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Content brought to you by: Doña Ana County ‘Your Partner in Progress’ Monsoon tips offered for county residents The Monsoon Season has arrived in southern New Make an emergency kit and plan to help deal with Never drive through a flooded road or around barri- Mexico, bringing with it isolated – and sometimes se- weather events. Plan for your pets, too. cades. It can be difficult to determine how deep flood- vere – thunderstorms, like those that caused evacua- Sandbags picked up at county fire districts are distrib- waters are, and floodwaters can rise dramatically in tions and localized flooding in the Village of Hatch last uted on a limited basis to protect entrances and exits. minutes. Turn around, don’t drown! weekend. They are not to be used to protect landscaping. If you are caught in a sudden storm that may cause The Doña Ana County Office of Emergency Man- Register cell phones for reverse 911 notifications at flooding, it is usually safer for you to stay where you agement, the Doña Ana County Fire and Emergency www.mvrda.org. Click on the “Sign Up for Free Emer- are and wait out the storm rather than trying to drive Services Department and the Mesilla Valley Regional gency Alerts” icon. Also, go directly to the Reverse Dispatch Authority offer the following tips for public through it. 911 registration page at: https:Mvrda.OnTheAlert.com. safety and property protection in the event of heavy- While on the MVRDA website, residents can read If you are driving in a storm, find ground higher than rainfall events: about and sign up for the Smart911 service free of the street to pull onto until the storm passes. Stay current on local weather forecasts and take a charge. If you get stuck in a stalled car, it may be safer to stay proactive approach to emergency preparedness. Talk to your insurance agent about flood insurance, with your vehicle. Fast moving water, even only a few Empty sandbags and bags of sand can be purchased at and realize it can take several weeks to get approved. inches deep can quickly sweep you off your feet. local home improvement and hardware stores, and resi- Never let children or pets play in or near floodwaters, dents are encouraged to pre-purchase bags, especially if Sign up for automated emergency alerts from NIXLE by visiting www.nixle.com. which can contain dangerous debris, animal waste and flooding in their homes is likely. chemicals. Citizens Academy application window open Applications are now being accepted for the fall learn more about the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s De- 2018 Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department Citizen’s partment; it is not the cadet academy for those who Police Academy. wish to become certified law-enforcement officers. The academy spans eight consecutive Saturdays be- Classes are interactive and give participants hands- ginning Aug. 4. Each class will run from 8 a.m. to noon on knowledge of how sheriff’s deputies are trained to at DASO’s Las Cruces headquarters, 845 N. Motel handle real-life situations. Class members will examine Blvd. To date, nearly 300 Doña Ana County residents traffic enforcement, understand the use of force – in- have graduated from the program. cluding the use of deadly force – observe K-9 demon- Each Citizen’s Academy applicant must be 18 years strations and presentations by the Special Response of age or older, must be a resident of Doña Ana County, Team and bomb squad. and must have a valid driver’s license or photo ID. Due The academy features several field trips, including to the sensitive nature of police work, a brief back- tours of the Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authori- ground check will be performed on each applicant. ty and the Doña Ana County Detention Center. Academy participants must not have any prior felony The fall 2018 Citizen’s Academy is free of charge. convictions and no misdemeanor arrests within the last Applications can be downloaded online at three years. www.goDASO.org, and are also available at the Doña The academy takes class members through various Ana County Sheriff’s Department headquarters at 845 divisions of the department in an effort to strengthen N. Motel Blvd., in Las Cruces. community partnerships through education and aware- Class size is limited to 25 people, and the deadline ness. Academy participants are volunteers who wish to to apply is Friday, July 27.
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Tony McClary, program based skills, but it fosters specialist for outreach and leadership and commu- Patricia Sullivan may be $ $ $ $ recruitment for the Col- nication skills, and builds reached at 575-646-2913, 9.98/ea /4ct. 1.98/lb .50/lb lege of Engineering. “NM self-confidence to step [email protected] 4 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN LCPS 2018-2019 SCHOOL SUPPLY LISTS Taxes are Editor’s note: Following is the list of school sup- plies that parents of Las Cruces Public Schools stu- Threatening dents must send with each child at the start of school in August. These items Your Access to are not provided by the schools. Note: Some teach- ers may require additional News. supplies. For questions about supplies, contact your child’s teacher or school principal. Supply BULLETIN FILE PHOTO lists are also listed on Students head for the first day of classes at Las Cruces High Taxes on the paper you School in the fall of 2017. www.lcps.net. Grades 3, 4 & 5 3 Composition notebooks are reading threaten to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 24 #2 Pencils 2 Tissue boxes SUPPLIES LIST 1 pencil bag 1 Backpack (use of last year’s recommended) kill local news. Kindergarten 1 pencil eraser 1 box of 24 crayons Earbuds 10 #2 Pencils 1 box of markers Markers 3 wide-ruled composition note- Colored pencils books 1 box of colored pencils 1 box of 10 crayons 4 glue sticks For students taking PE: 1 black Sharpie marker 1 box of markers 1 Combination lock 4 folders with pockets and 1 bottle of glue 1 PE shirt (optional) 3-hole punched 4 glue sticks 6 wide-ruled composition note- 1 pencil eraser Mesilla Valley books 1 black Sharpie marker Leadership Academy 1 package of wide-ruled lined 2 large boxes of facial tissues only: paper NO BACKPACKS. Bring supplies 1 pair scissors (round-tipped 1 ruler with centimeters and during the first week of school Fiskar preferred) inches in a plastic bag 1 set foam headphones or ear- 1 protractor 1 Pencil bag or pencil box con- buds (can purchase at Dollar 1 pair scissors (round-tipped taining: Store) Fiskar preferred) 10 pencils 1 container disinfecting wipes 2 large boxes of facial tissue 1 pencil sharpener 1 backpack 1 set foam headphones or ear- 2 highlighters Grades 1 and 2 buds (can purchase at Dollar 5 pens Store) 24 #2 Pencils 1 large eraser 1 container disinfecting wipes 1 pencil bag 2 Three-ring binders, 1-inch 1 backpack 1 pencil eraser 3 Two-pocket folders 1 box of 24 crayons 4 Packages of college-ruled MIDDLE SCHOOL sheets of paper 1 box of markers SUPPLY LIST 4 glue sticks 3 Composition notebooks (Camino Real, Lynn, Mesa, 1 black Sharpie marker 2 Tissue boxes MVLA, Picacho, Sierra, Vista, 2 folders with pockets and White Sands, Zia) Optional: 3-hole punched Earbuds (must fit in bag/box) 1 package wide-ruled lined All Grades Markers paper 1 Pencil bag or pencil box con- Colored pencils 6 wide-ruled composition note- taining: books 10 pencils HIGH SCHOOL 1 pair scissors (round-tipped 1 pencil sharpener SUPPLIES without the newspaper, how will your Fiskar preferred) 2 highlighters 2 large boxes of facial tissue Blue or black pens 5 pens #2 pencils with erasers community stay connected? 1 set foam headphones or ear- 1 large eraser buds (can purchase at Dollar 2 highlighters 2 Three-ring binders, 1-inch Store) 500 sheets of loose-leaf, 3 Two-pocket folders Tell your representatives in Congress 202.225.3121 1 container disinfecting wipes college-ruled paper to stop the tariffs on newsprint. 4 Packages of college-ruled 1 backpack Spiral notebook with dividers VWRSQHZVSULQWWDULVRUJ sheets of paper Backpack LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 5 GO bond includes $17 million for parks, sports fields By MIKE COOK than 700 acres. Las Cruces Bulletin Among the parks scheduled for improve- Shall the City issue ments if the bond passes general obligation bonds, are Desert Trails, Young payable from property Park and Apodaca Park, taxes, in an amount up to according to the city web- $16,900,000 to construct site. improveme nts to parks, At Desert Trails Park, including sports fields 3492 Sonoma Springs and other related facili- Blvd., for example, the ties? city wants to conduct That is one of the four an erosion study to de- questions on the general termine where to make BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOK obligation (GO) bond bal- adjustments to deal with More than 130 teams from Las Cruces, El Paso and other cities used Las Cruces sports fields the weekend of July 7-8. lot that will be mailed damage to trails caused Tuesday, July 24 to all eli- by last year’s flooding and gible voters in the city. prevent future flooding, ball complex, soccer and able, it’s been “a whole in additional property call 575-541-2000 or email July 24 is also the last city Parks and Recreation football fields and eight generation” since the tax on a home with a [email protected]. day to register to vote Department Director pickleball courts at the city has been able to in- full value of $100,000 (as- Visit www.clcbond.org. in the GO bond election, Sonya Delgado said. city’s East Mesa Public vest significantly in park sessed value is one-third Also visit www.donaana- which will be conducted Improvements to the Recreation Complex. improvements, Studer of full value), $87 a year county.org/clerk, click on by the Doña Ana County Hadley Sport Complex Improvements and said. During that time, on a $125,000 home, $105 “Bureau of Elections,” Clerk’s Office. would include lights, ir- upgrades will include the local population has on a $150,00 home, $122 on then click on “GO Bond Voters will have until rigation, restrooms, the trails, drinking fountains, likely doubled in size, he a $175,000 home, $140 on Election.” Tuesday, Aug. 21 to vote concession stand and dug- benches, shade structures said. a 200,000 home, $157 on a on each of the four ques- outs. Unidad Park would and fencing, Delgado Community surveys $225,000 home and $175 on Mike Cook may be reached tions, as well as six pro- get improvements and a said. conducted earlier this a $250,000 home. at mike@lascrucesbulle- posed amendments to splash pad. The improvements will year showed strong sup- For more information, tin.com. petition and recall provi- Sports courts improve- benefit city residents as port for improvements sions of the city charter. ments would include bas- well as people living in to city parks and ball- If the parks and sports ketball courts at Metro Doña Ana County who fields through GO bonds, fields question passes, it Verde, Four Hills, Hillrise, regularly use city parks, Studer said, and city will generate almost $17 Cardon, Frank O’Brien Delgado said, and will plans to improve those fa- million for upgrades and Papen, Klein and Benavi- entice visitors to the city. cilities reflect what local improvements to parks dez Community Center Ballfields, she said, are residents want. and ballfields across the parks; tennis courts at widely used by teams A GO bond is a form of city, Assistant City Man- Young, Apodaca, Lions from throughout the re- debt financing secured by ILY SPECIAL ager Bill Studer said. and Metro parks; two gion, including El Paso, property tax revenue. DA S The city has more than acres of new dog parks; who are competing in If all four bond ques- 100 parks covering more and a 10-acre park, base- tournaments at Las Cru- tions pass, it will generate ces fields. $35.6 million in GO bond taco & tequila Because adequate fund- funds. That will cost a ing has not been avail- homeowner $70 a year tuesdays Stuff your Wallet.
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Las Cruces knows at least one Posta revealing mud bricks, munities have worked to make PHONE: (575) 524-8061 or two people who work at the and said, “That’s adobe. That’s the people of WSMR feel at FAX: (575) 526-4621 IWhether you’ve lived range. what we’re getting ready to home. www.lascrucesbulletin.com here all your life or you’re Fewer people may be aware deal with. That’s what happens “You are the standard by [email protected] just passing through on a of the financial engine WSMR when you’re dealing with a which I will judge all military- visit, you can never take gives to our community, with building from the 1800s.” civilian relationships in the fu- PUBLISHER an estimated economic impact Sanchez spoke more, how- ture. That’s how strongly I feel Richard Coltharp the mountains for granted. of more than $4.5 million per ever, of the 21st century and about it.” DISTRIBUTION They’re looming over us day day. military discussions of “lines Concretely demonstrating Teresa Tolonen and night. At a recent farewell cer- of effort,” which are used for that relationship were presen- emony for retiring Brig. Gen. strategic planning and link tations from Mesilla Mayor ADVERTISING Claire Frohs What’s on Eric Sanchez and outgoing tasks and missions. Nora Barraza and Las Cruces Anita Goins the other side garrison commander Col. “You may not know it, but Mayor Ken Miyagishima, the Pam Rossi of those moun- Dave Brown, these things were we’re talking about you on son of an Air Force veteran. Elaine Sasnow tains, however, brought home once again. those ‘lines of effort,’” San- Miyagishima presented both is a different The Greater Las Cruces chez said, the “you” meant to Brown and Sanchez keys to the CLASSIFIEDS/LEGALS Angel McKellar story. Chamber of Commerce hosted describe community members City of Las Cruces. The big U.S. the event at La Posta de Mesilla and organizations, such as the Greater Las Cruces Chamber NEWS RICHARD Army instal- for Brown, who will be mov- chamber, who work on many President/CEO Debbi Moore Tracy Roy, Content Director COLTHARP lation that sits ing on to a new Army assign- levels to assist and make things had presentations not only for Marty Racine, Managing Editor From the Publisher Elva Österreich, Special Projects just east of the ment, and Sanchez, who ends better for the soldiers, leaders Sanchez and Brown, but also Organs can, for a 35-year military career but and employees of WSMR. certificates for their wives. REPORTERS/WRITERS many Las Crucens, easily slip begins his new life right in our “(The range) and the commu- Moore called the certificates Mike Cook below the radar of day-to-day backyard. nity are in sync,” Sanchez said. the “Las Cruces Strong Dare Avra Elliott life. Sanchez is the only general “We are speaking with one Greatly” commendations, to Michael Scanlon White Sands Missile Range, in the history of WSMR who is voice and that is even stronger recognize the significant and GRAPHIC DESIGNERS however, is one of the largest both a native of New Mexico than it was.” tireless contributions and sac- Stacey Neal and most unique assets in the and a graduate of New Mexico Col. Dave Brown, like most rifices of military spouses. entire Department of Defense. State University. Not only career Army men, has been Moore, whose father was also PHOTOGRAPHERS Steve MacIntyre Its 2.2 million acres of testing did he find his degree and his all over the world, and lived in a veteran, described the value area are unmatched in the U.S. military career at NMSU, but many military communities. of getting to know the Sanchez military. The range employs he also found his life partner, He quickly realized things and Brown families. nearly 400 active duty military Teresa, his wife, a native of were a little different in Las “You helped me realize how Submit letters to editor@ personnel, as well as nearly Mesilla. Cruces when he attended the important WSMR is to our lascrucesbulletin.com or by fax at 575-526-4621. Letters 2,000 civilians. That doesn’t Their first retirement project annual Thanks Team WSMR community and our country,” should not exceed 200 words, include the many contractors will be restoring one of her event for the first time. Moore said. may be edited for length or that come from all over the family’s Mesilla properties into “I was like, ‘Really? They just And in turn, you, our collec- content and must include the world to the range in a given a home. do this for us?’” said Brown, tive community, have immense writer’s name, address and Discussing the project at who went on to describe other value to the missile range. phone number for verifi cation. year, as many as 3,000 of them, Anonymous letters will not be doing work of all kinds. the farewell event, Sanchez examples of the way the Las Just don’t forget. published.
DISTRIBUTION: The Las Cruces Bulletin is complimentary at advertised LETTERS TO THE EDITOR locations in Las Cruces, limited to one copy per reader; $1 per copy elsewhere. These ‘immigrants’ in New York Harbor, a grants willing to learn border are not the im- our language. They don’t assimilate gift from France in 1885, the language, establish migrants who helped depend on public as- SUBSCRIPTIONS: $54 per year in stood over an America values and law and build this nation to the sistance in all forms: Las Cruces or $125 per year through To the editor: the U.S. Postal Service. “Give me your tired, with few people and order, become citizens status of the foremost health care, education, your poor, your huddled accepting immigrants and assimilate in the country in the world. assistance with food COPYRIGHT: The entire contents of the with skills, education land of the free. Many are unskilled, and housing. They Las Cruces Bulletin are copyright 2018 masses yearning to by the Las Cruces Bulletin. breathe free.” and ambition to build The “immigrants” uneducated, unwilling The Statue of Liberty a new country. Immi- crashing our southern to assimilate and learn SEE LETTERS, PAGE 8 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 7
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LETTERS separated from their to Obama’s first term. “The comparison to to enforce immigration were asked to come here CONTINUED FROM 6 legal families on a regu- (Obama holds the re- Obama’s policies is espe- law. Ronald Reagan and all are breaking our lar basis because the cord for deporting more cially relevant now that signing the amnesty bill laws by doing so. They parents are abusive, are immigrants than any the Trump administra- in 1986 for millions of have been coached on bring crime and burden in jail for criminal acts president, with more tion is seeking to keep illegals was supposed how to use our asylum our protective forces and and some even desert than 2 million deporta- families in immigration to take care of this. In- loopholes and claim national security. their children because tions over eight years detention for weeks or stead, the border has not they are seeking asylum. The separation of they can’t take care of — though he scaled back months. The reason been properly sealed, There are seven billion families begins in their them. enforcement in the last that Trump can’t do employers have not been people on the planet, original countries, The following is from two years of his admin- that under a current forced to do E-Verify and most are unhappy, where they leave their a VOX online article: istration.) judicial order is that the we are back to square should we let them all families behind. No sym- “The executive order “But the effects of the courts stepped in to stop one. Blaming this on the in? There are proper pathy here! Mary Fuller Trump signed … opens Trump administration’s Obama from doing it. Trump administration is ways to enter our coun- Las Cruces the door to him using “zero tolerance” policy “Now Trump is trying totally unfair and shows try, crashing the border a tactic Obama used for prosecuting illegal to remove the shackles a lack of knowledge on is not one of them. Hysteria over in 2014: the wide-scale entry this spring – the placed on his predeces- the part of those who The roots of this mess immigration detention of immigrant separation of families sor.” are against what he cam- can be found in the Im- enforcement families for as long as it as a matter of standard So, the article points paigned on and what he migration Act of 1965, took to complete their government practice out the Obama admin- is trying to do to protect a horrible piece of leg- To the editor: immigration cases and for about six weeks, and istration tried to do the citizens of the United islation that Americans I am writing in re- deport them. now (thanks to Trump’s same thing, i.e. enforce States. were assured would not sponse to several edito- “Comparisons be- executive order) a com- our immigration laws, Elaine Rafferty change our demograph- rials and an article in tween Trump and ing court fight over the and was stopped by the Las Cruces ics. We were lied to then, The Bulletin on July 13 Obama on immigration indefinite detention of courts. It also says that and we are being lied to regarding the separation usually focus on depor- families seeking asylum many of the children, Crashing the border now. I for one am sick of children at the bor- tations of unauthorized – are reminiscent, for those under the age of not proper entry of watching my country der. While I agree that immigrants living in the those of us who’ve been 18, are coming unaccom- To the editor: turn into a Third World children should remain US. Trump has been rap- following immigration panied and for this rea- Last week you pub- country. On the 4th of with their families in idly expanding enforce- for a while, of what the son our government has lished three letters all July I watched some most cases, we all know ment, but the numbers Obama administration set up places, detention ripping President Trump crazed woman from the that legal children are are still comparable did in 2014. facilities, to take care of on immigration, one Congo climb the Statue these children because comparing this adminis- of Liberty, shutting it we don’t know who their tration to the Nazis. down, then paraded in parents are. Pure nonsense. front of the media call- GIVE THE GIFT OF BOOKS! 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LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 11 NMSU scholarship supports future teachers By DAPHNE GRIFFIN and that it was important row and, who knows, that Desert Hills El- For the Bulletin to honor those people one person may be the ementary School who had dedicated their difference for all of us … third-grade teacher When Frank Rodriguez careers to educating the that one educator who and NMSU alumna was in high school in country’s youth. might be able to bridge Theresa Telles San Antonio, Texas, New Frank, a scholar ath- societal gaps and create works with one of Mexico State University lete who was a power a brighter future for ev- her students in the classroom. wasn’t even on his radar. forward and center on eryone.” His basketball skills the NMSU Men’s Bas- Andrea Tawney, COURTESY DARREN led him to seek scholar- ketball team, graduated president of the NMSU PHILLIPS ship opportunities at in 1984 with a degree in Foundation said, “NMSU places like the University biology. He credits his is grateful for the gen- of Oklahoma and the education to his teach- erosity of the Rodriguez University of Texas at ers and believes that family and all who Austin. But, according every teacher he had support our university to Frank, sometimes, the throughout his school- system’s mission. Frank plans you make for your- ing helped him earn and Kimberly’s passion self are not the plans that his degree not only at to champion NMSU’s have been set for you. NMSU, but also those future educators will be “I didn’t even know through medical school. a lasting legacy for all where Las Cruces was,” Today, he is an or- the students they impact Rodriguez said. “But, thopedic surgeon, and throughout their ca- God has a perfect plan Kimberly, who earned reers.” for everyone and I cannot her degree in education Frank says that he and imagine my life had I not in 1984, is a first-grade Kimberly both believe gone to NMSU. It was the teacher. The couple have their faith has guided perfect university for me raised three children who them throughout their because all that I am now, are all in the process of lives and hope this schol- my wife and the family pursuing their own post- arship offers a glimpse of we’ve raised, is a result baccalaureate degrees. that to its recipients. of my having gone to The Rodriguez’s are “Teaching is a labor of 1 NMSU.” grateful for the oppor- love – a sacrifice – and BIG. Frank and his wife, tunities they’ve had and we wanted to help those Kimberly, are both NMSU feel blessed to be at a who want to educate MEGA MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT2 alumni. 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A substantial penalty for early withdrawal. 12 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN COMING UP Gymnastics, tumbling reg- noon Saturdays, Brani- Museum of Nature & Free computer classes: Alzheimer’s presentations: July 28, east end of the istration: Las Cruces Parks gan Cultural Center, 501 Science, 411 N. Main St. Branigan Memorial Li- Alzheimer’s Association, old K-Mart parking & Recreation Department N. Main St. Each week Fernando Altamirano brary offers computer New Mexico Chapter, lot. Meet up for an all- registration for gymnas- families learn about dif- founded and directed the classes in its Computer offers presentations for day trip to Bridal Veil tics and tumbling classes ferent U.S. states through National Medical Insti- Training Lab on the sec- families. Info: Alexis Falls in the Sacramento in four sessions this sum- free arts and crafts. Fill tute of Mexico and was ond floor. Registration Ramirez 800-272-3900 or Mountains. Bring mer and fall. Registration the Geography Club a physician, naturalist, not required, but only the [email protected]. lunch/snacks, water, will continue until the passport with a stamp for and botanist during the first nine attendees are • 2-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, sun protection, and classes are filled. Each each new state visited. 19th century. He studied guaranteed a computer. July 25, Peace Lutheran good walking shoes. session will consist of Info: 575-541-2154 or mu- medicinal and industrial Attendees can bring their Church, 1701 E. Missouri eight classes to be held at seums.las-cruces.org. uses of Mexican plants. own laptops, if space Ave. “The Basics of Al- Fort Selden class: 9 a.m.- the East Mesa Recreation • July 21: Maryland Info: 575-522-3120 or mu- permits. Info: 575-528-4005 zheimer’s Disease.” noon, Friday, July 27, Center, 5589 Porter Drive. • July 28: West Virginia seums.las-cruces.org. or library.reference@las- • 1-3 p.m. Thursdays, Fort Selden Historic Site, Cost: $30 for beginning • Aug. 4: Virginia cruces.org. July 26-Aug. 23, 1155 S. Radium Springs. Class for and intermediate, $45 for Author appearance: • 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, July Telshor Blvd. Suite 202. children, “Games & Toys advanced. Info: 575-541- Animal Encounters: 10:30 Noon-1 p.m. Saturday, 24: Internet for Begin- “Skills for Dementia of the Past,” ages 6-10. 2455. Register online at a.m. Saturdays, Museum July 21, Coas Books, 317 ners. How to go online Caregiving: A Free Class Learn about the games www.las-cruces.org/play of Nature & Science, 411 N. Main St. Bulletin film and move around the for Family & Friends of a and toys of the 1800s. or at these locations: N. Main St. Meet the ani- critic Jeff Berg discusses internet with ease, basic Loved One with Demen- Registration is required • Parks and Recreation mals of the Chihuahuan his new book, “Historic searching skills, and in- tia.” at least a week before the office, 1501 E. Hadley Desert and gain an close Movie Theatres of New ternet safety. class. All activities out- Ave., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon- up perspective into their Mexico.” • 5:30-7:30 Thursday, Adult Summer Reading: 2 doors. Snacks provided. day-Thursday, 7 a.m.-4 lives . July 26: Microsoft Excel p.m. Wednesday, July 25, Cost: $5, cash or check p.m. Friday. • July 21: Endangered Roller derby: 8 p.m. Sat- Basics. For those who are Branigan Memorial Li- only. Info and registra- • Frank O’Brien Papen and Extinct Species of urday, July 21, at the rink beginning to use Micro- brary Roadrunner Room. tion: 575-202-1638. Community Center, 304 the World. behind Meersheidt Recre- soft Excel, how to create “Rock and Roll Yahtzee.” W. Bell Ave., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. • July 28: Animal Cam- ation Center, 1600 E. Had- and format basic spread- Play Yahtzee while rock- Adult coloring: 10 a.m.- Monday-Friday. ouflage. ley Ave. Shore Shots vs sheets. ing out at the library. noon, Friday, July 27, • Las Cruces Regional Beach Babes in a Beach Presented by a Branigan Las Cruces Railroad Aquatic Center, 1401 E. Children’s Story Time: 11 Brawl when CCD’s Regu- Wool Creations: 9 a.m.- Library librarian. Cost: Museum, 351 N. Mesilla Hadley Ave., 7:30 a.m.-8 a.m. Saturday, July 21, ladies and Spitfire Sallies 12:30 p.m. Tuesday- Free. Info: 575-528-4005, St. Socialize with other p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 Las Cruces Railroad Mu- face off in a rematch. Thursday, July 24-26, NM or library.reference@las- adults while expressing a.m.-7:30 p.m. Saturday, seum, 351 N. Mesilla St. Charity for the evening Farm & Ranch Heritage cruces.org. creativity. Bring supplies noon-7:30 p.m. Sunday. Children of all ages can is Toys for Kids. Gates Museum, 4100 Dripping or use the museum’s col- • Meerscheidt Rec- listen to a story and com- open at 7 p.m. Cost: $7 in Springs Road. Learn the Mobile summer rec: 4-6 oring pages and colored reation Center, 1600 E. plete a related craft. Cost: advance from any CCD history of the Navajo p.m. Wednesday, July pencils. Cost: Free. Info Hadley Ave., 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Free. Info 575-528-3444 or member or at Nessa’s Churro Sheep and find 25, Jason Giron Park, 575-528-3444 or museums. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 museums.las-cruces.org. Cafe, 901 W. Picacho, or out the steps in process- 355 Three Crosses Ave. las-cruces.org. p.m. Saturday. $10 at the gate. Children ing wool. Participants Las Cruces Parks and STEAMpunk: 11:45 12 and under free with learn basic skills for Recreation Summer Rec- Mulligans Fore Mutts: 10 Geography Club: 10 a.m.- a.m. Saturday, July 21, paying adult. carding, felting, spinning, reation Mobile Unit will a.m. Saturday, July 28, and weaving. Register by visit with family fun and Picacho Hills Country Friday, July 20. Bring a games. Registration is not Club, 6861 Via Camp- lunch each day. Cost: $40 required. Cost: Free. Info: estre. (See page 21 in this for non-members, $35 for 575-541-2550 or RecPro- week’s Bulletin). members. [email protected]. Conversations with Demo- Family Circus Jam: 7-8:30 Native Plant Society: Two crats: 2 p.m. Saturday, p.m. Tuesdays this field trips planned. Info: July 28, Holy Family summer, Project in Mo- Leave a message at 575- American National Cath- tion, 430 N. Compress. 