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Community Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, September 27, 2017 A7 The deadline for What’s Happening items is 5 p.m. Fri- day. Call the Eagle, 541-575-0710, or email editor@bmea- gle.com. For meetings this week, see our list in the classi- fieds . WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27 Health Care for All Oregon program • 6:30 p.m., Canyon City Community Hall, 129 S. Wash- ington St. The program will focus on the quality, accessibility and affordability of health- care, and achieving a uni- versal, single-payer health- care system for Oregonians. The guest speakers are Bill Whitaker and Anna Maria Dill, members of Health Care for All Oregon. A short video will be shown, followed by questions and discussion about health care concerns and a legislative update. The showing is sponsored by the Grant County Democrats, Or- egon Rural Action and Blue Sage Ecumenical Council. The free program is open to public. WHAT’S HAPPENING SATURDAY, SEPT. 30 Annual fl y-in and breakfast • 7-11:30 a.m., Grant County Regional Airport Grant County Air Search will sponsor free airplane rides for children in grades 1-12. Parental escorts are allowed, and re- quired for children under 12. Breakfast will be catered by the Snaffl e Bit, and the cost is $8 for adults and $5 for children. A “The Star-Spangled Banner” fl yover and candy drop will also be featured, and aircraft will be on display as available. For more information, contact airport manager Haley Walker at 541-575-1151. John Day Farmer’s Market Eagle file photo Reitta Wyllie and Luke Claughton blast each other with colored chalk during the Color Me Free Fun Run and Walk at the Grant County Airport Industrial Park last year. The event is set for Sept. 30 this year. Crafts, baked goods, produce, kids activities, entertainment, information booths. For more information, call 541-792-0958 or email johndayfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Color Me Free Fun Run and Walk • 9 a.m., John Day Industrial Park Heart of Grant County’s fourth annual run and walk to kick off Domestic Violence Awareness Month benefi ts the or- ganization’s services and support for survivors. Participants receive white T-shirts that paint throwers color during the O utlook • 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., SW Brent St., John Day event. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and costs $20 per person or $40 per family. Free hot dogs and water will be available. The event starts at 10 a.m. For more information, call 541- 575-4335. SATURDAY, OCT. 7 Harvest bazaar • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Unity Community Hall Local vendors will have wares to sell, and 4-H and FFA members will provide coffee, muffi ns and lunch. SENI R We had our ‘Goodbye to Summer, Hello to Fall’ meal. Tom had an appropriate saying for the day, too: Everyone desires to live long, but no one Rose Coombs wants to get old. Our two oldest grandsons had their 14th and 9th birthdays this month. I barely remember being that old. How about you Larry, Carlos, Harold, and Ken did the home deliveries. And President Harold was here to do the announcing and help with deliveries and cleanup. Julia and Tom dispensed the milks and juices. Ron Dowse led the flag salute, and Jack Retherford asked the blessing. Del and Bonnie helped with the cleanup. Tom announced that we need a volunteer to help with the dishwashing for about 30 minutes after the meal. We registered 58 diners – or dinners if you prefer. Vivian Rookstool won the gift certificate donated by Chuck’s Little Diner. And we enjoyed lasagna, clean- out-the-fridge green salad, rolls, and a vanilla ice cream cone with sprinkles. I even went back for seconds. Scrumdidlyumptious. (Boy, the spellchecker sure doesn’t like that one.) Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Alma Joslin, Donna Blackwell, and Bud Salisbury from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Prairie City Seniors Monday, Sept. 18, Merry Henry and I were on the greeter’s desk, First Christian Church including Karen Barrietua who did setup, Dusty Harris, and Pastor Al Altnow served us at the tables. Pastor Al and Rick Rhinehart delivered homebound meals in John Day and Canyon City, while Rodney Bruser from Step Forward did the Mt. Vernon route, altogether delivering 30 regular meals and 20 frozen meals. Well done guys. Yog Harris opened our time by leading us in the flag salute. Drawings yielded the following winners: Dale Stennett won the free meal, Jeanette Julsrud won the Len’s Drug certificate and Dusty Harris won the Harrison Ranch Produce certificate. Pastor Al said table grace, and 24 diners shared a terrific meal. Shay did cheeseburgers with all of the trimmings and French fried sweet potatoes. Add in cottage cheese, and for dessert, baked apples with good crunch on top, it was a great lunch. Announcements: Thanks to Terry Casey for a nice donation of miscellaneous office supplies and a selection of new aprons. Come have lunch with us when you get settled. Our Halloween Lunch will be held on October 26, and it will be interesting. Please feel free to costume up… I will. Thursday, Sept. 21, Ron Dowse and I did the greeting, and we were served by the ladies from “Ye Old Thrift Shop” at the John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa So much to write about, hope I can fit it all in. Firstly, for our Tuesday, Sept. 19 lunch, Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell served us a filling lunch of hamburgers with all the fixings, curly fries, macaroni salad, fruit, and cookies for dessert. We thank the two ladies for our delicious meal. 