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enchantment December 1, 2017 • Vol. 69, No. 12 USPS 175-880 • ISSN 0046-1946 Circulation 102,146
enchantment (ISSN 0046-1946) is published monthly by the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505. enchantment provides reliable, helpful information on rural living and energy use to electric cooperative members and customers.
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Over 102,000 families and businesses receive enchantment Magazine as electric cooperative members. Non-member subscriptions are available at $12 per year or $18 for two years, payable to NMRECA. Allow four to eight weeks for delivery. Periodical Postage paid at Santa Fe, NM 87501-9998 and additional mailing offices. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Postmaster: Send address changes to 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505-4428. Readers who receive the publication through their electric cooperative membership should report address changes to their local electric cooperative office. THE NEW MEXICO RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION provides legislative and educational services for the 17 cooperatives that deliver electric power to New Mexico’s rural areas and small communities. The mission of the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association is to strengthen, support, unify, and represent Cooperative member interests at the local, state, and national levels. Each cooperative has a representative on the association’s board of directors, which controls the editorial content and advertising policy of enchantment through its Publications Committee. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Charles Pinson, President, Central Valley Electric Cooperative, Artesia George Biel, Vice President, Sierra Electric Cooperative, Elephant Butte Tim Morrow, Secretary-Treasurer, Springer Electric Cooperative, Springer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Duane Frost, Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative, Mountainair William C. Miller, Jr., Columbus Electric Cooperative, Deming Arsenio Salazar, Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Grants Lance R. Adkins, Farmers’ Electric Cooperative, Clovis Cristobal Duran, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, Taos Robert Caudle, Lea County Electric Cooperative, Lovington Robert Quintana, Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Mora Tomas G. Rivas, Northern Río Arriba Electric Cooperative, Chama Preston Stone, Otero County Electric Cooperative, Cloudcroft Antonio Sanchez, Jr., Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative, Portales Leroy Anaya, Socorro Electric Cooperative, Socorro Gary Rinker, Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Clayton Wayne Connell, Tri-State G&T Association, Westminster, Colorado Charles G. Wagner, Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Oklahoma NATIONAL DIRECTOR David Spradlin, Springer Electric Cooperative, Springer MEMBERS OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE William C. Miller, Jr., Chairman, Columbus Electric Cooperative Lance R. Adkins, Farmers’ Electric Cooperative Robert Quintana, Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative Antonio Sanchez, Jr., Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative Leroy Anaya, Socorro Electric Cooperative NEW MEXICO RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 614 Don Gaspar Avenue Phone: 505-982-4671 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Fax: 505-982-0153 www.nmelectric.coop www.enchantment.coop Keven J. Groenewold, Chief Executive Officer, kgroenewold@nmelectric.coop Susan M. Espinoza, Editor, sespinoza@nmelectric.coop Tom Condit, Assistant Editor, tcondit@nmelectric.coop DISPLAY ADVERTISING Rates available upon request. Cooperative members and New Mexico display advertisers email Kim Vigil at advertising@nmelectric.coop or call 303-253-5255. National representative: American MainStreet Publications, 800-626-1181. Advertisements in enchantment are paid solicitations and are not endorsed by the publisher or the electric cooperatives of New Mexico. PRODUCT SATISFACTION AND DELIVERY RESPONSIBILITY LIE SOLELY WITH THE ADVERTISER. Copyright ©2017, New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. Reproduction prohibited without written permission of the publisher.
INSIDE READS Simple Tips for Better Eating
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Help make your meals richer in flavor and nutrients.
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12 View from enchantment 5 Electric co-op crews construct a new co-op school. Climbing to New Heights
The Lineman's Christmas Eve
When the power goes out, who get's called?
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Enchanted Journeys
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On The Menu
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Budget-Friendly Efficiency Upgrades 16 Energy Sense
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When the Union Church Bell Rings 125 years of the Gospel.
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People are demanding better reliability in their electricity; enough that utilities have supplemented their goals of reliability with a new term, “resilience.”
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oal-fired power plants are closing. Homeowners with rooftop solar panels are selling unused electricity back to their utility. Windfarms are springing up across the New Mexico landscape. Fracking and other drilling techniques have cut the cost of natural gas by more than half since 2002, and doubled the amount of electricity generated by natural gas. What does all this mean for the nation’s network of wires and power plants otherwise known as the electric grid? The answer lies within a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy. It’s a well-written, wellresearched, thorough, and comprehensive picture of the state of the grid. DOE’s August 2017 Staff Report to the Secretary on Electric Markets and Reliability describes the complex state of the electric grid and goes into great detail on how utility trends might affect the price and availability of electricity. It highlights the importance of retraining coal and nuclear power workers, and the effects that renewable energy has on the stability and reliability of the existing electric utility system. Another way to describe the report: If someone decided that every high school student should understand how the nation’s system of electric wires and power plants works, this study would make a good textbook. The
grid study is a report that puts in one place all the changes affecting utilities and what those changes might mean. It recognizes we’re asking our utility systems to meet a lot of demands they were not designed for. The study is a quick-turnaround response to an April 14 memo from Energy Secretary Rick Perry to DOE’s chief of staff to “explore critical issues central to protecting the long-term reliability of the electric grid.” Plenty has changed for electric utilities over the past 20 years, and this DOE study describes that new landscape with enough detail to satisfy the most hardcore energy wonk. About 15 percent of the nation’s power plants have been retired since 2002, mainly coal and nuclear plants. That trend is expected to continue due to low natural gas prices, slower growth in demand for electricity, environmental regulations, and more solar and wind power. While new generating capacity from sources including natural gas and renewable energy has amounted to about three times the plant retirements, that radical change in the energy mix requires new ways of managing the flow of electricity from the power plants where it is made, to the homes and businesses where it is used. People are demanding better reliability in their electricity; enough that utilities have supplemented their goals
Keven J. Groenewold. P.E. Chief Executive Officer New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association
of reliability with a new term, “resilience.” Basically that means being able to get the lights back on faster after an outage. That has utilities experimenting with things like utility-scale storage batteries, and more precise targeting of which customers should get power restored first. New and growing additions to the electric grid are changing the way it needs to be managed. Those new power sources include rooftop solar panels that sell electricity back to the utility, natural gas plants that require new pipelines, solar and wind farms in remote areas that need to be connected with new transmission lines, and “demand response programs” in which utilities can turn off home water heaters and air conditioners for short periods during times of peak demand. The report recommends updating the pricing arrangements that govern the buying and selling of electricity and improving disaster preparedness. Regulations that limit the growth of power generation, especially base load dispatchable generation, need review. There is also a need to focus on workforce development as energy workers face a changing energy marketplace. As you can see—we have our work cut out for us.
