Desert Messenger

February 18, 2015 www.DesertMessenger.com 7 OPINION FEBRUARY 21 ST AT 9:00 A.M. PREVIEW AT 8:00 A.M. LOCATION 410 LOMA VISTA, QUARTZSITE AZ. Auctioneer: Clancy Munson For information call 509-710-1884 The following is a partial list of merchandise: Daisy butter churn, four oak chairs, Griswold Dutch oven, old bottles and tins, old lamps, unusual three legged stool, wicker chair, old high chair with tin tray, corner kitchen cupboard, bamboo corner shelf, Roseville vase, old pedal grinder, old saddle, ladder back chair, carpenters saw box, lots of collectible wood boxes, trunks, wicker stand, butcher block, wood and metal toolboxes, old tools, cans, cast iron tire patch machine, Navajo sand painting, Native American pictures, wicker rocker, primitive rocker, pottery, scales (old) with weights, Western whiskey bottle figurine collection, old wood sluice box shak- er, wooden cobblers set in wood box along with cast iron shoe laths, Redwing #10 crock, old musical instrument?, cast iron grinder, really nice kerosene cook stove, dishes, pots, baskets, wood drafting table, old silver plates, cor- ner shelves, wood tables and stands, and lots of decorative collectibles, rugs, old linens and vintage lace, pedestal sink, in addition to the above there is a lot of modern hand tools, drills, yard tools, a Honda generator, and lots of mis- cellaneous boxes, parts bins, Kennedy toolbox, wood desk, children's chairs, boxes of household, carpet kicker, paint sprayer, electric chainsaw, sleeping bags, wheelbarrows, there are a lot of items not yet listed stuff will be brought out right up to sale time, so please check the website for an updated list. Go to Auctionzip.com and in the upper right corner enter the auctioneer ID# 27395 and that will take you to my auction listing. DON'T MISS THIS SALE FOR SOME GREAT BARGAINS. Thanks. DOWNSIZING AUCTION Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily represent those of the Desert Messenger. letters to the editor QUIT BICKERING I once knew a man who ran for a school board position. He made a promise that on every issue he would vote no. He won and he did. He convinced the board to vote no on a purchase of new school busses. In a district that was growing by leaps and bounds. The results were drastic. Council persons start thinking, you can't control change you can only ad- just to it. Change is a process that just happens. Quartzsite is in a constant change and you can't stop it. It just grows and grows and you are mostly living in a personal past, Quartzsite deserves something better. Quit bickering and placing extra work on our staff. It takes person pow- er to put together all those demands you place on the manager and town attorney, it just waists more time and money. Especially when it appears they are often motivated and guided by a personal vendetta. Perhaps the citizens of Quartzsite should ask annually for the cost of the councils demands on staff that are clearly not a total council issue. For every action, there is always a reaction. Elmer London Quartzsite THANKFUL FOR HEALTH CARE The residents and visitors to the Quartzsite are have a lot to be thank- ful for in their health care. I have been seeing Dr. Paglinawan for about 15 years. He listens and tries to find out what your problem is. Dr. Cole came to Quartzsite a couple of days a week from Phoenix He gives excel- lent Chiropractic care and is not one who tells you that you need to come back weekly, daily or monthly. These two Doctors need to be commended for their excellent care and service to the Quartzsite area. I no longer stay in Quartzsite for any length of time. I now have wintered in Niland Cali- fornia. I want everyone to know that for medical services I drive over a 110 miles to see these Doctors. They are the best. Thank you Dr. Paglinawan and Dr. Cole. Linda Jean Callison HARD WORKING TOWN STAFF Last week at the council meeting there was an item on the agenda that brought up the subject of reducing Town employees by 10 %. Having worked for the Town, my concern is that if they do reduce employment by 10%, what they will actually be reduc- ing is customer service by that amount. I know for a fact that when you reduce employees to an extreme, the commu- nity as a whole is what suffers. When I worked there, people were skipping their breaks, working through their lunch and donating their time after hours. These are hard working employees and if you suggest comp time that won't work either. You have to be able to catch up on your work to be able to take the time off. In other words, it becomes a vicious circle. (You take time off and you fall behind in your work to only have to work late to catch up.) The council needs to realize that there is more to running a town be- sides money. They need to make sure that the community as a whole doesn't suffer. They need to approach the Town Manager and ask for a survey to be done to find out how many of them work though their lunch, don't take breaks and donate time to the town by working after hours without pay. I think they would be surprised by what they would find out. They would also keep it as it is, so the community would have good customer service and not suffer. Terry Frausto Quartzsite GRATITUDE EXPRESSED Thank you to : Uta and Betty for walking Pretty Girl and Foxy2 for their mommy (me), as I'm unable to do it. They have been so helpful and awe- some. Thank you to Shelley for sitting and watching the Pretty Girl and Foxy2 and my yard sale, so I could make an er- rand. Thank you for Wheeler and John as I had ran out of propane, the com- pany Ferrell Gas filled it up. Also have to thank big time Sheena, Shawn and Jim of Ferrell Gas for their immediate help too, because when the propane ran out, they got everything restarted, and checked for leaks. They were so helpful with all the work they did. Glenda Kae Hines year-round resident RESPONSIBILITY BEGINS WITH YOU "Responsibility starts with the willingness to experience yourself as cause. It starts with the willingness to have the experience of yourself as cause in the matter." -Werner Erhard Responsibility is not: Burden, Praise, Blame, Credit, Shame, Guilt. Because all these include judgments and evaluations of good and bad, right and wrong, or better or worse, they are not responsibility. Responsibility starts with the will- ingness to deal with a situation from and with the point of view, whether at the moment realized or not, that YOU are the source of what you are, what you do, and what you have. This point of view extends to include even what is done to you and ultimately what another does to another. There is no good, there is no bad, there just is. The negative works just the same as the positive, negative can be good when you use it for success. Take anything negative in your life and look for three positive things that came from the negative, eventually the negative fades and all things are positive. You are your own creator. You create everything that happens in your life, and anything can stop at this very mo- ment, by just calling it forth. Stop blam- ing others! Accept what is...and start living! Judgments are attacks that hold you down from growing; just live; enjoy. Teamwork: When you take on your context of responsibility, you make the team strong, functional, supportive and fun. You can call forth, put into being, your own domain that has no context. You create it with your knowingness, your imagination, your own creativity. You are your own unique individual; but you must be distinct, clear and make the distinction, the clarity and develop a desire and the desire, the imagination, the inner knowingness comes into being. Make it yours. Belief systems and reality: Our belief system is based upon our past experi- ence which is constantly being relived in the present with an anticipation of the future being like the past. Detach your- self from the past. Future preoccupation and the choose to live in the now! Pat Meisner Quartzsite

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