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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — Monday,
Dec.12, we had a good turn-
out for lunch.
We had approximately 35
diners for a lunch of hot tur-
key sandwich with mashed
potatoes and gravy, cauliflow-
er blend vegetables, cranber-
ry sauce and cranberry sal-
ad with butterscotch cookie
bars. Francis and Bonnie Ko-
cis delivered 35 meals, and
Veanne helped deliver anoth-
er 41 frozen meals to shut-ins.
They represented the Re-
deemer Lutheran Church.
They also served with the
help of Betty Holznagel and
Jeanette Kile.
Margaret Glass and Ron
Dowse greeted us at the front
desk, and Betty led the flag sa-
lute. Francis asked the bless-
ing. I would like to thank Bet-
ty Holznagel, Denise Seebart
and Danny DePreist for help-
ing Linda Stoltz in decorating
the center for Christmas.
Veanne read us some
“Mothers Taught Me’s” and
also asked everyone to please
get their reservations in for
our Christmas dinner on Dec.
22. Helen Bogart won the
Len’s Drug gift card, and Jill
Reeves won the free meal
from Valley View.
We just received word that
Jim Lound passed away. Jim
was a former member of our
group and attended lunch here
regularly.
He had moved away last
summer, and we will miss
him.
Thursday, Dec.15, we had
lots of snow and freezing rain
so didn’t expect a big turnout
but had approximately 40 din-
ers at the center.
We had cheese- and spin-
ach-stuffed meatloaf served
with garlic mashed pota-
toes, steamed zucchini and
French bread. It was our pie
social so we had a choice of
desserts. Lots of good choic-
es. Greeting us at the front
desk were Jeanette Julsrud
and Margaret Glass.
Sherri Feiger and Chet
Day delivered 30 meals in the
John Day areas.
Our servers were Louise
Nelson, Isa Larkin, Becky
Carey and Marge Con-
lee. Marge led the flag sa-
lute, and Becky asked the
blessing. These gals were
from the United Methodist
Church. The only announce-
ments Veanne had were it’s
cold outside and the roads are
bad. Dec. 22 is our Christmas
dinner so be sure and get your
reservations in. There will be
lots of door prizes.
We will be having glazed
ham, scalloped potatoes, har-
vard beets, and I’m sure there
will be a yummy dessert.
Monday, Dec. 26, the cen-
ter will be closed.
Merrie Henry won the
Chester’s Thriftway gift card,
and Louis Crabtree won the
lunch for two at Valley View.
1 John 4:21 “Any one
who loves God must also
love their brother and
sister.”
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Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — If you
weren’t at the lunch for Tues-
day, Dec. 13, you missed a
fabulous meal made by our
cooks Terry Cade and Carrie
Jewell. We had delicious and
moist ham, scalloped pota-
toes, carrots, dinner rolls and
chocolate pie. We’re very
grateful and thankful for our
cooks’ hard work. Our greet-
ers were Bob Blakeslee, Bo-
dean Andersen and Marva
Walker. Bob led us in the flag
salute, and Bodean made an-
nouncements and prayed the
blessing over our meal. Max
Breeding and Dorothy Jordan
won free meals, and yours
truly won the Len’s Drug gift
card. The turkey breast raffle
winner was Vonda Stubble-
field. The 50/50 raffle was
won by Bodean Andersen.
Judy Harris wanted to
thank everyone who volun-
teered to help make the co-
op lunch a few weeks back.
All of everyone’s efforts
helped to make a little profit
for the senior center’s general
fund.
The Monument Christmas
Bazaar was a success. Many
people from all over came in
support and also shopped for
some last minute Christmas
gifts. The raffle for the giant
Christmas wreath made by
Judy Harris was won by Car-
olyn Thomas.
Through the Grant County
Hope 4 Paws “Alley’s Fund”
program, we got a bunch of
our cats fixed. If you have any
animals that need to be spayed
or neutered, please give Shei-
lah a call at 541-575-0500 so
they can help you financially
pay for part of the procedure.
We are so thankful for them
for their help. Well, I won’t
have to lock up Smokey in the
dog kennel anymore. Ha.
I am in utter disbelief that
Christmas will be this week!
