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Volume 65 | Number 52
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CELEBRATING THE RESIDENTIAL PARK COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
Outdoor ‘al fresco’ dining program coming to Palm Canyon Drive
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ith the fall season just around the corner and the promise of cooler temperatures, on Thursday night the Palm Springs City Council unanimously voted to move forward with a new outdoor “al fresco” dining pilot program, which would fully close part of Palm Canyon Drive. Current COVID-19 emergency orders prohibit restaurants from offering indoor dining, which has meant residents and visitors must dine outside. The pilot program, which is expected to kick off within the next two weeks, would allow for a full closure of Palm Canyon Drive between Baristo Road and Tahquitz Canyon Way. Restaurants who are not in the closure area still have an option to expand outdoor dining on
sidewalks with temporary land use permits, according to City’s Development Services Director, Flinn Fagg, who noted that additional restaurant dining options are also being considered for parking lots.
“We recognize that our local restaurants have struggled tremendously since the spread of COVID-19 effectively changed how we all operate,” said Councilmember Dennis Woods, who serves as the City’s liaison for expanding outdoor dining. “Staff has been working diligently with stakeholders over the last several months to develop an outdoor dining pilot program that we hope will make outdoor dining safer by allowing for social distancing and help our local economy as we head into the fall season in the Coachella Valley when typically many of our part-time residents and tourists return.” For more information about outdoor dining and applying for a temporary land use permit, visit palmspringsca.gov/alfresco.
Registration open for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
P
eople 50 and over can register for fall online classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is a program designed for adults 50 and older who want to experience learning for the fun of it. OLLI offers non-credit, university-level courses, but without the grades, tests or homework.
Membership is open to adults who enjoy learning, regardless of their educational background. Annual membership is $75; then members choose as many courses as they like and pay for those courses on an individual basis. Six-week courses are $50 each; three-week courses are $30. Course topics typically include the arts, history, literature, economics, natural sciences, philos-
ophy and more. Participants can try a week of classes from Sept. 21-25 for $10 each with no membership required. They can then choose to become an OLLI member and select additional courses during the regular fall term that starts on Oct. 5.
• Only two sports have been played on the moon — golf and the javelin throw.
• In 2015, Godzilla was made an official resident of the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo. The “King of Monsters” was not only given Japanese citizenship, but also appointed as the ward’s tourism ambassador.
• Knowing they might never return safely from the moon, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew worried about the prospect of leaving their families without financial support, but couldn’t take out life insurance policies due to the extreme risks of their mission. Instead, they signed hundreds of autographs to be sold if they didn’t make it home. Thankfully, those weren’t needed, but still show up in space memorabilia auctions today, going for as much as $30,000.
For more information, call 909 5378270 or visit csusb.edu/OLLI.
• Hot air balloons can’t be used in the rain because the water would boil from the heat, destroying the fabric. * A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t. © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which activity uses terms such as baste, bias and selvage? 2. MYTHOLOGY: What are the Norns? 3. AD SLOGANS: Which product uses the advertising slogan “Vermont’s Finest”? 4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of New Zealand? 5. MUSIC: Which Madonna song features a recitation of 16 cultural icons? 6. U.S. STATES: How many states begin with the letter “A”? 7. HISTORY: Who was queen consort to French and English kings in the 12th century? 8. LITERATURE: Which 20th-century novel begins with the line, “All children, except one, grow up”? 9. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president detested broccoli and banned it from his meals? 10. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of crabs called? © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6