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Stream ‘Popcorn Falls’ this Thanksgiving Day
In This Issue
Senior News.........................................2 Read with Me seeking Volunteers..........3 Palm Desert Farmers Market.................4 Leftover Turkey Salad...........................5
Anthony Nannini, in partnership with Palm Canyon Theatre, present a one-day only streaming production
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ust like you, we’re anxiously awaiting live theatre. And, until that happens, two talented actors have come together to present more than 15 characters in a zany musical about two guys who believe theatre can save their town. That sounds about right, doesn’t it? Before, after or during your Thanksgiving Day celebration, tune-in to a One-Day Only Streaming Production of “Popcorn Falls,” starring Anthony Nannini and Nicholas Sloan. The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn it into a sewage treatment plant. The hope of saving the town lies in the dreams of opening a live theatre there. Writer James Hindman spins a world of farce, love and desperation, with musical compositions by Jeffrey Lodin, which proves that art can save the world! Nannini has been on the Palm Canyon Theatre stage in many memorable roles including as Felicia in “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” Nicky in “Avenue Q,” Will Parker in “Oklahoma!,” Rudolph in “Hello Dolly!” and countless others. He shares the stage with longtime confidant and PCT regular Nicholas Sloan, who has performed throughout Southern California for more than a de-
• The human body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring a gallon of water to a boil. • Tigers, jaguars and leopards love the smell of Calvin Klein’s “Obsession For Men”! Photographers who used the fragrance to lure the big cats to their cameras in the wild
1. FOOD & DRINK: What is another name for the vegetable known in some parts of the world as a courgette? 2. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “Ars longa, vita brevis” mean?
Anthony Nannini and Nicholas Sloan.
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cade. Beyond Sloan’s first performance in a wild west stunt show in 1999, he’s been seen as Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Performance Riverside, Enjolras in “Les Misérables” at The Palm Canyon Theatre, Sky in “Mamma Mia” at The Moonlight Amphitheatre, Riff in “West Side Story” at Riverside Repertory, and many others. Nannini is well-known for his outrageous physical comedy, and with Sloan delivering deadpan quips, people are in for quite a treat – in fact, call this Thanksgiving Day Dessert! Running just over an hour without intermission, audiences will be glued to their monitors as this dynamic duo make full use of the Palm Canyon Theatre stage, where the production was
shot. The two actors go nonstop, jumping in and out of a variety of characters all while trying to take down the bad guys, fall in love, write a play, catch a hungry squirrel and save Popcorn Falls! Tickets for this One-Day Only Streaming Production are only $15 and are available on Showtix4U. com, which is also the platform to view the taped production! The show will be available to view all day. So after the modified parade, some football, and a full tummy, why not have a good laugh?!
said the cats “would start drooling, their eyes would half-close, almost like they were going into a trance.”
• Until 1953, New York City had a pneumatic tube mail network that spanned 27 miles and connected 23 post offices. At its peak, the system moved 95,000 letters a day at speeds of 30-35 mph.
• Between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots held as POWs in an Egyptian prison passed their time by translating J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” from English into Hebrew. The book was sent to them by their family members via the Red Cross. The pilots’ version was published commercially in 1977 and is still considered by many to be one of the best Hebrew translations available.
“Popcorn Falls” is available for a oneday Only Streaming Purchase of $15 for the 24-hour period of Thursday, November 26. Purchase at: showtix4u.com/event-details/43328
• Homer Simpson’s famous “D’oh!” is a real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, though in “The Simpsons” scripts, it’s rendered merely as an “annoyed grunt.” • Halloween is more Irish than St. Patrick’s Day. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
3. LITERATURE: Which 20th-century novel begins with the line, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow”? 4. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a pudu? 5. MOVIES: Which 1983 movie featured the character of Tony Montana? 6. TELEVISION: What was the name of the vacuum cleaner on the children’s series “Teletubbies”? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What color is carmine? 8. SCIENCE: What was the first mammal to be cloned successfully from an adult cell? 9. FIRSTS: Who was the first African American man elected to the U.S. Senate? 10. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the name of President Bill Clinton’s family cat? © 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 6
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WORD SEARCH Using the Internet to Enrich Our Lives
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BAIN MARIE
CLARIFY
DRAGEES
BAKED
COAT
ICING
BATCH
COCOA
LOLLIPOP
BEAT
COMBINE
PASTE
BIND
CONFECTION
SIFT
BOIL
CORN SYRUP
SUGAR
CARAMELIZATION
CRUMBLE
THERMOMETER
CHILL
DISSOLVE
TRUFFLE
