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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints was gra-
cious to serve this meal for 18
attenders. Suzanne Taysom
led the flag salute, and George
Sintay asked the blessing.
The announcements for
Nov. 25 were: The silent
auction table has new items
so check them out. There
are some nice things in the
assortment of items. The
next tai chi class will be Dec.
30. A reminder to all who
serve at our center to come
at 10:30 a.m. to do the tables
and all the other things need-
ing done to be ready when
attenders arrive.
Yvonne Majors won the
Len’s Drug certificate, and
Carol Roe won the free meal.
On Dec. 2, Jeanette Jul-
srud and Everett King were
at the desk to greet every-
one that came to lunch. Jea-
nette was the announcer, Vir-
ginia Miller led the flag salute
and Carl Swank asked our
blessing.
Forty frozen meals were
delivered to Long Creek,
24 frozen meals were deliv-
ered to John Day and 30 fro-
zen meals were delivered to
Seneca by Mary Lou Horton
and Virginia Miller and Step
Forward.
The servers for our meal
were from the Blue Moun-
tain Hospital Auxiliary:
Mary Lou Horton and Vir-
ginia Miller. They served 22
in-house guests. Our meal
was soft tacos with seasoned
ground beef, chopped toma-
toes, grated cheese, refried
beans, olives and sour cream.
Shay and his team did a good
job on this lunch.
Jeanette mentioned that
we need to check in on each
other from time to time to see
how we are all doing. Karen
Barrietua, for example. You
never know who may need
somebody or something.
There is a sign-up sheet
on the desk for our Christmas
dinner on Dec. 19. Don’t for-
get to sign it.
Jan Ellison won the Len’s
Drug certificate, and Tom
Roark won the free meal.
Joe and Joan Tayles and
David Gill of Step Forward
delivered 37 fresh meals
before lunchtime. Thanks to
all of you. It is great to help
those who cannot get out.
The Palmers’ annual
Christmas dinner will be
served on Christmas day. It
is a time to share Christmas
with others and have a feast.
Thanks to the Palmers for
getting all this ready for John
Day. Talk from years past is
that this festivity is so appre-
ciated and welcomed.
The Timber Truckers
Light Parade is at 6 p.m. Dec.
14.
Elsie Huskey won the
Chester’s Thriftway certifi-
cate, and Balbina Escudero
won the free meal. Chris
Labhart won the 50/50.
Our meal consisted of
bacon-wrapped
meatloaf,
cheesy au gratin potatoes,
baked beans, dinner rolls with
butter, green salad with ranch
dressing and chocolate birth-
day cake for dessert. There
was also coffee, juice, milk,
and buttermilk. Where else
can you get a great meal like
this for only $5?
The John Day Church of
the Nazarene members served
our lunch to approximately
48 attendees. Thanks to all
of you who helped serve our
food.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our cooks Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell fed a very hun-
gry crowd with spaghetti, gar-
lic bread, fresh green salad,
sugar cookies and fruit cock-
tail for our lunch. Thank you to
our wonderful cooks for always
serving us yummy meals. We
appreciate them very much.
Our greeters at the table
were Jimmy Cole, Ricki
Doland and Kristi Guimont.
Jimmy and Ricki collected
and counted the money and
checked in the guests. Kristi
wrote down the announce-
ments. Bodean Andersen led
us in the flag salute, made the
announcements and prayed the
blessing over our meal.
We had 62 guests on the
books and eight takeouts. Our
winners for the free meal tick-
ets were Kristi Guimont and
Phoebe Yukawa. Ellen Mann of
Spray was the lucky winner of
the Len’s Drug gift card.
We want to wish Veanne
Weddle a wonderful and
blessed retirement after serving
Grant County for many years.
We thank you for your faithful
service, and we welcome her
replacement Angie Apimoor.
We had some other vis-
itors join us for lunch, and
they were Chris Labhart and
Ron Dowse of John Day. We
also had Frances Preston of
Prairie City. They were hav-
ing a Senior Council meeting
after the lunch. The other vis-
itors included Shari Schultz
of Hamiltion, Dick and Pam
Wanous and our other friends
from Spray who have decided
to become regular partakers
of our meals. We want to wel-
come back Terry Cade’s uncle,
Charles McKinnon (Mac),
back to the town of Monument.
He was married to Sharon Hin-
ton. After her passing, he has
decided to come back to his old
stomping grounds. We hope
that he makes himself comfort-
able and enjoys his return back
to our little town.
