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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