With most of us spending most of our days at home, it’s time for us to take advantage of the internet. Here are some resources that can enrich our lives. Inquire at the local senior center about any exercise classes online. Some classes will be live on Zoom and others will be videos that the instructors record and post on the center’s website. If they’re not hosting any classes, search online for “seniors exercise at home” and look for some that are produced by other senior centers. Virtual art classes can open up new areas of interest and reveal talents you didn’t know you had. Better yet, if you’re a beginner or are exploring a new art medium, look for videos that you can review over and over. Look online for free art classes online for seniors. Exercise and art aren’t the only free classes you’ll find online. Yoga and tai chi, sewing, baking and cake decorating, creative writing, a new language — if it
can be done online, there’s a class for it somewhere. And don’t forget Class Central (www.classcentral.com). Check the website for a list of MOOCS (massive open online courses). There 15,000 different free and low-cost classes in its searchable database from colleges and universities around the world. Imagine taking a philosophy course from the University of Edinburgh or Introduction to Classical Music via Yale University. (I put art history into its search box and got back 165 results.) Read the details for any class you’re considering. It will tell you if the class is selfpaced, whether it’s free to audit, the class level and how much time per week you can expect to spend on the work, as well as reviews from other students. If you’re unsure of your internet skills, search for “internet basics for seniors” on Google. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc
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Read With Me Program helping students, seeking volunteers Distance learning is not getting in the way of a 16-year-old tutoring organization to keep doing what organizers know is needed to help valley students. Read With Me Volunteer Programs did a major pivot this year, when the pandemic led to distance learning, and volunteers continued tutoring students – virtually. The Auen Foundation is supporting the program with a $30,000 grant to train volunteers, most of whom are people over 55. “The schools we work in have a high incidence of children living in homes where English is not spoken. These children have lost a great deal of academic progress since last March and need additional tutoring more than ever,” said Roberta Klein, Founder of Read With Me, which normally transports trained volunteer tutors to schools in the east valley. “We have demonstrated that poorly achieving students that have a volunteer tutor make twice as much academic progress as the rest of the students in school.” Before the pandemic, Read With
Me had about 750 volunteers, many of whom are snowbirds. When Read With Me volunteers were no longer able to tutor at school sites, the organization worked with Coachella Valley Unified School District to develop an effective, virtual tutoring program. Read With Me established three training locations – at the Berger Charitable Center, Southwest Church and Hope Lutheran Church – to train volunteers how to use Zoom and help students with reading and English language skills virtually. Volunteers can also train virtually, if they live outside the valley or are not comfortable coming to the socially distanced, in-person training. For more information about becoming a Read With Me volunteer, visit www.readwithmevolunteers.com.
Flying rats? In New York City they call them “flying rats” because they are considered a nuisance but in Belgium they train pigeons to race and the best of the breed can fetch big bucks. Last year a Belgian pigeon, by the name of Armando, was sold at auction for more than $1.4 million. And now another Belgian pigeon, New Kim, has been auctioned off for the tidy sum of
$1.89 million, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens. They’ve been breeding pigeons for racing for more than 200 years in Belgium and they are, obviously, good at it. The Association of Mature American Citizens [www.amac.us] provides the Filler Files as a service on issues of concern to Americans over 50.
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Brain Teaser
You’re escaping a labyrinth and there are three exits. Exit A leads to an inferno. Exit B leads to an assassin. Exit C leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in 3 years. Which exit do you pick?
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Palm Desert’s Certified Farmers Market gets new home on San Pablo Palm Desert’s Certified Farmers’ Market will have a fresh, new address starting next month. Beginning on Wednesday, December 2, the popular weekly market will move from its existing location in Entrada del Paseo to debut at its new location on San Pablo Avenue. A celebratory and socially distanced ribbon cutting will take place at 8 a.m. with the first 250 shoppers receiving Unite Palm Desert reusable grocery bags from the City of Palm Desert booth. The Market’s move to San Pablo capitalizes on the street’s recently reimagined pedestrian and bicycle friendly design and will begin to realize the centrally located venue’s potential as a new outdoor community event space. San Pablo will be closed between Alessandro Drive and San Gorgonio Way every Wednesday morning for the market, which
runs from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., October through April. A perennial favorite, Palm Desert’s Certified Farmers’ Market gives residents and visitors an opportunity to shop for farm fresh produce and other artisanal products. The market’s nearly twodozen farms are regionally-based, most within 100 miles of Palm Desert, and provide a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables. In addition to the wonderful produce, the market offers a mouthwatering array of other farm raised and artisanal products.
