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New life for the old lawmanDoña Ana County Historical Society member David Thomas pauses outside the Rio Grande Theatre Feb. 2 after presenting at the first Pat Garrett Western Heritage Festival sponsored by Visit Las Cruces. The event offered a fresh perspective on the infamous sheriff who resided in Doña Ana County for 12 years before he was shot to death in February 1908.

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During

my career,

I have been

asked many times how, and

why, I got involved with

Chambers of Commerce.

Honestly, the truth is that

this wonderful career found

me. Years ago, in Waxahachie,

Texas, I needed a job and

was hired as an entry-level

employee and simply fell in

love with the mission of the

Chamber and the difference

it made in a community.

Fast forward 38 years later,

and I am blessed to be here

in Las Cruces. You see, a

Chamber is much more than

an organization of business

owners, it’s the heart of

who we are as a community.

It’s the very foundation

on which to build a strong

workforce, develop future

leaders, expand the eco-

nomic base and impact our

community. It is our busi-

nesses that give so gener-

ously to our nonprofits, hire

our friends, neighbors and

children and support our

public and higher education

institutions.

It’s no wonder then that

I proudly say, “My career

found me.” To think, through

the years and in several com-

munities, I’ve played a small

role in community impact, is

an amazing thought.

Over the years, no matter

where I’ve been, the question

remains the same from busi-

nesses, “Why should I join

the Chamber of Commerce?”

The remarkable thing is that

the answer has remained

the same over those years.

Simply put, investing in the

Chamber of Commerce plays

a vital role in the growth, ex-

pansion and development of

your business and impacts

community. We work hard

to put in place programs, ac-

tivities and initiatives so that

the mission of your business

compliments the mission of

the Chamber.

However, it’s much more

than the dollars invested.

It’s a commitment of time to

attend events, meetings and

activities, whether they are

educational, networking or

informational. Being an in-

vestor in the Chamber gives

you new customers, helps

retain customers and builds

a life-long professional net-

work.For 2019, the Greater Las

Cruces Chamber is continu-

ing with the slogan, “Your

business is Our business.”

We do not take that slogan

lightly but embrace it in its

totality of assisting busi-

nesses to grow and prosper.

Utilizing new words to de-

scribe our body of work, the

Chamber is poised to con-

tinue making a difference in

our community by:

• Advocating (government

relations, public policy and

advocacy)

• Connecting (member re-

lations)• Cultivating (community

development)

• Growing talent (business

development-workforce edu-

cation)These four areas are full

of opportunity for busi-

nesses to become actively

involved in the Chamber

through the many com-

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Detention Center graduation scheduled Ten new detention center officers will be sworn in after having successfully completed the seven-week Basic Detention Officers’ Academy at the Doña Ana County Detention Center. The public is invited to attend the gradua-tion ceremony, which will take place in the Commission Chambers of the Doña Ana County Government Center on Friday, Feb.

8, at 10 a.m. Dist. 3 Doña Ana County Commissioner Shannon Reyn-olds will deliver the commence-ment address, and Doña Ana County Magis-trate Judge Sa-mantha Madrid will administer the oaths of

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officers are: Oscar Araiza, Orlando Caraba-jal, Robert Campos, Fernando Dominguez, Lucinda Dominguez, Jesus Lozoya, Roberto Madrid, Cassandra Maynes, Elco Ortega and Princeton Perry. The public is encouraged to attend. Please be advised space is on a first-come, first-served basis. Non-flash photog-raphy is also welcome during the ceremony.

Online tool helps track offenders Officials with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Depart-ment are reminding parents and caregivers about an online tool that helps track and alert residents to sex offenders who may live in their area. Offender Watch, a free, online mapping service has been availa-ble to Doña Ana County residents since 2008. Anyone can access the service via the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department website, www.goDASO.org. After clicking on the ‘Sex Of-fender Search’ tab on the right hand side, you can access a template to search by address or the name of the registered offender. Residents can also sign up for regular email notifications when an of-

fender registers in their area. There are currently more than 300 registered sex of-

fenders in Doña Ana County. State statute requires convicted offenders to register with the sheriff’s department within 10 days of either being convicted or moving to the area. Regular address verifications are done by the sheriff’s department, with assistance from other local law enforcement agencies. “We do the best we can to verify these offenders live where they say they live,” said Det. Bo Nevarez, who coordinates required sex offender registration in Doña

Ana County. “It’s critical that parents and caregivers uti-lize this service to be aware of potential threats in their neighborhood.”

Fire chief warns residents to know the rules before burning Doña Ana County Fire and Emergency Services staff is cautioning residents about the dangers of open burning during the traditional spring clean-up season. According to fire officials, we are fast approaching the spring sea-son, which often triggers property owners to begin burning weeds on and around their property. “That’s when we get a higher number of calls for service related to out-of-control open burns,” said Doña Ana County Fire Chief Nick Hempel. Windy weather conditions in springtime can cause fires to spread to other surrounding properties or homes, some of which can result in a total loss of the home.

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By MIKE COOKLas Cruces Bulletin

New Mexico State University master’s stu-dent Dominique Alston got a standing ovation at the Doña Ana County NAACP’s Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast last month after a fiery read-ing of the poem he wrote about his grandfather’s struggle with segregation and discrimination, the hope and determination in his own life and the possibilities and prom-ise he represents for the younger members of his family.

The seeds of the poem were likely sown about a decade ago in Alston’s 10th-grade civilization class at Dominguez High School in his na-tive Compton, Califor-nia. Alston’s teacher, Mr. Johnson, made an “emotional connection” for him with civil rights leader Martin Luther King that changed the course of Alston’s life and his career goals.

Using technology to make King’s speeches and the message of his life and work real in a way that no textbook or Hollywood movie could, Johnson showed what King was fighting for.

Today, Alston, 26, is pursuing a master’s degree in education at NMSU, tutoring students at two local elementary schools and planning to become a Las Cruces teacher. He wants to use three-dimensional technology, social media

and other high-tech class-room tools to “elevate the curriculum” for students just as Johnson did for him.

All students deserve a multicultural educa-tion, Alston said, so that “every kid’s ethnicity is expressed” and each one is exposed to his or her own culture and the cul-tures of others.

Alston’s grandfather, Jesse, was born in Louisi-ana in 1915 – “way before Martin Luther King,” Alston said. “He came from a rough spot. He made it work.”

His grandparents raised 10 children in a dangerous neighborhood in Compton, about seven minutes from the Watts section of Los Angeles where a 1965 race riot resulted in 34 deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.

Alston’s mother saw his grandparents’

struggle, Alston said, and helped support them but was “education driven,” he said. “This is my moti-vation.”

After high school grad-uation, Alston was ex-pected to either get a job or attend a nearby junior college. But he knew he wanted “the full college experience,” Alston said, and he also wanted to break a generations-old family tradition of stay-ing stuck.

Again, Alston returned to what he had learned in Johnson’s classroom. “We’ve always been told there’s someone hold-ing you back,” Alston remembers Johnson saying, as he again used King’s example to match Alston and his class-mates with history.

“There’s nobody keeping you from doing anything,” Johnson told them.

Alston had several emotional conversa-tions with his mother, pointing out the drugs and violence in his own neighborhood. “‘What am I going to be?’” he asked her. “‘She sat back in her chair and said, “‘You’re absolutely right.’”

Alston accepted an invitation to NMSU and moved more than 750 miles away from his fam-ily.

“I hopped out of the box,” Alston said.

“You see what Domi-nique is doing?” family members said about him. “You are very much a leader in this family,” they told him.

“I’m like the steady mo-tivation for my family,” Alston said, helping his younger cousins to recog-nize their own power to make life choices, includ-ing college.

“Go get this educa-tion,” Alston said. “Help yourself out and help them out at the same time.”

At NMSU, Alston took out student loans to ease his parents’ financial burden, joined a diver-sity group and made Las Cruces “a little second home.” He also honed his math and writing skills, even trying his hand at poetry in the university’s Mr. and Mrs. Ebony com-petition during NMSU’s 2017 Black History Month celebration.

For the talent portion, Alston decided – after the contest was already un-derway – to write a poem. He started thinking about his beloved grandfather and the challenges and consequences he had faced.

“I’ve never been in that state,” Alston said. “I had a better shot. But what’s freedom if you don’t get something done?”

Alston got a standing ovation during that first reading of his new poem just as he did at the King breakfast.

“It’s really coming from here,” Alston said, touch-ing his chest. With strong inspiration, “every word is so passionate.”

Mike Cook may be con-tacted at [email protected].

Dominique Alston’s award-winning poem

Education wasn’t always for allYou blacks bet not pick up a bookCrazy to think that was a law.See my grandfather left Louisiana in the 6th

gradeBricks concrete is what he pavedHe met a woman with 3 kids & 7 more is what

they made.They displayed beauty within their struggle,They deserve gold on their graves.But your grandchild stands here with a soul so

divine,But I’m faced with the prison to pipeline.See them scores from back then don’t tell who I

am today,Even with a bachelors the white man reminds me

my cell ain’t too far away.See I have never been to jail and I don’t plan on

going,This young boy from Compton breaking stereo-

types in this poem.See my bloodline went from answering to master,To their first grandchild pursuing his master’s

BULLETIN PHOTO BY MIKE COOKDominique Alston

His grandfather’s struggles are gold for NMSU poet

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Las Cruces Codes En-forcement and Animal Control officers safely corralled 38 domestic ducks from the pond at Young Park and trans-ported the waterfowl to the Animal Services Cen-ter of the Mesilla Valley, where they were adopted Jan. 31.

It was necessary to re-move the domestic ducks from Young Park as the City of Las Cruces is in the process of draining, cleaning and rehabilitat-ing the pond on the north end of the park. The project includes remov-ing mud and trash from the pond, replacing two aerators that help keep water clean and adding a

third aerator. The project should be completed in four to six weeks.

The ducks that had

inhabited the pond are domestic, non-migratory birds that were likely abandoned by people

who no longer wished to care for the animals.

“These ducks didn’t just appear at the park

or migrate here,” said Clint Thacker, executive director of the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley. “In fact, these ducks cannot, nor will they ever be able to, fly. People have aban-doned their domestic ducks at the park.

“Citizens need to un-derstand it has never been OK to abandon an animal. There is never an instance that this ne-glectful and illegal act is warranted.”

While the ducks awaited adoption at the Animal Services Center, 3551 Bataan Memorial West, Thacker empha-sized they were hopeful to find an owner who could properly care for the animals.

“Ducks need access to clean water, proper food and bedding,” he said.

Besides the ducks, more than 1,000 fish – in-cluding trout and catfish – were removed from the Young Park pond and re-located to Alumni Pond on the campus of New Mexico State University. The New Mexico Depart-ment of Game and Fish will restock the Young Park pond once the cleaning and rehabilita-tion project is completed.

With Valentine’s Day and Easter on the hori-zon, Las Cruces Animal Control discourages gift-ing ducks, rabbits and other such domestic pets unless they are intended to be kept and properly taken care of for life.

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PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF LAS CRUCES ANIMAL CONTROLThe ducks at Young Park were likely left by owners no longer wishing to take care of them.

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The City of Las Cruces announced Feb. 4 it has received “a major arts recognition that will bring creative economy benefits for arts and cul-tural businesses, workers and artists in the historic and original townsite of Las Cruces.”

“I am privileged to announce that the New Mexico Arts Commis-sion has announced that our city is the latest state-recognized arts and cultural district (ACD) in New Mexico and the first state-authorized ACD since 2016,” City Coun-cilor Kasandra Gandara said at a news confer-ence.

The process of becom-ing an ACD began in June 2014, the city said in a news release, under the leadership of then-city Downtown Coordinator Andy Hume (now admin-istrator of Las Cruces International Airport), when the city formed an ACD task force. An 11-member ACD coordi-nating council (ACDCC) was formed in 2015.

Santa Fe-based con-sultant Sabrina Pratt, assisted by Las Cruces arts advocate Irene Oliver-Lewis, worked with the ACDCC from September 2017-July 2018 “in a community

engagement process that resulted in 35 stake-holder meetings [and] a one-day open house, and talked to approximately 300 people that resulted in 1,000 comments and ideas which became the foundation for the ACD plan,” the news release said. The city council adopted the ACD plan in July 2018.

The five-year ACD plan includes four goals (foster economic growth, improve the quality of life, honor and promote Las Cruces history and

culture, and community engagement and imple-mentation) that drive 18 action plans and 68 strat-egies to be completed by 2023.

“Our cultural commu-nity is so great, and our plan is so beautiful that we got approved in just four months,” Oliver-Lewis said at the news conference.

Oliver-Lewis said the ACD is “the essence, the substance, the heart of Las Cruces.”

Las Cruces joins Downtown Albuquer-

que, Artesia, Gallup, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Mora Plaza, Raton, Silver City and Taos with a state-designated ACD, the city’s news release said.

“This designation ac-knowledges the growth and development of the ‘creative economy’ as part of the total aspect of economic development in our city,” Mayor Ken Miyagishima said in the news release. Having a state-authorized ACD in downtown and the Mes-quite Street areas under-scores the importance to

all the existing arts and cultural assets and the new creative economy businesses that opened in 2018 and will open this year.”

Some of the businesses that opened in 2018, the news release said, in-clude Little Toad Creek Brewery and Distillery, Zia Comics, MEW + Com-pany, Cruces Creatives Makerspace and the city Visitors Center.

“To open in 2019 are four entertainment busi-nesses at the Amador Project, three restau-rants in the Bank of West/BOP Paribas build-ing, and Rad Retrocade,” the news release said.

“A new game develop-ment company, Gany-mede Games, will open its headquarters on the third floor of Bank of the West/BOP Paribas and will offer 51 new creative and administrative, high-tech, high-wage jobs [see page 51]. They are investing $1.3 million in offices and a studio on the corner of Main Street and Las Cru-ces Avenue, the center of the ACD. They become the first creative economy in-dustry to open in the Las Cruces ACD.”

At the news confer-ence, City Manager Ed cited a 2017 arts impact study, Arts and Eco-nomic Prosperity 5, by Americans for the Arts,

on the economic impact of 29 Las Cruces non-profits in arts and cul-ture. The statistics show more than $19 million in expenditures by the arts and culture industry in Las Cruces; 426 full-time jobs were supported; $10.6 million was spent on event-related services and goods in Las Cruces, not including admis-sions; and $700,000 rev-enue was generated for local government.

The state designation is a recognition of “the power of the arts in Las Cruces,” said ACDCC member Kathleen Al-bers, executive director of the Doña Ana Arts Council. “This has been a long journey. Here we are 11 years later; good things do take time when they’re done well. This is a great model of collabo-ration.”

“It has been a four-year project of love, passion, vision and the fact that dreams do come true over the years of working on this project,” said ACDCC Chair David Chavez.

The council issued a proclamation at its Feb. 4 regular meeting de-claring February ACD Month in Las Cruces.

The 78-page ACD Plan is available on the City website, www.las-cruces.org.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF LAS CRUCESFrom left to right at the City of Las Cruces’ Feb. 4 news conference are City Councilor Kasan-dra Gandara; Irene Oliver-Lewis, founding member of the Las Cruces Arts and Cultural Dis-trict Coordinating Council; Mayor Ken Miyagishima and City Manager Stuart C. Ed.

City arts district receives state designation

Hadn’t seen it that low in a long time, not even on my recent trip to Oklahoma.

I was stunned to see that low of a price, but as I was headed

up to the legisla-tive session, it didn’t make me as happy as it should have.

When gas prices and, con-nectedly, oil prices were up a year or so ago, it reflected unprecedented growth in New Mexico’s revenue from the oil and gas industry. In fiscal year 2018, the state collected $4 bil-lion in revenue from activities related to oil and gas. That was $1 billion more than in the previous year, a 33 percent in-crease.

Consequently, there’s a big surplus in the state budget this year. And there a lot of people

in New Mexico who want a slice of that pie. And there are a lot of legislators who want to get credit for giving out those slices of pie.

No state in America gets more of its revenues from oil and gas than New Mexico. In FY 2017, oil and gas revenue represented 20.7 percent of our government’s value. That same year, for oil-rich Texas, oil and gas represented 14.9 percent of its value.

So, when those prices drop, I worry about our state’s econ-omy.

I worry even more about our state’s education. Oil and gas funds about a third of New Mexico’s public and higher education. There’s talk about pumping a whole lot of that new money into education. We need that badly. We’re losing too many good teachers and too many students are struggling.

If you’re a teacher in New Mexico, or your job is at all tied to education, you should be sending regular thank-you notes to the oil-field workers in the southeast corner of the state, and the gas workers in San Juan County.

But what if gas prices con-tinue to drop, and our state’s revenue surplus shrinks?

Around 30 percent of the state’s general fund revenue – the primary source of fund-ing for state public schools and higher education – come from taxes paid by the oil and natural gas industries.

Or what if Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s recent ex-ecutive order to reduce oil and gas emissions causes the oil companies to stay on the Texas side of the Permian Basin? The governor’s order is a response, along with 18 other states, to America’s disassociation with the international Paris Agree-ment on climate change. I’m all for the world getting aggressive on climate change response; I have children and I know how bad the air is in China.

The real need, though, is for America to get back into an international agreement, so all 50 states are on a level playing field. As much as I love New Mexico, I’m afraid our oft-ignored state’s stance on this issue won’t have much influ-ence.

In the meantime, New Mexico

is currently the third- largest oil producing state in the U.S., and we have the unfortunate geo-graphical accident of sharing a border with Texas, who I can guarantee will not be the 20th state to join this U.S. Climate Alliance.

If a bill introduced this week to eliminate fracking in New Mexico should pass, then there will be no need for oil compa-nies to keep operating here. That Permian Basin is so gigan-tic, the oil on the Texas side is more than sufficient for genera-tions. Why would they operate in New Mexico when the costs of doing business will be so much more than in Texas?

I understand the desire to grow energy generated by solar and wind, two things New Mexico has in great supply. It’s a good opportunity for us, but not yet a real revenue producer. We also have oil in great sup-ply, and that’s the only thing keeping our state afloat eco-nomically. We need to be mind-ful how distant we are from any real transition in energy sources. We can – and should – keep growing the wind and solar energy production.

We also need to be incred-ibly careful how we handle the goose that is laying our $4 bil-lion golden egg.

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To legislators: Please don’t give me a ‘raise’

To the editor:I’m a server and bar-

tender at the Double Eagle Restaurant in Mesilla, and I just found out that our elected of-ficials want to increase my hourly pay. What do I say about that? Please

don’t! It may sound like I’m

turning down more money, but I’m not. The plan to change how tipped employees are compensated ultimately would take money out of my pocket, and I’m asking state leaders not to do it.

Let me explain: We servers, bartenders, and other tipped restaurant workers are typically some of the best-paid employees in our restau-rants. Our pay is a com-bination of a direct wage from the restaurant and tips. Current law guar-antees that we make at

least the minimum wage, but most of us make much, much more. In fact, research shows that tipped employees in res-taurants typically make between $15 and $25 per hour, well above the $12 per hour minimum wage that is being discussed in Santa Fe.

The current system is a win-win for customers and servers like me. Our regular customers are like family, and we pride ourselves on providing every customer with the best possible experi-ence. We also do quite

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well – the current tipping system gives us huge earning potential during any given shift. That is why many servers like me have made the res-taurant industry our ca-reer. However, all of that could change soon.

That’s because House Bill 31 now under con-sideration in Santa Fe would end the current system and increase res-taurants’ front-of-house labor costs more than 500 percent, and the fallout would harm employees and customers in several ways. For most restau-rants, 95 cents of every dollar taken in is paid out for payroll, product and building. That only leaves a nickel to handle unex-pected costs or increases.

When faced with this major cost increase, many restaurants will raise prices, which will inevita-bly hurt business. Given all the food options avail-able to consumers rang-ing from grocery stores to food delivery apps, a major increase in the prices at my restaurant will turn many people away. I won’t seat as many customers, so I won’t make as much in tips.

Some restaurants may reduce the number of servers they have

or reduce hours. With fewer servers per shift, customer service will suffer. Customers can expect peak times at their favorite hangouts to be minimally staffed and the experience will not be as pleasant.

Even scarier, some restaurants may decide to eliminate tipping all together and go to a flat wage. Under this sce-nario, my friends and I will almost certainly see a pay cut. Earning a flat $12 per hour would be a major decrease, not an increase in our pay. Such a change may cause many servers to consider leaving the industry we love altogether. These outcomes aren’t specula-tion. Various high-profile restaurants around the country have experi-mented with replacing tipping with flat hourly wages. Many quickly went back to tipping when their best employ-ees faced lower take-home pay and left.

It would be a shame if New Mexico fell into this trap and forced this ex-periment on our growing New Mexico hospitality industry and its employ-ees. It would eliminate a real opportunity for workers like me to earn a great living doing the job that we love.

Eileen BermudezLas Cruces

Skin shade shouldn’t matter

To the editor:I was shocked and

disgusted by the recent movie review of “Mary Queen of Scots” in the Feb. 1 Bulletin.

In this review, Jeff Berg rambles on and on as to the historical ac-curacy of a black man being in a “period piece.”

But, alas, not only are there blacks (African English), but Asians and other ethnicities as well.

Mr. Berg dwells on blacks. What he fails to see is that this is a movie, meant for entertainment, not a documentary meant for education.

The shade of a per-son’s skin, the length of their hair, their friend-ships, their dialogue, the exact clothing that they wore at a particular mo-ment in time – these are things over which we have creative control.

Just because a per-son’s skin is dark is not and should not be a de-ciding factor in whether they can act a part in a movie – or a documen-tary for that matter.

It is attitudes such as this (that the shade of skin matters) that keeps a good deal of black ac-tors unemployed.

Julie Lowe-SanchezLas Cruces

Pointless to hash over inequities

To the editor:Anyone that has ever

read The Old Testament understands the struggle between man and God as the Israelites moved toward their promised land. No, they rarely ever did it right except in bits and spurts, but the direc-tion was always there.

Of course, the found-ing of America was no different. We are no more or less human than we were back 3,000 years ago, always taking the reins back when we feel we now have control. The Puritans perfectly understood this as did our nation’s founders. To sit here today and harp about us not doing it right is only for the minds of simpletons. Socrates gave us a freeing of our mind to think on our own. Jesus Christ freed us from the fear of God and gave us a path of self-direction apart from the impossible confines of laws created to keep us on the straight and narrow.

Our Declaration of Independence and Con-stitution gave a nation a format to take both of those men’s offerings. Did we do it all right and just? Of course not. How-ever, to continually hash over those inequities is nothing more than a way to impede our future by

the ones that would ben-efit from destroying the greatness of our nation. It is well noted that when the past is quarreling with the present there can be no future.

Rob WoodLas Cruces

Money better spentTo the editor:The trial of El Chapo,

leader of Sinaloa Cartel with a net worth is $14 billion, in New York shows us that the drug cartels don’t bother with low-level mules carry-ing a backpack of drugs across the southern border to the world’s big-gest consumer of illegal drugs: the United States.

His cartel was/is mak-ing big bucks on planes, trucks, coming across legal points of entry loaded with hundreds of pounds of drugs.

What could we do for this country with $5.7 billion besides increas-ing the national debt for children? Maybe upgrade crumbling roads, bridges, water systems, transpor-tation systems, schools, IT systems, points of entry, etc., etc., etc.

Elisa SanchezLas Cruces

Sentiment was anti-American

To the editor:I’m organizing a

Neighborhood Watch

program for our subdi-vision of new homes. While recently talking to neighbors about sched-uling a meeting I met a seemingly nice, polite gentleman in his 70s named Bob who lives in my neighborhood

While Bob expressed support for the proposed Neighborhood Watch pro-gram as he rode around our neighborhood on his bike, within 10 minutes our conversation turned to anti-Muslim-American sentiments. I regret that I didn’t challenge him more and retreated into my house.

The next day, I men-tally replayed what I should have said and would have said but didn’t.

Maybe writing this letter to the editor will help assuage my regret and failure to express my belief in the Golden Rule, Equal Rights Under the Law and support for the United States Bill of Rights, Article 3: Con-gress shall make no law establishing religion or prohibiting the free exer-cise thereof, nor shall the rights of Conscience be infringed.

My rusty Christian values beg the question when confronted by such anti-American advocacy. What Would Jesus Do?

Michael SmithLas Cruces

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“What hap-pened to your pickup seat? Is that buffalo track?”

Well, I guess you had to be there. We had a cow attack.

It all began when me and Roy went out to check the cows.

We'd finished lunch and watched our ‹soap' and forced ourselves to rouse.

We’s pokin’ through the heavy bunch for calves to tag and check.

I spotted one but his ol’ mom was bowin’ up her neck.

She pawed the ground and swung her head a’slingin’ froth and spit

Then bellered like a wounded bull. “Say, Roy,” I says, “let’s quit!”

But Roy was bent on taggin’ him and thought to make a grab.

“Just drive up there be-side the calf, I’ll pull him in the cab.”

Oh, great. Another stroke of genius, of cow-boy derring do.

Shur nuf when Roy nabbed the calf, his mama came in too.

And I do mean climbed up in there! Got a foot be-hind the seat

Punched a horn right through the windshield and she wasn't very neat.

She was blowin’ stuff out both ends till the cab was slick and green

It was on the floor and on the roof and on the calf vaccine.

