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.”
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