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SENIORS & OUTDOORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
The lunch that was served
for March 22 was made by our
cooks, Terry Cade and Car-
rie Jewell. They made us some
fancy parmesan chicken, garlic
toast, yummy roasted potatoes,
carrots, and different variety of
desserts. It was a hearty meal and
we thank them for their wonder-
ful cooking!
Bob Cockrell was at the greet-
er’s table. Linda Abraham helped
him collect the money and count
it up. Jan Ensign was work-
ing behind the scenes. Bob led
the flag salute. Linda made the
announcements, and Charlotte
Barker prayed the blessing over
the meal.
There were 60 meals total
served, including takeouts. Larry
Vote donated some microphones
so the intercom is now func-
tional again. We thank everyone
who volunteers, supports, and
helps out. We appreciate every-
one coming together to help our
senior center run smoothly.
I am calling for everyone
out there to continue to pray for
Jimmy Cole and also make a spe-
cial request. Jimmy is at the St.
Charles Hospital in Bend, and I
have been told he will be in there
indefinitely. I don’t know what
that really means but I know that
he is in the Lord’s hands. Until
the Lord is through with Jimmy,
he is not going anywhere.
But Jimmy does need a lot of
encouragement right now. If you
could find some time to do this, I
believe he will be so tickled and
happy to receive get well cards,
encouragement cards, cards to
just let him know that we care
and love him. I just want him to
be so bombarded with cards that
they will have to have a whole
box put aside just for him.
You may send your cards
and letters to St. Charles Hos-
pital, ATTENTION PATIENT
JAMES COLE ROOM #8216,
2500 NE Neff Road, Bend, OR
97701. We all love Jimmy and
we can show him tangibly by our
words of encouragement. Scrip-
ture says that death and life are
in the power of the tongue. Let us
speak words of love and affirma-
tion to our friend Jimmy. Thank
you all ahead of time!
I also wanted to put out a
shout of thanks to the emergency
staff at the Blue Mountain Hos-
pital in John Day for their med-
ical help when my hubby had
to take me in late Sunday night,
March 20. It started Friday eve-
ning and I thought I had indiges-
tion. I felt pretty miserable on
Saturday, wanting to crawl into a
hole and die. Sunday, I felt better
until about 6 p.m. and I got chills,
broke out into a cold sweat, very
nauseated. My hubby called our
neighbor and EMT friend, Rose
Howe, and she recommended
a visit to John Day. As soon as
we decided to go, the pain dis-
appeared and I had no fear but
total peace. When we got there,
I told them my suspicions and
it was confirmed through a CT
scan, acute appendicitis. The ER
staff prepared me, took it out, and
I was home by morning. I praise
the Lord for His goodness and the
medical help from the staff!
Psalms 104:33 I will sing
unto the LORD as long as I live: I
will sing praise to my God while I
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
have my being.
Yeah! Spring made it! I called
a cellphone on Tuesday and the
person who answered was in
Hawaii — and it was pouring
down rain. Ha, ha. We had clear
blue skies and 60-plus degrees in
Central and Eastern Oregon. No
place like home. So if it rains, it’s
because Derrol just had to wash
the winter grime off the vehicle
while it was nice. (Tee-hee.)
Speaking of cellphones —
grandson No. 2 asked to use my
landline. The number he dialed
was busy. But he had never heard
a landline busy signal and so he
wondered what the beep-beep-
beep was. Now he knows…
Found this word in a histori-
cal true story book: sockdolager
— with no clues to its definition.
Anyone have any idea?
Our first meal of spring had
us enjoying hamburgers with all
the usual fixin’s and pasta salad.
Dessert was a chocolate cupcake
with ooey-gooey frosting. Yes!
An extra added attraction was a
little orange. Good work, Pam G.
with helpers Arlene and Carla.
The other volunteers to get
the meals to the people included
Ginger, Gwynne, Carlos, Mary,
Tom, Del, and Carla (again) at the
reception desk. We all are pray-
ing for Pam H. to get well soon
so she can return to her station at
the desk. The sponsor of our meal
today was Delores Scott, because
we had BEEF!
We made a run to points east
and saw a couple of interesting
things. The first was at Whitney,
which is at least 40 miles from
cell service, I do believe. Any-
way, the state forestry depart-
ment had put up a large informa-
tion sign which had a very large
QR block on it. Is it possible to
get information there?
Boogying on down the road,
we saw porta-potty sitting on the
right of way. Hmmm. No evi-
dence of roadwork anywhere.
Hmmm. Just one of those East-
ern Oregon mysteries.
And here’s another bit of his-
tory: The GO! section of the
paper had an article about Mark
Hatfield. Did you know that
when he was governor, Mr. Hat-
field visited Grant County and
came to a church service in the
old hall? His assistants warned
the pastor, but he didn’t tell any-
one else. So when his entourage
entered, it was quite a surprise to
all of us there.
That has been over 50 years
ago, so I don’t remember much
about it… I probably didn’t see
too much since I assume I was
playing the piano and had my
back to the congregation… Won-
der what the sermon was…?
I John 1:5 This is the mes-
sage we have heard from Him
and declare to you: God is light;
in Him there is no darkness at all.
I John 3:16 This is how we
know what love is: Jesus Christ
laid down His life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
our brothers.
