A8
Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
June 11 was National Ger-
man Chocolate Day. I couldn’t
wait for dessert. Our service
was provided by Redeemer
Lutheran Church: Buzz and
Bobbie Gilmore prepared ta-
bles while home delivery was
provided by Bonnie and Fran-
cis Kocis, who took out meals
to John Day and Canyon City.
Step Forward’s David Gill and
crew delivered for those in
Mt. Vernon. Altogether, they
delivered 27 regular meals
and 32 frozen meals. Thank
you for your faithful service.
Buzz opened our time with
the Pledge of Allegiance to the
American flag, a freedom we
enjoy at every gathering here.
The Len’s Drug certificate
was then won by Don Porter,
and the free meal was won by
Ken Henry. Francis Kocis gave
the blessing, and the Gilmores
brought out a wonderful meal
of Polish sausage, sauerkraut,
a tomato and cucumber sal-
ad and the wonderful German
chocolate cake. It occurs to
me that, with all of the delays
on our freezer replacement and
other problems I can’t really go
into, Shay and Lisa go on and
produce great meals for us and
many home-bound friends who
can’t come in. Thank you so
much.
Our floors are beautiful,
thanks to the Cernazanus. Pick
up chairs to move them if pos-
sible. Don’t forget tai chi on
Monday after lunch.
On Thursday, June 14, we
had our Father’s Day celebra-
tion meal. Merry Henry and
Everett King were our greeters.
Joan and Joel Tayles stepped
up once again to take meals to
John Day and Canyon City, and
David Gill and Rodney from
Step Forward took out meals to
Mt. Vernon. Together, they de-
livered 37 meals. The Corner-
stone church group, consisting
of Donna Johnson, Carla John-
son, Zola Pike, Linda Sprouff-
ske and Alecia and Henry Mill-
er, served us well. Henry took
care of pastor Levi’s regular
coffee service as well as help-
ing with delivery of juice and
milk. Good job, Henry. Donna
Johnson led us in the pledge to
our flag, Maria Strawn won the
Chester’s Thriftway gift card
and Donna Johnson won the
Valley View meal. As always,
Linda Stoltz had decorated and
produced several other drawing
gifts, reserved only for the men
in honor of Father’s Day.
Linda Sprouffske opened
our meal with the blessing, and
42 hungry seniors enjoyed a
wonderful meal of beefsteak
tips with demi-glace, corn au
gratin and hush puppies. Then,
surprise! Strawberry shortcake
with a generous dollop of whip
cream. Our meal sponsors,
Boyd and Bonnie Britton, were
here to have lunch with us.
Thank you so much for all of
your support for the senior cen-
ter through the years. Thursday
we’ll have pork roast, and next
Monday we’ll have catfish.
Yummy.
Philippians 4:6-7 “Do not
be anxious or worried about
anything, but in [every circum-
stance and situation] by prayer
and petition with thanksgiving,
continue to make your [specif-
ic] requests known to God. And
the peace of God [that peace
which reassures the heart, that
peace], which transcends all
understanding, [that peace
which] stands guard over your
hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus [is yours].”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a wonderful lunch
where I absolutely made a pig
of myself. I really tried not to
make my tacos big, but that’s
how they end up being. I
think it looked bigger because
I put tons of lettuce on top. I
like lots of greens, you know.
There you have it, our cooks
Carrie Jewell and Teawna
Jewell prepared for us yummy
tacos with all the fixings, re-
fried beans, Spanish rice and
fruit crisp for our dessert. We
thank them profusely for their
hard work.
We had a couple of vis-
itors: Clarence and Sharon
Harvey brought their grand-
son, Ben Maccio, to visit, and
Katee Hoffman from John
Day, who is the representative
and contact person for our
veterans. Katee has informed
us that she has a new page on
Facebook, “Grant County, Or-
egon Veteran Services.” She
has received a grant for sui-
cide prevention for veterans,
and there is medical trans-
portation for veterans by the
People Mover free of charge.
She also has the office open
for mental health every fourth
Wednesday of the month in
Bend from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
If you need more information,
please call Katee Hoffman at
541-620-8057.
Our greeters were Judy
Harris, Jimmy Cole and Lin-
da Blakeslee. Judy led us in
the flag salute and made the
announcements. Yours truly
prayed the blessing over the
meal. Jimmy and Linda col-
lected and counted the money.
