A6
Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Alma Joslin
JOHN DAY — On Feb.
20, we had approximately
24 diners present to enjoy
ham and navy beans, toma-
to / cucumber salad, hash
brown patties and home-
made bread, topped off with
cherry pie.
Pastor Al Altnow and
Rick Rhinehart delivered 37
lunches out plus 40 frozen
meals to shut-ins.
Ken and Merrie Henry
took the Mt. Vernon route.
Nicky Essex and Ron
Dowse took care of the front
desk.
Our servers were from
First Christian Church, but
actually there was only Pas-
tor Al to serve, so Chris
Labhart helped him, and
they did a great job.
Karen Barrietua had
come in early and set up the
tables. Don Porter led the
flag salute, and Pastor Al
asked the blessing.
Veanne was on holiday
today, so Ron Dowse had
the mic but no announce-
ments.
Norm Fowle won the
Len’s Drug gift card, and
Ken Henry won the meal for
two at Valley View.
On Feb. 23, we had ap-
proximately 56 diners at the
center. We enjoyed Swedish
meatballs with egg noodles,
whole kernel corn, whole
wheat rolls and glazed ba-
nana bread. The entree was
furnished by Len’s Drug.
Greeting us at the front
desk were Drew Harmer and
David Pasko.
The Community Coun-
seling life skills group de-
livered 43 lunches out with
Step Forward again deliver-
ing the Mt. Vernon route.
The life skills group
were also our servers. The
flag salute was led by Vicky
Stoltz, and Walt Hall led us
in the Lord’s prayer.
Shay sent out a thank you
to Nancy Wells Elliott for
the mushrooms she donated.
Kim Ausland brought
a group from Valley View
for lunch. They were Billy
Drinkwater, Chuck Corwin,
Dorothy Howard, Geri Pas-
ko, Norma Rynerson and
Carol Banks.
The winner of the Ches-
ter’s gift card was Helen
Bogart, and Gregg Starr
won lunch for two at Valley
View.
Thursday, March 2, we
will have chicken Floren-
tine lasagna, and Monday
March 6, it will be beans
and rice with sausage and
cornmeal biscuits.
Herbrews 13:9 “It is
good for our hearts to be
strengthened by grace.”
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Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
MONUMENT — I think
God has a sense of humor.
Remember last week how
I was talking about all the
mud and melting snow?
Well, apparently I must
have jinxed it, because after
we came home from church,
it was a blizzard, literally. It
was coming down in huge
snowflakes! Here I was get-
ting giddy over the thought
of starting my seeds soon
and planting — yeah right,
maybe another month to go.
I shall look on the bright
side, more time to think and
contemplate on the planting
plans. Good thing there is
always a bright side; some-
times it’s hard to find but
it’s there.
I’m really excited about
four bulbs ( I’m not sure
if they are bulbs or starts?)
of rhubarb plants. Yahoo! I
found some at Bi-Mart when
shopping, and I was ecstat-
ic. I have been looking to
get some, and I never really
saw them in the catalogs. I
plan on planting them with
tons of chicken poop that I
have been fermenting over
the winter, and I hope I will
have tons of rhubarb. I want
to freeze them for rhubarb
pie or rhubarb/strawberry
pie. You know, I never had
rhubarb pie before I came
to Oregon. I tell you, I lived
under a rock.
Our cooks made us a
wonderful meal of chicken
enchiladas, Spanish rice,
fresh green salad and lem-
on cookies. Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell slaved over
the kitchen to feed us, for
which we are very grateful.
Our greeters were Bo-
dean Andersen and Marva
Walker. Bodean led the flag
salute and the announce-
ments and prayed the bless-
ing over our meal. The
Len’s Drug gift card went
to David Stubblefield. Pam
Calahan and Dennis Abra-
ham both won free meals.
We had 44 guests on the
books and nine takeouts.