523-8413. olic Church, 702 Parker Circus play expanded • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Road. Kim Stewart, to include families and July 25, NMSU Her- “Keeping our communi- children with a variety barium, Biology Annex, ties safe.” Sponsored by of instructors to teach Williams Street at NMSU: the Federation of Demo- a variety of skills. Info: Herbarium curator Dr. cratic Women of Doña 575-208-4413, pimdance@ Sara Fuentes-Soriano Ana County. Info: Connie gmail.com or www. and botanist Zachary 575-521-0096. projectinmotion.com/ Rogers will lead a tour. classes.html. • 8 a.m. Saturday, SEE COMING UP, PAGE 13 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 13 GSK Summer Science: Stars-N-Parks: Learn ible, non-profit organiza- East. Info: 575-382-9404. Farmers and crafts COMING UP 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays- about the night sky at tion, supports the Honors market: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., CONTINUED FROM 12 Fridays, July 31-Aug. 3 NM state parks. Arrive at Programs in Sunland Bridge games, lessons: Saturdays, Plaza de Las and Aug. 7-10. Museum sunset to become familiar Park, Desert View and 12:30-3:45 p.m. Monday- Cruces. Soccer facilities meet- of Nature & Science, 411 with surroundings before Riverside Elementary Friday, Belton Bridge ing: 6 p.m. Saturday, July N. Main St. Program nightfall. Formal presen- schools, uniform dona- Center, 1214 Madrid Grief support: Noon-2 28, Council Chambers registration. Children tation followed by tele- tion programs, and schol- Ave. Bridge games open p.m. Tuesdays, Univer- at City Hall, 700 N. Main in grades 2-6 are invited scope observations. Cost: arships for high school to all players for $6. If sity United Methodist St. Presentation on the for active learning $5 park day-use fee. Sug- graduates pursuing a you need a partner, call Church, 2000 S. Locust. current state of soccer about the sun’s energy, gested donation for the secondary education. Dave Allen, 635-6486, A caring, compassion- fields, plans for improve- phases of the moon, program, $5 per couple, Sponsorships $100-$5,000. Monday and Thursday; ate venue for connecting ments, opportunities for human survival in space or $3 per individual. Info: Info: 575-589-2200 Ext.14 Linda Spengler, 621-0997, with others who have en- stakeholder input and and how rockets over- John Gilkison 575-635- of [email protected]. Tuesday and Friday; and countered the death of a specific plans for soccer come Earth’s gravity. 0982 or National Public Barbara Houseknecht, child or sibling. Info and in the General Obliga- Registration must be Observatory on Facebook LCHS Class of 1958: 4-7 523-5757, Wednesday. signup: 575 522-8220. tion Bond plan. Info: Ceci completed by 4 p.m. the public groups. p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, Tuesday morning bridge Vasconcellos 575-528-4551 Saturday before the ses- • Saturday, Sept. 1: Los Mariachis, 754 N. education for free, 10 La Frontera store: 8 a.m.- or cvasconcellos@las- sion starts. Rockhound State Park. Motel Blvd. Classmates a.m. The club offers two 12:30 p.m. the second cruces.org. Level 1: Entering Sunset: 7:32 p.m. Program celebrate 60 years with games limited to players weekend of each month, grades 2-3, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Start: 8:45 p.m., Program dinner and no-host beer with fewer than 50 mas- Center for Spiritual Liv- Cat’s Meow fundraiser: Level 2: Entering End: 10:15 p.m. Saturn and wine bar. Cost: Free ter points at 12:15 p.m. ing. Fair-trade items 6-10 p.m. Saturday, July grades 4-6, 3-4 p.m. transiting, Mars follow- for classmates and sig- Tuesday and a mini-game made by women from the 28, 2211 N. Mesquite St. ing and Jupiter setting nificant others, $15 for from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. border area and Mexico. Las Cruces’ only Feline Elk Foundation banquet: in the west. The Summer other guests. Info: Nora Saturday, call 786-338- Proceeds go to the women Adoption and Resource 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, Milky Way is past the [email protected] 5970. Club info: 575-524- who produce the prod- Center, will host its sec- Las Cruces Convention meridian and Andromeda or Sally Sutherlin 575-650- 3031. ucts, which include oil- ond annual Bellissimi Center, 608 East Univer- is rising in the east. Pre- 7209. cloth aprons, tote bags, Gattini (Beautiful Kit- sity Ave. Prizes, auctions, senter: Mike Nuss DAR: 11 a.m. third guerilla prayer flags, ten) fundraiser includes food, camaraderie for the • Saturday, Sept. 8: ONGOING Thursday of each month. clothing and household a lasagna buffet dinner benefit of elk country. City of Rocks State Park. Daughters of the Ameri- items. Info: lafrontera- with Italian salad, Italian Info: Charles Tharp 575- Sunset: 7:23 p.m. Program Back Country Horsemen: can Revolution meet. [email protected]. sodas and Italian des- 644-0080, or www.events. Start: 8:35 p.m., Program 6:30 p.m. first Monday Info: Linda 575-521-3166. serts. Silent Auction will rmef.org. End: 10:05 p.m. Saturn of each month, Delicias Las Colcheras Quilt include Mata Ortiz pot- transiting, Mars follow- Café 1413 E. Amador Elite Business Builders: Guild: 6:30 p.m., the third tery, signed first edition Mobile spay/neuter: Mon- ing and Jupiter setting Ave. Lower Rio Grande 8:30-10 a.m. Wednesdays, Monday at the American books, as well as artwork, day, Aug. 13, Sept. 24 and in the west. The Summer Chapter of Back Country Sonoma Ranch Grill, Legion Post 10 Hall, 1185 jewelry, and many items Oct. 15, 2405 W. Picacho Milky Way is past the me- Horsemen of New Mex- 1274 Golf Club Road. Madrid Ave. Guests wel- for cat and animal lovers. Ave. No. 103. Spay & Neu- ridian and Andromeda is ico. Info: Lisa Lparshall@ Open networking, ques- come. The guild offers Cost: $15 for one person, ter Action Program low rising in the east. brandyourbusiness.com. tions and answers, cof- quilt lessons, community $25 for two. Info and cost spay/neuter surgery fee and water with food service opportunities, tickets: www.thecatsme- for pets of low-income Santa Teresa Charity Golf: Big Daddy’s Flea Market: available to order. Bring sew-ins, an active out- owlascruces, Cat’s Meow households. Financial 1-6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays business cards. Info: reach program and a or Casa Camino Real, 314 help available. Cost: $40 14, Vista Hills Country and Sundays, 5580 Bataan Cheryl 575-524-1201 or South Tornillo. for dogs, $30 for cats, cash Club, 2210 Trawood Drive, Memorial East, Hwy. 70 520-730-4456. SEE COMING UP, PAGE 14 only. Info and appoint- El Paso. Organized by NASA In-Flight Education: ments: 575-524-9265 or Santa Teresa Charitable 9 a.m.-noon, Tuesday, snapnewmexico.org. Foundation, a tax-deduct- Super Sale Now in Progress! July 31, Las Cruces City Hall. NASA In-flight Education Downlink will include a Space Science Fair with activities for all Since ages, a presentation from ® 1976 a Solar System Ambassa- dor, and a live Q&A with astronauts aboard the In- Visit our Showroom to see complete ternational Space Station. School groups, camps and selection of Custom Window coverings, other groups planning to attend, RSVP to Stepha- Shutters and Bedding nie Hawkins at 575- 532-3372 or shawkins@ las-cruces.org. 2310 N. Temple • 526-2880 • www.SpringCrestNM.com 14 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Pre-K programs: 9-10 COMING UP a.m. every Thursday, CONTINUED FROM 13 Museum of Nature & PICACHO PEAK BREWING invites you to: Science, 411 N. Main St. biennial quilt show. Info: Exploration designed for [email protected] preschoolers. No regis- or 575-521-0521. tration required. Parents asked to stay with their Las Cruces Civitan Club: children throughout the Summerfest 2018 Meets noon the second program. Cost: Free. Tuesday and 6 p.m. fourth Info: 575-522-3120 or visit Tuesday, Los Compas Res- museums.las-cruces.org. taurant, 1120 Commerce Sat. Aug. 4th Drive. Info: 575-649-0165. Shriners: Las Cruces Shriners meet the second LC Young Pros: Third Monday, 1150 W. Brown. Tuesday, Las Cruces All Shriners are invited. Young Professionals, Info: 575-526-8396. Beck’s Coffee House, 130 N. Mesquite St. Grab Square dancing: Belton some coffee with fellow Bridge Center, 1214 East Pearl Jam tribute band, Vitalogy young professionals. Info Madrid Ave. with Ted and RSVP: www.face- Clements as the caller for book.com/lascrucesyp. both clubs. Blaze the Nation • Circle 8’s Club: 6-8:30 Minnesota Club: Third p.m. first and third Sun- Wednesday of each month days each month. Lincoln's Lie for people who have lived • Crossfire Plus Club: in Minnesota. Club meets 6:30-9 p.m. second and Great Shapes on the third Wednesday fourth Saturdays each of each month at various month. restaurants. Info: Kris Fun for the entire family, food vendors, games, local artisans, 575-323-3624. Swap meet spaces: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. first Saturday NM craft beers & wineries. Support local business! Model railroad club: 10 of each month. Beverly a.m.-1 p.m., third Satur- Hills Hall and Cantina day of each month at the Swap Meet Sundays. Southern New Mexico 10-by-10 spots are avail- Get your tickets on sale now at Fairgrounds. Enter able. Outdoor spots, $10; through west gate. South- indoor spots $20; patio ern New Mexico N Scal- spots, $15. Info: Victor, Picacho Peak Brew pub ers Model Railroad Club’s 575-621-9164. monthly meeting and model railroad day. Info: Tango dance instruction: OPEN Mon thru Sat 11am Mike Fifer, 575-526-8834. 7-8 p.m. Monday nights, Mesilla Community Old Mesilla’s Mercado: 11 Center, 2251 Calle de San- Serving lunch & dinner a.m.-8 p.m., Fridays and tiago. Dancing 8-10 p.m. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays on Cost: $10. New menu! the historic plaza in Me- silla. Hand-crafted jew- Used furniture needs: elry, original artwork and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday- locally grown produce. Friday, Southwest Trade 3900 W. Picacho Ave. Center, 580 S. Valley Order of the Purple Heart: Drive. Holy Cross Saint 575-680-6394 6 p.m., first Monday, Vincent de Paul Confer- American Legion #10, ence needs useable furni- Holdmyticket.com hall 1185. Mesilla Valley ture for its thrift store to #2004 Military Order of fund its working in help- the Purple Heart meets. ing the needy. Info and Info: 575-496-1312 or 575- appointment for pickup: 644-1045. 575-527-4041. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 15 City councilor: New city pool is about equity By MIKE COOK Missile Range, said Eg- “Frenger Pool will be “a great attraction ing. Las Cruces Bulletin naczak, who spoke in for the entire state,” City “It’s a direct return,” favor of the pool enclo- needs to be killed. Manager Stuart Ed said Smith said. Having a competitive- sure at the July 2 council at the July 2 meeting. And with the pool, he sized swimming pool meeting. Every winter it’s The entire budget for said, at least one addi- in Las Cruces “is about “We’ve been limping a mechanical the pool and enclosure is tional local high school more than workouts, along with Frenger Pool,” $18.2 million, according to can join Las Cruces High competition and health,” Smith said, referring to disaster. I’m 86 the city. School in having a swim said City Councilor Greg the city-owned pool at 800 “We can build the team. And, the pool can Smith, a long-time advo- Parkview Drive. The pool years old and pool for this amount be used for training life cate of the pool and an was built in 1961 and has I swim every of money,” Smith said. guards and police and fire even longer-time swim- frequently been closed for “What we don’t want to officials, Smith said. mer. repairs. day. It’s the best lose sight of is we should The revenue generated “There is also an equity Frenger is currently exercise I can get.” be able to build it for less. by th e pool likely won’t issue,” Smith said. “In exempted from pool We all agree it will be pay for its annual upkeep, Las Cruces, a number standards set by the New John Phillips, something good for Las he said, but a community of people have pools Mexico Environment Cruces. We need to do it.” pool is something the city Greg Smith swimmer available in their own or Department because “we In addition to the recre- should subsidize, like its neighbors’ back yards, or request, he said, solves have no comparable facil- ation and health benefits roads, parks and library. at a club or neighborhood that issue and means ity,” Smith said. Smith said he has been to local residents, Smith “Some things you do center. NMSU alumni can ground could be broken Frenger is “really not assured that moving su- said, the pool can host because that’s what the also qualify to use the on the new pool as early an adequate pool for the perfund test well sites in local, regional and state community expects you NMSU pools. However, a as 2019. needs we have,” Smith the area “can be done to swim meets, which would to do.” large number of people in “Having the pool com- said. “Let’s fill that gap. accommodate this.” bring teams, parents our community have no ing to fruition is a very The longer we wait to The pool will be a 50- and other visitors to Las Mike Cook may be reached such access for any of the exciting and big step for- get it done, the more the meter by 25-yard, eight- Cruces, where they will at mike@lascrucesbulle- recreational, health or ward for the community,” costs go up.” lane competitive pool that spend for food and lodg- tin.com. competitive aspects. So, said Stacy Egnaczak of “Frenger Pool needs a city pool helps make Las Cruces’ Wild West to be killed,” Las Cruces access to water for all of Aquatic Club. “It gives a swimmer John Phillips those reasons more equi- team like Wild more re- said at the July 2 meet- table.” sources which enables us ing. “Every winter it’s a CONGRATULATIONS Building the pool took a to be competitive, while mechanical disaster. I’m Memorial Medical Center Oncology Services giant stroke forward July also providing a better 86 years old and I swim 2 when the Las Cruces service to the citizens of every day. It’s the best ex- City Council approved a Las Cruces.” ercise I can get.” $9.6 million loan applica- The club was started in “The new pool will be The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer tion to the New Mexico 2008 and serves all ages built near the existing Center congratulates Mr. John Harris, Dr. William Adler, Finance Authority to and skill levels. Its cur- (city) Aquatic Center,” build an enclosure for the rent practice facilities Smith said, “probably ad- Dr. Cherie Hayostek and the amazing team at pool, which has been in include Frenger Pool, jacent or even connected the planning and develop- NMSU and White Sands to it.” Memorial Medical Center for their cancer facilities ment stages for years. Smith said he’s been renovation and cancer services expansion. advocating for the pool EXPERIENCE MATTERS about 10 years, before he was elected to the city We look forward to our ongoing collaboration council in 2011. and continued success in offering the best cancer “The pool is budgeted (about $8 million), but treatment options for southern New Mexicans. its design has hinged on whether it is to be built as an outdoor pool that may eventually be enclosed or as a pool enclosed from www.MVhospice.org the beginning,” Smith 575-523-4700 said. 299 Montana Ave., Las Cruces Authorizing the loan LC1-LV45210 16 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN LAS CRUCES CITY COUNCIL City approves Arts & Culture District plan By MIKE COOK pointed by LCPS and two coaches were at the city Las Cruces Bulletin each from the National council meeting to pres- Education Association ent petitions with more The Las Cruces City (NEA)-Las Cruces, New than 1,000 signatures Council met for more Mexico State University requesting that improve- than six hours Monday and nonprofit entities. ments be made to local afternoon and evening, Dollahon said the state soccer facilities that the July 16, as it approved an Department of Finance petitions say “are in poor arts and culture plan and and Administration condition and are not suf- a joint powers agreement must approve the JPA, ficient to meet the needs for community schools; which should take about of the Las Cruces soccer heard an update on the a month. Following that, community.” police department’s stra- he said, the board can Hanson said the group tegic business plan; and be created and funding is “gaining some traction fielded concerns about requests made to the city at this point,” and has downtown voter regis- and school district. met with Miyagishima tration and local soccer and others city officials facilities. Las Cruces Police on the issue. Department “You are being listened Arts and Culture Speaking on the 34th to,” Mayor Pro-Tem Gill District BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOK anniversary of the day Sorg said at the council The council unani- Young soccer players handed Mayor Ken Miyagishima petitions requesting improved local he was sworn in as a New meeting. mously adopted the city’s soccer facilities at the July 16 Las Cruces City Council meeting. York City police officer, Mayor Ken Miya- first-ever Arts & Culture and his six-month anni- gishima said the council District (ACD). Its bound- Community Schools versary with the Las Cru- will hold a work session aries are Water Street on The city council voted ces Police Department, on soccer facilities. the west, Mesquite Street unanimously to create a Police Chief Patrick Gal- on the east, Picacho Ave- joint powers agreement lagher said LCPD’s new Voter Registration nue/Spruce Street on the with Las Cruces Public strategic plan is based on Lucas Herndon and north and Amador Ave- Schools to establish the more than 570 services Sam Bradley said officials nue on the south. The dis- Las Cruces Partnership provided by the depart- of the Farmers & Crafts trict includes downtown for Community Schools ment. Market of Las Cruces and the Mesquite Street (LCPCS) and create its The plan will help would not allow them Historic District, taking governing board. the department focus and other local voter reg- in Las Cruces’ original The LCPS Board of more on the customers istrars to register voters townsite as platted with Sam Bradley talks to the Las Cruces City Council at its July 16 Education approved the it serves, Gallagher said, during the Saturday, July meeting about registering voters during the downtown Farm- stakes and rawhide ropes JPA in May, said Assis- and sets goals for LCPD 14, farmers market in ers & Crafts Market of Las Cruces. by Lt. Delos Bennett Sack- tant City Manager David to achieve by 2022, includ- downtown Las Cruces. ett and U.S. Army survey- Economic Development lot of people have worked Dollahon. ing keeping the city’s City Manager Stuart Ed ors in 1849. Department, and ties in really hard to get to this LCPS and the city annual violent crime rate said he has received an To address some coun- with the city’s compre- point.” designated Lynn Middle “at or below the five-year email from farmers mar- cilors’ concerns that cre- hensive and strategic Creating the district School as the city’s first average of 280 reported ket staff indicating their ating the district would plans and downtown de- does not add additional community school in incidents,” the annual “full support of nonpar- prevent other ACDs velopment. tax burden on, or require 2017. property crime rate “at or tisan voter registration” from forming in the city, The Las Cruces ACD any action by, businesses Approving the JPA below the five-year aver- at the market. Ed said the Councilor Gabe Vasquez will be the first and only or residents located could “help expand this age of 4,600 reported inci- cit y and the farmers mar- amended the adopted municipally designated within the ACD, Hume model,” said Vasquez, dents” and “85 percent of ket will work with Doña resolution to direct the arts and culture district said. But it will offer tax whose council district in- response times for crimes Ana County Clerk Scott ACD Coordinating Coun- in the state, Hume said, benefits as it focuses on cludes Lynn. in progress that are five Krahling to have “100 per- cil to “go through a public and will be first in line for an area that “is a vibrant, The LCPCS board will minutes or less.” cent nonpartisan” voter process to brand the dis- state designation. inspirational, diverse and be comprised of 12 mem- registrars at future farm- trict.” “We want to have a asset-rich cultural envi- bers, according to city Soccer ers markets. The ACD plan has vibrant arts and culture ronment with collective documents, including Las Cruces Youth Soc- taken a little more than district,” said Councilor economic and quality-of- three city council mem- cer League vice presi- Mike Cook can be reached four years to develop, said Greg Smith, who attended life benefits,” according to bers appointed by the dent Steve Hanson and at mike@lascrucesbulle- Andy Hume of the city the meeting by phone. “A the ACD vision. mayor, three members ap- local soccer players, and tin.com. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 17 LAS CRUCES UTILITIES Minimal disruption of services is the goal By CASSIE MCCLURE employees so we can all vironment that provides and SUZANNE MICHAELS be on the same page for staff with professional de- For The Bulletin valuable real-life work sce- velopment. LCU employees narios. If we need to install are brought in regularly to Off Sonoma Ranch an emergency valve to stop build their knowledge base, Boulevard, on a less trav- a live pipe, we all have the not only to keep them and eled dirt road, a cluster of same training with our their professional skills Las Cruces Utilities (LCU) teams.” up to date, but to bring trucks are parked around This team works in two top-notch service to Las a hole leading to a shiny groups, one prepping the Cruces residents and busi- blue water pipe. It’s a “live” pipe in the hole with an nesses. pipe, with pressurized attachment that sustains water flowing through to the pressurized water flow Las Cruces Utilities pro- customers in the surround- from the pipe. The other vides gas, water, wastewa- ing areas. group sets up the hous- ter and solid waste services LCU employees are there ing for the motor and the to approximately 100,000 to work with Hydra-Stop cutter that allows the new Las Cruces residents and trainers who will guide valve to be installed. In businesses. Reach them at them in adding an Insta- less than an hour, most of 575- 528-3500 from 8 a.m.-5 COURTESY PHOTOS Valve onto the pipe. The the setup is complete, with p.m. Monday-Friday. An LCU crew mounts the housing for the drill that will be fitted onto a “live” underground mission for the day? Em- only minimal guidance – water pipe. ployees are being trained to usually in the form of help- match the water pressure, ful tips like numbering the cut the pipe, and install the placement of screws for a valve – without any loss of balanced tightening – from service to customers. the trainers. Within an- “Our goal is to achieve other 30 minutes, mission minimal disruptions to accomplished, InstaValve residential customers and installed and no disruption businesses,” explains Adri- in service to customers. enne L. Widmer, P.E., LCU Knowing that industry water administrator. “This standards and innovations training paves the way for always advance, LCU has new as well as experienced worked to create an en- The LCU crew measures the spacing of the bolts on the housing for the valve, ensuring a snug fit, while the trainer provides guidance. Training like this enables LCU to respond to emergencies where water flow must be stemmed quickly. 18 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN LOOKING BACK | THIS WEEK IN MESILLA VALLEY HISTORY 100 YEARS welfare, agricultural being installed by the House. They defeated ees under a new system a decision that would work to assist farm- Mesilla Valley Fruit Republican Thomas E. established in the Third give the town one-way AGO ers, Liberty Loans and Association at the Fair Dewey in the 1944 race. Judicial District,” in Las streets in and out of the health and recreation.” Building to take care of Roosevelt died in office Cruces, the Las Cruces plaza,” the Las Cruces 1918 • “’United We Drain, the large crop of pears in April 1945. Truman Sun-News reported in Bulletin reported in • “On Monday eve- Divided We Drown’ was about to be harvested,” assumed the presidency July 1968. “Judge Rich- July 1993. “In a July ning, a mass meeting the slogan of several the Republic reported. and named Anderson ard A. Stanley, senior 12 meeting, the board was held hundred land owners in “This grader sizes by secretary of agricul- district judge, is em- voted unanimously to in the the Rio Grande Valley, weight and is the best ture. He later won a U.S. ploying a system of pen- make Calle de Santiago alties based on a referee Central who met in Albuquer- on the market. It is Senate seat from New , which leads from que on May 16, at the system to handle all but School being put in at a cost of Mexico, in which he NM Highway 28 into call of the Chamber of $700.” served from 1949 to 1973. three types of cases. by the the north end of the Commerce,” the Re- Anderson died in June Exempt from the new women plaza, a one-way street public reported. “The 1974 at the age of 94. system are cases involv- going west, and Calle of Las 75 YEARS AGO conference resulted in • “John A. Cooper, at ing driving under the de Parian, at the south MICHAEL Cruces, the organization of the 24, is now Dr. John A. influence, reckless driv- end of the plaza, a one- SCANLON called for 1943 Rio Grande Association, Cooper,” the Sun-News ing and contested cases. way street going east. Looking Back the pur- • “The Albuquerque dedicated to the recla- reported. “The Las Cru- The system will cost Ever since the board pose of Tribune said it had mation of agricultural ces boy, valedictorian between 25 days license approved the changes, organizing the women learned from a well-in- lands in the central Rio of his high school and suspension for a first merchants have been in some department of formed source in Wash- Grande Valley. Drain- college class at Las Cru- offense of speeding to irate.” ington that Rep. Clinton war work, for which age, which will result in ces Union High School a 50-day suspension for • “School board mem- P. Anderson (D-NM) they are best suited,” increased crops by 1919, and New Mexico A&M careless driving or driv- bers tackled a contro- may emerge as the Dem- the Rio Grande Republic is considered by the gov- college, has received ing an unsafe vehicle. versial issue Tuesday, ocratic choice for vice reported in its top story ernment a very desir- his PhD at the medical Second and third viola- when they voted 4-0 to president on the 1944 July 19, 1918. Among able war measure.” school of Northwestern tions will bring double change policy to allow ticket,” the Las Cruces that work, according to • “An up-to-date grad- University, Chicago, Ill. or triple suspensions prayer at graduation if Sun-News reported in the article, was child ing machine is now He majored in biochem- or the defendant will be the majority of graduat- mid-July 1943. President istry.” sent to juvenile court.” ing seniors vote in favor Franklin D. Roosevelt, • “Earl Whelply, of the issue at a student- however, picked Harry Save a Stamp, Pay Online! executive director or initiated election,” S. Truman, Senator 50 YEARS AGO Urban Renewal for Las the Bulletin reported. from Missouri, as his Zia Natural Gas Company now Cruces, will discuss “According to the new running mate for an 1968 plans for the downtown policy, the prayer would offers online payments. unprecedented fourth • “Juvenile traffic law Urban Renewal Project have to be given by a term in the White violators will face refer- Visit www.ziagas.com and at the July meeting of student volunteer with- the Doña Ana County out any involvement create an online account Young Republicans,” the of the school board or Sun-News reported. “A today to access the following: staff, and the invoca- federal grant of $6.5 mil- tion and/or benedic- Auto loans lion has been obtained tion would have to be • View or print your bill for the downtown proj- non-sectarian and not • View and compare ect, which will include that really aim to convert people usage history 93.4 acres of the central to any specific religion. • Sign up for email business district.” The perform. 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Film Crew Training I neers were left to their early 20th century,” he “The photograph Agriculture and Me- Designed in collaboration with the NM IATSE own skills and ingenu- said. “Similar to adobe, was made by Archibald chanic Arts during the Local 480 Film Technicians union and the NM Film ity, along with whatever but in place of bricks a Bruce Sage, an engi- 1910s,” he said. 2ϒFH:HIRFXVRQSURYLGLQJKDQGVRQWUDLQLQJ materials they could jacal uses sticks or poles neering professor at the – Michael Scanlon IRUVWXGHQWVZLVKLQJWRZRUNRQSURIHVVLRQDO¿OP find nearby to construct lashed together then crews. many of the early shel- covered with a mud mix- ters that dotted the land- ture to form walls. Hands-on training on location and at scape. “The roof is similarly “The photograph de- made of poles, or vigas, the Las Cruces Film Studio!! picts a typical jacal in layered with sticks the Mesilla Valley, circa and branches and cov- Go to dacc.nmsu.edu/arts or call 575-528-7310 1915,” said Dennis Daily, ered with mud. Tools, Fall classes start 8/15 director of the Library farm implements and Archives and Special household items can Collections at New Mex- be seen stacked around ico State university. the walls of the home. “Jacal is one of the A smaller jacal in the traditional building distance may have been styles commonly found a barn or shed,” Daily 20 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN EAT. DRINK. SHOP. EXPERIENCE. EBID update COURTESY PHOTO The Elephant Butte Irrigation District announces that July 20 is the final day for farmers to order water for the 2018 irrigation season. Irrigation Get Rewarded for Systems Director James Narvaez said he expects the remaining surface water allotment of 25,786 acre feet to be used up by the end of July. Ample if scattered rains at the beginning of the monsoon season enabled the dis- Making Downtown trict to utilize captured storm water to both irrigate crops and direct into drains to aid in recharging the aquifer. These efforts continue to help the district manage the short-term water supply during the ongoing drought, Your Destination according to an EBID press release. News and updates can be found at www.ebid-nm.org, or by calling 575-524-8003. DISCOVER DOWNTOWN REWARDS PROGRAM Get a 20% Discount & earn a chance to win a Love Las Cruces Gift Bag filled with gift cards to Mowing season Downtown merchants & NMSU swag. Program ends Aug. 10. Pick up your Passport at Visit Las Cruces 336 S. Main Street BULLETIN PHOTO BY MIKE COOK City of Las Cruces Parks Equipment Operator Carlos Vasquez mows Klein Park, across from Beck’s Roasting House and Creamery, on Mes- quite Street. The city has more than 100 parks containing 700-plus acres. It uses two mowers to mow parks once a week and athletic fields twice a week, Parks and Recreation Department Director Sonya Delgado said. DowntownLC.com The city is also performing upgrades at the park as part of its master plan, Delgado said. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 21 From the Heart scholarship continues a man’s love for music Sometimes, music education educational dreams,” La- providing a stu- at the University guna said. dent scholarship of New Mexico. Anna’s daughter, An- can be even more Talbot’s goal is drea Maranon Laguna, meaningful for the to become a high is a pre-architecture donor than for the school choir student at Doña Ana recipient. director and pos- Community College. David Diaz, who APRIL sibly later teach She looks forward to was a member ANAYA at the collegiate transferring to a four- of the popular Community level. year university soon and New Mexico band Foundation of “I am excited to would like to eventually Southern New Nosotros, always Mexico help others learn design environmentally had a passion for the love I have for friendly structures. music. Diaz was well music and to teach them “Receiving this award known in the Las Cruces everything I know and inspires me to keep doing music community for what I will soon learn,” my best since architec- playing saxophone, flute said Talbot. ture is one of the fields and singing lead vocals Another scholarship where women are still a for the Latin jazz group. with a meaningful con- minority,” she said. When Diaz passed nection is the Alfred For more information away in 2009, his sister, P. Corral Scholarship, on scholarship endow- Cecilia Diaz, wanted to which was established ments at the Community honor his legacy and love to support Hispanic stu- Andrea Maranon & Anna Laguna Maren Talbot Foundation of Southern of music by establishing dents from Mexico. The portunities in the U.S., pursue a Master of Psy- enced domestic violence. New Mexico, please con- a scholarship at the Com- scholarship was awarded Laguna has not given chology so that she can “Without a doubt, this tact Executive Director munity Foundation of to two students, Anna up. She plans to attend help others, especially scholarship will play a Terra Winter at 575-521- Southern New Mexico. Laguna and Andrea Ma- NMSU and would like to those who have experi- key role in achieving my 4794 or [email protected]. The David Diaz Music ranon Laguna. Surpris- From the Heart Scholar- ingly, when the CFSNM ship was soon created in Grants and Scholarships his memory to support a committee had the op- 2 Unique Hospitals. 