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ALSO INSIDE: 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROSWELL MUSEUM AND ART CENTER AND 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROSWELL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM, CLASSIFIEDS FOR ART, JEREMY CAMP IN CONCERT, WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S, ‘WHEN THE PARTY IS OVER,’ HISTORY AND LOOKING UP

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Walk to End Alzheimer’s ‘When The Party Is Over’

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Thursday, September 21, 2017 Volume 22, Issue 9 Publisher: Barbara Beck Editor: Jeff Tucker Vision Editor: Christina Stock Copy Editor: Vanessa Kahin Ad Design: Sandra Martinez Columnists: Donald Burleson, Elvis E. Fleming, Tim Howsare Get in touch with us online Facebook: PecosVisionMagazine Twitter: twitter.com/PecosVision Pinterest: pinterest.com/VisionMagazine Email: vision@rdrnews.com www: rdrnews.com/wordpress/vision-magazin For advertising information, call 622-7710 Correspondence: Vision Magazine welcomes correspondence, constructive criticism and suggestions for future topics. Mail correspondence to Vision Magazine, P.O. Drawer 1897, Roswell, N.M. 88202-1897 or vision@rdrnews.com Submissions: Call 622-7710, ext. 309, for writers’ guidelines.

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Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s association to host local awareness walk

By Timothy P. Howsare Roswell Daily Record

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e was a “crossover artist” decades before anybody knew what the word “crossover” meant in regard to music.

Glen Campbell, the singer-guitarist who in the 1960s and ‘70s fused country and pop with hits such as “Gentle on My Mind,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Rhinestone Cowboy” died last month at 81 from Alzheimer’s disease.

In 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and mounted a well-publicized farewell tour.

To bring awareness to the disease at the local level, the Alzheimer’s Association, New Mexico Chapter, is hosting a Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Oct. 14 in Roswell.

The event will take place at Pioneer Plaza, with check-in beginning

at 8:30 a.m.

The walk is free of charge, but pre-registration is highly encouraged.

The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event for raising awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.

Everyone in Roswell and surrounding communities are invited to participate in this colorful event.

The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the Alzheimer’s Association’s flagship fundraiser with walks scheduled across the country from summer through fall.

“When participating in the walk here in Roswell you help spread awareness, give hope to the community, and increase funds for research as well as community support and programs,” said Priscilla

Lujan, southeast regional manager, Alzheimer’s Association, New Mexico Chapter.

Awareness-raising events like this are increasingly important as the number of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease is growing — and growing fast. Today, 5.5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, including an estimated 200,000 under the age of 65. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., and nearly two-thirds of those with Alzheimer’s disease — 3.3 million — are women. Nearly one in every three seniors who dies each year has Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.

Alzheimer’s takes a devastating toll — not just on those with the disease, but on entire families. In our own state, 38,000 New Mexicans are suffering from Alzheimer’s. They are cared for by 106,000 unpaid caregivers, many of whom are members of their own families.

There is no cure for Alzheimer’s and every 66 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s dementia. By 2050, someone in the United States will develop Alzheimer’s dementia every 33 sec-

onds. By that same year, as many as 16 million will have the disease.

Alzheimer’s is the most expensive disease in America. The cost of caring for those with Alzheimer’s and other dementias is estimated to total $259 billion in 2017, increasing to $1.1 trillion by mid-century.

The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research. It’s mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research, to provide and enhance care and support for all affected and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. It’s vision is a world without Alzheimer’s. Visit alz.org or call 800-272-3900.

For more information about the walk or to preregister, call Ashley Martinez at 505-266-4473.

Community News reporter Timothy P. Howsare can be reached at 575-622-7710, ext. 311, or vistas@ rdrnews.com.

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The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center, ca. 1937

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From lifetime to lifetime: Beyond The Gift of Time

The Roswell Museum and Art Center turns 80 and the Roswell Artistin-Residence program turns 50

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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magine going back in time to 1937.

Georgia O’Keeffe is in her most creative phase in New Mexico.

It is her first summer living in the house at Ghost Ranch she would buy in 1940.

The stock market crash of 1929 is almost forgotten and World War II is only a shadow on the horizon. The need to be connected is strong in rural communities such as Roswell and the longing for art so strong that the government added art projects in its second New Deal program. The first New Deal program several years earlier had concentrated on the economy.

According to the Vis-

tas article by Donna Ikard in the Roswell Daily Record edition of May 1, 2016, Roswell’s first female school teacher, Sara Lund Bonney, was also first to suggest to build a museum.

Bonney was one of the popular leaders in the social life of Roswell.

She was a member of the Southwestern History Club and Chaves County Archaeological and Historical Society. Bonney’s idea of a museum in Roswell was in the mind of Amelia Church, and found that she had similar thoughts at the time.

The two women recruited a librarian at Carnegie Library, Corrine Whitney, to

help promote the project with the Chaves County Archaeological and Historical Society.

Eight committee members were appointed, including Sara Bonney.

In 1934, the committee, along with Roswell Mayor Jack Moore and City Manager Clyde Fulton, met with the state Works Progress Administration. They decided to apply for government financing for a $12,000 building.

The Archaeological and Historical Society agreed to raise the $1,800 needed for the lot, soliciting over 200 businesses and individuals and surpassing their goal by $400.

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furnish or operate a museum. The WPA offered to provide curators, a caretaker, fixtures, furnishings and exhibits, but only if the museum were an art museum and if the Historical Society turned the project over to the Federal Art Project. The Society agreed to make the museum a combination of history and art and accepted the WPA proposal. The Roswell Museum opened Oct. 6, 1937.

“The early images we have of the museum are just really cool,” RMAC executive director Caroline Brooks said. “People who were involved, like Paul Oregon, Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth, the Goddards that were here, it is really neat to see them within the museum itself and the early origins when we started.”

Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Sara Woodbury has been researching about the museum in its vast library archives. “ I t o p e n e d f o r th e public in October to coincide with the New Mexico State Fair,” Woodbury said. “The dedications took place a couple of months later, in December, because the interior was not quite finished yet.”

The RMAC is sharing the limelight with Nancy Fleming and the RAiR on the same day as RMAC’s anniversary day. “‘Beyond The Gift of Time’ is the subtitle,” Brooks said. “On that day is going to be the opening of the RAiR exhibition ‘RAiR at 50.’

The reception here is going to be from 5 to 7 p.m. We will have a little pause to celebrate our birthday then. We will have a cake, the

mayor’s going to come to read a proclamation.

It is going to be so busy, we’ll probably going to have 250 people that night.”

“On Oct. 18, we are going to do a brownbag lunch. Woodbury is going to do a presentation at that time, too.

That will be really fascinating for folks to stop in and see.”

Woodbury is looking forward to sharing the historical details with the public.

“What makes it fun for our collection was an exhibition of works by Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth,” Woodbury said. “Henriette was there at the opening, Hurd actually wasn’t because he was up in Albuquerque painting a fresco at Los Poblanos.

“There are some great archival photographs of Henriette sitting with (Paul) Horgan and Russel Vernon Hunter, who was State Director for the Federal Art Program of WPA in New Mexico,” Woodbury said.

Horgan was a classmate and lifelong friend of Hurd since they were classmates at the New Mexico Military Institute.

“The focus on the talk will be not only history but also that really great archive we have in the library,” Woodbury said. “Because it was a Federal Art Center, everything had to be documented. We still have ours, because we were one of the few centers that are still in operation. A lot of Federal Art Centers closed down during World War II. They were later regenerated as museums who took inspiration from those art centers.

“We are unusual

because we kept operating. We still have our original core building, which is the Founders Gallery. It’s a real historical gem. This talk is just an opportunity to share the great letters I’ve been reading about the exhibitions that were brought through here during the time, the classes and what it was like working at a museum here in Roswell in the late 1930s. In some ways, it was very different; in other ways, not so much,” Woodbury said.

The RMAC is in the midst of reaching out to the community in innovative ways.

“As far as our own mission goes, we are still very much about the art and history of the Southwest,” Woodbury said. “What we would like to address in the future is to emphasize a bit more the science aspect of our collection.

Not only the historical content with Goddard but how does it apply to our lives today. Not only for our own benefit but also for the education of the community. A lot of schools are emphasizing science, technology, engineering and math these days and we want to address that too, but still keep the arts as part of it. Hence the acronym STEAM.” The RMAC is planning to celebrate its anniversary as well as RAiR’s for an entire year. RAiR has reached out to all its artists in its program to come to celebrate and meet the other artists, or to send in a new art piece to display at the exhibit or to sell at the newly reorganized gift shop.

