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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Well, we almost did not get
to enjoy our meal this past
Tuesday. We had power outages
throughout the previous night,
and the power went out again
for over an hour Tuesday morn-
ing. I am sure our poor cooks
were stressing. But, thankfully,
they were able to finish prepar-
ing our meal after the power
came back on around 9 a.m.
Terry Cade and Carrie Jew-
ell cooked us some oven-baked
chicken with mashed potatoes
and gravy, dinner rolls, cooked
carrots and chocolate cake for our
dessert. It was delicious. I think
many of us would have been
quite disappointed if we missed
this meal. Thankfully, our cooks
were able to finish the job, and we
are most grateful to them.
Our usual suspects of volun-
teers were Kristi Guimont who
filled out the paperwork. Bob
Cockrell and Jan Ensign counted
up the money. Sylvia Cockrell
delivered the meals to the wait-
ing patrons at the door. We thank
everyone for their time and help.
Maybe because I was told
not to plant anything until
June, I have not felt very ambi-
tious about planting and gar-
dening this year. Since I knew
that the coming week was sup-
posed to get extremely hot, I got
the gumption to go out and do
major work out in the garden.
Of course I had to get my kids
involved. I had them weed and
turn up the dirt, add more dirt
and help plant one raised bed. I
then had them weed out where
my asparagus and rhubarb were
planted. They did a great job! I
told them they were older and
bigger and able to help me out
now, and I also mentioned that,
if they did not work, they would
not eat. Ha.
I, on the other hand, was
getting fermented old chicken
poop and shoveling it into a
wagon and then filling fabric
pots. I planted some tomatoes
that good friends, Bob and Syl-
via Cockrell, had given me. I
replanted that cattle salt lick tub.
I planted some tomato seeds
from last year that I dried out.
There was a good sign: When
I turned up the dirt, there were
worms! So maybe, there is still
hope for that idea?
I got some potatoes planted,
and that made me feel a sense
of relief and satisfaction. The
only thing I am not looking for-
ward to now is watering every
day. I really need to set up some
kind of timed watering system.
It gets old after awhile trying to
water everything, not to men-
tion hours spent watering.
I think we are going to have
a bumper crop of raspberries
this year. There are so many
flowers on those bushes, and
they are now starting to open
up. I gotta make sure every-
one waters heavily during this
time so that we can have huge
raspberries.
I brought up Davey and
Kidd to hang out with me, and
they did a good job of not run-
ning away and ate down some
weeds. They were good little
goats.
1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the
preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness, but unto
us who are saved it is the power
of God.”
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
Holiday is over; every-
one is back home normal.
I am hoping all went well
with the travels. Further-
more, I am hoping everyone
was cautious about COVID-
19 guidelines: masks, 3-6
feet apart, no hugging, only
elbow bumping. This should
be ending soon as everyone
does their part to uphold all
of us and yourselves. Many
I have had the opportunity
to talk with say they are
not going to get vaccinated.
They are afraid of after
affects of the vaccination. If
we all pass away due to some
refusing to do their part, then
what benefit does that do to
help anyone? This is serious
stuff, folks. Don’t be afraid,
just honor the standards set
before us by those who are in
charge of these needs in our
world.
Every Monday and Thurs-
day lunch is ready for pickup
at 11:30 a.m. Please call by
10 a.m. to reserve yours. The
suggested donation is $5 for
all those over 60 years of age.
For those 59 and younger,
the suggested donation is $6.
On Thursday, June 3,
Shay and his helpers will be
making chef salad with cot-
tage cheese and bread sticks.
And in honor of all the birth-
days in June, we will cele-
brate with a birthday cake
for dessert.
On Monday, June 7,
Shay and crew are prepar-
ing Sweedish meatballs with
noodles, veggies, rolls and a
delicious cherry cobbler for
dessert.
News from Angie Upt-
mor in the office of the senior
center says there is new
rental assistance for those
affected with COVID. If you
have questions regarding this
please call Angie at 541-575-
2949. You can also get infor-
mation about this at: Oregon-
RentalAssistance.org.
The Whiskey Gulch Gang
and “Copper Ridge” will be
hosting an event June 11-12.
The price for attendance is
free to the public and anyone
off or on Facebook.
This will be for the 100th
annual celebration of the dis-
covery of gold in Canyon
City, Oregon. Some of the
attractions will include his-
toric Sels’ Brewery open
both days with live music by
Copper Ridge both nights,
the Gold Rush Run and Walk
Saturday morning, also a
parade Saturday followed
by events and games for
both kids and adults around
town, a chili cook off, the
always popular shootout
and hanging with more to be
announced as more things
are finalized.
Hope to see everyone
there. If anyone is inter-
ested in being involved or
have any questions, contact
whiskeygulchgang@gmail.
com or at 541-575-0329. For
information on the parade,
contact Melissa Galbrearth
at 541-620-0898. For infor-
mation on chili cookoff call
Bill Sproul at 208-870-8216.
