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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
SENIORS
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
Keep forgetting to tell
you about our wonderful bug-
keeper-outer that has been
built on our back porch. It is
inhabited by some enterpris-
ing spiders. They have built
bug-catching webs so that we
hardly ever have any bugs in
the house. After it freezes, I
will sweep all the webs away
and clean the window that
they were attached to. But
until then ... do your thing,
arachnids!
News fl ash! This week —
Oct. 5 — the ladies from the
Grant County Health Depart-
ment will come and do
their thing by giving fl u and
COVID shots from noon till
1:30 at our center. You have
been informed if you read the
paper early enough ...
Ginger led the fl ag salute,
Theresa did the “What hap-
pened on this day” and Tom
asked the blessing. The win-
ner of the $10 gift certifi cate
donated by Huff man’s Market
was Delores Scott. She was
the only one who signed up
as having a September birth-
day. (And it was her 94th on
the 10th.)
Birthdays of the past
include Ed Sullivan in 1901
and Brigitte Bardot in 1934.
This was the day that Wil-
liam the Conqueror invaded
England (read all about that
in the Welsh history book) in
1066. The Siege of Yorktown
began in 1781, which led to
American independence —
from said England! How about
that! In other news, the fi rst
game of baseball was played
in 1846 against a team of
cricket players. (They didn’t
like it.) Of course, it’s Ameri-
ca’s national pastime! And this
was the day that Johnny Car-
son took over “The Tonight
Show” in 1956. He was the
third host.
The table to answer this
question got to go through
the serving line fi rst: Who did
Joe DiMaggio marry in 1954?
And we all knew that answer!
You have to be quick on the
draw in this crowd! The wise
saying for the day is: “Wrin-
kles are where smiles have
been.” Good one, Theresa!
Pam and Pam prepared
pot roast with baked pota-
toes, carrots, Jell-O with fruit,
and served the birthday cake
donated by Driskill Memorial
Chapel. Thanks so much to all
our gifters. We really appre-
ciate all you do for us. And
thanks to Cycle Oregon for the
gift of fruits and vegetables
that were left over from their
ride. Thanks to our volun-
teer delivery people: Gwynne,
Sharon, Mary, Theresa, and
our in-house help Tom, Chris,
Pam, Ginger, and Theresa.
(That lady does get around!) A
special thanks also to Cheryl
Neault for the gift of takeout
containers. (Have you counted
the thank-yous!) We appreci-
ate all gifts of whatever sort.
Del brought in a couple of
his squash to give away. And
we know that fall is offi cially
here because he then drained
the swamp cooler. Thanks,
Del. You are the only one who
knows how to do it! Happy
Jewish New Year 5782.
Hebrews 13:7, 8 Remem-
ber your leaders, who spoke
the word of God to you. Con-
sider the outcome of their way
of life and imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yes-
terday and today and forever.
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
The week just past has
been so refreshing, with per-
fect temperatures. Not too
cold and not too hot. Just the
way most of us like it. By the
time you are reading this, it
will be October already. With
time going by so fast these
days, we don’t seem to have
time to sleep as we need to
sleep so fast to keep up with
the time. Mercy!
A few new faces are being
found at our senior cen-
ter and sure are welcome.
Since COVID-19 showed its
unruly self to all of us, and it
has taken so long to catch up
with all the lost time, we are
so ready to resume a normalcy
in our lives, our senior cen-
ter and all of our comings and
goings. Janet Binger is one of
the new faces, and she has vol-
unteered to work with our cen-
ter to build it up. We all appre-
ciate you, Janet. I sure hope no
English teacher reads this and
is frustrated in all the termi-
nology used here and the poor
English behavior.
This last week we had a
luncheon on Monday and
Thursday, and the food was
very tasty and beautiful to
the eye. The folks that greet
all of us lunch-goers were
Carol Roe, Janet Binger, Judy
Thomas and Darlene Nodine.
Thanks to all four of you for
your willingness and desire to
serve the public. Mary Jones
and Dale Stennett led the fl ag
salutes this week. Rachel Car-
penter and Pati Davis asked
the blessing for the meals this
week. There were a total of 29
in-house diners this week and
several meals were taken out.
Also, 104 fresh meals and 38
frozen meals were delivered
by Jeanette Julsrud, Michael
Shockley, Rachel Carpenter,
Cindy Combs, Peggy Molnar,
Mike and Pati Davis, and Mary
Jones. That was a lot of food
out of our kitchen this week.
Good job, Shay and Kim.
Several people deserve a
big thanks for their service this
week. Ronnie, thank you for
helping out before each meal
to wrap our dinnerware. This
is very sanitary and nice-look-
ing, too. Ronnie has been
doing this for some time but
I was not aware of it. Ronnie
has a big heart. He does other
little things to assist diners
and always has a great smile.
Darlene Nodine does so many
things that need done to make
the lunch experience turn out
well. She oversees all the
paperwork for keeping track
of food going out from the
kitchen and where it goes and
sees that all the needed sup-
plies are available to do each
task. Thank you, Darlene. You
are very important to all of us
at our senior center. It is so
hard to even think about all
the little details that need to be
in place for success. Carol Roe
has been diligent in helping
with greeting each person that
comes into the building and
sees that no one is neglected
or falls through the cracks, so
to speak. Thank you, Carol for
your attentiveness.
