Desert Messenger

46 www.DesertMessenger.com January 21, 2015 Important upcoming Dates for Quartzsite Elementary School (QES) January 21st - Quartzsite Elementary Spelling Bee @ 1:30 January 22nd - PTA Meeting @3:30pm school library January 27th - School Awards Night @ 5:30pm School Gymnasium February 3rd - Student of the Month awards @ 8:30am February 10th - School Board meet- ing @ Ehrenberg Elementary 4:30pm February 12th - La Paz County Spell- ing Bee, county offi ce in Parker AZ It's Murder at Desert Gold! Looking for something different to do in the area, how about spending an evening solving a murder? Sim- ply drive 12 miles east of Quartzsite to the little town of Brenda for Des- ert Gold RV Resort's Mystery Des- sert Theater. Enjoy a scrumptious dessert and beverage while col- lecting clues and evidence as the actors take you on a humorous romp featuring murder and intrigue. Solve the crime and your name is entered into our prize drawing for the best detective. Dates: Thurs., Jan. 29th and Fri., Jan. 30th at 6:30pm. Reserved Seating: $7.50 For Tickets or info call Desert Gold Activities Offi ce, 928-927-7605 (Mon - Fri, 9am-2pm) Murder Mystery QES updates Phoenix - Arizona Dept. of Health Services published our end-of-year annual medical marijuana report this week. Dispensary marijuana sales were three times higher than in 2013. Dispensaries sold over 9 metric tons (about 10 US tons) of marijuana in 2014 for an estimated gross revenue of about $110M. There were 1,433,808 individual sales in '14 (among the 55,000 patients), with an average of 26 transactions/patient/year. The average patient bought 166 grams of marijuana in 2014. At 2 joints/ gram, that's an average of 1 joint per patient per day last year. Transaction data is broken down by age group in the report. Pa- tients in the 18-30 age range had more transactions and sales than any other age group, representing 26% of total sales. Fridays are the QES Student of The Month Awards ABOVE: from left to right Mr. Finkbeiner's class - Colton Robertson Ms. Thompson's class - Hannah Price Mrs. Pianga's class - Thomas Chicoine Ms. Moore's class - Jaxsen Reiter Mr's. Dangiolini's class - Odin Haskins Not pictured Mrs. Finkbeiner's class - Kylie Denney Arizona Medical Marijuana sales tripled in 2014 busiest day of the week at dispen- saries, and New Year's Eve was the busiest sales day in 2014. The large increase in sales at dispensaries is probably because fewer patients were authorized to cultivate their own marijuana in 2014 (compared to 2013). The Ari- zona Medical Marijuana Act allows patients that live further than 25 miles from a dispensary to cultivate their own marijuana. Now that we have more than 85 dispensaries operating throughout the state, about 98% of patients live within 25 miles of a dispensary, and very few patients are now allowed to self-cultivate. The full report can be read online at http://azdhs.gov/medi- calmarijuana/documents/re- ports/2014/arizona-medical-mari- juana-end-of-year-report-2014.pdf Save those Box Tops for our school Clip Box Tops from hundreds of products Since 1996, the Box Tops for Educa- tion program has helped schools across America earn cash for the things they need. Support your school today and see what a difference you can make! Once you start looking, you'll see these little pink coupons everywhere! Each Box Top coupon is worth 10¢ for your school. Drop off your Box Tops at Quartzsite Elementary School, General Store, Food Bank and Quik Chek Shell Station. You can also help by shopping online. For more information visit www. boxtops4education.com.

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