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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 2019)
A8 SENIORS Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 2, 2019 GRANT COUNTY SENIORS John Day Seniors Welcome to fall! It started on Monday, Sept. 23. The first day of fall, several seniors (and others) gathered at the senior center in John Day for fellowship and lunch. Darlene Nodine was our announcer. First announce- ment was that Kris Labhart had fallen and broke her hip. Oh no! Kris, let the healing begin. We are all rooting for you. Joe Pippin brought beets and beet greens. Shay cooked up a big batch of beets and pickled them and added shal- lots. Yum! Carol Rose won the free meal, congratulations, and yours truly, Darron Huskey, won the Len’s Drug gift card, much to my amazement. Forty fresh meals and 26 frozen meals were delivered into our community by Step Forward, especially Suzanne Taysom and Rachel Carpenter. Suzanne Taysom led our flag salute, and Rachel Car- penter asked the blessing for our meal. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints graciously served our meal and did a great job. Our meal consisted of beef stew with biscuits, pick- led beets with scallions and a no-bake cookie for dessert. Milk, buttermilk, juice, coffee and tea were served as well, prior to the food. We want to extend our wel- come to anyone in our area who may want to visit our senior center for lunch on Mondays and Thursdays. You will find the food welcoming, and the price is great too. Thursday was a great day with 40 diners at our John Day Senior Center. Jeanette Jul- srud was our announcer, and first thing on her list was the driver course. It will be on Nov. 1, so be sure to get your name on the list and improve your driving skills. The paintings displayed on our walls will be removed soon so be sure and take time to enjoy them. Our local artist Denice Seebart is the creator of them. We had two visitors from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Elder Spackman from Utah and Elder Wihongi from New Zealand. Today we had some ran- dom gifts to give that were donated by local people. Maria Strahn and Balbina Escudero chose the handmade potholders. Yvonne Majors took the set of three ceramic Winnie the Pooh salt and pep- per shakers. Carol Roe won the 50/50. A special thank you goes out to Ethan Garinger and Morgan Dunn for helping in our kitchen every Monday and Thursday. The flag salute was led by David Turner, and the blessing was said by Jimmy Maples. The front desk was duti- fully and cheerfully manned by Jeanette Julsrud and Gregg Starr. Dave and crew from Step Forward as well as Dave Turner and Matt Jones deliv- ered a total of 47 meals into our community Thursday morning. Ladies from the St. Eliza- beth Catholic Church were our servers. The fine cuisine we enjoyed was a hot pulled pork sand- wich, mashed potatoes, a fan- tastic gravy, hot green broc- coli with scallions and bacon and applesauce. For dessert we were given our choice of peach, peppermint or vanilla ice cream. What a nice meal! My favorite. Shay, we are thankful for the love and kindness that went into preparing this lovely meal for all who attended. Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa I don’t think we are even going to have a fall. It seems that winter has bypassed fall. We were down below freez- ing over the weekend, and it was very cold. I was scram- bling to get all my green toma- toes picked off and bringing some plants inside the house before the cold snap. I appar- ently forgot about my squash and some peppers. I think they were OK, though, thank goodness. My son helped me dig up a few potatoes. He was so excited looking for the pota- toes in the dirt. I’m sure it was like digging for treasure! I think we have enough pota- toes for a couple of meals. They were small in size, but at least they will be tender. The next task I have for him to do is to dig up some garlic. He is looking forward to it. Our greeters at the front table were Jimmy Cole, Kristi Guimont and Ricki Doland. Jimmy and Ricki collected and counted the money. Kristi checked in the guests and wrote down the announce- ments. Bodean Andersen led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. Our cooks Terry Cade and Diane Harvey made us chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, dinner rolls and had an assortment of desserts. It was yummy, and I had to go back for seconds. We thank the ladies for our wonderful meal. We appreciate them so very much! We thank Judy Harris and everyone who gave their time, sweat, hearts and hard work for the Buckaroo Festival. This includes: the preparation time way before the actual event, the prep for food, the venue, the whole nine yards! All the proceeds from the event go to keeping the doors open to our senior center. I am so proud to be a part of this community that cares so much about the people and town, and it is such a bless- ing that all the people of Mon- ument and surrounding areas help support our senior center. I also know that the senior cen- ter is a blessing to many people and is a place for meetings and funerals. On that note, there was a celebration of life for Arlot Jewell. Many people attended and the senior center was a very busy place for people to pay their respects and get together to remember Arlot and his family. Ed Bustardo’s funeral service will be held Thursday, Oct. 10, at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Fos- sil. Ed was a great supporter of our senior center along with his wife, Judy. They contributed and sponsored several meals for our senior lunches. The free meal tickets were won by Donna Campbell and Phoebe Yukawa. Bo Law- rence was the lucky winner of the Len’s Drug gift card. There were 60 guests on the books and 13 takeouts. Heather Swank from John Day was present to help take the 2020 U.S. Census. She is also looking for volunteers to help her. Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Strawberry Mountain did not lose all of its snow before the new snow came last week. That tells me one of two things happened: There was a lot of snow, or it wasn’t as hot this summer as usual. What do you think? And aren’t we thankful that we did not have a confla- gration in our area this year? Yes, there was a large fire, but it was only a tenth of the Can- yon Creek Complex. The day at the senior cen- ter starts at 10 a.m. with the pinochle players. Then the tai chi class meets at the other end of the hall at 11 a.m. When they finished, Ron Phillips and his good ol’ country band played until noon — dinnertime. After they had eaten, they played for another hour! Oh, what good music! Delores commented that it was hard to hear dance music when you are unable to dance anymore. Thanks to Ron, John Schultz, Carl Stinnett and Ben Richard- son. Come again anytime. So, back to business. Carlos and Luann did the home deliv- eries, Drew led the flag salute, Pam did her duty at the regis- tration desk and Ginger did the announcements. Also, Drew found the mis- spelled word and got to choose an item from the Senior Sales Corner, the birthday gift cer- tificate donated by Huffman’s Select Market went to Delores Scott and Jack asked the bless- ing. The misspelled word was “baskat,” so the table that had a basket for a vase got to go through the serving line first. Our meal was beef stew, green bean and carrot salad, pickled beets with onions and birthday cake donated by Driskill Memorial Chapel. We had 51 names on the book. Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Thelma Kite and Charlene Dean from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Travelers Fran Bunch and Jack and Betty Retherford returned from their respective travels to southern areas. We took a tour through Bonita a few weeks ago. Don’t try to go there for lunch or anything else for that mat- ter. There’s nothing left but a few trees. Don’t know where I’m talking about? There is a “road” — and I use the term loosely — that takes off south out in the middle of Cow Val- ley from Highway 26. Keep on it and after three or four hours you will find West- fall, then Harper and finally Highway 20. There are some ranches out there, but they don’t run to town for a gallon of milk, I can tell you. Whew, what a road! We decided that some of our esteemed politi- cians needed to be dropped off in that area. Maybe they could learn something useful. Harvested the cucumbers. Maybe a dozen. Think I did something wrong, but at least they did grow something worth eating! Derrol was merrily mowing along at the Prairie City Ceme- tery when the lawn mower just quit. Well, phooey. Turned out that a belt started to come apart and a piece knocked a fuse out. Huh. Took a day to get it all repaired, but it runs a whole lot better now! Oh! We also packed 36 Operation Christmas Child boxes on Sept. 24! Psalm 147:8 “He cov- ers the sky with clouds; … and makes grass grow on the hills.” 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 139112
