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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Are you used to writ-
ing in 2019 yet? I am still
catching myself writing
in the old year. Hopefully,
I will get used to writing
2019 in by the next month
or so. Ha.
We were served by our
wonderful cooks, Terry Cade
and Teawna Jewell, fish and
chicken, with tartar or cock-
tail sauce, french fries, fresh
green salad, applesauce and
cookies for dessert. We are
so lucky to have such dedi-
cated cooks. It was good to
be back having our Tues-
day senior lunch after a two-
week hiatus. I’m glad that
Christmas and New Year’s
days won’t be falling on
Tuesdays for a while in the
near future! Whew.
Our greeters were Jimmy
Cole, Linda Blakeslee,
Kristi Guimont and Bodean
Andersen. Jimmy and Linda
collected and counted the
money, Kristi checked in the
guests and Bodean led us
in the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed
the blessing over our meal.
The free meal tickets
were won by Pam Wanous
and Pam Calahan. Did you
see that? The two Pams won
the free meals. Pretty funny,
right? Teawna Jewell won
the Len’s Drug gift card.
We sang the birthday
song to Bo Lawrence. I don’t
know how old he is, but I
hope he enjoyed our singing
to him and had a wonderful
rest of the day.
We had some folks join
us for some good food. They
were Dick and Pam Wanous
from Spray. We also had the
Veteran Services representa-
tive, Katee Hoffman, from
John Day. Katee had some
great ideas to share about
helping some of the vets
here in Grant County with
some extra funding. She
was brainstorming about
using some of the money for
maybe a veterans’ retreat,
free haircuts or helping vets
at the upcoming health fair
in the future.
Ed and Judy Bustardo
donated some money to help
our sewing group purchase a
serger. Katee Hoffman also
wanted to donate a serger
to our group. What a bless-
ing! We thank our generous
donors for their help.
Speaking of sewing, we
will have our next sewing
session on Saturday, Jan.
19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Around noon is when we
share a potluck lunch. You
may bring your own proj-
ect to work on or work on
a project that Judy Harris
has introduced. You can just
come and visit if you want,
or crochet, or knit. Hope you
can make it.
So I have a story to share
that happened a couple of
weeks ago. I went outside to
investigate a lot of barking
from our dogs. Well, what do
I find? A strange, stray dog,
and I have no idea where it
came from. He looked like
a young pup, maybe a year
old. He was a border collie/
heeler mix. He looked well
fed and nice but no collar.
I was calling all my neigh-
bors to find out where this
guy came from. I had to con-
clude that he must have been
dumped. I was in a pickle.
To be continued…
Proverbs 14:29 “He that
is slow to wrath is of great
understanding: But he that
is hasty of spirit exalteth
folly.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Hoo, boy! We had a bit
of excitement during our
pinochle game last week.
Gwynne Wilfert managed
to hit a pinochle milestone
in melding 1500 trump.
That means that she won
the whole game with that
one hand because you play
until the score is 1500. She
had never had this particu-
lar meld before, so a photo
was taken. In fact, it is only
the second time that I’ve
seen it. Dad had one back in
the ‘60s, I think, and I took
a photo of it then. I almost
had it a few hands before
Gwynne did, but I was miss-
ing one card.
Then, to add to her win-
ning ways, Gwynne won the
gift certificate donated by
Valley View Assisted Living
for a free meal! What a deal!
Ginger asked Carole Gar-
rison to lead the flag salute,
and Pastor Jack asked the
blessing. Deliverers today
were Tom, Carlos and Jay.
And what did they
deliver? Enchilada casse-
role, green salad, rice and
chocolate cake or pudding.
Mmm, good. I’m sure that
the 59 registered diners
enjoyed this meal.
Kristyn and Geralyn
brought Thelma Kite, Gor-
don Sindt, Marilyn Randall
and Virginia Moore from the
Blue Mountain Care Cen-
ter. Jeanette Julsrud joined
Thelma for lunch with us too.
The tai chi lady was back
with a large group of “mov-
ers.” Good for them. You can
come too every Wednesday
after lunch and join the fun.
We will have our monthly
board meeting on Jan. 16, so
if you are on our board, plan
to attend.
The postponed concert
by the Youth Arts Program
will happen on Friday, Jan.
18, at the United Method-
ist Church. I’m real proud of
the kids in the guitar classes.
Come and see what they have
to play for you. The time is
7 p.m. ‘Twill be an entertain-
ing and interesting evening.
The first seed catalog has
arrived. This one is from an
organic outfit in Oregon.
Hmmm, do you suppose
those seeds will germinate
any better here in Eastern
Oregon than the ones from
South Dakota or North Car-
olina? I’m sorely tempted
to find out. Did empty all
the seedpods on the holly-
hocks on to another area of
the yard before the year was
out. Will see what happens
when spring comes.
Gen. 1:11-13 “God said,
‘let the land produce vege-
tation: seed-bearing plants
and trees on the land that
bear fruit with the seed in
it, according to their vari-
ous kinds.’ And it was so…
And God saw that it was
good… this was on the third
day.”
who are able to get the ore
mined and dumped outside,
Bosley explained.
The mill is to be a com-
plete flotation type, designed
by an experienced mill super-
intendent of Kellogg, Idaho.
All components, including
crushers, ball mill and flota-
tion circuits will be mounted
on large trailers. Onsite
power will be supplied by a
truck-mounted diesel elec-
tric generator.
BOMAC will charge
a set fee for milling, Bos-
ley said. The company is
to market the concentrates
and transport them to smelt-
ers. Geological advice will
be offered at no cost, to
assist owners in exploration
and development of their
properties.
Operations are scheduled
to begin by June 1969, the
company reported. Future
plans are to construct more
mills of the same design.
BOMAC staff is said to be
investigating more than 20
mineralized districts in the
Northwest, which may need
their custom milling service.
OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
Former Grant High Stu-
dent Tells of Jap Fighting
Experiences
Sgt. Neil Cooper, son of
Mrs. George Street, left for an
Army hospital in Los Ange-
les, California, on Thursday,
where he will report. He has
been on furlough here for the
past week. Sgt. Cooper, who
left high school here in 1940,
enlisted in the U.S. Marines.
He spent considerable time
in China, Panama Canal
Zone and the Philippines.
Sgt. Cooper was one
of the 1,100 Marines who
served under Colonel Carl-
son and took part in inva-
sions of Guadalcanal, Gil-
berts, Marshall and other
South Pacific islands. On the
invasion of Guadalcanal, out
of the 1,100 Marines, 131
survived of whom most are
injured and confined to U.S.
army hospitals.
Sgt. Cooper has several
scars on his face and arms,
the result of knife cuts, also
he carries the scars of sev-
eral shrapnel and bullet
wounds which he received
while fighting Japs in these
islands. Modestly, but force-
fully he related a few of his
many experiences to the
Grant Union high students,
in their Student Body assem-
bly, Monday.
50 years ago
Mining Interest Revives
Idle mines in the Mid-
dle Fork of the John Day
River area may soon become
active. A custom milling ser-
vice is being readied by the
BOMAC Corporation of
Walla Walla, according to
Vernon Bosley, secretary.
With a capacity of 100
tons per day, the entirely por-
table mill will move into any
mine as soon as sufficient ore
is stockpiled, he said.
According to company
plans recently announced,
contracts will be sought with
owners of potential produc-
ers in the area. A working cir-
cle will be established with
enough mines to keep the
mill operating full time.
The company hopes to
find owners who have some
commercial ore in sight, and
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