“Love one another as
Christ loves you.”
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
My, my, what a week. After
the trip about the dry eyes,
we had to go to Bend to have
a consultation with the pulm-
onologist (my spell-checker
says that’s not right, but that’s
how the doctor’s card spells
it) about Derrol’s sleep apnea.
Will be getting a CPAP device
soon. We had a great trip over
and back and did not see any
critters in the road.
The next day I was boo-
gying along at the speed limit
toward an appointment in John
Day when a big buck decided
that he had to cross the road at
that instant. Big noisy crash on
the windshield as he slid by.
Took out the rear door win-
dow too. Both, of course, are
the mandated safety glass for
which I am very thankful! And
since he did not hit the front of
the Subaru, the air bag did not
deploy! Hallelujah! I was able
to slam on the brakes and see
enough through the shattered
windshield to steer to a vacant
driveway to get off the high-
way. My other personality took
over, apparently, and I was able
to calmly make phone calls to
the pertinent people for help.
We were trying to count up
how many deer we have actu-
ally hit and how many we
have missed in our 65+ years
of driving. We finally gave up.
And we will see if the insur-
ance company gives up on
Subbie. Oh, yes. I did not have
any injury either! Praise God
for seat belts and safety glass!
This is a picture of the state-
ment that a person does not die
until God says it’s time for him
to. There’s still work to do.
And our cooks Pam and
Laura did a good job in their
work for our meal. We enjoyed
spaghetti with lots of mush-
rooms and some olives in it,
a luscious green salad with
dressing on the side, four cute
little pieces of garlic bread and
a piece of chocolate birthday
cake with lots of scrumptious
frosting. One downside of the
birthday cake is that only those
who cut it into serving-size
pieces get to see the beautiful
artwork that someone does on
it.
Our piece has lots of col-
ors, but we don’t know what
the whole picture was. But it is
very delicious. Thanks to Drisk-
ill Memorial Chapel for provid-
ing this dessert every month.
It is a treat we look forward to
enjoying. Ginger and Tom did
the home deliveries while Carla
and Pam dispensed pick-up
bags. We thank all who make
use of our meal site. May your
tribe increase.
I know it’s spring because
the wild roses that I allow to
grow on the side of the house
are blooming. These are yel-
low, and they make quite a dis-
play — for a while. The trans-
planted tulips made a gorgeous
display too. Like other living
things, they like elbow room
too, I guess.
Isaiah 5:8 “Woe to you who
add house to house and join
field to field till no space is left
(NIV) that [one] may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth
(KJV).”
(We don’t have that problem
in Eastern Oregon yet, do we?)
Spruce Goose archives could take flight with state grant
By Kevin Harden
Oregon Capital Bureau
If you think Howard
Hughes’ plane the Spruce
Goose is big (it is, it really is),
then try this on for size: more
than 1 million pieces of paper
— documents, blueprints, orig-
inal drawings and thousands of
photographs.
That’s what the Evergreen
Aviation and Space Museum in
Yamhill County holds in a stack
of shelves, file cabinets and
cardboard tubes related to con-
struction of the giant flying boat.
The museum hopes to get
a state grant to move the entire
collection into a new research
facility, where it would be
stored in more archive-friendly
shelves, photo boxes and files. It
also hopes to digitize most of the
collection so researchers and the
public can access it online.
“We don’t really have a
proper archive,” said Michelle
Kaufman,
communications
director for the Stoller Wine
Group in Dayton, which owns
the nonprofit museum’s prop-
erty along Highway 18 about
45 minutes south of Portland.
“We want a place where we
can really showcase it. Where
people can come and dig
through the records to do their
research.”
No matter house you mea-
sure it, Hughes’ H-4 Hercules
is an engineering marvel. It’s
one of the largest airplanes ever
built. It’s bigger than a Boeing
747.
The Spruce Goose is 218
feet long, has a 320-foot wing-
span and is about 80 feet tall. It
weighed about 400,000 pounds
and was powered by eight
Pratt and Whitney Wasp Major
28-cylinder engines. It was built
to fly about 3,000 miles at nearly
20,000 feet, cruising at 250 miles
per hour.
Nearly 700 banker boxes full
of papers and photos related to
the plane’s construction arrived
at the McMinnville museum in
February 1993 with the Spruce
Goose after a 1,055-mile jour-
ney from Long Beach to Yamhill
County. Since then, museum vol-
unteers have worked to put the
documents in searchable order
that could be useful to research-
ers and hobbyists interested in
the plane and its history.
“Before they came to Ore-
gon, the files and boxes were
warehouses that were reposito-
ries for everything,” said Lydia
Heins, the museum’s curator and
collections manager. “All of that
paperwork was just sent to ware-
houses as a historical asset.”
Creating digital versions of
the documents and photos is a
big deal. According to Nicole
Davis, supervisory archivist for
Seattle’s Museum of Flight, put-
ting the files and photos online
turns the collection into a global
gem.
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