It is next to impossible to
name each task and the ones
that perform it, so we’ll keep
trying not to miss anyone in
the long haul. You that help
out and volunteer at the senior
center know who I am talking
about — yes, you.
Linda Stoltz has done a
great job to get a real active,
beautiful library inside our
building. Stop in and look
around, it is very pleasant in
there. Thank you, Linda. You
put in many hours and days
doing all you do for the library
and keeping our dining room
attractive. So much goes into
the planning and actual organi-
zation of all the diff erent things
needed to accomplish this task.
We appreciate you so much,
Linda, just keep smiling.
Ladies from the Blue
Mountain Hospital Auxiliary
on Thursday and Rachel Car-
penter on Monday were the
servers this week. The menu
for the week was just as it was
printed up.
Harvest Share did share a
huge amount of produce this
week. The carrots were so
fresh and sweet. There were
so many oranges, people keep
taking them and there are still
more. Joe Pippin brought in
some cucumbers from his own
garden to share with us. Thank
you, Joe.
Everyone should have
enough COVID tests now.
The hope is that we wouldn’t
need them, but it is better to
be safe and have them than be
sorry without them.
We are still collecting
pull tabs from soda pop cans
and vegetable cans. Ronald
McDonald House is using
them to assist them in having
needed items for the people
they help out so much.
This week Joe Phippen
and Mya Ennis won the Ches-
ter’s and Len’s cards, and Glo-
ria Kulis and Deda Porter won
free meals. Congratulations,
all four of you.
It has been nice to hear
the buzz of conversations in
our center. It had been too
long silent due to COVID. So
many things coming in my
head with all the memories of
the times together. We all need
this kind of fellowship. Come
on in and see what I mean.
You will enjoy it.
On Thursday, Oct. 6, (my
mouth is watering as I am
reading this to type) lasa-
gna, cucumber salad, and it is
birthday time so birthday cake
will be provided by Drisk-
ill Memorial Chapel and they
sponsor the whole meal. Good
food and good sponsors. What
could be better? Thank you,
Driskill.
Psalms 91:6 and 7 Do not
dread the disease that stalks
in darkness, nor the disaster
that strikes at midday. Though
a thousand fall at your side,
though ten thousand are dying
around you, these evils will
not touch you.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Our fabulous cooks Terry
Cade and Carrie Jewell made
us some very juicy pork
chops with stuffi ng, cole-
slaw, cucumber salad, din-
ner rolls, and chocolate cake
with cherry fi lling on top for
our dessert. The pork chops
were so moist and tender! All
who were present thoroughly
enjoyed our scrumptious
meal. Thank you to our won-
derful chefs.
Our greeters at the table
were Bob Cockrell and Sue
Cavender. Bob and Sue
checked in the guests. Bob led
us in the fl ag salute and Judy
Harris made the announce-
ments. Yours truly prayed the
blessing over the meal. We
thank all our volunteers who
help to make our senior center
run smoothly.
Judy thanked everyone
who came and helped with the
Buckaroo celebration. Judy
and Jeannie Strange orches-
trated this whole event with
lots of hard work and time. We
appreciate them very much.
Everyone’s concerted eff orts
helped to make the Buckaroo
a wonderful time and we were
able to raise $17,000 after all
was said and done! We thank
all who came to serve and
those who came to support our
town and community!
Roger Lawrence was the
lucky winner of the $50 gift
card to the Squeeze-In diner.
Please mark on your calen-
dar that we will be celebrating
our veterans on Nov. 8. We are
celebrating and recognizing
our veterans for their service
to our country.
Well, I guess maybe my
comment that I did not see
any changes of the leaves turn-
ing color made a diff erence?
It seemed that all of a sudden,
there was a shift in the weather
and the leaves started turning
colors. Oh, I just love seeing the
many diff erent shades of red,
red-orange, browns, yellows,
and copper of the fall leaves.
It is very beautiful indeed. The
Lord is such an awesome Cre-
ator. His beauty is seen all over
creation. Bless the Lord and His
breathtaking handiwork.
Are you in a mad dash to
get things done before the
winter comes upon us? There
is so much to do and I am hop-
ing to get all of it done before
the fi rst snow falls.
My garden is slowing
down. I am still getting toma-
toes and some zucchini. I still
have peppers growing and I
got two cucumbers! Ha. Praise
the Lord for my tomatoes. I
don’t know how much pota-
toes I will get because I for-
got to keep putting new dirt in
their cloth pots so I am think-
ing there will be maybe two
meals’ worth, but hey, it is bet-
ter than nothing.
My mommy is coming
to visit me very soon. She is
coming to help me for I will
be having surgery done. The
Lord is good, all the time, and
He is forever faithful. His per-
fect love casts out all fear.
To live in Christ and to die is
gain. There is peace and rest in
the Lord. I look forward to the
coming winter. Maybe I will
get some more sewing proj-
ects done or do some reading?
Psalms 93:1 The LORD
reigneth, He is clothed with
majesty. The LORD is clothed
with strength, wherewith He
hath girded Himself. The
world also is established, that
it cannot be moved.
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