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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Praise the Lord for blue
skies and sunny days! I’m so
happy it is warming up. It’s
really starting to feel and,
more importantly, smell like
spring. I don’t know about
you, but I do love the smell
of fresh-cut grass, plants and
dirt when spring hits. Too
bad it’s too cold to plant any-
thing. However, I could start
getting my garden ready with
some dirt, hmmm. Definitely
something to think about.
On March 11, our greet-
ers were Gregg and Jeanette,
and David, Rodney, Buz and
Bobby delivered 36 regular
and 36 frozen meals.
We had some lovely vol-
unteers from the Redeemer
Lutheran Church come and
serve our meal! The meal
was tater tot casserole, green
bean piquant, fresh garden
salad with huckleberry vinai-
grette and feta cheese, Kaiser
rolls and peanut butter cook-
ies for dessert.
I didn’t happen to catch
the name of our Len’s Drug
gift card recipient, so I am
sorry! The winner of the
two free meals donated by
Valley View Assisted Liv-
ing was Nadine Smith, and
the frog decorations were
won by Bobbie Gillmor,
Nadine Smith and Betty
Hololtznagel.
Now that spring is here,
I wish I had planted some
bulbs last year for some
tulips and maybe daffodils. I
do this every year, and each
time spring rolls around I
regret it. Please do not start
planting anything yet unless
you are keeping them inside
as seedlings! I often see peo-
ple buying flowers and veg-
etable starts around this
time of year, and it makes
me cringe thinking of all the
dying plants. Don’t plant
until the frost is gone and the
days are warmer!
On March 14, our greeters
were Bonnie, Jeanette and
Gregg, and we had 43 meals
delivered by Patty and Mike
Davis and David and Rod-
ney. Our gracious volunteers
were the fine folks from Cor-
nerstone Christian Fellow-
ship who served our meal.
Thank you! This meal was
donated by Tootie Cernazanu
in memory of her husband,
Jim. The theme of our meal
was St. Patrick’s Day in
honor of the holiday! It con-
sisted of corned beef and cab-
bage, carrots, potatoes with
onion gravy, dinner rolls and
apple bread pudding for des-
sert. It was delicious.
The winner of the Ches-
ter’s Thriftway gift card
was Sheryl Engles, a sundae
donated by Dairy Queen was
won by Patty Davis and the
free meals from Valley View
were won by Nadine Smith
— two weeks in a row, what
luck! There were also some
green stuffed animals, which
were won by Betty Starr, Jan-
ice Hunt, Mattee Osborn and
Tory Capaldo.
We are hoping that this
weather will stay as nice as
it has been and that spring is
finally thinking of bestowing
itself upon us. I can already
see some tulips peeking their
heads up out of the ground.
The Lord must have heard
all our prayers for spring
weather!
Mark 11:24 “Therefore
I tell you, whatever you ask
for in prayer, believe that you
have received it, and it will
be yours.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had something new on
the menu today for our lunch,
made by our good cooks
Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell.
We had ravioli, fresh green
salad and chocolate chip
cookies for dessert. It was
delicious and was a hit. I hope
they have that on the menu
more often in the future! We
thank our cooks for their hard
work and appreciate them
very much.
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Linda
Blakeslee and Kristi Gui-
mont. Judy Harris led us in
the flag salute and made the
announcements, Jimmy and
Linda collected and counted
the money and Kristi checked
in the guests.
We had a total of 42 guests
on the books and one take-
out. The visitors present were
Dick and Pam Wanous from
Spray and Katee Hoffman
and Sue Stovall from John
Day.
The winners of the free
meal tickets were Sylvia
Cockerell and Sue Stovall,
and Carolyn Peterson was the
lucky winner for a Chester’s
Thriftway gift card. There
was also a free raffle and
the winner of that was Linda
Abraham.
There was a special pre-
sentation of a Quilt of Valor
to Bill Turner for his service
to our country. We thank Bill
and all our veterans for their
sacrifice and service to our
country, our freedoms and us.