If you’ve been inside a dryer at the local laun-dromat

With a bear and fifty horseshoes then you know just where I's at.

At one point she was sittin’ up, just goin’ for a ride

But then she tore the gun rack down. The calf went out my side.

I was fightin’ with my door lock which she’d smashed a’passin’ by

When she peeked up through the steering wheel and looked me in the eye.

We escaped like para-troopers out the window, landed clear.

But the cow just kept on drivin’ cause the truck was still in gear.

She topped a hump and disappeared. The blinker light came on

But if she turned I never saw, by then the truck was gone.

I looked at Roy, ‘My truck is wrecked. My cov-eralls are soaked.

I'll probably never hear again. I think my elbow’s broke.

And look at you. Yer pitiful. All crumpled up and stiff

Like you been eat by wild dogs and pooped over a cliff.

“But think about it,” Roy said. “Since Granpa was alive,

I b’lieve that that’s the firstest time I’ve seen a cattle drive.”

Baxter Black is a cowboy poet, former large animal veterinarian and enter-tainer of the agricultural masses. Learn more at www.baxterblack.com.

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“The Broken Spoke,” “575,” “Amador” and “Jax.”

Those are the names of the four restaurants/bars that will be a part of the Amador Redevelopment Project when it opens downtown later this month.

Renovation of the historic Amador hotel and commercial proper-ties adjacent to it are “the catalytic project for downtown that we have all been waiting for,” city Economic Development Specialist Armando Mo-rales told the city’s Tax Increment Development Board (TIDD) at its Jan. 29 meeting.

TIDD is comprised of Mayor Ken Miyagishima and members of the city council, along with Doña Ana County Commis-sioner Shannon Reynolds as an ex-officio member.

“The Broken Spoke” is expected to feature more than 60 beers on tap, Mo-rales said; “Jax,” a cock-tail bar, will be located at the top of the develop-ment; and “575” will be a martini bar.

Morales said developer Max Bower expects a

“soft opening” for the project in February, with a ribbon cutting and offi-cial opening in March.

“What we’re seeing is going to be a dynamic change for our down-town,” TIDD board mem-ber and City Councilor Greg Smith said. “I look forward to being up there at ‘Jax’ when we can see the sunset on the western horizons and see the sun playing on the Organ Mountains on the east. This is going to be the kind of place that will make downtown a very exciting destination.”

The city entered into a $6.5 million develop-ment agreement with Max Bower’s GMB De-velopment NM, LLC, for the Amador renovation project in May 2016. Con-struction began later that year and included Visit Las Cruces, demolition of

the non-historic parts of the Amador Hotel and the restaurants. Last May, the TIDD board approved a 10-year commercial lease agreement for the Amador Project with Bower’s Amador Hospi-tality LLC.

Parking will be avail-able in lots on both the east and north sides of the facility, Morales said. Smith said he hopes com-pletion of the Amador Project “will underscore the need” for the con-struction of a downtown parking garage.

Church-Water Conversion

The Church-Water Two-Way Conversion Project, another down-town TIDD project, should be complete by the end of March, Project Manager Jimmy Moreno said at the Jan. 29 TIDD

meeting. The project was originally scheduled for completion Dec. 31, but the deadline was ex-tended because the city added to the scope of work, Moreno said.

The project will con-clude with renovation of the roundabout at the north end of downtown, Moreno said. He said the transition from one-way to two-way traffic on Church and Water will be phased in beginning at the south end and proceeding north to the roundabout. Moreno said signs will be placed at both ends of downtown to alert drivers to the new traffic pattern.

Morales showed a short video about the new-to-Las Cruces reverse park-ing that will be part of on-street parking when the Church-Water conver-sion is complete. He said

the city will use the video to help drivers learn about back-in parking.

Renovate Main Street Morales told the TIDD

board the city’s Renovate Main Street incentive program (RMS) has helped two downtown businesses develop with matching funds, and three other projects are in the works.

RMS was started in January 2018, with the first grant awarded last May to Little Toad Creek to help convert what had been an attorney’s of-fice into a brewery and bar with work on doors, patio fencing, signage and ADA-compliant bathrooms. Another RMS grant helped Zia Com-ics pay for countertops, cabinets, a sink, ceiling

upgrades and doors, Mo-rales said.

RMS has been a suc-cessful program for the city, Morales said, and city staff are working on a resolution to present to the TIDD board to con-tinue the program.

TIDD was created by the city in 2009 “to gen-erate revenue within the downtown area and to use those revenues within that area for public improvement proj-ects,” according to city documents. It is funded through existing gross re-ceipts tax revenues, with additional funding from the New Mexico Legisla-ture.

Mike Cook may be reached at [email protected].

Amador Redevelopment Project set to open

BULLETIN PHOTO BY MIKE COOKThe current and upcoming priority projects for the downtown Las Cruces Tax Increment De-velopment District (TIDD).



“I think we can all agree we need affordable housing in Las Cruces,” Mayor Pro Tem Gill Sorg said at a recent Las Cru-ces City Council meeting.

At its Monday, Feb. 4 regular meeting, the council approved a long-term, low-interest loan of $495,500 to Tierra del Sol Housing Corporation as part of a local match for the nonprofit’s applica-tion to the New Mexico Finance Authority’s (NMMFA) allocation pool

for Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).

The new complex would cost $12 million to

construct 60 low-income housing units at the cor-ner of Peachtree Hills and Jornada roads in the

Metro Verde South devel-opment in northeast Las Cruces.

At its Jan. 22 meeting, the council approved allocations of $700,000 each to Tierra del Sol for the Peachtree Canyon project and to Mesilla Valley Public Housing Authority’s Desert Hope Apartments at 1310 Pecos St., which plans are to ex-pand 20 apartments into 36 efficiencies at a total cost of about $6 million.

The $700,000 for each project includes $200,000 from the city’s U.S. De-partment of Housing and Urban Development Home Investment Part-nership (HOME) program funds and an additional $500,000 from the city’s Telshor Facility Fund, which was created in Oc-tober 2004 with proceeds

from the pre-paid lease of Memorial Medical Center to Providence Healthcare Company, according to city documents.

City Housing Develop-ment Coordinator Jan Lauterbach said Las Cruces has a shortage of about 5,000 low-income housing units, includ-ing about 3,000 units for single families.

The city funding will provide local match-ing funds necessary for both nonprofit housing agencies to apply for the NMMFA LIHTC program.

At its Feb. 4 regular meeting, the city coun-cil also unanimously adopted a community blueprint for the develop-ment of almost five acres of city property located on the west side of Lewis Street and Spruce Avenue for affordable housing.

Tree policyCity of Las Cruces

Community Forrester Jimmy Zabriskie said city Parks and Recre-ation Department staff are drafting a tree policy management program “that integrates safety practices for the commu-nity, wildlife and trees,” according to a city sum-mary document of Za-briskie’s presentation to

the city council at its Jan. 29 work session.

The policy will set guidelines for tree plant-ing and proper mainte-nance and help the city “take better care of the trees we have decided to plant and grow,” said Zabriskie, who was hired as the city’s first ever community forester in October 2017.

Under the new policy, the community forester will approve the selection of trees to be planted in public spaces, review city landscape plans to ensure that appropriate trees and planting locations are selected and inspect all city trees for climate appropriateness, struc-ture, root systems and other characteristics.

The policy also will ad-dress willful damage to city trees and appropri-ate pruning of city palm trees.

The city has more than 6,000 trees in city parks and other public areas.

Strategic planThe city is making

steady progress on the 20 goals grouped under four themes outlined in the strategic plan adopted by the city council in July 2017, City Manager Stuart Ed said at the council’s Jan. 29 work session.

The “concise, time con-strained” plan outlines tasks the city is “looking to accomplish over the next four to five years,” Ed said. It’s four themes are capital improvements and infrastructure; com-munications, involvement and follow-up; economic and community develop-ment; and education.

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Ed said the city accom-plished two tasks in 2017 and has accomplished four of the six tasks tar-geted in 2018.

Accomplishments include a “national best practice” internship pro-gram under which the city partners with Doña Ana Community College and has placed interns in the city Utilities Depart-ment and the budget and city manager’s office. The city also has also created a career development coordinator position and begun a mentorship pro-gram, Ed said.

The city is also com-pleting its sidewalk plan and is targeting sidewalk gaps around Las Cruces schools, Ed said. As part of the city’s goal for parks, it has updated parks mainte-

nance schedules and is at work on an integrated pest management pest program, a tree policy and a policy that will set consistent standards for restrooms in city parks. The city also has hired an active transportation coordinator.

The strategic plan includes a “substantial transformation” in the city’s purchasing section that incorporates per-

formance in outsource contracts, Ed said, includ-ing “moving away from accepting the lowest re-sponsive bid to the most-responsive, best-value bidder” that is based on a contract-by-contract basis over the lifecycle of the performance, he said.

“As an indication of some of the excitement downtown,” Ed said the Rio Grande Theatre turned a profit in its first

year of operation under the city. Its return on a $125,000 city investment was $130,000, he said.

“Before, we were just spending $130,000 and the theatre, in addition to that, was losing an ad-ditional $75,000 to $95,000 a year. The net impact on your general fund is a net increase of $130,000 that’s now available.”

In other action, the council ...

• supported adoption of an out-of-zone film tax credit by the state legislature. New Mexico currently provides a tax rebate of up to 30 percent for film produc-

tion in the state, said Mandy Guss of the city Economic Development Department. Film and television production requires the hiring of union employees, she said. Since most live in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, productions must pay additional costs to bring them to production sites outside Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties. The council’s action supports an ad-ditional five percent tax credit for film and TV production in Las Cru-ces and other locations around the state outside those two counties.

• unanimously ap-

proved the addition of about 323 acres to Metro Verde South located on both sides of Sonoma Ranch Boulevard, south of Peachtree Hills Road, north of Thurmond/Engler Road, east of Red Hawk Golf Road and west of McGuffy Street.

The ordinance calls for a range of land uses in the new addition that are already found throughout the existing develop-ment. The 323 acres will be added to the 879 acres that currently comprise Metro Verde South.


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Armando T. Cordero of Las Cruces received the John W. Clark Award at the New Mexico Water and Wastewater Associa-tion’s (NMWWA) annual banquet Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Hotel Encanto.

Cordero, who retired after more than three decades of service with the Mesilla Wastewater Treatment Facility, also received the award in 1997. He was twice NMWWA president, in 1999 and 2017. He received the NMWWA outstanding op-erator of the year in 1993.

Cordero retired Au-gust 2017, after 30 years of working with local government, including 13 years with the Town of Mesilla as a public works director and 17 years with Doña Ana County as manager for facilities and parks.

During his tenure with the county, Cordero was also in charge of the oversight of the construc-tion of the water and wastewater utility lines and treatment facilities. He became an NMWWA member in 1993 and has been involved with the association for the past 26

years. Cordero now works for Souder Miller and As-sociates as a senior con-struction resident project representative.

The John W. Clark Award recognizes out-standing contributions or service to the association. Clark was a longtime pro-fessor in civil engineering at New Mexico State Uni-versity and was director of the New Mexico Water

Resources Research Insti-tute based at NMSU.

NMWWA President Fil-berto Aguirre Jr. received the Caroline Martinez Achievement Award during the banquet. The Santa Teresa Wastewater Treatment Facility was recognized as the most im-proved facility of the year. Paul Trujillo of Las Cru-ces Utilities was among those recognized with the Ted Martinez Lifetime Award.

During his keynote speech at the banquet, City Councilor Greg Smith said providing clean water and quality wastewater disposal is “an important job” through-out the state.

NMWWA was created in 1956.


Cordero receives second water association award

BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOKThe 2019 New Mexico Water and Wastewater Association’s annual banquet drew a large crowd of association members from across the state.

Armando T. Cordero of Las Cruces, left, received the John W. Clark Award at the New Mexico Water and Wastewater Asso-ciation’s (NMWWA) annual banquet Wednesday night, Jan. 30 at Hotel Encanto. Cordero is shown with NMWWA President Filberto Aguirre Jr., also of Las Cruces, who received the Caroline Martinez Achievement Award during the banquet.


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Codes enforcementDoña Ana County Ani-

mal Control and Codes Enforcement, along with Planning and Constitu-ent Services personnel, will go door-to-door in the Radium Springs area on Thursday, Feb. 14, to offer education on domestic animal ordinances, re-cycling, trash accumula-tion, inoperable vehicles, weed control and other potential environmental and zoning codes viola-tions.

The Animal Control and Environmental Survey (ACES) program aims to educate residents on how to come into compliance with county ordinances involving domestic animals and solid waste while offering opportunities to beautify the area where they live.

In recent years, multiple ACES projects have been conducted countywide.

From 9 a.m.-noon Sat-urday, Feb. 23, a roll-off and tire shredder will be available to the commu-nity until the containers are filled. Other com-munity outreach services scheduled for Feb. 23 include low-cost rabies vaccinations and advance scheduling of spay and neuter operations for pets.

For more information, contact the Doña Ana County Animal Control and Codes Enforcement Department at 575-525-8846.

APA yard sale The nonprofit ACTion

Programs for Animals plans to soon open a thrift store to benefit its animal rescue efforts.

Until APA’s Second Chance Thrift Store is open, the organization will host yard sales at its headquarters, 1150 E. Las Cruces Ave.

The next sale is from 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 16.

Donations for future yard sales and the thrift store may also be dropped off during this time.

Call 575-644-0505 or email [email protected].

Roadrunner projectLas Cruces police

recently completed a month-long traffic en-forcement project along Roadrunner Parkway that resulted in the is-suance of more than 100 citations.

The project was initi-ated after the city’s street and traffic operations sec-

tion received complaints about vehicles speeding along Roadrunner near Calais Avenue.

Altogether, 103 traf-fic citations were issued in four operations con-ducted Dec. 20, 2018, and Jan. 24, 2019. A majority, 64, were issued to drivers traveling in excess of the posted speed limit along Roadrunner Parkway. Other citations were is-sued to drivers with no insurance, no driver’s license, no registration or for operating a vehicle while using a cell phone.

The Las Cruces Police Department plans similar traffic enforcement oper-ations on other roadways.

SWEC grantThe Southwest En-

vironmental Center (SWEC) has been awarded a New Mexico

Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) grant that will be used to hire up to eight local youths ages 17-25. The youths will work on a six-month restoration project at La Mancha Wetland and River Edge Farm as part of SWEC’s long-term ef-fort to restore riparian, wetland, and aquatic habitats in the Southwest, particularly along the Rio Grande, which has experienced the loss of up to two-thirds of its na-tive fish species due to a century of dam-building, channel-straightening and diversion of flows for agriculture.YCC participants will gain paid, hands-on ex-perience with ecological monitoring, building and improving trails, install-ing wildlife cameras,

rainwater harvesting, designing and installing interpretive signs, re-moving non-native plant species, leading public tours and planting native grasses, shrubs and trees.

According to a news release, the greater Las Cruces community will gain revitalized natural areas where they can experience the beauty of the Rio Grande’s riparian zone and native wildlife. Trails and interpretive signs installed at both sites will provide oppor-tunities for self-guided tours, and SWEC will also offer guided tours. The bat houses to be installed will attract bats to control mosquitos in the area . For more information, call 575-522-5552 or visit SWEC’s website at www.wildmesquite.org.

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BULLETIN REPORT A bill co-sponsored by

Las Cruces State Sen. Jeff Steinborn in the 2019 legis-lative session would allow communities, counties and tribes to choose their own energy provider.

The Local Choice Energy Act (SB 374), Steinborn said, “would create the energy solutions people re-ally want.” The bill would

create “greener, less expen-sive energy,” he said. “It’s what we’ve needed in New Mexico for a long time and this bill will do it.”

Steinborn is co-sponsor-ing with state Sen. Benny Shendo, who represents Bernalillo, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan and Sandoval counties. Both are Democrats. They intro-duced the bill Jan. 23.

Government entities

could “pool their elec-tricity-buying power and decide how their electric-ity is produced, whether through independent pro-ducers, existing utilities or through energy owned and produced by communities themselves,” the news re-lease said. “Once a commu-nity creates a Local Choice Energy Provider (LCEP) and selects its energy sup-ply, the electricity is sold to

community residents and businesses.”

Established by law in seven states thus far, local choice energy providers work in partnership with the state’s existing utility companies which continue to deliver power, maintain the grid and may provide consolidated billing and other customer services. In states where local choice energy exists, LCEP cus-tomers are enjoying lower rates, higher renewable energy penetration, and reinvestment of energy dollars into local economic development. If adopted the Local Choice Energy Act will fully open New Mexico’s energy market to competition.

“This legislation requires the New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission to develop Local Choice En-ergy Act-enabling rules and a timetable for implemen-tation,” the news release continues. “In order to form a local choice energy provider, the act requires that communities and Tribal Nations develop an implementation plan detail-ing the process and charac-teristics of the local choice energy program before the LCEP can operate. The implementation plan must contain an organizational

structure, a rate-setting process, evidence of ade-quate resources to meet the needs of its participating customers, a fully fleshed-out budget and other components necessary to function as an efficient, effective, and customer service-oriented utility.

“An entity that is eligible to be a local choice energy provider and elects to implement a local choice energy program will do so by municipal or county ordinance or, in the case of a sovereign tribal nation, through the tribal govern-ment process. The creation of local utilities to meet the basic needs of residents and shift revenue to local investment has been done, for instance, when the City of Santa Fe successfully took over the water utility

from PNM, and now runs one of the most efficient and conservation-oriented water utilities in the entire country.”

“Right now, we are all forced into one electricity provider that has monopoly power over us,” the news release said. “That simply works against everything that can serve our com-munity well, whether it is using competition to get better prices or enabling our ability to choose clean energy that creates jobs with New Mexico com-panies. We deserve that choice,” said Senator Jeff Steinborn. “It is time for energy freedom for New Mexicans and that is why we have introduced this legislation.”

“The City of Las Cruces supports this legislation because my constituents want clean energy and we have been frustrated by our lack of energy choice and dependence on higher cost fossil fuels. If we are given the choice to invest in wind and solar, we can redirect savings from our energy use to other priorities, and all while creating new green jobs. That is very excit-ing,” Las Cruces Mayor Pro-Tem Gill Sorg said in the news release.

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VFW awarded two “Sport Clips Help A Hero” scholarships Jan. 30 in Las Cruces. Shown left to right at the presentation are VFW District Commander Mike Cano, scholarship recipient Mark Allen, Sport Clips Assistant Manager Alyssa Rodriguez and Manager Meagan Guerra and past VFW State Commander Len Hampton of Las Cruces. Allen, who attends New Mexico State University, and Tomas Gonzales (not shown) a stu-dent at Doña Ana Community College, received the scholar-ships for the spring 2019 se-mester. Established in 2014, the Help A Hero scholarship program awards service members and veterans with post-secondary scholarships of up to $5,000 to help them achieve their educational goals without the burden of student loan debt. For more information, visit www.vfw.org/media-and-events.

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east of Harty Field. Mayor Ken Miyagishima read a proc-

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During an update on Las Cruces Space Festival held last week, Festival Director Jonathan Firth couldn’t contain his en-thusiasm. He said the proj-ect is entering a new stage.

“Last year we had three speakers; this year we have 23 and probably more,” Firth said. “But it’s not all about speaking, it’s not all about talking, it’s not a festival just about ideas of the mind. There is activity and entertain-ment and fun as part of it.

“[The festival] is inspir-ing and exciting our youth and all a ges. It’s support-ing the sustainable devel-opment at the spaceport. It’s raising awareness and shining a light on all the

space-related activity in New Mexico.”

The 2019 festival, scheduled for April 7-13, is expected have a major economic impact.

“We want to draw in people from the region, the state and outside. Relatives are coming from overseas for this,” Firth said.

A series of events will take place prior to the festival. On Feb. 23 at Plaza de Las Cruces, the committee will preview the content of the festival. From March 1-3, they are participating in the Las Cruces Arts Fair, and on March 23 they will be on the plaza again, creating art.

“One of the themes this year is to try and bring more arts and culture

content into the festival,” Firth said. “On March 23 people will be doing space-related art that hopefully will be part of the ‘Our Place in Space’ exhibition that will be part of the festival and beyond. The exhibition is about not just images from the telescope but about artists’ interpretation of what they see and our feel-ing about our place in the

universe.”Open houses will be

held April 6 at the Trinity Site and the Very Large Array and April 7 at Spaceport America.

For more information and to register for ac-tivities and events, visit lcspacefestival.com.

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Four new degree pro-grams were recently approved by the New Mexico Higher Education Department and are of-fered at Doña Ana Com-munity College. They are in Building Construction Technology, Cybersecu-rity, Game Development and Medical Assisting.

Degrees can be earned as early as the Fall 2019 semester.

Building Construction Technology degree can-didates receive training to enter the workforce, including basic solar, plumbing and energy auditing. In addition, students learn project management, sustainable building, construction law, blueprint reading, basic surveying, concrete work, weatherization, masonry, hand and power tools, safety procedures, math skills, painting and communication.

The Cybersecurity degree serves the needs of technology in the workplace. Three options allow students to earn a certificate in cyberse-curity or to specialize

in Cisco networking or system administration. Jobs are available locally, regionally and nationally in information technol-ogy fields.

The Game Develop-ment degree provides stu-dents training as a game developer or to enter the fields of virtual reality, app development or aug-mented reality. The skills are easily transferable to the film field to enhance film production.

The Medical Assisting program trains health-care professionals to

provide medical office administrative services and perform a variety of clinical duties under the supervision of a physician. The degree provides instruction on advanced skills and a 180-hour intern experience. Several certificates of completion are built into the major.

Students can talk to DACC advisors to start on these options or other degree offerings at the community college. Con-tact admissions at 575-527-7710.

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Thanks to the devotion of local volunteers and financial support from NASA, public-school ro-botics programs in Doña Ana County now include programs for students in every grade, K-12. And, the newest robotics team combines students from elementary and middle schools in two different school districts.

“I’m hoping it will lead to further cooperation,” said Mesquite Elemen-tary School special edu-cation teacher Russell Husson-Matter, who is a FIRST Programs coach and mentor. Both Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) and the Gadsden Independent School District (GISD) are sponsoring the team in different ways, Husson-Matter said, along with the Southern New Mexico STEM Alliance (SNMSA).

Husson-Matter’s team,

Weapons of Mass De-struction (WMD), brings together fifth- through eighth-grade students from Las Cruces and Gadsden (where Husson-Matter teaches) class-rooms to form the first FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) team in the area.

FIRST (For Inspira-tion and Recognition of

Science and Technology) is a national nonprofit founded in 1989 to spark students’ interest in science and technol-ogy, according to www.firstinspires.org. FTC is generally for students in grades 7-12. Other FIRST programs include FIRST Lego League Jr., which introduces STEM to stu-

dents ages 6-10; FIRST Lego League, for students ages 9-14; and FIRST Robotics Competition, which is for high school students.

The LCPS Project NEO high school team is based at Arrowhead Park Early College High School, which provides space for the FTC team and men-tors for its students. Men-tors also include New Mexico State University students and local science and technology profes-sionals like Jeff Harris, assistant vice president of administration and chief information officer for Burrell College of Os-teopathic Medicine in Las Cruces. Harris is a Proj-ect NEO advisor, FIRST Lego League competition co-director.

Funding and support from NASA, SNMSA, LCPS and GISD helped create the new FTC team and provided “another opportunity where we can do STEM outreach,”

said Harris, former IT director for LCPS.

Husson-Matter said he hopes this kind of cooper-ation will expand STEM learning and robotics programs even more throughout the county and southern New Mex-ico through recognized classroom curriculum, after-school programs and robotics competitions for students of all ages.

“What robotics has brought to this campus is a realization that all things are possible for all students,” said Mesquite Elementary Principal Angela Silvaggio. “To see students that are gifted working with students with special needs toward a common goal and cause is amazing. Students learn from each other the importance and value of STEM education while building bridges between their school and schools from a nearby district. Mr. Husson-Matter is an amazing mentor who sees

the value and contribu-tion that all students can bring to the success of the program.”

WMD was part of the third-place alliance in its first ever team com-petition Jan. 12 in Al-amogordo and traveled to Albuquerque Jan. 26 for the New Mexico-Arizona Rover Ruckus regional qualifying competition. In between, WMD team members, Husson-Matter and mentors designed, built and programmed a new robot which the students named “Tsar Bomba” for the Jan. 26 regional qualifier. During competitions, WMD team members form alliances with other teams to ma-neuver their 18-inch by 18-inch robots across a 12-foot by 12-foot field in competition with other alliances to successfully raise and lower their ro-bots and lift, deposit and collect objects to earn

Robotics team members are, left to right, front row, David Baca, Alexandra Rodriguez and Athena Gallegos; back row, David Torres, mentor Jill Cox and Valerie Rodriguez. They are writ-ing the computer code that will control the robot.

Robotics team combines students from Las Cruces, Gadsden

PHOTO COURTESY RUSSELL HUSSON-MATTERFrom left are Las Cruces Public Schools-Gadsden Indepen-dent School District robotics team members Valerie Rodri-guez, Marco Ramirez, Alexandra Rodriguez (mostly hidden), David Torres and Athena Gallegos working on the team’s robot.

BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOKLeft to right are robotics team members David Baca, Coach Russell Husson-Matter, Markus Matter, Athena Gallegos, Alexandra Rodriguez and Valerie Rodriguez. They are attaching a motor to the arm used to lift the robot off the ground in the end-game portion of the competi-tions.

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The students solve real-world problems during the competitions, Husson-Matter said, develop criti-cal thinking skills and hone their social skills by talking to and working with students from other teams to build successful alliances.

“At first I didn’t feel comfortable going to FTC and I didn’t know what to do,” said WMD team member Athena Gallegos, a sixth grader at Mesquite Elemen-tary. “I went to one of the practices and tried programming with the help of mentors. Now we have been competing and I don’t have to be afraid

to share my ideas with others. Being in FTC has encouraged me to seek out more STEM-like pro-grams for high school.”

Robotics tournaments provide “an interesting

synergistic experience” for participating stu-dents, said Husson-Mat-ter, who gave up a career working for food and bev-erage companies in the sports and entertainment

industry in his mid-40s to become a teacher about five years ago. “It’s been a dream,” he said of teach-ing and robotics coach-ing. “I can’t not do it.” Husson-Matter received the local FIRST LEGO League volunteer of the year award for the 2018-19 season.

“FTC helped me in many ways,” said Gads-den Middle School eighth-grader Valerie Rodriguez. “It helped me decide to follow a path to be an engineer. It showed me great things and taught me we need to work as a team to succeed.”

“Personality, I thought that this was a real good learning experience for everyone,” Mesquite Elementary sixth grader David Torres said after the Jan. 26 qualifying event, “especially the way we were able to get hands on with all the

machines and tools. I re-ally thank ProjectNEO for letting us use their tools and for helping us achieve and accomplish building a robot. I hope that more people get more involved with this program of First Tech Challenge.”

“The best part of com-petition is that through it we discover what we are capable of and how much more we can do than we even believe possible,” Mesquite Elementary sixth grader Alexandra Rodriguez said in a text to her WMD teammates before the qualifier. “FTC and other engineering programs have inspired me to not only stop with these programs, but to keep going and to reach my goal on being an engi-neer.”

“The program helped me understand it’s not just about one person

winning, it’s about team-work,” said Booker T. Washington Elementary fifth grader David Baca. “Working together and yet everyone has a task. I like learning about programming, and I’ve learned more new things now with the help of my team.”

“I think that the perfor-mance of this team and the involvement of three separate organizations, the ages compared to all the other teams and the problems that we over-came should speak for itself,” said WMD team mentor Carlos Garcia, an NMSU student.

For more information, contact Husson-Matter at [email protected]. Visit mq.gisd.k12.nm.us/robotics.


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PHOTO COURTESY RUSSELL HUSSON-MATTERMembers of the Weapons of Mass Destruction robotics team are, left to right, front row: Coach Russell Husson-Matter, mentor Carlos Garcia, Rydia Husson-Matter, David Baca and Alexandra Rodriguez; middle row: Lukas Matter and Athena Gallegos; back row: Valerie Rodriguez, mentor Jill Cox, men-tor Marco Ramirez Jr., Markus Matter and David Torres. Not pictured is Coach Marco Ramirez.


Mesilla Valley Stamp Club: Meets 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, Belton Bridge Center, 1214 E. Madrid Ave. Bring stamps to sell or trade. Free, open to all. Info: 575-202-1937.

Cupid’s Chase: 5K race to raise awareness about the potential of those with disabilities, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2114 Calle de San-tiago, Old Mesilla Plaza. Registration 7 a.m., race starts at 9. Info: Jessica Hernandez-Ochoa, 575-532-9275.

NARFE meeting and break-fast buffet: National Ac-tive and Retired Federal Employees Association Chapter 182 will meet at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. in the Esparanza Room of the Hilton Garden Inn, 2550 Don Roser Drive. The program will be pre-

sented by students from Aggies Without Limits, which helps those in need by involving Aggie stu-dents in sustainable en-gineering projects. There is a cost (cash only) for the breakfast buffet be-ginning at 8:45 a.m. Info: Carol Main, 575-382-7686 or Carol Smith, 575-522-3033.

Lunar New Year Celebra-tion: Sponsored by the Branigan Cultural Center and the NMSU Confucius Institute, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Brani-gan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St. Info: 575-541-2154.

American Association of University Women: Hosts a presentation by former General Motors execu-tive and recent candidate for U.S. Congress Merrie

Lee Soules, titled “Get in the Middle of It! Finding Your Place in Politics,” 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Peace Lutheran Church, 1701 Missouri Ave. Free.

Crafts for Kids: Children of all ages can create their own craft to take home, 10 a.m.-noon Sat-urday throughout the month of February at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. This activity is free with regular admis-sion ($5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens, $3 for children 4-17). Info: 575-522-4100.

• Feb. 9: Make woven hearts that you can give to that special person on Valentine’s Day.

Fourth Annual National Texas Two Step CPR: Medi-

cal students attending the Burrell College of Os-teopathic Medicine will join forces with national nonprofits HealthCorps and First Impact to offer a free hands-only CPR training from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, and Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Mesilla Valley Mall, 700 S. Telshor Blvd. Info: www.tx2stepcpr.com.

Back by Noon: Natural history/ecology outings, presented by the South-west Environmental Cen-ter, Saturdays through May 11. Free, open to the public, bring sturdy foot-wear, water, sunscreen and a hat. Advance regis-tration requested before each outing by calling 575-522-5552. Visit www.wildmesquite.org for de-scription of outings and starting times. The spring

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• March 2, Border BioBlitz, Rio Bosque

• March 9, A Day at Otero Mesa, Cornudas Mountains

• March 23, Explore the Aztec Caves, Franklin Mountains

• March 13, The Secret World of Bats (Back by Midnight), La Mancha Wetland

• April 27, Explosive History of the Organ Mountains, Dripping Springs

• May 11, Frogs of the Chihuahuan Desert, Agu-irre Spring

Republican Women of Me-silla Valley: Meet 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Haci-enda de Mesilla, 1891 Ave-nida de Mesilla. Speaker is former state Rep. John Bigbee. Info: Carol Coo-per, 575-526-4983, [email protected].

Cruces Apple User Group: Meets noon Saturday, Feb. 9, DACC Espina Campus, Alex Sanchez Hall, Room 114. Agenda: “What’s new with Apple?” Info: Louise Fos-ter, [email protected]; www.cauglc.org.

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Identifying Backyard Birds: Helpful tips to identify the most common back-yard birds in our area, 1-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Education Center, 2001 E. Lohman, Suite 130 located in Arroyo Plaza. Seating is limited. RSVP, 575-523-5489 or [email protected].

Dating for Dummies: Sponsored by LC Social Singles, 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Sugies Diner, 340 N. Main St. Info: Anna, 575-642-2002.

Amazing Acro-cats: A troupe of performing house cats featured on Animal Planet, 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. Tickets: www.circuscats.com.

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Genevieve Knights of Columbus Council 13969, Sunday, Feb. 10. Registra-tion 10 a.m., competition begins at 11:30, at the Las Cruces Catholic School Multipurpose Room, 1331 N. Miranda. Info: Jaime Flores, 575-993-8634, or GK Jose Tapia, 575-649-6525.

Enchilada dinner: Knights of Columbus hosts to benefit Catholic Chari-table Fund, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, KC Hall, 2755 E. Idaho. $8 per ticket. Info: 575-526-8375, 575-522-0161, 575-526-4037.

Share the Road Visibility Ride: Monthly ride spon-sored by Velo Cruces, Monday, Feb. 11. Meet 7 a.m., Las Cruces Railroad Museum, 351 N. Mesilla St. Departure time 7:15. Destination is Starbucks, corner University and Espina. Wear helmets and observe all traffic laws.

Southwest Calligra-phy Guild: Meets 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, First Presbyterian Church, 200 E. Boutz. For those interested in the art of beautiful writ-ing. Visitors are always welcome. For a list of the supplies needed for this program contact Karin McClain, 575-524-2805.

Las Cruces Association of Educational Retirees: Meets 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, Good Samaritan Vil-lage, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Speaker Yoli Diaz speaks about C.A.R.E. Luncheon, $12. Info: Navora Richardson, 575-649-7663; Kathi Becker, 575-639-0338.

Book Talk: 1:30 p.m. Tues-

day, Feb. 12, Roadrunner Room of the Branigan Li-brary. C.S. Fuqua shares his books on sci-fi, adven-ture and poetry.

Computer classes: Thomas Branigan Memo-rial Library hosts free computer literacy classes in the Computer Training Lab, second floor, during February. Registration not required, but space limited. Attendees are welcome to bring their own laptops. Info: Vicki Minnick, 575-528-4002 or [email protected].

• Windows 10 Basics – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2-4 p.m. How to navigate the most recent operat-ing system. Topics to be covered are the new Start Menu, Cortana and how to customize the desktop. Basic computer skills are required.

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Las Cruces High School senior Breanna Widner gained national recogni-tion after placing among the top 40 students in the nation for her work in the field of computer science. Widner competed in a na-tional competition, earn-ing the Aspirations in Computing Award from the National Center for Women and Information Technology.

This month, NCWIT announced the 2019 AiC national recipients, hon-oring 400 women in high school from all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Vir-gin Islands, Guam, and all U.S. overseas military bases.

Lauren Curry, Bre-anna Widner’s computer science teacher at Las Cruces High School, said Widner attended sum-mer camps for computer science in middle school, leading her to complete the computer science pathway at Las Cruces High. As a freshman, Widner took Intro to Video Game Design, and followed it up her sopho-more yea r with AP Com-puter Science Principles. As a junior, Widner fo-cused on earning college credit from UNM by tak-ing a dual-credit course offered by Curry at Las Cruces High School.

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for the course. “Breanna is really

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By CASSIE MCCLURE and SUZANNE MICHAELSFor the Bulletin

If you’re the owner of a manufactured home, you may not realize that when you need a gas connection or installation, or have gas pip-ing altered or repaired, you must also get a New Mexico State inspection of your home’s gas plumbing.

“The process starts with a customer contacting a licensed plumber, who then pulls a permit to do the work and contacts the New Mexico State inspector and Las Cru-ces Utilities (LCU),” explains Jaime Medina, LCU field ser-vices supervisor.

The process of repairs, scheduling, and inspecting usually takes several busi-ness days to complete. It

may sound excessive, but it’s all an effort to keep you safe. Research shows a large percentage of mobile home fires are due to defective, broken or poorly installed butane and propane gas appliances, and gas line leaks. Fires in mobile homes spread differently than in traditionally constructed houses due to the square box design and no large attic space for the fire and heat to vent or escape.

LCU wants to keep cus-tomers safe and warm, and now has been able to stream-line the process for those who have an immediate and urgent need for an inspec-tion completed by state in-spectors.

“Generally, it’s an oc-casional situation – maybe three or four times per year

– where we coordinate a gas service inspection with the state,” said Jose F. Proven-cio, LCU business services administrator.

During the last cold snap, when an elderly customer called to reconnect her gas service, Medina explained that in addition to the re-connection by LCU, it also required a visit by a State of New Mexico inspector. He alerted the customer it usu-ally takes several business days to connect services. However, he knew that wouldn’t work for her situ-ation.

“When we reached out to the state office, we wanted them to know that it was cold and this customer relied on her gas for heat,” said Medina. “We wanted to see what we could do to speed up

the process and coordinate efforts on our end and their end to make sure we could get everything done in a day.”

The state inspector un-derstood. With a frigid night approaching, the state office and LCU were able to syn-chronize efforts. After some strategic phone calls, a bit of schedule wrangling, and a dash of after-hours work for LCU, it came together.

“We were able to get her heat that evening,” said Me-dina.

Las Cruces Utilities provides gas, water, wastewater and solid waste services to ap-proximately 100,000 Las Cru-ces residents and businesses. Reach them at 575-528-3500 from 8 a.m. -5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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Doña Ana County Ge-nealogical Society: Meets 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, Thomas Branigan Memorial Library’s Road-runner room. Topic: “50 Shades of Black.”

School open house: Las Cruces Academy, 1755 Avenida de Mercado, invites the public to visit the school from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. Info: Lou Ellen, 575-521-9384, lascrucesacademy.org.

Culture Series: Remem-bering Life in Rural New Mexico, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. In 2018, dozens of New Mexicans

throughout the state shared their memories of “country living” in a series of oral history in-terviews. Taken together, these individual stories reveal the many shared experiences (and a few key differences) of girls and boys growing up in New Mexico in the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. Come join speakers Mary Alice Scott and Kelly Henks, as they share their impres-sions and some of their favorite stories, from en-during the Dust Bowl to

the many uses of castor oil. All generations are welcome, and audience participation is encour-aged. Admission is free. Info: 575-522-4100.

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Camp: Kids 5-12 welcome, 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at Las Cruces Jazzer-cise, 3217 El Camino Real. Cost, $15 before Feb. 8, $20 after that date. Info: Amy Richards, 941-705-0800, [email protected].

Doña Ana Modular Rail-road: Train display, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, Las Cruces Railroad Museum, 351 N. Mesilla St. Info: 575-649-9503.

Open House: NMSU Astronomy Department hosts first open house of the semester, 7 p.m. Fri-day, Feb. 15, Tombaugh Campus Observatory, 3415 Williams Ave. Info: 575-646-4438.

APA yard sale: Benefits ACTion Program for Animals’ spay and neuter program, 8 a.m.-noon Sat-urday, Feb. 16, 1150 E. Las Cruces Ave. Info: 575-644-0505, [email protected].

Maya Textiles: Weaving for Justice sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, 525 E. Lohman, Suite C (up-stairs). Fair Trade sale of hand-made textiles from Maya weaving coopera-tives in Chiapas, Mexico; all proceeds go to the weavers. Sales continue the 3rd Saturday of each month. Info: weaving-for-justice.org.

Celebration Flame Arrival: Senior Olympics torch ar-rives at Old Mesilla Plaza, 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16. Info: Cecilia Acosta, 575-642-6048.

Book signing: Includes local authors John W. Coleman, Linda Renee Haywood and William J. Beerman, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, Moonbow Altera-tions and Gift Shop, 225 E. Idaho #32. Info: Alice B. Davenport, 575-527-1411, [email protected].

Story Time: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Bring your little ones to the indoor Adventure Corral for story time and a craft. Ages 3-6. Free with regular admission. Info: 575-522-4100.

Minnesota Club: Monthly luncheon 11 a.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 20, at Sunset Grill, 1274 Golf Club Road. All those with ties to Min-nesota are welcome. Info: Kris 575-323-3624.

Las Cruces AARP Chapter:

Meeting, 2 p.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 20, Senior Amigos, 3948 E. Lohman Ave. Attendees are asked to bring a dry food item for the less fortunate in the community.

Discovery Afternoon: Ex-plore daily life during the colonial period during the month of February at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Info: 575-522-4100.

• Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2:30-4 p.m.: This class is designed for middle School level students, grades 6-8. The cost for this class is $3 for stu-dents, and $3 for parents who wish to attend. Limit of 12 students. Register at: goo.gl/forms/Wuca-hu0Qm1CKqMc13

Mesilla Valley Chapter of the Military Officers Asso-ciation of America: Dinner

meeting, 6 p.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 20, at the Las Cruces Convention Cen-ter. Cost of the meal is $28 per person. Former, cur-rent or retired warrant or commissioned officers of the Armed Forces, Public Health Service or NOAA and their surviving spouses are welcome. Info: Christine Sautter, 352-317-7129 or Bob Gaupel, 575-993-3060.

Museum Rocks! Gem & Mineral Show: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Sixth annual event hosted by the Friends of the Museum features more than 60 vendors, geology discussions, door prizes, children’s activi-ties and food and bever-ages for sale. Admission $7, includes admission to the museum. Info: www.LCMuseumRocks.com.

Stars-N-Parks: Residents and visitors to Grant and Luna Counties as well as Sierra County will have opportunities to learn about the spring night sky at Stars-N-Parks as-tronomy programs to be held at area state parks this spring. Suggested donations for the program are $5 per couple, or $3 per individual. Info: www.nmparks.com.

• March 2, City of Rocks State Park

• March 9, Caballo Lake State Park

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LCHS-MHS Class of 1969 50th Combined Reunion: Nov. 1-3. Visit our Facebook page, Las Cruces & May-field High School Class of 1969 Reunion info, for details and registration form. Info: Talea Alber-son, [email protected], or Bill McKin-ney, [email protected] (MHS); Lisa Gray, [email protected], or Robert Francis, [email protected], 575-649-9565 (LCHS).

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Big Daddy’s Flea Market: 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, 5580 Bataan Me-morial East, Hwy. 70 East. Info: 575-382-9404.

Canasta games and les-sons: 11:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wednesdays, Munson Cen-ter, 975 S Mesquite. Free.

Farmers & Crafts Market:

Regional produce, crafts and street musicians, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturdays, Plaza de Las Cruces.

Honors Flight of SNM: Veterans breakfast, 9 a.m. second Thursday, IHOP on Del Rey Boulevard. Info: John, 505-977-8579.

Las Cruces Civitan Club: Meets noon the second

Tuesday and 6 p.m. fourth Tuesday, Los Compas Res-taurant, 1120 Commerce Drive. Info: 575-649-0165.

Las Cruces Optimists Club:

“Friends of Youth” meets 6:45 a.m. every Thursday at IHOP, 2900 Del Rey Blvd. New members wel-come.

Las Cruces Shriners: Meet the second Monday, 1150 W. Brown. Info: 575-526-8396.

Military Order of the Purple Heart #2004: Meets 6 p.m. first Monday, American Legion #10, hall 1185. Info: 575-496-1312 or 575-644-1045.

Soroptimists: Noon, sec-

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Spanish Conversation

Group: 1:30-3 p.m. Tues-days, Munson Center, 975 S. Mesquite St. Intermedi-ate/advanced conversa-tion group welcomes new people to converse entirely in Spanish and improve skills. Each week, participants choose two topics to discuss the fol-lowing week. Info: 575-526-5174.

Special Forces Associa-tion: Chapter 80 meets 10 a.m. every fourth Sat-urday, 8936 Lisa Lane. Breakfast at 9 a.m.

Square dancing: Belton

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Toastmasters Club: 7-8

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The project is included in the Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan, and the ICIP number is 32549.

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NW 1/4 of Section 14,Township 21 South, Range 1West, NMPM, and morespecifically described whereLatitude and Longitude in-tersect at 32° 29' 10.20"N,106° 55' 18.25"W (WGS84)on land owned by theapplicant, and drilling newwell LRG-80 POD9 to belocated within the SW 1/4

NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section14, Township 21 South,Range 1 West, NMPM, andmore specifically describedwhere Latitude and Longi-tude intersect at 32° 29'9.99"N, 106° 55' 18.28"W(WGS84), on land owned bytheapplicant, to supplementexisting wells LRG-80-S,LRG-80-S-3, LRG-80POD7, and LRG-80 POD8,all located within the NW 1/4

NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section14, Township 21 South,Range 1 West, NMPM, onland owned by the applicant,for the continued diversionof 198.43 acre-feet perannum, which may beincreased up to 3,548.38acre-feet per annum provi-ded the applicant acquirereplacement surface wateroffsets, for subdivision, in-dustrial, municipal, commer-cial, irrigation and relatedpurposes within the DoñaAna Mutual Domestic WaterConsumers Associationservice area previouslyknown as the Fort SeldonWater Company, Incorpora-ted service area locatedwithin and throughout Sec-tions 11, 12, 13 and 14,Township 21 South, Range 1West, NMPM. The site fornew well LRG-80 POD9 islocated north of Fort SeldonState Park and may be foundapproximately 0.25 mile

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LRG-80-S-4 located withinthe SW 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 ofSection 14, Township 21South, Range I West,NMPM, all on land ownedby the applicant, for thecontinued diversion of198.43 acre-feet per annum,which may be increased upto 3,54838 acre-feet perannum provided the appli-cant acquire replacementsurface water offsets, forsubdivision, industrial, mu-nicipal, commercial, irriga-tion and related purposeswithin the Doña Ana MutualDomestic Water ConsumersAssociation service area pre-viously known as the FortSeldon Water Company,Incorporated service arealocated within and through-out Sections 11, 12, 13 and14, Township 21 South,Range 1 West, NMPM. Thesite for new well LRG-80PODS is located north ofFort Seldon State Park andmay be found approximately0.4 mile north of theintersection of LeasburgDam Road and Fort SeldonRoad. Discontinued wellLRG-80-S-2 will be plug-ged. The applicant hasrequested emergency author-ization to drill proposed wellLRG-80 PODS underNMSA, 1978, Section72-12-22, within 100 feet ofd i s c o n t i n u e d w e l lLRG-80-S-2.

Any person, firm or corpora-tion or other entity havingstanding to file objections orprotests shall do so inwriting (objection must belegible, signed, and includethe writer's complete name,phone number and mailingaddress). The objection tothe approval of the applica-tion must be based on: (1)Impairment; if impairment,you must specifically identi-fy your water rights; and/or(2) Public Welfare/Conser-vation of Water; if publicwelfare or conservation ofwater within the state ofNew Mexico, you mustshow how you will besubstantially and specificallyaffected. The written protestmust be filed, in triplicate,with the State Engineer,1680 FIickory Loop, Suite J,Las Cruces, NM 88005within ten (10) days after thedate of the last publicationof this Notice. Facsimiles(faxes) will be accepted as avalid protest as long as thehard copy is hand-deliveredor mailed and postmarkedwithin 24-hours of thefacsimile. Mailing postmarkwill be used to validate the24-hour period. Protests canbe faxed to the Office of the

S t a t e E n g i n e e r ,575-524-6160. If no validprotest or objection is filed,the State Engineer willevaluate the application inaccordance with the provi-sions of Chapter 72 NMSA1978.

Dates: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28,2018

Basin in Doña Ana Countyby discontinuing the use ofwell LRG-80-S-2, locatedwithin the NW 1/4 NW 1/4

NW 1/4 of Section 14,Township 21 South, Range 1West, NMPM, and morespecifically described whereLatitude and Longitude in-tersect at 32° 29' 14.99"N,106° 55' 18.26"W (WGS84)on land owned by theapplicant, and drilling newwell LRG-80 POD8 to belocated within the NW 1/4

NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section14, Township 21 South,Range 1 West, NMPM, andmore specifically describedwhere Latitude and Longi-tude intersect at 32° 29'14.87"N, 106° 55' 18.43"W(WGS84), on land owned bythe applicant, to supplementexisting wells LRG-80-S,LRG-80-S-3, and LRG-80POD7, all located within theNW 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 ofSection 14, Township 21South, Range 1 West,N M P M , a n d w e l l

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26 | Legal Notices Las Cruces Bulletin The Friday, February 8, 2019

NOTICE OF INTENT TOAPPROVE

Notice is hereby given thatthe Las Cruces City Councilwill hold a Public Hearing todiscuss approval or disap-proval of the transfer ofownership of Dispenser Liq-uor License No. 2779 toGame II, LLC d/b/a TheGame II, to be located at4131 Northrise Drive, LasCruces, New Mexico.

NOTICE is hereby giventhat on December 31, 2018,the Pakozdi Living Trust,1803 N. Valley Dr. LasCruces, NM 88007, filedapplication numberedLRG-00620, OSE File No.LRG-00007-12 with theState Engineer for Permit toChange Location of Wellwithin the Lower RioGrande Underground WaterBasin in Doña Ana Countyby discontinuing the use ofwell LRG-00007, locatedwithin the NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4of Section 24, Township21 S, Range 1 W (NMPM),and more specifically loca-

STATE OFNEW MEXICOCOUNTY OFDOÑA ANATHIRD JUDICIALDISTRICT COURT

NO. CV-2019-92

IN THE MATTER OFTHE PETITION OFJUAN RODRIGUEZFOR CHANGE OFNAME

NOTICE OF PETITIONTO CHANGE NAME

NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that Juan Rodri-guez, a resident of the City

NOTICE OF VEHICLESEIZURE

TO REGISTERED OWN-ERS, AND ALL UN-K N O W N C L A I M -A N T S : C A S H E X -PRESS,PAYMENT ONEFINANCIAL

You are hereby notified thatthe Doña Ana Sheriff'sOffice has seized the follow-ing vehicles and intends toproceed with forfeiture ofeach vehicle to the Countyof Doña Ana pursuant toDAC Ordinance #232-07pertaining to the seizure andforfeiture of vehicles relatedto DWI Offenses: The belowlisted vehicles and contentswill be auctioned to thehighest bidder at our upcom-

NOTICE OF PUBLICMEETING

DATE/TIME: Tuesday,February 12. 2019 at 6 pmLOCATION:Lower RioGrande Public WaterWorks Authority East Me-sa Office, 9774 ButterfieldBoulevard, Las Cruces NM88011 (Butterfield Park

community)

EnvironmentalInformation Document

The Lower Rio GrandePublic Water Works Author-ity (LRGPWWA) will con-duct a public meeting topresent the findings of anEnvironmental InformationDocument (EID) for theproposed East Mesa WaterSystem Improvements Proj-ect within the LRGPWWAEast Mesa Service Area ofDoña Ana County, NM andreceive comments from thepublic. The EID will beavailable for review at theLRGPWWA Mesquite Of-fice, 215 Bryant, MesquiteNM, and written commentsmay be submitted to theattention of LRGPWWAProjects Manager KarenNichols at [email protected] or bymail at 325 Holguin Road,

Vado NM 88072

Notice of Intent to Applyfor USDA Rural

Development Funding andPublic Meeting Notice

The LRGPWWA intends toapply for funding for theEast Mesa Water SystemImprovements Project, andthis public meeting willinclude a discussion of theproposed project and oppor-tunity for public comment.

