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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, February 8, 2017 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Alma Joslin JOHN DAY — On Mon- day, Jan. 30, Bonnie Kocis and Nicky Essex greeted us at the door. Our servers were from First Christian Church. Al Altnow and Rick Rhinehart delivered 33 meals and 25 frozen meals. It was National Crois- sant Day so we had ham, pasta Alfredo, broccoli and croissant rolls. Lisa made banana cake for dessert. Ron Dowse led the flag salute. Veanne told us about two scams making the rounds now. The first is a phone scam where the caller tries to get you to say yes. The caller usually already has some of your bank or credit card information. He wants to record you saying yes so he can use the recording later when you dispute the charges to your credit card or bank account to prove you authorized the charge. The other scam involves computers. You will see a pop up on your screen tell- ing you a Microsoft techni- cian needs you to give him access to your computer so he can fix something in your computer. Al Altnow asked the blessing. Gene Essex won the Len’s Drug certificate, and Ben Luthie got the free meal for two at Valley View. On Feb. 2, Drew Harm- er and Merry Henry were at the desk. Our servers were from the Nazarene Church. Joe and Joan Taylor deliv- ered the John Day and Can- yon City meals, and Step Forward did the Mt Vernon run. There were 44 meals all together. There were about 50 diners at the center. We had quite the feast in cele- bration of the Big Game and Groundhog Day. The rotten rodent saw his shadow so the forecast is for six more weeks of winter. We started out with chips and salsa and relish trays. The entree, sponsored by Jeanette Hueckman, was chili and cornbread muffins. We also had hot wings and birthday cake, provided by Driskill Memorial Chapel, for dessert. There was only one Feb- ruary birthday in the hall, Faith Hurdley. Faith and her husband, Tom, were there with Vicky Harrison, Nicky Essex, Rose Ann Palmer and Dale Stinnett to serve and clean up afterward. Veanne took a survey to see if we could predict the outcome of the Big Game. The overwhelming re- sponse put the Falcons as the winner. Tom Hurdley led the flag salute, and Dale Stennett asked the blessing. Gerald Nesecher won the Chester’s Thriftway certifi- cate, and Betty Conner got the lunch for two at Valley View. Thursday, Feb. 9, we will have our Valentine’s meal of chicken cordon bleu. I know Lisa will have a special dessert, too. Monday, Feb. 13, we will have tacos, and Shay is making Mexican corn chowder. Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa MONUMENT — For our last meal of January, our cooks Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell prepared for us some scrumptious baked chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, dinner rolls and brownies with peanut butter topping. Yummy lunch is all I can say, and a great thanks to our cooks. I don’t always write about this, but we al- ways have hot coffee, iced tea and punch available for our drinks. Our greeters were Bob and Linda Blakeslee and Jimmy Cole. Bob led the flag salute, and yours truly made announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. We had 35 guests and eight takeouts. We will be having another sewing class scheduled for Feb. 25. We had lots of fun in our last class, and since we had to cancel the one in Jan- uary due to the severe weath- er conditions, Judy Harris thought it would be nice to have another one in Feb- ruary. It will be held at the same time, same venue and share a potluck meal. We had a bunch of little girls attend, and they had a good old time. Please keep Dinah Cow- ger in your prayers along with her husband, Jerry. She came home from Bend but then had to go to the hospital again. There seems to be lots of people suffering from some nasty head cold bug that’s go- ing around. My three kids and hubby got varying degrees of it, and it’s been keeping them down. I hope I don’t get it, so I’m doing everything to avoid the sickness. It’s been kind of quiet around here. No news is good news. I will report, though, that the snow is melting. I saw lots of snow chunks floating in the river from my drive home from church. Oh dear, I hope it doesn’t cause a great flood. We had a tem- perature of 57 degrees Sat- urday and Sunday. Now that I’m officially an Oregonian, that’s warm. I’ve been using the snow to make ice balls and throw- ing them for my dogs to chase. It’s pretty hilarious seeing them run after some- thing that just disappears into itself. Ha. I’m actually spot- ting some green grass in plac- es, very tiny patches here and there in the snow. It’s very slippery and wet now, and sometimes your foots sinks quite deep unexpectedly in spots. I guess it’s getting warmer now for some animals to be coming out of hibernation. I found a round bunny tail in one of the cats’ water dish, ew. I am assuming that the rest of its body was eaten because there was no oth- er evidence. It must have ventured into dangerous ter- ritory looking for food but instead met its death by my hunter cats. I’m sure there will be lots of hungry lit- tle animals coming out in search of food in the next few weeks. Colossians 2:8 “Be- ware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs PRAIRIE CITY — Well, welcome to February. Looks a lot like December and Jan- uary, doesn’t it? Remember when the snow first came way back in November and how it looked so nice? So why doesn’t it look nice anymore? As the saying goes, it’s all a matter of perception. It’s still the same snow, and I think that’s the problem. It’s still the same snow. I just hope that there is a lot of it up in the mountains. Met a couple of friends who hadn’t heard about Der- rol’s “activities” of last fall. So I had to go through the whole rigmarole. It would be so much easier if people would read the paper. I just don’t re- late to people who don’t keep up with what’s going on in the world, whether that world is local, county, state, nation or global. Maybe it doesn’t affect me, but I want to be aware of it, anyway. OK, I’ll get off that soapbox now. Was pleased to see how many braved the winter weath- er, snow and ice to get to our meal. And they were amply rewarded. We had 64 names on the book. Buzz and Harold did the set up, then with Larry and Tom made the home deliv- eries. Buzz led the flag salute, and Jack asked the blessing. The winner of the $5 in trade donated by Prairie Hardware & Gifts was faithful server Gary Jacobson. The meal started with or- ange juice, continued with apple/zucchini/raisin salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, roast pork, applesauce, rolls and mango/peach upside-down cake with ice cream. And we all ate and said, “Whew, I’m full.” Wow, was it good. Lorna and Shauntele brought Dorothy Blasing, Lois Hill, Marilyn Randall and Otho Laurance from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Marilyn had the joy of having her son, Ricky, join her for the meal, also. I’m going to give you the rental manager’s phone num- ber, so you will be able to get hold of him when you need to: 541-620-2861. So write that down someplace that you will remember where it is. Today was a red letter day for the eclipse project. I fin- ished the latch hook one. Now I only have six months to get the needlepoint one done. How are you doing? Derrol asked if the latch hook was a rug for later, or what. That’s a good question. Don’t know. Hadn’t thought about that. Just trying to get it done. We want to thank the city of Prairie City workers for their gracious care of our parking lot these past few weeks. The plowing of it and the spread- ing of the gravel on it is very much appreciated. And now comes the Super Bowl. Big whooppee. It’s just a game, people. That’ll get me thrown out of any party, huh? Someone once said about things of this nature, “Will this make any difference in my life in 10 years?” If it won’t, what will? And this is the $64 question. I Timothy 3:16 “Beyond all question, the mystery of godli- ness is great: He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at