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February 19, 2014 www.DesertMessenger.com 23 208-290-5102 Honey Do Lists? Builder with 35 years experience in satisfied customers! High quality workmanship Small to Large Projects Call Rich! not a licensed contractor Across from McDonald's • Quartzsite NEED CASH? Jim Buys STERLING SILVER! All Silver Coins, .999 Bars, Sterling Silverware, etc. 1240 W. Main Street AROUND TOWN FROM PAGE 17 QUARTZSITE ART GUILD MEETS The Quartzsite Art Guild meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at the Senior Center located at 40 N Moon Mountain Ave, Quartzsite, AZ. The meeting time is 6:30 PM. Info 727-460-1948. ON THE ROAD AGAIN BAND Wed., Feb. 19: JR's RV park 7-9 p.m. Sat., Feb. 22: JR's RV park 7-9 p.m. Wed., Feb. 26: QIA 7-10 p.m. Friday., Feb. 28: Senior Center 7-10 p.m. Wed., March 5: JR's RV Park 7-9 p.m. Sat., March 8: QIA "The Grand Gath- ering Event" 7-10 p.m. with an after- noon preview at the QIA (time tba) Friday, March 14: Senior Cener 7-10 p.m. Our fi nal dance for the season. Join us as we celebrate a success- ful season with all our friends in Quartzsite! BAREFOOT & BOOTS BAND 02-19-14 - QIA 02-21-14 - Desert Gold RV Park (Brenda) 02 -22-14 - Salome Centennial Hall 02 - 26-14 - JR's RV Park PARK PLACE RV PARK Music Jams every Saturday at 1 pm Karaoke every Wednesday at 7 pm Beading every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday at 9 am. 2/20 "Rail Splitters" cancelled (Possibly 1st time ever mystery band to perform! Please call 927-6699 to see if we are having music.) JR'S RV PARK EVENTS JR'S RV PARK holds a weekly Country Music Dance with Smokin' Joe! Every Monday at 7pm. $3. JR's RV Park is located at 982 N Central Blvd, (Hwy. 95) Quartzsite RAIL SPLITTERS Feb.22 Sat, CO. River Oasis, Ehren- berg, (private dance). All dances begin at 7-9pm. Remember Stay Young, Go Dancing. BETHA'S RETIREMENT PARTY Sat. March 1, JR's Park 7pm Retirement Party Dance for Betha - Everyone invited! Betha and the Rail Splitters Band will be retiring after 10 years of playing music for the area. She is approaching 77 years of age and has developed a medical issue this winter. She's hanging up her hats, so to speak. Betha has enjoyed playing for all of the snowbirds and making new friends in Quartzsite the last 10 winter seasons. Come and have a good time at the Retirement Party Dance at JR's RV Park on Saturday, March 1, at 7pm. It will be a free dance, show, party for everyone. Music by the Rail Splitters. Cake and ice cream will be served. Come join the fun! DESERT GOLD ACTIVITIES Following activities open to public: Mondays – 7pm Bingo Door opens 5:30pm. Minimum Buy-in $5.00. Tuesdays – 7pm Gospel Jam Saturdays– 1pm Country Music Jam Each Sunday – 10:30am Chapel – Pastor Ken Slape – Music starts 10am Public Invited: • Feb. 5th Wednesday—7:00—Bost Family (Blue Grass)- $6.00 • Feb. 9th Sunday—Haining Family- 7:00—Free Will Offering • Feb. 12th Wednesday Dunn Mount- ian Boys (Folk-Bluegrass-Gospel) 7:00pm- $6.00 • Feb. 14th Friday Dance—Melody Masters (Valentine Dance)- $3.00 • Feb. 19th Wednesday—Freddie & Shelia Show( country classic, rock & roll) 7:00pm---- $6.00 • Feb. 21st Friday-Dance-Barefoot & Boots 7:00- $3.00 • Feb. 23rd Sunday—Canada's Double Portion—7:00 Free Will Offering- • Feb. 28th Friday—Grandma's & Grandpa's Dance $3:00 Contributed By: Violet Kiss President Quartzsite Rotary Hope everyone had a wonderful Val- entine's Day. It's one of my favorite holidays. It appears everyone likes (or loves) everyone at least for the day. You can hear your neighbor saying, "Happy Valentine's" many times during the day. The meanings may have been lost or commercialized over the years but what remains is a constant feeling of open friendship and a reaching out to one another. Good feelings. Well, I don't have too much to say this in this issue since our 2nd Annual Black & White Dinner actually hap- pened this Saturday, February 15th. I will be reporting on that event and with pictures in the next issue. There will be so many to thank. I would like to mention something so terrifi c going on. We've been attending many of our local towns' Rotary Clubs presenting our programs as our Schol- arships, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a new Interact Club for our High School and other projects. By doing this sev- eral people are coming to our Black & White event from these clubs in Lake Havasu, Parker, Blythe and other visit- ing Rotarians from other states. Do not forget, we have so many of our own year-round or half-time towns- people and visiting snowbirds also at- tending. I am so proud of the interest and involvement by people who really do care and want to help. What came out of this budding friendship stretch- ing over these areas and groups is a new slogan, "People Helping People to help Neighbors Helping Neighbors". Now that's a mouthful but so true. I am always amazed by the true car- ing about others and how that kind of community-based sharing of time and effort can change so much. Our Rotary and I are so thankful for this outreach of humanity to help us and help others. Circle of life, paying it forward, feeling good, are no longer just sayings, in our case they are TRU- ISMS. Thank you all. Rotary Doings

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