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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
Rain, rain, go away, come
back another day! Remem-
ber that nursery rhyme?
Seems to be appropriate as of
late. I think we need to stop
acknowledging how nice the
weather is, because it seems
that every time we do it starts
raining! All well, maybe this
will hold off the fire season.
Let us all pray for a pleasant
summer with no fires!
On Monday, our greeter
was Everette who manned
the station alone. Thank you
so much. There were 32 reg-
ular and 28 frozen meals
delivered to our area by Step
Forward and Mary Lou Hor-
ton and Virginia Miller. We
also delivered 30 frozen
meals to Long Creek, which
made for a fun drive a little
bit out of the way.
Our meal was delicious
as always and was home-
made chicken and noo-
dles, peas and carrots, bread
sticks, relish tray, water-
melon and brownies for des-
sert. It was served to us by
our dear friends at the Blue
Mountain Hospital Auxil-
iary. Don Porter won the
two free meals, Carol Roe
won the gift card donated
by Len’s Drug and Roberta
Dowse won the candle. Con-
gratulations, everyone!
I have beautiful flowers
starting to appear! Bought a
black-eyed Susan plant this
weekend that will climb a
trellis pretty soon. Wish-
ing I had been able to plant
vegetables, but now I fear
it’s too late in the season.
Who knows, with this crazy
weather lately, I might still
have a chance. I’m on the
hunt for some flowers or
plants that deer won’t touch.
Our town deer aren’t afraid
of anything, and I really
don’t want all my hard work
planting to go to waste. That
is the next project: pulling
weeds. I haven’t had much
time to work on my yard,
but I plan to start as soon as
I can, maybe this weekend?
Hmmm.
Our greeters were Jea-
nette and David, the
dynamic duo! There were 40
total meals delivered by the
crew at Step Forward as well
as Joel and Joan Tayles and
their granddaughter Mor-
gan. It is always a pleasure
to see new faces.
Lunch, which was roast
pork tenderloin, dressing
pan gravy, baby carrots,
cheesy bacon spoon bread
and Jello was sponsored by
John Day Video Shoppe.
We also had birthday cake
for dessert, and it was spon-
sored by Driskill Memorial
Chapel. We thank both of
you for your contributions
to our center.
The meal was served
by Veanne, Jeanette and
Heather. Thanks, girls, for
filling in. The winner of the
gift card donated by Ches-
ter’s Thriftway was Kay
Cotham, and the sundae
donated by Dairy Queen
was won by Dolores. What
a gracious and wonderful
community we live in. We
would not be able to do what
we do without the support
from each and every one of
you. We give you our sincer-
est thanks.
2 Thessalonians 1:3 “We
ought always to thank God
for you, brothers and sis-
ters, and rightly so, because
your faith is growing more
and more, and the love all of
you have for one another is
increasing.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had taco Tuesday for
our meal. Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell prepared all the fix-
ings along with the taco meat,
refried beans, tortillas and
chips. We also had fruit cock-
tail and chocolate brown-
ies with frosting on top for
our dessert. We are definitely
blessed with great cooks and
good food.
Our greeters were Jimmy
Cole, Linda Blakeslee, Kristi
Guimont and Bodean Ander-
sen. 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. We had 58
guests on the books and two
takeouts. We also had quite
a few visitors come through.
Clarence and Sharon Harvey
brought their daughter and
grandson for lunch. We had
Andy Shutz of Monument and
Prineville, Jimmy Cole’s sis-
ter Sherry and Sherry’s child-
hood friend Mary Preston.
Veanne was also present.
Veanne had an announce-
ment about the health fair
coming up on June 21. If any-
one needs blood work or any
other medical tests, they will
be available. If you would like
more information, please con-
tact Veanne.
The nurse practitioner,
Shawna Clark, will be at the
Monument Senior Center see-
ing patients on Wednesday,
June 12.
Bruce Kramer was the
lucky winner of the Len’s
Drug gift card. The free meal
tickets were won by Dallas
Helsley and Randy Sweek. A
shoutout of thanks to Bruce
Hansen who brought some
of us those delicious, hand-
picked-that-morning straw-
berries from Sauvie Island.
