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Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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Thanksgiving to go
Annual Elks Lodge meal serves over 400 pounds of turkey
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
With COVID-19 infec-
tion rates rising rapidly in
Oregon and Grant County,
the John Day Elks Lodge
was closed to the public
for its annual Thanksgiving
meal.
However, that did not
stop over 30 volunteers
from serving upwards of 300
Thanksgiving dinners.
Elks Lodge member
Chuck Howe said the vol-
unteers served over 400
pounds of turkey, 60 pounds
of ham and all of the fix-
ings, including mashed pota-
toes, gravy, green bean cas-
serole, sweet potatoes, rolls,
stuffing, cranberries and
pies.
The annual event, free
and open to the public, was
by takeout or delivery only.
Recipients placed orders
ahead of time by calling in.
Lynda Christensen said
the volunteers came in the
day before and as early as
6 a.m. on Thursday.
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Lynda Christensen, right, serves up Thanksgiving dinners Thursday at the John Day Elks Lodge.
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
LEFT: Volunteers pack
up Thanksgiving dinners
Thursday at the John Day
Elks Lodge.
RIGHT: A stack of pies sits
ready to be delivered or
picked up for over 300 peo-
ple Thursday.
Black Friday foot traffic down because of the pandemic
numbers to this year’s.
“I can’t compare apples to
oranges,” she said. “If I would
With an ongoing pandemic have been without the remodel
and recession, Black Friday I could have compared apples
looked much different this year. to apples.”
At Java Jungle, owner
According to preliminary
Janet Hill said she kept busy data from Sensormatic Solu-
throughout the day and that tions, a retail analytics firm,
Black Friday seemed more foot traffic at retail stores tum-
bled by 52.1%
active than in
as
people
2019.
avoided malls
“I am not
and
stores,
sure
where
choosing
to
everybody
shop
online
came from,”
instead.
she said. “But
“Due
to
I was happy
COVID-19 and
they
were
social distanc-
coming in the
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell ing
require-
door.”
Hill said Johnna Milner, right, rings ments, shop-
she attributed up a customer Friday at Len’s pers were more
purposeful in
the uptick in Drug in John Day.
their
in-per-
business
to
son Black Fri-
the nice weather
and people out “tootling day shopping, causing sig-
nificantly less crowds than
around.”
Len’s Drug owner Marla we’ve seen in the past,” said
Armstrong said she has been Brian Field, senior director of
so busy with so many other global retail consulting, in a
things, including a store Nov. 28 press release. “This
remodel, that she couldn’t was compounded by retailers
compare this year to last year. not offering as many in-store
She also said she has not had doorbusters and the increasing
time to compare last year’s adoption of e-commerce.”
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
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A MAN
WAKES
UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
Tanni Wenger, left,
and her daughter
Lauren put together
a display Friday at
Java Jungle in John
Day.