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A6 SENIORS & HISTORY Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, January 13, 2021 GRANT COUNTY SENIORS John Day Seniors Prairie City Seniors Dusty Harris Rose Coombs Another week, and I wonder what this one will bring. We all know that our cooks are wonderful. Can we say the same about our weather, I wonder? I was at the center last Thursday and visited with one of the members (I’m bad about names). We had a conversation about when we can go back to the cen- ter to eat and socialize. I’m ready, and so is everyone else. What’s to eat: on Thurs- day, chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, refried beans and brownies. On Jan. 18, we’ll have hot hamburger with mashed potatoes and gravy and cherry chocolate chip bread. We would like to thank the following sponsors: Gloria Phillips in mem- ory of Delores Janney, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Russ Young, Iron Triangle and Walt and Agnes Hall. Thanks to you all for stand- ing with the senior center. Until my last breath I will give thanks to the Lord. Amen. For our first meal of this new year, Tom, Laura B. and Ginger prepared a very delicious meal of sweet and sour chicken, rice, green salad, bread and a lemon bar topped with cherry syrup. Now there is a menu with lots of flavors! Thanks so much for cooking for us, people. Pam was at her place at the regis- tration desk. Carole and Carla helped with getting the meals to the people who are able to come to the center. Carlos made the home deliveries. We thank all those who have a part in getting the work done. And those who come and support our meal pro- gram. We still look forward to the day we can all gather and sit down to a meal together. But during this imposed shut-down, we are continuing to do long-put-off repairs to the building. The latest area is the old kitchen. Everything has been moved out of the space so the ceiling can be repaired. We are also going to get the rest of the single-pane windows replaced with more insulating ones. So if you see construction activity, that’s what’s going on. I made a call to Florida with some questions to an insurance representative. The funny thing that happened was that he could not believe that there was not one “participating provider” of their super-duper discount pro- gram within 100 miles of my ZIP code. Have the same prob- lem with some of my book sell- ers. Wouldn’t I like to sign up for their special program that would save me lots of money — for only $15 a month? Takes a long time and lots of talking to convince them that my unequiv- ocal answer is — and will con- tinue to be — no! I realize that the phone answerers have their script that they have to fol- low, but it just gets irritating. If you use the web, do you have to go through all that rigama- role? And don’t get me started on “phone trees.” Guess I better get of my soapbox now. Got my first garden cata- log. With our last frost in early June, and our first frost in Sep- tember, I really pore over it for really fast maturing varieties. Then you have to make sure that the plant will grow in our zone. The photos are certainly beautiful! The only vegetable that I grow that looks anything like the photos are the peas. The corn ears had kernels hit and miss. The cucumbers didn’t like their area so they got a late start after transplanting. The car- rots did good. Found one vari- ety on a seed tape. Hurray! That should help. Those little fly- away seeds are very difficult to dispense one, or even two or three, at a time. Then if a little breeze comes up — whoops — and away they go. Genesis 3:19 — “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food.” But at least you know that when you put a carrot seed in the ground, you will harvest carrots, not turnips. So we can look forward to spring. And it’s only two months until darn silly time begins, again. Hope the Washington, Oregon and Cali- fornia lawmakers can get their acts together this year and get rid of DST. Oops. Have to get off the soap box again. And I bet not very many Gen X, Y or Z have any idea what that expres- sion means. Jeremiah 29:5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.” Monument Seniors Soo Yukawa Terry Cade and Carrie Jew- ell made us some yummy ham- burgers, with curly french fries, macaroni salad, and I think brownies with cream cheese frosting on them. It was a good meal. We thank our cooks and give them a thumbs up! Our volunteers were Kristi Guimont, who filled out the paperwork. Bob Cockrell and Jan Ensign counted all the money. Sylvia Cockrell handed out the meals at the door to patrons. I think it is a good and efficient system that they have worked out. We got a crazy snow storm that came through before the weekend, so we have snow on the ground! Praise the Lord for all this moisture. I pray that it will have a chance to get warm so that the melt off will go and seep into the ground. I love the snow. I love that we get the four seasons. A friend of mine shared some seed catalogs. I can’t believe that seed companies are already sending those out. So, of course, it got me think- ing about my garden. I think I am going to try and grow some okra this summer. My Chinese friend Chun made this really tasty and spicy sauce to dip blanched okra, and I just gob- bled them up. I never thought I liked okra, because they are kinda slimy, but oh, dipped in this spicy sauce, they were really good. Just thinking about it just made my tummy rumble, and I’m drooling in my mouth! Ha. So a friend here in Monu- ment is purchasing some of my baby goats. I am going to give her Dolly to take because I want to retire Dolly. Dolly just needs to live and not have to worry about having babies. She is, I think, around 8 or 9 years old. She may be even older than that. I believe goats can live up to 12 or 15 years. I think she will be happy. The rest of my baby goats are going to be advertised via Craigslist. This will be a good thing. It will help to offset the price of the hay I have been feeding them. Those goats eat a lot of hay, especially nursing mothers, and they can be very picky and finicky eaters. My squished fingers have now closed up. They look really good. The new skin is very ten- der so I have to be very care- ful. I have some scar tissue, but I am praying the Lord will take those away. I am using some vitamin E oil now and rubbing that in, for I heard it helps to lessen scarring. I will let you know. I do recommend having raw honey around as medicine! The Lord’s creation is far supe- rior in the healing than man- made medicine in my belief. Of course, it does not hurt to have prayer warriors standing in the gap and praying for you either. I am blessed, and I thank my Lord Jesus for healing my man- gled fingers! God is good, all the time! Psalms 100:2 “Serve the LORD with gladness, come before His presence with singing.” OUT OF THE PAST 75 years ago Lots of snow piling up in the mountains “There’s four feet of snow on the Izee summit,” said Sig Fer- guson, Izee mail contractor. In all sections of the county the reports are that there is more snow in the mountains this winter than for many years past. It took pieces of county equip- ment to clear the Izee road of snow this week. It has been many years since Grant County has had this much early snowfall. The ground is saturated and if another Chinook wind arrives the citizens may expect another heavy run of water. 50 years ago Snowpacks way above normal “Excellent water supplies are again in prospect for the John Day Basin during the 1971 sea- son,” the Soil Conservation Ser- vice reports. Dan Wallenmeyer, district conservationist, says the moun- tain snowpack is 167 percent of average on the North Fork John Day and 179 percent of the aver- age for the September to October period. Wallenmeyer added that watershed soils are holding slightly above average amounts of water, and the flow of the John Day River at Service Creek was 103 percent of average for Octo- ber to December. 25 years ago Fossil Beds joins with Ore- gon Adopt-A-River programs The John Day Fossil beds National Monument has joined with the Oregon Adopt-A-River program that invites volunteers to help clean up and preserve the state’s waterways and learn the importance of watershed health and a good stewardship ethic. John Fiedor, a ranger at the park, said the program offers free materials, including watershed health information, a step by step guide to planning a safe and effec- tive clean up, sample forms and check list, an extensive resource guide, garbage collection bags, buttons, window decals, T-shirts and program guidance. Eagle file photo From 50 years ago: Heavy rains and snow runoff Friday confronted John Day-Canyon City residents with threats of flooding. Though damage was held to a minimum, county officials watched the John Day North Fork with concern until the ice broke. 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 S222312-1
