Vol. 12: #26 • Irony • (6/19/2016) Tidbits of Coachella Valley by Tidbits of Coachella Valley

VAL L

Over

4 Million 65,000 Readers Weekly

WeeklyNationwide! Readers Valley Wide!

of Coachella Valley



LC O

So Cal Sliding Doors ...and you’re one of them. Prem. Front Pg ® © 2016 TheNeatest Neatest Little Paper Read “The Little Paper EverEver Read” Feb. 14, 2016 Vol. 12 - No. 8 Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com Week of June 19, Published 2016 by: AdVenture ForMedia Advertising CallFor (760) 320-0997 • TidbitsPalmSprings.com Vol. XII Issue No. 26 all rights reserved

ADVERTISING PROOF inal Changes DUE: Mon., Mar. 31 5:00 p.m..

TIDBITS ENJOYS A FEW CHUCKLES ABOUT

• Repair or Replace Windows • Patio Door Rollers • New Screen Doors STOP FIGHTING YOUR SLIDING DOOR • Mirror Wardrobe So. California Doors & Tracks • All Types of Window PAY LESS SENIOR & Door Glass for the DISCOUNTS BEST! • Tracks & Rollers 760.574.7621 • Free Estimates SoCalSlidingDoors.com

view carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

act your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

FREE

of Coachella Valley

Dr. Sohail Ahmad Premium Front Page 13xReserved All Rights April 6, 2014 Vol. 10 - No. 15

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

by Janet Spencer

Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine

● Non-Operative Solutions for treating knee pain ● Knee specialist experienced in performing knee arthroscopy, partial and complete knee replacement. ADVERTISING PROOF ● Ligament repairs and sports medicine treatments. Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

Center of Excellence Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. in Orthopedic Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Surgery Knee Replacement Surgery

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

Dr. Ahmad has served Coachella Valley patients for fifteen years, introducing Property of the newest medical advancements. AdVenture Media, Inc. Make your appointment today and find how personalized one-on-one orthopedic care makes such a positive difference. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

FREE

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Sohail Ahmad, MD

36-915 Cook St. Ste. #103

Palm Desert, CA

760-340-1003

● No facility charges ● Workers Comp. ● Medicare, PPO ● All ages accepted ● Evening Hours www.AhmadOrthopedics.com

DON’T FIGHT IT! SLIDE IT!

The dictionary definition of ‘irony’ says: “A situation WHEN IT COMES TO SERVICE WE’RE IN A that is strange or humorous, in which the outcome happens in a way that seems contrary to what would LEAGUE be normally expected.” Now that we have it defined, follow along as we look at a few choice examples of irony at work in the world around us -- and haveADVERTISING a PROOF chuckle or two while we're at it. TUES., JUNE 14

Final Changes DUE:

review Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric • In 1966 Harry Guyton, who Please worked for carefully. the prosecutor’s office in San Francisco, put his name * changes or corre $ Contact your Tidbits representative with A/Cimmediately Tune-Up on a waiting list to get a reserved parking space in a Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 city-owned garage downtown. Nineteen years later he was notified that the parking space was his… two weeks after he had retired.

Weight Control Centers • City Public Information Director Randy Myer of Professional 760.235.4423 | Property CallTheGeneral.com of Front Pg. Prem. Positon AdVenture Media, Inc. Lexington, KY, paid $600 for super steel-belted THE BEST AIR 26 CONDITIONING 2016 Vol.LITTLE 12 - No. tires guaranteed to be bulletproof, bombproof, and June 19, AND PLUMBING COMPANY IN THE DESERT FREE Promo code 08598. Not valid with other offers or on previous purchases. See Company spikeproof. He later got a flat tire -- after running Representative for specific details that apply. *Per system. Offer expires 6/30/16. Lic #686310 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 over a ballpoint pen. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

71780 San Jacinto Dr. Building I Rancho Mirage, CA 92270

(760) 568-3461

valleybits@msn.com

To Our Cutomers:

Due to the recent water damage at our facility, our normal business operation has been temporaril interrupted. We wil y open again as soonl as possible! We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Irony: Turn to page 3

ADVERTISING PROOF WANT TO RUN YOUR OWN BUSINESS? Final Changes DUE: 5:00 - Your friends at PW

PaperPlease in Your Area review carefully.

We provide the opportunity for success!

Most Insurance Plans Accepted

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

• In Cedar Lake, Indiana, a large watchdog quietly observed two men robbing his master’s store. When a police officer came by to write the report, the dog viciously attacked the cop's leg.

Publish a

DesertVeinSpecialists.com

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

• When Frank Taylor, age 86, was arrested in Hollywood on charges of malicious mischief, he used his free phone call to contact the Los Angeles airport -- and make a bomb threat. Complimentary Vein Screenings to evaluate for Varicose and Spider Veins

5:00

Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corre Call 1.800.523.3096 (U.S.) Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 1.866.631.1567 (CAN)

www.tidbitsweekly.com

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

FREE

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

760.320.0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

Fax: 760.320.1630

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 2

and half of those happen in water that is shoulder deep or shallower.

THOSE AMAZING

TRIVIA NEWSFPROOF ADVERTISING RONT al Changes DUE: MON., NOV. 18 5:00 p.m..

ANIMALS

• Victims who are wading are more likely to die than submerged scuba divers, perhaps because divers are better able to fight the attacker.

One in a series

• Scientists are unable to explain why men are 13 times more likely than women to be attacked.

w carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

SHARK FACTS

review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Beach House Yogurt BZ 4C 26x disc rate (Answers on page 16) Nov. 24, 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 48 CLIP AND SAVE

In recognition of this month's Shark Week, Tidbits thought it appropriate to mention some quick facts about these formidible predators of the sea. • The word shark is thought to come from the German word ‘schurke’ meaning villain or scoundrel. • Shark teeth are replaceable. Their jaws are lined with several rows of teeth ready to move forward as the front teeth fall out. A shark can use up to 20,000 teeth in a lifetime. Some shark mouths have 3,000 teeth in use at once. • Fossil shark teeth found near Chesapeake Bay were five inches long. The prehistoric shark they came from would have been large enough for a person to stand upright between its jaws. • The largest shark ever caught in modern times had three-inch teeth and was 30 feet long. In contrast, the midwater shark of the Gulf of Mexico is only six inches long when mature.

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Fax: 760.320.1630

of Coachella Valley

All The Rights Reserved Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

valleybits@msn.com

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

• The rough skin of a shark is not covered with scales, but with dentricles, which are akin to tiny teeth. A shark can do much damage by simply brushing against a human. • Two-thirds of the brains of some shark species are devoted to odor detection. Sharks can detect one part of blood per ten billion parts of water, which means they could detect one drop of blood in a volume of water the size of an Olympic swimming pool.

1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Honduras? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which one of Christopher Columbus’ three ships was wrecked in the New World and didn’t return to Spain? 3. EXPLORERS: What was Christopher Columbus’ nationality? 4. MOVIES: What was the name of the character played by John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction”? 5. GAMES: What is the best hand in poker? 6. ANATOMY: What is the most common blood type in humans? 7. LANGUAGE: What characteristic makes the word “facetious” interesting? 8. LITERATURE: In which of Shakespeare’s plays does the ghost of Banquo appear? 9. RELIGION: What are the seven virtues as defined in early Christianity? 10. MUSIC: What instrument does the musician James Galway play? Answers (Trivia Test answers page 16) 1. Tegucigalpa 2. Santa Maria 3. Italian

June 6, 2016

ATTACK FACTS

King Features Weekly Service

• Sharks will eat anything. Some of the odd things that have been found in their stomachs include a roll of roofing paper, a telephone book, pots and pans, a full bottle of wine, a keg of nails, and a toilet bowl. • The chances of being attacked by a shark are about equal to being struck by lightning. About 20% of shark attack victims die. • Between 50 and 100 fatal shark attacks occur worldwide each year. In the U.S., the majority of attacks occur off Florida and California, because both sharks and people prefer to swim in warm waters. • Half of attacks occur within 200 feet of shore,

• Sharks seem to be attracted to bright, contrasting colors. Yellow is their favorite -- a color commonly used in flotation devices, rescue equipment, and scuba gear. Black is the color that sharks are most likely to ignore. • When sharks choose a victim, they tend to concentrate only on that person, totally ignoring other people who are trying to help. Feb. 2016thing • When under attack by aMon. shark, the15, worst to do is to freeze motionless. That’s what sharks expect. What they don’t expect -- and don’t like -- is prey that fights back. Swim directly at the shark, blow scuba bubbles, wave your arms and legs, and try to hit it on the snout, gills, or eyes. • Dolphins have been trained to protect divers from sharks. Preferred Plbg, Htg. & A/C • Off Charleston, South junk cars are 1/8 pg. • 4C • 26xCarolina, disc. sunk toFeb. form artificial 21,an2016 • Vol.reef. 12 - One No. 9scuba diver was attacked by a shark while spearfishing, but escaped by shutting himself in the back seat of a Chevrolet stationwagon.  CLIP AND SAVE

We didn’t know, you didn’t know... WE DO IT ALL!

760.320.0997 4 Million

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

Vol. XII Issue 26

PRE-SEASON SPECIAL!

$50 OFF

YOUR NEXT

• PLUMBING or • AIR CONDITIONING

SERVICE

“We’re sweethearts to work with, but we’re serious about our service!” -- Bruce Smith, Owner

*with the purchase of a cost-savings Preferred Partnership *Cannot be combined Call Today For Details. Through 6-30-2016 with other offers.

SCE Quality Installer

home energy renovation opportunity

turn to the experts

Available for Emergencies 24 HOURS A DAY!

“The Valley’s Preferred Choice for Over 30 Years!” Don’t Delay: Call TODAY!

Residential & Commercial Certified Technicians

760-863-0832

1. Wh sci QUIZ BITS Tidbits of Coachella Valley mo by Kara Kovalchik & SandyPROOF WoodPage 3 ADVERTISING sea TUES., April 5, 2016

Week of June 19, 2016

Irony: (from page one) • Three men were hanged in 1911 for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry, and were hanged in London at Greenberry Hill. The names of the three men were Green, Berry, and Hill.

DUE: • Police arrested Dennis John Alson of Van Nuys, 5:00 named simply “Beach” is in land-locked Final North Changes 1. Double ‘Daisy’ was originally a his California oncheck: forgery charges. He paid bail  Pric Please review carefully.  Phone Number(s) Spelling Dakota. 2. Wh with a cashier’s check for $1,500, which turned nickname for what longer • Lucille Ball was once dismissed from Contact a dramayour Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correc girl’s name? Irony: To page 15 tra class because the instructor thought she was too Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 firs shy in front of an audience.

