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.”
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