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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.’”
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