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A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, May 2, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Monday, April 23, Ron Dowse and I were greeters; Lisa, Danny and Curt covered a gloomy kitchen without Shay, who was in Boise waiting for news of his mom’s surgery, and I will tell you now so you don’t have to wait: She came through the surgery better than anyone had even hoped. Thanks for prayers. Rachel Carpenter, with Susan and George Sintay from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, did a bang up job for us, beginning with Rachel who, alone, delivered meals to John Day and Canyon City. David Gill and Rodney from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon route. Altogether, they delivered 29 regular and 24 frozen meals. Welcome to the Sintays, thank you for serv- ing us. Susan led us in the flag salute. Our drawings produced winners: Rachel won the Len’s Drug gift card and Rober- ta Dowse won the free meal. George gave the blessing on our meal. Celebrating Nation- al Cherry Cheesecake Day, we dined on chili dogs, tater tots, carrots and of course, delicious individual cherry cheesecakes. We love you, Lisa Perei- ra! You did a great job with Veanne home ill, Shay being gone and our new refrigeration system being delivered. Tyler Stoneman from Blue Mountain Hospital was here to lead our small group in Tai Chi. We are having a great time, still room to add a few more folks. Our annual luau was so much fun. Everett King and Jeanette Julsrud were greeters and Olivia Cornel sold 50/50 tickets. Some nuts dressed Hawaiian; most behaved. Our friends from St. Elizabeth Cath- olic Church, Agnes and Walt Hall, Jimmy Maple and David Turner, did our service, assisted by Jean Willey. Jimmy and Da- vid did table setup and meal de- livery earlier to John Day and Canyon City, while David Gill and Rodney from Step Forward did the Mt. Vernon run. A total of 35 meals were delivered. Walt Hall opened our time by leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance. We drew for a Chester’s Thriftway card, won by Janice Hunt, and then Carl Swank won the Valley View meal, followed by the blessing of our time together and our meal by Jimmy Maple. We dined on Huli Huli chicken, Polynesian rice, glazed carrots, homemade bread, and tropical carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Our thanks to the meal sponsor, Old West Federal Credit Union. Linda Stoltz outdid her- self on decorations. Thanks so much for all of your time and creativity. Linda collects things all year to use for special draw- ings, and had a bunch to draw for. We love you! We learned that Bonnie Kocis missed our regular birthday meal, so hap- py birthday, Bonnie. Special guests: Randa Persinger and her sister Barb Sorensen, Lyn- da Christiansen and dad, Chuck Corwin, Dawn Hindman, Lois Bidasolo, Jen Winkler, Betty Sprague and daughter Pam with her husband Mike Durr, Norma Rynearson, Georgia Osborn, Helen Bogart and Kim Ausland were all here from Valley View. Special friend Jim Hamsher joined us too. 2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We had yet again anoth- er delicious meal for our last Tuesday lunch for the month of April prepared by our great chefs Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell. We had pork roast, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, biscuits, and peach cooler cake for dessert. We are immense- ly thankful to our dedicated cooks. Our greeters were Bo- dean Andersen, Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee, and Judy Har- ris. Judy led us in the flag salute and made the announcements. Yours truly prayed the bless- ing over the meal. Jimmy and Linda collected and counted the money. There were two sets of priz- es to be won on this particular day. Judy Harris had a free raffle set up for all guests that came to lunch. The prize win- ners were Tyler Stoneman of John Day, Carrie Jewell, Doro- thy Jordan, and Donna Camp- bell. The other usual prizes of free meal tickets went to Betty Richards and Jerry Cowger. Rickie Doland won the Len’s Drug gift card. We thank all for their support. We had a few guests join us. Jim Hamsher from Prairie City was present. He is running for county judge. We also had Ty- ler Stoneman, from John Day, who is our Tai Chi instructor. Lastly, Theda Phelps’ grandson John Paul Osburn came from Heppner with his fiancé Shaw- na and their son Mikey. We had 40 guests on the books and fif- teen take-outs. There were several import- ant announcements made, I hope I have room to fit them