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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We have received our first
real snowstorm of this win-
ter! We just got, oh, maybe 3
inches of snow. It has covered
up the ground and I am loving
it. I praise the name of Jesus for
this much-needed moisture! I
am going to keep praying that
we receive a steady snowfall
and the ground would receive
it.
I was not there for the Tues-
day lunch but I did partake of
the delicious meal at home.
Terry Cade and Diana Harvey
made us a most scrumptious
lunch of Swedish meatballs
with egg noodles and gravy,
green beans, garlic bread, and
cheesecake for our dessert.
Oh man, it was a very hearty
meal and very satisfying if you
know what I mean. We thank
our lovely cooks.
A friend of ours came over
the other day and just happened
to look over at my raised gar-
den bed. This was before the
snow came, and he noticed the
forks. He asked if I was grow-
ing forks, LOL. So then of
course I had to go into my spiel
of how the cats love to poop in
my garden and I put the forks
there to poke them in the butt
if they try to squat. I think he
thought I was crazy. But, to me,
they do the job and it works.
Scotty is going to stay
intact. I am definitely going
to leave him as my little billy
goat. I hope I don’t regret it
when he is older, stinky, and
tries to rub on me. He really is
a very sweet goat. He loves me
to scratch and pet his face. He
follows me around and he is
not a troublemaker.
Belle, I think she likes to
look for trouble. She always
gets herself tangled up in her
cable. She cries early in the
morning, really really loud I
might add, wanting to be fed.
I think I need to start weaning
these guys. They are almost 3
months old and are ready to be
weaned. Scotty is no longer the
runt. He is just as big as his big
brother. Belle is huge too.
I hope I will have some
blue-eyed baby goat kids in
the spring. Fern is a short lit-
tle Nigerian dwarf doeling, and
she has blue eyes. She is cute.
Fern is one of the new goats
from my neighbor.
You know, God is so good.
Minnie, Darla’s twin sister,
was out in the pasture and I
could not catch her to bring
her back into the pen. Well,
one day while feeding the
goats, here comes Minnie.
As I watched, she squeezed
through a big hole the goats
had made and came right in!
Well, I quickly got some twine
and patched up those holes
with extra fencing and I was
gleefully thanking the Lord
that I didn’t have to worry
about catching Minnie!
Minnie was not thrilled
after she found out the holes
were covered up. Too bad for
her. Ha!
Deuteronomy
11:13-14
And it shall come to pass, if ye
shall hearken diligently unto
My commandments which I
command you this day, to love
the LORD your God, and to
serve Him with all your heart
and with all your soul, that I
will give you the rain of your
land in his due season, the
first rain and the latter rain,
that thou mayest gather in thy
grain, and thy wine, and thine
oil.
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
A lot of people have a
device in their house with the
name of Alexa or Siri. I’ve
seen and heard them work.
Spooky. We have Shrewdy
— an antique mantle chim-
ing clock. His claim to fame
is that in a house filled with
music of one sort or another,
he keeps the beat and strikes
at just the proper time to
underscore what has been
played or perhaps said. We
get a big kick out of that!
(Doesn’t take much to enter-
tain us, huh?)
One time son No. 2 had a
whole bunch of Skatechurch
kids staying overnight up at
the ranch house. Several had
to camp out in the living/din-
ing area — where Shrewdy
sat on his shelf. Having lived
with Shrewdy for nigh on to
50 years, we were used to the
noise of his strikings of the
hour and half-hour. But the
kids who had never encoun-
tered such a sound didn’t sleep
very well that night. They
didn’t settle down until after
10 p.m., so they got the full
benefit of his “midnight call”
of 12 gongs. ... I’m so very
thankful that he is mechanical
and not wirelessly connected.
Ahem.
I forgot to mention that one
of our sponsors this month
was Mills Building Supply.
We thank you for your dona-
tion, and we appreciate it very
much.
The meal prepared by cook
Pam consisted of a hot turkey
sandwich with mashed pota-
toes and gravy, carrots, apple-
sauce, Jell-O, and a chocolate
chip cookie bar. Super yummy
and plenty of it!
Volunteer
helpers
to
deliver home deliveries and
pickups included Gwynne,
Ginger, Carla, Carlos, Mary,
Tom and Del. We appreciate
all who help in any way in this
endeavor.
