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A8 SENIORS AND HISTORY Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 30, 2019 GRANT COUNTY SENIORS Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Our hardworking cooks made chicken lo mein, fried rice, egg rolls, fruit salad and cookies for dessert. The guests especially liked the egg rolls. We thank Terry Cade and Teawna Jewell for their cooking. We appreciate them very much. The greeters at the 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 everyone in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over the meal. There were 58 guests on the books and 18 takeouts. Some of the guests that we had were the Grant County school district superinten- dents and employees. We hope they enjoyed the lunch. Jo Sprail and Chip Foulmann were the winners for the free lunch tickets. Kristi Guim- ont was the lucky winner for the Len’s Drug gift card. We thank and appreciate all our sponsors for their generous support. There were some door prizes brought by Jeannie Strange, and the winners for those prizes were Doug Sweek and Pam Callahan. Heart of Grant County made a presentation about the new center and came for help in financial support. This has to do with housing. I was not really present for the lunch for I was sick, and I only came for a few min- utes to drop off and pick up a few things. All the informa- tion for the article was gath- ered up for me by my good friend Kristi. My whole fam- ily and I have been sick with the nasty head cold that was going around, and we didn’t want to spread it. I think we are almost all recovered now, but yeah, that was not a pleas- ant sickness. It’s been really cold in the mornings! It makes one not want to go outside to the chores. With that bite in the air, one should wear a nice warm fuzzy hat to keep the head warm. The cats have been eating like crazy, proba- bly to keep warm. The leaves outside on the trees are start- ing to fall off. It was just a week ago that they were start- ing to change color. I think I can start to can some of my jams and can my beans. My calendar is finally empty enough to have some time to get things done. As soon as I finished typing that sentence though, I realized that I still need to separate the goats. Sigh, maybe I should get rid of my goats. They are easy to keep during the sum- mer months, but they are a bit of a pain during the win- ter months. People have been calling Steve, the old male goat, the one-horned unicorn. Ha. I don’t think his other horn is ever going to grow back. I guess I will have to take care of them sometime this week. I have a feeling that Jill is going to have babies again right in the middle of the cold winter, ugh! Hopefully she won’t be having quadruplets again. Mark 3:27 “No man can enter into a strongman’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strongman; and then he will spoil his house.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Del Lake was the leader of the flag salute, and Jack Reth- erford asked the blessing. Car- los and Luann took care of the home deliveries. Being as how this month had five Wednes- days, and we only have enough gift certificates for four, the odd- ball week gets a different prize: a free meal. Juan Rubio was the winner of that. Now next month we will only have three meals, so on the third Wednesday we will also draw the November birthday award. Same thing will happen in December, too. And those third week meals will be holiday-type meals, too. So that means bring your favorite pie or other dessert to share so the cooks won’t have to worry about that. Hmmm. That means you could have two because we will be doing the birthday cake also. Hmmm. Ginger reminded us to browse through the Senior Sales Corner as new items have been added. Also a reminder that you should have received your new energy assistance applications by now, and if you haven’t, call Veanne. Tom’s word: The secret to contentment is to settle for half a measure before the cup runs over and makes a mess. So the first table to go through the serving line had a half-cup measuring cup on it near the centerpiece. Amber, Tom and Andy fixed us Swedish meatballs, noodles, green salad, bread and brown- ies for dessert. Mmm, good. I am curious why Swedish meat- balls are different than any other nationalities. Matt thought that there were interesting spices inside. And if you read the out- side reader board or heard the OUT OF THE PAST announcement on KJDY, you knew there were a couple of changes in the menu. We give our cook permission to do that. I liked the changes. Ahem. Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Bessie Zem- mer, Gordon Sindt and Mary Crawford from the Blue Moun- tain Care Center. When we had our church service on Sunday at the care center, I discovered two old friends that are now residents there. Hope they can come to dinner sometime, too. We welcomed a new pinochle player. He only gets to play an hour before joining the tai chi group, but he got to play and that was the point. He asked if we had any special rules of play. Nope. We play by our fathers’ “pool hall” rules. I remember once that dad got in a big argu- ment with some family mem- bers during a pinochle game that had some off-the-wall rules. So it’s always best to ask. We did something that we have never done before: drove to Ontario in two hours. It’s a good thing that the state raised the speed limit on Highway 26, though. We didn’t plan it that way; it just turned out that way. So now we know that it is possible. One out-of-state semi even pulled over to let us get by. Thank you, Lord. Derrol made a trip to our local ER and discovered that he has joined a select group of indi- viduals who have kidney stones. So we found out that there are four different kinds of stones: calcium oxalate, calcium phos- phate, uric acid and cysteine. So the first problem is to determine what kind you have. Just what we need, another challenge. Keeps your brain engaged, right? In the meantime, drink lots of water. Rev. 21:6 “To him who is thirsty, I will give to drink with- out cost from the spring of the water of life.” 75 years ago Large attendance at teachers’ conference The 1944 Eastern Ore- gon Regional Conference of the Oregon State Teach- ers’ association, held at La Grande October 19 and 20, was most successful and was enjoyed by some 900 teachers from seven coun- ties, namely: Grant, Uma- tilla, Malheur, Morrow, Wallowa, Union and Baker. The theme of the confer- ence was “Teachers for Our Times.” A great deal of time and discussion was devoted to post-war education. Miss Lois Payne, Mrs. Sylvia Benson, both teach- ers of Grant Union High School, and Mrs. Estella Boyer, county school superintendent, enjoyed their return trip from the La Grande conference by way of the Eastern Oregon Air- line, which is owned and operated at La Grande by Keith Province and Mer- lin Johnson. Merlin was the pilot on this trip and the time from La Grande to John Day was 45 min- utes. All three passengers reported they much pre- ferred travel by air. It was a thrill to view the north and south forks of the John Day River, Olive Lake, the broad expanse of timber and the numerous valley and towns, they stated. 50 years ago Deardorff Ranch Fete draws 250 friends, kin “We’ve been married 43 years and this has been our happiest day,” said Mae Deardorff as tributes to the couple drew to a close here Sunday. Almost 250 friends, neighbors, relatives and admirers gathered at the Prairie City High School gymnasium to salute Mae and her husband, Byars Deardorff, on the occasion of their ranch becoming an Oregon Century Ranch. Byars Deardorff has lived on the ranch his father bought in 1869 for all of his 78 years. The program master of ceremonies, Wayne Leathers of Monu- ment, introduced the hon- orees and special guests, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Oli- ver and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Williams, longtime Grant County residents. Also introduced were George Benson, presi- dent of the Grant County Chamber of Commerce; William K. Farrell, county extension agent and repre- sentative of Grant County Stockgrowers; and Gor- don Glass, Planning Commission. Main speaker for the day was John Scharff of the Malheur Wildlife Ref- uge, Burns, who related the history of the Deardorff ranch during its first 100 years. Mrs. Eula Morris and Mrs. Betty Stanbro of the Prairie City Women’s Club were in charge of the many details involved in the cele- bration. Ladies of the Grant County National Farm- er’s Organization served the luncheon following the program. Gifford McIntosh and Norma Raymond of Prairie City provided the old-time music for the occasion. Flowers were provided by the Women’s Club, Grant County Chamber of Commerce and the Prai- rie City Branch of the First National Bank of Oregon. Church Services in Grant County Historic Remnant Church TV & Radio Networks Tune into KSPL 98.1 FM Valley View Broadcasting PO Box 151, Mt Vernon, Or 97865 Antenna: Digital Channel 15 Blue Mountain Cable Channel 2 Preparing for Jesus to come Meets Saturday at Mt. Vernon Grange Sabbath School............................9:30 am Church Services..........................11:00 am FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH St. Thomas Episcopal Church Morning Prayer........10 am (1 st , 3 rd , 5 th Sundays) Eucharist & Sunday School.............10 am (2 nd & 4 th Sundays) Sunday School....................... 10 am Church....................................11 am Afternoon Service.................... 2 pm No Mid-week Services Pastor Jesse Gosnell 2 Every Sunday in the L.C. Community Center (Corner of Second & Allen) Contact Pastor Ed Studtmann at 541-421-3888 • Begins at 4:00pm 300 W. Main, John Day Redeemer 139 S. Washington, Canyon City Lutheran Church Come Worship with us at 627 SE Hillcrest, John Day 1 st Sunday Worship/Communion.......10am Cornerstone Christian Fellowship St. Elizabeth of Hungary 139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY Corner of S Canyon Blvd and SW 2 nd Wednesdays at 6:30pm Mon. - Fri. Mass - 12:05 pm Saturday Mass - 5:00 pm Sunday Mass - 9:00 am Holy Days Mass: Noon & 6 pm Use Main Entry Front Doors Confession: Saturday 4:00-4:45 pm Anytime by appointment 541-974-8638 St. Anne Seventh-Day Adventist Church SATURDAY SERVICES JOHN DAY 110 Valley View Dr. 541-575-1216 Head Elder......................541-575-2914 Bible Classes (all ages)............9:30 am Worship.......................................11 am LONG CREEK E. Main Street 541-421-3033 Head Elder............................421-3468 Bible Classes (all ages)...............2 pm Worship........................................3 pm 3 rd Sunday Worship/Communion/Potluck...4:30pm 2 nd , 4 th & 5 th Sunday Worship ..........10 am Wednesday Evening Bible Study.......6 pm For information: 541-575-2348 Catholic Church 541-575-2180 Sunday Worship Service 10 am Sunday Youth Group 3 pm Thursday Celebrate Recovery 6 pm Pastor Levi Manitsas cornerstonejohnday@gmail.com ccfjd.org 541-575-1355 Monument - 2nd and 4th Sundays at 12:30 pm Office Hours Church of Acts - 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 KJV Independent Fundamental • Premillennial JOHN DAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Terence K. Crabb, Pastor A Bible-believing Church “He that hath the Son hath life ...” I John 5:12 Sunday Worship • 9AM Sunday School 9:45 am • Sunday Preaching 11:00 am Junior Church 11:00 am • Sunday Evenings 3:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study & Master Club 7:00 pm Saturday Men’ s Prayer Meeting 7:00 pm 108 S. Washington Street, Canyon City 541-575-2688 or 541-575-0844 johndayUMC@gmail.com (541) 575-1326 126 NW Canton, John Day Food Pantry Friday 3-4p.m. Like us on Facebook! Mennonite Church Meeting every Sunday at Mt. Vernon Grange Hall Sunday School.......................9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship...10:50 a.m. Pastor Leland Smucker Everyone Welcome • 541-932-2861 MT. 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