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SENIORS & COMMUNITY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a very nice meal
of meatloaf for the last Tues-
day of November. Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell also pre-
pared mashed potatoes and
gravy to go along with the
yummy meatloaf, peas and
carrots, dinner rolls and birth-
day cooler cake for our des-
sert. Ah yes, it was quite a
satisfactory meal. We thank
our great cooks!
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Kristi Gui-
mont and Bodean Andersen.
Jimmy and Kristi collected
and counted the money and
checked in the guests. Kristi
prepared the announcements.
Bodean led us in the flag
salute, made the announce-
ments and prayed the bless-
ing over our meal.
The lucky winner of the
Len’s Drug gift card was
Miranda Hoodenpyl. Craig
Ensign and Linda Moore
both won free meal tick-
ets. We had 46 guests on the
books and 12 takeouts.
The Monument Christmas
bazaar is scheduled for Sun-
day, Dec. 15. It will be held at
the Monument School gym.
The hours, I believe, are from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be
lots of vendors.
Don’t forget that we have
sewing class at the Monu-
ment Senior Center on Satur-
day, Dec. 14. The time is from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You don’t
even have to sew or have a
sewing machine. You can just
come and hang out with us.
We do share a potluck lunch
at noon so just bring a dish.
Hope to see you there.
Has anyone noticed the
nice, new and beautiful sign
on the front of the Monument
Senior Center building? We
wish to give a shout of thanks
to Bobby Andersen who put
up the sign for us. It looks so
nice! Our old one was fall-
ing apart and missing some
letters so it was a necessary
fix. Thanks again, Bobby, for
your work. We really appre-
ciate it!
I’m calling all prayer war-
riors to be praying for my
friend Jimmy Cole. He is
fighting cancer. I know that
faith and the power of prayer
can move mountains. We
serve a mighty God. Jimmy,
his family and I would appre-
ciate you joining me in agree-
ment for complete healing
and restoration. Glory be to
Jesus!
Well, we spent half a day
moving and separating my
female goats from the stinky
males. I lured them with
grain. I then locked up the
girls in the goat shed while
my hubby and I fixed and
mended the fencing. I tell you
God is good, I went by the
prompting of the Holy Spirit,
because two days later, Bon-
nie had babies!
My little Bonnie had
babies, triplets to be exact.
They are all healthy and alive.
Bonnie had two girls and a
little male goat. I named them
Daisy, Douglas (for Douglas
fir pine) and Lily. My favor-
ite is Lily. She is the small-
est and really cute. Of course
she had them the night before
the really cold night came on.
I have been spending time
with them and holding all
three of them in my lap to
keep them warm and to tame
them down.
Psalm 145:19 “He will
fulfill the desire of them that
fear Him: He also will hear
their cry and save them.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
The holidays certainly got
off to a good start with our
“Christmas on the Prairie”
doings. What a perfect day
for it. Not too warm, not too
cold. The town was so full
that I couldn’t find a place to
park to go to the store! The
new horse-drawn carriage
was a big success. Saw lots
of people taking advantage
of the opportunity to ride in
it. Since I missed out on the
pumpkin pie at the senior
dinner, I bought one pie at
the school cafeteria sale. Also
bought my year’s supply of
nylon scrubbers there, too.
The best purchase was two
raffle tickets on a quilt. The
Prairie City Cemetery Dis-
trict is raising money to com-
plete their irrigation project
and are raffling off a quilt.
The drawing will be at the
Christmas dinner at the senior
center on Dec. 18. Glad we
get to be a part of this project.
We went to Bend before
the big storm hit and got Der-
rol’s cast off and the stitches
out. Getting home was
another adventure! Whew.
Between the snow, ice and
darkness, it was a long way
home. Joel was about an hour
behind us, and came upon
a big rig in the river in the
gorge. It was a slick road.
So I was really glad that I
did not have to prepare a big
meal for Thanksgiving! PTL!
The dinner at the Teen Cen-
ter was very well attended.
All the tables were filled
and everyone was having a
good time visiting. Thanks
to all who had a part in this
endeavor.
