The Yucca Valley Police Department has been awarded a new traffic safety grant for an anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways.  Additional enforcement measures to combat impaired driving are coming as a result of a recent $18,980.00 grant awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety to Yucca Valley. The Yucca Valley Police Department is dedicated to keeping our streets safe through both enforcement and education.

Yucca Valley Police Chief Richard Boswell would like to remind residents, “Keep your family, friends and neighbors safe this holiday season, Report Drunk Drivers. Call 911.”

The special DUI Checkpoint grant is to assist in efforts to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol and other drug related collisions in the community.  The grant activities will specifically target impaired driving offenders as well as educating the public on the dangers of impaired driving through the use of DUI/driver’s license checkpoints.  When possible, specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of drug-impaired driving.

Drunk and drugged driving are among America’s deadliest crimes. In 2010, 791 people were killed and over 24,000 injured in alcohol and drug-impaired crashes in California.  Last year, Yucca Valley experienced two persons killed and eight injured in these tragic crashes.  Crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough.  Checkpoints have proven to be the most effective of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.

“DUI checkpoints have been an essential part of the phenomenal reduction in DUI deaths that we witnessed from 2006 to 2010 in California,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety.  “But since the tragedy of DUI accounts for nearly one third of traffic fatalities, Twentynine Palms needs the high visibility enforcement and public awareness that this grant will provide.”

Funding for this program is from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Featured Presentation: 

“Capturing Our Desert Varmints in Art”

Steve Quintanilla, will be featuring his art collection and focusing on the many artists who discovered the beauty and intrigue of our indigenous local wildlife.  

Steve is a partner in the law firm of Green, de Bortnowsky and Quintanilla, LLP and serves as City Attorney for the cities of Desert Hot Springs and Rancho Mirage. He also does extensive volunteer work for numerous charities throughout the Coachella Valley.

 Thursday, Apr. 25th, 2013

6:00 – 8:00 pm

Miracle Springs Resort -10625 Palm Drive -Desert Hot Springs

RSVP: 760. 251. 4549

Cost: $15 member, $20 non member

Buffet: Soup, salad, bread and desserts

29 Palms, CA: Saturday, May 4th, 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Join in and help us raise funds to pay for the Hastie Bus Restoration project.

The 29 Palms Historical Society is sponsoring a Community Rummage Sale to raise funds to pay for the restoration of the Hastie Bus.

The Sale will be in the parking lot of the Old Schoolhouse Museum from 7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2013.

We are asking for donations for the sale, no clothing, shoes, or large furniture please. Any items that you might want to donate (large or small) may be brought to the Old Schoolhouse Museum on any Wednesday morning between 9 am and 12 pm. Contributions will be accepted up to Friday, May 3rd.

Small items may be brought to the Museum, and left with the Docent’s who are on duty Wednesday – Sunday between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 pm. If these drop-off times are inconvenient, please call or send an email to arrange for an alternate time.

Tax receipts are available upon request.

We are inviting other Twentynine Palms non-profit, fraternal, and civic organizations to join us in this event. There is no charge to participate and all profits from your organization’s sale are yours. However, a donation to the Hastie Bus Restoration Fund would be appreciated. If your organization is interested in participating please contact Les by email to 29palmshistorical@gmail.com.

29 Palms, CA. – Charles Fletcher Lummis, best known in the Los Angeles area for his strong stance on Indian rights and his long-running periodical Out West, was a key figure in the founding of the Southwest Museum in 1907. Twenty-two years later, Elizabeth and Bill Campbell established the Twentynine Palms Branch of the Southwest Museum at their home in Twentynine Palms. Though Lummis and Elizabeth Campbell probably never met, they would have instantly recognized in each other the same strong, independent spirit, and the same dedication to high ideals, knowledge, and adventure. Lummis, a Harvard alumni and classmate of Teddy Roosevelt, was a pioneer in Southwestern history, anthropology, and archaeology, as well as a willful, stubborn, and often eccentric and contradictory character. Join archaeologist Dr. John Hale in an exploration of the colorful and diverse nature of the Charles Lummis and his lasting legacy on Los Angeles, the Southwest, and the United States.

There will also be an optional dinner with the speaker at 5 pm at the 29 Palms Inn, space is limited and attendees are responsible for their own meal. If interested in dinner please RSVP to Marion Gartner 760-361-1202 or desert29palms@yahoo.com.

Click here or on the photo above for more information.
Click here to download a flyer for this lecture.

The lecture will be held at the Old Schoolhouse Museum, 6760 National Park Dr., 29 Palms,

Friday, April 12, 7 pm; $5 at the door Optional dinner with the speaker at 5 pm at the 29 Palms Inn, contact Marion to RSVP for the dinner at 361-1202 or desert29palms@yahoo.com

For lecture info, contact the Desert Institute: 760-367-5535 or desertinstitute@joshuatree.org