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for the dressing. I use dried cranberries without added sugar. If the spirit moves, this recipe is also delicious with a crisp, chopped local apple added just before serving. Enjoy it topped over mixed greens or spoon it between a halved croissant for a delectable sandwich. TURKEY SALAD
Turkey Salad made from Thanksgiving leftovers Hosting the Thanksgiving feast usually means a variety of leftovers tucked away in the refrigerator for building piled-high sandwiches. If you’re ambitious, you might even make soup or a casserole with the good and seasoned food. Here’s another tasty option that will please your family: Make a big, savory, crunchy, nutrient-packed turkey main-dish salad, and serve it at a weekend brunch with croissants and fresh fruit on the side. If you are like me and contribute dishes to the Thursday feast but don’t host the gathering, no worries about not having turkey leftovers. Just put a fresh turkey breast in the oven on Friday and roast it for this seasonal recipe. I look for a brined turkey breast at my local market in all-natural seasoned flavors like apple cider and fresh herbs. When I stir the salad together, I remember that my kids aren’t mayo lovers, so I compromise with half mayo, half Greek yogurt
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• 4 cups cubed, baked turkey • 1 tablespoon chopped red onion • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper • 1/2 cup mayonnaise • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt • 1 cup chopped celery • 1 1/2 cups seedless red or green grapes, halved • 1/2 cup dried cranberries • 1/2 cup roasted pecans, loosely chopped • 1/2 crisp apple, chopped (optional) • 1/2 fresh lemon In a large bowl, combine turkey, onion, salt and pepper, mayonnaise and yogurt. Add and stir together celery, grapes, cranberries and pecans. Add apple, if you wish, and a few squeezes of lemon juice just before serving. Serves 8. (c) 2020 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Syndicate
marriage license in Stratford-uponAvon. Six months later, Anne gives birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins.
On Nov. 26, 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists become the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than 3,000 years. Inside were several thousand priceless objects, including a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king. On Nov. 27, 1868, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer leads an earlymorning attack on a band of Cheyenne in Oklahoma. Custer did not attempt to identify the group of Cheyenne, or to make even a cursory reconnaissance. Had he done so, he would have discovered that they were peaceful people and the village was on reservation soil. On Nov. 28, 1582, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their
On Nov. 29, 1942, coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States during World War II. Butter, sugar and milk had been rationed earlier. By the end of the year, cars were limited to 3 gallons of gas per week. On Nov. 30, 1965, lawyer Ralph Nader publishes the muckraking book “Unsafe at Any Speed.” The book became a bestseller and prompted the passage of seatbelt laws in 49 states (all but New Hampshire). On Dec. 2, 1997, “Good Will Hunting,” a movie that will earn childhood friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon a Best Screenplay Oscar and propel them to Hollywood stardom, premieres in Los Angeles. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Crossword Answer
When you decide to purchase your own horse, you will eventually have to pony up.
Stickelers Answer The six republics are Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The two autonomous regions within Serbia are Vojvodina and Kosovo.
Inspirational Quote
Sudoku Answer
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” Rumi
Go Figure Answer
Trivia Answers 1. Zucchini 2. Art is long, life is short 3. “To Kill a Mockingbird” 4. Small South American deer 5. “Scarface,” Al Pacino 6. The Noo-noo
7. Dark red 8. Dolly the sheep 9. Hiram Rhodes Revels, 1870 10. Socks
Hitori Answer
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Brain Teaser Answer
Exit C. If a lion hasn’t eaten in 3 years, it has definitely starved to death.
Purple Heart Phony With snow expected that afternoon, I suspected the veteran crew might not have shown up outside the coffee shop, but there they were, socially distanced around the sidewalk. And they were in the middle of a hot conversation when I stepped up. The topic was a guy who had potentially faked his military history and worse, had claimed he was a Purple Heart recipient, this time right here at home. “He’s in our VFW. We took him
in.” “He needs to be brought down, if he’s a liar.” “So, do I make the call? I’ll be calling in a favor if I do.” The group took a vote, going around the circle. It was 100% to find out once and for all if their fellow veteran was indeed a liar and a thief. The main guy slid a phone out of his pocket, stabbed in a number, said a few words, listened and then hung up. I can’t repeat here his exact angry words, but the summary was: Their friend and fellow veteran had lied. He hadn’t served where he’d claimed he had, hadn’t had the MOS he’d claimed he had, and he certainly had not earned a Purple Heart. MOS is a code that identifies the job someone has in the military. This particular veteran had
worked in supply at a small CONUS base. Unless he’d gotten a paper cut while stocking shelves, he’d never been wounded. Somewhere there was a faked DD-214. I tossed my coffee cup in the trash and walked away, leaving the group to their collective misery while they explored just how they’d been taken in. I’d heard the story too many times. Veterans and those who’d never served claiming benefits, medals and admiration they never earned, enjoying a higher-level Priority Group at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center, telling tall tales. Eventually they get caught, like this phony just did, by people who pay attention to their gut feelings. The Stolen Valor Act would take it from there.. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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