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10 www.DesertMessenger.com October 20, 2021 www.QuartzsiteVideos.com Watch Quartzsite Council meetings @ Gardening with Dennis FREE CLASSIFIEDS Desert Messenger offers FREE Classifi ed Ads! HERE'S THE SMALL PRINT: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Ga- rage/Craft Sales, Wanted, Give-a-ways, Free, Lost & Found, etc. (non-commercial) For more information, contact Rain at 928-916-4235 or Email: Editor@DesertMessenger.com "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one." —John Lennon KBUX owner dies in CA crash October Planting Time! By Alex Taft As I have gone through Dennis's paperwork in search of subjects for articles, I discovered he has lists for everything. His gardening notes serve as a personal journal of discovery that we could all do well to emulate. When he discov- ered something, good or bad, right or wrong, he wrote it down, to re- member. So, I found his list of what to do in the garden in October: PLANT! Here is his list: • Bulbs - Daffodils, Iris, hyacinth and tulip bulbs after they have been refrigerated for six weeks • Cool Season Annuals - Calendula, English daisy, lobelia, pansy, prim- rose, snapdragon • Cool Season Vegetables – Beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, caulifl ower, chard, kale, lettuce, onions, parsley, radishes, chives and turnips • Trees and Shrubs and hardy na- tive perennials • Feed and seed lawns • Feed and water roses deeply to en- courage another round of blooms A busy month. Trees and shrubs, if planted in the fall get a head start so that by the time the summer heat comes, they are well- established and can endure and thrive. This list is based on all types of garden- ing and not strictly on low-water use gardening. Dennis did both. He planted fruit trees and berries in a localized area, because they require far more water, so that he conserved his high water use to one area. All his landscaping was low water use plants where he made use of water run-off when the monsoons came to supplement less frequent water- ing. He had a meandering line of red bird of paradise bushes, with a stone- lined path that paralleled the shrubs so water funneled along the shrubs. This was a very creative and practical landscape design. In keeping with his unique form of journaling, here are some other little notes I found that he clipped from various newspapers: "If you're stung by a bee, apply a slice of onion to the spot and hold it there for a minute or two. It does the trick!" Dennis has a check mark and a star next to this clipping. "If you can't sleep because a cricket has come calling, here's a sure cure. Put a wet washcloth in your kitchen or bathroom sink at night, and you'll fi nd your noisy 'neighbor' hiding there in the morning". This clipping rated a check mark from Dennis. Gardening can become an oppor- tunity for refection, a vocabulary of wisdom and better awareness of the rhythms of life and an example of what we can do for ourselves with a little water, imagination and TLC. Quartzsite, AZ- Marvin Vosper, owner of Quartzsite's KBUX & KCNL-FM died October 8th in a fi ery crash in southern Califor- nia. Dennis Vosper announced his father's tragic and unexpected passing on a social media post last week. Vosper wrote, "With deep sadness and gut punching force my mother received that dreaded middle of the night knock on the front door at 2:20 am from our local Quartzsite Police, who were sent to notify her about my father who was killed last night in a tragic fi ery rollover crash He was en route to his home here in Quartzsite, AZ." Dennis described his father's 42- year career in the television and radio industry, beginning in 1978 when he took a job as a TV broad- cast engineer for Christian televi- sion network, KTBN. Throughout the years, Marvin juggled his full-time career in tele- vision with part-time radio gigs before purchasing KBUX-FM in Quartzsite in 2011. Then, in 2019, Marvin made an offer on a sec- ond radio station and the deal was sealed, birthing KCNL-FM 105.9 FM Classic Rock. "I remember encouraging him and telling him this was perfect tim- ing… the two radio stations, KBUX- FM and KCNL-FM were ready to support both of us and that this was a God send," Dennis, who worked alongside his dad helping to build the two radio stations, continued. "He could now devote his full-time efforts to the two stations and get to see them really take off." Dennis stated that over the last three weeks his dad had been busy tying up loose ends in California, and was on his way home when the fatal accident occurred. "My Dad was but days away from fully realizing his lifelong dream of full-time ownership, operation, and engineering on HIS OWN radio sta- tions, when this tragic car crash pre- vented him from seeing the dream come to fruition," he sadly contin- ued; describing his father as "one of the most giving, trusting, and for- giving men you will ever meet." "He had a heart of gold and would sacrifi ce time and again to be sure his family had what they needed," he added. Dennis said that his family, along with his mother, would be moving forward and will continue to build his father's radio stations in his memory and "to honor his life, his efforts, his love of radio, and most importantly to honor and recognize his love for family. Details on Me- morial Services will be announced in November 17th edition of Desert Messenger. Marvin Vosper

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