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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — The Senior
Center was closed on Monday
due to the Fourth of July. I hope
you all took in some of the cele-
brations throughout the county.
Thursday, July 7, we had
a wonderful Mexican meal.
There were approximately 66
diners present to enjoy beef en-
chiladas, Spanish rice, refried
beans and green salad topped
off with our monthly birthday
cake, which was donated by
Driskill Memorial Chapel. The
entree was furnished by Mt.
Vernon Presbyterian Church,
which was represented by Pat
Amling.
Besides the diners who were
present, there were also 43
meals delivered by Dale Sten-
nett and Gina Leigh. Our cook,
Shay, also helped with the de-
liveries, as well as 23 frozen
meals to shut-ins.
Merrie Henry and Marri-
anne Morris greeted us while
Billie Bullard sold rafle tick-
ets. Our servers were from the
Church of the Nazarene, which
included Tracy Andrews, Adele
Wilson, Pat Amling and Dale
and Corrine Stennett. Tracy led
the lag salute, and Dale asked
the blessing.
Veanne Weddle had to be
in Baker City for a meeting, so
Ron Dowse did the announc-
ing. He thanked Russell’s Cus-
tom Meats for the large dona-
tion of Styrofoam products and
thanked Chester’s Thriftway
for the day-old bakery goods
and popcorn. It was also Dale
Stennett and Lisa Pereira’s
birthdays.
We had several guests join
us for lunch: Jerry Larkin from
Canyon City came in for the
irst time. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Sheets were here from Prairie
City with their granddaughter,
Rachel Kohler, from Portland.
Janice Hunt was with us from
Long Creek. Dave Traylor
brought a table full of guests.
They were Bill and Cathy
O’Connor from Reseda, Cali-
fornia, Bob and Donna Johnson
from Bedford, Texas, and Sher-
ry Alonso, also from Texas.
Marrianne Morris won the
Chester’s Thriftway gift certif-
icate, and Jerry Larkin won the
Valley View lunch for two. The
exciting quilt rafle was won by
Deda Porter. She should stay
warm this winter as she won
the last quilt rafle we had as
well.
Thursday, July 14, we will
have baked chicken manicotti,
veggies and garlic toast, topped
off with apple crisp. Then on
Monday, July 18, we will have
sweet and sour pork, rice, moo
goo gai pan style veggies, par-
faits and fortune cookies. Hope
to see you at one or both meals.
Jeremiah 6:16 “Ask where
the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will ind rest for your
souls.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — On July
5, Terry Cade, Carrie Jewell and
helper Cindy Jewell (sister-in-
law to Carrie) made delicious
pulled pork sandwiches, cole-
slaw, fries and fruity cake. We
always have self-serve iced tea,
fruit punch or lemonade and
of course coffee. Our greeters
were Bob Blakeslee, Bodean
Andersen and Marva Walker.
Bob led the lag salute, and Bo-
dean made the announcements
and prayed the blessing over the
meal. Ed Falls won the Len’s
Drug gift card, Darlene Forrest
won the Chester’s Thriftway
gift card and Betty Breeding
won a free meal. We had a few
guests show up: Veanne Wed-
dle and Pat Amling from John
Day, Nadine Smith from Mt.
Vernon and Cindy Jewell from
Bend. We had 56 guests and six
take-outs.
Fliers are all around town to
“Save the Date” for the Bucka-
roo Festival & Harvest Auction
on Saturday, Sept. 24. There
will be a salmon and elk dinner
with all the trimmings, live and
silent auctions and music in the
park. If you have something
to donate, please contact Judy
Harris at hollylaneangus@
gmail.com or call 541-934-
2244. All donations are wel-
come and will support Monu-
ment Senior Center.
Well, I inally made it to the
Kimberly Orchards. We went
and picked a whole bunch of
cherries. I don’t know what I
was thinking. After an exhaus-
tive but very rewarding VBS
program, I decided to go cher-
ry picking like a crazy lady. I
drove home like a zombie af-
terwards, didn’t even make it to
pick apricots. I canned a bunch
of cherry jam so I’m happy. I’ll
have to try and restrain myself
and allow my family to eat
them. I have an emotional in-
vestment in the jars because of
all the effort and work put in
them to make. Ha.
