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14 www.DesertMessenger.com QES updates Quartzsite Elementary School (QES) May Events May 1st, Law Day 7th & 8th graders with Judge King Mixed Messages, Peer Pressure LPCHPP 6-7:30pm 928-669-1062 May 2nd Kith & Kin meeting 4-6pm The goal of the Arizona Kith and Kin Project is to improve the quality of care provided by "kith and kin" (friends and family) child care providers. The Arizona Kith and Kin Project is funded by First Things First, the Arizona Republic/12 News Season for Sharing, City of Tempe-H2O Funds, the Valley of the Sun United Way, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and The USAA Foundation. May 3rd Cinco de Mayo Dinner, $7.00 adults and $5.00 for child. Proceeds go to 8th Graders for their end of year field trip. Purchase your ticket in advance to ensure a meal. May 6th 8th grade touring of Salome High School May 8th Mixed Messages, Peer Pressure LPCHPP 6-7:30pm May 13th 4th – 7th grade Field Trip to Phoenix Capitol Museum May 14th Kindergarten – 3rd grade Field Trip to Phoenix Wildlife Zoo & Aquarium School Board Meeting 6pm QES May 15th End of the year Awards & Potluck Banquet 5:30pm May 16th Kith & Kin meeting 4-6pm 8th Grade Trip: Horseback riding in Mayer, Tour Prescott, and tour Capital in Phoenix. May 21st Promotions Kindergarted at 10am, 8th grade at 7pm May 22nd Mixed Messages, Peer Pressure LPCHPP 6-7:30pm May 23rd Last Day of School. Early release at noon. Kith & Kin meeting 4-6pm. May 29th Mixed Messages, Peer Pressure LPCHPP 6-7:30pm May 30 Kith & Kin meeting 4-6pm Snake Safe Class comes to Parker area 425 N. Central (Hwy. 95) HOURS Mon. - Fri. 8am - noon Parker, AZ - Worried about your dog being bitten by a Rattlesnake? Take that worry away. Teach your dog to stay away from Rattlesnakes and to alert you when one is in the area. Now taking reservations for SnakeSafe classes to be held May 10th, 11th, & 12th, 2013 in Big River, California. PROPANE Refills • Tanks OPD Valves Custom Hoses Recertification Auto pay RV DUMP Cash or Credit Card WATER R/O Ozone Water RV Potable Water R/O ICE R/O WATER 5 GAL/ $1 RV PARK with full hookups 928-927-3714 This will be the last class of the year at this location. This class works! Graduates have already alerted their owners to RATTLESNAKES in their yard and avoided being bitten!! Contact: LEISA at 760-665-6246 OR 928-503-4819, leave a message and she'll contact you as soon as possible. Class space is limited to 24 dogs for this weekend. Register early, as classes are already filling up. May 1, 2013 Voices from The Past in Quartzsite, AZ Excerpts from "In the Shadow of Saguaros" by Rosalee Oldham Wheeler Arbuckle's Coffee 16 cents a pound From 1904 to 1906, Bill Keiser had a job hauling 50-gallon barrels of water out to the mines around Quartzsite for 50-cents a barrel. It took six horses to pull the wagon loaded with eight barrels of water over the long sandy roads and up into the hills. Middle Camp, Ora Fino, and the Mariquita Placers were six miles west of Quartzsite, the La Cholla Placers were seven miles to the southwest, the Plomosa Placers seven miles east, and the Valenzuela Mine was located 17 miles northwest of Bill's water supply. There was over a hundred men placer mining for gold with a few of them making as much as $10 to $20 a day. They would give Bill their grocery orders and he would deliver their grub the following week when delivering their precious supply of water. Bill especially liked their method of payment, freshly mined gold that could be exchanged for supplies at Scott's Store. Considering that food had to be freighted-in some 100 miles from Yuma, food supplies were still inexpensive. Bacon or ham was sold for two-bits a pound and a 24-pound sack of flour fetched 75-cents. A 12-ounce can of milk cost seven-cents, and dried frijoles beans were six-cents a pound. Baking powder was in short supply so the miners learned to make their own by mixing a half pound of bicarbonate of soda with a quarter pound of cream of tarter. This mixture needed to be kept in an airtight container or it would quickly loose strength. If biscuits were made with a substitute that had become weak, they wouldn't rise, and the biscuits would be as hard as the rocks the miners worked. Every miner's grocery order included a package of Arbuckles' whole coffee beans. Tucked inside the coffee beans was a small wrapped piece of hard candy, a special treat for lonely miners. Two Pennsylvania brothers, John and Charles Arbuckle had developed a new pre-roasted coffee that they coated with a glaze made of egg and sugar then sold in one-pound packages. Up until that time, coffee had been as green whole beans, which had to be roasted in a skillet over a campfire before it could be ground and brewed. If just one bean scorched, then every cup of coffee from that batch carried a bitter, burned flavor. Packages of Arbuckles' Ariosa (air-ee-o-sa) Coffee had a bright yellow label with the name ARBUCKLES' in large red letters SEE ARBUCKLE'S PAGE 17 Got Drugs? Turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal Mon - Fri. 8am-5pm Quartzsite Police Department

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