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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Well, did you enjoy spring
last week? I had been work-
ing on spring cleaning until
the garden called ... so I spent
a couple of days digging out
the weeds. The ground was
just perfect for doing that! And
in the process I found some
pansies that had survived the
winter!
So I put them all in a spe-
cial place so they could show
their happy faces together! A
week later? It’s sleeting! Yup.
That’s how the weather goes
in Grant County — so get used
to it.
That’s why it is import-
ant to do the yardwork
when the weather lets
you. The housework will
wait ...
Another thing I found in
the garden — three carrots!
So I washed them and ate ‘em!
Nothing yet from last year’s
seed experiment ...
For our last meal of the
month — and our last pickup/
takeout-only meal — we
enjoyed a humongous chef
salad. That baby had every-
thing in it! We got two meals
out of it, too. Then, to top it
off, for dessert was the birth-
day cake donated by Driskill
Memorial Chapel. They were
the sponsor for the meal today.
Thanks so much for your sup-
port. And thanks to our fabu-
lous cooks, Pam W. and Pam G.
Sorry to report that Pam H.
is still under the weather. (Isn’t
that a strange way of saying a
health report?) But she is mak-
ing progress and hopes to be
at her desk when we open for
in-house dining on Wednesday,
April 6.
Thanks to our faithful vol-
unteers for all their help in get-
ting the meals delivered. Angie,
Ginger, Carla, Gwynne, Tom,
Carlos and Mary. And thanks
to all of you who have stuck
with us for the last two years.
We appreciate your faithful-
ness, too.
In getting the dining room
ready for in-house “fellow-
ship,” we have cleaned from
top to bottom and moved items
so that they are easier to access.
The dining will not be fam-
ily style but cafeteria style. But
the fellowship will still be fam-
ily style! So, y’all come! And
bring your friends! We have
great meals on the menu for
April. And if you want to be
one of our faithful volunteers,
just come in early on Wednes-
day, and someone will point
you in the right direction ...
People are asking how Der-
rol is doing after his flying trip
to Bend ... great! He works in
his shop making things to put
in the yard sale on May 13 and
14. He does have a little trouble
with the “elves,” who do not
seem to be able to clean up after
themselves. I said he needs to
pay them more ... (If you do
not get any of that, you are not
thinking four-dimensionally.)
Ahem.
Hebrews 1:14, 2:2, 3 Are
not all angels ministering spir-
its sent to serve those who will
inherit salvation? ... if the mes-
sage spoken by angels was
binding, ... how shall we escape
if we ignore such a great
salvation?
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our cooks Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell made one of my
favorite meals for our Tuesday
lunch! Oh yes, it was delicious.
They made us beefsteak (I call
it Salisbury steak) with grilled
onions and mushrooms, mashed
potatoes and gravy, green beans,
and chocolate cake with coco-
nut frosting. I had them put
extra gravy all over my steak
and mashed potatoes. It was a
most delectable meal. We thank
our cooks for their wonderful
cooking, and we are all so grate-
ful for them.
Bob Cockrell was our
greeter, along with Sylvia Cock-
rell and Jan Ensign. They col-
lected and counted up the money
and filled out the paperwork.
Bob led us in the flag salute
and made the announcement.
Yours truly prayed the blessing
over the meal. We thank all our
volunteers.
We had our usual crowd of
Spray friends join us for lunch.
We had quite the number of
guests dining in. It was good
to have a nice group to eat and
sit together, to visit, and to just
laugh and enjoy each other’s
company. God is good. He cre-
ated us to be in relationships
with each other and with Him.
Let us continue on with our
prayers for Jimmy. Debbie Cole
was present to give us an update
on Jimmy. He said he is going to
fight. We will believe and pray
that the Lord’s will be done. We
will trust in the Lord and not in
the words of men. God is the
one who appoints when a man is
born and when he dies. He is the
one who decides. We can also
use the privilege of praying and
interceding for our friends with
boldness and expectation that
He hears and listens to our cries.
I am believing for a miracle for
Jimmy.
Jesus said that if we have
faith the size of a mustard seed
(and mustard seeds are tee-
ny-tiny), and we ask in the name
of Jesus, we can move moun-
tains. Our words are power-
ful. Our war is not against flesh
and blood, but our battle is in
the spirit realm. So prayer war-
riors out there, let’s continue to
beseech our mighty and gra-
cious God!
This is what I love about liv-
ing here in Monument. Peo-
ple coming together to help
and support one another is a
big thing here. My family and
I were so blessed by our friends
and neighbors who brought us
meals after my appendectomy.
We just are overwhelmed with
gratitude and thankfulness for
everyone. I just want to thank
everyone for their calls, visits,
and get-well cards.
