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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
Golly, I think my computer
may have outgrown my brain!
I am getting messages about
“read only” and administra-
tor that I have no idea about.
I am the only one who uses it
— what have I done? Luckily,
I am still sneaky enough to get
around this junk that I finally
gave up on Microsoft Help and
went about it on my own. Wish
me luck.
On July 10 no one had
signed up for greeting, so I sat
down — and along came three
people to help. I grabbed Bon-
nie Kocis, and we had a little
catch up visit.
The Lutheran Church was
here to serve us: Jeanette Kile,
Ray and Verna Maurer, as well
as Bonnie and Frances Ko-
cis attended graciously to our
needs at the table. Bonnie and
Frances had already taken out
the meals for delivery to John
Day and Canyon City, while
Veanne took the Mt. Vernon
route on her own. Veanne is our
girl “Friday,” as well as Mon-
day through Thursday. I hope
you all appreciate all she does. I
sure do … mops. The total reg-
ular meals delivered were 36,
with 50 frozen as well. I know
those who receive them really
appreciate your coming out.
We want to thank Russell’s
Custom Meats again for help-
ing us during our freezer cri-
sis. The freezer is fixed now,
and our food is safely back.
But what would we do if they
hadn’t come to our rescue?
Jeanette Kile led our flag
salute, and Frances Kocis led
our prayer for our meal. Verna
Maurer won the free meal in
our drawing, Pat Amling won
the Len’s Drug certificate and
Frances Kocis won the Harri-
son Ranch Produce certificate
to be redeemed at the Saturday
Market. It was National Piña
Colada Day, so we had piña
colada cake after stuffing our-
selves on Shay’s cheeseburg-
er-stuffed French bread. Amaz-
ing, do that one again. Green
salad and veggies rounded out
the meal. We served 25 diners.
We welcomed home Heath-
er (Sheedy) Swank and her
husband, Carl. Nice to have
you here.
July 13, Jeanette Julsrud
and Bonnie Kocis were back
at the greeter’s desk, and Cor-
nerstone Church was serving at
the tables. Zola Pike, Carla An-
derson, Donna Mulder, Donna
Johnson and Henry Miller took
very good care of us. Brenda
and Jay Taramarsso took out
the regular meals in John Day
and Canyon City, while Rod-
ney Bruser and Larry Palmer
from Step Forward delivered to
those on the Mt. Vernon route.
Veanne didn’t have much
in the way of announcements
but had the sad job of telling us
about Billy Drinkwater’s pass-
ing. What a gentle friend he has
been to many.
Donna Johnson led us in the
flag salute, and Carla Anderson
led the blessing for our food. Jan
Holtz (aka Kay) won the Valley
View meal, Deda Porter won
the Chester’s Thriftway certif-
icate and Zeke Rookstool won
the Harrison Ranch Produce gift
certificate. Zeke and his sister,
Zoey, joined their great-grand-
parents, Nicky and Gene Essex,
for lunch and planned to play
bingo after the meal.
We were treated to grilled
pork chops, roasted Parmesan
potatoes, spinach pie, apple
Waldorf salad and miscella-
neous ice cream for dessert.
Our entrée was donated by the
folks at Malheur Lumber Com-
pany. We served 63 well-fed
and happy diners.
July 20, we’ll celebrate
“Christmas in July” with tur-
key, dressing and lots of door
prizes and fun. You know that
Linda works on the prizes all
year.
July 24, we will enjoy sea-
food primavera. Don’t forget to
be here by 11:45 a.m. so we can
serve on time.
Psalms 127:3 “Children are
a gift from the LORD; they are
a reward from him.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
My wonderful hubby gave
me the report for the senior
lunch for July 11. I was gone all
week so he was kind enough to
take down all the information
for my article. I’m very blessed.
Terry Cade and Carrie Jew-
ell made sweet and sour chick-
en, steamed white rice, a fresh
green salad, fruit and cookies
for dessert. May the Lord bless
the hands that prepared the
meal, and many thanks.
The greeters were Bob
Blakeslee, Bodean Andersen
and Marva Walker. Bob led
the flag salute. Bodean prayed
the blessing over the meal and
made the announcements.
There were 41 guests present
and four takeouts. The free
meal tickets were won by Lin-
da Blakeslee and Olivia Hood-
enpyl.
