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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.”
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