Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
I must begin this week
with a very humble apology
to Larry Schmitz. Mixing up
your name with your dad’s in
last week’s column was about
the worst imaginable. I am so
very sorry. I sincerely beg your
pardon.
Since Labor Day was a hol-
iday, there was no news from
John Day seniors. But I sure
missed lunch.
Thursday, Sept. 7, Jeanette
Julsrud and Drew Harmer
were our greeters, and the
sweet folks from the Naza-
rene Church were here to serve
us. Trace Andrews, Dale and
Corinne Stennett and Everett
King were our servers, and
Joan and Joel Tayles delivered
meals to John Day and Canyon
City, while Marcus Perkins
from Step Forward took the
Mt. Vernon route. Altogeth-
er, they delivered 32 regular
meals and 45 frozen meals. I
hope you know how much you
drivers and runners are appre-
ciated. Not to mention Shay,
Lisa and Danny, who think of
those whom will receive those
meals every time they make
one up.
I also want to give a special
thanks to new friends James
Hercher and Ethan G. who
were here helping with set up.
We love our volunteers.
Everett King opened our
time together with the Pledge
of Allegiance to our flag.
The drawings produced the
following winners: the Val-
ley View meal went to Beth
Dunkelberger, the Chester’s
Thriftway certificate to Bet-
ty Sprague and the Harrison
Ranch Produce certificate to
Drew Harmer.
Veanne wants to remind
any of us (senior or not) there
will be a free six-week-long
“Living Well with Chronic
Conditions” workshop begin-
ning in mid-October. Each
participant will receive a free
copy of the book, valued at
$30. You need to call Veanne
at 541-575-2949 to sign up.
Alma Joslin is in the hospi-
tal with a very sore leg. Please
remember her in your prayers
and go see her.
For our dinner — the entrée
sponsored by Dale and Nancy
Conlee in memory of Eulala
Herbert — we had Salisbury
steak, excellent mashed pota-
toes and gravy, and a yummy
zucchini casserole. For des-
sert, we had chocolate cake
for our September birthdays.
Thanks go to our friends at
Driskill Memorial Chapel.
We had some of our bingo
people come to find there was
no bingo. Please accept our
apologies, and for those faith-
ful from Prairie City, Rhonda
and Carolyne, thank you for
bringing Rhonda’s daughter,
Brandi Anderton. Come again,
Brandi. We love seeing the
Valley View bus roll in. Load-
ed. Kim Ausland brought Jeri
Pasco, Lynda and Larry Chris-
tiansen, Chuck Corwin, Gene-
vieve Winkler, Randy Persing-
er, Betty Sprague, Sharon Bell
and Dawn Hindman.
Thursday, Sept. 14, we’ll
serve chicken a la king and pea
salad, and Monday, Sept. 18,
we’ll have cheeseburgers with
fries.
Watch out for the school
buses and kids walking. It’s
that time of year again.
Mark 12:44 “They all gave
out of their wealth; but she, out
of her poverty, put in every-
thing — all she had to live on.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
For our Tuesday, Sept.
5, meal, we had pulled pork
sandwiches, coleslaw, french
fries, and peanut butter cook-
ies. Thank you to our very
hardworking cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell for preparing
our lunch. We appreciate all
their efforts. We had 40 guests
in the books and 10 takeouts.
Our greeters were Bodean
Andersen, Jimmy Cole, and
Linda Blakeslee. Bodean led
us in the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed
the blessing over our meal.
Jimmy and Linda collected
and counted the money. The
free meal tickets were won
by Betty Breeding and Linda
Abraham.
Here are few announce-
ments that you might want to
know about. Wally and Mar-
va Walker have found a place
to move to in Oklahoma. We
wish them well and best wish-
es on their move.
Lloyd and Ann Benson
were the local supporters who
generously offered to match
donations to the Monument
Senior Center for up to $1,500
toward the purchase of newer
appliances for the kitchen.
Well, the contributions have
been coming and the match
has been made. Thank you to
all for your generous support.
Jeannie Strange has been
tirelessly helping to sell some
items from the senior center
rummage sale on eBay. She is
also posting auction items for
the upcoming Buckaroo event
on Sept. 23 on Facebook. If
you would like to see what
will be auctioned off, look
for the Monument Buckaroo
and Fall Harvest page. Thank
you to Jeannie for all her hard
work.
