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November 6, 2019 ww.DesertMessenger.com 7 Read Desert Messenger online! Sign up for free email alerts when the Desert Messenger becomes available online! Join thousands reading the paper online at: www.DesertMessengerOnline.com Corner of Moon Mt. & Cowell • Quartzsite • 928-927-5400 QUARTZSITE'S ONLY YEAR ROUND SALON - TUES - FRI Cheyanne, Debbi, Sheryl, Linda & Tonia ARE HERE FOR YOUR WE'RE OPEN YEAR ROUND! Hair, Nails, and Pedicure Services Veterans Day Ceremony Nov. 11 Free Medicare counseling See if you qualify for Extra help to reduce medication costs! WACOG (Western Arizona Council of Governments) will host a MEDI- CARE Open Enrollment Event on November 13th, from 10am-2pm at the Quartzsite Library, 465 N. Plym- outh Ave. Walk-in No Appointment Necessary. This is your time to see if you can fi nd lower premiums and extra benefi ts. Look at all your Medicare health plan choices for 2020 – in- cluding prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans from private insurers. Plans change every year- maybe your healthcare needs have changed, too. How we can help: Compare part D plans; Enroll in Part D plans; Com- pare Medicare Advantage HMOs, PPOs and PFFs plans; Enroll in Medicare Advantage HMOs, PPOs; Compare Medigap/Supplemental policies. What to Bring to your Appoint- ment: New Medicare Card; Current Drug List; MyMedicare.gov Login Information; (you can register at mymedicare.gov); WACOG will call & confi rm your appointment and help you register if needed. 585 N. Central Quartzsite Open Mon-Fri 8-5 928-927-8787 Johnny DelPino, Owner BEST AUTO RV & TRUCK REPAIR SERVICE YOU CAN DEPEND ON! Do you have a great idea for a new business? This is the place! AWC Small Business Development Center (AZSBDC) will host a FREE "Start Your Own Business Workshop", - November 20th 9:30am-11:30am at Quartzsite Learning Center. Learn important steps and facts to turn your passion into a profi table business venture such as: Mak- ing it legit and legal; ways to see if it will be possible; marketing for the future; fi nancing options; busi- ness resources available to you; and making it fun. The AZSBDC Center is your gate- way to: free one-on-one counseling, workshops, seminars and training, technology planning, loan and capi- tal resources, statewide support and assistance and much more. To learn more visit their website at www. awc.azsbdc.net. The workshop will be held at Quartzsite at the Arizona Western College (AWC) Quartzsite Learning Center, located at 695 N. Kofa Ave. Please register by calling 928-927- 8299. How many of you moms and dads have told your kids to go into the ga- rage a get me a Phillip's screw driver. And they say what's a Phillips? Well, there a Trades For Kids event planned for young people ages 11 to 20. The event will be at Com- munity Center in Quartzsite Nov 16th. Hours are 10 am to 1 pm and is hosted by Steve Korsvall. There will be a donation can for hand tools placed at Herbs Hard- ware in Quartzsite and Ace Hard- ware in Parker. Many trades people will be vol- unteering their time showing kids a variety of trades that it takes to build a building. Free to kids and their parents. There will be differ- ent hammering races for kids. Priz- es will consist of recycled tools that people have donated. There will also have large equipment present, like a large tow truck with a wrecked car in the air. Possibly an excavator. Many fun exhibits. For more information conatct 209-484-9826. Please help and donate used old, new, rusty hand tools for our give away. Cans at Herbs Hardware and Ace Hardware in Parker. Tools will be given away during out hammer- ing races and nut turning races. VFW POST 769 will host the annual Veterans Day Ceremony on Mon- day, November 11, 2019, 11:00 am at the Planes in the Quartzsite Town Park, corner of N. Plymouth Ave. and E. Quail Trail St. The Post Commander Dennis Dole will be the Master of Ceremonies. This year the Post Members will hold a POW/MIA Table Ceremony/ Explanation of the Missing Man Table. This Ceremony shows the commitment of all Military Person- nel and their friends and family to those that were Missing In Action or Held as Prisoners Of War. Along with this ceremony we will have present Crew Chief, Sgt. Lou Nallepa, for F-4 Tail number 384 while it was stationed in Vietnam. 384 is one of the two F-4's Quartzsite has on display in the Park. Along with Sgt. Nallepa is Sgt. James (Spanky) Remedies, Crew Chief of F-4 Tail Number 405 and Staff Sgt. Roger Somerfi eld, Crew Chief of F-4 Tail Number 396. Both 405 and 396 were lost in action over Vietnam. This information would not have known if it weren't for Doug Foore. Mr. Foore researched 384, found its location, Quartzsite, AZ and in- formed Sgt. Naleppa where it is. A Big Thank You to Doug. Come and join us as we Honor our Veterans who gave their lives for our Nations Cause, to the families who waited at home for agonizing months to hear if their loved one would return and to the Veterans who are still serving our Country today. Start your own business workshop Trades for Kids event planned Nov. 16

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