Calling all bakers for our
29th year of the Cookie Caper
event. This will be held on Dec.
17. We will be putting together
the plates of cookies and deliv-
ering them. Please bring your
cookies by 12:30 p.m. to the
senior center. The city of Mon-
ument will be holding a Christ-
mas decorating event in the
park on Sunday, Dec. 15, in the
evening after the bazaar.
Here are some of the other
events going on in Monument.
There is sewing going on Dec.
14. The Monument Christmas
bazaar is on Dec. 15, which will
take place at the school gym.
Please make a note of it on
your calendars: There will be
no lunch served on Christmas
Eve, Dec. 24. Sorry, you are on
your own for lunch that day.
I ended up having a goat
kid in my house. I can’t even
believe that was the case. Who
would have thought we would
have a barn animal in the
house? Bonnie rejected the lit-
tlest one, Lily. I found her shiv-
ering and weak. I observed that
Bonnie would not let her nurse
on her. So, I brought her in, put
Lily in a big box in front of the
stove and made her comfort-
able. Luckily, I had the powder
milk for “all babies” and fed
her. To be continued.
Isaiah 61:10 “I will greatly
rejoice in the LORD, my soul
shall be joyful in my God; for He
hath clothed me with garments
of salvation, He hath covered
me with the robe of righteous-
ness as a bridegroom adorns his
head like a priest and as a bride
adorneth herself with jewels.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
I think our Indian sum-
mer went away. Wonder what
you call the cold, pre-winter
that we are having now? Any
suggestions?
Tom is in the Christmas
spirit so the table decorations
reflected that. The table that
had a baby Jesus got to go
first through the serving line.
I led the flag salute. Tom did
the announcing and asked the
blessing. Carlos and Jay took
care of the home deliveries.
The winner of the $5 gift card
donated by Len’s Drug was
Wallace Tracy. Joe Phippen
brought in some homegrown
carrots. Yummy.
Laura and Laura fixed
us a baked potato bar with
chili, beans, onions, toma-
toes, olives, cheese sauces,
sour cream, broccoli Nor-
mandy and for dessert was a
scrumptious brownie with top-
ping. This was a meal to warm
your innards! Next week will
be chicken with rice, and our
Christmas meal on Dec. 18 will
be ham and scalloped potatoes.
Bring a dessert to share that
day. And that is the day that
the Prairie City Cemetery peo-
ple will do their raffle drawing
for the quilt. If you would like
a ticket, I’m sure that Jim or
Carla would be glad to sell you
one — or a dozen.
We welcomed Don and
JoAnn Stratton back. They pop
in every so often, so we can’t
call them first-timers anymore.
Lorna and Bobbie brought
Marilyn Randall, Charlene
Dean, Gordon Sindt, Bes-
sie Zemmer and Arlita Arnett
from the Blue Mountain Care
Center. Lorna brought us some
goodies for the Senior Sales
Corner, and Marilyn decided to
take one back with her!
Was glad to be able to get
back to the pinochle games
on Wednesday mornings. Had
two tables of three-handed
going for an hour after our
four-handed game. One table
that has all men uses poker
chips to keep score. The other
table of women uses pencil
and paper. We accommodate
all.
I am so glad that I do not
have to run around and spend
money I don’t have on Christ-
mas gifts. All the advertise-
ments do nothing for me. I
wonder if those who are per-
suaded to buy on Black Fri-
day, Cyber Monday and all the
rest even know what the rea-
son is to do it. As the saying
goes, Jesus is the reason for
the season.
I am reading a book titled
“Genghis Khan and the Quest
for God.” Our Constitution
guarantees us freedom of reli-
gion. We take that for granted
and don’t stop to give it a
moment’s thought. But in the
olden days, you were required
to have the same faith that the
head of the nation had. How
did it become written in our
Bill of Rights that the new
nation of the United States of
America would have freedom
of religion? And who would
have thought that the world’s
greatest conqueror would give
us that idea? See? You are
never too old to learn!
James 1:26-27 “If anyone
considers himself religious
and yet not keep tight rein on
his tongue, he deceives himself
and his religion is worthless.
Religion that God our Father,
accepts as pure and faultless is
this: to look after orphans and
widows in their distress and to
keep oneself from being pol-
luted by the world.”
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
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
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
JOHN DAY
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
johndayUMC@gmail.com
126 NW Canton, John Day
Food Pantry Friday 3-4p.m.
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Cornerstone
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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