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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — On Aug. 29,
we had one of Shay’s new in-
ventions. I honestly have to say
it didn’t sound real good to me,
but oh boy, did it ever look, smell
and taste good. It was Polish sau-
sage with onions and peppers,
rice, steamed carrots, Caesar sal-
ad, cornmeal biscuits and topped
off with Lisa’s peach cobbler,
hot out of the oven. There were
approximately 30 diners present.
Rick Rhinehart and Pastor
Al Altnow delivered 32 lunches
and 22 frozen meals to shut-ins.
Veanne Weddle assisted with
deliveries.Ron Dowse and Mar-
ianne Morris greeted us, Rober-
ta Dowse led the lag salute and
Pastor Al asked the blessing.
Our servers were from the First
Christian Church. Al, Ron and
Karen Barrietua did the honors.
Veanne gave a heartfelt thank
you to Lake Creek Camp for the
lettuce, Kay Cotham for the ap-
ples and Jim Maple for all the
zucchini and other veggies. The
seniors all love the good fresh
stuff.
A meeting on Alzheimer’s
will be held from 1:30-3 p.m. on
Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the DHS
ofice. Then at 11:30 a.m. on
Wednesday, Sept. 21, the staff
from Valley View Assisted Liv-
ing will bring their crew and food
to the senior center for lunch. All
proceeds will go to the senior
center, price and menu to be an-
nounced later.
Someone donated a Chester’s
Thriftway gift card, which was
won by Ben Leuthe, and Wilma
Bauer won the Len’s Drug gift
card. Dale Stennett won the free
meal.
On Sept. 1, we had approx-
imately 55 diners present, plus
there were 40 lunches delivered
by Dale Stennett and Tracy An-
drew, who were representing the
John Day Church of the Naza-
rene. There were also 50 frozen
meals sent out to shut-ins. Dale
and Tracy were also our servers
with the help of Corinne (Dale’s
wife), Vicki Harrison and Bob
Lee. Veanne also helped with the
deliveries.
Our lunch consisted of chick-
en breasts cooked in lemon/
basil cream sauce, garlic bread,
mashed potatoes, spinach and
homemade honey wheat rolls.
It was birthday recognition day,
so for dessert we had cake from
Chester’s Thriftway Bakery,
and it was donated by Driskill
Memorial Chapel. Representing
Driskill’s was Jackie Osborne.
The birthday folks for Septem-
ber were Don Porter, Marianne
Morris and Balbina Escuedero.
Ron Dowse and Richie Col-
beth greeted us, Bob Lee led the
lag salute and Dale asked the
blessing.
Thank yous went out to Kay
Cotham for apples and to Beri-
eta Boethin for plums. As usual,
Jimmy Maple brought in more
veggies. We have been overrun
with plastic bags and now —
oops, they are all gone. We need
more. There will be an AARP
drivers safety course from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, here
at the center. Bring a lunch be-
cause there will just be a short
break for lunch.
A donated gift card for Sub-
way was won by Dianne Aas-
ness, Pat Amway won the regu-
lar Chester’s Thriftway gift card
and Karen Barrietua won the
Valley View lunch for two.
On Thursday, Sept. 8, we will
have Mexican meatballs, cheesy
rice, chips and salsa, and Mexi-
corn. On Monday, Sept. 12, we
will have Hawaiian pizza, salad
and ice cream.
Hebrews 4:16 “Let us them
approach God’s throne of grace
with conidence, so that we may
receive mercy and ind grace to
help us in our time of need.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — On Aug.
30 we had a fabulous lunch of
pork ribs, baked beans, pasta
salad and birthday cake for our
last meal of August. Our won-
derful cooks were Terry Cade,
Carrie Jewell and Christy How-
ell. We thank them, and we’re all
very grateful. Our greeters were
Bob Blakeslee, Bodean Ander-
sen, Marva Walker and Jimmy
Cole. Bob led us in the salute to
the lag, and Bodean made the
announcements and prayed the
blessing over our meal. We had
48 guests on the books and 17
takeouts. We had three recipients
of complimentary meals for a fu-
ture meal. The winners were Judy
Bustardo, Leon Skiles and Phoe-
be Yukawa. Dorothy Jordan won
the 50/50. We had many visitors
come through this week. Scott
and Pat Reed from Spray came
to share in our feast. We also had
Jackie Sweek’s brother, Scott,
from Hawaii visit. Lastly, Ted
Phelps had his daughter, Kathy,
Rabey from Kent, Washington,
and Kathy’s friend and family
in tow all came for our Tuesday
lunch. Theda’s sister, Marilee,
from Heppner also decided to
delight us with her presence.