2 Distinct Specialties. student with an interest portunity to meet the two in music. recipients, they quickly 1 Convenient Location. “I started the endow- learned that they were ment because the music mother and daughter. needs to go on, that’s Anna Laguna, who what David wanted. Hav- was born in California ing a fund that would but moved to Mexico help provide the opportu- City as a child, recently nity of music in others’ decided to move back to lives just as David had the U.S. with her family given us was the perfect due to the financial crisis For the consecutive year, Rehabilitation way to celebrate him and security issues in UXFMGUI HospitalofSouthernNewMexicohasbeen and his life,” said Cecilia Mexico. In Mexico, she rankedintheTop 10%(1years)ofinpatient At our state-of-the-art long-term acute hospital, we provide care for patients Diaz. studied medicine and rehabilitationfacilitiesnationwide. who require additional time to heal from a catastrophic injury or illness.We This year’s recipient homeopathy, along with At our state-of-the-art facility, we treat and care for patients who have treat patients requiring intensive care, ventilator/pulmonary care, medically of the Diaz’s memo- human development. complex care, modified rehabilitation, wound care and more, and have received suffered functional deficits from traumatic events such as brain injuries, stroke, The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval rial scholarship, Maren While these careers have amputations or any other debilitating illness or injury, and are certified with for care provided. The Joint Commission in both Stroke and Brain Injury rehabilitation Talbot, will be studying been harder to find op- . 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A second fundraiser, which benefits the Las Cruc gets makeover FFA clubs, is from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, also in the Horse N Hound parki RHSNM.ernesthealth.com ACHSNM.ernesthealth.com lasts until early October. Preston Mitchell, a member of the Hatch Chile Association board, said “Overall the harvest has been goBULLETIN PHOTO BY TERESA TOLONEN page 38 dreading increased rainfall. showed up to purchase chile es and Centennial High School Visit us at www.lascrucesbulletin.com ng lot. Green chile harvest usually Now thru August od” b 4441 East Lohman Ave. • Las Cruces, NM • ph: 575.521.6400 4451 East Lohman Ave. • Las Cruces, NM • ph: 575.521.6600 LC2-LV42969 22 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Agricultural award New Mexico CowBelle Sage Petersen, left, presents U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) the American Agri Women 2018 Champions of Agricul- ture Award in the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Room in Washington, D.C. Also presenting is American Agri-Women President Jea- nette Lombardo of Califor- nia. Pearce was nominated for recognition by several groups in New Mexico in- cluding the New Mexico CowBelles, New Mexico Wool Growers’ Auxiliary, New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau Women, the New Mexico Stockman and Pro- tect Americans Now. COURTESY PHOTO Save the date for the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico’s Annual Gala Spectra Sponsor \ òï\ Uò òð Ú DINNER CASINO GAMES DANCING LIVE & SILENT AUCTION September 8, 2018 at 6 p.m. New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road QWTPQPRTQƂVRCTVPGTU For tickets & information, call 575-521-4794 $125 per person $1150 table of 10 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 23 NMSU’s 4-H motorcycle tour gearing up By CARLOS ANDRES LOPEZ Cooperative Extension For the Bulletin Service. “Our mission is to Ride for the 4-H Clover, improve the lives of an annual, weekend mo- New Mexicans through torcycle excursion hosted research-based informa- by New Mexico State tion,” Boren said. “One University’s College of of our flagship programs Agricultural, Consumer for the Cooperative Ex- and Environmental Sci- tension Service is the 4-H ences’ Cooperative Exten- program.” sion Service to benefit 4-H More than 40,000 New youth programs, returns Mexico youth – one out Aug. 24-26 for the sixth of nine children in the year. state – are involved in Motorcycle riders and 4-H programs offered by non-riders are invited to NMSU’s Cooperative Ex- participate in this year’s tension Service and gain ride, which will venture knowledge and skills in through eight towns the areas of agriculture, and five counties – more science, citizenship and than 400 miles altogether healthy living, Boren said. COURTESY PHOTO – in northeastern New “The focus of this Motorcyclists ride across southeastern New Mexico in 2017 for the fifth annual Ride for the 4-H Clover motorcycle tour, Mexico. ride is to really enhance hosted by New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. This year’s tour is The route covers an awareness of the Coop- Aug. 24-26 in northeastern New Mexico. area of the state that erative Extension Service depart for Tucumcari at At 10 a.m., the group will Registration for the ride mental Sciences’ Coop- features both forests and and, more importantly, 8 a.m. In Tucumcari, the stop at Vietnam Veterans is now underway. The $75 erative Extension Service portions of the Great the 4-H programs,” he group will visit the Quay Memorial State Park, 43 fee includes the reception 4-H youth programs. Plains region, and is said, adding, “Any funds County Fairgrounds, 2000 Country Club Road, for a in Las Vegas, lunches in For additional infor- known as a destination of that are generated go Camino Del Coronado lakes, rivers, state parks directly back into the 4-H 45-minute break, and then Clayton and Mora, and mation or to register for Road, for about an hour depart for Mora at 10:45 dinner in Raton, as well the ride, visit rideforth- and national monuments, programs.” before heading north to a.m. In Mora, the ride will as a commemorative pin eclover.nmsu.edu. or call and storied stops along Each year, the ride Clayton at 11:30 a.m. The wrap up with lunch and and shirt. Lodging is not Monica Lury at 505-983- Historic Route 66. route covers a different group plans to refuel in an official conclusion at included, but group hotel 4615. At each planned region in New Mexico, Logan. the NMSU ACES John discounts are available. stop, participants will showcasing Extension of- It is anticipated that Carlos Andres Lopez may learn about programs fices and 4-H programs in the group will arrive in T. Harrington Forestry All proceeds benefit the be reached at 575-646-1955, in NMSU’s Cooperative that area. This year, the Clayton around 1:30 p.m. Research Center, 547 N.M. College of Agricultural, [email protected]. Extension Service – the route starts in Las Vegas to visit the NMSU ACES 518. Consumer and Environ- university’s non-formal, and ends in Mora. Along Clayton Livestock Re- educational outreach the way, participants will search Center, 15 NMSU component that has a make stops in Tucumcari, Lane, where lunch will be presence in all 33 counties Clayton, Raton and Angel provided. in New Mexico – and meet Fire. At 2:30 p.m., the group 4-H youth members who A day before the ride will depart for Raton, will discuss their current begins, an evening recep- the last stop of the day, projects. tion for participants will and refuel in Des Moines. The vision of former take place from 6-7:30 p.m. The group will stay over- NMSU Regent Mike Aug. 24 at the Best West- night in Raton at the Best We service ALL Diesels Cheney, Ride for the 4-H ern Plus Montezuma Inn Western Plus, 473 Clayton Full line of service for Cummins, Power Stroke and Duramax engines Clover started in 2013 & Suites, 2020 N. Grand Road. That evening, the Performance Upgrades as a campaign to build Ave., in Las Vegas. group will reconvene Complete Engine Builds awareness for NMSU’s The following day, Aug. from 6:30-8 p.m. for dinner Cooperative Extension 25, an opening ceremony at the Raton Convention Transmission Servicing Service and help support will take place at 7 a.m., Center, 901 S. Third St. Custom Fabrication 1955 N. Solano Dr. its 4-H programs, said As- also at the Best Western The next morning, Aug. A/C Refrigerant Charging sociate Dean Jon Boren, Plus Montezuma Inn & 26, the group will depart Oil Changes 575-222-4080 the director of NMSU’s Suites, before participants for Angel Fire at 8:30 a.m. 24 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN IN THE NEWS Most educated college, to identify the in Grant, Sierra, Hi- these restrictions go to pears. • Keep away from elec- Las Cruces has been cities whose population dalgo, Luna, Doña Ana firerestrictions.us. • Never attempt to trical equipment, corded named the most edu- has the highest average and Otero counties. The Information on wild- drive through flooded telephones and plumb- cated city in New Mexico level of education. restrictions had been in land fires can also be arroyos or running ing during a storm. by Insurify, an insur- For a full list of win- effect since June 7. found at nmfireinfo.com. water. Even when driv- • Don’t swim, shower, ance comparison and ning cities, visit insurify. “We appreciate the ing a large vehicle, like bathe or wash dishes shopping website. The com/insights/educated- cooperation of everyone Lightning safety a truck or SUV, fast- during a lightning award recognizes the city-awards. in preventing unwanted With the monsoon sea- moving water can easily storm. community in each state wildfires,” said BLM son underway, Las Cru- overcome it. with the highest educa- Restrictions lifted District Manager Wil- ces residents should be • Drive with headlights Cleanup news tional achievement. Recent moisture and liam Childress. prepared for slick driv- on and stay alert to sur- When transporting Insurify analyzed 1.4 increased humidity have Fire restrictions re- ing conditions and wary rounding traffic and waste to a landfill or million car insurance reduced the fire danger main in place in south- of potentially dangerous changing weather condi- transfer station, it is applications indicating and allowed the Bureau east, north and central lightning storms. tions. a New Mexico Envi- the level of education of Land Management to New Mexico, on BLM- The Las Cruces Police • If rain is too heavy or ronment Department achieved by each appli- lift fire restrictions on managed lands in the Department recom- streets are flooded, pull requirement to only cant, as well as the GPA public land in southern Roswell Field Office, mends following these over to a safe distance transport to permitted of current high school New Mexico. Albuquerque District and other safety tips: from the roadway – in a or registered facilities, students indicating their The restrictions are and Farmington Dis- • Slow down. Allow for parking lot or away from and if doing so, to make likelihood of attending terminated within the trict. To view details on more travel time when traffic – until conditions sure the transported BLM Las Cruces District driving in wet weather. improve. waste is covered or con- When coming to a stop, • Get indoors when tained to prevent the begin slowing down lightning is seen or waste from blowing out sooner and apply gentle when thunder is heard. of the vehicle. brake pressure. Avoid • Lightning tends to Those involved in con- slamming on brakes. strike taller objects, so struction or remodeling • Allow for greater dis- avoid open areas and es- must follow Las Cruces tance between vehicles. pecially keep from being city ordinances that call Normal driving condi- the tallest object in an for proper containment tions recommend travel- open area. of waste material when r Audibel he ling at least two seconds • Stay away from tall on the job site. ou ar behind vehicles. During trees, utility poles, tow- Pet owners are also to ve ing lo a wet weather it is recom- ers and any body of clean up a pet’s waste e id mended to increase that water. when on public property W s distance. • If you’re in a group and properly dispose of • Give larger vehicles, of people and unable to it. like trucks and buses, take shelter, have the The City’s Parks and more room for stops and group spread out. Doing Recreation Department turns. so will prevent multiple has been awarded a • Avoid making sudden casualties during a grant to encourage re- turns or lane changes. lightning strike and will cycling at city parks and • Drive around puddles increase the chance that paths. The grant pro- as sitting water may be someone can help if an vides for recycling bins deeper than what it ap- injury occurs. for cans and bottles to be located at the Triviz Multipurpose Path and Better Life Pet Foods Outfall Channel, at Apo- Proud Sponsor of our “Pet of the Week” daca Park, Young Park Animal Services Center and Veterans Memorial Pet of the Week of the Mesilla Valley 3551 Bataan Memorial West Park. Call Hear On Earth for a free hearing screening! The department’s Squirt Help sponsor an Serving Las Cruces since 1985 Domestic Long Hair adoptable animal! Keep Las Cruces Beauti- 2 years old To sponsor call: 524-8061 ful program is seeking Male To adopt call: 382-0018 volunteers for the Toss or visit petango.com/ascmv No Mas and The Great 920 N. Telshor Blvd. Suite A Las Cruces, NM Squirt is a fluffy, little domestic long hair who is ready to mingle and open to possibilities. He likes American Clean up com- napping and cuddles and is looking for the same laid-back attitude in his owner. He also likes catnip. munity events. 575-526-EARS (3277) Will you be the one to provide Squirt with his fur-ever home? www.HearOnEarthNM.com Better Life Pet Foods Avenida • 527-9265 www.BetterLifeNaturalPetFoods.com Telshor • 556-9117 SEE NEWS, PAGE 26 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 25 Shoebox collections give hope to a child By MIKE COOK Las Cruces Bulletin It was the smell of the soap in the Operation Christmas Child shoebox she was packing that re- minded Sarai Hernandez of the time she received a shoebox of her own as a 6-year-old living in a sub- urb of Mexico City. “I will never forget that smell, the shoebox smell,” Hernandez said, speaking at a Southwest New Mex- ico Operation Christmas Child (OCC) Area Team celebration event Satur- day, July 14, at Sonoma Springs Covenant Church BULLETIN PHOTO BY MIKE COOK in Las Cruces. Sarai Hernandez speaks at the Southwest Operation Christ- Hernandez was the key- mas Child Area Team celebration Saturday, July 14. note speaker at the event, which included a sendoff the artwork and carried noma Springs Ave., is the for OCC member Roxann the book around with her local collection point. Petzold, who is moving out everywhere. Shoeboxes contain toys, of state. The shoeboxes “make a hygiene items, school sup- Hernandez had a gun great difference in a child’s plies and other items. Na- pointed at her head as a life,” she said. They “let tional collection week is the 5-year-old in her father’s these kids know there is third week in November. small convenience store hope.” Visit www.samaritans- near Mexico City, she Shoeboxes are filled and purse.org/occ to donate said. Her father was also sent to children worldwide online and to learn how to kidnapped at one point, whose families are strug- pack a shoebox. and Hernandez and her gling to survive due to brother were never al- terrorism, poverty, fam- Mike Cook may be reached lowed to play outside, she ine and disease. Sonoma at mike@lascrucesbulletin. said, because the area Springs Church, 3940 So- com. where they lived was “known for armed robbery and kidnapping.” ADDICTION RECOVERY CENTER The family moved to Las SETTING THE STANDARD FOR PSYCHIATRIC & ADDICTION SERVICES Cruces, Hernandez said, and it was here that she We are available 24/7 and was packing an OCC shoe- walk-ins are always welcome. box for some other child If you or a loved one needs and remembered her own help, please call 575.382.3500 experience receiving one. LC2-LV44924 She also remembered We accept TRICARE®, Medicare, and most insurance plans. the small picture book TRICARE® is a registered trademark of the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency. All rights reserved. that came in her box, 3751 Del Rey Blvd. Hernandez said. It was Las Cruces, NM 88012 in a language she didn’t mesillavalleyhospital.com understand, but she loved 26 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN in the 842-bed facility was completed in July Doña Ana County imple- it replaces, which had courage gun enthusiasts NEWS thanks to installation through a coordinated mented the Beacon sys- not been upgraded by its to utilize the Butterfield CONTINUED FROM 24 of new software that as- effort between the deten- tem for less than a tenth parent company in more Shooting Range and sists with every process tion staff, the county’s of that price: just over than six years. refrain from illegally fir- Inmate tracking from booking to release. IT department and Bea- $68,000. “This system is ex- ing weapons within city Officers at the Doña The Beacon Software con representatives. Interim Administrator tremely user friendly limits or near residential Ana County Detention Solution package was While competing soft- Capt. Vicki Hooser said and powerful,” she said, areas. Center can more eas- purchased earlier this ware systems can cost the system has advan- noting that it provides Police regularly ily track each detainee year, and installation as much as $800,000, tages over the software quicker access to in- receive reports of mate data and easier recreational and tar- capability to track in- get practice shooting mate movement to dif- within city limits on ferent programs, such undeveloped land east as medical and class- of Sonoma Ranch Bou- OPENOPEN During Construction rooms. In addition, it levard and Pagosa Hills automatically generates Avenue. quarterly updates that City ordinance Sec. 19- Use Amador are downloaded to the 164 prohibits the firing of Valley Drive! Entrance facility’s administrative or discharge of any gun, server. pistol, rifle or other fire- She said the company arm – including air rifles offers extensive training and BB guns – within and 24-hour, 365 days-a- city limits. Many por- year support. Because of tions of the East Mesa, the coordinated installa- specifically undeveloped Don’t let the orange tion process and roll-out, land directly east of barrels keep you from Hooser said the avail- Sonoma Ranch Boule- ability of inmate infor- vard and Pagosa Hills getting APPROVED 20142 Chevrolet Impalal 2013 HHonda d CiCivic i mation online through Avenue, are within city the county’s website was limits and therefore off andan y your new car! 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(WGS84), on land owned by days after the date of the last medical office located in Compare Quotes from Ma- Gift Card (some restric- Mopeds / ATVs / months after the date of the 1-201, Las Cruces, New Doña Ana Mutual Domestic publication of this Notice. Silver City, NM jor Insurance Cos. Opera- tions apply) CALL 1- Motorcycles first publication of this Mexico 88007. Water Consumers Associa- Facsimiles (faxes) will be Radiology Technician for a tors Standing By. CALL 888-758-5998 Notice or the claims will be tion, from existing well accepted as a valid protest as busy multi specialty clinic 1-877-358-0472 LRG-80-S-4 located within 2004 BMW R1150GS rare Unable to work due to forever barred. Claims must DATED: June 5, 2018 long as the hard copy is injury or illness? Call Bill the SW 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Requirements: magma red, low miles, lots GOT AN OLDER CAR, be presented either to the hand-delivered or mailed Gordon & Assoc., Social Personal Representative c/o VINCENT PETER GUT- Section 14, Township 21 and postmarked within Certified as a radiology of extras, below book, VAN OR SUV? Do the Security Disability Attor- The Law Offices of Dana M. SCHICK South, Range 1 West, 24-hours of the facsimile. technician $4500. 575-770-3236. humane thing. Donate it to neys! FREE Evaluation. Kyle, P.O. Box 2277, Las 4904 Calabazilla Drive NMPM, and more specifi- Mailing postmark will be BLS Certificated the Humane Society. Call 2006 Kawasaki KLR650, in Local Attorneys Nation- Cruces, New Mexico 88004, Las Cruces, New Mexico cally described where Lati- used to validate the 24-hour CT certification preferred 1-800-316-0265 great shape, $2000. wide 1-800-591-5109 or filed with the Third 88011 tude and Longitude intersect period. Protests can be faxed Email resume to careers 575-649-3322. Earthlink High Speed Inter- [Mail: 2420 N St NW, Judicial District Court of at 32° 29' 10.2"N, 106° 55' to the Office of the State @silverhealthcare.org net. As Low As Washington DC. Office: Dona Ana County, 201 W. Prepared by: 18.2"W (WGS84), on land Engineer, 575-524-6160. If or $14.95/month (for the first Broward Co. FL (TX/NM Picacho, Suite A, Las Cru- ALAN D. GLUTH owned by Doña Ana Mutual no valid protest or objection call Kelsi at 575-538-2981 Miscellaneous 3 months.) Reliable High Bar.)] ces, New Mexico 88005. New Mexico Bar #14980 Domestic Water Consumers is filed, the State Engineer New Mexico State Speed Fiber Optic Tech- 2455 East Missouri, Suite A Association, and from exist- will evaluate the application Exede satellite internet Af- University nology. Stream Videos, Legal Notice Dated this 27th day of June, Las Cruces, New Mexico ing well LRG-80 POD7 in accordance with the fordable, high speed 1 STEM Outreach Center Music and More! Call 2018. 88001 located within the NW /4 provisions of Chapter 72 broadband satellite inter- 1 1 Earthlink Today Telephone: (575) 556-8449 NW /4 NW /4 of Section NMSA 1978. is accepting application for net anywhere in the U.S. COUNTY OF 1-888-805-8653 /s/ Jo Ann Cox Culpepper Facsimile: (575) 556-8446 14, Township 21 South, Program Specialist posi- Order now and save $100. DOÑA ANA JO ANN COX CULPEP- Range 1 West, NMPM and Dates: 07/20, 07/27, 08/03, tion. Please go to Plans start at THIRD JUDICIAL Love to read? Love ro- PER, Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 07/27, more specifically described 2018 https://jobs.nmsu.edu/ $39.99/month. Call DISTRICT COURT where Latitude and Longi- to apply for these posi- mance? Local Las Cruces Personal Representative of 2018 1-800-476-0029 author, Michelle Sullivan, tude intersect at 32° 29' NOTICE OF ADOPTION tions. D-307-PB-2018-74 the Estate of has 4 contemporary ro- TED J. COX, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given 20.1"N, 106° 55' 18.0"W Get an iPhone 8 or Judge JAMES T. MARTIN that on April 10, 2018, (WGS84), on land owned by The City Council of the City Trucking Samsung Galaxy8 for mance novels available for your reading pleasure. Duval Family Revocable Doña Ana Mutual Domestic of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Opportunities $34/month. Call AT&T IN THE MATTER OF Prepared by: Find them on Amazon, Trust Dated April 18, 2000, Water Consumers Associa- Hereby Gives Notice of Its Wireless today to learn THE ESTATE OF TED J. The Law Offices of Dana M. B&N and iTunes or visit Kyle, P.A. Thomas and Linda Duval, tion, for Mutual Domestic Adoption of the Following Advertise your driver jobs how to get a new phone. COX, Deceased. Trustees, 8406 Rocky Acres and related purposes within Ordinance(s) at the Regular in 23 New Mexico newspa- Call while supplies last. her website at www.autho By Dana M. Kyle rmichellesullivan.com Trail, Las Cruces, NM the Dona Ana Mutual Do- City Council Meeting Held pers for only $100. Your 1-888-989-2198 NOTICE TO CRED- Dana M. Kyle P.O. Box 2277 88001, together with Doña mestic Water Consumers on July 16, 2018: 25-word classified ad will ITORS Ana Mutual Domestic Water Association service area, reach more than 185,000 VIAGRA and CIALIS Las Cruces, New Mexico USERS! Cut your drug Consumers Association, rep- located within Sections 11 (1) Council Bill No. 18-041; readers. Call this newspa- NOTICE IS HEREBY 88004-2277 costs! SAVE $$! 50 Pills for resented by Joshua L. Smith, through 14, Township 21 Ordinance No. 2865: An per to place your ad or log GIVEN that the undersigned (575) 525-0020 $99.00. FREE Shipping! (575) 525-0017 fax Watson Smith Law, PO Box South, Range 1 West, Ordinance to Adopt "Arts onto www.nmpress.org for JO ANN COX CULPEP- 2183, Mesilla Park, NM NMPM, formerly known as and Cultural District". more information. 100% Guaranteed and Attorney for Personal Repre- Discreet. CALL sentative 88047, filed application the Fort Selden Water Com- 1-844-797-6548 Mountain Music numbered LRG-31-1 and pany Service Area serving (2) Council Bill No. 19-001; Commercial Rentals Dates: 07/06, 07/13, 07/20, LRG-31-2 into LRG-80, the communities of Radium Ordinance No. 2866: An DONATE YOUR CAR, 2330 S. Valley Drive 2018 OSE File Numbers Springs and Fort Selden, Ordinance Approving a For Lease On TRUCK OR BOAT TO LRG-31-1 and LRG-31-2, New Mexico. Wells Zone Change from C-2 West Hadley HERITAGE FOR THE IN THE PROBATE with the State Engineer for LRG-80-S-2 and (Commercial Medium Inten- BLIND. Free 3 Day Vaca- COURT Permit to Change Location LRG-80-S-4 are located sity) to M-1/M-2 (Industrial Commercial 523-0603 tion, Tax Deductible, Free COUNTY OF DOÑA ANA of Well and Place and within Radium Springs, NM Standard) on a 1.707 ± Acre Warehouses Towing, All Paperwork Tak- STATE OF Purpose of Use within the and may be found at the Parcel Located at 2825 W. Up to 2000 sq. ft. en Care Of. CALL GUITARS NEW MEXICO Lower Rio Grande Under- physical address of 12695 Picacho Avenue. Submitted available. Garage Doors, 1-800-948-7239 ground Water Basin in Doña State Park Road No. SP4. by Brian Weidauer, Repre- Heat/AC & Restrooms. Amplifiers NO. 18-0140 Ana County by transferring Well LRG-80 POD7 is sentative on Behalf of John Please Call Safe Step Walk-In Tub #1 PA Equipment 24.78 acre-feet per annum located within Radium Wright Revocable Trust, 575-526-8116 Selling Walk-in Tub in Hand Percussion IN THE MATTER OF consumptive use from 9.53 Springs, NM and may be Property Owner (71649). North America. BBB Ac- THE ESTATE OF acres of land, located within found approximately 0.3 For Lease credited. Arthritis Founda- Effects Pedals & Processors HARRY E. HELLMUTH, the SE 1/4 of projected mile west of the intersection (3) Council Bill No. 19-002; 576 North Telshor tion Commendation. Ther- a/k/a Section 6, Township 22 of Leasburg State Park Road Ordinance No. 2867: An 2243 Square Foot apeutic Jets. MicroSoothe Used Stereo Audio Components HARRY EDWARD South, Range 1 East, and Tres Amigos Road. Ordinance Approving a Great Retail Location! Air Therapy System Less Basses HELLMUTH, a/k/a NMPM, owned by Duval Zone Change From R-4 575-526-8116 than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide HARRY EDWARD Family Revocable Trust Any person, firm or corpora- (Multi-Dwelling High Den- Door. Anti-Slip Floors. Mandolins • Violins • Banjos HELLMUTH, JR. Dated April 18, 2000, histor- tion or other entity having sity) to C-2 (Commercial American Made. Call Recording King • Morgan Monroe • Savannah VMT DECEASED ically irrigated with ground- standing to file objections or Medium Intensity) on a 037 800-296-0427 for up to water from well LRG-31 protests shall do so in ± Acre Parcel Located at $1500 Off. Red Line • Lucida • Revival NOTICE TO CRED- located within the SE 1/4 NE writing (objection must be 1690 S. Telshor Blvd. Sub- 1 1 DISH TV $59.99 For 190 ITORS /4SE /4 of Section 6, legible, signed, and include mitted by Ted Scanlon, Boats / Motors Channels $14.95 High Consignment Sales • Trade-ins at 100 percent Township 22 South, Range 1 the writer's complete name, Representative, on Behalf of Speed Internet. Free Instal- NOTICE IS HEREBY East, NMPM, and more phone number, email ad- Palomas Properties LLC, 18ft Starcraft aluminum, lation, Smart HD DVR GIVEN that VINCENT specifically described where dress, and mailing address). Property Owner (71651). 140HP Mercruiser motor, Included, Free Voice Re- Half-price String Sets Sat. & Sun. Each Week! PETER GUTSCHICK has Latitude and Longitude in- The objection to the appro- runs, set up for fishing, mote. Some restrictions been appointed personal rep- tersect at 32° 25' 13.24"N, val of the application must (4) Council Bill No. 19-004; $1200. 