That’s when we were made
aware of the fact that it can
snow on any day of the year
in Grant County. Isn’t that spe-
cial?
Drum roll please … the new
dishwasher has arrived. Halle-
lujah and Amen. Now all we
have to do is get all the techni-
cians lined up to get it installed.
Whew. Thanks to those who
worked so hard to get this ac-
complished.
On June 8, Buzz led the lag
salute and Jack asked the bless-
ing. I saw a lot of different folks
taking care of the milk and juice
cart, the tea pot and the coffee
pot. We also have self-serve
iced tea for those who desire it.
As fast as it disappears, I think
there are many who do.
Frances announced we are
going to try to have an on-go-
ing yard sale, so if you have
goodies to donate, please bring
them.
There was a graduation par-
ty in the hall and they left their
Prairie City School-colored ta-
blecloths of black and orange
for us to enjoy. Bring back any
memories?
Jim and Susan Kirkwood
came with her mother, Helen
Bogart. Jim said he wants to
have a reunion of our class at
some point this summer. Well,
the simplest thing to do is to
come to dinner here. I’ll run
that up the lag pole and see if
anyone salutes.
There were 79 names on the
registration book. Tom Roark
won the $5 in trade donated by
Prairie Hardware & Gifts.
For lunch we had grape
juice, potato salad, kale salad,
oven-baked chicken breasts,
rolls and blueberry cinnamon
rolls for dessert. It was deli-
cious.
Lorna
and
Shauntele
brought Dorothy Blasing, Lois
Hill, Marilyn Randall and Otho
Laurance from Blue Mountain
Care Center.
Daughter-in-love, Laurel,
jetted off to Oklahoma for a
conference for a few days hav-
ing to do with her home busi-
ness and son No. 2 was left to
take care of all the activities
for the three boys at home this
summer. I quote from his email:
“We just barely made it to
Ian’s baseball game and Milo’s
TKD class all while missing
dinner. I don’t know how that
girl its so much into her day.”
My response: “Welcome to
the world of the stay-at-home
mom.” I am of the opinion that
all fathers should take a day at
home to see what goes on. Of
course I also think administra-
tors of whatever stripe should
spend time on “trenches.”
And that’s my soapbox for the
day.
The garden report: the peas,
radishes and cucumbers are up,
so that answers the question
of whether outdated seeds will
germinate. Hopefully the seed-
lings won’t get frosted. That’s
another thing that can happen
in any month.
Zech 14:6 “On that day
there will be no … cold or
frost. …”
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Christian
Fellowship
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541-575-2180
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