Desert Messenger

10 www.DesertMessenger.com January 7, 2015 DESERT MESSENGER Quartzsite's FREE Community Paper Proud to be a Quartzsite Licensed Business 928-916-4235 Founded by Walt Akin October 1, 2004 P�������� �� P���� R��� P��������� C�. P.O. Box 3185 Quartzsite, AZ 85359 P�������� ����� � ����� 1st & 3rd Wednesday Sept. thru May with Special Summer Editions June, July & August EDITOR/PUBLISHER Shanana "Rain" Golden-Bear CONTRIBUTING JOURNALIST Joanne Winer GUEST COLUMNIST Jedidiah Free GUEST COLUMNIST The late Rosalee O Wheeler GUEST COLUMNIST Gypsy Jane Finley CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Starr BearCat NAME PLATE LETTERING Paul Winer www.DesertMessenger.com www.MyQuartzsite.com E-mail: Editor@DesertMessenger.com Copyright 2013 Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Desert Messenger. LIKE US on Facebook.com/ DesertMessengerNews FOLLOW US on Twitter @QuartzsiteRain Copyright 2015 It's a New Year! & a time for peace! Just Rambling... Provided by Elmer London, Quartzsite and Desert Messenger DEADLINE : WED. JAN 14 TH for JAN. 21 st edition Desert Messenger Email: editor@DesertMessenger.com 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com VFW ChickNik a blazing success Call Don 928-927-3080 208-255-6955 Don's Rocks Decorative Landscaping Hauling, Dumptruck & Backhoe Services WE'RE BACK! Looking forward to seeing our Friends! Riders on the Orphan Train Quartzite Public Library and Arizona Humanities Council presents Riders on the Orphan Train Presen- tation Thursday, January 29, at 7:00pm. 465 N Plymouth Ave Quartzsite (928) 927-6593 Few people today know much about the largest child migration in history. Between 1854 and 1929 over 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across America. Children were sent to every state in the continental United States; the last train went to Sulphur Springs, Texas in 1929. This "placing out" system was originally organized by Methodist minister Charles Loring Brace and the Children's Aid Society of New York. His mission was to rid the streets and overcrowded orphanages of homeless children and provide them with an opportunity to fi nd new homes. Many of the children were not orphans but "surrendered" by parents too im- poverished to keep them. The New York Foundling Hospital, a Catholic organization, also sent out children to be placed in Catholic homes. This seventy-six year experiment in child relocation is fi lled with the entire spectrum of human emotion and re- veals a great deal about the successes and failures of the American Dream. The one-hour multi- media program combines live music by Phillip Lan- caster and Alison Moore, video mon- tage with archival photographs and interviews of survivors, and a dramat- ic reading of the 2012 novel "Riders on the Orphan Train" by award-win- ning author Alison Moore. Although the program is about children, it is designed to engage audiences of all ages and to inform, inspire and raise awareness about this little-known part of history. By Dennis Dole The Rose and Gary Fraser Memo- rial ChickNik was a blazing success at the Quartzsite Fire Station. We did not have a fi re but Nat, our grill master, fi red up the smoker and provided the best Bar-b-Que'd chicken in Quartzsite. The event raised over $1,000.00 for the Me- morial Fund. The fund is dedicated to Rose and Gary Fraser, long time resident's and active members of the Com- munity of Quartzsite and both VFW Life Members. The fund is used to provide scholarships to ap- plicants for training as Firefi ghter's and EMT,s at AWC's training pro- gram headed by Fire Chief Kevin Hess. To date the fund has given out 3 scholarships totaling $4,500.00. "I want to have the best trained EMT's and Firefi ghters in Quartzsite so if I need them I will be confi dent in their abilities", said Dennis Dole a long time resident of Quartzsite and the Quartermaster/ Adjutant of VFW Post 769. Welcome back snowbird friends and visitors! I ran out of room in this edition, thanks to all the fan- tastic advertisers supporting this newspaper. I'll keep this simple... I am forever grateful for your sup- port- from the beautiful people of this community, the full-timers and and the visitors! You all ROCK! May you all be blessed this year! Shanana "Rain" Golden-Bear Have you noticed more and more commercials are teaching bad driving? By high powered muscle cars, speeding, flying through the air and screeching their tires. Some people can hardly wait to get out there and try to duplicate that. Slamming into vehicles and power poles... What a waste of lives! Cowboy, Indian, US Cavalry and Unique Museum Quality WESTERN ITEMS! Rice Ranch - E. Kuehn (Just East of Gamblers) 719-289-4717

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