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Enchanted Journeys
Hale to the stars BY ALAN HALE
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his year, the chilly evening hours of December produce something rather unusual in the nighttime sky: there are no bright planets visible! The only planets visible during the evening are Uranus and Neptune. Neptune slowly travels through the constellation Aquarius and is in the southeastern sky during the evening hours, setting an hour or so before midnight. Uranus travels through Pisces and is wellplaced for viewing. Both worlds are detectable with binoculars, but even in telescopes won’t appear as much more than tiny grayish-green dots. By around 3:00 a.m., Mars rises in the southeast, and is high above the horizon by dawn. Jupiter rises an hour behind Mars at the beginning of December, but only very shortly after Mars by month’s end. The two will undergo a dramatic conjunction during the first week of January. Meanwhile, during the last 10 days of December, Mercury becomes visible low in the southeastern morning sky, rising a little before dawn. One of the strongest of the “annual” meteor showers is the Geminid shower, which peaks on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, December 13-14. Under good conditions the Geminds—which, as their name
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A Geminid meteor (and an airplane trail). Photograph courtesy of Robert Lunsford of Chula Vista, California. implies, appear to come from the constellation Gemini—can produce 100 or more meteors per hour. This is one of the rare showers that is well-placed for viewing. This year, the moon is a small crescent in the morning sky and thus does not interfere with the show. The parent “comet” of the Geminid meteors is an object known as Phaethon. It was discovered by the InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983. Although Phaethon looks like an asteroid, it exhibits weak cometary activity when close to the sun, suggesting it is a notentirely-dead comet. On Saturday, December 16, Phaethon passes only 6.4 million miles from Earth—the closest it has come to our planet since its discovery, and in fact it doesn’t come any closer to us until 2093. Between the nights of the 12th and 19th, Phaethon travels rapidly southwestward through the constellations of Perseus, Andromeda and Pegasus. It should be visible in small backyard telescopes as a star-like object, traveling against the background stars at a rate of half a degree (the apparent diameter of the moon) each hour.
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December 2 • Bernal Holiday Arts & Craft Fair Bernal Community Center 575-421-0423
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You and Your Loved Ones. Send your event to: events@nmelectric.coop
December 2 • Capitan Annual Holiday Bazaar Capitan Public Library 575-354-3035
December 9 • Deming Luminarias Night Rockhound State Park 575-546-6182
December 2 • Clovis Annual Christmas Open House 1200 N. Thornton 575-763-4400
December 9 • Grants 21st Annual Holiday Light Parade Nimitz and Santa Fe Avenue 505-285-3573
December 2 • Hillsboro Christmas in the Foothills Hillsboro Community Center 575-895-5117
December 9 • Radium Springs Las Noches de las Luminarias Fort Selden Historic Site 575-526-8911
December 2 • Mountainair Christmas Crafts Show Dr. Saul Building 505-861-5230
December 9 • Ribera Arts & Crafts Fair Community Cultural Center 575-421-3114
December 2 • Stanley Open Barn Fiber & Yarn Sale Maple Winds Farm 505-204-6127
December 10 • Deming Christmas Fun Deming Luna Mimbres Museum 575-546-2382
December 2-3 • Taos Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair Talpa Community Center 575-751-1014
December 13 • Zuni Holiday Arts & Crafts Market Zuni Visitor Center 505-782-7238
December 6 • Ft. Sumner Christmas at the Bosque Bosque Redondo Memorial 575-355-2573
December 16-17 • Melrose Melrose Senior Center Gun Show Melrose Senior Center 575-309-4496
December 9 • Chama Christmas Santa Trains 2017 Antonito Depot 888-286-2737
December 24 • Lincoln Luninarias in Lincoln Lincoln Historic Site 575-653-4025
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On The Menu BY SHARON NIEDERMAN
Seasonal Flavors Adorn the Dinner Table
To grace your holiday table, following are a few recipes for seasonal flavors to make your family dinner extra special.
Apple Squash Soup 4 Tbs. unsalted butter 3 cups chopped onion 1 tsp. ground ginger 4 lbs. butternut squash, peeled, seeded, diced 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, diced 5 cups chicken or vegetable broth 2 cups apple juice or cider 2 Tbs. chopped parsley for garnish ❧ Melt butter over low heat. Add onions and ginger, cook covered, stirring occasionally until onions are tender, about 15 minutes. Add squash, apples and broth, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, until squash is tender, about 25 minutes. Strain soup and reserve broth. Puree vegetables, adding 1 cup broth per batch. Return pureed soup to pot along with apple juice and remaining broth. Season with salt and pepper, garnish with fresh parsley. Serves 6.
Old-Fashioned Mincemeat, CS Ranch Style Could this old-fashioned mincemeat become your tradition for a holiday pie? This fruity, savory mincemeat comes from the kitchen of Colfax County rancher Linda Davis. 2 cups raw suet, loosely packed, in small pieces
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4½ cups coarsely chopped meat, roasted or boiled (cooked day before) 2 cups sugar 1 quart apple cider (boil cider with sugar and let cool) Put meat and suet in bowl and pour one bottle of sherry over it 11 ozs. currants 2 lbs. raisins (wash and dry raisins, and put raisins and currants in stone jar) 12 cups apples, peeled, chopped 3 lbs. candied fruit, including green and red candied cherries 1 lg. bottle Bourbon
Add more cider if necessary to keep it from drying out. Bake in your favorite piecrust for a Christmas sensation.
