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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.”
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