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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.”
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