Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
On March 25, Ron Dowse
and I were greeters, and our
friends from the Church of Je-
sus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Deronda, Sarah and Rich Lal-
liton and Kailee Cherry, served
us. Deronda and Kailee also did
meal delivery to John Day and
Canyon City, while our guys
from Step Forward did the Mt.
Vernon route. Altogether, they
delivered 30 regular and 24 fro-
zen meals.
Kailee Cherry began our time
by leading us in the flag salute.
Pat Amling won the drawing for
the Len’s Drug gift, and Dave
Pasko won the free meal. Dale
Stennett gave the blessing on
our meal together. It was a small
but happy and friendly group
who chowed down on delicious
Cajun beans and rice with sau-
sage, cheese quesadillas, a lovely
selection of fruits and mint and
chocolate chip ice cream.
We had a nearly full house for
our Easter meal here at the senior
center. We missed some of our
regular folks: Veanne Weddle
has been very ill, Billie Bullard
has had surgery on a very sore
foot and is home recuperating,
Roberta and Ron Dowse were
in Bend with doctors and several
others were missed. But even so,
we served seven full tables. Serv-
ing us was the Hospital Auxilia-
ry: Virginia Miller, Kris Labhart,
Mary Lou Horton, Chris Yriarte
and Mary Jones. Thanks to Tom
Roark for setting up. Sally Dunn
joined Mary Jones in deliver-
ing meals to the John Day and
Canyon City area, while David
Gill and his crew from Step For-
ward did the Mt. Vernon route.
A total of 35 meals went out. It
wasn’t difficult to see our serv-
ers because they wore matching
aprons. We have a seamstress,
who wishes to remain anony-
mous, and she has gifted us with
18 double-sided aprons for all
special occasions. Thank you so
very much! They are beautiful
and can really be used for every
gathering. Our Easter Bunny
for the day, Linda Stoltz, had
egg surprises for everyone and
several lovely door prizes. Of
course she spent hours decorat-
ing, cleaning and straightening/
rearranging the library. Thanks,
Linda. Curt Pereira and Danny
De Priest helped Shay and Lisa
in the kitchen. We so love our
volunteers! Mary Jones led the
flag salute, Linda Stoltz won the
Chester’s Thriftway gift and Jan
Holt won the Valley View meal.
The entrée was sponsored by
Tootie Cernazanu, in memory of
Jim. We had honey-glazed ham,
parboiled baby reds, creamed
peas, fresh baked rolls and a lus-
cious finish to a wonderful meal,
strawberry cheesecake tarts for
dessert.
Many visitors included, from
Valley View, Dorothy Howard,
Betty Sprague, Pam Durr, Chuck
Corwin, Linda Christianson,
Helen Bogart, Dawn Hindman,
Randa Persinger, Lois Bidasolo
and Kim Ausland. Other visitors
included Austene Hendrix, Col-
leen and Lindsey Wyllie, Gene
and Sally Dunn, Jim Hamsher
and Donald and Joann Stratton.
Thanks to all who helped and
those who joined us to make our
Easter very special.
Next Thursday is our April
Fools’ meal (cook’s choice), and
on April 9, we’ll have chicken
teriyaki with noodles. Bingo is
canceled on April 5 but will re-
sume on April 12.
Romans 5:8 “But God
demonstrates his own love for
us in this: While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our lunch for March 27
was donated and sponsored
by the Bank of Eastern Ore-
gon. They sent $150 to cover
the meal. We send our ap-
preciation and gratitude for
their generous donation.
Our cooks Terry Cade
and Teawna Conklin pre-
pared for us some very de-
licious chicken fried steak,
mashed potatoes and gravy,
along with green beans and
chocolate cake for dessert.
We thank them for their hard
work. We were all quite sat-
isfied with this delightful
meal.
Boy, we sure had a big
crowd come through for the
Tuesday lunch. There were
52 guests on the books and
17 takeouts. From among the
guests, there were a few visi-
tors, Ed and Gracie Baker of
Lexington. We also had Tom
Wilson and Donna Tompson
from Ione. Also present were
Dick and Pam Wanous and
Keith Galager from Spray.
Our greeters were Bode-
an Andersen, Jimmy Cole
and Linda Blakeslee. Bode-
an led us in the flag salute,
made the announcements and
prayed the blessing over our
meal. Jimmy and Linda col-
lected and counted the mon-
ey.
