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A8 News Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, July 25, 2018 Aircraft club members fly in for John Day tour Blue Mountain Eagle Fourteen members of the Oregon An- tique and Classic Aircraft Club flew in Thursday at the Grant County Regional Airport in John Day, bringing seven planes. The group had made stops in Madras and Joseph, and while in John Day they vis- ited the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum. Club members planned to leave Thurs- day afternoon for their final stop in Cottage Grove. Tim Talen of Springfield, one of the founding members of the club, said the group enjoys flying vintage aircraft while touring Oregon. “We fly around the state and promote aviation as much as we can,” he said. “We want to keep it around, and this is what we love to do.” Talen brought his ’41 Interstate Cadet. Wayne Boyter said the club also encour- ages younger people to become involved in aviation. At times the group has had up to 40 air- craft, touring every other year, and Talen said people don’t have to be a pilot to join the organization. Although they had a smaller group this year, members came from Oregon, Califor- nia and Washington to join in. “We support smaller airports with peo- ple flying from all over the place,” Talen said. A pilot with a ’52 Bonanza C35 also joined the Oregon Antique and Classic Aircraft Club. Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter Mark Baxter, left, of Corvallis and Tim Talen of Springfield walk past their antique planes. Talen’s plane, back left, is a ’41 Interstate Cadet and Baxter’s is a ’41 Taylorcraft. The two men were in John Day along with several other members of the Oregon Antique and Classic Aircraft Club. Other aircraft on show included a ’47 C140, ’49 Piper PA16 Clipper, ’52 Bonanza C35 and a 2008 RV6. A total of 14 club members came to John Day for one of their stops during a tour that included Joseph and Cottage Grove. The group visited Kam Wah Chung while in John Day. O utlook A ’47 C140 was at the Grant County Regional Airport in John Day. Pilots with the Oregon Antique and Classic Aircraft Club toured the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum while in the area. SENI R PRAIRIE CITY — Well, talk about ups and downs. Only 55 names on the book. What happened to everybody? We had a picnic again: tuna/egg salad Rose Coombs sandwiches, choice of a bag of chips, pasta salad, peaches, pickles, and cake and ice cream for dessert. July 25 is July birthday recognition day, so if you have a birthday in July (and are over 50), you are eligible for that drawing. The winner of the gift certificate towards a meal donated by Chuck’s Little Diner was pastor Jack Retherford. He is our default blessing giver, which service he performed again. Summer volunteer Ellie Justice led the flag salute. Prairie City Seniors Faithful home deliverers Ken, Carlos and Larry did their service. Lots of volunteers were missing and the Blue Mountain Care Center did not get to come. But the pinochle players were in attendance. The idea of having another day/time to play was floated. Some have a conflict on Wednesday morning. informed decision. The office got moved to the new room and the old room is being readied for the carpet installation. Found some good curtain material that was inexpensive, so now to get up over the window. Which brings up the question: why do we have windows if we cover them up with curtains? Hmmm. Time to start thinking about your Grant County Fair entries for both the parade and pavilion. I was really pleased with the large amount of floats, etc. for all the celebrations on the Fourth of July. Let’s do it again for the fair, people. And it’s only five months until Christmas! Derrol just pulled the last of the first crop of radishes. That means that I have to go plant the second crop. Hope they will be ready by the time the in-laws from Poland come in August. The peas are doing their thing and the beets are getting close. And so far, no deer nibbling that I can see. PTL. I think all the driving around to the various medical appointments and the hot weather has gotten to me. Can’t think of anything to talk about… Psalm 19:14 “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” We had our monthly board meeting after the meal. General contractor Joel offered explanation concerning the front doors to help us make an JOHN DAY — Ron Dowse and I had desk duty on Monday, July 17. Our table service was provided by the First Christian Church: Karen Barrietua, Roberta and Ron Dowse, Jan Ellison, and Becky Rhinehart, who brought Brianna and Tayla Sharp. Thank you again to our Step Forward crew, who made all of the deliveries. They took out 25 regular and 28 frozen meals to John Day, Canyon City and Mt. Vernon. I wish I could thank you all, personally, especially David Gill - great job. The flag salute was led by Brianna Sharp, and our drawings produced winners Nadine Smith, who won the Lens