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January 17, 2024 www.DesertMessenger.com 9 Quartzsite Elementary School District #4 Students of the Month Quartzsite Elementary STUDENTS OF THE MONTH Quilt Show ����� | E��� K�������� - W7AZQ Vendors on Main St. Hi Ally Swap Meet PO Tyson Wells Showgrounds Prospectors Panorama Tyson Wells Centre Desert Gardens QIA POW WOW EXIT 17 EXIT 19 BIG TENT N Quartzsite Shows & Swap Meets 2024 Copyright Desert Messenger Corner Marketplace Camel Rides Main & Central NOTICE to Advertisers: Please check your ad(s) Errors/corrections must be submitted before deadline, to be published in the next available edition of the Desert Messenger. DEADLINES are printed - in multiple locations in EVERY issue of the Desert Messenger! For rates and deadlines visit www.DesertMessenger.com DEADLINE : WED. FEB. 14 TH for Feb. 21 st edition Desert Messenger News Email: editor@DesertMessenger.com 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com "Quilting from the Q" Quilt Show presented by the Quartzsite Quilters is scheduled for February 2 & 3, 2024. The show will be held at the Quartzsite Senior Center on 40 Moon Mountain Avenue on Friday from 9-4 and Saturday from 9-2. Quilt entries are open to everyone with categories for large, medium, and small quilts, art or pictorial quilts, wall hangings, fashion and home decorative. You can pick up entry forms prior to the event during our meetings on Tues- days between 8-3 at the Senior Cen- ter. Quilt entries for the show will be accepted on Thursday, February 1, between 11-noon. There is a $2.00 donation admis- sion and door prizes will be given out all day. Raffl e tickets will be available for a quilt made by club members. A boutique will be set up with handmade items by our mem- bers and other sewing related items for sale. Vendors will have booths selling fabric and sewing notions. The Quartzsite Quilters meet every Tuesday from 8-3 at the Quartzsite Senior Center. The group meets from October through early April, dues are $10 for the season and $10 to join the Senior Center. Everyone is welcome, bring your sewing ma- chine or hand sewing project. There are irons & ironing boards avail- able and cutting tables with mats and rulers for your use. Participate in some or all of our activities from weekly show & tell of your quilting projects, classes, weekly drawings from our sewing goodie basket, make a challenge block and be en- tered to win a set of blocks, in house yard sale where you can sell your extra fabric or sewing notions and of course purchase others goodies, make a quilt to donate to a chari- table group, participate in the quilt show and just hang out and sew with a friendly group who love quilting. For more information, please visit us on Tuesdays during our meeting time. By Vicki Mckelvy NOVEMBER 2023 Kindergarten - Nicholas Ramirez 1st Grade- Mila Lawson 2nd Grade -Robert Grimes 3rd Grade -Akiel Vasquez 4th Grade - Keegan Micheal Barnett 5th Grade - Jebadijah Del Rial 6th Grade - Eli Rascon 7th Grade - Everett Ruiz-Simpson 8th Grade - Aidynn Ponce DECEMBER 2023 Kindergarten- Caleb Phillips 1st Grade- Sofeia Barnett 2nd Grade-Thomas Tucker 3rd Grade- Zoiee Barnett 4th Grade- Eleanor Salcedo 5th Grade- Emma Tucker 6th Grade - Misha Sato 7th Grade - Everett Simpson-Ruiz 8th Grade - Aidynn Ponce January has arrived which is a busy time of year around here. I hope you all enjoy visiting the shows and take time out to visit us at Tyson's Well Stage Station Museum. We are just east of Silly Al's Pizza. Enter off Main Street - there is parking in the back. You will also fi nd us at vari- ous events in town. We will be at the QIA Pow Wow, and at the Big Tent Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show. Stop by our table at any event and learn more about Quartzsite and the surrounding areas. We will hold a raffl e at each event to help us support Tyson's Well Stage Station. The museum located at 161 W Main St, just east of Silly Al's. We will be open every day during the Pow Museum happenings Wow and the Big Tent show from 10 am to 4 pm. Stop by to see the stage station built in the 1800s. The museum itself is an artifact which is fi lled with lots of historical items from Quartzsite and the surround- ing area. We love to have visitors of all ages but do ask that you not take pets inside the buildings. The 3rd Annual Senior Prom at the Senior Center will be held March 22nd. We will have tickets for sale starting January 17th. Get them early. We sold out last year! The Tyson's Well Stage Station Museum will hold our January Open House on January 31rst. This will be a pot- luck. Please bring a dish to share. Follow Quartzsite Historical Soci- ety on Facebook to fi nd out about all the Museum Happenings. By Maggie Swanson Moody

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