The winners of the free
meal tickets were Ricki
Doland and Sylvia Cock-
erell. Bob Cockerell was the
fortunate winner of the Len’s
Drug gift card. We thank all
our generous supporters.
There are printouts avail-
able at the greeting table of
“The History of Monument
Senior Center.” It is quite
informative. I never knew
that it was through a very
generous lady named Veda
Jimenez that the building that
we have was made possible.
The printout also includes the
goals, vision and mission of
the Monument Senior Center.
I would highly recommend
you all pick one up when you
come.
Well, I tried to take ad-
vantage of some of the great
weather we were having. I
put a few bare root trees that I
bought into some big pots for
planting later. I bought these
trees that I found at Costco.
They had these apple trees
that had like five different
grafts on it for only $17.99!
I was ecstatic that I got such
a great deal. Yup, I scored.
You can’t get that kind of a
bargain even on online sales.
I also bought one pear tree
that had different grafts on it
also. I hope they will do well,
and I’ll be getting apples and
pears in about five years.
I was able to plant in a
deep, raised bed some car-
rots, daikon radish and mari-
golds. The free spirit in me
just threw the seeds and
scattered them. I don’t really
like to plant things in rows.
This way, there is no wasted
space and harder for weeds
to grow. I think my hubby
would be shaking his head if
he had seen me do that. Ha.
My daughter and I have been
trying to clear away all the
dead foliage from last year
and preparing the beds for the
new spring planting. I have so
many plans! There is much
work yet to be done. The an-
ticipation is killing me.
1 Corinthians 15:20 “But
now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the first-
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
fruits of them that slept.”
Oh, how wonderful to see
people sitting at every table in
the hall. There were 73 names
on the registration book. And a
lot of visitors, too. Of course,
that may just be spring break
and political activities, but we
don’t care. ’Twas still wonder-
ful. And we had our pinochle
table going. Starts at 10 a.m. if
you want to join in. Those who
said that they hadn’t played in
years wasted no time in getting
their game on. Thanks to those
who came to play. See you next
week.
Joy and Tom produced a
great meal, too: meat loaf,
mashed red potatoes and gravy,
green beans, salad, corn bread
with ready-made butter/honey
balls to put on it, and dessert
was banana cream pudding
with Nilla wafers and lots of
topping. Whew. What a meal!
Great job, cooks.
Larry, Scott and Carlos got
the home deliveries taken care
of. Drew Harmer led the flag
salute, and Jack Retherford
asked the blessing.
The March birthday gift cer-
tificate donated by Huffman’s
Market went to Bud Salisbury.
He was in attendance with Mar-
ilyn Randall and Gordon Sindt,
brought by Lorna and Krystin
from the Blue Mountain Care
Center.
Other visitors included
classmate Jim Kirkwood and
wife, Susan, who brought Su-
san’s mother, Helen Bogart;
Sandra Hawk and RoseAnn
Palmer; Archie Osburn; John
and Charlene Morris; and Mar-
ty Wampler. Welcome to one
and all — and come back again.
The post-op visit to the
surgeon in Bend was a rous-
ing success. First, that I drove
right to the office in the Old
Mill district; second, that the
incision was pronounced “gor-
geous”; third, that the X-ray
was pronounced “gorgeous”;
and fourth, that the range of
motion was pronounced “gor-
geous.” Isn’t that just splen-
did?! So Derrol can get out of
the sling around the house and
even drive some, as long as he
doesn’t have the pain pill in
his system. That’s what made
his day. So physical therapy at
Blue Mountain Hospital and
home is the name of the game
at this point.
Yeah. Spring has sprung.
The birds are singing, and the
sun is rising earlier and setting
later. We survived this winter!
And in typical Grant County
fashion, the early blooms got
frosted. Good thing the daffo-
dils are hardy. Saw some on the
south side of the Bank of East-
ern Oregon. They had tried to
bloom, but were kinda droopy
due to the frost.
Saw an article that claimed
to be a Northwest gardening
column that proclaimed it was
time to set out the seeds that
had been started six weeks
ago. Yeah, right. Not around
here, unless you have a prop-
er cool frame or greenhouse.
Still would like to know why
the “weed” seeds are so much
hardier than flower and veg-
gie seeds. We need to culti-
vate the weeds, I guess, then
they will not be so tough.
Geneses 3:17, 18 “…
Cursed is the ground because
of you; through painful toil
you will eat of it all the days
of your life. It will produce
thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of
the field.”
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