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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a big feast for our
Tuesday lunch. Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell made this huge
batch of spaghetti with meat-
balls, garlic bread, fresh green
salad, and sugar cookies for
our dessert. Everyone received
heaping piles of spaghetti. I was
full and when I got home, I had
to take a little nap from the food
coma. We thank our cooks for
our hearty meal and we appreci-
ate them so much.
The greeters at the table
were Bob Cockrell, Jan Ensign,
and Sue Cavender. Bob checked
in the guests. Jan and Sue col-
lected the money and counted
it up. Kristi Guimont filled up
the paperwork. Bob led us in
the flag salute, and yours truly
prayed the blessing over the
meal. Angie came to check up
on our senior center from John
Day. Amy Smith, also from
John Day, came to let every-
one know that she would be
available to give assistance with
energy and housing.
Mark this on your calendar:
There will be a clay pigeon shoot
for the Monument School’s Fly-
ing Tiger Club. This fundraiser
will be to help them travel to
Texas this school year. This
event will be happening Sun-
day, Oct. 31 at from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. The place will be at Brad
and Julie Smith’s B Bar J Ranch
on Highway 401, mile marker
9. The cost to participate in the
shoot will be $3 per round.
There will be a pumpkin
chunkin’ shoot, and the entry fee
will be a pumpkin. Lunch will be
also served at $12 per adult and
$10 for ages 9 and under. Lunch
will be ribs, beans, cornbread,
and corn on the cob. A dessert
auction will be held at 1 p.m.
Concessions will be offered
from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you
have any questions, please call
Brad or Julie at 541-934-2143.
Well, it’s been a race this
past week for me to pick all my
tomatoes, cucumbers and pep-
pers before the frost. Oh, boy,
did it get cold! We went down to
26 degrees. When I went out to
see the damage, everything was
shriveled. Good thing I picked
all the peppers. I just cut the
whole plant and took them in to
our shed. I got a few small pep-
pers but hey, better than nothing.
Ha. The tomatoes we picked
two days before the frost.
I had five potato-growing
bags, and we just flipped those
bags over and we got two meals’
worth of potatoes. It was quite
exciting, like finding treasure! I
think I will try and get more of
those bags and plant 20 bags for
next year.
Looks like Scotty had been
going hungry for a little while.
He definitely was the runt of
Bonnie’s triplets. He moves
slow, he sucks his milk real
slow, and he had a messy butt.
I don’t think Bonnie was clean-
ing him up very well. Scotty has
a very messy, poopy butt. I have
been trying to clean him up and
it is slow going, but getting bet-
ter every day.
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith
the LORD; Cursed be the man
that trusteth in man, and maketh
flesh his arm, and whose heart
departeth from the LORD
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
The ol’ hall was a-hoppin’
with activity from one end to
the other — even with COVID
restrictions!
The medical personnel
were in one place dispens-
ing their inventory of inocula-
tions. In another area the food
was being prepared for delivery
and pickup. And as you came
in, there was Pam at our recep-
tion desk waiting to mark your
name down when you picked up
the meal. Whew! This is what
we like to see — the building
being used! Thanks to the Grant
County Health Department for
bringing their services to us.
Many took advantage of the
opportunity.
The cooks, Pam and Laura,
and helper Tom got a doozy of
meal ready for the day: roast
beef with gravy, potatoes, car-
rots, garlic bread, strawberries
and — TA-DA — a brownie!
Wow. And the size of the serv-
ings made sure that you had a
full tummy when you finished.
The sponsor of the meal was the
First Community Credit Union
of John Day. Thank you so
much for the freezer full of beef
that you donated to our center.
It is really appreciated! We had
57 meals go out the door. Our
delivery personnel for in-house
and home delivery included
Mary, Carlos, Ginger, Pam and
Tom. Thanks to you all for vol-
unteering to help.
We had to make the long trip
to Bend — again — to have a
special back brace fitted to Der-
rol’s unique physique, since the
pain pills had unpleasant side
effects.
They sure make back braces
different nowadays! His first
one looked like grandma’s cor-
set with laces front and back.
Had two pockets that you had
to insert long steel pieces into to
keep him aligned properly. (This
was 50 years ago.) This new
brace is all tightened by Velcro,
which snags on everything you
don’t want it to. But it’s better
than more surgery!
