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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
Everett King and I were
greeting as folks came into the
Senior Center for lunch, library
and cards. It is always fun to
work with him. Our servers
were from Redeemer Luther-
an Church: Jeanette Kile and
Betty Holznagel found plenty
to do while Bobbie and Buzz
Gilmore did meal deliveries
to John Day and Canyon City.
David Gill and his crew from
Step Forward delivered to Mt.
Vernon. Together, these won-
derful people delivered a total
of 34 regular meals and 38 fro-
zen meals.
Bobbie opened our time
by leading us in the Pledge of
Allegiance. Our drawings pro-
duced winners from the same
table and same family. Don
Porter won the Len’s Drug
card and Deda Porter won the
free meal. Buzz led us in a
thankful prayer for our meal.
Then the room settled down
and enjoyed a very wholesome
and tasty lunch of chicken and
white bean chili, with corn-
bread muffins, pea salad and a
desert of fruit Jello topped with
whipped cream. We served 24
guests.
As always, we celebrate
holidays the Thursday prior to
the holiday, so this Thursday
we had a traditional St Patrick’s
Day meal. We were greeted by
Bonnie Kocis and Dave Pas-
ko and served by our friends
from Ye Old Thrift Shoppe
and the Methodist Church, led
by Sherrie Feiger. Included in
the serving group were Chet
Day, Dolores Beldin, Margie
Conlee and Paul Smith. Prior
to lunch, Sherrie Feiger and
Chet Day took meal deliveries
to John Day and Canyon City,
while David Gill and his group
from Step Forward made de-
liveries to Mt. Vernon. Alto-
gether, they delivered 34 meals.
I know those you delivered to
were very grateful.
Jeanette Julsrud led us in
the flag salute, Jay Colson won
the Chester’s Thriftway card
and Margie Mortensen won the
free meal at Valley View. Then
we had some special drawings
for St. Patrick’s Day, with our
thanks to Linda Stoltz who
keeps her eyes open all year
for special gifts, decorations
and anything else she finds to
enhance our joy at these special
times. Sherrie gave the blessing
on our meal and our fellow-
ship, and then came the corned
beef and cabbage, sponsored
by Mobile Glass of Oregon,
along with roasted red pota-
toes, dinner rolls and key lime
bars. Visitors were Dorothy
Howard (Paul’s mom), Norma
Rynearson, Lois Bidasolo, Rod
Dowdy, Jim Smith, Jeannette
Sheridan, Margie Martensen
and Pam King (Everett’s wife).
Happy crowd.
Next week, March 22 will
be chicken cacciatore with
rice, and March 26, Cajun
beans and rice.
Don’t forget bingo next
Thursday, and we will have
Sandy Gladish here at 11:30
a.m., prior to lunch, to get in-
put for the Fossil Beds acces-
sibility…with some items to
draw for.
Please keep Lon’s eyes,
Billie’s foot, Deda’s health is-
sue, and Shay’s ribs on your
prayer list. They are all waiting
to hear about doctor appoint-
ments/tests out of town.
Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind
to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, as God
in Christ forgave you.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Are you enjoying the glo-
rious sunny days we’ve been
having with the beautiful blue
skies and big, puffy, white
clouds? I sure have been! I
still have to sometimes pinch
myself that it is a reality that
my family and I really do live
out here in God’s Country.
I was talking to a friend
of mine the other day who is
still living in California and I
was trying to tell her how we
literally have no traffic at all.
I don’t think she really under-
stood nor could she compre-
hend that thought. I love that
I have the view of the river on
my drive around here. I write
this for the benefit of you all
out there reading and won-
dering how us folks in Mon-
ument are faring.
We had quite a plethora of
different weather fronts come
through here this past week.
We had the fog, torrential
rain (seriously, it was blow-
ing and coming down), dip-
pin’ dots, huge snowflakes in
blizzard-like conditions and
a couple of days of weather
in the 60s. Did I mention we
also have green grass slowly
growing? Yup, spring is defi-
nitely in the air.
We had a nice meal of
creamy spinach and chick-
en penne, garlic bread, fresh
green salad, with a blueberry
cobbler for dessert. We thank
our chefs Terry Cade, Carrie
Jewell and Teawna Conklin
for preparing our lunch for us.
Our greeters were Judy
Harris, Debbie Reid, and Lin-
da Blakeslee. Judy led us in
the flag salute and made the
announcements, yours truly
prayed the blessing over the
meal. Debbie and Linda col-
lected and counted the money.