AVISO DE REUNIÓNPÚBLICA

Fecha / Hora: Martes, 12de febrero del 2019 a las

6:00 PM

NOTICE is hereby giventhat on January 15, 2019,Brian J. and Linde D.Wycoff, and Robin VanDaele, 423 Baca Rd. LasCruces, NM 88007, filedapplication numberedLRG-17552-PODI, OSEFile No. LRG-17552-1, withthe State Engineer for Permitto Change Location of Wellwithin the Lower RioGrande Underground WaterBasin in Doña Ana Countyby discontinuing the use ofwell LRG-01059, locatedwithin the NE 1/4 NE 1/4 ofSection 25, Township 21 S,Range IW (NMPM), andmore specifically locatedwhere Latitude and Longi-tude intersect at 32 0 27'25.04" N, 106 0 53' 29.11 "W (WGS84), on land ownedby Sheila Smith, by discon-tinuing the use of wellLRG-OI 059-S, locatedwithin the NE 1/4 NE 1/4 ofSec. 25, Township 21 S,Range IW (NMPM), andmore specifically locatedwhere Latitude and Longi-tude intersect at 32 0 27'28.16" N, 106 0 53' 22.65"W (WGS84), on land ownedby Barry and Mary Smith,and by drilling new wellLRG-17552-PODI to adepth of 60 ft. with a 6-in.casing, to be located withinthe NE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section25, Township 21 S, Range1W (NMPM), and morespecifically located whereLatitude and Longitude in-tersect at 320 27' 28.07" N,1060 53 ' 27.87" W(WGS84), on land owned bythe applicant, for the contin-ued diversion of the amountof water subject to allconditions and provisionscontained in the Final Judge-ment and Settlement Agree-ment in Stream System IssueNo. 101, SS-97-101, filedAugust 22, 2011, combinedwith surface water from theElephant Butte IrrigationDistrict for the irrigation of1.69 acres of land, owned bythe applicant, located withinthe NE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section25, Township 21 S, Range1W (WGS84), as describedb y S u b f i l e N o .LRN-28-002-0153 of theLower Rio Grande Hydro-graphic Survey.

ted where Latitude andLongitude intersect at 32 027' 47.87" N, 1060 53' 51.8"W (WGS84), on land ownedby Alfred Vega, and byutilizing existing wellLRG-00620, located withinthe NW 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 ofSection 24, Township 21 S,Range 1 W (NMPM), andmore specifically locatedwhere Latitude and Longi-tude intersect at 32 0 27'48.11 " N, 106 0 53' 40.26"W (WGS84), on land ownedby the applicant, for thecontinued diversion of theamount of water subject toall conditions and provisionscontained in the Final Judg-ment and Settlement Agree-ment in Stream System IssueNo. 101, SS-97-101, filedAugust 22, 2011, combinedwith surface water from theElephant Butte IrrigationDistrict for the irrigation of9.83 acres of land, owned bythe applicant, located withinthe SW 1/4 SE 1/4 of Section24, Township 21 S, Range 1W (NMPM), as described byS u b f i l e N o .LRN-28-002-0127 of theLower Rio Grande Hydro-graphic Survey.

The site of existing wellLRG-00620 is north of DonaAna, NM and is approxi-mately 992 feet east of theintersection of Cactus PatchWay and N. Valley Dr.

Any person, firm or corpora-tion or other entity havingstanding to file objections orprotests shall do so inwriting (objection must belegible, signed, and includethe writer's complete name,phone number, email ad-dress, and mailing address).The objection to the appro-val of the application mustbe based on: (1) Impairment;if impairment, you mustspecifically identify yourwater rights; and/or (2)Public Welfare/Conservationof Water; if public welfareor conservation of waterwithin the state of NewMexico, you must show howyou will be substantially andspecifically affected. Thewritten protest must be filed,in triplicate, with the StateEngineer, 1680 HickoryLoop, Suite J, Las Cruces,NM 88005 within ten (10)days after the date of the lastpublication of this Notice.Facsimiles (faxes) will beaccepted as a valid protest aslong as the hard copy ishand-delivered or mailedand postmarked within24-hours of the facsimile.Mailing postmark will beused to validate the 24-hourperiod. Protests can be faxed

ing auction set for April 14,2019 at 11:00AM. The eventlocation, 2821-B LAS VE-GAS COURT, LAS CRU-CES, NM

VIN #DESCRIPTIONREGISTERED OWNER

1FAFP55S13G2050792003 FORD 4D TAN TAU-RUSSYLVIA PINON

1GKDM19W8WB5077821998 GMC WHITE ASTRO

JOHNNY MORALES

1HD4CR21X7K4126672007 HARLEY SPORTS-TER MCBARNETT HARLEY DA-VIDSON

1B3HB48B17D1673672007 DODGE BLUE CALI-PERANA GARCIA

1FTFX28LVNB245521997 FORD WHITE F250P-KJESUS RODRIGUEZ

JT4RN93P5R51012821994 TOYOTA GREENTACOMAALMA CARDER

1FALP4046VF1975441997 FORD RED MUS-TANGJIMMY MONTEZ

1FTYR10D52TA433162002 FORD RED RANGERP-KJUAN SOLIZ

3B7HC13Y9VM5313641997 DODGE GREENRAM P-KMARTHA ROMERO

1FAFP53UX3G2302752003 FORD GRAY TAU-RUSMARIA ELENA DAY

1GTCS1955Y81770712000 GMC BLUE SANO-MA P-KJOSE OLIVAREZ

JN1EB31P8PU2204901993 NISSAN WHITE4DOORLUIS GONZALEZ

1MELM6243RH6264171994 MERCURY REDCOUGARSALVADOR ONTIVEROS

1B7FL26X5RW1108451994 DODGE RED DAKO-TA P-KDWAYNE WOOD

1B7GL12X92S537978

to the Office of the StateEngineer, 575-524-6160. Ifno valid protest or objectionis filed, the State Engineerwill evaluate the applicationin accordance with theprovisions of Chapter 72NMSA 1978.

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2019

The applicant has requestedemergency authorization todrill the proposed well underNMSA, 1978, Section72-12-23.

Old wells LRG-01059 andLRG-01059-S will be re-tained for other rights. Theproposed location of wellLRG-17552-POD1 is northof Doña Ana, NM and isapproximately 1,263 feetsouthwest of the intersectionof Dona Ana Rd and BacaRd.

Any person, firm or corpora-tion or other entity havingstanding to file objections orprotests shall do so inwriting (objection must belegible, signed, and includethe writer's complete name,phone number, email ad-dress, and mailing address).The objection to the appro-val of the application mustbe based on: (1) Impairment;if impairment, you mustspecifically identify yourwater rights; and/or (2)Public Welfare/Conservationof Water; if public welfareor conservation of waterwithin the state of NewMexico, you must show howyou will be substantially andspecifically affected. Thewritten protest must be filed,in triplicate, with the StateEngineer, 1680 HickoryLoop, Suite J, Las Cruces,NM 88005 within ten (10)days after the date of the lastpublication of this Notice.Facsimiles (faxes) will beaccepted as a valid protest aslong as the hard copy ishand-delivered or mailedand postmarked within24-hours of the facsimile.Mailing postmark will beused to validate the 24-hourperiod. Protests can be faxedto the Office of the StateEngineer, 575-524-6160. Ifno valid protest or objectionis filed, the State Engineerwill evaluate the applicationin accordance with theprovisions of Chapter 72NMSA 1978.

Dates: 01/25, 02/01, 02/08,2019

2002 DODGE TAN DAKO-TA P-KMARTHA AMESQUITA

19UUA56623A0026322003 ACURA GOLD4DOORANDREW SCRIBNER

1G1JC5241Y72687682000 CHEVROLET GOLD4DDARLENE LUCERO

1G1JC524XX73054611999M CHEVROLETWHITE 4DOORTERESA MORENO

11002PF4103A1964 GMC BLACK P-KBETTY INGLE

19UYA225XWL0062071998 ACURA SILVER2DOORJAMES HERNANDEZ

JA3AY26AXXU0252861999 MITSUBISHI GRAY4DOORREGINA BRENNER

2G1WF52E7591142912005 CHEVROLET GOLD4DOORBLANCA FUENTES

1NXBR12E1XZ1614361999 TOYOTA BLACK4DOORJACQUELYN PULLIAM

If you do not demandjudicial review within 35calendar days from the dateof the seizure, and or thisadvertisement, by filing orcall 575-525-5980, to claimthe above described vehiclewith the Doña Ana CountySheriff's Office or filing asuit in court, you lose theright to a judicial determina-tion of this forfeiture, andyou lose any right you mayhave to the described vehicleand its contents.

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 2019

Lugar: Lower Rio GrandePublic Water Works Au-thority Oficina de EastMesa, 9774 ButterfieldBoulevard, Las Cruces NM88011 (Comunidad de But-

terfield Park)

Documento deInformación Ambiental

Lower Rio Grande PublicWater Works Authority(LRGPWWA) llevará a cabouna reunión pública parapresentar los hallazgos delDocumento de InformaciónAmbiental (EID) para elProyecto de Mejoras alSistema de Agua de EastMesa (East Mesa WaterSystem Improvements Proj-ect) propuesto dentro delÁrea de Servicio de EastMesa por LRGPWWA en elCondado de Doña Ana NMy recibirá comentarios delpúblico. El EID estarádisponible al publico en laoficina de Mesquite deLRGPWWA, 215 Bryant,Mesquite NM, donde co-mentarios por escrito puedenser referidos a la atención dela Gerente de Proyectos deLRGPWWA Karen Nicholsp o r k a r e n . n i c h o l [email protected] o porcorreo a la dirección at 325Holguin Road, Vado NM

88072.

Aviso sobre Intención deAplicar a fondos de USDARural Development y aviso

de reunión publicaLRGPWWA tiene la inten-ción de solicitar fondos parael Proyecto de Mejoras delSistema de Agua de EastMesa, y esta reunión públicaincluirá una discusión delproyecto propuesto y laoportunidad para recibir co-

mentarios del público.

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 2019

The Public Hearing will beheld in conjunction with theregular meeting of the CityCouncil on Monday, March4, 2019, at 1:00 p.m., in theCity Council Chambers, 700North Main Street, CityHall. If passed, the Directorof the Alcohol and GamingDivision of the State of NewMexico Regulation & Li-censing Department mayapprove the issuance of thelicense.

Witness my hand and sealthis 25 day of January 2019.

/s/Linda Lewis, CMC, CityClerk

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 2019

north of the intersection ofLeasburg Dam Road andFort Seldon Road. Discon-tinued well LRG-80-S-4 willbe plugged. The applicanthas requested emergencyauthorization to drill pro-posed well LRG-80 POD8under NMSA, 1978, Section72-12-22, within 100 feet ofd i s c o n t i n u e d w e l lLRG-80-S-4.

Any person, firm or corpora-tion or other entity havingstanding to file objections orprotests shall do so inwriting (objection must belegible, signed, and includethe writer's complete name,phone number and mailingaddress). The objection tothe approval of the applica-tion must be based on: (1)Impairment; if impairment,you must specifically identi-fy your water rights; and/or(2) Public Welfare/Conser-vation of Water; if publicwelfare or conservation ofwater within the state ofNew Mexico, you mustshow how you will besubstantially and specificallyaffected. The written protestmust be filed, in triplicate,with the State Engineer,1680 Hickory Loop, Suite J,Las Cruces, NM 88005within ten (10) days after thedate of the last publicationof this Notice. Facsimiles(faxes) will be accepted as avalid protest as long as thehard copy is hand-deliveredor mailed and postmarkedwithin 24-hours of thefacsimile. Mailing postmarkwill be used to validate the24-hour period. Protests canbe faxed to the Office of theS t a t e E n g i n e e r ,575-524-6160. If no validprotest or objection is filed,the State Engineer willevaluate the application inaccordance with the. provi-sions of Chapter 72 NMSA1978.

Dates: 12/14, 12/21, 12/28,2018


Friday, February 8, 2019 Las Cruces Bulletin Legal Notices | 27

STATE OFNEW MEXICOCOUNTY OFDOÑA ANATHIRD JUDICIALDISTRICT

Case No.:D-307-CV-2018-00703

THE BANK OF NEWYORK MELLON F/K/ATHE BANK OF NEWYORK, AS SUCCESSORIN INTEREST TO


NO. D-307-CV-2018-02203

IDAHO HOUSING ANDFINANCE ASSOCIA-TION,Plaintiff,

v.

JESUS GUERRA, PATRI-CIA SANDOVAL AKAPATRICIA V. GUERRA,THE STATE OF NEW


NO. CV-2019124MANUEL I. ARRIETA

IN THE MATTER OFTHE PETITION OFLINDA CHRISTINETORRESFOR CHANGE OFNAME


NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that Linda ChristineTorres, a resident of the Cityof Las Cruces, County ofDoña Ana, State of NewMexico, and over the age offourteen years, has filed aPetition to Change Name inthe Third Judicial District


NO. CV-2019-149JAMES T. MARTIN

IN THE MATTER OFTHE PETITION OFROSAURA ARMENDAR-IZFOR CHANGE OFNAME


NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that ROSAURAARMENDARIZ, a residentof the City of Las Cruces,County of Doña Ana, Stateof New Mexico and over theage of fourteen years, hasfiled a Petition to ChangeName in the Third Districtcourt, Doña Ana County,New Mexico, wherein sheseeks to change her namefrom Rosaura Armendariz toRosa A. Almaguer, and thatthis Petition will be heardbefore the Honorable JamesT. Martin, District Judge, onthe 25th day of February2019, at the hour of 11:00a.m., at the Doña AnaCounty Courthouse, 201 W.Picacho, Las Cruces, NewMexico.

Respectfully submitted,/s/ Rosura ArmendarizRosura Armendariz2308 Calle de SuenosLas Cruces, NM 88001575-323-4524

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 2019


D-307-PB-2019-00007Judge: Martin, James T.

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATEOF ANN M. DYER, DE-CEASED.

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that the undersignedhas been appointed personalrepresentative of this estate.All persons having claimsagainst this estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of this notice, or theclaims will be forever bar-red. Claims must be presen-ted either to the undersignedpersonal representative atthe address listed below, orfiled with the District Courtof Doña Ana, County, NewMexico, located at thefollowing address: 201 W.Picacho Ave, Las Cruces,NM 88005.

Dated: January 29th, 2019

/s/ David Mark DyerDavid Mark Dyer1619 Williams BoulevardKenner, LA 70062504-251-8742SUBMITTED:ESTRADA LAW, P.C.,By /s/ Michele Ungvarsky,Esq.1340 Picacho Hills DriveLas Cruces, NM 88007575-556-2462Attorneys for the Estate ofAnn M. Dyer, deceased.

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

of Las Cruces, County ofDoña Ana, State of NewMexico, and over the age offourteen years, has filed aPetition to Change Name inthe Third District Court,Doña Ana County, NewMexico, wherein he seeks tochange his name from JuanRodriguez to Johnny Galle-gos Rodriguez, and that thisPetition will be heard beforethe Honorable Marci E.Beyer, District Judge, on the19th day of March 2019, atthe hour of 11:00 a.m., at theDoña Ana County Court-house, Las Cruces, NewMexico.

Respectfully submitted,/s/ Juan RodriguezJuan Rodriguez5040 Saddle Mt. Rd.Las Cruces, NM 88012575-373-5121

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 2019

FEET; THENCE N. 76DEG. 00' E., 100.00 FEETTO THE PLACE OF BE-GINNING CONTAINING0.1328 ACRE OF LAND,MORE OR LESS. alsodescribed as: A TRACT OFLAND SITUATE WITHINTHE CORPORATE LIM-ITS OF THE CITY OF LASCRUCES, DOÑA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICO,AS PART OF LOTS 27, 28AND 29 BLOCK 24 COL-LEGE SUBDIVISION ASAMENDED APRIL 1910AS FILED MAY 6, 1910 INPLAT RECORD 4, PAGE 6OF THE DOÑA ANACOUNTY RECORDS ANDBEING MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS BEGINNINGAT AN IRON ROD SETAT A POINT ON THEWEST SIDE OF ALMEN-DRA STREET FOR THENORTHEAST CORNEROF THE TRACT HEREINDESCRIBED, IDENTICALTO THE NORTHEASTCORNER OF LOT 29,BLOCK 24, COLLEGESUBDIVISON AS AMEN-DED APRIL 1910 ASFILED MAY 6, 1910, INPLAT RECORD 4, PAGE 6OF THE DOÑA ANACOUNTY RECORDS;THENCE FROM THEPOINT OF BEGINNINGALONG ALMENDRASTEET S. 76 DEG. 00'W.,117.00 FEET TO AN IRONROD SET FOR THESOUTHWEST CORNEROF THE TRACT HEREINDESCRIBED; THENCE N.14. DEG. 07' 40" W., 53.32FEET TO AN IRON RODSET FOR THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THETRACT HEREIN DESCRI-BED; WHENCE THENORTHWEST CORNEROF THE AFOREMEN-TIONED LOT 29 BEARSS. 76 DEG. 00'W., ADISTANCE OF 35.00FEET; THENCE N. 76DEG. 00' E., 100.00 FEETTO THE PLACE OF BE-GINNING.

If there is a conflict betweenthe legal description and thestreet address, the legaldescription shall control.The sale is to begin at 10:45am on March 7, 2019, ThirdJudicial District Courthouse,City of Las Cruces, Countyof Dona Ana, State of NewMexico, at which time I willsell to the highest and bestbidder for cash, in lawfulcurrency of the United Statesof America, the Property topay expenses of sale, and tosatisfy the foreclosure Judg-ment granted on December17, 2018 in the total amount

JPMORGAN CHASEBANK, AS TRUSTEEFOR CENTEX HOMEEQUITY LOAN TRUST2004-B, Plaintiff,

vs.

REBECCA K. GUTIER-REZ, Defendants.

NOTICE OF FORECLO-SURE SALE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat the above-entitledCourt, having appointed meor my designee as SpecialMaster in this matter withthe power to sell, hasordered me to sell the realproperty (the "Property")situated in Dona Ana Coun-ty, New Mexico, commonlyknown as 1434 S. AlmendraSt., Las Cruces, NM 88001,and more particularly descri-bed as follows:

A TRACT OF LAND SIT-UATE WITHIN THE COR-PORATE LIMITS OF THECITY OF LAS CRUCES,DOÑA ANA COUNTY,NEW MEXICO, AS PARTOF LOTS 27, 28 AND 29BLOCK 24 COLLEGESUBDIVISION AS AMEN-DED APRIL 1910 ASFILED MAY 6, 1910 INPLAT RECORD 4, PAGE 6OF THE DOÑA ANACOUNTY RECORDS ANDBEING MORE PARTICU-LARLY DESCRIBED ASFOLLOWS: BEGINNINGAT AN IRON ROD SETAT A POINT ON THEWEST SIDE OF ALMEN-DRA STREET FOR THENORTHEAST CORNEROF THE TRACT HEREINDESCRIBED, IDENTICALTO THE NORTHEASTCORNER OF LOT 29,BLOCK 24, COLLEGESUBDIVISON AS AMEN-DED APRIL 1910 ASFILED MAY 6, 1910, INPLAT RECORD 4, PAGE 6OF THE DOÑA ANACOUNTY RECORDS;THENCE FROM THEPOINT OF BEGINNINGALONG ALMENDRASTEET S. 76 DEG. 00'W.,117.00 FEET TO AN IRONROD SET FOR THESOUTHWEST CORNEROF THE TRACT HEREINDESCRIBED; THENCE N.14. DEG. 07' 40" W., 53.32FEET TO AN IRON RODSET FOR THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF THETRACT HEREIN DESCRI-BED; WHENCE THENORTHWEST CORNEROF THE AFOREMEN-TIONED LOT 29 BEARSS. 76 DEG. 00'W., ADISTANCE OF 35.00


NO. CV-2019-91MARCI E. BEYER

IN THE MATTER OFTHE PETITION OFNORMA JEAN HERNAN-DEZFOR CHANGE OFNAME


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that NORMA JEANHERNANDEZ, a resident ofthe City of Las Cruces,County of Doña Ana, Stateof New Mexico, and overthe age of fourteen years,has filed a Petition toChange Name in the ThirdJudicial District Court, DoñaAna County, New Mexico,wherein she seeks to changeher name from Norma JeanHernandez to Norma JeanZamora, and that this Peti-tion will be heard before theHonorable Marci E. Beyer,District Judge, on the 19thday of March, 2019, at thehour of 11:00 a.m., at theDoña Ana County Court-house, 201 W. Picacho Ave.Las Cruces, NM 88005

Respectfully submitted,/s/ Norma Jean HernandezNorma Jean Hernandez1488 East Boutz RoadLas Cruces, NM 88001575-520-4585

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 2019


No. D-307-PB-2019-00009Hon: Martin, James T.

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATEOF ANNA MARIE OR-OZCO, DECEASED.

NOTICE TO CRED-ITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that the undersignedhas been appointed personalrepresentative of this estate.All persons having claimsagainst this estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of this notice, or theclaims will be forever bar-red. Claims must be presen-ted either to the undersignedpersonal representative atthe address listed below, orfiled with the District Courtof Doña Ana, County, NewMexico, located at thefollowing address: 201 W.Picacho Ave, Las Cruces,NM 88005.

Dated: January 29th, 2019.

/s/ Fernando OrozcoFernando Orozco5474 Monte Luz St.Las Cruces, NM 88012575-649-7005

SUBMITTED:ESTRADA LAW, P.C.By/s/ Michele Ungvarsky,Esq.1340 Picacho Hills DriveLas Cruces, NM 88007575.556.2462Attorneys for The Estate ofAnna Marie Orozco, de-ceased.

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

Court, Doña Ana County,New Mexico, wherein sheseeks to change her namefrom Linda Christine Torresto Linda Torres, and that thisPetition will be heard beforethe Honorable Manuel Ar-rieta, District Judge on the1st day of March, 2019, atthe hour of 2:30 p.m. at theDoña Ana District Court-house, 201 W. Picacho, LasCruces, NM

Respectfully submitted,/s/ Linda T. TirreLinda T. Tirre1350 Pines St.Las Cruces, NM 88001575-202-5659

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 2019


No.D-307-PB-2019-00008Judge Manuel I. Arrieta

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATE OFROBERT F. COLVIN JR.,Deceased.

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that the undersignedhas been appointed thePersonal Representative ofthis estate. All personshaving claims against thisestate are required to presenttheir claims within fourmonths after the date of thefirst publication of thisNotice or the claims will beforever barred. Claims mustbe presented either to theundersigned Personal Repre-sentative in care of JosephM. Holmes, P.A., PO Box366, Las Cruces, NewMexico 88004-0366, or filedwith the Third JudicialDistrict Court, 201 W.Picacho, Las Cruces, NewMexico 88005.

Dated: January 30, 2019

/s/ Andrea Paul WeaverAndrea Paul Weaver, Per-sonal Representative of

the Estate of Robert F.Colvin Jr., Deceased

PREPARED & SUBMIT-TED BY:JOSEPH M. HOLMES, P.A.PO Box 366Las Cruces, NM 88004-0366(575) [email protected]

/s/ Joseph M. HolmesJoseph M. HolmesAttorney for the Estate

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

MEXICO DEPARTMENTOF TAXATION & REVE-NUE, NEW MEXICO ED-UCATIONAL ASSIS-TANCE FOUNDATION,A NEW MEXICO NON-PROFIT CORPORA-TION,Defendants.

NOTICE OF SUITSTATE OF NEW MEXI-CO to the above-namedDefendants Jesus Guerra andPatricia Sandoval aka Patri-cia V. Guerra,

GREETINGS:You are hereby notified thatthe above-named Plaintiffhas filed a civil actionagainst you in the above-entitled Court and cause, thegeneral object thereof beingto foreclose a mortgage onproperty located as 2914 SanElizario Court, Las Cruces,NM 88007, Dona AnaCounty, New Mexico, saidproperty being more particu-larly described as:

LOT 519, LEGENDSWEST NORTH, PHASE 1,IN THE CITY OF LASCRUCES, DONA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICO,AS SHOWN AND DESIG-NATED ON THE PLATTHEREOF, FILED IN THEOFFICE OF THE COUNTYCLERK OF SAID COUN-TY ON DECEMBER 27,2006, IN BOOK 22PAGE(S) 83-91 OF PLATRECORDS.

Unless you file and serve apleading or motion in re-sponse to the complaint insaid cause on or before 30days after the last publica-tion date, judgment bydefault will be enteredagainst you.

Respectfully Submitted,WEINSTEIN & RILEY,P.S./s/ Elizabeth V. Friedenstein

Elizabeth V. Friedenstein5801 Osuna Road NE, SuiteA-103Albuquerque, New Mexico87109Phone: (505) 348 [email protected] for Plaintiff

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,02/22, 2019





Cause No.D-307-CV-2018-01956Judge: Marci Beyer


Case No.:D-307-CV-2018-01394

WELLS FARGO BANK,


Cause No.D-307-CV-2018-01930Judge: Marci Beyer

DANIEL SALINAS

Plaintiff,

vs.

