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SENIORS AND HISTORY
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
One month of 2022 is
gone. We cannot get it back so
that time is gone, and what we
missed we cannot get again.
Some people made resolu-
tions and have already forgot-
ten them. How important are
resolutions we promise our-
selves to keep? If we do not fol-
low through with resolutions
we make, why do we make the
effort and take the time to do
them?
We waste so much time
doing what? I am so guilty of
all of this. I get angry at myself
over it all. As others share this
to me, it seems like they are
talking about me. We are all
somewhat alike. Everything
does have a reason, so when
you find the reason, it will be
time to do something posi-
tive about the time you spend.
Hopes are for all of us to be suc-
cessful and happy in doing so.
February is the hardest part of
winter. We had snow two or three
times but didn’t last more than a
day or two. This causes concern
about our water levels this year.
We have a well and water does
not always fill the well as fast as
we use it, so we have to stop and
wait 15 or 20 minutes for enough
water to fill in so we can run it
for 15 or 20 minutes more. We
are on the well driller’s list for
drilling a new well: It has been
eight months now and we are
still far down on the list.
There is talk that our senior
center is figuring out how to
open in-house dining soon. It
takes a lot of planning and a
lot of people to work together
to make it work. Volunteering
is a great way to use time to be
of service to others. There are so
many chores to do to make the
senior center successful. The list
is long. Think about joining our
volunteer team at the senior cen-
ter. You will feel so invigorated
emotionally, and you will know
you are being of service to our
community. If we do nothing,
nothing happens. So many peo-
ple depend on the senior center
to be there for them.
People need nutrition and
conversations with others. No
one is alone. The senior cen-
ter is the nucleus that holds us
together. Without volunteers
an organization stands still, no
vision, no opportunity, and no
future. It builds upon people or it
is nothing at all. When the senior
center makes a date to open, we
will need volunteers to serve, do
sanitizing, beverage servers and
lunch cleanup, for a few ideas.
On Thursday, Feb. 10, Shay
and Kim are making pork ribs
and sauerkraut, fruit salad, and
chocolate lasagna. That’s a lunch
I really want to get. Sauerkraut is
so good for our tummies. Then
on Monday, Feb. 14, lunch will
be beef tips and mushrooms,
rice pilaf, broccoli and red velvet
cake. This is a lunch everyone
will really enjoy. To reserve your
meal/s, call by 10 a.m. Mon-
days and Thursdays and pick up
between 11:30 and noon at the
front entrance.
The sponsors for these meals
are Janelle Lippert and Sharon
Smith. Thank you both. Your
donations are appreciated by all.
Without donations our organiza-
tion cannot make it. The deliv-
ery persons and drivers for the
meals to homes are Peggy Mol-
nar and Joyce Atchley. You two
ladies are greatly appreciated for
this service. You are so import-
ant. Thank you both.
Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing
and obedient you shall eat the
good of the land.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
We had a most fabulous
lunch on the 1st of Febru-
ary. Our cooks Terry Cade
and Carrie Jewell made us
beef stroganoff, garlic bread,
corn, and cherry tart for our
dessert. We are so thankful
and grateful for our cooks
and we want to bless them
for their hard work. We want
to give a shout of thanks
to Katie Hoffman and the
Grant County Veterans Ser-
vices Office for their gener-
ous donation by paying for
everyone’s meals! It was a
most excellent meal.
We thank Kristi Guimont,
who sat at the table to greet
everyone, checked in the
guests, and helped count up
the money with Jan Ensign.
Yours truly led everyone
in the flag salute, made the
announcements, and prayed
the blessing over the meal.
We want to recognize
Terry Cade for her 25 years
of cooking and serving the
Monument Senior Center. We
also want to applaud and rec-
ognize Carrie Jewell’s cook-
ing and serving for 30 years
as of Feb. 6, 2022! Wow,
thank you to both ladies for
their dedication and service,
and we are so thankful for
them. We gave both ladies a
round of applause for their
years of work for the Monu-
ment Senior Center.
So, continuing from the
previous week, I had to
partly drag Ginger, oh, I’d
say a good 300 yards or so.
Mind you, it was in the thick
snow, too. I had to stop every
now and then because she
started crying and acted like
she was going to die. I tried
to be careful not to choke
her. The stopping also helped
me to rest in between drag-
ging her and pulling her.
Getting to that tension
gate was such a relief — that
is, until I got there. It had
been so long since I used it
that I kind of forgot how to
close it! Sigh.
Thank goodness for my
little boy being there and
helping me. I don’t think I
would have had the strength
to close it by myself. My
son helped me get the gate
closed and he was hang-
ing onto Ginger’s leash.
