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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, August 10, 2016 G RANT C OUNTY SENIORS John Day Seniors Alma Joslin JOHN DAY — On Aug. 1, we had approximately 32 din- ers present for a lunch consist- ing of cheesy tomato bacon soup, pulled pork sandwich- es on a hoagie roll, macaroni salad, pea salad and chocolate raspberry cake roll. Mary Miles and Mary Jones, representing Blue Mountain Hospital Auxilia- ry, delivered 33 meals plus 26 frozen dinners to shut-ins. Shay Lewis helped by doing the Mt. Vernon deliveries. These ladies were also in charge of serving. Marianne Morris and Bonnie Kocis greeted us, while Mary Miles led the lag salute, and Ben Luethe asked the blessing. Veanne was on vacation so Ron Dowse did the an- nouncements. Word has been received that Sylvia Warrick passed away in Portland. There is a card on the front desk for signatures. Thank you to Jim Holly for the beets, and the Dowses for the peaches. Don Porter won the Len’s Drug gift certiicate, and Deda Porter won the free meal. On Aug. 4, we had approx- imately 56 diners. We had cheddar broccoli soup, un- stuffed cabbage rolls (which was a casserole), corn salad, roasted potato wedges, rolls and chocolate chip cookies, in honor of Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. The entree was furnished by Nydam’s Ace Hardware. Ron Dowse and Marga- ret Glass greeted us, while Dwayne Andrew led the lag salute, and Dale Stennett asked the blessing. Tracy Andrews and Dale were the ones who deliv- ered meals. They delivered 37 meals with Shay Lewis taking the Mt. Vernon route. They were representing the John Day Church of the Naz- arene. They were also our servers with the help of Adele Wilson and Corrine Stinnett. Veanne was still on vaca- tion so Ron did the announce- ments. We need volunteers to roll silverware and also one more site council member. Dwayne and Tacy brought their daughter-in-law, Shawn, and her three children, Aiden, Elliott and Jacob, from Baker City. Eric and Jeanette Jul- srud went to The Dalles and brought Jim Lound back for a visit. Jim used to be a fre- quent diner but moved about a year ago. Good to see you again, Jim. Eric won the gift certii- cate from Chester’s Thrift- way, and Jackie Osborn won the Valley View lunch for two. On Thursday, Aug. 11, we will have barbecued ribs and potato salad. There will be lots of extra door prizes that day. Then on Monday, Aug. 15, we will have bacon wrapped chicken and rice pi- laf. A quick reminder: Don’t forget the Ministerial Asso- ciation fundraiser. It will be a spaghetti feed from 5-7:30 p.m. on Aug. 20 here at the center. There will also be a silent auction. All proceeds will be used locally. 1 John 5:13 “I write these things to you ... that you may know that you have eternal life.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs PRAIRIE CITY — An- other one of those lovely days when we didn’t have to use the heater or the cooler in the hall. In fact, one lady was a little too cool, so she went back to the Senior Yard Sale and found a nice heavy shirt to wear while at dinner. Now, we aim to please, don’t you think? Our regular fellows took care of the table setting and meal de- livering. But in the kitchen, head cook Iva had the able help of her niece Livy and friend Linda to get our meal taken care of. And oh, my, was it ever good. Anyway, back to the other stuff: Buzz led the lag salute, and Jack asked the blessing. Del Lake won the $5 in trade donat- ed by Prairie Hardware & Gifts. The winner of the 50/50 was Frances Preston, who donat- ed it back to our general fund. Sandi Rennels Newel made an announcement that after due consideration and deliberation, she has decided that two hous- es and a motor home are too much for Bill and her to take care of. Therefore she is selling her Main Street property in Prai- rie City forthwith. So now you know. Norma Rynearson was able to get to dinner today thanks to daughter Mamie. Good to see her. Also visiting was Levi Preston. I assume he belongs to Harold and Frances’ family somehow. Ahem. Now to the meal. Straw- berry lemonade, iced tea, milk, buttermilk, water, coffee and tea. Have to keep hydrated, you know. Bread and butter pickles, watermelon slices (it was Na- tional Watermelon Day), Ha- waiian potato salad, pork and beans, fried chicken thighs, rolls and for dessert? Peach cobbler with special sauce and ice cream. I’d put that meal up against any fancy French chefs in their fancy dancy restaurants in the big cities of the world. Did I mention that it was good? Yum, yum. Lorna and Krystin brought Dorothy Blasing, Marilyn Ran- dall and Otho Laurance from Blue Mountain Care Center. There were 87 names on the book. The Dowses brought