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“Every day new art from the artists of the RAiR arrives,” said Barbara Posuniak, the museum’s gift shop manager. “It’s like Christmas every day, I never know what will be in the boxes arriving.”

“The RAiR exhibition itself will be up until April 6, which is Don Anderson’s birthday,” Brooks said.

Thirty years after the opening of the RMAC in 1937 the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program came to life thanks to Donald B. Anderson.

Anderson gives artists around the world and the U.S. the gift of time with a yearlong residency. Wanting to share his eclectic collection acquired through purchases, gifts or trades since 1967, Anderson decided to share his RAiR collection in a new museum, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, in 1994. Since the beginning of the residency more than 200 artists have benefitted from the program.

Some of these artists liked their residency so much they either stayed, settled down in studios in the northern New Mexico or travel back and forth.

One artist already in town is Michael Aakhus, professor of art and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana where he was from 1977 until Dec. 31 2016.

Aakhus was part of the RAiR at the very beginning of his career in 1976 and 1977.

Aakhus work has been exhibited widely and is represented in many public and private collections throughout the world. He works in the medium of oil on canvas as well as intaglio printmaking. His current works on paper are assemblages constructed from prints, drawings and digital photos combined with found materials. He is back in Roswell spending his sabbatical year at the RAiR historic studios working on a series of 20 oil paintings on canvas as well

as assemblages that will be shown in St. Louis, Mo., in November 2018.

“It was a great experience to have. They talk about the gift of time and it really is,” Aakhus said about his experiences with the RMAiR foundation.

“It is a wonderful opportunity to do your work and also there was a whole network of artists that was here and they were truly wonderful people.”

Aakhus is staying at the original historic RAiR compound at West Berrendo Road.

The complex has been recently put on the National Register of Historic Places.

“I remember the town being so much smaller,” Aakhus said. “This place (the historic studios) were surrounded by fields. There were alfalfa fields that were irrigated. It was a much more isolated, rural setting when I was here.”

Aakhus has been meeting with this year’s artists of the RAiR program.

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Submitted Photo Michael Aakhus, RAiR 1976-77, at his studio on the historic RAiR compound.

now, which is the RAiR Foundation’s vision of Don Anderson, is one of great diversity,” he said.

“Artists from all over the world are here. Just this last year we had an artist from Japan, from Denmark, Scotland and across the United States and New York. New Yorkers really love to come to this place,” Aakhus said and laughed.

“It (RAiR compound) has its own kind of cosmopolitan environment.

I get into wonderful conversations with people and we get together and have gatherings and it’s more stimulating than any environment I’ve ever been,” Aakhus said.

“I go down to the museum almost every week and just walk through it (the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art). It’s to me such a remarkable collection of ideas,” Aakhus said.

He plans to spend winters in Roswell at the old compound.

While Aakhus started out as an abstract expressionist painter, he is today gathering his inspiration from his travels.

“This year I’ve been to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos and I was back in Mexico City to reconnect with some artists that I know there,” he said. “And then, I spent weeks in Ladakh in India. I got photographs from those places and I got one painting that is actually based — I am working on it — on the Thai experiences. It involves some of the mythology.”

Huge, lush jungle paintings with vibrant Mesoamerican themes and collages is Aakhus’ world today.

“I believe my works are connected to the lit-

Submitted Photo Kumi Yamashita, RAiR 2001-02. Yamashita has some unique memories from her time in the RAiR program. erally movement, which is magical realism. People like Marquez and the South American writers that explored that kind of world of the unconscious and how that crosses over into reality,” Aakhus said.

Another unusual artist in the RAiR is Kumi Yamashita, who was in the program from 2001 to 2002. Yamashita is originally from Japan and lives in New York.

“The landscape surrounding Roswell and the rest of New Mexico had a huge impact on me on many levels,” Yamashita said. “In the w o r k s I c r e a te n o w , many years after my time in Roswell, I notice what had fascinated me about New Mexico. One can see many, many, many miles away. One can almost reach out for the puffy white clouds in the cobalt blue sky.

One can lose the sense of boundaries, even the sense of time. I could connect myself with the earth I stood on and the sky I stood beneath. It

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made me wonder what we are all made of. I would like to share what the RAiR experience had offered me in the work “Unfolding Cosmos” in the 50th Anniversary exhibition.”

Yamashita had rather unusual impressions of Roswell friends she made during her RAiR time.

“I made the silhouette profiles of my friends in Roswell by casting a light on square pieces of crinkled paper on a wall,” she said. “Some people enjoyed their silhouette profiles.

Some were in denial.

One person commented, ‘My nose isn’t that big!’ I murmured in my mind, ‘but, it is. Another commented, ‘I look like a man!’ I murmured in my mind, ‘but, you do.’

“Every one of my wonderful memories revolve around kind, generous and fun individuals I met in Roswell,” she recalls.

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Music

Jeremy Camp in concert Christian singer and songwriter to return to Roswell

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

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eremy Camp will share this message of hope with his Roswell fans as he returns for a new concert presenting his new album “The Answer.”

“I’ve been in Roswell six or seven times, which is awesome,” Camp said in a phone interview.

Asked what his favorite part of being in Roswell is, he said, “I think honestly — not to sound typical — but it’s the people.

“Every time we come we have a really special time. People are really engaged. People are ready. That’s what is exciting. When you get there, people are excited being there (at the concert).

Camp’s new tour is called “The An-

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swer Tour.” Next to Roswell he has only one other performance in Albuquerque before continuing his tour throughout the U.S. “Since last time I came, I have a lot of new songs,” Camp said. “Life changes.

A lot of growth happened that teaches me to share. It’s a new season in life and to share the new songs, I am really excited about.”

For those who have not yet heard about the artist, he explains his style.

“I would say my style is definitely kind of pop/rock, acoustic is there as well.

The whole reason why I share this is to share the gospel with my wife. That’s why I do it.

“I lost my first wife to cancer and God has given me since a beautiful wife and beautiful kids,” Camp said.

Camp’s inspiration came from deep faith and tragic events in his life that have allowed him to create songs that have depth and heart.

“Gods faithfulness and comfort was with me in this hard time. I love sharing that,” Camp said.

“Typically, I got influenced by a lot of people to write their stories in songs

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about situations they’ve been through.

I love that it has meaning,” Camp said.

According to Camp he is also influenced by the world and events.

“I am writing from the heart,” he said. “One of my albums is called ‘The Answer.’ Looking at the world, having so many questions, so many losses, I found the solution against fear. I know where my help comes from. Jesus is the answer.”

Camp’s new album covers these themes.

“If you are curious or new to the area, just come out,” Camp said. “Be expectant and let the Lord speak to you. Everywhere you go, be expectant.

He’ll change you. I encourage people to come out and share and worship.”

Camp is going to perform on Sept.

30 at 7 p.m. at the Pearson Auditorium on the New Mexico Military Grounds.

For tickets or more information, visit ticketfly.com or visit his Facebook event page.

Submitted Photo Jeremy Camp returns to Roswell with a new album.

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Calendar Ongoing Events Roswell Every Week, Mon - Sat ‘Lest We Forget: Roswell Army Airfield - The Early Years’ and ‘Peace Through Strength’ The museum is open from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 347-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

Roswell Every Week, Wed Weekly knockout The Roswell Fighting Game Community presents their weekly knockout at The Unity Center located at 108 E. Bland St. every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to midnight. All games are welcome. For more information, visit facebook.com/RoswellFGC. Albuquerque Ongoing until Sept. 25 Owls in the Land of Enchantment Revered and feared in folklore, owls are found throughout New Mexico. From open desert to mountain forest, these powerful hunters have evolved extraordinary senses to pinpoint their prey. For a limited engagement, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, reveals this world in the Owls in the Land of Enchantment exhibition. For more information, call 505-841-2800.

Carlsbad Ongoing until Sept. 30 Childhood Classics The Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, 418 W. Fox St., presents “Childhood Classics,” 100 years of original art from the Art Kandy Collection, including the study for “The Cat In The Hat” by Dr. Seuss.

Entry is free. For more information, call 575-8870276.

Carrizozo Ongoing until Sept. 30 Carrizozo Gallery competition The Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography, 401 12th St., hosts New Mexico Magazine’s 16th annual Photography Competition Winners. For more information, call 575-937-1489.