ADVERTISING PROOF spr • In the 1950s the BBC had a new building erected • In 1964 a casting director was looking for a UIZ S 5:00 p.m.. Royal Family hasIT been DUE: man to portray the role of U.S. President in a Final Changes next to their old building with connecting halls Please review carefully.called Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ‘Lilibet’ 1. Why was the 1953 Snow(as Festival film called The Best Man. Someone suggested between. The Music Department worried about representative immediately with changes or corrections. cancelled in Sheridan, Wyoming? least in private) that Ronald Reagan should be offered the part,Contact your Tidbits possible damage when transporting the valuable Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 2. since Why waschildhood? U.S. Rep. Charles Joelson but the director immediately dismissed the grandADVERTISING pianos between the PROOF buildings, so they upset by souvenir statues of the U.S. idea stating, “No, No. Reagan doesn’t have the asked carpenters to build a mock-up of the Mom’s Cleaning MarinesServices raising the flag at Iwo Jima that Final Changes DUE: Friday, 6/19/15 5:00 p.m.. presidential look.” largest piano to see if it could be maneuvered were being sold in Washington D.C.? Bz BW 6x disc. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ADVERTISING PROOF Q around corners and fit through the hallways and • The manager of a movie theater in South Korea April 10, 2016 Vol. 12Answers - No.page 16 16 Contact your Tidbits representative immediately changes or corrections.in doors. After the model pianowith was constructed 5:00 A p.m decided that the running time of The Sound of Final Changes DUE: Mon. 4/18/16 Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  their workshop, they found it was too large to go Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Music was too long. He cut down the length by Mary Klewein 1. V through the shop doors. editing out all the songs. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections Professional House Cleaning 2. C QUIZ Office: 760-320-0997 BITS Fax: 760-320-1630 • NASA was preparing to launch a rocket in order • 5,000 copies of John Steinbeck’s book “The Honest, dependable service ANSWERS ● 25+ years experience to study lightning. As the rocket rested on its Wayward Bus” were in a truck enroute from ● No job too big or too small launching pad prior to take-off it was struck by the bindery when it was involved in a traffic ● Home ● Condo ● Apartment ● Small Office 1. MARGARET ● I also do windows lightning,ADVERTISING triggering a false take-off that crippled accident. The truck was wrecked and nearly all PROOF ADVERTISING PROOF ● Reasonable rates 2. QUEEN ELIZABETH II the space ship andDUE: ruined Mon., the mission. 9/21/15 5:00 p.m.. 5,000 copies of the book burned in the resulting ● Excellent References Final Changes Jenny’s Window Fashions Final Changes DUE:● Canadian born (Yes, I speak English!5:00 p.m ) review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hoursfire. The cause of the accident? A wayward bus • Please Doctors in Los Angeles went on strike in 1976 to 1/16 pg 4C 13x disc. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  MOM’S CLEANING SERVICES Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. had weaved across to the wrong side of the road. protest malpractice insurance rates. During the Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 April 10 - Aug. 28,760-671-9091 2016 (every other week) strike the LA death rate dropped by 18 percent. • Albert J . Lowry, author of “How To Contact Becomeyour Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Financially Independent by Investing in Real • New York City spent $54,000 in 1981 on an QUO Clip & Save Estate” and other best-selling get-rich books, exhibit designed to lure foreign manufacturers to Property of Property of filed for bankruptcy under Chapter VII of the AdVenture Media, Inc. establish their business in the city. The elaborate AdVenture Media, Inc. U.S. Bankruptcy Code. display, themed “Make it In New York,” was “Nicknames stick to people, and th Herd Property Maintenance manufactured in New Selection. Full Service. • Horatio Alger, famous for his rags-to-riches 1/16th pg, Spot Color, 13xJersey. ridiculousFullare theFREE most adhesive FREE 760.320.0997 ofFax: 760.320.1630 Coachella Valley OF A FRACTION THE PRICE! A FRACTION OF THE PRICE! 27are - Dec. 2015 • in Vol. 11: Issues #40the - #52 stories died penniless. • Sept. There lots20, of towns America with word fy autiAllThe Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ~ Thomas C. Haliburton et me be760.320.0997 L Rights Reserved Fax: 760.320.1630 ADVERTISING PROOF “Beach” in their names -- Miami Beach, Long • The street address where in 1871 Mrs. O’Leary’s e • Mobile Showroom your hom Fri., 4/22/16 5:00 p.m.. Beach etc. But the only town in America that is • FREE Custom In-Home cow reportedly kicked over the lantern that Final Changes DUE:All Rights Reserved Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s) Consultation!  Spelling  Prices  Hours started the Chicago fire, is now the location of Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. ADVERTISING PROOF the Chicago Fire Academy.

2. Which member of Britain’s ��

s n io h s a F w o d in W s ’ Jenny 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

HANDYMAN SERVICES 5:00 p.m..

& HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Property of Media, Contact your Tidbits representativeAdVenture immediately withInc. changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630 Property of

AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

At the BEST Prices!

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

The NeatestLittle Paper Read Valley of Ever Coachella Please review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

For Advertising (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com TheCall Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

760.320.0997 Fax:with 760.320.1630 Contact your Tidbits representative immediately changes or corrections. Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

MENTION THIS AD FOR

JACK HERD -OWNER-

10%

Proudly serving the desert for 16 years

OFF 6

Exp. 6-30-1

www.herdpm.com

760.702.7581 Licensed • Insured

Call Today

GETS GE NUG D WLE O N OF K Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Eccentric painter FREE Salvador Dali bought a large Property of AdVenture Inc. castle in Media, Spain for his wife. In one of the rooms there stood a rather FREE radiator, so ugly, ofold-fashioned Coachella Valley 760.320.0997 760.320.1630 him if he would his wifeFax:asked paint screen for it. He did. All Rights a Reserved The screen depicted in realistic detail the radiator it was hiding. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

• The first time the Harlem Globetrotters ever actually played a game in Harlem was in 1968 -- after they had been in existence for over 40 years. • In Nebraska, the state department paid a consultant at the rate of $200 an hour, costing them nearly a quarter million dollars. He was hired to find ways for the state to save money. • In the ancient Greek city of Amyclae, rulers were weary of the panic that ensued whenever the rumor was spread that the Spartan army was on the way to attack the city. To stop the panic, they decreed that anyone spreading such false rumors would be put to death. When the Spartan army was actually sighted, the citizenry was too frightened to report it. By the time the Amyclae rulers realized the enemy was at their door, the city was overrun and taken without a fight.

valleybits@msn.com

20% OFF ALL Shutters,

Office: 760-320-0997

Serving the Coachella Valley since 1999.

valleybits@msn.com

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

Final Changes DUE:

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

Fax: 760-320-1630

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Shades & Blinds with this ad only. Not valid with other discounts.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Jenny’s here to help!

Exp. 5/31/16 6-30-16

FREE

Our FREE Custom In-Home Consultation Ensures the The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read 760.320.0997 Fax:AT 760.320.1630 Right Style, Right Color, & Right Fit. ALL THE RIGHT PRICE! of Coachella Valley

Published by: AdVenture Media

Call me TODAY:

(760)

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Licensed • Bonded CA Lic. #919196

F.A.C.E.

Facial And Cosmetic Enhancement

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Surgery Center of the Desert

A New Look for You

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

FREE of Coachellaby Valley performed Jennifer Hearne MD, The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read the area’s premier specialist DDS, 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 in Maxillofacial Surgery, & fellowAll Rights Reserved ship trained in Facial Cosmetics. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©2005

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

valleybits@msn.com

Property of State-of-the-art facility & friendly staffMedia, - for Inc. complete patient comfort AdVenture

• The American yew tree is a shrub used extensively in landscaping around Washington D.C. The botanical name of the shrub is Taxus.

Specialized Procedures: FREE of Coachella Valley • Facelift • Necklift • Eyelid CorADVERTISING PROOF The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read rection • Botox & Facial Fillers 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. • Rhinoplasty, Nose Surgery Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

• When Joyce Lott was arrested on drug charges and sent to prison in South Carolina, she was surprised to find her long-lost sister, who was also in prison for drug charges. When the newspaper ran an article about the unlikely reunion, the sisters got a message from their long-lost half-brother. He was in another part of the prison doing time for drugs, larceny, and aggrivated robbery.

your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. •Contact Maxillofacial: Reconstructive 760-320-0997 760-320-1630 Dental &Office: Facial Surgery, Fax: Extractions, Orthognathic Surgery • Liposuction: Legs, Arms or Full Body Emergency

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Care Available

Most insurances accepted

Jennifer Hearne

(760) 459-2880

MD, DDS

TWO CONVENIENT OFFICE LOCATIONS:

 1900 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Ste. C-4 • Palm Springs

 78-080 Avenida La Fonda, La Quinta

Learn more online • www.JenniferHearneMD.com

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 4

Vol. XII Issue 26

more likely than parents to send money with no questions asked. Scam artists understand this and take full advantage of it. ® Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has offered the following tips for consumers to proby Mary Hunt tect themselves from the grandparent scam: --”Talk to your family about these scams and discuss how you would communicate during a true emergency.” --”If you get a call from a grandchild or other family member who claims to be in trouble, ask questions only your real family members There is a very real and very terrible would know how to answer.” scam happening in the U.S. in which con artists --”Don’t send money via wire transfer are targeting and scamming money from grand® or prepaid card in response to an unexpected parents. phone call. These are preferred payment meth It begins with something most grandparby Mary ods of scammers because they are difficult to ents want more of:Hunt a phone call from a grandtrace or recover once payment is provided.” child, or so they think. The caller pretends to be “Limit the amount of information you post in distress about something; he’s been hurt in a car accident or arrested or gotten in some kind of online and limit who can view your information. For example, don’t post upcoming travel plans trouble, and he needs money -- fast. PROOF online,ADVERTISING because scammers could use that infor One former scammer told CBS News that Friday, 5/27/16 Final Changes DUE: p.m.. mation to take advantage of your family. 5:00 Thieves scammers can make up to $10,000 in a single Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours are also happy to have that information so they day on the grandparent scam. When he was doContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. can empty out your home knowing that you're ing it, he just kept calling and calling until someOffice: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 out of town.” one took the bait, and then started calling again. *** A typical conversation goes like this: Mary invites questions, comments and tips “Hi, grandma and grandpa. It’s me, at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or c/o Everyday Johnny. I’m in a little bit of trouble right now. Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Yeah, Ashley is good. But I’ve got a problem. If I Seal Beach, CA 90740. This column will answer tell you, you have to promise to keep it between questions of general interest, but letters cannot be us. Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’d freak out answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of and wouldn’t understand. I’m on vacation. But I www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance memInfinitee Travel Network ber website and the author “Debt-Proof got into a little accident, and I was arrested for a 1/16th page, BW,of13x discountLiving,” rate released in 2014. To find out more about Mary and read DUI. Things got out of control, and I need you to June 5 - August 28, 2016 • Vol. 12: Issue #24 - #36 her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate send me money. Pleease.” Web page at www.creators.com. PROOF ADVERTISING These days, it’s not hard to find enough COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. personal information about someone -- name, Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours college, location, etc. -- to make the story sound Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. believable. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 ADVERTISING PROOF To make things even more convincing, Property of Mon. Final Changes DUE:AdVenture 5:00 p.m.. Media,3/28/16 Inc. scammers will sometimes implore a fake police Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours officer or attorney to get on the phone and exFREE or corrections. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes plain the seriousness of the situation (to post bail Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 or cover medical costs, for example). All Rights Reserved The grandparents are asked to purchase prepaid money cards, which are commonly available at grocery stores and convenience stores. Once they purchase the cards and put money on CST #211675-50 them, the scammer instructs them to provide the 11+ Years of A+ Rating with&the multi-digit code on the back. Then, they can go J. Anthony Plumbing, Heating Air Conditioning Excellenc Better Business Bureau in the Traveel online and drain the funds. 1/12th page, 4c, 13x discount rate Service This is not a new scam. You may have Call Us May 8 - July 31, 2016 • Vol. 12: Issue #20 - ry#32 Indust heard about it in the past. But this crime isn’t Today: winding down. On the contrary, it is growing. Innocent grandparents are being scammed every Property of CLIP AND SAVE AdVenture Media, Inc. day (the average reported loss of victims in Ohio was more than $4,000 in 2015), all for the love of FREE their grandchildren. 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 $44 SA Grandparents who fall for the scam adVINGS All Rights Reserved Property of AdVenture check Media, Inc. The Desert’s most thorough list: mit to being heartbroken and feeling foolish. As Voltage & Amperage to all motors with electronic meters with all kinds of financial abuse of elders, many FREE ADVERTISING $ Contactors Pressure switch cut out circuitry PROOF actually try to hide it for feeling embarrassed and Reg. 99 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Electrical lock out circuitry All wiring & connections PER SYSTEM fearing losing control of the money they have left. Reserved with  thisPrices ad. Not valid Please review carefully. Double check: AllRights Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Hours Condensate pan drainage & fittings Fan belts & adjust with other offers. One of the reasons this scam works is Exp. 5/31/16 6-30-16 Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. tension Adequate refrigerant charge the special the relationship between grandparent

Everyday CHEAPSKATE

By Samantha Weaver

* It was award-winning Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic Margaret Atwood who made the following sage observation: “War is what happens when language fails.” * Many people don’t realize that the parachute was invented before the airplane. The first person to use a parachute and survive was Louis-Sebastien Lenormand, who jumped off the tower of the Montpelier Observatory in 1783. * You’ve doubtless heard of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” -- or at least the famous line “Quoth the Raven, nevermore.” When the poem was published in 1845, it immediately became wildly popular, catapulting the previously obscure poet to national celebrity. Future president Abraham Lincoln liked it so much that he reportedly committed the lengthy verse to memory. Despite criticism from such literary lights as William Butler Yeats (who called the poem “insincere and vulgar ... its execution a rhythmical trick”) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (who said, “I see nothing in it”), the popularity of “The Raven” continued unabated, inspiring a plethora of parodies, including “The Gazelle,” “The Turkey” and “The Pole-Cat.” Popularity didn’t translate into financial success, however; Poe died in 1849, shortly after being found a penniless wanderer on the streets of Baltimore. His death has been blamed on consumption, alcohol poisoning or an opium overdose, but the true cause remains a mystery. * If you’re planning to take a cruise this summer, try to remember to use your right foot when you take your first step aboard; it’s considered bad luck to step aboard with your left foot. * You might be surprised to learn that in Russia, there are laws that prohibit the production, import or sale of lace panties. *** Thought for the Day: “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” -- John Morley (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Crime Alert for Grandparents Everyday CHEAPSKATE

TIMESHARE •Rent •Trade •Liquidate 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

valleybits@msn.com

Infinitee Travel Network (760) 652-5588

BEAT THE HEAT 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Air Conditioning Tune-Up For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media



4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

valleybits@msn.com

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

and grandchild. It’s different than the relationship between parent and child. Grandparents are

Office: 760-320-0997

Service also includes:

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

valleybits@msn.com

Fax: 760-320-1630

• Replace filter with new washable filter • Clean condenser coil • Lubricate all moving parts • Provide written evaluation of air conditioning system.

