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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
selves: It is the gift of God: Not
of works, lest any man should
boast.”
Monument
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
To order a lunch from our
senior center, please call by
10 a.m. on Mondays or Thurs-
days to reserve it. Pick up time
is 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Thursday, May 20, lunch
will be grilled ham and cheese,
tomato soup (yummy), chips
and cookies for dessert. Mon-
day, May 24, lunch will con-
sist of taco salad, black bean
and corn relish, chips, canta-
loupe and coconut cream pie
bars.
My system is not work-
ing right so I need to hand-de-
liver this little message to the
paper Monday morning. Please,
everyone, get your COVID-
19 vaccinations and wear your
masks until two weeks after
you have both of them or two
weeks after getting the Johnson
& Johnson one-shot vaccine. It
is protection for you, your fam-
ily, your neighborhood and the
whole world. Thanks.
Enjoy your lunches and get
some of this nice sunshine with
the slight breeze; it is wonder-
ful. My morning walks have
been super.
Ephesians 2:8,9 “For by
grace are ye saved through
faith: and that not of your-
Soo Yukawa
We had a great meal of
hamburgers, french fries, pasta
salad and a cinnamon cookie
for our dessert. We thank our
cooks Terry Cade and Carrie
Jewell for blessing us with our
lunch.
Our volunteers were Kristi
Guimont, who filled out the
paperwork. Bob Cockrell and
Jan Ensign counted up the
money. Sylvia Cockrell deliv-
ered the meals and received the
money from the patrons at the
door. We thank all our help for
their time.
I have some good news to
share. The Monument Senior
Center will be holding a potluck
bingo night on May 29 at 6 p.m.
If you have more questions
about the event, you may con-
tact Bodean Anderson at 541-
934-2100. There is a limit of 50
people. If you are planning on
attending, you might want to let
Bodean know, so that she can
have a head count.
More exciting news to pro-
claim is that, on that same week-
end, the Monument rummage
sale will be going on during the
day. The rummage sale will be
going on May 28 and May 29
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 30
from 9 a.m. to noon will be the
clearance and cleaning sale.
The items for sale will be on
display outside the storage area
on the lawn and under the back
porch to provide safe distancing
while shopping.
If you have any good, clean,
usable items that you would like
to donate, they are still being
accepted. You may drop off
your items at the Monument
Senior Center until Tuesday,
May 25, before noon.
All donated proceeds —
100% — will be going to the
Monument Senior Center oper-
ation fund. If you have any
questions or need more infor-
mation, please contact Sylvia
Cockrell at 541-934-2220.
I am asking all prayer war-
riors to join me in praying for
rain for our parched land. We
need to cry out to our Father in
heaven for his blessing of mois-
ture for our crops, our animals
and our water sources. The Lord
is always good and he hears the
cries of his people.
I don’t know why I did not
think of this before. I moved
my baby goats and nannies to
my hog pen. Since there are no
hogs, the grass and weeds had
grown considerably, and it’s
quite lush in there. The goats
have been trampling and mow-
ing down the grass. I did find
a bull snake in the tall grass. I
grabbed it by the tail and con-
sidered tossing it over the fence
and thought better of it. Instead
I let it slither away between the
fence openings. I did not want
to somehow smack my face
with it trying to toss it over the
8-foot fence. Ha.
I sometimes sit in there with
the goats, and Kidd came along
and put a chunk of my hair in
his mouth and yanked.
He keeps trying to nibble
on my gloves and fingers too. I
must say, they are doing a fine
job of eating up the grass and
weeds, less work for me!
Psalms 91:5-6 “Thou shalt
not be afraid for the terror by
night; Nor for the arrow that
flieth by day; Nor for the pesti-
lence that walketh in darkness;
Nor for the destruction that
wasteth at noonday.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
The transplanted tulips
have bloomed! My, how they
have bloomed! They are so big
and bright! Certainly helps to
have the proper place to grow,
I guess. This space is well
watered, no weeds and ample
sunlight. Ahem. And the trans-
planted peonies are going to be
in bloom soon too. It has been
10 years since I had peonies in
my yard. These are red. If any-
one has some white ones that
need a new home, call me. Spe-
cial thanks to hubby for put-
ting up the “deer fence” that
seems to have worked quite
well. Without it, there would be
no tulip blossoms to see! One
comment I heard is that, to deer,
tulips are just like candy!
Started weeding the gar-
den bed. Seems that I can only
work two hours or less a day on
that. Gee, wonder why. Any-
way, I discovered a couple of
volunteer sunflowers com-
ing up. Hooray! We had such
fun watching the birds do their
upside-down acrobatics getting
at the seeds last year.
