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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 2018)
A8 SENIORS Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, December 12, 2018 G RANT C OUNTY S ENIORS John Day Seniors Nicky Essex Hey you guys, I think I am too old for the cold! Maybe I need a new body thermostat. Why is it that 70 degrees is just perfect outside in the fall, but 73 degrees indoors is just too shivery for these bones anymore? On Monday, Dec. 3, Ever- ett King and I were greeting. We have begun our Christ- mas silent auction with about 15 items and hope to con- tinue these through the win- ter. It has been a way to raise some extra funds for the cen- ter to keep our meals at their regular very low price. Some of you have gotten great buys on pictures, offered by Linda Stoltz, out of her decorating inventory as well; she has donated most of them herself but has donated all funds back to the center. The Blue Moun- tain Hospital Auxiliary ladies, Virginia Miller and Chris Yri- arte, did our table service after going out on home deliveries in John Day and Canyon City, while David Gill and Rodney from Step Forward took the Mt. Vernon route. Altogether, they delivered 32 regular meals and 40 frozen meals to those unable to come in to the center. Virginia opened our time together by leading the flag salute, Leone Meador won the Len’s Drug gift card, Eric Julsrud won the free meal and Dale Stennett gave his devotional blessing on our meal. We enjoyed ham and butter beans with corn bread. We enjoyed a lovely rice salad, and for dessert, we had chocolate chip cookie bars. We served 30 happy diners. On Thursday, Dec. 6, Jea- nette Julsrud and I were greet- ers with lots of things going on. It was a busy day! Our meal was served by the Naz- arene Church group, led by Trace Andrew, with Debbie Bloom, Vickie Harrison, Jes- sie Elliott, Everett King and Dale Stennett. Joan and Joel Tayles did our home deliver- ies in John Day and Canyon City while David Gill and the Step Forward Crew delivered to Mt. Vernon. Together, these great volunteers delivered 40 regular and four frozen meals to those at home. As always, on birthday Thursdays, Amber and Troy come to help with table service as well as to help celebrate birthdays of the month. They represent Driskill Memorial Chapel, which generously supplies our birthday cake each month for dessert. We also served American goulash, veggies, green salad and French bread, sponsored by Len’s Drug, to 49 very satisfied diners. For lunch on Dec. 13, we will have chicken potpie and salad. On Dec. 17, we’ll have chili verde. Come join us! Linda’s wreath-making group last week included Jea- nette Julsrud, Deda and Don Porter, Kay Cotham, Heather Swank, Anne Lewis, Sha- ron Smith and Maria Struan. Some of those were drawn along with other gifts today. We must accept a tempo- rary goodbye from our dear Olivia Cornell, as she will be going to help with her moth- er’s care. We have enjoyed her help in so many ways, but we will especially miss her friendship! 1 Corinthians 16:13 “Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith, be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa We had a delicious and hearty meal of beef stroga- noff, fresh green salad, gar- lic bread and cookies for our lunch cooked by our Terry Cade and Teawna Jewell. Terry was very happy and proud of me when she saw that I went back for seconds. We thank our cooks for all their hard work and making us our wonderful meals! Our greeters at the table were Jimmy Cole, Linda Blakeslee and Kristi Gui- mont. Jimmy and Linda collected and counted the money, Kristi checked in the guests and handed out free raffle tickets, Judy Harris led us in flag salute and made the announcements and yours truly prayed the blessing over our meal. Jeannie Strange made and decorated each of our tables with her artistic and crafty ideas. Jeannie had also pre- pared some nice items to be given away for free raffles. The winners of the prizes were Judy Bustardo, Bill Nichols, Linda Abraham and Phoebe Yukawa. We appre- ciate Jeannie and all her tire- less and creative work for our senior center. There will be a sewing class from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. Everyone is invited to come, even if you don’t sew. You can bring your knitting or crocheting, or just come to visit. We have a potluck lunch around noon. The winner of the Len’s Drug gift card was Pam Cal- lahan. Larry Vogt and Rusty Baughman were the recipi- ents of the free meal tickets. The Kimberly/Monument Christmas play will be held at the school Dec. 19. The Christmas bazaar will be Dec. 16, starting at 10 a.m., at the Monument Senior Center. Calling all bakers, we need cookies for the Cookie Caper on Dec. 18. Cookies can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Josh Hamilton wanted to set up an account at the US Bank in John Day for Christ- mas gifts for the kids of the Monument School. If you would like more information on how you can help, you may call him at home or at the co-op. Whew, did you get all that? Lots of things going on already. It’s looking like the calendar is filling up. Christ- mas is just around the cor- ner. I am so glad that we got snow! Yay, beautiful, white and cold snow. Yes, the Lord is good! With all this cold weather and snow, I was a little sur- prised to find a dead mole in my barn. Yep, it was fro- zen solid, but it looked like a fresh kill. I tossed it into the road, but my dog probably ate it when I wasn’t looking. I had been looking for a litter of kittens that our mama cat had and hid. Well, I thought they were in the barn because the dogs kept sniffing around. One day, the dog went crazy around an old range stove in there. I heard something, got excited, think- ing it might be kittens. Nope, it was a packrat. The dog and I were trying to get it, but the darn thing got away, sigh. Revelation 3:2 “Be watch- ful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Whew. What a week. We made the rounds of medi- cal appointments in Burns, Bend and Baker. That’s a lit- tle much for one week. Had to take a day off and just rest. Did work on practic- ing music for Christmas and the rescheduled YAP con- cert. Hope all the other par- ticipants are using this unex- pected downtime to practice. We have a Christmas tree up, thanks to Tom, and dec- orated, courtesy of all who wanted to help do it. There were also special table dec- orations in keeping with the season. Instead of numbers, there will be one figure desig- nated as the identifying piece to indicate that that table will go first through the food line. This time, it was the angel. Who knows what it will be next time? Come and see. The flag salute was led by Juan Rubio, and Jack Rether- ford asked the blessing, while Larry and Carlos took care of the home deliveries. We had 63 names on the book. The winner of the $5 gift card donated by Len’s Drug was Nadine Smith. Ginger got all the tables set up with the silent auction items, so take a look and write down your bid. You only have until 12:30 p.m. Dec. 19 to bid. Don’t dawdle! Our delicious meal pre- pared by Amber, Dick, Mar- gie and Tom was a sump- tuous shepherd’s pie with green salad, beets, olives, pickles and rye bread. Des- sert was cherry cheesecake. Oh my, yummy yummy. Our Christmas dinner will be on Dec. 19, so bring a pie or other dessert to share. There will be no meal on Dec. 26, but we will have one on Jan. 2. Shauntele and Geralyn brought Carl Lino, Mari- lyn Randall, Virginia Moore, Charlene Dean and Mary Crawford from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Don’t forget the Christmas party there on Dec. 14. The pinochle table is get- ting good use. Some would like to be able to play more. Keep asking if there is another “game in town.” If you would like to play at a time other than Wednes- day morning from 10 a.m. to noon, let us know. The library has received a bunch of new books, and I am thrilled! One of the ways that we are told to stave off signs of old age is to keep the mind engaged. And one of the ways to do that is to read books. We have lots of mys- tery volumes, romance and historical novels and quite a few non-fiction and biogra- phies. So take your choice. Numbers fascinate me, too. Found a T-shirt in a computer gear catalog (why I get that, I have no idea!) that displays what happens when you multiply 1x1 and keep adding 1s until you are multiplying 111111111 by 111111111. Try it on your calculator. Remember when doing such a computation would require a room full of computing power? Now you can do it on your phone! Luke 1:35 “The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of his Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.’” Church Services In Grant County 92687
