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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
Monday, as we entered the
senior center for lunch, we were
greeted by Everett King, who
then did the announcing.
Buzz Gilmore led the flag
salute, and Everett mentioned
the following. Sixteen fresh and
five frozen meals were deliv-
ered by Bonnie and Francis
Kocis. Thank you both for this
service to our community.
The silent auction ends
Monday, Dec. 16, before lunch,
so get your bids in if you like
something there.
Nadine Smith won the Len’s
Drug certificate, and Billy Bull-
ard won the free meal.
Four door prizes were drawn
for and the winners were: Carol
Roe, Jean Willey, Ron Dowse
and Buzz Gilmore. Congratula-
tions to all four of you.
Francis Kocis asked the
blessing, and then our servers
from the Redeemer Lutheran
Church served our lunch of ham
and cheese omelet, fried pota-
toes and gourmet fruit compote,
along with coffee, milk and but-
termilk of choice to 19 in-house
diners. Thanks, Shay, and all
the helpers who made this meal
and the folks that served it. It is
a great service to all who attend
our lunch. It is more blessed to
give than to receive. Thursday,
as lunch diners arrived, Everett
King, Darlene Nodine and Greg
Starr met us at the front desk
and got everyone signed in with
greetings and smiles and a gig-
gle or two. How nice.
Donna Johnson led the flag
salute. Everett did the announc-
ing. Thirty-two meals were
delivered by Mike and Patty
Davis to John Day and David
of Step Forward to Mt. Ver-
non. Thanks, you guys, for your
service.
Thanks are due to all the
elves that helped decorate and
fix wreaths for door prizes.
They are all beautiful. Good
job, elves. Thursday, Dec. 19,
will be our Christmas dinner so
be sure to get your name on the
list so the cooks will know how
much food to prepare. Santa
will be here so come sit on his
lap and let him know what your
desires for Christmas are.
Glenn and RoseAnn Palmer
will be serving dinner on Christ-
mas day at 12 p.m. to whenever.
They are so gracious to our
community and do such a great
job. What a blessing.
Patty Osborne, Jo Steiner,
Janice Hunt and Marie Strawn
won a wreath. Congratulations
to all four of you. And again
thanks to all who helped create
these wreaths.
Carol Roe won the Chester’s
Thriftway certificate, James
Keeton won the free meal and
Marty Winegar won the last
drawing of the day. Congratula-
tions all three of you.
Shay and his kitchen crew
prepared a great meal of grilled
chicken, green salad with dress-
ing, rolls with butter, Parme-
san roasted potatoes and dilled
baby carrots and peach cobbler
for dessert. It was a great, tasty
meal. Some mentioned being
stuffed. Good job, Shay, and
your crew. Pastor Levi Manitsas
asked our blessing after he told
a great story about Christmas.
Thanks, pastor, for the story and
asking God’s blessing for us.
The Cornerstone Christian
Fellowship members served
our meal to 46 in-house din-
ers, along with their pastor, Levi
Manitsas. They all did a great
job. The coffee server was very
gracious and kind.
Matthew 7:12 “Do unto oth-
ers as you would have them do
unto you.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had tacos for our lunch
cooked by Carrie and Teawna
Jewell. We thank our cooks.
We also had Spanish rice and
refried beans, with all the
fixings to go along with our
tacos, and brownies for des-
sert. You know I piled my
taco with lots and lots of let-
tuce. I love lots of lettuce on
my tacos, and then of course
people think I’m pigging out
on some huge-looking taco.
I’ll always think of my friend
Ed Bustardo whenever we
have tacos because one time
he was right behind me and
piled his taco like mine and
ate it and was feeling quite
bloated! Ha. He is gone now
and passed away, but I will
always fondly remember
that memory, and we’ll get
to reminisce when we meet
again in heaven.
Our greeters at the
table were Jimmy Cole,
Kristi Guimont and Ricki
Doland. Jimmy and Ricki
collected and counted the
money. Kristi wrote down
the announcements. Bodean
Andersen led us in the flag
salute, made the announce-
ments and prayed the bless-
ing over our meal.
There were some special
free door prizes that were raf-
fled off, and the lucky win-
ners of those prizes were Judi
Bustardo and Doug Sweek.
There was a turkey raffle
going on, and the winner for
the turkey was Bob Cockrell.
