East Mountain LIVING Spring /Summer Edition 2013
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East Mountain LIVING Spring /Summer Edition 2013 • Local Western Movie sets • The Lost Mine of Montezuma • Paul Thompson Novelist • Biking the East Mountains • Destination: Mountainair YOUR GUIDE • Jeff Warren Local Fine Artist to the • East Mountain Pilot Soars to New Heights EAST MOUNTAINS and ESTANCIA VALLEY COMMUNITIES TM Vol. 7 - No. 1 - Spring/Summer 2013 Compliments of the East Mountain Directory • Serving the East Mountains for 33 yearsEASTMOUNTAINDIRECTORY.COM • 1 We Protect what you Value! BUILT WITH CLEARY PRIDE! • Commercial • No concrete slab required • Equine • Delivered and unloaded by Cleary truck drivers • Farm • 50-year column warranty • Metal Roofing • 5-year roof leak warranty • 1-year worksmanship warranty • Residential • Roof pitch options up to 8/12 • Suburban • Builders Risk Insurance included Call us for a FREE Consultation: Moriarty, NM - (505) 832-4669 1-800-373-5550 | ClearyBuilding.com Serving New Mexico Since 1987 TURQUOISE TRAIL ELECTRIC AND WATER, LLC. 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DBA: East Mountain Directory TuRquOISE TaLES 12126 North Hwy 14, Suite B PO Box 331 The Lost Mine of Montezuma .....................................16 Cedar Crest, NM 87008 PROFILE Tel: (505) 281-9476 Fax: (505) 281-6787 [email protected] Paul Thompson: An Author Among Us ...........................18 On-line Directory: THE GREaT OuTDOORS eastmountaindirectory.com Bike the East Mountains ...........................................20 Publisher: Michael Meyer RESTauRanT GuIDE ............................................22 Editor: Rena Distasio aREa aRTIST Contributors: Jeff Warren ...........................................................24 Greg Allen Jeanne Drennan LOCaL MuSEuM Sonya Ewan Sandia Mountain Natural History Center .........................26 W.G. Hill S. J. Ludescher DInInG Chris Mayo Katrinah’s East Mountain Grill Has a Mission to Serve ........ 28 Beth Meyer Neala Schwartzberg PROFILE Mike Smith Printed By East Mountain Pilot Soars to New Heights ......................30 Starline Printing • (505) 345-8900 A Perfect Day .......................................................31 Copyright 2012 by MeyersArt, Inc. COMMunITY The information provided in East Canine Good Manners on the Trail ...............................32 Mountain LIVING is intended to inform the reader about activities and events REaL ESTaTE MaRkET OvERvIEw ...................34 in the East Mountain communities. While every effort is made to verify LOCaL FLAVOR the facts published, MeyersArt, Inc. does not hold itself, any advertiser, or Schwebach Farm: A Family Tradition.............................38 anyone writing for this publication responsible for any error or any possible FaRMERS’ MaRkETS ...........................................40 consequences thereof. East Mountain Call Now to LIVING ABOUT THE COVER Spring /Summer Edition 2013 Advertise The cover features a street scene at Eve’s Ranch, which is one of the western movie sets featured in this issue. See Paul Rothberg • 550-6837 • Local Western Movie sets • The Lost Mine of Montezuma [email protected] • Paul Thompson Novelist the article on pages 10-15. Photo by Michael Meyer. • Biking the East Mountains • Destination: Mountainair YOUR GUIDE • Jeff Warren Local Fine Artist to the • East Mountain Pilot Soars to New Heights EAST MOUNTAINS and ESTANCIA VALLEY COMMUNITIES Mary Safford • 410-9114 Compliments of the East Mountain DirectoryTM • Serving the East Mountains for 33 years • Vol. 7 - No. 1 - Spring/Summer 2013 [email protected] 2 EAST MOUNTAIN LIVING|SPRING/SUMMER 2013 Let’s Talk About Recycling Everybody knows about the Bart and Rayne at East Mountain Disposal importance of recycling, right? obtained East Mountain Recycling in April 2012. So why does the average Amer- They currently supply a 95 gallon container that is ican throw away 600 times his picked up from homeowners once a month. Their or her weight in garbage in their lifetime? Enough goal is to add enough customers in order to allow plastic bottles are thrown away each year the business to expand to twice-a-month pick to circle the earth four times? Without up. Their service minimizes the need for the giving it a second thought, Americans customer to sort waste materials. They guar- also throw away enough aluminum every antee that all materials are sorted, recycled, three months to rebuild our entire com- and will never end up in a landfill. No one mercial air fleet. If everyone in the U. S. likes to think about what might happen when recycled just one-tenth of their newsprint, all the landfills are full—or even the possibility we would save an estimated equivalent of having one in their own backyard! Let’s all of 25 million trees a year. These statistics pitch in and do our part to inhabit a healthier are shocking, but we all have the power to planet by recycling. make a difference and increase the number of available jobs at the same time. Accordingly East Mountain Directory uses paper produced incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job. from sawmill waste combined with recycled paper. Placing that same amount of waste into a landfill No trees are harvested to produce our phone book. creates six jobs. Recycling those same 10,000 tons Please be kind and recycle our publications after creates 36 jobs, while saving our environment for you are done reading them. future generations. About Our Contributors: Greg Allen and his wife, Suzanne, moved to Sandia and extensively throughout Latin America. She makes her Park in 2011 following his retirement from active duty in home in Sandia Park. the Marine Corps and Army. They arrived from Clovis, Chris Mayo relocated to the East Mountains from where he worked as the chief of internal information for Prescott, Arizona, in 2006. He started as a freelance writ- the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon Air Force er with Navy publications when he was in the service and Base. has continued writing for a variety of trade magazines Jeanne Drennan has lived in New Mexico since since leaving the Navy in 2002. He and his wife are the 1976. She moved to the East Mountains with her hus- parents of two young boys. band, pets, and three children in 2004. An occupational Beth Meyer is a former teacher, private tutor, and therapist, home school mom, and freelance writer, she certified Reading Specialist. She has taught creative and has published numerous health-related articles in na- analytical writing in both public and private schools. She tional and local publications. moved to the East Mountains in June of 2010 to join her Sonya Ewan has been an avid mountain biker for husband, Mike, owner and publisher of the East Moun- nearly 15 years. Yes, she’s been lost. Yes, it was once in a tain Directory and East Mountain Living magazine. rain/hail storm with a single breakfast bar split between Neala Schwartzberg writes about travel for print three people. The moral of her experience is ride with and online publications, specializing in travel with an good friends and remember: A challenge makes a great art, culture, and history orientation. A passionate lover of story. Check out Sonya’s sports blog and fitness Q&A at New Mexico, she has created OffbeatNewMexico.com to sportsSlant.com. showcase the state, and writes a regular column as the S.J. Ludescher has worked as an award-winning Albuquerque Travel Examiner for examiner.com. staff writer for the Albuquerque Tribune and Gallup Inde- Mike Smith is a freelance writer and author of Towns pendent and in Eastern Europe for an English language of the Sandia Mountains. weekly. A freelance writer and photographer, she has covered stories from coast-to-coast in the United States EASTMOUNTAINDIRECTORY.COM 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR From At some point in my mid-thirties, for whatever Mufflers To auto Glass..... reason, I suddenly developed a full-blown, panic-at- One-Stop Shop a For ALL Your tack-generating fear of