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Show .-mi"1" "MK" mmJL M ,.vri"'."lan.nM.,i"" ""pril 15-22 ARIZONA Rose Festival Tombstone, . April 14-15. This festival honors pioneer woman Nellie ' Cashman, known as the angel of the camp because - she housed and fed miners in the 1800s. Activities include a rose parade, auction of picnic basket lunches, and a best-tasting cake contest. (888) 457-3929. Mining Country Boom Town Spree Miami, April 20-22. Enjoy competitions centered on old-fashioned mining techniques tech-niques as well as a wild bed race through the streets, arts & crafts, and a parade. (520) 473-4403. CALIFORNIA Heron Days Lower Lake, April 14-15. Take a boat ride to view heron nesting areas on Clear Lake, or enjoy guided nature walks, slide shows, demonstrations, and children's activities. Call ahead to reserve a place on a boat ride. (800) 525-3743. Iris Festival Porterville, April 21. See the huge iris garden featuring thousands of varieties. An antique fair, fanner's market, arts & crafts show, entertainment, and food also are part of the day. (559) 784-7502. IDAHO Salmon River jet Boat Races Riggins, April 20-22. The Salmon River will roar with racing jet boats as competitors vie in the first leg of the US. Championship Jet Boot Race. (208) 628-3778. r-j Earth Day Celebration Ketchum, I April 22. American Legion Hall. The Environmental Resource Center presents an Earth Day event offering activities i for children and information booths for adults. (208) 726-4333. NEVADA Henderson Heritage Days Henderson, April 20-28. Enjoy a chili cook-off, talent show, beauty pageant, baseball and basket-bail basket-bail tournaments, parade, and the Mayor's Barbecue. (702) 565-8951. Walker Lake Loon Festival and Arts -Festival Hawthorne, April 21-22. Celebrate the loon's return to the area with arts & crafts, performing and visual arts, and free boat rides. (877) 736-LAKE (5253X OREGON Hood River Valley Blossom Festival-Hood Festival-Hood River, April 21-22. The apple and pear trees put on a show -'"S during this festival, vjk if-V i rl t is-l a mure' of sites throughout the valley, a craft show, ' antique show, and more. (800) 366-3530. UTAH Native American Emphasis Week Ogden, April 16-21. Weber State lit; .A University. The week begins with a sunrise sun-rise ceremony and ends with a competition competi-tion powwow. Learn about the Navajo code talkers, instrumental in the .World War If victory, watch a Navajo sand painting paint-ing artist, and enjoy arts & crafts vendors and ethnic food, such as fry bread and Navajo tacos. (801) 626-7330. Iron County Historic Mining Tour Cedar City, April 21. A guided tour of iron sites around the county begins with orientation at the museum in Iron Mission Scare Park and continues at the original foundry built and operated in the 1850s. The tour also visits other sites, including Old Iron Town, which operated in the . 1860s and 1870s, as well as more recent mining pits. (435) 586-9290. " WASHINGTON Mud Bog Races Sunnyside, April 21. The mud will fly when drivers in five different classes of 4-by-4 vehi- , cles race from one end of a mud pit to the other in this wild annual event. (800) 457-8089. "f , . Betty Boop Stamps Cause Sense-ation!! Post Office Finally Honors Flapper 3GEio ; jsznxzi 2h race Qwings Milk, MD Bom Boop tans and collectors are suddenly scrambling to ohtain a Special Edition 9 Stamp set that has been issued by the Post Office of Chad to commemorate com-memorate America's favorite flapper. Now oer 70. Betty Boop ha charmed untold generations gen-erations with her very special style. '"Collector demand lor these first-ever Betty Boop stamps ha been unbelievable." stated George Hubbard of the International Collectors Society, sole worldwide distributor of the stamps. '"Betty Boop captured the heart and soul of the jazz era in the 1930s and has remained popular with every succeeding generation. gen-eration. Collectors now have what may be their only opportunity to get Official government govern-ment issued legal lender stamps honoring Betty Boop In fact we're nearly sold out ." Collectors are already predicting that in the very near future these stamps could he far more sought after and be more desirable desir-able than the L'.S Elvis stamp, the most popular stamp of all time. "Over 500 million Elvis stamps have been issued. When you compare that to these Betty Boop stamps, which are Special to just thousands of sets worldw ide, you can see the irresistible appeal that these stamps have to stamp collectors and Betty Boop fans." added Hubbard. Each of the nine stamps is about four times the size of a regular U.S. postage stamp and is officially authorized and endorsed by Betty Boop. They're legal for postage in Chad and are recognized by every postal authority around the world. They're available for a short time at S9.95 I plus S3 p&h) for the complete set of nine different dif-ferent colorful stamps, accompanied by an individually numbered ICS Certificate of Authenticity and the free pocket guide. "99 Little KnowTi Facts About Betty Boop." The most you can buy is six sets. Send your check or money order today to ICS. 10045 Red Run Blvd.. Suite 350APSBD. Owings Mills. MD 21117. Credit card holders mav call toll free C VisHUsaLwww.icsfiOW.com ) 1-800-805-0562. Little Known Facts About Betty Boop 1. Max Fleischer, Betty Boop's creator was born in Vienna in 1889 and died in California in 1972. 2. Popeye danced the hula with Betty Boop in his first appearance appear-ance in a Betty Boop short entitled 'Popeye the Sailor." 3. There is an annual Betty Boop festival, featuring look-alike and tattoo contests. 4. Betty Boop was one of the first cartoons with sound. Taken from the pocket guide "99 Little Known Facts About Betty Boop" which you get free with your order of these stamps. !crfcrrcrt(trcc ci c r r 1 1 cr c rcirf -mzxm EXD 9S5GG SSPCMg B3E33 j E2PTjaiQCB 03 SOSES c t -ictrtf rcrtrrrct(t(r(rtrtfiff ftfiii rff ftffrficrcic.f ctf((cfM(tCffr(i Collectors race to get first official Betty Boop stamps. |