Well, the annual Museum Italian Dinner Fund-raiser is this Saturday night.

The dinner is held at the Community Center and the fun begins at 5 p.m.

Tickets for the evening are $15 each or two for $25. They still are available at Gridleys, Sami Fine Jewelry, Fountain Fashions, CSI printing and The Times office.

They can also be purchased at the door on the night of the event. The cost is $15 each. Children are welcome and tickets for those 10 and under are $5.

Phil’s is preparing and donating the food.

Entertainment will be provided by Dennis Fournier. He’s known as the “Man WithNo Band.”

You could go home from the dinner with some great items that can be purchased in one of the auctions.

There are numerous items that will be available in both the live and silent auctions. There will also be a drawing for $100. Tickets will be sold that evening.

We on the board of the River of Time Museum thank all the many businesses that have donated cash and items to help make the evening successful.

Now, let’s go eat some pasta.

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Let’s hope the Sheriff’s Office makes an arrest very soon in the Susan Dawson burglary case.

Her life was tragically scarred with the memories of that morning. And those memories will likely remain in her mind for the rest of her life.

It’s not fair. She has done a lot of good work for others in the community and is very active with the local animal rescue program.

But, Susan’s decision to tell her story hopefully will be used by others as a reminder that this type of incident can happen anywhere.

So we all need to be careful in how we do things,

Don’t do things in the same pattern. Juggle your schedule a little bit each day. Lock your doors, and if you haven’t already done so, install an alarm system.

This week marks another grim anniversary in our community.

An attractive and active local businesswoman was found dead in her home on Love Court on August 10, 1991.

You’d think that it would have also been all over the newscasts. But the death of Julie Patterson coincided with the brutal murder of a group of Buddhist monks in a West Valley temple.

That case not only got the attention of all the news outlets, but also the sheriff’s office.

Julie’s body was found by friends. She had been killed by an unknown assailant who struck her in the head with a blunt instrument.

There was no sign of a struggle and there was no evidence of a sexual assault. We were told that she rarely locked her doors and generally left her arcadia door open for her pets to go in or out as they needed to.

The sheriff’s office said the case remains open to this day. They are hoping that improved DNA testing procedures may eventually be the key to solving this mystery.