In a large bowl mix well: ¼ cup sugar 1½ Tbs. salt ½ tsp. ground clove 3 tsps. cinnamon 2 tsps. allspice 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 bottle brandy
❧ Put peppercorns, fennel and cinnamon in large tea ball or wrap them in cheesecloth and secure. In large saucepan combine these aromatics with wine, bay leaves and orange zest. Cover and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, for 30 minutes. Remove aromatics and orange zest strips. Stir in sugar until dissolved. Serve warm in mugs. Once cooled, can be refrigerated up to 3 days.
❧ Mix entire contents well. Let stand in large stone jar in a cool place for one week. Taste frequently. Adjust seasonings. Mincemeat should be juicy and absorb quite a bit of moisture.
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Make your own fresh mulling spices! Perfect for toasting the New Year! 2 tsps. black peppercorns, lightly crushed 1 tsp. fennel seeds, lightly crushed 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick, broken into pieces 2 bottles red wine such as Zinfandel or Merlot 3 bay leaves 1 orange zest strips 1½ cups dark brown sugar or muscovado sugar
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Insulating your water heater and keeping the temperature at 120 degrees or below are two ways to save money on your utility bill. Photo credit: Water Heater Repair Portland.
mind. If you have a gas or propane water heater, protect your family from the “silent killer” of carbon monoxide gas. Pick up a carbon monoxide detector from the hardware store and install it near the heater. Opportunities to save money on your hot water budget abound throughout the house. Showering uses almost 17 percent of our indoor water use, so you can save money by installing efficient shower heads. Replacing older dishwashers and washing machines with more efficient models will also reduce your energy bills. You should repair any leaky faucets, as a drip every second can add up to $35 a year. When it’s time to purchase a new water heater, there are many options available. Be sure to check with your electric co-op. Some co-ops offer rebates on energy efficient models. Others offer incentives for water heaters with large tanks or to install a switch that can be triggered remotely to turn the water heater off for brief periods of high energy demand. Last but not least, check out Energy.gov’s excellent article on selecting a new water heater.
Installing a carbon monoxide detector near your natural gas or propane water heater is a critical safety measure.
Mike Stephens, Cotton Electric Cooperative's Energy Use Advisor, inspects a water heater. Photo credit: Cotton Electric Cooperative.
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The picture above showcases the community of Garrison on a cold snowy day in the early 1940s. Roosevelt County Electric Cooperative member, Gayle Walker, painted a “fantabulous” rendition of the Garrison Store.
The Lineman's Christmas Eve by Kevin Hughes
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring ‘cause the power was out.
In three or four hours, the trouble is found, you see the road didn’t pass where the tree went down.
How could this happen? What trouble could be? The house is all dark, even the lights on the tree.
After walking through snow and fighting the storm, the line is now clear and the power is on.
The lineman’s asleep all cozy and warm, his power apparently was spared by the storm.
And now it’s the morning, the kids shout with glee and their eyes shine as bright as the lights on the tree.
Deep into slumber, but soon to awake, ‘cause a tree on the line has caused it to break. The calls swamp, the office “MY POWER IS OUT! Get them here quickly because I carry clout.”
The lineman goes home now, as tired as can be. The storm just ignored. It was his Christmas Eve. He’s not asking for praise or for you to applaud, ‘cause according to him, it’s just part of the job.
The dispatcher calls and with a hint of despair, he informs the lineman the lines need repair.
But please just remember, as you pick up the horn, and you call to the office, he may be out in the storm.
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When the Union Church Bell Rings BY CRAIG SPRINGER
Photos, left to right: Nicholas Galles was a co-founder of the Union Church. Photo courtesy of M.B. Thompson. Sisters Ninette Miller and Harriet Galles in Sunday best next door to Union Church. Photo courtesy of Craig Springer.
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A beam of light graces the Union Church in Hillsboro one summer's evening. Photo by Craig Springer.
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bout 10:30 on Sunday morning, a bell rings in what amounts to nearly the highest point in Hillsboro-proper—the steeple of the redbrick Union Church. The church figures large over the town, situated on the north facing slope of the south mesa. Hillsboro is a narrow village fitted into the bottom of the Percha Creek valley. Pastor Russ Bowen pulls a straw-colored corded rope that’s knotted at the end so as to not fray. The rope is off-color at the tag-end from so much handling. Many hands have proclaimed the beginning of church service over this short section of the Percha Creek watershed. At 125 years old this year, by the best reckoning, it’s the only Protestant church on the east flank of the seemingly interminable Black Range—the longest mountain range in New Mexico. A few tugs of the rope, and its melodious rings resonate with nostalgia of a time gone by, sending the sound over top of the tall cottonwoods in the valley below. But it’s the here and now and the faithful numbering around a dozen or more folks shuffle to the seats that look like they came from an old theater. They are the original chairs as old as the ornate bricks and white wood trim, and the leaded twelve-light leaded glass windows with tiny bubbles of gas forever trapped. Piano supplants the church bell. Thin paper from hymnal books crinkle with each page that turns as the people hasten to find the right song to sing. The tall, rectangular room is filled with music and voice and a call for prayers and preaching as has been done for a century and a quarter. Since 1892, the Union Church has been a fixture in this small Sierra County town, a place of marrying and burying, community gatherings and serving the spiritual needs of people from all stations. The Percha Creek watershed had no permanent inhabitants in the historic period, save for Apache rancherias, and even those were temporary by their very nature. The Black Range was the province of the Apache, but in 1877 Anglo prospectors found color, and mining proliferated and attracted Eastern capitalists. They came from Michigan and Minnesota and Ohio and Illinois. They brought with them their religion and architecture, and both are embodied in the Union Church.
