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A8 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, January 17, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex On Jan. 8, it was so nice to be back on a Monday. Except we were missing our wonder- ful Shay, who has been quite ill with the Australian flu. We also miss Linda, who has worked so hard to keep us dec- orated, through all of Novem- ber and December with all of our festivities. She deserved a trip to a warmer place. Ron Dowse and I were greeters. Our friends from Redeemer Lutheran Church were here for table service, including Jeanette Kile and Buzz Gilmore. Bonnie and Francis Kocis (Clause) also did home deliveries to John Day and Canyon City, and Rodney Brunson from Step Forward did the Mt. Vernon route (no one else signed in). Altogether, these wonderful volunteers delivered 35 regu- lar and 36 frozen meals. Buzz led the flag salute, Deda Porter won the draw- ing for the free meal, Corinne Stennett won the Len’s Drug certificate and Francis gave the blessing on our meal. One of our favorites was served: hamburger gravy mashed po- tatoes with mixed vegetables, and for dessert, we enjoyed a lovely cheesecake. We served 26 diners. We have a new health provision on site. At each en- try door, we now have hand sanitizers. Thanks to Chris Labhart for installing them Can anyone help with the identity of the person who filled the senior center dump- ster with their junk? Please call Veanne at 542-575-2949 or email her at veannewed- dle@centurylink.net. We will prosecute for theft of services. We have some evidence. Thanks for your help! On Thursday, Jan. 11, Chef Shay was back in the kitchen, Everett King and Ron Dowse staffed the greeters desk and we were served by the la- dies from Cornerstone Bible Church, Carla Anderson and Linda Sprouffske. Brenda and Jay Taramasso took home de- liveries to John Day and Can- yon City, while David Gill and Rodney Brunson made the Mt. Vernon deliveries. In all, 37 meals went out. Thank you to all of our volunteers. This wouldn’t work without you. Linda Sprouffske led us in the pledge of allegiance, and Jeanne Willey won the draw- ing for the Valley View meal certificate. The Chester’s Thriftway certificate went to Carla Anderson. Our meal was blessed by Carla, and we enjoyed barbecue chicken wrapped in bacon. (I am mak- ing this very soon.) We also had baked beans and potatoes with homemade bread. Our dessert was apple turnovers, and not a bite was left. We served 37 diners in all. Mo Delano and Rodney Brunson joined us for lunch. It is nice to have you here, friends. Don’t forget, we play bingo at 1 p.m. on Thursdays, or as soon as we can finish with lunch cleanup. On Monday, Jan. 18, corned beef hash is on the menu with macaroni and cheese. Thursday, Jan. 21, we’ll have Polish kabobs with rice. 2 Corinthians 6:1 “As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We thank our cooks Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell for working hard and preparing the lunches for Tuesday, Jan. 9. Guests had the choice of fried chicken or fish. Along with those items, they also served us coleslaw, french fries, fruit and cookies. Our greeters were Jan Ensign, Jimmy Cole and Debbie Reid. Jan led us in the flag salute and made the announcements. Yours tru- ly prayed the blessing over the meal. Jimmy and Deb- bie collected and counted the money. There were 51 guests on the books and five takeouts. The free meal tick- et was won by Ed Bustar- do. Betty Richards won the Len’s Drug gift card. Donny Lippert won the Chester’s Thriftway gift card. We want to thank David Stubblefield for moving and installing the new convec- tion oven in the senior cen- ter along with the help of his wife, Karen Stubblefield. The new oven looks great and is working out nicely for our cooks. Some of the announce- ments were as follows: Be- ware that there are some scams going on. Criminals posing as IRS calling to in- timidate and cheat people of important personal informa- tion for theft. Heather Riggs has requested that if one is returning books to the li- brary, please place the books in the cart. Do not attempt to put the books back on the shelves. John Ramirez got to take home the turkey that was raffled away. Please come and join in on the shoot at Brad and Ju- lie Smith’s in Kimberly on Jan. 20. There will be yummy food available for purchase and auctioning of homemade pies. Judy Harris is calling out to all bakers for donations of fresh baked pies for the auc- tion. All the proceeds will benefit the food bank. Items are now currently being accepted for the up- coming rummage sale in the spring. Please donate only clean and usable items. The ladies sewing day will be on Jan. 27. It will be a fun time of sewing, visiting and sharing a potluck meal at noon. The time will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Well, we’ve been hav- ing some beautiful weather here in Monument this past week. Oh, it was quite love- ly. The weather was even so warm on one of the days that I didn’t even wear a coat. But I tell you, once that sun goes down, those temps drop pretty quickly. I think I might have two pregnant nanny goats. Dolly is preggers, I think. I thought she couldn’t get pregnant. I was wrong. Ever since I got rid of mean ol’ Perry, she seems a lot happier. Maybe that was why she didn’t get pregnant before? Stress may- be? She looks like she might even have twins! We shall see. I will keep you posted. Who knows, maybe I’m wrong and she is just fat. Ha. Jill is also pregnant. I shall have to keep an eye on them both. Psalm 37: 27-28 “Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Hallelujah. We got our beloved Boise TV channels back. Many thanks to whoever accomplished that. Ginger did the announcing for the meal. (Another praise.) Harold was in town so he got to do the flag salute. Larry, Carlos and Ken took care of the home deliveries. Joy and Fran were kitchen helpers. The proposed new by-laws were distributed. The corporation will have a meeting on Jan. 17 to consider them for adoption with a vote from the general membership on Jan. 24. So if you have any questions about the new by-laws, be sure and voice them to an officer of the corporation. Ginger announced that there is always a need for vol- unteers to do the home deliver- ies, table preparations, kitchen cleanup and hall cleanup. So jump in where you can. Frances decided to see if she could find a place for all the new books that have been given to us. I mean, boxes and boxes of new (to us) books. If you like to read, surely there is something here for you. Gave myself a good laugh a while back when I wanted something to read while eating my meals. “Gee, I wish I had something to read,” I said as I looked across the room at the floor- to-ceiling bookshelves filled with all manner of informative books. Finally found one so mealtime is instructive now. Bonnie Lake won the certif- icate donated by Valley View for two meals. Jack Retherford asked the blessing. Our meal consisted of split pea (plus other veggies) and ham soup, grilled cheese and ham sandwiches, green salad and lemon cake with berries. Great meal, Tom and Marjean. Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Thelma Kite, Otho Laurance and Dick Read from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Two of the 3 Amigas played violin and viola today. I managed to snip my left index finger with the yarn-cutting scissors, and I didn’t want to put too much pressure on it, so I played violin and not cel- lo. That helped me remember why I switched from violin to cello. My neck hurts. Just not built right, I guess. Been having lots of fun arranging music for the 3 Amigas. Decided to recycle some of the choir chime ar- rangements for the 3 Amigas since I can’t get a full quorum of chimers. I also get to play with the YAP string orches- tra this spring. Haven’t done that for y–e–a–r–s. For those who don’t know, YAP stands for Youth Arts Program spon- sored by the Juniper Arts Council. The two ladies that head it up provide music and art and drama instruction to children after school and during the summer. When the adults saw how much fun the kids were having, they asked for a program, too. So that’s how come this senior citizen gets to play. Like I said last week, the music never goes away. Psalm 68:24, 25 “Your Procession has come into view, O God, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary. In front are the singers, after them the musi- cians; … (and) the maidens playing tambourines.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at