We thank everyone for the
volunteer work.
The Len’s Drug gift card
winner was Lonnie Lawrence.
Bob Yukawa was the winner
for the Chester’s Thriftway
gift card. The free meal ticket
was won by Gary Engle.
Katee Hoffman of Canyon
City joined us for lunch and
was present to answer or as-
sist any of our veterans’ ques-
tions concerning services.
Mark your calendars; there
will be a sewing class for
March 24. The class will be
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring
your sewing machine, ma-
terial, project and a dish to
share. You can also come just
to fellowship and have some
female bonding time. Ha.
The Tai Chi class is now
being offered to anyone in-
terested right after lunch on
Tuesdays. If you want to feel
good, get some good stretch-
ing, help your overall health,
please come.
Two of my baby goats will
be leaving to go to their new
home this week. Oh, so sad,
but at the same time I will be
glad they will be going to a
loving home and live in the lap
of luxury. I’m sure they will be
spoiled and treated like little
princes. I hope they don’t try
and hop onto the new owner’s
lap, because they are getting
quite big now and well, they
also try and hop onto one’s
head, crazy little goats.
Psalm 100:4-5 “Enter
into His gates with thanksgiv-
ing and into His courts with
praise: Be thankful unto Him,
and bless His name. For the
Lord is good; His mercy is
everlasting; and His truth en-
dureth to all generations.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Typical March in Grant
County — 60 degrees one
day and snow the next. Ain’t it
grand. After two days in Bend,
we were ready for home.
Derrol’s left shoulder sur-
gery went “perfectly,” accord-
ing to the surgeon. Hey, can’t
ask for anything better than
that, can you? Now comes the
rehabilitation process. They
have a new way to keep the
procedure area cool to reduce
swelling. At least it was new to
us. Apparently it came out after
his last shoulder joint replace-
ment surgery several years ago.
Looks like a little ice chest that
you keep filled with ice and
water and it circulates the cold
water through a specific-shaped
pad to keep the swelling down.
Neat little gizmo. A lot easier to
manage than that nose feeding
tube. So far, no glitches, PTL.
Ginger and company held
down the fort while I was
gone. Del Lake led the flag sa-
lute and Jack Retherford asked
the blessing. The winner of the
two meals from Valley View
was Carla Wright. (Wonder if
Larry can find anything to eat
there.) Ken, Scott, and Carlos
took care of the home deliver-
ies.
Announcements: Sandra
Burns had the misfortune of
breaking her hip and a card
was signed and sent to her.
There will be a board meeting
on March 21, so if you should
be there, make your plans to
be there. And I am pleased to
announce that there will be an-
other Cabin Fever game day on
March 28. Oh, goody, goody,
goody. You wouldn’t believe
how much fun we had playing
pinochle. Join us at 10 a.m.
and see. And Frances has all
the info if you need to be regis-
tered to vote. If you don’t vote,
you can’t complain. And if you
don’t register you can’t vote.
At least that’s the way it’s sup-
posed to be. The lovely ladies
from the Blue Mountain Care
Center — Lorna and Krystin
— brought Marilyn Randall
and Gordon Sindt.
In honor of St. Patrick’s
Day our great cooks made Irish
stew, mashed spuds, mixed
veggies, Irish soda bread and
cake. Sounds delicious. I am
sure the 45 who registered en-
joyed it. Pam said the bread
was her dessert it was so good.
Wow. That’s some bread.
I’m pleased to report that
the street leading to St. Charles
Medical Center in Bend that
has been torn up for such a long
time is open with no detours,
even though the signs are still
up. I really appreciate that. I am
not a city driver. I know where
I need to go and I don’t want
any detours or other hindrances
to confuse me. Bend traffic is
confusing enough! Thank you,
one-stop-light Grant County. I
can’t imagine having a to learn
to drive in the “big city.” All
you old-timers will recall the
song lyric, “Give me 40 acres
and I’ll turn this rig around.”
That’s where I learned to drive.
We had a long driveway be-
tween the milking barn and the
house. That’s where we got to
practice — with a stick shift, no
less. Ah, fond memories.
I Thessalonians 3:6 “But
Timothy has just now come to
us from you and has brought
good news about your faith and
love. He has told us that you
always have pleasant memo-
ries of us and that you long to
see us, just as we also long to
see you.”
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