Its name, “Union,” signifies the signatories on the original charter who joined together to build a church for all to use. Methodist-Episcopal preachers had been active, pursing the hearts of man in the Black Range since the 1880s. Hillsboro residences of that religious persuasion led the formation of the Union Church and were joined by Congregationalists, Baptists and Presbyterians. A few of the men representing their denominations in Hillsboro became noteworthy New Mexicans. Minnesota native, Nicholas Galles, figured large in building the church. He donated personally as did his company, American and Standard Mining, based in Minneapolis. Galles served in the Territorial Senate and authored the bill to create Sierra County in 1884. Galles was whispered to be on Teddy Roosevelt’s short-list for an appointment as governor of the territory. His wife Harriet, and her sister Ninette Miller who lived in the black gold-slag house next door, led a ladies guild for the church. Ninette played piano at the church. A young lawyer from Michigan, Frank W. Parker, donated the property on which the church was built. He lived between the Millers and the courthouse. President Benjamin Harrison appointed Parker to the Territorial Supreme Court. He would later preside over the trial of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s accused murderer. Parker was New Mexico’s first chief justice. In February 19, 1892, the Sierra County Advocate reported: “The Union Church building to be erected at Hillsboro will be a handsome brick structure of elegant design and will be furnished in first-class modern style. Hillsboro is rapidly increasing in importance and population and a town its size without adequate church accommodations is an anomaly which, happily, will soon be remedied.” Progress was apparently slow, causing the Advocate’s editor much consternation. He penned on April 22, 1892: “As to the Hillsboro Union Church, it seems about time that the trustees of the enterprise were doing something. Still there
The beautiful chandelier that still graces the hall arrived in January 1893, and the handsome chairs were installed another 10 months later. Today, underneath those same chairs you’re just as likely to see western boots of working ranch folks or Birkenstocks over wool socks, their wearers there to hear the Gospel. Needless to say, much has changed since the days when the Minnesota mining folks were holding church in the county courthouse, absent a proper place for their own. Mining has waned as an enterprise on the east flank of the Black Range. Today, the church serves folks that come from old ranch families and
A glimpse of the inside of the Union Church. Photo courtesy of Russ Bowen.
A panorama view of Hillsboro including the Sierra County Courthouse and Union Church, post 1893. Photo courtesy of Russ Bowen.
appears to be nothing doing on the premises. Why so? Can anyone tell us? Wake up, Trustees! It may surprise you but it is nevertheless a historical fact that it required only six days to make the world.” Another two months passed and August Reingardt, the same man who built the Sierra County Courthouse four doors down (that gravity is presently pulling to the ground) commenced grading and setting the church foundation. By July, he was burning bricks in his kiln. The cornerstone received three newspapers and letters and the church bylaws in August. Come October, Reingardt finished.
recent arrivals from all stripes: retirees, artists and writers, and folks who enjoy the quiet afforded by the village. It is quiet in Hillsboro, save for a car coming too fast down the S-turns, its tires making the brutt-brutt sound over a cattle guard. And then there’s that bell, along about 10:30 on Sunday, proclaiming the Union Church is still here. The Union Church holds an interdenominational service every Sunday and an Episcopal service every second and fourth Sunday. Visit the open house during “Christmas in the Foothills” on December 2, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Book Chat BY PHAEDRA GREENWOOD
By Melody Groves 2017, 278 pages, $25.95 Five Star Publishing tiffany.schofield@cengage.com www.amazon.com
BLACK RANGE REVENGE
HISTORIC RANCHES OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO
NEW MEXICO GHOST STORIES VOLUME II
SEX AS A POLITICAL CONDITION: A BORDER NOVEL
By Baldwin G. Burr 2016, 128 pages, $21.99 Arcadia Publishing and The History Press 844-882-1651; www.arcadiapublishing.com
By Antonio R. Garcez 2016, 372 pages, $21.95 Red Rabbit Press 505-218-4310; ghostbooks@yahoo.com
By Carlos Nicolas Flores 2015, 408 pages, $34.72 Texas Tech University Press 800-832-4042; www.ttup@ttu.edu
This well researched Colton Brothers Saga is set in the New Mexico Black Range and the Mogollon Rim, Chiricahua Apache country. Andrew Jackson Colton is 18 years old and living in a tent, panning for gold. His adventures lead him up into the Mogollon where he and his friend Thomas O’Malley are attacked by Apaches. O’Malley is killed but Andy escapes to shelter in a cabin with Dawson, a runaway slave. They are both taken captive and enslaved by the Apaches, but James Colton will not give up the search for his younger brother. “‘Look. Right here.’ James squatted, his finger following zigzags scratched near the bottom of the wall. ‘See this? Feather of an eagle.’ He let out a chilled breath. ‘Andy's alive.’ … Trace ran his hand through the line. ‘I remember. Eagle feather. Apache sign for life.'” Good at description, action and dialogue, Groves is a Spur Award-winning author. Her simple, direct prose would make a good young adult read.
This valuable compilation of 180 photos features historic ranches in northeastern New Mexico: Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel, the pioneers and succeeding generations of ranching families. In the 1880s foreign investors formed cattle syndicates like the Maxwell Land and Cattle Company in Colfax County and the Prairie Cattle Company in Union. Mexican land grants encompassed about three million acres of grassland; many of these ranches, from 10,000 to half a million acres, are still in operation. Peruse evocative images of the stately ranch houses, grist mills and ranching towns, plus snapshots of the wives and mothers, sons and daughters of the ranchers. Burr includes prize Hereford bulls, wolf and lion hunters, livestock fording great rivers, and the Philmont Ranch, which was gifted to the Boyscouts of America in 1941. He draws on western museums for the accouterments of cowboy life from tobacco pouches to Chaparejos, highlights rodeos with prize-winning cowgirls and details the bizarre hanging of “Black Jack” Ketchum. A great research tool.
