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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — Monday,
Oct. 31, we had a small crowd
of approximately 30 diners
for breakfast for lunch.
They served us sausage
patties, biscuits and sausage
gravy, scrambled eggs and
fresh caramel apple crisp.
Bonnie Kocis and Marga-
ret Glass greeted us at the
desk.
Our servers were from the
First Christian Church. Al
Altnow and Rick Rhinehart
delivered 28 meals plus 38
frozen ones to shut-ins with
the help of Veanne Weddle.
Karen Barrietua led the flag
salute, and Ron Dowse asked
the blessing.
We were short on servers
so once more Pat Amling to
the rescue. Also serving were
Karen Barrietua and Dusty
Harris.
Veanne put out a thank you
to Tracy Andrew for the eggs.
She also told us her nose to
nose elk story. I would also
like to thank Veanne for doing
the news for me while I was
unable to do it.
The Len’s Drug gift card
was won by Norm Fowle,
and Deda Porter won the
free meal. Thursday, we had
approximately 45 diners for
lunch.
We were served cranber-
ry Dijon chicken with rice,
green salad, french bread,
steamed broccoli and birth-
day cake. The entree was fur-
nished by the Blue Mountain
Eagle, and the cake was fur-
nished by Driskill Memorial
Chapel.
There were also 33 lunches
delivered out by Dale Stinnett
and Everett King. Marga-
ret Glass and Bonnie Kocis
greeted us at the front desk.
Our servers, from the Naz-
arene Church, were Tracy
Andrew, Dale Stinnett, Vicki
Harrison, Pastor Bob, Judy
Douglas and Nikki Essex.
Dale led the flag salute, and
Pastor Bob asked the blessing.
Veanne announced that she
and Erin Osgood will be start-
ing up a class on Living With
Chronic Conditions.
It will start as soon as they
get at least five people signed
up. Dates and times will be set
by the majority of the mem-
bers.
She also urged everyone
to get their reservations in for
the Thanksgiving dinner on
Nov. 17.
Last year, some were
turned away as we were full.
To make reservations, call
Veanne at 541-575-1825 or
either cook at 541-575-1825.
Also you may contact Linda
Stoltz on meal days.
Thank you to whomever
brought the apples. The site
council is in need of one more
member.
The November birthdays
celebrated today were Buzz
Harris, Jean Willey and Deda
Porter. On Nov. 10, we will
have pork stroganoff with
noodles served with veggies.
Monday, Nov. 14, we will
have beef stew and biscuits.
Nikki Essex was the win-
ner of the Chester’s Thrift-
way gift card, and Judy
Douglas won the meal for
two at Valley View Assisted
Living.
Philippians 2:34 “Inhu-
mility value others above
yourselves, not looking to
your own interests but each
of you to the interests of
others.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — Well,
November is now here.
Soon, we will be celebrating
Thanksgiving, and that means
Christmas is just around the
corner.
Did I just freak you out?
Sitting here typing that made
me freak out. I hadn’t even
thought of Christmas yet. I
better get a move on so that
I can have a picture ready to
make Christmas cards with.
Maybe I can have it sent out
on time this year — hmm,
highly doubtful.
Our first meal of the month
started off great. Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell made us a
nice dish of chicken Alfredo,
garlic bread, a fresh green sal-
ad and a fruit cobbler for our
dessert.
Our greeters were Bob
Blakeslee, Bodean Andersen
and Marva Walker. Bob led
the flag salute, and Bodean
prayed the blessing over our
meal.
We had Dick and Pam Wa-
nous from Spray join us for
lunch. Donny Lippert won the
Len’s gift card. Ron Odette
and Dick Wanous both won
free meals.
There will be a Living
Well with Chronic Conditions
Workshop coming up. For
workshop dates or to sign up,
please contact Veanne at 541-
575-2949 or veanneweddle@
centurylink.net.
The Co-Op will be hosting
a free lunch on the first Satur-
day of December here at the
Monument Senior Center. I
will have more details on the
time at a later date. Just mark
your calendars and save the
date.
