A8
SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
When you got home with
your meal and opened the
bag, you discovered some-
thing new. The meal is being
put into special contain-
ers that you eat from, wash
out and send or bring back
to the center. Then we will
sanitize them and put the
next meal into them. This
is so much better than the
other foam take-out contain-
ers that all food service enti-
ties were forced to purchase
— and then throw away! So
kudos to whoever figured out
these recyclable containers.
We appreciate it. So, now it
is up to you to do your part
and wash the items and return
them to the center. OK?
And the meal that was in
the containers this week was
super-duper! A large help-
ing of ham and potato soup, a
nice green salad with dressing
on the side, a roll (courtesy
of our own Blue Mountain
Care Center) and, for des-
sert, a blueberry cheesecake
bar. And I ate every last bit
of all of it! Yummy, yummy
in my tummy. Thanks to Tom,
Laura and Angie for a great
meal. It was sponsored by Ye
Old Thrift Shoppe. Thanks so
much. Pam was at her desk to
keep track of the meals, Gin-
ger and Carla delivered to the
front door and Carlos made
the home deliveries. We’ve
decided that Del is our vol-
unteer greeter, ahem. Thanks
to all for your generosity in
serving our little community.
Hope you are all stay-
ing well. I was doing good,
I thought until I got up
Wednesday morning. The
“bugs” made a great show of
traveling all throughout my
body for a few hours before
finally settling on their place
of attack: the sinuses. So I
spent the day sneezing and
blowing. Gonna have to get
some more Kleenex! When I
was a kid in school, I would
pack a box of tissues with
me and a paper bag to put the
used ones in. Did anyone else
do that? By Thursday morn-
ing the left side group seems
to have been mostly drained
out. I’m waiting for the right
side to kick in. Hope to get
this done before that happens!
Found an interesting item
in “The Vagabonds” book.
Henry Ford was suing a
newspaper for libel in 1919.
As part of his testimony, he
was asked to read portions of
some documents and refused
to do so. “Ford was the son
of a Michigan farmer, and
like most rural Americans of
the time, his formal education
was limited to a few years
in local schools and teach-
ers who themselves had often
not graduated high school.
Then he had to leave school
to make a living.” He could
read, but it was slow going.
He did become a successful
businessman, though. Some-
times you will see programs
that have a “Man on the
Street” asking questions of
people, questions that are not
difficult, that I would assume
everyone would know the
answer to — and they don’t.
Our education system is sup-
posed to be good. What hap-
pened? (Oops, better get off
my soapbox.)
Had to replace the black
ink cartridge on my new
printer this last week. First I
had to find where the old one
was hiding. Then had to get
the protective cap off the new
one. Couldn’t do it; had to go
for help. Flip, flop and it was
done. I tried later with the old
one and still couldn’t do it!
Aauuugghh!
2 Thessalonians 3:16
“Now may the Lord of peace
Himself give you peace at all
times and in every way.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a wonderful meal
of spaghetti with meatballs,
garlic bread, fresh green salad
and cookie for our dessert. We
thank our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell for always
faithfully preparing our Tues-
day lunches for us. They are a
blessing to me and my family
as I am sure to the rest of the
community of Monument and
other surrounding towns. We
do have people who come out
from Spray to pick up lunch.
We thank our volun-
teers for their time serving
our senior center as well.
We thank Kristi Guimont for
filling out the paperwork.
We thank Bob Cockrell and
Jan Ensign for counting up
the money. We thank Sylvia
Cockrell for handing out the
lunches to the various patrons
coming to pick them up. We
thank Heather Riggs for help-
ing to clean our facility and
all the board members help-
ing to make wise decisions
for our community center.
So, I was pondering as to
how I could get my new goats
to familiarize themselves to
me and how I could get them
to like me. Where would I
get ideas? Why, the internet,
of course. I looked into get-
ting some kind of goat treats.
I found these goat treats that
were licorice flavored (FYI,
I do not like black licorice at
all, ew), and somebody was
raving about how her goats
just go wild over them. I read
some other reviews from
other owners that said their
goats liked these treats too.
Because of such good
reviews, I decided to pur-
chase a couple of bags of the
licorice-flavored goat treats.
I bought two because they
were on sale also. No, the
thought of my goats disliking
the treats and then me being
stuck with two bags of goat
treats never crossed my mind.
Ha.
The order finally came,
and I decided to fill a small
Ziplock bag of the goat treats.
It never ceases to amaze my
husband how I manage to
open packaging incorrectly.
Yeah, I totally opened the bag
wrong. Well, at least it wasn’t
upside down this time. I took
my Ziplock bag of goat treats
and went down to the goats.
Ginger and Marianne
came over right away because
they were curious as to what I
was fiddling with when they
heard the crunching of the
plastic bag. I gave them some
of the treats, and then little
Yuki came over too. Well,
they all got a taste of those
goat treats, and the next thing
I know, I am being swarmed
by the goats! Little Yuki was
jumping on me, standing with
her hind legs, wanting more
goat treats. She let me touch
her and pet her. All the goats
loved, and I mean loved,
loved, loved the goat treats!
They went bonkers over that
stuff!
Now that I have discov-
ered what these goats really
like, I am going to use it to my
full advantage. Hmm, what to
do with such knowledge? Ha.
Knowledge is power right?
Power over stubborn goats, I
like that!
Galatians 5:16 “This I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and
ye shall not fulfill the lust of
the flesh.”
OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
Fire at John Day Bank quickly
extinguished
Fire of undetermined origin in a
drawer under the receiving and paying
counter in the Grant County Bank at
John Day, Thursday night of last week
at about 10 o’clock, was quickly extin-
guished by the local fire department
before any serious damage resulted.
A good deal of excitement was
created, however, as great clouds of
smoke rolled out of the bank’s win-
dows and doors, but the fire was
confined to the compartment of the
counter and the only damage was from
smoke.
Electrical wiring was all intact and
the only possible clue as to the cause
of the fire was a box of burned matches
found in the drawer. How the matches
could have ignited is a mystery; some
say mice chewed them, while others
claim this is impossible – that a mouse
will not chew a sulphur match. Any-
way, what might have developed into
a serious conflagration had it been a
few hours later was averted.
Saturday, Mitchell defeated the vis-
iting Panthers’ volleyball team for the
second straight time this year, 14-5 and
11-9. In each game Prairie City took the
opening lead then Mitchell came from
behind to win. This win puts Mitchell
in first place in league play.
50 years ago
Having a ball
The visiting Harlem Crowns bas-
ketball team entertained a few hun-
dred Grant County residents while tak-
ing on the Local Legacies on Jan. 31
at the Grant Union High School. They
even helped some of the little kids dunk
basketballs. A portion of the proceeds
from the benefit game went to pay off
the Grant Union High School cheer-
leader’s uniforms.
25 years ago
Girls volleyball team wins, loses
Friday night, the Prairie City girls
volleyball team defeated Monument
at Prairie City in three games. In the
first game Prairie City jumped to a 9-1
lead then fought off a strong Monu-
ment rally for a 12-9 win. The second
game Monument won easily with an
11-4 score. Prairie City turned the third
around and won 13-5.
Eagle file photo
From 25 years ago:
Marc DesJardin
dunked this ball
as he was propped
up by some of the
visiting Harlem
Crowns.
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