A6
Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
Monday, Aug. 20, found
Everett King and yours truly
at the greeter’s desk. Real-
izing again, this place could
not continue to run without
volunteers. Specifically on
my heart, those who deliver
Shay and Lisa’s specially pre-
pared home delivery meals.
Once again, our Step Forward
“angels” took out all 28 reg-
ular and 32 frozen meals to
our homebound friends. Their
leader, David Gill, usually has
a group of helpers, including
Rodney. These guys aren’t
even seniors, but they care for
our seniors. Thank you all for
your faithful service.
Our friends from the First
Christian Church, Jan Ellison,
Karen Barrietua and Rober-
ta and Ron Dowse, were on
the job, with sweet service
to the tables. I think I saw
Jean Willey helping out too.
Jan opened our time together
leading us in the Pledge of
Allegiance to the American
flag. The drawing winners
were Olivia Cornell, who won
the Len’s Drug gift card, and
Chris Labhart, who won the
free meals. Ron Dowse gave
the blessing, and we tore into
our lunch with gusto. We made
our own BLT sandwiches and
had potato salad and pickled
beets. Lisa’s lemon bars were
the bomb. We served four full
tables. Kris and Chris Labhart
had their granddaughters with
them. We had a very inspired
tai chi group. Thanks for your
help, Ron Flores.
On Thursday, Jeanette Jul-
srud and Everett King served
at the greeter’s desk. It was so
nice to see the folks from St.
Elizabeth’s Catholic Church.
David Turner (incognito at
times), Agnes and Walt Hall,
Jimmy Maple and Father
Christie served us well. David
and Jimmy delivered meals to
John Day and Canyon City,
while David and his crew
took meals to Mt. Vernon. Al-
together, they delivered meals
to 34 friends. Walt opened our
time together with his pas-
sionate leadership in honoring
our flag with the Pledge of Al-
legiance. Father Christie won
the Chester’s Thriftway gift
card, and Bob Meador won
the Valley View meal. Thanks
to Ansel Krutsinger, who
sponsored our meal of Greek
chicken, savory rice, Caesar
salad and strawberry crème
truffle for dessert. We filled
almost seven tables.
Kathy Cancilla was with us
to get input for the health de-
partment. We filled out anon-
ymous surveys for the com-
munity health assessment that
is going on right now. I hope
they give us the results of the
seniors’ input. It seems to me
that diet is one very serious
problem for seniors, who don’t
get raises and can’t stretch to
meet the constantly rising cost
of local groceries.
We will be enjoying Swiss
steak with mashed potatoes
and gravy Thursday, Aug.
30. Haven’t seen the menu
for next month yet. Monday,
Sept. 3, surprise! Watch for
kids going to school. Drive
carefully!
1 Samuel 16:7 “But the
Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not
consider his appearance or
his height, for I have rejected
him. The Lord does not look at
the things people look at. Peo-
ple look at the outward ap-
pearance, but the Lord looks
at the heart.’”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
There has been a dramatic
change in our weather. One of
the mornings this past week, the
temperature at our place went
all the way down to 38 degrees
Fahrenheit! I was quite shocked
at the coldness. It seems a bit
early. The sudden change gave
me a sinus cold — at least that’s
what I think, or maybe it’s the
smoke from all the fires?
But, one thing is constant
and that is our Tuesday lunch.
Those of us that come every
Tuesday are very grateful. It’s so
nice to get out, visit with friends
and have a nice meal. Our cooks
Carrie Jewell and Teawna Jew-
ell prepared for us a salad bar
with all sorts of toppings. We
had such items as mushrooms,
fresh tomatoes, broccoli, cauli-
flower, sliced turkey, sliced ham
and other such yummy things.
It was nice to have a refreshing
salad during the hot weather.
We thank our cooks.
Our greeters at the desk were
Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee,
Kristi Guimont and Judy Harris.
Judy led us in the flag salute and
made the announcements, and
yours truly prayed the blessing
over the meal. Jimmy and Lin-
da collected and counted the
money.
We had 45 guests on the
books and two takeouts. The
winners of the free meal tickets
were Miranda Hoodenpyl and
Gary Doland. Max Breeding
was the lucky winner of the
Len’s Drug gift card. We also
celebrated a few birthdays this
week. Among the birthday peo-
ple were Bodean Andersen, Jer-
ry Cowger and Sue Cavender.