575-496-9480. apply. Call 1-855-404-4306 CHECK US OUT ON resentative of this estate. All 106° 52' 18.38"W (WGS84), be based on: (1) Impairment; Ordinance No. 2869: An persons having claims on land owned by the Duval if impairment, you must Ordinance Approving Zone CRAIG’S LIST & FACEBOOK against this estate are re- Family Revocable Trust specifically identify your Changes to Correspond to El Toro says, “Shop at quired to present their claims Dated April 18, 2000. Said water rights; and/or (2) the Rincon Hills Master Plan within four months after the 24.78 acre-feet per annum is Public Welfare/Conservation Amendment #1 Which Con- BIG DADDY’S date of the first publication instead to be diverted from of Water; if public welfare verts 0.896 ± Acres of ” of this Notice or the claims existing well LRG-80-S-2 or conservation of water OS-RC (Open Space/Recre Flea Market 1 will be forever barred. located within the SW /4 within the state of New ational-Conditional) to R-1B Open Saturday & Sunday Claims must be presented NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section Mexico, you must show how (Single-Family High Densi- 5580 Bataan Memorial East Hwy. 70 East of Las Cruces 575-382-9404 either to the personal repre- 14, Township 21 South, you will be substantially and ty) and 3.623± Acres of sentative in care of Alan D. Range 1 West, NMPM, and specifically affected. The R-1B into OS-R (Open 28 | Legal Notices Las Cruces Bulletin The Friday, July 20, 2018 Space/Recreational). Loca- ARTHUR SANDERS By: Robert Doyle Change Name in the 3rd CREDITORS ROWHEAD ESTATES 4, ted West of Settlers Pass, NOTICE IS HEREBY COUNTY CLERK OF c/o Legal Process Network Judicial District Court, Doña IN THE COUNTY OF East of the Future Extension KM4MP578X71300149 GIVEN that Dalilah Jea- SAID COUNTY ON P.O. Box 51526 Ana County, New Mexico, NOTICE IS HEREBY DOÑA ANA, STATE OF of Rinconada Blvd. Submit- 2007 HYOSUNG RED 650 nette Blood, a resident of the MARCH 3, 1995, AND Albuquerque, NM 87181 2 wherein he seeks to change GIVEN that Eva Vasquez- NEW MEXICO, AS ted by KD Engineering, on MC City of Las Cruces, County RECORDED IN BOOK 18, his name from Jerry Salcido Murillo, formerly known as SHOWN AND DESIGNA- Behalf of Rincon Hills, AARON GONZALEZ of Doña Ana, State of New PAGE 209, PLAT RE- NM-16-738489-JUD to Jerry Rodriguez, and that Elva Vasquez, has been TED ON THE PLAT LLC, Property Owner. Mexico, and over the age of CORDS. IDSPub #0142308 this Petition will be heard appointed personal represen- THEREOF, FILED IN THE Council District 5 (71472). JTEBU11F870064069 fourteen years, has filed a beofre the Honorable Man- tative of this estate. All OFFICE OF THE COUNTY 2007 TOYOTA BLACK Petition to Change Name in If there is a conflict between 7/6/2018 7/13/2018 uel I. Arrieta, District Judge, persons having claims CLERK OF SAID COUN- Copies Are Available for SUV the 3rd Judicial District the legal description and the 7/20/2018 7/27/2018 on the 26th day of July, against the estate are re- TY ON PLAT NO. 3778 ON Inspection During Working WILLIAM ALEXANDER Court, Doña Ana County, street address, the legal 2018 at the hour of 11:00 quired to present their claims JUNE 20, 2003, IN BOOK Hours at the Office of the New Mexico, wherein she description shall control. STATE OF a.m. at the Doña Ana within four months after the 20, PAGES 361-362 OF City Clerk. Witness My 1GCDC14H0DS150926 seeks to change her name The sale is to begin at NEW MEXICO County Courthouse, 201 W. date of the first publication PLAT RECORDS, Hand and Seal of the City 1983 CHEVROLET BLUE from Dalilah Jeanette Blood 2:00pm on August 2, 2018, COUNTY OF Picacho, Las Cruces, NM of this notice or the claims of Las Cruces on this the PK to Simon Elliot Pinkerton, Third Judicial District DOÑA ANA will be forever barred. and to foreclose the interests 17th day of July, 2018. ELOISA VILLALOBOS and that this Petition will be Courthouse, City of Las THIRD JUDICIAL Respectfully submitted, Claims must be presented of the above named Defend- heard before the Honorable Cruces, County of Doña DISTRICT COURT /s/ Jerry Salcido either to the undersigned ants and any other parties Linda Lewis, CMC JT3VN29V4R0028810 Manuel I. Arrieta, District Ana, State of New Mexico, Jerry Salcido personal representative at bound by the Notice of Lis City Clerk 1994 TOYOTA BLACK Judge, on the 26th day of at which time I will sell to NO. CV2018-1331 9611 Berry Patch Ave. the address shown in this Pendens in the Property, all SUV July, 2018 at the hour of the highest and best bidder JAMES T. MARTIN Las Cruces, NM 88011 notice or filed within the as more specifically stated in Date: 07/20, 2018 KEVIN WASHINGTON 11:00 a.m. at the Doña Ana for cash, in lawful currency 575-652-4550 court. the Complaint filed in this County Courthouse, 201 W. of the United States of IN THE MATTER OF cause of action. NOTICE OF VEHICLE 1HGCP2F75BA033390 Picacho, Las Cruces, NM America, the Property to pay THE PETITION OF Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 The attorney for the personal SEIZURE 2011 HONDA SILVER 4D expenses of sale, and to LUIS SALAZ representative is William L. FURTHER, the above- BERTHA DIAZ Respectfully submitted, satisfy the foreclosure Judg- FOR CHANGE OF STATE OF Lutz of the law firm of named Defendants The Un- TO REGISTERED OWN- /s/ Dalilah Blood ment granted on September NAME NEW MEXICO Martin & Lutz, P.C., 2110 known Heirs, Devisees and ERS, AND ALL UN- 4T1SK11E0SU612953 Dalilah Blood 29, 2017, in the total amount COUNTY OF North Main Street, Las Legatees of Rudolph Davis, KNOWN CLAIMANTS: 1995 TOYOTA GRAY 4D of $92,445.23, with interest NOTICE OF PETITION DOÑA ANA Cruces, New Mexico, Jr., Deceased, are hereby RICHARD RODRIGUEZ Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 at the rate of 3.2500% per TO CHANGE NAME THIRD JUDICIAL 88001. notified that they have until You are hereby notified that annum from July 31, 2017 DISTRICT COURT thirty (30) days from date of the Doña Ana Sheriff's 2HGEH3388NH503197 STATE OF through the date of the sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY DATED this 28th day of completion of publication of Office has seized the follow- 1992 HONDA BLUE CIV- NEW MEXICO The sale is subject to the GIVEN that Luis Salaz a NO. CV-2018-1334 June, 2018. this Notice in which to file ing vehicles and intends to IC COUNTY OF entry of an Order by this resident of the City of Las an answer or other pleading proceed with forfeiture of JOSE CHAIDEZ DOÑA ANA Court approving the sale. Cruces, State of New Mexi- IN THE MATTER OF /s/ Elva Vasquez-Murillo responsive to the Complaint each vehicle to the County THIRD JUDICIAL co, and over the age of THE PETITION OF Elva Vasquez-Murillo and should said Defendants of Doña Ana pursuant to If you do not demand DISTRICT NOTICE IS FURTHER fourteen years, has filed a CRUZ Personal Representative choose not to file an answer DAC Ordinance #232-07 judicial review within 35 GIVEN that the real proper- Petition to Change Name in FOR CHANGE OF P.O. Box 62 or other responsive pleading pertaining to the seizure and calendar days from the date Case No.: ty and improvements con- the Third Judicial District NAME Fairacres, NM 88033 to the Complaint on or forfeiture of vehicles related of the seizure, and or this D-307-CV-2016-02644 cerned with herein will be Court, Doña Ana County, before thirty (30) days from to DWI Offenses: The below advertisement, by filing or sold subject to any and all New Mexico, wherein he NOTICE OF PETITION Dates: 07/06, 07/13, 07/20, date of completion of publi- listed vehicles and contents refiling a claim for the DEUTSCHE BANK NA- patent reservations, ease- seeks to change his name TO CHANGE NAME cation of this Notice, judg- will be auctioned to the described vehicle with the TIONAL TRUST COM- ments, and all taxes and from Luis Salaz to Alfonso STATE OF ment or other appropriate highest bidder at our upcom- Doña Ana County Sheriff's PANY, AS TRUSTEE utility liens, special assess- A Salas, and that this NOTICE IS HEREBY NEW MEXICO relief may be rendered ing auction set for October Office or filing a suit in FOR AMERIQUEST ments and taxes that may be Petition will be heard before GIVEN that Cruz a resident COUNTY OF against the above-named 21, 2018, at 1:00PM. The court, you lose the right to a MORTGAGE SECURI- due. Deutsche Bank Nation- the Honorable James T. of the City of Las Cruces, DOÑA ANA Defendants. event location, 2821-B LAS judicial determination of this TIES INC., ASSET- al Trust Company, As Martin, District Judge, on County of Doña Ana, State THIRD JUDICIAL VEGAS COURT, LAS forfeiture, and you lose any BACKED PASS- Trustee For Ameriquest the 13th day of August 2018, of New Mexico, and over DISTRICT Richard M. Leverick of the CRUCES, NM right you may have to the THROUGH CERTIFI- Mortgage Securities Inc., at the hour of 1:30 p.m. at the age of fourteen years, law firm of Leverick and described vehicle and its CATES, SERIES 2003-8, Asset-Backed Pass-Through the Doña Ana County Court- has filed a Petition to No. D-307-CV-2018-00892 Musselman, L.L.C., whose VIN # contents. Plaintiff, Certificates, Series 2003-8, house, 201 W. Picacho, Las Change Name in the 3rd address and phone number is DESCRIPTION its attorneys, and the under- Cruces, New Mexico. Judicial District Court, Doña BOKF, N.A., Plaintiff, 5120 San Francisco Rd. NE, REGISTERED OWNER Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 vs. signed Special Master, dis- Ana County, New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico claim all responsibility for, (seal) wherein she seeks to change vs. 87109, (505) 858-3303 is the 3VWEF71K07M153303 NOTICE TO PUBLIC ROSALIE VALDEZ, JER- and the purchaser at the sale her name from Cruz to Alice attorney for the Plaintiff. 2007 VW WHITE 4D 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse RY VALDEZ; BENEFI- takes the property "as is," in Respectfully submitted, Zuniga , and that this THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, VIN # CIAL NEW MEXICO its present condition, subject /s/ Alfonso A Salas Petition will be heard before DEVISEES AND LEGA- WITNESS the Honorable STUART WORMING- 4A3AK24F26E001104 INC. D/B/A BENEFICIAL to the valuation of the Alfonso A Salas the Honorable Manuel Ar- TEES OF RUDOLPH DA- Manuel I. Arrieta, District TON orange is being held at MORTGAGE CO.; BOB property by the County 408 E. Kansas rieta, District Judge on the VIS, JR., DECEASED, Judge of the Third Judicial LUCHINI'S TOWING & G. SELBY, Defendants. Assessor as real or personal Las Cruces, NM 88001 6th day of August 2018, at Defendants. District Court of the State of 1HGCE6660SA013343 RECOVERY located at property, affixture of any 575-526-8727 the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the New Mexico and the Seal of 2005 HONDA BLSCK AC- 3621 W Picacho in Las NOTICE OF FORECLO- mobile or manufactured Doña Ana County Court- NOTICE OF PENDENCY the District Court of said CORD Cruces, New Mexico for SURE SALE home to the land, deactiva- Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 house, 201 W. Picacho Las OF SUIT County, on July 02, 2018. ARACELIA MASCARE- auction at 8 am on 9/20/18 at tion of title to a mobile or Cruces, N.M. NA LUCHINI'S TOWING & PLEASE TAKE NOTICE manufactured home on the STATE OF TO DEFENDANTS THE (seal) RECOVERY due to me- that the above-entitled property, if any, environ- NEW MEXICO Respectfully submitted, UNKNOWN HEIRS, DE- 1B7KD34W8ES300197 chanics lien of $223.00 plus Court, having appointed me mental contamination on the COUNTY OF /s/ Alice Z. Bullock VISEES AND LEGATEES David S. Borunda 1984 DODGE WHITE storage. or my designee as Special property, if any, and zoning DOÑA ANA Alice Z. Bullock OF RUDOLPH DAVIS, CLERK OF THE DIS- RAM PK Master in this matter with violations concerning the THIRD JUDICIAL 370 Montana Ave. #108 JR., DECEASED: TRICT COURT DONALD DUZAN Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 the power to sell, has property, if any. DISTRICT COURT Las Cruces, NM 88005 ordered me to sell the real 434-907-7867 NOTICE IS HEREBY By:/s/ Victor A. Eres KMHDN45D31U072581 STATE OF property (the "Property") NOTICE IS FURTHER NO. CV 2018-1291 GIVEN that the above- Victor A. Eres, Judicial 2001 HYUNDAI WHITE NEW MEXICO situated in Doña Ana Coun- GIVEN that the purchaser at Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 2018 named Plaintiff filed a Specialist 4D COUNTY OF ty, New Mexico, commonly such sale shall take title to IN THE MATTER OF Complaint for Foreclosure in ANTHONY PADILLA DOÑA ANA known as 305 Tortugas Dr., the above described real THE PETITION OF STATE OF the above Court on April 24, Dates: 07/13, 07/20, 07/27, THIRD JUDICIAL Mesilla Park, NM 88047, property subject to a one (1) Jerry Salcido NEW MEXICO 2018, against the above 2018 2HGFG12868H526110 DISTRICT COURT and more particularly descri- month right of redemption. FOR CHANGE OF COUNTY OF named Defendants. The gen- 2008 HONDA BLUE CIV- bed as follows: NAME DOÑA ANA eral object of the Complaint STATE OF IC NO. CV 2018-1273 PROSPECTIVE PUR- THIRD JUDICIAL is to foreclose a lien of NEW MEXICO CHRISTEL YLLARRA- LOT A, TOWN OF SAN CHASERS AT SALE ARE NOTICE OF PETITION DISTRICT Plaintiff against certain real COUNTY OF MENDI IN THE MATTER OF JUAN (TORTUGAS) RE- ADVISED TO MAKE TO CHANGE NAME property located in Doña DOÑA ANA 1HGCG5643YA034568 THE PETITION OF PLAT NO. 4, IN THE THEIR OWN EXAMINA- Cause No. Ana County, New Mexico, THIRD JUDICIAL 2000 HONDA BLUE 4D DALILAH JEANETTE COUNTY OF DOÑA ANA, TION OF THE TITLE AND NOTICE IS HEREBY D-307-PB-2018-00071 commonly known as 4124 DISTRICT BLOOD NEW MEXICO, AS THE THE CONDITION OF THE GIVEN that Jerry Salcido, a Judge: Manuel I. Arrieta Gila Trail, Las Cruces, New NORMA CARBAJAL FOR CHANGE OF SAME IS SHOWN AND PROPERTY AND TO resident of the City of Las Mexico 88005, and more Cause No. NAME DESIGNATED ON PLAT CONSULT THEIR OWN Cruces, County of Doña In the Matter of the Estate particularly described as fol- D-307-CV-2018-01306 1G6DW677860117178 NO. 2633, THEREOF ATTORNEY BEFORE Ana, State of New Mexico, Raul J. Sapien, Deceased. lows: Judge: James T. Martin 2006 CADILLAC BLACK NOTICE OF PETITION FILED FOR RECORD IN BIDDING. and over the age of fourteen 4D TO CHANGE NAME THE OFFICE OF THE years, has filed a Petition to NOTICE TO LOT 27, BLOCK D, AR- Friday, July 20, 2018 Las Cruces Bulletin Legal Notices | 29 NM 88005, which respon- 575-640-0491 STATE OF ted either to the undersigned CATHY M. McCART- sive pleading is also to be GUST 08, 1977, IN BOOK existing and future improve- Notice is further given that NEW MEXICO personal representative at NEY, served upon the below 12, PAGE 122-123, DOÑA ments, structures, fixtures, the above-described real es- SUBMITTED: IN THE PROBATE the address listed below, or Plaintiff, named attorney for the ANA COUNTY RECORDS and replacements that may tate and improvements loca- ESTRADA LAW, P.C. COURT filed with the Probate Court Plaintiff within the time AND BEING MORE PAR- now, or at any time in the ted on such real estate will By /s/ Michele Ungvarsky, DOÑA ANA COUNTY of Doña Ana, County, New v. required by law, which is 30 TICULARLY DESCRIBED future, be part of the real be sold subject to any and all Esq. Mexico, located at the days after the date of the AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: estate described (all referred patent reservations, ease- Michele Ungvarsky, Esq. NO. 18-0160 following address 845 N. RODOLFO G. QUIN- third publication of this to as Property). This Securi- ments, all recorded and 1340 Picacho Hills Drive Motel Blvd., Las Cruces, TERO, Notice of Pendency of Suit, BEGINNING AT A 1/2" ty Instrument is given upon unrecorded liens not fore- Las Cruces, NM 88007 IN THE MATTER OF New Mexico 88007. MARIA G. QUINTERO, a judgment of default will be ROD FOUND ON THE the statutory mortgage con- closed herein and all recor- 575.556.2462 THE ESTATE OF RUDOLFO rendered against the above SOUTH LINE OF SIERRA dition. The breach of this ded special assessments and Attorneys for The Estate of RAMONA LYDIA SERA- /s/ Luis M. Serafin QUINTERO CONSTRUC- named Defendants. MADRE DRIVE FOR THE statutory mortgage condition taxes that may be due. All Tommy Lee Dobson FIN a/k/a LUIS M. SERAFIN TION, INC., SYNCHRO- NORTHWEST CORNER will cause this Security prospective bidders are noti- LYDIA R. SERAFIN, DE- a/k/a LUIS SERAFIN NY BANK, formerly Plaintiff's attorney is Wil- OF THE TRACT HEREIN Instrument to be subject to fied that they are responsible Dates: 07/06, 07/13, 07/20, CEASED. a/k/a LUIS MANUEL SER- known as MONOGRAM liam L. Lutz of Martin & DESCRIBED, WHENCE foreclosure or sale as provi- for making their own deter- 2018 AFIN CREDIT CARD BANK Lutz, P.C., P.O. Box 1837 THE NORTHWEST COR- ded by law. This Security mination as to the extent and NOTICE TO CRED- 19002 Carson Drive OF GEORGIA, UNITED Las Cruces, NM 88004. NER OF LOT 4, BLOCK C, Instrument will remain in nature of the title being ITORS Horizon City, Texas 79928 STATES OF AMERICA VALLE DE ORO SUBDI- effect until the Secured conveyed by purchase at the STATE OF INTERNAL REVENUE Witness my hand and seal VISION NUMBER ONE, Debts and all underlying Special Master's sale. NEW MEXICO NOTICE IS HEREBY Prepared By: SERVICE, THE TAXA- this 26th day of June, 2018. FILED AUGUST 08, 1977, agreements have been termi- IN THE GIVEN that LUIS M. BRENDA LYON TION AND REVENUE IN BOOK 12, PAGES nated in writing by Lender. DATED at Las Cruces, New PROBATE COURT SERAFIN a/k/a LUIS New Mexico Bar #150048 DEPARTMENT OF THE RESPECTFULLY SUB- 122-123, DOÑA ANA Mexico, this 21st day of DOÑA ANA COUNTY SERAFIN a/k/a LUIS Attorney At Law STATE OF NEW MEXI- MIITTED MARTIN & COUNTY RECORDS Said sale will be made June, 2018. MANUEL SERAFIN has 310 N. Mesa, Suite 710 CO, THE NEW MEXICO LUTZ, P.C. BEARS, DUE WEST, pursuant to the Default No. 18-0182 been appointed personal rep- El Paso, Texas 79901 DEPARTMENT OF 202.03 FEET; Judgment, entered on June Judge Diana A. Bustamante, resentative of this estate. All Telephone: (915) 542-4556 WORKFORCE SOLU- By /s/ William L. Lutz 18, 2018, in the above- Pamela A. Carmody, Special PhD persons having claims Facsimile: (915) TIONS, UNKNOWN William L. Lutz Attorney THENCE FROM THE entitled and numbered cause, Master against this estate are re- 351-7115-Fax CLAIMANTS OF INTER- for Plaintiff POINT OF BEGINNING which, among other things, P.O. Drawer 16169 IN THE MATTER OF quired to present their claims EST in the hereinafter P.O. Drawer 1837 AND ALONG THE was a suit to foreclose a note Las Cruces, NM 88004 THE within four (4) months after Dates: 07/06, 07/13, 07/20, described premises and Las Cruces, NM 88004 SOUTH AND WEST LINE and mortgage against all Telephone (575) 642-5567 ESTATE OF: the date of the first publica- 2018 adverse to Plaintiff, and 575-526-2449 OF SIERRA MADRE secured real property by the FRED A. LEHMAN, DE- tion of this notice, or the UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DRIVE THE FOLLOWING above Plaintiff and wherein Submitted by: CEASED. claims will be forever bar- UNKNOWN CLAIM- Dates: 07/06, 07/13, 07/20, THREE COURSES AND Plaintiff was adjudged to red. Claims must be presen- ANTS, if deceased Defend- 2018 DISTANCES, DUE EAST have a lien against the Kelly P. Albers NOTICE TO CRED- ants. 72.04 FEET TO A 1/2' IRON above-described real estate LAW OFFICE OF KELLY ITORS STATE OF ROD FOUND AT A POINT in the sum of $41,390.74, on P. ALBERS, P.C. NOTICE OF PENDENCY NEW MEXICO OF CURVATURE; which post-judgment interest 650 Montana Avenue, Suite NOTICE IS HEREBY OF SUIT COUNTY OF shall run at 9.99% per D GIVEN that RHONDA L. DOÑA ANA THENCE AROUND THE annum until satisfied in full, Las Cruces, NM 88001 LEHMAN has been appoin- STATE OF NEW MEXI- THIRD JUDICIAL ARC OF A CURVE TO which the Special Master Telephone (575) 527-9064 ted personal representative CO to: UNKNOWN DISTRICT COURT THE RIGHT, HAVING A calculates to be a per diem of this estate. All persons CLAIMANTS OF INTER- RADIUS OF 175.00 FEET, of $11.328588 from June 2, Dates: 06/29, 07/06, 07/13, having claims against this ...at your fi ngertips in print and EST in the hereinafter Cause No. AN ARC LENGTH OF 2018 for 55 days to the date 07/20, 2018 estate are required to present described premises adverse D-307-CV-2018-00112 229.07 FEET, THROUGH of the Special Master's sale their claims within four (4) ONLINE! to Plaintiff, and UN- Judge James T. Martin A CENTRAL ANGLE OF (the "Sale"), for total post- STATE OF months after the date of the KNOWN HEIRS OF UN- 74°59'50" AND WHOSE judgment interest of NEW MEXICO first publication of any KNOWN CLAIMANTS, if EQUITY TRUST COM- LONG CHORD BEARS $623.07, together with attor- COUNTY OF DOÑA ANA published notice to creditors deceased. PANY, Custodian FBO S.52°30'02"E., 213.06 FEET ney fees incurred and costs THIRD JUDICIAL or sixty (60) days after the WESLEY K. MURCHI- TO A 1/2" IRON ROD of sale to the date of sale, DISTRICT COURT date of mailing or other GREETINGS: You are SON IRA, Plaintiff, FOUND AT A POINT OF and a reasonable Special delivery of this notice, Check out hereby notified that the TANGENCY; Master's fee. The Plaintiff No: D-307-PB-2018-00070 whichever is later, or the above named Plaintiff has v. has the right to bid at such Hon: Arrieta, Manuel I. claims will be forever bar- brought suit against you in THENCE S.15°00'05"E., sale and submit their bid red. Claims must be presen- the District Court of Grant ENRIQUE E. CHAVEZ 48.91 FEET TO A 1/2" verbally or in writing. The IN THE MATTER OF ted either to personal repre- the entire County, New Mexico under and ELVIA E. CHAVEZ, IRON ROD SET FOR THE Plaintiff may apply all or THE ESTATE sentative at the address listed Cause No: husband and wife, and SOUTHEAST CORNER OF any part of its judgment to OF TOMMY LEE DOB- below, or filed with the D-307-CV-2018¬01306, the JOSEPH A. ESCARSIGA THIS TRACT; the purchase price in lieu of SON, DECEASED. Probate Court of Doña Ana Bulletin general object of which is to and VANESSA ESCARSI- cash at the sale. County, New Mexico, loca- , secure a decree to quiet title GA, husband and wife, THENCE LEAVING THE Bidders, to the extent that NOTICE TO ted at 845 N. Motel Blvd., of the following described Defendants. WEST LINE OF SIERRA they do not have a judgment CREDITORS Las Cruces, New Mexico property situate in Doña Ana MADRE DRIVE, DUE permitted to be bid in lieu of 88007. its archives and our annual County, New Mexico: NOTICE OF SALE WEST 220.37 FEET TO A cash, must bid cash at the NOTICE IS HEREBY 1/2' IRON ROD SET FOR sale. The successful bidder GIVEN that the undersigned DATED this 13th day of publications in e-edition at Lot 7, 8, and 9, Block 2, NOTICE IS HEREBY THE SOUTHWEST COR- will be given until the close has been appointed personal July, 2018. Grandview Subdivision, in GIVEN that the undersigned NER OF THIS TRACT; of the second business day representative of this estate. the City of Las Cruces, Doña Special Master will, on the following the determination All persons having claims KEITHLY & ENGLISH, Ana County, New Mexico, 26th day of July, 2018, at THENCE N.10°40'35"W., of the winning bidder to against this estate are re- LLC as the same is shown and 10:00 AM, at the east 180.07 FEET TO THE supply to the Special Master quired to present their claims /s/ Shane A. English described on Plat No. 78 entrance of the Doña Ana POINT OF BEGINNING, cash, certified check, or within four (4) months after thereof, filed for record in County District Court, loca- CONTAINING 0.787 cashier's check in the the date of the first publica- SHANE A. ENGLISH the Office of the County ted at 201 W. Picacho ACRE OF LAND, MORE amount of the bid. Failure to tion of this notice, or the Attorney for Rhonda L. Clerk of said county on June Avenue, Las Cruces, New OR LESS. SUBJECT TO do so will void that bid, and claims will be forever bar- Lehman, es 3, 1908, and recorded in Mexico, sell and convey to ANY EASEMENTS AND the Special Master shall red. Claims must be presen- Personal Representative iv ch re Book 3, Page 45, Plat the highest bidder for cash RESTRICTIONS OF RE- either accept the next highest ted either to the undersigned N.M. State Bar No. 4854 r a a Records. all the right, title and interest CORD. bid, or the Special Master personal representative at Post Office Drawer 1329 d s t t h of the above-named Defend- may, in her sole discretion, the address listed below, or Anthony, NM 88021 i CLICK e Subject to the reservations ants in and to the following The property is located at telephone each bidder who filed with the District Court (575) 882-4500 d e n (575) 882-5000 [FAX] n contained in the patent, real property located in said 209 Sierra Madre Drive, attended the sale, using the of Doña Ana, County, New a HERE t i n r easements of record, and county and state: Mesquite, New Mexico telephone number each bid- Mexico, located at the t e B l l restricted covenants, if any. 88048. der submits at the sale, and following address: 201 W. u A TRACT OF LAND SIT- communicate a new date and Pichacho Ave, Las Cruces, Dates: 07/20, 07/27, 08/23, You are further notified that UATE EAST OF MES- Together with all rights, time for a subsequent sale, NM 88005. 2018 unless a responsive pleading QUITE, DONA ANA easements, appurtenances, without republication of any is filed with the District COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, royalties, mineral rights, oil further notice. Responsibili- Dated:July 2,2018. Court Administrator, Third BEING PART OF LOT 4, and gas rights, crops, timber, ty for reception of notice of Judicial District, Doña Ana BLOCK C, VALLE DE all diversion payments or any subsequent sale is on the Deborah Cook County, New Mexico at 201 ORO SUBDIVISION NUM- third party payments made bidder submitting the tele- 1704 Sumner Ave www.lascrucesbulletin.com W Picacho Ave, Las Cruces, BER ONE, FILED AU- to crop producers and all phone number. Las Cruces, NM 88001 30 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 NEWS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Las Crucen sheds perspective on Mexico’s election By MIKE COOK portuni- the 2016 U.S. presidential Many of those who election and there has America.” Las Cruces Bulletin ties for election was 55.7 percent.) voted for AMLO are been no shift in invest- “AMLO’s walking a many It was “a big shift in the “looking for a change in ments out of the country. fine line right now,” Har- New Mexico State Mexi- political landscape” of their economic futures” AMLO has been “very vey said. “The last thing University Department cans, said Mexico, Harvey said. so they won’t have to quiet” about Trump, Har- he wants is for this to of Government Head Harvey, AMLO split from the leave the country, Harvey vey said, and wants “a be MORENA’s first and Neil Harvey, Ph.D. was who was Party of the Democratic said. About 50 percent of more respectful relation- last shot at governing the in Mexico City to witness HARVEY in inter- Revolution in 2012, Har- Mexico’s population lives ship” with the American country.” the Republic of Mexico’s national vey said, and formed in poverty, he said, with president than current Harvey said vote buy- historic presidential elec- observer MORENA two years later. many in extreme poverty. Mexican President En- ing, coercion and vio- tion. in Mexico MORENA won 35 seats in AMLO supporters will rique Peña Nieto has had. lence were evident in this On July 1, former Mex- City dur- the 500-seat chamber of expect “not just words, AMLO’s election also year’s election, but it was ico City Mayor Andres ing the deputies in the 2015 mid- but actions.” Their great- creates more interest in cleaner than previous Manuel Lopez Obrador election. term elections – its first est fear, he said, is “that the U.S. “in learning more Mexican elections. and his National Regen- Making time on the ballot – and Mexico just continues to about what’s happening A native of Liverpool, eration Movement (Mov- OBRADOR his third gained 156 more in the be what it’s been.” in Mexico,” Harvey said, England, Harvey earned imiento Regeneración bid for 2018 election. With coali- AMLO’s first meetings rather than continuing an MA in Latin American Nacional, abbreviated the presidency, AMLO tion partners, MORENA since his election have with the “superficial government and politics MORENA) swept aside earned more than 53 per- will control an outright been with the Mexican narrative” of the Trump from the University of 90 years of rule by two cent of the vote and won majority of 312 seats in business class, who did administration. Essex, UK, in 1984 and a older political parties to 31 of Mexico’s 32 states the chamber, Harvey not support him in the It could result in a Ph.D. in government from become president-elect of plus the federal district said, along with 69 of 128 election, Harvey said. stronger working rela- Essex in 1990. He joined Mexico. He will be sworn of Mexico City, compiling seats in the Mexican sen- AMLO wants to “allay tionship for the U.S. with NMSU in 1994. Harvey in Dec. 1 as the nation’s the first outright majority ate. their fears” about his the government and the was director of NMSU’s 58th president. in a Mexican presidential During Mexico’s long presidency. people of Mexico, he said, Center for Latin Ameri- Obrador, known by his election since 1988. He re- transition period, Harvey Even though AMLO especially around areas can and Border Studies initials, AMLO, won an ceived more than 30 mil- said AMLO is putting and MORENA challenged of common interest. The 2004-10 and became head overwhelming victory lion votes – the most for his cabinet in place and the Mexican political solution to issues that of the government de- because of his promises any candidate in Mexican preparing a policy agenda and economic elite that divide the two countries, partment in 2011. to address government history, Harvey said – in that “would reflect what have controlled the gov- including the border corruption, violence, the 2018 election, which his voters wanted and ernment for decades, wall, Harvey said, “is Mike Cook may be reached economic inequality and had a turnout of 63.4 not what his critics de- Harvey said, the peso has providing opportunities at mike@lascrucesbulle- a lack of educational op- percent. (The turnout for manded.” remained stable since his in Mexico and Central tin.com. No login. No fees. FrFreee archives! Check out the entirety of the Las Cruces Bulletin, it’s archives and annual publications online at www.lascrucesbulletin.comruucesb LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 31 Helen Davis (right) is OBITUARIES pictured with her daughter, CLINTON H. BELLOWS (“CLINT”) Pattie Burnam September 22, 1927 - July 4, 2018 (center) and Our beloved Clint passed away on DACC develop- July 4 at the age of 90 in Las Cruces, ment officer, New Mexico. He was born on Sept. Kristi Martin 11, 1927 to Harold and Hazel Bellows COURTESY PHOTO in Walla Walla, WA. Clint grew up in Halfway, Oregon, graduated from Baker High School, and attended Uni- versity of Oregon and Capital Uni- versity. He enlisted in the US Marine Corp at the age of 17 and was honor- ably discharged as a 1st Lieutenant. He then joined the OR/WA National Guard and served 26 years. Clint was also a Patron Member of the National Rifle Association. Clint was an active member of the Episcopal church and Wellspring church. Clint owned KYET Radio in Pay- ette, ID which he sold when he be- came a news reporter and anchor on KTVB in Boise, ID. He also served as Endowment honors late school board member Mayor of Ontario, OR. He had two daughters, Julie and Lynda with Nita By DAPHNE GRIFFIN “And, he truly believed that him to the Las Cruces Public “The very mission of the Bellows. For the Bulletin endless opportunities for School Board where he spent NMSU system – includ- Clint was a Limited Partner and success could be found at 16 years working on behalf ing Doña Ana Community Charles “Chuck” Dibbern DACC.” of the educational welfare of College – and the NMSU Financial Advisor at Edward Jones Davis was a firm believer After spending his youth in the county’s youngest learn- Foundation is to provide in Ontario and Baker, OR. During his in second, and even third, numerous places around the ers. He was selected as the life-changing opportunities years in Ontario, he was involved in chances. The former Las globe, Chuck settled in New New Mexico School Board for students throughout the numerous musical productions and Cruces Public School Board Mexico in 1950. He married Association’s Member of the state. We are humbled by the sang for many weddings and funerals. member knew that some- Helen in 1956 and graduated Year in 2017 for his contribu- Davis’ generosity to help us One of his favorite roles was as Tevye times life didn’t happen as from NMSU in 1958 with a tions. achieve those goals in mem- in “Fiddler on the Roof” and he was planned, but that no matter degree in electrical engineer- Helen said Chuck loved ory of Chuck, who was such still able to enthrall audiences singing the odds, opportunities to ing. He served in the United serving his community and a strong advocate for educa- many songs acappella or with accom- find positive change and suc- States Air Force for 20 years seeing young people succeed; tion and second chances.” panyment. Clint and Sara (Sally) Bel- cess should exist. and was decorated with and because he cared so Helen said that Chuck lows were married 38 years and moved In honor of her late hus- the Distinguished Flying deeply about the success of would have loved to see ev- band’s belief, Helen Davis Cross and Bronze Star for young people, he expanded eryone working together to from Baker to Las Cruces, NM to retire. established the Chuck Davis his service in Vietnam and his advocacy into higher edu- support his passion. But, Clint is survived by his wife Sara Second Chance Endowed Thailand. Chuck retired from cation, serving on the DACC more than anything, he Bellows, daughters Julie Koyama Scholarship at Doña Ana service in 1979. advisory board for numerous would have been proud of his (Tom) of Seal Rock, OR and Lynda Community College during He spent the following years. children and grandchildren Ekstrom of Naples, OR, Sara’s NMSU’s Giving Tuesday years teaching, volunteering “Chuck loved Doña Ana rallying for the cause. daughter Tracy Leonard of Fruit- event in November 2017. and working for White Sands Community College,” Helen “This is a wonderful legacy land, ID. and son Jeffrey Seiler of Each of the Davis’ six chil- Missile Range as a second ca- said. “He really felt that for Chuck,” Helen said. “That Gresham, OR, and grandchildren dren and their families and reer – all the while advocating DACC was the key for stu- his children and grandchil- Stacy, Jarred, and Justine (Lynda’s friends contributed to the for education and civil rights. dents in the county to get dren worked so hard to make children), Morgan, Alexis, and Tobias $12,500 investment. Matched Along the way, he and Helen ahead. He believed in its this scholarship happen, it (Julie’s children), Toby Leonard, Hill- dollar for dollar with gifts raised six children who have, mission and service as a com- says great things about him, from donors, the NMSU in turn, raised the couple’s munity college, and he felt his life, the friendships he ary Seiler, Colton Seiler, and several Foundation was able to dou- 16 grandchildren and seven it was the perfect avenue for made and everything we have great grandchildren. ble the investment and fully great-grandchildren. students to find successful all learned from him.” A memorial service will be held at endow the scholarship fund. In 2000, Chuck retired a pathways into higher educa- a later time. We were all blessed by “Chuck wanted to help as second time and began a full- tion after high school.” Daphne Griffin may be his musical talents and his gorgeous many young people as he time advocacy for civil rights NMSU Foundation Presi- reached at 575-646-2073, daph- voice. He will always remain in our could,” Helen Davis said. and education. His efforts led dent Andrea Tawney said, [email protected]. memories. 