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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 2018)
A8 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 31, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Great news for Grant Coun- ty: A new senior care residence is opening on Harper Creek Road. Doris Harper and Jessie Saul, both nurses, are hosting an open house as I write this. For more information, call Do- ris at 541-620-2833 or Jessie at 541-620-2283. Congratula- tions and best of luck! Oct. 22, volunteers Ineta Carpenter and Darlene No- dine, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began their day by delivering meals to John Day and Canyon City, while Travis Estes and Rodney, from Step Forward, delivered to Mt. Vernon. Alto- gether, they delivered 28 regu- lar and 40 frozen meals. We so appreciate our volunteers. Dar- lene began our time by leading us in the flag salute, Karen Barrietua won the Len’s Drug gift card, Darlene won the free meal and Ineta led us in the blessing on our meal. Our meal of Shay’s beefy stew with homemade biscuits and fruit salad really satisfied. Lisa’s “blondies” were the perfect way to round out our lunch. We served 34 for lunch including returning hunters, Bill and Evalee Reeves, who have been hunting here for over 60 years. Welcome back and great hunting! We had a very energizing tai chi session after lunch, and we agree we are looking good. Join us for tai chi after lunch every Mon- day and before lunch every Thursday. Thursday, Oct. 25, we en- joyed our Halloween lunch of barbecued bat wings and graveyard enchilada stew with chips, carrot and celery sticks with sour cream and salsa for dipping. Lisa made a fantastic candy corn cake for dessert. Our friends Agnes and Walt Hall, David Turner, Jimmy Maple and Father Christie, from St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, looked very festive in their Halloween aprons as they served seven full tables plus a couple of diners seated at the ends. David and Jimmy deliv- ered meals to John Day and Canyon City, while the Step Forward crew delivered to Mt. Vernon. In all, they delivered 36 meals. Our meal was spon- sored by Greg and Marla Arm- strong and Len’s Drug; we were happy to have them here with us for our festivities! Walt Hall led our flag salute, and he never fails to give it a salute at the end. Our regular drawings went to Marlie Mediger for Chester’s Thriftway and Ol- ivia for the free meal. Father Christie blessed our meal and us! We then learned that Addi- son Saul won one of two bas- kets of Halloween goodies for counting the napkin rings put together by Olivia, and Jan El- lison won the other. Each cos- tume wearer won bat cookies and centipedes. Our visitors from Valley View Assisted Living were Kim, Chuck, Lyn- da, Sandy, Randy, Betty, Pam, Lois, Georgia and Beth. Many thanks to Ramy Jisha for so many donations and especial- ly for the wonderful new book shelves for our library. Thank you to Sharon Stewart for all your help with library and decorations. So many thanks, so little space. Next Thursday, Nov. 1, Salisbury steak, and Monday, Nov. 5, chicken and noodles. Don’t forget bingo. 1 John 4:19 NIV “We love because He first loved us.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa For our lunch on Oct. 23, our great cooks Terry Cade and Teawna Jewell made us sloppy joes, coleslaw, tater tots and tapioca pudding with whipped cream for dessert. I believe we are so fortunate to be fed so well, don’t you think? We thank our cooks immensely for all their hard work. Our greeters at the table were Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee and Kristi Guim- ont. Jimmy and Linda collect- ed and counted the money, Kristi checked the guests in and Bodean Andersen led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. The Len’s Drug gift card went to Lonie Lawrence, and the two free meal tickets were won by Max Breeding and Bob Yukawa. We had some guests show up to join us in our feast. Kris- ta, the foot doctor from John Day, was present and was available to address people’s foot needs. We also had Dick and Pam Wanous from Spray join us for lunch. I think the skunks are out again; my hubby smelled one near our barn so he set the live trap with an egg in it. Well, we forgot about the trap for a couple of days because we had company visiting, and my son went down with his dog and pup. Hmm, I think the dog went over to investigate, saw it, tried to turn around and high tail away. Did you catch that? She “tried.” She got skunked on her backside. The good news is that it wasn’t the usual male dog this time! Ha. So, I had to make the skunk concoction, and my hubby had to bathe her. Poor girl, it was a little chilly that morning. We did rinse her off with some nice warm water afterwards, though. On the bright side, at least she didn’t get skunked in her face and didn’t get it all over her eyes and nose. She also looked really pretty with her coat all clean and fluffy after- wards. Ha. It was a pretty big skunk, I’d have to say; I’m sure there are more around. We will have to set the live trap again. I am not looking forward to that stinkiness. I hope they hurry up and go into hiberna- tion mode soon. The colors are changing around here. All the trees are starting to drop their leaves. We even got some rain. I am going to be praying for more rain from the Lord. I would welcome anyone who wants to pray with me in agreement. Don’t forget to change your clocks back this week! Yes, it’s one of my favorite times of the year where we gain an hour in our busy lives. It’s going to be the time to wrap ourselves up in nice, fuzzy, warm blankets with some hot tea or cocoa, look out of our windows at the rain or snow and read a good book or watch an old movie. Ah, I’m counting the days. Psalm 9: 1-2 “I will praise thee O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee; I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs We are pleased to have the owners of a new business in town attend our week- ly dinners. Ginger asked Lloyd Fuller to lead the flag salute, and he and his part- ner donated a $10 gift cer- tificate to be used at their store, Twice Upon a Time; the first winner was Bonnie Pickle. Since it was a five Wednesday month, our other winner was Tom Roark who received the $5 gift card do- nated by Outpost Pizza, Pub & Grill. Thanks to all our faithful donors. Next week (Halloween) will be the Oc- tober birthday recognition with a $10 gift certificate donated by Huffman’s Se- lect Markets. And I hear the meal will be “noteworthy.” Larry, Carlos and Ken took care of the home deliveries. We again want to extend our thanks and appreciation to all who help out in any way to make sure that the building is clean and the food is deliv- ered on time. While cleaning, I discovered a whole lot of old cookbooks. So they are on the table next to the “book exchange” room — other- wise known as the library. So take what you want, but don’t bring it back is the instruc- tion for the cookbooks. Lorna and Krystin brought Virginia Moore, Mary Craw- ford, Carl Lino and Gordon Sindt from the Blue Moun- tain Care Center. Good to see them again. And it is really nice that they are able to en- ter and exit the building us- ing their own route. Pam reg- istered 65 names in our book. After Jack asked the bless- ing, we enjoyed pizza bread, kale salad and a dessert of fruit and cottage cheese. I really like pizza bread! That, again, was a new way to serve pizza, and it is a really handy way to do it. Thanks to Marge, Dick and Tom for a great tasting and filling meal. The saying for the day: If you are in a stew, you have been simmering too long. I simmered for a while when I saw that my missive from last week had been confused. The sentences should have read, “We got in and we got out without any help. The re- stroom facility is one of the improvements. It has to be seen to be believed.” The tai chi class is picking up new participants, so if you have been told by your health care professional that this regimen may help you, come and try it out after the meal on Wednesdays. The newly refurbished swinging doors into the din- ing area have been hung and are working correctly. Let in a lot more light, too. With windows in them, you can see if anyone is on the other side. Due to the special hing- es, they will close automati- cally. Hooray! Did you know that the World Series was on? Not much info in the media. We happened to catch the last six innings of Game 3 — the one that set a record by last- ing 18 innings. Started at 5 p.m. and ended at 12:15 a.m. Go Dodgers! 1 Cor. 9:24,25 “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize… a crown that will last forever.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at 80174