VERONICA SALINAS

Defendant.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY


Case No.:D-307-CV-2018-02365

WELLS FARGO BANK,N.A.,Plaintiff,

vs.

RICHARD G. WESNERAKA RICHARD WES-NER, MARGARET M.WESNER AKA MAR-GARET WESNER,Defendants.

NOTICE OF PENDENCYOF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXI-CO to Defendants, RichardG. Wesner AKA RichardWesner and Margaret M.Wesner AKA MargaretWesner:You are hereby notified thatthe above-named PlaintiffWells Fargo Bank, N.A. hasfiled a civil action againstyou in the above-entitledCourt and cause, the generalobject thereof being toforeclose a mortgage on realproperty located at 5000Moon Shadow Place, LasCruces, NM 88011. The realproperty which is the subjectmatter of this action islegally described as follows:


Case No.:D-307-CV-2018-01420

L A K E V I E W L O A NSERVICING, LLC, Plain-tiff,

vs.

LARRY DE MARCO,PERSONAL REPRESEN-TATIVE OF THE ES-TATE OF JIMMY W. DEMARCO, DECEASED,Defendants.


PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat the above-entitledCourt, having appointed meor my designee as SpecialMaster in this matter withthe power to sell, hasordered me to sell the realproperty (the "Property")situated in Dona Ana Coun-ty, New Mexico, commonlyknown as 500 El Prado Ave,Las Cruces, NM 88005, andmore particularly describedas follows:

LOTS 34, 35, AND 36,BLOCK 1, REVISED PLATOF MONTE VISTA SUB-DIVISION, IN THE CITYOF LAS CRUCES, DOÑAANA COUNTY, NEWMEXICO, AS SHOWNAND DESIGNATED ONTHE PLAT THEREOF,FILED IN THE OFFICE OFTHE COUNTY CLERK OFSAID COUNTY ONMARCH 18, 1932, INPLAT BOOK 1 PAGE 23OF PLAT RECORDS.

If there is a conflict betweenthe legal description and thestreet address, the legaldescription shall control.The sale is to begin at 10:45am on February 21, 2019,Third Judicial DistrictCourthouse, City of LasCruces, County of DonaAna, State of New Mexico,at which time I will sell tothe highest and best bidderfor cash, in lawful currencyof the United States of

OF SUIT

STATE OF NEW MEXI-CO to: VERONICA SALI-NAS.

GREETINGS: You arehereby notified that theabove named Plaintiff hasbrought suit against you inthe District Court of DonaAna County, New Mexicounder Cause No: D-307-CV-201801956, the generalobject of which is topartition the following de-scribed property owned byDaniel Salinas and VeronicaSalinas as joint tenants andto recover property taxes andexpenses incurred on saidproperty:

Lot 3, Block 24, MeadowVista Subdivision, Plat #3,in the City of Las Cruces,Dona Ana County, State ofNew Mexico, as shown anddesignated on the plat there-of, filed in the office of theCounty Clerk of said Coun-ty, recorded in Book 9, Page22 of Plat Records. Save andexcept, the west 30'x 60' ofLot 3, Block 24, Unit III,owned by Daniel Salinas.

You are further notified thatunless a responsive pleadingis filed with the DistrictCourtAdministrator, Third Judi-cial District, Dona AnaCounty, New Mexico at 201W Picacho Ave, Las Cruces,NM 88005, which respon-sive pleading is also to beserved upon the belownamed attorney for thePlaintiff within the timerequired by law, which is 30days after the date of thethird publication of thisNotice of Pendency of Suit,a judgment of default will berendered against the abovenamed Defendant.Plaintiff's attorney is Wil-liam L. Lutz of Martin &Lutz, P.C., P.O. Box 1837Las Cruces, NM 88004.

Witness my hand and sealthis 1st day of February

NA, Plaintiff,

vs.

MATTHEW W. WING-FIELD; STACIE J.WINGFIELD; UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICABY AND THROUGH THESECRETARY OF HOUS-ING AND URBAN DE-VELOPMENT; SONOMARANCH EAST HOMEO-WENRS ASSOCIATION,INC. AKA SONOMARANCH EAST SUBDIVI-SION OWNERS ASSOCI-ATION, INC., Defendants.


PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat the above-entitledCourt, having appointed meor my designee as SpecialMaster in this matter withthe power to sell, hasordered me to sell the realproperty (the "Property")situated in Dona Ana Coun-ty, New Mexico, commonlyknown as 4153 Council OakRoad, Las Cruces, NM88011, and more particularlydescribed as follows:

LOT NUMBERED 28 INBLOCK NUMBERED GOF SEDOÑA HILLS SUB-DIVISION 2 AT SONOMARANCH EAST, LAS CRU-CES, DOÑA ANA COUN-TY, NEW MEXICO, ASTHE SAME IS SHOWNAND DESIGNATED ONTHE PLAT OF SAID SE-DOÑA HILLS SUBDIVI-SION 2 AT SONOMARANCH EAST, FILED INTHE OFFICE OF THECOUNTY CLERK OFDOÑA ANA COUNTY,NEW MEXICO ON NO-VEMBER 21, 2003 INPLAT BOOK 20, FOLIO476-478.

If there is a conflict betweenthe legal description and thestreet address, the legaldescription shall control.The sale is to begin at 10:45am on March 7, 2019, ThirdJudicial District Courthouse,City of Las Cruces, Countyof Dona Ana, State of NewMexico, at which time I willsell to the highest and bestbidder for cash, in lawfulcurrency of the United Statesof America, the Property topay expenses of sale, and tosatisfy the foreclosure Judg-ment granted on December17, 2018 in the total amountof $231,815.48 with interestat the rate of 4.250% perannum from October 29,2018 through the date of thesale. The sale is subject tothe entry of an Order by this

MAGNIFICENT GRAYGIRLS, LP,Plaintiff,

v.

GUILLERMO OLIVASAGUIRRE and,DELIACECILIA SAENZ QUIN-TANA,Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALEBy virtue of a DefaultJudgment issued out of theDistrict Court of Doña AnaCounty, New Mexico onDecember 31, 2018, in theabove entitled cause inwhich it was determined thatPlaintiff has a judgmentagainst the DefendantsGUILLERMO OLIVASAGUIRRE and DELIA CE-CILIA SAENZ QUINTANAin the amount of$114,592.76 together withinterest from and afterDecember 18, 2018 at therate of 9.99% per annum,and by which judgment I amamong other things com-manded to sell all the landsdescribed in said judgment,which real estate is to besold in the foreclosure saleand more particularly descri-bed in the judgment of saidcause and hereinafter descri-bed.

Notice is hereby given thaton the 20th day of February,2019 at the hour of 1:00 PMin the front of the Dona AnaCounty Judicial Complexlocated at 201 W. PicachoAvenue, Las Cruces, NM88005. I will in obedience tosaid Judgment sell thefollowing described real es-tate to wit:

LOT 004, BLOCK 005,VILLA VALENZUELASUBDIVISION PHASE Ill,in the city of Sunland Park,Doña Ana County, NewMexico, as shown anddesignated on the Plat there-of, filed in the office of theCounty Clerk of said Countyon March 9, 2015, in Book23, Pages 725-729 of PlatRecords on mountain terms.

Property's address is com-monly known as 5921Cocobolo St., Sunland Park,New Mexico 88008. If thereis a conflict between thelegal description and the realproperty address, the legaldescription shall control.

Together with the heredita-ments and appurtenancesbelonging to said real estateand in any way pertaining tosaid premises to satisfy theamount due on Plaintiff's

of $132,016.19 with interestat the rate of 10.625% perannum from October 24,2018 through the date of thesale. The sale is subject tothe entry of an Order by thisCourt approving the sale.

NOTICE IS FURTHERGIVEN that the real proper-ty and improvements con-cerned with herein will besold subject to any and allpatent reservations, ease-ments, and all taxes andutility liens, special assess-ments and taxes that may bedue. The Bank of New YorkMellon F/K/A the Bank ofNew York, as Successor inInterest to JPMorgan ChaseBank, as Trustee for CentexHome Equity Loan Trust2004-B, its attorneys, andthe undersigned SpecialMaster, disclaim all respon-sibility for, and the purchas-er at the sale takes theproperty "as is," in itspresent condition, subject tothe valuation of the propertyby the County Assessor asreal or personal property,affixture of any mobile ormanufactured home to theland, deactivation of title toa mobile or manufacturedhome on the property, if any,environmental contamina-tion on the property, if any,and zoning violations con-cerning the property, if any.

NOTICE IS FURTHERGIVEN that the purchaser atsuch sale shall take title tothe above described realproperty subject to a one (1)month right of redemption.

PROSPECTIVE PUR-CHASERS AT SALE AREADVISED TO MAKETHEIR OWN EXAMINA-TION OF THE TITLE ANDTHE CONDITION OF THEPROPERTY AND TOCONSULT THEIR OWNATTORNEY BEFOREBIDDING.

By: Robert Doylec/o Legal Process NetworkP.O. Box 51526Albuquerque, NM 871812 NM-17-800164-JUDIDSPub #0149261

1/18/2019 1/25/20192/1/2019 2/8/2019

Court approving the sale.

NOTICE IS FURTHERGIVEN that the real proper-ty and improvements con-cerned with herein will besold subject to any and allpatent reservations, ease-ments, and all taxes andutility liens, special assess-ments and taxes that may bedue. Wells Fargo Bank, NA,its attorneys, and the under-signed Special Master, dis-claim all responsibility for,and the purchaser at the saletakes the property "as is," inits present condition, subjectto the valuation of theproperty by the CountyAssessor as real or personalproperty, affixture of anymobile or manufacturedhome to the land, deactiva-tion of title to a mobile ormanufactured home on theproperty, if any, environ-mental contamination on theproperty, if any, and zoningviolations concerning theproperty, if any.



By: Robert Doylec/o Legal Process NetworkP.O. Box 51526Albuquerque, NM 871812 NM-18-827697-JUDIDSPub #0149493

1/25/2019 2/1/20192/8/2019 2/15/2019

2019

DISTRICT COURT AD-MINISTRATORDavid S. BorundaBy:/s/ Veronica UribeVeronica Uribe, Deputy

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

Judgment in the total amountof $114,592.76 together withinterest to the date of sale inthe amount of $1,630.92 andall costs of said sale.

If the amount bid is over andabove the amount due thePlaintiff, plus costs of sale,the amount of the proceedsshall, pursuant to said Judg-ment, be paid into theregistry of the Court fordetermination of theamounts to be paid, and towhom said amount shall bepaid. Said sale shall be to thehighest bidder for cash orcertified funds; provided,however that Plaintiff shallbe entitled to bid all or a partof its Judgment.

DATED this 8 day ofJanuary, 2019.

By /s/ Stephen HosfordStephen Hosford, SpecialMasterP.O. Box 420Array, NM 87930-0420575-644-6068

Dates: 01/18, 01/25, 02/01,02/08, 2019

America, the Property to payexpenses of sale, and tosatisfy the foreclosure Judg-ment granted on December17, 2018 in the total amountof $180,139.26 with interestat the rate of 3.37500% perannum from October 1, 2018through the date of the sale.The sale is subject to theentry of an Order by thisCourt approving the sale.

NOTICE IS FURTHERGIVEN that the real proper-ty and improvements con-cerned with herein will besold subject to any and allpatent reservations, ease-ments, and all taxes andutility liens, special assess-ments and taxes that may bedue. Lakeview Loan Servic-ing, LLC, its attorneys, andthe undersigned SpecialMaster, disclaim all respon-sibility for, and the purchas-er at the sale takes theproperty "as is," in itspresent condition, subject tothe valuation of the propertyby the County Assessor asreal or personal property,affixture of any mobile ormanufactured home to theland, deactivation of title toa mobile or manufacturedhome on the property, if any,environmental contamina-tion on the property, if any,and zoning violations con-cerning the property, if any.



By: Robert Doylec/o Legal Process NetworkP.O. Box 51526Albuquerque, NM 87181

2 NM-18-827495-JUDIDSPub #0149129

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Friday, February 8, 2019 Las Cruces Bulletin Legal Notices | 29

STATE OFNEW MEXICOCOUNTY OF DOÑA ANATHIRD JUDICIALDISTRICT COURT

No. D-307-CV-2019-00088Judge Beyer, Marci

CITY OF LAS CRUCES,a New Mexico municipalcorporation,Plaintiff,

vs.

THE ESTATE OF RA-


No. D-307-CV-2019-00085Judge Beyer, Marci

CITY OF LAS CRUCES,a New Mexico municipalcorporation,Plaintiff,

vs.

THE ESTATE OFTOMAS MARTINEZ, de-

STATE OFNEW MEXICODOÑA ANA COUNTYTHIRD JUDICIALDISTRICT COURT

NO. D-307-PB-2019-00010Hon: Arrieta, Manuel I.

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATEOF SARAH HASTINGSDEYOE, DECEASED.


NOTICE IS HEREBY


NO. D-307-PB-2019-00005JUDGE ARRIETA

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ESTATEOFJ O H N M I C H A E LBRENNAN, Deceased.


NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that SALVADOR

State of New MexicoDoña Ana CountyThird Judicial DistrictCourt

No: D-307-PB-2019-00003

In the Matter of Estate ofKatharina Brown, De-ceased

Notice to Creditors

Notice is hereby given thatthe undersigned has beenappointed Personal Repre-sentative of this estate. Allpersons having claimsagainst this estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of this notice or theclaims will be forever bar-red. Claims must be presen-ted to the undersignedPersonal Representative atthe address listed below orfiled with the Third JudicialCourt of Dona Ana CountyNew Mexico located at 201W Picacho Ave. Las CrucesNM88005

Dated: 1/18, 2019

STATE OFNEW MEXICOCOUNTY OF DOÑA ANATHIRD JUDICIALDISTRICTIN THE CHILDREN'SCOURT

CAUSE NO. SA2017-47JUDGE: MARCI BEYER

IN THE MATTER OFTHE ADOPTIONPETITION OF NANCYJEAN FORTINO

AMENDED NOTICE OFPENDENCY OF ACTION

THE STATE OF NEWMEXICO:

TO: SEATTLE PHILLIPSTHE BIOLOGICALMOTHER OF A CHILDBORN ON JUNE 15, 2013;9464 ORION ST., LASCRUCES, NM 88012

NOTICE is hereby giventhat an Amended Petition foradoption and motion fortermination of ParentalRights have been filed in theDistrict court of Doña AnaCounty, New Mexico.

You are hereby directed toserve a pleading or motionin response to the AmendedPetition for adoption within20 days if you intend tocontest the adoption, failureto so respond shall be treatedas a default and your consentto the adoption shall not berequired.

You are further directed to

STATE OF NEW MEXI-COCOUNTY OF DOÑA ANATHIRD JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT

Case No.:D-307-CV-2018-01790

FREEDOM MORTGAGECORPORATION,Plaintiff,

vs.

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS,DEVISEES AND LEGA-TEES OF DENNIS JOHN-SON, DECEASED,Defendants.


STATE OF NEW MEXI-CO to Defendant, TheUnknown Heirs, Deviseesand Legatees of DennisJohnson, Deceased:

You are hereby notified thatthe above-named PlaintiffFreedom Mortgage Corpora-tion has filed a civil actionagainst you in the above-entitled Court and cause, thegeneral object thereof beingto foreclose a mortgage onreal property located at 1765Palo Verde Ave, Las Cruces,NM 88001. The real proper-ty which is the subjectmatter of this action islegally described as follows:

LOT NUMBERED 10 INBLOCK NUMBERED OOF COUNTRY CLUBPARK SUBDIVISIONPLAT NO. 6, LAS CRU-CES, DOÑA ANA COUN-

STATE OF NEW MEXI-COIN THE PROBATECOURTDOÑA ANA COUNTY

No. 19-0010Judge Diana A. Bustamante,PhD

IN THE MATTER OFTHEESTATE OF:BRYAN E. AKE,DECEASED.


NOTICE IS HEREBYGIVEN that JOSE PABLOCUELLAR has been ap-pointed personal representa-tive of this estate. Allpersons having claimsagainst this estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of any published noticeto creditors or sixty (60)days after the date ofmailing or other delivery ofthis notice, whichever islater, or the claims will beforever barred. Claims mustbe presented either to per-sonal representative at theaddress listed below, or filedwith the Probate Court ofDona Ana County, NewMexico, located at 845 N.Motel Blvd., Las Cruces,New Mexico 88007.

DATED this 28th day ofJanuary, 2019.

KEITHLY & ENGLISH,LLC/s/ Shane A. English

SHANE A. ENGLISHAttorney for Jose PabloCuellar,Personal RepresentativeN.M. State Bar No. 4854Post Office Drawer 1329Anthony, NM 88021(575) 882-4500(575) 882-5000 [FAX][email protected]

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2019

/s/ Marianne Gillespie

First American Bank1553 Avenida de MesillaLas Cruces NM 88004575-524-8000

Dates: 01/25, 02/01, 02/08,2019

GIVEN that the undersignedhas been appointed personalrepresentative of this estate.All persons having claimsagainst this estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of this notice, or theclaims will be forever bar-red. Claims must be presen-ted either to the undersignedpersonal representative atthe address listed below, orfiled with the District Courtof Dona Ana, County, NewMexico, located at thefollowing address: 201 W.Picacho Ave, Las Cruces,NM 88005.

Dated: January 29th, 2019.

/s/ Michelle DeyoeMichelle Deyoe25336 Castlereigh Dr.Farmington Hills, Ml 48336734-604-2656

SUBMITTED:ESTRADA LAW, P.C.By /s/ Michele Ungvarsky,Esq.1340 Picacho Hills DriveLas Cruces, NM 88007575.556.2462Attorneys for the Estate ofSarah Hastings Deyoe, de-ceased.

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

LOT 36 IN BLOCK 1 OFSHADOW RUN SUBDIVI-SION, LOCATED IN THECITY OF LAS CRUCES,DOÑA ANA COUNTY,NEW MEXICO, AS THESAME IS SHOWN ANDDESIGNATED ON THEPLAT THEREOF FILEDFOR RECORD IN THEOFFICE OF THE COUNTYCLERK OF DOÑA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICOON APRIL 9, 1987 ANDRECORDED IN BOOK 14,AT PAGE(S) 359-360,PLAT RECORDS.

ALSO DESCRIBED AS:LOT 36, BLOCK 1, SHAD-OW RUN SUBDIVISION,IN THE CITY OF LASCRUCES, DOÑA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICO,AS SHOWN AND DESIG-NATED ON THE PLATTHEREOF, FILED IN THEOFFICE OF THE COUNTYCLERK OF SAID COUN-TY ON APRIL 9, 1987, INBOOK 14 PAGE(S)359-360 OF PLAT RE-CORDS.

If there is a conflict betweenthe legal description and thestreet address, the legaldescription shall control.

Unless you serve a pleadingor motion in response to theComplaint in said cause onor before thirty (30) daysafter the last publicationdate, judgment by defaultwill be entered against you.

McCARTHY & HOLTHUS,LLPKaren WeaverCarrie Cook6501 Eagle Rock NE, SuiteA-3Albuquerque, New Mexico87113Telephone No.: (505)[email protected] for Plaintiff

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2019

MONA T. HERNANDEZ,deceased;THE UNKNOWN HEIRS,DEVISEES ANDLEGATEES OF RAMO-NA T. HERNANDEZ,Defendants.


To: Defendants, THE ES-TATE OF RAMONA T.HERNANDEZ, deceased,THEUNKNOWN HEIRS, DE-VISEES AND LEGATEESOF RAMONA T. HER-NANDEZ:

You are hereby notified thatthe above-named Plaintiff,CITY OF LAS CRUCES, aNew Mexico municipal cor-poration, has filed a civilaction against you in theabove-entitled Court andcause, the general objectthereof being to foreclose amunicipal nuisance abate-ment lien on real propertylocated at 1040 N. Campo,Las Cruces, NM 88001. Thereal property which is thesubject matter of this actionis legally described in DonaAna County Assessor re-cords as follows:

Subd: COUNTY ACCES-SORS PLAT 1 345 Lot: 4Block: 115 S: 7 T: 23S R:2E


Respectfully submitted,CITY OF LAS CRUCES/s/ Marcia B. DriggersMARCIA B. DRIGGERSSenior Assistant AttorneyP.O. Box 20000Las Cruces, NM 88004575-541-2128

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

ceased;THE UNKNOWN HEIRS,DEVISEES AND LEGA-TEES OF TOMAS MAR-TINEZ,Defendants.


To: Defendants, THE ES-TATE OF TOMAS MAR-TINEZ, deceased, andTHE UNKNOWN HEIRS,DEVISESS AND LEGA-TEES OF TOMAS MAR-TINEZ:

You are hereby notified thatthe above-named Plaintiff,CITY OF LAS CRUCES, aNew Mexico municipal cor-poration, has filed a civilaction against you in theabove-entitled Court andcause, the general objectthereof being to foreclose amunicipal nuisance abate-ment lien on real propertylocated at 730 E. Picacho,Las Cruces, NM 88001. Thereal property which is thesubject matter of this actionis legally described in DonaAna County Assessor re-cords as follows:

Subd: COUNTY ACCES-SORS PLAT 2 346 Lot: 5Block: 205 S: 7 T: 23S R:2E.


Respectfully submitted,CITY OF LAS CRUCESBy: /s/ Marcia B. DriggersMARCIA B. DRIGGERSSenior Assistant CityP.O. Box 20000Las Cruces, NM 88004575-541-2128

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

ROBLEDO has been ap-pointed Personal Represen-tative of this estate. Allpersons having claimsagainst said estate are re-quired to present their claimswithin four (4) months afterthe date of the first publica-tion of this Notice or theclaims will be forever bar-red. Claims must be presen-ted either to the undersignedcounsel for Personal Repre-sentative or filed with theClerk of the Third JudicialDistrict Court, 201 W.Picacho, Las Cruces, NewMexico 88005.

MELISSA J. REEVES, P.C./s/ Melissa J. Reeves-EvinsNM State Bar No. 7629200 W. Las Cruces Ave.,Ste. ALas Cruces, NM 88005575-522-5009 522-5031FAXAttorney for Personal Repre-sentative

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2019

serve a pleading or motionin response to the Motion forTermination of ParentalRights within 20 days if youintend to contest the termi-nation, failure to respondshall be treated as a default.

The name and address of theattorney for Petitioners is:Samuel I. Kane P.A., 1018E. Amador, Las Cruces,New Mexico 88001, Tele-phone (575) 526-5263. For-ward copies of all responsivepleadings to his attention.

WITNESS my hand andseal of the District Court ofDoña Ana County, NewMexico this 3 day ofDecember, 2018.

David S. Borunda, Clerk

By: Noemi RamirezDeputy

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2019

TY, NEW MEXICO, ASTHE SAME IS SHOWNAND DESIGNATED ONTHE PLAT OF SAIDCOUNTRY CLUB PARKSUBDIVISION PLATNO.6, FILED IN THEOFFICE OF THE COUNTYCLERK OF DOÑA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICOON SEPTEMBER 7, 1965IN PLAT BOOK 9, FOLIO79.

And also described as:LOT 10 IN BLOCK O OFCOUNTRY CLUB PARKSUBDIVISION PLAT NO.6, LOCATED IN THECITY OF LAS CRUCES,DOÑA ANA COUNTY,NEW MEXICO, AS THESAME IS SHOWN ANDDESIGNATED ON THEPLAT THEREOF FILEDFOR RECORD IN THEOFFICE OF THE COUNTYCLERK OF DOÑA ANACOUNTY, NEW MEXICOON SEPTEMBER 7, 1965AND RECORDED INBOOK 9 AT PAGE 79,PLAT RECORDS.

If there is a conflict betweenthe legal description and thestreet address, the legaldescription shall control.


McCARTHY & HOLTHUS,LLPKaren WeaverDaniel Grunow6501 Eagle Rock NE, SuiteA-3Albuquerque, New Mexico87113Telephone No.: (505)[email protected] for Plaintiff

Dates: 02/01, 02/08, 02/15,2018



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THE STATE OFWISCONSIN

TO: AMY B KOEBEL2135 PAYNE ST APT 216LAS CRUCES NM 88001

You are hereby notified thatthe Plaintiff named abovehas filed a lawsuit or otherlegal action against you. TheComplaint, which is alsoserved on you, states thenature and basis of the legalaction.

Within Forty (40) days afterFebruary 8, 2019, you mustrespond with a writtenanswer, as that term is usedin Chapter 802 of theWisconsin Statutes, to theComplaint. The court mayreject or disregard an answerthat does not follow therequirements of the statutes.The answer must be sent ordelivered to the court, whoseaddress is: CLERK OFCIRCUIT COURT, MIL-WAUKEE COUNTY, 901N 9TH ST, MILWAUKEEWI 53233 and the KohnLaw Firm, Plaintiffs attor-neys, whose address is 735N. Water St., Suite 1300,Milwaukee, WI 53202. Youmay have an attorney help orrepresent you.

