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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.
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Sunday Morning Worship .10:30 a.m.
Awana (Oct.-Apr.) ................3:00 p.m.
Youth Group .........................5:30 p.m.
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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
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Monument -
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Office Hours
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Sunday Worship • 9AM
2 Corinthians 5:17
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Community Center
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Contact Paster Ed Studtmann at
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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
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SUNDAY SERVICE..............9 am
SUNDAY SERVICE ...........9 am
541-932-4800
EVERYONE WELCOME
(541) 575-1326
johndayUMC@gmail.com
126 NW Canton, John Day
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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
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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
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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
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Episocopal
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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
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Mondays at 6pm at
LWCC
A Christ-Centered, 12-Step
Recovery Support Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
541-932-4910
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