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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
YOGA FOR EVERYONE
Yoga instructor Ashley Stevick offers classes for beginners, advanced
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Ashley Stevick has added two new
yoga classes to her schedule at Can-
yon Mountain Center at 725 E. Main
St. in John Day.
The new offerings are inspired by
Namaspa Yoga Community in Bend,
where she became a trained yoga
instructor.
Stevick has already been teaching
Power Vinyasa Flow, which accel-
erates body strength and confidence
with movement following breath, and
Evoke Energy Yin, a relaxing, “quiet
yoga” class.
Evoke Energy Yin, for all back-
grounds and body types, includes a
guided Yoga Nidra, which is “like
having four hours of REM sleep,” Ste-
vick said, adding, “It is also effective
for relieving symptoms of anxiety,
depression and PTSD.”
Her two new classes include Vin/
Yin, which includes half Power
Vinysa Flow and half restorative Yin
poses, and Healing Flow, a mellow
version of Power Vinyasa Flow with
more emphasis on relieving tension
and mental relaxation.
Stevick said the classes have allevi-
ated pain she had in her back and arm.
“There’s something for every-
body,” she said. “You don’t have to be
‘good’ at yoga to do yoga. All you’ve
got to do is take that first step. And
then the next.”
Stevick holds a free community
Healing Flow yoga class from 9:30-
10:30 a.m. on the last Saturday of each
month at Canyon Mountain Center.
Her classes are approximately one
hour each, and rates for drop-ins are
$15 or $5 for students. Multiple-class
passes are available.
• Tuesdays: Healing Flow at noon,
Vin/Yin at 4 p.m., Power Vinyasa
Flow at 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesdays: Power Vinyasa
Flow at noon, Evoke Energy Yin at
2 p.m.
• Thursdays: Power Vinyasa Flow
at 9 a.m., Healing Flow at noon.
• Fridays: Vin/Yin at 1:30 p.m.
For information, including full
class descriptions, visit Stevick’s web-
site at ashleystevickyoga.com or call
406-431-2802 or email ashley.ste-
vick@gmail.com.
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Yoga instructor Ashley Stevick offers classes for different skill levels.
SENI R
Had a lot of fun
taking photos of the
refurbishing of the old
leaky roof on the teen
center. Only one
person had the
misfortune of stepping
Rose Coombs
on a piece of rotten
sheathing and falling.
The work party was just the right size and had just the right
equipment so that the job went extremely well. Does anyone
remember what business was in there before Steuber’s Thrifty Food
and Electric? Let me know.
Carol Garrison led the flag salute and Jack Retherford asked the
blessing. Carlos and Luann took care of the home deliveries. Carla
Wright was the winner of the gift certificate donated by Chuck’s
Little Diner. I made the announcements and Carla tended the
registration desk in the absences of Ginger and Pam due to medical
appointments.
We have a new assistant cook in the person of Laura Kukuricsas.
If you are wondering about that last name, it is Hungarian.
Tom’s theme for August is the sun, so the table that had a
sunflower in the vase got to go first through the serving line. His
word for the day stated that all is well that ends with a good meal,
and boy did we ever have a good meal! We were served chicken
potpie, pickled beets, a roll and a cherry dot cookie. Amber was so
nice to me and did not add string beans to the potpie. Hallelujah! It
was a delicious potpie too! Had everything that you needed in it.
Prairie City
Seniors
There was an announcement on each table about an upcoming get-
together for Operation Christmas Child. We will be gathering on
September 24 at 10 a.m. to pack boxes for 2-4 year olds. If you want
to come help and visit, you are most welcome. Where? Here at
Prairie City Senior Center.
Bobbie and Shauntele brought Marilyn Randall, Gordon Sindt,
Thelma Kite, Mary Crawford and Bessie Zemmer from the Blue
Mountain Care Center. Amber brought a whole bagful of her Swiss
Chard and I saw it go out the door in various people’s possession. I
wouldn’t know what to do with it, so I didn’t take any…
Mullein weed report: six foot and six inches. Hmmm. Think it
has quite growing up. It does have six side shoots that have
interesting curly leaves. There are a lot of seed pods on the ground
underneath, and I do see pollinators working over the flowers. The
best news is that I see some silk coming on the corn! Maybe before
frost there will be an ear!
Oh, these modern conveniences. I hit a key I shouldn’t have on
the computer keyboard and lost my wonderful, simple WordPerfect
task bar. Joel messed around with it and found another task bar. At
least it had italics on it. Then I wanted to do something else and
couldn’t find a font thingy. So another fellow came and got that so I
could do what I wanted to do. But in the process, he lost the print
thingy that I was used to. Finally found print under ‘File’ so I was
able to get this printed off. Don’t know how many words this is
‘cause that feature is gone too! As Charlie Brown would say:
Aauugghh!