I was unable to get to Bend
to get our Christmas cards,
so I opted to order a bunch of
4-by-6 pictures to be mailed
out with our annual newslet-
ter.
Hopefully, those will ar-
rive in the next few days so
that I can at least mail them
and have them postmarked
before Dec. 25.
We’ve had some pretty
cold weather over here. We
got over a foot of snow.
The temps went down to
-7 degrees Fahrenheit. We for-
got to treat our truck, and our
diesel engine jelled up. Sigh,
but hey, on the bright side, we
have a very white Christmas
indeed.
This time of year can be
pretty hard for some folks.
Many have lost loved ones
this year and are still grieving.
If you know anyone in that
situation, just love on them. It
can just be a phone call to see
if they need anything or drop
off a meal, dessert or even a
card or note.
From the founder of World
Vision, “Break my heart with
the things that break your
(God) heart.” We can be the
hands and feet of Jesus who
came to seek and save the
lost. He came to heal us spir-
itually and reconcile us to the
living God.
Matthew 1: 23 “Be-
hold, a virgin shall be with
child, and shall bring forth
a son, and they shall call his
name Emmanuel, which be-
ing interpreted is, God with
us.”
Prairie City
Seniors
PRAIRIE CITY — Our
special guests were the chil-
dren in the first and second
grades at Prairie City Elemen-
tary School. So our registration
book had 89 names of diners in
the hall and the takeouts, plus
21 children under the watchful
eye of teacher Christie Winegar
and her able helpers. Why were
they here? Because during the
fall, they had enough money
(didn’t catch how) to pay for
the meals of all those who came
today, and they served the meal
and bused the tables afterward!
Now there’s a deal and a half!
There were a lot of diners that
paid before we at the reception
desk knew that was going to
happen. So they were offered
their money back. Now this is
the great part of the story. Only
one person came to request his
money be returned.
Thanks so much to the rest of
you who opted to just let it be a
blessed gift to the center. And on
top of that money, we received
another gift from the United
Methodist Church’s Ye Olde
Thrift Shoppe: $1,000. Hallelu-
jah and PTL!
Our tables had the special
red, folded napkins that Prairie
Hardware gave us a while back.
And when you get it unfolded,
you have your own tablecloth.
My they are huge! Each table
had a large decoration bowl
filled with Christmas balls. And,
of course, our special Christmas
tablecloths. Quite a festive sight.
Being as how I was in charge
today, I asked the kids to lead
the flag salute. And boy did they
ever! Then they sang “You’re
a Grand Old Flag.” After that
they waited patiently while we
got through the other announce-
ments, which included the $5 in
trade donated by Prairie Hard-
ware won by visitor Roseann
Day. The Chuck’s Little Diner
gift certificate went to Norma
Montgomery. Jack Retherford
asked the blessing, and then we
were served our Christmas din-
ner: olives, “snowballs,” fruit
salad, sweet potatoes, deviled
eggs, ham, rolls and all kinds of
pie. We also were able to partake
of sparkling cider on this spe-
cial day. Donna Adams made a
whole platter full of candy of all
kinds for a treat for all the kids. I
want to note that we served ages
16 months to 97 years old today.
So you can come too.
Lorna and Krystin brought
Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill, Hel-
en Ricco, Marilyn Randall and
Otho Laurance from the Blue
Mountain Care Center. Was as
good to see Mike and Helen
Emmel, Mayor Jim Hamsher
and Recorder Lyn McDonald
today. After the kids got the ta-
bles all cleared, they returned
to the stage and sang two more
songs for us: “All I Want For
Christmas Is My Two Front
Teeth” and “Have a Holly, Jolly
Christmas.” Great job, guys and
gals. Fabulous job, Christie.
We will not have our meal
Dec. 21. But Dec. 28 will be a
time for you to come and have
soup — whatever Iva comes
up with. But she wants you to
bring your favorite board game
or card game and have an after-
the-Christmas-rush time of relax-
ing with your friends. I’ve been
looking for someone to play pi-
nochle with for years! Come and
make my day. At 8 p.m. Dec. 24
is the Prairie Baptist Church
Christmas Eve service. Y’all
come.
Luke 2:16 “So they hur-
ried off and found Mary and
Joseph, and the baby who was
lying in the manger.”
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