some excess peaches from their over-loaded tree to give away. Someone asked Roberta if she was going to make peach jam. Her reply? “HA!” So if you want to, she’d be glad to give you a bushel or two to do so. The garden report: get to pick peas! The cucumber is blooming, so maybe it will have enough time to make some fruit. The hollyhocks are loaded, and the grape vine just keeps climbing. All in all, a successful endeavor. The medical report: Derrol went to his pre-op doctor visit. He had to have an EKG and chest x-ray. Uh-oh. They found an abnormality in the EKG, which necessitates a con- sultation with a cardiologist be- fore moving on to any surgery. So waiting for that appointment, now. So he’s making his inal lawn mowing run to Camp El Kanab and returning the gate key this week. Somebody else’s turn now. Meanwhile, son No. 2 is off to the Canadian Skate Church trip and daughter-in-love Agata is preparing to make a visit to Poland to see her father who is undergoing chemo treatments. James 5:16 “... pray for each other so that you may be healed ...” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa MONUMENT — On Aug. 2, Terry Cade and Christy Howell served us a delicious meal of spaghetti, bread, fresh green salad and brownies for dessert. I actually had to get another brownie because it was so good. Our greeters were Bo- dean Andersen, Betty Richards and Marva Walker. Bodean led the lag salute and prayed the blessing over our meal, along with making announcements, too. Judy Bustardo won a free meal. David Stubbleield won the Len’s Drug gift card, and Jan Ensign won the Chester’s Thriftway gift card. We had a small crowd and no visitors for lunch this week. I can’t remem- ber the exact numbers Jimmy Cole told me, so I apologize for that. I’m getting old and my memory is starting to go. Ha. So I had one of my hair- brained ideas. I’ll have to give you the background story a bit so you will understand why I did what I did. It might take a little time to explain so bear with me. I may not be able to tell the whole story this week and will have to continue next week. Here goes: Smokey, our cat that we bottle raised, had kittens last year, and she was being a little neglectful in my opinion of her kittens so I took a couple of them and gave them to another mama. I know, I know, I should have left well enough alone, but hey, hind- sight is 20/20. Anyway, a friend came over and wanted to see the kittens, and while she was holding one and looking at it, Smokey comes from nowhere, snatched it out of my friend’s hand and took off with it! She took the kitten to where she had the others. That would have been ine, only she decided she was going to take all the other cat’s kittens too. So she stole the other cat’s kittens and had hers, too. Smokey was not be- ing a good mama because she wouldn’t even nurse them very long, she just wanted to possess them. This is where I got my hair- brained idea. Well, there was a battle of wills going on between Smokey and myself. I would steal the other cat’s kittens and return them to the other cat, and Smokey would go and fetch them back. She was driving me crazy, the psycho cat. This went on for a couple of weeks, back and forth, me stealing kittens, and Smokey stealing them back. I inally decided to stop Smokey by putting her in the dog ken- nel. Oh, she didn’t get hurt. She liked the dogs and they didn’t mind her, well at least one of them didn’t. I locked her up in there for a bit, and it seemed to help. The next litter she had, she actually had them on our porch and they were all tamed down, and all except one were given away to good families. Well, the little stinker got pregnant again before I could get her ixed. For some reason, Smokey was wandering away after meals this time, and I was afraid she would have her kittens some- where else and we would have a bunch of feral cats all over the place. She looked about ready to pop, so yes, I locked her up in the dog kennel again. I put her little cat house and a nice clean towel. Our 7-month-old pup was not keen on that. ... To be continued. Psalm 62:1 “Truly my soul waiteth upon God, from him cometh my salvation.” Church Services In Grant County Cornerstone Christian Fellowship 139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY 541-575-2180 Sunday Worship Service 10 am Pastor Levi Manitsas cornerstonejohnday@gmail.com CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Sunday School..............................9:30 am Sunday Worship Service .............. 10:45 am Sunday Evening Service................6:00 pm Children & Teen Activities SMALL GROUPS CALL FOR MORE INFO Weekdays: Sonshine Christian School 521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895 wwww.johndaynazarene.com