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SENIORS AND HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Aha. I got two more “Pro-
fessional Courtesy” adver-
tisements for periodicals.
These were from the Wash-
ington Examiner and Scot-
land Magazine. The Washing-
ton Examiner wants to send
me four free copies.
If I want to subscribe,
it’s only $20 for another 16
issues. One of its selling
points is that I can now read
the same news as my con-
gressional member. Is that
really a selling point out here
on the frontier?
Now, the Scotland Mag-
azine will give me a whole
year for $20. Their normal
rate is $48 and that includes
the freight and postage from
Great Britain. Their come-on
is that I am a “reader of dis-
tinction and lover of Scottish
history and culture.” Yeah,
right. I’m also a “worldly
and well rounded reader.”
Yup. Says so right there. Talk
about disinformation!
What I would love to do is
send the people in New York
and Washington a copy of the
magazine Range, published
in Carson City, Nevada. What
they would read in there
would curl their toenails!
OK. Onto the business at
hand. Our entree today was
alliterative. And if you don’t
know what that means —
go look it up. Or ask Goo-
gle. Anyhow, we had beef
and bean burrito with Span-
ish rice, Jell-O and fruit, and
apple crisp for dessert. Our
wonderful cook Pam did a
super job on this meal. I usu-
ally can’t eat much Mexi-
can-type food, but the burrito
was gre-e-e-a-t! And there
was enough of it that I got
two meals.
That’s getting your mon-
ey’s worth! Our volunteers
today included Tom, Mary,
Ginger, Gwynne, Carla, Car-
los, Del and Pam. Thanks to
all.
Did you know that the gov-
ernment has money to give
away? We were informed
about a certain program at our
board meeting last week. The
application had to be in by
Feb. 1, so we got all the infor-
mation together and, thanks
to e-mail, got it submitted
this week, beating the dead-
line by a week. Whew! Now,
you all pray that the applica-
tion will be successful. We
only have to wait a year to
find out!
As I write this, it has
been a month since Christ-
mas. And I washed my din-
ing room windows inside
and out. That shows the state
of our weather right now.
I’ve gotten started on spring
cleaning. Haven’t done it for
a while. Got the bathroom
done the first day. On to the
kitchen.
There is an ulterior
motive: find items that can
be donated to our future yard
sale at the center. I overhead
two people say that they had
a lot of **** to donate. If
you have something that you
would like to contribute to
the cause, bring it on down.
And pick up a meal while
you are there!
Proverbs 16:2-3 “All a
man’s ways seem innocent to
him, but motives are weighed
by the LORD. Commit to the
LORD whatever you do, and
your plans will succeed.”
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
For our last Tuesday meal
for the month of January
2022, our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell dished out to
us roast beef, mashed potatoes
and gravy, dinner rolls, green
beans, and orange cooler cake
for our dessert. Yum, I was very
content. We thank our cooks for
their delicious cooking!
Our volunteer greeters at
the table were Linda Blakeslee,
Ellie Asher, and Karen Stubble-
field. They checked in all the
guests, collected and counted
up the money. Ellie led the flag
salute and made the announce-
ments, and Karen prayed the
blessing over the meal.
We had more Spray folks
join us for lunch than there were
Monument guests! We were
just glad to have them partake
with us in our feast.
It’s been really cold here
in the mornings. The sunshine
has been a welcome sight. You
would think that the warm sun
would melt away some of this
snow but it has not, at least not
at our place. I think we are on
the north side, so we have quite
a bit of snow.
The icy and compacted
snow has made it quite treach-
erous to walk on. I have slipped
and fallen a couple of times
while doing my chores. Thank
goodness for extra layers of
clothes that helped to cushion
my fall. I thank the Lord for no
broken bones either.
Our driveway is terrible.
The FedEx truck tried to come
up our driveway and he did not
make it 5 feet up! The truck
slipped and slid and tires were
just spinning. I don’t know how
these poor drivers drive around
on the icy roads without four-
wheel drive.
Even on my four-wheeler, it
was slipping and sliding around
in spots. I would say those icy
spots are about 3-4 inches thick.
We just have to walk real slow
and nimbly.
So, remember I got three
goats from some dishonest
woman in Prineville? The hus-
band was there when we went
to pick them up and I asked him
why they were selling the goats
because she never gave me an
answer. He said they never got
pregnant. Well, turns out Ginger
is pregnant. She had been out in
the pasture with the boys. I was
watching the goats eat and looked
at her back end. Her bag was big
and she was waddling around.
I couldn’t have her be out
in the pasture and I decided
to bring her into the goat pen.
