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OPINION Local news and entertainment since 1969 Why the City allocated half a million page 8 YOUR Business is OUR Business! Bottom GREATER LAS CRUCES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • MAY 2018 • WWW.LASCRUCES.ORG TABLE OF CONTENTS Guiding graduates into the Line From the chair ......................2 Ribbon cuttings....................3 Junior Leadership next chapter of their lives By DEBBI this milestone in his young behind them. Perhaps this cruel and indifferent, we graduates ......................4&5 MOORE life. To say we are proud is is the exact time we should can lead and mentor by GLCCC CEO and an understatement. And evolve into the “mentoring” example while giving our availablea Crimson Corner ....................6 president yet, the grandmother in me stage and assure them we graduates the freedom to wants to shield him and are walking the path be- write their own story of LC Young Professionals/ May protect him as he begins to side them; no matter their their lives. Assuring them tradition- navigate the “real world.” choices, we will be there for that, while our choices ARTS & ally brings My reflection on this them. won’t be perfect, at the end Conquistadores ...................7 spring flowers, which is young man, along with our Many of our gradu- of the day, how they react is often interpreted to be the other graduates, caused ates have already written often more important in the New/renewing members ....8 awakening of new begin- to me to think, “What personal stories of agony, scheme of things. I’m re- nings. The month also does one do after the tas- defeat, achievement, sor- minded of one of my favor- inside brings us graduations, from sel has changed from one row, disappointment, hap- ite stories from Dr. Seuss, ENTERTAINMENT high school to college; we side of the mortarboard to piness…the list could go “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” GREATER LAS CRUCES watch our loved ones hear the other?” Many times, on and on. Some of them Our graduates and these CHAMBER OF COMMERCE their name called and walk we simply walk away and have been through circum- future leaders deserve to across to the stage to a new leave our graduates with stances, along with their go many places, scale the 150 E. LOHMAN AVE. chapter in their lives. the “what will be, will families, that are way too highest mountains and con- LAS CRUCES, NM 88001 This year, I am blessed to be” scenario or they “will much for such a young age. quer the lower valleys with have a great grandson grad- have to live with their own They have shown by ex- us cheering them on. 575-524-1968 uating from Oñate High choices.” This is just the ample already in their lives To sum up my article, School. This young man WWW.LASCRUCES.ORG beginning. Yes, at this time that they can survive, they I leave you with three FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019 has persevered through of their lives, the nurturing are resilient. 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Please RVSP to our 24-hour reservation line 800-424-DOCS (3627) 2 | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Content brought to you by: Doña Ana County ‘Your Partner in Progress’ ‘Carlos’ comic book debuts tomorrow Carlos the Coyote, the anti-littering hero developed by the reporting illegal dumping. A second book, “Clean Up with Carlos and Doña Ana County Animal Control and Codes office, will debut Friends” was released in 2017. The comic book was developed, ac- in his first-ever comic book Saturday, May 4. cording to Ward, to reach kids in middle school who want to be good Some of the staff with the county’s ACO and Codes office stewards of the environment. will celebrate the release at Free Comic Book Day at Zia Com- Carlos has been featured in a series of public service announce- ics in downtown Las Cruces, starting at 11 a.m. ments and was part of a 2017 calendar that was widely distributed in The comic is called “Mystery in the Desert” and features all schools throughout Doña Ana County. of Carlos’s beloved friends that fans have already met, along The books were made possible through the Illegal Dumping Part- with some new characters. The comic book will introduce read- nership (IDP), a multi-agency task force founded to help combat ille- ers to Hilda the Hyena, Javi the Javelina and Marty Mouse – a gal dumping throughout Doña Ana County. Its mission is to increase rowdy rodent who lives near the border and works to keep the public health and the safety of Doña Ana County residents, while desert clean. keeping the area clean and beautiful. The IDP also provides public ed- The comic book is written and illustrated by Christy An- ucation to increase awareness about environmental responsibility and chondo, the artist who helped develop Carlos and his friends resources needed for community cleanup days. with ACO/Codes field supervisor Mary Lou Ward. For more information about the comic book, or the IDP, contact Carlos was first introduced in 2015 as the main character in Irene Holguin, Keep Doña Ana County Beautiful coordinator, (575) “Carlos the Coyote Desert Adventure”, a children’s book that 525-8846. reinforced the importance of properly disposing of trash and DWI checkpoints scheduled The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Depart- Project HOME (Helping Others Make it ment has scheduled at least two DWI home Every time), which is available on checkpoints and saturation patrols during Fridays, Saturdays and holidays from 5:30 the month of May. These activi- p.m. to 3 a.m. ties are part of an ongoing effort The project is a collaborative to reduce DWI-related crashes, initiative with Las Cruces Shuttle injuries and deaths. and Taxi by which a person or Checkpoints and patrols will group who has been drinking any be conducted May 5-6 at various amount of alcohol can call (575) undisclosed locations through- 524-TAXI to be picked up for a out Doña Ana County. Check- discounted ride home. Project points will be set up sometime HOME will only take people between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. from a bar or party to the rider’s Deputies will be looking for all types of residence. violations, with an emphasis on intoxicated For up to two people, the taxi fee is a drivers. flat $5 to any destination within Doña Ana The Doña Ana County Health and Hu- County. For up to four people, the flat fee is man Services Department offers county $10. Grant funding pays the balance of residents a low-cost taxi ride home through transportation charges. JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA! May 3, 2019 Visit our award-winning website at www.donaanacounty.org, or contact us at (575) 647-7200 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019 | 3 ‘One big community’: Homeless services recognized By MIKE COOK the lucky ones.” Las Cruces Bulletin “I got sick both men- tally and physically on “I think we all agree my way to success,” that it’s all ‘us’ and said MVCH client Mark. ‘we’ and not ‘them’ or After 44 years in retail ‘they’ or ‘those people,’” in five states, he found Mesilla Valley Commu- himself homeless. With nity of Hope (MVCH) assistance from MVCH, development committee Mark now has his own member Nancy McMil- apartment and car and lan said April 13 during is receiving the medical MVCH’s annual spring help he needs and the open house. disability payments he is MVCH, located at 999 entitled to. W. Amador Ave., pro- “I’m on my way to re- vides housing, childcare, tirement in a couple of an emergency food pro- weeks,” he said. “Now I gram, a soup kitchen, a really know what happi- health center and other ness is.” services for homeless Las Cruces “embraces and indigent clients. the homeless and tries to The program “always help,” said MVCH client has a hand out to those Jonathan, who has been who need a hand,” Mc- homeless since 2015 and Millan said.