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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — On June 13,
we had ham and pinto beans,
fried potatoes, corn meal
muffins and spring salad.
For dessert, Lisa made tandy
cakes — good and rich.
We had approximately 32
diners present with another
27 meals delivered by Fran-
cis and Bonnie Kocis and
Veanne Weddle. There were
also 20 frozen meals deliv-
ered to shut-ins.
Ron Dowse and Merrie
Henry greeted us. Our serv-
ers were Francis and Bon-
nie Kocis, Buzz and Bobbie
Gilmore, and Betty Holzna-
gel from Redeemer Lutheran
Church. Buzz led the flag
salute and Francis asked the
blessing.
Veanne thanked Dale
Stennett for pulling weeds.
She would like some volun-
teers to sell raffle tickets on
the quilt at Chester’s Thrift-
way and/or at Blue Moun-
tain Hospital. It is for the
Pereira fund.
Thank you to Karen Bar-
rietua for washing silver-
ware last Thursday. Buzz
Gilmore volunteered to wash
on Monday.
Bobbie Gilmore won the
Len’s Drug gift certificate
and Ben Leuthe won the free
meal.
On June 16, we had our
Father’s Day luncheon. It
consisted of lasagna, con-
fetti cottage cheese sal-
ad, zucchini and garlic
bread.
To top it all off, we had
root beer floats for dessert.
There were approxi-
mately 72 diners here for
the meal. There were also
35 meals delivered by Jean
Willey and Isa Larkin with
Veanne’s help.
There were also three fro-
zen meals sent to shut-ins.
Our servers were from
United Methodist Church.
Helping serve were Jean
Willey, Isa Larkin, Marge
Conlee and Barb Baucum.
Marge led the flag salute
and Ben Leuthe asked the
blessing. The entrée was fur-
nished by Patel Inc., Amer-
icas Best Value Inn. Marga-
ret Glass and Bonnie Kocis
greeted us while Marianne
Morris sold the quilt raffle
tickets.
Veanne announced there
are several openings on dif-
ferent ruling boards of the
Senior Center.
If you are interested in be-
ing on any of these commit-
tees, contact Don Caldwell.
We had a few local people
visiting us. The names I got
were Ben and Linda Ladd,
and Randy Radinovich.
From Dayville, we had
Brian Smith. Maria Strom
had her daughter, Kath-
leen Sligur, from Portland
with her. We also had sev-
eral visitors from Prairie
City but I didn’t get names.
Hope you all come back
again.
Winning the extra door
prizes were myself, Patti
Stovall, Francis Kocis, Nan-
cy Swayne, Evelyn Ogilvie
and Jeanette Kile. Margie
Montague won the Chester’s
Thriftway gift certificate and
Yaq Harris won the lunch for
two at Valley View.
Exodus 20:12 “Honor
your father and your moth-
er, so that you may live long
in the land the Lord your
God is giving you.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — On June
14, our cooks, Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell, made us a nice
meal of roast pork, scalloped
potatoes, carrots, dinner rolls
and strawberry shortcake.
Bob Blakeslee, Bodean An-
dersen and Marva Walker
were our greeters. Bob led
the lag salute and Bodean
made the announcements and
prayed the blessing over our
meal. We had a big crowd
from Spray join us for lunch,
John and Chun Asher, Richard
and Linda Freese, along with
Robert and Collen Mulberry
from Chitwood. The Harveys
also had some folks visiting,
their daughter, Tia and grand-
daughter, Maddie Maccio
from Cincinnati, Ohio. We
hope they all enjoyed their
lunch and visit. We had 54
guests on our books that day
and seven take-outs.
The Father’s Day basket
rafle was won by Ray Davis
and Chun Asher won $13 from
the 50/50 rafle for the day. I’m
sure that made her visit to our
lunch more worthwhile.
On a more solemn note, we
folks here in Monument trag-
ically lost a young man in a
single vehicular accident. We,
as a whole town, mourn the
loss of his life with his family.
