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SENIORS & HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
So are you all socked in
with snow? Praise the Lord for
the snow! Overnight, we got
6 inches and there is more to
come. The temperatures have
dropped really low as well.
It has been predicted that the
last week of December, we are
expecting to be in the single
digits. I am so thankful for a
warm home.
Terry Cade and Diana Har-
vey made us lasagna, garlic
bread, fresh green salad, and yel-
low cake with chocolate frosting.
It was a good meal. We thank
our cooks immensely. There
were 21 of us dining in and we
enjoyed the warm meal as well
as the fellowshipping. There
were 25 takeouts.
Kristi Guimont and Jan
Ensign were the greeters at
the table. They checked in the
guests and collected and counted
up the money. Kristi made the
announcements and yours truly
prayed the blessing over the
meal. The free meal ticket went
to Phoebe Yukawa.
Please note that at the begin-
ning of the new year, the price
increase will take effect. Seniors
who are 60-plus will be $5,
non-seniors $6, children under
12 years of age $2.
We are still very blessed to be
able to eat at our senior center.
For such a small town as Monu-
ment, to have something like our
senior center, having a meal on
Tuesdays is highly unusual. We
are all so very grateful for our
senior center.
I am reluctantly going to say,
hmm, well, umm, OK, I think
I may have too many goats.
But, shh, don’t tell that to my
husband! Ha. I really need to
butcher three wether goats. I just
have not had the time. Now that
the weather is colder, it would be
good to butcher them. I did taste
that goat meat and it was fabu-
lous. I am in the process of sell-
ing the kid goats. That should
bring the number down a few
notches and pay for their win-
ter feed.
Belle and Scotty have been
officially weaned. It’s been
really nice not having to make
their milk to feed them. I just
give them some grain and their
hay and they are good. But one
thing I have noticed is that Scotty
has been a little bit of a food hog.
He tries to butt Belle and tries to
keep the food for himself. I have
had to push him off and stand
between them so she can eat
too. Belle is actually passive and
won’t stand up to Scotty.
Scotty is beginning to smell a
little like a billy goat. The good
thing about them being bottle
babies, they know me as their
mama and they follow me wher-
ever I go! So I guess I can never
get rid of those two. I don’t know
if I can keep having to take care
of bottle babies. They tie you
down, ya know? I will have to
think up a solution to that issue.
Hope you all have a wonder-
ful New Year’s celebration. May
the Lord bless you all.
Psalms 95:1 O come, let us
sing unto the LORD: let us make
a joyful noise to the rock of our
salvation.
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Hey! The white Christmas
got here. Boy, oh howdy did
it get here! Derrol was busy
shoveling 4 inches of snow
off the walks around both our
house and the senior center.
We thank the city of Prairie
City boys for plowing out the
parking lots for us at the cen-
ter. Could we call that a dona-
tion? Tee-hee.
Anyhow, we were all able
to get to the front door and
inside to get our meals, and
the delivery people were able
to make their rounds with
no problems. Thanks to our
drivers and helpers Gwynne,
Mary, Carla, Carlos, Tom,
Ruth, Pam, Ginger and Del.
Our excellent cook Pam and
her helper Misti prepared
BBQ pulled-pork sandwiches,
macaroni salad, tater chips,
pears, chocolate pudding and
... birthday cake! And today
happened to be Derrol’s birth-
day. How about that? Many
happy returns, honey.
We all had Christmas din-
ner on Christmas Eve with
eight for the meal. Then we
all attended the candlelight
service. Christmas Day was
spent resting up for Sunday.
Since the family from Port-
land did not get to come due
to illness, I sent their gifts via
the Canyon City family patri-
arch. More than one way to
skin a cat. ... (Wonder where
that expression came from?!)
Since so many other things
were happening, I just didn’t
get around to decorating.
Then I discovered that two
decorations I had received last
year were still hanging on the
bookshelf. Aha! There. I did
decorate! (Ahem.)
Prairie City is doing fire-
works for New Year’s Eve,
too. There will be other activ-
ities before and after to wel-
come in the new year: Grace
Chapel will have a New
Year’s Eve candlelight service
at 6 p.m. And some kids are
going to have an activity at the
teen center from 9 to 12.
We will probably watch a
movie from our collection ...
or most likely sleep through
it. I don’t know why they say
that watching TV will keep
you from sleeping. ... Doesn’t
work that way around here.
As I was setting the table
for Christmas dinner, I found
that a lot of my silverware was
tarnished. Except for the knife
blades. Why is that? Only
thing I can think of is that the
knife blades are not usually
placed in the mouth like forks
and spoons are. So what is it
in our mouths that causes sil-
ver to tarnish?
But hold on. Silverware
that is stored also gets tar-
nished. How come? And why
does silver tarnish but stain-
less steel doesn’t? And it’s
made from iron that will rust.
Oh, the conundrums. ...
So here comes 2022. What
can we do differently in the
new year? Here’s what the
Creator of time says:
Zech. 8:16-17 “These are
the things that you are to do:
Speak the truth to each other,
and render true and sound
judgment in your courts; do
not plot evil against your
neighbor, and do not love to
swear falsely. I hate all this,”
declares the LORD. :19 ...
