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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Happy Wednesday, all!
I hope that at least some
of you enjoyed this last
bit of snow. Did anyone
build snowmen? This is
the worst part about win-
ter, when the snow melts
and makes everything all
muddy. At least the berms
in the middle of the street
are gone! No more slipping
and sliding on the snow-
packed roads either.
On Feb. 25, our greet-
ers were Ron and Gregg,
who are always gracious
enough to volunteer. There
were 33 regular and 40 fro-
zen meals delivered by
Rachel and Rod Carpen-
ter and David and Rod-
ney. Our meal was served
by the lovely volunteers
from the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Big thanks to all of you!
The meal consisted of tuna
cakes, steak fries, veggies
and artichoke pasta salad
with snickerdoodles and
ice cream for dessert. Yum!
Karen was the winner of
the two free meals donated
by the senior center, and
Yog won the Len’s Drug
gift card. Congratulations!
The last day of Febru-
ary was spent among our
amazing friends here at the
senior center. Our greeters
were Geanette and Gregg.
Ron, Carl, David and Rod-
ney delivered 48 meals.
How spectacular! This
time, lunch was served
by the John Day Volun-
teer Fire Department for
the first time. Thanks, guys
and girls. We truly appreci-
ate all of your hard work!
Lunch was pork chops,
cheesy potatoes, white
bean salad, French bread
and poke cake for dessert.
James and Bruce won the
free lunches. What a deli-
cious prize! It was a beauti-
ful day with the sun shining
upon us. Everyone thought
spring was in the air and all
were smiling.
Ecclesiastes
11:7-8
“Sunshine is sweet; it is
good to see the light of
day. People ought to enjoy
every day of their lives, no
matter how long they live.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
How is everyone holding
up in this crazy snow? We
had over 2 feet of snow all
over our place. There were
a couple of days where we
were just shoveling snow,
because it was higher than
the windows, to get to our
truck and to get to the dif-
ferent areas around our
property. My chickens have
refused to come out of their
coops, and I had to make
pathways for the goats in
their yard. The snow there
was so deep that it came
over my knees! The goats
didn’t want to come out of
their shed either.
Everyone is saying this
is weird weather. I don’t
know what to make of it.
Is it unusual to have this
much snow when we are
in March? I do know that
it is not good for calving
time. I think the weather
is supposed to get warmer,
and we are to get rain in
the forecast. I’m hoping
and praying that the Lord
will turn it for good for us
around here.
Well, on the upside of
things, we had some deli-
cious
baked
chicken,
mashed potatoes and gravy,
green beans, dinner rolls
and chocolate cake for des-
sert. I was hungry so you
know I pigged out. We
thank Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell for preparing our
awesome meal.
Our greeters at the
table were Bodean Ander-
sen, Jimmy Cole, Linda
Blakeslee and Kristi Gui-
mont. Bodean led us in
the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed
the blessing over our meal,
Jimmy and Linda collected
and counted the money
and Kristi checked in the
guests. We had 39 guests
on the books and eight take
outs.
The winner of the Len’s
Drug gift card was Doug
Sweek. The winners of
the free meal tickets were
Max Breeding and Bill
Nichols.
We had some visitors
join us from Spray, and
they were Dick and Pam
Wanous, as well as Katee
Hoffman and her new assis-
tant, Steven Baldwin, from
John Day (I hope I got his
name right). We also had
Sue Stovall from John Day
join us for lunch.
Oh, I thought I would
remind you all that “spring
forward” time is just
around the corner. In fact,
it will be this coming Sun-
day morning, March 10.
So, don’t forget to change
your clocks before you go
to bed on Saturday night or
you will be late for church
on Sunday. Ha.
Spring forward is not
one of my favorite times,
but at least we will have
longer days. It should start
getting warmer and sunnier.
Maybe I will try my hand at
sprouting some black sun-
flower seeds I got on sale
at Wilco for my chickens. I
looked into some info, and
I found it is even safe for
human consumption. I am
very curious as to finding
out how sunflower sprouts
will taste.
I have been saving those
clear plastic containers
from Costco that had the
croissants in them. I think
they will make excellent
sprouting containers. Recy-
cle what I have and save
money!
Philippians 1:29 “For
unto you it is given in the
behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on Him, but also to
suffer for His sake.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Contrary to what my col-
umn stated last week, we
did not give out a gift cer-
tificate for the February
birthday. Why? Because
we took a “snow day.” It
was more like an “ice day,”
though. Sorry about that.
The message must have
gotten out fairly clearly
because I only had one
phone call inquiring. So,
the February gift certifi-
cate donated by Huffman’s
Market will be given on
March 6 — I hope. And
the meal will be chicken, in
memory of Dave Kline.
Then when I brag about
the power not going off,
what happens? The power
goes off! But we have a
generator so we were able
to keep the heating appara-
tus going. PTL that it was
only for a few hours.
Made a discovery when
Joel was working on the
kitchen floor. In moving
the cook stove, someone
managed to get hold of the
proper place and the whole
top rose up — for easy
cleaning under the burners!
We’ve only had that stove
for 10 years, and that’s the
first time that I remember
that happening. So I tried
it when I was cleaning the
washing machine. Noth-
ing happened, even though
I pried, pulled and prod-
ded. Well, phooey. Seemed
like the old one did that.
Of course, with my mem-
ory, things are not always
what they seem. That’s
why I take lots of photos
and keep a diary!
Encountered the cura-
tor of our DeWitt Museum.
I had given him a whole
box full of old Straw-
berry Grange stuff, and
they were delighted to find
out more about the grange
here. Anyway, he is look-
ing for volunteers for the
upcoming season.
If you like history, espe-
cially of Grant County and
Prairie City, you should
contact him. And if you
have any historical memo-
rabilia, don’t throw it out!
You know the old saying,
“One man’s junk is another
man’s treasure.”
This summer will also
see a new thing in Prairie
City: a Fiber Fest. This is
going to be all over our fair
city. It will be in late July
and looks to be quite an
event. More details later.
The YAP orchestra has
two instruments for each
part now for a total of eight
players. We are working on
the “Hoe Down” from the
film “Rodeo” by American
composer Aaron Copland.
The choir chimes have dou-
bled in the number of play-
ers. We played with two
adults and three young-
sters at the winter concert.
In May, there will be one
adult and nine youngsters!
I won’t have to play unless
there is an emergency in
the ranks.
We are practicing Sou-
sa’s “Stars and Stripes
Forever” and an arrange-
ment of “Joshua Fit the
Battle of Jericho” with
Ezekiel’s “Dry Bones.”
We manage to use all but
three of our compliment
of 37 chimes in these three
songs.
Only three weeks until
spring! Got another seed
catalog, then I look out
the window and watch the
herd of deer wander by and
wonder if it is worth it.
Romans 8:18 “I con-
sider that our present suf-
ferings are not worth com-
paring with the glory that
will be revealed in us.”
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