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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
SENIORS & HISTORY
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
potato baked in an oven has a
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baked in the microwave? Why
is that? Probably the same situa-
tion that a wood stove has a dif-
Rose Coombs
ferent feeling of warmth than a
furnace. (Hmm. Does that sen-
Our meal was our St. tence have a proper subject and
Valentine9s meal: chicken predicate? Oh, well&)
We had to make a jour-
legs baked in our new oven,
potato baked in our new oven, ney to Baker on Tuesday. The
green beans with bacon and temperature when we left P.C.
onion, lime Jell-O with top- was 30 degrees. The ther-
ping mixed in, and angel food mometer in the Ford pickup
cake baked in our new oven had a good day of exercise as
with strawberries and top- the temperature went up and
ping. Cook Pam had a lot of down all during the trip. At
fun with the new oven, I think. Whitney it was 2 degrees. On
(Tee-hee.) The temperature top of Huckleberry it was 40
stays where you set it, the degrees! By the time we got
doors have windows in them back, it was almost 50 degrees
so you can see how the cook- in P.C. Which brings up the
ing is progressing, and the question 4 where do they put
whole thing is high enough so the thermometer in vehicles so
you don9t have to bend over to that the outside temperature is
tend to things or to remove the detected? Has to be away from
items from the chamber. Oh, the heat of the engine& and
yes. She is Very Happy! And can9t be where the sun would
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Our
delivery
people and it9s certainly not inside the
included Mary, Carla, Carlos, cab! So where is it?
Gwynne, Tom, Del, Ginger,
The spring cleaning has
and Pam at the registration made it through the kitchen.
desk. The other Pam (yes, that Whew. Took the items that I
makes three of 8em) from the found I no longer needed (hint,
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was cook Pam9s helper, along with our other yard sale items.
with Angie. Thanks to all who You can do the same. One
had a part. Our sponsor was other thing I can always use
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go out the door, either home ber, one man9s trash is another
deliveries or pickups. Thank man9s (or woman9s) treasure.
I John 4:10 “This is love:
you also to those who partake
of our meals. The day of open- not that we loved God, but that
ing to in-house dining is get- He loved us and sent His Son
ting closer! Stay tuned.
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Prairie City
Seniors
building and bathrooms and
the cooks who prepare food
and clean the kitchen and
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greet and handle the takeout.
Elsie Huskey
Without our volunteers, we
could not operate and support
Our hall board met last our community. Thank you all
week and made decisions for your participation.
about opening for in-house
On Thursday, Feb. 17,
dining.
Shay and Kim are making
We will be getting new grilled chicken, bacon ched-
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will look great and be easier to their choice, and banana cake.
For Monday, Feb. 21,
care for. A dutch door was put
on the kitchen and the cooling lunch will be Cincinnati chili
system has needed some help, with Texas toast, salad of their
choice, fruit cup and Mis-
so that is getting done now.
Plans for creating safe sissippi mud brownies. Last
serving space is in the making week9s meals were great.
so servers will only be needed Thanks, Shay and Kim, for all
to serve beverages as we bring the good food.
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our cups to them.
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so visiting will be good. An air shall not walk in darkness, but
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seven times each hour. Keep
Seniors
watching for new news on this
subject.
Soo Yukawa
Also it was agreed on by
the hall board that the pokeno
players may play in the card
Terry Cade and Carrie
room and have up to 12 peo-
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Jewell made us hamburgers
Thank you for sending with all the fixings, curly
your clean plastic food con- fries, macaroni salad, and
tainers back to us to reuse. chocolate brownies for our
You are saving us money that dessert. Wonderful meal,
we would rather spend on ladies, and we are so thank-
food and not supplies. We san- ful! Needless to say, I ate
itize them before each use.
everything on my plate.
I9d like to say a word about
Our greeters at the table
our volunteers who do dishes, were Kristi Guimont and
help set up for food takeout, Karen Stubblefield. Kristi
the drivers and drivers9 help- led us in the flag salute and
ers, the ones that clean the made the announcements.
John Day
Seniors
Our volunteers collected
and counted up the money
and filled out the paper-
work. Yours truly prayed the
blessing over our meal.
We had 33 guests din-
ing in, including many folks
from Spray. We had 30 take-
out meals for a total of 63
meals served. The free meal
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of Long Creek. We also had
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Day of the Senior Advisory
Committee. We hope that
everyone enjoyed the meal
and the fellowship!
We had very cute decora-
tions that were all specially
handmade with love by
some very creative second-
and third-graders of Monu-
ment School. Their teacher,
Mrs. Mary Gilbert, had them
make it for us and put a cou-
ple of them on every table.
We thank these precious
little ones, and may the Lord
bless each of them!
I got to visit with some of
the ladies and found a couple
of them came from the Fossil
area. They were raving about
our meals and how if the Fos-
sil people knew how good
our food was, they would be
driving over every Tuesday.
I was like, really? Seriously?
They emphatically said that
they would totally come.
Wow. We are truly humbled
and grateful for what we
have here in our community.
May our senior center con-
tinue to bless many folks in
our community and the sur-
rounding areas.
Well, as I was driving to
go to the Tuesday lunch and
passing by the goat pen, I
noticed that Ginger was not
out with the others. I was
considering going into the
goat shed to check on her but
the ground was extremely
muddy and mucky and I had
to get to the senior center
lunch.
