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TWO-DAY FESTIVAL WINS RAVES.


Byline: BETTIE RENCORET Senior columnist

QUARTZ HILL - Senior citizens and young people alike enjoyed food, entertainment, craft and art displays, and music at the Quartz Hill 2000 Festival last weekend in George Lane George Lane (born 1940 ) is a British "mental calculator" and author. He is a three-times world champion and one of only three Grandmasters of Mental Calculation, as recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation.  Park.

It was the fifth festival to be held in the park, but the first time it has run for two days, said Leonard Hobbs, a World War II Royal Air Force pilot and longtime Quartz Hill community activist who was in charge of the entertainment.

``This has gone over so well we plan to make it an annual two-day affair now,'' Hobbs said.

The Quartz Hill Town Council presented the festival in conjunction with the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  County Park and Recreation Department under the sponsorship of Waste Management of California.

All proceeds from the event were earmarked to benefit Lane Park programs.

Quartz Hill Town Councilmen Larry Hales and Harry Brodock were pleased with the success of the project and noted there are a lot of places to put the money.

``We may even be able to get a pool table for the rec hall |

Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was opened on January 15, 1929 and is still in use.
 out of this,'' Hales said.

``It's been a lot of work, but a lot of people have been involved and we've had fun putting it all together,'' Brodock said. ``We think it's been worth it.''

Among the 37 booths was one run by Lancaster resident Gena (Generalized Event Notification Architecture) A method for communicating events over the Web. It is an architecture for transmitting notifications between HTTP resources such as buddy lists, distribution lists and print jobs.  Steinkamp, who sold products such as knitted dishcloths, string angels, Christmas earrings, pins and ceramics.

Other artisans showed hand-crafted stained glass stained glass, in general, windows made of colored glass. To a large extent, the name is a misnomer, for staining is only one of the methods of coloring employed, and the best medieval glass made little use of it. , handmade dolls and original paintings.

Hobbs booked performances to please all age groups.

Included were martial arts This is a list of martial arts, broken down by region and style. African martial arts
Eritrea
  • Testa
Nigeria
  • Dambe (Hausa Boxing)
South Africa
  • Nguni stick fighting
  • Rough and Tumble
Senegal
 demonstrations from Okinawa Karate and Quartz Hill Karate, Fun With Karaoke by Chameleon, and a presentation of inspirational music by the Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer".

It may refer to:
  • Alfred Sommer (ophthalmologist) (born 1943), American academic
  • António de Sommer Champalimaud
  • Barbara Sommer (born 1948), German politician (CDU)
 Haven Choir.

Seniors loved the big band sound of Night Wind as they played the music of Glen Miller, Benny Goodman and many others.

The Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD).  Jazz Band inspired accolades, Terraplane played classic rock, and L.A. Undercover blared forth with jazz funk.

LANCASTER - Casino Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Antelope Valley Senior Center, 777 W. Jackman St.

Friends of the Center have planned a lunch of meatball sandwiches, salads, desserts and beverages, and play money will be available for Las Vegas-type games for those who want to play.

Reservations are needed for this special event. Sign-up can be accomplished on Wednesday morning at the center.

Call (661) 726-4400 for information.

Menus for the week at the senior life nutrition sites in Lancaster, Palmdale and South Valley have been announced. All meals include bread, margarine and coffee, tea or milk for a donation of $2.

Monday: Spaghetti with meatballs, mixed vegetables, spinach salad, apple, grape juice.

Tuesday: Barbecued pork, parsleyed potatoes, green beans, coleslaw cole·slaw also cole slaw  
n.
A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise or a vinaigrette.
, chocolate pudding.

Wednesday: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, corn Niblets, marinated salad, apple cobbler.

Thursday: Tuna pasta salad, pea salad, garden salad, orange juice, Jell-O.

Friday: Crispy chicken, baked potatoes, beets, carrot, raisin salad, fruit cocktail.
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