Drug gift certificate, and Olivia Cornell, who won the gift of two meals here at the center. Linda Stoltz wants to thank Yvonne Majors for bringing in approximately 200 men’s ties for decorating next Father’s Day. This is a good time to thank Linda for her year-round search to find all of the wonderful decorations for every holiday. We love you, Linda. She has a sweet fixture in the library for “readable” children’s books. They work best when used while having a kid seated on your lap! John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Becky Rhinehart gave the blessing on our meal of fajita-stuffed baked potatoes, spinach salad, fresh baked bread and strawberry cream cheese croissants. It was so nice to see Nick Miller again, he was here visiting with Don and Deda Porter. On Thursday, July 19, we had Bonnie Kocis and Everett King at the greeter’s desk, and our friends from Ye Olde Thrift Shop and Methodist Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa MONUMENT — Carrie Jewell and Teawna Jewell fixed us a variety of pizzas for our July 17 lunch. We had all kinds to choose from; mine was the pepperoni. We also had a nice green salad to go with the pizza and apple crisp for our dessert. We appreciate and thank our cooks. We had Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee and Kristi Guimont as our greeters. Kristi led us in the flag salute. Yours truly made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. We had a smaller crowd of 43 guests on the books and six takeouts. Our winners for the free meal tickets were Juuna Watkins of Kimberly and Karen Stubblefield. Pam Callahan was the lucky winner for the Lens Drug gift card. A shout of thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support for our communities. Please take note that the foot doctor, aka Krista, will not be available for the foot clinic until further notice. She is out of commission at the moment due to an injury to her shoulder. We pray that she will heal and fully recover her mobility to her shoulder quickly. Our own Molly Hoodenpyl will be home for a bit after graduating from the Marines boot camp. We are so proud of her and thank her for her service to Church; Sherrie Feiger, Delores Belden, Louise Nelson, Margie Conlee and Jean Willey. They served us well, as always. Jean Willey led us in a rousing Pledge of Allegience. Deda Porter won the Chester’s Thriftway gift certificate and Jean won the two free meals. Sherrie Feiger’s devotional and blessing is always inspirational for me. I have learned to listen carefully. We had 43 diners who enjoyed beefy mac, peas and carrots, spinach salad with blueberries, dinner rolls and Lisa’s apple cobbler. It was all delicious, and I ate way too much. This meal was sponsored by the Seventh Adventist Church, and we thank you. Wednesday from 10:30 til Noon is the free talk at the fairgrounds, brought to us by AARP, about how to protect ourselves against fraud. I hear there will be a hospitality table. That is always a treat. Thank you to Judy Nelson, the angel who makes our bingo goodies her ministry, who made a run to Costco. Thank you so much, Judy. Bingo every Thursday at 1 p.m., right after lunch. Even if you don’t win, you’ll have great snacks. We are still on vacation from tai chi, hoping to have a new leader soon. Keep practicing, and be sure to do your shaking. Just keep moving with purpose and don’t do more than 70 percent. Matthew 6:25-34 NIV “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.” our country and may the Lord be with her and protect her. All is pretty quiet in Monument. I am so thankful that the smoke from the fires all around us have been pretty minimal. We pray that the Lord would protect all the firefighters and volunteers and keep them safe and help them in fighting the fires and protecting people and their homes. We’ve been having major issues with yellow jackets, hornets, and wasps. Looks like they are just desperate for water and food. I feel like they are just invading us and are everywhere. My hubby had to remove ten nests. He got stung once and thank goodness it wasn’t too serious. We ran out of the spray to clear the nests and had to get more. He even found some nests in the door jams of our old truck! Two other pests that we’ve had a major invasion of are the earwigs and grasshoppers. I was told put out a can of olive oil for the earwigs to fall in and drown. I will definitely try that. They are just obnoxious pests. They’ve been eating the leaves of my potato plants, grrrrrr. I separated the baby goats Bonnie and Pherb from their mamas. Pherb, the little pig, was still nursing on Jill. Dolly somehow managed to find a hole in the fence and walked back to the goat pen and surprised me when I turned around from coming out of the goat pen. So, I had to put her back in. I moved Dolly and Bonnie to up by the house to munch down some weeds. I hope they will chow down and eat it all up. Galatians 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” 70148