I pray the Lord would com-
fort and give strength to Seth
Blakeslee’s family. I don’t
know the details regarding the
accident or when the funeral
services will be. This kind of
tragedy reminds us how leet-
ing and precious life is. We
should never take for granted
that a loved one will always
be around because they might
not be in a moment, in a lash
they might be gone. Living in
such a small community, such
sad moments like these make
such an impact. I didn’t know
the young man personally but
knowing some of his family
like his grandparents makes
it personal. The lip side of
living in a small community
is how beautifully the people
pull together to support and
love on the family suffering
loss. Take time to tell your
loved ones everyday how
much you love them and what
they mean to you. This inci-
dent just made me want to hug
my kids just a little more.
I had to go to John Day
this past week to do my civil
duty in showing up for jury
duty. Of course with my luck
I was the third one called for
the list of twelve to be select-
ed. Luckily, I wasn’t chosen
and didn’t make the cut to
the inal 6. I have never had
to serve on jury duty in all
my years of living here in the
U.S. I got called once when
I was a couple months preg-
nant with my oldest and I had
horrible morning sickness. I
had to crawl out of bed, ight
the morning rush hour trafic
and show up to the Pasadena
courthouse by 7:30 am. The
lady asked why I needed to be
excused and I told her, and of
course I had a bucket with me
because I didn’t know when
I would get sick. She sympa-
thized with me and told me to
go home. I was very grateful.
I would like to see and sit in
on a court case one day with
my kids just to see how our
justice system works. It would
be very educational indeed.
Psalm 128:1 “Blessed
is every one that feareth the
LORD; that walketh in his
ways.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — Get
ready to cheer. The project that
we have been working on for a
long time has been completed.
The dishwasher — the brand
new dishwasher — has been
installed and is functioning per-
fectly. It only takes 90 seconds to
do a load, so the person putting
away the clean and dry dishes
has to hurry. We are so thankful
that we had the inances to go
ahead and purchase this much
needed piece of equipment. This
was due to the money that was
left over from the purchase of
the building, which came from
a bequest that the late John For-
rest’s father gave the senior citi-
zens years ago. Just wanted you
all to know that. I also want to
give kudos to Harold and Gary
for persevering and making
all the arrangements to get it
installed correctly. Clap, clap,
clap, etc.
We also voted to go ahead
and get a new double door refrig-
erator that will be big enough to
hold the big trays that the cooks
use all the time. Much measur-
ing was made to insure that it
would come through the doors.
These two items were deemed
of top priority and we’re moving
on to the next ones. We have so
many to choose from.
Eighty-one names were reg-
istered to get a delicious meal on
June 15. It was a meal that was
considered “normal, everyday
fare” by the old-timers: juice,
green salad, JoJo potatoes, navy
beans and ham, roast beef, rolls
and chocolate cake for dessert.
And it was delicious. Thank
you, Iva and Helen.
Harold thanked our head
groundskeeper, Jim Lunzman,
for mowing the areas around the
building. Bet you didn’t know
we had such a person.
We are gathering goodies for
our on-going yard sale. So dig
through your treasures and see
which ones you could bring in
for the beneit of the center.
Buzz led the lag salute and
Jack asked the blessing. Joann
Wilson won the gift certiicate
donated by Chuck’s Little Diner.
New visitor/old friend, Barnie
Larkin, was the winner of the
$5 in trade donated by Prairie
Hardware & Gifts.
I have to tell you the story
of one of the past winners of
the Prairie Hardware certiicate:
Tom is an all-around handy-
man, who has been doing some
painting at Larry’s. One day last
week he left his home with-
out his paint brush and was far
enough down the road that he
didn’t want to go back. He had
his gift certiicate with him, so
he just drove to Prairie Hard-
ware and used it to get a new
paint brush. Wasn’t that special?
Lorna and Jaime brought
Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill,
Otho Laurance, Ralph Wilson
and Marilyn Randall from Blue
Mountain Care Center. Mr. Sea-
cord also stopped in and we had
lovely music for our dining plea-
sure. I knew Ivan Nance was
home because the lags were
lying. He had taken his mom,
Bonnie, and a cousin, Pat, to vis-
it Alaska for a couple of weeks.
He rolled in with his entourage.
Derrol said he watched him after
dinner going down the street and
that wheelchair can move.
Have you started planning
your loat for the Fourth of
July parade? Maybe it won’t
snow or be 105 degrees this
year.
Prov. 25:25 “Like cold
water to a weary soul is good
news from a distant land.”
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