If no Complaint accompa-nies this Summons you mustrespond within the said 40day period with a writtendemand for a copy of theComplaint by mailing ordelivering said written de-mand to the court and to thePlaintiffs attorneys at theirrespective addresses listedabove.

If you do not provide aproper answer to the Com-plaint or provide a writtendemand for said complaintwithin the 40 day period, thecourt may grant judgementagainst you for the award ofmoney or other legal actionrequested in the Complaint,and you may lose your rightto object to anything that isor may be incorrect in theComplaint. A judgment maybe enforced as provided bylaw. A judgment awardingmoney may become a lienagainst any real estate youown now or in the future,and may be enforced bygarnishment or seizure ofproperty.

Dated at Milwaukee, Wis-consin Feb 05, 2019

KOHN LAW FIRM S.CBY /s/ Joseph R. JohnsonJOSEPH R. JOHNSONState Bar No. 1053052Attorney for Plaintiff

Dates: 02/08, 02/15, 02/22,2019

LEGALS

BETTY J FERGUSON GARCIA

June 8, 1933 - December 18, 2018

Message from Betty - Eternity is timeless. I wish family & friends to know that I love them. Love is eternal and we are grate-ful for all the joys (and lessons) we had together here on earth, where we are all really just visiting. After all, we are spiritual beings, in earthy bodies for a short time. The day of death will be a glorious day for me, and I want those remaining here on earth to celebrate also - every day until we can cel-ebrate together again.

Understand that I will miss enjoying being with all of you and that your diversity has lent itself to me for a very interesting view of life here on earth. I am eternally grateful to God for

each and every one of you and want to thank you for all your actions of love and thoughtfulness in our time together here. May he watch over you as He has for me, and bless each and every one of you for

all you do in your lives We will be together again. But for now, I’m “outta here”. Love you all.

Celebration of LifeA public invitation to

all to come out and enjoy each other who were touched by Betty.

Hosted By: Kevin & Debbie Ferguson, Bob-bie McAlister, Jimmy & Megan Stone.

Saturday, February 9 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Veterans Park Roadrun-ner Parkway.

BRUCE GATES GALLOWAY

Age 78, passed away Monday, December 31, 2018. He was born in Chi-cago, IL on December 8, 1940, to William Leonard and Florence Estelline Galloway. His parents got married in Chicago, where Bruce was born. His dad worked at the steel plant in Gary, Indi-ana, but they moved back to Duluth, Minnesota, when Bruce was young and stayed there until 1954, when the family moved to Nevada. Bruce graduated from Basic High School in Henderson in 1959 and has stayed in

touch with his many high school friends through-out the years. He never missed a class reunion; the last get-together was a fun “We made it to 75” party in 2016.

Bruce went to work at White Sands after high school graduation in 1959 with the engineering co-op program through NMSU and also attended NMSU at the same time. He was an employee of White Sands for more than 30 years. His respect for education was passed on to his children and grand-children.

Bruce loved cars, and worked on them often with his friends. He also taught his daughters and others about auto repair. He raced his own car for a few years and then be-came an invaluable mem-ber of a pit crew (JYD --14X). VW bugs were always a favorite of his--he had quite a collection of them at various times. Bruce also had a respect and love for all animals.

Bruce was generous, kind, and loved uncondi-tionally. He was always a helpful and handy guy to have around. Very rarely did he not have a smile on his face. He loved get-ting together regularly for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with different groups of friends, fellow retirees, and family.

He was preceded in death by his parents Wil-liam and Florence Gal-loway.

Bruce is survived by his loving daughters, Teresa (Jack) Fitzpatrick and Jodie Galloway; sister, Susan Galloway; grand-children, Kyle (Elizabeth) Fitzpatrick and Kirstie (Timothy) Sedillo; nieces and nephews, Stacey (Bob) Clements, Terry Lee Roberson, Jay (Deb) Hughes, William (Iwona) Hughes, William (Laszlo Kakash) Cammack; cous-ins in both California and Minnesota; many friends; cats, Circe and Hermes; and several turtles in the backyard.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, Feb-ruary 16, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at First Christian Church, 1809 El Paseo Rd. Las Cru-ces, NM.

“Que será será” - Bruce’s quote.

Bruce will be greatly missed by his loving fam-ily and by those whose lives he touched.

In lieu of flowers do-nations may be given in Bruce’s honor to Roadrun-ner Food Bank, Boys & Girls Ranch, American Red Cross, Veterans As-sociation, and Animal Welfare. To view informa-tion or leave a condolence please visit www.daniels-funeral.com

Daniels Family Funeral Services

2400 Southern BlvdRio Rancho, NM 87124505-891-9192

JOHN DUTTLEJOHN DUTTLE, age 65,

of Las Cruces died Tues-

day, January 29, 2019. Services are pending with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces.

DAVID HOLLANDDAVID HOLLAND, age

32, of Las Cruces died Thursday, January 31, 2019. Services are pend-ing with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces.

MATTHEW T. MARTINEZMATTHEW T. MAR-

TINEZ, age 36, of Las Cruces died Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Ser-vices are pending with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces.

MARTHA FOUNTAINMARTHA FOUNTAIN,

age 65, of Las Cruces died Friday, January 25, 2019. Services are pend-ing with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces.

FRANCES A. MADRIDFRANCES A. MA-

DRID, age 93, of Las Cruces died Thursday, January 31, 2019 at her home. Services are pend-ing with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces.

SAMUEL E. HONEYWELL

SAMUEL E. HONEY-WELL, age 70, of Las Cruces passed away Thursday, January 31, 2019 at La Posada Mesilla Valley Hospice. Services are pending with Baca’s Funeral Chapels of Las Cruces and Sunset Cre-matory, 527-2222.

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Talk about a brain trust.

Three of the new lead-ers in the New Mexico Public Education Depart-ment – including the new PED secretary – are New Mexico State University graduates and hold a total of seven degrees from NMSU.

Karen Trujillo – who gave up the seat she was just elected to on the Doña Ana County Commission to become PED secretary in January -- has 25 years of experience in educa-tion, including nearly a decade in the classroom and 20 years working in professional development, according to a news re-lease from the governor’s office.

According to the re-lease, “She most recently served as interim associ-ate dean for research at the NMSU College of Education and as research director for the college’s

Alliance for the Advance-ment of Teaching and Learning.”

Trujillo has a bach-elor’s, master’s and doc-torate (in curriculum and instruction) from NMSU.

Her team at PED in-cludes deputy secretaries Tim Hand, a former chief of staff for Las Cruces Public Schools and former deputy director of the New Mexico Legislative Education Study Commit-tee, who has a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate (in educational leader-ship) from NMSU; and Gwen Parea Warniment, former K-12 program director for the Los Ala-mos National Laboratory Foundation, holds a bach-elor’s from the University of New Mexico, a master’s from New Mexico High-lands University and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from NMSU.

The rest of the PED leadership includes deputy secretaries Kara Bobroff, who has been

executive director of the Native American Com-munity Academy Inspired School Network in Albu-querque and holds bache-lor’s and master’s degrees in special education and an educational specialist degree from UNM; and Katarina “Kata” Sando-val, the senior director of Academics and School Performance for the Na-tive American Commu-nity Academy, a charter school in Albuquerque, who has a bachelor’s from Stanford and a master’s in education from Harvard.

Special Advisor to the Secretary Pedro Noguera, distinguished professor of education at the Gradu-ate School of Education and Information Stud-ies at UCLA, has both a bachelor’s and a master’s from Brown University and a doctorate in sociol-ogy from the University of California-Berkeley. Chief of Staff Daniel Manzano, also an NMSU graduate, worked most recently with the New Mexico

State Senate and previ-ously worked for former Lt. Governor Diane Den-ish, for the policy director for the New Mexico Coali-tion Against Domestic Violence and as chief of staff role for the Berna-lillo County Assessor’s office.

“It’s a pretty heavy-hitter group, it’s like a dream team,” Trujillo said in a phone interview a few days after her selec-tion as PED secretary, adding that “all of us have been teachers at one point.” She also noted that Lt. Gov. Howie Mo-rales, a former state sena-tor from Silver City, holds a Ph.D. in education from NMSU.

Trujillo said she was one of the last cabinet sec-retaries named because new Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wanted to “put a team together that was going to be good for the state.”

“I’m incredibly excited to have Karen Trujillo lead the transformation the Public Education De-partment of New Mexico so desperately needs,” Lujan Grisham said. “Her team, with more than 100 years of combined educational experience in the state, will oversee the dramatic culture change we need in New Mexico classrooms. We will now be able to empower our educators, elevate our schools and deliver more for our students and par-ents.”

“An asset map” of the educational resources available in New Mexico shows “that we do have the capacity, the knowl-edge, the professionals,” Trujillo said. “That in-state professionalism was

not recognized” by the previous administration, she said.

The governor’s “bold vision” for education will include a 6 percent raise across the board for teach-ers, Trujillo said, along with a minimum wage of $12 an hour for all school employees. PED will also look at the state’s teacher evaluation system, she said: “What are the good parts? What are the parts that need to be fixed?”

Student achievement is an important consid-eration in school evalu-ations, Trujillo said, but student testing shouldn’t be the only factor in rat-ing a school’s success. Instead, she said, rating school success should in-clude support to meet the challenges that are identi-fied. “What do you need from us in those areas?’ will be PED’s question to schools, she said, as the department shifts “to a service model rather than a punitive model.”

PED in the Lujan

Grisham administration will have “a different tone,” a different mes-sage,” Trujillo said, that will be “very positive, very hopeful.”

Trujillo has two chil-dren attending NMSU and her youngest daughter is a junior at Hatch Valley High School, so she will be spending a lot of time in Las Cruces, she said. After the 2019 legislative session ends in March, she will “make a state-wide trip” to visit schools and talk to teachers and administrators and “be visible in a way that’s … really engaging all schools and districts.”

Trujillo said she is hon-ored and “very, very, very humbled at the trust the governor has placed in me and our team. It’s a good time to be here.”

For more information, visit webnew.ped.state.nm.us .


BULLETIN PHOTO BY RICHARD COLTHARPDoña Ana Community College Interim President Monica Torres and newly appointed New Mexico Secretary of Public Education Karen Trujillo were two of the many Las Crucens who gathered at the governor’s mansion in Santa Fe for part of Las Cruces Days in Santa Fe. The annual event put on by the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce took place Jan. 26-28.

Education ‘Dream Team’ has Las Cruces roots

BULLETIN PHOTO BY RICHARD COLTHARPRoberto Lozano of Las Cruces Public Schools and outgoing New Mexico State University student regent Margie Vela were among a sizable Las Cruces contingent attending Las Cruces Days in Santa Fe Jan. 26-28.

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Husband and wife art-ists Andy Arkley and Julie Alpert use color, light and their unique views of art and life to create a one-of-a-kind show that continues through March 2 at the University Art Gallery, 1390 E. University Ave.

“Light Tricks” opened Jan. 31 and features large installations by both art-ists, who met in Seattle a decade ago and recently moved to Tulsa, Okla-homa, where Alpert is on a three-year artist fellow-ship.

“I love a lot about this piece,” gallery Director Marisa Sage said about Alpert’s “Friendship Bracelets and Beaded Curtains” installation, which covers most of the gallery’s east wall. The brilliantly colored work incorporates a variety of media that cast shadows on the walls and floor and challenge the eye for atten-tion as it combines craft paper that is woven and cut, colored duct tape and drawing. Alpert worked on it “like a scroll” once she arrived at the NMSU gal-lery she said, “rolling it up as I go.”

Another of Alpert’s works, “The Discarded Memorabilia of Strang-ers,” includes pieces she found at Goodwill and incorporated into an installation that she cre-ated when she arrived at the gallery. She also uses items found at office sup-ply and craft stores – en-velopes and construction paper, for example – to create collages with mate-rial and objects that people recognize.

“The more playful the imagery, materials and process is for me, the more

Andy Arkley and Julie Alpert: a marriage of light and color

BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOKAndy Arkley’s “Try to Get Higher”

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successful the outcome,” Alpert said in a gallery interview.

Arkley also created his artistic elements onsite, including the amazing “Try to Get Higher” inter-active exhibit that allows the viewer “to be your own DJ,” Sage said. But-tons can be pushed to light up different parts of the work and set it to music. It includes wood, acrylic, video, sound, electricity and a world of color.

“When I was a child I definitely experienced a form of ecstasy by viewing bright colors and hearing new sounds,” Arkley said in the gallery interview. “I remember being com-pletely mesmerized by lit exit signs when I was a kid.”

Arkley also is “creating her own language out of

pattern and repetition,” said Sage, who met the couple when they were liv-ing in Roswell, where Alp-ert was artist-in-residence for a year.

Both artists have a back-ground in performance art and “really tried to think about the viewer” in creating the show for Las

Cruces, Arkley said. “How can we reward them for the time they spent at the show?”

NMSU art graduate stu-dents assisted the artists with the installation, Sage said, which was a wonder-ful learning experience. The installation was a laborious and complicated processes to get it just right.

It’s also interesting “how much you can improvise on the spot,” Arkley said.

Arkley and Alpert said their work has become more similar in the six-and a-half years they’ve been married, and they often bounce ideas off each other.

“I am definitely influ-

enced by Julie’s work,” Arkley said, “partially be-cause I see it almost every day, but also because I love it. I oftentimes discuss new ideas with her and then realize after talking with her that she had done it in the past.”

“Light Tricks” will be the couple’s third two-person show.

The University Art Gal-lery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admis-sion is free.

For more information, call 575-646-2545, email [email protected] and visit uag.nmsu.edu.


BULLETIN PHOTOS BY MIKE COOKJulie Alpert’s “Friendship Bracelets and Beaded Curtains”

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BULLETIN PHOTO BY ELVA K. ÖSTERREICHArtist Kathy Marques demonstrates her painting skills during the Friday, Feb. 1, Las Cruces Downtown Arts Ramble in a hallway at 221 N Main St., which leads to multiple art galleries. Feb. 1 also kicked off “For the Love of Art” month in Las Cruces. The month features events and studio tours across the city. For information, including studio tour schedules and an interactive map, visit artformsnm.org. Tour event guides can be found at art galleries and art-related businesses.

Loving the Arts


BULLETIN REPORT

Big Picture Digital Image Experts, 2001 E. Lohman Ave. Suite 109A, has a new owner.

After opening the Big Picture downtown al-most 14 years ago, Jim Turrentine sold the busi-ness to John Turkle, his employee of seven years. Turkle took over the Big Picture’s main operations last May and signed a purchase agreement ef-fective Jan. 1.

Turkle, who holds a BFA from NMSU, has been producing most of the output at Big Picture since the business relo-cated from Main Street to Arroyo Plaza on Lohman in 2017.

“Turkle has become a master at everything Big Picture does and is a master at photo restora-tions and color matched fine-art reproductions,” a news release stated. “Many if not most local

and regional artists use Big Picture services because they deliver world-class fine-art repro-ductions.”

“I am excited to con-tinue working with the many talented artists in our area,” Turkle said. “It is an honor to have the opportunity to bring back to life some truly unique vintage photographs that customers bring in, in hopes of saving an impor-tant piece of their family heritage. Many interest-

ing stories and characters are shared across our front counter, from an old photo of Pat Garrett and other local celebs to someone’s grandmother who means the world to them. I intend to con-tinue the traditions for customer service and the reputation Jim began and look forward to the chal-lenges and opportunities of owning this unique, lo-cally owned business.”

Contact Turkle at 575-647-0508.

Big Picture looks to the future with new owner

PHOTOS COURTESY BIG PICTURE DIGITAL IMAGE EXPERTSA torn and damaged photo restored by Big Picture Digital Image Experts

Black and white photos combined and hand colored by Big Picture staff

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The 2019 Las Cruces All-City Middle School Honor Band will present a concert at 7 p.m. Fri-day, Feb. 8, at the Oñate High School Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public.

The honor band is com-prised of 75 selected mid-dle school students from the Las Cruces area who competitively auditioned for the ensemble, said Zia Middle School Band Director Joseph Flores, who is the honor band’s coordinator.

During the concert, one student will receive a $1,000 scholarship from the New Mexico State University Music Depart-ment, Flores said. NMSU Director of Bands Mi-chael Mapp will present the award.

“This is exciting be-cause it is rare that a stu-dent earns a scholarship during middle school,” he said.

The honor band is being rehearsed and conducted by Kenneth Capshaw, a retired band director from El Paso, Flores said. Capshaw is currently a lecturer for the University of Texas-El Paso Music Department. He has received numer-ous awards during his ca-reer, including the World Band Legion of Honor and Texas Bandmasters Association Meritorious Achievement awards, in-duction into the Phi Beta Mu Texas Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame, election to the American Bandmasters Association

and recognition as band-master of the year by the Texas Bandmasters As-sociation.

Capshaw also provided a professional develop-ment clinic to all LCPS middle school band di-rectors on Feb. 6, Flores said. Capshaw’s work with the honor band is being sponsored by Mike White, owner of White’s Music Box in Las Cru-ces.

Students who audi-tioned for the honor

band “were required to perform two major scales, one chromatic scale, one technical etude, one lyric etude and a short sight-reading etude for an instrument-specific music educator/adjudicator,” Flores said. More than 160 Las Cruces students audi-tioned for the ensemble last December.

For more information, contact Flores at 575- 527-9475 and [email protected].


John & Kris Northcutt, New Dimension Artworks, Daughter of the Prairie, Sculpture, Ceramics & Fiber Art, 615 PiñonGypsy Sage Artists, Nopalito’s Galeria, Watermedia, 326 S. Mesquite StreetMary Beagle, Brown-Beagle Studio, Paintings & Sculpture, 480 El Prado AvenueKathleen E. Deasy, Oil Paintings & Mixed Media, 625 Van Patten AvenueLeslie Toombs, Pastels & Mixed Media, 429 Reeves DriveLinda Gendall, Oil Paintings, 1107 N. ReymondJose Enrique Hidalgo, Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor Paintings, 305 Linda Vista RdDavid Jacquez, Jardin de Las Cruces Art Gallery, 4010 N. Valley DriveFlo Hosa Dougherty, Paintings & Mixed Media, 4901 Chagar Court, Blue Gate Fine Art Gallery (corner of N. Valley & Taylor)Tomi LaPierre, Sculpture, Photography & Mixed Media, 3421 Doña Ana Road Storm Sermay, Emmitt Booher & Will Keener, Photography,3382 Solarridge Street, Storm Sermay Photography Jean Wilkey, Oil Paintings, 221 N. Main, FEB 2 ONLYKathy Marques, Oil Paintings , 4133 Capistrano AvenueJeri Desrochers, C.C. Cunningham, Gale Kaufman & Mary Zawacki, Oil & Acrylic Paintings & Pastels, Studio of Jerry Desrochers, 3655 Canyon Ridge ArcJack LeSage, Oil Paintings & Pastels, The Sage Brush, 1829 Salinas Drive Lynn Unangst, Hand-Woven Art Garments, Needlepoint Gifts, “Spirit Minder” Dolls & Beaded Buttons, Casa de Puertas, 4020 Red Yucca CourtDeborah Moore, Christopher Bardey, Cody Smith,Four Points Perspective, Ceramics, Sculpture, Mixed Media, 3405 Hwy. 28Michelle Augustyniak, Rhoda Winters, Arlene J. Tugel & Linda Hagen, Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor Paintings, 319 Bell AvenueTeri Van Huss, Marty Galster, Alice Ward & Linda WrayFunky Karma Incense & Tea Room, Fractals, 3207 S. Main Street, FEB 9 ONLYRosemary McKeown, Oil Paintings & Jewelry,1300 Vista Del Monte Marie Siegrist, Acrylic, Watercolor & Gouache Paintings, 1490 Via Norte Lana Lang Payne & Wanda Sparks, Jewelry, Gourd Art & EncausticPaintings 1696 Vista del CerroJan Severson, Fiber Art & Mixed Media, 8181 Constitution RoadJan Thune, Contemporary Fiber Art, 1204 Verona CourtGreta Burger, Cat house Glass, Fused and Cast Glass art with metals & wood10050 Tuscany Drive (NEW location not listed in the guide)

PHOTO COURTESY JOSEPH FLORESKenneth Capshaw will direct the 2019 Las Cruces All-City Middle School Honor Band during its Feb. 8 concert.

All-City Middle School Honor Band to perform


DESIGN

By MINERVA BAUMANNFor the Bulletin

Pop-up speed dating, a kissing photo booth and much more will be on dis-play for the fourth annual “I Heart Art” Valentine’s Day Party at the Univer-sity Art Gallery at New Mexico State University. The evening will include food and music to round out the entertainment.

This year’s theme will highlight secret admirers at the event, which begins at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, at the gallery, 1390 E. University Ave.

“This Valentine’s Day we want to show some love for our community and invite people to be-come a friend and come to meet other like-minded

individuals for a fun event to support ‘Friends of the University Art Gal-lery,’” said Marisa Sage, director of the gallery. “This will be our last ‘Friends’ event in the old University Art Gallery building, and all funds raised at this event will go toward programming in the new University Art Museum in Devasthali Hall, which is scheduled to open in the fall.

“Friends of the UAG memberships and vol-unteer contributions are important to support the gallery’s exhibitions, col-lections, and educational programs year-round.”

The UAG offers three levels of membership: Friend for $25 per year, BFF for $100 per year and

FWB for $500 per year. Memberships are tax de-ductible and every UAG contribution directly helps to host free art ex-hibits, workshops, and receptions for the com-munity. NMSU student memberships are free.

“So bring a friend, make a friend or become a friend,” Sage said. “If you ‘wear your heart on your sleeve,’ you’ll have a chance to win a piece of free art.”

For more information or to RSVP for the event, call 575-646-2545 or email [email protected]

Minerva Baumann is media relations officer at NMSU and may be reached at 575-646-7566; [email protected].

The University Art Gallery at New Mexico State Univer-sity will be having a Val-entine’s Party for Friends of the UAG to highlight the benefits of be-coming a sup-porter of the gallery.

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NMSU gallery planning Valentine’s Day party


“The Crucible.” We all know something about this classic of the Ameri-can theatre that has been on Broadway three times, won all the major awards, been made into two full-length motion pictures and adapted for televi-sion.

Director Norman Lewis and a brilliant cast and crew have devised a fresh retelling of this arche-typal tale at Las Cruces Community Theatre that will, literally, keep you on the edge of your seat. I know because that’s where I spent most of opening night.

It is an immensely powerful story about the Salem witch trials that Arthur Miller wrote dur-ing the McCarthy Era. With outstanding work from Susie Ouderkirk (costumes), Lennie Brown (props), Ron Nash (lighting) and Karl Heist (scenic design), LCCT’s production will make you wonder if it’s 1692 or 1953, or possibly 2019.

In addition to its po-litical relevance, you will experience incredible acting performances by Darin Cabot, Nora Brown, Jeff Dolocek and Robert Sheehan. But this is, truly, an ensemble piece and every actor is outstanding: Janet Allen, Mia Berkson, Ed Montes, Jazmin Buchman, Bri-anna Horvath, Kyoniza Berg, Ilene Steele, Jeff Peckham, Kerrigan Sivils,

Sage Drake, Karen War-ren, Tom Warren, Gale A. Fulte, Calvin Chervinko and Lewis himself, who stepped into a sizeable role at the last minute in addition to directing.

“The Crucible” contin-ues for two more week-ends at LCCT, 313 N. Main St. Shows are 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, Feb. 8-9 and 15-16, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 10 and 17. For reservations and more information, call 575-523-1200 and visit www.lcctnm.org.




For protagonist Chris-topher Boone, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is a puzzling mystery to be solved and an enormous series of challenges to overcome. For Joseluis Solorzano, who plays Boone in the Black Box Theatre pro-duction, it is an acting triumph.

Solorzano, sur-rounded by a strong supporting cast, carried the day with a solid performance of a formi-dable character who is a math genius with an autism-spectrum disor-der dealing with major family issues as he tries to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog.

He finds clues about the dog’s demise, keeps a detailed journal, cares

for a pet rat named Toby, and solves a huge mystery he didn’t even know existed. He also survives a terrifying train trip that is a meta-phor for his life journey in this tale of finding courage and never giv-ing up. Solorzano and director Ceil Herman recognize the arc of Boone’s character, and more than one mystery is solved by the play’s end – including a size-able math problem that is another credit to Sol-orzano.

The veteran cast in-cludes Joshua Taulbee, Gina De-Mondo, Au-tumn Gieb, Kathi-Jane Alvarado, Scott Brocato, Luz Resendez, Bekah Taulbee, Monte Wright and Ashley Dahl.

The play was adapted by Simon Stephens from the novel by Mark Haddon. It is a powerful story and a production well worth seeing.

The play continues for four performances in its closing weekend at BBT, 430 N. Main St.: 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7; 8 p.m. Friday and Sat-urday, Feb. 8-9; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10.

And don’t miss the art exhibit in the lobby, with paintings by Joshua Taulbee and crochet work by Bekah Taulbee. I love what both of them do – and I also enjoyed their per-formances in this show.

For tickets, call BBT at 575-523-1223 and visit no-strings.org.


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PHOTO BY PETER HERMAN/ BLACK BOX THEATREJoseluis Solorzano and Kathi-Jane Alvarado in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”

Do the math: ‘Dog in the Night-Time’ a triumph

PHOTO BY MARK BOUDREAU/LCCTThe cast of “The Crucible” in a rehearsal at Las Cruces Com-munity Theatre.