Now, that was a fiasco. Of
course the gate near the goat
pen was frozen and so was the
board that blocked the gate. I
then had to go way around to
one of those old tension gates. I
hooked a leash to her collar and
had some goat treats.
It worked for a little while,
but then she refused to follow
me. I had to drag her part of
the way. It was quite madden-
ing because it was getting dark
and I did not want the boys to
come and get in my way. To be
continue.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4 …
to establish you, and to com-
fort you concerning your faith:
That no man should be moved
by these afflictions, for you
yourselves know that we are
appointed thereunto. For verily,
when we were with you, we told
you before that we should suffer
tribulation, even as it came to
pass, and ye know.
OUT OF THE PAST
50 YEARS AGO
Board work gives Prairie
31-point win
The Dayville Devils, winless in
Tri-County League action this sea-
son, dropped an 89-58 decision to
the Prairie City Panthers here Fri-
day night.
Superiority on the boards gave
the Panthers the 31-point margin.
Gary Livermore had 24 rebounds
to go with his 20 points and Marc
Strong pulled down 15 retrieves.
Sophomore guard Randy Saul
was all over the place in the second
half, hitting nine of 16 from the field
and contributing four rebounds and
four assists. Saul scored 19 in all,
with 15 coming in the second half.
Kenny McClain hit 14 points to
further discourage the Devils.
Dick Berry had 21 for Dayville.
In the prelim, the Prairie City
JV’s defeated the Devil JV’s,
77-40, behind the balanced attack
of frosh forward Rod Paustian, who
scored 17 points and picked up an
equal number of rebounds. Bard
Wishard got 12 points and four
assists though he saw only limited
action. Other Prairie scoring was
by: Workman 6, Boyer 2, Bates 6,
McCarthy 4, O’Rorke 9, Johns 13,
Siegrist 2, Newport 4 and Hicks 2.
Varsity Game Results:
Prairie City
15 – 20 – 24 – 30 – – 89
Livermore 20, Saul 19, Strong
8, McClain 14, Franks 4, Bare 4,
Frazier 2, O’Rorke 9, Wishard 9.
Dayville
6 – 17 – 16 – 19 – – 58
Berry 21, J. Youngren 6, Hebard
2, Martin 9, Boren 6, Wyllie 14.
25 YEARS AGO
Lady Mountaineers run
record to 16-0
There are still no marks in the
loss column.
The Lady Mountaineers are two
games away from a perfect regular
season as they came up with wins
over Burnt River 35-29 Friday at
Long Creek and 31-28 at Monument
against the Lady Tigers Jan. 28.
Long Creek stands at 10-0 in the
Trico girls basketball standings and
16-0 for the season and has won the
league title for the second straight
year.
“There’s been a lot of pressure
(to go undefeated),” Mountaineers
coach Dave Barthlow said. “That’s
quite a feat to do. We have to start
getting ready for district, but we
can’t look past these two games
(this weekend).”
The Mountaineers host to Hun-
tington Friday and Harper Saturday.
Long Creek 35, Burnt River
29
A 21-11 halftime Long Creek
deficit fueled a second-half defen-
sive stand by the Mountaineers.
“We stepped it up in the sec-
ond half,” Barthlow said. “We
kept chipping away and had more
patience on offense and started
making our shots.”
Mindy Siddoway scored 15 of
Burnt River’s 21 first-half points,
but was held to two in the second
half, those coming in the fourth
quarter.
Long Creek outscored the Bulls
7-0 in the third quarter and Sierra
Drake hit the tying basket with 3:05
remaining in the fourth quarter at
27-27. Kellie Bennett went 2-for-2
from the free-throw line 28 sec-
onds later to put Long Creek ahead
to stay.
The Mountaineers connected on
8 of 11 free throws in the final 2:37.
It was the third time this sea-
son that Long Creek has played
Burnt River. In the first two games,
the Mountaineers won 51-30 and
49-39.
“It’s always tough to beat some-
one three times in one year,” Bar-
thlow said.
Bennett led Long Creek with
11 points and nine rebounds.
Sierra Drake had nine points
and two assists; Sayward Carter
had eight points, six rebounds
and two assists; Shannon Wal-
ton had four points, 13 rebounds
and two assists; Amy Hunt had
three points and eight rebounds;
and Holly Hunt added four
rebounds.
Blue Mountain Eagle, File
Long Creek’s Sierra Drake (21) flies past
Burnt River’s Mindy Siddoway during the
second half of the Mountaineers’ 35-29 win
in this photo from 1997.
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