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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, November 8, 2017 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Many thanks to our newest member on the Site Council, Everett King, who has made himself known as a real help here in any way needed. You should be here when he gives announcements, very enter- taining. Everett took notes for me on Oct. 30, while we were in Portland, celebrating our sis- ter-in-law’s birthday. I owe you a lunch, Everett. Everett and Ron Dowse were greet- ing on Monday, and I think the gang from First Christian Church did service. Veanne and Danny took meal deliver- ies to John Day and Canyon City while Larry Palmer and Rodney Bruser from Step Forward did the Mt. Vernon route. Altogether, they deliv- ered 29 regular meals and 54 frozen meals. This is a bless- ing to many. Thank you for your volunteer services. Everett led the flag salute and the drawings produced two winners of free meals: Jan Ellison and Everett King (we ran out of Len’s Drug certificates). Ron Dowse gave the blessing on their meal. This was one meal I wish I hadn’t missed. They had beef stew with homemade biscuits and cookies for dessert. They served 16 meals here in the center. On Thursday, Nov. 2, Jea- nette Julsrud and Everett King were at the greeter’s desk, and the Church of the Naz- arene did the serving. Trace Andrew, Dale Stennett and (you guessed it) Everett King did a great job. Joan and Joel Tayles did the meal deliveries to John Day and Canyon City, while David Gill and Rodney Bruser from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon deliver- ies. There were a total of 29 meals delivered. God bless all of our volunteers. Everett opened the time by leading the flag salute. The drawings produced Trace An- drew, the winner of the free meal at Valley View, and Mer- ry Henry, winner of the Ches- ter’s Thriftway certificate. The entrée was sponsored by Don and Deda Porter, in memory of Buzz Harris. We enjoyed delicious pork chops and cranberry rice pilaf, ap- plesauce and glazed carrots. This was birthday of the month, so we enjoyed cake, donated by Driskill Memorial Chapel. We are so grateful for our senior center. Many of us are lonely and have found new friends here. We get oppor- tunities we wouldn’t have known about otherwise, like the class we are taking now, called, “Living Well with Chronic Conditions.” We have learned some very valu- able help in several areas, and we have fun and snacks (always a favorite for me). Thank you, Veanne Weddle and Kathy Cancilla. They will probably schedule this class again, as well as others, pertinent to our aging needs. We also play bingo on Thurs- days after lunch. Come join us. For questions, call 541- 575-2949. James 1:19-20 “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Our cooks Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell made us some yummy spaghetti, garlic bread, fresh green salad and mud pudding with worms and whipped cream. Good meal, ladies, and we are also thankful for Terry returning from her little mishap with an ATV. Our greeters were Bode- an Andersen, Jimmy Cole and Lonnie Lawrence. Bo- dean led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. Jimmy and Lonnie collected and counted the money. We had 42 guests on the books and four takeouts. Theda Phelps’ sister Marilee from Heppner joined us for the scrumptious meal. The winners of the free meals were Bruce Kramer and Lin- da Abraham. Here are some important announcements you might want to jot down. Starting Nov. 12, there will be new winter hours for the transfer station. The hours for Sunday are from noon to 2 p.m. There will be new winter hours for the city of Monument as well. You may call the city for de- tails. There will be sewing class at the Monument Senior Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18. There will be a potluck lunch at noon. If you don’t know already, Monument School is inviting everyone in the community to participate in honoring our veterans for their service to the country and fellow citi- zens. The Veterans Day lunch will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, in the school gymnasi- um. We thank all who served to protect our nation and their sacrifice. Well, looks like fall is gone, and we have immedi- ately gone into winter mode. Thank goodness we managed to “winterize” a few things to get ready because we did get snow on Sunday morning. That’s almost like last winter. So, my hubby helped me prepare the goat pen. I have Dolly and Jill that are the fe- male goats. Steve (lost one horn in a battle with Perry last year), Perry (who is crafty and my least liked) and Felix who is also in my opinion sneaky and a big pain. Dolly appar- ently had issues with her last kid and lost it and had gotten an infection, which made her septic before we got her. She cannot have babies but still goes into heat. Well, Perry and Felix have been basically harassing Dolly so I decided to pen her up so they couldn’t bother her. I managed to sepa- rate Jill and Steve too. I lured them with grain into the goat shed. I then chased Perry and Felix and locked them out of the goat pen. I was jumping with glee and I had such a feeling of sat- isfaction. Now Steve can hang out with the two girls in peace because he is gentle, and the two rotten billy goats are out- side in the rest of the acreage and can’t bother the girls. Oh, the feeling of victory! Watch- ing Perry and Felix frustrated and trying to get back into the goat pen was just pure elation for me. To be continued ... Genesis 1:1 “In the begin- ning, God created the heaven and the earth.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Here it is, Novem- ber. Only 47 days until Christmas. I acquire items throughout the year for gifts and put them in a special place upstairs. That way I won’t forget where they are — hopefully. So what do you have to bring to the Christmas on the Prairie doings at the cen- ter? After all, I might “need” it for my stash upstairs. And if you need a whole table, you need to get it reserved by Nov. 11 by contacting Frances at 541-820-4463 or 907-723-7613. The $20 table rental fee goes to our general fund. Del Lake led the flag salute Nov. 1, and faith- ful Jack Retherford asked the blessing. Ken and Tom did the home deliveries. We would like to announce that we have a new help- er in the kitchen and a new alternate cook in the person of Joy Caffey. Welcome aboard. The meal for this cool fall day had potato/veggie soup, Reuben sandwiches, cottage cheese and pear pieces. Des- sert was a scrumptious coco- nut cake. Now I had never had a Reuben sandwich before. For your information, it was good. It consists of de- li-sliced corned beef, Swiss and cheddar cheese, and sau- erkraut on toasted rye bread slices. Very filling. We solved the coffee pot problem, too. Have a big one for regular, and a smaller one for decaf. The little one we used to use is now for hot water for tea. We aim to please. So help yourself to any of the proffered liquid refreshments, which also includes milk, buttermilk, orange juice, apple juice and plain ol’ water. You can have your choice of large, medi- um or small size tumblers, too. What a deal. Tom’s food for thought: He who wants milk should not sit on a stool in the middle of the pasture ex- pecting the cow to come to him. Which reminds me of some of the cows we had on the dairy in Idaho who, if you didn’t get them into the milking parlor at the cor- rect time, would just release their udder’s contents out in the barn yard. Oh, no. There goes the profit. We didn’t get to see our friends from the Blue Moun- tain Care Center. Hopefully next time. One of the items I got at my last round of attending yard sales was a “modern” retelling of four of Charles Dickens’ stories. “Modern” — it was published in 1943. But it was very readable. No long descriptive paragraphs that the readers of his day re- quired. So I was able to read — for the first time — Oli- ver Twist and David Copper- field. I believe it was partly due to his exposure of the horrible working conditions that the child labor laws in England were reformed. Matthew 19:14,15 “But Jesus said, Suffer (the) little children, and forbid them not to come unto Me: for of such is the kingdom of heav- en. 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