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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.”
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