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SENIORS/NEWS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
To celebrate the month of
July and summer, Carrie and
Cindy Jewell made us ham-
burgers with all the fixings,
macaroni salad, tater tots,
and chocolate chip cookies
for dessert. It was a nice and
filling meal. We thank our
cooks for all their hard work.
We appreciate them ever so
much.
Bob Cockrell was the
greeter at the table along with
Jan Ensign. Bob led us in
the flag salute and made the
announcements. Yours truly
prayed the blessing over our
meal. Bob checked in all the
guests.
All of us who attended
the Tuesday lunch were
very thankful to the Veter-
ans Administration, for they
picked up the tab and paid
for everyone’s lunch! A big
heartfelt thank-you to Katy
Hoffman and the VA of Grant
County. We so appreciated
this very generous gift!
There was a vote for two
positions available for the
Monument Senior Center
board. The winners will be
announced on July 12.
There will be two services
going back to back on July 8
and 9. We will be celebrat-
ing the lives of Betty Rich-
ards and Steve (a.k.a. Mang)
Cade. We pray for the Lord
to comfort these two fami-
lies for the loss of their loved
ones. May the God of peace
envelop them with His loving
arms and ease their sorrow. I
know that the whole commu-
nity will be coming alongside
them to help them celebrate
their lives.
Well, I watched a woman
catch a sort of “wild” alpaca
with a shepherd’s hook and
then she was shearing it.
I did not know they even
made such things anymore!
Well, I found one on Etsy
and ordered it. It worked, I
caught Cyrus, then had my
hubby put a halter on him
and led him out of the goat
pen.
Well, actually I pulled
and my hubby had to push
from behind. We left the gate
open and Reese just followed.
Once we got on the road, he
was a little more coopera-
tive. We led him to the other
side of the corral, opened the
panel and in he went and was
followed closely by Reese!
Praise the Lord!
The alpacas and goats
were pretty happy to be eat-
ing some fresh grass. They
pretty much ate it up in about
two weeks. We had to move
them back to their goat pen,
and this time I just had my
hubby hold out a pan of grain
for Cyrus, then slowly and
deftly put the halter around
his neck like a collar and then
we moved him, and again,
Reese just followed.
Catching the baby goats
was another matter entirely.
Those little rascals were run-
ning, dodging, leaping, and
were just plain being a pain
in the rear. We finally caught
them all after a couple of
hours of running around.
I sure slept real good that
night! Ha.
My friends down in Cal-
ifornia for sure would just
be having a laughing fit if
they knew that I had literally
become a goat herder, yodel
lay hee hoo!
Romans 15:13 Now the
God of hope fill you with all
joy and peace in believing,
that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy
Spirit.
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
As the Fourth of July just
passed, our day to remem-
ber we have freedom, a town
in Illinois was also having a
parade to celebrate this day
when a semiautomatic gun
went off more than 70 times
into the crowd, killing seven
and wounding more than
three dozen. So many stories
are still being shared about
that parade that day.
Our country is free for
all of us; however, there are
some that take advantage of
this freedom to create hard-
ship, hatred and death. Our
soul must reach out to our
Heavenly Father to keep us
at peace and continue to love
each other.
Locally, on Thursday,
July 7, at the John Day
Senior Center, 19 people
came to dine together in
peace and friendship. Deb-
bie Webb won the Thriftway
card, and Rick LaMountain
won the free meal. Congrat-
ulations to you both.
Darlene Nodine and Carol
Roe were at the desk greet-
ing each one that came in and
made sure each one signed in
for the drawings. Maya Ennis
led the flag salute and Dar-
lene asked the blessing. Dar-
lene also was our announcer.
Peggy, Jeanette, Michael,
and Cindy delivered 44 fresh
meals to folks in our com-
munity that cold not come
to dine with us. We dined
on cottage pie (yumm), veg-
gies with broccoli and corn-
bread. Driskill Memorial
Chapel donated the birthday
cake and sponsored the meal
for today. Thank you, Drisk-
ill, for the great cake and the
great meal.
Jeanette Julsrud is col-
lecting pop tabs and the tabs
of other cans like some veg-
gies. They are taken to the
Ronald McDonald House
to help with things needed
there. If you could save them
and bring them to the senior
center, it would be very
appreciated.
Work is in progress to
upgrade our center, making
it available to the area for
various gatherings, so bear
with us and watch this space
for news about the current
advances being done.
There is need for volun-
teers to help with meal deliv-
eries and servers/cleanup
crew. One lady just begin-
ning to do a volunteer duty
was thrilled at how it made
her feel. If you need to feel
needed or rewarded for your
efforts, this is the place to
be. We are open on Mon-
days and Thursdays from
11 to 1, so come in and talk
to someone and you will be
directed to someone who can
help you become involved as
much or as little as you like.
