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A8 SENIORS & HISTORY Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, December 16, 2020 GRANT COUNTY SENIORS John Day Seniors Dusty Harris Wow, where did this week and weekend go! On Dec. 17, we’ll have french bread pizza, chicken veggie soup, a relish tray and candy bar brownies. On Dec. 21, we’ll have our Christmas dinner of peach- glazed ham, twice-baked potato, carrot salad, rolls, cherry cheese cake and pecan bars. Don’t forget to call by 11 a.m.to order your dinner: 541-575-1825. May you all have a won- derful week and weekend. Stay safe. Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Can you believe that it will be Christmas in one more week? Where did the time go? I am in disbelief that the month of December itself will be over very shortly. Time is just flying by. Our cooks Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell cooked us a meal of chicken stir fry with assorted vegetables, fried rice, crispy egg rolls and cookies for our dessert. We sure are grateful for our cooks. We thank them for cooking our delicious meals for us. Our volunteers were Kristi Guimont who filled out the paperwork. Jan Ensign and Bob Cockrell counted the money. Sylvia Cockrell handed out the lunches to the patrons at the door. We thank our volunteers also for their dedication to the Monument Senior Center. All is quiet here in Monu- ment. I don’t know about the rest of Grant County or the state, but we are just carrying on with life here. We were blessed with some rain and then some snow in the last week. We are expecting more rain coming our way, and I praise the Lord for that. I pray that we get a lot of snow this year, but spread out evenly so that it doesn’t overwhelm us. I hope that Christmas will be a white one. Let us continue to lift up our leaders in prayer. Let the Lord’s will be done. Let us put our trust in him alone and not on any man for only the Lord has the power to appoint or bring down the kings of nations. It is a good thing to just put our faith and trust in the Lord and believing that he is good all the time. With that assurance, we can rest in the peace that surpasses all understanding. I would rec- ommend meditating on Psalm 37 at this time. I have been mostly hang- ing out indoors. All my fam- ily have had to step up to help in all the things from cook- ing, to cleaning, to doing the chores. Maybe this is my mini vacation from the Lord? Ha. But wait, hmm, does that mean the Lord is giving me rest just before a big assign- ment? I will just not worry about tomorrow and enjoy the rest. I called Davey as I was driving by the goat pen, and he came running over and crying. Oh, I just love him so much! He is just so adorable, and I wish he could stay little forever. He is actually grow- ing up quite fast now. They all are as a matter of fact. I think I will be putting up an ad on Craigslist to sell some of my baby goats. I can’t keep all of them, and I don’t want to keep all of them either. I will share the joy of having goats with others. Ha. As we draw closer to the holidays, let us be thank- ful for our Lord and Sav- ior, Jesus, Emmanuel, which means God is with us, our hope and joy. Matthew 1:23 “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being inter- preted is, God is with us.” Prairie City Seniors Rose Coombs I got the black box to print from the computer just fine. Then had to have daughter- in-love show me how to make copies. Found out that the lit- tle house means “Home” and the vertical line in the dia- mond makes things go. Does it have a name? Anyhow, I wrote the directions on a label and stuck it to the front of the machine. There. On to other things: Our meal was a generous por- tion of pork loin with mashed potatoes and gravy, broc- coli Normandy veggies, a roll (supplied by our faith- ful friends at the Blue Moun- tain Care Center) and choc- olate chip cookies! Yummy, yummy. Thank you, Laura and Laura. (Bet there’s not many places that have two cooks with the same name! We’re just lucky, I guess.) Ginger and Carlos made the home deliveries while Mary and Pam took care of the pick-up people. Thanks so much to all who have a part. Makes the job a lot easier on everyone. We also want to thank Ye Olde Thrift Shoppe for their generous donation. It is much appreciated in this pandemic year. Have to tell you about our special clock in the house. We call it “Shrewdy” because it strikes the half-hour at most appropriate times. It has to be wound once a week. It also has a habit of slowing down. So I moved the hands ahead to allow it to catch up. Cou- ple of days later, I noticed that it was 10 minutes fast! Now what’s going on? It wants to get through winter faster? Then I decided to call the needlepoint shop to order some more thread for my cur- rent project. “We’re sorry. This number has been discon- nected.” Oh, dear. So asked my other daughter-in-love to check out the internet to see if there is any hope. If not, then there is going to be some very interesting new colors in the design. Found this word in a cross- word puzzle clue: Gloam. Remembered having seen a song in an old book