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 Judy Bustardo and yours truly. We had some visitors present. Judy Cavendar had her son and two grandsons with her. Vicki Rider from the Bank of Eastern Oregon in John Day joined us. She gave some great advice for precautions on giving away your personal information over the phone to fraudulent criminals. We had 45 guests on the books and two takeouts. I would have to say that the Buckaroo Festival went fantastically. You should have seen some of the bidding wars going on for some of those auction items! A couple of those items were Judy Harris’ horse quilt that went for $700 and Sandy Davis’ hand-crocheted blanket raked in over $600. Wow! There were also bidding wars on the pies and cakes during the dinnertime. It was pretty exciting when people were going back and forth with their bids. In honor of Fall coming, Marjean had little ceramic pumpkin center pieces on all the tables. No more squash appeared, but there was a large bag of fresh green beans to give away. Thank you to whoever brought them. I saw several people eagerly filling their bags. (They could have my share…) So on to the on-going saga of Derrol’s next surgery: We had a consultation with the cardiologist after the meal. Didn’t have to go to Bend, PTL, because someone else had to reschedule in John Day and we got that time slot. The doctor had to listen and look a long time to find the heart murmur. Said if Derrol hadn’t had any ‘strange’ sensations in his chest, he would be cleared for the surgery. But as long as he keeps experiencing the discomfort, it would be good to rule out any heart problems. So he recommended going ahead with the nuclear stress test, hopefully in the next couple of weeks. That does have to be done in Bend. And the results will be available that day. Then maybe we can get the new shoulder joint. This one hasn’t quit complaining. But we have nothing to complain about compared to those in the paths of the hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. When all you can do is pray, then do it. Luke 18:1 “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Romans 8:26 “…We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.” James 5:16 “…pray for each other… The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.” Methodist Church. Jean Willey came in to set up the tables, Sherry Feiger, Isa Larkin, Kathy Smith, and Louise Nelson joined her to serve. Sherry Feiger and Chet Day made meal deliveries to John Day and Canyon City, and Larry Palmer from Step Forward delivered to Mt. Vernon. Total meals delivered were 36. Isa Larkin led us in the flag salute, and the following folks took home drawing prizes: Lon Davis won the free meal at Valley View, Karen Barrietua won the Chester’s Thriftway certificate and Jerry Sheets won the certificate from Harrison Ranch Produce to be redeemed at the Saturday Market. Sherry Feiger said the blessing after a brief devotional. Ron Dowse gave announcements: “Living Well with Chronic Conditions,” a 6 week workshop, will begin on October 10, there may still be time to sign up for this free class. Call Veanne for info, 541-575-2949. October 12, you can get your flu shots here at the center. Tai Chi began yesterday, September 20, and will be held at the hospital every Wednesday from 6-7pm. It was National Pecan Cookie Day. Welcome to Margie Coulee and Judy Spracken in case I missed you before. Lunch was deviled sausage in red sauce with rice (Shay’s wife is Greek, and this is a family favorite.) Green beans, Texas toast, yogurt and pecan cookies for dessert! Wonderful, Anne! Next Thursday the 28th: gold miner’s chicken and garlic mashed potatoes, then Monday, Oct. 2: pepperoni pizza and tomato tortilla soup! 1 Peter 1:3 (NIV)3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” The food was awesome. There was quite a hungry crowd. I know my family and I were starving because we had skipped lunch so we could pig out on the fabulous salmon and elk. We were not disappointed. The cooks did a great job and they were all volunteer men and women of Monument. We thank Judy Harris and Jeannie Strange for all their hard work and putting together the auction items for the event. We thank Bruce Hansen for his generous donations and catching all that salmon for us. We thank Ray Davis for the elk that was served. We thank the many volunteers for their tireless help and many sacrificed hours to put the event together and their hard work behind the scenes. If you missed it again this year, there is always next year. We had some pretty cold temperatures the past week and some rain. Oh, I just love the smells and the scenery of Monument after a rainstorm. It’s amazing how just a little bit of rain just perks up the color of the grass and the hills, oh, and the big, white, and puffy clouds were just peaceful to look at. I’d say that Fall is definitely here. There will be a sewing class on Saturday, October 7th. The time is from 9am to 3pm. We share a potluck lunch at noon. The class is free and open to all. Just bring your sewing machine, and if you don’t have one, Judy might have one to borrow. Sorry, looks like I will have to continue my previous story for the following week. Psalm 37: 27 “Depart from evil, and do good; And dwell for evermore.” 06195