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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Happy Wednesday! I
wish our weather would
decide if it would be spring
or winter and not keep
hopping back and forth.
Although, I prefer the rain
over the snow. Our greeter
on Feb. 11 was Everett
whom we are oh so thank-
ful for. He always manages
to bring a smile to people’s
faces as they walk through
the door. David Gill, Bon-
nie and Frances delivered 41
regular and 36 frozen meals
to John Day and Mt. Vernon
– thanks a bunch!
Our meal was served
by volunteers from The
Redeemer Lutheran Church,
and Frances Kocis said
grace. The delicious meal
consisted of tacos, chips
and salsa, refried beans and
spicy rice and churros for
dessert. Yummy, yummy.
As always, our cooks did an
excellent job, and we were
very pleased, so we would
like to thank them for being
so wonderful! Pat Amling
won the gift card graciously
donated by Len’s Drug, and
Jean Willy won the two free
meals.
On Valentine’s Day, our
greeters were Dave Peska
and Bonnie Kocis who
paid homage to the holi-
day by welcoming people
with love and kindness. Joe
and Joan Tayles and David
Gill delivered 47 meals to
John Day and Mt. Vernon.
Thank you as always. This
week, our meal was served
by the lovely people from
Four Square Church, and it
was donated by Blue Moun-
tain Chiropractic Service.
We cannot thank everyone
enough for being so gra-
cious with your donations!
Our dinner was chicken
cordon bleu with hollanda-
ise sauce, harvest vegeta-
bles, pilaf, garlic chalet veg-
etables, dinner rolls and red
velvet cupcakes for dessert.
Our prizes were five Val-
entine’s bears, which were
won by Gerald, Barb, Bul-
lina, Isa and Dusty, how
cute!
Is spring here yet? Did the
weather change while you
were reading this? Maybe it
will hear me and decide that
it is time for spring. I think
we are all ready for April
showers and May flowers,
but can we leave allergies in
the dust this year? Hay fever
is not something I look for-
ward to. Alas, we must have
patience that spring will be
here, and we must trust that
that darn groundhog was
right!
Philippians 4:6 “Do not
be anxious about anything,
but in every situation, by
prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your
requests to God.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We’ve had some glori-
ous sunshine with blue skies,
dark and black skies, bliz-
zards from nowhere and
all sorts of other weather in
between. How about the rest
of you all out there? I am not
complaining one bit! I thank
the Lord for the snow and
rain, wahoo!
Our cooks, Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell, made us a fill-
ing meal of chicken burritos,
refried beans, Spanish rice
with all the fixings and choc-
olate cake with ice cream for
dessert. Aren’t you just jeal-
ous? We are so fortunate for
our hard working cooks that
work so diligently to feed
us such delicious meals. We
thank them for their efforts.
Our greeters were Bodean
Andersen, Jimmy Cole,
Linda Blakeslee and Kristi
Guimont. We welcome
Jimmy back from his illness.
We missed him very much.
Bodean led us in the flag
salute, made the announce-
ments and prayed the bless-
ing over our meal, Jimmy
and Linda collected and
counted the money and Kristi
checked in the guests. We
had a total of 41 guests on the
books and six takeouts.
The winners of the free
meal tickets were Ed Bus-
tardo and Bill Nichols, and
Sylvia Cockerell was the
lucky winner of the Len’s
Drug gift card.
On March 1 at 6 p.m.,
there will be a fundraiser
ham dinner in support of
Skills USA from the Monu-
ment School. There will also
be a silent auction. You may
purchase your tickets from
either Kristi Guimont or
Miranda Cook.
One of our residents,
Cody Cole, has been battling
an illness. His sister, Sarah
Newton, will be donating one
of her kidneys to her brother.
We pray that the Lord would
bless the surgery and that
Cody will have a better qual-
ity of life. We also ask that
Sarah would be blessed for
her sacrifice of love. May the
Lord heal them both quickly
from their surgeries.
