BRIEFLY; MINE EVENT, TOURS SET FOR SATURDAY.MOJAVE - Off-road vehicle enthusiasts from all over Southern California will gather Saturday at the Jawbone jaw·bone (jô  b n )n. Canyon Visitors Center to kick off the two-day Moose Anderson Days. The maxilla or, especially, the mandible. The event will begin with a clean-up project at Sunset Mine to remove decades of debris. Box lunches will be provided. A barbecue dinner will precede a meeting of the Friends of Jawbone, the organization that supports the visitors center and bookstore operated by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Four tours will be given Sunday, with a ``hard-core'' four-wheel drive trip starting at 8:30 a.m.; a motorcycle tour at 8:45 a.m.; a dual sport tour at 9 a.m.; and a four-wheel-drive tour at 9:15 a.m. The Visitors Center is on Highway 14 south of Red Rock Canyon State Park. For more information, call (760) 373-1165. - Daily News VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT AS DOG TRAINERS LANCASTER - In connection with today as International Guide Dog guide dog, a dog trained to lead a blind person. The first school for training such dogs was established by the German government after World War I for the benefit of blinded veterans. Schools now exist in several European countries and the United States, where the pioneer Seeing Eye, Inc., founded by Dorothy Harrison Eustis in 1929 and established near Morristown, N.J., in 1932, is the best known. Day, Guide Dogs for the Blind is recruiting adults and youths to raise puppies for training as guide dogs. Volunteers are needed to teach puppies obedience, house training and social skills by providing home care and direction. The commitment lasts for about 12 months, then the pup is returned to one of two Guide Dog campuses in California and Oregon for training in guide work. For more information, contact the organization at (800) 295-4050. Its Web site is www.guidedogs.com. - Daily News ROTARY AUCTION TO HELP CHARITIES LANCASTER - A six-carat diamond bracelet, a trip on a 47-foot yacht, and vacations in Aspen and Hawaii are among the items to be sold Saturday at the Lancaster West Rotary Club's annual auction. The ``Dinosaurs of the West'' auction - named for the club's sponsorship of the ``Dinosaurs of the Desert'' exhibit at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, will begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Antelope Valley Inn, 44055 Sierra Highway. Tickets, which include dinner, are $75 a couple, and are available by calling Mark Hemstreet at the Antelope Valley Inn at (661) 948-4651 Proceeds of the auction will go to help Antelope Valley charities. The club provides more than $160,000 a year to dozens of local charities, leaders said. - Daily News TEENS ARRESTED AFTER STORE HEIST LANCASTER - Two teen-agers were in custody following a shoplifting-turned-robbery Tuesday afternoon at a Lancaster discount store, deputies said. Ibarra Patricio, 18, of Mojave and Matthew Quinton, 19, of Rosamond were arrested on suspicion of robbery after deputies say the pair grabbed several canvas money bags and, when confronted by a store clerk, tried to stab him with a screwdriver. The suspects fled the Less Than a Dollar store in the 1000 block of West Avenue I in a mid-'80s model Corvette, which was later spotted in the 45400 block of Cedar Avenue, deputies said. The two were found at a friend's house near where the car was parked and both were arrested. About $600 was recovered near the scene and an additional $600 was found in Quinton's possession but investigators are unsure whether the cash was part of the stolen money. The two were being held at Lancaster sheriff's station jail on suspicion of robbery in lieu of $50,000 bail each. - Daily News |
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