Palm Springs – Every year – runners, walkers, joggers flock to the Palm Springs Tram Road Challenge 6K race. This year it will be held on October 27 and there will be something new about the race!
Each of the Palm Springs Valley’s nine cities is invited to compete with one another for the highest number of registrants in the race. The city that gets the greatest turnout of people signed up for the race will receive acknowledgement in The Desert Sun . . . and also receive a plaque giving special recognition celebrating the city’s dedication to its residents’ health and the community’s spirit of volunteerism.
The Desert Sun’s designers are working with all of the cities to help promote the competition by creating fliers and helping with promotional outreach. The fliers will include information about the challenge such as the schedule of events leading up to the race and the link to register. Each city will have fliers posted on its website and they will be distributed around to businesses and neighborhood associations.
You can visit the main informational link to get more info on the Tram Road Challenge or to sign up at www.facebook.com/PSMakeADifferenceDay.
So, come on out everybody and support your city while you are supporting your own healthy lifestyle. It will be one fun party you won’t want to miss!
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PALM SPRINGS — To commemorate the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death, you will be able to tour his Estate in Palm Springs – today and tomorrow. His 5,100sf home at 845 W. Chino Canyon Road has been called “Graceland West” by the New York Times.
“Graceland West” was built in 1946 and sits on about two acres. Prior to Presley’s buying the property in 1970, it was owned by the Jergen’s cosmetic family and Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s. Elvis died on this day, August 16, in 1977 at Graceland, his home in Memphis Tennessee.
Tours will be offered every 30 minutes from 10am to 4pm on both days. Tickets are priced to honor the year that “Elvis left the building” . . . at $19.77 per person.
The current co-owner of the home now has said that the house sat vacant for 27 years until he bought it in 2004 for $1.25 million. Elvis celebrated his last birthday at his home here in Palm Springs and this home and Graceland were the only properties he owned at the time of his death.
For more information, call the estate at (760) 322-3211 or go to www.elvispalmsprings.com
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PALM SPRINGS – Well, we knew it was coming . . . the extreme heat, that is. That time in the summer when we’re biting at the bit for fall to come, when the temperature gets up over 110, then 115 . . . if you’re a Desert Dweller, you know the routine. Power outages or blackouts, as they are also called, can happen this time of year when the demand for electricity strains the system.
Yesterday, Southern California Edison sounded an alarm by asking its customers to turn up their thermostats . . . especially at night. And IID (Imperial Irrigation District), which serves La Quinta, Indio and Coachella, said yesterday that it was just 25 megawatts short of hitting maximum capacity at 3:30pm.
When the temperatures here in our valley turn into a heat wave lasting several days or more, people use more electricity around the clock. If the equipment doesn’t get the chance to rest, that’s when problems can begin.
Here’s what you can do if an outage occurs:
- Open the fridge and freezer only when necessary
- Turn off and unplug any electrical equipment that’s not being used
- Take advantage of “Cool Centers” – find list of locations at www.sce.com/coolcenters
- Instead of using candles, use flashlights. Candles are a fire hazard
- Have an emergency plan for anyone in your home who’s dependent on electric-powered medical equipment – a back-up power source or somewhere to relocate to
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