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Blue Mountain Eagle
Seniors
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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lunch. It consisted of corn/
cabbage chowder, baked
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chicken, cheese stuffed
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and French bread. Lisa
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Buzz Glass and his
blueberry pancakes, sausage daughter, Brenda, delivered
links, scrambled eggs and 40 meals with Veanne’s
fresh cantaloupe. It was a help.
wonderful meal; of course,
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breakfast is my favorite ianne Morris greeted us,
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imately 35 diners present. na Johnson, Donna Mulder,
Francis Kocis, with the help Zola Pike and Andy and
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Billie Bullard and Susan nished by Malheur Lumber
Fowle greeted us, and our Co.
servers were Bonnie and
Donna Johnson led the
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deemer Lutheran Church.
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Betty led the flag salute, ments and also no guests.
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ing.
Chester’s Thriftway gift
Veanne announced there certificate, and Jean Willey
will be a drivers safety won the Valley View lunch
course here at the center on for two.
Saturday, Sept. 10. More
details will be announced
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later.
Seniors
There is also a card at the
front desk if you would like
Soo Yukawa
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ily of Everett Swayne, who
passed away recently. Our
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We will miss seeing Everett. ferent. Our thoughtful cooks,
We had a few guests Terry Cade, Carrie Jewell and
today,
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Willey’s Christy Howell, decided that
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ia, as well as Eva Harris. because the pizza was ready
Eva lives up Canyon Creek. and would get cold. Along
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with the pizza, they served us
Norm Fowle won the a wonderful, fresh green salad
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and Eva Harris won the IHUHQWNLQGVRISL]]DV0\ID
free meal. Now you have to vorite one was the pizza with
come back, Eva.
pesto, chicken, artichokes and
John Day
Seniors
crisp bacon. The bacon was
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dean Andersen, Jimmy Cole
and Marva Walker. Bob led
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an made the announcements
and prayed the blessing over
the meal. We had 51 guests
show up and three takeouts.
We had some visitors from
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er brought her daughter, and
their family joined us for
lunch all the way from New
York. Some weeks there just
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nior center, and this was one
of those weeks.
Well, I think my allergies
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ter. In the three years that I’ve
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ly been able to smell the pine
trees until now. I was totally
missing out. The smell of
pine trees is wonderful. I love
it. Either that or my sense of
smell was totally ruined by
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in L.A. Ha.
I’ve been doing lots of
work outside. I will probably
have a really dark tan on my
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celain white legs, too funny
right? I’ve been watering my
plants manually and that takes
up a lot of time. I am just in
awe when I see such great,
big, lush and green trees and
plants. How can such a tiny,
minuscule seed start so small,
then develop into such into a
large bush or tree? They are
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ing well; the circumference
of them are about a foot and
half. I don’t see any fruit on
them yet. Do you know the
difference between a fruit
and a vegetable? Fruits have
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matoes are considered fruits
and not vegetables. A carrot
is a vegetable since it doesn’t
have seeds. We learned that
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matoes growing but they are
pretty small yet. I can’t wait
for my cucumber plants to
grow. I planted watermelon,
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ed. Maybe I will be lucky and
get at least one watermelon. I
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my. The skin on the outside
is a little tough. My beans and
parsley have sprouted. I forgot
to plant some jalapeños and
Anaheim peppers. Sigh. Oh
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Psalm 125:1-2 “They that
trust in the LORD shall be
as mount Zion, which can-
not be removed, but abideth
forever. As the mountains are
round about Jerusalem, so
the LORD is round about his
people from henceforth even
forever.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — It was
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in the hall. We didn’t have to
turn on the heat or the A/C.
We are still collecting items
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if you have some goodies,
bring ’em on down.
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tributing a survey for the Area
Agency on Aging and asking
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will determine how much
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cil gets from federal sources.
Then a visitor came so she got
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helps us get our proper share
of support. Wasn’t that fun?.
The faithful four — or as
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erates — got the tables all set
this morning bright and early.
Then Buzz, Larry, Tom, Ken
and Jim went all over town
making the home deliveries.
There were 73 names on the
book.
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and Jack asked the blessing.
Our meal consisted of orange
juice, a pasta salad, ham and
cheese sandwich with tomato,
onion and lettuce to add to it,
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with real whipped cream on
top. I had to reserve half of
the sandwich for supper so I
would have enough room for
everything else. Thanks to
our cooks, Iva and Helen and
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cious repast.
Lorna and Kendra brought
Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill,
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nce and Helen Ricco from the
Blue Mountain Care Center.
Jerry Sheets won the $5
in trade donated by Prairie
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ner of the 50/50 claimed that
his ticket stub was eaten by
the dog, so the “pot” went
straight to the General Fund.
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day so we gave her a round of
applause.
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day of the month, the Site
Committee held their regular
meeting. I so appreciate those
who have come forward this
last year to help with the
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tion. It’s called “spreading
the wealth” or something like
that. Anyhow, I’m happy to
do my job and let others do
theirs. If you want to help,
any of the three committees
would welcome your input.
I tell you, that editor at the
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tions. See what you can learn
from reading the paper?
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ings so far. The cucumbers
are growing vines. The peas
are trying to hook onto the
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two plantings of carrot seed,
no sprouts in sight. Huh. The
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lis this year. They just went
ahead and bloomed about a
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lyhock has one stalk of yellow
blossoms and another of pink
just about to bloom. So they
are a success even if it did
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sistence pays off. No gophers
or deer, yet. But after harvest,
deep digging will occur to get
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ing glory.
Genesis 3:17, 18 “…
Cursed is the ground because
of you; … It will produce
thorns and thistles for you. …”
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