Hobbs Ongoing until Nov. 5 “The Beauty in Energy” “The Beauty in Energy” is a new photography exhibit of oil and gas landscapes at the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1 Thunderbird Circle. The photographer, Bob Callender, is an internationally-recognized oilfield photographer.

For more information, call 575-492-2678.

Santa Fe Ongoing until Jan. 21 ‘Quilts of Southwest China’ coming to Santa Fe The Museum of International Folk Art will host the national touring exhibition “Quilts of Southwest China,” beginning July 9 through Jan. 21, 2018. While both highly-valued and culturally significant, Chinese quilts have received little attention from scholars, collectors, and museums and little is known about them outside of the communities that make them. They embody layers of history, identity, expertise, and culture. MIFA is located at 706 Camino Lejo. For more information, visit internationalfolkart.org or call 505-476-1200.

Roswell Sept. 21 Call The Play Call The Play, a free evening with Mark Rypien takes place at the Pearson Auditorium (on the New Mexico Military Institute grounds) at 6:30 p.m. In 1992, Mark Rypien led the Washington Redskins to Super Bowl Victory. Now, Super Bowl MVP Mark

Rypien reveals his playbook for success, both on and off the field. Doors open at 6 p.m. For more information, visit its event page on Facebook.

Roswell Sept. 22-23 Chile Cheese Festival The 2017 26th annual Chile Cheese Festival takes place at the Chaves County Courthouse. This year there will be green chile roasting, games for children, a mobile dairy classroom, a ristra workshop, tours to the Leprino Cheese Factory and live music. There will be hands-on activities and the first green chile stew championship with awards. The Runyan petting zoo is bringing some of its favorite furry friends. The Saturday Farmer’s Market will take place at Cahoon park during the festival. For more information, contact MainStreetRoswell.org or call 575-914-8018.

Hobbs Sept. 23 Hispanic Heritage Month celebration The Hobbs Hispano Chamber of Commerce is hosting the 2017 Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the Center for the Arts, 122 W. Broadway St. There will be entertainment provided by the National Institute of Flamenco and its dance company, Yjastros, a Flamenco student performance by the Southern Heights Elementary class and door prizes will be raffled during intermission. For more information, visit hobbsevents.org or call 575-397-ARTS.

ed States Champion AJ Styles versus Kevin Owens, to mention a few of the WWE superstars. For more information, visit santaanastarcenter.com or call 1-888-694-4849.

Roswell Sept. 23 Ruffles and Rust Expo The Ruffles and Rust Expo takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Roswell Convention & Civic Center, 912 N. Main St. The expo is a traveling boutique show featuring vintage, handcrafted items, home decor and boutique items. For more information, visit its Facebook event page.

Ruidoso Sept. 23 Brews, Blues & BBQ The Inn of the Mountain Gods is bringing great food, cold beers and soulful tunes together for Brews, Blues & BBQ festival. The event starts at noon. Alongside Ruidoso’s best barbecue and blues jams, visitors an sample more than 200 beers from the likes of Ballast Point, Santa Fe Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Rio Bravo Brewing Co. For more information, visit innofthemountaingods.com or call 1-800-545-9011.

Artesia Sept. 23 Coby Carter with 5 Miles West Coby Carter with 5 Miles West is performing at 7 p.m. at the Ocotillo Performing Arts Center, 310

W. Main St. Carter, 22, was born in Lubbock and has recently completed an AG Business Degree at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. In 2013 he won the Rising Star Award from the Cowtown Society of Western Music. He is the 2014 and 2015 Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Male Vocalist of the Year. He and his band were named Western Swing Duo/Group for 2015. Also, he was honored to be a top five finalist for Male Vocalist of the Year for the 2015 Ameripolitan Awards. Carter had the opportunity to record his first CD “Legends” with Grammy Award Winner Bobby Flores producing, it featured duets with such greats as Bobby Flores, Jake Hooker, Leon Rausch and Jody Nix. The album was nominated for Western Swing Album of the Year, and Pure Country Album of the year for the 2014 AWAs. For more information, visit vendini. com or call 575-746-4212.

Ruidoso Sept. 23 and 24 Ruidoso Kite Festival The Ruidoso Friends of Parks and Recreation are hosting the annual Ruidoso Kite Festival at the White Mountain Sports Complex, 625 Hull Road.

There will be demonstrations and participants can build and fly their own kites. Refreshments and food vendors are on site.

The event is free for the public. For more infor-

mation, visit its Facebook event page or ruidoso-nm. gov / p a rk s - a n d - re c re ation.html.

Artesia Sept. 29 Joe Teichman in concert Joe Teichman performs at 7 p.m. at the Adobe Rose Restaurant, 1614 N. 13th St. Joe Teichman is a singer-songwriter based out of College Station, Texas, a very pivotal view for the up and coming music scene in the state. Teichman has been playing for the past four years and been on the road solo and with bands and friends, such as mandolin player, John Terry. For more information, visit bandsintown. com.

Carrizozo Sept. 30 New Mexico Magazine prize-winning photographs — Exhibit in Carrizozo Last day to view New Mexico Magazine prize-winning photographs — exhibit in Carrizozo, at the Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography, 401 12th St. Carrizozo Sept. 30 Darlins of the Desert vintage market Darlins of the Desert is holding its fourth annual vintage market at 407 Central Ave. There will be antiques, vintage items, art and glass. Vendor

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Rio Rancho Sept. 23 WWE Championship matches World Wrestling Entertainment Live is returning to Santa Ana Star Center at 7:30 p.m. Matches will be WWE Champion Jinder Mahal versus Shinsuke Nakamura and Unit-

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Christina Stock Photo The members of Christian Outreach Ministries of Roswell started rehearsals of the theater play “When The Party Is Over.”

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‘When The Party Is Over’ Christian Outreach Ministries of Roswell shines the light into the shadow of troubled souls with a play

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here is nothing more heartbreaking than having lost a loved one, a child or a friend to addiction. Lost as in lost due to an overdose death, imprisonment or to the streets.

Many may think of drug users as weak or have an image of drug users from TV crime shows as thugs or criminals.

The truth is much more complicated than that and to solve this nationwide problem is more complex than imagined. Those suffering addictions come from all lines of life, rich and poor. Some addicts are able to keep up the facade for a while, others seize to function or hold a job.

Others fall through the cracks of society, having been abused as children, running away from foster care and becoming homeless. Children or teenagers with addicted parents are

seeking another family in the streets and ending up in a gang, in prison or dead.

One small Roswell church, the Christian Outreach Ministries of Roswell, lead by pastor Joe Diaz and his wife Alma Diaz, is seeking a new way to help those troubled souls.

“We’ve been here 13 years,” Joe Diaz said. “I love Roswell. It is a good place.”

The Diazs have, at the moment, 22 men and women fighting against the curse of addiction. Joe Diaz is also working with the jail system, Sunrise Health Center and hospitals in Roswell, Albuquerque, Carlsbad and Las Cruces.

“In our ministry we believe in giving back and helping those who struggle with drug abuse,” he said.

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Party Is Over,” the church and its members are trying to reach others who have problems and to let them know that there is help. It’s the fourth time COMR is performing this play.

The play is written by the Diazs and is based on their own experiences.

“It’s about two sons and a father,” Alma Diaz said. “The father used to be a gang member. His wife got ill and passed away. The father is giving his gang life up and tries to save his sons.” It’s the fourth time the play is performed.

“We have about 15 (church members) who are participating this year,” Alma Diaz said. “We also have extras, but 15 who have parts.”

The Diazs understand those who are struggling with addictions, which makes it easier for them to approach those who seek help.

“It comes from our (past) lifestyle,” Joe Diaz said. “I am from Los Angeles. I grew up as a gang member and lived in Los Angeles all my life.

“I was into gangs and drugs, everything else. I got saved down the road and I went into a program and a home. It’s kind of what we have here,” Joe Diaz said.

“It helped me out to get my life straight and I found Christ. As I went through all the changes in life and accepted the Lord, I met my wife in church. We surrendered everything that God wanted of us and came up here and started a church,” Joe Diaz said.

Not every story is a success.

“We just lost a young man, they found the body,” Joe Diaz said. “He was a part of our home. It’s terrible and I see that all the time.

“There are a lot of drug overdoses in the last few years,” Joe Diaz said.

“It has been terrible. Guys I literally begged, ‘Please don’t leave.’”

The church and its members hope to reach and save those without help with the play’s message.