A flyer has been prepared
and shared into our community
with news that in-house dining
will be reopening on Monday,
April 4, at 11:30 a.m. for lunch
and then every Thursday and
Monday thereafter. I hope each
of you will be in attendance to
be able to catch up with oth-
ers and see how everyone is
doing and share bits of our lives
together, as well as have a great
meal.
There are a lot of changes
at our center, and it looks great
and so clean. The air scrubbers
are at work making the air clean
(seven cleanings of all the air in
the building in every hour). A
new floor was installed March
29-31. The restrooms have been
moved and are very nice inside.
A door has been installed in
the kitchen so that no one can
get into harm’s way. The food
window has been modified to
be safe from germs from peo-
ple from both sides. I may have
missed something, so come on
Monday the 4th and check it all
out.
One more lunch date to
pick up and partake of at the
site of your choosing. Thurs-
day, March 31, lunch will con-
sist of meatballs in marinara
sauce with pasta and a couple
other dishes including dessert
of cooks’ choice.
Then Monday, April 4, our
first day to dine together at the
John Day Senior Center, Shay
and Kim are preparing sloppy
joes with potato salad. Fruit
will be for dessert. This meal
will be dished up by our cooks
at the kitchen window and we
will stop there to get our plate
of food and return to our table to
dine together with others at that
table. All drinks will be served
from a table near the refrigera-
tor. We will be able to stop there
and get what we desire. It has
been so long that actually I am
kind of excited to be with others
for a meal.
Restrictions for COVID-
19 are being lifted slowly, so
masks are only required till we
are seated at our table. Distanc-
ing has not been mentioned
lately so I am not sure about
that. Play it by ear, eyesight and
doing.
It is so nice to be able to go
outside and not need a coat.
At times a light jacket will be
enough. Spring is so lovely
after the cold weather.
The pokeno group is play-
ing on Friday afternoons from
1 p.m. till 3 or 4 p.m., depend-
ing on how much we chat while
playing. We do have a good time
together. Our group is growing,
but there is still room for two or
three more players, so if you are
interested, call 541-792-0202
for more information.
Bingo will begin also, but I
don’t have details on the day or
time, so if you call the number
above we will have that informa-
tion for you. The ones in charge
of bingo have been ill so all will
work out. Please be patient.
1 John 4:13 Hereby we will
know that we dwell in HIM
because He hath given us of
The .45 Colt
revolver checks
all the right boxes
remember the first time I
The .45 Colt was adopted
fired a .45 Colt. The hand- in 1873 and continued in full
gun was a Ruger Vaquero
or partial service until 1892,
when it was officially replaced
with a 4.75-inch barrel. The
with the considerably less
gun belonged to an old cow-
boy friend of the family, Mr.
powerful .38 Long Colt. Those
in uniform with any connec-
Tony Lewis. I guess some
tions, however, continued to
of you may not have known
Tony, and sadly you’ve missed use the .45 as their service
revolver until the adoption
your chance. But he was
of the Colt 1911 .45
something else.
Automatic.
Tony, like so
A young Lt.
many of my child-
hood mentors, was
George S. Patton was
a lifelong believer in
eager to help me cul-
tivate my budding
the .45 Colt revolver.
fascination with the
In Mexico he enjoyed
Dale Valade
more than one fra-
shooting sports. Hav-
ing fired several other hand-
cas involving Villistas and was
guns up to that point, two
preserved alive thanks to his
endearing features I found
Single Action Army revolver.
So impressed was he that even
readily enamoring about the
as a general in World War II he
.45 Colt was that its report
famously carried a Colt Peace-
wasn’t nearly as ear-pierc-
ing as a .357 and the recoil felt maker in .45 caliber.
about half that of a standard
While I’m no Western law-
.44 Magnum load with similar man or war hero, I appreci-
ate the .45 Colt for its many
bullet weights.
modern and enduring virtues.
When the .45 Colt was
released in 1873, it was a huge In any regular handgun, origi-
hit for several reasons. Its car- nal factory ballistics of a 250-
tridges contained 40 grains of
255 grain bullet — cast lead
black powder and propelled
or jacketed — traveling 1,000
a 255 grain bullet to approxi-
fps can be easily achieved. In
mately 1,000 fps. This made
a stouter model such as the
it the second most powerful
Ruger Blackhawk, Freedom
handgun available on the fron- Arms or T/C Contender, the
tier; second only to the Walker .45 becomes the full equal of
Colt.
the .44 Magnum with Buffalo
Reloading your revolver
Bore factory plus-P or hand-
loaded ammunition. It should
was much faster with the
still be considered tops as an
self-contained brass case car-
tridges making the need to
all-around self-defense and
carry more than one pis-
close-range hunting load.
tol nearly obsolete. Although
With increasingly more
the U.S. Cavalry did adopt
regular encounters with wild,
the Smith and Wesson Schof-
often predatory and danger-
ous animals, a .45 sixgun will
ield top break revolver in lim-
ited numbers, troopers quickly still make the peace wherever
realized the vast superiority
you are. If you’re looking for
a classic cartridge that hits big
of the longer Colt cartridge
league, the .45 Colt certainly
over the shorter .45 Schof-
ield. This nickname “.45 Long checks all of the right boxes.
Colt” was likely formed there-
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Army came to be known as
Dale Valade is a local
“The Peacemaker” in the
country gent with a love for
civilian market due to the old
the outdoors, handloading,
adage: “God created all men,
hunting and shooting.
Sam Colt made them equal.”
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