Hank Estrada, owner/publisher of Red Rabbit Press, has published 17 highly popular, award-winning ghost story books by Antonio Garcez, a Mescalero Apache and Otomi Native American. Garcez collects first-hand accounts of curious hauntings throughout the American southwest. Every Halloween Ted Turner Productions broadcast a film of one of these stories via the History Channel. Often the ghosts manifest as footsteps in the hallway, a hand on the shoulder or a felt presence. Sometimes the experiencer comes away with a dawning belief that there is, in fact, life after death, or that their loved ones are “in good hands,” alive and well inside them, that one day they will all be reunited. Imagine Janet Martinez watching in awe as the heavy double doors of the conservatory in the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas open simultaneously, and close again. “Oh God!” she whispers. Imagine having the covers yanked off you in the middle of the night. “I was left speechless,” says Hector Peña. Awesome and terrifying! A fascinating read.
In this raunchy novel desperate characters and big-time tensions in a Tex-Mex border town are hilariously portrayed in “the last hurrah of the American left.” Honoré’s sexy wife drags a tin bucket into the bathroom while he is on the pot, reading. “She's always been like this, he thought, mopping the floors, dusting the furniture…the woman belongs in Housekeepers Anonymous.” Then she gave him the evil eye and criticized “that madman Trotsky.” But Honoré owes more than his life to Trotsky. If it hadn’t been for him, Honoré “would have never discovered the magic and wonder of books—and history.” It was because of Trotsky that he got off all the drugs. And why Honoré finds himself smuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican revolutionaries and negotiating with radical Chicana lesbians. “I cain’t go home unless I’m ready to do ten years in the pen,” he complains to his compadre. If you’re not shy of obscenity, four-letter words and left-wing politics, dive in! Five stars!
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This event is sponsored by the Moriarty Community Library and The Read “Write” Adult Literacy Program. Proceeds will benefit the Read “Write” Adult Literacy Program. The objectives for this event are: ➥ To raise awareness of the adult literacy related issues faced by Torrance County and New Mexico. ➥ To recruit volunteer tutors for the Read “Write” Adult Literacy Program. ➥ To promote the Moriarty Community Library and the services it provides. ➥ To provide an opportunity for authors to sell their books. ➥ To provide an opportunity for the community to meet some of New Mexico‘s authors. ➥ To promote the writing craft by having a writing contest.
Please RSVP by March 24, 2018 For more details or about booth space, call or email: 505-832-2513 moriartyauthorsevent@gmail.com
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She Grew Up to be a Knight “It was like a fairy-tale to be invited into the Royal Palace for a private audience with the King.”
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s youngsters, little girls dream of being a princess—the long gowns, tiaras, waving to adoring crowds. For grown-up Albuquerquean Tiina Nunnally, the fantasy of rubbing elbows with royalty materialized into reality—she became a knight. A real, honestto-goodness knight. Nominated by a translator colleague in Norway, Nunnally was awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, which included a Tiina Nunnally with her Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. luncheon in Washington, D.C. with Norway’s ambassador, the actual knighting, followed by a trip to Norway and a conclave with King Harald. “I was super nervous.” Nervous? She is usually the definition of calm. Surrounded by floor-toceiling bookshelves in her large living room, one of her cats sleeping on a chair in the sunroom, Nunnally relaxes with a few of her Swedish Dala horses displayed on a table. Today, she beams with pride at the memories. “It was such an honor.” An award-winning translator of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish literature, Nunnally believes “traveling exposes you to other food, thoughts and cultures,” where encountering other languages expands world views. She grew up in Minnesota with a Finnish mother who spoke the language only to Nunnally’s father, “it was their secret language.” But that
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Tiina Nunnally relies on her husband/fellow translator, Steve Murray, to help find “just the right word.”
gave her an early awareness of a larger world. At 12, she and family visited relatives in Finland for the summer where Nunnally learned “close the door,” “lizard,” and “rutabaga” in Finnish. “Everybody spoke Finnish except us five kids.” The language “is very hard to translate,” Nunnally states. “It’s difficult to learn.” After high school, she spent a year in Denmark as an exchange student in a family that did not speak English. “It was a life-changing experience to be totally immersed in another culture,” she says. In subsequent years, she used those skills as a translator for the Seattle Visitors Bureau, and SeaTac airport. She also translated short stories by her favorite Danish authors to share with friends. While attending a Scandinavian literature conference, she met Steven T. Murray and they married a year later. Steven, a translator of 50 plus Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and German books, is an award-winner in his own right. He translated Stieg Larsson’s series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, under the pseudonym Reg Keeland. Awards include the Jens Peter Jacobsen Prize from the Limfjord Region Literary Society in Denmark, and the Columbia Translation Center award for Witness to the Future by Klaus Rifbjerg. Nunnally’s awards include the American Translators Association’s Lewis Galantière Prize for her translation of Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow. She won the Washington State Writer’s Award for her novel, Maija, a story of a Finnish-American family. The Swedish Academy honored Nunnally with a special award for her contributions to “the introduction of Swedish culture abroad.” “Translation is an art,” Nunnally states. “Rather like a musician, the translator has to “play” the work, trying to get as close as possible to the “music” of the original composition. This involves paying attention to the style and tone.” Little girls everywhere should take heart. Achieving royalty could happen. Just ask Tiina Nunnally.