“This is my life experience,” Alma Diaz said. “I saw a play when I was young and it planted a seed in me.

I knew there was a way out. I wasn’t ready at that time but when I was ready I knew that Jesus was the answer, because I saw people that were like me.”

Alma Diaz is straightforward talking about her abuse and several almostrapes she had to endure as a child.

“I didn’t do drugs,” she said. “I became an alcoholic” Joe Diaz remembers his first year in Roswell.

“When I came to Roswell in 2004, there was nothing here to help the drug addicts when it was really bad,” he said. “These guys we have here, a lot of them were chased by cops; they were in shootings. They are now here. You see the difference in their lives.

According to Joe Diaz, the church is receiving help from the community, though most donations come from the outside, not Roswell. They will receive food donations from local grocery stores but not enough to feed the young men seeking help. The men are finding work in the community for donations, which they bring back to support the church.

“It’s hard to feed them, Joe Diaz said. “It cost a lot. Albertsons helps us now and then. They give us a lot of food. Farmers Country on the south side used to help us before.” Asked how the community can help, Diaz said, “It’s really not my character to say, ‘Hey, I need help.’” He does say that there is always a need.

COMR next goal is to have a safe place for women to recover and overcome addiction.

“At the moment we have only space for the men,” Joe Diaz said.

Rehearsals for the play, “When The Party Is Over” began. Some of the scenes in the play will remind older audience members of the 1961 movie “West Side Story,” in which gangs and their struggles were featured in a softened style typical for Hollywood.

The struggles however, were as real as they are today.

“We hope that this play will reach youngsters. We are trying to help the best way we can. That’s our hope, to save their lives, to save their souls,” Joe Diaz said.

The play will be performed at COMR, 101 S. Sunset Ave. on Oct. 7 at 6 p.m.

For more information, visit comor88203.wix.com/christianoutreachnm or call 575-627-5470, cell 575-317-7884.

Mike Lanfor Photo The Roswell film team had to endure the 100-plus temperatures this summer during the making of the award-winning movie “Nadi.”

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Roswell film team wins big Local short film “Nadi” best film of 2017, best director and best actor at the 48 Hour Project competition in Albuquerque and is heading to Paris/France

By Christina Stock Vision Editor n underdog group under guidance of Director Johnnie Hector and supported by ENMU-R’s film class, taught by Alan Trever, showed that in honest competition, talent counts more than equipment or fame.

“It was something we did for the students,” Hector said. “There were over 60 teams, four universities competing and ours won. We won the 48 Hour Film Project of the state of New Mexico. Now it (the film) is going to Filmapalooza, which is in Paris, France.”

The 48HFP Filmapalooza is held in March 2018 where the film competes with the winners of each participating country. The top 12 48HFP films internationally will screen at the Cannes Film Festival, Short Film Corner.

The 48 HFP is an international filmmaking competition open to professional and would-be filmmakers. Its mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers and to get out there and make movies, emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills. It puts an emphasis on “doing” instead of “talking.”

On average, the 45 Hour Film Project panel of international judges select the best films of the year from more than 5,000 film submissions from more than 130 cities around the world.

Last year’s finalists came from Belgium, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia and USA (Chicago, Illinois).

“The 48 hour film festival is exactly what it is, and that is 48 hours,” Hector said. “It starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, you get your genre. It could be horror, comedy or buddy. Ours was a buddy film. Then you get a character. It was Natalie or Nathan Brazil. Then you get a prop, which was a piece of candy wrapper.

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Then you have to say a line, which was, ‘I know a place.’ You have to add all those elements into the story. The reason they do that is to try to keep people from cheating, so competitors can’t use movies already made.

“We did it with the ENMU-R Film Program. They helped us out greatly. They actually used graduate students and this was their final project.”

Trever shared his experiences of his film class participating in the project.

“There were four groups, A, B, C and D. Each one had at least 20 signed film teams,” he said. “I don’t know how many officially got turned in. They had two groupings. The first one was cut based on not meeting requirements or not having a film. Then there was the cream of the crop selected after that.”

Asked how many of his students participated, Trever said, “We had a crew of 20. Out of those, probably 15 to 17 of them were either current students or graduates. They are all very excited,” he said and laughed. Because it’s a film that not only will be something that they can put in their portfolio and will also be put on the international movie database. They will have a portfolio and what they call an imdb credit resume.

“Apparently, if it goes there (to Paris), if it wins there, it goes to Cannes, which is the equivalent to Sundance. We’ll be competing with other films from every part of the world. We made it for New Mexico, Roswell and our film program,” Trever said. “That’s what I keep telling our (ENMU-R) students. Our program is one of the best film programs in the state of New Mexico. That is one thing we pride ourselves in.”

After the win, Trever is planning to go over the film with the students and clean it up to ready it for the international competition. The team is also planning to compete with it in other film festivals. “We have already been approached by lots of other film festivals,” Trever said.

Asked how he reacted hearing about the win in Albuquerque, Trever said, “I don’t know if I was surprised. I felt good about it, because we had a good solid story. We had something that was interesting and we really jumped in with both feet with all the students and the equipment, and we took time on our lighting, our sound and our camera work. We spent all day taking all the shots we could, really teaching the students about coverage. Coverage really makes a film and tells a story. If you have lots of shots to choose from when you go into the editing process, it just makes it easier to tell the final visual story.

That’s what we worked really hard on this one. And that’s why I think we really did really good. We did good on the sound and really good on the visual.

“That’s why we won best director, best actor and of course best film. That is the top of the top, like the Oscars, Trever said and laughed. “When you go to the Oscars, you want to know who has the best picture. You go to these film festivals and in the end it’s the same thing, they want to know who has the best film.

“When you start getting these things that they (the students) can put on their resumes and put in their demo reels, something to show that their peers have been recognized. They can always say, not only did they do this film but that they were a best picture. It’s got an award. It’s been recognized by its peers.”

Trever said.

There will be another 48 Hour Film Fest in Albuquerque in October with horror as the theme. Trever’s new film students will be able to show if they can compete with their former classmates.

Trever’s students stay involved as alumni in his film class at ENMU-R. “I have students that have gone on to big time,” he said. “They do big massive films. They come back still and visit, talk to the students and give their 2 cents.

Trefer says, the ENMU-R film department is expecting financial support from the New Mexico Film Guild.

“A feature film movie that was shot in New Mexico is donating $15,000 towards our program. I am just waiting for the PR from the state so we can take it. We are the ones who bring up these students and they help to support them.

Our check should hopefully be here this week. Then we will go from there,” Trever said.

Hector is especially proud of the young actress Paige Huddleston, who is theater-based having performed in several musicals at Way Way Off-Broadway Theatre Company. This was her debut film.

“She delivered a performance that beat all the other actors,” Hector said. see

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For more information, call 575-937-6555.

Hobbs Sept. 30 FlyHobbs Aviation Day and Fly-In The third annual FlyHobbs Aviation Day and Fly-In kicks off at 8 a.m. at the Lea County Regional Airport, 6601 W. Carlsbad Hwy. The day features planes of all shapes and sizes flown in by their pilots. The event is free to enter. There will be booths with vendors and food. To sign up or for more information, visit FlyHobbsAviationDay.com.

Hobbs Sept. 30 Chilifest The United Way of Lea County presents the 25th annual Chilifest. The event is free to attend and family friendly. Besides chili, there will also ribs, chicken and desserts available.

A 10-day, two person African Safari hunt is going to be raffled off as well as a stainless steel disco and a 45 quart Pelican cooler.

The fest takes place at the Lea County Event Center & Fairgrounds, 5101 N. Lovington Hwy. For more information, call 575-3972203.

Roswell Sept. 30 Rivalry Reunion Show The Rivalry Reunion Show takes place at The Unity Center, 108 E. Bland St. at 6 p.m. The show features Shadows of Silence and Pikasso The Kid. This is a free show. For more information, visit myspace. com/theunitycenter or call 575-208-8603.

Ruidoso Sept. 30 Run for the mountain The Presbyterian/Lincoln County Medical Center is hosting the annual 5K fun run/walk at The Links at

Sierra Blanca, 105 Sierra Blanca at 8 a.m. Proceeds this year will go to high school senior scholarships and homeless teens in Lincoln County. To register or for more information, visit the Lincoln County Medical Center, 211 Sudderth Dr. or call Danny Gonzales at 575630-4298.