Don’t forget that Satur-
day, Feb. 23, is our sewing
day. The time is from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. There is a potluck
lunch around noon. All are
welcome. You don’t even
have to sew. You can just
come and visit with every-
one! The idea is that we are
just having fun and building
community. You don’t even
have to live in Monument
either! We even have ladies
coming from Mt. Vernon and
Spray. Hope to see you there!
I don’t know about the
rest of the country, but we
still have about 4-6 inches of
packed snow on the ground.
I love it. Living in sunny-
all-year-long California has
given me an appreciation of
seeing and having four sea-
sons. Sure, it is a bit of a pain
to take care of things outside
and the animals, but we got
snow! Beautiful, white, spar-
kling and cold snow. Ha. The
snow will melt and get in the
ground to wake up the sleep-
ing seeds that will bloom into
gorgeous green and flow-
ers in the spring. Ah, win-
ter always makes me glad
to see the wonderful spring
when it comes. The fresh air
is an added bonus, not seeing
smog here, no siree.
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit
that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they
are Spirit, and they are life.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
I trust you had a nice
Valentine’s Day. Our tables
were decorated in red
hearts on red cloth napkins.
The table that had the Pur-
ple Heart went to the head
of the line. Wonder what
next week will bring.
Carla led the flag salute,
and Jack asked the bless-
ing. Carlos and Jay took
care of the home deliver-
ies. Gwynne Wulfert was
the winner of the free meal
donated by Valley View
Assisted Living. There
were 58 names in the regis-
tration book this week.
Our meal was sweet and
sour pork with rice and car-
rots, followed by a dessert,
which was your choice of
an iced red velvet or pine-
apple cupcake. There were
lots of compliments on the
tasty pork.
We will have our
monthly board meeting on
Feb. 20 after the meal. If
you have anything to bring
to our attention, that would
be a good time.
Lorna
and
Krystin
brought Marilyn Randall,
Gordon Sindt and Charlene
Dean from the Blue Moun-
tain Care Center.
We had a visit at the
card table from someone
who stated that they used
to play pinochle a long
time ago.
We encourage such per-
sons to come and get back
in the game. It’s like riding
a bicycle. You will remem-
ber how to do it the more
you play. Flipped through
another edition of Hoyles
Card Game Rules.
Still
don’t
recog-
nize the game that they
say is pinochle. If you
tried to play it using their
rules, I can see why you
would get confused and
discouraged. Their rules
make no sense! We say
that we are using “Pool
Hall Rules.” They are the
only ones that we all know.
Anyway, we have fun, and
that’s the most important
thing, right?
So Joel got the new
kitchen floor leveled by
pouring a very thin cement
compound over the cups
in the wood, then let it dry
and sanded off the bumps.
Some places had to be done
two or three times.
The farther away from
the old water heater leak,
the smoother the boards
were. After that application
was completed to his satis-
faction, then came the lay-
ing of ¼-inch plywood to,
hopefully, really help the
leveling process. Then it
had to have an application
of the cement compound
on the seams; he was try-
ing to make sure there was
no place that water can get
through to the wood sub-
flooring again!
After that was all dried
and sanded, we could
finally get the VCT floor-
ing out and place it. The
glue for that tile has a very
long time that it can sit and
wait for you to figure out
the pattern.
When it gets to the
proper degree of tackiness,
you can place the individ-
ual tiles. Most pastes and
glues will dry out on you
very quickly. The can said
that this stuff is viable for
18 hours!
But you better have the
right tile in the right place
because, once it is glued, it
is very difficult to remove.
Anyway, it is all done, and
looks beautiful! Whew,
now I can move on to
spring cleaning.
Matthew 8:2-3 “A man…
come and knelt before Him
and said, ‘Lord, if You are
willing. You can make me
clean.’ Jesus reached out
His hand and touched the
man. ‘I am willing.’ He
said. ‘Be clean!’”
Church Services In Grant County
Tuesdays at 6:30PM
Use Main Entry Front Doors
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