I’ve lived in the city, a big
city, and I don’t miss it at all.
Monument is my home, our
home. We love our community.
I love how if there is something
you need, someone will always
reach out. It is not the conve-
nience of amenities that make
a place great to live in, but the
people. If you live where people
are looking out for each other,
you are blessed.
Ephesians 6:12 For we
wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rul-
ers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in
high places.
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
By the time you are read-
ing this, we will have had our
first lunch in our newly remod-
eled building. The flooring that
cannot be scratched or stained
and needs no waxing, the air
scrubbers that clean the air in
the whole building seven times
every hour.
Two new restrooms with
no light switches, no hands
needed for water and no hands
needed for paper towels and
all stalls are large enough for
wheelchairs.
Some painting has been
done and the library is getting
a whole new makeover. It will
take some time for our librar-
ian, Linda Stoltz, to go through
all the books and clean some out
and reorganize the shelves, etc.
Be patient with her on this one.
The kitchen has been
upgraded as well, even a new
walk-in cooler, so we are
excited to have a great mod-
ern senior center to meet in. We
also have new restaurant-style
coffee pots so coffee will
always be hot and easy to get.
The bridge players are
enjoying being able to be back,
and the pokeno players are, too.
To have a place to meet and
visit is a very nice way for our
community to keep connected.
Bingo will be starting on
Thursday, April 7, at 1:15 pm.
We need to allow time for the
tables to be cleaned after lunch
is done. We will be using paper
cards with daubers. The quarter
jar has over $60 in it so that will
be a prize worth winning.
Thank you, everyone, for
returning the to-go dishes to
be sterilized and reused. Thank
you, Krista and your three
daughters, Harmony, Esther
Lyn and Ally, for cleaning them
for us every week. We also
want to give a big thanks to
Rosalio Suarez from the Floor
Store on Main Street for install-
ing all our flooring by your-
self. Also thanks to Matt Mol-
mer for doing the painting for
us. He also had to move a lot of
things to get to it all.
For tomorrow, Thursday,
April 7, lunch will be hot turkey
sandwich, mashed potatoes/
gravy, veggies, cranberry sauce
and birthday cake. Then on
Monday, April 11, lunch will be
Philly cheesesteak sandwich,
sweet potato fries, relish, and
raspberry mango pudding for
dessert. The suggested dona-
tion for lunch for people 60
years of age and older is $5 and
$6 for everyone else. For to-go
meals the suggested donation
is $6. Reservations not needed
anymore. Hallelujah!
We will be passing by the
kitchen window to get our
food, and drinks will be in the
corner nearby. No food to be
served will be taken out of the
kitchen. All leftovers will be
used for our delivered meals.
1 Peter 1:3 & 4 Praise be
to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ. In His great
mercy, He has given us new
birth into a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead and we have a
priceless inheritance kept in
Heaven with God for us.
Baker City wastewater back in compliance
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — The
treated wastewater that Baker
City pipes into the Powder
River north of town is no lon-
ger exceeding state limits for
bacteria concentrations.
The city issued a notice
on March 17 urging people
to avoid entering the Powder
River or drinking untreated
water from the river north of the
city’s sewer treatment lagoons,
which are near Imnaha Road
about a mile north of town.
The warning did not affect
the reach of the river through
Baker City, which is upstream
from the treatment lagoons.
Wastewater from the four
lagoons, which is released into
the river, contained higher than
usual levels of E. coli bacteria,
some types of which can make
people ill.
The river runs through pri-
vate property north of the
lagoons, so there is little, if
any, public access to or use of
the river in that area.
The city released waste-
water that exceeds the E.
coli concentration limits in
its permit due to a leak dis-
covered March 7 in a dike
on the largest lagoon, which
covers about 70 acres, said
Michelle Owen, the city’s
public works director.
City workers plugged the
leak with soil and bentonite,
but as a precaution the city
also lowered the water level in
that lagoon to below the area
where the leak was found,
moving some of the water to
the three smaller lagoons, each
about 10 acres, Owen said.
That forced the city
to release about the same
amount of wastewater into the
river as was coming into the
lagoon complex each day, to
avoid overfilling the smaller
lagoons.
The city typically avoids
releasing wastewater late in
winter because the natural
organisms that consume some
of the potentially harmful bac-
teria aren’t active due to cold
temperatures and ice cover on
the lagoons, Owen said.
The ice melted in late
March, and by March 25 the
wastewater being released no
longer exceeded bacteria lim-
its, she said.
The plug in the leak appears
to be holding, according to a
weekly newsletter from City
Hall posted on Friday, April 1.
The city is preparing to start
using the newly constructed
treatment lagoon, which is east
of Interstate 84 and just south
of Highway 203.
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