“Howdy Neighbor Days” at Salton Sea’s West Shores (Oct. 14-22) comes just at the right time-folks are happily returning from their vacations, the Snowbirds are arriving, and the homes, roused from their summer lethargy, are geared for action.
The 10-day event opened last weekend with a carnival at the Desert Shores Park, and it was great. There were games, craft, food, refreshment booths by the various organizations, there was dunk tank and a fortune telling tent, the ambulance was stationed just inside the entrance to the park for emergencies and also added gusto with the intermittent blasting of sirens.
Jackie Quinn, of Salton City, was named Golden Girl of the Year: and Lauren Winters, 15, of Salton Sea Beach, was crowned Salton’s Junior Queen of 1989-91(in two separate contests which were held at the park gazebo.
Marlene Bell of Desert Shores was the runner op in the Golden Girls event, and she could have stepped from a page in a country-western thriller, with her boots. 10-gallon hat, chaps. holster, las-so and spurs that jingled.
The Salton Sea Beach team, of Gloria Lewis and Marylen Waltz took third place and brought thunderous applause. Gloria, was in bib overalls trimmed in lace and had a cow in tow, which was Marylen (with udder) Others, all great and each in unique western attire, were: Dorothy Culpepper, Ginger Dean, Eva Harbaugh, Vi Herzberg. Ruth Layman, Phyllis Nogales. Ann Reyes, Pat Shuberg and Jackie Woodman.
The Golden Girl of 1988-89, beautiful, petite Dottie Mullins of the beach community, stepped down from her throne that evening to crown Jackie “Golden Girl of the Year.”
In the Junior Queen’s Court are Michelle Bell and Tonya Read of Salton City, and Elisa Guice and Tonya Peterson of Desert Shores, all lovely young ladies who ex-pressed the desire to give special assistance with community affairs throughout the coming year. They will be appearing in the W.S. Santa Claus Parade at Sal-ton Sea Beach on Dec. 10.
They are cookin’ at the Desert Shores park today for the Chili Cookoff (the chili has to be prepared at the park). Judging the chili, along with baked goods entries, takes place at 5:30 — after that, we eat it all!
Tomorrow, the American Legion will treat folks to their famous biscuits and gravy, eggs-sausage-beverage-breakfast from 6-10 a.m. at the POA building in Salton Sea Beach. (Only $2.50!)
But speaking of haunts, the San Francisco earthquake is haunting us, for we too are situated adjacent to the San Andreas Fault It was about 1953 when 1 experienced my first earthquake at Sal-ton Sea and it was a big one In those days there were just a few trailers on the beach (no campers or motor homes then); it was due ing the week and about dusk
I had hired a woman to assist me at the Reach House. It had just been moved back out of the water and was sitting on timbers and stilts about five feet above the ground. When the shaking started we were across the road way in my trailer, 1 remember being afraid to look out for fear the Beach !louse had crashed, but it just rolled with the punches!
We ran over to the Beach House (bar and restaurant) and just as I reached for a glass the after shock came — it too was severe, and we made our way out as fast we could.
My lady made her way “way out and I never saw her again. She was from San Diego. The few trailers and cars parked there made a complete exit — watched them leave and there wasn’t even a goodbye.
Glasses, bottles, were all off the shelves — there was break-age everywhere, and the next morning I discovered wide cracks in the earth.
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