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CELEBRATING THE RESIDENTIAL PARK COMMUNITIES FOR 64 YEARS

The Desert Living Home Show Returns to Palm Springs

he Desert Living Home Show, in Palm Springs is in its 8th year and is returning on Friday, November 16, and runs through Sunday, November 18, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. It will feature an expanded range of products and services covering all aspects of home improvement systems, decor, upgrades and products. The three-day show continues to be a popular product showcase and resource expo of expert advice for Coachella Valley area residents planning to improve and update their homes’ value, livability and beauty. This event

and its hundreds of exhibitors will showcase the newest products and hottest trends for both inside and outside the home. Very “real world” but also the stuff of dreams, the Desert Living Home Show is one-stop shopping for the home and garden. Whether you’re a DIY’er or pride yourself on finding the best resources to do the job at hand for you, you’ll find it all at the Desert Living Home Show. Homeowners looking to remodel, build, landscape or redecorate should make a beeline to the Desert Living Home Show. The show will be packed with contractors

and other home design pros, all offering advice, work samples and hands-on demonstrations featuring the latest products on the market. Get helpful hints on everything from plumbing to garage doors to artwork, plus you can take advantage of vendors’ special show discounts. Enjoy HGTV’s “Desert Flippers” Eric and Lindsey Bennett as they reveal their secrets to adding value to Palm Springs homes. Holiday parties? Watch designers from My Little Flower Shop create gorgeous table tops with exotic floral arrangements. The show runs Friday, Novem-

ber 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, November 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, November 18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $8; children under 12 are free. Seniors 55+ $5, and on Friday only $1. Military: active, retired, or veteran have free admission with ID. Discount tickets on the website are $6. For more information visit desertlivinghomeshow.com. The Desert Living Home Show, in Palm Springs after eight successful years is now being produced by Desert Expos, bringing with them 33 years of experience producing the San Diego Home/Garden Shows at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

McCormick’s Classic Car Auction features roadsters from all eras By Alison Elsner

ow in its 32nd year, McCormick’s Car Auction will showcase nearly 600 hot cars, including classics, antiques, muscle cars, European sports cars, trucks and motorcycles. This 65th show on wheels will display showpiece vehicles like a 1953 Chevy Bel Air Con-

vertible, 1931 Chrysler CD DC Phaeton, 1950 Jaguar Mark V, 1964 Porsche 356 SC, 1976 Cadillac Eldorado, 1963 Austin Healey 3000 and dozens and dozens of other rare finds. Many of the auction vehicles are entered as “no reserve,” selling to the highest bidder no matter what the price. Earlier this year, the popular spring event topped $6.37 million

in sales. Founder and proprietor Keith McCormick has created a twice yearly event that has become a Palm Springs institution. Car enthusiasts attend from near and far to do some serious bidding as well as just snap photos and take in the visuals, especially on opening day when the auction is free and open to the public. The collectible cars represent a chronological history

of our modern era in transportation and culture, providing an investment opportunity or just great fun for the hobbyist. McCormick’s Classic Car Auction is held November 16-18 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros in Palm Springs. Visit classic-carauction.com for tickets and schedule.

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Strange But True Samantha Weaver

• It was 20th-century American singer and songwriter Bobbie Gentry who made the following sage observation: “Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.” • At one time the Catholic Church considered it a sin to eat a hot dog. • The next time you’re annoyed by a bad case of the hiccups, consider Charles Osborne. In 1922, when he was 28 years old, Osborne got the hiccups. For the next 68 years, he continued to hiccup, finally stopping in 1990, one year before his death at the age of 97.

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• In a match between a 200-pound mountain lion and a 20-pound porcupine, the lion is likely to be the loser -- and probably will die if it tried to take a bite of the prey. • Marilyn Monroe’s iconic film “Some Like It Hot” (which in 2000 was named the greatest American comedy film of all time by the American Film Institute) originally was titled “Not Tonight, Josephine!” © 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Trivia Test By Fifi Rodriguez

1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president’s Secret Service code name was “Rawhide”? 2. GEOGRAPHY: What body of water separates Ireland from England? 3. HISTORY: What are the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa called? 4. FOOD & DRINK: What is the name of a drink that mixes rye whisky, sweet vermouth, a dash of bitters and a maraschino cherry? 5. U.S. STATES: How many counties does the state of Louisiana have? 6. GAMES: How many pieces per side are in a game of chess? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a young bat called? 8. COMICS: Which long-running comic-book series features characters called Jughead, Veronica and Betty? 9. LANGUAGE: What is the international radio code word for the letter “K”? 10. BIBLE: Who were King Solomon’s parents? © 2018 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 9