After that meal, we jour-
neyed down to Canyon City
and had another meal with
Joel and Laurel’s family and
her parents. Talk about being
blessed! And did you know
that you can get non-dairy ice
cream made out of coconut
stuff? It’s good too!
Before the winter weather
set in to stay, I managed to
get some peony roots planted.
Had a little difficulty getting
the ground soft enough to dig
a hole, but hope I got them
deep enough. Thought I had
a book that told how to do all
that stuff, but couldn’t find
it. Had never seen the bot-
toms of peonies, so was sur-
prised by how they looked,
kind of like corn lilies. There
was one big tuber that looked
like a sweet potato. I planted
it with the small end down
but afterwards wondered if
I had put it upside down, or
it should have been just lay-
ing horizontal? Guess we will
see come spring. Put them on
the south side of the garden
shed so they will get lot of
sun, and covered them with
lot of leaves. Got my fingers
crossed.
We don’t have to go back
to the special hand therapist
until January. They made
Derrol a two-piece remov-
able cast, so he can get in
the shower without a big bag
over his hand. By January
that particular piece of sup-
port will be too big, so they
have to cut it sown. The ther-
apist said that she had lots of
people getting this type of
operation lately for the same
reason Derrol did: get recov-
ered by spring so they can
get back to work! Only five
months to go.
Psalm 74:17 “It was you
who sent all the boundaries
of the earth; You made both
summer and winter.”
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Blue Mountain Eagle
John Day Valley
Mennonite
Church
Pastor Keith
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
Historic Remnant
Church
St. Thomas
Episcopal
Church
Preparing for
Jesus to come
Morning Prayer........10 am
(1 st , 3 rd , 5 th Sundays)
Eucharist & Sunday
School.............10 am
(2 nd & 4 th Sundays)
Meets Saturday at Mt. Vernon Grange
Sabbath School............................9:30 am
Church Services..........................11:00 am
139 S. Washington,
Canyon City
VICTORY BAPTIST
CHURCH
KJV
Independent
Fundamental • Premillennial
Terence K. Crabb, Pastor
A Bible-believing Church
“He that hath the Son hath life ...” I John 5:12
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
Redeemer
Lutheran Church
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Come Worship with us at
627 SE Hillcrest, John Day
1 Sunday Worship/Communion.......10am
st
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
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
Sunday School..............................9:30 am
Sunday Worship Service..............10:45 am
Sunday Evening Service................6:00 pm
Children & Teen Activities
SMALL GROUPS CALL FOR MORE INFO
Weekdays: Sonshine Christian School
Pastor Randy Johnson
521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895
wwww.johndaynazarene.com
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
MT. VERNON
PRESBYTERIAN
Community Church
SUNDAY SERVICE..............9 am
SUNDAY SCHOOL...............9 am
541-932-4800
EVERYONE WELCOME
Sunday School.......................9:45 am
Sunday Worship.......................11 am
Fox Community Church..............3 pm
Sunday Evening Bible talk..........6 pm
Saturday Men’s Study................6 pm
Full Gospel- Come Grow With Us
541-575-1202 Church
311 NE Dayton St, John Day
Pastor Al Altnow
Catholic Church
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PO Box 151, Mt Vernon, Or 97865
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Corner of S Canyon Blvd and SW 2 nd
Mon. - Fri. Mass - 12:05 pm
Saturday Mass - 5:00 pm
Sunday Mass - 9:00 am
Holy Days Mass: Noon & 6 pm
Confession: Saturday 4:00-4:45 pm
Anytime by appointment
541-974-8638
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UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCH
Sunday Worship • 9AM
St. Anne
Monument -
2nd and 4th Sundays at 12:30 pm
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
FIRST
BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sunday School....................... 10 am
Church....................................11 am
Afternoon Service.................... 2 pm
No Mid-week Services
Pastor Jesse Gosnell
300 W. Main, John Day
541-575-1355
Office Hours
Monday - Friday 9 am - 12 Noon
(541) 575-1326
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126 NW Canton, John Day
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Christian
Fellowship
139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY
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
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
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