32 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Severo Martinez of Albuquerque’s Severo y Grupo Fuego. MusicSevero y Grupo Fuego from Albuquerque in were the firstthe act. Park The City of Las Cruces Music in the Park series drew an appreciative crowd to Young Park Sun- day evening, July 15. The series continues July 22 with folk legend Maria Muldaur and Las Cruces Benjamin Rodriguez and Felicia Moreno dance to the music of songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Janet Blair. Severo y Grupo Fuego. BULLETIN PHOTOS BY STEVE MACINTYRE Bass player for Severo y Grupo Fuego Cameron Bourg takes a photo with fans Sammy Amaya Country and Western performer and former LCPD officer Frank Ray strikes a chord. and his daughter Janissa Amaya, 7, after their performance. Arts& ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 33 Chris Sanders: wrangling an invitation to the groove By MIKE COOK Down the road Las Cruces Bulletin • 7 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 21: ASNMSU For Chris Sanders, half of writing Center for the Arts, 1000 E. University Ave.; a song comes from the elements of fundraiser for KRWG-TV, featuring Nate Lee music: melody, harmony and rhythm, with his fi ddle and Bill Evans on banjo. $15 in or “groove.” advance, $20 at the door. Visit www.krwg.org “The other half is having a life,” for tickets. said Sanders, whose songs are regu- • 7 P.M. SUNDAY, JULY 22: larly performed by her group, the Sacred Grounds Hard Road Trio, based out of Las Cru- Coff ee and Tea House, 2704 Sudderth Drive, ces and Silver City, and also featured Ruidoso. in a musical she co-wrote. • 8 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 28: The Space “In my personal songwriting school Center, Alamogordo. Flickinger Center (earning a master’s degree in voice),” Tailgate series; guest is Eric Boseman on Sanders said, “I got to study with Shu- percussion. bert, Schumann and Brahms.” • 2 P.M. FRIDAY, SEPT. 28: Being the eldest of five children Red River growing up in Minnesota, getting Bluegrass Festival, Red River. Visit www. married and raising two sons helped southwestpickers.org. Sanders find her voice as a songwriter • THURSDAY-SUNDAY, OCT. 4-7: in a different way, she said, along with Black Range Lodge, Kingston; Desert listening to the songs of Mary Chapin Night Acoustic Music Camp, including Carpenter and reading the novels of a songwriting workshop. Visit www. Louise Erdich. hardroadtrio.com. A call from Steve Smith 15 years ago to join his band the Hard Road • FRIDAY-SATURDAY, OCT. 19-20: Trio provided “a vehicle for my song- Logandale Fall Bluegrass Festival, Logandale, writing,” Sanders said. She joined up Nevada: Call 575-937-0596 for prices and and found important collaborators in more information. Smith and fellow band member Anne Luna, both dedicated songwriters. The three have a “mutual apprecia- or is afraid to share his or her idea for tion of song and music,” Sanders said, a song? “and the chance to bring new music First, Sanders said, you “create a into the world. I love that.” safe space” to play with words and “Collaboration is really my great music, a place to entertain ideas with- joy in writing,” she said. out judgment. The group has taught songwriting “Safe space is critical,” she said. workshops the last several years and “That’s my priority.” has another coming up this October Then, you offer a prompt to begin as part of its Acoustic Music Camp in “stirring up the soil,” she said. Kingston. The prompt could be something as So, how do you teach someone to simple as a wristwatch, which might write a song, especially someone who Chris Sanders SANDERS, 35 doesn’t have a background in music SEE PAGE 34 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN DOWNTOWNDODOWNTO It’s Reallyally Jenny Morgan: Suspending happening UPCOMING EVENTS reality in order to explore FRI JULY 20 • 10:30 A.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY By JASMINE WOODUL Rhythm Roundup (Music and Motion for ages 2-5) For the Bulletin FRI JULY 20 • 2:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY Thirty-four paintings Yoga Rocks (Teen Program) and one video from artist Jenny Morgan will fill the FRI JULY 20 • 3:30 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY New Mexico State Uni- Library lab (Activities/Stories for ages 6-10) versity Art Gallery from FRI JULY 20 • 8:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE July 26 through Sept. 21. Orland Madrid Quintet - $10 “A Higher Ground, a mid-career survey exhibi- SAT JULY 21 • 1:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE tion” by Morgan, tracks Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures - FREE the development of the MON JULY 23 • 12:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY artist’s work over 10 Movie Making Monday (Teen Program) years. An opening reception TUE JULY 24 • 10:30 A.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY for the exhibit is 6-7:30 Read to Me (Story time for ages 3 and up) p.m. Thursday, July 26, at TUE+THU JULY 24+26 • 4:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY the University Art Gal- lery, 1390 E. University Teen Game Night Ave. WED+THU JULY 25+26 • 10:00 A.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY Through masterful Toddler Time (Stories/Activities for ages 1-3) additive and subtractive WED JULY 25 • 11:00 A.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY techniques of layering paint, Morgan sands, Aspen Black, the Singing Cowgirl blurs, and glazes as a WED JULY 25 • 1:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY way to explore varying Teen Screen “Pitch Perfect 3” metaphors, removing WED JULY 25 • 2:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY the “skin” of her muses and grinding backwards Adult Summer Reading Program Event “Rock and Roll Yahtzee” to complex worlds and COURTESY DR. WAYNE F. YAKES, M.D. WED JULY 25 • 5:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY multi-dimensional frame- Branigan Summer Movies “Hostiles” works. Morgan values the Jenny Morgan, “Shadow Play,” 35” x 35” oil on canvas THU JULY 26 • 2:00 P.M. BRANIGAN LIBRARY relationships she builds bringing features in and the personal collection of tenance, all contribute to with her subjects and out of focus, pushing the Dr. Wayne F. Yakes, M.D., a cornucopia of emotions, Summer Screen “Coco” explores those personal boundaries of familiarity a pioneer vascular & images, and ethereal con- THU JULY 26 • 7:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE connections using the and perception, to create interventional radiology jectures,” he is quoted in The Shining - $8 canvas as a visual map to an opening for deeper specialist and passionate a catalog of her work. FRI JULY 27 • 7:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE understand the human psychological responses art collector who began “My odyssey into Jenny condition. and explorations.” with Russian art and has Morgan’s world, into her Moulin Rouge Shadow Cast - $10 “Exploring deep psy- Morgan has had solo now collected contempo- macrocosm of characters, SAT JULY 28 • 12:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE chological and spiritual exhibitions in numerous rary art from across the is one of the most edify- The Princess Bride - $1 themes, including the galleries and has par- world. ing exposures to modern SAT JULY 28 • 7:00 P.M. RIO GRANDE THEATRE metaphysical, life, death, ticipated in group exhibi- “Morgan’s experi- artistic endeavor that I and the otherworldly, tions in galleries such as mentation with mono- have ever encountered.” Raiders of the Lost Ark - $8 Morgan’s vulnerable por- the Smithsonian National chromatic backgrou nds, Dr. Yakes will lecture on traits ask the viewer to Portrait Gallery, in Wash- sentient faces with a the role of the collector at ONGOING EVENTS: suspend certain aspects ington, D.C. skull subtly skulking on 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at • Downtown Art RAMBLE - 1st Friday of the Month 5-7pm of reality to transcend • Las Cruces Farmers & Crafts Market - Wed. and Sat. Morn. In addition to the exhi- the canvas, nudes that the gallery. the ordinary way of view- bition, Morgan will host are more beguiling than All events are free. SPONSORED ing the body,” said Marisa an artist lecture at 5:30 erotic, red hands sans Sage, director of the gal- BY: p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30. gloves in miscreant pos- Jasmine Woodul may be lery. “Morgan bathes her The majority of the ex- tures, eroded faces that reached at 575-646-2545, subjects in fields of color, hibition’s works are from are distinct in their coun- [email protected]. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 35 SANDERS and can also be an impor- said. tant part of creating it, The four easy ways to CONTINUED FROM 33 because songwriting can connect to the internet mean working with “other listed on a plaque in their remind a would-be song- people who have skills hotel room, for example, writer of someone wear- one has yet to develop” became a song about the ing a similar watch that as a songwriter or hav- steps Enron founder Ken- he or she sat beside on a ing someone else add to a neth Lay took to divorce plane flight. song you’ve written based his wife and marry his Helping someone to on “how it touches them.” secretary (Sanders loved recognize the meaning or Sanders worked with that internal rhyme). significance of their ideas Justin Raines and Brad- “I’ve always had enor- UPCOMING EVENTS for songs is a key element ford Hodgkins to create mous respect for Chris of workshopping, Sand- the musical “We Are Sanders,” Medoff said. ers said. Enron,” which premiered “The three of them just “We’re kneading the at the NMSU Music clicked.” dough,” she said. “Some- Building in 2008 to sell- “If you don’t know thing that’s significant out audiences and rave Mark Medoff, a songwrit- to us – maybe that’s the reviews. ing camp can help you heart of a song.” She became involved find a collaborator, the In that same workshop, at the invitation of Tony- Lennon to your McCart- people “have a chance to winning playwright Mark ney, the Hammerstein to make up melodies in the Medoff, who asked her your Rogers,” Sanders moment,” Sanders said, if she wanted to write a said. and play with harmony musical. “Music can be so pow- and groove. Medoff had worked erful because it crosses “We can groove to- with Hodgkins at Florida boundaries.” gether in a group of peo- State University, and Non-responsive Al- ple,” she said. “Through Medoff and Sanders had zheimer’s patients smile movement and simple both worked with Raines and clap and sing along music activities, we can at NMSU. to music, she said. British explore the fundamen- “It was totally collabor- and German soldiers laid tals of rhythm and the ative,” Sanders said. “My down their weapons and connection to songs you job was to wrangle the sang Christmas songs know.” tunes. That was really the together during World “It’s an invitation,” opportunity of a lifetime War I. Sanders said. “You create when I think about it.” “At the end of the day, activities in which people The three holed up in music is in charge,” she are welcome.” a hotel room in Atlanta said. “Music will know Sometimes, Sanders for three days, using the language to speak to writes several different Hodgkins’ keyboard and us individually. It’s not al- sets of lyrics for the same his suggestion that they ways to capture, it’s some- tune, “until they settle.” write a musical about the times just to channel.” Issues that have been Enron financial scandal significant in her recent of the early 2000s. Mike Cook may be reached songwriting include Fal- “We took cues from the at mike@lascrucesbulle- lujah, Iraq, occupied by oddest places,” Sanders tin.com. ISIS 2014-2016, and the border wall being built between the United States and Mexico. After seeing the wall, the song called “Ojos de July 20-26 July 27-August 2 Dios” (“Eyes of God”) RBG Bye Bye Germany “kind of wrote itself,” A look at the life and work In German w/ subtitles and English Sanders said, about a mil- of Justice Ruth Bader David Berman and his friends, all TICKETS AVAILABLE AT BOX OFFICE OR RioGrandeTheatre.com itarized border without a Ginsburg. Holocaust survivors, have only formal enemy. NOTE: No screenings Mon-Wed, July one purpose: to go to America CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE INCLUDING SNACKS, REFRESHMENTS, BEER, WINE & SPIRITS 23-25 as soon as possible. For this they Harmony, or the chim- NOTE: Saturday July 21 Matinées at ing of notes within a 1:30 & 4:30. Thursday, July 26 1:30 need money. (OC) NOTE: Saturday, July 28 No matinée RioGrandeTheatre.com 211 N. Main Street | Information (575) 541-2290 chord based on the root matinée; no evening show. note, is a vital element Nightly 7:30 Saturday matinée 1:30 Sunday matinée 2:30 OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER OF THE RIO GRANDE THEATRE of a song, Sanders said, 1RRQHZLOOEHDGPLWWHGDIWHUWKH¿OPKDVEHJXQ 36 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ‘CELEBRATING AUTHORS’ PHOTOS COURTESY THOMAS BRANIGAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY Las Cruces author Arturo Muñoz Vásquez Las Cruces author Bud Russo Las Cruces author E.J. Runyon Writing: The art of allowing the story to surface By MIKE COOK “Celebrate Authors” in the sub- “Writers read,” Runyon said. and “A Storyteller’s Night- the author of “Heroes and Vil- Las Cruces Bulletin ject line. “If you don’t have the writer’s mare” and “Running Deer lains of New Mexico,” a collec- Here is information about lingo yet, it might be hard to Plays Hooky,” both children’s tion of true stories published Editor’s note: Third in a series three of this year’s participat- offer constructive criticism storybooks. in 2018. His earlier novel, “The More than a dozen local au- ing authors: to other beginner writers. If Vásquez is a former teacher, Poet & The Singer,” was pub- thors have signed up thus far to • E.J. Runyon, a Las Cruces you’re not sure about how it’s school principal, school district lished in 2016. participate in the 2018 Celebrate resident since 2009. Her books all done, how can you even superintendent and consultant “Heroes,” Russo said, “fo- Authors event sponsored by the include “Claiming One” (2012), judge your own work? Writers for the California Department cuses on known personalities staff at and Friends of Thomas “Writing Guide: Tell Me How risk. Some novices even hold of Education. of New Mexico history with sto- Branigan Memorial Library. to Write A Story” (2013), “A off starting to write because “If you want to write, write,” ries most people will not have It will be held 2-4 p.m. Sun- House of Light & Stone” (2014), they want to know the how-to’s is the advice that Vásquez offers heard.” day, Sept. 16, in the Roadrunner “Your Little Red Book” (2015) first. What are the crucial steps potential writers. Russo has lived in Las Cruces Room of the Library, 200 E. and “Writing Guide: 5 Ways of towards storytelling that all “Throughout the day, I collect for the past 13 years. He at- Picacho Ave. Thinking to Turn Your Writing new writers crave? writing material by observing tended NMSU from 1961-66, he Tuesday, July 31, is the dead- World Around” (2018). The fact is that gifts and tal- my environment, the sweetness said, earning a BS in political line to submit a work to be Runyon said she writes liter- ent are intangible, yet there are in the air, the colors in a drying science and journalism, and re- included in this year’s event, ary fiction as well as writing basic writing skills (story ele- leaf, the cooing of the pigeons turned to Las Cruces in 2005 “to said Librarian Carmella Lee. non-fiction writing guides. ments and craft basics) a novice and doves during their mating find the sunshine.” To participate, authors must be “Since 2002 I’ve found my- writer may not realize they afternoons,” Vásquez said. “Anyone can put words on residents of the southern New self moving on to smaller and need to know. Talent and skill “While I am collecting writ- paper just like anyone can pick Mexico region and have had at smaller desert towns, while are both required. Understand- ing material, I research the up a brush and apply paint to least one book published since working to become the author ing stronger ways of craft can topics I am writing about, and canvas or throw a football 50 2013. Books can be submitted and writing coach I planned lead you to be free to risk new with my life experiences, the yards,” Russo said. “Only a from any genre. to be,” Runyon said. “First, I ways to write. And that can lead story begins to reveal itself and few, though, can be an artist The 2017 event included 24 quit working in software and to what talents you have for sto- it is at this point that I begin or a star quarterback. Like all authors. sold my four-bedroom home rytelling coming closer to the to write. Sometimes the story talents, the art of storytelling is For more information, call to finance a degree in creative surface in your writing. Skill flows and sometimes it plugs a gift from on high. It cannot be Sue Fletcher at 575-521-8507 writing and graduate work in can foster talent, and risking up the system and not even learned, only perfected.” and leave your name, phone online teaching and learning. learning those skills can foster air escapes. I continue to push Visit BudRusso.com and find number and the message that I’ve never looked back. Now, beautiful writing successes.” through and I take the parts of his books at amazon.com. you are calling about Celebrate my life revolves around my own • Arturo Muñoz Vásquez of Las a story and reweave them into a Authors. Or email her at sj- writing and an online creativity Cruces is the author of “Fear tapestry of stories.” Mike Cook may be reached at [email protected] and put coaching site I run.” Not Evil,” a murder mystery; • Bud Russo of Las Cruces is [email protected]. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 37 The independent, ladylike ‘Notorious RBG’ By JEFF BERG For the Bulletin GRADE: A Hero. Icon. Dissenter. See this great documentary That is the tagline about a real Associate for this interesting but Supreme Court judge at the occasionally fawning Fountain Theater starting July documentary about the 20. Please note…the theatre Santa Fe-visiting (she will be CLOSED from July often comes to attend 23-25. the performances of the Santa Fe Opera and loves our lovely blue skies) Su- preme Court judge Ruth During her career her Bader Ginsburg, who detractors have called may be the last real voice her vile, anti-American, on said court. and even a zombie. 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You can like Jake’s Café as soon onions and pickles, it was also order one of several as I heard Bobby Vinton totally fab. salads, along with Jake’s singing “Roses Are Red Stormi McCormick saw signature pizzas and a (My Love)” on the juke- to my every need and I en- bunch of great hamburg- box. joyed the rockin’ sounds ers and sandwiches. The service was nifty, of the Rolling Stones, the Jake’s is open 10 a.m.-8 the food was keen and the Coasters and the Chords, p.m. Monday-Thursday, 1950s-‘60s décor was super along with the blowups 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and neato. of Marilyn Monroe and Saturday and 9 a.m.-7 Jake’s moved to 1340 E. James Dean. p.m. Sunday. For more Lohman Ave. about a year The menu includes a information, find Jakes ago after a decade in Doña large breakfast fare: om- (no apostrophe) café on Ana. elets, pancakes, huevos Facebook. Call them at I had the special of the rancheros, biscuits and 575-523-5770. day – the All-American gravy, chicken-fried steak BBQ bacon cheeseburger. Mike Cook may be reached and eggs and Jake’s Big BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOK And being the all-Amer- Breakfast. at mike@lascrucesbulle- Stormi McCormick serves up an All-American BBQ bacon cheese burger lettuce wrap. ican he-man that I am, I Entrees include the tin.com. Jake’s Café décor takes you back to the 1950s and ‘60s. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 39 Grace Marks: at sweet 16, a veteran of the stage By MIKE COOK Las Cruces Bulletin Her grandfather is a Tony- winning playwright and her father is an award-winning film director. But for Grace Marks, it’s all about music. Marks, 16 and a student at Las Cruces High School, per- forms regularly at the Farmers & Crafts Market and Dragonfly Restaurant, both in downtown Las Cruces. She has also per- formed at Salud! de Mesilla and other local venues, singing, playing the guitar and even performing some of her own Marks, 16, also is a regular at Drag- music. onfly Restaurant, 139 N. Main St. downtown. “Music influences me more than anything,” Marks said. “It work with beloved her aunt, helps my mood.” Jessica Medoff-Bunchmann, a Marks was already a veteran professional actress and singer of the stage and screen before who lives in Georgia. she started singing, appearing “We’re really close,” Marks in a number of local plays and said. “It really helps me to re- musicals and in feature films late to her level.” made in the area. The two were also in Mark Not long after moving to Las Medoff’s 2016 film based on Cruces from Chicago at age his stage play, “The Heart Out- 5, Marks was cast as a skunk right.” – that’s right – in a local Mis- Marks has also appeared in soula Children’s Theatre pro- several student films, including duction of “Robin Hood.” the award-winning “Princess.” “I just remember having Marks began her stage ca- PHOTOS COURTESY GRACE MARKS such a good time,” Marks said. reer at age 12, when she was Las Cruces singer/musician Grace Marks performs regularly at the Farmers & Crafts Market downtown on Satur- That was followed by roles cast in “Annie Get Your Gun,” days. in “Twitch,” written by NMSU which Mark Medoff directed Creative Media Institute De- for the Las Cruces Symphony and found herself “shaking and string uke to write her first her continued studies, and, partment Head Amy Lanasa Orchestra. sweating” at her first solo voice song, “Summer ’17.” She took hopefully, her career. and directed by Marks’ dad, Marks also played “a boy” in recital. Her first professional up the guitar the next year and “At the end of the day, I re- CMI Professor Ross Marks, Rio Grande Theatre’s 2015 pro- gig at Dragonfly last April was is now learning to play piano as ally do want to make music for when Grace was in the fourth duction of “Waiting for Godot,” also nerve-wracking, Marks she studies music theory. the rest of my life,” Marks said. grade. which starred Medoff, the late said, especially because many In addition to casting her in Marks is also a member of At 10, she was cast in a role Dick Rundell, David Edwards of her friends and her “whole, her first stage and movie roles, the Las Cruces High School written for her by Tony-win- and Brandon Brown – all older entire family” were there to Marks said her grandfather has swim team and the Las Cruces ning playwright Mark Medoff men, and “my best friends,” cheer her on. continued to drive and inspire Aquatic Team and has been (he’s also Marks’ grandfather) Marks said. Marks recently performed her as a performer. a competitive swimmer since in his feature-length movie, It was great fun to “play a at her first house concert and “Without him, I wouldn’t first grade. “Refuge.” role meant to be for a young really enjoyed the experience, have started,” she said. Marks’ next live performance On the set, she got to hang boy,” she said. she said, because she had the Medoff either attends her will be 4-7 p.m. Sunday, July 29, around with Hollywood stars Marks began taking voice opportunity to interact more performances in person, she at Dragonfly. She can also be Linda Hamilton and Chris Mc- lessons with acclaimed local with her audience as a featured said, or sends her a text before heard occasionally between 9 Donald, who she described as singer Della Bustamante four performer instead of just pro- every show. a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Saturday “regular people. They’re all so years ago, and the two “just viding background music. Marks isn’t sure where she’ll farmers’ market downtown. nice,” she said. clicked,” she said. At age 13, Marks learned to go to college in couple of years, Mike Cook may be reached at That movie was the first time Marks had only sung in a play a ukulele, and even used but she knows studying and [email protected]. Marks had an opportunity to chorus before studying voice simple chords on the four- playing music will be part of 40 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN A&E EVENTS ‘A Midsummer Night’s 575-541-2290. positions. Storytellers at Coas: Saturday Night Dance: nal uplifting music. Dream’: 7 p.m. Fridays • Saturday, July 28: 10:30 a.m. Saturdays at 5-7 p.m. Saturday, July July 29: Latin Funk- and Saturdays, July 20- Music in the Plaza: 8-10 Smokin’ Blues, guitars, Coas Bookstores. Sto- 21, Munson Center 975 S. tion Project, Las Cruces, 21, 27-28; 1 p.m. Saturday, p.m. Fridays, Mesilla vocals, drums and more. rytellers of Las Cruces Mesquite St. Open to all Latin jazz, funk and rock July 21; 10 a.m. Friday, Plaza. Town of Mesilla • Sunday, July 29: C.L. at both locations. Chil- ages. Tickets are avail- music; and Ray Anthony July 27, Atkinson Re- presents its Summer Smith, solo performer dren attending receive able at Munson Center & Powerslyde, Corrales, cital Hall, NMSU Music Music Series with food with styles ranging from coupons for discounted the week of the dance, or N.M., jazz, funk and rock Center, NMSU. A Star- trucks and vendors. folk to country and blues books. at the door. Cost: $3. music. light Theatre Company Cost: Free. Info: www. to rock. • Downtown, 317 N. Aug. 5: Remember production. Cost: $10 for mesillanm.gov. Main St. High Desert Brewing: Then … A Class Act, Las adults, $5 for children • July 20: Damian July 21: Douglas Jack- Live music 8-11 p.m. Cruces, oldies music; and students. An ad- Luna. son. Thursdays and Satur- and Soul Shine, Las Cru- ditional $1 fee for each • July 27: Smokin’ July 28: Judith Ames. days, 1201 W. Hadley Ave. ces, rock, folk, soul, and ticket purchased online. Blues Band. • 1101 S. Solano Drive • Saturday, July 21: country music. Info and tickets: Cheryl July 21: Florence Ham- Derrick Lee Group, jazz. Aug. 12: Tequila Carreon 575-644-8567 or LCCT costume sale: 8:30 ilton. • Thursday, July 26: Nights, Las Cruces, [email protected], a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 28: Jean Gilbert. Jamie O’Hara, blues/ variety music; and the or Barbara Gamillo 575- July 21, Las Cruces Com- rock fusion. Johnny Hernandez 649-1794 or barlugo@ munity Theatre, 313 N. Stanley Kubrick tribute: • Saturday, July 28: Band, Las Cruces, vari- gmail.com. Main St. Las Cruces Rio Grande Theatre, 211 Southwest Orchestra, ety music. N.M. Vintage Wines: 8-10 Community Theatre will N. Main St., will screen Americana desert bal- Aug. 19: Reviva, Albu- Dance Las Cruces: 7:30- p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, will sell all, types, sizes two movies to celebrate lads. querque, original ska, 9:30 p.m. Friday, July 3-5 p.m. Sundays, 2461 and eras of costumes what would have been • Thursday, Aug. 2: reggae and world music; 20, NMSU Golf Course Calle Principal in Me- during Farmers and Stanley Kubrick’s 90th Sage GentleWing, solo and the Bubba Kush Clubhouse, 300 Herb silla. Live music. Crafts Market. Good-to- birthday. singer/songwriter. Band, Las Cruces, classic Wimberly Drive. Fea- • Friday, July 20: Rio excellent condition, most • 1 p.m. Saturday, • Saturday, Aug. 4: CW rock music. turing DJ. Free dance Grande Bluegrass Band, $5 or less. Proceeds ben- July 21: Jan Harlan’s Ayon, blues. Aug. 26: C. J. Chenier lesson at 6:45 p.m. Cost: playing traditional blue- efit the theatre. documentary, “Stanley • Thursday, Aug. 9: & the Red Hot Louisi- $8 for members, $10 for grass. Kubrick: A Life in Pic- Derrick Harris, blues. ana Band, Port Arthur, non-members, $5 for • Saturday, July 21: Artrageous: 10 a.m.- tures.” Cost: Free. Texas, Zydeco music; students. Beginners, Chris Baker, a local noon Saturdays, Las • 7 p.m. Thursday, July and Joseph General singles, couple welcome. country artist. Cruces Museum of Art, 26: The Shining. Cost: $8. Band, Albuquerque, reg- Info: 575-496-2761. • Sunday, July 22: 491 N. Main St. Each Music in the Park: 7 p.m. gae music. Travis James Manning, month features a dif- Made in New Mexico: Thursdays and Sundays. Evening of jazz: 8 p.m. acoustic musician. ferent art appreciation 2-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Las Cruces Parks & Rec- • Thursday Night Music Friday, July 20, Rio • Friday, July 27: Or- theme and a different July 21, 1740 Calle de reation Department’s on the Plaza Grande Theatre, 211 N. lando Madrid-Carlos subject each week. July Mercado. Movie expert 2018 Music in the Park July 26: Mexico Vive!, Main St. Featuring the Barba Duo, selections of is about the “Pop Art and author Jeff Berg Series. Cost: Free. Info: featuring Mariachis An- Orlando Madrid Jazz jazz standards to popular Movement.” Info: 575- will show film clips 575-541-2550. tonio Reyna, folklorico Quintet. Cost: $10. Info: music and original com- 541-2137 or museums.las- from his “Made in New • Sundays at Young Park dancers and more. cruces.org. Mexico” series, featur- July 22: Maria Muld- • July 21: Roy Lichten- ing segments of movies uar, Greenwich Village, Feed Your Mind: 5:30-7 stein. filmed in the state. Cost: N.Y., original roots and • July 28: Pop collage. $5. Info: 575-523-6403 or pop music; and Janet SEE EVENTS, PAGE 41 www.daarts.org. Blair, Las Cruces, origi- Selling ALTERATIONS • GIFT SHOP We can make your clothes fit. Pecans!! NFL items have arrived. BBC World News America 225 E. Idaho #32 in La Mission Plaza Stop in for Weekdays, 5pm on KRWG-TV 22 The Truck Farm FREE SAMPLING Hours: Tues thru Fri - 10AM - 6PM SWEETHOTS.COM • 523-1447523-1447 Saturday : 10AM - 2PM LC3-LV44765 M-F 8-6 • SAT 9-5 • 645 S. Alameda Support KRWG at krwg.org • 888-922-5794 Phone Number: 527-1411 LC3-LV44771 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 41 Grande Theatre, 211 GALLERIES & OPENINGS EVENTS N. Main St. Arrive in CONTINUED FROM 40 costume. Las Cruces Shadow Cast will per- Here & Now Regional Rack of fiber art seed gathered in 1917. NM gether tell a unique facet p.m. Mondays, DAAC form alongside the Juried Exhibition packets by New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage of an underappreciated Arts & Cultural Center, movie. Cost: $10. Through July 21, Mu- region of Studio Art Museum, 4100 Dripping part of U.S. history, the 1740 Calle de Mercado. seum of Art Quilt Associates. NM Springs Road. Bracero Program. Brani- Summer short courses Dance Las Cruces: 7:30- Farm & Ranch Heritage gan Cultural Center, 501 Las Cruces Museum of Jenny Morgan: A with art historian Kath- 9:30 p.m. Friday, July Art in collaboration with Museum Arts Corridor, N. Main St. leen Key. Cost: $50 for 27, NMSU Golf Course 4100 Dripping Springs Higher Ground NMSU Art Gallery fea- Las Cruces and the four-part series, $20 Clubhouse, 300 Herb tures works in all media Road. Through Sept. 21 per seminar. Proceeds Wimberly Drive. Free Exhibit tracks the de- Gadsden student art by artists living and League of Women benefit Arts Council pro- dance lesson at 6:45 p.m. working within 150 miles velopment of Morgan’s Through mid-October grams for children. Info: Cost: $8 for members, of Las Cruces. Info: 575- Voters: Celebrating body of work from grad- More than 100 original 575-523-6403 or www. $10 for non-members, $5 541-2137 or museums. 50 Years uate school at the School student works on display daarts.org. The series: for students. Beginners, Las-cruces.org. Through Aug. 25 of Visual Arts to her in the first-floor cor- • July 23: Joseph Mal- singles, couple welcome. Exhibit highlights the more recent paintings ridors of the Doña Ana lord William Turner Info: 575-496-2761. Fire and Fiber United chapter’s mission, posi- exploring the individual. County Government (British, 1775-1851). Through July 27 tions, and advocacy from Opening reception, 6 Center at 845 N. Motel • July 30: John Singer Potters’ Guild of Las its founding through p.m. Thursday, July 26. Blvd. Sargent (American, 1856- Cruces biennial show current activities. Brani- University Art Gallery, 1925). at Tombaugh Gallery, gan Cultural Center, 501 D.W. Williams Hall, 1390 Dressed for the • Aug. 6: Joaquin So- Saturday matinee: Noon Unitarian Universal- N. Main St. E. University Ave. Occasion rolla (Spanish, 1863-1923). Saturday, July 28, Rio ist Church at 2000 S. Through March 3, 2019 • Aug. 20: NC Wyeth Grande Theatre, 211 N. Solano Drive. Artworks Flamenco: From Braceros: Melding Women’s everyday and (1882–1945), Andrew Main St. “The Princess in the exhibit are col- Spain to New Mexico History and Art dress clothing from the Wyeth (1917-2009) and Bride.” Tickets $1. laborations between Through Sept. 15 Through Oct. 3 pioneer days of the 1870s other Wyeth family mem- ceramics artists, who are Exhibit from the Mu- Sculptures by Diana to the Depression era of bers (American). Songwriting Showcase: members of the Potters’ seum of International LeMarbe, paintings the 1930s. NM Farm & 6-9 p.m. Saturday, July Guild, and fiber artists. Folk Art traces flamenco by Jeri Desrocher, and Ranch Heritage Museum ArtRageous art classes: 28, Cruces Creatives, 205 to its arrival in the U.S. historical research by Legacy Gallery, 4100 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednes- E Lohman Ave. Discus- Student art show and its rise as an inter- Raymond Cobos that to- Dripping Springs Road. day, July 25, 1740 Calle sion and Q&A about Through July national art form. Bra- de Mercado. Abstract songwriting in the clas- MAS Art Frame and nigan Cultural Center, painting with black sic country and folk Art Supplies, 126 S. Main 501 N. Main St. light effects by Tiffany traditions. Cost: $10 in St., presents Mary Za- Figueroa. Cost: $30 in- advance, $12 at the door. wacki’s Third Annual 100 Years Strong cludes all materials and Info and tickets: www. Student Art Show. Regu- Through Sept. 16 light refreshments. Info: crucescreatives.org. lar hours are 9 a.m.