Lamb on the Run: The plates say it all: “SOUSAY” and “SOTRUE”

Special license plates, some from the road and some from the Web …“OOOGOD” … “CAN I GO 2” … “SOTRUE” … “SOUSAY” … “EAGER” … “EAGLE” “EARTH” … “EAT2GRO”…

…And here’s a bumper sticker “Guns don’t kill people…Drivers with cellphones do”

If you’re REALLY an Obama fan and want to vote for him more than once, move to Brazil…The name appears on ballots in at least eight local elections…

…The Associated Press reported that due to a quirk in Brazilian electoral law, candidates can put any name they want on the ballot as long as it isn’t offensive…Alexandre Nunes Jacinto, 48, is running for city council in Petrolina as Obama…He added, “Now everybody calls me Barack…

The Web’s a wonderful place to find things, such as hotels in Carmen…Yes, our Carmen, Ariz…

…Looking up some stuff about Tubac’s Anza Days Oct. 18 and 19, I came across a Web site offering “Top Carmen Hotels near Anza Days, Tubac”…No fooling…

…Carmen is a tiny village near Tumac‡cori south of Tubac, best known for the Carmen Store, a nonpareil source of everything you might need in this part of the valley…There’s a popular saying by locals, “If you can’t find it at the Carmen Store, you don’t need it”…

…On the Web site for Top Carmen Hotels are Deanza Trail Rv Resort in Amado, with a picture of a soaring hotel that looks like New York’s Plaza…and on the next page is a notice for the Amado Territory Inn with the same picture of the New York look-a-like hotel…

…The Tubac Golf Resort’s also there, but it has a legitimate picture of one of its buildings next to the golf course…

Two big events in Santa Cruz County this weekend—a festival at the old county courthouse in downtown Nogales to honor 18th century explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, and Patagonia’s fall festival…

…At Nogales, the 1904 Courthouse has become a community building for organizations and special events…The National Park Service has designated the Anza Trail as a National Park historic site, and events about it will be held at the old courthouse…

…Among the events will be the hanging of a dozen paintings done to commemorate the 1775-76 exhibition…

…The paintings are by David Rickman, an exhibit coordinator with the Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation in Dover…He has long been a fan of the American Southwest and border areas…

…There’s a special room set aside to remember Anza’s trek and the paintings will be hung there…Ceremonies start at 1 p.m. Saturday…

…And Patagonia is in a green belt, just high enough to miss the crushing desert heat of much of this area…The town is located on State Scenic Route 82 east of Nogales on the road to Sonoita…

…The festival runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday…There’ll be about 125 booths and almost continuous entertainment at the gazebo in the middle of the downtown park…

Jim Lamb’s a reporter for the Green Valley News and has been to the Patagonia Fall Festival many times… “A good way to dodge the heat,” he describes it.

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