Cloudcroft Sept. 30-Oct. 1 Aspencade Tours The Cloudcroft Chamber of Commerce hosts on both days the Aspencade Tours. Each participant will take part in the tour with their own transportation. Meeting place is at the chamber. The tour will lead to Upper Carr Canyon (5 miles on Sunspot Highway). The Forest Service will give a brief talk about the Lincoln National Forest and history of the train including the Aspen phenomenon. There will be cowboy coffee over a campfire and donuts. A visit from Smokey Bear is possible to entertain the children. For more information, visit coolcloudcroft.com/aspencade or call 575-682-2733.

Roswell Sept. 30 Jeremy Camp in concert The Christian singer Jeremy Camp is going to perform at the Pearson Auditorium at 7 p.m. For more information, visit transparentproductions.com.

Roswell Oct. 1 Sunday Funday The Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico is continuing its Sunday Funday All-Stars 2017-18.

Susi Wolf is presenting her child-friendly “Animal Tales.” All Sunday Fundays are free of charge and open to the public.

The event is child-friendly and hosted in the archive facility, 208 N. Lea Ave., at 3 p.m. For more information, call 575-622-8333.

Roswell Oct. 2-7 Eastern New Mexico State Fair Eastern New Mexico State Fair takes place at 2500 SE Main St. on the fairgrounds. Live music is provided on Oct. 6 by Luke Combs, Brandon Ray and Radio Romance. This year, visitors can go back in time and stroll down Roswell’s Main Street of yore. One of the highlights on Oct. 3 includes the parade on Main Street. There are hourly events every night, along with booths, arts and crafts, the Junior Livestock sale on Saturday morning and the carnival. This year’s theme is “From Wagon Wheels to Ferris Wheels.” For more information, check out the State Fair tab in the Roswell Daily Record or visit ENMSF’s Facebook page.

Rio Rancho Oct. 6 Gala of the royal horses The gala of the royal horses returns to the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 888-6944849.

Ruidoso Oct. 6 Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker in Concert Charlie Daniels and Marshall Tucker are coming to the Inn of the Mountain Gods stage. Tickets are now on sale.

For more information, visit innofthemountaingods. com or call 1-800-5459011.

Ruidoso Oct. 6-7 Aspenfest Parade and Festival The Aspenfest Parade and Festival takes place at Wingfield Park, 300 Center St. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This event is the new addition to an already funfilled weekend in Ruidoso. The Aspenfest Festival will be held at Wingfield Park in Midtown Ruidoso.

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On Saturday immediately following the parade, you can head up to Wingfield Park, a block away from Midtown, to take part in all kinds of activities including wine- and craft-beertasting, live local music, food by local and out-oftown vendors and a nice mix of crafters and artists of all types displaying their work. Contact the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce for more information at 575-257-7395 or Mirissa@RuidosoNow. com

Ruidoso / Mescalero Oct. 13-14 Wait For What?! in concert The music duo T David Wiggins and Elane Wiggins are known as Wait for What?! They are going to perform on Friday in the 1852 Treaty Room at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Wendell’s Lounge at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, 287 Carrizo Canyon Road, at 6 p.m. For more information, visit the Facebook page of Wait for What?!

Cloudcroft Oct. 7-8 Octoberfest Art Show Artists from around the country will be in Cloudcroft for Octoberfest Art Show at Zenith park on both days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors will find artwork, sculptures, jewelry and pottery. This year’s Octoberfest will have many new art vendors and booths for children.

For more information, visit coolcloudcroft.com/octoberfest.

Roswell Oct. 14 “Rockin’ with Rodrigo” featuring soloist, Jiji The Roswell Symphony Orchestra presents its first subscription concert of the 2017-18 concert season featuring soloist Jiji at the Pearson Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Applauded by the Calgary Herald as “talented, sensitive … brilliant,” Jiji is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing an extensive range of music from traditional and contemporary classical music to free improvisation. For more information or tickets, visit roswellsymphony.org or call 575-623-5882 or 800300-9822.

Artesia Oct. 8 Artesia has Talent The Ocotillo Performing Arts Center, 310 W. Main St. is hosting Artesia has Talent from 3 to 7 p.m. The Artesia Arts Council wants to find the best of the best. The AAC is hosting a fundraiser to find the most talented youth and adults in its community. Two divisions, youth and adult, will be judged by a panel of experts.

There is also a People’s Choice Award. Each act is encouraged to bring as many fans as possible and after all the participants have performed, the votes will be cast. The person with the most votes will win People’s Choice. For more information, visit artesiaartscouncil.com or call 575-746-4212.

Ruidoso Oct. 15 Toss No Mas The Ruidoso Friends of Parks and Recreation are hosting the annual Toss No Mas environment event from 1 to 3 p.m. at 100 Robin Road. When everyone thinks littering isn’t a big deal, it becomes one. Trash bags, gloves, snacks and drinks will be provided, along with prizes and youth group fundraising opportunities. Registration begins at noon. The event is free for the public. For more information, visit its Facebook event page or ruidoso-nm.gov/ parks-and-recreation. html.

Roswell Oct. 18-22 Roswell Jazz Festival The annual Roswell Jazz Festival features the best of the best national and international jazz musicians and bands throughout town at various locations such as The Liberty, Reischman Park, Peppers Grill & Bar, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell Museum and Arts Center and the First United Methodist Church.

For more information, visit roswelljazz.org or call 505-359-4876.

Roswell Oct. 20-22 Drive Out Abuse The Roswell Chamber of Commerce hosts the first charity golf tournament benefiting the Roswell Refuge at the Roswell Country Club, 2601 Urton Road. Let’s help The Roswell Refuge continue to educate and advocate for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and to create hope and opportunity for a better world.

To sign up or for more information, visit events. r20.constantcontact.com or call 575-623-5695.

Roswell Oct. 20-29 “Guys and Dolls” Join Way Way Off-Broadway for a little gamble in luck and love as they present the comedy musical, “Guys and Dolls.” Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, “Guys and Dolls” is an oddball romantic comedy. Performances will be at the Eastern New Mexico University Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information and tickets, visit waywayoffbroadway.com.

If you would like your event listed on the entertainment calendar, please email vision@rdrnews. com or call 622-7710 ext.

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whomever I found in the cozy office at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. Watching pink and purple lightnings over the horizon in awe. My regular visits to former and contemporary RAiR artists who offered me technical and emotional support and invited me to stay for a meal. For everything I did, someone was always there to help me. I cannot thank RAiR enough for the gift of time and the experiences I had, which continue to inspire me to this day.”

Another artist is Jerry Bleem, who was in the RAiR program from 1997 to 1998. Bleem has taught in the department of fiber and material studies of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2000.

“The length of the residency gave me the space to experiment, to try new things,” Bleem said about his stay in Roswell. “A full year allowed me to be adventurous in the stu-

Christina Stock Photo Barbara Posuniak at the Roswell Museum and Art Center’s shop. The shelves are filled with new art from the artists who participated in the RAiR program. dio. Though I tried a number of ways of working that I didn’t continue, I also pursued directions begun in Roswell which I continue to see in my work — found materials and pattern.

One of the great joys of the Roswell residency for me was its balance of solitude and community; I find both essential in my studio practice and continue to appreciate how RAiR let me arrange that balance.”

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Submitted Photo Jerry Bleem, RAiR 1997-98, artist, teacher, writer, Franciscan friar and Catholic priest. His work serves to highlight the relationship between value and identity and to consider assumed ideals.

ciscan friar and Catholic priest. He earned his Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Master of Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union at Chicago.

More than 170 artists are contributing or coming in person to the 50th anniversary of RAiR. “The residency forged relationships,” Fleming said. “Not only between Don (Anderson) and the artist but between the artists themselves and the community.”

“The public and community involvement is going to overlap with the artist’s events,” Fleming said. “It’s really an anniversary weekend for the artists who participated in the program to come back and meet each other because a lot of times they didn’t overlap.

They just shared a common experience.

“The exhibit will take up four galleries, right now the work is coming in,” she said. “We’ve got people who are actually coming a week ahead to install their work.

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pieces that people can put in a cardboard box.

There are installations, there is a 5-foot wood sculpture, and actually some of our sculpture pieces are actually going to knock your socks off, big sculptures,” Fleming said.

“Big pieces are coming in with another table creation, the show will be up for six months and that is where the community and visitors really have time to get to know the show. We’ll have a catalog similar to our 40th anniversary; a catalog that has a picture of every piece.

We’ll have a little bio information of the artist.

