Join Conservation Corps to earn cash and help your national parkJOSHUA TREE NA-

TIONAL PARK — Joshua Tree National Park will sponsor a nine-week Youth Conservation Corps pro-gram this summer. Youths 15 and 18 are encouraged to apply.

To be eligible, applicants may not reach their 19th birthday during the pro-gram. Selected applicants will start work on June 13

and continue in the pro-gram until Aug. 12.

Corps members will earn the hourly Califor-nia minimum wage. Work hours are 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Fri-day with every other Friday off.

The program provides young people of the com-munity with hands-on work experience. Work will be

labor-intensive and per-formed throughout the park.

Proposed projects in-clude trail construction and maintenance, re-source habitat improve-ment and engaging the public through education and interpretation of park resources.

Application forms are available from Joshua Tree

National Park Headquar-ters in Twentynine Palms. The application form must

be returned or postmarked, no later than April 15.

Call Human Resources

Assistant Samantha Coots at (760) 367-5516 for addi-tional information.

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Morongo Basin Rotary Clubs Third Annual Food Drive

March 1, 2016 Dear Business Partners The five Rotary Clubs of the Morongo Basin will once again join together to host a food drive to replenish our local food banks. Last year we raised enough funds to feed 119,000 people. The Third Annual food drive will take place on Saturday, April 2, 2016. All donations will be distributed to LOCAL food pantries and charitable organizations. The April 2nd daylong event will feature Morongo Basin Rotarians at each of the Stater Brothers locations in Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley with semi-trailers and trucks to accept food and monetary donations. In addition to accepting any and all monetary donations; we are pleased to offer sponsorship opportunities to our local business partners for this event. Sponsorship opportunities are: Bronze - $250 Silver - $500 Gold - $1000 All sponsors will be acknowledged the day of the event. Please join us to ease the hunger in our Morongo Basin communities. Tax deductible donations of any amount can be made to the Joshua Tree Rotary Foundation, P.O. Box 1323, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 or online at www.YVRotary.org and click on the link “Morongo Basin Food Drive” For more information, please contact Mary Helen Tuttle @ 760-861-7315 or Mary Towne @ 760-835-2779. Sincerely, Morongo Basin Rotary Clubs

Artist recovers pieces of her soulBy Leslie ShawHi-Desert Star

JOSHUA TREE — As-semblage artist Nicola Ginzel has been the artist in residence at BoxoHOUSE and held her artist’s recep-tion Saturday. Ginzel lives in Brooklyn, New York, al-though she has Austrian citizenship. She came to the desert to make art and to do an ancestral clearing with a pair of local sha-mans, Susan Jordan and David Zimmerman.

“We did a journey in a metaphysical state. When you do this kind of clearing you recover pieces of your soul,” said Ginzel. Hence the title of the show is “Soul Pieces.”

Her artwork is deeply personal and uses pieces from items that have mean-ing in her life. One piece, called “Pelvis Fragments,” is made from her father’s old pajamas, her mother’s old blouse and from her own old backpack. The assemblage is not made

from found desert objects but rather from items she brought with her.

The clearing and the desert location had a pro-found affect on her work.

“This place! It just made the art explode out of me, and the magic just hap-pened,” said Ginzel.

Many of Ginzel’s pieces are very small. These min-

iature pieces are fun to see since you are allowed to get very close to them and this gives the viewer a sense of intimacy with the work.

LESLIE SHAW Hi-Desert Star

Artist Nicola Ginzel, second from left, talks to visitors about her work at her show at BoxoHOUSE Saturday.

LESLIE SHAW Hi-Desert Star

Assemblage artist Nicola Ginzel from Brooklyn, New York, explains where the elements in her piece, “Pelvis Fragments,” come from.

Reeves loses her battle with cancer

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Mary Reeves, who helped form the Com-munity Emergency Re-sponse Team here, lost her battle with cancer on Monday.

Community members are being asked to help meet funeral expenses. Checks, payable to FOE 4092, with “In Memory of Mary Reeves” in the memo, may be sent to P.O. Box 1777, Twentynine Palms, California 92277.

Reeves helped form the emergency response team while working for Reach Out Morongo Basin.

Collaborating with the Twentynine Palms Fire Department, she helped train citizen volunteers to assist their neighbors in the aftermath of natural disasters.

Most recently, CERT members helped residents

of the Sunmore Estates cope with flash flooding.

Reeves served as exec-utive director of the Twen-tynine Palms Chamber of Commerce from May to November 2015 and helped make the Fourth of July Duck Pluck and 2015 Pioneer Days a success.

Reeves also served for a time as the Desert Heights News columnist for The Desert Trail.

Health concerns forced her to step away from both jobs.

In the wake of her death, friends and fami-ly filled Reeves’ Facebook page with tributes.

“Be at peace Mary we love you and miss you,” Sandi LaPlaca posted.

“My heart is breaking tonight,” Sandy Smith, who worked with Reeves at Reach Out Morongo Ba-sin, wrote.

See how they run at 29 Palms High SchoolBy Nena Jimenez The Desert Trail

TWENTYNINE PALMS — Twen-tynine Palms High School, 72750 Wildcat Way, will present the play “See How They Run (A Farce in Three Acts)” April 7 through 16, with two Thursday shows April 7 and 14.

Doors to the multipurpose room will open at 6:30 and the show will

start at 7 p.m. Admission is $10, or $8 for seniors, military and students with an ASB card.

The play is set in an English vic-arage shortly after the end of World War II, during the Berlin Airlift. The story starts with a simple dis-agreement between the vicar’s love-ly young wife, a former American actress, and her constant foil, a

fault-finding busybody church lady, and then quickly disintegrates into crazy night of mistaken identity in-volving unexpected guests and an escaped Russian prisoner.

“See How They Run” is billed as a fast-paced and hilarious play sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

For information, call the school at (760) 367-9591.

Artists return for annual park festivalTWENTYNINE PALMS

— The 24th annual Josh-ua Tree National Park Art Festival, set for this week-end, will also help celebrate the national park service’s

100th anniversary.The art festival has been

set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fri-day through Sunday on the patio overlooking the Oasis of Mara at the Oasis Visi-

tor Center, 74485 National Park Drive.

Admission is free. A por-tion of sales proceeds will benefit the Joshua Tree National Park Association.

Bistro 29 is back again

KURT SCHAUPPNER The Desert Trail

Owners Denise and Sylvester Cullum cut the ribbon on the newly reopened Bistro 29 in downtown Twen-tynine Palms March 12.