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SENIORS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
I am home safe from my
trip to Seattle last week. It is
always nice to take a trip, but
coming home and in our own
surroundings is even better.
Our safe place. God is good
to me.
On Monday, May 30, my
notes do not show who was
at the desk greeting folks,
but Darlene Nodine was the
announcer for the day. Dale
Stinnett led the flag salute
and Matt Molnar asked the
blessing. The servers were
Krista and Alli Sheedy.
Thanks, ladies.
Forty-two fresh meals
and 26 frozen meals were
delivered by Mike and Patty
Davis, Matt Molnar, and
Cindy (I didn’t get Cindy’s
last name). You folks are so
important to our community,
your caring and dedication
and faithfulness is wonder-
ful. Thank you all for giving
this way.
The menu Monday was
hamburgers, macaroni salad,
Jell-O, and watermelon
cookies. Everyone else was
having a picnic for Memorial
Day, so we did too.
Carol Roe fell recently
and couldn’t attend on Mon-
day so it would be nice to
hold her up in our prayers
this week. Thank you.
Because she could not be
with us, we needed a volun-
teer to step in for her. Since I
was not there, I do not know
who that person was, but no
problems were mentioned,
so all is good.
The senior center is a very
important place to have in
any community and they all
need volunteers to be suc-
cessful. Open your heart
and see if there is any duty
that you may be able to help
with at ours. Anyone pres-
ent in the building should be
able to direct you to someone
that could assist you in find-
ing the proper spot for you to
help in.
Some of the things we
need help in are serving,
cleaning, and meal deliv-
ery on Mondays and Thurs-
days for a few short hours in
the morning. You can leave
a message if you have an
interest in being a volun-
teer at our senior center at
541-575-1825.
Betty Rutherford has
moved from our area. She
is alone and needed a lit-
tle assistance in life, so fam-
ily members have taken her
to be near them. We will all
miss her.
Dale Stinnett won the
Chester’s certificate and
Deda Porter won the free
meal. There were eight peo-
ple dining together and I
did not get the news of how
many takeout meals we had.
All in all, it was a good day.
On Thursday, June 2, Dar-
lene Nodine and Gregg Starr
(whose wife is recuperat-
ing at home with her sister
assisting and is doing well,
Gregg said) were at the desk
greeting everyone as they
checked in and made sure
everyone had their name in
the drawing. Darlene was
the announcer for the day
also. Marnie Mediger led the
flag salute and Dale Stinnett
asked the blessing for our
attendance and the food. The
Nazarene Church members,
which were Dale S. and Jim
B., were our servers of the
taco salad, fruit medley and
birthday cake, which we are
thankful to Driskill’s for. The
taco salad was very good.
Thank you, Shay.
Forty-three fresh meals
were delivered through-
out our community, Can-
yon City and Mt. Vernon by
Mike and Patty Davis, Matt
Molnar, and Michael Shock-
ley. You folks do a great ser-
vice to our community, and
we are all so pleased to have
you in our midst. Thank you
all so much for all you do
to even perform this duty of
sacrifice.
Several people are out
picking mushrooms and
asparagus. I have never had
the chance to do this and
would love to do it. One cou-
ple brought in a large con-
tainer of asparagus to share
with us today. I got some
and now will prepare it for
my family. I saw others take
some. Thank you two for
bringing and sharing this
wonderful produce. Sorry
I cannot remember your
names.
Kay Cotham won the
Chester’s certificate and
Scott Knetter won the free
meal. Congratulations, you
two.
Twelve people were in
attendance for lunch and
there were three takeout
meals.
On Thursday, June 9,
we will dine on baked fish,
potato medley, creamed
spinach, and brownies.
Then on Monday, June
13, we will dine on barbecue
chicken, baked beans, corn-
bread salad and cookies of
Kim’s choice.
Bingo every Thursday
after lunch: 1:15 p.m. at the
senior center.
Pokeno every Friday at
1 p.m. at the senior center.
Just a reminder to keep
on your calendar June 18,
Saturday, the annual board
meeting for our senior cen-
ter. Anyone can attend this
event. A hamburger meal
will be served, new members
will be voted on and prizes
will be given to attendees
by a drawing. Come on over
and see what is happening at
the John Day Senior Center.
It is our center, so it is up to
us to take care of it and keep
it open for folks that may
need a place to gather from
time to time. Good food is
served here every Monday
and Thursday for just a small
donation.
2 Timothy 2:2 And the
things that thou hast heard
from me, among many wit-
nesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be
able to teach others also.
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Three weeks until sum-
mer starts — and we had
snow for Memorial Day!
Such is life in Grant County,
huh? Derrol and I were dis-
cussing how about 35-40
years ago, we had such a wet
summer, we like to never
got the hay put up! Will his-
tory repeat?
