A6 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, August 8, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex On Monday, July 28, Ev- erett King and I greeted while Suzanne Taysom and Susan Sintay from The Church of Je- sus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided table service. Before serving us here, Suzanne and Susan delivered meals to John Day and Canyon City, and the Step Forward crew, led by Da- vid Gill, did the Mt. Vernon route. Together, they delivered 26 regular and 24 frozen meals. Suzanne led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and then won the Len’s Drug gift card, and Billie Bullard won the free meal card. Our blessing and prayer were led by Susan Sintay. We then chowed down on finger steaks with mashed potatoes and gra- vy, Shay’s special green beans, bagels and, in honor of Nation- al Chocolate Cheesecake Day, Lisa’s individual strawberry chocolate cheesecakes. Yum. We had 27 diners. I have been very impressed with all of the free family search help I’ve gotten from the ladies in the Family History Center at the LDS church. They are available Wednesdays and Thursdays. Give them a call at 541-575-1817 for more info. I have found some “lost” family members, with more to come now. They didn’t all come on the same boat from Czechoslo- vakia. Don’t forget, we need some- one to replace me as your Eagle reporter for the John Day Se- nior Center soon. Along with learning to spell names, there is a bonus gratuity, and there is also help. On Aug. 2, Bonnie Kocis and Jeanette Julsrud took care of the greeter’s desk. Trace and Duane Andrew, Everett King, Dale and Corinne Stennett and Vickie Harrison from the Naza- rene Church served, as well as Troy and Amber from Driskill Memorial Chapel. Earlier, Joan and Joel Tayles delivered meals to John Day and Canyon City, and the Step Forward Crew delivered to Mt. Vernon. Al- together, 37 meals went out. Duane led the flag salute, Bal- bina Escudero won the Ches- ter’s Thriftway gift card and Dave Pasco won the free meal. Dale gave the blessing on our meal, which was sponsored by the family of Liz Moles in her memory. We enjoyed chef Shay’s saucy meatballs and pasta, mixed veggies, rolls and birthday cake donated by Driskill Memorial Chapel. Shay’s wife, Anne Lewis, and Linda Stoltz helped out in the kitchen, filling in for Lisa who made a very difficult trip to Bend with Curt. Please pray for them. Also needing prayer for our dear Judy Nelson, who is having open heart surgery in Portland. A very special guest from Spain, Carman Gomez, is here visiting with her aunt, Balbina Escudero. They will be going on a cruise to Alaska with Maria Strawn for a few days (traveling as “the three stooges”), but Carman will be here for the entire month of Au- gust. Also visiting were Debbie May, Millie Lysne and Gerald Mesecher. Welcome, all. Next Thursday, Aug. 9, we’ll have pork loin and rice pudding. Then Monday, Aug. 13, hot ham and cheese hoagies with potato salad. Come join us! Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of The Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We had a great lunch for the last Tuesday of July, cooked by Carrie Jewell and Teawna Jewell. We had chili dogs with all the fixings, french fries, a nice green salad and birthday cake for dessert. We were a hungry crowd. OK, I was starving. We thank our cooks for their hard work, and we appreci- ate them very much. Our greeters were Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee and Kristi Guimont. Kristi led us in the flag salute. Jimmy and Linda collected and counted the money. Judy Harris made the an- nouncements, and yours tru- ly prayed over the blessing our meal. We had 43 guests on the books and seven takeouts. Judy Bustardo won the Len’s Drug gift card. The free meal tickets went to Karen Stub- blefield and yours truly. Judy Harris had a free door prize raffle going, and the prize was two drinking dis- pensers made of glass. The lucky winner of that prize was Linda Abraham. We’ve been pretty bless- ed with the Lord’s protection over our area. We did have a few close calls with some fires, but compared to the rest of the surrounding areas and everywhere else, we’ve been dealt graciously by the Lord. We thank him and praise God for his mercy. Everyone has been try- ing to stay cool because of the really high temps we’ve been having. We’ve had a little relief. Having the temps being in the 100s was not very fun at all. On the bright side, it did make my corn that I planted grow and my zucchini plants as well. Yay! I planted some more of my romaine lettuce seeds. I am hoping to get lettuce un- til we get the first frost. We had the horror of hor- rors occur at our home this past week. I was practicing my guitar strumming while sitting at the couch, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a little shadow. I thought, “What was that?” So then, I stopped altogether and just sat and stared, when I saw something scurry across the floor behind my piano. It was a mouse! I was horrified. How in the world did a mouse get in my house when I have all these cats around, and how dare that thing be in my house? I remembered that I had bought a few mouse traps when we first moved here before we had cats. Luckily, I remembered where I had them too. Thank God I didn’t get rid of them because I thought for sure I would never really have a need for them. I put peanut butter on the trap, and I had my hubby set it because I couldn’t figure out how to set it. We put it by the place where I saw that mouse dashing around. We didn’t have to wait very long. In about five minutes, we heard the trap snap, and lo and behold, there it was. Ew. I was so greatly relieved to get it, but how long was it in my house? Psalm 145:17 “The LORD is righteous in all His ways, And kind in all His deeds.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs I am fascinated by num- bers. Not that I’m any great shakes as a mathematician. I just like the way they come up in different aspects of life. Consider the date: 8-1-18. Only two different numbers re- quired and if you wrote it like the Europeans do, it would be 1-8-18. Sure glad the Arabs dis- covered how to write numbers this way or we would be using the unwieldy Roman numerals: VIII-I-XVIII. Wonder if they still teach how to read Roman numerals in school. Delores and I were the only pinochle players for the first hour. We tried to figure out how to play two-handed from the di- rections on the cards enclosed in the card box, but we couldn’t make them work. So we made up our own game using parts of the two-handed and parts of the three-handed rules. At least we knew what we were doing. Del appeared and we finally got in a game of three-handed, which I won. Had one hand in which I held seven aces. There are only eight in the whole deck. Wheee. Ken Koser led the flag sa- lute, and Jack Retherford asked the blessing. The gift card do- nated by Len’s Drug was won by summer volunteer Ellie Jus- tice. Ken, Larry and Carlos did their home deliveries. We had 64 names on the book. Marjean and Joy prepared beef tacos, green salad, peaches, chips and all kinds of fixin’s, one of which was called squash calabaitas, or something like that. Can’t read my writing. Anyhow, it was good. For dessert we enjoyed mint chocolate chip ice cream with a cookie. Lorna and helper brought Carl Lino, Mary Crawford, Marilyn Randall and Gordon Sindt from the Blue Mountain Care Center. They haven’t been able to come for a couple of weeks, so it was good to see them all. David Seacord slipped in and tickled the ivories for a mini concert while we were eating. Helps the digestion, you know. Had to harvest my beet crop since we can’t water outside. Got four quarts this year. And they are so sweet. The peas will have one more picking, and then they are gone. I don’t preserve them — just like to eat them raw. The deer came and topped the tomato plants. Grrr. Why couldn’t you eat the beet tops? Some of the carrots ger- minated and grew this year, at least. They look like baby car- rots. Watering them from the dish-pan for the present. Joel got the new toilet in, and it’s working splendidly. Now we’ve got him trying to stop the leak in the little water line that feeds the swamp cool- er at the senior hall. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another, huh? On another note, Bert’s in-laws came to visit from Po- land and unintentionally gave grandma Szmyt’s passport to a security officer in San Francis- co and didn’t get it back when it was time to leave for Portland. Talk about panic phone call. Since she had cleared customs, they let her fly on to Portland without it. Officials were sup- posed to overnight it to her later. Will update next week. Acts 16:4.5 “As they trav- eled from town to town… the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at 71664