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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Where did all this rain
come from? Have you seen
how high Canyon Creek has
gotten? I wonder if we will
have a flood like 2015. I sure
hope not! It might be a good
time to start sandbagging
your house and making sure
your insurance is up to date!
On April 1 our greeter
was Gregg Starr who was
assisted by Dusty. Thanks
to you guys! There were 40
regular and 40 frozen meals
delivered by David and
Rodney, Virginia Miller and
Marylou Horton. Our meal
was served by the lovely
volunteers from the Blue
Mountain Hospital Auxil-
iary. Thank you for being
so gracious. We had a deli-
cious, comfort food meal
that consisted of pinto beans
with beef, cornbread, pota-
toes O’Brien, fruit and choc-
olate cherry brownies for
dessert.
The prizes this week
were two free meals, which
were won by Chris, and
a Len’s Drug gift card,
which was won by Billy!
Congratulations!
We were sorry to hear
that Michelle was leaving
us, but she has decided to
further her studies, and we
are so proud of her. We wish
her all the blessings to make
her life much better.
Our new helper is Bar-
bara Dole, and she will bring
us many good salads and
desserts. Welcome, Barbara!
On April 4 our greet-
ers were Bonnie, Jeanette
and Gregg. There were 52
total meals delivered by
Larry and Rodney and Joel
and Joan Tayles. We are so
beyond lucky to receive
such commitment from
our wonderful volunteers.
Thank you all!
The meal was served
by the volunteers from the
Church of the Nazarene.
Thanks for being so gra-
cious and for volunteer-
ing your time. It consisted
of cottage pie, veggies,
pickled beets, fresh dinner
rolls and birthday cake for
dessert.
The meal was donated
by Eastern Oregon Realty,
and the birthday cake was
donated by Driskill Memo-
rial Chapel. Pam Lyons won
the two free meals, and Tom
Rockie won the two free
lunches donated by Valley
View Assisted Living.
Please stay safe with
these waters rising! Make
sure to put any priceless
goods up high if they aren’t
already.
Ezekiel 34: 26 “I will
make them and the places
all around My hill a bless-
ing. I will send down show-
ers in their season— show-
ers of blessing.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Oh, we had a great lunch
that our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell made for
us. We had burritos with all
the fixings! Yum, yum. You
know I piled it on my plate,
and I love lots and lots of
lettuce in my burritos. I
didn’t even try to wrap up
and fold my burrito. There
was no point. Since it was
so full, it would have burst
and made a mess! Ha.
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Linda
Blakeslee, Kristi Guim-
ont and Bodean Andersen.
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.
The number of guests on
the books was 43, and we
had eight takeouts.
We had a few visitors
among our diners: Theda
Phelps and Maralee Tur-
ley’s sister, Arlene Dona-
hue, from Cosmos, Wash-
ington, came; Maralee’s
daughter, Anna Brooks,
from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,
also came and joined us for
lunch; Chuck and Tammy
McKenna came from Mt.
Vernon; and Katee Hoff-
man and Veanne Wed-
dle were also present from
John Day. It was nice to
have many visitors from
all over be in our company.
We hope they enjoyed the
meal.
Maralee Turley and Sha-
ron Falls both won free
meal tickets, and Doug
Sweek was the lucky win-
ner of the Len’s Drug gift
card.
There will be two cele-
bration of life services hap-
pening on Saturday, April
27. Gary Engles’ sister,
Janet Engle Hardin, will be
having her celebration at
the senior center, and Joan-
nie Howell’s celebration of
life will be held at the Mon-
ument Park at 1 p.m. I hope
to get more details and let
you know at a later date.
Veanne had some forms
for seniors to fill out for the
benefit of our senior center.
It has to do with the Older
American Act and helps
with funding. Please ask for
a form at the table.
There will be a sew-
ing class on April 13 from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. followed
by a potluck lunch shared
around noontime. You can
bring whatever project you
wish to work on or help sew
up some blankets for a good
cause. It is a great time of
fellowship,
girl-bonding
time and, of course, sew-
ing. We do have a few sew-
ing machines available
for you through some of
our generous donors so, if
you would like to sew but
you don’t have a machine,
there are some available for
use.
We’ve been getting quite
a significant amount of rain,
I’d say. PTL! The John Day
River looks mighty swollen
and high. There are a bunch
of trees that are blooming
at the Kimberly Orchard. I
think the peach trees, apri-
cots and cherry trees are
blooming. Oh, summer
fruit is the best. I would
have to say that peaches are
my all time favorite fruit. I
could just eat one right after
another, and it won’t even
make me sick. I can’t wait
for summer fruit to come!
Revelation 12:11 “And
they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives
unto death.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Oh, my, what a great
meal we had today! Chili
and beans, cornbread,
baked potato bar, green
salad, cheesy broccoli and
a no-bake cookie for des-
sert. I tried to get a better
name for the cookie, but
Amber said that was what
the recipe called it. Made
out of chocolate, sugar, but-
ter and peanut butter, I think
she said. All combined
with oatmeal? Anyhow, it
was one good cookie to go
with our super duper meal.
Thanks to Amber, Barbara
and Lacy for getting our
new month off to a fantas-
tic start.
Leone Meador led the
flag salute, and Jack Reth-
erford asked the blessing.
Carlos and Jay made the
home deliveries. We had
49 names on the book. The
table centerpieces were
spring flowers, what else?
It’s nice to see the spring
colors again. Tom brought
an old school marm bell to
ring to quiet us down for the
announcements.
Veanne had an import-
ant one about the special
papers that we need to fill
out periodically in order to
get our share of the gov-
ernment funds. So be sure
you do it if you are 60 or
over. We managed to get a
dozen completed, so there
are more of you who need
to do it.
The winner of the $5 gift
card donated by Len’s Drug
was Nadine Smith. The
Viggers clan was with us
today: mom, Nancy, sons,
Jeff and Rob, and Rob’s
wife, Adriana, and their
son, Jack. Another been-
quite-a-while-since-we’ve-
seen-you was Ivan Nance
and his aides. Good to see
all of you. Harold Preston
was in town, so he got to
come too. Hadn’t seen our
new doors so it was about
time, huh?
Lorna
and
Krystin
brought Marilyn Randall,
Gordon Sindt, Charlotte
Dean and Mary Crawford
from the Blue Mountain
Care Center.
We want to extend our
thanks and appreciation to
those who have donated
to the entrée program. We
hope that a representative
from your enterprise will be
able to join us at one of our
meals in the near future so
that we may honor you.
Things are moving
through the senior cen-
ter sales corner, and that’s
good! If you are doing
spring cleaning and come
across items that you no
longer use, bring them on
down! Someone else may
need them, isn’t that handy?
I found an item that I had
bought at a previous yard
sale in my sewing cabinet: a
spool of 100 percent cotton
thread. Guess what the orig-
inal price tag said: 19 cents!
I hope it hangs together
long enough for the item I
used it on to wear out.
Got to watch the grand-
kids for a day. One was suf-
fering from the aftereffects
of Montezuma’s Revenge
after a mission trip to Mex-
ico. The other one wanted
to know how to connect to
my Wi-Fi — that’s a for-
eign language to me. Son
number two came up with a
quip about the mission trip:
“I went to Mexico and built
a wall.”
Rev. 21:12,14 “It had
a great, high wall with 12
gates… On the gates were
written the names of the 12
tribes of Israel. The wall
of the city had 12 founda-
tions and on them were the
names of the 12 apostles of
the Lamb.”
Church Services In Grant County
Tuesdays at 6:30PM
Use Main Entry Front Doors
106280