She tried to squeeze back
into the opening as I was
trying to close it. Good
thing the billy goats did
not come or get too close,
because last time I was get-
ting Bonnie out, they were
all over her and jumping on
her.
Once we were out of the
pasture, she willingly walked
on the side of the road with
me, and when I opened the
gate to the goat pen, Gin-
ger went right in! Praise the
Lord! I was so happy and
relieved. She is definitely
pregnant and going to prob-
ably have twins. Right now,
she seems content to be in the
pen and is waddling around.
Hopefully when she has her
babies, the weather will not
be too cold and she won’t
have any problems deliver-
ing them.
The funny thing that hap-
pened, when Ginger went
into the pen, the alpacas
came over to check her out,
wondering who she was. Ha.
Luke 14:33 So likewise,
whosoever he be of you that
forsaketh not all that he hath,
he cannot be My disciple.
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Ah. Groundhog Day. And
this year’s date is one of a kind:
2-2-22. And I hope there is six
more weeks of winter! We need
the snow!
Our sponsor for the meal
today was Prairie Baptist
Church. We thank you for your
kind support. We enjoyed spa-
ghetti and meatballs, garlic
bread, a green garden salad,
fruit (mine was apricots) and
— ta da! — brownies. Wheeee!
Head Cook Pam did a great
job fixing this delicious meal.
Our volunteer helpers included
Ginger, Carla, Carlos, Tom,
Gwynne, Mary, Del and Pam
H. at the front desk. Thanks to
you all for doing your part.
The big news is that the
new oven was installed after
the meal. The electrician had
to disconnect the old ones
before we could get them
moved out of the way and
the new one moved in. To
help in this endeavor, Pam
H. requested the aid of four
young men from Prairie High
School under the direction of
Billy Colson. With Tom and
the electrician’s able guid-
ance, they were able to lift,
turn and move the old behe-
moths out of the way without
injuring anything or anybody.
PTL. Then they got the new
one positioned on the moving
cart and into the kitchen. They
put the legs on it and stood it
up, and it looks just beautiful!
Thank you so much, fellas, for
coming over and doing this
task for us. We really appreci-
ate it. And I know Tom and the
electrician did! It is a convec-
tion over, so we are really mod-
ern now! Pam can hardly wait
to use it.
Speaking of modern ... the
craft people that put out cata-
logs decided many years ago
that they would not stock nee-
dlepoint thread anymore. Now
they have made the same deter-
mination about latch hook yarn,
apparently. The current catalog
has all kinds of “crafty” items
and even jigsaw puzzles, but
no latch hook yarn. Phooey. So
if you have got either of these
items lying around the back
room or the attic, let me know!
I’ll take it off your hands.
The spring cleaning is pro-
gressing. Got the worst job
done today after our meal —
the oven. After that, everything
will be easy!
Found some more items to
donate to the yard sale. How
about you? Don’t wait until the
last minute to round ‘em up.
Find them and bag, box or crate
them to declutter your domicile.
Remember, your trash is some-
one else’s treasure!
Found an odd thing in the
book I was reading about the
homing pigeon’s work during
WWII. Every time a word came
up that had an “h” and an “n”
together, like in “John,” they
used a capital “Y” with a colon
between the top legs of the “Y.”
??? So “John” would be printed
“JoY” (I can’t put the little
colon thingy in). I have never
seen anything like this. Some-
body please ask Google about
it.
Matt: 6:19-21 Do not store
up for yourselves treasures on
earth, where moth and rust
destroy, and where thieves
break in and steal. But store
up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where moth and rust do
not destroy, and where thieves
do not break in and steal. For
where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
3,369 elk killed in Oregon
during 1946 season; 888 in
Grant
Reports received from 10,108
elk hunters show that 3,369 elk were
killed during the 1946 general and
special elk seasons, it is announced
by the Oregon State Game com-
mission. Hunters reporting repre-
sent only about one-half of the esti-
mated total number of elk hunters,
however. Final figures on the total
number of elk licenses sold will
not be available until all the 1946
licenses have been audited.
Counties with the high-
est recorded kills are as follows:
Baker, 899; Grant, 888; Umatilla,
453; Union, 340; Wallowa, 277;
and Clatsop, 190.
Elk killed included 2,123 bulls
and 1,226 cows. Of these, 506 or
15 percent were killed the first day
of the season and 1,698 or 51 per-
cent during the first week. Reports
showed that 57 percent of the hunt-
ers hunted in the area open to elk of
either sex so that 55 percent of the
elk harvested were taken in that
area in spite of the fact that only
approximately one-fifth of the
total elk population was included
in the area open to hunting elk of
either sex.
The 1947 angling regulations
adopted by the Oregon State
Game commission in January
became effective February 10.
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