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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
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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.
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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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