That will be helpful to get to know who the artists are,” Fleming said.

“There will be a dinner at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art on opening day. There will be limited tickets for purchase for the community. It’ll be just a good, big buffet catered dinner, similar to our normal dinners. I am expecting, not knowing the exact numbers, at least 130 total people. A lot of people are coming with their spouse or their families. We can even host up to 150 and more,” Fleming said.

For more information about the available tickets, call 575-623-5600.

“On Sunday, we are going to have a public performance at AMoCA composed by Bruce Wassilov. It’s going to be performed by the Montage Music Society out of Santa Fe. They came here two years ago. Their performances are inspired by works of art. They project the art and then play the composition,” Fleming said.

Submitted Photo Jane Abrams, RAiR 1986-86, is Regent’s Professor from the University of New Mexico where she taught painting and drawing from 1971 until 1993.

She has received many prestigious awards, her work is in collections all over the world and in 18 university museums in the U.S. She continues to exhibit her work and paint in her studio in Los Ranchos.

RAiR anniversary weekend schedule of public events Thursday, Oct. 5 Railroad Ramble, 5-9 p.m. (three art openings in the Railroad District — 24 artists represented) Isaac’s Pipe and Supply, 309 N. Virginia Ave., “Generation 50: 2017-18 RAiR Artists (and spouses)” 222 E. Third St., “222 Invitational” Bone Springs Art Space, 212 E. Walnut St. “Recent work by Emi Ozawa, Larry Bob Phillips and Justin Richel”

Friday, Oct. 6 Railroad District Exhibitions, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

“RAiR @ 50, Beyond the Gift of Time,” 5-7 p.m. Roswell Museum and Art Center

Saturday, Oct. 7 “RAiR @ 50, Beyond the Gift of Time”, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Roswell Museum and Art Center Railroad District Exhibitions, Noon-3 p.m.

Open Studio at the home of Susan Marie Dopp (RAiR 1988; 2007), 1-4 p.m., installation viewing of “My Thoughts Eat Leaves”

Sunday, Oct. 8 “RAiR @ 50, Beyond the Gift of Time,” 1-5 p.m., Roswell Museum and Art Center Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 2 p.m., Montage Music Society presents the debut of an original music score by Bruce Wolosoff, which was inspired by the artworks of RAiR artists (1970-71) Milton Resnick.

Entry is free of charge.

The times and program are subject to change. For more information, visit roswellamoca.org or roswell-nm.gov/308/Roswell-Museum-Art-Center or contact the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, 409 E College Blvd., 575-623-5600 or the RMAC, 100 W 11th St., 575-624-6744.

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Christina Stock Photo Chile Cheese Festival 2016. One of the highlights of Roswell’s Chile Cheese Festival is getting a bushel or two of freshly roasted green chile or a ristra.

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The 26th Chile Cheese Festival will be bigger than ever

By Christina Stock Vision Editor t’s the favorite time of year in Roswell: It’s harvest time. Fall is finally here and the heat of summer has lost its sting.

The annual 26th Chile Cheese Festival brings the public out to honor the farmers and ranchers who provide the staples of life for Roswell and Chaves County. The festival is also a tool to educate children and adults alike to appreciate the work of their neighbors bringing food on their table.

Graves Farm and Garden brings loads and loads of green chile fresh from the farm to the Chaves County Courthouse lawn to be roasted.

Meanwhile, the regular Farmer’s Market has been temporarily relocated to Cahoon Park.

According to MainStreet Roswell, they are hoping for at least 40 vendors. There is space for eight food trucks; three are already committed.

This year, MainStreet Roswell has various entertainment planned that will outshine all the festivals before.

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Children and adults will be able to choose from various entertainment from music to ristra making tutorials.

Red, dry chile fruit is used to create the ristra which is hung traditionally in the kitchen to be used in cooking or as good luck charm at the entrance of houses. The dried, ground up form is used as a spice and known for its antimicrobial effects when it comes to preserving food. The powder is also used in pharmaceutical companies for topical creams against sore muscles, rheumatoid arthritis and even in pepper spray.

“We are doing cow crafts this year,” MainStreet Roswell Executive Director Kathy Lay said. “The kids will be able to color and have their little cow. Another fun thing is for everybody to guess how many cow tails are in a jar. They can win a jar full of candy. They’ll make cow masks, then a coloring where they can color a picture of a cow. At the end, we’ll take them all down and pick the winner. We’ll have also a

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game called, ‘Don’t tip the cows.’ We are going to do a lot of kids games.”

Another staple of the area’s economy is the dairy industry. There will be milking presentations at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom, ice cream eating contests and the unique chance to visit Leprino Foods.

Leprino Foods opens only one time a year the gates for the public: During the Chile Cheese Festival.

“In the past we sold Leprino foods advance tickets at the Convention & Civic Center,” Molly Boyles, MainStreet Roswell board president, said.

“This year you get the advance tickets at the office (403 N. Richardson Ave.) As long as we are not sold out, we will have the tickets available at our booth at the festival.”

For those who do not know the history of Leprino Foods, it is the all-American story of a man and a dream.

Leprino Foods was founded by Mike Leprino in 1950 in Denver as a grocery store, specializing on handmade cheese.

“They were unfortunately pushed out because of the larger chains,” Boyles said. “Their son, James, saw the opportunities for cheese manufacturing. With a $615 investment is how Leprino Foods started. That was in the late ‘50s. By the ‘90s, Leprino Foods was producing $2 million plus pounds a week.

“This is the true story of the little

guy, the small family business, that made it huge,” Boyles said. “I was reading that and said, ‘you got to be kidding.’”

Leprino Foods got bigger and bigger over the years.

“We are the world’s largest manufacturer, not only in mozzarella but in dairy ingredients. There is the whey and the lactose side,” said Kristen Allen, the human resource generalist at Leprino Foods.

Whey is a protein that gets separated during the cheese manufacturing process. According to Medical News Today, whey protein is considered a complete protein as it contains all nine essential amino acids. It is low in lactose content as well and easy to digest. Many protein shakes for athletes contains whey.

Many consume Leprino Foods without knowing because its name never appears on the label.

“We make the cheese for Papa John’s, Domino’s and Little Caesar’s, but then we also sell to Nestlé who makes Marie Calendar’s and Stouffer’s Lasagna, frozen pizzas and Hot Pockets,” Allen said. “Bacio cheese out of Leprino Foods plant in California is made only for restaurants.

“Leprino Foods whey powder is put into Dannon yogurt, baby formula, Tostitos cheese dips and Kraft Macasee

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While many plants toss by-products, Leprino Foods prides itself in not wasting anything.

The leftover water of the Roswell plant is used to irrigate Leprino Foods owned fields to grow alfalfa, which then gets back to the dairy cows.

“A perfect cycle,” Allen said.

There are some security rules the visitors have to agree to follow before heading into the shiny labyrinth of sparkly clean silver pipes and vats that hold the cheese in all its production stages.

“Because we are a food manufacturing plant, we ask that no oxygen tanks can be taken on the tour,” Allen said. “As far as the clothing goes they do have to wear longsleeved shirts, jeans or

pants with closed-toe shoes and no jewelry or watches.”

“Photography is not permitted,” Allen said.

“We have a lot of proprietary equipment.

If somebody shows up with cameras we’ll ask them to leave it in our front office. If they come with phones, we just ask them to turn them off and put them into their pockets.

“We have folks on our tour that make sure that they don’t get lost.

Mr. Leprino’s business has not grown like that by giving away how he does business.”

Asked how long the tour is, Allen said, “It is roughly an hour or an hour and a half. You go through five to seven minutes presentation in each department and then at the end you get the opportunity to eat freshly made pizza that our employees are mak-

ing there in the front break room. At the end of it all it is an hour and a half. The majority of it is walking.”

The walk will take the tour group up and down through the facility with many steps. Being able to keep up is necessary.

Leprino Foods partners with several organizations to improve services. Just recently, Leprino Foods matched donations of its employees to help the victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.“Leprino Foods has a foundation grant that 501c’s can request grants depending on what they are doing,” said Angela Martinez, Leprino Foods’ Human Resource Manager. “We got some pillars that they want the grants to fit into. For instance, nutrition, life and supporting the community. There are different things when you are asking for a grant to be

Christina Stock Photo From left: Salvador Gomez Jr. and Kristen Allen of Leprino Foods Co. are on the Vat deck with the cheese Vats. The public is once a year invited to take a look inside.

able to get the money.

