A8
Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
What a busy week. We
start out in our friendly,
peaceful senior center on July
2, with Olivia Cornell and
Ron Dowse at the greeter’s
desk. Our table service was
provided by Isa Larkin and
Chris Yriarte from the Blue
Mountain Hospital Auxiliary.
Isa and Chris began their day
with two hours of delivering
meals to John Day and Can-
yon City, while David Gill
and Rodney from Step For-
ward took out meals to Mt.
Vernon. This faithful group of
volunteers delivered 25 regu-
lar meals and 66 frozen meals
altogether. Thank you all.
Isa opened our time to-
gether by leading us in the
Pledge of Allegiance. The
drawings produced winners
Ron Dowse, for the Len’s
Drug gift card, and Pat Am-
ling, for the free meal. Ron
gave a warm blessing on our
meal. We enjoyed shrimp lo
mein, egg rolls, Asian slaw
and fortune cookies for des-
sert. Mine read, “Do not look
for wisdom here — for I am
just a cookie.”
We welcomed new guests
Carol and Reg LeQuieu.
Tai chi went well. Come
and join us right after lunch
on Mondays. No charge.
On Thursday, July 5, Ever-
ett King and Jeanette Julsrud
had greeter duties, and John
Day Church of the Nazarene
was here to serve us. Joan and
Joel Tayles took out meals for
homebound friends to John
Day and Canyon City and the
Step Forward Crew took the
Mt. Vernon meals. Altogeth-
er they delivered 31 meals.
Trace and Duane Andrew,
Everett King, Jessie Elliott
and Roseanne, with a couple
of “step up helpers,” served
us barbecue pork ribs, cheesy
new potatoes, corn bread muf-
fins, green salad and corn on
the cob. Our meal was spon-
sored by Claws and Paws
Pet Sitting, Chris Labhart.
The dessert celebrated “July
Birthday of the Month” with
a much larger sheet cake than
usual. Yummy. This is always
sponsored by Driskill Memo-
rial Chapel. Troy Hanson with
Amber Wright representing
Driskill’s were here to have
lunch as well as to step up and
help serve. Thanks so much.
Troy said the regular size
cake made servings too small.
A man with a heart for sure.
We welcomed guests Burrel
Moulton, Tom Grimsley, Vivi-
an Rookstool and Louise La-
Baugh. Come again soon. We
had 44 diners and good food as
well as fun with friends.
Duane Andrew led us in
the flag salute, and drawings
produced winners Dusty Har-
ris, who won the Chester’s
Thriftway gift card, and Jan-
ice Hunt, winner of the Valley
View meal. Trace Andrew
prayed for our meal. We have
much to be thankful for on
this celebration of our coun-
try’s birthday.
I have to tell you I won the
very special handmade gift,
donated by an anonymous
friend. I will love cuddling
up in my red, white and blue
crocheted afghan. Thank you
so much.
Ephesians 5:1-2 “Follow
God’s example, therefore,
as dearly loved children and
walk in the way of love, just as
Christ loved us and gave him-
self up for us as a fragrant of-
fering and sacrifice to God.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Hope everyone had a most
wonderful Fourth of July.
Monument had a very busy
day with the jubilee going on
at the park, food, games, auc-
tions, merchandise sales and,
of course, the fireworks finale
at 10 p.m. I just love living
out here in this little town.
It just feels like everyone is
family. In the big city, people
literally are complete strang-
ers, but out here, you meet
someone, and that someone
knows someone you know,
you know? Did you get that?
Ha.
We had yet another great
crowd come through the se-
nior center lunch, 66 guests
on the books and three take-
outs. It sure kept our cooks
Carrie Jewell and Teawna
Jewell busy feeding the hun-
gry lot. We thank them for
their tireless efforts and hard
work.
Our greeters were Jimmy
Cole, Linda Blakeslee and
Kristi Guimont. Jimmy and
Kristi collected and counted
the money. Judy Harris led us
in the flag salute and made the
announcements. Yours truly
prayed the blessing over our
meal.
