12 March 20 - April 2, 2010
The Sun Lakes Big Band Orchestra will play favorite big band music from the war years at the Commemorative Air Force Aviation Museum at Mesa’s Falcon Field, 2017 N. Greenfield Rd., on the northeast corner of McKellips and Greenfield, for the Big Band Hangar Dance and WWII Musical Show Sat., March 20 in Mesa. “A Night in the 40s” features a vintage B-17 WW II Flying Fortress bomber “Sentimental Journey” with a cake to celebrate the bombers “birthday” when it was accepted by the U.S. Army Air Force 65 years ago on March 27, 1945.
Other musical entertainment includes The Kathy
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bad day, go treat yourself to a cone and a dose of the sweetest lady ever.”
Moss is amazed by all the attention. Earlier this year, McDonald’s threw her a surprise celebration that included balloons, a cookie basket and a bonus check. As for her Facebook fame, that was a surprise of a different sort.
“Two little boys came through the drive-through and they were so excited,” Moss recalls. “They were jumping up and down in the car and they said, ‘You’re on Facebook!” I said, ‘Oh. What’s Facebook?’ Their dad told me what it was.”
Moss moved to Southern Chandler from Los Angeles several years ago to be closer to family and originally applied at McDonald’s because it was near her home. Once hired, she was determined to do her job well. “I’d been through many drive-throughs before, and I didn’t get that smile, that welcome,” she explains, adding that a lot of workers “carry their problems on
their shoulders, and they show it to the customers, and the customers don’t want that.”
What customers do want, says Moss, is an excuse to cheer up. She’s heard many a tale of woe since the start of the economic downturn, and she does what she can to lift her customers’ spirits.
“Some come in and say they lost their job, or their husband or wife lost their job. I try not to let anyone leave mad or sad. If they’re upset or anything, and they come through, at least when they leave me, they’re smiling.
“It’s an individual thing,” she adds. “You approach a person in a way that you know will make them happy – maybe a little joke or something – and you’ll get a smile. And that, right there, is just an ultimate joy.” And if a customer isn’t ready to be cheerful, or responds to Moss’s kindness with rudeness? “I have to just let it go,” she says. “I can’t let it stay on me because it will make me upset, and I don’t want
that because the next person doesn’t deserve that.” Of course, there are days when Moss isn’t on top of the world.
“If I’m kind of feeling down and out, some of my customers pick up on that, and they’ll say things to pick me up. I think that’s wonderful, and it makes me laugh, and I’m like, ‘Thank you, Lord,’ because that person came in right at the time that I needed someone to give me a lift.”
Some of Moss’s fans, not content with posting her praise on Facebook, are now working to land her a guest appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show. When asked about the possibility, Moss chuckles. “I would probably faint,” she says. “At the same time, I would love that. I would love to have all the fan club members there. It would be totally awesome.”
KMLang@SanTanSun.com.
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‘A Night in the 40s’ dance, fundraiser
Donald Jazz Ensemble, a 1940s musical show with singers and a professional trio of piano, bass and drums at 5:30 p.m. The Sun Lakes Big Band starts at 7:30 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to dress in period styles for the fundraiser for the non-profit CAF Aviation Museum, which is “dedicated to keeping aviation history alive for current and future generations.”
Tickets are $40 per person the day of the dance and can be purchased online at www.bigbanddance.com, at the Commemorative Air force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum, or by calling 480-924-1940.
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CGCC Choir performs at fundraiser
Choirs from Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Red Mountain High School and Mesa High School will perform together for the fifth year in a row from 7 to 9 p.m. Tue, March 23 to raise funds for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Oncology Department. The concert, which will be held at the Velda Rose United Methodist Church, located at 5540 E. Main St. in Mesa, is free and open to the public, but donations will be accepted.
For more information, call 480-732-7008.
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