-5:30 History of the Farm 575-523-6403 or www. p.m. Mondays-Fridays & Livestock Bureau. daarts.org. and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Satur- Soil conservation, bet- days. Info: 526-9113. ter irrigation methods, and improved crop pro- Movie of the 1980s: 7 p.m. How Does Your duction occupied 300 Saturday, July 28, Rio Garden Grow? Mesilla Valley farmers Grande Theatre, 211 N. Through Aug. 5 and ranchers who first Promoting art: Noon, Main St. Raiders of the Friday, July 27, DAAC Lost Ark. Cost: $8. Feed Your Mind! Arts & Cultural Center, ALTERATIONS, 1740 Calle de Mercado. OutsmART workshop: 1-2 summer short course Learning Action Buffet p.m. Saturdays, Aug. 4 CUSTOM SEWING with Michelle Valverde and 11, University Art & EMBROIDERY with Kathleen Key “Fab Four Artists” and Armando Arellano. Gallery, 1390 E. Univer- 5:30 – 7 p.m. Mondays Holman Holman Holman Hems, Zippers, Weddings Holman The LAB nurtures youth sity Ave. Each workshop Pillows from Needlework. 70 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/20 leadership and purpose will be inspired by a Hwy PorterPorterPorter Dr. Dr. Dr. Remembrance Bears. Porter Dr. DunnDunnDunn Dr. Dr. Dr. through the arts, com- piece in the University Dunn Dr. Check our website for a complete list of classes Cortez Dr. Cost is $50 for the four seminars or $20 per seminar munication, and action. Art Gallery current exhi- (575) 642-3106 Shannon Rd. Shannon Rd. registration required Rd. Rd. Rd. Cost: Free. Info: 575-523- bition. Info: 575-646-2545. www.polylith.com/niptuck Rd. BeyerBeyerBeyerBeyer Rd. Rd. Rd. Rd. Nopalito Nopalito Nopalito 6403 or www.daarts.org. Nopalito • Aug. 4: Jenny Mor- Tuesday & Thursday 10-5 gan, color and light. Hwy 70 E to Dunn Dr. exit turn Doña Ana Arts & Cultural Center Moulin Rouge!: 7 p.m. right on Dunn Dr. • Aug. 11: A sticky Situ- 4750 Nopalito Rd. Left on Shannon Rd. Right on next to Paisano Café in the Bulletin Plaza Friday, July 27, Rio Las Cruces, NM • 88011 Nopalito Rd. 1740 Calle de Mercado • daarts.org • 575-523-6403 SEE E VENTS, PAGE 42 42 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN EVENTS community service opportu- CALL TO ARTISTS CONTINUED FROM 41 nities, sew-ins, an active out- Book space per room for LCAA members, reach program and a biennial $200 a month for non-mem- quilt show. Info: Linnea Egbert Moonbow Alterations and ation, creating tape people. Gift Shop, 225 E. Idaho No. bers. No commission charged at 575-521-0521, linneanjce@ on sales. Info: Jack LeSage aol.com or visit www.lcqg.org. 32, has space available to dis- Stories for Grownups: 1:15-2:30 Old Dominion: 7:30 p.m. Fri- play books published by local 575-532-1046 or jacklsg1@ p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, First day, Oct. 12, Pan American authors. Info: 575-527-1411 or gmail.com. Presbyterian Church, 299 E. Center, NMSU. ACM’s winner [email protected]. Boutz Road. Told by members for Best Vocal Group will per- National Monument of the Storytellers of Las Cru- form with guests Michael Ray Celebrate Authors Artist in Residence ces. and High Valley. Cost: $35, $45 Friends of the Thomas Entries for Organ Moun- and $65. Additional fees may Branigan Memorial Library tains-Desert Peaks National USA Dance: 2:45-5:30 p.m. apply. Tickets available at Pan invite authors to participate Monument Artist in Resi- Sunday, Aug. 5, Mesilla Com- American Center, all Ticket- in the fifth annual Celebrate dence Program, to take place munity Center, 2251 Calle de master outlets, 800-745-3000 Authors event. Authors must Sept. 1-30, must be received Santiago. Two-step, waltz, fox- be residents of the southern via email on or before July and Ticketmaster.com. Las Cruces Ukes: 5:15-6:15 trot, chacha, tango, swing and New Mexico region with 20. An opportunity to interact p.m. Thursdays beginner more. Free dance lessons 2-2:45 books published in 2013 or to better enhance the under- ONGOING group; 6:30-8 p.m. Thursdays p.m. Cost: $5 for members, $10 later. Books can be of all standing of the public lands. for non-members. Info: Jerry performance group at Good Art classes: Beginning adult genres: fiction, non-fiction, Provides a $500 stipend upon Carson, 575-639-3993. Samaritan Society, Las Cruces completion. The selected classes are 1-3:30 p.m. Tues- poetry, a collection of short Village, 3011 Buena Vida Cir- artist in residence lives on days, My Place Jewell Studio, stories or children’s litera- Sci-Fi Summer Film: 7 p.m. cle. Free. Info: lascrucesukes. Organ Mountains - Desert 132 B Wyatt Drive. Intermedi- ture. Information about the Tuesday, Aug. 14, Rio Grande blogspot.com, 575-405-7133. Peaks National Monument ate and advanced drawing author and the book must Theatre, 211 North Main be submitted by July 31 on for the residency month. Info: and painting classes are 1-3:30 New Mexico Watercolor Soci- Street. Las Cruces Museum the application form at li- Brenda Gallegos at 575-323- p.m. Thursdays. Fee is $60 ety: Meets 2-4 p.m. the second of Nature & Science presents braryfriendslc.org. Info: Sue 1423 or email brenda@organ- for four classes. High school Sunday of each month, except “Jaws.” A special guest host Fletcher 521-8507. Leave a mtnfriends.org. Application: students welcome; 1:30-2:30 May which meets the third will discuss the science versus message with name, phone organmountainsdesertpeaks. p.m. Wednesdays for children Sunday, at Good Samaritan fiction during a brief introduc- number and message that the org/artist-in-residence-appli- ages 7 to 12. Fee is $40 for four Society’s Arts & Crafts room, tion. Cost: Free. Info: 575-522- call is about about Celebrate cations classes. Students may begin 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Info: 3120 or museums.las-cruces. Authors. org. any time. Info: 575-647-5684 or nmwatercolorsociety.org. New Horizons Symphony www.waynecarlhuber.com. Dia de los Muertos The orchestra seeks cello, Blues concert: 7 p.m. Sun- Pre-K programs: Join the Mu- Calavera Coalition is look- violin and percussion play- Art classes: Raven Art Studio, day, Aug. 19, First Christian seum of Nature & Science, ing for artists to submit ers. Weekly rehearsals start 300 N. Main St. For adults and Church, 1809 El Paseo Road. 411 N. Main St., from 9-10 a.m. original artwork for the 2018 at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, in teens 17 and older. $30 per ses- The Back Porch Blues Band every Thursday for explora- event. Artwork must be in the band room at the NMSU performs for Mesilla Val- sion. Info: Rick Rotante, 909- tion designed for preschoolers. black-and-white pen-and- Music Center. Membership is ley Jazz & Blues Society 233-0425. No registration required. Free. ink reflecting the spirit and $50 for the year. Concerts for monthly concert series. Cost: • 10 a.m. Mondays: Drawing Parents asked to stay with celebration of El Dia del los the 2018-2019 season are Nov. $5 for members, $10 for non- • 10 a.m. Tuesdays: Oil paint- their children throughout the Muertos. Winner gets one 11, Feb. 24, and May 19. The members, $1 for students ing program. Info: 575-522-3120 or free booth space for Mesilla’s symphony is a member of the with ID. • 10 a.m. Wednesdays: Paint- visit museums.las-cruces.org. Dia de los Muertos on the New Horizons International ing the human head Plaza valued at $175. Submis- Music Association. Info: 575- Guest art lecture: 1 p.m. Satur- • 10 a.m. Thursdays: Pastel Tango dance instruction: 7-8 sions must be received by 522-1498, kenmar4@comcast. day, Sept. 8, Hardman Jacobs painting p.m. Monday nights Mesilla Aug. 1. Email digital files to net or www.nhsocruces.com. Learning Center Room 125, • 10 a.m. Fridays: Drawing Community Center 2251 calaveracoalition@gmail. NMSU. Vascular surgeon and the clothed figure Calle de Santiago. Instructor com, CDs to P.O. Box 1308, ‘Parallel Lives’ auditions avid contemporary art collec- Tommy Nations. Dance 5-9 Mesilla, NM 88046. Roles open for four women tor Dr. Wayne F. Yakes will Las Colcheras Quilt Guild: 6:30 p.m. Cost: $10. Info: 575-635- in “Parallel Lives” by Kathy speak in conjunction with p.m. third Monday of the 6903. Exhibit space Najimy and Mo Gaffney, the University Art Gallery month, American Legion Post One or two private rooms, directed by Teddy Aspen-San- exhibit, Jenny Morgan: A 10 Hall, 1185 Madrid Ave. Meet- Please send your art event an- approximately 12-by-15-feet chez. Auditions consisting of higher Ground. The works are ings consist of brief business nouncements to editor@lascru- with common greeting area, character works and some on loan from Yakes’s personal announcements, a program, cesbulletin.com by Thursday available in the Gallery on improvisation take place 5-7 collection. Cost: Free. Info: 575- show-and-tell and door prizes. at least one week prior to the Mesquite Street in the Arts p.m. Saturday-Sunday, July 646-2545. The guild offers quilt lessons, desired publication date. & Cultural District and on 21-22 at Las Cruces Commu- the Art Ramble route. Hours nity Theatre, 313 N. 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Then, dim the lights and read it aloud tonight! Here are a few tips for planning Your brain needs sleep, so you can: the perfect slumber party: • Remember what you ______• Pay ______and concentrate Create some colorful cards to Boris had fallen asleep in his • Solve problems and think of new ______invite your friends. Be sure to ______reading one night. tell the start time and end time Your body needs sleep, so your: Around 2:00 a.m., a loud for the party. • Muscles, bones, and ______can grow • Muscles, skin and other parts can fix ______startled him awake. Have a plan for things your ¬%RG\FDQVWD\BBBBBBBBBBBBDQGILJKWVLFNQHVV guests will enjoy, such as The room was completely dark. Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. playing games, watching a “Who’s there?” cried Boris. movie, working on a craft, etc. A deep voice in the shadows Have yummy snacks such as s’mores, popcorn or fresh fruit. replied, “It is I, a ______SLEEPOVER Find the words by looking up, ______. And there is no Encourage everyone to help down, backwards, forwards, clean up any mess the next SENTENCE sideways and diagonally. escaping my ______!” morning! It’s not fair to leave PAJAMAS it for your parents to do. P A J A M A S A F T HEALTHY Boris ran across the dark room PILLOW E R P D A B L S R H and began to ______the SPEECH T H G I F K E I T E Sloppy Slumber Party stairs. But he felt a cold Wow! The boys at Noah’s slumber FIGHT G S S L L N E D V A party had a lot of fun, but they sure BRAIN ______grip his ankle. H I K G T L P L E L made a really big mess. Can you SOLVE He couldn’t ______at all! find these items among the clutter? O H I E W T O S R T 3 books BONES 11 pretzels 8 flashlights VERBS S E N O B S V W B H “Wait!” shouted Boris. “If I give 11 crayons 5 pizza slices 7 socks 2 action figures GHOST T C R H C E E P S Y you my collection of ______6 cups 3 basketballs SKIN 4 plates 4 sneakers E G O U T B R A I N ______, will you leave?” 6 apple cores GROW Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recongized identical BED words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. SillySilly SSleepoverleepover SentencSentencee Which two sets “You collect those, too?” said the Write a sentence about a sillysilly sleepsleep over. of pajamas are voice. “That’s amazing! Do you Use one noun, noun one verb and three adjectives! exactly alike? also like to eat ______on toast?” Opposite Headlines Select five or more headlines in today’s “My favorite!” said Boris. newspaper. Re-write each headline so that He turned on the overhead it says exactly the opposite of what the ______and the two hairy original headline said. monsters shook ______. How many Standards Link: Vocabulary Development: Students understand “Nice to meet you! I’m Boris!” differences can and use antonyms to determine the meaning of words. you find between Sleepover these two “My name is Edgar,” said the pictures? Scavenger Hunt other monster. “I know it’s late, Look through the but I think we can still catch a newspaper to find: few ______A flashlight THAT’S STRANGE A picture of a bed before the sun comes up.” Three nouns What is one of the strangest things How many slippers can Four adjectives you have ever heard about? Write you find on this page? Five verbs about it and share it with a friend With that, the two monsters Standards Link: friends stepped out into the Research: Use the newspaper or family member. to locate information. Standards Link: Visual Discrimination. dark ______night. 44 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN PHOTOS COURTESY GILBERT AND SULLIVAN COMPANY, EL PASO Most of the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso’s cast of “Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride.” ‘Patience’: The high art of attracting women BULLETIN REPORT witty satire that pits the isms silly. The problem? GSCEP production, with straight-laced ideals of Bunthorne’s artistic ways vocal director Marsha They might not have the Victorian Era against are all just an act to at- Watley and piano accom- been able to stand each the passions and indul- tract women to him; he panist Ballard Coldwell. other’s company, but gences of the 1870s Aes- doesn’t even like poetry. GSCEP “is a commu- W.S. Gilbert and Arthur thetic Movement, with The arrival of idyllic nity theater group that Sullivan produced comic its focus on beauty in art poet Archibald Gros- has an unbroken history operas that have stood and literature,” according vener complicates the of annual Gilbert & Sul- the test of time for nearly to Irene Rivas of GSCEP. situation, Rivas said, as livan productions since 150 years. Gilbert and “As the operetta opens, he proposes to Patience. 1969 when it was founded Sullivan productions con- all of the maidens in the Meanwhile, the Dragoon by its first artistic direc- tinue to be staged across village are infatuated Guards, a troop of young tor, [the late] Joan P. the country and around with Reginald Bun- soldiers meant to marry Quarm,” Rivas said. “The the world. thorne, a handsome aes- the village maidens, find company is funded and Black Box Theatre, 430 thetic poet (who) wears themselves baffled by supported in part by the N. Main St. in downtown delicate attire, writes and the sudden loss of their City of El Paso Museums Las Cruces, will host recites poetry and wan- sweethearts. and Cultural Affairs De- The Dragoon Guards and village maidens in Gilbert and Sul- two performances of ders around pensively,” “Patience” was Gilbert partment and the Texas livan’s 1881 comic opera “Patience; or, Bunthorne’s Bride.” the Gilbert and Sullivan Rias said. “Bunthorne, and Sullivan’s sixth col- Commission on the Arts.” Company of El Paso’s Shows are 3 p.m. and admission and $12 for however, is smitten with laboration, first produced For tickets and more in- (GSCEP) production 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July students and seniors over the village milkmaid, in 1881. formation, call the Black of “Patience; or, Bun- 21. age 65. Patience, who finds all of Stephanie J. Conwell Box at 575-523-1223 and thorne’s Bride.” Tickets are $15 regular “Patience” is a “lively, his attitudes and manner- is artistic director of the visit www.no-strings.org. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 45 BULLETIN PHOTOS BY STEVE MACINTYRE Friends Linda Sanchez and Ginette Novello enjoy the music of Jefferson Starship. Friends Ka- trina Doolittle, Linda San- Dennis DeYoung, frontman of STYX. chez, Ginette Novello and Beth Mendoza dance to the Jefferson Starship. Jefferson Starship vocalist Cathy Richardson Musical fireworks Two blasts from the past, Styx and Jefferson Starship, rocked the 4th of July at NMSU. Both bands have evolved over time, with a rotating membership – to the point where use of the Starship’s name was a legal point of contention. Nevertheless, through the ages and all the turmoil that goes with rock ‘n’ roll stardom, these bands have survived to play another night, to the delight of their fans. Ana and Stephen Olsson. 46 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAS CRUCES BULLETIN PUZZLES ENTERING CONNECTICUT ACROSS 70 401(k) cousins 128 Enthusiastic 1 Greek letters after 71 See 22-Across about rhos 72 Itsy-bitsy bit 7 French country 73 Suns’ org. DOWN house 74 Scandal over 1 Stitches up 14 Classic game legal agreements in 2 “-- it!” (sandlot consoles Tehran? cry) 20 Vain type 79 Tea varieties 3 Ex-veep Al 21 Loud warning 80 Trial pledge 4 Pol Romney gizmo 81 Huck’s craft 5 Bat wood 22 With 71-Across, 82 Acclaim 6 Fashionable pre-talkies time 86 Give out 7 “Elf” actor James 23 Valuable desert 87 James Bond, e.g. 8 Big name in fruit plants? 88 Mom’s skill, for drinks 25 Graf of tennis short 9 Actor Carney 26 “Leave it in” 89 Suit material 10 Fri. preceder 27 PC-to-PC 90 Far Eastern mer- 11 Goddess of the hookup cenary dawn 28 Shuttle org. 93 Oil-anointing rite 12 Lack life 30 Chalk out in old Russia? 13 Not voiced 31 Pine cousin 98 Chillax 14 Evaluated 32 Test of one’s holi- 100 Without, in 15 Little bird ness? Paris 16 First Hebrew let- 37 Most gross 102 Bank holding ter 41 Twistable cookie 103 Ballet garb 17 Outwardly shown 42 Legal title 104 Draw out feta or by 43 Dollar or euro Brie? 18 Actually divs. 107 “Uh-uh,” rural- 19 Is lousy 44 Really bad- style 24 -- blanche 45 “Keep it up” rales 85 -- -lease 105 Former TV host mouth a physician? 108 Elisabeth of 29 Surf and turf’s 46 Pictorial paper 64 Basmati, e.g. 87 Christmas Eve Philbin 47 Good (at) “Molly” “turf” part 65 Usher in visitor 106 Boring 49 Tool in a wood 109 Boxing wallop 31 Big bash 48 Highest point 66 “The Tao of 88 Bonds 110 NBA’s Jason shop 110 Kit -- bar 32 Woody Allen’s 52 Excavation dis- Pooh” author Ben- 89 Garbage-hauling 111 Dull pain 50 Walk- -- (tiny 111 Re wife Previn covery jamin boat 112 Getz of jazz parts) 115 Ones giving GIs 33 Curved lines 54 Lisa of pop 67 Organ part 91 Covert org. 113 Fiesta snack 51 Iowa’s tree orders 34 Post-taxes music 68 Provo’s neighbor 92 “Bad” singer 114 Algerian city 53 Slim, slithery 117 “That bee just 35 Talk lovingly 55 Sammy of the 69 Alternating Michael 116 Compass dir. fishes ingested poisoned 36 F preceders diamond 75 Curt denial 94 Bullring call 118 Before 56 Voting “no” plant fluid!”? 37 Mallorca, por 57 Poi plants 76 Light shafts 95 Contend 119 Fumble 57 Really small 123 Warming cur- ejemplo 58 Confident cry 77 Dahl of film 96 Lower arm 120 Vardalos of the 59 Tennis’ Korda rent 38 Tribal bunch 59 Roost 78 Butler played by bones screen 61 Jet boat model 124 Hastened 39 Actor William or 60 Floride, par ex- Gable 97 Clean freak 121 Playa -- Rey 63 Rehearse with 125 Cornell’s city Nicky emple 83 “Eri tu,” e.g. 98 Artery, e.g. 122 Summer, to great enthusiasm in 126 Abate 40 “Gotcha,” to a 61 Tuned to, as a dial 84 Monster-film lab 99 Breathe out Yves Britain? 127 May’s gem jazz cat 62 Hollywood’s Mo- assistant 101 Reaper’s tool 67 Poker prize LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 47 PUZZLES SCRAMBLERS Unscramble the letters within each rectangle to SNOWFLAKES By Japheth Light WEEKLY SUDOKU By Linda Thistle form four ordinary words. Then rearrange the boxed Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, letters to form the mystery word, which will complete There are 13 black hexagons in the puzzle. Place the each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the the gag! number 1-6 around each of them. No number can numbers from one to nine. be repeated in any partial hexagon shape along the border of the puzzle. CRYPTOQUIP This is a simple substitution cipher in which each letter used stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Solution is accomplished by trial and error. PUZZLE ANSWERS CRYPTOQUIP SCRAMBLERS WEEKLY SUDOKU WEEKLY SNOWFLAKES SUPER CROSSWORD SUPER 48 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 RELIGION LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Worship Services WORSHIP CALENDAR Roman Catholic Advertise Your Worship New Thought New Thought Marriage seminar: 11 Cost: Free. Info: 575-524- Services Today! a.m.-12:15 p.m. Sundays, 3380 or [email protected] if July 22 and 29, Mesilla planning to attend. Call 524-8061 To Be Included Park Community Church Classroom B, 1040 El ONGOING Advertise Paseo Road. Marriage Presbyterian W conference video in new A Course in Miracles: ellspring a new thought spiritual community seminar series featuring 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, FIRST Dr. Gary Chapman, the Tesoro Integrative Health PRESBYTERIAN Your Worship Sunday event at 11am CHURCH Kamatara Johnson New York Times Bestsell- Center, 1605 S. Main THE ROMAN CATHOLIC She will also lead a workshop after the ing author of “The Five St. Complete self-study DIOCESE OF LAS CRUCES service - Forgiveness and Healing: Love Languages.” Drop spiritual thought system VIEW ALL LISTINGS OF Sunday School: 9 am Services Today! A Workshop to Free the Self children off in the chil- with Edward Alvarez. $5 CATHOLIC CHURCHES 140 West Taylor Road dren’s ministry during suggested donation. Info: ON OUR WEBSITE wellspringnow.com Traditional Worship the class. Cost: Free. Info: 575-541-5660. WWW.DIOCESEOFLASCRUCES.ORG Service: 10:30 Call 524-8061 575-524-7658, info@getre- English, Spanish, and Korean congregations Methodist alchurch.org. Register at Agape Christian: 4:30 p.m. 200 E. Boutz Road, Las Cruces www.getrealchurch.org/ Sunday, Bible school for Catholic www.fpc.lc (575) 526-5559 To Be Included events. all ages. 5:45 p.m., Secret Holy Family Church and Children’s American Jehovah’s Witnesses con- Church, 1400 6th St. Com- National Baptist 1BTUPS3FW%S)FJLF.JMMFS vention: 9:20 a.m. Friday- munion served to all be- Catholic Church 4VOEBZ8PSTIJQ4FSWJDFT Sunday, July 27-29, El lievers. Info: Herb Pinney, 5SBEJUJPOBMBN An Inclusive Vatican II 'BNJMZ'SJFOEMZBN Paso Convention Center, 575-650-3915. Catholic Community +PVSOFZQN 1 Civic Center Plaza, El Masses: Sat. 5:30 pm & 4VOEBZ4DIPPM$MBTTFT Paso. In Spanish. Conven- Campus Mass: 12:10 p.m. Sun. 10:30 am GPSBMM!BN tion focuses on life chal- Tuesday, Newman Cen- Clergy: Fr. Jim Lehman, FCM 4-PDVTU lenges and what people ter, 2615 S. Solano Drive. Join us in creating a m Fr. Louie Amezaga and animals can teach Catholic students and St. Sacred space where JOGP!VVNDMDPSH 702 Parker Rd. XXXVVNDMDPSH about courage. Sunday, Albert the Great weekly Las Cruces. NM 88005 SUNDAY all feel the Presence the program includes a mass. Info: Mona Chip, 575-644-5025 Bible Study 9 & 10:45 am of God, the Joy of God, Lutheran discussion on “The Res- mona@stalbertnewman- Morning Worship 9 & 10:45 am where all feel welcome, TRINITY LUTHERAN urrection Hope Imparts center.org. WEDNESDAY safe and loved. CHURCH-ELCA Courage – Why?” and a Students & Youth 6:00 pm feature Film titled, “The Center for Spiritual Living: Sundays, 10:30 to 11:30 am Sunday Worship Adult Connections 6:15 pm Story of Jonah–A Lesson 575 N. Main St. 9:00 am CHILD CARE AVAILABLE Rev. Terry Lund in Courage and Mercy.” • 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Minister Sunday School 106 South Miranda Cost: Free. meditation. 10:30 am • 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sun- Downtown Las Cruces 125 Wyatt Drive, Las Nursery available Beloved justice: 7 p.m. day, celebration followed 524-3691 Cruces Friday, July 27, Baha’i by a community meal. www.unityoflascruces.org 1BTUPS8BZOF/JFNJOFO www.fb clascruces.com 1BTUPS$ISJTUBWPO;ZDIMJO Center, 525 E. Lohman • 10:30-11:30 a.m. Mon- &MLT%SJWF Ave. The entrance is in day, Sacred Living Circle. Disciples of Christ/ XXXUSJOJUZMVUIFSBOMDPSH the rear. Discussion on • 9-10 a.m., Monday- United Church of Christ "MMBSFXFMDPNF “The Best Beloved of All Thursday, yoga. Christian Things: Justice.” Info: 575- • 2-3 p.m., first and third Messianic 556-9650. Tuesday of each month, First Disciples of Christ and dance free. Church of United Church of Christ Relaxed sing-along: 7:30 • 4:30-5 p.m. Thursdays, Christ, Scientist p.m. Saturday, July peace meditation. 28, Temple Beth-El So- • 4-6 p.m. third Friday Sunday: FOR Did you know Jesus was Jewish Service & Sunday School and His name was Yeshua? cial Hall, 3980 Sonoma of each month, Shamanic 10 a.m. Join us at Springs Ave. Dessert and drumming and medita- Wednesday: WHOEVERYONE ? 134 S. Main St. (Griggs & Main) the Jewish end-of-Sabbath tion. Testimonies 7 p.m. Service Sat. 1PM FIRST CHRISTIAN ceremony(Havdalah), • 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., All are WELCOME! Bible Study Sat 4PM followed by a sing-along Saturdays, A Course in CHURCH Join us to learn about Miracles 325 West Mountain Ave. Sunday Service 10:15 am your Hebrew Roots. led by Rabbi Larry Karol Las Cruces, NM 1809 El Paseo 524-3245 Call 524-8061 Everyone is welcome! with songs from 50 years 575-523-5063 Website: fcclc.org To Be Included 866-874-7250 ago straight from the etz-chayim.org Billboard Hot 100 Charts. SEE WORSHIP, PAGE 49 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN RELIGION FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 49 journey to the inner self, Grandma’s “Soular” Power: 2450 S. Telshor Blvd. Holy prophets. Children’s Sunday School: 9-10 a.m. WORSHIP where the Spirit of God 2-4 p.m. the first and third mass. Info: 575-636-3274. church provided. Info: every Sunday at First CONTINUED FROM 48 abides.” Info: Joe Murray Thursday, First Christian Pastor Herb, 575-650-3915. Presbyterian Church, 200 860.514.0548 or joe@haid- Church, 1809 El Paseo Men’s prayer breakfast: E. Boutz Road. For chil- Codependents Anony- acher.cc. Road. Support group for 7-9 a.m. Tuesday, 106 S. Pancake breakfast: 8-11 dren ages 4 through fifth mous: Meetings are 7-8 interested grandparents Miranda St., in the Fel- a.m. Second Saturday of grade; includes “Parable p.m. Mondays at Peace Cowboys for Christ: Non- serving as community lowship Hall. Info: 575- each month, Center for Quest,” as children hear Lutheran Church, 1701 denominational outreach advocates, mentors. 524-3691. Spiritual Living at 575 N. the parable stories of E. Missouri Ave., Room organization seeks vol- Voice concerns and share Main. Cost: $6. La Fron- Jesus and participate in 107. CoDA is a 12-step unteers to coordinate words of wisdom with- Men’s Fellowship: Noon, tera Fair Trade Market games, crafts, snacks and program that focuses Christian fellowship to out judgment. Info: Lola Tuesday, IHOP, 2900 will also be held 8 a.m.- songs. Info: 575-526-5559 on learning to nurture assist those in need. Info Lestrick, 575-382-5678, or Del Rey Blvd. Christian noon at the center. or [email protected]. ourselves. We let go and requests: benzo@live. Shirley Daniels, 575-915- Men’s Fellowship. Open Prayer groups: 9 a.m. of unhealthy rescuing com. 8284. discussion. All men wel- Saturday, 20-30-minute Trinity Lutheran: 9 a.m. behavior and focus on come. Info: 575-621-2350. centering prayer, Peace Sunday, worship with spiritual and emotional Fusion Youth Fellowship: Holy Family Mass: Holy Lutheran Church, 1701 E. Holy Communion. 10:30 health. Info: www.coda. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednes- Family American Na- Men’s prayer meeting: 7 Missouri Ave. a.m. Sunday, Sunday org or Wayne at 575-647- day at 2941 Morningstar tional Catholic Church, a.m. Saturday, 1605 S. Val- School for children and 5684. Drive. Info: 575-521-3770. an inclusive Vatican II ley Drive, led by Manny Sunday Mass: 10:15 a.m. youth, 2900 Elks Drive. Catholic church, 702 Howie. Info: 575-523-1113. Sunday, Southeast cor- Info: 575-523-4232 or www. Christian meditation: Genesis Bible Study: Parker Road, 5:30 p.m. ner of First Christian trinitylutheranlc.org. 5:30-6:20 p.m. Tuesdays 6:30 p.m. first three Saturdays and 10:30 a.m. Non-denominational Church, 1809 El Paseo at The Bridge, northeast Thursdays of the month, Sundays. Fr. Jim Lehman service: 5:45 p.m. Sunday, Road. St. John’s Catho- Unity events: Tuesday corner of Chaparral Revival Fire Bookstore, and Fr. Louie Amezaga Dream Center, Sixth lic Church of Antioch Book Study, 10 a.m.- Street and East Mesa 2645 Missouri Ave., Suite lead the services. and Wilson Streets. New mass. Open to all. Info: noon weekly; Thursday Avenue; Wednesdays at 5. Book of Genesis Bible Agape Christian Church 575-621-0255 or www.st- meditation, 11-11:30 a.m. Nopalito Gallery, 326 S. study. Info: Bev, 575-642- MMC Mass: Noon offers a scriptural, theo- johnscatholicchurchofan- weekly; Sunday worship, Mesquite St. “In still- 1003. Wednesday, Memorial logical, historical and tioch.org. 10:30-11.30 a.m., a joyous ness, silence, emptinessWors a hip ServicesMedical Center chapel, scientific look at the service designed to help Non Denominational Baha'i Faith Episcopal The Baha’i Information ST. ANDREW’S Southern New Mexico & Reading Center All faiths welcome EPISCOPAL Church of God CHURCH Biblically Discover the Baha’i Faith Orthodox Traditional “Digging deep Sabbath Services Interfaith Devotional wells so others Anglican Worship Sundays 10:30 to 12 p.m. may drink.” Sunday: Interactive 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. “All the messengers of God have Rector: The Rev. Canonnon Bible Study Scott A. Ruthven Wednesday: 10 a.m. been sent for the sole purpose of Saturdays 1 p.m. guiding mankind to the straight Weekday Services www.stjameslascruces.org path of Truth.” Tuesday - 9:30 AM - Morning Prayer 1701 E . Mi ssouri Thursday - Noon - Holy Eucharist 102 St. James Avenue • 526-2389 525 E. Lohman Corner of University & S. Main Kristy Parks, 575.522.0467 Sunday Services See us 4BU4VO 8:30 AM - Rite 1 Jewish CALVARY 10:30 AM - Rite 2 mornings 10:30 Advertise TEMPLE BETH-EL a.m. on -BT$SVDFT CHRISTIAN 518 N. Alameda Blvd. OF LAS CRUCES 526-6333 DBCMFDIBOOFM CENTER www.SaintAndrewsLC.org OURS IS A DIVERSE AND GROWING Your Worship JEWISH COMMUNITY We observe all of God’s 8FBSFGVOEBNFOUBMCZCFMJFG Friday Services vary, please check Schedule of Services Holy Days and accept 1FOUFDPTUBMCZFYQFSJFODF*GZPVBSF our website for this week’s time MPPLJOHGPSFOUIVTJBTUJDXPSTIJQBOE Sunday School at 10am Jesus Christ VODPNQSPNJTFEQSFBDIJOHPGUIF8PSE Services Today! Shabbat Morning Services Sunday Morning Worship as our savior. PG(PE XFJOWJUFZPVUPDPNFXPSTIJQ at 10:15 am Service at 11am "MMBSFXFMDPNF WWW.TBELC.ORG Wednesday Bible Study at 7pm Pastor Mark Jordan Call 524-8061 3980 SONOMA SPRINGS AVE. 1880 N. Solano 650-7359 Worship services 10:0 a.m. 575-524-3380 Las Cruces, NM 88001 Sundays at 4211 Elks Drive. 