Serving the Desert for 19 years.

DRAIN STOPPAGE $ SPECIAL! SPECIAL!

Branch line only. with this ad. Not valid with 6-30-16 other offers. Exp. Exp. 5/31/16

Sink • Toilet • Drain • Bathtub • Disposal

Of all the rooms in a house, which

The living room!

is the most ironic to die in?

• All Work Fully Guaranteed • Emergency Service 24/7 • Radio Dispatched Fleet els • Servicing All Makes & Mod

Call Today:

Residential / Commercial / Remodels

760.343.2121 Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

ADVERTISING PROOF Desert Barber & Beauty 5:00 p.m.. r Tidbits of Coachella Valley 5discount Business Final Card, Changes Spot ColorDUE: (Black, White & Yellow),Page 13x

Week of June 19, 2016

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hour

TerriBle Termites

<<$78 per week>> your Tidbits representative immediately changes bricks. On a golf in Africa, golfers tee • Termites devour not only all kinds of wood Contact May 29, 2016course • Volume 12:with Issue #23or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 off from the flat top of a 15-foot termite mound and wood products, but also wool, ivory, while 100 other mounds on the course provide rubber, plastic, and even manure. They have unique hazards.  been known to eat the corks right out of wine bottles. One kind of Panamanian termite can CLIP AND SAVE gnaw through lead sheathing on cables and even Style • Cut • Color  Men • Women • Kids through concrete. Voracious Australian termites Property of 6/10/16 Walk-Ins Welcome can reduce abandoned ranch buildings to dust in AdVenture Media, Inc. COLORING, Fri., or by Appointment a matter of a few years. CUT & BLOWDRY • Some termite colonies in Africa are estimated to be more than 80 years old and contain 3 million or more termites. All the termites in a colony are descended from the same set of parents. A queen termite is considerably larger than the worker termites. A queen can lay 84,000 eggs in a single day.

• In South Carolina, a wedding party in a photographer’s studio was being photographed when the floor collapsed, dumping them into the basement. In Mississippi, the band playing in the bandstand during 4th of July festivities plunged through the floor. In Tennessee, pacifists • Over 50 species of birds eat termites. An staged a peace rally at the courthouse. American orinthologist who dissected a flicker (a type of Legionaries held a counter-protest and paraded woodpecker) found 1,109 termites in the bird's in military style up the courthouse steps, which stomach. collapsed beneath them. All of these incidents ADVERTISING • Termites construct tunnels inPROOF all directions from were caused by termites. Mon., 5/9/2016 Final Changes DUE: p.m.. their nest to avoid the sunlight, some5:00 of which • In 1951 a warehouse in Missouri was foundPlease to review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours can extend 100 yards or more. Workmen once be termite infested. Just then one of the worst Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. uncovered an underground system of tunnels 13 Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 floods in the city’s history inundated the town. feet below the surface. For a full week, the warehouse was submerged. When the flood receded, the owners of the • Although no kind of North American termite makes its nest above ground, the practice warehouse figured that their termite problem is common in tropical climates. Cementwas over. However, after the mud was shoveled like termite columns may rise 30 feet high. out, the termites were found to be still alive and Composed of earth, saliva, and excrement, the thriving. On a national scale, termites do more Glennatough. Huntley material is extremely When crushed and damage than lightning, tornadoes, arson, and Business Card, BW, 6x discount rateroads, rolled, it forms marvelous tennis courts, vandalism combined. May 15, 2016 June 19,One 2016 • Vol. 12: #21 - #26 pottery, and -bricks. large mound yielded • Termites are found in every state except Alaska. enough material to make almost half a million Texas has more species of termites than any other state with 17. California is a close second, ADVERTISING PROOF followed by Arizona and Florida. Areas of least Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours infestation include Wyoming, Montana, and the Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Dakotas. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630

$55

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

SAVE SAVE $$23! 23!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Senior & Veteran

DISCOUNT

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

With this ad. Exp. 6/30/16

FREE

OFF

Haircut with ad. Exp. 6/30/16

Ask for Muji: (760) 864-8500 Plaza Rio Vista: at Landau, by Starbucks

2016 • Vol.• 12: Issue City #26 67850June Vista 19, Chino, Ste.#102 Cathedral

Hours: Mon-Sat: 8-6 • Sun: 9-3  www.DesertBarberAndBeautyShop.com

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

LEARN PIANO Put Music In Your Life!

Property of • Termites have been able to expand their range, • Beginners to very Advanced AdVenture Media, Inc. • Adults & Children due in large part to the invention of central • Lessons in Your Home ADVERTISING PROOF heating which keeps them warm throughout the • CA Credentialed Teacher 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 winter. Infestation is so heavyMAR. in Washington, TUES., 22,. 2016 5:00 p.m.. “I make learning easy and fun.” Final Changes DUE: All Rights Reserved D.C. that city codes prohibit the construction of view carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Call Me wooden floors in city buildings. Termites were Today: -Piano Studiotact your Tidbits representative immediately once found living on the 11th floorwith of a changes high-riseor corrections. hotel in 760-320-0997 Silver Moon Beach, Florida. They got Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 all the water they needed from a leaky ice-cube machine and an incontinent poodle. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

Glenna Huntley

• Although all termites are deaf, they are extremely vibrations, which is why they never O.R.D.sensitive Generalto Contractors Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. nest railroad bowling alleys, or factories 1/12 pg. 4Cin26x disc. ties, with heavy machinery. March 27, 2016 Vol. 12 - No. 14 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

FREE

valleybits@msn.com

30 years Experience

760.391.2878

One gallon of oil can ruin up to one million gallons of fresh water. Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

FREE

source: www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/usedoil/

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Finest Quality Kitchen and Bath Cabinets in the Valley at UNBEATABLE PRICES, Guaranteed!

Complete omplete KitChens itChens starting tarting at at

$6,999

In the Coachella Valley this means one oil change could contaminate one million gallons of precious groundwater. never put used oil or other waste into a storm drain.

Call For • ALL WOOD CONSTRUCTION A pp ointment • OVER 20 STYLES & FINISHES • SELF- CLOSING DOORS & DRAWERS • QUARTZ & NATURAL STONE COUNTERTOPS FREE ESTIMATES & DESIGN SERVICES VISIT OUR SHOWROOM

760.674.5888

ADVERTISING PROOF 7 • p.m.. Palm Desert Final Changes DUE: 74991 Joni Drive, Ste. 5:00

& Insured Lic. No. 893549 Please review carefully. Double check:  PhoneBonded Number(s)  Spelling---  Prices  Hours

www.ordkitchenandbathdesigns.com

to learn about proper disposal and locations

visit Indio.org or CalRecycle.ca.gov

Used OIl COlleCtIOn eVents

Funded by CalRecycle

sept 17, 2016 • 9am to 12pm Drop off your used oil and filters

At the Home depot parking lot, 42100 Jackson st., Indio, CA

Value the Future

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

CVTidbitsOilSlickAd.6.86x6.SEPT2016.indd 1

6/6/16 1:47 PM

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 6

pening? -- John T., via email

Write to Cindy at King Features Weekly Service, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803; or e-mail her at letters@cindyelavsky.com. ADVERTISING PROOF

PRO CLEANING & HOUSEHOLD SERVICES

413-9292

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Property of of Coachella AdVenture Media, Inc.

Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

• TRUSTWORTHY • LICENSED • BONDED

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630

Published by: AdVenture Media

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

1. Zootopia ...............................(PG) 1. X-Men: Apocalypse ....... (PG-13) animated James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender 2. London Has Fallen ............... (R) 2. Alice Through the Looking Gerard Aaron Eckhart GlassButler, .........................................(PG) 3. Deadpool ................................ Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp (R) Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin 3. The Angry Birds Movie ......(PG) 4. Whiskey animated Tango Foxtrot ........ (R) Tina Margot Robbie 4. Fey, Captain America: 5. Gods of Egypt ................(PG-13) (PG-13) Civil War ............................ Brenton Thwaites, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau 5. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (R) 6. Risen ............................... (PG-13) Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton 6. The Jungle Book .................(PG) Neel Sethi 7. Kung Fu Panda 3 ................(PG) 7. The Nice Guys ....................... (R) animated Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling 8. The Revenant ........................ (R) 8. Money Monster Tom ..................... Leonardo DiCaprio, Hardy (R) George the Clooney, Roberts(PG-13) 9. Eddie EagleJulia ............. 9. Love and Friendship ...........(PG) Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny 10. The Witch ............................ (R) you patronize 10. Taylor-Joy, Zootopia .............................(PG) Anya RalphWhen Ineson our advertisers, animated

Tell them you saw their ad in Tidbits!

You re in tidbi

Remember:

Revive your spirit

DON’T FORGET! Tell our advertisers you saw their TELLadOUR in

Volunteer Today!

ADVERTISERS Tidbits! THAT YOU SAW THEIR AD IN

Help us provide medical and dental care, housing, food, and so much more. Please contact Charles Huff: (760) 969-5749 Chuff@desertaidsproject.org DONATE TODAY! Drop off at one of our three Hwy 111 stores or to schedule a FREE pick-up call (760) 323-3662 Revivalsstores.com

Palm Springs | Cathedral City | Palm Desert

King Features Weekly Service

Call Today: (760)

March 14, 2016

King Features Weekly Service

We leave it SPARKLING

Photo credit: Jeane-Claude

The “Trainspotting” sequel is officially a go, and production has already started. OrigiMon., 10/19/15 • 5:00 3 PM Final Changes DUE: p.m (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc. nal cast members Ewan McGregor, Ewen BremPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  mer, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle are all Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections returning, as well as director Danny Boyle. Right Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 now the film is using the working title “T2,” but it’s loosely based on the book called “Porno” by “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh. *** READERS: It’s time for another episode of “Canceled or Renewed.” Held over from last Mr. & Mrs. Kleaning week is CBS’s “Limitless.” The series was being Business Card, BW shopped around to other networks, but it failed to 26x discount rate ($51.00/wk • Rate Card #6) find a home, so it now resides in the canceled category. ADVERTISING PROOF And now, onto the CW: “America’s Next Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Top Model” was canceled by the CW but picked Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 up by VH1 in February. However, “Beauty and the Residential • Commercial • Carpets • Windows Beast” is now airing its fourth and final season, • PRESSURE : Affordable Rates and “Containment” is kaput. WASH ice rv Se 7 4/ •2 SERVICE *** y •Dail Seasonal •Weekly •Bi-Weekly HOUSE •Monthly SITTING

June 6, 2016

I have been watching “Person of Interest” since the beginning, and I read in your column that it won’t be back next year. I’m so bummed! Can you give me any scoop as to what to expect for the series finale? -- Steff S., Mims, Florida The sci-fi crime drama -- which stars Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson --takes its final bow on Tuesday, June 21, on CBS. I was fortunate to get to speak with Michael about these last few episodes of this creative and intense series, and he revealed: “I think that the ending is really satisfying. And you do worry about that. You think: ‘Well, what can they do? Samaritan has taken over the world.’ We’re going to try to find a Michael Emerson way for The Machine to do battle with it, but as you can see from the episodes that have already aired, it’s not looking that good. So, what cards have we left to play? It seems like a losing battle now.” Michael enjoyed working with Jim Caviezel these past five years, telling me: “It’s been good, and we made a good odd couple, because in real life we are an odd couple. We lucked out. You can’t plan to have good chemistry among your actors, but we actually do. It was a good, odd chemistry.” As for his future plans, Michael is taking a well-deserved break. “The one thing I cannot contemplate is going right back onto a network series. I want to mix it up a little bit and knock around a little and recharge my battery and do some other kinds of things. Maybe do a play somewhere or get some guests spots. Play some odd, quirky character that I haven’t been able to do before. I would be happy to do a series that shot only 10 episodes a year. Then you would have seven or eight months to do other things, whatever you please. I’ll just see what comes my way.” *** A while back, you had mentioned a sequel to “Trainspotting.” Is that still hap-

Vol. XII Issue 26

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

(Tidbits wouldn't be possible without them)

valleybits@msn.com

Week of June 19, 2016

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 7

24-by-18-inch sheet of heavy-duty foil. Fold edges over and pinch to seal tightly.