The free meal tickets were
won by Max Breeding and
Megan (a visitor — I won’t
even try and spell her last
name, as I’m sure I’d botch it
up). Jan Ensign won the Len’s
Drug gift card.
We had lots of visitors
join us, which included Betty
Breeding’s family. She had
nieces, grandchildren and
brothers and sisters. We also
welcomed back the Williams/
McDonald family. They came
to help celebrate our Indepen-
dence Day festivities.
Well, it looks like the heat
is on. We’ve had a couple of
days so far over 100 degrees.
Yup, I’d say that summer is
definitely here now. I think I
prefer the winter. I don’t like
to get sweaty and melt. We try
to go out early in the morning
when it is still cool out and
do our chores. When it is hot,
it’s nice to not have to walk
up and down our long drive-
way and take the ATV. I must
remember to keep my mouth
closed at all times when rid-
ing on the ATV. I’ve almost
ingested some bugs, but thank
goodness, I had my mouth
closed.
We are raising a couple
of pigs this summer. My son
named them Porkchop and
Applesauce. They are get-
ting nice and plump. They
are a little weird. They like
to hide under the prickly
thistle and sleep there too.
I don’t know how they can
stand getting all poked by
the thistle. I find it fasci-
nating that they can grow
so quickly and be ready to
be butchered in six months.
Yes, we most definitely like
to eat pork chops, yum.
We moved our goats back
to their goat pen. The weeds
and grass in there got out of
control. I hope they eat it
down. I need to tame down
Bonnie again. I’m afraid I’ve
neglected her, and she has
forgotten me. Maybe I can
coax and bribe her with some
grain? Goats are kinda picky
about their treats, too. It’s
kind of a myth: They don’t
eat anything and everything.
Psalm 25:14 “The secret
of the LORD is with them that
fear him.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
What a great day the
Fourth of July was. Not too
hot, not too windy and lots
of people on the parade route.
Thanks to all for joining us on
this Independence Day. We
found out one thing: 6 pounds
of candy does not go very far.
But others made up for it. I’m
curious when it became the
fashion to throw candy during
a parade. Do the big ones in
Portland, Pasadena, Chicago
and New York do it? I don’t
remember seeing candy thrown
from those fantastic floats. So
why must we?
In case you didn’t get to see
our float, we had two tables
on it. One was for the pinoch-
le players and one represented
people eating the Wednesday
meal. And it was really nice
to have something to do while
waiting for the cannon boom.
And would you believe that
Delores and Carla got another
300 pinochle?
Son Joel and family were in
the crowd, but I didn’t see them
until we had returned to the hall
to un-decorate. That’s the thing
about being in the parade rather
than watching. You don’t get
to see the rest of the entrants
except the ones in front and be-
hind you. Kudos to the commit-
tee who put it all together.
Heard once that there was
a reading of the Declaration of
Independence by some group
somewhere. (Now there’s a
great factual statement.) Any-
way, I thought that those who
read it would be surprised and/
or shocked by some of the rea-
sons given in the document for
our declaration. Most of us can
agree with the taxation-with-
out-representation part. But
what about some of the things
that were important then, but
not now? Remember that the
ultimate authority at that time
was the king of England, so
the items listed were directed
to him.
“He has refused his Assent
to Laws, the most wholesome
and necessary for the public
good.
“He has called together
legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable and
distant from the depository of
their public records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures.
“He has dissolved Repre-
sentative Houses repeatedly,
for opposing with manly firm-
ness, his invasions of the rights
of the people.
“He has made Judges de-
pendent on his Will alone, for
the tenure of their offices and
the amount and payment of
their salaries.
“He has erected a multi-
tude of New Offices and sent
hither swarms of Officers to
harass our People and eat out
their substance.
“He has abdicated Govern-
ment here, by declaring us out
of his Protection and waging
War against us.
“He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our Coasts, burnt our
towns and destroyed the lives
of our people.”
Fifty-six men signed this
document. The last line read,
“And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reli-
ance on the Protection of Di-
vine Providence, we mutually
pledge to each other our Lives,
our Fortunes and our sacred
Honor.”
Revelations 12:11 “ … they
did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.”
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