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January 19, 2022 www.DesertMessenger.com 5 RECYCLE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER thank you! thank you! too much junk? CLEAN OUT THAT GARAGE List your items in Desert Messenger CLASSIFIEDS Email Editor@DesertMessenger.com or CALL RAIN @ 928-916-4235 Licensed & Insured BLM Approved! 27 Years Experience 27 Years Experience Miller RV Repair Miller RV Repair is BACK IN QUARTZSITE! 406-212-0155 SQUARE & ROUND DANCE LESSONS Fun, Easy Lessons - No Experience Necessary New dancers accepted til Jan. 31 $5 per Lesson SQUARE DANCE LESSONS SQUARE DANCE LESSONS TUESDAY & THURSDAY 9:00-10:30AM ROUND DANCE LESSONS TUESDAY & THURSDAY (starts Jan. 4) (starts Jan. 4) ( 10:30AM - NOON GOLD STAR RV PARK CLUBHOUSE 275 Riggles Ave. Quartzsite Callers/Instructors Rick & Kathy Utter 208-290-2931, 2 208-290-2931, 208-290-2932 425 E Main Street 856-912-0880 425 E Main Street 856-912-0880 NOW OPEN! IN QUARTZSITE, AZ Wide Variety of Dried Mushrooms! Ground Mushrooms • Soup Mix T-Shirts • T-Shirts • Jewelry • Unique Gifts 11 am - 4 pm daily Museum updates HAVE YOUR DOG TRAINED TO AVOID RATTLESNAKES! Jim Walkington returns to Quartzsite! Saturday, January 29, 2022 Cost is $ 80 per dog. Location: Rainbow Acres, County 55 1/2 St. 1/2 St. Call Laura for appointment 707-685-6696 - leave msg www.ViperVoidance.com The Quartzsite Historical Society will have a speaker Wednesday January 24 at the Quartzsite Community Center. Rick Jaxon will talk on Quartzsite History. 7pm At 295 E. Chandler Street. February 9 "When Orphan Trains went West" Live Music and Story- telling. 7pm Community Center. At 295 E. Chandler Street. The Quartzsite Historical Society will hold a fi eld trip to Robson Ari- zona Mining world in Aguila, Ari- zona , comes up on GPS, on Febru- ary 15. 2022. (Come by the Tyson Well's Stage Station Museum for a fl yer. Entry fee $10, no food, bring your own lunch. Plus $3 for non QHS members. The "Walk in the Past" will be held Saturday, February 19, 2022 at the Hi Jolly Cemetery. Our regular meeting is at 2pm on the 2nd Wednesday of each month until April. If you would like to participate please contact Lynn Stimson, Phone or text. 928-916-4562, The Sons of the Desert Quartzsite Night Owls, will hold their fi rst meeting of the New Year from 3- 4:30 p.m. Friday, January 28, at First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 30 Church St., Quartzsite, AZ., off of West Cowell Street just east of the Quartzsite Senior Center. Meet- ings are held on the last Friday of each month. Two fi lms, including a short and a full-length feature, will be shown at the January meeting. The 20-min- ute two-reeler "Perfect Day," fi lmed in 1929, was billed as "an all talking comedy." It follows with mount- ing frustration -- and laughs -- as the comedy duo's efforts to enjoy a pleasant Sunday picnic with their wives and Uncle Edgar are repeat- edly thwarted. "Perfect Day" will be followed by the pair's fi rst feature-length comedy, the 1931 fi lm, "Pardon Us," which sees Laurel & Hardy thrown into prison after Stan Laurel inadver- tently sells a bottle of home brewed liquor to a policeman during the days of Prohibition. Their contacts with the prison warden and their cellmate "The Tiger" (Walter Long) are com- plicated by Stan's loose tooth, which regularly makes a buzzing "raspber- ry" sound at inopportune moments. Their efforts at a prison break result in a hilarious burlesque. On February 25, the "Night Owls" tent will show the 1929 short "They Go Boom," and the 1936 full-length feature "Bohemian Girl." The March 25 meeting will feature "The Hoose Gow," (1929) and "Our Relations," (1936). Light refreshments will be served and membership information for the club will be available. Quartzsite Night Owls is a registered offi cial tent of the Sons of the Desert Inter- national Laurel & Hardy Apprecia- tion Society. Everyone of any age is welcome to come enjoy the fi lms of Laurel & Hardy. Meetings are free, although donations are accepted gladly. Sons of the Desert is devoted to keeping the lives and works of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before the public, and to have a good time while doing it. The group takes its name from a lodge that the comedi- ans belong to in the 1933 fi lm "Sons of the Desert." In keeping with the tongue-in-cheek "desert" theme, each local chapter of the society is called a "tent," and is named after a Laurel & Hardy fi lm. Worldwide, there are well over 100 active tents, whose members meet regularly to enjoy Laurel & Hardy movies in an informal atmosphere. "It is important, I think, to realize that Sons of the Desert is not a fan club," explained John McCabe, the team's biographer, who founded the Sons in 1965. "The word 'fan' derives from 'fanatic' and I hope we are none of us that. I consider us 'buffs,' people having a connois- seur-like affection for Laurel & Har- dy, and being discriminating in that affection, with fun as our goal and operative guide." For more information on the Sons of the Desert Night Owls tent, con- tact Carl Baker at (928) 550-3438 or email travelfulltime@yahoo.com. Sons of the Desert Night Owls

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