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Volume IV, Issue VII *********ECRWSSEDDM**** PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE JULY 2021 PAID PERMIT NO.3 Questa Del Rio News ECRWSS QUESTA • RED RIVER • CERRO • COSTILLA • AMALIA • LAMA • SAN CRISTOBAL IN THIS Living a Life of Adventure and Service ISSUE CELEBRATING THE COMMUNITY OF LAMA! BUSINESS NEWS Questa Crafts and Collectibles Market on Saturdays Small Business Development Center Page 4 FISHING, RECREATION & WILDLIFE Questa Fishing Derby Winners Page 26 Our New Monthly Feature, "BIRD IS THE WORD!" By Bryce Flanagan, this month's story: Declining Bird Populations Page 14 EDUCATION QISD Hires New Superintendent Page 18 COMMUNITY NEWS The Lama Foundation: Then and Now Page 16 QHS Track & Field Goes to State Page 22 Daniel Hutchison Bud Wilson bridges the generation gap with some pointers on tomato growing. SUSTAINABLE LIVING Lama Community Garden Page 13 By DANIEL HUTCHISON and got lost in the mountains. ADVICE While attending medical school, Bud Wilson was born in 1925 in FROM BUD: Bud returned to San Cristobal. While the suburbs of Chicago, but forged his there, he heard that a young woman had “Make choices for your life that help connection to the land and people of died in childbirth, leaving two kids with- make the world a little better…. northern New Mexico when he was just out a mother; this affirmed his commit- NCRTA BLUE BUS 16 years old, while accompanying his one thing after another.” ment to becoming a doctor and serve in AWARDED FUNDS FOR high school teacher on a research trip to Interviews with Bud Wilson places of highest need. Dr. Wilson prac- ELECTRIC BUSES San Cristobal. That summer, in 1942, he can be found on the Questa Stories ticed open heart and general surgery for worked as a ranch hand in the Latir area. The New Mexico Department of website: QuestaStories.org. 50 years and developed a reputation for At that time the highway turned to dirt Transportation will receive funds to indefatigable devotion to his patients. In at the New Mexico border! one pioneering procedure, Bud spent 26 purchase new electric buses and charging The year before, at age 15, Bud invited him to pledge. He declined, hours holding a woman’s heart together. infrastructure on behalf of the North Central Wilson had gone to work on a farm because they excluded minority students. Defying statistical probability, she sur- Regional Transit District. The project, which in Kansas for the summer. He milked Bud was subsequently elected class vived. He established surgical programs will also support charging equipment and the cows, hitched the horse team, and president. In June 1947, Bud began the in New Mexico (including the first heart workforce training, will improve service pitched the hay. When the old farmer process of buying a ranch in Lama, NM. program in the state), in Colorado, and reliability and address air quality, improving left for a family crisis, young Bud had On break from school, he loaded up an in India, where his family relocated to environmental justice in the Taos Pueblo to run the whole operation on his own. old army truck with teenagers from Chi- live and work temporarily. community. Look for more information in His love of the land and unflagging work cago and headed west to work and camp Digging ditches in the Land of En- our August Issue! ethic were born. for the summer on the land. Bud and chantment to pay for med school, Bud After serving as a Navy pilot, Bud the dudes raced across the mesas riding went to college. Prestigious fraternities bareback, dug 80-ft-deep wells by hand, BUD WILSON cont’d on page 28 EDITORIAL Questa Del Rio News NOTICIAS QUESTA DEL RIO Summer Fun In The Published Monthly by the QUESTA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND Publicación mensual por EL FONDO PARA EL DESARROLLO ECONOMICO DE QUESTA Enchanted Circle LOU McCALL Editor Leaving the COVID-19 era behind us (we hope!), everyone is jumping headfirst MARTHA SHEPP Assistant Editor/Editor asistente into summer fun. In the Enchanted Circle, that means enjoying the great outdoors EMILY WILDE Graphic Design & Pagination/Diseño gráfico y paginación ROBYN BLACK Food Editor/Editor de comida in many ways. SARA MARTINEZ Costilla Correspondant/Corresponsal de Costilla y Amalia Check out the winners of the 2021 Questa Fishing Derby at Eagle Rock Lake on CAROLINE YEZER San Cristobal Correspondant/Corresponsal de San Cristobal page 15. We are blessed with wonderful fishing and Eagle Rock Lake is a beautiful MAX KHUDIAKOV Social Media/Coordinador de Redes Sociales place to