Good Recipes from

3. Place package in jelly-roll pan and ADVERTISING PROOF bake until potatoes are tender when pierced Final Changes DUE: Fri., 5/6/16 5:00 p.m.. (through foil) with knife, about 30 minutes. Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Makes 6 accompaniment servings. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. * On June 25, 1876, near Montana’s Little Bighorn River, Indians led by Sioux chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull wipe out Lt. Col. George Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry. Within an hour, Custer and all 215 of his soldiers were dead. Although the Sioux and Cheyenne fought to maintain their traditional ways, within five years almost all would be confined to reservations. * On June 22, 1906, writer and pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh (wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh) is born in New Jersey. She later published several books about her experiences, including “North to the Orient” (1935). * On June 26, 1948, the Berlin Airlift begins as U.S. and British aircraft deliver food and supplies after the city is isolated by a Soviet blockade. By July 15, an average 2,500 tons of supplies were being flown in each day, with planes landing every 4 minutes. * On June 21, 1956, playwright Arthur Miller defies the House Committee on Un-American Activities and refuses to name suspected communists. Miller’s defiance of McCarthyism won him a conviction for contempt of court. * On June 20, 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a “hot line” communication system, a step toward reducing tensions between the two countries following the Cuban Missile Crisis. * On June 23, 1987, Tiffany launches a career-making tour with a live performance in a mall in New Jersey. The 16-year-old singer’s debut album gathered dust until she began her tour of shopping malls, turning the album into a smash hit. * On June 24, 1997, the Walt Disney Corp. orders the recall 100,000 already shipped copies of an album by Insane Clown Posse -- on the day of its planned release. The Southern Baptist Convention had threatened to boycott Disney over the rap duo’s lyrics. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Herbed Roasted Potatoes Potato chunks tossed with parsley and butter cook into tender morsels when foilwrapped. per half

2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated lemon peel 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground black pep-

Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

 Each serving: About 126 calories, 2g protein, 20g carbohydrate, 4g total fat (2g saturated), 10mg cholesterol, 241mg sodium. ***

For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/.

Ultimate Home Repairs

Discount Rate May 15, 2016 • Volume 12: Issue #21 CLIP AND SAVE

PROFESSIONAL  Reliable  Expert

1 1/2 pounds small red potatoes, cut in

Handyman Services

and

home repair

Repairing Desert Homes for over 15 years!

Plumbing • Carpentry • Electrical • Painting Property of

AdVenture Inc. Fans Drywall • Vanities • Cabinets •Media, Ceiling 1. Heat oven to 450 F. In 3-quart sauceFlooring • Laminate • Tile • Showers • Stucco pan, melt butter with parsley, lemon peel, salt Concrete • Pet Doors • Appliance Installs • MORE! FREE Desert Chapel Christian School and pepper over medium-low heat. Remove % 10 “Our repeat 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 Page, 4 color SE NIO R saucepan from heat; add potatoes and Half toss well customers make our DISCOUNT All Rights Reserved May 29, 2016 • Volume 12: Issue #23 business thrive!” to coat. ADVERTISING PROOF CALL 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

with this ad. exp. 6-30-16

2. Place potato mixture in center of

valleybits@msn.com

d Johnson, icharp.m.. 760.DUE: 347.9485 -R5:00 -owner-

FREE TODAY: Final Changes Estimates

reviewUltimateHomeRepair.net carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices VisitPlease us online: Bonded & Insured

 Hours

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

Posi t ive Isn’t it time for a change in your child’s Ask about our education? P R E - K Program ! g ...and learnin NEW! environment ?? T

W IN EN NO EPT LLM O C AC ENR 12 K-

Ages: Infant

to 4 yrs

760.327.27

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

While all schools stress learning and

D.C.C.S. Students in all grade levels are able to participate in academically challenging studies and C.I.F. athletic programs in a traditional and safe learning environment.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

intellectual development, the goal of Desert Chapel Christian School is to give students an education that goes beyond textbooks: We also emphasize spiritual formation, strengthening faith and the virtue of leading a responsible, ethical and purposeful life.

Call today! Space is limited.

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

At D.C.C.S, we provide a combination of faith and learning that is not present in public schools, all while stressing the importance of moral and social responsibility.

Our fully accredited W.A.S.C. curriculum places emphasis on Christian values and biblical truth. • The cost of placing your child into this top-quality learning environment may be LESS than you imagine.

Small class sizes allow for individual and personalized attention.

• Tuition fees may be determined on the basis of individual situations and ability.

Call today for details.

A friendly counselor will be happy to discuss your specific needs.

AN ALTERNATIVE TO COMMON CORE INITIATIVE Pre - K and Grades K -- 12

17/1

Student/Teacher Avg. Ratio



ADVERTISING PROOF 98%  Graduation Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. COMMITTED TO Rate

EXCELLENCE Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ENROLL IN ACADEMICS E NOW FOR TH www.dceagles.org representative immediately with changes or corrections. 16-- 2017 AND Contact your20Tidbits OL  HO SC of Graduates YEAR ATHLETICS Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630

760.327.2772

95%

College Ready

630 South Sunrise Way • Palm Springs, CA 92264

Page 8

Shadow Hills Dental Care Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 1/8 pg. 4C 13x - Prem. Pos. Puzz. Tidbits of Coachella Valley June 19, 2016 • Vol. 12 - No. 26 FREE 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

Vol. XII

Issue 26

Summer Special: The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

760.320.0997

mmer Dental pecial!

Fax: 760.320.1630

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

valleybits@msn.com

SAVE

BIG

MONEY!

m a x E l a t Den

only:

Your Dental Exam Includes:

● X-Rays ● Exam SAVE Over ● Cleaning $300 Plus: FREE Whitening Pen!*

With this ad only. Exp. 7/15/16

*for qualifying patients.

Our experienced and friendly staff is dedicated to providing you with the desert’s finest professional care.

Dr. J. Aghaloo, DDS, “Dr. J”

39-620 Washington St. Ste. C Palm Desert, CA 92211 ADVERTISING (NE corner of Washington PROOF & Varner Rd.)

FinalCALL Changes DUE:APPOINTMENT TODAY: 5:00 p.m.. NOW OPEN 2 FOR YOUR

760.343.7737

SATURDAYS Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

MENT TODAY:

(Solution on page 16)

WALK-INS WELCOM

PER MONTH.

Call for Contact Eyour Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections.

Office: Fax: 760-320-1630 Visit us at:760-320-0997 www.drjdentalgroup.com

Schedule.

by Walt Disney

Donald Duck

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Crossword Answers on page 16

NEST HEADS

By John Allen

Tidbits® of Coachella Valley Published and distributed weekly by AdVenture Media, Inc. P.O. Box 4308 Palm Springs, CA 92263-4308 Phone: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@msn.com All rights reserved. Publisher: Erik D. Long eDitor: David L. Long Distribution Managers:

Manuel Aguayo, Christine Aguayo John Winters, Donna Winters Michelle Hughes

The SPATS

by Jeff Pickering

For advertising information call 760-320-0997 Member:

“In business as in life, we practice the Golden Rule” News content in the Tidbit s® Paper is provided by both Tidbits Media, Inc. and other news sources con sidered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information published cannot be guaranteed. Tidbits® of Coachella Valley does not accept political advertising or news matter of any nature submitted for publication. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising from any business, individual or group for any reason deemed inappropriate or not in the Publisher’s best interest. Published news matter and advertising content does not necessarily reflect the views of the Publisher or of AdVenture Media, Inc. Tidbits® of Coachella Valley is not an adjudicated publication and therefore cannot accept official legal notices for publication. All copy, photos and graphic illustrations submitted for advertising publication are subject to publisher’s prior approval. We do not offer mail subscription services. So there.

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Week of June 19, 2016

Office: 760-320-0997 Each Wuzzle is a word riddle which creates a disquised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For example, NOON GOOD = GOOD AFTERNOON

3 WUZZLES BOOKLETS

“The Best of Wuzzles” ($4.00), “More of the Best of Wuzzles” ($4.50), and “Wuzzles for Kids” ($4.25) are available postpaid, from Wuzzles, Box 1141, Cedar Rapids, IA 52406

Page 9

Fax: 760-320-1630

NEXT WEEK in

Casey’s

TIDBITS LOOKS BACK AT

JULY IN John A. HISTORY Mayer - Book author

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Corner

FREE

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

3. The weekly “Brain Breaker”

Cats, Dogs and Other People By Matthew Margolis

‘Nuff to Make a Cat Laugh!

Creators News Service

by John A Meyer ADVERTISING PROOF Five Simple Steps to This entertaining book is a satirical comedy about the world before, now, and into the future Final Changes DUE: 5:00Housebroken p.m.. Dog as told by Casey! Whatta’ Cat!

Please review carefully. Double  Phone  Spelling  Prices  Hours Then check: there’s Casey StrikesNumber(s) Again! the sequel book -a must read for cat lovers and pet owners everywhere!

Housebreaking is hands-down the No. One

Contact your TidbitsORDER representative immediately with changes or corrections. BOTH ONLINE: Paperback, Ebook or Hardback problem for dog owners. Office:www.outskirtpress/nufftomakeacatlaugh.com 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 www.outskirtpress/caseystrikesagain.com

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Created by Tom Underwood

©North North American Syndicate 2016 2012 America Syndicate, 2010

www.wuzzleking.com

(Wuzzles answers on page 16)

Tidbits® Word Search

“Sixteen Singers” N

P Y

O C

E R

O H

S D

S R W M J

K M P

A N

O C

S U

M J

A H

A R

A N

O B

H W N

Q V

A M A

X M V

B N

E Y

E N

A N

O D

V R

A N

P H

O D

G R

O O Q H

X N

M V

M J R

E N

M W

O N

www.WordSearchMaker.com



� BILLY JOEL BILLYJOEL � BOBBOBDYLAN DYLAN � DEAN MARTIN DEANMARTIN � DINAH SHORE DINAHSHORE � ELVIS IS � GLENELV CAMPBELL GLENCAM PBELL � JOHN DENVER JOHNDENV ER � JOHNNY CASH

Mega Maze solution on page 14

Casey's Corner: Turn to page 10



� MMADONNA ADONNA � MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAELJACKSON �NORAHJONES NORAH JONES � PAUL ANKA � PAULANKA PRINCE PRINCE � SINATRA SINATRA � TONY BENNETT �TONYBENNETT WILLIE NELSON

JOHNNYCASH WILLIENELSON (Word Search solution page 16)

Take this recent letter from a reader: “My Yorkie Randy urinates in my home, and I’m seriously at the point of giving him away. We love him dearly, but I can’t have my home ruined. He has a doggy door that he uses, but I keep finding puddles in the house. Help! You are my last resort.” Reads like the TV Guide log line for this week’s episode of “Desperate Housebreakers.” What the writer fails to mention is that Randy is 9 years old and never trained. That’s 3,285 days’ worth of Yorkie urine on the carpet -- which, in fact, is the impetus for the cry for help. She’s recarpeting the whole house and that’s not cheap. “I’m not going to spend all this money on new carpet just to have Randy ruin it.” Readers, take note: Most people will spend thousands on new carpeting and nothing on dog training. Why not put a little something into dog training and save thousands on carpeting? Housebreaking a dog should not break the bank. It requires a system and consistent adherence to that system. A reasonably intelligent person can housebreak a dog in three to seven days. Here’s how: 1) Establish and adhere to a feed-water-walk schedule. This conditions your pup’s body to eliminate waste at specific times of the day and night, as determined by you -- so stick to the schedule. 2) Use proper confinement. Baby gates and wire crates work well to keep your dog comfortable and confined. Free rein of the house is not allowed during the housebreaking phase. You can’t correct a mistake if it’s happening in another room. You must catch him in the act. 3) Neutralize odors. If you don’t catch your pup in the act, all you can do is clean it up. This is where that effective odor neutralizer comes in. Fact: The average dog can sniff out one part urine to one million parts water. He will return to that marked spot time and again if you don’t neutralize the scent. 4) Provide a proper diet. The right amount and kind of food for your dog will be determined by his age. But an age-appropriate diet is essential in keeping his digestion regular and predictable. This makes life easier for you in the training stage and

(CryptoQuip solution on page 14

Share Tidbits® with a Fiend!

