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Blue Mountain Eagle
The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Friday. Call the
Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmeagle.com. For meetings this
week, see our list in the classifieds on Page A17.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
Lenten luncheon
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
W HAT’S
HAPPENING
inate and select offi cers, as well as entertain new business from
members or input from the public. The public is welcome to
attend. For more information, call 541-820-3530 or 541-575-
2949.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
Lenten luncheon
• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Canyon
City
A soup meal will be served, followed by a service. All are wel-
come. For more information, call 541-521-2247.
$20 registration fee. To register, call or text Adair at 541-620-4599,
or email softball.1188@gmail.com.
• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Redeemer Lutheran Church, John Day
A soup meal will be served, followed by a service.
All are welcome. For more information, call 541-521-
2247.
Local Advisory Committee biennial review
Spray Rodeo queen tryouts
Grant County Democrats meeting
5-8 p.m., Monument Senior Center
A biennial review of the North and Middle Forks John Day River
Agricultural Water Quality Management Area Plan will be presented
by the local advisory committee. Members of the public are wel-
come to attend. For more information, call Bryan Vogt at the Monu-
ment Soil and Water Conservation District at 541-934-2141.
1 p.m., Spray Rodeo Grounds
Queen tryouts will be held for the May 27-28 Spray Rodeo. Con-
testants do not have to be local or Wheeler County residents, but
they must be at least 15 and never married or had children. For more
information call 541-468-2442.
• 6:30 p.m., Canyon City Community Hall
Local Democrats are encouraged to attend. For more in-
formation, call 541-542-2633.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
Bike for Lei 5K
•10 a.m., Seventh Street Complex, John Day
Makenna Adair will be hosting a 5K walk/run/bike event for a se-
nior project to raise awareness for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. There is a
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
Grant County Senior Citizen advisory council
meeting
• 11 a.m., Monument Senior Center
The advisory council will hold its quarterly meeting to nom-
F ROM THE P ULPIT
Planning for everlasting life
By Al Altnow
To the Blue Mountain Eagle
It’s interesting to watch people and
their actions and activities, as you see
so many varied things take place. As
I watch others, I realize that I too fall
into many of the same patterns that they
do. We are taught to plan our futures,
fi nances, vacations and, when young,
we are taught to plan our education to
help create our lifelong occupations.
There is defi nitely nothing wrong with
making plans and setting goals to get
things done to get ahead in life. This
year, there are thousands of people
making plans to watch the eclipse take
place. Many will travel thousands of
miles and spend thousands of dollars
to be able to watch an event that lasts
only a few minutes. I’m not criticizing
them in any way, as I plan on being
where I can watch it too.
I too am guilty of making all kinds
of plans and spending all kinds of
money on things that are temporary.
Some years back, it became a real-
ity in my life that I had planned and
spent money for all of the things that
are not permanent and had forgotten to
plan for something that was permanent
and didn’t cost any money. That one
thing that I didn’t plan for was where I
would spend eternity.
We can make all kinds of plans,
spend all kinds of money, but none
of that will guarantee our salvation,
which is given to us freely as Jesus
went to the cross and paid the price
(debt) that we could not pay.
As we approach Easter Sunday,
I urge you to review your plans and
make sure you have set things in mo-
tion to guarantee where you will spend
eternity.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life.”
Al Altnow is the pastor of First
Christian Church in John Day.
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
Genealogical Society open house for kids
• 1:30-3 p.m., 281 W. Main St., John Day
The Grant County Genealogical Society will hold an open
house for children in grades 3-6 to learn about family trees and
build their own. Members will be present to help and answer
questions, and parents are welcome to join in. For more infor-
mation, call 541-932-4718 or 541-575-1431.
Dayville School adopting
new science textbooks
Blue Mountain Eagle
Dayville School is undergoing
adoption of new science textbooks
and materials in alignment with
the recommendation from the
state of Oregon. Dayville teachers
presented their recommendations
to the Board of Directors at the
March 14 regular meeting.
The materials are now on dis-
play, available for public review,
in the school library.
The Board of Directors
will act on the recommen-
dation at the April 11 board
meeting.
The materials recommended
are from the McGraw-Hill Pub-
lishing Company: Inspire Science
grades K-5; Glencoe iScience
grades 6-8; and high school Phys-
ical Science, Biology, Chemistry
and Physics.
Patrons interested in reviewing
the materials can contact Superin-
tendent Kathryn Hedrick or head
secretary Lori Smith for access
during the school day at 541-987-
2412.
Grant Union all-class reunion being planned
Blue Mountain Eagle
An all-class reunion is be-
ing planned for Grant Union
Sept. 23. The event will begin
at 6 p.m. at the John Day Elks
Lodge and will cost $25 per per-
son. The Elks will provide food,
and there will be live music by
Frank Carlson of Baker City.
Any Friday evening or Saturday
afternoon activities need to be
organized by individual classes.
More information is available
on the GUHS (John Day, OR)
Alumni Facebook page and at
classmates.com. Payments may
be mailed to Leslie Traylor, 624
NW Bridge St., John Day, OR
97845. Checks should be pay-
able to “Reunion Fund.”
For more information, call
Traylor at 541-620-4032 or 541-
575-1862.
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