Schedule for Mesa’s Convention Center 2013 Gun Shows: Jan. 12-13, Mar. 9-10, June 29-30, Sept. 28-29 and Nov. 9-10.

Postal customers have one more weekend to mail their letters and packages at the current rates. Starting Monday, the U.S. Postal Service will raise the price for 1-ounce first-class mail by a penny, from 41 cents to 42 cents.

It’s a typical sweltering Wednesday in the East Valley, just past 11 a.m., and an energetic and smiling Aurelie Flores breezes into Antique Plaza on Main Street in Mesa, ready to shop.

We encourage readers to submit letters to the editor on issues of interest to East Valley residents. Submissions should be no longer than 300 words, factually accurate and original thoughts of the writer. Please be brief and include name, address, city and phone number for verification. Letters and comments may be edited for clarity and length.

TOMBSTONE - Retired Scottsdale actor Richard Blake stood tall on the corner of Fourth and Allen streets, looking every bit like a U.S. marshal from the Wild West of the 1880s with a tin star on his chest and a six-shooter loaded on his hip.

We encourage readers to submit letters to the editor on issues of interest to East Valley residents. Submissions should be no longer than 300 words, factually accurate and original thoughts of the writer. Please be brief and include name, address, city and phone number for verification. Letters and comments may be edited for clarity and length.

In Mecklenburg County, N.C., sheriff’s deputies have found almost 1,700 illegal immigrants in their jail system in the last year. In Alabama, state troopers arrested 218 illegal immigrants during routine traffic stops and at driver’s license offices between September 2003 and December.

We encourage readers to submit letters to the editor on issues of interest to East Valley residents. Submissions should be no longer than 300 words, factually accurate and original thoughts of the writer. Please be brief and include name, address, city and phone number for verification. Letters and call-in comments may be edited for clarity and length.