We also had a couple of visitors
from out of town. Sue Cavender
had her daughter Jenny and her
granddaughter Sierra with her.
We hope the ladies had a nice
visit with each other.
We received the first in-
stallment check for $20,000
from the Joyce Miller Owens
Charitable Foundation. Bruce
Hansen, from Sauvie Island
in Portland, helped to make it
possible. We are indebted to his
kindness and love for our town
of Monument. We thank and
appreciate the board for their
generous support. This money
will be used toward updating
some of the building’s infra-
structure, such as the bathroom
flooring and issues with the
plumbing.
Some of you might have
gotten a call at 10 p.m. during
the fires and some of you didn’t.
It was an emergency notice
telling us where the fire was
and what level of emergency
they considered it to be. Lonnie
Lawrence did not receive such
a call and was concerned so she
called Sheriff Palmer. He direct-
ed her to the emergency website
gcoregonlive2.com for infor-
mation. It is an open app to get
information for fires. So, if you
need and want to know what is
going on with the fires in Grant
County, you may look into the
website.
I was out the other early eve-
ning trying to pick some rasp-
berries. Something had been
nibbling on all the ripe ones. I
finally saw the nasty culprits.
They were those wasps! Grrrr.
Those things have been into ev-
erything. I flicked some off with
my fingers. Hmm, what to do
about them?
Luke 10:22 “All things are
to me of my Father: and no man
knoweth who the Son is, but the
Father; and who the Father is,
but the Son, and he to whom the
Son will reveal him.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
The unusual news: There is
a beautiful pink-purple petunia
blooming in my poor dried-up
garden bed. A fulfillment of
“bloom where you are plant-
ed” I guess. Except I didn’t
plant it! Derrol poured out a
cup of water from the pitcher
and an earwig came out too.
Yup, it’s dry. But the most
peculiar thing we saw was a
four-wheeler being loaded into
a horse trailer. That is just not
right. Someone needs to write
a poem about that.
I did harvest the carrots and
froze five quarts. They are also
sweet. The broccoli and cauli-
flower did make heads, so I am
encouraged there. Just need to
get them planted earlier. The
tomatoes bloomed mightily,
and the deer ate nightly. Still
thinking about that green-
house.
Drew Harmer led the flag
salute, and Jack Retherford
asked the blessing. We sang
happy birthday to head cook
Marjean. This being her last
day, we thanked summer help-
er Ellie for her good work.
(And she got reserve champi-
on for her turkey.) Veeann and
Lisa came to help, also. We
need an assistant cook. Please.
Someone help us out.
Larry, Carlos and Ken
made the home deliveries. We
had 61 on the book. And Ken
will be archery hunting for
most of September, so we need
some able bodies to fill in for
him next month.
The gift certificate donat-
ed by the Outpost was won
by Bonnie Pickle. Kendra and
Christine brought Donna Cox,
Mary Crawford, Thelma Kite,
Dorothy Braendlin and Arleta
Arnet from the Blue Mountain
Care Center.
For the repast we had salm-
on/potato patties, pasta salad,
beets, cantaloupe, rolls and
banana pudding cake with ice
cream for dessert. Can you tell
that Marjean is having a lot of
fun with the menus? And it is
all delicious. You should come
and try it out.
There was at least one per-
son who was dismayed when
she went to get some new read-
ing material from the library. It
wasn’t where it was last week.
And it will not be in the con-
dition she found it next week.
Get that? By the time for our
August birthday recognition
day, the library will finally be
in its new dedicated, carpeted,
well-lit room. Have fun!
Son number one’s Polish
in-laws made it back to Poland
without any problems. Son
number two did a great thing
for his wife for their upcom-
ing 18th anniversary: On the
trip to Portland, he got a super
dishwasher for a super-low
price and installed it while she
was at TKD as a surprise. Only
bad part was that he threw his
back out while doing it and so
couldn’t move or fix our light
switch in the kitchen, which
quit working. My, it’s dark in
there. Rigged up a hanging
lamp for the duration, but one
bulb sure doesn’t equal four.
Makes you thankful that we
don’t have to rely on candle-
power nowadays.
Luke 8:16 “No one lights a
lamp and hides it in a jar, or
puts it under a bed. Instead,
he puts it on a stand, so that
those who come in can see the
light.”
Luke 12:35 “Be dressed
ready for service and keep
your lamps burning…”
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