The winner of the Len’s Drug
gift card was Miranda Hood-
enpyl. The winners of the
free meal tickets were Jimmy
Cole and Bob Yukawa. I don’t
know if anyone noticed, but
the cross that Bruce Strange
had made that was hanging
up on the wall is now hanging
on a frame with a black back-
ground for accentuation. This
was done by David and Karen
Stubblefield. It looks beauti-
ful. Thank you, David, Karen
and Bruce.
I realized after I had given
my email address the last time
that most of you older folks
probably don’t do email. So I
shall give you my snail mail
address: P.O. Box 325, Mon-
ument, OR 97864. You may
write me or let me know if
you would like to come for a
visit, and I will make sure I
will definitely be present.
Well, continued from my
story about the Fremont,
California, visit, I was so
surprised about the people
singing, dancing and jump-
ing with great joy because,
well, you know, us Asian
people are just so serious. We
are so stoic and very proper.
At least that was what I have
seen in my experience with
Asian churches. So, I was
pleasantly surprised, and it
just made me want that joy
and enthusiasm for myself.
It was definitely contagious.
I was a little self-conscious,
but hey, David in the Bible
danced for God and he didn’t
care who was looking. I have
decided that I only have to
care about one person in the
audience when I sing or dance
at church; it’s all for Jesus.
Yes, he is the only one who I
am worshiping.
Psalm 119:2 “Blessed are
they who keep His command-
ments, And seek Him with the
whole heart.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
The best laid plans of mice
and men do oft go awry. Head
cook Marjean took this week
off to go camping with the
grandchildren. No problem.
Assistant cook Joy had every-
thing under control, until there
was a family emergency and
she had to rush to Portland. So
Veanne, Shay and Lisa from
the John Day center came to
our rescue and finished and
served the meal. Thank you so
much.
They did a wonderful job.
And our prayers are with Joy
and her family during this time.
Ginger did the announcing,
Juan led the flag salute and
Tom asked the blessing. Larry
and Carlos did the home deliv-
eries. The gift certificate do-
nated by Valley View went to
Jean Kline. We had 57 names
on the book.
We had two kinds of juice,
two kinds of milk, two kinds
of coffee, tea and water for the
liquids. The meal started with
tortilla casserole, Spanish rice,
refried beans, green salad, fruit
cup and a dessert that started
out as strawberry shortcake
and added bananas and vanilla
pudding and whipped cream.
Wowzer dowzer. What a treat.
And what a meal.
Tom Harris played piano
for us before the meal and
then helped clean up since so
many were gone on vacation
or to graduations, or medical
appointments, etc. Thanks to
all who stay and help with the
cleanup. This is a volunteer or-
ganization, you know. (Ahem.)
Lorna and Krystin brought
Marilyn Randall, Gordon
Sindt and Bud Salisbury from
the Blue Mountain Care Cen-
ter. We also welcome Murry
and Jack back.
The “new” carpet for the
new office and various other
places is in the buildings. It
may not get laid until after the
Fourth of July, but that’s OK.
We’re still making progress.
Our table conversation re-
volved around Lyme disease.
One person had contracted it
years ago and has had quite
a round of symptoms. Ended
up in central Florida to take
advantage of its moist heat
and is feeling much better. So
be careful when dealing with
bushes, grass and trees. I’ve
been removing juniper shrubs
at Joel’s house and so far have
avoided the tick transmitter.
And I have to get back to
the garden soon or all the veg-
etables will be overpowered
by the weeds.
There was a typo in last
week’s column, and it was not
my fault. Laurel will be teach-
ing TKD not TXD. Since I am
not online, the staff at the Blue
Mountain Eagle have to re-
type this missive to conform to
their parameters. And mistakes
happen.
Derrol’s next surgery has
been set, so “once more into
the breach.” When we look
back at all the medical pro-
cedures he has had, we are so
thankful that the procedures
were available. Psalm 139:14-
16 details how God put us to-
gether. One of the phrases al-
ludes to the fact that God listed
all the bones in our bodies. I
joke that he had to make some
adjustments in the list for Der-
rol’s.
Psalm 139:5-6 “… you
have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too won-
derful for me, too lofty for me
to attain.”
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