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NEWS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
day so will make more news
next week.
John Day
Seniors
Monument
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
I am writing this from
Boise as I just had my sec-
ond cataract surgery. Doing
good with it but have another
appointment on Tuesday so I
am staying with my daughter
till then.
On Thursday, Sept. 30,
Shay and Kim will be pre-
paring for us: Mediterranean
Baked Fish, Baked Potato,
Sweet and Sour Cole Slaw,
and Sugar Cookie Bars for
dessert. I do not have the
menu for Oct. 4 (Monday).
New variants of COVID-
19, including the delta vari-
ant, are more than two times
as contagious as the original
strain — and Grant County is
seeing a major surge in cases.
Some 98% of people getting
it have not been vaccinated
against it. Please be safe and
keep our hospitals from being
overcrowded with this plague.
I hope you all took advan-
tage of the COVID-19 testing
that was offered by the Com-
munity Health Department
and Blue Mountain Hospi-
tal. Thank you both for your
efforts to offer this testing for
all people of our county.
Be sure to call the senior
center early to reserve your
to-go lunches and pick them
up between 11:30 a.m. and
noon. I will be home Wednes-
Soo Yukawa
Fall is definitely upon us.
I can see the leaves chang-
ing colors. I hope we have
a few weeks of fall weather
before we get our first storm.
I am still waiting on my toma-
toes, ya know. I am getting a
tomato here and there once in
awhile but not really coming
on yet. I have a whole bunch
of nice-looking tomatoes but
none are ripe. Maybe I should
make fried green tomatoes and
eat them?
Terry Cade and Carrie Jew-
ell made us some barbecue
beef sandwiches, curly french
fries, pickled green beans, and
cherry tart for our dessert. It
was a hearty and tasty meal.
We thank our cooks for their
wonderful work.
The greeters at the front
table were Jimmy Cole and
Bob Cockrell. They also
counted up the money and
checked in the guests. Kristi
Guimont filled out the paper-
work. Sylvia Cockrell deliv-
ered the meals to the patrons
picking up their to-go lunches.
Jan Ensign oversaw the oper-
ations. Bob led us in the flag
salute and Lonnie Lawrence
prayed the blessing over the
meal.
Loretta Jewell passed
away, and the service for her
was held at our senior center
on Saturday, Sept. 25. She was
Arlett Jewell’s aunt. We pray
for comfort and peace for Car-
rie Jewell and the rest of the
family.
I am sure getting my exer-
cise nowadays. I feed little
Belle around 7 a.m. and then
I immediately take her out to
go potty and then take her for
a walk. I take her up and down
our driveway three times and
sometimes we are running!
She has so much energy, and
she is smart. The young kittens
like to play with her, tackle
her, pounce on her and follow
her around. It is hilarious.
There is one particular cat,
Keiro-chan, who loves to try
and pounce on her and chase
her around. I have to try and
keep him away while she is
doing her business. I really
think she is potty trained! She
does not pee in her box. She
goes outside and it is after she
finishes her bottle.
Chevre had her babies. She
had twin girls. My husband
said to name them Thelma and
Louise. So, there you have it,
their names are Thelma and
Louise. They look like Belle,
only they are white and black,
whereas Belle is white with
dark chocolate brown color-
ing. I personally think Belle
is way cuter. Thelma and Lou-
ise have ears. Louise has very
black stockings.
Belle’s little brothers are
doing well. Bonnie is no lon-
ger allowing me to milk her
so Belle is now being supple-
mented with milk replacer.
Thank goodness I bought
some ahead of time so I was
not in a panic and scram-
bling to find some. Belle does
not seem to mind the milk
replacer. I mixed it at first with
her mama’s milk and gradu-
ally poured more and more
of the milk replacer. She is
cute and she considers me her
mama. She will be my future
milk goat.
Isaiah 61:2-3 To proclaim
the acceptable year of the
LORD, and the day of ven-
geance of our God; to com-
fort all who mourn; To appoint
unto them who mourn in Zion,
to give them beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit
of heaviness, that they may be
called trees of righteousness,
the planting of the LORD, that
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
He may be glorified.
Kerplunk! Did you hear
that? Fall fell. On the 22nd of
September this strange year ...
at 1:30 in the afternoon.
Why was that day any
different than all the oth-
ers this year? ‘Cause the sun
was determined to be shining
directly at a certain place on
the surface of the earth.
Have you ever wondered
why that makes any differ-
ence? When you start to think
about how the earth is tilted on
its trek around the sun, about
what would the earth look like
if there wasn’t this tilt, or if the
planet was any closer or far-
ther away from the sun ... then
you begin to understand how
finely tuned the universe is.
Now, where was I? Oh,
yes. The Autumnal Equinox ...
which means that there were
equal hours of daylight and
darkness. It will happen again
in the spring.
That is also the time that
the fire departments urge you
to check your smoke detec-
tors. I was sitting at the din-
ing table and wondered what
that little beep was that kept
interrupting my concentra-
tion. Uh-huh. Finally tracked
it to the smoke detector bat-
tery. When we finally got it
off the wall and opened up,
there was a sticker that I had
placed inside the case that
read 8/15/10. Those batteries
last a long time! So, mission
accomplished.
When we get the siding
mission accomplished, we
are going to throw a party!
We want everyone who had
a part in getting to this point
with the building to come and
celebrate with us. We want to
honor those who have passed
on along with those who are
still supporting us with their
presence. It took a lot of dif-
ferent people to make all this
happen. So stay tuned!