Hope you had a happy
Mother’s Day. I got a couple of
pansy plants from church and
got them in the ground. Thanks
to Better Blooms for doing
this for us every year. Then we
went down to son No. 2’s place
so daughter-in-love could get
online and help me renew my
driver’s license. The letter the
DMV sent said I would have to
go in to the office, so I thought I
would need to make an appoint-
ment. But the site just asked me
some questions and renewed
my license! Okey, dokey! What
was interesting to me (since I
don’t do this online stuff) was
that every so often the program
would ask if I was a robot. Won-
der if that has anything to do
with the phone calls I got that
insist that I am! Oh for the good
ol’ days.
We had a meal today that
was absolutely fabulous! Sweet
and sour chicken over rice, fruit
salad, green beans (I gave mine
to Derrol), a lemon cupcake
and a fortune cookie. Mmmm,
mmmm, was it ever good!
Thanks to Pam and Laura for the
repast. Pam had to tend to her
other job of school bus driver, so
Angie came to help get the meal
put together. Ginger and Carol
packed the bags and gave them
to the people who came. Carlos
took care of the home deliveries.
Pam H. did her job at the recep-
tion desk. And Del did his job of
greeter. Thanks to one and all for
you service.
Question for the day: Why
do film and video produc-
ers think that all dialogue must
have a musical background?
The actors don’t speak loud
enough to start with and talk
too fast anyway. Then they put
loud music with it! And I have
my hearing aids turned up!
Stage plays usually don’t have
music behind the voices. Just
wonderin’.
I Corinthians 14:7,8 “…
how will anyone know what
tune is being played unless there
is a distinction in the notes? …
if the trumpet does not sound a
clear call, who will get ready for
battle?”
tion to the John Day from
the University of California
at Berkley was started during
the hottest part of the sum-
mer. A small but hard work-
ing crew of students, under
the direction of Professor J.
C. Merriam, traveled through
the area.
June 19, 1899 Turtle Cove
“The view of the large bed
is a most wonderful sight.
The cliffs are not less than
400 ft. high from top to floor.
Cut and furrowed into chasms
and pinnacles bare as a tomb-
stone. The first impressions I
receive was that of Dante’s
illustrations of the inferno.
To heighten the impression
some of the strata are of a dull
dirty green color most repul-
sive in tone. What a place for
bones of ancient monsters of
a long passed age.”
They collected dozens of
good fossils and carted them
off in wagons. Today these
specimens are available for
study at the new Life Sci-
ence Building, on the campus
in Berkeley. There, under the
watchful eye of a mounted
skeleton of Tyrannosaurus
rex, qualified investigators
are issued a clip-on pass and
guided through locked doors
into the collections.
On one of my last visits
to these collections, I opened
a drawer and saw an odd-
shaped bone that was cata-
logued as “an unidentified
mammal.”
OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
June 8th is date set for
‘62 Days at Canyon City
The date for the annual
‘62 Days at Canyon City has
been set for June 8, it was
announced this week by J.
W. Finlayson, manager of the
Whiskey Gulch Gang, spon-
sors of this yearly old-time
fiesta, which celebrates the
discovery of gold on Canyon
Creek in June 1862.
The celebration, this year,
as it has been for the past
three years will be confined
to one night, with dancing
taking the spotlight, and as
usual there will be the gam-
ing tables, bar room and other
activities depicting the early
days of the historic mining
camp. The event will be held
in the big ‘62 auditorium.
50 years ago
John Day youths have
Vietnam reunion
Two local boys stationed in
Vietnam have had the oppor-
tunity to get together during
their tours of duty overseas.
Ronnie Belcher, son of
Mrs. Julius Farmer, Long
Creek, and Cliff Belcher, John
Day, and Jerry Dairymple,
son of Bill Dairymple of John
Day, managed to meet May 8
although stationed at different
bases.
Dairymple, who is sta-
tioned at Cat Lai, had heard
that Belcher was at Phu Loi,
which is 37 miles from Sai-
gon. He was able to reach
Phy Loi base ad visit all day.
The boys had set up another
meeting for May 15. Dairy-
mple will return tot he states
on June 1 and after leave will
be e-assigned to Mare Island,
CA, on the U.S.S. Long
Beach.
In a recent letter to his
grandmother, Mrs. E. H. Reh-
der of Mt. Vernon, Belcher
mentioned hopes of getting a
transfer so that he could be at
the same base with Frank Stin-
nett, also a local boy. His one
regret was that Stinnett will
also be returning to the states
in three months. Belcher has
been in Vietnam since January
4, so he still has quite a bit of
his overseas time left.
25 years ago
The fossil record
Could the largest con-
dor-like bird ever discov-
ered come from the John Day
Basin?
Our research team is col-
lecting interesting new fossils
in the badlands these days.
Some of the most remark-
able things, though, were col-
lected before any of us were
born (yes, even before Ben).
Many of these fossils were
unrecognized as important
when they were collected, so
they were stored, and have
just been collecting dust,
until someone happens to
re-discover them.
An example: Almost 100
years ago, the first expedi-
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154 E. Williams St.
Prairie City, Oregon
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2 Corinthians 5:17
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10:45-12:00
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John Day Valley
Mennonite
Church
Meeting every Sunday
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