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SENIORS & NEWS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
Thursday, March 3, Shay
and Kim are making sau-
sage and pepper hoagies, tater
tots, cheeseburger soup and
birthday cake. For Monday,
March 7, lunch will be sesame
chicken and noodles, fruit cup,
and banana pudding. Yummy!
As I type this my mouth
waters, longing for those
great flavors. To reserve your
lunch, call 541-575-1825 by
10 a.m. and pick them up
from 11:30 a.m. to noon at the
front entrance. Remember, all
meals are subject to change.
The suggested donation for
these lunches is $5 for ages
60 and over and $6 for those
younger than 60.
The current sponsors for
meals are: Driskill Memo-
rial Chapel, Dollar General,
Chester’s Market, and Marilyn
Foss. Thanks to each of you for
supporting our senior center.
You have an opportu-
nity to volunteer at our cen-
ter if you choose to. We are
in need of volunteer drivers
and help with beverages when
we open again, as well as
help with lunch cleanup. Call
the number above for more
information.
At long last we are hear-
ing about the COVID-19 eas-
ing up. Talk is that soon masks
will not be required except
for private gatherings coordi-
nators’ mandates. It has been
over two years. Phew! That is
a long time to live in depriva-
tion. I for one am so ready to
regain some amount of normal
living.
Unexpected
company
arrived at my house for a
couple days so I will make
this news short and catch
up next week. Thanks for
understanding.
John 8:31-32, and 36 You
are truly my disciples if you
keep obeying my teachings
and you will know the truth.
The Truth will set you free.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Wow, we are already into
the month of March! I better
start thinking about what I am
going to plant very soon for the
summer. My life seems to be
extremely busy and I thought
we were supposed to have
a nice, slow-paced, relaxing
wintertime? If this winter is so
busy, I am afraid what it will be
like in the spring and summer.
One thing I think a bunch
of us women enjoy is that we
don’t have to cook for our-
selves or our families for Tues-
day lunch! Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell made us chimi-
changas with all the fixings,
refried beans, fiesta corn, and
chocolate chip cookies for our
dessert. I especially liked the
corn, it was very delicious. I
know that corn has no nutri-
tional value but it sure tasted
really good! We thank our
great cooks for our wonderful
meal.
Our volunteers at the table
were Kristi Guimont and Jan
Ensign. They greeted every-
one, collected, and counted
up the money. Linda Abraham
led us in the flag salute, and
yours truly prayed the bless-
ing over the meal. Ron Odette
of Long Creek won the free
meal ticket. We had our usual
suspects from Spray join us for
lunch, too. We thank every-
one for their service and also
for supporting our senior cen-
ter by coming and fellowship-
ping with us for lunch.
So, from the previous story
from the previous week, I went
quickly down to the goat shed
after breakfast the next morn-
ing to see how many more
babies Marianne had. I went
in and had to turn on my head-
lamp (which btw are extremely
handy!) and scanned the pen.
I found absolutely nothing!
What?
I looked at Marianne and
looked around and I said to
her, “Marianne, why do you
still look so big and fat and
yet you have no other babies?
What’s the deal?” She only
had the one baby and no other.
Thank goodness I decided to
go into the house when I did
for it would have been a lost
cause.
The goats seem to like hav-
ing their babies on Tuesdays or
Sundays. I took Leah out to the
goat pen to hang out with her
brothers, for she is getting too
big for her box in the house and
wants to be very active. While
I was out there, I was scanning
the goats and noticed Yuki (the
blue goat with blue eyes) had a
bloody back end. She had had
babies!
So I went into the goat shed
and sure enough found two of
them. They were two tiny little
black, blue and white babies.
But when I picked one of them
up, he looked like he was at
death’s door. His neck was
bending funny and his eyes
were looking glazed and rolled
back slightly. He was limp and
very light. He was too weak to
feed.
What to do? I brought him
quickly up to the house. I fed
him some collostrum milk
replacer. To be continued…
Revelations 3:10 Because
thou hast kept the word of My
patience, I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the
world, to try them who dwell
upon the earth.
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Hope you managed to work
your way through last week’s
edition and got the photos
with the correct article. I just
thought that April Fool’s Day
came a month early… I did
enjoy the opinion essays by the
fifth-graders. Good job, future
voters.