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 10

Vol. XII Issue 26

ADVERTISING PROOF 5:00 p.m.. SENIOR NEWS LINE Final Changes DUE:

outside. Use enough. Reapply every two hours, CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) or after getting wet. Use sunscreen even on a TUES., MAR. 15 works in tandem with the feed-water-walk schedule. cloudy day. Wear a hat and sunglasses. Don’t dog eats, he drinks, he goes outside. Repeat as Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling Your  Prices  Hours by Matilda Charles stay out too long, even with sunscreen. © King Features Synd., Inc. necessary. Tidbits To representative read the wholeimmediately article, askwith yourchanges local or corrections. Contact your 5) Correct mistakes and praise successes. library if you can access monthly magazines Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 When you catch him eliminating inside, say “no,”

Sunscreen Protection Can be Guessing Game

and then immediately take him outside and praise him when you get there, whether or not he goes. Bob’s With dogs, praise is the reward and the moBZ 4Cply2@gmail.com. 26x tivator, and it works -- unlike the following highly in A blistering hot day that came out of Mar. 20, 2011 Vol. 7 - No. 12 effective what-not-to-dos: (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc. MON., JULY 22 nowhere was a good reminder about stocking -- Rub his nose in his mess. up on sunscreen for summer. RightPlease on time, Show him his mess and say no until he review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices --  Hours thinks “No” is his name. Consumer Reports has released information in Contact immediately with changes or corrections. -- “Bonk” him on the nose with your hand or their July 2016 issue indicating that we need to your Tidbits representative Howard Miller • Ridgeway • Sligh • Antique Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 a rolled-up newspaper. beware: The SPF (sun protection factor) on the We also Service, Repair and New -- Show him his mess and lock him in a room repair Wall, label might not be what we actually get when Mantel, Movements from Germany where he can think about what he’s done. Ship’s and we use the sunscreen. 32 years Cuckoo For a more detailed explanation of the five Clocks experience BoB’s CloCk shop Consumer Reports tested 60 sunsteps to a housebroken dog, or for an age-specific Carlsbad / San Diego / Desert Communities screens -- stick, lotion and spray -- that were Feed-Water-Walk schedule, check out “When Good ADVERTISING PROOF Gee-Ar-Gee Construction Co. Servicing Coachella Valley on Fri., Sat. or Mondays supposed to be rated at SPF 30 or higher. UnDogs Do Bad Things” at unclematty.com. 1/16 pg. BW Call 13xforrate In-Home service appointment 5:00 p.m.. fortunately, 43 percent of them turned out not toFinal Changes DUE: 760-729-5121 -or1-800-734-5121 Please review carefully. check: -Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Remember: Hours July 28, Double 2013 Vol. 9ADVERTISING No. 31 PROOF have what was on the label. A few even tested -- Housebreaking means the dog never elimFinal Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. at less than 15, half of what was promised. This inates in the house. Not even a little bit. Not even Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 problem isn’t only for this year; Consumer Reonce in a while. Not on paper. Not on pads. Never. ports has found the same results over the past -- Housebreaking is entirely possible for all ADVERTISING PROOF CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. dogs, big and small. Dogs with medical conditions four years. DUE: Mon., April 28, 2015 Final Changes 5:00 p.m.. or thatDouble are on check: medication can be the exceptions. eview carefully. Double  Phone Number(s)  Spelling Hours A bigcheck: concern, especially if you keep  Prices  Handling All Phases of Construction & Home Improvement Please review carefully.  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pric And as always, don’t get rid of the dog, get to slatherimmediately on childrenwith or changes grandchilRESIDENTIAL ntact yoursunscreen Tidbits representative or corrections. of therepresentative problem! Contact your rid Tidbits immediately with changes or correc Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 dren, is that the manufacturers don’t even have & COMMERCIAL PropertyJobs of Welcomed Woof! Insurance Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 to submit their product to the Food and Drug AdVenture Media, Inc. *** Administration for analysis, and they don’t have FIRE DAMAGE RESTORATION Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Marto test the products unless there’s a reformulaNew Construction  Remodeling golis is co-author of 18 books about dogs, a behavFREE Roofing  Room Additions  Drywall  Stucco tion. of Coachella Valley iorist, a popular radio and television guest, and Tile Block Walls  Concrete  Patios  Apartments The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read Steele, Nicolette & Blythe Nordstrom, No matter which sunscreen we use, we Mobile Home Specialists  Retirement Homes Palm Hearing Aid Center It’s a Dog’s Life!” 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 host Springs of the PBS series “WOOF! Property of May 2015 Vol.responsibility 11 - No. 19 •to 1/8pg. Country Clubs  Commercial Tenant Improvements have to 3, take some use it 4C cor- 26x 1/8 pg. 4C 26x disc. AdVenture 10% Media, Inc. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. All Rights No Job Too Small -- FreeReserved Estimates DISCOUNT rectly. Put it on 15 to 30 minutes before going “We Aim Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her Repair column whenever possible. Send email to columnreClock

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

Grandfather CloCk repair

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

GEE-AR-GEE Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

to Please!” Fully Insured LIC. #826297

ney as a result of a y, If there certain youare need an attorney as a result of a If you need an attorney as a result of a der.serious personal serious personal injury, there certain injury, there arearecertain you should consider. things youthings should consider. ETHICAL CONDUCT ONDUCT

ETHICAL CONDUCT iate for a lawyer or Weasfeel it is inappropriate for a lawyer or you a result of an representative to contact you as a result of an ited personal contact accident. In fact, contact NOunsolicited FEE RECOVERY e Bar. The decision to UNLESSpersonal is prohibited by the State Bar. The decision to This means that you pay no attorney’s feesProperty unless of urscontact and yours alone. your lawyer either negotiates a settlement with an attorney is yours and yours alone.

877-433-1920

www.geeargeeconstruction.com Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

��

Se Habla Espanol

by Linda Thistle

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Palm Springs of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

760.320.0997

Fax: 760.320.1630

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

valleybits@msn.com

of Coachella Valley

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

RECOVERY NO FEE UNLESS RECOVERY

for Seniors

Property ofPaper The idea of Go Figure!Theis to arrive atEver the ﬁgures given Neatest Little Read AdVenture Media, Inc.760.320.1630 760.320.0997 Fax: at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are All Rights Reserved FREE Use given (that is, from left toofright and top to bottom). Coachella Valley The Neatestthe Little Paper Ever Read only the numbers below diagram to complete its 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only All Rights Reserved once. Published by: AdVenture Media

Discover AdVenture Inc. why other attorneys your approval or wins a judgement in court. Media, This method of compensation makes legal throughout California refer their representation available to many who otherwise injury cases to us. could not afford it. It also means that if your 4 Million Readers Weekly case has merit, you can be well represented by PERSONAL INJURY AND WRONGFUL Nationwide! FREEDEATH CLAIMS a qualified attorney. of Coachella Valley • Automobile Accidents

Discover why

760-318-2490

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

We feel it is inappropriate for a lawyer or representative to contact you as a result of an accident. In fact, unsolicited personal contact is prohibited by the State Bar. The decision to contact an attorney is yours and yours alone.

valleybits@msn.com

Serving the Desert Since 1966

Ringing1 in30your Ears?

BE THE FIRST to try Xino Tinnitus® RISK FREE for 14 days. NEW TECHNOLOGY is designed to deliver relief for ringing in your ears.

Xino Tinnitus® is a new technology designed to make the constant ringing, buzzing or humming you hear significantly less annoying. A unique, soothing sound is created to counterbalance that irritating sound.

o attorney’s fees unless This means that you pay no attorney’s The fees unless Paper Ever Read Neatest Little attorneys • Pedestrian • Slip and Fall other throughout ates a settlement with your lawyer either negotiates a settlement withFax: 760.320.1630 • Motorcycle and Bicycle Accidents LOOK BEYOND 760.320.0997 ADVERTISING Discover why other • Birth & Brain Injury • Dog Bites attorneys Discover why other attorneys Ask friends or attorneys you know for references ADVERTISING PROOF your approval or wins a judgement in court. judgementofinpersonal court. California refer their injury to us. •Asbestoscases Related Lung Cancer injury lawyers, or check with the throughout California All Rights Reserved throughout refer their This method of compensation legal •Medical and Hospital Malpractice refer their California Bar Association. It’smakes the bestCalifornia way to nsation makes legal Call us today for an appointment with one of our Accidents find an ethical, competentDUE: attorney with the trial injury• Construction Final Changes 5:00 p.m.. cases to us. representation available totomany who otherwise injury cases us. PERSONAL INJURY DEATH CLAIMS o many whoexperience otherwise • Product Liability it takes bring your case & toto aWRONGFUL fair licensed and experienced hearing aid dispensers. conclusion. Beware of the promises and claims • Construction Defect cases could not afford it. It Double also means thatifPhone your Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Please review carefully. check: o means that ifattorneys your some make in their ads. • Automobile Accidents • Pedestrian case has merit, you can be well represented by NotedPERSONAL WRONGFUL CLAIMS lecturers for INJURY CaliforniaAND Continuing Education DEATH of the e well represented by representative PERSONAL INJURYimmediately AND WRONGFUL DEATH CLAIMS Bar; Recipients CAALA Trial Lawyers of the Year Award; REMEMBER - While other hearing centers seem to Contact your Tidbits changes orMembers: corrections. a qualifi ed attorney. FREE CONSULTATION Americanwith Board of Advocates; State Bar •Trial Automobile Accidents • Slip & Fall • Motorcycle &Bar Bicycle Accidents of CA; American Bar Association; Northern, LA County, ADVERTISING PROOF Desert Association: Consumer Attorneys Association Automobile Accidents Our attorneys DO NOT charge for a• consultation. come and go, PALM SPRINGS HEARING AID CENTER Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 of LA (President Elect 1998 President 1999-2000); • Pedestrian • Slip and Fall OUR FIRM LIMITS ITS PRACTICE TO Consumer Attorneys of CA; Association of Trial Lawyers of •ADVERTISING Birth & Brain •Motorcycle Dog Bites •WE Pedestrian • Slip and Fall PERSONAL INJURY MATTERS. HAVE THEInjury has been your mainstay since 1966. We are proud and America; Academy of and Elder Law Attorneys; Panel •National Bicycle Accidents LOOK BEYOND EXPERIENCE AND DEDICATION IT TAKES TO of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Assoc. Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. YOU. • Motorcycle and Bicycle DVERTISING grateful to have served you for the past 50 years! • Accidents BirthCancer & Brain Injury • Dog Bites • REPRESENT Asbestos Related Lung Ask friends or attorneys you know• for references Home and Hospital Consultation 24-Hour Hot Line The Firm holds the highest Legal Ability and General Recommendation Please review Southern California Offi ces • Birth & Brain Injury • Dog Bites Related Ratings AV (Very High to Preeminent) Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory •Asbestos Lung Cancercarefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ou of know for references personal injury lawyers, or check with the Palm Desert, Orange, Los Angeles & Escondido &way Hospital Malpractice www.nordstrom-law.com •Asbestos Related Lung Cancerand Hospital •Medical Malpractice Association. It’s the best to rs,California or check Bar with the • Medical Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. • Construction Accidents •Medical and Hospital Malpractice (760) 837-1884 • (800) 830-7746 nd an attorney with the trial n. fiIt’s theethical, best way to •competent Product Liability • Construction Defect cases 72-960 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260 Liability Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 • Product experience it takes to bring your case to a fair • Construction Accidents attorney with the trial claims Liability • Construction Defect cases • Product ngconclusion. your case Beware to a fairof the promises and some attorneys make in their ads.• Construction Defect cases e promises and claims ● Ear inspections with Video Octoscope Noted lecturers for California Continuing Education of the heir ads. Bar; Recipients Trial Lawyers of the Year Award; Our attorneys DO NOT charge forEducation aCAALA consultation. FREE CONSULTATION ● Demonstration on special TV devices American Board of Trial Members: State Bar Noted lecturers for California Continuing ofAdvocates; the Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Tuesday, 8/25/15

FREE

S10481629

FREE Consultation

ADVERTISING PROOF Windsor Court Assisted LivingFinal Changes on the latest ● Demonstration DUE: 5:00 p

of CA; American Bar Award; Association; Northern, LA County, Bar; Recipients CAALA Trial Lawyers of the Year Desert Members: Bar Association: Attorneys Association LTATION Our attorneys DO NOT charge for aBoard consultation. American of Trial Advocates; State Consumer Bar of LA (President Elect 1998 - President 1999-2000); OUR FIRM LIMITS of ITS PRACTICE CA; American TO Bar Association; Northern, LA County, Consumer Attorneys of CA; Association of Trial Lawyers of Desert Bar Association: Consumer Attorneys Association INJURY MATTERS. WE HAVE THE rge PERSONAL for a consultation. America; National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; Panel of LA (President ElectTO 1998of- Arbitrators, PresidentAmerican 1999-2000); EXPERIENCE IT TAKES Arbitration Assoc. TS PRACTICE TOAND DEDICATION

Our firm limits its practice to PERSONAL INJURY matters. We have the experience Consumer CA; Association of Trial Lawyers of you. itoftakes to represent REPRESENT YOU. Attorneys TERS. WE HAVEand THE dedication America; National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys; Panel

Banner Ad, 4c, 26x rate hearing technologies J.D. and Susan Cunningham Please review carefully. Double check:Exp.6-30-16 Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices Hearing Aid Specialists Aug. 30 - Dec. 13, 2015 • Vol. 11: #30 - #51 PALM SPRINGS

tion • 24-Hour Hot Line ornia Offices Angeles & Escondido

REVISED:

HEARING AID CENTER

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correctio

HomeIT and HospitalTO Consultation • 24-Hour Hot LineArbitration CATION TAKES of Arbitrators, American Assoc. The Firm holds the highest Legal Ability and General Recommendation The Firm holds the highest Legal Ability and General Recommendation California Offices Ratings AV (Very High to Preeminent) Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory T YOU. Southern Ratings AVLos (Very High to Preeminent) Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Palm Desert, Orange, Angeles & Escondido

Office: 760-320-0997

Thewww.nordstrom-law.com Firm holds the highest Legal Ability and General Recommendation Ratings AV (Very High to Preeminent) Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

. 25, 2015 Aug830-7746 (760) 837-1884 • (800) www.nordstrom-law.com 72-960 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260

Fax: Two760-320-1630 Locations:

353-A S. Palm Canyon Palm Springs

760-325-3240

837-1884 830-7746 Home•&(800) Hospital Consultation • 24-Hour Hot Line S10481629

760-770-1703

Improving the Quality of your Life

(Answers on page 16)

0 Fred Waring Dr., Palm Desert, CA 92260

70-065 Hwy 111 Ste #5 Rancho Mirage

VISIT US AT:

www.pshac.com

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Independent Living • Assisted Living • Memory Care Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630

Published by: AdVenture Media

The Windsor Experience. The Right Choice.