Thanks for thinking about it.
If we do not have volunteers,
we cannot continue to be of
service to our community.
Linda Stoltz has done
a wonderful job with our
library. It is eye-catching as
well as appealing to all lev-
els of readers. When you
come in, it is the first room,
so stroll in and see what a
wonderfully upkept library
we have. It will be open from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mon-
days and Thursdays.
John 3:16 For God so
loved the world that He
gave His only begotten
son that whosoever would
believe in Him should not
perish but have EVER-
LASTING life. (The prom-
ise of a lifetime)
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
’Twas a very nice Fourth of
July with the parade and all. I
do have one suggestion for the
parade officials: Can the entries
that do something on the parade
route do it more than the one
time in front of the announc-
er’s position? Those of us who
were farther away could not see
or hear what the groups were
doing. The flag-folding cere-
mony was very moving. I had
no idea that the individual folds
had such meanings. Good job,
everyone. And to have Jimmy
be the Grand Marshall — well,
that was a surprise! He kept tell-
ing us all at dinner and church
that he would be in the parade,
but we didn’t realize why. Was
it online somewhere and that’s
why I did not know? Anyway,
we are proud of him and appre-
ciate this recognition of his con-
tribution to our community.
We went down to the grand
reopening of the Dayville Com-
munity Hall, too. My question
for them is why was the hall
built in the first place? There is
lots of info about what it was
used for after it was built, but....
Anyone have an answer?
Ginger was still off on
her cruise, so Tom was our
announcer today. Josiah rang
the bell to get things underway.
Jimmy led the flag salute, and
Tom asked the blessing.
Our volunteer deliver-
ers included Mary, Carlos,
Gwynne, and Carla. Pam was
at her desk, and Chris and The-
resa made sure we all had uten-
sils and drinks. The notable
birthdays on this date included
Nancy Reagan, George Bush,
and Sylvester Stallone, the latter
two both born in 1946. The $5
gift card donated by Len’s Phar-
macy went to Cam Wishart. We
had guests from John Day: Kay
Cotham, Hope Uptegrove, and
Ava Kattee. Thanks for coming!
On the bottom of the menu
it says, “Menu is subject to
change.” And that is what hap-
pened today. We were all set to
have pulled pork sandwiches,
but all the pulled pork in the
county had been sold to other
entities! So Pam and Pam, our
wonderful cooks, made the
next best thing: sloppy joes.
Mmmm, good! We also had
potato salad, creamed peas,
cantaloupe, and apple cobbler
with ice cream for dessert. And
I ate the whole thing! Our spon-
sor for the entree today was
Tootie Cernazanu. Thank you
so much.
Drum roll, please: We got
the bathroom door back in its
proper place. Then I got the
needlepoint project done. Got
the canvas on the frame for
the next one. Better be careful.
Too many things are getting
accomplished!
Since I had made such a
mess in the shed with the door
refinishing, we took most
everything out of the building
and swept, vacuumed, washed
the window, and rearranged.
Have a lot more room in there
now since we only have one
lawnmower instead of three.
Weed-eaters don’t take up near
as much room as a lawnmower.
Still no sign of carrots.
Phooey! Derrol is harvest-
ing the radishes daily. And I’m
looking forward to see how
many and how big the pota-
toes are that the volunteer plant
will produce. Think I’ll put
some in the bathtub for next
year!
Proverbs 24:31 Thorns had
come up everywhere, the ground
was covered with weeds. ...
Matt. 13:41 ... and they will
weed out of His kingdom every-
thing that causes sin and all
who do evil.
Offer made on Petersen Rock Garden
Ryan Brennecke
Bulletin, File
By JOE SIESS
The Bulletin
The owner of Pe-
tersen Rock Garden
is reviewing an of-
fer to purchase the
roadside attraction
south of Redmond,
her real estate
broker said.
REDMOND — The owner of the
Petersen Rock Garden, one of Oregon’s
beloved roadside attractions, is review-
ing an offer from a potential buyer and
plans to close it to visitors while the deal
is reviewed, according to the owner’s
real estate agent.
Kaisha Brannon, of Coldwell Banker
Sun Country Realty, the seller’s agent,
said the possible new owners would like
to renovate and maintain the rock gar-
den for the public. The prospective new
owners of the rock garden are longtime
residents of Central Oregon and wish to
remain unnamed, Brannon said.
“I know that it will remain the rock
garden and be open to the public, but I
can’t really say what they plan on doing
because we ultimately don’t know what
they are going to get pushback on,”
Brannon said.
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