“For us, we support three organizations here Roswell,” Martinez said.

“The first one is the J.O.Y. Center, providing services for senior citizens. They wanted an option for a salad bar and additionally exercise equipment. The second organization was the Salvation Army.

They recently had their groundbreaking for a homeless shelter. We paid for one room. The third organization is Harvest Ministries. It takes a lot to feed the hungry and it is not only homeless people, it’s people needing a little more,” Martinez said.

Businesses come and go, oil and gas fields hire and fire, but cheese and the agriculture business will always be here.

Musical highlight is the free concert by the Flying J Wranglers from Ruidoso/Alto on Friday evening.

Since 1982, the Flying J Wranglers have been presenting their own special brand of traditional Western music at the Flying J Ranch in Ruidoso.

In 36 seasons, over a million visitors from all over the world have enjoyed performances by the Wranglers at the Flying J. For more information, visit MainStreet Roswell Facebook page or MainStreetRoswell.org.

Chile Cheese Festival schedule

Friday, Sept. 22 Noon Mayor Dennis Kintigh 12:10 p.m.

Matt Palmer 1:10 p.m.

Brandon Baily 2:15 p.m.

Malachi Martin 3:20 p.m.

Gem 4:25 p.m.

Khai & Marie 5 p.m.

Ristra making tutorial (free) 5:30 p.m.

Jones and Miles 6:45 p.m.

Presentation to Dusty Huckabee 7 p.m.

Flying J Wranglers 9 p.m.

Total Productions Sound 10 p.m.

Closing Saturday, Sept. 23 8 a.m.

Total Production Sound 9:30 a.m.

Khai & Marie 9:45 a.m.

No. 1 of 4 Leprino Foods tour bus departs 10 a.m.

Milking presentation at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom Ristra making tutorial (free) 10 a.m.

10:45 a.m.

No. 2 of 4 Leprino Foods tour bus departs Rudy Wood 10:50 a.m.

11 a.m.

Milking presentation at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom 11:45 a.m.

No. 3 of 4 Leprino Foods tour bus departs Gem 12:10 p.m.

12:45 p.m.

No. 4 of 4 Leprino Foods tour bus departs 1 p.m.

Ristra making tutorial 1 p.m.

Milking presentation at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom 1:15 p.m.

The Studio+ Dancers 1:30 p.m.

Jerry Serrano 2 p.m.

Ice Cream Eating Contest 2 p.m.

Milking presentation at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom 2:50 p.m.

Robin Scott 3 p.m.

Green Chile Stew Competition 3 p.m.

Milking presentation at the Southwest Dairy Farmers Mobile Dairy Classroom 4 p.m.

Ice Cream Eating Contest 4:10 p.m.

The Triad 5:30 p.m.

The Offbeats 8 p.m.

Pacers 10 p.m.

Closing Times are subject to change, for updates visit MainStreetRoswell.org or its Facebook page.

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Nadi

Continued from Page 9 “The 48HFP can have Screen Actors Guild actors, you can have professional actors, you have crews who were on professional film crews. It’s not just a college thing. That is why it’s so big (to have won).

You are going up to industry professionals. I know for a fact that there was one that got fantasy (as genre). One of their camera operators is a camera operator on one of the television programs right now.”

Huddleston was born and raised in Roswell. Hector met her when she auditioned for a commercial that fell through. “They said that they had another job that I could do, if I would like to,” Huddleston said.

One of the challenges besides the short 13 hours of filming, according to Huddleston, was the difference of performing in a theater piece versus film.

“I got so comfortable with theater and my plays, so when I was transitioning to film, it did take me a while to get used to it because a lot of it is more subtle. I am used to making big faces and expressions because theater is so expressive. You have to convey to the audience how happy you are feeling.

In film, I was trying to tone it down, but also stay in the character.”

Huddleston’s film character is different.

“I loved it, it was so much fun. It is such a contrast to how I am in real life. It was so much fun to let loose and be a little crazy for once.”

Huddleston appreciated the team work in the making of the movie.

“I couldn’t have done anything without them,” she said. “The rest of the crew, the director, I wouldn’t have gotten any of the awards if it weren’t for them.”

Asked about the difficulty shooting the film, Huddleston said, “Really you wouldn’t think it was such a short time because how everybody was acting.

Everyone was relaxed and the best of everything.

There was no rushing involved either.”

While Huddleston would like to see the awards in Paris, her family has a prior commitment.

“My aunt is getting married the day before. She said she would cancel it and go with us,” she said and laughed. “She was planning her marriage for three years.

“We would go to Cannes. I always wanted to go to Cannes, I loved watching the movies. Short films and independent films from there, they produce the best. I love them.”

Souza is well-known in the community as a performer and president of WWOB. “Nadi” is not the first performance of Souza under director Hector.

“It was a lot of fun. He (Hector) called me and asked me, do you want to do another one. I was sure, it is so much fun. It is really cool to see how it all comes together in only 48 hours,” Souza said. “I loved working with Robin, Zack and Paige. Paige is wonderful. I love her. She has been in some of our shows (WWOB). She is in our show coming up. She’ll be in ‘Guys and Dolls.’ She came into it saying, ‘I don’t really know what I am doing.’ I told her, ‘You are great. Just keep on doing what you’re

doing.’ She enjoyed it a lot.”

Souza’s reaction to the win was overwhelming.

“It was a shock and a nice surprise. You really never know, it’s really weird. It all depends how they (the judges) see it and view it. I hope it wins more awards, it was a surprise,” she said.

Souza experienced the filming as Huddleston did.

“The time limit was the most difficult. Just to make sure to get all the shots, we filmed in one day.

That’s all we did. We got there at 7 a.m. and we filmed all day until the night. It was smooth,” Souza said.

“It was out in the sun (in July) and it was really hard,” Souza said. “We were trying not to burn, which was difficult, and poor Paige, red head, pale skin. She was out in the sun more than we were.

“Most of our filming was in the car, which is nice, but we couldn’t have the air on because of the noise. Every two seconds when they said, ‘cut,’ we opened the window and got water.

“It’s challenging but it’s fun. There is a thrill about it (filming). You got to get it done. It’s an adrenaline rush. Theater is my love and always will be my first love, but I fell in love with film when I started to work in it a couple of years ago. It’s different, but I enjoy it.

“Nice thing too, when you mess it up, you can always cut and do it again versus theater, you get only one chance, that’s it,” Souza said.

Roswell’s AirPlay Media and Adventure Services, LLC had the opening shot of the seven minute short film and won second place for cinematography.

“They helped with a lot of our drone shots,” Hector said. “We used one of their cameras for the interior car scenes. Mike (Lanfor) and Jenna (Preston Secrist) did awesome. Really, they were good.”

The team went with Marian’s Minions as competing name for its group. Lisa Hobbs and Marian Hobbs were the producers.

The main actors are Goddard High School student Paige Huddleston as Nadi, Summer Souza as Natalie Brazil, Robin Haynes as Bobby Brazil and Zack Anderson as Mister.

Grips are Andy Grodo, Jaxon Wilson, Gentry Fuller and Christian Ruiz. Grips is a specific film industry term. Grips are the people in charge of setting up equipment to support the camera and support lighting equipment “Tom Kwiat helped out also, he was a past film class student and did some camera work and Jeff Cabana did the sound. They both do Live and Amplified. I was the director. I thought, shot and chopped it,” Hector said and laughed. Thought is writing the script, shot is filming and chopped is editing.

Hector explained a big handicap the Roswell team had. Unlike the teams in Albuquerque, the Roswell team had to have a representative in Albuquerque to get the details to compete and call it in to Hector. Additionally, the finished film had to physically be brought to 48HFP to compete. “We lost three hours there and then on top of editing, we had to turn them in by 7:30 p.m. We had to be on the road by 3 p.m. (on Sunday) to make sure that we get it there. We lost three and a half to four hours on top of it all, while the Albuquerque teams

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Submitted Photo Paige Huddleston, right, accepts her award as best actor at the award ceremony in Albuquerque. could edit it until 5 p.m.,” Hector said.

Hector was not able to be at the award ceremony, instead Lanfor, Preston Secrist and Huddleston represented Marian Minion’s team. New doors for the “Nadi” are already opening after the win on Aug. 18.

“They were approached from a girl from the original Santa Fe Film Festival asking to put that film in there,” Hector said. “They were approached by a couple of business people, also.”

Hector is going to try to be in Paris for the 48HFP Filmapalooza in March 2018.