When we got home, I
changed quickly into my
chore clothes and went out.
Ginger had had twins as
I predicted. The first one
was white with long ears.
She had apparently licked it
dry but I believe she might
have laid on it and it was
dead. Then I found its twin
brother, but it was still in its
sack. It was also dead.
I then looked for Ginger
and found her way in the
back of the goat shed and
she was shivering. She was
paralyzed on her hind legs. I
quickly got a calf blanket on
her and lay down a bunch of
fresh straw all around her. I
closed her off from the rest
of the herd so they could not
bother her. I gave her some
hay, which she started eating
right away. I put some grain
mixed with some loose min-
erals and salt. I also gave
her some fresh water. To be
continued&
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salvation.
OUT OF THE PAST
75 YEARS AGO
Midnight Fire Destroys Store
at Long Creek
As this paper goes to press,
word comes from Long Creek that
the Stussi store building at that
place was destroyed by fire late
Wednesday night. This was for-
merly the Buseick store and had
just recently been purchased from
Mrs. Mary Buseick by Mr. and
Mrs. John Stussi. Philip Dale, who
with Leslie Herburger was in Long
Creek that evening to assist in
conferring a Master Mason degree
at a meeting of the Long Creek
Masonic Lodge, stated that the
fire started just as lodge was clos-
ing, about 11:30. It was thought
that the blaze originated in a small
storeroom at the rear of the store.
The local fire department was on
the job, but most of the building
was destroyed and practically all
of the contents totally damaged.
About all that was carried out of
the store was a cash register and a
couple of showcases. A few items
of merchandise, in the front part
of the store, were not burned, but
most of the contents were either
destroyed or damaged.
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ter over the Mekong Delta in South
Vietnam.
Huddleston was fortunate in only
receiving a broken arm and head
50 YEARS AGO
wounds in the incident, his parents
said. He had been in South Vietnam
Mt. Vernon airman shot down three months to the day when the
over Vietnam
incident occurred.
Word was recently received that
Huddleston9s parents received
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Huddleston, son of Mr. and Mrs. when he arrived at Travis Air Force
Flynn Huddleston of Mt. Vernon, Base near Oakland, CA, on Satur-
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nia to Madigan General Hospital in
Ft. Lewis, WA, and his parents met
him there Sunday morning, Feb. 13.
Mr. and Mrs. Huddleston
returned Tuesday, Feb. 15, and
reported that he will be coming
home for convalescent leave in a
couple of weeks.
Huddleston, a 1966 gradu-
ate of Mt. Vernon High School,
attended Eastern Oregon College,
La Grande, for three years prior to
his service duty.
MT. VERNON
PRESBYTERIAN
Community Church
SUNDAY SERVICE ...........9 am
541-932-4800
EVERYONE WELCOME
St. |omas
Episcopal
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Lutheran Church
Come Worship with us at
Grace Chapel (EMC )
154 E. Williams St.
Prairie City, Oregon
541 820-4437
Pastor Robert Perkins
Sunday School (all ages)
9:30-10:30
Sunday Worship
10:45-12:00
John Day Valley
Mennonite
Church
Meeting every Sunday
at Mt. Vernon Grange Hall
Sunday School ...............................9:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship ............10:50 a.m.
Pastor Leland Smucker
Everyone Welcome • 541-932-2861
2 Corinthians 5:17
Every Sunday in the L.C.
Community Center
(Corner of Second & Allen)
Contact Pastor Ed Studtmann at
541-421-3888 • Begins at 4:00pm
JOHN DAY
UNITED
METHODIST
CHURCH
Sunday Worship " 9AM
(541) 575-1326
johndayUMC@gmail.com
126 NW Canton, John Day
Food Pantry Friday 3-4PM
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Broadcasting
Tune into KSPL 98.1 FM
For more information,
call 541 620-0340
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
Sunday School .......................... 9:30 am
Sunday Worship Service......... 10:45 am
Sunday Evening Service ...........6:00 pm
Children & Teen Activities
SMALL GROUPS CALL FOR MORE INFO
627 SE Hillcrest, John Day
1 st Sunday Worship/Communion ..................10am
3 rd Sunday Worship/Communion/Potluck ...4:30pm
2 nd , 4 th & 5 th Sunday Worship .........................10am
Sunday Bible Study .....................................8:45am
For information: 541-575-2348
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
Sunday School ..................... 9:45 am
Sunday Worship ...................... 11 am
Fox Community Church ............. 3 pm
Sunday Evening Bible Talk ......... 6 pm
Saturday Men’s Study ............... 6 pm
Weekdays: Sonshine Christian School
Full Gospel- Come Grow With Us
Pastor Randy Johnson
521 E. Main • John Day • 541-575-1895
www.johndaynazarene.com
541-575-1202 Church
311 NE Dayton St, John Day
Pastor Al Altnow
59357 Hwy 26 Mt. Vernon
Celebration of Worship
Sundays 5:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Midweek Service
|ursdays 6:30pm
Youth: 0-6th Grade
Jr./Sr. High
Youth Connection
Wednesdays at 6:30pm
Overcomer’s Outreach
Mondays at 6pm at
LWCC
A Christ-Centered, 12-Step
Recovery Support Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
541-932-4910
www.livingwordcc.com
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