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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, June 14, 2017 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex I did the greeting on June 5, and our new check-in process worked well. The Blue Moun- tain Hospital Auxiliary faithful- ly performed our table service, but only after they took the Meals on Wheels route in John Day and Canyon City. Kris and Chris Labhart met our needs joyfully and efficiently. Michael Hagopian and Rodney Bruser from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon route for meal delivery. Altogether, 33 regular meals were delivered as well as 82 fro- zen meals, including some that went to Long Creek and some went to Seneca. God bless these volunteers! Yours truly bungled an- nouncements, but Chris Labhart gave a serious alert regarding a mailer he had received regard- ing solar info. It may be legit, but may be a hard sell. The “Merk- ley Town Hall” happens on Fa- ther’s Day at the airport from 1-2:30 p.m.. The People Mover will help if enough people will sign up; call 541-575-2370. Don Porter gave our salute to the flag, and Dale Stennett asked the blessing on our meal. Drew Harmer won the drawing for the Len’s Drug certificate, and I won the free meal. We dined on roast beef sandwiches, quinoa summer salad with cucumber and tomatoes and lemon juice dressing, bread and butter pick- les, watermelon and cherry-ap- ple crisp for dessert. On June 8, Jeanette Julsrud and Drew Harmer were on greeter duty at the front, and it appeared the new system is go- ing well. We were served by the Cornerstone group: Zola Pike, Donna Johnson, Carla and Andy Anderson, Donna Mulder, Lin- da Sprouffske, Alicia and Henry Miller. Henry was very sweet and poured milk for all who wanted it. Amber Wright and Travis Estes and the gang from Step Forward did our Meals on Wheels entire route: John Day, Canyon City and Mt. Vernon, delivering a total of 35 meals. Well done! Jeanette gave announce- ments reminding us of the Grant County Health Fair June 16 — to pre-register, call the hospital — as well as the benefit dinner and auction June 17 for Jessie Elliott and the Harney County Jamboree, June 15-17. We had several guests, in- cluding from Valley View, Chuck Corwin, Linda and Larry Christensen, Randa Persing- er, Donna Hindman, Jeffrey Hensley and Dale Morris. My son Shawn was here for a few days to visit from Kentucky; he stayed to play bingo and won two games! Shawn Essex gave a rous- ing flag salute, Andy Anderson gave the blessing on our meal and Zola Pike won a free meal at Valley View, with Donna Hindman winning the drawing for the Chester’s Thriftway $5 certificate. We were well fed on spa- ghetti with meat sauce, a green salad, veggies, baguettes, and raspberry cream cheese braid for dessert. I want to give special thanks to our wonderful chef, Shay Lewis, for taking a special request for our son Shawn, who suffers from “Alpha Gal,” a tick derived allergy that sends you into anaphylactic shock when- ever you eat red meat. Sounds crazy, right? Google it! The Thursday, June 15, Fa- ther’s Day meal will be beef tips with onions and peppers. Monday, June 19, we’ll have su- preme pizza and salad. Ephesians 6:12-13 NIV “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We had quite the crowd here at the Monument senior center on June 6. Our wonderful cooks made us nice pulled pork sand- wiches, coleslaw, french fries and brownies with ice cream and fudge for our dessert. Yes, we were spoiled, and we thank our cooks Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell most sincerely. Our greeters were Bodean Andersen and Marva Walker. Bodean led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and then prayed the blessing over our meal. Marva counted and collected the money. We had many people visit- ing for lunch. There was a Grant County Court meeting held right after lunch. Our visitors included Veanne Weddle from John Day, Commissioner Jim Hamsher of Prairie City, Judge Scott Myers of Canyon City, Laurie Wright from John Day, Kathy Cancil- la of Mt. Vernon for the Grant County Health Department and Boyd Britton, our other commis- sioner. We also had guests from Spray, Dick and Pam Wanous. We had a total of 56 guests on our books and six takeouts. Veanne gave us informa- tion concerning the upcoming health fair. The cost for having blood work is $16. These test for