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10 www.DesertMessenger.com November 4, 2020 Recap of Oct. 27 Council meeting A take on those numbers Garden club meets Nov. 16 Do you want to help your favorite nonprofi t but not have the funds to do it today? You may not be able to donate to- day but you can leave your favorite nonprofi t in your will. Or you can donate a vehicle, real estate, stocks, antiques & collectibles now. Just talk to your nonprofi t for details and to your tax advisor or attorney. Some local nonprofi ts: QuartzsiteFoodBank.com Quartzsite Community Thrift Store QiaArizona.org Quartzsite Special Projects Inc Quartzsite Senior Center Quartzsite Roadrunner Gem & Mineral Club Inc QCAMELS.COM SalvationArmy.org OneSeedling.com PTO VFW Post 769 Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Lois Dupre, Friends of the Quartzsite Food Bank President Help a non-profit now or in the future Chamber & Tourism new hours The Quartzsite Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism has reopened after being closed due to COVID-19. The offi ce is now open WEDNES- DAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY from 10am-2pm. Check out the Facebook page for updates: business and social media tools, current events, etc. The Chamber & Tourism is located at 1240 W. Main Street, Quartzsite, directly across from McDonald's. For more info visit www.Quartz- siteTourism.com. Or call us at 928- 927-5200. Quartzsite Garden and Commu- nity Builders meet monthly to in- troduce you to gardening in Arizo- na climate and conditions. Master Gardeners in Arizona and Agricul- tural Extension Offi ce speakers can help our gardeners, both local and visiting, landscape and maintain their property. Come visit us at the QIA (Quartzsite Improvement Assoc.) Craft and Yard Sale November 7th. We will have plant starters for sale, and information about our club. Our next scheduled meeting is Mon- day, November 16th at 4:00 PM at the Community Center on Chandler Ave. Can't wait to meet you! Recap of October 27th Town of Quartzsite Regular Council meeting held via Zoom: Council adopted Ordinance 20- 12, creating a new updated Procure- ment Code for Article 3-4 of the town Code. All specifi c provisions of the existing Town Procurement Code have been incorporated into the new Ordinance, except they may have been moved to a new sec- tion or the procedures clarifi ed ac- cording to current state law. There are new provisions clearly assigning responsibility to department heads for following proper purchase pro- cedures and budget monitoring. Council voted to direct staff to pre- pare a resolution that would say that masks are mandatory within Town owned properties in Quartzsite. Ad- ditionally, they voted that the resolu- tion also strongly recommended that masks should be worn in public spac- es in Quartzsite. The resolution will be brought back for council approval at the next regular Council meeting. Council voted to accept the public event registration form as a guide- line for organized public events of more than 50 people as per the Governor's Executive Orders and authorized the Town Manager to approve or deny the application permits. Council members discussed par- ticipating in this year's Christmas parade to be hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. Consensus was for Council Members to use one of the Camel Express Transit vans to par- ticipate in this year's parade. The Town Attorney will conduct a one-hour session for Ethics Train- ing on Thursday, November 19th via Zoom at 6:00pm. The session will be open to the public and Plan- ning & Zoning Commissions will be invited to participate. Council voted to direct staff to begin the transition away from pa- per agenda packets to a completely digital format. This will save paper and reduce the staff time required to prepare paper agenda packets. Meeting agendas can also be shared on Zoom. Council voted to direct the Town Clerk to pare down the amount of detail included in the meeting min- utes using the Town of Parker for- mat as a guide. SKYHAWK Due to Covid and the USA/CAN- ADA border closing, SKYHAWK will not be holding our Friday night dances at the Quartzsite Senior Center this snowbird season. SEE YOU ALL AGAIN FOR OUR DANCES NOVEMBER 2021. DEADLINE : WED. NOV. 11 TH for Nov. 18 th edition Desert Messenger News Email: editor@DesertMessenger.com 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com By Jackie Deal Numbers! Big numbers make my eyes glaze over; how about you? Any- thing over two zeros is just so much blah, blah, blah. Let's see if we can make the recent COVID-19 numbers come alive. (Current Oregon Covid cases=41,719.) Using the 2018 census let's try it. Start with Sutherlin, dear little Sutherlin. Take every man, woman and child in Sutherlin--everyone! Line them up on Interstate 5; come on that means you too. Line up toward the South, everybody. Then take every man, woman and child in Roseburg—every last one of 'em. Line them up on the freeway. They'd probably meet the Sutherlin folks and spread a bit south, don't you think? Now down to Winston: take every man, woman and child and line them up on Interstate 5 stretching north to meet the Roseburg folks. Just imagine all those bodies out on Interstate 5! No cars, just men, women and children from Winston through Roseburg to Sutherlin. Now take a crop duster loaded with COVID-19 virus and spray every last person on that freeway. Get everybody infected. That's the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases in Oregon on October 24th, 2020. DesertMessengerNews

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