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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Dusty Harris
On Monday there were 31
regular and 28 frozen meals
delivered by our crew of vol-
unteers from Step Forward
and Bonnie Francis. The
greeters were Merry Henry
and Jeanette. It is so nice to
have so many faithful volun-
teers in our presence every
week. What better way to be
greeted than by three smil-
ing faces? Our meal, which
was shrimp fettuccine with
French bread, cucumber
salad and cherry cobbler for
dessert, was served by vol-
unteers from the Redeemer
Lutheran Church. We thank
you for your kindness. The
winner of the sundae gra-
ciously donated by Dairy
Queen was Carl Swank, and
Billie Bullard won the gift
card donated by our friends
at Len’s Drug.
I am enjoying this mild
weather we have been hav-
ing. June was colder than
normal, but I have no com-
plaints! I’d take tempera-
tures in the 80s over high
90s any day. My weekend
was relaxing albeit a lit-
tle boring, but I managed
to deep clean the house,
which is always a positive.
My flowerbed is coming
along nicely with beautiful
flowers.
They are purple, red,
pink and white! My irises
are definitely done for the
year, but my rose bush is
still trying to bloom. The
trick now is keeping enough
water on everything.
I have to admit, I didn’t
make it to lunch on Thurs-
day because of an appoint-
ment. However, we had teri-
yaki chicken with rice egg
rolls, seafood salad, fortune
cookies and birthday cake.
A big thanks to Driskill
Memorial Chapel for donat-
ing the birthday cake to us.
We are incredibly blessed
to always have your sup-
port. Our lunch was spon-
sored by Oregon Trail Elec-
tric Cooperative, whom we
are always happy to see. I
don’t know who won what
on Thursday, but regardless
I say congratulations!
This weekend is sup-
posed to be fairly mild
so it looks like I will be
doing some more weed-
ing! Luckily, they weren’t
as bad as before, but it’s
basically just maintenance
at this point. Going to put
some Roundup outside the
fence and in the driveway,
maybe around the patio too.
I love spending my week-
ends outside making my
house look as pretty as a
picture!
The goal is to make it
as close as I can to a house
out of Home and Garden
Magazine.
My black-eyed Susan
climbing vine is doing quite
well on the trellis against
my house. Did I mention
I have lots of ivy beside
my garage? I’d like to get
that to start creeping on
the fence at some point.
This weekend will be busy,
busy, busy but well worth it
in the end. Who else loves
working outside when the
weather is just right? Praise
the Lord for this weather
and let us pray that it stays
favorable.
Psalm 75:1 “We praise
you, God, we praise you,
for your Name is near; peo-
ple tell of your wonderful
deeds.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
For our Tuesday lunch,
all who came were greeted
by these (new to us) chairs
that were brought over from
Portland by our great friends
Bruce Hansen and John Ray.
We were so blessed to receive
these very cushy and comfort-
able chairs! Bruce and John
brought them over for us and
other local communities and
whoever wanted these chairs
free of charge. We thank
these men so much for just
their wonderful generosity
and thoughtfulness in always
thinking of us over here in
Monument. John is a part of a
foundation that assisted in get-
ting us our grants to improve
our senior center, and their
next grant project is to provide
a new deck for us. Words can-
not express our gratitude.
We had a fabulous meal pre-
pared for us by Terry Cade and
Teawna Jewell. They made us
some delicious chicken fajitas
with tortillas and all the fix-
ings, and brownie cake with
cream cheese frosting. We
thank our ladies for their hard
work in the kitchen!
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Linda
Blakeslee, Kristi Guimont and
Bodean Andersen. Jimmy and
Linda collected and counted
the money, and Kristi checked
in all the guests.
We had a huge crowd of
66 guests on the books and
eight takeouts. Rusty Beaugh-
man was the winner of the
Len’s Drug gift card. Miranda
Hoodenpyl and Diane Harvey
won the free meal tickets.
Lonnie Lawrence thanked
all who came and supported
the Monument 4th of July
celebration and we are just
so blessed to live in such a
close-knit and supportive
community.
Jerry Cowger passed away
on July 11. His funeral service
is at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 27,
at the Monument Cemetery
with Don Capon officiating.
He was a good and kind man,
and he will be dearly missed.
We pray for the Lord’s com-
fort for Jerry’s family during
this difficult and sad time.