‘The Crucible’: Outstanding production of a timeless story


Las Cruces artist Vic-toria Culbertson has a special gift for southern New Mexico children suffering or recovering from cancer: a free por-trait of the child.

The service, which Culbertson calls “Apple of My Father’s Eye,” combines her loves of children and of “paint-ing portraits and peo-ple.”

“This is my heart,” Culbertson said. The portrait is for the child and his or her family “who have diligently been working to be well. This offer is for your encouragement,” she says in a flyer about the service.

Families in Las Cruces and throughout south-ern New Mexico with a child or teen who is battling cancer, in remis-sion or recovered can send Culbertson a photo-graph of the child, from which she will paint the portrait. She can also in-

clude special objects like a blanket or toy in the painting.

The service is also available to the parents of a child who has died from cancer.

The portrait will be done on 11-inch by 14-inch canvas with acrylics or colored pencils. There is no charge for the ser-vice.

Culbertson and her husband, Mitsuo “Mitch” Culbertson, moved to Las Cruces in March 2015, but she has

been painting portraits for more than 30 years, she said, including the 28 years she lived in Oki-nawa, Japan.

Culbertson is a mem-ber of the Portrait So-ciety of America. She volunteers at Doña Ana Elementary School.

Contact her at [email protected] or on Facebook at Victoria Culbertson Art Studio. Her website is victo-riaculbertsonartstudio.wordpress.com.



Artist paints portraits of health-challenged children

“Okinawa Child 1,” acrylics

“Tre,” acrylics and colored pencils

“Took Took,” acrylics

PHOTOS COURTESY VICTORIA CULBERTSON“Nina and Her Horse,” acrylics and colored pencils

BULLETIN PHOTO BY MIKE COOKVictoria Culbertson

“Sa-Ta-Tempura,” acrylics

“Eisa #1,” acrylics and col-ored pencils

By JEFF BERGFor the Bulletin

I grew up with Laurel and Hardy, as my mom was a huge fan of this true dynamic duo. She would watch them anytime they came on TV, back in the pre-cable days, and I really grew to like them.

Later, I learned that a small part of one of their short films was shot at Fort Bliss in El Paso, al-though it is unlikely the pair journeyed out this-a-way. It was still interesting to see them as recruits, with Fort Bliss as a back-ground.

It is also surprising to learn that during their movie days, they were not the best of friends and didn’t become very close until later years, when this film takes place.

Based on a true story, they try one last time to re-vive a long-sagging career by touring with a live stage show in the UK. They start off in small halls, mostly empty, as it is the ‘50s and their heyday has passed.

The shows don’t go well, but there is a promise of a new movie, a parody of Robin Hood for the two, with Laurel handling the details. Laurel is also a workaholic of sorts, always writing new gags to use or reworking the script of the Robin Hood movie.

With the help of their promoter, Laurel and Hardy decide to do some low-budget public appear-ances, which they hope will increase attendance at their shows.

The ruse works and be-fore long they are playing to large audiences in huge halls. All of this happens while Laurel continues to write material for the shows and for the hoped-for movie. Their wives, played by Shirley Hender-son and Nina Arianda, join them when the tour reaches London and they are assets to the work of the two great comics, to be certain.

John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan as Hardy and Laurel, respectively, are terrific choices in the lead roles and present touching and moving performances as the two men who had worked together for many years.

It is also during this time that Hardy’s health starts to fail, which spins the entire narrative of the film around.

“Stan & Ollie” includes a few of their famous rou-tines, such as the dance

sequence from “Way Out West” and a couple of their other unique skits, adding a few as the stage show gains prominence and popularity. Too see some highlights from their old works, check out the chan-nel on their Website, www.laurel-and-hardy.com/

At once touching and moving, I know my mom wouldn’t have liked it, since she would have gone to see it expecting to see work from the ‘30s. But this picture sheds a new and loving light on two great performers, one who liked to play golf and the ponies (Hardy) and the other who loved to fish and who had to give up drink (Laurel).

Jeff Berg has been review-ing movies for the Bulletin since 2002. He lives in Santa Fe and may be reached at [email protected].


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Shirley Henderson (Lucille Hardy) and Nina Arianda (Ida Ki-taeva Laurel) co-star as wives of the famous entertainers.

Steve Coogan (Stan) and John C. Reilly (Ollie) offer touching, moving performances in “Stan & Ollie.”

‘Stan & Ollie’: new gags for a declining duoGRADE: A+

Plays for one week beginning Feb 8, at Mesilla’s Fountain

Theatre.

12th annual Artists Studio Tour, planned for April 27-28 and May 4-5, seeks artists. The tour is spon-sored by Hal Marcus Gallery and The El Paso Scene. Entry deadline is March 5. Information and entry forms are available at www.pleinairpainter-sofelpaso.com, or email [email protected].

Branigan Cultural Center,

501 N. Main St., seeks pro-posals for exhibits with themes of cultural and historical significance relating to the Southwest to be presented in 2020. The center is accepting submissions from artists (solo and group), from formal and informal scholars, and cultural heritage organizations.

Proposals accepted through April 7. To apply,

complete the form at www.surveymonkey.com/r/LCMS2020. Ap-plications must include a brief (one to four para-graphs) narrative and should include artist statement or group’s mis-sion; 8 to 10 jpg images of proposed work (or those of similar style and quality); and linear and/or square footage needs. Exhibits will run for a six-to-12-week period.

Incomplete or late proposals will not be ac-cepted.

For more information, visit las-cruces.org/mu-seums or call 541-2154. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat-urday.

Desert Exposure, a monthly published by the Las Cruces Bulletin, seeks turtle art for the May edition in recogni-tion of May 23 as World

Turtle Day. The artwork should be vertical, and the image should be be-tween 2MB and 10MB. It can be any kind of medium: photo, water-color, fiber, sculpture, oil, mixed media, etc. Dead-line for submissions is April 5 to [email protected].

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monumentseeks applications for its Artist in Residence Program. Entries for the May residency must be received by email on or before Feb. 28: [email protected]. Info: 575-323-1423.

Rokoko Art Gallery, 1785 Avenida de Mercado, seeks submissions for its “Fantasy Free for All” exhibit to run from May 11-June 22. Submissions due by May 4. Entry fee: $15. Info: 575-522-5553, [email protected].

CALL TO ARTISTS


February 15-21Oscar Nominated ShortsA perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. • Live Action: Fri, Mon, Wed at 7:30. Sun at 2:30• Animation: Sat, Sun, Tues at 7:30. Thurs at 1:30

February 8-14Stan & Ollie

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WEEKNIGHTS AT 5:30PM AND WEEKENDS AT 6:30PM

‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’:Black Box Theatre, 430 N. Main St. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Satur-day, Feb. 8-9; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10; 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7. Tickets $15/$12 for students and seniors. Thursday tick-ets $10. Call 575-523-1223 for reservations or visit www.no-strings.org.

‘The Crucible’: Plays Fri-day and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons through Feb. 17, LCCT, 313 N. Main St. Info: www.LCCTNM.org, 575-523-1200.

‘Heart of the Arts’: Film by Ed Breeding, 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, Bra-nigan Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave. Free. Info: Ruth Drayer, 903-399-9979; www.ed-breeding.artistwebsites.com.

Eli James Band: Classic country dance, 7-10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, American Legion Post 10, 1185 E. Madrid Ave. Tickets $10. Info: Patricia Torres, 575-649-6971.

Photography Boot Camp:

Class #2, getting your camera off auto mode, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 9, in the SW Envi-ronmental Center, 275 N. Main St. Sponsored by the Doña Ana Pho-tography Club. $5, space is limited. Register at dapc_2019_bootcamp_class_1.eventbrite.com.

Artventurous: Hands-on art-making experience at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St. Open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturdays. Info: 575-541-2137, las-cruces.org/museums. February’s theme is Art Deco.

Feb. 9: FansFeb. 16: Faux Stained

GlassFeb. 23: Las Cruces

Deco Poster

Education Station:Presentation on Span-ish surrealist painter Salvador Dali, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St. Info: 575-541-2137, las-cruces.org/museums.

Las Cruces Ukes: Per-form in a free concert, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9,

Branigan Cultural Cen-ter, 501 N. Main St. Info: www.lascrucesukes.com.

Storytellers of Las Cru-ces: Stories for all ages, 10 a.m. every Saturday. Free.

COAS bookstore down-town: 317 N Main St.

Feb. 9, Douglas Jack-son

Feb. 16, Mary Ellen Floyd

Feb. 23, Douglas Jack-son

COAS bookstore So-lano: 1101 S Solano Dr.

Feb. 9, Sonya WeinerFeb. 16, Gloria HackerFeb. 23, Jean Gilbert

NM Vintage Wines: Live music, 2461 Calle de Prin-cipal. Info: 575-523-9463, nmvintagewines.com.

• Feb. 9: Little Table Contra-Band – bluegrass

• Feb. 14: Sage Gen-

tleWing – solo singer/songwriter

• Feb. 16: Los Dientes – Folk/rock duo

• Feb. 21: Danny Sanchez – solo singer/songwriter

• Feb. 23: Toney Rocks – folk/Americana (Las Vegas)

• Feb. 28: Eryn Bent – solo singer/songwriter (Albuquerque)

‘Gospel Mass’: The music of African-Amer-ican composer Robert Ray in a special Black History Month and For the Love of Art Month performance, 3 p.m. Sun-day, Feb. 10, in the Sanc-tuary of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 225 W. Griggs Ave. Info: Doug Weeks, 575-644-6999.

Brown Bag Lecture: “Hobos in the Border Region During the Great

Depression,” hosted by historian and re-enactor Patricia Kiddney, noon Tuesday, Feb. 12, Las Cruces Railroad Mu-seum, 351 N. Mesilla St. Info: 575-528-3444, las-cruces.org/museums.

Reading Art Book Club: Meets 2:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Feb. 13, in the Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St. Info: 575-541-2137, las-cruces.org/museums.

Get ArtRageous: Two-hour make-and-take classes focus on a new technique each week with instruction by a local artist. Sessions are at 5:30 p.m. at the Doña Ana Arts Council, 1740-A Calle de Mercado:

• Feb. 14 – After Color Images, with Linda Gen-dall

• Feb. 20 – Painting on Silk, with Judy Licht

• Feb. 27 – Southwest Style, with Sally Quillin

Hard Road Trio: Cruces-Silver City Americana trio plays a house concert in Las Cruces, Thursday, Feb. 14. Info: Chris, 575-571-5298.

‘Love is all You Need’: An evening of love songs, Friday, Feb. 15, Doña Ana Arts Council Arts & Cultural Center, 1740-A Calle de Mercado. Megan McQueen, pianist David Cunniff and guitarist/vocalist Matthew Reiter. Reservations: 575-644-7136.

Contra dance: Sponsored by the Southern New Mexico Music and Dance

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Society, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, Mesilla Community Center, 2251 Calle de Santiago. Bayou Seco plays, Lonnie Lude-man calls. $6 adults, youth $4, families $15. Info: 575-522-1691.

Macro photography: Using photo stacking, presented by Carl Maier, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Doña Ana Photog-raphy Club inside the SW Environmental Center, 275 N. Main St. Free.

Four Shillings Short: Husband-wife duo from Ireland in a Celtic, folk

and world music concert to benefit St. Andrews Hospitality House, 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. Info: 575-541-2290.

Poetry reading: Sin Fronteras/Writers with-out Borders, in conjunc-tion with ArtForms, presents its annual read-ing as part of For the Love of Art Month. 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 23, Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St. Info: Joe Somoza, 575-522-1119.

‘Spirit of Art’: Film by Ed Breeding, 12:30 p.m. Sat-urday, Feb. 23, Branigan Library, 200 E. Picacho

Ave. Free. Info: Ruth Drayer, 903-399-9979; www.ed-breeding.artist-websites.com.

New Horizons Symphony: Winter concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, NMSU’s

Atkinson Recital Hall. Mozart, Rossini and more, highlighting the NMSU Music Depart-ment’s string program. Info: 575-521-8771 or Gary Lenzo at [email protected].


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‘From the Vault: Selections from the Permanent Collection’

Feb. 15-March 23Exhibit showcasing

rarely-seen works of art from the Branigan Cultural Center’s per-manent collection, including regional and international artists. 501 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m-4:30 p.m. Saturday. Info: 575-541-2154.

‘Lightning Field’Through Feb. 19Computer-generated

imagery featuring artist Ken Morgan is an inter-play of light and dark that brings the digital age to the forefront. Bra-nigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St. Info: 575-541-2154 or museums.las-cruces.org.

‘Tree of Life’Through Feb. 24The works of artist

Maria Cristina (aka Cristina Fridenstine), at The Tombaugh Gallery, 2000 S. Solano Drive. Artist reception will be held 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3. The gal-lery is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Satur-day and is part of the Unitarian Universalist Church complex.

Mesilla Valley Fine Arts Gallery

Through FebruaryArtists of the month

are photographer Weeden Nichols and painter Mary Zawacki. 2470-A Calle de Guada-lupe. Info: 575-522-2933.

Talavera artistsThrough FebruaryFour artists are fea-

tured at Greenspace Gal-lery, Gifts and Learning, 517 N. Mesquite St. They are painters Laurie Churchill, Steve Klinger and Paul Vakselis, and photographer Kathy

Meyer. Their work ranges from whimsical animal portraits and mermaids to watercolors of historic landmarks, oil-on-canvas landscapes of the Organ Mountains and nature photography. Info: 575-551-6778.

Watercolor exhibitThrough March 2The New Mexico

Watercolor Society Southern Chapter hosts a watercolor exhibit of toy, model and minia-ture trains, at the Las Cruces Railroad Mu-seum, 351 N. Mesilla St. Info: 575-528-3444, las-cruces.org/museums.

‘It’s the Little Things’Through March 3Opens Feb. 9 at Art

Obscura Gallery, 3206 Harrelson St. in Mesilla Park. Up to 25 mixed media “non-objective” pieces by Las Cruces artist Roy van der Aa. “These differ from my work prior to mid-2017 in that these contain small interconnected,

painted shapes; the color palette is lighter, and the background grid is more pronounced,” the artist says. Also included are five new pochoir stencil prints that, to date, have only been shown in Eu-rope. Info: 575-494-7256, [email protected], www.artos-bscuragallery.com.

‘Light Tricks’ Through March 3Featuring the works of

artists Julie Alpert and Andy Arkley, Univer-sity Art Museum, 1390 E. University Ave. The husband and wife team of Alpert and Arkley “present installations, sculpture, drawing, and interactive video-based artwork that uses light in various forms, pro-jecting, reflecting, and emitting nostalgic mood throughout a space.” Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Free admission. Info: 575-646-2545, email [email protected] and visit uag.nmsu.edu.

‘Dressed for the Occasion’

Through March 3Women’s every-day

and dress clothing from the pioneer days of the 1870s to the Depression era of the 1930s. NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum Legacy Gallery, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Info: 575-522-4100.

‘Dusk to Dusk: Unsettled, Unraveled, Unreal’

Through March 30The Las Cruces Mu-

seum of Art presents 37 works by 28 artists organized by the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University and curated by Richard Rinehart, with works loaned from the Ekard Collection. Explores human angst during the point of tran-sition between the 20th and 21st centuries – psy-chological references, intimacy and political repression; 491 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday.

Info: las-cruces.org/mu-seums; 575.541.2137.

‘Drawn to the Land: Peter Hurd’s New Mexico’

Through Sept. 13Renowned 20th-cen-

tury artist Peter Hurd (1904-84) is the subject in an exhibit at the NM Farm & Ranch Muse-um’s Traditions Gallery, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Info: 575-522-4100.

‘Grist for the Mill’Through Dec. 2 The exhibit includes a

portable gristmill from the Museum’s collection, a stone set from Mora, NM , and two separate stones that were used in the Las Cruces area; one from the Lemon Mill in Mesilla, and the Schaub-lin Stone, which was on display for years next to the tall, bank building in downtown Las Cruces. NM Farm & Ranch Heri-tage Museum Legacy Gallery, 4100 Dripping Springs Road. Info: 575-522-4100.

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ACROSS1 Live online work-shop 8 Public poster 15 Malcolm- — Warner (“The Cosby Show” actor) 20 14th-century music style 21 Arrives leisurely 22 Belittle 23 Certain frat member receiving his diploma? 25 Sing sweetly 26 Cove 27 Assuage 28 Muddy mixture 29 Met melody 32 Took way too much, for short 34 Gyro bread with lots of extra hidden calories? 37 Heavenly food made from very hot peppers? 41 — -garde 42 Sauna stuff 43 Singer Acuff 44 Stew 45 Toon pic 48 San Francisco’s — Hill 50 Target number of coverage poli-cies? 54 Download for an iDevice 57 Denmark’s — Islands 59 High trains 60 Detach, as a lapel mic 61 Randomly mixed stack of Bing Crosby and Bill Haley albums? 65 Folded a line

into, say 67 With 24-Down, reduced-cost prod-uct 68 Glam rocker Brian 69 Lav 70 Aviary locale 71 Bridge, in France 72 Florida city 74 Fish dish that’s a chef’s specialty? 77 Rizzo in “Mid-night Cowboy” 78 Platform that runs on iDevices 79 Ran easily 80 La. neighbor 81 Brass instru-ment with a dental product smeared all over it? 86 “O Sole —” 88 Sheepish 89 “— well that ends well” 90 Alias initials 91 Idiot box 95 Provide 97 Hair dye pro-duced in a county in southwest Eng-land? 101 Chatty bird with shiny gray plumage? 105 Pirate chant starter 106 Took a train, e.g. 107 Pilot a plane 108 Prefix with skeleton 111 Thin iPods 113 Swiss choco-late brand 114 Sitcom title woman living in a wasteland?

120 Actor Jason 121 Energize 122 Algebra rule 123 Totally love 124 Toronto Blue Jays’ stadium, be-fore 2005 125 Salzburg site

DOWN1 Joking sort 2 Be mistaken 3 Gp. with merit badges 4 Hoosier 5 Verb go-with 6 “Why” singer Frankie 7 Like a very clean film 8 Maven 9 Solitary 10 — -Seltzer 11 Top-level 12 Fluttery tree 13 Tear 14 Stuff in the gene pool 15 “Charlie’s An-gels” co-star Smith 16 Rudely brief 17 Native New Zea-lander 18 Of — (some-what) 19 Lotte of film 24 See 67-Across 28 Glide (over) 29 Belly muscles 30 Groove 31 Fury 33 Mended, as a sock 35 Works to get 36 With, to Luc 38 “Toodles!” 39 Rebels’ yells 40 Sch. in the Big Apple

44 FDR’s terrier 45 Reneges 46 — Aigner (fash-ion brand) 47 Real-estate levy 49 Bundled up, as hay 50 Prefix for an element used in antiseptics 51 Mission to gather intel 52 “— pasa?” 53 Not likely 54 Classifies 55 Ramses II, for one 56 Plaything dragged on a string

58 City in Nevada 62 Mega-meal 63 “Fuer —” 64 Gear piece 65 Brilliant move 66 Composer Ned 70 Reverse alpha-betical order 73 Japanese drama style 74 Tosspots 75 New York’s capi-tal 76 Singer Piaf 78 R&B’s — Broth-ers 82 San Diego ball-player

83 One reuning 84 Asian “way” 85 Loc. of Kiev 87 Exceeded, as a target 92 — -Cat 93 Put a stop to 94 — Bo 95 Dodging type 96 Irk 97 Forthright 98 Skye of film 99 California mountain 100 Japan’s largest island 101 Zesty dip 102 Vine-covered

103 Group jargon 104 Nervous — (worrywart) 109 “Whip It” rock band 110 City in Utah 112 Iron sources 114 Film director Craven 115 Ballpoint fill 116 La.-to-Ill. dir. 117 Bruin Bobby 118 Agnus — (Mass part) 119 Drs.’ org.

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Las Cruces Commu-nity Theatre (LCCT) is trying something new to benefit local actors in its auditions for the theatre’s upcoming production of “Young Frankenstein – The Musical.”

“Auditioners are often confused about the audition process, or feel uncomfortable and unwelcome,” said the musical’s director, Susie Ouderkirk.

“So, we’re holding an audition just for first-

time or nervous audition-ers.”

The first-timers audi-tion will be 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at LCCT, 313 N. Main St. down-town.

(Regular, open audi-tions for the show will be held 6-9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10. Callbacks, if neces-sary, will be held 6-9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11.) All ac-tors must be 14 years old or older to audition.

For the first-timers au-dition, “we’ll have several theatre veterans on hand to be ‘audition allies’ and

literally hand-walk folks through the audition process,” Ouderkirk said, including “filling out the forms, learning about the process, helping with cold readings, keeping track of time, answering questions and actually going with people into the house to audition.”

Singing auditions for the show will be private, she said.

“As the director, I’m even willing to get up on stage with audition-ers and sing with them, or get them started on

their music audition,” Ouderkirk said. “If a person is more comfort-able singing with another person, then bring that person along! Musical director Diane Thomas will be available to ad-vise and encourage, and we’re letting people contact our musical as-sistant and audition ac-companist, Mary-Lynn Brown, ahead of time to discuss the song choice and get feedback and ad-vice.” Email Ouderkirk at [email protected] to be connected with Brown.

“Auditions can be the biggest roadblock to get-ting onstage,” Ouderkirk said. “I know talented people who should be in theatre but can’t get past the audition. Once they are cast in a show, they’re perfectly com-fortable. But the audition can be a huge barrier. 40 million adults in Amer-ica have a fear of public

speaking, and an audi-tion is public speaking on steroids: you have to read things you’ve never laid eyes on before, dance and sing a song. You get one shot. It’s stressful to actors who do it all the time, so doing it for the first time, or having had a bad experience in the past can make the expe-rience a nightmare.”

The show will rehearse Feb. 23-April 25 and will be performed for three weekends, opening Fri-day, April 26. Actors needed for “Young Fran-kenstein” include:

• Frederick Franken-stein: male, age 20-60, very strong vocally and high energy

• Elizabeth, the fian-cée: female, 20-55, strong personality, basic dance required

• Inga the German as-sistant: female, 20-45, strong dancer (tap, mod-ern), able to yodel, Ger-man accent

• Igor the sidekick as-sistant: male, 20-60, very strong dancer-all styles, impeccable comic timing

• The Monster: male, any age, large stature a plus, strong dancer (tap)

• Frau Blucher, the housekeeper: male or female, 40-60, basic dance required, German accent

• Inspector Kemp: male, 30-50, experienced co-medic movement a plus, German accent

• Hermit: male, 30-60, strong vocally and able to play sight-impaired

• Ziggy the Village Idiot: male, any age, strong dancer

• Chorus: men and women, all ages, musical experience a plus, strong dancers (tap) or willing to learn quickly.

For more information, visit the LCCT website at www.lcctnm.org/.



PHOTO BY GUS SANCHEZ Choreographer Brianna Horvath, center, most recently seen as Elle Woods in the Las Cruces Community Theatre’s production of “Legally Blonde,” teaches a dance combination to poten-tial auditioners.

Auditions aim to scare up talent for ‘Frankenstein’

LAS CRUCES BULLETIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2019 | 47SW LIVINGBy KATHARINE CHRISLEY SCHREIBERFor the Bulletin

Dharmahorse Equine Sanctuary has acquired property near its pres-ent facility for expan-sion and refinement of the services it offers to horses and people.

As a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, licensed by the New Mexico Livestock Board, Dharmahorse has been caring for unwanted and abused horses since 2015 at its present location under the compassionate di-rection of Mark and Katharine Schreiber.

Dharmahorse was established in 1996 as an Institute of Gentle Horsemanship. As its founder and now presi-dent, I was caring for horses on my own, even bartering for hay in those days. Becoming a nonprofit meant that donations could be made to the Sanctuary for the feeding and care of the (mostly) special-needs horses.

Volunteers help with the daily horse care needs, and sponsors can pay a monthly amount to help a specific horse or pony.

In 2017 and 2018, a generous patron of the horses made donations specifically for the ac-quisition of land. This was planned so that Dharmahorse could have its own sovereignty through ownership of its facility. This would

mean no longer using the Schreibers’ private property as its base of operations; the Sanctu-ary can now build the facility needed for the dynamic requirements of a special-needs herd.

After finding the right property, others, includ-ing a foundation that supports animal rescue and advocacy, joined to gather needed funds. On Jan. 9, Dharmahorse closed on the property that will become the new, primary location for the horses.

This location has a home and large building for hay storage. There

is a swimming pool in need of repair that we plan to adapt for Equine Water Therapy. We have a caretaker lined up to live in the house, as Mark and Katharine will stay on their own property and keep the horses there who cannot live in a herd environ-ment.

A “paddock paradise” path around the land will be constructed as funds become available. It will create a natural, varying terrain that the horses will live on as a herd with water and food dispersed in differ-ent areas to encourage

exercise. There will be roofs and windbreak walls, trees and eventu-ally an herb pasture.

The programs for special needs persons will be able to expand. There will eventually be room for more horses to be saved, healed, fos-tered, adopted or just able to live in the sanc-tuary. Dharmahorse is an Herbal Stable Yard using phytotherapy (healing with plants) to support the horses’ well-being.