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com WINDSOR COURT 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

Lic. #336403366

FREE

Published by: AdVenture Media

ADVERTISING PROOF ••Spacious apartments Spaciousnewly newlyremodeled remodeledFinal apartments Changes DUE: Property of 5:00 p.m.. AdVenture Media, Inc. ••24-hour staffing • Fulltime Nurse on Staff 24-hour staffing • Fulltime Nurse on Staff ••Aqua FREE AquaTherapy Therapy ••Movie MovieTheatre Theatre 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 ••Pool Pool ••Restaurant RestaurantStyle StyleDining Dining All Rights Reserved ••Varied VariedActivity ActivityPrograms Programs&& MORE! MORE! 4 Million Office: Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

ASSISTED LIVING OF PALM SPRINGS

Ask about our SUMMER MOVE-IN SPECIAL OFFER!

201 S. Sunrise Way Palm Springs, CA 92262

760-327-8351

Visit us online: www.wincourt.com

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Week of June 19, 2016

Page 11

She has employed the popular Social Se- number with a “T” behind it). Tell them to resubcurity maximizing strategy known as “file and re- mit the claims with her new Medicare number strict.” The law says that if she waits until age 66 (your Social Security number with a “B” behind to file for Social Security, she can forgo her own it). YOUR Once all this gets straightened out, things benefits and instead file for spousal benefits on your record. She will receive those benefits (at a should go swimmingly for a while. But when your rate equal to 50 percent of your full retirement age wife turns 70 and files for her own retirement benbenefit) until age 70, at which point she will file a efits, she will get yet another Medicare card. It will by Tom Margenau retirement claim on her own account and get a 32 be her own Social Security number with an “A” percent bonus added to her monthly retirement behind it. (“A” is the symbol SSA uses to denote retirement benefits.) checks. In other words, in the space of five years, Some people may have heard that this your wife is going to have three different Social maximizing provision was outlawed earlier this year. But what got the kibosh in April was another Security claim numbers and Medicare numbers. strategy called “file and suspend.” People can still And I’m afraid you are just going to have to be pull off the “file and restrict” gambit as long as they prepared to deal with some Medicare claim filing headaches because of this. turn 66 before January 2020. I wonder if it would be better if CMS could One of the downsides to employing the file My wife signed up for Medicare simply issue their own claim number to be used on when she was 65. But she didn’t apply for So- and restrict Social Security strategy is that your cial Security benefits until she was 66 years wife’s Medicare is going to be messed up for a Medicare cards? On the one hand, it would help old this past March. At that time, she filed a while. And it all has to do with your wife’s Social avoid the kinds of problems mentioned in this column. On the other hand, it would give people yet restricted claim, taking spousal benefits on Security “claim number.” Medicare isn’t managed by the Social Se- another government identification number they my record. She plans to save her own retirement benefits until 70. She’s had some medi- curity Administration. Instead, it is run by another would have to use. And here is one final Medicare note to end cal problems recently and so she has had to federal agency called the Centers for Medicare and use her Medicare. But we’ve learned it is all Medicaid Services. CMS doesn’t have field offices this column. I get Medicare questions emailed to messed up. After the doctor’s office submit- around the country, so they rely on SSA to get peo- me all the time. I have mentioned many times beted her claims, we got letters from Medicare ple enrolled in the Medicare program. Because of fore in this column that I am not much of a Medidenying those claims because they said they this link between the two federal agencies and two care expert. As a retired SSA official, I know all have no record of her in their files. She had no government programs, government officials decid- about the Social Security program. But I am not problems last year when she had some prior ed a long time ago to use the Social Security claim much help to people who have Medicare probMedicare claims. Can you guess what is going number as the Medicare number. In the “old days” lems, except for relatively minor enrollment isthat was fine. Most folks simply claimed either sues as discussed above. on? If you have Medicare questions, I can steer I think I know exactly what is going on. their own Social Security benefits or they claimed you in the right direction. CMS has a website. It is But before I explain your Medicare mess, I want to benefits as a spouse. There rarely was any switchclarify your Social Security situation to those reading back and forth from one kind of Social Security www.medicare.gov. You should be able to find lots of help there. ers who may be confused by what your wife has benefit to another. As I said earlier, CMS does not have a net But with advent of the aforementioned done. work of field offices around the country. But what maximizing games, people are switching back and forth between one benefit and another all the time. they do have is a cadre of volunteers who can help For example, when your wife filed for Medi- you out with almost any Medicare problem you care at age 65, she did so under her own Social Se- have. These volunteers are called State Health curity number. So at the time, she got a Medicare card with her own Social Security number on it. It Insurance Program counselors in most states. In probably had the letter “T” behind it. (“T” is the some states, they are the Health Insurance Counsymbol SSA uses to denote someone who has filed seling and Advocacy Program. To find the SHIP or for Medicare but has not yet filed for Social Secu- HICAP counselor nearest you, go to www.medicare.gov. On their homepage, look for the link rity benefits.) someone to talk to” and then pull ADVERTISING PROOF But in March of this year, you said your labelled “Find down the menu26 for your5:00 state and then click on wife employedFinal the file and restrict strategy, claim- TUES., APRIL Changes DUE: p.m.. “SHIP” or “HICAP.” ing spousal benefits your record. Socheck: her Social Please review on carefully. Double  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Security claim number is now your Social Security *** Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Please review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling  Prices Hours Tom If you have a Social Security question, number with a letter “B” behind it. (“B” is the symOffice: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marbol SSA uses to denote wife’s benefits.) Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. My hunch is that when her doctor’s office genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Marand to read past columns and see features from 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 submitted the claims to Office: Medicare, they used her genau other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit Manhattan In The Desert original Medicare number (her Social Security

SOCIAL SECURITY

Maximizing Strategy Can Lead to Medicare Mess Q:

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

1/6 pg. 4C [media trade] May 1, 2016 Vol. 12 - No. 19

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

CLIP AND SAVE

FREE

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Property For Advertising Callof (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630

Published by: AdVenture Media

AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Dinner is serveD!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Complete Dinner

INCLUDING CHOICE OF SOUP OR SALAD, CHOICE OF POTATO AND VEGETABLES

Choose From:

Tidbits coupon

● Brisket of Beef ● Roasted Turkey Dinner ● Hamburger Steak ● Homemade Meat Loaf ADVERTISING ● Corned Beef & Cabbage ● Fish & Chips ● Country Fried SteakChanges ● Chicken Fettuccine Final DUE: DINEPlease IN ONLY. Excludes Excludes Holidays.check: No Splitting reviewBeverages. carefully. Double Entrees. Phone Other restrictions may apply. Cannot combine with any other offer. Exp.6-30-16 5-31-16

PROOF 5:00 p.m..

Number(s)

 Spelling  Prices

 Hours

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections.

AT BOTH LOCATIONS:

 PALM SPRINGS:Office: 760-320-0997 PALM DESERT: Fax: 760-320-1630 2665 E. Palm Canyon Dr. 74-225 Highway 111

760-322-3354

760-340-1304

Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 12

thritis, along with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Readers can order a copy by writing: Dr. Roach -No. 301W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. ***

M.D.

Is Knee Replacement Surgery the Only Option? DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a female in my 60s, and for the past couple of months I have been having some discomfort and swelling in my right knee. I am slightly overweight and have osteoarthritis. I have no pain when walking, but when leaning over, I get a tight pain in the front of the leg, below the knee. I saw my orthopedic doctor, who told me that the cartilage is worn away, and said that I would need a knee replacement. I was given a cortisone shot, which helped the pain. Would losing weight help me avoid surger y? I take an anti-inflammator y and rubbed Bengay on the knee, which helped. I went for another opinion from a second orthopedic surgeon, had more X-rays taken and was given the same diagnosis. Is there anything more I can do to avoid having a knee replacement soon? -- C.W. ANSWER: Osteoarthritis of the knee can cause permanent loss of the cartilage. Once the cartilage is gone, the knee replacement is by far the best option to reduce pain and improve function. However, there are some things you can do to delay the need for surgery, as well as to feel better. Losing weight is important, if you are carrying more than you should. Your body weight is multiplied when you are going up and down stairs, so losing even a few pounds means much less pressure inside the knee.

DEAR DR. ROACH: What do you know about Himalayan salt? Is it harmful to take ever y day? I am told that it can help lower blood pressure, because it has minerals and trace elements. -- M.S. ANSWER: Himalayan salt, though it has a pretty pink color and trace minerals, is still almost all table salt -- sodium chloride -- and salt raises blood pressure for most people. Keeping sodium intake down is likely to reduce risk of heart disease and stroke. Generally, people with a healthy diet get all the trace minerals they need. Most studies on multivitamin and mineral supplements have shown no benefit. ***

Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.

DISCOVERY Stem cell research Stem cells are the source of all cells - brain, skin, heart and others - that make up the human body. Some scientists believe that stem cells may become the basis for treating diseases such as Parkinson’s, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Research with human embryonic stem cells is controversial because the destruction of a human embryo is usually required.

Generating Stem Cells

1 Cell division

begins with the Anti-inflammatories and Tylenol reduce Fertilized egg fertilization of an egg. pain but don’t affect the progression of disease. Bengay, topical anti-inflammatories and capsaicin creams help some people. Steroid injections are a 2 The embryo continues good option for some: Hyaluronic acid shots, such to reproduce cells for the ADVERTISING PROOF as Synvisc, help many as well. Exercise, however, next few days. Fri. 4/22/16 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. definitely improves both pain and function. WalkPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ing a little bit farther each Contact day means being able to your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. 3 Three to five days after fertilization walk still more without pain. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 the stem cells are removed from the blastocysts, a mass of about 100 cells.

A joint-replacement surgery shouldn’t be Inner cell mass undertaken lightly. Not everybody has a good out(contains stem cells) come, and an infection in an artificial joint can be Parkwood Apartments devastating. However, it has been my experience • 1/8th page, 4c, 6x discount rate that most people who have gotten a joint replaceEmbryonic • June 12 - July 17, 2016 ment wish they had done so sooner, so don’t suffer stem cells for too long if these treatments aren’t helping.

The arthritis booklet discusses osteoar-

4 The stem cells removed from the blastocysts are cultured in a petri dish.

Source: www.stemcells.nih.gov

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m..

Active Adult Living for 55+

Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours

Call Now for our Amazing JUNE Move-In Property of SPECIAL! AdVenture Media, Inc. • Offering one and two bedroom floorplans

Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630

• Conveniently Located to shopping, Dinning and Golf • Pet Friendly • Private Community ParkFREE with Pet Area 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 • Covered Parking • Storage Units Available All Rights Reserved • Water, Sewer, Trash, Cable and Fios Internet INCLUDED! • Social Activities Program • Heated Swimming Pool & spa 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

Parkwood Active Adult Apartment Homes offers a beautiful community you will be proud of. Conveniently located only minutes from Hwy 111.