We had 52 guests on the
books and eight takeouts. The
winners of the free meal tick-
ets were Sylvia Cockrell and
Carolyn Peterson. The win-
ner for the Len’s Drug gift
card was Teawna Jewell.
Please make a note of this
that the bingo event will be
on New Year’s Eve at 6 p.m.
There will be a potluck din-
ner that will be shared in the
middle half of the playtime.
All my prayer warriors out
there please keep Jimmy in
your prayers. He will be start-
ing his chemo treatments.
Jimmy will need strength,
patient endurance, trust and
faith. Let’s storm heaven’s
gates for his complete heal-
ing and more, that he would
be a walking testimony unto
the name of Jesus. Thank you
for praying in agreement with
me.
Lily, the little goat kid,
was nice and warm in her
box, and it took me a little
while but I finally figured out
how to feed her with a nurs-
ing bottle. I saw the shape of
her mama’s nipple and the
bottle’s nipple was nothing
like it. She did not want to
take the bottle. So, I cut off
a pinky part of a rubber glove
that I had, poked holes, put it
over the opening of the bot-
tle with a rubber band around
it and she took it! Lily started
sucking really fast and hard.
I held her a lot, and she just
was such a cute little thing
and just sat on my lap real
calm and would fall asleep.
I wanted to make sure
that Lily had gotten enough
colostrum from Bonnie so
I actually was chasing her
around and managed to milk
her for about half a pint. To
be continued.
Matthew 16:19 “And I
will give unto thee the keys
of the Kingdom of Heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt
bind on earth shall be bound
in Heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth
shall be loosed in Heaven.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Ginger led the flag salute,
and Jack asked the blessing.
Carlos and Luann did the
home deliveries, Pam mon-
itored the reception desk
and Tom put out the nativ-
ity scenes at each table. The
December gift certificate
donated by Check’s Little
Diner went to Carol Garrison.
The pinochle players had a
wonderful two hours of play.
And then we got down to the
business of eating!
Laura and Laura prepared
chicken in mushroom gravy,
rice pilaf, craisen salad and
cup cakes for dessert. Umm,
mmmm. Lip-smackin’ good
it was. And there were some
leftover desserts from previ-
ous weeks that we got to take
home. I discovered how to
have a warm plate to put the
warm food on!
A case of too soon old and
too late smart, I guess. Better
late than never!
The table that got to go first
through the serving line had a
little Bible among the nativ-
ity figures. That’s because
the Scripture had to do with
good news. He said that the
book was the daily mini ver-
sion, ‘cause it was only about
2 inches square.
Lorna and Bobbie brought
Gordon Sindt, Charlene Dean,
Marilyn Randall and Lois
Wacken from the Blue Moun-
tain Care Center.
Announcement: Dec. 18
will be the last meal at the cen-
ter this year due to the holi-
days being on Wednesday this
year. So remember: No meal
on Wednesday, Dec. 25, or Jan.
1. Everybody take a two-week
vacation! But we will do our
December birthday drawing
on Dec. 18. So if your birth-
day is in December, come on
down and see if you can win
the $10 gift certificate donated
by Huffman’s Market.
We do have an important
announcement to make con-
cerning our prices. They will
be going up a dollar begin-
ning in January. Prices going
up. So what else is new? Since
you asked, I’ll tell you. We
are soliciting bids to do some
extensive work on the building.
If you are a contractor, we’d
love to give you the bid papers.
Fling us a ring.
We had our semi-annual
food service inspection today,
too, and we passed 100%!
Then anyone who wanted
to was able to put up some dec-
orations on the tree that Tom
erected.
He had already put up a lot
of items on the walls, doors,
etc. Hmmm, guess I’ll have to
get the area cleared, go up in
the attic, get the 3-foot-tall tree,
bring it down and set it up.
Takes me about a half-hour
to do my decorating. I’d rather
arrange music or play pinochle!
And the only Christmas baking
I’ll be doing is the pies for din-
ner on Dec. 18! Betty Crocker
and I do fine!
We went to Burns on Dec.
8, and I just want to give a big
shoutout to the Silvies Val-
ley Ranch, for providing a
restroom for needy travelers
on that lonely stretch of road.
Thank you, thank you and
thank you!
Mathew 2:1-2 “After
Jesus was born in Bethlehem
in Judea… Magi (Traveled)
From the east to Jerusalem
and asked ‘where is the One
who has been born King of the
Jews? We saw His star in the
east and have come to worship
Him.’”
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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