Book Club

Friday, November 16 Friends of the Palm Springs Public Library Book Club will be meeting in the Learning Center at the main library at 2 p.m. on Friday, November 16. The Book Club will be reading “White Houses” by Amy Bloom. The Palm Springs Public Library is located at 300 South Sunrise Way in Palm Springs. For more information, visit palmspringslibrary.org

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Drag Queen Story Hour Family Fun Night presents Drag Queen Story Hour on Tuesday, November 20 at 6 p.m. Join local diva Bella da Ball in the Youth Room for an evening of laughter and fun. The evening starts off with a special craft and then circle around as Bella reads stories, at the end there will be a dance party. The evening will be a fun evening for the whole family. Bella da Ball is the Palm Springs’ area social ambassador and drag personality. Bella da Ball is very

active in the community and has been recognized by many different organizations and has received numerous awards and honors, including being the recipient of a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars, the Safe Schools Desert Cities Champion for Youth Award for LBGTQIA. The Palm Springs Public Library is located at 300 South Sunrise Way in Palm Springs. For more information, visit palmspringslibrary.org

Senior News Line: Medicare for 2019 Matilda Charles

We have until Dec. 7 to make final decisions about our Medicare plans. Many of us will decide to stay with what we have. By now you should have received your Medicare & You book for 2019. Have you thumbed through it yet? There are a few changes. Some of those changes include charts and lists to help us in making decisions. For those who’ve had a stroke or who have end stage renal disease, we can talk to our medical staff via telehealth. The doughnut hole -- that period in our Medicare Part D prescription plan when we have to

cover drug costs -- was due to expire in 2020, but now there’s an important change. For 2019 the hole will end for brand name prescriptions drugs. The rest, generic drugs, will follow in 2020. We won’t have to pay for all of our therapy now. If you have a Medicare Supplement policy, do you know what changes, if any, are being made to it? Remember that supplement plans generally don’t include Part D drug plans. With a supplement plan, you’ll have access to any doctor who takes Medicare. With an Advantage plan, you might

face restrictions and networks. However, a new law says that we can try out an Advantage plan for three months. If we don’t like it, we can change to another or go back to the original Medicare. Medicare Advantage plans will, in many cases, go down slightly in cost while benefits actually increase. Those added benefits can now pay for help with activities for daily living, such as personal care and eating. If we need meals brought to us, or a ride to the doctor, or a ramp built outside, plans are now allowed to cover those things. © 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ACROSS 1. At the peak

29. Shone 32. Wrap 33. Pro vote

5. Spider’s snare 34. Moray 8. Housetop fisherman 12. History 13. Dread 14. Aristocrat

36. King beater 37. Stoneworker 39. Put up

15. Wood product 41. Exhausted 16. Salt water 42. Scale 17. Victim 43. Beat walker 18. Iron output 45. Clearances 20. Utilize 49. Inkling 22. Legendary 52. Upper limb Himalayan 55. Face creature 25. Bald ____

56. Snitch

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3. Stare at 5. Had been

51. House extension

6. Momma sheep

54. Riot crowd

4. Tropical fruit

53. Filch

7. Boyfriend 8. Revoke officially

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Recipe of the Week

The Kitchen Diva By Angela Shelf Medearis

Giving Thanks In 1621, a small group of pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, gathered with the native Wampanoag people to celebrate a successful harvest. They could not have imagined the legacy they were creating for Americans who came after them. Giving thanks was part of the Wampanoag tradition as it was for the pilgrims. After many hardships and hard labor, the pilgrims invited the Wampanoag to join them in feasting and sports in an outpouring of gratitude for the bounty they received. There is surprisingly little recorded about this important event in our history, but it does seem clear that, like our Thanksgiving today, there was a copious amount of food, and the revelry went on for about three days. What we also know, for some certainty, is that many of the foods we most associate with Thanksgiving were not what the first pilgrims prepared. There is a first-hand record, written by E.W. Winslow to a friend in England that gives us some idea of their menu. He writes that the men brought in large amounts of fowl, like duck and geese. William Bradford, the Plymouth Colony governor, reports that “there was a great store of wild turkeys.” We can believe with a degree of confidence, that the pilgrims and the Wampanoag ate turkey on that first Thanksgiving, and most likely, venison and a variety of fish. Cranberries, herbs and onions were used to stuff the meat and fish. Potatoes probably were not served, but rather turnips and Jerusalem artichokes. There were probably pumpkins, but no pie. The pilgrims didn’t have access to