Our Christmas meal will
have ham and yam, so be sure
to call and make your res-
ervation. There will be no
meal served on the 22nd, but
we will be back on the 29th
with a good between-holidays
meal. And then — would you
believe — it’s a new year!
It’s rewarding to have these
holidays at the end of the year,
to remember what God did
for you in this 365-day span
of time. Sometimes it will be
hard to accept that what hap-
pened to you was for your
good, but if God be for us, who
can be against us?
Christmas reminds us that
God came to be with us, to
live a perfect life before us
and His Father, and remove
the penalty of sin from us — if
we will accept His payment of
death on Calvary.
Christmas
makes
us
remember that He came for a
purpose. Just as you are here
for a purpose. Have you found
yours? May you be able to
answer that question in the
new year — to His glory.
2 Tim., 3:10-11 You ...
know my way of life, my pur-
pose, faith, patience, love,
endurance, ... sufferings. ...
Yet the Lord rescued me from
all of them.
2 Cor. 5:4,5 ... we groan
and are burdened ... but ... it is
God who made us for this very
purpose and has given us the
Spirit as a deposit, guarantee-
ing what is to come.
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
Breeding Program gets
new 4-H Club emphasis
The 4-H club member in each
Oregon county who develops the
best livestock breeding program
will receive a scholarship to the
1947 4-H club summer school
at O.S.C., announced L.J. Allen,
acting state club leader. The
awards are sponsored by Safe-
way Stores.
Winners will be selected by
county committees on the basis
of project work, management of
livestock projects, completeness
and accuracy of record books,
participation in club activities,
and the qualifications of the can-
didate as revealed through an
interview.
These annual scholarship
awards for livestock breeding
projects represent an important
addition to the program of club
training, Allen commented. War-
time emphasis was on market
stock projects — baby beeves,
fat lambs, and fat hogs. The new
awards for breeding stock proj-
ects will focus attention on the
long-time benefits that these
projects provide by encouraging
the club member to start a herd
that can be continued and devel-
oped in adult life.
50 YEARS AGO
Mount Vernon Grange
gives cash to ambulance
Just about eight months old
now as an operational unit, the
Grant County Volunteer Ambu-
lance Service received a $100
gift from the Mt. Vernon Grange
Friday night.
Ambulance Board mem-
ber Merven Schouten, John
Day, told the Grangers it was
the ambulance unit’s first dona-
tion from a community. The
money will be used to buy a
converter to modify the vehi-
cle’s 12-volt electrical system
so 110-volt medical apparatus
on emergency equipment can be
plugged in, he said.
Schouten said the power
would permit transporting an
infant in an incubator or the
use of power saws to cut vic-
tims from wrecked autos, for
example.
Another equipment need of
the volunteer unit is a portable
suction unit for patients with
respiratory troubles, he added.
Dick Lawton made the pre-
sentation on behalf of the Grange.
Mrs. Mary McKern, Grange mas-
ter, said the ladies of the Grange
raised the funds catering the
monthly dinner meetings of the
Christian Women’s Club.
Schouten explained the func-
tion of the Ambulance Board
and introduced three driv-
ers who were present, Howard
Daggett, Bill Dalrymple and
Cliff Stull, and Jean Dayton, an
attendant.
The ambulance is a county
volunteer service, he said.
“When you call and need them,
they’ll be there,” he added.
Daggett said the unit has
traveled some 11,000 miles, to
date, and has responded to about
150 calls. A charge for services
is made, he continued, to help
pay the operating expenses of
the ambulance and to build a
reserve for a new vehicle.
Drivers and attendants are
on call for 12-hour shifts for a
week at a time, and six teams
and a comparable number of
backup teams are trained and on
schedule, he said. Noting that
many of the volunteers are fed-
eral and state employees subject
to transfer, Daggett observed
that new volunteers will have to
be trained periodically to pro-
vide replacements.
The presentation was made
during the Mt. Vernon Grange’s
Christmas program, preceded
by a potluck dinner. Members
of the Grange inspected the
ambulance as it stood by out-
side the door.
Eagle file photo
Dick Lawton (right) presents a $100 donation to the
Grant County Volunteer Ambulance Service in this
1971 file photo. Receiving the gift is Merven Schouten,
Ambulance Board adviser. Grange Master Mary McK-
ern (left) and ambulance squad members look on.
MT. VERNON
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