Monument School has a
new principal and superinten-
dent, Ron Frieh. We welcome
him to our community and we
hope that it will be a smooth
transition for him, as well as
our students.
We had a little run-in with
nature a couple of times this
past week. My hubby was
outside with our dogs when
suddenly one of them came
running back and wildly tried
to rub himself in the dirt.
The horror of horrors, he got
skunked. My hubby yelled
for me and I opened the back
door to see what was the mat-
ter. Big mistake, the 5 seconds
that I had the door opened, the
putrid smell wafted in and
permeated the whole house.
I got out the hydrogen perox-
ide, baking soda, and original
Dawn dish soap and lathered
the dog. Poor boy, he looked
so sad. He stood still for me
to soap him up, third time’s a
charm.
Well, my hubby set the
live trap after he discovered
the skunk’s hidey hole, just
about 50 feet from the house.
One of our cats got caught
but no skunk. Sunday morn-
ing, my hubby discovered the
skunk, in our chicken coop.
He just happened to look into
the coop and saw it. He care-
fully opened the nest box top
and shot it, but unfortunately,
it sprayed. My poor chickens,
their house stinks. That skunk
was huge. Hopefully he was a
loner skunk.
Revelation 12: 1 “And
there appeared a great wonder
in heaven; a woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her
head a crown of twelve stars.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Boy, aren’t we glad the
smoke waited until after the
eclipse to arrive? Also makes
the temperatures lower. (Take
your blessings where you can.)
We made a tour — again
— to check out the road head-
ing north from Prairie City up
Dixie Creek. Oh, yeah. Another
one of those extremely limited
maintenance roads. We did find
where we made the wrong turn
and came down Bear Creek, so
that was proven. So we went to
Arch Rock, but didn’t climb up
to it. Our knees just won’t take
that exercise anymore. Decided
to go to Keeney Camp. But the
road to Magone Lake appeared
before we could find Keeney
Camp. Derrol said he delivered
fuel out there back in his Cenex
days. (If you didn’t know, there
was such a fuel stop in Prairie
City, just ask him about it.) So
that was our Labor Day trip.
Earlier in the month, we went
out to see where Land’s End Inn
is. We found it, but didn’t go
through the cattle gate. They had
a piece of paper with informa-
tion if you were going there for
the eclipse. Best item was if you
hear the air horn, get off the run-
way. Good advice. There was a
bent propeller nailed to the tree.
Draw your own conclusions.
So we drove up — and I do
mean up — the road to the top
of the ridge. There was another
sign: Speed Limit 25 mph. That
would not be a good idea. We
were lucky to do 15 mph. The
map said that you could take
the right fork of the road and
go down Frank’s Creek back to
Dayville. At this point we don’t
put too much trust in maps — if
that is possible, let me know.
Food for thought: Leftovers
are food that’s here today and
here tomorrow. And that’s what
we had for our lunch, only it was
breakfast with leftover supplies
from the eclipse breakfast: or-
ange or apple juice, scrambled
eggs (some had olives, some
had mushrooms), hash browns,
sausage, crescent rolls and a
smoothie made with bananas
and strawberries for dessert.
Thanks to Tom, Marjean and
Julia for a good meal. Ginger
and Julia delivered the juice and
milk. The pink lemonade and
coffee are self-serve. Ken and
Carlos made the home deliver-
ies. Frances did the announc-
ing and led the flag salute. Jack
asked the blessing. There were
54 names on the book. There
was some more zucchini and
squash to give away along with
a case of tomato sauce.
Lorna and Krystin brought
Marilyn Randall, Joan Met-
lock, Otho Laurance and
Bud Salisbury from the Blue
Mountain Care Center.
There will be a Site Com-
mittee meeting at 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 13.
And speaking of cool, we
didn’t have to turn on the swamp
cooler. But a dragonfly came in
because we had the doors open,
I guess. Made a few dive bombs
and finally landed on the ceiling.
Forgot to check if he was still
there when I left.
Frances and I attempted to
get the new printer to work after
we got done counting the mon-
ey. We thought we were pretty
smart to get all the cords hooked
up to the correct spot. But it
wouldn’t print. Finally discov-
ered that the cartridges were
only a one-time use for setting it
up. Did you know that?
Job 19:25 “I know that my
Redeemer lives and… He will
stand upon the earth.”
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