We appreciate you doing
that for us! They sure were
yummy. I froze some of mine
for later to make jam and
smoothies with.
Mike Voigt, wasn’t it just
lovely coming over to Monu-
ment and seeing the beautiful
hills, mountains and valleys
all green and lush? I would
imagine it to be picturesque
and awe-inspiring. All of
Eastern Oregon is just beau-
tiful. I will have to make my
way out to Strawberry Moun-
tain and check it out.
Well, we are still hav-
ing some freaky weather
fronts coming through here.
We had hot, sunny days,
rain, hail, cold fronts (temps
dropped to 38 degrees!) and
all the in between. I was a
bit worried about my tomato
and pepper plants that I had
planted, but I guess they are
still alive, thank goodness.
I’m very excited to see some
bean plants coming up. Yes!
My little snap and snow pea
plants are growing as well.
Praise the good Lord for all
this rain to wet the earth.
God is good, all the time!
While watering my rasp-
berry patch, I saw the big-
gest, fattest and longest worm
I have ever seen in my life!
I am guessing it was a night
crawler? The only strange
thing was it was during the
late afternoon when it came
out. I picked it up and showed
my little ones, and they were
as excited as I was. My lit-
tle girl even touched it; she
has come a long way. In the
beginning, she was terrified of
bugs. Praise God for bugs.
Psalms 92: 1-2 “It is a
good thing to give thanks unto
the LORD, and to sing praises
unto Thy Name, O Most High:
To shew forth Thy loving kind-
ness in the morning, and Thy
faithfulness every night.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Well, we got all the grad-
uations taken care of, the ’62
Days taken care of and the
Memorial Day weekends
taken care of. So here comes
summer! Felt like it today with
our very warm temperatures.
But just wait 24 hours — and
we are back to cool spring.
And that’s why you never
leave home without a jacket!
Delores Scott led the flag
salute, and Nancy Viggers
asked the blessing. Carla was
at the registration desk, and
Jay and Carlos took care of the
home deliveries. The Senior
Advisory Council had one of
their semi-annual meetings
here. If you are a senior citi-
zen and have any problems,
they are willing and able to
help you. So don’t be afraid to
ask. They have all the info on
where to get assistance.
While the council was hav-
ing their meeting, we were
having our pinochle time. It
took all two hours to finish
just one game! That usually
doesn’t happen. We started
using a new deck of cards
last week in the hope that we
would get better hands. After
this session, we concluded
that maybe we better go back
to the old deck! That’s what
is fascinating about a card
game. Everything depends
on the way the cards come to
you. The skill comes in how
you use what you have been
dealt. So there’s my moral of
the day. Tom’s thought for the
day: A merry heart does good
like medicine. So the table
that had a heart in their dec-
orative centerpiece got to go
first to the serving table.
Veanne will be here on
June 12 to do preregistrations
for the health fair on June 21.
The food service/building
inspector came by this morn-
ing too, and we passed 100%!
And there has not been any
water coming through the
ceiling since the roof was
repaired. Hooray! Lorna and
Shauntele brought Gordon
Sindt, Thelma Kite, Mari-
lyn Randall and Charlotte
Dean from the Blue Moun-
tain Care Center. Our meal
today started with sausage
and peppers, went on to maca-
roni with meatballs and sauce,
added a green salad and a slice
of bread. Dessert was a pear
pie crumble. Then Alex Daba-
los brought in a vanilla cake to
share, so you could have two
desserts! They were both deli-
cious too.
Then to top everything off,
a whole bunch of houseplants
were brought in to be given
away from a person who is
moving out of the county. And
they all found new homes!
You just never know what
will transpire here on a meal
day! New items for the senior
sales came in too. And if none
of that piques your interest,
there’s still the library. Got
started on the garden. Man-
aged to get the cucumbers
planted at least. Then discov-
ered that there were two beau-
tiful yellow irises about to
bloom. Don’t remember any
being there before. Have to
inspect the photo album. You
remember what that is, a book
you put photos in that you can
hold in your hands.
1 Thess. 5:15-17, 21-22
“… be kind … be joyful …
pray … give thanks… test
everything. Hold to the gold…
avoid… evil.”
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