The short film “Nadi” is uploaded to the 48HFP Albuquerque’s webpage at 48hourfilm.com/albuquerque-nm/films.

Roswell was influenced by Confederates

History

By Elvis E. Fleming

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any communities in the USA, e s p e ci al l y in the South, are presently experiencing a wave of anti-Confederate sentiment. This article is intended to be an objective examination of Roswell if ever such a phenomenon should visit us.

New Mexico and Roswell were touched and influenced considerably by the Confederate States of America, including some major battles of the Civil War. If we should decide that all things Confederate must be purged, it might turn out to be a task similar to unscrambling an egg.

Confederates first reached New Mexico in February 1862, resulting in the largest battle ever fought in New Mexico: The Battle of Valverde on Feb. 20-21,1862. The CSA wanted to take New Mexico Territory with its military supplies; Colorado Territory and California with its gold and its Pacific coast, which could be used for shipping goods between the Confederacy and its European allies and northern Mexico.

This would be used as a route for a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific coast. These assets would help the Confederacy win the Civil War and convince Europe to recognize the independence of the CSA. Southern New Mexico was designated as the “Confederate Territory of Arizona” by the Confederacy.

CSA Gen. Henry H. Sibley entered New Mexico from the south with 2,590 soldiers. On Feb. 20-21, they encoun-

tered soldiers from Fort Craig under USA Gen. Edward R. S. Canby at Valverde Crossing on the Rio Grande a few miles north of the fort. The Union troops were forced to retreat back to Fort Craig, so the battle was considered a Confederate victory because the way was opened to Albuquerque. The Confederates were dominant as they occupied Albuquerque and Santa Fé, but they were utterly defeated at Glorieta Pass and had to give up on their grand scheme to take the American West.

Following the American Civil War, or the War Between the States — as the Confederates called the conflict — there were many veterans’ clubs throughout the South.

Delegates got together in New Orleans in 1889 and created a national organization, “United Confederate Veterans.” Most local clubs joined the U. C. V. It expanded quickly in the 1890’s and grew to more than 1,500 camps.

The U. C. V. enjoyed great growth and enthusiasm until about 1904.

The most popular events sponsored by the national U. C. V. were annual national reunions that were important social occasions.

So Roswell was a town filled with numerous Confederate veterans who were fully involved in the activities of the U. C. V. They started their own local chapter and named it after the big battle on the Rio Grande, calling it Valverde Camp 1419. The organizational date of the Valverde

Camp is unknown. Confederate influence in Roswell was channeled largely through the Camp. Lea was the Commander of the Camp until his death in 1904.

Lea’s daughter, Ella Lea Bedell, was a Sponsor of the Camp. Like other U. C. V. camps, Valverde Camp was a patriotic group that participated in public events and often heard orators speak on topics such as patriotism, government, or politics.

The Camp apparently was a unifying factor in the Roswell community, sometimes inviting Union veterans to join them in various activities. Dr. Edwin Skipwith was chosen as temporary Commander to be in charge of not only the Confederate Veterans but also the New Mexico Military Institute cadets who took part in the funeral and burial services.

After Lea’s death in 1904, the Valverde Camp continued to exist for several years. Judge J. T. Evans, A. C. Rogers, Judge Frank Lea, Allen J. Ballard and many other prominent men of the Roswell community served as Lieutenants or in one of the numerous other U. V. C. offices during the latter years.

The Ku Klux Klan existed in Roswell from 1923 to 1935. That was years after Capt. Lea’s death, so there is no connection with Lea. A large percentage of the prominent men in the community were members and many of them were former Confederate soldiers. The “resident philosopher” of the KKK was

Capt. Jason James, who was a comrade-in-arms with Capt. Lea during the Civil War. James mostly preached on white supremacy. The Klan left no visible monuments that speak to succeeding generations.

Lea loomed large in the history of Roswell as well as the Confederate influence on Roswell. Lea played a significant role in shaping Southeast New Mexico in the nineteenth century, making the Pecos Valley area a leading region of New Mexico in his lifetime.

The son of a Missouri planter/doctor, Lea joined Quantrill’s Confederate guerrillas when the Civil War started. He also served in Shelby’s cavalry, but for much of the war Lea was the captain of his own command in Louisiana.

Lea married Sallie Wildy in Mississippi in 1875 and soon left for northern New Mexico Territory. In 1877, he moved his family and operations to the Pecos Valley. Because of his work in developing the town of Roswell, Lea is known as “The Father of Roswell.”

However, Lea was much more than the Father of Roswell. He was a force for peace in the Lincoln County War and played a major role in ridding the country of Billy the Kid and other outlaws. In 1885, Lea and his financial backers started a large ranching venture: Lea Cattle Company, which owned land available for development. The company developed the Pecos Val-

Photo courtesy of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Archives.

The bust of Capt. Joseph C. Lea ley by building irrigation ditches, laying out the streets of Roswell, and selling lots for businesses and homes.

Lea was the leader in the creation of Chaves County in 1889 and the present New Mexico Military Institute in 1891.

In 1903, he was drafted to run for mayor of Roswell but died in February 1904, just two months after taking office. Lea was a remarkable man.

As a ranchman, developer and patriarch, he had great impact on one of New Mexico’s most important regions.

There are many monuments to Lea’s leadership, vision and prominence. In Roswell there is (North and South) Lea Avenue named after him, along with Lea Hall at New Mexico Military Institute, and a bronze bust of him at the Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico Museum. At Bottomless Lakes State

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Park, there is Lea Lake, the main recreational lake of the park.

And then, of course, there is Lea County.

One of the basic principles of historical study is “Judge the people of every historical era by their own lights, and not by present-day standards. How well did they live up to their own standards?”

There is an old story about a family of Europeans who had lost all their worldly goods in an accident on board the ship on the voyage to America. The father tried to explain the situation to his little girl, how they had lost all their pictures, jewelry, books, souvenirs and other items that had been cherished in the old country. The little girl looked at her father and asked, “Papa, without any of our precious possessions, how will we know it’s us?”

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Alien Life: More probable now than ever

UFOlogy

Looking Up

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hat is the probability that life has developed from natural thermo-chemical processes in places other than Earth?

The probability you assign to anything depends on how much you know at the time.

Before getting to the question of life, here’s a quick example of probability and how an enhanced information base affects it.

Imagine a bin containing 100 plastic chips (50 red and 50 green), from which, blindfolded, you’re going to pick one chip at random. The probability of getting a green chip is 50/100

By Donald Burleson

or 50 percent. But suppose you also know that among the 50 red chips, 45 are unmarked and 5 are marked with a star, while among the 50 green chips, 5 are unmarked and 45 are marked with a star. When you select a chip, someone looks at it before you do and tells you: “The one you picked has a star.”

NOW what’s the probability that it’s green?

Well, it’s no longer 50 percent since we know more about the situation now and would assign the probability differently. Of the 50 starred chips, 5 are red and 45 are green, so the probability of green is now

45/50 or a much-improved 90 percent.

Expanded knowledge does affect how we assign probability, and the question of the origin of life evokes similar considerations.

For years it has been hypothesized that life on Earth must have begun in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, but recent research indicates another highly credible scenario: In addition to ocean-bottom vents, warm landbased pools similar to the Yellowstone geysers may have been birthplaces of primordial life, some four billion years ago.

Writing in Scientif-

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ic American for August 2017, a group of scientists having visited remote “prebiotic analogue sites” — places approximating early planetary conditions— explain that such landbased pools go through cycles of drying out, getting wet again, and forming moist gels.

These cycles favor the natural formation, over vast spans of time, of self-replicating molecules that constitute the essential basis of life.

The dry spells could form chains of nucleic acids — experiments confirm this. Wet spells could move these chemical compounds around, promoting re-combina-

tions of them and concentrating them (when dry again) in pockets of lipids or fatty acids, potentially the precursors of cellular membranes. The gel phases could join such protocell formations into more complex structures that select for best survival from cycle to cycle. The research sites offer fossil evidence for early life forms that support this hypothesis. Those same scientists remark that, “In our search for alien life in the solar system, a land-based theory about origins would guide us to different places and planets than would an ocean-based

theory.”

In other words, life might develop not only in subterraneous oceans like conditions on the moons of Saturn, but plausibly also in landlocked geothermal settings on the surfaces of some planets.

Considering this enlarged view of the ways life can have begun on Earth, I would assign a higher probability to its developing elsewhere. And that probability was high already.