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January 1, 2020 www.DesertMessenger.com 5 FREE CLASSIFIEDS Desert Messenger offers FREE Classifi ed Ads! HERE'S THE SMALL PRINT: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Ga- rage/Craft Sales, Wanted, Give-a-ways, Free, Lost & Found, etc. (non-commercial) For more information, contact Rain at 928-916-4235 or Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com Art Guild updates Quartzsite Art Guild welcomes ev- eryone to attend our meetings. Winter Season Agenda Dec.19: Christmas party with fi n- ger foods and a gift exchange of something useful. Jan. 2: The artists will help each other fi nish up any projects before the Art Show planned in January. January 10 & 11, 2020: Art show from 9a.m. - 3p.m. Friday and 9- 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Raffl e prizes and Door prizes with Fabulous Art pieces for sale. Quartzsite Art Guild is located at the Senior Center 40 Moon Mountain Ave. Quartzsite. Meetings start at 6 p.m. every fi rst and third Thursday of the month. $5.00 membership to join plus $5 to the Senior Center, total of $10. For more information, call Oney Budge 208-317-2315. Free evening speakers program at library Coming to Quartzsite this Season 2019-2020 Evening Speakers Pro- gram. All programs are at the Town Hall, 465 N. Plymouth Ave., Quartzsite. 7 pm to 9 pm FREE to the public. Sponsored by The Quartzsite Historical Society and the Friends of the Quartzsite Library. Made possible by a grant from Ari- zona Humanities. Jan. 9 Laura Tohe: "Chief Four Pro- fi les of the Navajo Code Talkers" Jan. 23 Natalie J. Stewart-Smith: Women Air Force Service Pilot (WASP) of WWII Feb. 6 Kevin Schindler: Theodore Roosevelt Slept Here Feb. 13 Steve Renzi: Barbed Wire, Windmills and Railroads- Technol- ogy That Really Won the West Laura Tohe: "Chief Four Profi les of the Navajo Code Talkers" Jan. 9, 7pm. During WWII, a group of young Na- vajo men enlisted in the Marines without knowing they would be called upon to develop a secret code against the Japanese military. This select group of Code Talkers devised a Navajo language code that was ac- curate, quick, never broken, and saved many American lives. They returned home without fanfare to continued poverty and lack of eco- nomic opportunity, yet persevered and overcame obstacles that helped change the Navajo Nation and their communities. This talk by Laura Tohe profi les 4 Code Talkers who refl ect on their lives growing up on the Navajo Nation homeland, their military service as Code talkers, as well as the personal and spiritual costs of war that many struggled with after the war. Laura Tohe is Diné, of the Sleepy Rock clan, born for the Bitter Wa- ter clan. She holds a Ph.D in Indig- enous American Literature and is a librettist and an award-winning poet whose books include No Parole Today, Meeting the Spirit of Wa- ter, Sister nations, Tséyi/Deep in the Rock, and Code Talker Stories. Her commissioned libretto, Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio, was per- formed by the Phoenix Symphony. Her new work, Nahasdzaan in the glittering World, made its world premiere in France this year. She is Professor Emerita with Distinction at Arizona State University and is the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate for 2015-2019. The Evening Speakers Program is sponsored by Quartzsite Historical Society and Friends of the Quartzsite Library, made possible by a Grant from Arizona Humanities Quartzsite Library is located at Town Hall, 465 N. Plymouth Ave. Phone 928-927-4333 Ext. 5 qsitelib@hotmail.com. Hours of Operation Monday-Friday 8am – 5pm. Closed weekends & holidays. Quartzsite Library Amenities: Audio Books, Children's Library, Comput- er Access, Conference Room, DVDs & VHS movies, Fiction, Non-Fic- tion, Wireless Internet, Large Print Books, New & Used Books, Refer- ence Materials, Paperback Books. Welcome! Please enjoy the Library at your leisure! WE'RE BACK!! TRANSPONDER AUTO KEYS (Electronic Chip Keys) Jeep, Chrysler, Ford Chevrolet, Toyota & many more! Betty Crenshaw, Owner C & B LOCK & KEY 43 YEARS EXPERIENCE 928-927-6589 Mobile Service Only

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