We had the honor of Har-
old Preston from Prairie
City, Otis and Kay Ricker
from Mt. Vernon and Dick
and Pam Wanous from
Spray join us all for lunch.
The Foot Clinic has been
extremely busy. Her next
visit will be April 4, and she
has openings from 12:45
p.m. and on. So if you are
in dire need to get your toes
taken care of, please call to
schedule your appointment.
We had tons of people for
our Feb. 25 sewing class!
We had about 25 ladies and
little girls show up, and we
just had so much fun. I just
sigh a happy sigh because
my life-long dream of learn-
ing to sew is being fulfilled.
I have come a long way.
Once while living in Cal-
ifornia, I was hemming up a
pair of my pants. I actually
did a really good sewing
job, and I was so proud of
myself. That was until, to
my utter horror and dismay,
I saw that I had forgotten to
turn the pants inside out be-
fore hemming them up! Of
course I discovered my er-
ror after hemming both legs
too. Sigh, live and learn.
Psalm 66:1-2 “Make a
joyful noise unto God, all ye
lands; Sing forth the hon-
our of his name: Make his
praise glorious.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
PRAIRIE CITY — As-
sistant cook Tom trimmed
his beard and put on his
Abraham Lincoln hat for to-
day’s session. Then I quot-
ed, “Four score and seven
years ago,” to which he
replied, “If you gave that
speech today, what would
the numbers be?” Oh, my.
That would require figuring.
He already had figured it. Can
you? Get the calculator. Any-
ways, it sure changed his looks
when he trimmed his beard, I
thought.
Larry, Ken, Carlos and
Ginger were the delivery peo-
ple. Dave Traylor led the flag
salute, and Tom Roark asked
the blessing. Continue to pray
for Buzz as he has a month of
medical treatment to complete.
He’s another one of those
“tough ol’ birds,” so we expect
to see him out and about later
this year.
Many thanks to the Prairie
City Food Bank for their do-
nation of mushrooms, apples,
bagels, buns, bread, rice, pinto
and other beans. You can have
all you want. It’s free.
The $5 in trade donated by
Prairie Hardware and Gifts
went to Jack Pickle. The $10
gift certificate donated by
Huffman’s Market for the Feb-
ruary birthdays was won by
Jim Lunzman. I was in charge
today since everyone else was
gone. Hmmm. So we had or-
ange juice, fruit salad, chili
dogs and chocolate cake for
dessert.
And it filled us up quite
nicely. There were 67 names
on the registration book.
Lorna and Krystin brought
Otho Laurance, Lois Hill,
Myrtha Fields and Marilyn
Randall from Blue Mountain
Care Center.
Son No. 2 and most of
his family were here over the
weekend. One of the boys had
to sleep in our shop with their
little dachshund (named Hero).
Around midnight, Hero has to
go potty. So the child opens the
door to let him out to do his
thing. But Hero just stands in
the doorway and barks might-
ily. It scared the kid, so he got
his phone and turned on the
flashlight. There were about
a dozen deer standing around
in the yard wondering what all
the fuss was. So he grabbed the
dog and shut the door. Wait-
ed a bit and when he opened
the door all the deer had left
the yard and wandered off to
the church lot. And we never
heard a thing. Ah, yes, the joy
of small town life. Because
he is such a little thing and
very quiet, Hero gets to go to
church with the family. What
is extremely interesting about
this whole thing is that daugh-
ter-in-love Laurel is allergic to
99 percent of animal life. The
only exception is dogs. When
I was a kid at home, we all had
at least one dog or cat to go to
bed with on cold winter nights.
Ah, the good old days.
Which reminds me of the
story about the granddaugh-
ter who cut off the ends of the
ham when putting it in the pan
for cooking. Asked why, the
answer was: That was the way
mom did it. Why? That was
the way Grandma did it.
Why? Grandma revealed
that she didn’t have a big
enough pan.
Exodus 12:26-27 “When
your children ask you, ‘What
does this ceremony mean to
you?’ Then tell them ...”
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