Our “Pam-demic” ladies
are celebrating again. We have
acquired a warming oven for
the kitchen. May we hope to
have no more cold plates for
our dining-in future? “Make it
so.” And we heard a rumor that
the grant we applied for from
the state had been approved.
Awaiting confirmation and
paperwork while we rejoice
greatly!
In the meantime, we eat,
right? On this day we enjoyed
a hamburger-rice casserole,
creamed corn, a fruit salad,
and for dessert a tasty cube
of banana cake with banana
crème frosting. Pam was at her
station at the registration desk.
The delivery people included
Carla, Carlos, Gwynne, Mary,
and Ginger. Thanks to all and
sundry for your help. This isn’t
a one-man operation, by any
means!
And special thanks to those
of you who have taken note
of our projected yard sale this
spring. If what you want to
donate is in the way in your
abode and you need to find
a home for it, just bring it on
down! We will provide a tem-
porary shelter for it until the
sale. Who knows? With that
box, bag, or crate out of the
way, you might find more
goodies! Remember our motto:
One man’s trash is another
man’s treasure.
I succumbed to the gar-
den seed display and bought
three packages. Get ‘em before
they’re all gone, right? Am
keeping watch on the patch
where I so carefully put the
carrot seeds last spring — and
they didn’t come up. If I have
to be so precise with planting,
how do the big truck gardeners
do it? ‘Tis a mystery.
My, my, how time flies. It
has only been a month since
we had that once-in-a-????
years date of 02-02-2022 — or,
as I wrote it, 2-2-22. Now it’s
already 3-2-22. And only three
weeks until spring! When it
will probably snow for spring
break, huh? I just keep remem-
bering the time 50-plus years
ago when it snowed a foot on
Mother’s Day. And it was all
melted by noon. Isn’t water
amazing?
My comment about latch
hook yarn yielded a large —
and I do mean LARGE — con-
tainer of said item. Thanks so
much, Margie. Now if I could
only find some needlepoint
yarn…
Isaiah 55:10-11 “As the
rain and the snow come down
from heaven, and do not return
to it without watering the earth
and making it bud and flour-
ish, … so is My word that goes
out from My mouth: it will not
return to Me empty, but achieve
the purpose for which I sent it.”
Editor’s note: If something
seemed a little off to you about
last week’s senior column,
you weren’t imagining things.
We somehow put the wrong
author photos with each of the
senior columns. As a result,
Elsie Husky of the John Day
Senior Center appeared with
the Monument senior column,
Soo Yukawa of Monument
appeared with the Prairie City
column and Rose Coombs of
Prairie City appeared with the
John Day column. We apol-
ogize to our readers (and our
columnists!) for the confusion.
Exhibition features Grant Union High School artists
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
LA GRANDE — Two Grant County
youths are among the artists featured
in the 18th annual Oregon Regional
High School Art Exhibition, which
opened Feb. 25 at Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity’s Nightingale Gallery.
The show includes works created
by students from 12 Eastern Oregon
high schools. Grant Union seniors
Carson Weaver and Melinda Vanloo
have works featured in the exhibit.
The juried exhibition will award a
number of honors to participating high
school students. The Best of Show
winner will receive a certificate, gift
card, sketchbook and EOU merchan-
dise. Other awards sponsored by var-
ious art centers throughout Eastern
Oregon will also be given to students
who have their work featured in the
gallery.
According to an EOU press release,
gallery director Cory Peeke is happy to
exhibit the works of the region’s youth
and hopes the students featured in the
exhibit continue to pursue the arts.
“We hope to champion these stu-
dents and inspire them to continue
their artistic pursuits, as well as rec-
ognize the hard work and dedication
of their teachers who conscientiously
cultivate such promising artists,”
Peeke said.
The exhibition started as a way for
Union County high schools to show-
case student artwork, then expanded
14 years ago to include all high
schools from Eastern Oregon that want
to participate.
The Nightingale Gallery is located
in Loso Hall on the campus of East-
ern Oregon University in La Grande.
The gallery is open to the public from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Contributed Photo
“Strawberry Moun-
tain,” by Grant Union
High School senior
Melinda Vanloo.
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