We had a great meal:
pork chop with stuffing,
peas, applesauce, cranberry
cup, and for dessert a banana
bar with chocolate chips on
top. Yummy, yummy in the
tummy. Thanks to our great
cooks Pam Woodworth and
Laura Brunton.
Our volunteers included
Pam Howard at the front desk;
Carla Wright, Gwynne Wul-
fort, Sharon Thissel, Mary
(oops, forgot her last name,)
and Carlos Bortell, who got all
the home deliveries done; and
Ginger Kendall and Del Lake,
who oversaw and greeted
those who came to pick up
their meals.
May we remind you that if
you are unable to get out and
come to the center to pick up
your meal, home delivery is
available. Just call and let us
know at 541-820-4100. You
can also call to reserve a meal
to be picked up between 11:30
and noon on Wednesdays.
There is going to be another
party at the center on Oct. 16.
Derrol and I will be celebrat-
ing our 60th anniversary with
an open house from 2 to 5 p.m.
This is your invitation if you
don’t receive one in the mail
or read it in the church bulle-
tin or ... . Come and help fill
up the pages of our guest book
that we have from the wed-
ding 60 years ago!
Revelations 19:9 “Then
the angel said to me, “Write:
Blessed are those who are
invited to the wedding supper
of the Lamb!”…”
OUT OF THE PAST
50 years ago
Local man bags big Canadian moose
Ed White of John Day returned home Sunday
from a two-week vacation with a trophy Cana-
dian moose to his credit following two days of
a scheduled five-day hunt at Whitecourt, Alta.,
Canada.
White and his wife, Christine, began their
vacation at Yellowstone National Park and trav-
eled north into Canada on a long-anticipated trip
that had to be canceled last year.
At Whitecourt, White engaged the services
of Andy Carty, a 50-year-old professional guide
who has hunted in the area for 32 years.
Early on their second day out White downed
an estimated 1,500-pound bull on his third shot.
The antlers on the animal scored 191 points in
the Boone and Crocket scoring system, six points
above the requirement for Canadian moose.
White notes that Wyoming moose have a
requirement of 150 points for a trophy head, and
Alaskan moose 200. The antlers, which he hung
on the front of his pickup-camper during the trip
home, had 11 points on one side and a dozen on
the other.
“He didn’t come down to earth for three
days,” Mrs. White said of her husband. Asked if
he sought a rebate of his $200 guide’s fee since
he shot his moose in less than the five planned
days of hunting, White replied, “I’d have paid
him $1,000 more, I was so happy.”
White shot the moose near a road, some 10
miles from Whitecourt. Oil lines honeycomb the
dense brush area, he said. Vegetation consists of
broadleaf poplars, birches, willows and a few
spruce, and the area is very swampy, he said.
White and Carty retrieved the animal by going
into town for a snowmobile and an old auto hood.
The two men skinned and cut the meat into quar-
ters and hauled the quarters separately to White’s
pickup, some 200 yards away.
“The hide was so heavy you couldn’t lift it,”
White said.
The moose weighed at least 1,500 pounds, he
said. The meat totaled 717 pounds.
White’s feat will be entered in a Whitecourt
area trophy contest this year. His moose is big-
ger than that of last year’s winner, he adds, and he
stands a good chance to win the trophy this year.
Canada moose season begins about Labor
Day and extends until sometime in December.
White downed the animal with a 30-06 rifle
shot from about 150 yards. He uses hand-loaded
Eagle file photo
shells. The bullet penetrated the moose’s ribs,
lungs, ribs on the other side and stopped in a bulge Ed White of John Day returned Sunday with tro-
of flesh on the other side, he said. He reclaimed phy Canadian moose’s antlers, pictured hanging
on the front of his pickup.
the shot as the two men dressed the moose.
MT. VERNON
PRESBYTERIAN
Community Church
SUNDAY SERVICE..............9 am
SUNDAY SERVICE ...........9 am
541-932-4800
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of God
896 E. Main 330 W. Front St.
John Day
Prairie City
Sunday Services
9:30 am
11am
Prairie Baptist
Church
238 N. McHaley
Prairie City
Sunday
Service
10:30am
St. Thomas
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Church
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Redeemer
Lutheran Church
Come Worship with us at
Grace Chapel (EMC )
154 E. Williams St.
Prairie City, Oregon
541 820-4437
2 Corinthians 5:17
Every Sunday in the L.C.
Community Center
Pastor Robert Perkins
Contact Pastor Ed Studtmann at
541-421-3888 • Begins at 4:00pm
Sunday School (all ages)
9:30-10:30
Sunday Worship
10:45-12:00
John Day Valley
Mennonite
Church
Meeting every Sunday
at Mt. Vernon Grange Hall
Sunday School ...............................9:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship ............10:50 a.m.
Pastor Leland Smucker
Everyone Welcome • 541-932-2861
(Corner of Second & Allen)
JOHN DAY
UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCH
Sunday Worship • 9AM
(541) 575-1326
johndayUMC@gmail.com
126 NW Canton, John Day
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Tune into KSPL 98.1 FM
For more information,
call 541 620-0340
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
627 SE Hillcrest, John Day
59357 Hwy 26 Mt. Vernon
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
Celebration of Worship
For information: 541-575-2348
Midweek Service
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
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
Weekdays: Sonshine Christian School
Full Gospel- Come Grow With Us
Pastor Randy Johnson
521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895
www.johndaynazarene.com
541-575-1202 Church
311 NE Dayton St, John Day
Pastor Al Altnow
Sundays 5:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Thursdays 6:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Jr./Sr. High
Youth Connection
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
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