BORON PLANS FAMILY FUN IN 20 MULE TEAM DAYS.Byline: Romy Jacobson Daily News Staff Writer ``Forty Years of Family and Fun'' is the theme of this year's Twenty Mule Team
Twenty mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. Days, a fund-raising event for the Boron Chamber Noun 1. boron chamber - an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons boron counter tube - a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons of Commerce and local organizations. Kicking off the two-day event will be a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday featuring vintage cars, horseback riders and bands from Desert and Tehachapi high schools. The parade will start at Boron boron (bōr`ŏn) [New Gr. from borax], chemical element; symbol B; at. no. 5; at. wt. 10.81; m.p. about 2,300°C;; sublimation point about 2,550°C;; sp. gr. 2.3 at 25°C;; valence +3. High School and continue through downtown Boron along Twenty Mule Team Road. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Boron County Park. ``I think it's going to be a lot of fun,'' said Twenty Mule Team Days committee member Donna Anderson. Thai food, hot dogs, tacos, and a barbecue will be available from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Activities for children will include games and a dunking booth. Craft and information booths will be set up, as will a G-scale model train from the Tehachapi Loop The Tehachapi Loop is a so-called .73 mile long 'spiral' (though technically it is a helix) on the railroad main line through the Tehachapi Mountains in south central California, connecting the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles via the Antelope Valley. Railroad Club and a minerals display from the Women in Mining organization. A country and gospel group, the Cantells, and the Betty Casey Band from Tehachapi will perform Saturday, when there also will be a massage demonstration, a line-dancing show and a performance by students of Kelly's Dance Studio. Gravel Road A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. They are common in less-developed nations, and also in the rural areas of developed nations such as Canada and the United States. , the headliner band, will perform from 7 until 10 p.m. Saturday. Sunday's events will include a beauty contest for babies and tots younger than 2, judging in a beard-growing contest and a softball tournament. The town's honorary mayor will be named in a fund-raising contest among community groups. The head of the group that raises the most money will get the title. ``We would love to have people from all around come here for a family day,'' said Anderson. For more information, contact Anderson at (760) 762-7205, Mildred Savage Mildred Spitz Savage (born June 26, 1919) is an author known for her best-selling novel, Parrish. Biography and career The second of three children, she was born in New London, Connecticut to Ezekiel and Sachia Spitz. at (760) 762-5620, and Teresa Kindshci at (760) 762-6848. |
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