Ladies, we will be having
our sewing class this coming
Saturday, Nov. 12. The time
will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bring your sewing machine
and a dish to share for our
potluck. Judy Harris will be
instructing us on how to sew
a fidget quilt. These are to
help people with various con-
ditions to calm and to soothe.
You can also bring your own
personal projects if you pre-
fer. In any case, we will have
great fun sewing, fellowship-
ping, sharing and enjoying
a meal together. Hope to see
you there!
I finally went into my little
greenhouse. I was dreading
going in there because I hadn’t
watered in awhile and was
afraid of what I’d find. I was
pleasantly surprised to find to-
matoes and some squash still
there. I dug out my cucumber
plants and planted a bunch
of garlic. I also found, oh, I
think maybe about a meal’s
worth or two of potatoes.
They were kind of small. I did
plant them a little late and in
a small space, so I shouldn’t
be too surprised. I am going to
harvest those tomatoes maybe
next week. Hopefully the tem-
perature won’t drop too low
and freeze them.
I hope you all had changed
your clocks back one hour this
past Saturday. Sorry, I forgot
to remind you. Isn’t it nice
that we get that extra hour to
sleep in, that it’s not so dark
at 7 a.m.? Not too crazy about
it getting so dark so early
though. Get ready, winter is
coming!
Job 14:12 “So man lieth
down, and riseth not: Till the
heavens be no more, they shall
not awake, Nor be raised out
of their sleep.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — We had
an increase in attendance last
week that included some new
visitors and some old friends
that hadn’t been here for a
while.
Good to see you all. We are
in need of more volunteers to
help with the home-delivered
meals.
You do make it back
in time to have your nice,
hot meal at the center.
(Ahem.)
Buzz led the flag salute,
and Jack asked the blessing.
We want to extend our con-
dolences to the family of Ear-
lene Durant. She was a special
lady.
The winner of the $5 in
trade gift certificate donated
by Prairie Hardware & Gifts
was Pat Amling. And it was
Leonard Cardwell’s birthday,
so he and his family came
and brought a birthday cake!
Wow.
Others we hadn’t seen for a
spell were Norma Rynearson
and Enid Boss.
Norma had some P.C. Cal-
endar business to tend to. Our
special visitor is a man who
just moved to the area and our
community.
There were 72 names on
the book.
Lorna and Krystin brought
Dorothy Blasing, Helen Ric-
co, Lois Hill, Marilyn Randall
and Otho Laurance from the
Blue Mountain Care Center.
Today’s lunch was a hot
beef sandwich — roast beef,
mashed potatoes and gravy
and a mini loaf of bread to put
it on. Pretty cute.
Veggies were little toma-
toes. Iva made a pecan/pump-
kin pie, and with Leonard’s
birthday cake you could have
one or the other or both. What a
deal!
Derrol is chowing down on
the leftover potatoes and gra-
vy since he has been upgraded
to eating more by mouth. The
swallowing test went very
well.
We can start cutting back
on the nasal tube feeding.
Still has to be careful when
swallowing, but it is much
better. Maybe by Thanks-
giving the tube will be
out.
Mary Brown brought in a
whole bunch of yellow tulip
bulbs that she had just dug
up. Help yourself. Our Senior
Sales Store is doing good, too.
Thanks to all who made dona-
tions and to those who made
purchases. Certainly helps the
bottom line.
It won’t be long until
our fabulous Thanksgiving
meal, so I’m warning you
in advance so you can be
thinking about the pie(s) that
you will be bringing in to
the meal that day. (Another
ahem.)
And how about those
Cubs? Wowzer, dowser. What
a game. I was home ill so got
to watch it until the final shout
by the announcer.
A perfect thing to have
happen in this “interesting”
political year, in my opinion.
Got a postcard that
was mailed from Poland
on Aug. 30. It was post-
marked again Nov. 1 in
Seattle.
Guess it got lost in the bot-
tom of the mail bag.
Luke 19:10 “For the
son of Man came to seek
and to save what was
lost.”
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