81-777 Ave. 48 • Indio • (760) 347-3700

Vol. XII Issue 26

VETERANS  POST  by Freddy Groves

Veteran Transitions Study Is Eye-Opener The RAND Corporation has spent a decade researching concerns for veterans, especially when it comes to transitioning to civilian life. It has recently released a study with 10 areas of investigation, and some of the answers are eyeopening. Here are a few of the questions: How widespread is veteran unemployment? The answer depends on the age of the veteran. Older unemployed veterans are on par with civilians, but the younger ones, aged 18-24, have more hurdles to jump, at least for a short period after leaving the service. RAND points out that the media lumps everyone into a group and doesn’t account for demographics. Are tax credits for hiring veterans useful and cost-effective? Bottom line: Yes. The credits cost $610 million but increased veterans’ income by $1 billion. It helps that the credit-eligibility rules have changed. It used to be limited to disabled veterans who had to leave the military because of service-related disabilities, but credits now can be used for any disabled veteran who was recently discharged or unemployed for more than six months. Do service members and veterans earn less than civilians? Short answer: No. Veterans earn more than civilians, as do active duty when the benefits are added in. Further, if the veteran worked in communications, intelligence or health care, he or she will earn more as a civilian than other veterans will. How effective are support services for veterans’ transitions? Bottom line: It depends on the service. But no matter what support service is used, some employers still can’t figure out how to translate military jobs into their civilian equivalent. More questions in the study include: How widespread and costly are mental-health problems among service members and veterans? And is suicide a crisis in the military? To read the whole report, “10 Frequently Asked Questions About Veterans’ Transitions,” go online to www.rand.org.

Freddie Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ gmail.com.

PonderBits I had a salad for dinner! Mostly croutons & tomatoes. Really just one big, round crouton covered with tomato sauce. And cheese. FINE, it was a pizza. I ate a pizza. I just did a week’s worth of cardio after walking into a spider web. My goal for 2016 was to lose just 10 pounds. Only 15 to go.

Week of June 19, 2016

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 13

seasonal or summer jobs in great places. Or to search for freelance opportunities in a wide variety of areas, there’s Elance.com and Guru.com.

identify a path that might suit you best in later life, and provides a directory to registered life planners to help guide you.

And if you’re interested in starting a new Also see: RetirementOptions.com, business, the U.S. Small Business Administrawhich will connect you with a retirement coach MON., JUNE courses 6 tion offers tips, tools and free online to who will give you an assessment to help reveal entrepreneurs that are 50 and older at SBA.gov/ your attitudes and opinions about work, family Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices life, relationships, leisure time and more. And the content/50-entrepreneurs, as does the nonprofyour Tidbits representative with changes or correctio it association Score, immediately at Score.org. LifePlanningNetwork.org, which is aContact group of *** professionals and organizations that help people Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, navigate the second half of life. You can also find P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySelife and retirement coaching at the International Blueprint Ad Jim Agency Desert Pain nior.org. Millerfor: is a contributor to Specialists the NBC Today Coach Federation at CoachFederation.org.

ADVERTISING PROOF Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p

Deciding What to Do in Retirement DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: I just turned 62 and although I am financially prepared for retirement, I am not certain about how to spend my time after leaving work. Can you recommend some resources or tools that can help me with this once I'm no longer part of the work force? -- Feeling Lost Dear Lost: This is a great question! Many people, when asked what they want to do when they retire, will say they want a mix of travel, play and meaningful work. Specifics, however, tend to be few and far between. But planning how to fill your time in retirement is just as important as the financial planning aspect. Here are some resources that can help. Online Tools A good starting point to figuring out what you want to do in retirement is at LifeReimagined.aarp.org. This is an AARP website (you don’t have to be a member to use it) that can help you rediscover what truly matters to you and focus on what you really want to do. It offers a variety of online exercises and programs that will hopefully spark some ideas and give you inspiration. Encore.org is another good resource that helps people who are seeking work that matters in the second half of life. Click on “Resources” on the menu bar and download their free Encore Guide, and consider purchasing a copy of their “Encore Career Handbook” (available at Amazon.com or BN.com for $10.50) by Marci Alboher, which is excellent. Also check out the free E-book called “The Age for Change,” which can help answer the question: “What now?” You can download this at ComingOfAge.org. And, if you’ve never taken a personality test before, this too can be a good tool to help you figure out what type of activities or work you’d like to do. A good option for this is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, which you can take online at MBTIcomplete.com for a $50 fee. Personalized Guidance If you want personalized help, you can also get one-on-one guidance from a retirement or life planning coach. Some resources that can help you here include LifePlanningForYou.com, which has a free exercise called EVOKE to help

author3x of “The Savvy Senior” book. 1/4 pgshow BWandOpen

Coaching sessions typically range from June 12, 2016 Vol. 12 - No. 25 $75 to $300 or more, and usually require four to six sessions to get the most out of the process.

For volunteering, PointsOfLight.org, VolunteerMatch.org and SeniorCorps.gov help you search for opportunities, or even create one on your own. To look for job ideas, sites like RetirementJobs.com, Workforce50.com and RetiredBrains.com list thousands of jobs nationwide from companies that are actively seeking older workers. FlexJobs.com can help you find good work-at-home jobs. CoolWorks.com and BackDoorJobs.com are great for locating

You deserve a massage! Our Student Clinic is open to the public. ALWAYS: $30 per hour or $ 40 per 1.5 hours M–F 9am to 5pm

If you have any of the following symptoms you may be suffering Property of AdVenture Media, Inc. from peripheral neuropathy FREE 4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

- Numbness feet 760.320.0997 inFax: 760.320.1630 All Rights Reserved - Pain when you walk - Burning pain in feet - Sharp shooting pain in feet The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

Published by: AdVenture Media

valleybits@msn.com

- No Surgery - FDA Approved - 90% Success Rate - Covered by most ADVERTISING PROOF major insurances, Final Changes DUE: medicare 5:00 p.m including Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices 

Call for an appointment or book online 760.321.9214 • www.somatherapy.com

70-225 Hwy. 111, Ste B, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 Just west of the Valero Gas Station at Peterson Rd.

1. The book of Boaz is in the a) Old TestaContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections ment b) New Testament c) Neither 2. Whose first chapter begins, "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God"? a) 1 Timothy b) Titus c) James d) 2 John 3. In Acts 16, what Asian city was the home of Lydia? a) Derbe b) Thyatira c) Samaria d) Jericho 4. From John 2, where did Jesus work his first miracle? a) Ur b) Cana c) Antioch d) Thessalonica 5. In 2 Samuel, who killed a giant having 12 fingers and 12 toes? a) Mephibasheth b) David c) Abimelech d) Jonathan 6. From John 11, what city was home to Mary, Martha and Lazarus? a) Corinth b) Gaza c) Bethany d) Sardis (Answers on page 16)

WARNING: Reading Tidbits is habit forming

Medical Breakthrough Relieves Foot Pain & Numbness

Other Resources If you’re primarily interested in volunteering, finding a retirement job or even starting a business when you retire, there are lots of resources that can help here too.

For comments or more Bible Trivia go to www.TriviaGuy.com

Office: 760-320-0997

Fax: 760-320-1630 Dr. Albert Lai M.D.

CALL 760-670-4839 FOR A

FREE CONSULTATION

Representatives available M-F, 8am - 5pm

Desert Pain Specialists 72780 Country club Dr. Suite C 300 Rancho Mirage, CA 9270 desertpain.com Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Page 14

Vol. XII Issue 26

Since barcodes were first used in 1974, your bank was made circa the mid-1970s and would probably be worth $15 to $25 in an antique/collectibles shop. * * * This mark is on a cut glass relish dish that belonged to my mother-in-law. It is stamped into the glass and hard to find. My mother-in-law gave it to me just after my husband and I were married in the 60s. She told me it was a wedding gift to her parents in the early 1900s. It measures about 8 inches long by 2 inches wide. It is in mint condition. Could you give me any information on my dish?

by Anne McCollam

Bank Is a Sweet Collectible Q:

This is a photo of a Tootsie Roll bank I own. It is shaped and decorated like a Tootsie Roll candy and made of cardboard. Tin lids cover both ends, and one end has a coin slot. It is about 11 inches tall and 2.5 inches in diameter. Marked on the side are the words “Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc., Chicago, Ill. U.S.A.” There is also a barcode. I don’t remember where I got it or how long I’ve had it. The candy is gone, and now I empty change from my pockets into the bank. Is this a collectible? Tootsie Roll bank is a How old is it? collectible. Does it have any value?

Imperial Glass Company was founded in 1901.

Your relish dish is an example of Early American Pattern Glass, not cut glass. It was made by the Imperial Glass Company located in Bellaire, Ohio, from 1901 to 1984. Its Nucut line was introduced in 1911 and designed to look like cut glass. Your relish dish was made around 1915 and would probably be worth $20 to $25. * * * Address your questions to Anne McCollam, P.O. Box 247, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Items of a general interest will be answered in this column. Due to the volume of inquiries, she cannot answer individual letters. To find out more about Anne McCollam and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2016 CREATORS.COM

The Tootsie Roll was created by candymaker Leo Hirschfield. He was born in Austria and immigrated to the United States around the turn of the 20th century. According to one source, Hirschfield opened a candy shop in Brooklyn, New York in 1896. The Tootsie Roll was named after his daughter Clara’s nickname. It was an individually hand-wrapped chocolaty taffy penny candy. Hirschfield eventually merged with the candy manufacturer Stern & Staalberg and went on to become vice president of the company. Tootsie Rolls were trademarked in 1908. Some believe that each daily batch of Tootsies included some of the previous day’s batch.

hawkslandinggolf.com

The year is 1996, and the place is Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, the “commons area” for that year’s games. Located just outside the Athletes Village at Georgia Tech and the dorms at Georgia State, and forced into a small, once-barren urban parcel between the Georgia Dome and CNN headquarters, Olympic Park was a place to grab a beer at the spacious AnheuserBusch tent, listen to a slate of live bands and queue up for a taxi ride home or shuttle to your car. This was where I spent much of my time, working for a large tech company inside the Athletes Village. It was a magical Olympics: Ali lit the torch. Kerri Strug landed a vault on a broken leg. The Dream Team was regulating. And on July 27, after a shift, I decided to celebrate at the Olympic Park and listen to a few bands. At that point, I ran into a girl from days gone by, and consumed with nostalgia, we decided to leave the park to visit with one another. After all, the next band was “Jack Mack and the Heart Attack,” and who the heck were they? I had just seen Run DMC play the Olympic Athletes Laundromat and spent the afternoon chilling with Ziggy Marley underneath a tree ... I was good. I also was lucky. Twenty minutes later, a bomb went off in the park, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Had we stayed, we would have been within 50 yards of the blast, and almost certainly taken a nail or two from the insidious bomb. I went back to work the next day and joined the chorus of volunteers and amateurs who wanted to see the games go on. That was then; this is now.

It may come as a surprise to you to learn that the mosquito is the most deadly animal on the planet. Each year, the little female of the species bites, drinks from and in so doing infects, millions of people and animals around the world, killing more than even we humans do. This year’s Olympics are to be held in Brazil. They are not ready, nor are they prepared to deal with the ramifications of the Zika virus, a virus we are just beginning to understand, a virus that deforms babies and can be transmitted sexually.

GOLF SPECIAL - ANY DAY - ANY TIME DIRECTIONS: 10 Fwy. to Hwy. 62 exit, Left on Camino Del Cielo Tr., Right on Martinez Tr. 30 mins. from Palm Springs

Like all great stories, here’s one that starts with a girl and ends with a heart attack. And, like many misapplied missives, let’s try and apply it to the upcoming Olympic Games at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

CLIP AND SAVE

vCooler Temps vBent Grass Greens vGreat Food & Spirits

Don’t Go to Rio

v12 or 18 Holes of Golf vBag of Warm-up Balls vBreakfast or Lunch Sandwich

with this coupon Exp. May 31, Expires June 30, 2016 2016

760.365.0033

That last part has me the most worried: Athletes are proud of their bodies. They actually made the hookup app Tinder a household name due to its handiness in the last Athletes Village. The World Health Organization is calling for a delay. Rio is in disarray. We should heed its advice. This is how outbreaks occur, and for what? We can still play the Games, but we can’t be stupid. Zika is for real, and figuring out how to handle this threat is as serious as any Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. *** Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

Tidbits of Coachella Valley

Week of June 19, 2016

Irony

Page 15

(from page page 3)

out to be a worthless forgery. • After a series of burglaries at a Pasco, Washington business, local police loaned the business owner a high-tech $4,000 burglar alarm. Within a week it had been stolen by thieves.

