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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 2017)
A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 11, 2017 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIOR John Day Seniors Nicky Essex On Monday, Oct. 2, I got to show our newest mem- ber of the Site Committee, Everett King, how we greet our diners. He is a better student than I am a teacher. Our servers Virginia Miller and Marylou Horton were from Blue Mountain Aux- iliary, and prior to serving at the table, they delivered regular and frozen meals to John Day and Canyon City, while David Gill and Rod- ney Bruser took the Mt Ver- non route. All together they delivered 30 regular and 59 frozen meals. I hope you all know how much you are ap- preciated. Everett opened our time with the salute to our Amer- ican flag. The drawings pro- duced the following winners: Karen Barrietua won the free meal, Virginia Miller won the Len’s Drug certificate and Frances Preston won the last Harrison Ranch Produce gift certificate as the Satur- day Market will be closing for the winter. Thanks to all of our sponsors/supporters. Dale Stennett gave the blessing for our meal, which was pepperoni pizza, toma- to tortellini soup and pear crisp for dessert. Jimmy Ma- ple brought as a very special guest his sister-in-law, Tina Maple. On Oct. 5, Ron Dowse was at the helm and I “rode shotgun” as greeters. The folks from John Day Church of the Nazarene were here to serve us, including, Dale and Corinne Stennett, Ever- ett King, Roseanne Palmer, and Vickie Harris. Dale and Everett ran the John Day and Canyon City meals out while the Step Forward folks took the Mt Vernon Route. They delivered a total of 37 meals. A special “thanks knucks” to our set-up guy, Ethan Garrin- ger and his buddy James. Everett gave the flag sa- lute to open our time togeth- er. The drawings went to Maria Strawn for the Valley View meal and Janice Holt for the Chester’s Certificate. Dale gave the blessing on our meal and we really dug in. The Oktoberfest celebration began with Polish sausage and oven-roasted baby reds with Brussels sprouts (spon- sored by OTEC), dinner rolls and birthday cake courtesy of Driskill’s Mortuary Service. Be prepared for our pie social on the Oct. 19. And our Halloween special will be on Oct. 26. I have a sur- prise — Gene has a costume. Fun times, please be jovial. Please remember those who can’t be with us. I saw Hel- en Bogart last evening at the gathering of the Grant Coun- ty Jammers, she misses our group. By the way: The Jam- mers gather to sing and play from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thurs- days. Also, Tai Chi is great from 6-7 p.m. on Wednes- day night. We have bingo on Thursdays at 1 p.m., after lunch. Lunch on Oct. 11 is ba- con-wrapped meatloaf, and on Oct. 16 breakfast burritos. I just love to look forward to our meals — I never go away hungry. Hebrews 13:16 NIV “And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” Prairie City Seniors Frances M. Preston I have the honor of being a guest writer for the Prai- rie City Senior Center while Rose is away. Don’t worry, she will be back real soon. On Oct. 4, we had a deli- cious meal to start off our fall menu. It was advertised as to- mato soup with rice and a sand- wich, and let me tell you was that ever “false advertising.” We had a visit to the center by a very special news report- er from the Blue Mountain Eagle — there is a clue fur- ther down in the article. As she was preparing her second meal as head cook, Marjean Koser was also being inter- viewed. Action, action, ac- tion! Our new head cook, Mar- jean left us with a whole dif- ferent feeling about tomato and rice soup. Now let me tell you, I love tomato soup but never in my life have I eaten such delicious tomato and rice soup, officially called Provençal rice soup. Imagine: tomatoes sliced very thin, cel- ery, onions, rice all very fresh and perfectly sautéed served piping hot. If you don’t be- lieve me ask Jim Hamsher and Bruce Kaufman how de- licious it was, and then came the grilled ham and cheese sandwich. To top that off: a broccoli salad to die for; I am not a lover of broccoli but let me tell you that salad was outstanding: large pieces of broccoli, raisins, onions, cel- ery, carrots, and a very tasty dressing with a little tang. To end the marvelous meal we had perfectly baked spicy ap- ple cake with cream frosting; yum, yum just ask Angel I think she had some. Don’t you wish you had been there? You missed out on a special meal much more than “tomato and rice soup with sandwich.” It was en- joyed by 60 very lucky peo- ple. Our big news is we have our new exit handicap acces- sible ramp completed, final inspection done and ready for business. The bad news is Lorna and Krystin, our usual folks from the Blue Mountain Care Center, weren’t there. We missed them and may- be we can see how the ramp works next week if they can join us. We are excited to have our new ramp which was made possible in part by a grant we received from the Barbara Emily Knudson Char- itable Foundation in Portland, whose mission is to promote education, health and vibrant communities in Oregon. The foundation supports direct service programs and proj- ects to benefit and strengthen families and to assist individ- uals of all ages with access to resources to meet their basic health and living needs. So you can be prepared when you join us this Wednes- day at noon for lunch at the Prairie City Senior Center 204 N. McHaley Ave. We want you to enjoy the meal that will be prepared by our new head cook, Marjean: • Meatloaf • Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes • Belgian Salad (green beans, peas & corn) • Roll • Raisin Squares See you at noon on Wednesday. All are welcome. Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Our first meal for the month of October was chili dogs, French fries, a fresh green salad, and peanut but- ter cookies for dessert. Ter- ry Cade and Carrie Jewell did a great job of filling our tummies and we thank them very much. Our greeters were Bode- an Andersen, Jimmy Cole, and Linda Blakeslee. Bode- an led us in the flag salute, made the announcements, and prayed the blessing over our meal. Jimmy and Linda collected and counted the money. We had 39 guests on the books and 10 take-outs. We had some visitors join us for lunch: Harlan Nelson from Vancouver, Washing- ton. We also had Dick and Pam Wanous from Spray. The lucky winners of free meal tickets were Ed Bustar- do and Jimmy Cole. There is information avail- able for first time home buy- ers for assistance and also if you are in danger of fore- closure. There is also ener- gy assistance available. The information is at the back table in the senior center. An- other announcement FYI, the amount that was made from the Buckaroo after costs was around $15,000. Thank you to all for your support and participation. Well, we had some drama again on the Yukawa farm. Sunday morning, while my hubby was out taking care of the animals, I heard some gunshots. I looked out one of the windows to see if there was a skunk in the live trap behind the house. I didn’t see anything, so I went around to another room and saw my hubby. He said there was an- other skunk in the coop and was in there eating the chick- en feed. He fired three shots. The same dog got skunked again. This is the fourth time now. I had to help my hubby wash the poor dog. He was not happy and it was miser- ably cold, too. I better stock up on some more hydrogen peroxide and Dawn dish soap. So, it took about 10 or 15 minutes to take care of the dog and then I walked over to take a look at the skunk to see how big it was. I got about 12 feet from the coop when all of a sudden that skunk jumped up and stood on all fours and I saw its bushy tail up. Of course I did what anybody would do in my sit- uation, I screamed like a little girl and ran away for dear life. I screamed at my hubby that the skunk had played “pos- sum.” My hubby came over and had to shoot what he called the “zombie skunk” again and now my little kit coop is rid- dled with holes in the screen. Lucky for me, actually the chickens, my wonderful hub- by is building a new coop and hopefully it will be complet- ed before the snow comes. This year has been really bad for us with these skunks, and I think for everyone all around. Maybe soon, they will go into hibernation? 1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolish- ness unto him: neither can he know because they are spiritually discerned.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at
