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© 2016 LAS CRUCESRUCES BULLETINBULLETINFRIDAY, JANUARY 1, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 2016 B1 Beck’s Coff ee honors Sports local artists B3 HOMES & SW LIVING Check out Arts year in Arts & Entertainment & Entertainment Homes & Southwest review Living year in review B18 2015 HEALTH & WELL BEING year in review Page A23-25 year in review SSeeee feature on B2 Page B1 Health 2015 fea ture year in review on B2 B25 INDEX Events Calendar ....................... Sudoku .... ..B6-7 ........................ Brain Games ....................................B9................. B8 Galleries & Openings..................B10 Movies .............. Reli i ........ $1.00 • © 2016 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN LOCAL NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT SINCE 1969 • WWW.LASCRUCESBULLETIN.COM • FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016 VOLUME 47 • NUMBER 41 Winter Wonderland Politics loomed large in 2015 By Mike Cook Las Cruces Bulletin lic Schools elected two new board members in For a year with no February. statewide elections, 2015 Former New Mexico was pretty busy politi- Secretary of State Dian- cally for New Mexico na Duran, first elected in and Las Cruces. 2010 and re-elected in We got a new secretary 2014 – and the first Re- of state, a new state rep- publican to hold the of- resentative and a new fice since 1930 – resigned state senator. Here in in October after pleading Las Cruces, we re-elect- guilty to embezzlement, ed our mayor and one money laundering and city councilor, and elect- identity theft in connec- ed two new city council tion with the illegal use members and a new pre- of campaign donations siding municipal judge. Also, Las Cruces Pub- SEE POLITICS, PAGE A11 PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BELARDE A lone cyclist cruises through the uncharacteristic Las Cruces winter weather near the New Mexico State University campus Saturday, Dec. 26. See more Las Cruces snow photos on pages A12-13. Church bombings shake city in 2015 Bulletin report Then the peace was shattered. Church at 1800 S Locust St., and Sunday, Aug. 2 opened with a Luckily no one was injured, but nearly a half-an-hour later an Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima and his wife, Rosie, sunny, peaceful morning when a pair of bombs detonated at two explosion took place across town check out the results of the city’s municipal election Tues- celebrants of different stripes put different churches. A little after 8 at Holy Cross Catholic Church at day, Nov. 3 at Los Compas restaurant on Compress Drive on their nice clothes and headed a.m., the first explosion destroyed were he gathered with supporters. Miyagishima was to church. a mailbox at Calvary Baptist SEE BOMBINGS, PAGE A11 re-elected. WHAT’S INSIDE $ 1 Opinion ................................ A4 Sports ............................A23-25 Brain Games .........................B9 Legals/ Classifieds .......B21-B25 8 8 Coming Up ........................A8-9 Arts & Entertainment ... B2-B15 Religion ....................... B16-B17 Health & Well Being .. B26-B28 Business .........................A19-22 Sudoku ..................................B8 Homes .................................B18 Healthcare for the Whole Family Services include: Mon-Fri: 8 am - 5 pm Tue & Thu: Walk-in hours X Adult care X Diagnosis and treatment X Pediatric/adolescent & ŽĨŵĞĚŝĐĂůͬďĞŚĂǀŝŽƌĂůŚĞĂůƚŚ ƵŶƟůϳ͗ϯϬƉŵ Call Today for Your Appointment young adult care XWŚLJƐŝĐĂůΘƐƉŽƌƚƐĞdžĂŵƐ Teen Clinic (ages 12-25) 575-521-5370 X Obstetrical care XDŝŶŽƌƉƌŽĐĞĚƵƌĞƐ Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri: 4 - 5 pm On Don Roser at Terrace XWƌĞǀĞŶƟǀĞŚĞĂůƚŚĐĂƌĞ XDĞĚŝĐĂƟŽŶĐŽŶƐƵůƚĂƟŽŶ Walk-ins welcome (NW corner of the MMC campus) A2 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Content brought to you by: Doña Ana County ‘Your Partner in Progress’ DASO Academy still accepting apps A limited number of seats remain available for academy for those who wish to become certified the first Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office Citi- law-enforcement officers with DASO. zen’s Police Academy of 2016, which will span Classes are interactive and give participants eight consecutive Saturdays beginning Jan. 9. Clas- hands-on knowledge of how sheriff’s deputies are ses will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at DASO’s trained to handle real-life situations. Class mem- Las Cruces headquarters, 845 N. Motel Blvd. bers will examine traffic enforcement, understand To date, more than 120 Doña Ana County resi- the use of force – including the use of deadly force dents have graduated from the program, which was – observe K-9 demonstrations and presentations by re-introduced in 2011. the Special Response Team, bomb squad, and Ani- Each Citizen’s Academy applicant must be 18 mal Control. Several field trips are included in the years of age or older to be considered for the pro- academy, including tours of the Mesilla Valley Re- gram, must be a resident of Doña Ana County, and gional Dispatch Authority and the Doña Ana Coun- must have a valid driver’s license or photo ID. Be- ty Detention Center. cause of the sensitive nature of police work, a brief The 2016 Citizen’s Academy is free of charge background check will be performed on all appli- and runs through Feb. 27, 2016. cants. Academy participants must not have any Applications can be downloaded online at prior felony convictions and no misdemeanor ar- goDASO.org and are also available at the Doña rests within the last three years. Ana County Sheriff’s Department, which is located The academy takes class members through vari- tion and awareness. Academy participants are vol- at 845 N. Motel Blvd., in Las Cruces. The deadline ous divisions of the department in an effort to unteers who wish to learn more about the Doña to apply is Jan. 5, 2016, and class size is limited to strengthen community partnerships through educa- Ana County Sheriff’s Office; it is not the cadet 25 people. ETZ applicants sought Due to a resignation, the Doña Ana County Board of Commission- Happy New Year! ers is accepting applications for an open position on the Extra Territo- rial Zoning Commission. The term of appointment will be until Oct. 22, 2016. The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners will make the appointment at The elected officials, their Jan. 26 regular meeting. The ETZ Commission meets regularly on the first and third Thurs- days of the month at 6 p.m. in the Commission Chambers of the Doña management and staff of Ana County Government Center. The ETZ Commission oversees development in a five-mile area Doña Ana County wish all that rings the city limits of Las Cruces. The Commission regularly reviews development sketch plans, subdivision plats, zone changes and special-use permit applications within the ETZ zone. residents a safe and prosperous Each applicant should submit a letter of interest, a resume and three letters of reference to the Doña Ana County Community Devel- opment Office, 845 N. Motel Blvd., Las Cruces, N.M., 88007. Dead- line for receipt of all applications is 5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. 2016 For more information about the position, call Chief Planner Janine Divyak at (575) 525-6130. Residents calling from outside the Las Cruces area may call toll-free at 1-877-827-7200 and request exten- sion 6130. JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA! January 1, 2015 Visit our Award-Winning Website at www.donaanacounty.org or Contact Us at (575) 647-7200 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016 | A3 Las Cruces woman, 44, goes missing in June A 44-year-old Las Cruces fers from mental capacity of a 5- to across the country in 2015. flyers, sharing links on A. Castrejon, arranged fol- woman went missing Fri- partial 7-year-old child. The Castrejon family social media, etc. low-up trips to Arizona to day, June 19 from Rustler blindness Given Castrejon’s dis- has set up a website, The family has also search with volunteers. Park Campground in and short- abilities, her family be- www.findjanet.org which started a GoFundMe ac- “We are eternally grate- Coronado National Forest, term memo- lieves it is impossible that contains the family’s count, www.gofundme. ful for all the help, espe- located in Arizona’s Chir- ry loss, the she ventured far from the story, more information com/findjanet, to raise cially from the media and icahua Mountains, while CASTREJON result of a trail; instead, they believe, about Janet Castrejon, money to bring her home. the community – there’s hiking with her parents for 30-year-old automotive all signs indicate she was links to her story in the As of Dec. 29, the account just been so many people a Father’s Day outing. accident, and according taken from the camp- media, contact informa- had reached more than helping, it’s been really Janet Castrejon suf- to her family has the ground. tion and ways to spread $13,200 of its $25,000 goal. powerful. 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For each of them, I be- tions of what will happen. lieve, part of their appeal is they’re not Well, this column certainly wouldn’t afraid to say exactly what’s on their stoop to such trite clichés.