B2
SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
What crazy weather we
have had this past week!
Hopefully you were all able
to take shelter during these
horrible hailstorms! I hope
that no one’s flowerbeds or
gardens were affected by it.
Our greeters were Ever-
ette and Darlene. There
were 70 total meals deliv-
ered by the wonderful peo-
ple at Step Forward. Our
lunch, which was sloppy
joes and curly fries, cab-
bage and cucumber salad,
peaches and peanut butter
and jelly cookies for des-
sert, was served by our vol-
unteers from First Chris-
tian Church! Thank you
all for your dedication.
Ray Richard won the Len’s
Drug gift card, and Darlene
Nodine won the two free
meals.
Have you looked at the
weather forecast for the
next week? Lots of thun-
derstorms but plenty of
sunshine! It’s supposed
to be a beautiful weekend
and warm too. Make sure
you’re spending it out-
side to soak up some rays
before the clouds roll back
in. Ha, ha.
On May 22 our greet-
ers were Everette and Jea-
nette, and we thank them
for always stepping up to
welcome our guests. There
were 35 total meals deliv-
ered by Step Forward, Matt
Johns, Jimmy Maples and
Barb. Our meal was served
by our lovely friends from
the St. Elizabeth of Hun-
gary Catholic Church.
Thank you all! The meal,
which was sponsored by
John Day True Value, was
barbecued ribs, baked
beans, potato salad, water-
melon, cheesy cornbread
and root beer floats for des-
sert. Yum, yum. This meal
sure was a taste of summer!
Judy Nelson won the Ches-
ter’s Thriftway gift card,
and Chris won the sundae
donated by Dairy Queen.
We had a veterans
flag-folding ceremony, and
it was wonderful and very
informative. Thanks to all
the veterans and current
and future service mem-
bers for your dedication
and sacrifice to our coun-
try. God bless you all.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The
Lord bless you and keep
you; the Lord make His
face to shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up His coun-
tenance upon you and give
you peace.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our adventurous cooks
made us another new item
on the menu. We were
served beef broccoli, fried
rice, fresh green salad and
chocolate pudding with
whipped cream for our des-
sert. It was very tasty and
definitely a hit. We thank
Carrie and Teawna Jewell
for making our delicious
meal.
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Kristi
Guimont
and
Bodean
Andersen. Jimmy and Kristi
collected and counted the
money and checked in the
guests. Bodean led us in
the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed
the blessing over our meal.
We had 45 guests on the
books and four takeouts.
Betty Breeding and Roger
B., both of Monument, won
the free meal tickets. We
had Brian and Kirk Violini
join us for lunch. They live
in Monument and occasion-
ally come down for lunch.
Bob and Sylvia Cock-
rell have been putting away
all the library books back
onto the shelves after being
stored away during the ren-
ovation. You all must come
and check out the beautiful
carpet and painting of the
walls.
We also had Judy Har-
ris putting up the tile in
the newly done bathrooms
along with Judy Cavender.
We thank all the wonderful
and caring people who help
to make our senior center
so beautiful for all to enjoy.
These are all volunteers,
and they give up their time
and work to make it possi-
ble and we appreciate all
their efforts.
We hope that Betty
Breeding had a wonder-
ful birthday celebration. I
won’t give out how old she
is, but I will say that she is
blessed with lots of grand-
kids and great-grandkids.
We’ve had quite a bit of
rain out here in the back-
country. I just absolutely
love the green; it is every-
where. The hills, the moun-
tains, the pastures, it is all
green. I just like to look at
them all and just sit back
and sigh a contented sigh.
It’s so peaceful and calming
to look at. I like to drive and
be able to see all the beau-
tiful country landscape and
take it all in — sigh.
I got some plants from
the Monument School nurs-
ery, and they are ready to
be planted. There are still
lots of plants available,
and it is a great support for
the school. I am still try-
ing to decide if it is safe to
plant the tomatoes and pep-
per plants because it is still
pretty chilly in the morn-
ing. I am definitely going to
be out when it is not rain-
ing to set the raised beds for
the plants. I have a bunch
of old tires, which I think I
will use to plant the toma-
toes in.
My parents came out for
our daughter’s graduation.
My dad’s favorite part was
feeding our little piglets. He
was especially delighted in
feeding our eight-week-old
piglets.
He said it made him
happy to see them eating
and fighting over the slop.
My mom and dad helped to
weed out a few of my raised
beds, yay! Saved me lots of
time and trouble that’s for
sure.
1 Corinthians 12: 7 “But
the manifestations of the
Spirit is given to every man
to profit withal.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Well, the winter coat
came out again. Did get
to do two days in the gar-
den bed weed clearing out
project.
But I refuse to do yard
work when the temperature
is less than 60 degrees! So
there. That’s my story, and
I’m stickin’ to it.
Carole Garrison led the
flag salute and Pastor Keith
DeHart asked the blessing.
Carlos and Luann did the
home deliveries.
Since there are five
Wednesdays in May, and
we reserve the last Wednes-
day for honoring the birth-
days, the gift certificate for
this week was a free meal
at the center. Gwynne Wul-
fert was the winner, so she
doesn’t have to pay next
week.
The entrée was provided
by John Day Veterinary
Center. Thanks so much.
Tom’s thought for the day:
My memory is the thing I
forget with. (Ahem).
So the table to go
through the serving line
first had an American flag
in the centerpiece.
Our cooks, Amber and
Lacy, made tuna wraps.
Now, there’s another new
item of food for me. And
you could have your choice
of wraps: tomato, spinach
or garlic — or one of each
if you were really hungry!
Aha. So that’s why the
wraps were different colors.
Along with the tuna wrap,
we had broccoli salad, let-
tuce, tomato, olives, pick-
les, a fruit salad, potato
chips, rice pudding and
an oatmeal-raisin cookie.
Wow, were we stuffed!
Good job, ladies.
And this week, May 29,
will be a special day hon-
oring the memory of Billy
Drinkwater.
We will be dining on
beef because he was a cat-
tle rancher. He was a great
supporter of our endeavors
here.
Lorna and her helper
brought Marilyn Randall,
Gordon Sindt and Char-
lotte Dean from the Blue
Mountain Care Center.
Veanne wants you to
know that the health fair
will be on June 21. She
will be here on June 12
to do pre-registrations for
those of you who wish to
be involved.
There will be scholar-
ships available too.
Oh, yes, June 12 is the
birthday of our Polish
daughter-in-love.
She passed her citizen-
ship test a couple weeks
ago. So we are waiting
to hear when the cere-
mony will be where she
will take her oath of alle-
giance, along with a lot
of other newly naturalized
Americans.
Will have to make a trek
to Portland then.
Told you we went out to
Lake Creek Youth Camp
last week.
Why? ‘Cause Joel got
the job of taking out the
big fireplace from the main
building.
So all the cement block
debris ended up in our big
excavated hole on the west
side of the hall.
So that’s the story, in
case you wondered. (Free
fill!) So the question of the
day was how old was said
fireplace?
I have photos of it from
1969-70. How long before
then, I don’t know. Do
you?
Memorial: something
honoring the memory of a
person or event.
Mark 14:8-9 “She did
what she could. She poured
perfume on My body
beforehand to prepare for
My burial. I tell you the
truth, wherever the gospel
is preached throughout the
world, what she has done
will also be told, in mem-
ory of her.”
Church Services In Grant County
Tuesdays at 6:30PM
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