titled “The Gloaming.” Do you know what it means? Apparently, dusk or twilight. There’s your trivia for the day. Making progress on the Christmas letter. Went through the diary and noted the perti- nent items for the last year. Was surprised to get a whole page of notes! Now to make some sense out of them. Encountered the Grant County Operation Christ- mas Child representative and asked how many boxes were shipped from our area: 1,520 or so. Took them three trips to get them to the larger collec- tion point for ongoing ship- ping. Good work, people. The children of the world thank you. John 11:52 “… for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.” Acts 2:39 “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off …” OUT OF THE PAST 75 years ago 50 years ago Grant High to Play Bulldogs at Baker The Grant Union High hoop- sters will travel to Baker to play the Baker High Bulldogs, in a return battle tonight. The first game hav- ing been lost to the strong Baker team, 41 to 16. The following night the Pros- pectors will have their hands full when they play the surpris- ingly strong Crane High team, last year’s runners-up in the district tournament. Crane will be play- ing “heads-up” ball, to revenge the shellacking Grant gave them in the final game of the tournament. Youngren goes 9 for 9 in Day- ville tilt Coach Ben Breon’s Dev- ils rolled over visiting Cul- ver Saturday night by a 63-51 score. “We played good ball, espe- cially in the fourth quarter,” com- mented Breon, “but we still need work, mainly on our shooting.” Paul Youngren led the Devils with 23 points and made nine out of nine free throws in the fourth quarter. Culver’s high scorer had 26 points. Dayville Scoring: Johnson 1, Rothell 15, Bond 8, Youngren 23, Barry 14, Cole 2. The score by quarters: Dayville: 16, 14, 21, 12–63 Culver: 14, 12, 12, 13–51 25 years ago Biologists carefully watch Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Biologists carefully watch Rocky Mountain bighorns for signs of Pasteurella Haemolytica, a deadly and highly infectious pneu- monia that has already claimed one third of a wild sheep herd just across the border in Washington. So far, no Oregon bighorns have shown any indications of having the infection. Eagle file photo From 25 years ago: Young Snake River area rams. Grace Chapel (EMC ) 154 E. Williams St. Prairie City, Oregon 541 820-4437 Sunday School (all ages) 9:30-10:30 Sunday Worship 10:45-12:00 S211472-1 Pastor Robert Perkins Redeemer Lutheran Church Come Worship with us at John Day Valley Mennonite Church 24/7 Inspirational Christian Broadcasting Meeting every Sunday at Mt. Vernon Grange Hall Tune into KSPL 98.1 FM Sunday School ...............................9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship ............10:50 a.m. For more information, call 541 620-0340 Pastor Leland Smucker Everyone Welcome • 541-932-2861 P rairie B aptist C hurch 238 N. McHaley St., Prairie City Sunday School (all ages) .......9:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship .10:30 a.m. Awana (Oct.-Apr.) ................3:00 p.m. Youth Group .........................5:30 p.m. 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 Confession: Saturday 4:00-4:45 pm Anytime by appointment 541-974-8638 St. Anne Monument - 2nd & 4th Sundays at 12:30 pm Office Hours Monday - Friday 9 am - 12 Noon Sunday Worship • 9AM 2 Corinthians 5:17 Every Sunday in the L.C. Community Center (Corner of Second & Allen) Contact Paster Ed Studtmann at 541-421-3888 • Begins at 4:00pm FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday School ...................... 9:30 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship .. 10:50 a.m. 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 1 st Sunday Worship/Communion ..................10am 3 rd Sunday Worship/Communion/Potluck ...4:30pm 2 nd , 4 th & 5 th Sunday Worship .........................10am Sunday Bible Study .....................................8:45am For information: 541-575-2348 Community Church SUNDAY SERVICE..............9 am SUNDAY SERVICE ...........9 am 541-932-4800 EVERYONE WELCOME (541) 575-1326 johndayUMC@gmail.com 126 NW Canton, John Day Food Pantry Friday 3-4PM Like us on Facebook! FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH 541-820-3696 www.prairie-baptist-church.com Pastor David Hoeffner Pastor Keith DeHart JOHN DAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MT. VERNON PRESBYTERIAN 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 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 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 St. Thomas Episocopal Church Join us on Facebook live Sunday 10am Like us on Facebook! Pastor Randy Johnson 521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895 www.johndaynazarene.com 59357 Hwy 26 Mt. Vernon Seventh-Day Adventist Church SATURDAY SERVICES Celebration of Worship 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 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 Overcomer’s Outreach Mondays at 6pm at LWCC A Christ-Centered, 12-Step Recovery Support Group Pastor Sharon Miller 541-932-4910 www.livingwordcc.com S218721-1