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A8 Seniors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, November 14, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Monday, Nov. 5, the Hospi- tal Auxiliary ladies, Mary Lou Horton and Virginia Miller, began their service by making much-appreciated meal de- liveries to our friends in John Day and Canyon City, while our friends David Gill and Rodney, from Step Forward, covered the Mt. Vernon route. Altogether they delivered 30 regular and 74 frozen meals; that is 104 individual meals. Well done, volunteers! I hope to give you year-end totals soon. Ron Dowse and Bonnie Kocis were on greeter duty, and James Hircher and Ethan were busy doing table setups. Vir- ginia opened our time together by leading the flag salute, Jan Ellison won the Len’s Drug gift card and Judy Nelson won two free meals in our drawings. Dale Stennett gave a very mov- ing and heartfelt blessing on our meal. We dined on chicken and noodles with roasted red potatoes, green beans, Waldorf salad, bread sticks, and because it was National Donut Day, Lisa made maple bars. The best! We had 31 diners. Veanne is back after undergoing a second sur- gery on her wrist. We missed you and appreciate all you do. Heal well. On Thursday, Nov. 8, Ev- erett King and Jeanette Jul- srud had greeter duties and The Cornerstone ladies, Linda Sprouffske and Carla Ander- son, along with Pastor Levi Manitsas, took care of our ta- ble service. Dear friends Joan and Joel Tayles came through to take deliveries to John Day and Canyon City as David Gill’s crew from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon meals out. Altogether, they delivered 36 meals to those at home. Linda began our time by leading us in the flag salute, Reg LeQuieu won the Chester’s Thriftway gift card and Alex Dabalos won the free meal in the draw- ings. Levi honored all veterans with a reading and gave a sin- cere personal blessing on our meal. Sponsored by Don and Deda Porter in honor of our dear friend Marianne Morris, we dined on pork loin with rice pilaf and apples, as well as car- rot salad and homemade bread. In honor of national cappucci- no day, we enjoyed cappuccino pudding. Loved it, Lisa! I couldn’t attend but heard that many of the veterans on the list in our community were gifted with Quilts of Valor at the Elks Lodge Friday night, and there is a plan to complete the task, with every name they have been given receiving one. Thanks to our quilters in Grant County, especially those from The Shiny Thimble, owned and operated by Karen Hinton, and the Grant County Piece- maker’s Guild in Mt. Vernon. Tai chi is now being offered free to anyone (standing or seated) Monday after lunch at 12:30 p.m. and Thursday be- fore lunch at 10:15 a.m. Bingo is played on Thursday at 1 p.m. For Thursday, Nov. 15, our Thanksgiving meal is sold out. But on Monday, Nov. 19, we’ll have lots of seating for spaghetti with plenty of room. Come one, come all. On Nov. 22, we will be closed. 2 Corinthians 7:1 “There- fore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from every- thing that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We had 57 guests on the books and five takeouts for our Nov. 6 lunch. That was a large crowd don’t you think? We had some visitors from out of town. We had County Judge Scott Myers, from John Day. Also from John Day were Ka- tee Hoffman and Veanne Wed- dle. Dick and Pam Wanous joined us from Spray. Our cooks Terry Cade and Teawna Jewell cooked us some chicken Alfredo, garlic bread, a fresh green salad and served apple pie for dessert. We thank them for helping to feed a very hungry crowd very well. Our greeters at the front were Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee, Kristi Guimont and Bodean Andersen. Jimmy and Linda collected and counted the money, Kristi checked ev- eryone in and Bodean led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. An announcement made was that the food bank would appreciate donations to help cover the cost of the purchase of turkeys for distribution at Thanksgiving. We thank Ed Bustardo, Dennis Abraham, Bob Cock- erell and Rusty for all their heart, sweat and labor at the senior center. The bathrooms and the library are being re- modeled at the present time. The winner of the Len’s Drug gift card was Bruce Kramer, and the winners of the free meal tickets were Jim Davenport and Bob Yukawa. We are sad to report that Suzi Mael’s husband, Jim Mael, passed away. Funeral services will be held in the spring of next year; further in- formation will be given at that time. We send our condolences to Suzi and her family. May the Lord comfort them through their loss. There will be a sewing class this coming Saturday, Nov. 17. It will be held at the Monument senior center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring a dish to share for potluck. Of course, you must bring your sewing machine. There is a project that you can work on that Judy has introduced, or you can bring your own project. Anyone can come, really. If you want to come and just sit and visit, you are welcome to come, and that would be fine. Some peo- ple like to bring their knitting or crochet work. We look for- ward to seeing everyone! The temperatures here have been steadily going down. It is now downright cold as soon as that sun is gone. We’ve had temps go down into the teens. We were told by the so-called weather forecasters that we are to have snow here within the week. Yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it! I am not going to be holding my breath. Ha. I had something sort of scary happen to me this past week. While coming home from Spray, I got a flat tire. It was on Highway 402. It was also about 7:30, 26 degrees and pitch black. I was a little freaked. I had to pull over as far as I could go because there was no shoulder. I turned on the emergency lights and started to walk. To be contin- ued. Psalm 104:31 “The glory of the LORD shall endure for- ever: The LORD shall rejoice in His works.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Boy, did I ever have fun playing pinochle today! The four of us played three games before dinner, and my partners and I won two of them! Lots of fun was had by all. We do have a second card table so there could be another four- some having a good time, too. No cribbage players have sur- faced yet, but we always have hope. Ginger asked Marilyn Ran- dall to lead the flag salute, Jack Retherford asked the blessing and Larry, Carlos, Ginger and Carla took care of the home deliveries. The winner of the $5 gift card donated by Len’s Drug was Nancy Viggers. This was our new cook’s first day, and who should show up but the inspector? But the kitchen passed with 100 percent compliance. Ev- erything should be easy after that, huh, Amber? The meal that Amber, Margie, Dick and Tom prepared for us was 100 percent tasty, too. We enjoyed oven-fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, seven-layer salad and gingerbread with topping for dessert. Pam recorded 63 names in the registration book. Nov. 14 will be our Thanks- giving meal; please bring a dessert to share. There will be no meal served at the hall on Nov. 21, but we will pick up again on Nov. 28. Got that? Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Thelma Kite, Charlene Dean and Gordon Sindt from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Took Derrol in to the ER Monday morning due to chest discomfort. Let me tell you, once you say the magic words “chest pain,” things move into high gear very quickly. After all the testing was completed and showed nothing abnormal, they had no definitive answer, so on to the cardiologist’s of- fice next month. On Thursday we went to Baker City to get his hearing aid cleaned and adjusted. The most interest- ing thing about that is that the technician sits in front of his computer and somehow tells the electronic circuits in the hearing aid –– which is still in Derrol’s ear –– to increase its volume! I explain it this way: He hacked it wirelessly. Now, if someone could figure out how to hack the brain to silence the tinnitus, he’d make millions of dollars and mil- lions of us happy! As we drove over Dix- ie Pass, we saw something new. Oh, hallelujah! They are installing a restroom at the Sumpter Valley Railroad In- terpretive Site. How did that happen? I don’t remember reading about it and didn’t know that there was any mon- ey for such a project. Any- body know? Since the van- dals did in the one at Mowich Loop, there was only one place between Prairie City and Baker City that was avail- able, and that is at Bates State Park. But when it’s closed… If we get enough snow, this one might be closed too, but at least it’s there. Thank you to whomever made this hap- pen. I’m sure that the visitors to the site there will be appre- ciative too. 1 Thessalonians 5:16- 18 “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” Church Services In Grant County Come Worship with us at 87813