all. Firstly, the rummage sale was a success. The funds raised were $2,900 with 550 volunteer hours put in. We thank every- one who participated with set- ting up and then boxing up of everything to donate the unsold items to other organizations that help to distribute to people in need in other areas. We thank Ray Davis for making the chili and Doug Sweek for moving heavy items with his tractor. We thank the 4-H kids for having a meal available for purchase for customers. All the concerted efforts of the community made for a wonderful and efficient event. Other announcements were that there will be an EMT din- ner on May 5 and pie donations would be much appreciated. Tickets are available from any EMT volunteers. Please come and support our local EMTs. Please keep Marva Walker in your prayers, she took a fall and broke her hip and is recov- ering. There will be a bridal shower for Teawna Conklin at the senior center on Sunday, May 6. For more info, please call Carrie Jewell. I saved the best announcement for last. Our very wonderful friend Bruce Hansen, who has done much for our little town, has secured for us over $39,000 from the Joyce Miller Owens Charitable Foundation! Bruce lives on Sauvie Island in Port- land but also has a place here on Rudio Ridge. He persuaded the board members on Sauvie Island to help the Monument Senior Center. We are indebted to Bruce for all that he has done and donated for our communi- ty. We also want to express our warmest thanks to the board for their generous donation. Psalm 119:89 “Forever, O LORD, thy Word is settled in the heavens.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Oh, what a beautiful mornin’. I do believe that spring has finally arrived in Grant County. The tulips that the deer chomped off last month have rebounded and put out some buds. I even mowed the lawn since Derrol can’t use his repaired arm yet on the self-pro- pelled one. But he couldn’t stand it any longer, so he got out the riding mower and managed to run it around the church lot. Takes a little bit of manipulating to get it turned with only one arm. But where there’s a will there’s a way, right? Carlos led the flag salute and Jack asked the blessing. Ginger could only find one birthday so Bonnie Lake was awarded the $10 gift certificate donated by Huffman’s Market. (They got “flocked,” too.) Visitors included a long ago graduate of Prairie City High School – Dobie Shoun. Also, Becky Tatum rounded up Lynn McDonald and both came to dine with us. Had a couple of politicians, too: Harold Preston and Archie Osburn. There were 66 names on the registration book. Kendra and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Gordon Sindt, Bud Salisbury and Mary Crawford from the Blue Moun- tain Care Center. “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, we would have found the saf- est way to health.” Now who would you think said that? Yes, somebody famous. And somebody who was very in- terested in health. Give up? Hippocrates. Our nourishment took the form of a patty melt, pasta sal- ad, pork and beans, fruit cock- tail and bread pudding with vanilla sauce for dessert. Wow, what a meal. Was this our first picnic? Excellent work, Mar- jean and Joy. Carla and I had to wait for a third body in order to play pi- nochle. The usual suspects had other duties to attend to. Final- ly, Drew arrived and we were able to get our fix. We each won one game, so that worked out fine. Found out that the word pinochle is a mispronouncing and misspelling of the French word binocle, meaning eye- glasses. German immigrants brought the game to America. What escapes explanation is what eyeglasses have to do with this card game. Anyway, we have a lot of fun playing it. Keeps the brain young… We want to give the hall a new coat of paint this summer. If you would like to contribute to the cost of the paint, we have a large, lovely vase at the reg- istration desk to receive your donations. All monies in that container will be earmarked for paint purchase. Thanks to those who generously contributed. Tom has completed the sheetrock prep work and is moving on to applying door- jambs before priming the new office. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you so much for doing this work, Tom. I appreciate it very much. And thanks to all the oth- er volunteers who do their jobs each week to keep the center operating: Del, Bonnie, Leone, Pam, Scott, Larry Ken and Car- los … Judges 5:9 “My heart is with Israel’s princess, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the Lord!” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at 54393