cholesterol and blood sugar. BMI and blood pressure checks are also available. She said there are scholarships available to help with the cost. Pre-reg- istration is available at Blue Mountain Hospital from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Thursday. Please call 541-575-1480 for more information. The actual day for this event is June 16, from 6 a.m. to noon. Judy Harris was out in the foyer of the senior center with a table selling raffle tickets for the rifle and beautiful quilt. You still have ample opportunity to pur- chase your tickets for a chance to win until Sept. 23. I was out weed whacking where I was going to have a gar- den. Umm, no. I have changed my mind. I don’t think I will be able to get it done in time to plant. I guess no corn again for me this year. I only got maybe 1/5 of it whacked down. The rye grass in there was well over 7 feet tall! It kept getting tangled and took a long time, what little I managed to cut down. Sigh, I will just have to utilize and maximize the space I currently have. I’ve been fighting not get- ting sick with a cold, and I got tired and had to stop. Apparent- ly there is a nasty virus or cold going around. We’ve been having some temps here in Monument down to the 30s. Makes me wonder if many of us are going to have any luck with the peppers and melons this year? It’s been re- ally wet this year. I wonder if that is why I haven’t seen much of the lamb’s quarters or “pigweed”? I have been on the prowl looking for them to make a Korean side dish. It is very high in vitamins and consid- ered a “superfood.” Be on the lookout; they are good for you in salads too. Philippians 1:21 “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs To celebrate these last few days of “spring,” Tom brought a selection of cut flowers from his yard way up Little Indian Creek Road. And what a selec- tion it was: iris, bachelor but- tons, lupine and a few that I didn’t recognize. Iva’s grand- daughter Ari helped get them arranged in the vases and on the tables. A very nice display. And given the changeable weather this “spring,” it was nice to see any flowers! There was also a lot of pre- pared rhubarb and bags of iris bulbs from Buzz’s yard that anyone could take home. Livy and Alan were not helping Iva in the kitchen because Alan got a job (yeah!), and Livy went to prepare for the soon birth of her baby. I didn’t realize she was that close! And there she was chugging around in the kitchen for hours. Wow. One tough lady. We had a slew of “long time, no see”-ers in attendance: Bill and Sandi Newell, Jack Erik- son, Storie Mooser and Nancy. Welcome back. Lorna and Krys- tin brought Dorothy Blasing, Marilyn Randall and Joan Met- lock from the Blue Mountain Care Center. That made a total of 62 names on the book. New- comer Drew Harmer won the $5 gift certificate donated by Prairie Hardware & Gifts. Taci from Prairie City City Hall came and presented a lot of information about the big hap- pening in August. She used my needlepoint and latch hook solar eclipse representations to illus- trate her talk. It was very infor- mative. Thank you, Taci. Royce Dotson led the flag salute, and Jack Retherford asked the bless- ing. Harold and Bruce did the table set-up; Larry, Carlos, Ken and Marjean did the deliveries. Our delicious meal had orange juice, marinated veggies, baked potatoes, rolls, chicken breast patties (have to find out where Iva got them!) and upside-down banana coconut cake for dessert. Great meal! Tom’s food for thought: Consideration for others may mean taking a wing instead of a drumstick. As for me, forget the wing and the drumstick; give me that breast patty any day! Read a book by the Duck Commander. He kept using a word that I had never seen: la- gniappe. And he used it like those who read it would know what he was talking about. So I looked it up and Webster’s said it refers to “a small gift added to a purchase by a tradesman as a favor to customers; a gratuity or tip.” It is derived from French, Creole, Spanish and Quechan languages and used chiefly in the South. Aha. Now I get it. Re- minds me of our Polish friend Marek the first time he heard the expression, “It’s not my cup of tea.” Have to ask if he got it yet. Time to start thinking of a float for the Fourth of July pa- rade. Theme is easy: Spirit of ’76. Anybody have any fifes and drums? Eph. 5: 19-20 “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at
