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September 20, 2017 www.DesertMessenger.com 3 Quartzsite General Store, LLC Beer & Wine Fresh Retail & Wholesale Meats Homemade Sausages Arizona Lottery & Pick Fish & Game Licenses A.P.S. Pay Station Accept EBT, Debit & Credit Cards HOURS 8am - 6pm every day! Quality Meats at VERY Affordable Prices! For all your GROCERY NEEDS & MOORE! Fresh Produce Daily! Hamburger Ground Fresh Daily! GREAT LOW PRICES! Get your delicious steaks HERE! Shop with us all summer long! 410 E. Main Street, Quartzsite • 928-927-6310 Annual Spaghetti dinner needs cook(s) Nature's Nuggets BUYS & SELLS GOLD Nuggets - Jewelry- Coins- Silver Call Richard 928-927-5479 Quartzsite YEAR ROUND! If you need someone to speak with, Cenpatico Crisis Line is open 24 hours/day. 1-866-495-6735 by Joanne Winer The annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser for Celia's Rainbow Gardens will be held on November 14 this year, and something new has come up. Our long time, hard working, dependable and some- times lovable cook, Richard Trusty, has been told he cannot stand for any length of time any more, and has to give up being my main man at this dinner this year, and also at the Party in the Park in March. This news was very hard, since I have relied on Richard for the past at least 12 years for these events maybe longer. He has been one person I could always count on to be there when I needed him to come in a few days early and cook up over 60 lbs. of noodles and then again a few days later to spend a hot afternoon and night in the kitchen at the Q.I.A. heating up all the bagged noodles he had cooked and getting them out to the servers on the lines in the dining room--he was a tremendous help!!! Richard had a real system fi gured out, and I can only hope that someone or two (it might take two to make up for him) will come forward before the end of next month to offer to do this enormous job for me or I may have to cancel the dinner this year. If you can give us some time for this event by helping with the cooking, please contact me at 927- 6551--if you can do one or both of the days. We will really miss Richard and Lois at the spaghetti dinner as volunteers and hope they will at least come and have dinner with us. They were both such a big help at the annual Party in the Park it will be hard to replace them, but we are hoping that someone else or more than one someone else will be able to help us out for the dinner in November and the Party in March. Please let me know if you can help. Richard and Lois are now helping to run the Food Bank and he will still be doing the Gold Show and other projects, so you will still see him around, just not back in the kitchen or at the grill!!! Thanks for everything Richard!!! For anyone interested in signing up for food stamps without hav- ing to drive to Parker, there will be a SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) coordinator at the Quartzsite Food bank on the 3rd Thursday of the month. https://www.facebook.com/ QuartzsiteCommunityFoodBank/ or for more information on SNAP SNAP provides a monthly supple- ment for purchasing nutritious food. If you qualify, you'll get a debit card to use for groceries. See eligibility requirements (usda. gov). StateArizona You can apply online at www.healthearizonaplus.gov Or call DES Family Assistance Administration, 855-432-7587. The Friends of the Quartzsite Food Bank has several boxes around town for collecting food items. These businesses have been gen- erous enough to let us have boxes: Dollar General, RoadRunner Mar- ket, Family Dollar, Silly Al's Res- taurant, Horizon Community Bank, Quartzsite General Store and the Town Hall/Library. Some items we need are canned, boxed or packaged food including meat, vegetables, dinners, pasta, peanut butter, snack bars, water and other beverages including juice. Monetary donations may be made at the Horizon Community Bank for the month of September which is Hunger Action Month. The Food Bank is open on Tues- day and Thursday 8AM to Noon to accept donations of dry goods and fresh food. Go to FQFoodBank.com to make a donation online or mail a check to Friends of the Quartzsite Food Bank PO Box 4671 Quartzsite, AZ 85359. Quartzsite Fire District is proud to announce the graduation cer- emony of our 2017 EMT Academy. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23th at 7pm at the Centennial Park Commu- nity Center in Wenden. Address is 69725 Centennial Road. These hard working young people would like to share the experience they had during EMT academy with all of you. Please join us. Any questions, call Chief Hess 928- 927-6556. SNAP comes to town QFD celebrates new EMT Grads Easy way to donate to Food Bank

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