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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, May 3, 2017 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex What do you call it when it is raining ducks and chickens? Fowl weather. We’ve had our share. Ba dum pum. On Monday, April 24, Jeanette Julsrud and Drew Harmer welcomed us at us at the door. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints didn’t let the rain stop them. Ineta Carpenter and Darlene Nodine delivered meals in John Day and Canyon City. It didn’t stop Marcus Perkins and Travis Estes either from Step Forward; they delivered meals in Mt. Vernon, for a total of 21 meals and five frozen ones. Well done. Shay delighted us with pancakes and sausages (in honor of National Pigs in a Blanket Day.) We also had a yummy “egg scramble” with fresh cantaloupe to finish off a very nice meal. We were served by Ine- ta Carpenter and Darlene Nodine. Darlene opened our time by leading us in the flag sa- lute, and Ineta prayed for our fellowship and meal. Maryanne Morris won the Valley View gift cer- tificate, and Ineta won the Len’s Drug gift certificate. We had 20 diners at the cen- ter. Our Mother’s Day meal will be on May 11. Please arrive at the center by 11:45 a.m. to eat. Jeanette Julsrud and Dave Pasco were on desk duty on Thursday, April 27. We were served by St. Elizabeth Catholic Church. Thanks to Agnes and Walt Hall, as well as Jimmy Ma- ples. Walt and Jimmy also delivered meals in the John Day and Canyon City area. Marcus Perkins and Travis Estes (Step Forward) de- livered to Mt. Vernon. Our wonderful volunteers deliv- ered a total of 36 meals. Walt Hall delivered the flag salute, as only he can. And Jimmy Maples prayed for our meal, which was garlic roasted pork loin, mashed potatoes, green beans with onions and ba- con and French bread. Lisa found enough lettuce to bring a lovely green salad to each table, as well as peach cobbler for dessert. Oh man, they feed us so well. Fif- ty-seven dined with us. We welcomed Dixie Ver- stoppen, John Hopper, Mary Bennett, Johnna Hopper and George McLean who visit- ed us, and we hope they’ll come again. Don’t forget we play bin- go at 1 p.m. Thursdays after a great meal. Please keep Ron Dowse in your prayers. His bone marrow transplant is sched- uled for May 17. He and Roberta will be staying in Salem with fam- ily. Bring or mail cards and letters in care of Veanne here at the center, and she will make certain they get to Ron. Psalm 116:1-2 “I love The Lord because He hears my prayers and an- swers them. Because He bends low and listens, I will pray as long as I breathe.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa For our last Tuesday meal of the month of April, Ter- ry Cade and Carrie Jewell served us some yummy va- riety of pizzas, fresh green salad and orange cooler cake for our dessert. The different pizzas consisted of pepperoni, cheese, chicken and artichoke and combo, just to name a few. We were very blessed to have a beautiful and fresh green salad. The price of any lettuce is sky high these days, over $5 for a head of lettuce, crazy. Thank you to our won- derful cooks. Our greeters were Bob Blakeslee and Marva Walk- er. Bob led us in the salute to the flag, and Marva made the announcements. Dennis Abra- ham prayed the blessing over our meal. Charlotte Barker won the $5 gift card to Ches- ter’s Thriftway. Larry Voight and Dennis Abraham both won free meals. All is quiet here in Mon- ument. We did have some weird storms come through though. I can’t remember what day it was, but there were lots of high winds, snow, sleet, hail and pouring rain. The sun tried to peek through every once in a while. This has definitely been a very long winter, and I am truly tired of it. I am ready to see the sunshine and bask in it. I found out some more information about the peach- es at Thomas Orchard. Joni Howell said that they will have a limited supply of the “U-pick” peaches. So there will be some peaches avail- able. Thank goodness. I’m very relieved to hear that we will have some, and I hope that I can get some in jars this summer. Len’s was having a sale on some tomato plants for 99 cents, so I bought a few. Mine are just a bit too small, and I still won’t be able to plant them yet because the weather here has been fluctuating way too much. We had some temps ranging from 25 degrees to the 30s in the mornings. It’s very frustrating when one is trying to get their garden go- ing and the weather is not co- operating. The pak choy in the little hoop house has been flourish- ing. Soon, we will be feasting on some delicious sautéed pak choy with our meals. I have been picking some out when thinning, but I’m looking for- ward to when they get really big and pick them. My dill is really happy. If anyone needs dill, I’ve got plenty. I’ve yet to discover who ate my spinach. They are starting to grow back, but the damage has been done. I have lots of little volun- teer lettuce and I think toma- toes too. Maybe I will be able to transplant some of the to- matoes and get a few. I wish the lettuce would hurry and grow; that would help bal- ance out the outrageous high costs at the stores. Oh, by the way, FYI, Boyer’s has good lettuce at a reasonable rate, and it’s the same quality as Chester’s. Have a great week everyone. Psalm 9:10 “And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: For thou LORD, has not forsaken them that seek thee. Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Even though it’s still snow- ing and raining and blowing outside, we had spring blooms inside on the tables. OK, so they were fake, but we can dream, can’t we? Just wait. We will have summer. I’ve given up on spring. Harold did his setting the tables job, then took off on his other mission of mercy job. He is certainly getting to know all the roads in Oregon. Makes me tired just to listen to where he goes. Bruce did the announcing; Larry and Carlos did the home deliveries; Julia and Gary dis- pensed the juice and milks; and Jimmy Lunzman got the lawn mowed between rain showers. Allen and Livy were kitchen helpers, and Marlene did the ta- blecloth cleaning. Jim and Der- rol did the floor cleaning, and that is a job that neither of them should be doing, due to their physical limitations. We need a new batch of young, more able “seniors” to step up to this job. Hint, hint. Del Lake led the flag salute, and Jack Reth- erford asked the blessing. The $5 gift certificate donated by Prairie Hardware & Gifts was won by Yogi Harris, who hasn’t been here for quite a while. See what happens when you visit? It was April birthday recogni- tion day, and I only managed to find two people who would admit to being born in April: Bruce Kaufman and Bonnie Pickle. So Bonnie won the $10 gift certificate donated by Huff- man’s Market. We still have some green beans and carrots to give away. Iva used some of each in our meal, so we know that they are edible. Our meal had cranberry juice, red cabbage slaw, chili beans, fried taters, cornbread and carrot cake with jelly beans on top for dessert. Good meal for this chilly day. Lorna and Kelly brought Richard Findley, Lois Hill and Marilyn Randall from the Blue Mountain Care Center. We made a trip to La Grande — through snow flurries — to have my plugged-up ears checked again. The ENT man put a teeny-tiny tube through the ear drum and sucked out a lot of gunk. Improved things a lot, but the eustachian tube still has some blockage. Hopefully it will be able to drain now that it has less gunk in it. Coming next? La- ser surgery on my eye to clear out some of the gunk floating around in it. How do you like that word “gunk”? Covers a lot of territory, doesn’t it? But everyone knows what you are talking about. Was read- ing about Ellis Island. Did you know that in the 1880s the powers that be decided to enlarge the three-acre site to six acres by adding landfill obtained by the excavation for New York City’s subway system? What I want to know is how they made the land- fill stuff stay there. After all, it is sitting out in the middle of New York Harbor. And a weird thing is that part of the island is in the state of New Jersey. My, the things you learn from reading. I Timothy 4:13 “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching, and to teaching.” Acts 8:30 “’...Do you under- stand what you are reading?’ Philip asked.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at