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April 18, 2018 www.DesertMessenger.com 15 Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ DesertMessengerNews Follow on Twitter @DesertMessenger @QuartzsiteRain April 15 - 21, 2018 is National Volunteer Week Read Desert MESSENGER ONLINE @ www.MyQuartzsite.com Nancy's Kitchen Cold Pea Salad You can make this salad ahead of time on the day you want to serve it, but add the almonds at the last minute. Wonderful served with sliced tomato and avocado and chicken for lunch. • Prep time: 10 minutes • Yield: Serves 6 • 16-ounces frozen petite peas (do not thaw) • 6 ounces smokehouse almonds, rinsed to take off the excess salt, chopped (preferably by hand) • 1/2 cup chopped green onions • 8 ounces chopped water chestnuts • 2/3 cup mayonnaise • 2 tsp yellow curry powder • Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1 Remove the excess salt and chop the almonds: In a fine-mesh strainer under cold running water, rinse the almonds to remove the excess salt. Spread between 2 paper towel lay- ers and pat dry. Spread on a cutting board, and coarse chop with a large knife. 2 Combine the salad ingredients: In a large bowl, whisk the mayonnaise, curry powder, salt, and pepper until smooth. Add the peas, scallions, and water chestnuts to the bowl. Gently fold the salad into the mayon- naise dressing. Taste and add more salt and pepper, if you like. Refriger- ate until ready to serve. 3 Add the almonds: Just before serv- ing, stir in the chopped almonds. Bouse Genealogical Society We are a group of people who are interested in finding our Ancestors. Come join us in our adventure. Learn why you are who you are from your Ancestors. Bouse Genies Meeting Schedule The Bouse Genies regular meet- ings are held every first and third Friday, now from 9:00 AM to 2 PM in the Bouse Public Library. We also plan to meet all summer, for those who live here fulltime, on the first and third Friday. Bring a sack lunch. All meetings are open to the public. Visitors are always welcome. We have changed our format for our meetings. We spend our time working on our Ancestry. When someone has a problem, we help each other out. Meeting dates: 4th May 18th May For further information check out our website at www.bouseg- eniesaz.org or www.facebook. com/bousegeniesaz, or contact Bousegenies@gmail.com. We also post on Facebook's Bouse Bugle. Bouse Genealogical Society This week, April 15-21, is National Volunteer Week. Get involved with a local volunteer group or start your own project. Serve.gov offers ways to help your community. Benefits of volunteering Perhaps the first and biggest ben- efit people get from volunteering is the satisfaction of incorporating service into their lives and making a difference in their community and country. The intangible benefits alone— such as pride, satisfaction, and accomplishment—are worthwhile reasons to serve. In addition, when we share our time and talents we: • Solve Problems • Strengthen Communities • Improve Lives • Connect to Others • Transform Our Own Lives Benefit Your Health Over the past two decades we have also seen a growing body of re- search that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social ones. This re- search, which is presented by CNCS in a report titled "The Health Ben- efits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research," has established a strong relationship between volun- teering and health: those who vol- unteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer. Comparisons of the health benefits of volunteering for different age groups have also shown that older volunteers are the most likely to re- ceive greater benefits from volun- teering, whether because they are more likely to face higher incidence of illness or because volunteering provides them with physical and so- cial activity and a sense of purpose at a time when their social roles are changing. Some of these findings also indicate that volunteers who devote a "con- siderable" amount of time to volun- teer activities (about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit posi- tive health outcomes. www.nationalservice.gov Desert Messenger offers FREE Classified Ads! Here's the small print: Items for sale under $1000. Private Party Only. 1 per month. Yard/Garage/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

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