Located on the East Mesa of Las Cruces, the Sanctuary survives on donations, which are

tax-deductible and used to buy feed and pay for equine health care. We have established a build-ing fund for purchasing fence materials, plumb-ing supplies to run the needed water lines and materials for shelters for horses that will live there. The new facility is owned entirely by the

sanctuary and will live on for many decades, providing compassion-ate care for unwanted horses.

To connect with the sanctuary, visit www.dharmahorse.org, call 575-541-0137 or email Katharine at [email protected].

Dharmahorse Equine Sanctuary plans expansion

COURTESY PHOTOSArtist’s rendering of the new home for Dharmahorse

Rescued horses have been cared for on the Schreibers’ private property since 2015. Recent land acquisition will allow Dharmahorse Equine Sanctuary to relocate its base of operations to a dedicated facility operating under its own sovereignty.


New Mexico’s agricul-ture production was $3.38 billion in 2017, a 5 percent increase over the year before, according to the New Mexico Department of Agriculture’s 2017 sta-tistics, which the depart-ment just released.

“The dairy industry, which is the leading commodity in the state, showed the largest in-crease with $1.33 billion in milk sales, 11 percent more than 2016,” New Mexico Secretary of Ag-riculture Jeff Witte and U.S. Department of Agri-culture State Statistician Longino Bustillos said in the report.

Milk production state-wide was 8.21 billion pounds in 2017, up from 7.71 billion in 2016, and placed New Mexico ninth among all states. It pro-duced 3.8 percent of the U.S. total for milk produc-tion.

Doña Ana County was fourth among New Mexico counties (behind Chaves, Curry and Roos-evelt) in milk production with 850 million gallons produced in 2017.

New Mexico ranked fifth among states in cheese production with 6 percent of the nation’s total. Wisconsin led in cheese production with nearly 27 percent of the total.

New Mexico produced a record 92 million pounds of pecans in 2017, the report said, making it the leading crop for the state with $220 million in cash receipts.

Doña Ana County led all other counties com-bined in pecan produc-tion, with 31,200 acres harvested and almost 67 million pounds of pecans produced. Other counties combined for about 25 million pounds.

Statewide, pecans ac-counted for more than 30 percent of the total of crops produced in

2017. Hay was almost 15 percent, while summer onions were 14.6 percent, cotton 6.7 percent, chile peppers 6.1 percent, corn 3.1 percent, wheat 2.2 per-cent, sorghum 1 percent and peanuts 0.9 percent. All other crops totaled 20.5 percent.

Doña Ana County was also the state’s largest let-tuce producer, the report said.

The county was third among the 32 New Mexico counties for which all farm com-modities were listed (Los Alamos County was not included), behind Curry and Chaves counties. DAC generated almost $455 million in 2017, com-pared to $435 million in 2016 Doña Ana County had 2,184 farms and ranches, second only to

McKinley County. The av-erage DAC farm size was 302 acres. Average farm value sold at $160,729, av-erage farm expenses were $150,695 and the average net farm income was $13,245.

The county had 93,000 head of cattle and calves as of Jan. 1, 2018, up from 88,000 head the year be-

fore. Doña Ana County

produced almost 15,000 tons of chile in 2017, likely second only to Luna County, whose data was “withheld to avoid disclosing data for indi-vidual operations,” the report said. New Mexico led the nation in planted acreage of chile in 2017

and was second only to California in chile pepper production.

For more information, visit www.nmda.nmsu.edu. Under quicklinks on the right, click on Latest NM Ag Stats.


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LAS CRUCES BULLETIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2019 | 49WELL BEING

By JESSICA SALOPEKFor the Bulletin

Still years from graduation, students from Burrell College of Medicine’s (BCOM) Student Osteopathic Medical Asso-ciation (SOMA) chapter are already fulfilling the school’s mission to address health is-sues in New Mexico, including one of the biggest: the opioid epidemic.

“Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of death for people under the age of 50 and New Mexico has histori-cally had a very challenging time with drug overdose,” said Athena Huckaby, Overdose Prevention Educator for Doña Ana County.

After hearing Huckaby speak on the topic, SOMA students asked if she’d be willing to visit BCOM and teach them about opioid overdoses and how to administer the nasal spray Nar-can, so they in turn could teach others in the community.

Narcan, the brand name for

the medication naloxone, is the antidote for an opioid overdose. “If somebody has taken too much of any sort of opioid, whether it’s prescribed pain killers or heroin, Narcan will reverse the side effects of the opioid and help them breathe again. Not breathing is one of the major causes of death by opioids,” said second-year med-ical student Shaun Antonio, who serves as SOMA’s national liaison officer.

Narcan is safe, non-addictive and has few side effects.

In 2016, Gov. Susana Mar-tinez signed House Bill 227 into law, allowing New Mexico residents to legally possess opioid antagonists or purchase them over the counter from a pharmacy. The bill also allows community organizations to distribute naloxone without liability. Doña Ana County received a five-year grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Ad-ministration that allows Nar-can to be distributed free in the

Las Cruces area. That’s where the BCOM students come in.

Twelve of the medical stu-dents are now certified by the New Mexico Department of Health and Human Services to train others on Narcan admin-istration, and they’ve passed on the knowledge and boxes of Narcan to 130 other students on campus. They’ve also hosted three health fairs where they trained nearly 200 people.

“We’ve had the full gamut of individuals show interest at the health fairs, from teenagers to young couples to the elderly,” said medical student and SOMA Vice President Zachary Coffman.

“I’m pretty sure these medi-cal students have distributed more Narcan in the community than any other group, with the exception of the methadone clinic,” Huckaby said. “They are really motivated to make an impact. I’m grateful that they will pass that impact on … as they move on in their careers as physicians.”

Has your New Year’s resolution lost its luster?

Dump it! Here’s another that

will extend your life span without dieting or exercise.

Read books. Yes, that’s it. Three-and-a-half

hours a week should do it. According to a study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine readers 50 years old and up live two years longer than non-readers.

According to Avni Bavishi of the Yale University School of Public Health, this advantage is most closely linked to reading books. “When the reader’s mind is engaged in a story, two cogni-tive processes create a ‘survival advantage,’ thereby increasing lifespan,” said Bavishi.

"First, reading books pro-motes the slow, “immersive process” of “deep reading,” a cognitive engagement that occurs as the reader draws con-nections to other parts of the material. Second, the reader engages mentally in finding ap-plications to the outside world, and asks questions about the content presented."

Researchers speculate that fic-tion is the most effective genre.

"We had seen some mixed ef-fects in previous literature that seemed to indicate that there may be a survival advantage to general reading; however, we were impressed with the magnitude of the difference of effect between reading books and reading newspapers/mag-azines,” Bavishi said.

Reading benefits every ageYou don’t have to be over 50

to reap benefits. Adults and children who read regularly ex-perience enhanced vocabulary, improved articulation, and in-

creased creativity. Did I mention that

reading also relieves stress? Just six minutes of reading has been shown to lower heart rate and muscle ten-sion. A bedtime reading routine helps your body wind down, which im-proves sleep.

Reading even promotes world peace because readers develop greater understanding of oth-ers’ views, building capacity for empathy. Neuroscience backs this up. Researchers at Emory University found that reading fiction tricks our brains into thinking we are part of the story. The empathy we feel for characters wires our brains to have the same sensitivity toward real people. Carnegie Mellon University studies report that when you get lost in a book your brain lives through the charac-ters at a neurological level.

According to a Cambridge University study, reading fic-tion provides excellent training for young people to develop and practice understanding of how others feel and think. Stories have the power to bring emo-tions to life and help children understand their own feelings as well as those of others.

So make 2019 the year you read every day. The benefits will improve the way you han-dle your feelings and those of others. Read with a child every day and live to see a new gener-ation handling the challenges of the future with knowledge and empathy.

Rorie Measure is the president of the Children’s Reading Alliance, a grassroots citizen-led initia-tive to encourage family literacy throughout Doña Ana County. She may be reached at 575 522 4804, [email protected].

RORIEMEASURE

Reading Solution

Reading has impact on lifespansBurrell College of Medicine

SOMA students with Doña Ana

County Over-dose Preven-

tion Educator Athena Huck-

aby at a recent training event.

PHOTO COURTESY SAM TURNER

BCOM tackles opioid use

50 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2019 RELIGION LAS CRUCES BULLETIN

Presbyterian

FIRSTPRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH

Sunday School: 9 am

Traditional Worship

Service: 10:30English, Spanish, and Korean congregations

200 E. Boutz Road, Las Cruces

www.fpc.lc

(575) 526-5559

Baptist

Disciples of Christ/ United Church of Christ

Lutheran

9:00 am

TRINITY LUTHERANCHURCH-ELCA

Call 524-8061 To Be Included

Roman Catholic

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LAS CRUCES

VIEW ALL LISTINGS OF CATHOLIC CHURCHES

ON OUR WEBSITE

WWW.DIOCESEOFLASCRUCES.ORG

Catholic

Worship Services

Holy Family American National

Catholic ChurchAn Inclusive Vatican II Catholic Community

Masses: Sat. 5:30 pm & Sun. 10:30 am

Clergy: Fr. Jim Lehman, FCM Fr. Louie Amezaga

702 Parker Rd. Las Cruces. NM 88005

575-644-5025

Messianic

Join us at134 S. Main St. (Griggs & Main)

Service Sat. 1PMBible Study Sat 4PM

Join us to learn about your Hebrew Roots.

Everyone is welcome!866-874-7250etz-chayim.org

Did you know Jesus was Jewish and His name was Yeshua?

New Thought

Sunday:Service & Sunday School

10 a.m.Wednesday:

Testimonies 7 p.m.

325 West Mountain Ave.Las Cruces, NM

575-523-5063

All are WELCOME!

FirstChurch of

Christ, Scientist

Christian

Wellspringa new thought spiritual community

Sunday event at 11am

Edward Burlbaw

140 West Taylor Road

wellspringnow.com

Methodist

Las CrucesOne Church Two Locations 106 S. Miranda

4201 N. Sonoma Ranch Blvd

524-3691fbclascruces.com

SundayTraditional Worship 8:30 amSunday School 10:00 am

SundayWorship 9:40 & 11:00 amYouth Interconnect 4-6:00 pmWednesdayGrow Worship & Bible Study 6:15-7:15 pmAWANA 6-7:30 pm

Disciples of Christ andUnited Church of Christ

LGBTQWHO?

FIRST CHRISTIANCHURCH

1809 El Paseo 524-3245

Sunday Service 10:15 am

Website: fcclc.org

EVERYONE’SWELCOMENon Denominational

Southern New MexicoChurch of God

Sabbath ServicesInteractive Bible Study

Saturdays 1 p.m.1701 E Mi i1701 E. Missouri

See usmornings 10:30

a.m. on

WeWW observe all of God’sHoly Days and acceptHoly Days and accept

Jesus Christ JJas our savior.

650-7359Con idential private counseling

also available.

Episcopal

ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Rector: The Rev. Canon Scott A. Ruthven

Weekday ServicesTuesday - 9:30 AM - Morning PrayerThursday - Noon - Holy Eucharist

non

Sunday Services

8:30 AM - Rite 110:30 AM - Rite 2

518 N. Alameda Blvd. 526-6333

www.SaintAndrewsLC.org

“Digging deep wells so others may drink.”

CALVARYCHRISTIANCENTER

Pastor Mark Jordan

Worship services 10:30 a.m.

Sundays at 4211 Elks Drive.

For more information, call 575-323-3442

Baha'i Faith

The Baha’i Information& Reading Center

All faiths welcomeDiscover the Baha’i Faith

Interfaith DevotionalSundays 10:30 to 12 p.m.

“All the messengers of God have

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path of Truth.”

525 E. LohmanKristy Parks, 575.522.0467

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Biblically Orthodox Traditional

Anglican Worship

102 St. James Avenue • 526-2389Corner of University & S. Main

Sunday: 8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: 10 a.m.

Jewish

Friday Services vary, please checkour website for this week’s time

Shabbat Morning Servicesat 10:15 am

WWW.TBELC.ORG3980 SONOMA SPRINGS AVE.

575-524-3380Rabbi Lawrence P. Karol

Member of Union for Reform Judaism

TEMPLE BETH-ELOF LAS CRUCESOURS IS A DIVERSE AND GROWING

JEWISH COMMUNITY

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Pastor Robert L. Ramzy, Sr.(575) 523-0737

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Sunday School at 9:45 AM

Sunday Morning Service at 11 AM

Prayer each Tues, Thurs & Fri

11 AM to Noon

Choir Rehearsal, Thursday at 6 PM

Male Chorus Rehearsal, Sat at 6 PM

5th Sunday - Women’s Day Service

11 AM (5th Sunday only)

Bible Band/World Mission/YWCC

1st and 3rd Saturday 10 AM to Noon

LAS CRUCES BULLETIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2019 | 51BUSINESS

BY MICHAEL SCANLONFor the Bulletin

A new video game development and publish-ing studio is setting up shop in downtown Las Cruces with plans to cre-ate as many as 51 new high-wage creative and technology jobs, state and local officials announced during an event to wel-come the company.

Ganymede Games will serve a global market in the rapidly growing PC console video game in-dustry from its Las Cru-ces studio, officials said.

“The jobs they an-ticipate creating include engineers, artists, design-ers, production staff and writers with high-wage salaries between $35,000 and $150,000 a year,” said Alicia Keyes, state eco-nomic development sec-retary, who spoke at the event Friday, Feb. 1.

The state will invest up to $250,000, and the city will invest up to $100,000 in Local Economic Devel-opment Act funds. The company will invest $1.3 million in capital invest-ment in its headquarters in the Bank of the West building on the north side of downtown’s Plaza de Las Cruces.

Ganymede also will be eligible to take advan-tage of incentives the state offers to the film

industry. “The company will con-

tribute to New Mexico’s creative economy and will combat the brain drain from New Mexico. This project is helping New Mexico by keeping tal-ented people right here in Las Cruces,” Keyes said.

Ganymede Games founder and CEO Jerry Prochazka said Las Cru-ces and his company are a good match.

“We started out look-ing for a home for our video game studio, and we looked at many states across the U.S., and New Mexico opened up its arms,” Prochazka said. “Everyone in Las Cruces has been ab-solutely fantastic. It’s a warm place, both in weather and in spirit, and I’m really apprecia-tive of that.”

Prochazka is a former executive at Riot Games, a Los Angeles-based com-pany whose game titles include League of Leg-ends. It was there he met Ganymede co-founder Lynn Stetson, he said.

“We formed Ganymede Games primarily because our industry is in a great moment of flux,” Pro-chazka said. “We have increasing cost pressures, a lot of jobs are moving overseas, and we find that some of the products coming out tend to be de-

rivative.“So we’re going to do

something really different with our team, tell some good stories and bring some innovative and new game play to the mar-ket,” he said. “With that, we’re also going to take risks. But you don’t stay in video games if you’re not willing to take risks and you’re not willing to double down on things you believe in.”

He described the video game industry as a “never-ending treadmill” and noted that all endeav-ors are risky with a high chance of failure.

“New Mexico brings a

business environment to the table that really helps reduce some of that risk, both in the fact that there are many talented people in New Mexico who are excited to work, and also the business environ-ment. The film tax credit is a gem, and we are ex-cited to be probably the first video game company to actually take advantage of that.”

The city worked closely with the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance, or MVEDA, to bring the company to Las Cruces, said Phil San Filippo, the city director of economic development.

MVEDA CEO Davin Lopez said others who contributed to the effort were New Mexico State University and Doña Ana Community College. The schools offer programs in video game design.

“I can’t say enough about what DACC and NMSU brought to the table,” Lopez said. “What we learned from this entire process is that we have an industry to grow here. This is what’s really exciting about Ganymede coming to town. They are the ones who are carving the path for other compa-nies to follow.”

Also speaking at the

event, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima recalled playing video games in his youth.

“There was a video-game place on Solano,” the mayor said, “and my dad used to give me a hard time, he said, why do you always play those video games? I said, Dad, this is the future.”

Miyagishima said Ganymede will bring more than $14 million in taxable income to the city in the next 10 years.

Michael Scanlon is a free-lance reporter. He can be reached at [email protected].

BULLETIN PHOTO BY MICHAEL SCANLONAlicia Keyes, state economic development secretary, Speaks Friday, Feb. 1, at an event to announce that a video game startup, Ganymede Games, will locate in downtown Las Cruces. Seated are Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima, New Mexico State University Chancellor Dan Arvizu, New Mexico Partnership CEO Tim Nitti, and Ganymede Games CEO and founder Jerry Pro-chazka.

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I saw a speech by NMSU Chan-cellor Arvizu a few weeks ago in which he called on New Mexico to think boldly, and to stop always pleading that it can’t be done here because we are poor. He said that, in particular, it is time to turn around pre-K-12 education in New Mexico. The chancellor is right on this issue. We need bold vision to move New Mexico forward into the 21st century. We need an educational “moon shot.”

And an education “moon shot” is precisely what Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has called for in her proposed budget. She has asked for $113

million in addi-tional funding for at-risk students; and she has called $60 mil-lion for expanded pre-K education. In particular, the budget calls for additional high-quality pre-K

teachers. Then there is the ap-

pointment of Karen Trujillo as secretary of education. Trujillo, an NMSU associate dean, is a politically deft operator who was recently elected as a Doña Ana County commissioner. She is very well respected at NMSU and has years of experience as a class-room teacher and school administrator. Let’s call her the anti-Skandera – a

good start.Governor Grisham is a

breath of fresh air after the policies of the Marti-nez regime. The former governor’s policies con-sisted of fiddling-while-the-state-burned while blaming teachers for the problems. To be fair, Grisham has been dealt a better hand, coming into office with a large sur-plus, while Martinez had to deal with the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Still, Martinez could have shown leadership and called for increased taxes to fund needed edu-cational reforms. Instead, she imposed expensive administrative require-ments for reporting on local school districts that drained resources from the classroom. As a con-

sequence, New Mexico’s poor performance on national tests remain rock bottom. New Mexico graduation rates, for example, ranked 50th among the 50 states in 2015, the latest available data. Graduations fell slightly from their peak in 2013.

An important part of Grisham’s proposal is a 6 percent increase in teacher pay. This is good policy. Recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers is critical for education success. Good teachers make for good outcomes. Economic studies have shown, for example, that three years of high-quality teachers, defined as teachers in the top third, can offset the effect of a disadvantaged

home on lifetime out-comes.

Grisham’s bold plan is a step in the right direc-tion but not a silver bul-let. It’s not more money, but how the money is spent, that matters. Here Grisham gets it right: at-risk kids, pre-K education and better-quality teach-ers via improved salaries.

There is no question that the most important economic issue facing our state is pre-K-12 educa-tion, something neglected by Gov. Bill Richardson and mismanaged by Mar-tinez. Grisham’s plan has the potential of turning things around, but it will be a slow process.

Take pre-K education. The benefits from these programs will not be manifest for decades to

come. The ultimate hope for these programs is im-proved graduation rates – 15 years away – and higher earnings – 20 to 60 years from now. Grisham is playing the long game, tough to do for one who needs to be reelected in four years.

Christopher A. Erickson, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at NMSU. His lectures, speeches and columns have so often call for increase emphasis on preK12 education, some role their eyes when he mentions it yet again. The opinions expressed here may not be shared by the regents and administra-tion of NMSU. Chris can be reached at [email protected].

Educational ‘moon shot’ will launch us forward

CHRIS ERICKSON

State of the Economy

By ANGEL MENDEZFor the Bulletin

Two leaders of the New Mexico State University Foundation now lead the state as “Women of Influ-ence.”

Created by the Al-buquerque Business First 15 years ago, this year’s Women of Influ-ence honorees include Tina Byford, interim presi-dent of the NMSU Founda-tion, and Leslie Cervantes, associate vice presi-dent of alumni and donor relations. The publication’s panel of judges selects only 20 women out of many more nominations from across New Mexico to re-ceive the honor.

“To be nominated and then selected amongst a handful of New Mexico’s inspirational women is

quite the honor,” Byford said. “As a leader, I know that our team looks to me to guide them in the right direction on a daily basis. I have the privilege of lead-ing a female-majority staff, and because of that, I work to be a female role model for them, who we know, will one day lead their own organizations, hopefully in New Mexico.”

Byford, who also serves the NMSU Foundation as chief operating officer, began her 30-year career at NMSU in the university’s business and finance de-partment in 1988. She re-ceived her undergraduate degree at Oklahoma State University before later earning both her master’s degree and doctorate from NMSU. Byford is also a certified public accountant and a certified internal

auditor.Cervantes, a 1986

alumna from the Col-lege of Business, has in-vested her time and talent in Las Cruces, serving on more than a dozen profes-sional and community boards, including local bank boards and the Las

Cruces Chamber of Com-merce. Before leading the NMSU Alumni Associa-tion during the last four years, along with directing communications, annual giving and stewardship for the NMSU Foundation,

COURTESY PHOTOTina Byford (back left) and Leslie Cervantes (back right) lead a staff meeting in Dove Hall. Both of these NMSU Foundation leaders will be recognized in February as “Women of Influence” by Albuquerque Business First.

NMSU alumnae recognized as 2019 ‘Women of Influence’

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Cervantes worked as the executive director of the Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation.

“I’m proud to live in our great state of New Mexico, so being recognized at this level and by the people I care so much for is incred-ibly special,” Cervantes said. “While helping raise my daughter, Alyssa, I recognized early on the importance of showing her what it meant to be both a strong leader and a proud woman. Although she’s my greatest accomplishment, I’m especially proud of this honor and will continue to use it as inspiration to do even more for the women around me.”

Additional NMSU alumnae to be recognized are Kellie Mixon, a 1992 graduate from the Col-lege of Business, and

Antonia Roybal-Mack, a 2003 graduate from the Col-lege of Agricultural, Con-sumer and Environmental Sciences. Mixon is the vice president and chief finan-cial officer at New Mexico Mutual, and Roybal-Mack is a litigation and planning attorney at Roybal-Mack & Cordova in Albuquerque.

“These women live the lives we hope every Aggie will embrace when they graduate. They are lives in service of others that tell stories of more than per-sonal achievements and successful careers,” said NMSU Chancellor Dan Ar-vizu. “These women have made a lasting impact on those around them, and we’re proud of their Aggie roots and desire to make change at home in our New Mexico communi-ties.”

Angel Mendez may be reached at 575-646-1795, [email protected].

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The 66th PGA Merchandise Show, the in-dustry’s annual “Major of the Golf Business” was held in Orlando, Florida, Jan. 22. I was there for the 21st time, and it was sensational, attracting 40,000 golf industry profession-als from all 50 states and 89 countries. PGA Professionals and buy-ers viewed the newest products, trends and technology from more than 1,000 exhibitors, creating the world’s larg-est business-to-business golf event inside the Or-ange County Convention Center.

The global gather-ing began at the PGA Show Demo Day, when thousands of PGA Pro-fessionals and invited guests (including me) personally tested the newest equipment, training aids and acces-sories from 100 top golf companies at the Orange County National Golf Center, amid 200 hitting bays and multiple put-ting greens. I attended my first PGA Show in 1999 at the invitation of PGA Professional and Golf Coaches Hall of Fame member Herb Wimberly – the year we started our Performance Golf Schools. At the time

it was an eye-opener, and it still is!

The PGA of America (club professionals, instructors and specialists, as differentiated from tour pro-fessionals) has

the slogan “Major of the Golf Business” with good reason. There are numerous state and regional consumer golf shows aimed at selling stuff to individuals – this is not one of them. In Or-lando there is the PGA Forum Stage with a full schedule of compelling speakers and program-ming covering industry initiatives and topics such as workforce diver-sity, digital branding, the future of coaching and recruiting, mentor-ing and more. There is a PGA Live Fashion Show featuring the lat-est apparel. There is the PGA Show Education Conference where PGA attendees hear industry experts presenting semi-nars and workshops on teaching and coaching, executive management, golf operations and golf fitness. Over years past I have also been a proud presenter. Other elements include the Equipment Test Center

BULLETIN PHOTO BY STEVE MACINTYREOñate High School forward Damione Thomas shoots a free throw against Centennial High School Feb. 1 inside the Centennial High School gymnasium. The Knights beat the Hawks 55-41 to improve to 13-8 (4-3 in district). Centennial fell to 7-14 (2-5).

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(indoor hitting bays), the New Product Zone, the New Inventors Spotlight and the Golf Fitness, Wellness and Instruction area.

More than 1,000 media folks from some 23 coun-tries reported from the 2019 PGA Show.

The Golf Channel pro-vided comprehensive live coverage to a worldwide audience.

My sense is that golf is on its way back from some dismal years. Golf Datatech and Yano Re-search Institute presented insights from the Top 10 golf markets in the world, including the U.S., Japan, Korea and the UK. World-wide retail golf sales drew even with 2014, with equipment sales slightly down in 2018, but apparel improved.

Among the 18 college and university Profes-sional Golf Management programs around the country represented at Orlando, New Mexico State University took center stage where one could not miss the booth. That made me proud!

Additionally, the big news was the introduc-tion of PGA President Suzy Whaley (their first

woman president), and the move of PGA head-quarters from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, to Frisco, Texas, north of Dallas.

To be sure, there was golf stuff worth chirping about, but that will wait until next week.

Contact Charlie Blanchard at [email protected].

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