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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
How is it already
May? I’ve started see-
ing more and more flow-
ers popping up in people’s
yards, especially daffodiles
and tulips. PTL that it is
finally starting to feel like
spring!
On April 22 our greet-
ers were Ron and Jeanette,
who we thank for their gra-
ciousness and hospitality.
There were 39 regular
and 36 frozen meals deliv-
ered by our lovely crew at
Step Forward as well as
Suzanne Taysom and Dar-
lene Nodine.
The meal, which was
fish and chips, French
bread and veggies, was
served by volunteers from
The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints. Thank
you all.
The two free meals
were won by Bob Meader,
and Kris won the gift card
donated by Len’s Drug!
We are so incredibly
blessed, have you thought
about that lately? I feel
as though we don’t really
take enough time to smell
the flowers and appreciate
what we have.
Something to think
about, I guess.
On April 25 our greeters
were Gregg and Jeanette,
and there were 41 meals
delivered by the crew at
Step Forward and David
Turner accompanied by
Matt Jon.
We would like to thank
Mobile Glass for donating
our lunch; it was delicious!
Speaking of lunch, it was
chicken and turkey maca-
roni and cheese casseroles
with sliced bread, tomato
and cuke salad with choc-
olate pudding for dessert.
Aren’t our cooks just the
best?
Lunch was served by
the wonderful volunteers
from St. Elizabeth Catholic
Church whom we thank for
being so kind and generous
when it comes to their vol-
unteer work and presence
in our community!
The winners of the sun-
dae donated by Dairy
Queen this week were
Jack Sweek and Balbina
Escudero.
Remember to always
be thankful for what you
have and to praise the Lord
for all you have yet to
receive!
Thessalonians 5:16-18
“Be joyful always; pray
continually; give thanks
in all circumstances, for
this is God’s will for you in
Christ Jesus.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a glorious day
that welcomed us, for
those who ventured out, to
come and eat at the Mon-
ument senior lunch on
Tuesday.
We were served ham-
burgers with all the fixin’s,
macaroni salad and yummy
brownies with ice cream by
our wonderful cooks, Terry
Cade and Carrie Jewell.
We appreciate and thank
them very much.
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, while
Kristi checked in the guests.
We had 43 guests on the
books and five takeouts.
The winners for the
free meal tickets were
Jan Ensign and Christian
Yukawa. Ellie of Monu-
ment won the gift card to
Chester’s Thriftway.
Don’t forget about the
EMT fundraiser dinner this
coming Saturday, May 4.
Please call ahead to Rose
Howe, or any of our EMTs,
and let them know if you
are coming so they can have
a head count.
There are two dinner
times, one at 4:30 p.m. and
the other at 6 p.m. The meal
will be a Cinco de Mayo
theme, and Sylvia Cockrell
will be the head chef pre-
paring the food. You know
that will be a very delicious
meal for sure!
This will help to support
our local EMTs and our
community.
There will be a raffle for
a Traeger Smoker; tickets
are $5 per ticket or six tick-
ets for $20.
There will also be a
shotgun shoot at Brad and
Julie’s Saturday, May 4.
This is for supporting
our local Monument girls
to help pay for their trip to
Kentucky to present their
award winning idea for
SkillsUSA.
There will be items for
auction at the shoot. Please
come and help support our
girls.
There is a free Gospel
concert if anyone is inter-
ested. It will be on Tuesday,
May 7, at the Spray Assem-
bly of God Church. There
will be a potluck dinner at
5:30 p.m. at The Rock fol-
lowed by the concert, which
begins at 7 p.m. The group
performing is Canada’s
Double Portion.
Have you taken a look
outside? I don’t think I’ve
seen the hills, mountains
and valleys this lush and
green in the (almost) six
years that I have been here.
It is absolutely gorgeous,
and ah, so beautiful and so
peaceful looking, don’t you
think? God’s snow and rain
helped to make our Grant
County so wonderful and
awesome to look at. I just
wish I had more time to sit
out there, enjoy the warm
sun and watch the animals
and bugs crawl. I think it
is so peaceful to sit outside
and do nothing.
OK, maybe do a little
gardening and pulling of
weeds. Ha.
I’ve not fully engaged
in doing the gardening as I
am still recovering from my
sickness.
But when I am my old
self again, I am going to be
going full speed with that
garden!
Psalms 25:5 “Lead me
in Thy truth, and teach me;
For Thou art the God of my
salvation; On thee do I wait
all the day.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Sharon Thissell got our
special birthday recogni-
tion day off to a good start
by leading the flag salute.
Jack Retherford asked the
blessing, and in between
those two activities, a
whole lot of events took
place!
Ginger made mention of
those who help before and
after the meal, Carlos and
Luanne did the home deliv-
eries and Carol, Del, Bon-
nie and others helped with
cleanup.
Tom is having fun with
his table centerpieces. He
wanted to have the table
that had lilies on it to go
first, but most of the tables
ended up with lilies on
them.
So the one that had some
bees with the flowers got to
go first.
Then we got down to
the winner of the Huff-
man’s Select Market $10
gift certificate for the April
birthday.
There were only two,
and Bonnie Lake was the
winner. She has had a great
birthday month!
She won the Chuck’s
Little Diner one last week,
and this week her husband
provided the entrée to cel-
ebrate her 80th birthday!
To help, her son Don Lake
came too.
We are pleased to
announce that Lacy is now
our new assistant cook.
She, Amber and Tom
prepared pot roast with
potatoes and carrots, a fruit
salad and a roll for this spe-
cial day.
Troy and Amber from
Driskill Memorial Chapel
joined us and brought the
birthday cake; thank you
so much.
We also want to give a
big thank you to Prospec-
tor Ice for their donation of
bagged ice every month.
Lorna
and
Krystin
brought Marilyn Randall,
Gordon Sindt and Charlotte
Dean from the Blue Moun-
tain Care Center, which put
us at 49 registered on the
book today.
Found these quotes that
are appropriate for this day:
“Birthdays are good for
your health. Studies show
if you have more birthdays,
you live longer,” and “The
more you weigh, the harder
you are to kidnap. Eat more
cake!”
I am also pleased to
report on some business
construction going on in
our fair city.
The old Cenex/Quilt
Shop is seeing lots of com-
ing and going by various
local workmen.
Then I drove down
the street and saw some
“CAUTION” tape strung in
front of Huffman’s Select
Market.
I figured another win-
dow had had an accident,
but no.
You have to raise your
eyes up and up to see that
a large, long, false front is
being built across the top
of the wall. It will look
really neat along with the
one above Prairie Pub. Us
old-timers can remem-
ber when that block used
to house the Prairie City
Department Store, the
Grant County Mercantile,
a grocery store, dentist and
doctor’s offices, etc. The
Odd Fellows Hall upstairs
over the department store
was a sight to behold. At
the other end of the street,
the Masonic Hall was over
the Prairie City Feed Store.
Ah, memories.
1 Thess. 3:6 “… you
always have pleasant mem-
ories of us and that you
long to see us, just as we
also long to see you.”
Church Services In Grant County
Tuesdays at 6:30PM
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