Desert Messenger

16 www.DesertMessenger.com January 19, 2022 Keep Quartzsite Clean and Beautiful As snowbirds return home to their favorite winter nests, the Desert Messenger wishes to remind everyone not to put their trimmings/ brush in the washes. Please dispose responsibly, anytime, at the Town's chipper yard, near the transfer station on Hwy. 95, 1/2 + mile north of the Firestation. THE TRANSFER STATION IS OPEN SUN. - WED. 7:30AM-2:30PM. Also please remember coyotes are wild animals... please don't feed the wildlife! a prize worth $10.00 or more to the Raffl e Drawing. This prize will be taken at the registration booth. Plus a $10.00 vending fee per vendor will be collected by the La Paz County Campground Host. THURSDAY NIGHT Trade Blan- ket & campfi re begins around 6:00 PM near Registration. Bring items to trade. THURSDAY or FRIDAY – Mu- sic provided by Allan Hardin & friends. SATURDAY NIGHT POT LUCK For club members, participants, and their guests. Your ticket to at- tend is a potluck dish – to serve 6 people. Club will provide plates and silverware. The food vendor will be serving breakfast, lunch & dinner. Remeber to clean up after your pet. You are in a La Paz County Park. Entrance is between 29 & 30 Mile Posts on Hwy. 72. Pets must be on a leash at all times; no exceptions. For more information, call Booswa, Bill Beasley, 928-273-5353 or Presi- dent, Allan Hardin, 918-533-5490. Come and join the Bouse Hills Muz- zle Loaders during our annual black powder Rendezvous February 17-20. The event takes place at the La Paz County Range on Highway 72 just outside of Bouse, between mile mark- ers 29 and 30. A wide variety of com- petitions take place from Thursday morning through Sunday noon. Vendors are set up selling a variety of old fashioned items of that era. A great food vendor will be on site. Par- ticipants are dressed in period cloth- ing from the 1820's through 1840's that depict the era when the South- west was being settled. Visitors can shoot a black powder rifl e, observe competitions in progress, shop and much more. CAMPING FEE – Great primitive and tin teepee camp- ing areas at $10.00 per night to be collected by the Parks Department Campground Host. Additional ac- tivities each night. TRADERS WELCOME; 1840's Type merchandise & primitive style tent. Vendors are required to donate Rendezvous planned February 1 planned February 1 planned 7-20 planned 7-20 planned Phoenix, AZ - Arizona's Indepen- dent Redistricting Commission has made a decision on the Congressio- nal and Legislative Maps that will last Arizona for the next 10 years. The fi nal phase of the map-making process was completed after nine days of deliberation. Congressional District Map 13.9 vote 5-0 and Leg- islative District Map 16.1 vote of 3-2 were approved on Dec. 22, 2021. The fi ve volunteer members of the Commission chaired by Dr. Erika Neuberg, have spent the last seven months listening to in-person pub- lic comments from over 1700 in person and online comments re- corded. There were also thousands emailed and mailed comments, about 17,000 comments submit- ted through the website portal and maps submitted by online and paper submissions. The Commission held 68 statewide sessions over the past 5 months inviting Arizona residents to provide input into the redrawing of the maps. These meetings were in all 15 counties from remote loca- tions to large cities, municipalities, tribal communities attended by over 4,000 residents, city mayors, coun- cil members, tribal government of- fi cials, latino community members and various organizations. The creation and redrawing of the nine Congressional and 30 Legis- lative districts is an enormous un- dertaking for fi ve commissioners. Pursuant to Article IV, part 2, §§ 1(14)–(17) of the Arizona Consti- tution, the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) is responsible for drawing fi nal Leg- islative and Congressional electoral maps for the State of Arizona and providing certifi cation to the Ari- zona Secretary of State. Arizona's county election administrators have traditionally been invited, near the end of the process but before fi - nal certifi cation, to suggest minor, mostly technical changes intended solely to facilitate election admin- istration in the counties. Once the IRC does vote, each county will have seven calendar days to provide to the IRC any suggestions for mi- nor accommodations for election administration purposes. "From day one this has always been a very organic process," stated Erika Neuberg, Chairwoman of the Inde- pendent Redistricting Commission. The fi nal maps can be viewed on the link: https://redistricting-irc- az.hub.arcgis.com/pages/final- draft-maps. The maps, unless changed by a court, will be used for next year's elections. Redistricting maps complete Huge Yard Sale and Bake Sale at VFW January 22 !!! The VFW will be hosting another community Yard.Sale in the parking lot in front of the Post on N Central Blvd. (Hwy. 95) Quartzsite. The sale has spaces for you to bring your easy up if you wish and a table and chair. Starts at 8 am. The spaces are $5 each call Jean Braa at 253- 208-3022 to reserve a spot and more information . The VFW is also collecting good used clothing for a homeless veterans shelter in Yuma. Call Jean at same number for more info. The bake sale will be held at the Post as well at the same time as the yard sale donations going towards our beautiful new monuments in Celia's Rainbow Gardens to honor our Heroes. Donated baked foodstuff home- made candy are most welcome and appreciated. We need to raise funds for the insignias that go on the monuments. They are not cheap Tns arealways welcome Be sure to mark your calondars forehand's 22 starting at 8am. For more info call Joanne at 928-662-8592 VFW yard sale January 22

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