I hope you all are preparing
for the upcoming Monument
Buckaroo Fall and Harvest Fes-
tival on Sept. 23. It was a huge
success last year, and everyone
who came had a great time and
enjoyed a wonderful meal. We
are going to have three grand
marshals this year, Betty Rich-
ards, Donna Campbell and Tom
Campbell. There will be silent
and live auctions, music in the
park, food booths and games.
The salmon and elk din-
ner will be served from 5 to 7
p.m. at the Monument Senior
Center. The cost of the dinner
is a suggested donation of $15
per person or $25 per couple.
Children ages 6-12 years are
$7.50, and 6 and under are free.
There will be door prizes drawn
during the dinner event.
The many different auctions
occurring will include the silent
auction, pie auction, live auc-
tion and raffle drawings for the
rifle, and a hand-made quilt by
Judy Harris. I am looking for-
ward to this coming dinner and
many others are too. Hope to
see you all again this year.
Well, I was gone all of last
week because I went with my
two little ones to Camp Elkanah
near La Grande. I had volun-
teered to be a counselor and
along with my co-counselor,
we were in charge of nine lit-
tle girls. I didn’t know what the
Lord had in store for me. I had
no expectations. Wow, these lit-
tle girls will forever live in my
heart. All but our own (mine
and the other counselor’s) girls
came from broken homes.
These beautiful little girls
were so precious. Each one
of them were so different and
unique. It was a privilege and
an honor to serve them. It was
a wonderful time of worship-
ing the Lord and taking care of
them. I got to tell them Bible
bedtime stories and pray over
them. I told them the story of
Samuel, and I embellished the
story a bit. I had to stop in the
middle because it was late, and
they protested to my amuse-
ment. They were devastated
when they thought I wasn’t go-
ing to finish the next night, ha.
Of course I couldn’t disap-
point the little dears. I pray that
these little darlings would grow
up knowing how much the
Lord loves them.
Matthew 19:14 “But Jesus
said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto
me: for of such is the kingdom
of heaven.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Did you know that July 3
was “Air Conditioning Ap-
preciation Day”? And do we
ever. These triple-digit tem-
peratures really make you
appreciate the AC. Though, I
have noticed that the 90-de-
gree temps are more bearable.
We’re getting used to them,
right?
The combination of hot
weather and little water does
make it more difficult to keep
the garden growing. I hate to
report that if I had to depend
on what I hope to harvest
from my little patch, it will be
mighty slim pickings this win-
ter. The bugs had made severe
inroads before I finally woke
up to where the insecticide was
stored. Oh, the trials and tribu-
lations of growing a garden in
Grant County.
Tom’s food for thought: “To
stay youthful, stay useful.” And
someone named Perianer stat-
ed, “the useful and the beautiful
are never separated.” Chew on
those for a while.
Larry, Ken and Carlos
took care of the home de-
liveries. I had to do double
duty at the registration desk
and announcing. Fran Bunch
has been cleaning out good
and brought several boxes of
cookbooks to give away. We
still have some goodies dis-
played on the stage that you
can give a good home to.
We made out like bandits
with all the donations toward
our meal. We thank the family
of Dorothy Blasing for the food
and flowers that we got to enjoy
that were left from the memori-
al dinner. Thank you so much.
So we had orange juice, ham
with pineapple sauce, mashed
potatoes, several delicious sal-
ads, watermelon and vanilla ice
cream with fresh cherry pieces
on top. Mmm, good. Thank
you, Tom, Julia and Marjean.
Helen Emmel made an ap-
pearance – yay! – with Vonnie
Blasing and her daughter Cin-
dy. The flowers that were on
the tables were designed by
Helen’s daughter, Denise, who
has a flower shop in Baker City.
Each bouquet got to go home
with someone. And Vonnie
won the $5 gift certificate do-
nated by Prairie Hardware &
Gifts. She went to find some-
thing that she could take back
to South Dakota on the plane.
Larry Wright was sport-
ing several large bandages on
his arms. That’s what happens
when you trip and fall on ce-
ment. So, you all be careful
out there. Lorna and Krystin
brought Marilyn Randall, Joan
Metlock and Otho Laurance
from the Blue Mountain Care
Center.
For you trivia buffs: The
threads of a screw slope at a
60-degree angle. And Henry
F. Phillips was the inventor of
the Phillips screwdriver and
its matching screw. They were
first used on the 1936 Cadillac.
Within two years, all car man-
ufactures had switched to this
new and improved design.
Ezekiel 43:11: “… make
known to them the design of
the temple … and all it’s reg-
ulations and laws. Write these
down … so they may be faithful
to its design and follow all its
regulations.”
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