My garden is doing well,
I think. I managed to plant al-
most all my tomato plants. I
still have some yellow pear to-
mato plants that I need to ind
space for. My yellow straight
neck squash is growing nicely
as well as my pickling cucum-
bers and round squash. The
wonderful rain that we had the
last couple of days has been a
great help. Thank you, Lord! I
plan on making tons of toma-
to sauce with my tomato har-
vest. They give such a great
lavor to my dishes, much more
lavor than store bought sauce.
I need to get some fencing up
before the deer ind my trea-
sure. I also transplanted a white
lower lilac runner with the
help of my hubby. It looks so
pretty in its spot. The only thing
I didn’t get to plant this year
was corn. I just didn’t have the
space. I now need to do a few
more things like planting some
dill and planting my watermel-
on and Korean melon and I will
be all set. Bring it summer. It’s
really amazing to see the plants
grow a new leaf in one after-
noon. I love going over to the
garden beds and just stare at
the plants. It’s mind boggling
to think that something so big
that can bear so much fruit
comes from some of the tiniest
seeds. Adieu till next time.
Revelation 11:3 “And I will
give power unto my two wit-
nesses, and they shall prophesy
a thousand and two hundred
and threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — Well,
we’ve started the next round
of medical appointments for
Derrol’s neck problems. I’m
here to tell you that driving in
Bend is not getting any better.
It’s almost as bad as Portland
— and we won’t drive there
any more! Since that is the
case, we met son number two
and his family at El Kanah on
the July 3. It really discom-
bobulated some people be-
cause we were not in church
on Sunday. I told them that we
do that every so often to see if
anybody would notice.
The Fourth of July celebra-
tion in Prairie City was a suc-
cess. I heard that the climbing
wall at the park was very well
attended. Good job, commit-
tee.
Since everyone was illed
up from their Fourth meals,
we had pizza on July 6, along
with cottage cheese, kale
salad and vanilla ice cream
with your choice of caramel,
chocolate or strawberry syrup
topping for dessert. Yummy
in the tummy. There were 78
names on the book.
Buzz, Harold, Bruce and
Jim did their usual set-up
chores. Then Buzz, Jim, Larry
and Tom did the home deliv-
eries. Buzz led the lag salute,
and Jack Retherford asked the
blessing. Did anyone notice
the new state of Oregon lag?
We’ve been working on get-
ting that for a long time, too.
We had music courtesy of
the Grant County Jammers
that morning, too. Next week
the Ding-a-lings begin prac-
tice for their concert, which
will be Sept. 24 at the Prairie
City Community Center. If
you come to the hall early you
may hear some of that. If you
would like to join, just show
up at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays.
We appreciate the use of the
facility for our practices.
Alma Joslin won the $5
in trade donated by Prairie
Hardware & Gifts. The 50/50
winner was Frances Preston,
and she donated it back to
the general fund. Thanks so
much. The yard sale in the
back room will be getting un-
der way soon, and all those
proceeds go to our operations
here at the hall.
Lorna and Jonie brought
Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill,
Marilyn Randall and Otho
Laurance from Blue Moun-
tain Care Center. It was good
to see Yogi and Dusty Harris
again. There were other vis-
itors also. Good to see you
all. If you are a regular and
ind that someone “new” has
taken “your” seat, please be
gracious and look for anoth-
er place. There are plenty of
seats available. Conversely,
if you ind that you have up-
set someone because of your
choice of seats, you can also
be gracious and move to an-
other place. After all, will it
make any difference in the his-
tory of the world in 10 years
where you sat to eat a meal?
“Those who erred in spirit will
gain understanding; those who
complain will accept instruc-
tion.” Isaiah 29:24.
Here’s a good word for
your next game of scrabble:
syzygy. This is the oficial
term for an eclipse when the
sun, Earth and moon are all in
a straight line and one blocks
the light from another. Won-
der how you pronounce it?
Looks like Polish.
Anyway, I got started on
my latch hook project for
next August’s eclipse in Grant
County. How are you doing?
I Chronicles 23:16 “...
Now begin the work, and the
Lord be with you.”
Editor’s note: “Syzygy,”
pronounced siz-uh-jee, is de-
ined as “the nearly straight-
line coniguration of three
celestial bodies (as the sun,
moon, and earth during a so-
lar or lunar eclipse) in a grav-
itational system,” according
to
merriam-webster.com,
which states the word can
be traced to the Greek “syz-
ygos,” which means “yoked
together.”
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Christian
Fellowship
139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY
541-575-2180
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10 am
Pastor Levi Manitsas
cornerstonejohnday@gmail.com
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