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Lamb on the Run: Think about visiting Cascabel next weekend

By Jim Lamb

Published: Saturday, November 29, 2008 5:11 PM MST

Runway of dreams ... sort of ... Checking the plates on Interstate 19 ... “L TICIA” ... “DSNY 55” (Disney 55?) ... and from the Internet ... “O2 BE ME” (modest fellow, right?) ... “10SNE1” (tennis anyone?) ... “22 NICE” (too, too nice on an ‘87 RX-7 ... “2BORWAT” (to be or what?, a modern day Hamlet?) ... “2M80S” (tomatoes?) ... “2N2R4” “on a math teacher’s car” ... “A1 AN A2” on a musician’s car” ... “BIGTARS” (on a monster pick-up truck) ...

It was an exciting night in Montgomery Township in north central New Jersey late last week ... Policemen checking an after-hours alarm at PNC Bank thought they saw at least one burglar inside ... The shades were drawn, but it definitely was someone they said ...

The area was sealed off, and three nearby apartments were evacuated as a precaution ...

They used bullhorns and even phoned the bank hoping to get a response ... but nothing ...

Finally, they entered the bulding and discovered a full-size human cardboard sign advertising some of the bank’s features ... No, he didn’t go for a gun ...

On this day in 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born...also on this date in 1835, writer and humorist Mark Twain was born ... His real name was Samuel Clemens but as a Mississippi River boat captain he adopted “Mark Twain” as his writer’s name ...

“Mark Twain” was a boatman’s call noting that the river was only two fathoms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation ...

And on this day in 1996, singer Tiny Tim died of congestive heart failure ... Born Herbert Khaury in New York in 1925, Tiny Tim became known for his humorous falsetto singing and ukulele strumming, most famously demonstrated in his trademark song “Tiptoe Through the Tulips.”

And although we’re a day off, on Nov. 29, 2007, writer W. H. Auden commented, “A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep” ...

A farmers’ market with fresh produce and other items for sale plans to open Wednesday, Dec. 3, in the southeast parking lot at Green Valley Village ... Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., said Anne Duncan, a Tubac-area farmer ... Duncan said some of the vendors from the recently closed Sahuarita farmers market plan to show up at the new one ...

And if you’re interested in a kind of out-of-the way place to visit next weekend, Dec. 6 and 7, visit Cascabel’s 28th Christmas Fair ...

Cascabel is located about 20 miles north of Benson on the east side of the Rincon Mountains...

Artisans will set up exhibits in their yards, featuring such things as paintings, sculpture and pottery, wood, jewelry, leather and photography ...

The Cascabel Community Center and Volunteer Fire Department will serve a homemade lunch and desert, and there will be live music for added ambience ...

On the way back to Interstate 10, take time to visit the Forever Home Donkey Rescue, where John and Tish Hiestand care for burros down on their luck ... The sanctuary is located at 360 Rock Springs Road and it says, “The turnoff to their place is located about 12 miles north of the Benson freeway exit, just past milepost 7 ... Watch for their sign...

Jim Lamb is a reporter for the Green Valley News and says he’s a real fan of out-of-the-way Cascabel...It’s sort of remote and the roads goes north from Benson in the San Pedro River valley...


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