spend a summer day or an hour. Soon the lake will be a pitstop on the trail ERNESTO CISNEROS Journalism Intern/Pasante de Periodismo running along the Red River that connects the Village of Questa to the Town of Red TERESA DOVALPAGE Translator/Traductora River. That will be a nice walk. Thank you to all the individuals and groups who are BRYCE FLANIGAN MARTA GLOVER helping to make this beautiful dream come true. MARIA GONZALEZ Our July issue celebrates the community of Lama—now there is a place that CHARLENE R. JOHNSON TONER MITCHELL knows about summer fun! Check out what the locals are doing with their Lama DONNA MITCHELL-MONIAK DEBORAH ARCHULETA-MORENO Community Garden. We also highlight Nat Wilson and the La Lama Acequia—such SHARON NICHOLSON MANDY STAPLEFORD great work of water stewardship. Nat’s Father, Bud Wilson, also of Lama, had the vi- BARBARA TRACY sion to create a summer camp for youth, and many decades later, our young people ELLEN WOOD MICHAEL YOUNG are still enjoying the great outdoors. Columnists/Columnistas Monthly Features/Presentaciones Mensuales We are excited that our food section is no longer called Quarantine Quisine! CHUCK KROON Distribution Manager/Gerente de distribución We have gone back to the original name, Enchanted Eats, and what better way to [email protected] (575) 586-2360 celebrate the end of quarantining than by featuring favorite potluck recipes from VANETTE HARRIS Subscription Manager/Gerente de subcripciones FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS VIA EMAIL some great cooks in Lama. July is National Culinary Arts Month, National Grilling SUBCRIPCIONES POR CORREO ELECTRONICO Month, and also National Picnic Month, so let’s have a good time with good food PAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS VIA USPS $60 per year SUBSCRIPCIONES EN PAPEL POR CORREO USPS $60 por año and good people, eat outside, have a picnic, and enjoy ourselves. Contact us to subscribe/Pónganse en contacto para subscribir How can we cover Lama without talking about the Lama Foundation, an inter- [email protected] nationally celebrated destination, right here at home! See page 16 to learn about TO VIEW PAST ISSUES OF THIS PUBLICATION PARA REVISAR PUBLICACIONES ANTERIORES their 50 years of service and a list of their summer events. Some events are still https://www.facebook.com/QuestaNews virtual, but, hey, it IS summer and it IS fun! https://www.facebook.com/VisitQuesta www.Questa–nm.com Please remember to visit the Questa Farmers Market on Sundays to support the QUESTA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND local food movement. And there is the new Saturday Market: The Questa Collect- DE LA COMUNIDAD DE QUESTA FONDO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE QUESTA ibles & Crafts Market is at the Farmers Market site, near the Questa Visitor Center. Please support your local newspaper by stopping by the booth on Saturdays, sign up LYNN SKALL QEDF Director/Director for subscriptions, buy products donated to the Questa Del Rio News and just tell us BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONSEJO DE ADMINISTRACION DEL how we can improve to serve you better. If you want to clear out some stuff, please FONDO PARA EL DESARROLLO DE QUESTA donate it and we will sell it as part of our fundraising efforts. Don’t be shy about pay- Malaquias Rael Chairman/Presidente, Mark Gallegos Secretary/Treasurer/Secretario y Tesorero, ing for news! Please think about setting up a booth at the market with your collect- Louis Herrera Brent Jaramillo ibles, and raising some funds of your own. Marcus Rael, Jr. Last month our cover story was the Questa History Trail official opening. July is QUESTA DEL RIO NEWS a great time to take a stroll through historic Questa and explore local history. PO Box 1072 1 Highway 38 Next month we’ll bring you our annual back-to-school issue. So much is hap- Questa, NM 87556 pening in education and lots of good stuff is going on with our youth. Stay tuned OUR MISSION To Inform, Inspire, Connect and Unite the Communities of Northern Taos County. and have a wonderful July! NUESTRO OBJETIVO Es informar, inspirar, contactar, y unir a toda la comunidad del norte del condado de Taos. Lou McCall, Editor Advertising/Anuncios And all the folks at the Questa Del Rio News [email protected] [email protected] (575) 586-2258 www.questanews.com THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE OUR JULY ISSUE SO AWESOME! Check out our donate button! ¡Mira nuestro botón para donar! Like us on FaceBook/Questa Del Rio News! 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