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COMMUNITY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
ciate your remembering us.
Stay safe.
Monument
Seniors
Dusty Harris
I have news! I don’t know
your name. I’m ready to sit
down with friends and have
a wonderful lunch and draw
names for door prizes and,
yes, the silent auction. Wow, I
saw one of the auction pieces
and thought I needed to bid
on that! I thought about mak-
ing up stories to fit if we were
there, but names slip my mind.
Aren’t you glad I remember
by person? I do miss you all.
Well here it is going on
July. Enjoy yourselves and
stay safe through the Fourth.
On July 2, we’ll have
bacon-wrapped hot dogs with
grilled onions, mac salad,
birthday cake. The cake
is from Driskill Memorial
Chapel. Thanks from us all.
On July 6, we’ll have krab
roll hoagie, clam chowder,
potato chips and lemon pound
cake.
On July 8, we’ll have
smoked sausage personal pizza,
minestrone soup, relish dish
and cowboy cookies, sponsored
by Claws & Paws Pet Sitting.
Thanks for your sponsorship.
We want to thank you all
for ordering your lunches
through us. Shay says it has
doubled. We want to let you
know how much we all appre-
Soo Yukawa
The lunch served for the
past Tuesday was sweet and
sour meatballs over rice, a
green salad and cookies for
dessert. We thank the cooks,
Terry Cade and Carrie Jew-
ell, for always working hard
to serve us good food. I did
not get our lunch for I had too
many leftovers in the fridge
and had to eat that before they
went bad and got wasted. I
had to make some room in the
fridge. We recently cleaned
out our fridge, and I’ve been
really, really trying to keep it
clean, you know? But some-
times food containers get
pushed to the back, and then
it gets lost, and you find it
later, and it is just nasty. I hate
it when you can’t stuff your
fridge anymore because it is in
disarray. Ha.
The usual suspects who
took care of things at the
senior center to make sure
all is running smoothly were
Kristi Guimont, who did all
the paperwork. Jan Ensign
and Bob Cockrell counted the
money. Aubreianna Osborne
delivered the meals to the
waiting patrons. It is nice
to have everyone working
together to give good service
to all who help to support our
senior center by getting the
takeouts. We thank everyone
for their work volunteering to
support our senior center too!
Things are quiet here in
Monument. That is a good
thing. It is so nice to not
have drama and one can just
live peacefully over here. I
was walking outside a bit,
and I could smell the pine. It
smelled so good. I can smell
it sometimes, and sometimes I
can’t, strange right?
I think I had like 30
straightneck yellow zucchini
come up. I put some in little
pots and took them to church.
I distributed them to whom-
ever wanted them. One young
gentleman was really happy,
for he told me he had gone to
John Day to get some seeds
and was disappointed to find
nothing. I told him I had more
zucchinis if he wanted and
lots and lots of tomato starts
too. Hopefully it won’t be too
late to grow them. The volun-
teer plants I am sure will do
nicely since they are hardy. I
think I will give him some of
my potato starts as well. My
hubby bought some for me
from Pioneer Feed, and I don’t
think I have a place to plant
them all so I will share — 12
pounds each of red and yel-
low potatoes are just way too
much.
My raspberries are going to
be ripening soon. I can’t wait.
Oh, the anticipation of eating
juicy, plump and sweet ber-
ries. My mouth is watering
just thinking of it. We are truly
so blessed by the Lord for his
provision. He is our great cre-
ator. You see his creativity, his
thoughts when you study and
observe all around. Just the
raspberry alone is a marvel of
his power, those individual lit-
tle pods of sweetness and seed
in a little bundle and so tasty
in our mouths.
Psalm 40:4 “Blessed is hat
man that maketh the LORD
his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, nor such as turn
aside to lies.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Boy is Grant County liv-
ing up to our weather mantra:
If you don’t like the weather,
wait five minutes. First flood,
then 100 degrees, now the
freezing level is down to 6,000
feet! Just remember this is
the place that it snows on the
Fourth of July parade! Guess
that won’t have a chance to
happen this year — boo, hiss
— as Alec Trebek says. Son
No. 1 and family are planning
on coming over the Fourth of
July weekend.
They were going to come
at Easter, but we all know
what happened to those plans.
So, hopefully nothing else will
interfere.
The ensemble had to post-
pone their Easter presenta-
tion too. Hope to do it on July
26. Wonder if we will still be
doing a Facebook live stream?
Now don’t get nervous peo-
ple. Just pray.
We served lasagna, green
salad, roll and cake for the
last meal of June 2020. And
we got such a large serving
of lasagna that dinner was
ready on Thursday too! Hey, I
like that. We also had extra in
the takeout bag, thanks to the
Prairie City Food Bank. They
had extra boxes of apples and
oranges that would not keep
another month, so we were the
happy recipients of their lar-
gess. Thanks so much, Chip
and crew. And we had another
one of those menu items that
was subject to change: the
birthday cake supplied every
month by Driskill Memorial
Chapel got held up in the road
work so some of us had to
eat left-over cake. Gosh, isn’t
that terrible?! Hey, any cake
I don’t have to bake is good!