For our first meal of this
new month, Pam and Pam
prepared yummy potato
soup, half a ham sandwich
with fixins of lettuce and
tomato, a fantastic veggie
plate with celery, carrots,
cauliflower, broccoli, pick-
les, etc. etc. etc. Then there
was the fruit fluff. Practi-
cally indescribable. To top it
off — brownie! Yeah! Hoo-
ray and hallelujah. Every-
one was well filled up with
all the good food. We love
our cooks!
The meal sponsor was
Friends of Prairie City.
Thank you so much for your
donation to the cause. The
volunteers who served today
included Mary, Gwynne,
Del, Sharon, Pam, Tom,
Chris, and Theresa. Thank
you for your time and effort.
Ginger led the flag salute
and Tom asked the blessing.
Tom’s word for the day:
“Of all the bad four-letter
words, ‘diet’ is the worst.”
On this day in 1926, Andy
Griffith was born and so was
Pat Boone in 1934. And the
table that knew who Norma
Jean Mortinson was got to
go through the serving line
first. (Marilyn Monroe). The
winner of the $5 gift card
donated by Len’s Pharmacy
was Ron Smith.
This is also the birthday
of someone very special in
our lives: our first son. He
surprised us by showing up
after 14 years of marriage.
And he has been surprising
us ever since!
We were glad to have the
meeting of the Grant County
Senior Advisory Council in
the building this morning.
Nice to see all of you.
Had to make a run to
Burns after dinner. I noticed
that some grammarian
finally got ODOT to correct
their signs warning about
rocks on the highway. In
the past the sign said Fall-
ing Rocks. Now they say
Fallen Rocks. You proba-
bly should look out for Fall-
ing Rocks, too, however.
Seems like there was a gul-
ly-washer up Canyon Creek
that probably had lots of
Falling and Fallen Rocks!
Then I noticed that the this-
tles on the right-of-way were
looking sickly. I guess the
weed spray that ODOT uses
does work in the rain! Now
if we could just convince the
powers that be in ODOT that
the speed limit between Mt.
Vernon and Prineville should
be increased to the speed that
it is between Vale and John
Day, we would all be much
happier! The third thing I
noticed is that the speed limit
out of Burns north, east, and
west is 65 mph. Why is that
lone section of East/Cen-
tral Oregon on Highway 26
between Mt. Vernon and
Prineville still 55? ‘Nuff said
...
2 Pet. 3:11, 12 ...what
kind of people ought you to
be? You ought to live holy
and godly lives as you look
forward to the day of God
and speed its coming.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
The mad dash and race
against time has begun! I’ve
been feverishly shoveling
dirt, carting it, and prepar-
ing my cloth pots and plant-
ing. You know that you have
worked good and hard when
you are just exhausted and
you go right to sleep before
your usual bedtime hour. I
really did not think I was
going to plant much this
year because I have a lot of
other things going on, but
friends gave me various veg-
gie plants that I got inspired
to get going! Ha.
I am going to plant some-
thing new again this year. I
am going to plant ground
cherries. Word is, they are
really yummy fruit. You
don’t actually pick them off
the plant. You wait till the
fruit drops to the ground
and it has like this very thin,
papery shell around the fruit.
You eat them when they
have fallen to the ground,
hence the name ground cher-
ries. I will let you know how
they turn out. Supposedly,
ground cherries grow all
over Oregon?
Well, we had a bunch of
hungry folks for our Tues-
day lunch. Terry Cade and
Carrie Jewell made us pork
roast, roasted potatoes, din-
ner rolls, scalloped potatoes,
and vanilla cake with choc-
olate frosting. It was very
delicious and a most satisfy-
ing meal. Thank you, Terry
and Carrie!
The greeters at the table
were Kristi Guimont and
Bob Cockrell. Kristi counted
up the money and checked in
the guests. Bob led us all in
the flag salute and made the
announcements. Yours truly
prayed the blessing over the
meal. Congratulations to Ed
Falls, he was the lucky win-
ner of the free meal ticket.
We thank all our volunteers
for their concerted effort to
help our senior center run
smoothly.
Well, I have separated
the youngsters that were old
enough to be weaned from
their mamas. I did one group
of four and another four.
Thank goodness my son was
helping me to catch these
little boogers because they
were fast! I even bought a
shepherd’s hook. Did it work
on the baby goats? No! The
only way to catch these guys
was to lay down hay or goat
treats on the ground and then
sneak up behind them and
grab one of their hind legs.
And oh boy, did they let out
a cry!
I’ve been trying to tame
these wild kids a little by sit-
ting in the pen with them and
just hanging out. They now
come over to me when I go
to give them their hay. They
are a little skittish. One of
the males kept escaping and
getting out until I figured
out where he was squeezing
through. Yup, they are escape
artists, that’s for sure! Ha.
Thumbelina is still tiny
and cute but I can’t keep her.
She is adorable, but I must
draw the line somewhere.
I can’t keep all of them!
Hopefully she will go to a
good home. Marianne’s sin-
gle baby is the biggest out of
them all. He must go.
Proverbs 16:24 Gracious
words are like a honeycomb,
sweetness to the soul and
health to the body.
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