Bruce Strange had brought in
a picture and poem by Roxy
Rigsby concerning the Viet-
nam veterans. He had Den-
nis Abraham read it but,
overwhelmed with emotion,
couldn’t finish, so Sylvia
Cockerell finished reading it
aloud. For the EMT dinner on
Saturday, May 4, the times for
the dinner will be 4:30 p.m.
and 6 p.m. It will be a Cinco
de Mayo theme. The cost of
the dinner will be $15 per per-
son or $25 per couple. There
is a Traeger smoker that will
be raffled; the raffle tickets
are $5 per ticket or six tick-
ets for $20. The fundraiser
dinner will assist in the pur-
chase of items necessary for
our EMT team. Some of the
equipment needed includes
computerized CPR equip-
ment and a hydraulic lift for
the gurneys. Please purchase
the tickets in advance so that
they may have a head count
for the dinner.
SkillsUSA for the Mon-
ument School had a group
of girls come and announce
their project. This project
includes a park sidewalk and
a picnic table for easy wheel-
chair access. We are proud
of these girls for their help to
our community, and we thank
them.
There will be no sewing
for the month of March — too
many things going on — but
we will notify you all when
next month rolls around.
I almost forgot about my
Tigger story! I went down
to the shop a couple of days
later for chores and went
to feed Tigger, Marshmal-
low and Smokey. I saw Tig-
ger, and he was bloody. His
left ear was torn, and he had
a clump of fur missing under
his ear, by the side of his face.
It was about the size of a sil-
ver dollar. To be continued…
Psalm 119:8 “Open Thou
mine eyes, That I may behold
wondrous things out of Thy
Law.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Oh
yes,
spring’s
a-comin! The tulips are
poking their little green tips
through the gravel in the
flowerbed on the south side
of the house. There’s still 3
inches of snow on the gar-
den plot. Isn’t it amazing
that those little guys know
when to start growing? As
Tevye says in “Fiddler on
the Roof,” “To life!”
We learned that early St.
Patrick’s Day celebrations
did not include the color
green. The special color for
that day was blue. Wonder
when that changed? Then I
heard that corned beef and
cabbage is an Irish-Amer-
ican/Jewish
concoction
for St. Patrick’s Day. My,
my, this is how rumors get
started.
Drew led the flag salute,
Tom asked the blessing and
Carlos and Jay took care of
the home deliveries. The
gift certificate donated by
Valley View Assisted Liv-
ing was won by Carolyn
Bird.
The table that had a blue
clover in their vase of green
sprigs was the first table to
get their plates full of corned
beef and cabbage, carrots
and potatoes. Our dessert
was a Rice Krispies treat
with green food coloring,
har, har. Next week, March
20, we’ll have another good
old American meal: spa-
ghetti. So you all come!
I made great progress
on the spring-cleaning this
week. The refrigerator and
stove were dismantled and
put back together so that’s
done. The rest of the new
flooring got scrubbed and
waxed; glad that job is
done! Found a few more
items to donate to our Senior
Sales Corner. You know the
rule: If it’s not a memento
and you haven’t used it for
a year, you probably can
get along without it. But it
might just be the thing I’m
looking for!
Decided to move the
piano bench in the library
back to the piano and take
the one from the piano to the
library. When I emptied the
storage area in the bench,
I found several old hym-
nals and songbooks. But
the prize was a little book-
let published by the Cable
Piano Co. of Chicago, “The
One Hundred & One Best
Songs.” Tried to find a date
on it, but no luck. The price
was right, at 10 cents apiece;
the songs range from “Abide
with Me” to “Yankee Doo-
dle.” Along with the music
and words, at the bottom of
each page was a “word of
wisdom.” Here are a cou-
ple, “Be not simply good —
be good for something,” —
Thoreau, and, “Happiness
is the by-product of work
well done,” — Anonymous.
So I found a treasure! You
just never know what you’ll
find. That’s what makes yard
sales so fun! That’s another
good thing about spring:
yard sales!
I am reading a book I
found at a yard sale or a
thrift shop about two men
who traveled by canoe from
New York City to Nome in
1936-37. Fascinating! They
were two tough dudes by the
time they were finished.
Ecclesiastes 1:31 “I
devoted myself to study and
to explore by wisdom all that
is done under heaven.”
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