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Clear Mortgage meteorology

A big warmup starts today and continues into next week. A slight rain chance late Saturday, with a better one Tuesday and Wednesday.

For help with pre-approvals or refinancing, get in touch with Originating Branch Manager Carrie Hansen at carrie.mortgage.

Lest we forget
Joe Cimino's Wimpy's was a southside Italian dining magnet for nearly half the 20th century. 

Popeye’s ran an April pickle menu including sandwich, lemonade, fried pickle chips, and wings with pickle sauce. That reminded pickle fanatics of other daring attempts to bring pickles into the junk food world whether they belong there or not. Here is a compilation: pickle pizza, pickle cotton candy, dill pickle chips, dill pickle Virginia peanuts, pickle cupcakes, spicy pickle vodka, dill-pickle-flavored ice cream, pickle sandwich, pickle corn dog, strawberry-Kool-Aid-flavored pickles, candied-flavored pickle chips, Flamin’ Hot dill pickle Cheetos, wicked pickle marshmallows and Dua Lipa’s pickle-and-jalapeño Diet Coke. Did we forget anything? (Delish)

Weekend deals
• Because tonight is an Indiana WNBA game night, the West Des Moines Jethro's have a "Fever Reliever" special of any two appetizers on the Happy Hour menu and two pints of domestic beer for $22.

• Django (1420 Locust St., Des Moines) offers a Sunday supper with a roasted half chicken as the main course. The meal includes house salad with red onion, apple, Roquefort and candied walnuts, fresh baguette with whipped butter, roasted fingerling potatoes with fresh herbs, and sautéed haricot verts with caramelized onions and lardons. $30

• Heavenly Asian (225 Fifth St., Valley Junction) has an all-day Friday sale on orange chicken served with soup, crab Rangoon, egg roll and rice. $14, available for dine-in and phone carry-out.

• Fish Fry Friday specials can be found at Machine Shed (11151 Hickman Road, Urbandale), Red Lobster (3838 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines), Cracker Barrel (11701 University, Clive), The Station on Ingersoll, Pelican Post (265 50th St., West Des Moines), and Bevy’s Tavern (1300 50th St., West Des Moines).

• Brenda Tran offers a fabulous Friday buffet every week at Vietnam Cafe - Merle Hay Mall Food Court, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. - $18.95.  

• Bawarchi (6630 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines) has Friday-Sunday specials on paneer kebabs, chicken curry and goat curry.

• Mickey's in Yale (217 Main St., Yale) has hot beef sandwich lunches and all you can eat fish dinner specials today.

• Chicago Speakeasy (1520 Euclid Ave., Des Moines) offers BBQ beef and marinated roast beef sandwiches on special for Friday lunch.

• The Continental (407 E. Fifth St., Des Moines) offers BOGO flatbreads Fridays and a blackened chicken sandwich and fries for just $12 on Saturdays. 

• 801 Chophouse (801 Grand Ave., Des Moines) offers Sunday supper specials that deliver deep discounts on filet, prime rib and red king salmon dinners.

• Destination Grille (2491 E. First St., Grimes) has a $40 prime rib dinner special Friday and Saturday. 

• Tito’s Lounge (3916 N.W. Urbandale Drive, Urbandale) has brunch on Fridays as well as Saturdays and Sundays. 

• Court Avenue Brewing Company (309 Court Ave., Des Moines) hosts Saturday and Sunday breakfast buffets for $23.99.

• Friday night is paella time at Purveyor (505 E. Grand, Des Moines, officially, but really on E. Fifth), real Valenciana paella.

• Maxie's Supper Club's (1311 Grand Ave., West Des Moines) Friday special is chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes - $16.95 all day. They also have prime rib dinners on Friday and Saturday for dinner only, $30-38. 

• Jethro's melt Sunday special is papa cheeseburgers and side for $9.95. Today they have BBQ melt and side deal for $9.95.

• Chicken Heat (1101 Army Post Road, Des Moines) offers $1 wings on Friday.  

•  Price Choppers have sales on southern peaches $1.49/pound, frozen chicken wings at $1.99/pound and purified water for $2.99/24 bottles, through Monday.

• Fresh Thyme (2900 University Ave., West Des Moines) begins a week-long sale on USDA prime T-bones at $16.99/pound and BOGOs on 300 items, through Tuesday.

• Fareway has deals this week on AE yogurt at 58 cents, Bartlett pears at 99 cents/pound and beef short ribs at $6.99/pound through Saturday.

• Aldi is selling  mangos for 69 cents, green grapes for $1.69/pound and asparagus for $2.49/pound through Tuesday.

•  Westown Tap (3530 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines) offers $12 flatbreads on Fridays.

•  Music: Lauren Vilmain / Nick Rueckert Duo plays Louie's Wine Dive (4040 University Ave., Des Moines) on Sunday at 5 p.m. El Toreado Mexican Bar & Grill on EP True Parkway has live music from The Juan and Only on Friday from 6 p.m. Willie James Shay plays Sonny’s Pizza Bistro Friday at 5:30 p.m. Dogtown Rhythm plays Kelly's Little Nipper at 7 p.m. Friday. David Watson plays Truman’s Pizza Tavern at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Weary Ramblers will play Middlebrook Agrihood Sunday at 2 p.m. 

• Joppa Experience, a Chicago-style soul food cafe at 1829 Sixth Ave., Des Moines, offers their very special ox tail stew on Fridays. 

— Jim Duncan, jd91446@aol.com

1806: Future president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel. On May 30, 1806, future President Andrew Jackson kills a man who accused him of cheating on a horse race bet and then insulted his wife, Rachel. ... READ MORE

1942: Japanese American Fred Korematsu is arrested for resisting internment. On May 30, 1942, Fred Korematsu is arrested in San Leandro, California for resisting internment under President Franklin Roosevelt’s controversial Executive Order 9066, which called for the incarceration of nearly all Japanese Americans in the United States in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. ... READ MORE

1971: Mariner 9 departs for Mars. The U.S. unmanned space probe Mariner 9 is launched on a mission to gather scientific information on Mars, the fourth planet from the sun. The 1,116-pound spacecraft entered the planet’s orbit on November 13, 1971, and circled Mars twice each day for almost a year, photographing the surface and analyzing the atmosphere with infrared and ultraviolet instruments. It gathered data on the atmospheric composition, density, pressure, and temperature of Mars, and also information about the surface composition, temperature and topography of the planet. ... READ MORE

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