Col. 3:15 “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts… and be
thankful.”
I am happy that our
weather is finally starting
to mellow out. We went
from a frigid June to a
boiling July with very
little in-between! School
started this week, so be
sure to keep check of your
speed when driving in
and I could not be more thrilled. Everyone seems so much happier
during the holidays and it makes Grant County an even better place
to live than usual.
On Thursday our greeters were Jeanette Julsrud and Gregg Starr
and there was a total of 33 meals delivered by David Turner and
Barb Comer. The meal, which was lemon and dill baked cod with
Dusty Harris
lemon rice, pineapple/cucumber salsa, French bread and spice cake
with maple cream cheese icing, was served by our amazing
volunteers from the Catholic Church. Our meal was sponsored by
school zones.
Tootie Cernazanu in memory of her husband, Jim. The Chester’s
On Monday there were 33 regular and 20 frozen meals delivered by Thriftway gift card was won by Balbina and the free meal was won
Laura and the crew from Step Forward. Our greeters were Everette
by Tom Roark. Congratulations to this weeks winners!
King and Darlene Nodine and the meal was served by our friends from
What are some of your favorite things about fall? I’ve already
the First Christian Church. We thank your for the kindness and
told you mine but I’d like to add in all the décor! Decorating is one
compassion you show us every time you volunteer and visit. Our meal of my favorite things and it’s almost time to break out the fall
was a bacon and egg potato boat with Polish sausage, fruit, English
decorations. I just like things that brighten peoples days when they
muffins and cookies for dessert. Kris Labhart won the gift card
see them. Oranges, reds, yellows, browns, anything to make
donated by Len’s Drug and Karen Barrietua also won a prize, which I something feel cozier and fall-like.
can’t recall at the moment.
Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in
Fall is almost here! Who else is ready for sweaters, fuzzy blankets, due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
hot cocoa and autumn colors? The holiday season is almost upon us
John Day
Seniors
We had a nice lunch
of many different kinds
of pizza that were
created and cooked for
us by Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell. Along
with the plethora of
Soo Yukawa
pizzas, we had a fresh
green salad, canned fruit
and cookies with cream cheese frosting on top. I was full after three
pieces of pizza and two helpings of salad. Everyone feasted and
enjoyed the lunch. Thank you to our cooks!
The greeters at the table were Jimmy Cole, Kristi Guimont and
Miranda Cook. Jimmy and Kristi checked in the guests, and collected
and counted the money. Miranda helped her mom Kristi check in the
guests. Bodean Andersen led us in the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal.
There were 51 guests on the books and four takeouts. Jimmy Cole
was the lucky winner for the Len’s Drug gift card. Whitley Hudson
and Danielle Furrer both won free meal tickets.
Well, next month is September. I have yet to do a lot of cleaning. I
need to clean my windows, clean out my pantry and my chicken
coops. I don’t know where to start. September is looking busy already
and the calendar is filling up. Wow, I hope I can get everything done
before the winter comes. I have a sneaking suspicion that winter just
might be upon us totally bypassing fall.
Monument
Seniors
Are you ready for the Buckaroo coming up in a few more weeks?
I sure am looking forward to that salmon and elk dinner with all the
fixings. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. It is
approaching fast so mark your calendars and make sure you can
make it. The Buckaroo Fall Festival will be on September 21. Don’t
miss this important event.
I went and got some honey from Matt and Liz at Thomas
Orchards in Kimberly a few days ago. I am hoping that it will help
my allergies a bit. They had the “fill your own jar day.” I took a few
jars and I can’t wait to taste the honey on some fresh corn baked
corn bread. Does that not sound mouthwateringly good?
While at Thomas Orchards, I decided to pick a bunch of peaches
too, for eating. I got like two boxes of peaches. I have been craving
peaches and have withheld from buying them at Costco because I
wanted the fresh ones off of the tree. Oh, they all looked so good
when I was picking them. I wanted to pick them all! So, needless to
say, I have been serving peaches with every meal. My hubby already
said he was getting “peached out.” How is that even possible? No
way, I am going to gorge on those peaches till they are all gone. I
am going to eat them and continue to enjoy them as long as possible
until next year. Oh, I love peaches; they are so delicious. The smell
of peaches is also very pleasant. I am going to save some seeds and
plant them.
Micah 7:7 “Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for
the God of my salvation: My God will hear me.”
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