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.”
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