• In Wausau, Wisconsin in 1981, two women had a fender bender at the Fifth Street intersection. After police had finished their routine accident report and other paperwork, the two ladies drove off in opposite directions. Less than a minute ADVERTISING PROOF later their cars collided at an intersection a block away. DUE: 12 NOON WED., MAY 18 al Changes 5:00 p.m.. • After police pulled over aNumber(s) motorist inEdmonton, carefully. Double check:  Phone Spelling  Prices  Hours Alberta, they were startled to see the driver your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. jump out of his car and rip his radar detector off Office: 760-320-0997 the dashboard. He then Fax: threw760-320-1630 it to the pavement and begin stomping on it, loudly swearing and shouting, “I paid five hundred bucks for this *#@&** piece of *#*@&* and it doesn't even work!” After had settled down, the cops Catherine Marcyhe- Property Real Estate of AdVenture Media, Inc. calmly informed him that they had pulled him 1/12 pg 4C - - was22 out.  Mayover 22,because 2016 his Vol.tailight 12 - No.

TEE UP laugh a bit with

YOUR AD

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

What a Beauty! For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

Perfect Home to Entertain Family and Friends!

HERE!

Give your golf-related advertising message targeted TABLE OF visibility in full color in this CONTENTS weekly 2” x 6” fixed location. $123 per insertion rea Scary Movies ches 65,000+ readers each pages 1-4 week at the low cost of Join the Club only $1.89 per 1,000

reader impressions!

Endangered CALL TODAYSights and Sounds

760.320.0997 pages 7-8

Generations Gated Community

for more info

82701 Cota Drive Indio, CA 92203

ADVERTISING PROOF Open Living Area Soaring High Ceilings al Changes DUE: Mountain Views 5:00 p.m..

3-Car Garage carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours 4BR / 4BA

2694 Sq Ft your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Catherine Marcy

Lic. #01308234 Office:BRE760-320-0997

$380,000

Fax: 760-320-1630

Serving the Coachella Valley

760.272.0753

Or visit me at: www.CatherineMarcy.com

STAN SMITH’S TENNIS CLASS Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

pages 5-6

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630valleybits@msn.com

Published by: AdVenture Media

How many have paid good money for a ticket to a horror ﬁlm, only to cover • How been very since little you’ve their long eyes has andit“see” of used it? a ENDANGERED SIGHTS & SOUNDS (cont’d):

typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused HAPPY FROM TIDBITS! desk, onlyHALLOWEEN to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What SCARY MOVIES you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually shaped likejust a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people seem tothe love the living especially-abrasive to daylights scared out ofrubber, them.which Why was else used would “erase” typing error. Thebeother end featured horror and the suspense movies so popular? To a small brush made of stiff plastic strands that celebrate Halloween, Tidbits goes behind the wasof used to sweep remnants of the erasure scenes some classicthe thrillers. off the page. • When Alfred Hitchcock purchased the film • rights There’s shortage litter on theupground tofornoPsycho, heofalso bought as many day, butofthankfully, wenovel no longer discarded copies the original as heseecould find, pull-tabs. The tabs on older easy-open beverage hoping to keep the story’s ending a secret. cans pulled completely off the can. People who • The famous shower Psycho wasdodging filmed walked in bare feetscene wereofconstantly using double for Norman Bates, as Anthony these acarelessly-dropped metal hazards. Perkins was appearing in a play (Greenwillow) • in The rhythmic “beep” scanner is the New York at the time.of Thethefirst time Perkins musical saw accompaniment the at supermarket actually that scene wastoback the studio, checkout line. But if you’ve ever wondered watching the daily “rushes,” and he said he was where the cliché of saying “ka-ching!” in rejust as scared as everyone else. lation to money comes from, that’s the sound • Take a close look electric, at Michael mask in that the old-style not Myers’ electronic, cash the 1978 camp Halloween. Does registers made.classic Cashiers of that era hadthe to face look familiar? The movie was filmed on manually punch a series of buttons to ring up such tight budget, that the department your apurchase, followed byprop a smack of the had to make do with what they had. For Myers’ “total” button with the heel of the hand. disguise, they used an old Captain Kirk (Star • “Do you want your carbons?” used to be an Trek) mask, which they spray painted white and automatic question asked by merchants after then re-shaped the eyeholes. you’d signed for a credit card payment. At that turn the page for more! time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long for thieves to realize they could retrieve the used carbons from the trash and steal valuable credit card information. Once that scam gained popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly offered the carbons to customers, giving them the opportunity to destroy them.

Play Better Golf with JACK NICKLAUS

Paper Doll Interiors, Inc. 4C Back Pg. Prem. Position June 5, 2017 Vol. 12 - No. 24 Page 16

Tidbits of Coachella Property of Valley

Vol. XII Issue 26

AdVenture Media, Inc.

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

Morning Sunshine

FREE

of Coachella Valley

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997 valleybits@msn.com 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630

Afternoon Cool Down

Published by: AdVenture Media

Morning Sunshine

Afternoon Cool Down

Morning Sunshine

Afternoon Cool Down

Now you can enjoy the convenience of

Paper Doll Interiors Inc.

79710 Highway 111 Ste 103 La Quinta CA M-F: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Paper Doll In 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM 79710 Highway CLOSED La Quinta CA 760-346-5944 M-F: 10:00 AM www.windowcoveringsbypaperdollinteriors

REMOTE CONTROLLED MOTORIZED SHADES at

AFFORDABLE Afternoon Cool PRICES! Down PowerView Motorization NOW EVEN MORE 40% Off

Morning Sunshine

™

AFFORDABLE!

10:00 AM - 5:00 CLOSED ™ 760-346-5944 PowerView Motorization PowerView™ Motorization www.windowco

MOTOR PURCHASE SAVE to with rebatehave to. It moves your shades, soupyou don’t

INTRODUCING POWERVIEW™ MOTORIZATION FROM HUNTER DOUGLAS. A remarkable new system that automatically moves your INTRODUCING POWERVIEW shades throughout the day, according to your schedule ™ MOTORIZATION FROM HUNTER DOUGLAS.  and activities. Just program your personalized A remarkable newsettings system that automatically moves your INTRODUCING POWERVIEW MOTORIZATION FROM HUNTER DOUGLAS Paper Doll Interiors Inc. shades throughout the day, accordingOctober to your schedule with your smart phone or tablet, and let PowerView do 79710 Highway 111 Ste 103 ™ 2006 INTRODUCING POWERVIEW MOTORIZATION FROM HUNTER DOUGLAS. A remarkable new system that automatically moves shades throughout the 23-29, La Quinta CA and activities. Justyour program your personalized settings theday, rest. * You can even activate a pre-programmed Choo according to your schedule and activities. Justphone program personalized M-F: 10:00 AM - 5:00 with your smart oryour tablet, and let PowerView doPM setting with a touch of our brilliantly designed PowerView Seal A remarkable system that moves your settings with your new smart phone or the tablet, and letautomatically PowerView do the a rest.* You 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM rest. * You can even activate pre-programmed ™ Scene Controller. How CLOSED Pebble smart—intelligent shades can even activate a pre-programmed setting with a touch of our brilliantly 4 setting with a touch of our brilliantly designed shades throughout the day, according to your schedule 760-346-5944  Scene Go Figure!PowerView designed PowerView Pebble Controller. How smart -intelligent that simplify your life. To see PowerView in motion, ™ answers Pebble PowerView Motorization Scene Controller. How smart—intelligent shades www.windowcoveringsbypaperdollinteriors.com Linda Thistle Gtoday. O F IJust Gyour U Rlife. E !Tobysee shades that simplify PowerView in personalized motion, contact us today. contact us and activities. program your settings that simplify your life. To see PowerView in motion, Follow Us on Facebook or Tw The idea of Go Figure is to contact us today. Follow Us o with your or tablet, and let PowerView do arrive smart at the figures phone given at

It moves your shades, so you don’t have to.

It moves your shades, so you don’t have to. Games

June 6, 2016

King Features Weekly Service ™

It moves your shades, so Weekly youSUDOKU don’t have to. -Answer- a pre-programmed the rest.* You can MOTORIZATION even activate INTRODUCING POWERVIEW FROM HUNTER DOUGLAS. 1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capiThe PowerView Pebble is available in seven colors. tala of Honduras? touch of our moves brilliantly designed PowerView Asetting remarkablewith new system that automatically your 55174 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: The PowerView Pebble is available in seven colors. 5 shades throughout the day, according to your schedule ™ Which one of Christopher Columbus’ Pebble Scene Controller. How smart—intelligent shades *The PowerView App and additional equipment required for programmed operation. © 2015 Hunter Douglas. All rights reserved. All trademarks used herein are the property of Hunter Dou three ships was wrecked the New *The PowerView and activities. Just program yourinpersonalized settings App and additional equipment requiredfor for programmed operation. © 2015 Hunter Douglas. All rights reserved. All trademarks used her The Coachella Valley’s Best Source Interior Design World and didn’t return to Spain? with your smart phone or tablet, and let PowerView do that simplify3. EXPLORERS: yourWhatlife. To see PowerView in motion, was Christothe rest. * You canDIFFICULTY: even activate � a pre-programmed ChooseToday! Come Visit Our Showroom pher Columbus’ nationality? "We’ve been contact us today. setting with a touch of our brilliantly designed PowerView 4. MOVIES: What was the name of F Seals making homes the character played by John Travolta the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic ™ signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

� Moderate �� Difficult

™ �� GO FIGURE! Pebble How smart—intelligent shades beautiful Scene Controller. in “Pulp Fiction”? that simplify your life. To see in motion, since 1972" 5. GAMES: WhatPowerView is the best hand in ADVERTISING contact us today. poker? © 2006 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

79-710 Highway 111, 4 Ste. 103 La Quinta, CA 92253 PROOF Follow Us on Facebook or Twitter

Games

6. ANATOMY: What isFinal the most Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. October 23-29, 2006 HOURS: Mon.-- Sat: 10am - 5pm common bloodPlease type in humans? review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Sun: Closed 7. LANGUAGE: What characteristic makes the word “facetious” interContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. Visit us online at: Weekly SUDOKU esting? Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 The PowerView Pebble 8.is available in LITERATURE: Inseven which ofcolors. Answer 55174 www.paperdollinteriors.com Shakespeare’s plays does the ghost of Go Figure! Banquo appear? Thistle *The PowerView App and additional required for programmed operation. © 2015 Hunter Douglas. All rights reserved. All trademarks used herein are the property of Hunter Douglas. answers byequipment Linda 9. RELIGION: What are the seven by Linda Thistle *The PowerView App and additional equipment required for programmed operation. © 2015 Hunter Douglas.®®All rights reserved. All virtues as defined in early Christianity? Answer peeking strictly forbidden. Tidbits Tidbits Word Word Search Search Property of GO FIGURE! - Answers The idea 10.ofMUSIC: Go Figure is todoes ANSWERS What instrument AdVenture Media, Inc. TRIVIA TEST arrive atthethe figures given at musician James Galway play? 1. The church collapsed Weekly Weekly SUDOKU SUDOKU the bottom and right-hand 2. At the FREE intersection of Straight Answers Answers of Coachella Valley columns of the diagram by folSt. and Narrow St. -Answer1. Tegucigalpa 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 lowing the arithmetic signs in 3. Flushing, NY Santa Maria the order 2.they are given (that 4. Peanuts All Rights Reserved 3. Italian is, from left to right and top to 5. Allergic to carrots 4. Vincent Vega bottom). Use only the numbers Royal flush to complete below the 5.diagram WUZZLES Answers BIBLE TRIVIA Type O positive its blank 6. squares and use each Answers 7. It contains all five vowels in the of the nine numbers only once. 1. (C) Neither correct order. 2. (A) 1 Timothy 8. “Macbeth” � DIFFICULTY: Quiz Bits 3. (B) Thyatira 9. Faith, hope, charity, courage, pruPlace a number in the empty boxes in such a way � Moderate �� Difficult 4. (B) Cana that each rowdence, across, each down and each justice andcolumn temperance 1) Cancelled due to snow 5. (D) Jonathan �� FIGURE! small 9-boxGO square contains all of the © 2006 King Features Syndicate, Inc. 10. Flute 2) The statues were made numbers from one to nine.

Barbara Lawrence, Owner

760.346.5944

The PowerView is available in seven colors. Weekly Pebble SUDOKU GO FIGURE!

4 Million Readers Weekly Nationwide!

The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read

Published by: AdVenture Media

For Advertising Call (760) 320-0997

valleybits@msn.com

ANSWERS

DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK: �� Moderate �� Challenging �� HOO BOY!

6. (C) Bethany

in Japan