And we were reminded that
there are things that you need to
watch out for on the highway
that we sometimes forget about.
No deer impeded our journey,
the turkeys were all far away
from the road, didn’t have any
close encounters of an automo-
bile kind — but someone had
the misfortune of hitting a big,
black bull just west of Bandit
Springs rest area. My thought
was that little Subie probably
would not have fared very well
with that kind of encounter. So,
keep your mind on your drivin’,
your hands on the wheel, and
your eyes on the road ahead.
We are gathering items for
our party next weekend. Would
you believe that I have the only
“love letter” that was writ-
ten during our courtship? (We
didn’t have to write. Only lived
5 miles from each other.) The
stamp price was 4 cents. If you
want to know more, come to the
party… Oct. 16, 2 to 5 p.m. at
the Prairie City Senior Center.
Revelations 19:7 “Let us
rejoice and be glad and give
Him glory! For the wedding
of the Lamb has come...” 19:9
“...Blessed are those who are
invited to the wedding supper of
the Lamb!”
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
A message from the
John Day Senior Center Site
Council:
Thank you for sending your
clean plastic food containers
back to us to reuse. You are
saving us money that we would
rather spend on food and not
supplies!
If you haven’t thought about
recycling those containers from
the senior center, now is the
time. Don’t worry, we sanitize
them before each use.
COVID-19 and wildfire
smoke have many of the same
symptoms, but there are some
that are only from COVID-
19 and should not be ignored.
They are: fever, chills, mus-
cle and body aches, vomiting,
diarrhea, and loss of taste and
smell. If you have any of these
symptoms, the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention
COVID-19 Self-Checker can
help you determine whether
you need to contact a health
care provider. The number is:
800-232-4636.
Do you help a senior 60
years or older with attending
appointments, help them dress/
shower and move around the
house? There is a free class to
learn ways to cope with the
challenges and meet the needs
of family caregiving. This free
class series meets once a week
for six weeks. Class size is lim-
ited and registration is required.
The first class is Monday, Oct.
18, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Reg-
ister by Wednesday, Oct. 13,
with Kathy over the phone at
541-963-3186 or by email at
kathyg@ccno.org.
This past year has been
long and hard. If you’re run-
ning on empty, it’s OK to ask
for support. Community Coun-
seling Solutions has resources
available right now. Call 541-
575-1466 or email outreach-
worker@ccsemail.org Support
is free and private.
Our center is getting a new
air filter that will really help
with smells, germs and all over
better health. For everyone that
needs a healthier atmosphere
when being away from home,
you can feel safe at the John
Day Senior Center.
To be sure to have a lunch
prepared for you on Mondays
and Fridays, call 541-575-1845
before 10 a.m. and pick it up
between 11:30 and noon. Gregg
Starr and either Mary Ellen
Osborne, Darlene Nodine or
Carol Roe will greet you and be
sure you get your lunch.
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God
hath not given us the spirit of
fear; but of POWER and of
LOVE, and of a SOUND mind.”
OUT OF THE PAST
75 years ago
Old Man Winter takes over in the
mountains
Old Man Winter took a savage swing
at Grant County Friday night send-
ing the thermometer well below freez-
ing, and covering the mountains with a
blankets of snow, reportedly from 4 to
6 inches, and a rain precipitation in the
valleys, according to the local weather
bureau, of 1.20 inches.
The storm, with rain and snow, has
continued to this date, with a total pre-
cipitation of 1.67 inches, and promise
of more. The highest temperature thus
far this month was 60 above on the 2nd;
lowest 29.
Weather conditions have driven
many hunters, who were not too well
equipped for cold weather, from the
hills; others are braving it out, and due
to the weather are very apt to get their
buck.
The rain has freshened up the grass
on the range, so fall feeding for stock-
men is fine. In fact, the range has been
in good condition straight through the
summer, whereas as a rule the range is
dry in August, on the lower hills.
50 years ago
Panther Senior back in lineup
Kelly Voigt, the Prairie City Panthers’
5’10” 160-lb. senior fullback and middle
linebacker, will be back in the line for
the Panthers against Union Friday. Voigt
had 43 tackles to his credit in three con-
tests this season before injuries sidelined
him early in the Enterprise game.
Eagle file photo
Kelly Voigt
“We give to help kids experience
the outdoors, music and art
they would otherwise miss in
rural communities.”
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