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A8 SENIORS Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, February 5, 2020 GRANT COUNTY SENIORS John Day Seniors Elsie Huskey Monday, Jan. 27, Darlene Nodine and Everett King were at the desk making sure every- one that came in the building was checked in and greeted with chit chat, grins and a chuckle or two. Jeanette Julsrud was the announcer, and Brandi Anderton led the flag salute. Thirty-two fresh and 24 frozen meals were delivered by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the crew from Step Forward. The people receiving the meals and the in-house din- ers are grateful for the delivery people for their time and ser- vice to our community. The free table has a vari- ety of items on it for the tak- ing. Take a look and see if you can use anything on it. Don Porter and Nadine Smith were the winners of the drawings. Congratulations. Suzanne Taysom of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints asked the bless- ing for our meal and then she and other members of the church served 26 in-house diners a grand meal of french dip sandwich makings with au jus as well. I don’t know how to spell that word. Lol. There were onion rings, sour cream potato salad and lemon meringue ice cream for des- sert. Milk, buttermilk, cof- fee and decaf, tea and juice were also available. Great meal, Shay and kitchen crew. Thanks. February menus are avail- able at the desk if you would like one. Thursday, Jan. 30, we found Bonnie Kocis, Ever- ett King and Dusty’s husband, whose name I do not remem- ber (my poor senior memory, ha), at the desk to check folks in as they came in for lunch. Attendance was great so they were very busy. Jeanette Julsrud was the announcer, and Virginia Miller led the flag salute. The meal today was spon- sored by Steve Stancliff, who is a regular recipient of the meal deliveries. Thanks so much, Steve, for making this great meal possible. The winners of the draw- ings today were Balbina Escu- dero, Reg LeQuieu and Chris Labhart. Margaret Glass gave the number for the “National do not call registry” to some- one at the senior center — 888- 382-1222 — so call and get your number registered on the “do not call” list. It will save you getting a lot of unwanted calls. Thirty-six fresh meals were delivered throughout the area by Steve Palmer of Step For- ward and members of the Blue Mountain Hospital Auxiliary. Carl Swank asked God to bless the food. Members of the Blue Mountain Hospital Aux- iliary served the food to 61 in-house diners: It consisted of barbecue ribs, baked potato with sour cream and but- ter, Waldorf salad, carrot and celery sticks and strawberry shortcake for dessert. Coffee and decaf, tea, milk, butter- milk and juice were available if desired. Thanks hospital auxiliary for your service and caring for our senior center and nutrition. We all appreci- ate all of you. Thursday, Feb. 6, pork street tacos with mango salsa, chips with cheese sauce, Span- ish rice and black beans will be on the menu. Dessert will be the birthday cake for the month. Come on in and enjoy these great meals with us. John 3:16 tells us that God loved us so much that he gave his only son to give us life abun- dantly and everlasting. It is free to us, and we all like “free” so take advantage of his love for you and accept him into your life. There’s nothing better. Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa For our last meal of the month of January, Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell made us baked chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, dinner rolls and chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. Mmm. Boy, it was good. We are so thankful for these ladies always cooking us such delicious food. Our greeters at the front table were Kristi Guimont, Ricki Doland and Mia Yukawa. Kristi and Ricki collected and counted the money. Mia checked in the guests. Bodean Andersen led us in the flag salute, made the announcements and prayed the blessing over our meal. We had 51 guests on the books and 20 takeouts. Lauren Street was the lucky winner of the Len’s Drug gift card. She is the new senior project manager for soil and water. Roger Beckel and Sue Cavender were the winners for the free meal tickets. We had quite a few announce- ments, and one of them was that it was Terry Cade’s birthday. We helped to celebrate by singing to her. Hope she had a wonderful day. Some kids from Monu- ment School came over to sell tickets for the Valentine’s Day tri-tip dinner. They are raising money to help fund their travel club to Washington, D.C., at the end of the year. So please come and help support your students. Tickets are $25 per couple. There is a raffle going on for a smoker. This raffle is for the EMT group. The tickets will help to purchase needed equip- ment for our EMTs. The February sewing class will be Saturday, Feb. 22. You don’t have to sew; you can just hang out and visit. You can also bring other projects such as