butter, milk or flour for baking. The traditional Thanksgiving menu that most of us think of today is about 200 years younger than the original celebration. Over time, as European farming methods were used by the early settlers, they grew the crops they missed from home. When farm animals and dairy products became available, many of the foods that we now associate with Thanksgiving were regularly prepared. My recipe for Smoked Turkey provides some of the flavors from that first Thanksgiving. Using the smoking method to cook the turkey also frees up oven space for your side dishes and desserts. SMOKED TURKEY 1 (8- to 13-pound) turkey, thawed and patted dry Spice Rub • 2 tablespoons onion powder • 1 tablespoon paprika • 2 teaspoons garlic powder • 2 teaspoons kosher salt • 2 teaspoons white pepper • 1 teaspoon powdered ginger • 1 teaspoon powdered sage • 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1. Smoking the turkey can be done in an outdoor electric smoker that is specially designed for smoking food or in a covered grill. For the best smoking results for the grill method, use hardwood chips, such as hickory, apple or maple. Soak them in water for one or two hours. This prevents flare-ups. Prepare and plug in the electric smoker as directed or light the charcoal smoker while you are prepping the turkey, about 30 minutes before you are ready to start cooking. 2. For food safety reasons, the turkey should be thawed completely and not stuffed. Wash the turkey, remove the giblets and neck, then pat the turkey dry. Mix all dry in-

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gredients together. Dust the inner cavity of the turkey with 2 tablespoons of the dry ingredients. Mix the remaining dry ingredients with the vegetable oil to make a wet rub, or paste, and rub it all over the turkey. 3. Gently separate the skin from the meat of the bird and massage the rub into the meat underneath the skin. Be careful not to remove the skin from the bird. Insert a meat thermometer into the deepest part of the thigh or breast without touching the bone. Cover the turkey with plastic wrap and set it aside while the smoker comes to temperature. 4. Remove plastic wrap and place the turkey in a foil pan on the grill. You can use the drippings from the turkey to flavor your dressing or to make gravy. Close the grill lid or smoker door and allow the turkey to cook for 30-minutes per pound. You will need a second thermometer for the smoker. The smoker temperature should be maintained between 225 F and 300 F. If you are using a charcoal smoker, add briquettes every hour to 1 1/2 hours to help maintain proper temperatures.

5. It can take up to 12 hours to cook the turkey, depending on the weather, the size of your bird and your equipment. An 8 to 13-pound turkey will take 20-30 minutes per pound to cook. Every time you lift the lid, you add 10 minutes to the cooking time. If the thermometer does not read 140 F in four hours, the turkey should be finished in the oven. Temperatures under 140 degrees for too long allow harmful bacteria to grow. 6. The turkey is done when the temperature on the meat thermometer reaches 165 F. Remove the turkey from the smoker and allow it to rest for 15 minutes before slicing.. Angela Shelf Medearis is an awardwinning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.” Her website is divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis. (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc., and Angela Shelf Medearis

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Upcoming This Week NOVEMBER 16 Celtic Thunder at 8 p.m. an Irish singing group and stage show known for its eclectic, theatrical style show. McCallum Theatre, 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert. mccallumtheatre.com

NOVEMBER 16-18 Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon Festival Three-days of fun for the whole family while you enjoy balloon tethered rides, nighttime balloon glow, entertainment, gourmet food, kids’s zone, activities and more. Downtown Cathedral City, 68600 Avenida Lalo Guerrero, Cathedral City. hotairballoonfest.com

NOVEMBER 17 Props and Hops Craft Beer Festival at Noon Featuring a fun afternoon of local craft beer tastings while surrounded by vintage aircraft. Features dozens of West Coast breweries and food vendors with a DJ and live music. Palm Springs Air Museum, 745 North Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs. palmspringspropsandhopsfestival.com Johnny Mathis at 8 p.m. Celebrating more than 65 years in the music industry, the legendary singer graces the desert with his hits like “Chances Are,” “It’s Not For Me To Say” and “Misty.” Agua Caliente Casino Resort & Spa, 32250 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage. hotwatercasino.com Bob Newhart at 8 p.m. One of the most important, influential and beloved figures in the history of American comedy brings his latest tour to the desert. McCallum Theatre, 73000 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert. mccallumtheatre.com Entertainment sometimes changes after deadline. Please check with venue to confirm the evening’s entertainment and time.

Brain Teaser

I turn my head, and you may go where you want. I turn it again, and you’ll stay till you rot. I have no face, but I live or die. By my crooked teeth,. SEE ANSWER ON PAGE 9

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WordSearch Answer

Crosswords Answer

Sudoku Answer

Trivia Answers 1. Ronald Reagan 2. The Irish Sea

5. None. The state is divided into 64 parishes

8. “Archie” 9. Kilo

3. Afrikaners

6. 16

10. David and Bathsheba

4. Manhattan

7. A pup

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