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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.”
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