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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 2018)
A8 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, February 14, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Two of the volunteers from Blue Mountain Hospital Aux- iliary were here on Feb. 4 to serve lunch. Joyce Nodine and Mary Lou Horton began their day by delivering meals to John Day and Canyon City, while David Gill and Rodney Brunson from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon route. Altogether, they delivered 30 regular meals and 24 fro- zen ones. Thank you so much. I hope you realize how valued you are by those receiving meals and by the senior center. We are also grateful for Jay Colson and Tom Roark. The Monday setups are so appre- ciated. After making deliveries, Joyce and Mary Lou served lunch for 24 diners. Mary Lou opened our time by leading us in the salute to the Ameri- can flag. We then drew names for the Len’s Drug certificate, won by Chris Labhart, and the free meal, won by Mary Lou Horton. Francis Kocis prayed for our meal, and we dug in. Chef Shay and Lisa produced a great taco pizza. They also served tortilla chips, with our choice of any or all of three dips with salsa. We had a hot chocolate pudding for des- sert. Thank you to all of the gentlemen who remove their hats while in the building. Of course, Shay has to wear a hat or a hairnet, because he cooks. If you would like to find him a chef’s hat, that would be fun. On Thursday, Feb. 8, Brenda and Jay Tarasammo delivered regular meals to those in John Day and Can- yon City, while David Gill and Rodney Brunson from Step Forward delivered to Mt. Vernon. Altogether, these great volunteers delivered 37 meals. Thank you for your faithfulness. Our faithful friends from Cornerstone Church, Carla and Andy Anderson, Linda Sprouffske, Donna Johnson and Donna St. Cyr, did our table service for our annual Valentine’s Dinner. Donna St. Cyr opened our time together by leading the Pledge of Alle- giance to our flag. The regular drawing for Chester’s Thrift- way was won by Vickie Harri- son, and the Valley View meal was won by Kay Cotham. Then there were 14 more drawings, for gifts made pos- sible by our wonderful dec- orator/librarian Linda Stolz. Thank you so much, Linda. Our entrée, chicken cor- don bleu with Swiss cheese and hollandaise sauce, was provided by Tootie Cernazanu to honor her late husband, Jim Cernazanu. We also enjoyed wild rice pilaf, California blend veggies, spinach straw- berry salad with strawberry balsamic dressing, homemade bread and individual Valen- tine cakes for dessert. It was a lovely luncheon, and we made a new friend at our table, Jo- anne Wilson. We are blessed to have the John Day Senior Center, full of friends and neighbors with love. We thank all of those who donate to keep our fresh and frozen foods available to all of our diners. John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the fullest.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Oh, we had such a great tasty meal. Terry Cade and Tiana soon-to-be Jewell pre- pared for us tacos with all the fixings, refried beans, Spanish rice and peach cooler cake for dessert. Of course, I piled my plate pretty high and ate it all, and I like to eat my dessert with my meal. I like the sweet and salty taste. We thank our wonderful and hardworking cooks. 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 count- ed the money. There were 58 guests on the books and eight takeouts. The Len’s Drug gift card was won by Bodean Andersen. The free meal tickets went to Karen Stubblefield and Yvonne of Monument. Jeanne Strange had creat- ed a beautiful Valentine’s Day wreath and a gift basket to be raffled off. Everyone who came to lunch received a free ticket for a chance to win these prizes. The lucky winner of the beauti- ful wreath was Linda Abraham. Olive Hoodenpyl was the lucky winner of the basket. We thank Jeanne for all her creative and generous support in helping raise money for the senior cen- ter. We had a great surprise at the senior center on Feb. 6. Lisa Neuburger, who has been living in Monument and Kimberly for a couple of years with her fam- ily, presented a much-needed grant check for the Monument Senior Center. Lisa, who is a board member for the Gorge Community Foundation in Hood River, assisted in per- suading the foundation to do- nate $21,000 in helping our se- nior center. The first thing that will be addressed is getting a ramp made for the senior cen- ter. Currently, there is no hand- icap ramp for the senior center. We thank Lisa and the mem- bers of the Gorge Community Foundation for their generous donation. It is greatly appreciat- ed and will be put to good use. This coming Saturday, Feb. 17, there will be a shoot at Brad and Julie Smith’s. The proceeds will be benefiting the horse rescue operation run by Lisa Neuburger in Monument. Any pie donations to help in gener- ating money for this great cause would be much appreciated. Lastly, there will be sewing class on Feb. 24. We meet at the senior center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. We share a potluck lunch around noon. Even if you don’t sew, you can just come and hang out with us and visit. That’s what some folks did last month. You can bring needle- work if you’d prefer. There is a project called “Quilts of Val- or” that is going to be worked on. If you are interested, please check out https://www. qovf.org/quilters-questions/ basic-requirements for more information. Otherwise, you can bring whatever project you want to work on. Isaiah 61:1 “The Spir- it of the Lord GOD is upon me; Because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the broken- hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to them that are bound.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs So now here we are in February already. Time for groundhogs, Valentine’s, presidents and the recital of that old mnemonic that only “old people” know: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November; all the rest have 31, save February, which has 28, but Leap Year gives it 29. And this is not a Leap Year, so there are only 28 days to enjoy February. One other thing that February has is birthdays. Jimmy Lunzman’s was on Feb. 10, along with son number two. Since the 3 Ami- gas managed to get together, we sang Jimmy a special ver- sion of “Happy Birthday.” In other news, Carlos, Larry and Ken made the home deliveries; Pam was in her station at the registration desk; Ginger took care of the announcements and the draw- ing for the new gift certificate donated by Len’s Drug. Matt Goodwin was the winner of the $5 card. Derrol led the flag salute, and Jack asked the blessing. The tables were sporting their Valentine deco- rations. Food for thought: The toughest part of a diet isn’t watching what you eat; it’s watching what your friends are eating. So we ate Polish sausage and cabbage stew, green salad, cheesy rolls and an ice cream-covered brown- ie for dessert. Scrumptious. Next week is apricot pork loin with rice pilaf. More scrump- tiousness. And we’ll miss it. Finally made contact with the cardiol- ogist. Earliest appointment is 9 a.m. Wednesday — in Bend. So we grabbed it. Derrol’s getting tired of answering the question, “How’s your shoul- der holding up?” Response? Painfully. The lovely ladies from the Blue Mountain Care Center brought Thelma Kite, Bob Larkin, Otho Laurance and Gordon Sindt. We had two new diners in attendance to- day: Cathy Lewis and Sharon Thissell. Welcome, and come back again. What’s new? The tulips are poking their leaves out of the ground. The new seed catalog came. I’ve started singing and playing cello with the YAP groups on Tuesday nights. Ja- nine asked how long I’d been playing the cello. Had to think a while on that. Sophomore in high school — 61 years ago. Yikes. You’d think I’d be bet- ter at it than I am, huh? The problem is, if there is no one to play with, or nothing to play for, the instrument just doesn’t get played. It’s a lot easier to sit down at the piano ’cause it is always ready to be played. Other instruments you have to get them out of the case or assemble them. Then get the music stand opened up, find the music, tune the instrument, etc., etc. So now I have a reason to play (concert in May), and people to play with. Wheeee. Hopefully any upcoming surgeries will not interfere. … Psalms 68:24-26 “Your procession has come into view, O God, the procession… into the sanctuary. In front are the singers, after them the musicians; … (and) maidens playing tambourines. Praise God in the great congrega- tion; praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at