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Backyard Trails BY CRAIG SPRINGER
Dreaming of a White Sands Christmas The likelihood of snow falling on or around Christmas Day is a hit or miss proposition across our state. You don’t have to dream about it: you can have a white Christmas season at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico. The 12 month usually yields more snow than any other. Significant snow fall could very well happen in say, Red River. But it’s not so likely in places such as Alamogordo at the end of December. But a mere 15 miles from the latter town, a sea of blinding white sand covers a vast area. Some 275 square miles of the Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico is blanketed by the crystalline gypsum sands. The vast dunes well up from the bed of the ancient Lake Lucero and drift by wind and gravity, rising and falling. A fair portion of pristine sand is there for you to visit; roughly 115 square miles of dunes are protected within the national monument. There is no place like it in all the world. The vast, ever-moving and constantly changing alabaster dunes of fine sand of White Sands National Monument are
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distinctly visible from space. Born of wind and shaped by gravity, massive gypsum dunes move patiently in an ever eastward direction. The surface of the dunes take many shapes. They can look smooth as silk, as if laid unwrinkled with the handiwork of a large trowel. Other dunes hold ripples, like the surface of an otherwise still lake that just caught a stiff breeze. Wind is the driver here. An ancient lake bed the source. The Tularosa Basin is a closed valley, being that rain and snowmelt drains to the lowest point in valley and evaporates leaving behind salts. There is no outlet stream from the valley flowing toward the Pecos River or Rio Grande. The ancient Lake Lucero bed is an artifact of another geologic time when there was significantly more surface water. The vast waters retreated through deep time. The dunes have a cleanliness about them—like a fresh snow fall. And they are surprisingly cool only a few inches below the surface, even in the hottest weather. Christmas Day is the only day of the year that the monument closes. The monument can only be accessed from U.S. Highway 70. Due to periodic road closures by the adjacent missile range, visitors are encouraged to call the monument office at 575-479-6124. Visit www.nps.gov/whsa
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Big Toys HORSE TRAILER COMBO GOOSENECK 1997 SS Duraline, 25’ long, two or three horse, stud gate, tack room, living area, 14’ awning, new wiring, good tires, dark gray, great shape. $6,500 OBO. Call Trish, 505-290-2699. DRINKING WATER STORAGE TANKS, HEAVY DUTY Black Poly, proven algae resistant. 125 to 11,000 gallons, NRCS and EQUIP approved. Please give us a chance to serve you! MasterCard or Visa accepted. Call 575-682-2308 or 1-800-603-8272. FOR SALE: 1992 CHEVROLET 3/4 TON pickup and a 1979 GMC 3/4 ton, 4 wheel drive pickup with utility bed. Call 505-615-7216. GREAT OFFER ON SOLAR SUBMERSIBLE SHALLOW/DEEP well pumps! ‘NRCS’ approved with 2-year warranty on selected pumps with affordable, easy installation! For a custom quote call 505-429-3093 or order online at: www.solarsubmersiblewellpumps. com Or, you can also email us at: sales@solarsubmersiblewellpumps. com 24/7 service. OVERHEAD FEED BINS: 1 TO 4 compartment, 12 to 48 tons, save $45 to $75 per ton bulk vs. sack feed. Solar Pannel Rack: 3 or 4 pannel racks, 4 to 6 inch pipe. 20 and 40 foot shipping containers. Emery Welding, Clayton, NM, 575-374-2320. AFFORDABLE SOLAR WATER PUMPS! REPLACE THAT broken windmill with a solar pump. New well with no electricity? THINK SOLAR! Less expense, easier maintenance. Call us and see if we have “Solutions 4 U.” Call 505407-6553 or 575-742-8050 or email: Solutions4u@yucca.net
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MOUNTAIN TOP GOATS. BABIES ARE ON the ground. We have Milkers, Bucks, Babies, Pets, Cabrito and Weed Eaters for sale. All 4-H and Show Quality. Nubians, Mini-Nubians, LaManchas, Mini-LaManchas and Nigerian Dwarfs. In Capitan, call 575-354-2846. NEW MEXICO DRINKING WATER STORAGE TANKS, Heavy Duty Black Poly. Fittings customized to your needs NRCS and EQUIP approved. High Specific Gravity, Heavy Weight, Long Warranty, Algae Resistant, Black NRCS Water Tanks. Call 1-800-6038272 or 575-682-2308. GRASSFED BEEF: NM 100% GRASSFED BEEF. No hormones. No growth stimulants. Processed to your specifications. From $2.85 per lb. plus processing. Edgewood/Cedar Grove, NM. 505-286-0286. Mention this ad for a discount www.moonbeamranch.com HAYGRAZER-WARNER SWEET BEE QUALITY, FINE STEMMED, 4’x6’ round bales only $85 ton in field. 30 miles SE of Portales. 575-760-4223 or 575-273-4220. NOT ALL WATER TANKS ARE CREATED Equal! Is Quality, Value and Longevity important to you? Buy High Specific Gravity, Heavy Weight, Long Warranty, Superior Black NRCS tanks. Lowest prices only provide minimum standards, lower weights, and shorter warranties. Find out more! 575-430-1010. EXCELLENT BREEDING RAMS. RAMBOULLIET COLUMBIA CROSS, multiple birth, progeny. Polled, open face, treated for parasites. Taos County. Call 575-5861323 or 575-770-2881. CIRCLE A FARMS AND SUPPLY IN Capitan, NM has premium quality Hay and Feed. We are a dealer for Farmway Feeds. Alfalfa, Wheat Hay, Oat Hay, Sweet Cane Hay, Grass Hay, in 2 string bales, round bales, and large square bales. Loading and delivery available. Weather King portable buildings dealer and American Steel Carports. Come check out all we have to offer. Lincoln County’s most experienced and best priced for your animal feed needs. Call 575-491-7518.
THE BEST TIME FOR TREE MAINTENANCE is in the winter months. Call Furlong’s Tree Service for your free estimate. We offer trimming, removal, hygienic maintenance, fire-scaping, timber stand improvement. Husband and wife team, licensed and bonded. Call 575-313-2634. OUR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE TO SPRINGER ELECTRIC Cooperative and all those who have sponsored and supported the efforts of ‘A Veteran Affair’ to establish an art center for military veterans and movie house for the children of Wagon Mound. We are truly thankful and wish everyone a peaceful, safe and delightful Holiday Season. WOOD STOVE FOR SALE: WONDERCOAL, MODEL #2827, $200. Call Steve at 505454-7631. If no answer, please leave a message. Las Vegas area. HEADSTONES (I.E. CEMETERY MONUMENTS) IS OUR BUSINESS. Over 1,000 designs. An eternal memory of a loved one. TAOS MOUNTAIN HERITAGE. Email: taos_mt_heritage@msn.com or Call 575-770-2507. Visit website: www.taosmountainheritage.com PECOS PABLO. SANTA FE AND GLORIETA. Holiday Sweet Six Packs. Capulin jelly, peach, plum and apricot jams. Apple Butter. Mountain wildflower honey. 48 hour notice for preparation. Introducing Miracle Mary! miraclemary.com “Food that makes you feel good!” Call 505-603-2310 or email: pecospablo@hotmail.com SOLAR EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM PACKAGES. TOP quality products at reasonable prices. Let our years of solar design and installation experience work for you. Call or text 575-937-3528 or visit www.powergenx.com to see our website/catalog. CASKETS: HANDMADE NATURAL CASKETS ONLY $399. Call Dave. Leave a message at 575-666-2140 or 505-652-0106. Located near Wagon Mound, New Mexico on Route #271.