knit- ting or crocheting to work on. We share a potluck lunch at noon. The hours are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hope you can make it. Miranda Hoodenpyl is sell- ing all occasion card sets to help raise funds for the tae kwon do academy that is located in Can- yon City. They are selling the box set for $30, so each card comes out to one dollar a piece. Not bad if you consider the cost of cards these days. They are more than $3! We had the usual visitors from Spray join us for lunch. We have a new neighbor, Rhonda Jacobs, living in town. She is the niece of the late Jim Mael. We hope she likes our lit- tle town, and we welcome her to the community. We also have Lauren Street and the new proj- ect manager for soil and water, Allie Steinmetz. We welcome all these ladies to Monument. We are now in the month of February. Don’t forget, this is a leap year. That means 29 days instead of 28, just in case you didn’t realize. Ha. Also, accord- ing to the Chinese zodiac, we just celebrated the Chinese New Year. It is the year of the rat. So that means anyone born from now until the end of January of next year, will be born in the year of the rat. 2 Corinthians 5:21 “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs Saw this on some TV pro- gram: The telephone of walk- ing is dangerous. So are faulty translations too. It does get the idea across, though! Tom is moving away from angels and snowmen with his table decora- tions. We had both on the table, but the table served first had a melting snowman. Right on! Now if we could just get rid of Darn Silly Time. Del led the flag salute, and Jack asked the blessing. Tom and Carlos took care of the home deliveries, Pam took care of the registration desk and Ginger did the announc- ing. We thank Driskill Memo- rial Chapel for the birthday cake today. There were three January celebrants: Pam How- ard, Betty Retherford and Alaina BeHart. The winner was Alaina. Thanks to Huff- man’s Market for providing the $10 gift certificate for the birthday drawing every month. We appreciate it. Prairie City Mayor and Grant County Commissioner Jim Hamsher introduced cir- cuit court judge candidate Rob Raschio. Anyone who wanted to visit with him was invited to do so. Ginger announced that our faithful friend Nancy Viggers had to take a sojourn to the hos- pital. We have missed her smil- ing face this winter. Hope and pray that this sidetrack will soon have her on the mend. So we were served delicious clam chowder with garlic toast, applesauce and birthday cake. Yummy, yummy in the tummy. Lorna and Krystin brought Marilyn Randall, Mary Craw- ford and Gordon Sindt from the Blue Mountain Care Center. Hope you marked your cal- endar for February’s potluck and music. The date is Feb. 16, beginning at 1 p.m. and going to 3 p.m. You can think of it as your Valentine banquet. And I made an error — good heavens! — on the March concert date. It is March 20 at 6:30 p.m. here at the hall. This will be a benefit for the hall and Prairie City Cemetery, so come one and come all! I did get another item crossed off my to do list. My little harp broke a string a couple years ago. Finally sent to the company and got a new one last year. Managed to get it on last week. It has taken all this time to get it up to pitch and stay there, too. The first dif- ficulty is tying a knot in a length of nylon. They have a nice pic- ture of how to do it, but nylon really doesn’t want to tie itself in a knot. And that’s just the first item of business. The next is get- ting it on the tuning peg so it will stay. Managed to do that with- out a whole lot of fussin’ and fumin’, so I was quite happy. Derrol is getting tired of wearing the sweat pants. You know, you can take the man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man. Denim attire is in their blood, whether Levi’s, Lee’s , Wranglers or Bi-Mart Rustler’s. By the time lawn mowing season comes, the “normal” attire will be in place, I’m certain. The reha- bilitation exercises of the hand are progressing quite well. Matthew 6:31-33 “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ …Your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His King- dom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” 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 St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church 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 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 Redeemer Lutheran Church Come Worship with us at 627 SE Hillcrest, John Day 1 st Sunday Worship/Communion.......10am 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 MT. VERNON PRESBYTERIAN Community Church SUNDAY SERVICE..............9 am SUNDAY SCHOOL...............9 am 541-932-4800 EVERYONE WELCOME 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 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 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. Like us on Facebook! 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 S169262-1