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Seniors
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Nicky Essex
Be sure to check out our
ongoing silent auctions! The
present auction will end in a
few days, and a new one will
begin. All proceeds will sup-
port our meal program at the
John Day Senior Center. If you
have something to donate for
auction, please speak to one
of the Site Council members or
Veanne Weddle.
Olivia Cornell and Everett
King met guests on Oct. 1, while
Joyce Nodine and Linda Ladd
represented the Blue Mountain
Hospital Guild in serving us at
three full tables. They first spent
at least two hours of delivering
meals to John Day and Canyon
City. Their counterparts David
Gill and Rodney, representing
Step Forward, made deliveries
to Mt. Vernon. Altogether, they
delivered 29 regular and 62 fro-
zen meals. Great job, all!
Joyce opened our time to-
gether by leading us in the flag
salute, Gene Essex won the
Len’s Drug $5 gift card and Jay
Colson won the free meal. Ron
Dowse then gave the blessing
on our meal. We enjoyed tuna
casserole, mixed peas and car-
rots, fruit Jello, baguettes and, to
celebrate National Homemade
Cookie Day, Lisa went all out
with giant-sized oatmeal butter-
scotch cookies for dessert. Wel-
come to Georgia Osborne.
It was pretty busy here on
Oct. 4. As our tai chi group
worked on their forms, a
well-represented group of “in-
jectees” patiently waited on-site
for flu shots. (Sorry about the
time change!) Jeanette Julsrud
and Merry Henry greeted, and
the Nazarene Church group,
represented by Joan and Joel
Tayles, Dale and Corinne Sten-
nett, Vickie Harrison, Everett
King, Debbie Bloom and Trace
Andrew, were kept very busy
serving tables. Joan and Joel
faithfully did their deliveries
to John Day and Canyon City
while David and Rodney took
the Mt. Vernon route. Altogeth-
er, they took out 36 fresh meals
to our friends who can’t come
here; their silent volunteering
does not go unappreciated. Lin-
da Stoltz was here early to deco-
rate for fall.
Being birthday cake day, cel-
ebrating our October birthdays,
Amber Wright and Troy Hanson
from Driskill Memorial Chapel
not only brought in their month-
ly gift of a beautiful cake, but
they also helped serve and clean
up! We really love you both.
We also love it when Walt Hall
is here to open our time with
his very spirited leading of the
flag salute. Don Porter won the
Chester’s Thriftway $5 gift card,
and Agnes Hall won the free
meal. Dale Stennett gave our
blessing on the meal, which was
sponsored by Bank of Eastern
Oregon. We gobbled up Shay’s
meatloaf, twice-baked potatoes,
fresh cauliflower/broccoli salad,
mixed veggies, rolls and birth-
day cake!
We continue to receive won-
derful gleanings, this day. Big
thanks for big bags of apples
from Lou. Linda Henry was
here with Merry, welcome. I
failed to note guests last week,
Peter Marsh and Gloria Strat-
tford. Please come again. Next
Thursday is spinach, artichoke
and chicken soup. Monday, Oct.
8, is tortilla soup.
1 Chronicles 21:13 “David
said to Gad, ‘I am in deep dis-
tress. Let me fall into the hands
of the Lord, for his mercy is very
great; but do not let me fall into
human hands.’”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a very special meal
prepared for us for the first
Tuesday of October. Our meal
was prepared for us compli-
ments of Clarence and Sher-
on Harvey, Dennis and Linda
Abraham, along with Ed and
Judi Bustardo. These gener-
ous people provided a fantastic
meal of prime rib. Oh yeah, we
had a fabulous meal served up
with baked potato, coleslaw,
garlic bread and peach cobbler
for dessert. I had a pretty thick
slice, and it was melt-in-your-
mouth delish. Just reminiscing
about it is making my mouth
water. Our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell helped to
prepare the other parts of the
meal. We thank our generous
donors and cooks for provid-
ing our wonderful banquet.
Our greeters were Jimmy
Cole, Linda Blakeslee and
Kristi Guimont. Judy Harris
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 while Kristi checked
the guests in. We had 62 guests
on the books and 29 takeouts.
Let’s see now, we had Judy
Fischer, Jean Hammel, Ellen
Mann and Frank and Chun
Asher from Spray. Then we
also had Albert Hewgley of
Portland, Cassy Reyes from
Woodburn, Cody and Judy
Erickson from Condon and
Ronny Brisbois from Hep-
pner. We also had the health
department from John Day
join us for lunch — boy, they
sure came at a great meal time,
right? And Vicki Bond, Dusty
Williams and Mindy Winegar.