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FOR SALE BY OWNER. MINI RANCH, $255,000. 2 houses, 32x30 detached garage, shop. 35 acres, Cuchillo, New Mexico. 11 miles from Elephant Butte. Call 575-743-0282.
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CONCHAS, 0000 BOAT DOCK DRIVE. VACANT land just over 1/2 acre. Waterfront at high water. $49,000. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker NMREL 17843. Contact at 575-7605461 or bigmesarealty.com
CONCHAS, TBD BIG MESA AVENUE. IMPROVED high level waterfront lot with septic on .83 acres. $98,000. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker NMREL 17843. Contact at 575-7605461 or bigmesarealty.com NEWKIRK/CONCHAS AREA, 134 PAISANO. 1 BEDROOM, 1 bath home with 1 bath guesthouse. Just over 7 acres, $34,000. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker NMREL 17843. Contact at 575-760-5461 or bigmesarealty.com CONCHAS, 7543 NM 104. 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, double-wide with sunroom on 2.91 acres. Detached garage, carport, outbuildings, chain link fence with remote gate. Highway frontage with commercial potential. $135,000. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker NMREL 17843. Contact at 575-760-5461 or bigmesarealty.com GRADY, 300 MARSHALL. 3 BEDROOM, 2 bath, attached carport, horse property on almost one acre, village water. $59,000. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker NMREL 17843, 575-7605461, bigmesarealty.com WANTED! FARMS AND RANCHES. LET US sell your rural property today. Broker has over 40 years experience in production agriculture and is a farm owner. Big Mesa Realty, 575-456-2000, Paul Stout, Broker, NMREL 17843, 575760-5461, bigmesarealty.com SECLUDED 2-STORY CABIN, UPPER DECK, 2 car garage, workshop, small 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Elevation 7700, mild winters, 10 acres, fenced-in yard, piñon and juniper. Great views. 7 miles from Datil, NM. See it on Zillow. $99,500. 432-294-2773. FOR SALE: RUIDOSO CABIN. FULLY FURNISHED, main road, 1/2 miles from ski road, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, large deck. Pictures available. $79,000. Call Peggy at 415-307-1809. 63 E. WILLARD ROAD, EDGEWOOD NM. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2-car garage on .75 acres. $280,000. Excellent location, approximately 3/4 miles from Interstate 40, and approximately 20 miles into Albuquerque. Sunset Realty, 505-424-8748, buyersol@aol.com 1923 GRAND AVENUE, LAS VEGAS NM. 3 bedroom, 2 bath on .25 acres. $115,000. Owner may carry with 10% down and good credit. Sunset Realty, 575-4277078, buyersol@aol.com RANCHOS DE TAOS. COMMERCIAL 1 ACRE land value only has well. There is a building on it but placing zero value on it. Adjacent on south side of Sage Brush Inn, highway frontage. Sunset Realty, 505-424-8748, buyersol@aol.com
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WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. Great for horses, other livestock and any garden you could possibly want to grow! One bedroom modern well-kept home on 80 acres has everything: peace, privacy, and comfort with beautiful views, deep water well and easy access to Columbus, Deming, El Paso and Las Cruces. A/C, ceiling fans, and laundry room. Lots of upgrades. Entire acreage is fenced. All appliances and custom window shades included. Listed at $139,000. Email: LunaHacienda@aol. com or call Gene at 505-660-1112.
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1104 DOUGLAS, LAS VEGAS NM. COMMERCIAL zoning, major cosmetic repairs needed. 5 rooms, 2 bath, kitchen, full basement. Next to university, had apartment in back, drive thru Douglas or Diamon. Or can drive thru. $115,000. Sunset Realty, 505424-8748, buyersol@aol.com LAKEHOUSE FOR SALE WITH SCENIC VIEW of Elephant Butte Lake. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on 1.5 acres. Large detached garage, covered porches, private well with softener and R/O system. Central refrigerated A/C. FSBO. $198,000. Email at: hunter.dstallman@gmail.com LOOKING FOR WATER? GIFTED TO FIND underground streams. Reputable dowser with 50+ years experience. To God Be Thy Glory! Contact Joe Graves at 575758-3600. In Taos, 75 miles north of Santa Fe. God Bless You! PRIME REAL ESTATE IN CLOUDCROFT, NM. 2-story wooden building on corner of Burro and Glorieta Avenue. 200 Burro Avenue. Owner finance for $225,000 or $175,000 cash. Call Robert, 432-202-6419 or Roy, 575-551-4657. FOR SALE: IN ELEPHANT BUTTE, NM. Great family or lake house. Site built approximately 1,000 square feet, two bedroom, two bath, oversized heated/ cooled garage, concrete RV pad with sewer and electric hookup. Yard is low maintenance with drip and sprinklers. $145,000. Call 575-7401537 or 575-740-1253 VALLE DEL SOL NEAR RUIDOSO. 5 acres, water, electricity, great road, close to golf course on Gopher Road. Must sell! Half price, $12,000. Call 575-403-5936. ADOBE HACIENDA, 2500 SQUARE FEET. NORTHWEST Tucumcari. Nearly new, custom counter tile, R-57 insulation. 7 acres. 2 fireplaces, passive solar, great horse property on Pajarito Creek. $210,000. Will take late model motor home in trade. Call 575-403-5936.
