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Snapshots for Sept. 21, 2004

Bighorn
Nestled into Bighorn are two world-class golf courses: the Arthur Hills-designed Mountains Course and the Canyons Course, designed by Tom Fazio. Home to the nationally recognized SKINS Game, Battle at BIGHORN and the U.S. Senior Match Play, each course maintains an individual personality, offering members a choice of tournament-ready courses.
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COD Street Fair
College of the Desert Street Fair is a great place to find holiday presents, birthday and anniversary gifts, and one-of-a-kind favors. The Alumni Street Fair is located on the College of the Desert campus.
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Dog Park
The Civic Center Dog Park is approximately three-quarters of an acre in size and has a separate area for small dogs.
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El Paseo
The world-famous El Paseo Shopping District features more than 150 world-class shops, clothing boutiques, art galleries, jewelers and award-winning restaurants.
Tommy Bahamas Tropical Cafe employees Jaime Magana (left), Chuck Langwell, Carrie Lennon and Shoichi Nonaka.
 Oilily store manager Sheila Garvis holds children's clothes which are sold at the store located on El Paseo.
 Origins Store Manager Jamie Steinberg puts makeup on customer Vernetta Brainerd of Palm Desert.
Jazzercise at the Palm Desert Community Center
Local Jazzercise instructor, Karen Sorenson has teamed up with Palm Desert Community Center to launch Active Aging Week
Instructor Karen Sorensen of Palm Desert smiles as she teaches the class.
 Joan Lake of Bermuda Dunes works out with weights.
 Joan Kaplan of Rancho Mirage smiles as she uses the resistance tube.
 Flo Tweddle of Palm Desert smiles as she does aerobic exercises.
Heather Denten of Rancho Mirage moves to the beat of the music.
 Liz Henry of Palm Desert does strength training with weights.
 Francine LaMeire of Rancho Mirage moves her arms to the music.
The Living Desert
The Living Desert was established in 1970 as a nonprofit education and conservation center, dedicated to preserving desert plant and animal life. It contains 10 botanical gardens representing 10 different desert ecosystems and more than 480 desert animals. There are indoor and outdoor exhibits paved and unpaved walkways, all interpreting the deserts of the world and providing a unique desert experience to visitors.
Tour Guide Sal Horenn (center) of Palm Desert talks with Living Desert guests.
 Living Desert employee Marcia Fisher pets a goat.
 Volunteer Jean Bert of Palm Desert brushes a goat at the Petting Kraal.
 The Living Desert's Thron Tree Grill staff Charles Kitching of Palm Desert and Elisa Escobar of Cathedral City show off souviner cups that display animals which are at the Living Desert.
Gift shop manager Linda Durbin of Palm Springs holds a coyote puppet that can be purchased in the gift shop.



McCallum Theatre
The McCallum Theatre Institute, established in September 1997, is the education division of the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts. The Institute offers a spectrum of arts education programs for the community, including free activities for more than 19,500 school children and classroom teachers each year.
MacCallum Theater staff and board members in front of the building. McCallum Theatre Presidnet and CEO Ted Giatas poses for a photo in front of the building. The McCallum Theater in Palm Desert.  
Palm Desert Historical Society
The Society is housed in Palm Desert 's first fire station, built in 1949, and features a 1973 fire engine, pictorial display and historical video. The Society is open every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, but is closed July and August
Guillermo Avalos, Dick Folkers, and Jim West, all of Palm Desert, talk about the Sandpiper display.
Jim West of Palm Desert and Colin Pearce of Alberta, Canada talk about the Sandpiper exhibit.
 Mary Martin, 1, of Palm Desert plays with a dalmatian statue on display at the fire department exhibit.
Palm Desert Historical Society Vice President Dick Folkers and his wife Ginny of Palm Desert talk about the firefighting equipment on display.
Colin Pearce from Alberta, Canada receives a Hopalong Cassidy handkerchief from Palm Desert Historical Society administrative assistant Anne Tuttle of Palm Desert.



Summer of Fun Concerts Finale
The final performance of the Summer of Fun Concerts in the Palm Desert Civic Center Park , featuring the Redlands Symphony Orchestra, culminated in a fireworks display along with a rousing rendition of “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Maestro Frank Fetta conducts with panache. Redlands Symphony Orchestra Maestro Frank Fetta conducts with flair. Dan Barrett and Hank Schmel man the fireworks firing board while Riverside County fireman Mark Miller stands firewatch duty. Fireworks burst into the night air during a rousing rendition of "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
The orchestra came to life as the audience disappears into the night's darkness.
 Tympanist Bruce Anderson is in motion.
 Palm Desert Mayor Pro Tem Buford Crites (left) and former Councilman Walter Snyder stayed for the concert after a dedication ceremony in the park.
 Scott and Shelly DeVoe got front-row seats.
Madison (left), 5, and Merrick Groat, 3, enjoy the concert along with nanny Susan Reed and sister Mckinlee Groat, 3.
 Raymond and Joanne Slepski, on vacation from Detroit, found the concert an added bonus.
 Marty Wolfson leads the way to the parking lot.
 

 

 
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