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8 www.DesertMessenger.com March 18, 2020 • Birth • Obituary • Anniversary Place it FREE in the: Desert Messenger! 928-916-4235 Got something to share? We knew we could get you to read this ad! For effective advertising, contact Desert Messenger today! Call Rain at 928-916-4235 Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com or visit www.DesertMessenger.com NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO? 24 HOUR CRISIS LINE: 1-866-495-6735 Arizona Complete Health - Complete Care Plan Art Guild updates Quartzsite Art Guild welcomes ev- eryone to attend our meetings. Quartzsite Art Guild is located at the Senior Center 40 Moon Mountain Ave. Quartzsite. Meetings start at 6 p.m. every fi rst and third Thursday of the month. $5.00 membership to join plus $5 to the Senior Center, total of $10. For more information, call Oney Budge 208-317-2315. Saga of an inept ukulele student #6 With the President having declared a national emergency and the CDC recommending an 8-week period of "Social Distancing," now is not the time to disregard such requests as we face a lot of uncertainty with this virus. To that end, the Quartzsite Chamber & Tourism offi ce will be closed to the public for at least two weeks. Also due to concerns of #COVID-19, Quartzsite Area Chamber of Com- merce & Tourism Board of Directors decided to postpone the Taco Fest originally planned for April 4th. The event was postponed out of an abun- dance of caution for the elders in our community, and will be rescheduled in the future. The next few weeks will be a unique time for us as a community. It will likely be particularly diffi cult for our small business owners and their em- ployees who rely on all of us to participate in local commerce. Our busi- nesses are resilient, but they need our help. If you have opportunities to buy local, we strongly encourage it. Please make a concerted effort to spend your dollars in Quartzsite and La Paz County. Shop here, eat here, and tip well. While there is likely to be some disruption in all of our lives over the coming weeks, if we come together, we can minimize the impact and help each other through this once-in-a-lifetime challenge. Keeping businesses informed is a top priority for the Quartzsite Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism. We are monitoring the situation through the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Or- ganization (WHO) and will continue to communicate with our members and the community as it evolves. Check out our COVID-19 Plan & Resources Guide on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/QtzTourism. You'll also fi nd a printable "Handshake Free Zone" fl yer available there. Feel free to email us with any questions or concerns at QuartzsiteTourism@yahoo.com. We also be monitoring voice mails at 928-927-5200. By Jackie Deal Aw, Come on. Nobody takes this long learning to play the ukulele. After all, it only has 4 strings and I have 5 fi ngers. Well, 4 fi ngers and a thumb. Haven't you heard people say, "I'm all thumbs."? Maybe that's the problem. No, there's another problem. I've found out you have to SING in or- der to play the ukulele. SING? What has that got to do with the price of beans in Japan? Well, it seems if you don't sing you're just strumming chords. C chord: strum, strum, strum, G7 chord: strummity, strum. That gets world class boring. And nobody knows if you're playing "Good Night Irene" or "Handel's Suite #2 in D Major". But I don't sing. I can't sing. I've never been able to sing. My Father sang. My step-Mother sang. My half-sister sang. Me? Nope. (Notice a pattern there?) Now at age 84 I'm expected to energize these necrotic vocal chords? Awright, Google it! Yes, when- ever I'm desperate I Google it. And I found!! Voice exercises? Yah! Would you believe? The answer to a maiden's (old maid's) prayer. Ready? Let's go. The fi rst one: you make a z-z-z sound and go up and down the scale ending with z-z-z-z-z. It sound like a tortured bumble bee's mating call. Z-z-z-z-z. I practise in the car. So if you see someone looking like a snarling goldfi sh, it's probably me. ('Can't drive with bumble bees mat- ing in my car.) Then there's m-m-m-m. Keep your tongue on the roof of your mouth and go m-m-m-m up and down the scale. Sounds like a fat lady salivat- ing over a box of chocolates. And how about ng-ng-ng-ng. You're supposed to do a nasal sound. I know lots of singers who do that without practicing. It's supposed to open up your "nasal reservoir". I can think of other "reservoirs" that open up too readily with old age but nasal? Maybe sneezing and runny noses are a blessing? In the last few months most of us have had sneez- ing along with coughing and don't need any practise. (By the way, I've googled practiSe or practiCe and Google assured me spelled with a C is always right but my spell-correct keeps insisting on S.) Once again it's time to hang this up, get Ubie out of her little basket and see if I can make a song out of z-z-mm-mm-ng-ng. Can I buy a vowel? Chamber COVID-19 announcements 29620 N. 53 rd St. 928-927-6661 burrwoodrvpark.com LOW RATES, OHV Trail Rides, Fun Activities Come be a part of our family out in beautiful La paz Valley! BURRWOOD RV PARK Quartzsite, Arizona CANCELLED

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