“Therefore love truth and
peace.”
The staff and volunteers
want to wish everyone a
Happy New Year. 2022 will
be a better year than 2021.
We will be the ones to make
this happen. Do nothing,
get nothing. Work at it and
good things happen.
Volunteers have asked
me to tell everyone thank
you for being patient with
the way things are and the
weather restrictions at our
location.
Even though we cannot
meet as a group, we are still
feeding folks. On Monday
several drivers, some with
a helper and some without
a helper, deliver two meals
to many homes. One ready
to eat now and one frozen
meal for the next day. We
that can get out to go get
our own meals call early on
Monday and Thursday to
reserve one and then pick it
up between 11:30 and noon.
Someone has donated
a beautiful table for our
library. I finally got to see it.
It is really nice. Two glass
panels in the center and it
is rectangular. The library
looks great. We have Linda
Stoltz to thank for it. She
works super hard to keep
it organized and attractive.
Thank you, Linda.
A big thanks goes to
Jerry and Linda McClel-
lan for a large ham sev-
eral months ago. We finally
used the last of it last week.
Then for Christmas this
couple donated our com-
plete Christmas meal.
These donations are greatly
appreciated. Thank you,
Jerry and Linda.
Tomorrow,
Thursday,
Jan. 6, lunch will be hot
hoagie melt, lemon chicken
orzo soup and the birthday
cake will be dessert. Then
on Monday, Jan. 10, lunch
will be cabbage casserole,
lemon roasted potatoes,
French bread and apple pie
bars for dessert. Thanks,
Shay and Kim for your time
and care in preparing all
this food.
Jesus told us to do unto
others as we would have
others do unto us, and if we
do that, we will be success-
ful in all we do.
Mildred Steuber, Elsie French,
Alma Kent, George Strine,
Clyde Buchanan.
Also, Margie Walton, Vir-
ginia Winegar, Arlene McGet-
rick, St. Elizabeth Altar Soci-
ety and members of the Green
Thumb Garden Club.
The new 21-inch Sylvania
portable, given at cost by Steu-
ber’s Thrifty Food and Elec-
tric, replaces an older black-and-
white model given some years
ago by Rose Buttedahl of Prai-
rie City. The older set still works,
but fitfully.
Members of the Prairie City
Women’s Club helped the gar-
den club raise the funds during
December. It was placed in the
nursing home’s day room next
to the Christmas tree.
Guests at the Blue Mountain
Nursing Home, Prairie City, are
overjoyed with a new portable
color television set provided in
1971 by donations of individ-
uals and organizations coordi-
nated by Prairie City’s Green
Thumb Garden Club. Posing
beside the new set are, from
left, Tillie Hyde: Mary Win-
egar, garden club president:
Eva Battles: and Hazel Dear-
dorff. The set replaces an
older black-and-white model
which didn’t work very well
of late.
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
A Bear, A Man, A Dog
A bear, a hound dog, and
a man with a pitchfork are
a bad combination, espe-
cially if the bear has just
been aroused from his win-
ter’s nap. Ira Kimball went
out to his barn on Pine Creek
to feed his stock a few days
ago. As he was pitching hay
out of the mow to the stock
he heard a grunting under the
hay in a corner. Thinking a
hog had burrowed in there
he jabbed the pitchfork; on
the second jab a 200-pound
black bear came up out of
the hay sleepy-eyed, but very
much peeved. Ira’s stock dog
jumped the bear and downed
him, then the bear grabbed
the dog in a vice-like hug;
the dog let out an agonized
“o-o-o-ff.”
Ira came to the rescue
with his pitchfork; the bear
dropped the dog and reached
for Ira who, not stopping
even for an “oof,” dropped
the fork and dashed for shel-
ter. The dog, recovering his
breath, dashed for a hole
under the barn, and Mr. Bear,
rumbling to himself at the
inhumanity of man to bear,
ambled off to the adjoining
timber.
50 YEARS AGO
Many help in drive for
color TV set
Guests at Blue Mountain
Nursing Home in Prairie City
are enjoying television more
these days, thanks to the gen-
erosity of a pre-Christmas fund
drive that resulted in the gift of a
new portable TV set to the home.
Prairie City’s Green Thumb
Garden Club initiated the drive
after a woman — who wants to
be anonymous, says Mary Win-
egar, president — said she’d
give $100 to get the drive rolling.
Garden club members then
issued a call for financial assis-
tance, and this week they made
public a list of donors, thanking
each of them.
On the list were Prairie City
Lodge No. 60, AF&AM, Stan-
dard Oil distributor Nick Schmit
of Prairie City, the St. Thomas
Episcopal Church Guild, Prai-
rie City Thrift Shop, Prairie City
Lions Club, Prairie City Wom-
en’s Club, Strawberry Grange,
Mt. Vernon Home Extension
Unit, Prairie Sage Hens TOPS
Club, Can-Day Garden Club.
Also, Blue Mountain Hos-
pital District Auxiliary, Ben-
son’s, Prairie City Past Noble
Grands, Nursing Home Admin-
istrator Phyllis McCarthy (who
also gave the stand), Lewis and
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