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January 18, 2017 www.DesertMessenger.com 35 Quartzsite Beauty Salon Perms, Colors, Haircuts. Men & Women HOURS 9-5 Monday thru Saturday Walk Ins Welcome! 250 E. Main Street Quartzsite, AZ 928-927-6664 We can get the Shih tzu out of your carpet! 520-255-9081 MD CARPET CLEANING SERVING QUARTZSITE - BLYTHE Let's Talk Dirty! 57 people lost their lives when Mount Saint Helens erupted on that fateful day in 1980. But there are also some stories of near miss- es, people who could have died but managed to escape. Trixie Anders and her husband narrowly escaped death on the morning of the eruption, all be- cause her husband insisted on stopping for breakfast. Their mu- tual friend skipped breakfast to get close to the erupting volcano to get better pictures, and unfortunately he was killed in the blast. She told her story to The News Tribune in 2010, explaining that she and her husband had to fl y down the road in a Jeep to avoid harm's way. CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF AN EXPLODING VOLCANO slides that others took as they fl ed for their lives, including slides Jim Fitzgerald took minutes before the blast killed him. Desert Pueblo RV Rec Center, Bouse, AZ Saturday, Jan 28, 6:30pm Presented by Trixie An- ders, volcanologist ATTENTION DIABETICS on Medicare CASA MEDICAL 480-941-9493 on Please join CASA MEDICAL (A Participating Medicare Provider) Find Out How You Qualify for DIABETIC SHOES at No Cost to You! (In most cases) IN BRENDA DESERT GOLD RV PARK 11:30 am-12:30 pm Card Room BLACK ROCK RV PARK 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Rec Room WAGON'S WEST 3:00 pm - 4:00 am - Rec Hall IN QUARTZSITE QUARTZSITE SENIOR CENTER 10:30 am - 12:30pm - in the Dining Room WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18 TH THURSDAY, JAN. 19 TH Mt. St. Helen- A survivor's slide show All Shapes and Sizes of Words for Writing Just now I emptied my pockets of all the little bits of paper: pink and white, scrunched, and folded into all shapes and sizes of words for writing. I fi nd poems I wrote weeks ago and notes for stories far too numerous to write. I process some, take care of them, then wad them up and throw them on the fl oor. Others I stash away into the sparkly, green notebook I call "Writing Ideas" -- to be worked on later. But right now, I have to stop everything because I must write THIS poem about those little bits of paper: pink and white, scrunched, and folded into all shapes and sizes of words for writing. San Francisco, California Jane's book is WANDERINGS: Living the Ordinary Extraordinarily (Stories from the Road). This column consists of poems from the book (email: janefi nley@yahoo.com, website: janefi nley.com).

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