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Things That Go Vroom! 2012 FORD F350 KING RANCH, CREW cab, dually, 4x4, 6.7 powerstroke, 126,000 miles, $35,950. Or 2007 Ford F150 Lariat, crew cab, 4x4, camper shell, leather, only 88,000 miles, $18,950. Call 505-832-5106 or see pictures at www.uniqueenterprises.com 2004 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500, CREW CAB, 4x4, 6.0 V8, short bed, leveling kit, nice aluminum wheels, matching camper shell, only 105,000 miles, $16,950. Or 2004 Chevy Silverado 2500, crew cab, long bed, 4x4, 6.0 165,000 miles, $12,950. See pictures at www.uniqueenterprises.com or call 505-832-5106. 2006 FORD F250 LARIAT, CREW CAB, short bed, 4x4, one owner, 257,000 miles, nice truck, $10,950. Or 2005 Ford F250 Lariat, crew cab, 4x4, Diesel, 253,000 miles, $10,950. See pictures at www.uniqueenterprises.com or call 505-832-5106. 2006 CHEVY SILVERADO 2500 DURAMAX, CREW cab, long bed, 4x2, leather, 350,000 miles, strong running truck, $10,950. Or 2003 Chevy Silverado 2500, crew cab, short bed, Duramax, 4x4, $12,950. Call 505-832-5106 or see pictures at www.uniqueenterprises.com 2015 SUBARU FORRESTER, AWD, 46,000 MILES, one owner, $19,950. Or 2007 Subaru Outback Legacy, 5 speed, leather, new clutch, nice, $10,950. See pictures at www.uniqueenterprises. com or call 505-832-5106. LET THE ADVERTISERS KNOW YOU SAW their ads in the enchantment. 2015 RAM 2500 LARAMIE, CREW CAB, short bed, 4x4, leather, new Michelin tires, nice truck, call for price. Or 2015 Ram 2500 SLT, crew cab, short bed, DPF delete, 75,000 miles, call for price. See pictures at www.uniqueenterprises. com or call 505-832-5106. 2003 NISSAN XTERRA, 4X4, ONE OWNER trade in, 135,000 miles, $3,950. Or 2006 Toyota Highlander trade in, high mileage, leather, $3,950. See pictures at www.uniqueenterprises.com or call 505-832-5106. 1999 DODGE RAM SLT 4X4, 180,000 miles, 5th wheel, Cummings turbo diesel, 1-ton suspension, Banks Monster Ram intake manifold 3.5, 4” exhaust system, Edge with Attitude, towing mirrors, heavy duty breaks, heavy duty trailer hitch. $9,500. 575-545-2408.
Vintage Finds B & C TRADING COMPANY. NOW open for business. Buying, selling, trading authentic antique Western Colonial memorabilia, saddles, spurs, bronzes, Navajo tapestries, jewelry, rare collectibles. Cash paid for antique firearms! Open 10-5, Monday-Saturday. 397 Highway 518, Mora, NM. Call 512-571-7733. ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SHOP IN MONTICELLO. BARGAIN Boutique will be open 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. On December 9-10 and 16-17. Cash or check only! Across from the fire station. Questions? Call 505-944-6785. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! THINKING CHRISTMAS? WE ARE PACKED. SHOP early for great selection at Rough Rider Antiques in Las Vegas. Holiday oilcloth and red glass dinnerware. Family coming? We have chairs for the kids’ table. The store has added several new dealers since your last visit. Bring the truck. Open every day. Across the street from the Fred Harvey Hotel where “Midnight Texas” was filmed. 501 Railroad and East Lincoln Street. 505-454-8063. WANTED: NEW MEXICO MOTORCYCLE LICENSE PLATES 1912-1959. Paying $100-$500 each. Also buying some New Mexico car plates 1900-1923. WANTED: New Mexico Highway Journal magazine, 1923-1927, New Mexico Automobile License Directory (”The Zia Book”), Motor Vehicle Register books, 1900-1949. See the New Mexico Transportation History Project website NMplates.com for 2,500+ color photographs and 100+ year history of New Mexico license plates. Bill Johnston, Box 1, Organ, NM 880520001. Email: Bill@NMplates.com or telephone 575-382-7804. BUYING OLD STUFF: GAS PUMPS AND parts 1960’s or earlier, advertising signs, neon clocks, old car parts in original boxes, motor oil cans, license plate collections, Route 66 items, old metal road signs, odd and weird stuff. Fair prices paid. Have pickup, will travel. Gas Guy in Embudo, 505-852-2995. RAILROAD ITEMS WANTED: KEROSENE LANTERNS, BRASS locks, keys, badges, uniforms, bells, whistles, and pre1950 employee timetables. Always seeking items from any early New Mexico railroad, especially D&RG, C&S, EP&NE, EP&SW, AT&SF, SP or Rock Island. Call Randy Dunson at 575-356-6919 or 575-760-3341.
Big Bubbly Snowman Playing outside will be so much fun hanging out with these snowmen. January is Youth Artist Choice. You can draw whatever you have in mind. February's topic is "Wacky Hand Shadows." Have you ever noticed the shadow from your hand when the sun is streaming on it? Draw and color your hand shadow. Have fun and add a face. Maybe your hand shadow looks like a dinosaur. Have a suggestion for a future Youth Art topic, email to: enchantment@nmelectric.coop
Send Your Drawing by Email: We accept Youth Art drawings by email. Send jpg file and required information by the 9th to: enchantment@nmelectric.coop
Remember: Print your name, age, mailing address, phone number, and co-op name on your drawings. Otherwise, your drawings are disqualified. Remember: color, dark ink or pencil on plain white 8.50 x 11.00 size paper is best. Accept artwork up to age 13. Mail to: Youth Editor, 614 Don Gaspar Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Entries must be here by the 9th of the month before publication. Each published artist receives $10 for his or her work.
Amaris Candelaria, Age 5, Magdalena
Paul Cates, Age 4, Grenville
Mai Fry, Age 9, Laguna
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