I have some very import-
ant information pertaining to
our upcoming and huge event,
the Buckaroo Fall Festival and
Feast to share. Jack Cavendar,
who is 96 years young, will be
our grand marshal. He is the last
living member who started the
Buckaroo Feast many years ago.
The beer garden will start at 12
p.m. along with performances by
many in the community at the
park. I just love how the people
of the community of Monument
are all participating and joining
in on trying to make this event
fun and memorable. The live
auction will begin at 3 p.m. in the
park. Silent auction items will be
at the senior center. Dinner will
begin at 4 p.m. At 6 p.m., there
will be the drawings for the quilt,
rile and bucket of .22 long rile
ammunition. You need not be
present to win, and there will be
a last-minute chance to buy raf-
le tickets just before the draw-
ing. There will be a mystery box
up for auction during the silent
auction. I’ve been told it’s really
nice and that I would deinite-
ly want it. Hmmmm. I wonder
what it is?
This event is being reintro-
duced back into our community
of Monument by our ever-ded-
icated and loving servant, Judy
Harris. Her deep love for the
community and its seniors are
stirring her up to organize many
ideas and events to help Monu-
ment’s citizens. If anyone would
like to volunteer to help with this
event, contact Judy Harris at 541-
934-2244. Any and all assistance
would be greatly appreciated.
Well, if the Buckaroo Festival
isn’t an indicator of the change
of season, the weather sure has
been. Brrrr. The morning tem-
perature the other day was 38
degrees. I’m not complaining. I
actually like it, but I’m not quite
ready to welcome fall, because
of my garden, ya know? I’d like
to get a few more vegetable har-
vests before the frost comes.
1 Corinthians 1:27 “But God
hath chosen the foolish things of
the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — It was
one of those days. First, Der-
rol lost half of his boiled egg
on the loor. Then I forgot to
remove a tissue from a pock-
et before washing. Finally,
I spilled some water from a
soaking pot all over the count-
er top. There. Things always
come in threes, right? So that
should sufice for the day. Not
quite, apparently. I drove out
in front of another vehicle that
I didn’t see on the way to the
post ofice. Thankfully, we did
not collide. But by then, all I
wanted to do was go home and
curl up in the fetal position.
But I was grateful that the rest
of the day was better. Whew.
To celebrate the beginning
of the new school year, Iva
and Helen decided to serve a
brown-bag lunch. But I’m here
to tell you that I never found
such a meal in my lunch bag
60 years ago. It was a fun
meal: apple juice, an egg sal-
ad sandwich, an apple, a little
bag of chips, macaroni salad,
a root beer loat and peach pie
for dessert. I had the ice cream
put on the pie, which was still
warm from the oven. Oh, am-
brosia.
The tables had school-
themed centerpieces, courtesy
of retired Prairie City teacher
Carla Wright. You name it and
if it had to do with school, it
was there on the tables. Thanks
for sharing, Carla.
Buzz led the lag salute,
and Jack asked the blessing.
We had 70 names on the book.
I found eight August birth-
days. Wow. We decided that
we knew what people did in
the wintertime. Anyway ...
Del Lake won the $10 in trade
donated by Huffman’s, Wan-
da Kaufman won the $5 gift
certiicate donated by Prairie
Hardware and Gifts and Ken
Koser was the winner of the
50/50.
This was our assistant
cook Helen’s last day, so we
honored her by giving her
a set of spices. She said she
knew what to do with them.
We also said goodbye to Von-
nie Blasing, who is moving to
South Dakota to be near her
daughters. She will be sorely
missed. She was a joy to have
both in the ensemble and the
Ding-a-lings. I had her draw
the winning number for the
birthday prize. She did that
well, too.
Lorna and Krystin brought
Ralph Wilson, Dorothy Blas-
ing, Lois Hill and Marilyn
Randall from Blue Mountain
Care Center.
We had more zucchini and
cucumbers to give away, plus
some plums and little milk
bottles from the food bank
overlow.
Off to get an echocardio-
gram at the cardiologist in
Bend. We hope that reveals
that Derrol’s heart is healthy
enough to undergo neck sur-
gery soon. It’s no fun living
with that kind of pain.
The garden report: Peas
are all gone (they were very
tasty), the cucumbers are get-
ting big, the hollyhocks grew
to the top of the trellis, the
self-seeded morning glory
climbed up the wild rose bush
canes to get off the ground
and the grape vine has little
grapes on it. However, I don’t
think they are edible — time
to plan for next year.
Ecclesiastes 3:2a “… a
time to plant and a time to up-
root …”
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