575-405-4269 ConGidential private counseling Rabbi Lawrence P. Karol For more information, call 575-323-3442 To Be Included also available. Member of Union for Reform Judaism www.riveroflifeupc.org BUSINESS 50 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN BULLETIN FILE PHOTOS Agriculture is a main economic driver in the Mesilla Valley, led by the venerable pecan indus- Sure, these graduates are joyous, but will they take their talents out of state when they begin try. their careers? Forty-three New Mexico ranks near bottom of states for business By MARTY RACINE New (but higher property broad categories weighted Las Cruces Bulletin Mexico’s taxes than New Mexico) on how each metric fac- neighbors and is a right-to-work tors in economic develop- The arts are a major attraction in Las Cruces, so it was a The 12th annual CNBC fared state, added more than ment and marketing. natural fit when the Doña Ana Arts Council hosted a recent survey of America’s top much 350,000 jobs in the past In other words, how Business after Hours get-together. states for business, aka better year. states use criteria “to sell ture (17th), cost of living their workforce, the num- “a scorecard on state this year. “With its robust econ- themselves,” Cohn said. (19th) and cost of doing bers of available employ- economic climate,” ranks COHN Texas omy, solid infrastructure The 10 categories are: business (24th). The state ees, and net migration of New Mexico near the bot- is No. 1, and world-class work- workforce, infrastructure, fared worst in economy, college-educated workers. tom, at No. 43. Utah No. 3, Colorado No. 5 force, Texas is always cost of doing business, education and business We consider each state’s The findings were re- and Arizona No. 60. tough to beat,” said CNBC economy, quality of life, friendliness. concentration of STEM leased July 10. Since the study was Special Correspondent technology & innova- “Our study is not an (science, technology, The number continues introduced in 2007, Texas Scott Cohn, who authored tion, education, business opinion survey; we mea- engineering and math) a downward trend in the has placed in the top 5 the survey. “It is even friendliness, access to sure actual performance,” workers, increasingly in survey for The Land of every year and is the only more so when the energy capital and cost of living. Cohn said in a CNBC demand by business. We Enchantment – from 24th four-time winner. The industry is healthy, as it New Mexico ranked press release. measure workforce pro- in 2015 to 39th in 2016 and Lone Star State, which is now.” in the top half in three “We rate states based 42nd in 2017. has no state income tax States were graded in 10 categories: infrastruc- on the education level of SEE FORTY-THREE, PAGE 51 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN BUSINESS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 51 Liberty, efficiency require government’s delicate balance Summer turns coercion is being Mandated by the U.S. who switch their business ments just aren’t very When there is a tie or the mind to lib- applied. Constitution, it is the pri- to competitors. This obvi- good at this sort of thing even if the government erty, because At the same mary role of the president ously is not possible with while the private sector, is slightly more efficient summertime is time, the lack of and federal government. prisons. motivated by profits, ex- at providing a service, when vacations government does At the other extreme Then there are other cels. libertarian-leaning econo- give us freedom not mean liberty, are decisions about the difficult cases that fall the In fact, over the last mists, like me, will come from school and as no govern- furniture arrangement other way. Electricity is a generation, the trend has down on the side of the work. Liberty, CHRIS ment means no inside one’s own home, natural monopoly, mean- been toward privatization. private sector. The reason because of the 4th ERICKSON monopoly on which no one believes ing that it is more effi- The world is more and is that private transac- of July. State of the power, which is should be controlled by cient for a single provider more adopting the U.S. tions based on self-inter- Economy While watch- anarchy. And government. to service the market. model of a regulated mo- est inherently promote ing a fireworks display, I anarchy is the opposite The interesting cases But of course, this means nopoly rather than hav- liberty over a government pondered the issue of how of liberty as protection of are those in between. This that a private provider ing a government agency action backed by the coer- economics can help to property rights, and per- is where the controversy would have pricing power for electricity. cive power of the state. define the boundaries of sonal safety becomes the rests. Private toll roads: allowing them to gouge Then there are hospi- government in the organi- paramount priority. The transaction costs are too consumers. tals. Government provi- Christopher A. Erickson, zation of society. secret, then, is to find the high; better are govern- An alternative would sion of medical care via Ph.D., is a professor of Government is often balance of a government ment-run road systems. be to have the govern- government-run hospitals economics at NMSU. defined as the institu- that maximizes liberty Then there are private ment provide electricity. used to be a common Chris has taught econom- tion having a monopoly and social value. prisons. Here, conflicts of Many countries do this, model. But again, the in- ics for more than 30 years. on the legitimate use of At one extreme is na- interest to reduce costs by as do some municipalities centives for government The opinions expressed coercion. If we take this tional defense, which skimping on services are in the United States. But just don’t align. Better may not be shared by the definition seriously, then nearly everyone – except difficult to overcome. In a running an electric com- to let the private sector regents and administra- it follows that govern- maybe Somali warlords – typical market, this sort pany requires making provide medical care. The tion of NMSU. Chris can ment action of necessity believes are a legitimate of conflict of interest is highly technical invest- government can pay for be reached at chrerick@ is a limit on liberty, as role for government. dealt with by customers ment decisions. Govern- the care via insurance. nmsu.edu. costs can add up to a huge with access to the big- We measure inclusiveness workers, they also want money is. We look at ven- FORTY-THREE expense for business, and gest players in a variety by looking at statewide to offer their employees ture capital investments CONTINUED FROM 50 they vary widely by state. of industries. We look at anti-discrimination pro- a great place to raise a by state, as well as tra- We also consider the cost economic growth, job cre- tections, as well as the family. Higher education ditional bank financing ductivity based on each of wages, as well as rental ation, consumer spending ability of local jurisdic- institutions offer compa- for small- and mid-sized state’s economic output costs for office and indus- and the health of the resi- tions to set their own nies a source to recruit businesses.” per job. We look at the trial space.” dential real estate market. standards. We evaluate new talent, as well as Cost of Living: “The cost relative success of each Other remarks, by cat- We measure each state’s local attractions, parks a partner in research of living helps drive the state’s worker training egory: fiscal health by looking and recreation, as well as and development. We cost of doing business. programs in placing their Infrastructure: “Access to at its credit ratings and environmental quality.” consider the number of From housing to food and participants in jobs. We transportation in all its outlook, its overall budget Technology & Innovation: higher education institu- energy, wages go further also consider union mem- modes is a key to getting picture, and pension and “Succeeding in the new tions in each state as well when the cost of living bership and the states’ your products to market. retiree healthcare obliga- economy takes innova- as long-term trends in is low. We measure the right-to-work laws. While We measure the vitality tions. Because of their tion. Truly competitive state support for higher states based on an index organized labor contends of each state’s trans- own economic impact as states prize innovation, education. We look at … of costs for basic items.” that a union workforce is portation system by the well as the ripple effect, nurture new ideas and K-12 education including Data, Cohn says, was a quality workforce that value of goods shipped we consider the number have the infrastructure to test scores, class size and gleaned from a variety of argument, more often by air, waterways, roads of major corporations support them. We evalu- spending, and we look at private and governmental than not, does not reso- and rail. We look at the headquartered in each ate the states on their sup- technology infrastruc- sources that are “neutral nate with business.” availability of air travel state.” port for innovation, and ture in the schools.” and/or ideologically di- The cost of doing in each state, the quality Quality of Life: “One way the number of patents Business Friendliness: verse.” business, Cohn said, “is of the roads and bridges, to attract qualified work- issued to their residents. “Regulation and litigation The seven states ranked a major consideration and the time it takes to ers is to offer them a great We also consider federal are the bane of business. below New Mexico are, in when a company chooses commute to work. We also place to live. We score the health, science and agri- Sure, some of each is descending order, Louisi- where to do business. We consider the condition states on livability includ- cultural research grants inevitable. But we grade ana, Maine, Rhode Island, look at the competitive- of each state’s drinking ing several factors, such to the states.” the states on the freedom Hawaii, West Virginia, ness of each state’s tax water and wastewater as the crime rate, the Education: “Education their legal and regulatory Mississippi and Alaska. climate, as well as state- systems.” quality of health care, the and business go hand- frameworks provide for sponsored incentives Economy: “A solid econ- level of health-insurance in-hand. Not only do business.” Marty Racine may be that can lower the cost omy is good for business. coverage and the overall companies want to draw Access to Capital: “Com- reached at editor@lascru- of doing business. Utility So is a diverse economy, health of the population. from an educated pool of panies go where the cesbulletin.com. 52 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 BUSINESS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN It doesn’t take a lot of change to make a lot of change Once again, rather than help- nomic and education indi- There are 19,603 chil- Mexico needs only 5,200 work to support proper the latest Annie ing us understand cators, I think we can. dren living in poverty in back in school or working funding and alignment for E. Casey Kids how little change Every study on poor our county, about 13 per- to be No. 1 in this cat- dual-credit courses is so Count Data Re- it would take to outcomes for children and cent of the state’s total. egory. That’s absolutely pivotal to increasing both port landed with a rapidly improve families traces the root But working specifically achievable! high school and college thud in New Mex- conditions for our cause back to poverty, so on helping these children In fact, Doña Ana Coun- completion rates. Dual- ico, which ranks children. if we focus on attacking and their families, we ty’s “Opportunity Youth” credit courses are proven as the worst state TRACY Thanks to the those indicators, we would don’t just affect the rank- are the focus of a new to increase high school in the country in BRYAN work of New likely generate a host of ings, we change the future pilot program underway graduation rates. which to raise a The Bridge of Mexico Voices positive outcomes in every for those children for through Workforce Con- We have a choice to child. Southern New for Children, category. good. nections and developed in make, as individuals Mexico The Annie E. which partners The report showed That work is already partnership with the Col- and as a community. Do Casey Foundation funds with the Casey Founda- 145,000 New Mexico chil- underway through The laborative, so we are al- these numbers dictate national and state-level tion on the data, we do dren living in poverty, Bridge of New Mexico ready moving in the right our future, driving young reports each year to know how much change it or 29 percent. According and our Workforce Tal- direction. families from our state, or measure the conditions would take for us to truly to Moving the Needle on ent Collaborative, com- Let’s talk graduation do we pull even closer to- in which children can improve the environment Child Well-Being, pre- prehensively advancing rates. We already have an gether, build new connec- grow and thrive: educa- for New Mexico’s children pared by New Mexico workforce development to 80 percent countywide tions and better leverage tion, health, economic and families, as well as Voices for Children, 900 support economic empow- graduation rate. If 340 our resources to create well-being, and family and move up in the rankings. fewer children in pov- erment for families and more students cross the the future that is utterly community. Compared to Populous Doña Ana erty (less than 1 percent) the region at-large. stage in our three districts achievable? other states, New Mexico County has an impor- would move us up to 48th. New Mexico currently (a 10 percent increase), At The Bridge of South- ranked 50th, 48th, 49th, tant role to play in this. If we move 15,700 chil- ranks 40th with 10,000 the state’s graduation rate ern New Mexico, we and 49th in those catego- We have already shown dren out of poverty, or teens not in school nor would rise 1 percent with choose the latter. ries, respectively. that by harnessing the 11 percent, we would de- working. Doña Ana just us playing our role. On the surface, these resources we have, we can crease the rate to 25 per- County accounts for If the other 32 counties Tracey Bryan is the presi- rankings only convey a create change. Is it pos- cent and move up to 43rd. roughly 14 percent of the generated another 2,300 dent/CEO of The Bridge glass-is-half-empty story. sible that by succeeding in To achieve the top rank- total. By helping just half new graduates, our state of Southern New Mexico. They perpetuate this the work already under- ing in this category, we of them get employed or would see its rate soar She can be reached at resoundingly negative way, we could help right need to lift 84,800 children back in school, we’d sin- to 81 percent, placing us 575-644-6453, 575-541-7325 narrative that focuses pri- this ship? out of poverty, cutting the gle-handedly increase the ahead of 13 other states. or TraceyBryan@thebrid- marily on the problems, In looking at the eco- number by 60 percent. state’s rank to 35th. New That’s why the Bridge’s geofsnm.org. BUSINESS BRIEFS Company chooses Alliance (MVEDA) and Albuquerque is No. 31 edu/best-run-cities. 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Nancy Laforest, who is frastructure and hire up among best-run cities Stuart Ed and his execu- financial He holds an MBA and retiring after 20 years as to 1,295 employees over For the second straight tive team for a job well HRNCIR manage- undergraduate marketing director of finance. the next five years. year, Las Cruces is done,” said Mayor Ken ment for degree from the Univer- Dion’s was founded in In 2015, Tyson vacated ranked best-run city in Miyagishima. “Further- the organization, working sity of New Mexico and 1978 by Jon Patten and the facility on McNutt New Mexico according more, I want to thank our with CEO Mark Herman is a graduate of Highland Bill Scott in Albuquer- Road, resulting in 200 to WalletHub, a personal hard-working city associ- and the Executive Team High School in Albuquer- que. The company has lost jobs. At the time, finance website. The new ates for all they do. They to provide oversight to que. A licensed CPA in grown to 23 stores, em- the Mesilla Valley Eco- ranking also lists Las are the backbone of our various departments of New Mexico, Hrncir also ploys 1,500 people and has nomic Development Cruces as 11th best-run organization.” the company, according maintains a CVA certifi- added locations in Colo- city in the nation. Visit wallethub.com/ to a press release. cation. rado and Texas. SW LIVING LAS CRUCES BULLETIN FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 53 Sky’s the limit Las Crucen climbs Mount Everest in search of herself By MIKE COOK a “Spin” instructor at Fitness For Clarke, the journey began Las Cruces Bulletin One in Las Cruces, joined seven May 19 with a trip to her native other Americans and 13 Sherpa Portland, Oregon, where she “I was looking for adventure,” guides on the RMI Expeditions dropped off her 6-year-old son, Las Cruces fitness instructor climb. Eason, for a month-long stay Sky Clarke said. The climb, she said, was with his grandparents. She then But it was more than that. an “ebb and flow” between a flew to Los Angeles, China and After going through a painful meditative state when she felt Katmandu, Nepal, a republic divorce, Clarke chose the 18,000- supremely connected and at in South Asia about the size foot climb to the basecamp of peace, and then times when she of New York state and home Mount Everest as her own per- was praying just to survive and to about 29 million people. It’s sonal “Eat, Pray, Love” experi- make it to her destination. a land of Hindu and Buddhist ence. Clark, 33, and the other temples, prayer flags and prayer Returning to Las Cruces in Americans on the climb (five wheels, extreme poverty and June, she now refers to the gru- women and one man, from Al- eight of the world’s 10 tallest One of the 10 hanging bridges Clarke and her fellow eling, 14-day hike in the Himala- buquerque, Boston and cities in mountain peaks. climbers crossed on the way to Everest basecamp. yan Mountains of Nepal in three Wisconsin, Colorado and Texas, Once in Nepal, an unexpected simple words: “Raw, Endure, and ranging in age from 23 to 62) three-mile hike got Clarke to Humble.” suffered from altitude sickness, Lukla in northeast Nepal where “Going to the ‘Top of the headaches, difficulty breathing the actual climb began. World,’ a beastly, powerful place and exhaustion. With little meat available and like Everest,” Clarke said, “only A yoga instructor, Clarke al- a lack of running water and san- highlights all your weaknesses ready knew the Sanskrit word itation, Clarke and the others and reminds you daily that “namaste,” which the Nepalese ate a lot of rice and fried pota- you’re only guaranteed the mo- people use as a greeting. She toes, she said. Requiring calories ment you’re in. Life can quickly also used the word, which is for the arduous climb, Clark also be taken away into thin air...” tattooed on her right wrist, as indulged in Pringles, Oreos and Clarke, the U.S. Army civil- a personal mantra throughout Snickers bars. Even so, she lost ian Sports, Fitness and Aquatic the Everest climb, inhaling on 12 pounds during her 21 days in director at Bell Gymnasium on “nam” and exhaling on “aste,” White Sands Missile Range, and she said. SEE LIMIT, PAGE 54 PHOTOS COURTESY SKY CLARKE Sky Clarke of Las Cruces discovered a profound sense of joy on Mount Everest. 54 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 SW LIVING LAS CRUCES BULLETIN PHOTOS COURTESY SKY CLARKE Some of Clarke’s fellow travelers and Sherpa guides. A view from fairly near the top of the world. strong, sure-footed Yaks LIMIT carrying their supplies, CONTINUED FROM 53 the group crossed 10 swaying bridges, mostly What Nepal. at the lower elevations, The group hiked 10-12 and stayed in 12 different miles a day, Clarke said, camps. is 811? with four of their guides Climbers used track- moving ahead of the ing poles and carried day group to set up that night’s packs and sleeping bags, camp and prepare meals – she said. Clarke alternated What is 811? It’s a FREE phone call and service used when you often using a kitchen in a among three changes want to put a hole in the ground not a utility line. The majority nearby village. of clothes and went two of damage done to underground utility lines, such as gas or The lead Sherpa, weeks without a shower. water, can easily be avoided by knowing where those lines are Thubten, had been a monk located. By calling 811 BEFORE you dig you avoid needless At 15,000 feet, near the for 17 years, Clarke said, interruptions to you and your neighbor’s services. Just tiny village of Dingboche, remember to call 811 at least 2 days before doing any digging before joining RMI Expe- the altitude sickness hit. to ensure we can make it out to your location to locate our lines ditions 15 years ago. He “I couldn’t breathe,” for FREE. It’s Fast, it’s FREE and it’s the law! comes from the Nepalese Clarke said. “I couldn’t As always, Zia personnel are available village of Namche Bazaar, catch my breath.” 24/7 for all natural gas emergencies. which sits at an altitude of All seven American Call (575) 526-4GAS (427) more than 11,000 feet. hikers wound up taking if you have a natural gas emergency. The hikers slept in some kind of medication tents, with night tem- to deal with the severe peratures dropping to pressure they felt in heads 10 below, she said. A New Mexico’s Natural Choice and lungs because of the separate “Happy Tent” lack of oxygen. There are served as the bathroom. 575-526-4427 • 1-800-453-5546 no prescriptions in Nepal, Breakfast was served at 3700 W. Picacho Ave • Las Cruces Clarke said, but “phar- 5 a.m. and the day’s hike www.ziagas.com LC3-LV39851 began soon after. With SEE LIMIT, PAGE 55 Yaks carried the climbers’ supplies to Everest basecamp. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN SW LIVING FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 55 Sky Clarke and her climbing companions spent two days in Katmandu, Nepal, including visiting merchants selling Signs pointing the way to basecamp along the trail, although PHOTOS COURTESY SKY CLARKE Tibetan “singing bowls,” which vibrate and sound like bells there was little fear of getting lost with 13 Sherpa guides on A statue of Buddha. Nepal is about 10 percent Buddhist and when struck. the trip. more than 80 percent Hindu. of seasonal rains and avalanches, LIMIT she said. In June, Sherpa guides re- We Understand Care, We Practice Compassion. CONTINUED FROM 54 turn to their homes for the first time Offering a Complete Continuum of Care! in months to be with their families macies” in shacks along the way and farm. provided necessary medications. The descent from basecamp And, luckily for the group, its oldest was made in one day, she said, and member was a medical doctor. included five hours of hiking in a Clarke developed fluid in her blizzard. lungs, and there was talk of turning Clarke was disconnected from her back, she said. cell phone and social media for 16 “I was so stubborn,” Clarke re- days on her journey. Independent Living • Senior Living • ShortStay Care members. “I said, ‘No, that is not an “I just woke up each day and my option.’” task was to hike,” she said. • LongTerm Care • Specialized Alzheimer’s Care The remainder of the climb – Now that she’s home, Clarke stays • Rehabilitation Services • Physician Services reaching 18,208 feet above sea level in touch with her fellow climbers on (Las Cruces is 3,900 feet) – was physi- Facebook, but she has no plans to cally miserable, she said, but incred- return to Everest. ibly beautiful. “It was kind of a one-and-done “The stars were amazing,” she experience,” she said. “I’m ready to said. Clarke dressed warmly in the upper move on.” reaches of the journey to Everest base- There were never plans, Clarke ”It’s the real journey – the sick- 2882 N. Roadrunner Parkway said, to continue the nearly 11,000 camp. Even in late May, the temperature Las Cruces, NM 88011-0853 at night could plummet to 10 below. ness and health, the pleasure and feet from that basecamp to the top pain, the unexplainable feeling in- Phone: 575-522-1110 of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest reach the summit was in 1953. About side your soul – that is so amplified peak at 29,028 feet. Such a trip takes 4,000 people have successfully made when you’re outside your element,” four months and costs $60,000, she it to the top; about 400 have died in Clarke said. “That’s my love story.” Genesis CareLine (866) 745-CARE said. (To date, 39 expeditions have the attempt.) LC3-LV45411 Mike Cook may be reached at mike@ EQUAL HOUSING set out to the world’s rooftop, begin- Clarke’s was the last climb to www.genesishcc.com OPPORTUNITY EEO/AA ning in 1921. The first climbers to basecamp until September because lascrucesbulletin.com. 56 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 SW LIVING LAS CRUCES BULLETIN THE ROPER’S RULE As I look back on The timer’s clock my career, it never did was faulty or the exist. handle was too long. I tried to ride the My horse was old, broncs and bulls, I my rope was new, the truly did persist flagger was too slow. But I never won a He ducked his buckle. Oh, second now BAXTER head, he drug his and then BLACK feet. Ya listenin’ On the Edge So now that I’ve got of Common Sense Judge? Hello? older I’m a roper, born It’s not my fault. It again. never is. The sun got in my But somehow things are eyes. still the same. In fact, they’ve My hat blew off, my dally gotten worse! slipped, I wasn’t synchro- There has to be a reason nized!” BULLETIN PHOTOS BY RICHARD COLTHARP Teresa and Eric Sanchez, retiring why I never come in first. He continued to ignore me Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Debbi Moore pres- brigadier general at White Sands Well, friends, there is. It’s as I knelt there in the dirt. ents plaques of appreciation to Christina Brown and Teresa Sanchez, citing Missile Range sad to say. I learned it yes- “You can have my stamp the “Order of the Las Cruces Strong Dare Greatly.” terday. collection, my brand new I was entered in a jackpot Trevor shirt.” and pressin’ all the way. I offered him my wife and Thank you for your service kids, I’d nothing left to lose McIntire was in the lead But he finally paid atten- and in the finals go tion when I threw up on his The Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce held a farewell reception for White Sands His heeler single-hocked shoes. Missile Range Brig. Gen. Eric Sanchez and Col. Dave Brown Wednesday, July 11. Sanchez their steer and dallied up He turned to McIntire and is retiring and will remain in the area with his wife, Teresa, a native of Mesilla. Brown real slow said, “He’s right. You get no I made a National Finals time.” will be leaving for another Army post. run that left the crowd in I skipped a beat! ‘By dang,’ Bridget and awe I thought, ‘I’m ‘bout to hit Glen Adams, And when the dust had my prime!’ chief of settled Mac and me had staff at fought a draw! After years of grim dona- WSMR We gathered ‘round the tions and payin’ for the ride judge to see how they would I was gonna win a buckle. break the tie. It felt so good inside, I got to wonderin’ if them The judge looked down at rules of Dress Code should me and said, “Yer gettin’ sec- apply. ond place. I pointed out that Mc- By rights that buckle Intire was wearin’ tennis should be yours but you’re a Mesilla Mayor Nora Barraza shoes! special case. expresses gratitude to Gen. And decked out like a ref- You fall within the Roper’s and Mrs. Sanchez, two of Me- ugee embarking on a cruise. Rule. No matter how you try silla’s newest residents. Yer doomed to be an also- Why, his ratty tee shirt ran, unlucky kind of guy said, EIGHT SECONDS I could ignore your con- AIN’T THAT GREAT! duct but I’m stickin’ to my If that’s no violation then guns. there’s none to violate! In rodeo like real life ...You The judge thumbed whiners chafe my buns.” through his rule book to at- tempt to clear the fog. Baxter Black is a cowboy I hung on to his pant leg poet, former large animal like a broken hearted dog. veterinarian and entertainer “Oh, please pick me! I of the agricultural masses. never win. There’s always Learn more at www.baxter- Christina and Col. Dave Brown, outgoing garrison com- Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima gives Sanchez a key somethin’ wrong. black.com. mander at WSMR to the city. LAS CRUCES BULLETIN SENIORS FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 57 SOCIAL SECURITY The blessings of children Retirement: How the As many of us tiptoed carefully titled “Learning from know, with age our to avoid the glass, Children”. He developed energy wanes, our she remarked, a list of childlike char- brains may not “Mom, I don’t acteristics and created work rules work for you work so well, and think the people what he called a “Child- our limbs do not who left this like Adult Inventory.” By RAY VIGIL have a higher earnings FRA. So, if you origi- always hold us up. here like us very Some of the childlike For the Bulletin limit. Additionally, we nally filed for benefits 12 In addition, sight RUTH MOORER much!” What a attributes are: honesty, will only count earnings months before your FRA, Not for Sissies and hearing grow profound observa- friendliness, trusting, Retirement doesn’t for the months prior to but earned over the limit dim. With these tion! Those people curiosity, expresses love, have the same mean- FRA. In 2017, the limit and had two months of drawbacks, we may don’t care about forgives rapidly, chal- ing for everyone. Some was $44,880. In 2018, it Social Security benefits find satisfaction in having anybody else very much lenges fear, sensitive to people plan to retire and is $45,360. In the year of withheld, we will adjust children in our midst who it seems! others, touches, has sense never work again. Some FRA attainment, Social your ongoing monthly provide us inspiration Our oldest son, age 10, of humor, and a sense of people plan for second Security deducts $1 in benefit amount to reflect and give us new energy gave me the perfect an- wonder. careers in occupations benefits for every $3 you that you received 10 and enthusiasm. We swer one day when I was He relates the story of that wouldn’t have ad- earn above the limit. months of benefits before could say that they help bemoaning the fact that I a small child who was in equately supported their There is a special rule your FRA, and not 12. to rejuvenate us – help was coming to the close of a doctor’s crowded wait- families, but they do the that usually only ap- Most people under- us to feel younger. The a long, tiresome day and ing room with his mother. work for pure enjoyment. plies in your first year stand that if they work word itself contains the had not begun to accom- The child was restless. Some people, whether by of receiving retirement while receiving benefits root meaning “to make plished what was on my Walking around observ- design or desire, choose benefits. before FRA, their ben- young.” I especially find to-do list. He asked, “Well ing the people who were to work part-time or sea- If you earn more efit may be reduced. comfort in the words of Mom, isn’t that what God there, he noticed an el- sonally to supplement than the annual earn- What most people do Scripture which remind made another day for?” derly man sitting in a cor- their retirement income. ings limit, you may still not consider in their us in Psalm 103 that God Wow! He reminded me of ner quietly crying. Those Retirees (or survivors) receive a full Social Se- retirement planning is will “renew your youth a very important truth! around him were trying who choose to receive curity payment for each that we recalculate your like the eagle’s.” Children, by their curi- to respect his privacy Social Security benefits month you earn less Social Security monthly We have been blessed to osity, can teach us to keep and left him alone. The before they reach full re- than a monthly limit. In benefit at FRA to credit have five children come open to learn new things. child came up to him, put tirement age (FRA) and 2018, the monthly limit you for Social Security into our family, bring- They also help us to re- out his hand and began continue to work have an is $1,420 for those who benefit payments with- ing with them surprises, member to play and enjoy patting him on his knee, earnings limit. In 2017, are below FRA the entire held due to earnings over joy, energy, wisdom and life. We make one of the saying, “All right, all the annual earnings limit calendar year. The 2018 the limit. Explaining the insight. Our younger biggest mistakes in par- right, it will be all right.” was $16,920 for those monthly limit increases earnings limit is another daughter at age 4 was enting when we postpone The man smiled and under FRA the entire to $3,780 in the year of way that Social Security asked “Where did you get playing with them. We too began drying his tears. calendar year. In 2018, FRA attainment. helps secure your today such pretty brown eyes?” often miss some the best Jesus told his disciples it is $17,040. If you earn Once you reach FRA, and tomorrow. She replied, “God gave moments of life by failing that they needed to be as over the limit, we deduct you no longer have an Understanding both them to me.” What else to play with our children. the little child in order to $1 from your Social Se- earnings limit, and we the earnings limit and did the questioner expect? They are with us for such enter his Kingdom. curity monthly benefit may recalculate your the possible recalculation On another day, when a short time and can payment for every $2 you benefit to credit you for of your ongoing Social she was 5, I was walking teach us so much. Ruth Justice Moorer is earn above the annual any months we with- Security benefits will with her home from kin- When I was working a resident of Las Cruces limit. held your benefits due provide an additional dergarten and we were on on a degree in counsel- having moved here in In the calendar year to excess earnings. This perspective on retire- the sidewalk of a vacant ing, I had a fine profes- 1996 with her husband, you reach FRA, which is because your monthly ment for you to consider. lot. There was broken sor, Dr. Paul Welter, who Charles. She has been you can check out at benefit amount is calcu- glass scattered over the taught a course relating a public school science www.socialsecurity. lated based on a reduc- Ray Vigil is a Social Se- area along with other to families and children. teacher and a United gov/planners/retire/ tion for each month you curity public Affairs spe- forms of trash. As we He had written a book Methodist pastor. ageincrease.html, you receive it before your cialist based in El Paso. SENIOR BRIEFS Walking program The 50-Plus Walking Pro- 60 minutes. Distance is not the days at the Frank O’Brien Papen a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, at The City of Las Cruces Parks gram/0-60 is designed to get priority, movement is. No racing Community Center, 304 W. Bell Frank O’Brien Papen Commu- & Recreation Department offers participants walking up to 60 or competition, just a focus on Ave., from Sept. 5 through Nov. nity Center. The fee is $12 per a program to build stamina, minutes in 13 weeks. It begins health and well-being. 