And any meal I don’t have to
cook is good! Thanks to our
able cooks Laura and Laura
and helper Tom. Pam was at
her post along with Carole
and Carla to make sure all the
paperwork and deliveries out
the door were taken care if in
an efficient manner. We thank
Carlos and Luann for doing
the home deliveries. If you
cannot get to the center, just
call and a meal will be brought
to you.
Got back to the overgrown
iris bed and finished yank-
ing out everything. Was able
to get one of the un-drain-
ing containers transplanted.
Found out why it would not
drain — the gravel I put in for
drainage wasn’t doing it’s job.
Had too much dirt in it. Hmm.
Guess I’ll put the remainder in
a hole in the road someplace.
Attempted to put the table
top back on the leg-frame
and get it even on all sides.
Har, har. The leg-frame is not
square, so have to fudge here
and there. Other than that, that
project is coming along nicely.
Derrol is tired of stepping over
and around all the parts on the
floor of the shop. Maybe by
next week he’ll have his shop
back.
Discovered another strange
flower among the Hollyhocks
and Sweet Williams on the
east side of the house. Beau-
tiful pink bell-shaped flow-
ers on a long stem. I’ve seen
it in the garden catalog, but
of course that piece of paper
is long gone. Hope it goes to
seed and reproduces more in
that spot!
The garden is coming
along nicely. Even spotted two
blossoms on the cherry tomato
plants! Whooppee!
Proverbs 15:15 “… the
cheerful heart has a continual
feast.”
39 Mental Health First Aid trainings provided in Eastern Oregon
Blue Mountain Eagle
The
Eastern
Ore-
gon Healthy Living Alli-
ance’s Mental Health First
Aid In Eastern Oregon
report describes its impact
of providing 39 train-
ings in the region, train-
ing 576 individuals in Men-
tal Health First Aid, across
11 of the 12 Eastern Oregon
counties.
In all, 98% of the train-
ing participants were certi-
fied, and 83% of participants
reported an increased con-
fidence level in their ability
to identify individuals expe-
riencing mental illness and
substance use disorders and
refer them to the appropri-
ate care, according to a press
release.
In Grant County, two
adult, two youth and one
public safety training were
held.
More people were cer-
tified in Grant County than
any of the other 10 partici-
pating counties: 50 were cer-
tified in the adult trainings,
26 in the youth trainings
and 27 in the public safety
trainings.
Based on post-training
surveys, participants who
responded reported mak-
ing 198 referrals to care
and 81 of those referrals
resulted in known connec-
tions to care for individu-
als who struggled with men-
tal health symptoms and
illness.
Trainings have been pro-
vided to public educators,
law enforcement agencies,
individuals working with
older adults and other public
and social service employees
who work closely with the
community.
MHFA and Youth MHFA
courses are community edu-
cation, training and referral
programs.
They
train
commu-
nity members how to iden-
tify, understand and respond
to individuals who may be
experiencing signs of a men-
tal illness or other substance
use disorders.
“First aid” is then admin-
istered to connect those
individuals to the appro-
priate care. MHFA and
Youth MHFA programs
are included within the
National Registry of Evi-
dence-based Practices and
Programs.
The project was ini-
tiated in Eastern Ore-
gon to help address men-
tal health, a regional health
priority.
EOHLA worked closely
with Greater Oregon Behav-
ioral Health, Inc., through-
out the duration of this proj-
ect: 24 of the 39 trainings
utilized GOBHI staff as
trainers.
Oregon has the highest
prevalence of mental illness
among youth and adults in
the nation according to the
2018 Oregon State Health
Assessment.
Mental health was iden-
tified by the Eastern Oregon
Coordinated Care Organi-
zation as a priority area in
the Regional Community
Health Improvement Plan
with a goal of improving
the skill sets of residents of
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Sunday Morning Worship .. 10:50 a.m.
No Mid-week Services
Pastor Jesse Gosnell
300 W. Main, John Day
541-575-1355
627 SE Hillcrest, John Day
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1 Sunday Worship/Communion ..................10am
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JOHN DAY
UNITED
METHODIST
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EOCCO to recognize and
seek treatment (or encour-
age others) for mental health
issues.
High percentages of indi-
viduals in the 12-county
EOCCO region self-re-
port depression or other
mental
health
symp-
toms; however, they fail
to seek the appropriate
care.
Funding for the project
is provided in part by the
Ford Family Foundation,
The Collins Foundation and
the Oregon Office of Rural
Health.
A full report can be found
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Fox Community Church ............. 3 pm
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311 NE Dayton St, John Day
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Cornerstone
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139 N.E. D AYTON S TREET , J OHN D AY
541-575-2180
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Sunday Youth Group 3 pm
Thursday Celebrate Recovery 6 pm
Pastor Levi Manitsas
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ccfjd.org
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NAZARENE
Sunday School .......................... 9:30 am
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JOHN DAY
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LONG CREEK
E. Main Street
541-421-3033
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Jr./Sr. High
Youth Connection
Sundays 5:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Midweek Service
Thursdays 6:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Wednesdays at 6:30pm
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