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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.”
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