30. Participants walk at their month. endurance and maintain cardio with 20-minute walks, three The walks are from 8-9 a.m., own pace for a set time. For more information, call vascular health. times a week, and works up to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- Registration is ongoing, 8 575/541-2455. WELL BEING 58 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN PHOTOS COURTESY CARE Participants in previous Jubilee of Life Walk hosted by CARE. CARE celebrates five years of CAREing By AVRA ELLIOTT we have helped 420 cancer she and the other CARE For the Bulletin If you go patients and their families volunteers have ap- WHAT: CARE’s Thank You and during one of the most dif- proached the challenge Through media and 5-Year Milestone Celebration ficult times of their lives.” with enthusiasm. CARE outreach, many of us are Since July 2013, CARE has hosted a long list of WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, now aware of the physical July 31 has assisted cancer pa- fundraising and aware- and emotional toll cancer tients and their families ness events, including and its treatment takes on WHERE: 118 S. Water St. by ensuring they don’t go the Jubilee of Life Walk, patients. without proper nutrition Race for CARE run and There is also immense toxicity,” said CARE Presi- or medication, and by fun walk, CARE Fashion financial strain: trips to dent and Executive Direc- helping patients who can’t Show, CAREaoke, and doctors, chemotherapy tor Yolanda Diaz. Quoting afford gas to go to doctor others, most notably their and numerous medica- research conducted at the appointments, or those liv- upcoming La Gran Fiesta. tions. Institute for Cancer Out- ing without utilities just so Diaz said the events pro- This is why, five years CARE President and Executive Director Yolanda Diaz honors comes Research, Diaz said they can pay the rent. vide funds for the much- ago, the Cancer Aid Re- local icon Roberto Estrada, owner of Roberto’s Mexican financial toxicity repre- “These are the basic needed work CARE does source and Education Inc, Food Restaurant. sents the other toxic side quality-of-life choices for the community. CARE, began offering effect of cancer treatment. and CARE helps with this sistance and resources. that we assist with,” Diaz “La Gran Fiesta is our financial assistance to Rapidly rising health reality,” Diaz said. “Our proudest moment said. “Over the past five pride and joy,” Diaz said. cancer patients and their care costs and relatively The social profit or- came when we helped our years we have helped with “It emphasizes many families. weak insurance coverage ganization, CARE, was first local cancer patient,” $425,000 so that cancer things: fun, family, the “In the last five years we among other factors con- established so that Doña Diaz said, of the milestone patients do not have to live Southwest, culture, peo- have learned more about tribute to this problem. Ana County would have a set on July 31, 2013. “Now, without necessities.” ple, food, quality of life, the effects of cancer, and a “The financial burden physical location for local five years later, our new Diaz said finding fund- huge effect is the financial SEE PAGE of a health crisis is real, cancer patients to seek as- proudest moment is to say ing can be difficult, but CARE, 60 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN WELL BEING FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 59 Are concentrates and extracts medicine? In June Canada sion; fewer lives have as little as 1 percent flower and concentrates tracts are bigger sellers, that since prices are so legalized can- will be ruined. THC and as high as 26 that can have up to 70 which means stronger high at dispensaries, nabis nationally, The bad news percent THC or more. percent THC. Is 70 per- medicine and more profit patients still go to the Oklahoma and is that high The concentrates, on the cent THC a beneficial for the dispensaries. streets where they can Vermont legalized THC use is on other hand, usually ex- regulated system? Dispensaries have buy cannabis flower recreational use the rise. In the tracted with Butane, Pro- The purpose of the invested in butane and and other products from of cannabis. New Cannabis world, pane or CO2, can have as NM Lynn and Erin Com- Co2 extractors and are Mexico, Colorado and York and New Jer- HILDA LUZ recreational much as 70 percent THC. passionate Use Act is to manufacturing their own California for less. sey are poised to CHAVEZ smokers have an According to some stud- “allow the beneficial use concentrates. The prac- Most cannabis sold move in that direc- The Good Herb insatiable appe- ies, at 70 percent THC of medical cannabis in a tice can be dangerous. In on the street is medical tion soon. So, what tite for THC. The is a psychoactive drug. regulated system for alle- 2011, one dispensary in quality and sells for as about New Mexico? That obvious is that more and The use of the flower or viating symptoms caused Santa Fe exploded while low as $5 per gram. Medi- is the question. more users are abandon- bud is what most users by debilitating medical employees extracted the cal cannabis patients Even though NM dis- ing the love of the natu- have inhaled or ingested conditions and their oil. Two of the employees take health risks and pensaries operate much ral plant and its flower for centuries. The con- medical treatments.” were burned and almost are not protected if they like recreational dispen- and are using more of centrates, such as wax, When the Medical Can- lost their lives. purchase black market saries, NM is still a medi- the high-THC concen- shatter, glass, RSO, BHO, nabis program started The cost for concen- product. The truth of cal cannabis state. The trates. The medical PHO, Budder and Dabs, in 2007, flower and buds trates is also much the matter is that as long program is regulated by concern is that smoking are a recent addition to were all that was avail- higher compared to as it is federally illegal, the NM Dept. of Health. high doses of THC is not the delivery methods. able to the patient. As flower, due to the fact people are going to try to The good news is that medicinal. Smoking any- Why have these alternate more dispensaries were that more flower is save money, risk it and if cannabis is legalized thing is not medicinal. delivery methods become licensed, they looked needed to make concen- buy it from the black nationwide, there will be Here lies the dilemma: so popular? for ways to sell more trates. In NM, flower market. more jobs and there will regulated beneficial med- Could it be the high product. Alas, high-THC sells for $7 to $15 dollars Now let’s talk about be an economic boom. ical use vs. unregulated THC content? products became avail- per gram. Concentrate hemp. Hemp is part of Plus, there will be fewer recreational use? NMDOH allows for able. Products such as starts at $35 per gam. arrests for mere posses- Cannabis flower can dispensaries to sell both concentrates and ex- Another concern is SEE HERB, PAGE 61 What would you like instead? SURETY HEALTH PLAN Violence begets old question who will make every- poverty and desperation? violence. That “what would I thing better. Waiting What would you like America’s Largest PPO Network is the lesson like instead?” is tantamount to res- instead of racism, sex- humans seem Of course, it is ignation. If you know ism and ignorance? The determined not meaningless if yourself to be the visible Master teacher, Jesus, to learn. 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Our Carol Carnes is the au- & Group rather than creating the Infinite Intelligence, mind is the vehicle for its thor of “The Way In” Rates No Deductible something new. Rep- it will never make any expression. We individu- and a daily email blog, etition seems to be okay real progress. alize it and make it per- “Living Consciously.” She with us, but our hearts, We spend our lives sonal. There is nothing also is a frequent keynote our souls, crave change. waiting for things to we cannot achieve by the speaker at mind-body They long for union and change; waiting for right use of mind. What conferences. For more peace and cooperation. something to happen; would you like instead information, visit www. Call: 575-904-0031 Let’s return to that waiting for a new leader of crime and violence, carolcarnes.com. 60 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 WELL BEING LAS CRUCES BULLETIN HEALTHY HAPPENINGS Youth Tennis Program: Monday-Friday, Aug. 575-556-8409, ext. 12418, or 8:30-10 a.m. Tuesday and 6-10, Las Cruces Jazzer- [email protected]. Thursday, July 24 and 26, cise Fitness Center, 3217 Lion’s Park. Las Cruces El Camino Real. Dance Aquatic cardio: 6:45-7:45 Tennis Players Asso- parties, relay & fitness p.m. Tuesdays and Thurs- ciation program for kids games, crafts, snacks and days, Las Cruces Regional 5-11+ years. Cost: $50 or $6 more for kids 5-12. Cost: Aquatic Center, 1401 E. per day. Info and registra- $90, siblings $50 if regis- Hadley Ave. Las Cruces tion: 575-303-6568 or www. tered by Aug. 1. Info: Amy Parks and Recreation De- tennisatlionspark.com. Richards 941-705-0800, las- partment offers a Pound crucesjuniorjazzercise@ class, rhythmic cardio BULLETIN PHOTO BY RICHARD COLTHARP Running Club series: 9 yahoo.com or Facebook: jam session, combining Doña Ana County residents will benefit from a $126,740 federal contribution to help emer- a.m. Saturdays, July 28 Junior Jazzercise Las light resistance with gency food and shelter programs. Representing the organizations that will help use and and Aug. 4. One-Mile Cruces. constant simulated drum- distribute the funds are Amanda Morales, Christina Fierro, Suzette Goodman, Andrea Tawney, Challenge Series, free ming. The total body Nicole Martinez, Sara Armijo, David Chayer, Lorenzo Alba, Ann Sanchez, Gary Henderson, Capt. to youths 8th grade and ONGOING workout fuses cardio, Mike Evans, Bill Connor, Brien Murphy and Kevin Glenn. under. Youths collect Pilates, isometric move- tickets for any and all Alzheimer’s group: 10-11 ments, plyometrics into five races for chances to a.m., second Thursday a 45-minute series. Info: Federal contribution supports win prizes. Shirts will be of every month, 1155 S. 575-541-2782. given to all participants, Telshor Blvd., Suite 202. and other participation Early Stages Alzheimer’s Birth, death certificates: emergency food, shelter efforts awards and snacks will be Support Group meets. At- 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday- BULLETIN REPORT tions of North America, to Doña Ana County will given at each race. Info: tend with a friend or fam- Friday, Vital Records the Salvation Army; and be distributed among register@lascrucesrun- ily member. Office at the Las Cruces Doña Ana County has United Way Worldwide. the emergency food and ningclub.com. Public Health Office, 1170 been selected to receive The local board was shelter programs run by Las Cruces Caregivers • July 28: Salopek/Stull N. Solano Drive. Closed $126,740 to supplement charged to distribute funds local service agencies in Support Group Park on Salopek Boule- : 11:30 a.m. noon-1 p.m. Info: 575-528- emergency food and appropriated by Congress the area. vard in Tortugas. Thursdays, Uno Pizze- 5046. shelter programs in the to help expand the capac- The county has distrib- • Aug. 4: Sagecrest Park ria & Grill, 2102 Telshor county. ity of food and shelter pro- uted emergency food and Bone Boosters: on Roadrunner Parkway. Court. Presented by 11:30 a.m. The selection was grams in high-need areas shelter funds for the Phase This race will culminate Home Instead Senior first Thursday. Sponsored made by a national board around the country. 35 to the following organi- in a free breakfast and Care, LCGSG offers sup- by National Osteoporosis chaired by the U.S. Depart- A local board made up zations: Calvary Baptist prizes for all participants, port and information in a Foundation/New Mexico ment of Homeland Secu- of the Salvation Army, Church, Casa de Peregri- parents and volunteers. friendly environment for Affiliate. Info: 575-522-5106 rity’s Federal Emergency the Catholic Diocese, the nos, the Salvation Army, those whose family mem- or 575-522-0503 to RSVP. Management Agency and United Way of Southwest La Casa Inc., Lighthouse Breast Cancer support: 10- bers have dementia or consists of representatives New Mexico, American Food and Clothing Pantry, Breast cancer support 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July memory loss issues. Info: from American Red Cross; Red Cross, Protestant New Mexico State Univer- group: 28, Memorial Medical 575-522-7133. Meets 10-11:30 a.m. Catholic Charities, USA; Council of Churches, and sity Aggie Cupboard, Me- Center West Side Annex fourth Saturday each National Council of the the private sector came silla Valley Community of mbercare Hospice Volun- Building, 2450 S. Telshor A month, Memorial Medical Churches of Christ in the together to determine Hope and El Caldito Soup teer Program Blvd. Speaker is Julie : Ambercare Center, 2450 S. Telshor USA; the Jewish Federa- how the funds awarded Kitchen. Gustafson, MSPT, CLT of seeks individuals inter- Blvd., west side annex the Las Cruces Compre- ested in volunteers to building. Free, no pre- hensive Rehabilitation. offer comfort and support registration, open to all. Topic is “Breast Cancer to patients and their fami- mittee members, and ture CARE would like CARE staff, or simply donate to to create an endowment and Lymphedema.” Cost: lies. Hospice volunteers Breastfeeding sup- CONTINUED FROM 59 Free. Info: 575-524-4373. read, take walks, listen or port group: 10-11:30 a.m. CARE,” Diaz said. “I like in order to be more sus- provide companionship. to say there are five types tainable, and continue economic impact, and pay- Junior Jazzercise Camp: Training provided. Info: SEE HEALTHY, PAGE 61 of people CARE needs. helping the Doña Ana ing it forward.” People with knowledge, Community. Diaz said she is grateful skills, and abilities, people “Prior to CARE, there to the community for the with time, people who will was no social organization Summer Lovin’ support it has shown, and roll up their sleeves and focused on helping local these events encourage follow through, people cancer patients. CARE JUNE 9th - 16th JUNE 30th - JULY 7th AUGUST 11th - 18th even more members of who can donate, and changed that,” Diaz said. 1/2 OFF ADOPTIONS FREE ADOPTIONS 1/2 OFF ADOPTIONS the community to become people with the power to “This is our community. (Just $25!) For Independence Day! (Just $25!) involved with CARE. say yes, they are not afraid It is up to us to face the 800 WEST PICACHO HOURS OF OPERATIONS “Folks can participate or hesitant to take a front challenges. It is up to us to Tues - Thurs 11am - 4pm & Sat. 11am - 2pm in events or volunteer seat of action.” take action to improve the 575-571-4654 • 575-644-0505 and BY APPOINTMENT their time as chair, com- Diaz said in the fu- quality of life.” LAS CRUCES BULLETIN WELL BEING FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 61 Diabetes group meeting: 1170 N. Solano Drive. Info: Reclaim Wellness: Third Cancer Aid Resource and Cost: $2 per class, $1 for HEALTHY 5-6:30 p.m., first Tuesday 575-528-5006. Thursday Mini-Fairs 6-9 Education Inc., CARE, in- participants 60 or older. CONTINUED FROM 60 of each month, Mounta- p.m. at 2201 N. Main St. vites nonprofits, human- Info: 575-541-2782. inview Senior Circle As- Jazzercise Lite: 10 a.m. Features card readers, service organizations, • Power Yoga: 9:30 a.m. every Friday, Memorial sociation, 3948 E. Lohman Tuesdays and Thursdays artists and vendors of or- community groups, art Fridays and 1:30 p.m. Medical Center, 2450 Ave., Suite 1, (behind Wal- at the Las Cruces Jazzer- ganic handmade products. groups, artists, youth Saturdays. This class S. Telshor Blvd., West greens on Lohman). Yes cise Fitness Center, 3217 El Info: 575- 613-1664 groups, vendors, enter- synchronizes conscious Annex, Piñon A meeting Diabetes Group Meeting Camino Real. Info: Dianne tainers -- any individual breathing with functional room. Mama’s Milk Club for children in elementary Sage, 575-650-9721; jazzer- Savvy Caregiver Pro- or entity that has some- movement and encour- Breastfeeding Support through high school. Par- cise.com. gram: Free seven-session thing to offer or show- ages proper alignment of Group. Refreshments ents or guardians must at- course presented by the case to the community. the body. provided. Cost: free. Info: tend. Info 575-522-0289. MS support group: 4:30-6 Alzheimer’s Association, Cost: Free. Download • Power Yoga Life: 9:30 575-521-5393. p.m. first Thursday, So- NM Chapter, 2-4 p.m. each the participant form at a.m. Tuesdays and Thurs- Diabetes support group: 10- cial Center Creative Arts Tuesday from Oct. 24-Dec. carelascruces.org. days. This flowing class Cancer support group: 11:15 a.m. third Thursday Room at Good Samaritan 5, 2017, hosted by Cross- moves at a slightly slower 6:30-8 p.m. second and in the meeting room of Society-Las Cruces Vil- roads In-Home Care, 189 Tai Chi class: 5:30-6:30 p.m. pace to give more empha- fourth Tuesday, Univer- Natural Grocers, 3970 E. lage, 3011 Buena Vida Howard Place. Info, regis- Monday/Wednesday or sis on proper alignment of sity United Methodist Lohman Ave. Diabetes Ed- Circle. Multiple sclerosis tration: Lindsey Bachman, Tuesday/Thursday, Frank the body. Church, 2000 S. Locust St. ucational Support Group support/education group. 575-647-3868 or lmbach- O’Brien Papen Center, Cancer Care is a support meetings provide open Info/RSVP: Andres Sel- [email protected]. 304 W. Bell St. Sponsored Zen Buddhist meditation: group for those dealing discussion and teaching gado, 915-433-2588 by Las Cruces Parks & 6 p.m. Thursdays, 1605 S. with cancer, (patients, regarding diabetes and a Sexual Compulsives Anony- Recreation Dept. Info: 575- Main St. Walk-ins wel- survivors, caregivers, question-and-answer pe- Near Death Experience mous: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 541-2455. come. Info: 575-541-5660. family and friends). Info: riod. Info: 575-522-0289. Group: International As- First Christian Church, Betty Harris, 575-524-3994 sociation for Near Death 1802 El Paseo Road. 12-step Yoga classes: Las Cru- Zumba class: 10-11 a.m. or the church office, 575- Epilepsy Support: 1-2:30 Studies, support group fellowship. Info: www.sca- ces Parks and Recreation Saturdays presented by 522-8220. p.m. first Saturday of for those who have had an recovery.org. department has added the City of Las Cruces every month, Thomas NDE. Experiencers, fam- two new yoga classes at Parks & Recreation De- Christian meditation: Branigan Memorial Li- ily and friends welcome, Sunday Funday: 3-6 p.m. the Las Cruces Regional partment, Las Cruces 5:30-6:20 p.m. Tuesdays at brary, 200 E. Picacho Ave. third Monday, Center for first Sunday of each Aquatics Center, 1401 E. Regional Aquatic Center, The Bridge, northeast cor- Support for anyone with Spiritual Living, 575 N. month February-October, Hadley Ave. Both classes 1401 E. Hadley Ave. Info: ner of Chaparral Street epilepsy, those who have Main St. Infor: Jane at 928- Plaza de Las Cruces. are on a drop-in basis. 575-541-2782. and East Mesa Avenue; loved ones with epilepsy, 897-0933 or LasCrucesI- Wednesdays at Nopalito and caregivers of epilep- [email protected] Gallery, 326 S. Mesquite tics. Info: 505-243-9119 or propylene glycol, nicotine California, Colorado, St.” In stillness, silence, EpilepsySupportNM.org. Needle disposal/syringe HERB and other unhealthy in- Vermont and other CONTINUED FROM 59 emptiness a journey to exchange: 8:30 a.m.-4:40 gredients. Since NMDOH states. Many states the inner self, where the Flu vaccines: Immuniza- p.m. weekdays, Las Cruces has banned the sale of and other countries are Spirit of God abides.” Info: tion Hotline, toll free 866- Public Health office, 1170 the cannabis family but hemp CBD products way ahead of the hemp Joe Murray 860.514.0548 or 681-5872, or visit flushot. N. Solano Drive. Info: 575- it has little to no THC. at dispensaries, buyer game. It’s time for NM [email protected]. healthmap.org. 528-5090. The new strains of hemp beware: Read the label, to get onboard. are hybrids, which have where is it from? What There are over 10,000 Co-Dependents Anony- Hearing voices: 3 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous: 9:30 been bred to contain are the ingredients and uses for hemp. In ad- mous: 7 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Peace Lutheran a.m. Saturdays at Peace high medicinal quality milligrams? dition, hemp CBD Peace Lutheran Church, Church, 1701 E. Missouri Lutheran Church, 1701 E. CBD. CBD falls into a Most of the hemp products are not psy- 1701 E. Missouri, Room Ave. A group for people Missouri Ave. and noon gray area when it comes products dispensaries choactive; some strains 107. A 12-step program to who hear voices, have vi- Wednesdays in the library to law enforcement. sold in NM were not have less than 1 percent let go of unhealthy rescu- sions and unusual experi- of St. James Episcopal Even though it is canna- grown or manufactured THC. ing behavior. Info: www. ences to share experiences Church, 1102 St. James bis, it is not regulated by in NM. NM is not a Bottomline, there is coda.org or Wayne at 575- and learn from each other. Ave. OA is a fellowship the DEA as Indica and legal hemp state yet. an ongoing dilemma in 647-5684. Family members, friends of individuals recovering Sativa strains are. We are working on it. the cannabis world. and interested people from a compulsive relation- As of June 29, 2018, We have tried to pass a Dance fitness: Profes- are also welcome.Info: ship with food. Info: www. NMDOH restricted hemp farm bill in the Hilda Luz Chavez, ND, is sional instructor. Class Al Galves 575-571-3105 or oa.org; Barbara, 575-405- dispensaries to the sale state since 2010, only a traditional naturopath, size limited. Cost: $20-$45 [email protected]. 0128 or Wayne, 575-647-5684. of Cannabis Sativa and to have it vetoed by the healer and medical can- a month depending on Indica products only. governor every year. nabis expert, with over 40 hours attending. Free Immunization services: For Parkinson’s support group: NM dispensaries can no This year the veto was years’ experience in the tryout classes. Info: Call or children up to 18, Monday, 10 a.m. third Tuesday at longer sell hemp CBD overturned and we are field of natural medicine. text, 575 405-4142. Wednesday and Friday the Senior Circle, 4311 E. products. in the process of having She can be reached at • Dance Fit: 8:30-10 a.m. mornings at the New Lohman Ave. Info: Sarah This is going to create hemp be legal in NM. NMMCP CONSULTING- Mondays and Wednesdays. Mexico Department of Stegall, 575-496-2550; Jon yet another problem. In the meantime, hemp (915)-204-5440 or chavezhl@ • Ballet: 8-9 a.m. Tues- Health’s Las Cruces Cen- Roberts, 702-217-0450; CBD products are not reg- CBD products are com- aol.com; visit www. days and Fridays. tral Public Health Office, pdsgsnm.org. ulated and often contain ing from Canada, China, nmmcpconsulting.com. 62 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 SPORTS LAS CRUCES BULLETIN BULLETIN PHOTO BY STEVE MACINTYRE) A car for 2 under par Tim Grattan of Dekker Perich Sabatini Architects, third from right, receives his new 2018 Buick Encore July 16 from Sisbarro Buick GMF for shooting a hole-in-one May 4 during the 2018 Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce Golf Classic. Pic- tured, from left, are Kevin Horner and Becky Horner from PTS Office Systems, Red Hawk Golf Course General Manager Bo Cichuniec, Dan Sisbarro of Sisbarro Buick COURTESY PHOTO GMC, Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce President Debbi Moore and Rick Jackson from American Documents. Above: Grattan with his new ride. Has golf lost the Millennials? It’s been nearly to both – the loss some had warned of, but 30-year old kid living in of exclusive membership largest segment in all of 10 years since the of the economy most ignored. the basement of his par- to play golf runs counter America’s demograph- start of the Great and the loss of But it’s not all on the ents’ house? The bigger to Millennials’ values. ics, at 25 percent and a Recession, the Tiger. Despite economy and unsavory question is what factors [Moreover], spending big full 92 million . And their most recent of our the fact that valid investment houses. And would inspire young money on rounds and influence on the entirety many recessions. statistics are as it’s not all about Tiger. Millennials to adopt any equipment apparently of our culture is enor- Toxic sub-prime hard to come by What happened? recreational or sporting does not connote value to mous. These folks may mortgages, housing CHARLIE as unbiased cable One highly opinionated activity? Time spent at Millennials.” not dictate everything, bubble and bust, BLANCHARD news reports, the golf blogger (Matt Powell) the gym (a substitute That said, my own but they certainly are collapse of big Golf Doctor most reliable data recently posted a piece sport?) for an hour or two interpretation of this working to shape employ- investment firms indicates that on “how golf lost the Mil- typically involves almost conundrum is that young ment, wellness, military followed by major unem- there are now six million lennials.” He claims that, nonstop fingering on an adults have lost golf – not and defense, government, ployment. fewer golfers in the U.S. over the past few years, a iPhone while walking a the other way around. politics, the environment, It officially ended by than there were just eight lot of senior golfers lost treadmill or sitting on the It happens that golf is shopping, sports, the 2010, but the damage had years ago. Between 1990 too much of their retire- equipment. played on green grass economy, marriage and been done, and no more and 2006 more than 4,500 ment savings in the Great According to Powell, but not environmentally child-rearing trends. so than in the golf indus- golf courses were opened Recession to spend on “Millennials want to friendly green spaces, Based on the over- try. It’s also been 10 years in this country alone, golf; but that’s not the share their experiences sopping up precious whelming evidence from since Tiger Woods won with hardly any being whole story. In 2013, in with as many friends as water and chemicals. It surveys, golf as an im- his 14th and last major closed. After 2010 that fact, half of the half-mil- possible. Golf says, ‘All of seems golf is too hard, portant recreation option (the U.S. Open at Torrey number was reversed, lion golfers who quit golf you can play, as long as with byzantine rules, and seems to be anathema for Pines), and then the bot- with thousands closing were Millennials, born it’s no more than four.’ takes way too much time Millennials. They’re all tom fell out of his life. and hardly any new ones between the early-1980s “Boomers [and those – time away from tablets about hyper-connectivity, Some pundits attribute opening. The span be- and the mid-1990s; now just younger] value ex- and gaming. whereas golf is mostly the decline in golf from tween 1990 and 2008 was ages 22 to 36. clusiveness. The idea of Like it or not Mil- 2008 up until the present a giant golf bubble that How can golf “lose” a paying for the privilege lennials represent the SEE GOLF, PAGE 63 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN PETS & PEOPLE FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 | 63 Mulligans Fore Mutts registering golfers BULLETIN REPORT The deadline to register “The wonderful thing To sign up as a golfer, Volunteer photogra- is Wednesday, July 25. about this tournament,” volunteer or sponsor, pher Shara If you enjoy golf and The entry fee is $500 for Fisher said, “is that contact Fisher at 575-373- Fisher holds would like to help home- a four-member team or 100 percent of the pro- 0159 or fishyankees@ an adoptable less animals, the annual $125 an individual. ceeds will go to ACTion sbcglobal.net. Follow the puppy at Mulligans Fore Mutts Rich Fisher, APA vol- Programs for Animals, event on Facebook @mul- Picacho Hills Golf Tournament will be unteer and Mulligans a nonprofit that is con- ligansforemutts. Country Club held Saturday, July 28. Fore Mutts coordinator, stantly working to find For more information at a Mulligans The four-person scramble said the sixth annual homes for animals and to about APA, email mail@ Fore Mutts begins with a 10 a.m. tournament should be educate the public about apalascruces.org, call 575- Golf Tourna- shotgun start at Picacho memorable, and there are the importance of spay- 644-0505 or visit www.ac- ment benefit- ting ACTion Hills Country Club, 6861 still many opportunities ing, neutering and vacci- tionprogramsforanimals. Programs for Via Campestre. to get involved. nating pets.” org. The adoption center Animals. The fundraiser benefits “In addition to golfing, Since May 2012, APA is located at 800 W. Pica- ACTion Programs for An- we have plenty of op- has rescued more than cho Ave. Regular hours imals (APA) in its effort to portunities for people to 3,500 animals, according are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues- rescue dogs and cats and volunteer at the event,” to a press release, the days and Thursdays and to help the community Fisher said. The tourna- majority of them dogs 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. reach its no-kill goal as ment will also have a and cats pulled from the soon as possible. $10,000 putting contest. municipal shelter. PHOTOS COURTESY TABITHA ROSSMAN Golfers, from left, Ron Bruder, Tobe Turpen and Kyler Breen take a moment to pet Pinto the dog at Picacho Hills Country Club at a previous Mulligans Fore Mutts Golf Tournament ben- efitting ACTion Programs for Animals. So what will happen to gist specializing in GOLF golf as boomers and su- sports and leadership CONTINUED FROM 62 per-senior golfers move on who works with PGA to retirement homes, and professionals and young solitary. Serious golfers young men and women golfers to enhance their review their day’s round aren’t taken by the sport performance. He part- as they nod off to sleep, as we know it? Part 2 in ners with coach Herb whereas 53 percent of this series will consider Wimberly as the princi- Millennials check their how golf can survive with pal instructors at Per- cell phone in the middle a new generation. formance Golf Schools. of the night for texts. It’s Contact Blanchard at the comparison between Dr. Charlie Blanchard docblanchard71@gmail. digital and vinyl. is a licensed psycholo- com. 64 | FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2018 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN ELECTRONIC Safety and Protection CAREGIVER For Your Active Lifestyle Save $20 Per Month On Our Best Package SAFETY PLUS Free Activation SUMMER ($25 Value) SPECIAL!