Shawnah Schafer and
Laura Thomas join us for
lunch. Laura is the new prin-
cipal and superintendent for
Monument School. We con-
gratulate her.
We want to thank Aaron
and Judy Harris, along with
Heather Riggs for cleaning all
around our senior center and
keeping it beautiful.
Well, I think this hot
weather is finally making
some of the plants in my gar-
den grow. I planted a bunch of
round Italian zucchinis. They
are starting to look really nice
and big.
When they were just peek-
ing through the dirt, I had to
stick a whole bunch of plas-
tic forks in the dirt all around
because my silly cats were
trying to use my raised beds
as their own personal litter
boxes. So, those forks would
“poke” them in the butt if they
tried to squat in my raised bed
and I think it took care of the
problem. Yahoo! I sure would
have liked to see one of them
trying to do their business and
get poked in the butt. I am sure
I would have been rolling on
the ground laughing hysteri-
cally with tears rolling down
my face! Ha.
Psalms 145: 10 “All Thy
works shall praise Thee, O
LORD, and Thy saints shall
bless Thee.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
I do believe that summer
has arrived. Enjoy the blue,
cloudless skies, the early
mornings and late evenings,
the birds singing and the sweet
smell of newly mown hay. Do
it all while enjoying some ice
cream and you’ve covered all
five senses! “Summertime,
and the livin’ is easy…” Well,
we can dream anyhow. Carla
led the flag salute, and Jack
asked the blessing. Carlos and
Luann did the home deliveries.
The gift certificate donated by
Valley View Assisted Living
went to Nancy Viggers who
was happy to get it because
there are several people that
she wants to go visit there.
Hey, didn’t I tell you that we
aim to please? Our entrée was
provided by Clark’s Disposal
in memory of Dave Kline.
Thanks so much.
Joe Phippen dropped by
yesterday and donated a whole
bunch of loose-leaf lettuce for
our meal. Then Jim Sullens
called and said that he had an
old Methodist Church pew that
we could have if we could get
it that day. So we rounded up
a couple of seniors and a cou-
ple of juniors in the persons
of Pastor Keith and Alaina
DeHart to go get it. Thanks so
much to Jim and our helpers.
We can always use good seat-
ing! And this particular pew
has a brass nameplate of a cou-
ple of Prairie City old-timers:
the late Gifford and Ila McIn-
tosh. We are honored to have
this useful and historical item
in the hall. Tom’s word for the
day: I’ve learned that expen-
sive silk ties are the only ones
that attract spaghetti sauce!
(Age 44) So the table to go
through the serving line first
had a tie around their flower
centerpiece.
And we did have spa-
ghetti and sauce to go with
our chicken Parmesan, Caesar
salad and bread. The dessert
was a “hillbilly baklava” by
Lacy. If you didn’t want that,
or you needed more dessert,
Alex brought in a nice cake to
add to the meal. I repeat: We
aim to please.
Lorna and Bobbie brought
Marilyn Randall and Mary
Crawford from the Blue
Mountain Care Center.
We had a good parade, and
I’ve heard through the grape-
vine that the service songs
for the vets were very well
received and they wouldn’t
mind if we did it again in the
ensuing years. That makes us
all very happy! I do have one
correction: we are the Prai-
rie Baptist Ensemble, not that
other word that sounds like it.
“Just the facts, ma’am.”
Which reminds me of what
I heard on TV when someone
was listing a bunch of sayings:
“Does anyone under 50 recog-
nize these references?” Which
is why I do good on answering
Jeopardy questions that come
from the last century. Ahem.
Daughter-in-love Agata is
going to have her naturaliza-
tion ceremony in Portland on
the 18th, so I’ll be going to
the big city for the first time
in over five years. Will ride
with Bert and all to the doin’s
in downtown Portland. Details
next week.
Eph. 2:19-20 “Conse-
quently, you are no longer for-
eigners and aliens, but fellow
citizens with God’s people and
members of God’s household,
built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, with
Christ Jesus Himself as the
chief cornerstone.”
Church Services In Grant County
Church of Acts
Tuesdays at 6:30PM
Use Main Entry Front Doors
- Spirit Filled Sabbath Church -
Sabbath School 10 a.m.
Worship Service 11 a.m.
Fellowship dinner after
Wed. Bible Study 2:30 p.m.
Home church at 421 N
McHaley & 2nd, Prairie
City, OR 97869
Brother Kelly, 541-620-4684
128880