As a thank you and appre-
ciation for all the support from
our community, Judy Harris
and Jeanne Strange had put
together many door prizes for
all the guests to have a chance
to win. Every guest received a
free ticket to the raffle draw-
ings. There were more than a
dozen prizes that were given
away. Some of the prizes in-
cluded things like a waffle
maker, baseball caps and pic-
tures.
The free meal tickets were
won by Donna Campbell and
Mindy Winegar. Linda Abra-
ham was the lucky winner of
the Len’s Drug gift card.
There will be a big event
on Saturday, Oct. 27, the Si-
lent Wave Horse Rescue Open
House. It will be held from
1-7 p.m. It will be a Caribbe-
an theme and dinner. Dinner
price is to be determined, but
the suggested donation is $8
for dinner and drink, and kids
are free. There will be silent
and live auctions, a Winchester
270 rifle raffle, and door priz-
es. There will be kids games
and prizes too. You will have
a chance to see the horses and
a demonstration. There will
also be a horse-training semi-
nar. This event will be held at
48852 Highway 402, Kimber-
ly, 1 mile west of Monument at
mile marker 12.
Don’t forget about the sew-
ing class set for Oct. 20. This
will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
with a potluck lunch at noon.
There will be a special project
being worked on or you can
bring your own project.
No room for my story,
maybe next week.
1 John 4:2 “Hereby know
ye the Spirit of God; Every
spirit that confesseth that Je-
sus Christ is come in the flesh
is of God.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Tom’s thought for the day:
You can’t fill an empty buck-
et from a dry well. I got really
excited when the weather fore-
cast said we were going to get
3 inches of rain. Holy cow! But
the second time around I heard
more clearly, 0.3 inches of rain.
Oh. OK. Any is good, right?
There was frost on the wind-
shield so it’s time to pull the
A/C and close up the foundation
vents. Yes, fall has fallen. And
PTL that we haven’t had any
bad fires in our area this year.
Bruce Kaufman led the flag
salute, and Tom Roark asked
the blessing. Ken, Larry and
Carlos took care of the home
deliveries. Tom, Margie, Dick
and Veanne whipped up a
chicken enchilada casserole for
our dining pleasure. It was ac-
companied by a spinach salad
and mixed fruit with pudding
for dessert. There were also
corn chips and cheese to go
with the entrée. We are still in
need of a head cook and as-
sistant, so if you are interested
please feel free to apply. Gera-
lyn and Christina brought Gor-
don Sindt, Thelma Kite and
Marilyn Randall from the Blue
Mountain Care Center. Since
we got the orange cones from
the city, we haven’t had any
problem with people parking
their car in the handicap area.
Thanks to all concerned.
Our new tai chi instructor
came and signed up four par-
ticipants. The health depart-
ment will be here on Oct. 10
for their gig. Be sure to bring
your insurance cards so you
can get your flu shots. Our
meal is to be baked ham and
scalloped potatoes, so plan to
stay for that.
The new front door is in
sight. Won’t be long before
it is installed, and we won’t
have that annoying problem
with it closing and keeping
people locked out when it’s
supposed to be open and un-
locked. Hallelujah! And those
who rent just the dining area
won’t have to traipse through
the kitchen to access the room.
The cooks will appreciate that.
By the way, the rent for use of
the building is only $75 for just
the dining room; if you need to
use the kitchen facilities that’s
another $75. Call Jim Hamsher
for more info at 541-620-2861.
We’ve worked hard to make
improvements to the spaces for
the different uses that people
and organizations need. The
building is here to be utilized
by our community members.
I was the happy recipient of
a surprise package this week.
The church secretary has been
cleaning out the storage area
and found a box stuck way
back in a corner that was la-
beled “sheet music.” Oh, boy!
You wouldn’t believe what I
found. Music from the ’60s
through the ’90s and some of
it I have written. ’Twas very
interesting to go through it and
see how the mode, manner and
method of congregational sing-
ing has changed; it has almost
come full circle. The “new”
songs are going back to vers-
es and a chorus. Which proves
that what goes around comes
around.
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 “What
has been will be again, what
has been done will be done
again; there is nothing new un-
der the sun. Is there anything of
which one can say, ‘Look! This
is something new?’ It was
here already, long ago; it was
here before our time.”
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